Mallory

Hallie

Lincoln

"My Buddy, My buddy, My buddy... My Buddy and Me!!!"
This little buddy of mine makes me soo happy! He has a contagious smile, a contagious giggle. He just really started to talk a few months ago and its awesome to hear how he says his words. I love it.
I love many, trillion things about Lincoln. I love how he hides things in my kitchen drawers, or the fridge to have me find them later. He loves the bath!! I love how he loves to cuddle with me or Jon. He does this little hand wave over his shoulder and says" mon mom, mon!" he wants me to go lay in my bed and watch a movie with him while we cuddle. I love how he loves shoes, even his sisters bright yellow ones. He will find them and walk everywhere with them. Even snow boots! He loves Cars, Toy story, and a very new favorite is Old Yeller!
I love my boy.. he is all boy! He loves to be with his dad on everything he does, "Elp dad Elp" (Help).. he loves tools, he loves to help clean dads guns and always says to me.. "mom owe" good job bud its owey. He is a later owl for sure!!!
I love how he has this favorite green silky blanket he has had since he was in infant... as most of you know he is a big 2 year old.. this blanket isnt covering him very well anymore... but he insist that it cover him under the neck and his toes must be covered.
There are many more things I could say about my buddy... I will prob add more and things come to mind .. but I wanted to share this special spirit we have in our family.
I love you Lincoln
love mom

Jaxson

What a precious baby! He is starting to giggle, I just love his laugh. He recognizes a smile and returns a big wide open mouth smile. I love how he loves to kick his feet and move his hands like its out of control. He loves to do the same while nursing which can make it a challenge. He still has red hair and I love it. It makes him who he is. Lately if he is crying or fussy I will just grab his little hand and he will hang onto mine with a firm hold. This seems to calm him down. I just love to cuddle and kiss the side of his neck. I love the bond I have with him and realize I don't get to hold him as much with 3 other kids around. So I have tried to just pick him up and cuddle just a little extra more. The other morning just him and I were headed to my sisters house, I was listening to the music. All the sudden I heard little babbles and giggles of his conversation with himself. I had to turn off the radio so that I could enjoy the moments of this little guy who had brought a smile to my face. I then started to talk to him and he would talk a little more. I love how when im trying to put him to sleep or just cuddle with him he loves to smoosh his face right into my arm. Then he will just go to sleep. Another thing I love about Jaxson is bath time. He loves his bath. He will just sit there and look up at me as I talk to him. Every now and then he will give me a big smile. You know its relaxing to him. I love you Jaxson!

Stop and Think

I feel I have been down lately.. Lots has been going through my mind. I have let my house go this week. I have clean and dirty mountains of laundry in my hall and in my room. Jon still cant find a job, rent is due again soon. No money to put gas in the car. Everyone is out of the flu and H1N1 shots. Im having major battle about food/weight with myself. I can go on and on..but I wont. I dont want to seem wo is me....

So I had to force myself off the couch with my body hurting. Its after 5 and my kids are getting hungry.. I need to start something for dinner. I just keep having thoughts in my head like, "you need to stop doing things half way, do the goals you want to get accomplished. Homemade meals that everyone enjoys, and are healthy. But Im to tired to stand and cook a big meal. But my kids are going to remember these things. I want to have them remember mom made great meals for us." "Why cant you just put things away and clean up after your done with something, then it wont be so messy...." So Im trying to be strong, Im trying to be knowledgeable about teaching my kids how to talk this way instead of that way, act this way instead of that way..but I cant think of it. I come across mean and grumpy snappy mom. WHY?! its bugging me so much. Im catching myself always saying "Shhh" or "go in the other room" I hate that. I am the only one that does these things?... k so I was putting away grocceries today and opened up my fridge and there was Lincolns favorite ball. I just grinned. Then hours later I was putting away the silverware, in the drawer was that same ball!...

I stopped and was thinking... so I came to my blog to write how I was feeling and that I should write about thankful things to my kids.

I am trying. We did have FHE this week.

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Family Event- Photo's by Jon

This is my family. All of my siblings were able to go on a family campout. It was successful and we all had a great time. Although it was a little chilly. This is the first time that all 6 kids had been camping in a long time. Here is a picture of us with our parents.. more later.