Relay For Life

I'm really excited to participate in the Relay For Life this year in Tooele County. As some of you may know my sister is a survivor of Cancer. She has been in remission for a few years now, and we're grateful every year she comes back cancer free. I am running/walking the Relay for Life with my sister and for my sister. And for all others who have been affected by cancer. I would appreciate any donations you can contribute to the American Cancer Society. I understand times are tough right now, so if you can not, I totally understand. Please help if you can.

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Thanks to all my super awesome friends who have already donated! It really means a lot to me!

Reason #57

Reason I hate doing laundry # 57

All 5 pairs of pants Ryan owns are on the floor the day after I fold them all and put them in his drawer.
Why not just leave them clean on the laundry room floor?


Next Photo:
Is someone trying to send me a hint?

It was addressed to ME.

No, I don't have a hard time getting pregnant, I just don't want to be.
I'm grateful for the 2 wonderful boys I have, and I'm happy.

Elmo & Friends

Ethan had 2 of his cute friends over to play today. Ryan is usually the one with the friends over so it was nice for Ethan to have a play-date this time. These are his friends, Luke & Madison...they are the cutest twins ever! The Elmo's were a hit, I had to replace all the batteries first...then they were a hit. :-) This picture was not posed either. They were all running around the chair with their Elmo's and stopped together to take a break. Ethan does not look happy, but I promise he is.

More playing with the Elmo's.

And Ryan, replacing the batteries in his clock & watching the kids run around. It was a fun morning. Now Ryan is at school and Ethan is taking a nap...then off to the store for us (does anyone else feel like they live at the store??).

Too Smart

While holding Ethan in the rocking chair, trying to get the boys in bed, this was mine and Ryan's conversation:

Ryan: "Mom, can you play a card game with me?"

Mom: "Not tonight Ryan, it's already past your bedtime, but if you'd like I'll read you a story"

Ryan: "Well Mom, by the time you read me a story, you would have had time to play a card game"

Mom: (Thinking) What can I say to that? "Ryan, you're right, go get the card game"


What's a Mom to do when her boy is too smart for her??

Holy Weird Post

I have total random things to post this time. I hope you can follow along. We have not been up to anything super exciting so here is what has happened in the past couple of weeks:

We picked Dad up at work so we could go to lunch at Denny's (who doesn't love pancakes for lunch?). The kids miss him so we try to go to lunch once a month.

Dad and Ethan waiting for their food.

Mom & Ryan waiting for ours.

I have NEVER had one bad thing to say about my favorite store, Target...until now!! I guess it's more the PEOPLE who do not put their dang carts back because they are so LAZY. Heaven forbid they walk 25 ft!!

Ryan's been playing indoor soccer the past month. He likes his team, he's playing with a few neighbor kids. He still hates to play. They made him be the "goalie" just so he does something. Maybe one day he'll be into sports.

I have a friend whose husband is gone over night every Monday so we have been getting together for Dinner sometimes. It has been a lot of fun, and it's nice not to be alone on one of the weeknights. This is Kate, my friend's daughter. She is also in mine and Ben's primary class. Ben teases (a nice tease, not a mean tease) her all the time and says he loves playing with American Girl Dolls like she does, so she brought them to our house so I could take a picture for Ben to see. Ethan loves Kate. He kept following her around all night. When I put Ethan to bed he was talking more than usual saying, "Kate, Ball, Dinosaurs, Kate, Catch, Trains, Kate". Such a ladies man.

Ethan wasn't feeling so well the other day, so this was the result...

Ben and I have been faithfully doing P90X at night when he comes home (yes, very late). This is our make-shift work out room in our basement. Ben bought Gym Mats that have helped a ton! (don't mind the mess in the background).

Our pull-up bar.

Utah weather is so freaking weird! We had snow the other day with HUGE flakes. The kids went outside to catch them on their tongues.
Then today it's nice and sunny and about 55 degrees. We went for a nice walk with just light jackets on. Awesome!


So there.

Only a Taco

Story:

I was on the John (yes, I said I was on the toilet, we all are from time to time) flipping through one of my US magazines and Ethan was looking at the magazine with me (yes, he is a constant next to me). I turned the page and Ethan said, "Mom, go back, go back" very frantically. I went back a page and saw this Taco Bell ad.

I thought, "Oh no, he is WAY too young to be checkin' out girls in bikini's"
Well, Ethan got excited and said,
"TACO!!"

I was relieved.

My Handsome Date

Ryan and I went on a date last night to the Jazz Game. This was Ryan's first Jazz game.
Mom: "Ryan, how was the Jazz Game?"
Ryan: "It was a little bit boring".
Mom: "What? How could the game be boring?"
Ryan: "Well, just when the girls came out and danced, that was boring. And when the Jazz scored everyone was way too loud, but the game was fun".

We took a little break and got some cotton candy and a drink. And Ryan wanted to see the cool Jazz race car.

Before the game started. We had great seats!

My Handsome Date!

We left the game early because Ryan said he was tired. So we get in the car and Ryan said he didn't want to go home. So we went and got some ice cream and while we drove home Ryan told me many many stories of Bugs (it's bug week at preschool). I had to stop for gas after 30 minutes and I said Ryan, you'll have to continue your story in a minute.
When I got back in the car he said, "Now where were we?"

Ryan was a little sad Ethan could not come with us, since I only had 2 tickets. But Ethan had fun getting ice cream with dad, then playing catch at home.

I have the best kids for sure!