My Treasures

My heart is full tonight. I just had to go peek at my kids before heading to bed and this is what I found:

Savannah has 15 books, 7 cars and 3 stuffed animals with her in bed! haha

Craig is cuddled up laying ON TOP of his 'special friends' which is an assorted pile of stuffed animals and cars

And Jason, is sleeping soundly with his little fist in his mouth. (He's amazing! He was wide awake, laughing and talking to me when I laid him down and almost immediately he cuddled in, found his fist and started dozing off. He doesn't do that when I put him on the floor to play. Only when I put him in his bed! Love that boy!)

That room is full of my treasures and they are all so dear to me. I feel so blessed to be a mom! Each of my children with their funny little personalities and individual quirks are the joy of my life. It's nice to sit back and remember that, instead of being caught up in the busyness and 'to-do lists' of life.

Paper cutter

Craig "Mom is your paper cutter the one that broke?"
Me "Yes it is."
Craig "Oh! So MINE is the one that survived! Great!"

Craig's letter

K.C. And I went to Wyoming for a paparazzi party Craig and Savannah stayed with grandma and grandpa. Craig wrote us a lovely letter while we were gone. What a sweet boy. We sure love that guy.

Savannah's prayer

Me go to grandpas house!

Craigs prayer

Please help me to have a drink of water. Please help my food to be cold when I'm done praying and Savannah's food to be cold and moms food to be sorta hot and dads food to be sorta hot.

Craigs picture day at school

Today was Craig's picture day at school and his "all about me day" he took five of his most special friends in a bag and told about them.

And took:
three cars
bolt
and a picture of daddy and me at the temple On our wedding day. It's a little picture and he sleeps with it so that he won't get lonely at night. He first found it and wanted to keep it when he heard profit say that they should have a picture of the temple in their room. Sometimes when I go in to check on him he is hugging the picture while he sleeps. It's so sweet.

This is a picture that he drew at school it's our family and we were in fog. I was surprised when I first saw it and then I realized we really do have a family of five!

A wonderful silly family of five

Laundry

Lots of it.

Cute kids at church

I sure love these two kids.
Craig did an amazing job at singing his solo in the primary program today.
And Savannah it's getting so pretty!

Draw a baby mama

Savanna wanted me to draw a baby and this is what I drew. when she said that she said "Apple juice baby mama!"

I guess the baby looks like an apple! Haha

Amazing Man

I'm grateful everyday for the amazing man I married. He does so much. He makes everyone laugh. He is an inspiration in everything he does and impresses everyone. I'm so grateful for such an amazing husband.

Awe Craig

I was talking to Craig about how he could save some of the money he earned so that when he was big he could pay for his mission. Then he said:

"I don't ever want to go on a mission."

"What?! Why?"

"Because I just love you SO much I never want to be away from you for such a long time."

It was a sweet thing to hear.

By myself

It is the weirdest thing to be driving somewhere without Jason. I keep looking over my shoulder expecting to see him and wondering why you so quiet, I wonder if the air-conditioning is getting to him, I wonder if the music is too loud, I wonder if he's sleeping. I always feel he's with me, like he's still a part of me and it is weird when he's not there.

Um...

Came in the kitchen to find this... Did I miss something?

Best compliment ever

Mom, you're a lot wonderfuller than a wonderful mom.  -Craig

At the dentist

Everything looks good! Craig was a good sport about the x rays. They did the 360° one and showed all his adult teeth too. It will still be about 2 years before his front tooth comes in though.

Savannah did a great job too. But she just got a cleaning and I was holding her so I couldn't really take pictures.

Popular opinion

It hurts to realize that the popular opinion is that I'm not a good wife, that I never take care of the children or K.C., that I make K.C.'s life harder and make him unhappy. That he never gets to do anything he wants to because of me.

Makes me feel like I have to kill my self off trying to prove them wrong.

But mostly It hurts. It makes my heart hurt.

Jason 7 1/2 weeks.

Jason weighs 15 pounds! Guess he's not starving.

Jason - 6 weeks

Jason is 6 weeks old today! This is his first night in with Craig and Savannah... We'll see how it goes! He's been sleeping so good in our room I've been hesitant to mess up the program. Hopefully there's a lot of the sleeping going on tonight and not one kid waking up another.

aug 29

I PASSED! Yipee! I am the proud owner of a perfect left ear! The Doc said he was surprised and amazed with how well it had healed after how bad it was. But it looks great. Then he did the hearing test and I passed with flying colors! Yipee! Time for the happy dance!

craig speaks

Craig: "Can we listen to that cool Bolt song?"
Me: "Sure"
Craig: "I like it when it's sorta turned up a lot, cuz then it sounds really epic!"


Craig: "Mom, this is great. I'm going to school, soon Savannah will be going to school, (happy sigh and then emphatically says) good times mom. Good Times!"

Craig was searching for his car in the dark. There was a moment of silence then a triumphant "YES! I used my sense of TOUCH to find it!"



Craig: "Mom, you know the story of the wooden truck with the wooden tires and the wooden engine?"
Me: "No"
Craig: "It wouldn't go!"

 
I love the way he says things! 

jason sleeps

I LOVE the way Jason deals with bedtime right now! It goes like this: About 8:30 I feed and burp him, cuddle for a little while, say 'it's time to go to bed, I love you" lay him in his crib and walk away. He just goes to sleep without a peep, (and usually without a binky). Then he sleeps till about 7:30 the next morning. I'm so grateful that he's such a good boy!