Messes!

I have been in the mood....the mood to make some huge messes...and it has rubbed off onto my kids! This has been a good and a bad thing...the good, we have had a blast, the bad, it takes a lot of work to clean up a good, fun mess! We have baked, colored, play dohed, made forts and plenty of little messes in between! I got out all of the painting stuff the other day and let the kids go at it! They created some beautiful Spring pictures, hoping that Mother Nature would get a clue!

(Aurianna is so thrilled to have her picture taken once again!)

Yesterday, everyone took their messes into their own hands. I woke up to the sound of cheerful voices coming from the kitchen. I came down stairs (it was 6:45). The girls were on the counter mixing up their very own cookies. They had the cookbooks out and everything. I have no idea how long they had been up. And oh the mess...flour all over the floor and the chairs and the kids. It was one of those great mornings when an hour feels like it goes by in 15 minutes. But we did make it to school on time!

(For some reason Aurianna is wearing Livia's PJs)

It had been a long day...Tad was finishing a paper (1 1/2 more classes to go!!!) and I was ready to snuggle up and watch a little Ugly Betty (I know I probably shouldn't be, but I am addicted). I guess the dog was feeling a little left out (maybe i should have let him paw paint!). I brought him in from out back and this is what I found...

My husband saved the day by bringing me a dozen red roses! Thanks honey! As for my mess making mood...I think tomorrow we will play with ublick!

I am Thankful...

Today I am thankful for my house. I just took off my sweatshirt because I was so hot and as I looked up, I was looking straight out the window to the white world that we have been experiencing all day. I felt extremely grateful that my little family is being kept warm inside our house. I am trying to be positive about the snow. My grass should be really, really green this year! And we are going to go sledding again tomorrow! That is about as far as my enthusiasm goes!

It is hard to imagine that in a month my trees will look like this!!!(This was April last year!) But for now we have more of this....

You Make 'Em, I Amuse 'Em!

Every year our library holds a big birthday party for Dr. Seuss! Last year scared the pants off of Trey and Livia by having the guest of honor be the Grinch. I spent at least the next six months trying to convince Trey that the Grinch wasn't in the basement or in his closet and no, the cranky cross walk lady at Aurianna's school is not the Grinch!
This year I was happy to see that they were celebrating by having everyone dress up as their favorite character in their favorite book! My girls still wanted to pay their respects to the great Dr. by being a Who from Who Ville! (Livia had a blast getting ready!)

Trey loves the book PARTSSo we got him dressed up like the boy in this book! (A problem arose, I will get to that in a sec!).
The kids all had a blast though! They invited Fancy Nancy, The Big Bad Wolf and the Hungry Caterpillar to come read their stories to the kids! They had a story book parade and everyone got a fun prize for coming dressed up!



They gave away prizes and Trey won! He got this
And all of the kids got to pick out their own book!
This is our cute librarian! She always does such cute things!
Trey looks more like Linus from Charlie Brown because he had a yucky wart removed off of his foot right before the party. He wouldn't let me put shoes on him and I had to find pants that were too short so that it didn't touch it. The wart wasn't really that big...but this is what we woke up to this morning

He was still smiling though....he is such a little trooper!
This was his head last October...the kid didn't even cry as they were numbing and stapling his head! The doctors were amazed! By the time he is done, he could be his own character in one of Dr. Seuss' books!

Ok...just one more post for today!

So much was going on around the time of Trey's third birthday, I din't get time to post about it. I can't believe my little boy is already three. He grew up so quickly. He is so adorable, a rascal, but adorable! As much as the girls have tried by putting make up on him or dressing him up like a princess...he is such a boy!!! He loves Star Wars and Spider Man! He loves playing with his light sabors and hot wheels! He also loves making a mess! If there is mud, he will find it! But oh his smile! It can get him out of so much trouble. His cry is even cute! If you can't tell, I kind of adore the kid! The problem is, so do Tad & his sisters. He is pretty protected! For his birthday we met all of his cousins (or his friends as he calls them) down at the Dinosaur Museum at Thanksgiving Point! He had a blast with everyone!














After the museum, we met everyone else at the pizza place! We had a blast catching up with everyone!

Livia...ohh the things that comes out of her mouth!!!

Livia has been on a role with her questions and comments lately...I thought I would post a few!

I bought some new boots the other day.She put them on and walked around the house in them...nothing new...she is a shoe diva! She said to me, "Mom, when you are a Grandma and I am a mom, can you tell me where you bought these so that I can get some!"

Yesterday she was giving me a hard time about not wanting to go to school. I told her that she needed to go so that she could learn. She told me that she has already learned enough because she has been to 45 schools (pronounced 'footy five'). (She has been in four preschools in the last two years...we finally found one we like!)

This morning she ran through her 'what I want to be when I grow up' list! "When I am 41, I want to be a mom, when I am 42 I want to be a lady that puts the groceries in the bag, when I am 44 (I guess the bagging gig lasts two years!) I want to be a princess, when I am 45 I want to build houses and when I am 72 I will be a cheerleader! The list gets bigger and bigger every time she shares it! (Trey say's right now he is Anakin (from Star Wars) and then when he gets older he wants to be Spider Man!)

Watch out Little Leprechaun!

We are in serious need of some GOLD!The kids have big plans for it...some goes to Grandma's, Disneyland of course, they have talked a lot about building their own castle! There is only one catch...we have to catch the little slippery Leprechaun first! So, we came up with a plan this year...a trap!!!

We cut a hole out in the top of a chocolate milk container (you could also use an oatmeal canister). Then we covered it in glue and felt.

Then we made some fake gold (painted foil) and rolled them into balls! We put them on top and made a ladder out of some sticks!



The only thing left to do is put a little sign telling the Leprechaun not to climb up...they love to break rules!
Hopefully the Leprechauns don't read my blog!!!

Join us on the alligator to go wimming!

Oh three year old language! I think one of my favorite things about being a mom to toddlers is hearing the words that come out of their mouths! When I got home from being on vacation, Tad left a few days later to work in California. I was watching Livia one day; I could tell that she was thinking about something really hard. So, I asked her what she was thinking about. She said, "Why do you and dad get to stay in hotel's all the time and we never get to?" Someone must have been listening, because a week later she was jumping on the bed at the Hampton Inn! Tad's flight got canceled this week and he had the SLC manager quit so we met him down in Salt Lake on Friday and stayed over night! You would have thought that we were at Disneyland! They had to turn on the TV, pile all the pillows onto one bed and visit the ice machine all within the first five minutes of arriving! They were acting like they had never been in a hotel before! I couldn't help remembering every time my mom took us to a hotel and how we did the exact same things! Trey had had his swimming suit on since he woke up! Every time we had to go somewhere I would change him and he would change back into his suit the second we walked in the door. After we ate, we all got our swimming suits on. Trey kept coming up and pulling on my arm. He said, "Mom, can we take the alligator to the wimming pool?" I looked at him confused as to how he thought we were taking an alligator to a swimming pool. I told him that we didn't have an alligator. He looked at me confused and said I just want to push the buttons on the alligator. All of the sudden the light came on...he meant elevator!!! The kids all took a vote on Saturday morning and decided that they all want to move into a hotel. Someone else cleans your room and makes your bed, you get all you can eat breakfast, and they bring clean towels to you any time you pick up the phone and push 0. Wait...they have a mom that does all that stuff...I think that I want to move into a hotel!!!