All Kinds of Cute

I obviously talk a lot about my kids on the blog. That's because this is literally my journal. I make it into books and then I'm done! Brilliant. Also, I think the grandparents appreciate the updates and pics. This post is a random collection of recent kid cuteness.

This was from our first attempt at making fudge pops in our new popsicle molds. They were messy and didn't come out of the mold very well, but they tasted pretty good and the kids enjoyed eating them.
This is not super recent, but I was so happy with the way this picture of the boys together turned out. We took these in the same photo sitting that we did Davin's 2 year old pictures. So handsome!
The kids were randomly dancing in the living room. They are such goof balls. I can't get over what a nerd Weston is with his pants hiked up. And I think Davin is krumping.
My little hellion outlaws. I threw them in jail at Farm Country. It really didn't take much convincing. They love playing in the jail.
Another cute one from the Father's and Son's campout. Davin is distracted by the airplane flying over.
Sigh. This is what we did to our den this last weekend. We didn't strip all the wood paneling off. Yet. Just enough to get an idea of what was underneath it. We haven't decided if we are going to rip out the existing drywall or not. There is insulation behind it, but not very much, so the plan is to add to/replace the insulation, possibly replace the drywall, mud, texturize and paint the walls. I'm hoping new windows are in the near future in that room too.

The state of "under construction" gives me major anxiety, so I would like to just get started so that we can be done. It will hopefully look much better when we are done. Also, I am grateful that this is the only room we have to re-do.
Last, but not least, a video of Davin's triumphant success in removing his own socks. Ok, fine, Weston helped out a little, but he was still so proud of himself. :)

Father & Son Camp Out

Last night was our stake's Fathers & Sons camp out activity. It was held at a local park about 5 minutes away from our house. Weston was super excited about going camping. He helped Ian get all the gear out and ready on Thursday night. Then we spent a long Friday afternoon packing up and waiting for Daddy to come home. Ian took both the boys with him, so I had the evening all to myself. I went and got myself some dinner from Kneader's, brought it home, and watched a movie. At 9 I went and picked up Davin and brought him home for bed. Weston stayed and slept in the tent. They got up this morning, had breakfast, and were home by 9am. Weston had a blast. I think he will be excited to go camping again soon.

Friday Fun

Ian sent me this video to watch the other day and I was just cracking up. I do love my Sienna, but I had no idea I was so cool. ;)

On a more serious note, my friend, Alexis posted THIS on her blog the other day. I thought it was very humbling and thought provoking. We really are so very blessed. It's important to remember that, express our gratitude to our Heavenly Father, and then be sure to serve and share with others.

Happy Weekend!

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Weston loves this sweater because he thinks it makes him look like a tiger. He fittingly calls it his tiger sweater. Tonight Ian is working late at a video shoot, so I took the kids to Chick-Fil-A for dinner. On Wednesday nights kids eat free and they usually have a craft or something for the kids to do. Tonight they had a lady doing face painting! Weston was so super excited to get his face painted like a tiger. He waited patiently in line for about 5 minutes then came back to me and was a little disappointed. He told me it was a dollar to get your face painted. Unfortunately I didn't even have a dollar. I gave him the 75 cents I had in my wallet and told him to ask the lady if she would do it for him for that. Turns out he had just seen the tip jar and assumed it cost money. When he came back with his face painted he told me that it was free for 4 year olds.
He spent the rest of the evening running around the play place pretending to be Sher Khan from Jungle Book. The kids got balloons on the way out too. Best dinner out ever. In their opinion anyway. :)
Davin has been a sickie with a cough and cold. He is starting to get a better though. Less coughing anyway. Today he took a 3 1/2 hour nap! That is unheard of for him. Weston used to pull 3 1/2 hour naps out of his hat all the time, but this is definitely rare for Dav. I think it was a good thing that he got that much rest. I didn't mind it either.

This weekend is the Father and Son camp-out. I think Davin will have to sit this year out, but by next year he will for sure be invited. Weston is really excited about his first ever camping experience. I know, I know. We are horrible parents for not taking him camping in the last 4 years. In our defense we totally had plans to go, were packed and everything, when Davin came down with a fever and cold the night before.

Anyway, this weekend is also stake conference (yeah I know, horrible planning on the part of the stake), so we will be busy busy starting with the stake temple session tomorrow night (if I can find a sitter). Our ward choir is providing the music in the general session, so I hope that goes well. I have my concerns. Send good high note thoughts my way Sunday morning.

Fancy Schmancy

Well my super weekend definitely lived up to it's hype. We had such a great time seeing Iron Man 2 at midnight on Thursday night. It was so fun to spend the whole evening together. I picked up the kids from the Miller's house on Friday morning and they were exhausted. Apparently the sleepover wore them out. It was all I could do to keep them awake until we got home. Needless to say we spent Friday afternoon napping and lounging.

That night we went to a friend's graduation party. He just finished his master's degree. Congrats Justin! It was a luau since Justin is Samoan. My friend Tara made all the food and it was amazing. I was very impressed. It was at a park and the kids had a blast running laps all over the place. They also had a cotton candy machine! Davin was in heaven. Weston just kept saying he wanted the pink kind (theirs was blue) and wouldn't eat his. Weirdo.

Saturday morning Weston went to the primary activity. He loves feeling grown up and going to activities without a parent. :) He made me a Mother's Day gift, but when I went to pick him up he was playing duck duck goose and eating cookies, so I think he had a good time.

Saturday night was Ian and my big date. Before we got ready I got to open some of my Mother's Day presents. The boys had picked out 3 new pairs of earrings for me. The did a great job too. I love them all! We got all dressed up (me in a new dress and new earrings) and went to dinner at Red Lobster because I wanted shrimp. I hadn't been there in years. It was yummy. We had to speed a bit to make it downtown in time for the symphony, but we got to our seats just in time. The symphony was just wonderful! The music was so fun and different. The 2 hour concert just flew by. I had never been to Abravanel Hall before either, so it was fun to attend an event there. Here we are in front of the awesome glass sculpture in the lobby during intermission. Ian seemed to enjoy his first symphony concert too. We will have to go again one of these days.
That was kind of the kick off to my Mother's Day. Sunday I got to sleep in. Weston came and woke me up a little after 8 to tell me that breakfast was almost ready. Ian made french toast and sausage. It was delish. There was a fresh cut tulip on the table and I got the You Are Special plate. :) After breakfast I got to open my other presents. Weston made me adorable I Love You Mom presents at school. They were the best. Ian got me Roman Holiday and Breakfast at Tiffany's. I sure love Audrey Hepburn.

I spent the rest of the morning snuggled up on the couch in a blanket reading until it was time to shower and get ready for choir and church. I played the piano for the primary while they sang, which was ok except that I didn't get to see Weston singing. Ian was on the stand too, so he didn't see either. Sad. I'm betting he was cute though.

For dinner we had chicken Parmesan and Caesar salad. I didn't have to do the dishes. Or help the kids brush teeth. Or changed poopy diapers. It was a lovely Mother's Day thanks to my boys (especially Ian!). I am bummed that I forgot to take a picture with my kiddos yesterday, but here's one that Weston took of Dav and me a little while ago.
Today I am putting the house back together after a crazy weekend and doing lots of laundry. I took Davin to the doctor this morning because he was coughing a lot all weekend. He now has an albuterol inhaler, some Singulair, and an appointment in a couple weeks with the ENT. Hopefully we will figure out what's going on with his ears/hearing/speech. Well, I'm off to fold laundry and think fondly about how much I enjoyed this last weekend.

Reading Fool

This week I have been a reading fool. It's been a little hard actually because when I get absorbed in a book I don't do anything else and I get a little grumpy because I should be doing other things. Oh well. I still love escaping into a good book.

This week I read The Penderwicks on Gardam Street and I'm about halfway through The Goose Girl (for the 3rd or 4th time). I just bought both of these books at Borders last weekend, so I had to read them. I also just picked up The Host from the library. I have already read it, but it was awhile ago, so I wanted to give it another read. I don't know if I'm weird like that or not. Do you re-read books you like over and over?

Anyway, I also felt like I spent this whole week just waiting for this weekend. I sure hope it lives up to it's hype. :) Tonight the kids are going to have a sleepover with the Miller boys so that Ian and I can go to the midnight showing of Ironman 2 with a big group from Ian's work. I'm excited to have the evening to ourselves. And Weston is super excited to be having a sleepover.

Friday night we are going to our friend, Justin's graduation party at a park, so that should be fun. Saturday morning Weston has a Primary activity. Later that night Ian and I are going on another date! We are going to dinner and to the Utah Symphony. I haven't been to the symphony in years and Ian has never been. I scored us 2 tickets for $20 through Groupon. It was my first purchase through them and it was really quite simple and I liked that they had a live stream of questions with Utah Symphony employees to answer them right there on the webpage while I was trying to decide whether or not to purchase these or not.

Sunday is Mother's Day so it's bound to be a good day. :) Weston is giving his second Primary talk that day and singing with the Primary for the first time in Sacrament meeting. It's going to be a big weekend. I will try to remember to take lots of pictures!

I hope everyone has a lovely Mother's Day weekend!

Educational Viewing

This weekend Ian and I finally finished watching Dances With Wolves. I had never seen it. I enjoyed it. Interesting story and beautiful images. It was a little slow though and kinda predictable since I have seen Avatar.

We are also watching the series America The Story of Us on the history channel. The second segment was on last night, but it's on really late, so we will have to watch it another day. I think it's fascinating. I love learning more about our country's history.

I also won another blog giveaway this morning! Hooray! I have been following Blog Giveaways for a couple months now and I have won 2 tee shirts, a handmade soap, chocolate banana slugs, handmade shamrock earrings, a Scholastic DVD of animated stories called Giggle Giggle Quack, a $25 gift card to ecostoreusa.com, and most recently a Kodak Sports Camera! I enjoy looking at all the different blogs that I enter giveaways on too. Feel free to join in the fun and win some free stuff!

Today after Weston gets home from preschool we are going to plant his little sunflower plant out in the backyard. He brought it home a few days ago, but it has been raining every day since then, so today is the first day of sun. He is so excited about it.

Last week on Friday we went to Petsmart to look at the animals and came home with a .10 goldfish. Weston decided to name him Bruce. By Friday night I thought he was a goner. He was kind of laying on the bottom of the fish bowl and twitching, but he survived the weekend and seems to be ok. I had put the bowl on a lower surface so that Davin could see the fish too, but this morning I caught him up to his elbows in the fish bowl, so he lost his viewing privilege and Bruce has been moved to higher ground.

Can you even believe that it is going to be Mother's Day this Sunday?!? It totally crept up on me. Luckily I have everyone taken care of and will be making a trip to the post office tomorrow. I sure hope my boys have a good Mother's Day planned for me!

Life seems to just be plugging along. I am excited for our upcoming weekend of fun that will include a midnight showing of Iron Man 2, a friend's graduation party, a Primary activity, a date to the Utah Symphony, and, of course, Mother's Day! In the meantime I will get this house clean, do the laundry, and keep everyone fed. :)