A pirate says Arrrrr!!!

Ahoy matey and a yo ho ho!

We had quite the pirate party today. I think Bud loved it and hopefully the boys did too. I'm glad we kept it small (we only invited 3 boys). It kept it under control and not to crazy!
Here are some fun pictures from the party.

Here they are looking for a clue to the treasure! I made them each a noodle sword and decided I didn't want any fights over who's was who's. So, I stuck their names on them in vinyl! I thought they looked pretty cool! I still can't believe he's 6 years old! Happy Birthday Bud!

Happy happpy birthday!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BENJAMIN!!

October 3rd 2002 my little guy entered the world. The day before a friend came over to visit with me. I had light contractions throughout most of the afternoon. N8 called me before he left to come home from work to see how I was doing. I remember telling him to go get a haircut (he chose to come home instead!). We headed to the hospital at about 7pm. Benjamin was born at 1:04am 7lbs 11oz.

There are a few funny things I remember about my labor and delivery. N8 might remember things a little differently though! I remember Dr Williams coming in just before his shift ended at midnight and saying "it looks like you need something...here you go!" He gave me some nubane through IV (I don't do epidurals!). A little while later another doctor came in to check me. She told me I was at a 5 and she was going to break my water. She broke it and then immediately started counting. I was dilating as she broke my water. I remember that she kept telling the nurses she needed the bed higher. I remember feeling like I was 4 or 5 feet off the floor, I'm sure it wasn't that high it just felt that way! Just minutes later I was pushing and moments after that holding my sweet little guy!

From Oct 3 2008

Now here we are 6 years later. I'll post later pictures and details of the Pirate party!

One down one to go!

Well we did have one success this week on the tooth front! Mo has one of his 2 top teeth and hopefully this week we'll see the other one pop through! It was a crazy week and I made a valiant attempt at each of the items on my list and actually accomplished most of them! We'll see what this week brings.

Earlier this week Mo woke up with what I called "flock of seagulls" hair! It was just too funny not to take a picture!

From 2008-09-28

I really need to give him a haircut, but remember a little to well how terrible Bud's first cut turned out! I'm too cheap to take him to get a real cut just yet!!

On Friday I went along on the apple picking field trip for the entire 1st grade. Bud really enjoyed it and I'm glad I went. It was disorganized, but the kids seemed to like it. We went and picked apples, then went to the park and ate lunch. At the park they had trees that had been carved. It was pretty cool. Plus there was a Sonic!! Mmmmm!!!

From 2008-09-28

From 2008-09-28

From 2008-09-28

Then last night I went to the General RS broadcast. Kim and I went together. It was nice to walk in with someone, thanks Kim!! I enjoyed the dinner and the broadcast was great. I love What Sister Beck said about the purpose of Relief Society: Organize, Teach & Inspire!! I also loved Elder Utchdorf's talk. I had to come home and find the Peter Pan quote:

Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. James M Barrie

This week is a little more ordinary until the end of the week. Bud turns 6 on Friday!! So I have a plan for his birthday now I just need to put it all together!! Then there's conference this weekend. Here's to a great week!

All I want for this week are Mo's 2 front teeth!

Now you can hum that little Christmas toon all day like I have. Everytime I look at him I think "why the heck haven't those 2 teeth come through yet!!" So that is one of my hopes for the week. I am hoping for a fairly productive week so it time for a to do list!

If everything goes well here's what I hope to get accomplished for the week:

• Clean and tidy the guest room. If we were to have guests right now they woundn't be able to even open the door to the guest room!
• Tidy the garage. We are having a similar issue in the garage as with the guest room. It's getting increasingly difficult to maneuver around things!
• Pick out and organize a FHE lesson to teach the RS sisters at our next quarterly enrichment night.
• Weed in the backyard- darn weeds are taking over!
• Clean out my fidge. It looks the the condiments have taken over! It seems whenever I attend an activity I bring home the left over stuff, but you can only have so many salad dressings!!
• Put up all of my "fall" decor! It's finally thinking about cooling down here.
• Figure out a plan for Bud's birthday party and make some sort of cute invite-we're doing a pirate theme.
• All of the vinyl projects I put on hold for last weeks Super Friday. Another ward in my stake is needing their samples and need them done by the end of the week.

Man that seems like a lot. N8 left for Atlanta yesterday before church and will be home late Wednesday so we'll see how the week works. Friday is a field trip, apple picking, and Emma, Mo and I are tagging along. Saturday is scout show, soccer pictures and game as well as the General RS Broadcast!

From 2008-09-22

Here's to a productive week!

Some Fun!

I'll start by saying Happy Birthday Mom!! You're the best!!

From 2007_12_13

So, a few friends have done this and it looked like fun. You find by typing your answer into a google image search. Only use a picture from the first page. Click until it is the only image on the screen, then copy the address of the image. Then go to your blog, under add image, and paste into URL field. It's fun. I didn't quite do all the labels she had so if you want to add some go ahead!

College

Color

Nickname

Where you were born

First Job

Old love

Favorite Animal

Place you want to go

Favorite place

Bad Habit

Age

Where I live

Favorite Object

What you are doing right now

First day of school, again...

Bud already had his first day, but Emma's first day of preschool this week! Since she miraculously decided to start using the potty last month, I signed her up for our community center preschool. It's 2 days a week for 3 hours. She loved it, I love it, it's a perfect match! Now if I could just get Mo to nap most of the time she's there I could maybe have a quiet moment and get a few things done!!

So here's Emma ready for her first day:

From 2008-09-04

From 2008-09-04

I was able to get a few things done while she was gone. I'm doing a vinyl order for our stake RS. I'm almost done.

From 2008-09-04

Then I'm working on some Christmas ideas and a friend's birthday:

From 2008-09-04

From 2008-09-04

This week also marked the start of soccer season. Saturday will be the first soccer game. I was looking at the calendar and hope that N8 and I can make it to a few games together to support him. This weekend is our last to canvas neighborhoods on Prop 8. So, one of us will do Prop 8 stuff and one will go to a soccer game. This month also has scout stuff for N8 and stake auxiliary training for me. Oh joy!

Why do we think we can??

Why do N8 and I think we can take on any fix-it project!! It always seems to not quite turn out as we expected!! Earlier this week I reached under my sink (not my favorite place!) to get out some cleaning products. As I grabbed the bottle I noticed it was WET!! Never a good sign under the sink. So, I got out a flashlight and stuck my head under only to find that our faucet was leaking. I put a bucket under the drip and called N8. We planned to replace the faucet on Saturday. Friday afternoon we made a trip to the Home Depot, picked out a nice new faucet. It even has the pull out sprayer (a feature our old faucet didn't have!).

After having a somewhat lazy morning we got started on the faucet in the afternoon. As N8 got out the tools, I got under the sink to turn the water off. I quickly discovered that our hot water line was also leaking. So, now we needed to replace the faucet and the valve to the hot water. N8 went out to the garage to turn the hot water off at the hot water heater so we didn't have to turn the water off to the house. As he turned the knob the next problem happened. That valve also broke!

So now we not only needed to replace our faucet, but our hot water valve under the sink and our turn off valve on the water heater. We knew this was past our ability. So we called a friend. He came over and said, Yep it's broken! We quickly got a hold of a plumber and kept our fingers crossed it wouldn't cost us an arm and a leg, also hoping for a quick repair so we wouldn't have to cancel our babysitter!

Luckily it only cost us an arm and we were still able to go out to dinner, just slightly delayed.

In other family news, Matthew decided yesterday that he was ready to start pulling himself up to things. He now does it every change he gets. He hasn't quite figured out how to move around, only how to get stuck!!