Jealous Much!

How would it be to have someone read you a story, then sing you songs while rubbing your back and rocking you until you fell asleep?!?!?..... AND then while you are sleeping, they hurry to get as much laundry, dishes, mopping, and scrubbing as they possibly can, all the while being so careful not to wake you up..... AND then they let you sleep until you are FULLY rested!?!?.... AND then when you wake up they have a nice hot meal waiting for you?!?

Jealous Much!?!?!

Well, I sure am! This is what my little Jax gets most of the time and the crazy part is.....when he is drooling and fully asleep, I carefully lay him in his crib and he wakes up and starts screaming that I would dare lay him down on a nice soft bed!

I wish I could tell him that he has it good and that there are kids in Cambodian orphanages that don't get any physical contact and he is LUCKY!
Yeah, well that is kinda hard to tell a 16 month old.

I guess I will just keep on doing it....cuz I can not possibly give up the snuggle time. I LOVE IT!!!
And I love you Jax... thanks for paying me back by laughing your cute laugh and giving me the most slobbery kisses EVER!!

Am I the only one.......

My life is finally getting into a routine, but for some reason I still can't find a way to get ahead of all my chores and projects.
Like today, I got the kids off to school, went to the gym, came home, rocked Jackson and layed him down for a nap, then started cleaning. While I am cleaning, I am thinking...."today is going to be the day....today I am going to clean everything....today I will get more than the kitchen and laundry done...." As I am half way through mopping the kitchen floor, I look at the clock and realize Carson will be home from Kindergarten in a few minutes. I make him a quick lunch at the same time detailing my grand plan in my mind on how I am still going to get so much done.....and then Jackson wakes up from his nap....."OH yeah, this is why I never get anything done! Why do I somehow always forget that it is not my schedule? Someday I guess I need to clean my room first and have the rest of my house look like 3 boys live here.
I'm just wondering if I am the only one that feels this way???

I guess when I am old and my kids are gone, I will sit in my sparkling clean house and wish they would come mess something up.....

Goodbye Sweet Curls!

Jackson's hair was getting too long. Billy said he was getting a mullet. All I could see was cute little curls. I think it is a "mom" thing. But, I didn't want people to think he looked like Joe Dirt......soooooo no more curls. I cut his hair while he was playing in the tub. I am a genius! Why has it taken me this long to come up with this!!
I wanted a before and after pic. This is the first time when I said "say cheese" that Jax has scrunched up his face so tight that he can't see. He was making me laugh so hard!

Thankful!

Tonight Mia (Carson's BFF) was over. Carson kept stealing her bread and Mia said "First, let's pinky promise to always be friends." They pinky promised! Then, she said "Now let's pinky promise not to steal each others bread." And they pinky promised again! I just LOVE this girl! Mia and Carson play so well together and they say the funniest things. Today they were sure they were seeing Santa's elves. They had a running total of how many elves they saw.

Carson 20
Mia 20
Jackson 18
Mom 1

It really is a pleasure to have her at our house. If I could, I would adopt her....and I'm not kidding! Her and Carson don't really have fights, they have disagreements and work it out on their own. (I wish my kids knew how to do that!)

So tonight I am Thankful for Mia and Carson. Here's some pics of them after their Thanksgiving party at school. They came up with the poses all by themselves! (Yes they have swords made out of markers!)

Oh, and you have to check out this website. You can make a video email from Santa. Carson can not stop talking about it!

http://portablenorthpole.tv/home/

Love!

Ohhhhh! I just love this kid!!

Happy Halloween!

This Halloween Austin said he wanted to be a skeleton. I tried to get him to be something less scary but caved in when I saw the skeleton shirt at Walmart for $5. Carson said he wanted to be Scooby Doo. I went to get his costume and walked out of the store disgusted that anyone would spend $50 on a halloween costumes. CRAZY! Carson's next choice......skeleton! REALLY! UGH!.....Oh that was my thought until I found Jax a skeleton shirt that had candy on the inside of the bones. OK now that is CUTE STUFF! All three boys costumes thrown together in one day (Thanks to being sick for a week with the grossest flu you can get....Swine Flu!) all for under $15 total! GO ME!!

We grew a TON of pumpkins this year! Austin decided he was going to sell some and earn $ for his mission fund. Thank you friends for helping him out! We still had tons left over to carve! I think we did a great job! Fun stuff!

I could really use a day like this today!

I am missing the summer days! A few days ago I broke out in itchy hives. From what you might ask? The cold!
In high school, my P.E. teacher Coach Park use to make fun of me saying I was full of crap and there was NO way I was allergic to the cold. He thought I was trying to get out of playing soccor or softball on the cold fall days, in those ever-so-warm P.E. t-shirt and short uniforms. I seriously considered taking a picture of my red blotchy tummy when the weather changed from not-too-bad to FREEZING and sending it to him as proof!
Last month we had some good days. On one of those days, I took Carson and Jackson to the river and to feed the ducks. Here are a few shots of the perfection of that day.



This is apparently what it looks like when you are backing up to take a pic and you trip! HAHAHA
So, I handed the camera off to Carson.....not too bad...I'm only missing my head.

Carson had fun feeding the ducks and geese. They were very aggressive! Here is Carson telling the goose to get back.
And here is the duck telling Carson what he thought. These geese are fed WAY too much! I really thought for a minute the goose was going to start attacking. Luckily no kids or geese were harmed.

P.S. Couldn't you just eat this kid up!! YUMMY!!! I am in love with his eyelashes!