April's everyday happenings

So my sister Tallie gave me all these cute shoes for Cody.  These were my favorite, so I tried to do a mini photo session....

She also gave me this darling cute BYU onesie so I decided to get into the cougar spirit and try again with the photo session....

What do you think?  NOT a BYU fan?

THATS MORE LIKE IT!

I was in charge of a door for Teacher Appreciation this year.  I must say I did not copy this off of pinterest...it came straight out of my own noggin. Turned out cute.

This kid, is good to the bone and avoids contention like the plague.  He's growing up though and struggling to find his voice and boundaries from time to time.  G

I'm about 99% sure these were taken by an amateur photographer known as Collin.

Its Sunday Night game night playing our favorite "Ticket to Ride" game as a family.  Most of the pictures are curtesy of Collin who we have to keep entertained while he's a little under the age limit for the game.

...except for this one, which I took bc he's cute when he gets some highly Quiescently frozen dairy confection.

My beautiful pink blossom tree that I forget the official name for.  One year those pink flowers are going to bloom fully and cover this tree thick before the frost comes and kills them off after only 2 days.

TICKETS! Cordelle and I spent a date night at the dollar store purchasing things the kids could buy with their tickets. Every time jobs are done, they stay in bed, or obey they can earn tickets to be redeemed at the Store on Sunday's.  Yea, probably should've chosen a different day, but its not like they are actually purchasing them and Sunday's the only day we're all home for good.  Always trying something new as a parent to motivate!

This is fun, because it reminds me of how my kids watched movies for a while.  We discovered this show on BYU-TV called Relative Race, which is essentially a lot like The amazing race only people were racing across the nation looking for their ancestors but it was highly entertaining and because it had to be watched through byu-tv we didn't want to figure out how to transfer it to our TV or we were just too lazy to do it, so we for some reason always watched it on this couch with the laptop on a stool.  Haha!  Good memories.

Cody 2-3 months

This kid!

 Collin entertains me, thats for sure.  I have loved having a little buddy around to talk and sing to me. 

He is my sunshine.

 This probably should be embarrassing to me, but I couldn't stop laughing.  Collin was busy one morning and when I looked over at him he had taken my bras and underwear out of my drawer and put them over his head!  I have NO idea why, but it was hilarious! Oh he's going to hate me for these pictures one day.

 Box of oranges????

Or the perfect roads with man holes for your cars to fall into?

Easter 2016

Yup here we are.  Cody is 6 weeks old and we're out on the desert!  What are we thinking?  Well we kind of half camped this year.  We set up the camper but slept in a hotel.  It was actually really ice to be able to do that.  We really wanted to see my Grandma one more time because she was going downhill fast. Most of the kids and grandkids that were there gathered in her hotel room friday night and just sang songs.  It was nice.  The kids were glad to be there with their cousins.  And the weather was, well easter weather.  Cold nights, breezy days...one second your freezing the next second your hot. Can't believe we did it with such a young baby, but overall I think I am glad we did. 

I was a total slacker with pictures this year....but a few is better than none.:)

Marching along in 2016

 Sometimes life is just too tiring to make it through scriptures.  Or was it just the Isaiah chapters? :)

Good to know if your arms ever got chopped off you could still cradle your baby in your legs to sleep.  Ha! 

 Check out this hair.  What do I do with it?!  It's ridiculously long at the far top back but the front is still way bald.  Peacock hair.

 Seth was awarded 3rd Grade Tiger of the Month for Self Discipline.  A week later, he stopped doing his homework....haha!  No, he just all of the sudden needed the constant "parental reminders" which he normally never needs and I thought it was ironic because of the award he won the week before.  Kids!

 Happy St. Patricks Day!!

 Yup.  He loves him.  Calls him his baby Cody bug. 

 I'm pretty sure he said, Mom "take my picture!"

 Its just Collin and I now, trying to figure this out.  And boy is he a big help.

I love my sweet Collin and his darling little baby Cody.