So here's some casual embarrassing Sunday moments for you

So today I'm getting ready right? And with kids its never a straight continual process. Its usually shower, get Seth cereal, put on some mascara, hold Jaq for a sec, blow-dry my hair, make Seth go potty...you get the idea. Well today I was making that big sunday decision....you know, which shoes do I wear with this skirt? Those ones are too flat, those ones are too tall, too wintery, too 90's, those make me trip just thinking about wearing them. So naturally, like Im sure many of us girls do, I took one style of shoe on my left foot and another style on the right, with the intention of going to the long mirror and seeing which one would suffice for todays outift choice. Well, just then Cordelle got home from an early meeting, Seth ran bare bummed out of the bathroom and Jaquelle was crying for who knows what reason only to distract me the more from completing my adornment. Alright yadda yadda yadda, fastforward, we left for church....and Im sitting next to the aisle in Sacrament meeting and I notice some guy look down at my feet. Odd I thought. Then it hit me. No way! Slowly I lowered my gaze to the floor where my feet lay one foot in one shoe and an other on the other foot. Nice. Its not like we live close by either, its a good 5 minute drive, so running home was out of the question. And kids dont allow you to hide. Of course Jaq needs to be taken out or Seth has to go potty. And everyone stares you down when you walk down those aisles, you know they do. I really just wanted to put a big sign on my head that said "yes, Im wearing two different shoes." Enstead I would see people notice, and say nothing, probably hoping it wouldnt embarrass me to bring it up. But I knew. I saw them notice. I knew they knew. UGh. But funny ( a little too funny to Cordelle though ).
To add to that it was about 4 o'clock in the after noon when I noticed another getting ready ritual was not fully accomplished. I learned an odd way of putting mascara on from my roomates in college. I dont worry about where the mascara goes when I put it on (and it usually ends up all around my eyes) because when Im done and its dried, I go and clean it all up with a q-tip. Well come 4 pm I finally look in the mirror again only to discover my mascara is really smeared. Odd I thought, since nothing truly traumatic has happened (apart from the shoe incident) that has really made me cry or anything. But no, it wasnt smeared it was just there, everywhere. I had just been distracted and forgot to "clean up" my eyes. Nice, twice. Naturally I began thinking of every person I talked to who I now have to explain that I really am not some pre-teen expirementing with mascara for the first time...its just one of those days. Sigh.

MEMORIAL Day

What a weekend! We finally went out and bought bushes, trees, and more plants for the garden but I'll post those later. (Its been so fun though growing your own garden and landscaping your yard. Who knew I would get so into stuff like that?)

Anyways on Monday we really wanted to do something with our family. So we promised Seth we would go on a hike to the mountains. So we went up Parawan canyon and found the neatest little waterfall. It was a great hike with kids too. I love where we live! Seriously 20 minutes and we're right in the outdoors hiking a waterfall. So cool. Heres some pics from our little trip. Seth was pretty nervous right next to the waterfall so he clung to me for dear life, but Jaq loved every bit of it! I forget how fun it is to do stuff like that, we really should do it more often. Anyways we totally want to go back so anyone close or that wants to come down we'll show you where it is and come with you!

MAY hem

Okay so its been since April that I've posted but May has been crazy busy with stuff. Heres a quick recap. May is of course the beginning of the Wedding Season so we've been doing quite a few wedding announcements and I have actually started designing (move over Cordelle). I've been picking up on things here and there and have even had about a handful of people choose my designs (over Cordelles...devilish laugh:). But of course what takes me an hour, takes him like 5 minutes. And he always has to go in after me and "fix" and "line" everything up cause apparently "eyeing it" just doesnt cut it sometimes. But actually he loves that I've been starting to design. He really doesnt have a whole lot of time anyways and he thinks its fun to teach me little short cuts in Indesign.
Also lately, we've been back to our projects...like our shutters. It took a lot longer than I thought to build them ourselves but well worth it. It adds a lot to our home, I think. We worked together but it was really for my mothers day gift. Speaking of Mothers Day, I had a great day and I got to talk to my little brother Neal who gets home in 2 weeks from Italy! My other little brother left just this last week for the MTC, he's going to Hungary and will miss Neal by only 2 weeks. Crazy huh? Ah I love my little bros. Im going to miss him so much. Anyways, for my moms mothers day gift, us girls went all in and totally redecorated the guest bathroom (it REALLY needed a makeover). We recalked, sanded and restained the cupboards, paintned and "cutesied" it all up with new shower curtains, rugs, towels. It looked awesome! And my little brother Mark got sick of hearing about how my mom really wanted to repaint her whole house, so he got up, got paint, started moving things around and started painted. He is quite motivated when he has his mind on something. Anyways so then my family spent the whole week painting frantically the whole house, only problem is it had to be done by Sunday cause we were having tonze of company for Marks farewell. Well it got done and it looks fantastic! But what a project. I wish I would have taken before and after pictures but my camera was being lame while we were up there and wouldnt turn on. (Oh yea, I also have pics of Mark and my family that I'll have to get from my mom to post).
Also this month Cordelle and I have been married for 6 years!! But I'll post the mushy lovey stuff on our actual anniversary (the 30th) but since we were already going to be up north for Marks farewell, we decided to take advantage of it and leave our kids with the fam and go have fun! So we found this darling little bed and breakfast in Spring City that we stayed at and it had a spectacular country view, a hot tub and of course Breakfast :). We spent the whole morning playing tennis, then the afternoon eating out, bowling, going to a movie (Angels and Demons which I actually really liked but I'll leave my movie critique to my movie critique blog...what? I dont have one?...ah well then that says it all). Basically though, we tried to cram as many things as we possibly could in one day that we cant do with kids... yes even that :) who are you kidding it was our anniversary? :) Anyways it was SO fun. I got a picture of the cute house with us and then a better one with the owner on the steps (she was mortified that we took it with her in it, but she was just as cute as her house). And we did take our camera bowling...notice my socks? I was wearing capris and sandals (stupid) and I forgot I needed socks cause there was no way I was sticking my bare foot in those nasty shoes...luckily we found Cordelle's church socks he was going to wear to the temple...dont they look hot?) Oh yea, and Happy Thanksgiving everyone cause I bowled my first TURKEY. (3 stikes in a row). Unfortunately I did poorly the rest of the time, but ended with a new lifetime high of 168.
Anyways so that was our May so far. Tomorrow we are planting shrubs and flowers so I'll have to post that when we get done too. Life's been good.

Odds and Ends

So lately we've been up to projects. Cordelle has become quite the electrician around here. We finally hooked up a brighter light (ceiling fan) in our mega dark living room (which took an entire Friday evening). Then Cordelle wired and cemented a lamp post for our front yard which I love. And finally after 2 years of nagging he finally caulked our bathroom (a project they so lovingly forgot to do when we moved into our home). Anyways its nice to have a handy man around the house...its so...Handy! :)
Also I have to tell you about Seth's funny story mostly so I dont forget it. We were outside playing baseball the other day when a helicopter flew above us, and Seth said "MOM! (with all of the dramatic emphasis of a 2 year old), "its an airplane!" "Actually," I said, "its a helicopter. Can you say helicopter?" To which he then looked up, WAVED, and said "H-e-l-l-o copter." It was pretty funny and clever all at once. The other thing that I just love lately is whenever we suggest something that he wants to do, like if I say "lets go outside and ride bikes," he says, "OKAY, Thats a good idea mom." I feel like such a genius by the end of the day because according to him, I've had tonze of good ideas. And then he is such a lovey dovey boy and I love it. He is constantly putting his arm around me and saying "I love you TOO much!" I almost corrected him one day that it should be "SO much", but I kind of like it the other way. Cute. Anyways thats us recently. Jaq still doesnt really roll over and I know I should talk to my pediatrician cause she's like 7 months old. But all she wants to do is sit, sit, sit. And she's mad if she's laying down at all. But other than that she's doing well also. Today I had my first go at sharing time in Primary. That was interesting....however junior primary is the best though, those kids are hillarious. And pretty forgiving if you look like a dork up there. But thats what kids like best....dorky teachers.

EASTER CAMPING

As is tradition, this easter we went back near Green River and went Easter camping with my entire extended family on my moms side. Theres over 200 people who come and go throughout the weekend and its really a lot of fun! Heres some pics from the weekend. This holiday is almost bigger than Christmas in our family so theres a lot of pictures. Sorry...OR enjoy.

We found the Easter Bunny Trail

Leave no trace of it (eating ground jelly beans in the dirt is not encouraged)

Finally the basket (well in this case the truck)

But J only loved her new ducky!

Our Family

This year we were missing my little sis and her hubby and new baby (who came up later) and of course my little bro who is still on his mission in Italy

No sense in just walking on all of this sand.

This is C...he's supposed to be watching all the little kids play in the sand....notice no kids and yes he really did fall asleep like that for like 15 minutes.

This is my little cousin J whom I decided should come home and live with me forever! She took S hiking, played in the dirt with him and loved it! Bless her! Between her and Uncle S camping with kids never was easier.

Even though Saturday was mostly rainy it did have some wicked sweet kite flying wind for us too!

Okay, J LIVED in this chair all weekend and it was fantastic. Outside or in the trailer she was happy as can be and I could put her anywhere...I totally recommend these for kids her age when you want to camp.

Nothing like a little desert soccer with the kids.

And of course the Easter Egg Hunt is epic with rocks and crevaces to hide eggs in.

Well that was it! It was a bast and I cant wait till next year.

CONFERENCE

Although some in my home were not as enthused with all of conference...I thought it was really good! What a good way to start off the week! (But this was pretty funny)

"Its POOP again!!"

Okay first thing, we used to say that Title in college and I cant remember why or where it came from. Britney or Laura---do you remember?
Anyways so poop has been filling my life and I am wat SICKED out. Two quick stories. So S has recently been fascinated with pooping in the potty, which is awesome. So like all his friends we went out and bought those little chairs that they can sit and poop in themselves. Only problem is their NASTY to clean out. Cause you have to clean all of it out after every use....TOTALLY worse then changing him cause I'd have to stick my hand in there and "stuff" would get on my wrist and... okay you get the picture. So we switched to the seat you just put on the toilet. Much better, but one day I was out feeding J on the couch and S was in there doing his business (it usually takes awhile sometimes so he was singing and waiting on the pot...). Anyways then I hear this loud sound and I am thinking why is he flushing, he knows he cant get a cookie (the reward which we have inevitably begun to think was a bad idea because too many cookies were actually making him have to poop more...but thats besides the point)...where was I? Oh yea, he knows he cant get a cookie unless I see the poop before he flushes (toddlers think they cant trick their parents with a poopless flush of the toilet). But then before I could investigate, S started SCREAMING!! I ran in the bathroom to find the toilet spurting pretty forcefully like a fountain, enough that it was definitely spraying on him totally exposed. So he freaks (naturally), wont let me console him and takes off running to the kitchen bare bummed. I look outside and see the city workers flushing out the sewers! First who does that? And why do they need to do that? And why did my toddler who FINALLY decided pooping was fun have to be sitting on the toilet when they did it? It was gross. Not to mention S had by this time done his business already and so the fountain of fun created an even bigger mess. I spent the rest of the day cloroxing both bathrooms and praying that S would believe me that the whole experience was cool and it was kind of like the fountain in front of the St. George Temple where people throw pennies in....we'll see if he EVER come close to a toilet again OR if I start finding all my lose change in the bowl.
The next story was ALL C's FAULT. (No offense babe). S was in the bathtub and started calling out for his daddy for like a good 2-3 minutes. C just thought he was talking and was ignoring him or he didnt hear him or was too zoned into who knows what on the TV...anyways when he finally did go in, he found that Seth could not hold it any longer and the bath tub and all his toys were covered in more POO. Sick. Yea, after the episode the day before this one was all C's clean up.
This potty training stuff is not for rookie moms. I need a nanny to do all this business cause its grossing me out. Ah, the joys....Maybe this will be one of those things I'll look back at and laugh.....maybe.

MOVIE CLIPS

Okay so I was going through my videos on my camcorder and putting them onto DVD when I found these two clips from a couple months ago that I had to share. Sorry their kind of long, but I didnt want to cut them for my DVD and I didnt know how to cut them just for this post. :)
The first clip is S in dancing action...you also see how picky he is about which song he will and will not dance to.



The next clip is the infamous David Archuletta song "Crush that S has been OBSESSED with for almost a year now. He sings along, dances, watches the music video over and over and over again. Sorry, he has a hard time staying in front of the camera, but the only way he would sing to it on camera was if we hooked it up to the TV so he could see himself.

J IS 6 MONTHS OLD!

Time is FLLLYYYYIN'. J is already 6 months old and a heart breaker. And (knock on wood) she's all healthy.

In other news I just have to tell this one funny story about S. This morning (like all mornings) he climbs in my bed and plays drums on my face begging me for a banana and breakfast. So I kept saying "okay, I'm coming," only to roll over and pray he would get distracted with something (even if it was my nostrils or eyelids) just so I could get a second more of sleep. But then he said clear as day, "Mom, you can DO it....try again!" HA! I laughed myself out of bed and and got him his banana. Looks like my attempts at teaching him dedication and perserverance comes back and bites me in the kisser!

I love this

I know I sent this to some of you through email, but I just thought it was so perfect