Stories

I ventured into Brooklyn by myself to go to Stake conference, Justice had a lot of studying to do, last Saturday. All went well but I only had enough change for 1h 40min for the meter I thought this would be plenty of time for a 1 1/2 h meeting well I guess it was a 2h meeting and was starting to get nervous that it wasn't over and knowing that my meter was way up and Izaac having lost his quiet voice I decided to leave early. Izaac thought that this was the worst idea in the world and fought me the entire way back to the car screaming "I don't want to leave the Gospel!" We made it back to the car at 8:55 with no ticket, thankfully. and hopefully he won't leave the gospel because of it :)

Cora has a fascination with Izaac's bed lately. Izaac was helping me put the dishes in the dishwasher and I noticed that I could no longer hear Cora in the other room so I went searching around the house and I found her under all three of his blankets just lying in his bed wide awake.

Izaac is doing really good at following the rules and pointing out to me when he is doing good. Cora had a habit of always crawling on our table at meal times and during dinner one night Izaac was proudly pointing out to me how wasn't crawling on the table... "but sometimes I do, right mom, just sometimes!" he seems to think that sometimes it's o.k. to do almost anything

As I mentioned before CoraLynn loves to copy, she also Loves to have anything someone else has, one morning Justice was making lunch and despite the fact that she had food in hand she was begging for anything he mentioned. So... slightly annoyed and her constant wanting looked at her and said "ya know what, I could really go for a punch in the face right about now." Cora comes running to me begging for a punch in the face. "Pease, pease Mom I want punch in the face!!"

Izaac has two absolute fascinations in this world, Water, and Fire. He loves candles and always needs to smell them as we walk past in the store or at someones house. but along with that fascination he is Terribly afraid of fire alarms, and beeping in general. He will point out fire alarms anywhere and everywhere and will sometimes tell me that he thinks he smells smoke and the fire alarm may go off. I feel bad that he has this fear but at least it will hopefully keep his love of fire in check fearing that he may set off the alarm

Cora gives the best hugs and will often run up to me and wrap those little arm's around so tight, she is such a sweet girl. She also loves to give mom big kisses and has to make the MMAA sound at the end if she forgets or didn't make it right she requires another kiss to get it right. She has started walking on tip toes lately, I don't really know when it started but she will just pop up every now and then.

Summer plans!

So I have finally bought the tickets and finalized plans for at least July and the beginning of August.

June - Happiest month of the year when everything we want to do can happen! (as long as Justice passes all of his classes)

June 26-July 7th Justice's mom comes to visit bringing Adrien to stay for a bit.

July 14-19 My Mom comes to visit taking the kids home with her so Adrien and I can go to YW camp July 20-24th

July 26 Adrien and I fly home

Aug 11 Kids and I fly home to NY!

Ya, you think all that is confusing, try buying all the tickets for it! but I think I have it all right, with everyone on the right flights, in the right seats, at the right times!

Izaac's 3rd Birthday!!!

Well Izaac has been excited for his birthday for some time now, and so have I. I really wanted to do a real party seeing as we kind of coped out last year what with moving and all. Izaac loves two things, cooking, and tools. So we went with the second one and had a construction party!

I had hardhats and vests for each of the kids laid out ready to go, unfortunately most of them wanted nothing to do with it :( I think they were all slightly overwhelmed by the noise of and the long dark hall way that they had to come through to get to the party, I managed to convince some of them that it was the cool thing to do, eventually.

Izaac and his new bike!

Waiting and waiting for all the kids to come!

Izaac's dirt cake! He was great he waited for everyone to sing him Happy Birthday then went right for blowing out that candle!

Shout out to Josh and Cora who were the only ones to wear their vests the majority of the time! I thought they were cool anyway!

Trying to get a group shot!

I had planned all kinds of games and things for the kids but when they got there I realized that when you are three you just want to play... and so they did!

Lots of help opening presents :)

Ellie singing Izaac a personal song of Happy Birthday!

She had a whole dance and everything but all Izaac did was stare!

Easter 2010!

Ward Party

We had a lovely breakfast and Easter egg hunt put on by our ward a week or two ago. The kids and I got to enjoy it, but unfortunately Justice had to miss because he was studying. Boo-urns!

I think that this was the kids first egg hunt. Izaac loved finding the eggs, opening them, dumping the candy into his basket, and then throwing the plastic egg back into the grass! (sorry to all those who found his secondhand eggs!) Cora slowly got the hang of it too and had fun putting things in her basket!

Izaac and Ellie

March 29th Justice's 27th Birthday!!!

Well Justice had to study most of the day so we decided to just do brownies at home, which Izaac helped me make and decorate. Izaac had been looking forward to puting the candles in the cake all day long but when the time came he was slightly emotional! (having not napped the whole day) He screamed through the entire "Happy Birthday" song and Cora kept blowing out the candles so all in all it was a ... nice?... birthday for him...I think... maybe. I hope next year will be better, maybe something without the kids!

Easter Sunday!

I told Izaac about the Easter Bunny and how he would leave us some eggs in the morning in our back yard that we would get to find and he seemed good with this idea. He was really excited about having a bunny come to our house, maybe I should have emphasized that he wouldn't actually see the bunny because he was slightly upset when the bunny had left. "Mom I wanted to talk to him!" Sorry buddy maybe next year!

I had made cardboard eggs to put in our backyard to hide the eggs behind but the morning was really foggy, like sitting in a cloud. We put everything out and then got the kids and by the time we made it down stairs they were starting to look a little soggy! luckily my babes didn't notice and were just as excited to find things in the backyard.