Nana's Worms

Nana brought her classes science experiment for the kids to let free in the yard. They loVeD it. Jaston was super tentative to touch the worms but eventually did after he saw his sister do it. Skylee was up to her elbows in worms and adored every second :)

Snuggle Bugs

So this morning I got to enjoy one of the simple pleasures in life- having both my kids climb into bed with me and snuggle for more than two seconds. Yep, I think it might have been even a half an hour and I loved it!
     For about the past month or so each morning Jaston (my early bird) will come into my room and climb into bed with me. A lot of times he will snuggle up and fall back asleep for a half an hour or forty five min. I will admit mornings when I wake up before him I will lay in bed and wait for him because I don't want to give up that precious time with my baby. 
   Yes, there are a few draw-backs like having to cuddle with at least three cars and Mac (his big truck that holds all the cars) since he can't sleep without them. I have tried to go sneak in his room at night to take Mac out of his hands so that I don't get it in the face the next morning but sometimes I forget...
    What a sweet little boy, though and how i cherish this time because I know it won't last. One day he is going to wake up and decide mom isn't cool and crawling up in bed with her to hug her and go back to sleep won't be "what big boys do." But for now I will pretend I'm sleeping so that my little man will crawl in bed and cuddle with Momma.


   I few more fun things I need to write about before I forget. Just last night Jaston said he wanted to say the prayer so Skylee said she wanted to help him. Wow, nothing more powerful than a four year old helping her little brother say the prayer over our food. Truly the spirit of those two- they really are close to heaven sometimes. 
   Also yesterday I was driving up to Cedar to work and I was going to take the kids up to Teona's to play while I went. The weather wasn't supposed to be that great and I was a little nervous so I told the kids we should say a prayer before we got on the freeway. Skylee said she wanted to say it so I reminded her to ask Heavenly Father if we could get there safe. So that sweet girl offered the sweetest prayer and in it she said, "Heavenly Father, thank you for letting us drive safely." I was so touched with her sweet faith. She already knew we were going to get there safe. It made me feel I needed to be more faithful.


    We watched a movie the other night for family home evening and after this one part Jaston just looked at the screen and said ,"It is awesome!" Jeff and I just looked at each other and laughed. We have never heard him use that word and he was so serious about what had happened on the movie being just awesome. :) Love that boy. 

Blurb book link

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Teria Photography

My sweet friend Teria, who has taken all of our amazing family pictures over the years. Took these ADORABLE pictures of the kids this past week. I am in LOVE! I seriously have the cutest kids in the world and the most amazing photographer. Because believe it or not Jaston was a STINKER!!! that day. So So excited to have such cute cute pics of my two kiddos-

Craft attempt

So I am watching my sisters kids for a few days so I decided to try and be crafty. I decided to try a strip rag quilt with some fabric remnants I had. I kind of made it up but was surprised how well the pattern worked out. I used pretty much every scrap of each of these materials I had. I'm excited to try some more :)

Pics of the kiddos

Some random pics of my cute kiddos.

Quotables

The kids have said a few cute things that I told my mom today and she told me I HAD to write them down. So this is me writing them down...


Yesterday Jaston had a stuffed animal that Skylee really wanted and he was not going to give it up. She was crying, sobbing actually, and told Jaston, " You broke my heart!" and then she said, " my tears are falling for that octupus."


She also has been super dramatic when she doesn't get what she wants. Her favorite phrase while she is wailing in her room is "You're hurting my life!" and "I need some love." or "I need a hug." or "No on is giving me love!"


We were packing up the rest of our stuff at the other house- which by the way we are officially moved out... after a month. And Jaston said, "What the heck!" I had no idea I said that but apparently I do. and then this morning he said, "Oh my Goodness."
And pretty much every night I hear Jaston, "Mom, I need you!" followed by " I ahnt gong." (song)


He is so so cute right now trying to talk. He surprises me how much he is talking and the sentences he is stringing together. What I love with Jaston is he always pauses before the last word of the sentence. " I want Gampa's....house." "Let's go Guck.... pond." (duck pond)

Christmas 2011

Christmas this year was amazing! We were blessed to spend time with both families. We spent Christmas Eve and morning with the Johnson family and Christmas Day and Evening with the Winger family. We had fun looking at Christmas lights, going shooting, having a delicious dinner, making gingerbread houses and many more fun events Christmas Eve. 

         Christmas morning was fun-filled and also spirit-filled. This is the first Christmas I can remember being on a Sunday and it was so special. We had the wonderful privilege of going to church and partaking of the sacrament. To me it really hit home of what the true meaning of Christmas really is, which is to focus on our Savior and celebrate His life. I wish we could go to church each Christmas morning. Here are some fun pictures from the events :)

Expedition St. George

A few weeks ago we had the fun opportunity to run a 50 mile relay race. It was a ton of fun. There were five people on our team and each teammate had to run two legs of differing lengths (from 2 miles to 7 miles each). Our team consisted of myself, Jeff, Teona (sis), Chancie (cuz) and Dan Riding (friend who was an angel and filled in a few days before the race for my aunt who wasn't able to make it- bless his heart and he took the toughest leg- Thanks Dan!).

          We went in with the attitude of let's just go have fun and finish and we actually surprised ourselves and did better than we expected. We ended up fourth out of the co-ed teams. I believe there were fifty teams in all. Like twenty something co-ed teams. There were even a few teams that were just two people- amazing. I have to say my second leg was the toughest race I have ever run in my life! It didn't help that the night before they changed the legs so the one I had trained for wasn't the one I actually ran. Threw me off a little. Anyhow, I must say for having it has hard as it was I was proud of my time- I averaged about an 8 and a half min mile for all 12 of my miles. My goal was a ten min. mile so I'm pretty excited I did well regardless of the tough run. 

        I thought we would have a ton of time in between runs but I couldn't believe there was NO extra time. Between stopping half way through each run to cheer the team mate on and getting our next runner to their place and ready to go we were pretty much running the full time. It turned out to be a really fun run. I'm grateful to my mom for helping with the kids all day so Jeff and I both could run. Couldn't have made it through my runs without Jeff cheering me on and coaching me through it as he ran pieces of it with me.