Do you remember this Wallpaper?

Do you Remember this Wallpaper?

It is GONE!!!

I spent the last weekend removing and repainting my scrapbooking room!

And I also added some vinyl to my bedroom wall!!

April Activities

Welcome good weather and summer clothes...
(for only a few days atleast).
So we played outside quit a bit, playing at the park, at neighbors houses and on our . . . . .

New Swing Set!!!

p.s. Thanks Matt and Dad for spending 8 hours putting it together!

Then we had a Birthday Party next door for Logan! It was a Animal themed party. They hired this guy that has the most unique pets. Snakes, Spiders, bugs, birds, rabbits, lizards ect.. he even has traditional pets like cats and dogs. Anyways he brings his most exotic animals and the kids can touch them and hold them and learn all about them. It was a whole lot of fun!!!

Then I guess the next highlight for April was Easter!!!

We decorated Eggs with Grandma Earl, they had an easter egg hunt in the backyard and

they loved the toys they got in their baskets.

They also got another egg hunt at grandma Jaffas!

After Easter we had a focus of weeding the yard. The previous owners put in some curbing all around the house and in the corner and last summer I didn't do anywork in it so this year it is a real chore. So the boys has been using their shovels and things to help me.

And with that I am also pulling out my old garden and putting in a new vegetable garden.

This is my largest carrot that grew last year!

Last year, I just had a baby, so I never pulled out any of my vegetables,

(mainly because i didn't think anything grew)

and surprise there was alot of carrots that survived!

What we've been doing since I last blogged

So we've been doing quite a few things lately and staying really busy. . .

The first thing was a visit to the jaffas, where Grandma Jaffa gave Granpa Jaffa a Giant Teddy bear named Pookie bear. (which was bigger than all 3 boys)

The second thing was Ethan's surgery,

Ethan had to have a corrective circumcision. Which was an all day long process. I know the lord answers even the insignificate prayers because i was praying that this whole day would go smoothly and it went WAY BETTER than I thought. First thing was Ethan could not eat anything after midnight and then he couldn't drink anything after 10:15 and If any of you know Ethan this is a VERY hard task for him. And that morning He NEVER even asked for anything to eat or drink. Then the second thing was his surgery kept being push back almost 3 hours later than planned and Ethan was a REALLY good sport he never complained, he played toys and just enjoyed his one-on-one time from mommy. The third thing I was most worried about was my nursing baby that was BARELY on baby food was left with Matt for the day so I could be with Ethan. Which I really wanted Matt with me. But even that worked out because the surgery was delayed Matt was able to leave Ben and the baby with his parents to be there with me. And the last thing that Make me know God answers prayers is how the baby DIDN'T CRY ONCE. He ate food, played toys and took a nap without even a peep.

One of the things the boys benefitted most, out of the time with daddy, during Ethan's surgery was the two computer game daddy bought for the boys. Which the boys have played non-stop since. It is awesome to see both boys know their numbers, alphabets, and colors. I am also amazed at how well both boys have learned how to use the mouse and the keyboard. Ben can actually completely manuver and play what ever he wants on the computer from the sign in screen.

The last is this nice weather and horrible weather we've had... like a joke we have 3-4 days of really warm weather where we went out side and rode bikes and played and then we had days of Snow storms. Well today was good day and we put on HATS it was really fun to dress the boys all up and they really enjoyed wearing their hats.

Walking in your shoes....

The boys lately have been having alot of fun Walking in my shoes!!!
It has been really silly to see them try to walk in them!!!

What We've Been Up To Lately...

We went to the Draper Temple open house.It was alot of fun!!! We went with one of my best friends and her family she has two kids my kids age (Ben and Cameron).

My favorite part was to watch Ben pull out the pamphlet,

and as we walked into each room on the pamphlet

he would say "check" and do a pretend check mark, to mark off the fact that we saw that room.

The next set of pictures is my attempt to play with hair gel!

I was doing my fly lady cleaning and I was organizing my bathroom

and found this hair sculpting stuff I havn't used in like forever

so I gave the boys Hair-Dos

Happy 50th Lloyd and Boyd!

My Dad and his twin turned the big 50!!!

It was a blast with gag gifts, games, family. food and fun!!!

The last thing occupying my life is food training the baby. We are making sure he'll take bottles and he just started baby food. Matt and I are attempting a valentines date and we need him to be easily feed and taken care of.

Happy Birthday Ethan

Happy 2nd Birthday Ethan!

It is hard to believe when your babies grow up!!! Ethan turned two today and had a wonderful birthday party with all his family!

We gave him the choice of what cake he wanted he wanted SHREIK!!

I think the biggest hit for the evening was the 2 bikes Ethan got. Grandma Jaffa bought the big one and afterwards worried that it might be to big so she bought a smaller tricicle.

TWO BIKES!!! What an awesome Grandma!!

11:15p.m. You'll never see this again...

As a New Years resolution I decided I would get control of my house and get it clean.

I started this 31 Step program from the "Fly Lady" http://www.flylady.net/
I personally decided to take it one step at a time instead of one step a day.
So when I feel I have a grasp on the current steps I will add more.

Well the last step I am trying to master is a "15 min declutter"
You set a timmer and pick a messy area and only spend 15 min and walk away.

The Fly Lady suggests putting two of these declutter times into your daily routine at first until your house is no longer cluttery. So for about the last 5 days I have spent my two times a day 15 min declutter and this is what you get....

Now mind you this is our playroom and it takes the boys about 30 sec to mess it up again!

But I felt so proud to have it organized I had to take a picture!!!

Mr. Smartie Pants

Ethan does the cutest things sometimes. Lately he has done a few things that have really made me laugh and caught my attention to really how smart he is and how he perceives this world.

The first thing Ethan did that made me laugh my socks off, was when Ethan sat down next to me, while I was nursing cameron,and he had his baby doll in his hand and he preceeded to lift up his shirt and put the babies head under it. I asked him what he was doing and he said "shhh baby is eating"

Then a couple of days later (again while I was nursing) I hear a scream coming from my bathroom and I hurry in to find a Naked Ethan with arms and legs flying. Ethan said "Potty mommy"... He had taken off his zipper pj's and diaper and climbed onto a box and tried to go potty all by himself. It took all of my self control not to laugh at him as I helped him (my almost 2 years old) out of the potty he had fallen into.

Ethan is my very independent boy and he now has learned the tecnique of opening doors. So everywhere we go in the house he feels like he needs to open the door and close it for me. So the other day I was trying to put away my "Put away box" from my fly lady plan (I'll explain later) and it took me almost 30 min to put away 15 items or so because I had to wait for Ethan to open and shut the door for me everytime I entered or exited a room. If I insisted on opening a door I had to spend double the time trying to calm him down from a fit.

Ethan is less than 2 weeks away from turning two and I already suffer from "Terrible Twos." I think what makes "Terrible Twos" so Hard is they don't have the communication skills to tell you what they want, but they are smart enough to know how to get your attention. WISH ME LUCK!!!

Pre-Christmas events

I tried to get these events posted before Christmas
but the craziness took over faster than I thought.

Bills' girls night out. I wasn't sure what to title this party, since no one there at the party are bills; the host was a jaffa, her sister is a Gee, the other sister is a Wipple, another sister is a Istook and all their daughters have different last names too. But since the original sisters were Bills before they got married, it became the "Bills Girls" night out. This event is going to be a monthly event that I am totally looking forward already, because of how much fun the first get together was.

The next events were the same night, We dropped off the boys at the Jaffas so we could go to Matt's work party and they took the boys to their ward christmas party. Where they did a "Feliz Navidad" theme party with taco dinner and a pinata. And the boy's favorite Santa Clause!

Matt work party was really nice. They had buffet style dinner and dancing. Matt bought me this new dress (which I just love) for the event.
It was really alot of fun! Matt's co-workers seem to be a lot of fun!

Our ward did a Christmas in Nauvoo theme, It was really kinda fun and they had a great spiritual presentation at the end. (Sorry no pictures of that event0

The next event was a Joyschool nativity and Christmas party. We performed the nativity story, with props and costumes. It was really cute, (I am still trying to find out how to put video on my blog so if you know how teach me).
Then after that we made graham cracker gingerbread houses.

Then the last event was celebrating Matt's Birthday! We went out to eat with his family, then the next day we had dinner with my family. The boys helped decorate the cake. Matt had a really good bithday, after his two parties I also took him out to dinner and bowling on the WII. Ben and Ethan got to sleep over at the Earls! The next day we went to watch Twilight (my second time, Matt's first) which matt loved so much we saw it again last night.

Christmas Downtown

The Lights at Temple Square

has been a tradition for me as a child

and now I get to start that tradition with my children.

The Nativity was a big highlight!

Temple square was just wonderful!