I love being a Mom

Sometimes it is the moments in the middle of the chaos that makes your life complete. My moments often include these munchkins who I love! but this person makes the chaos more bearable, and I love him too!

current projects

These are some things that I have been working on, and I will post finished projects, but I need to wait for the events to occur before the final unveiling :)

Craft Room

I really love creating things, but have had a hard time doing it in the past because there is no where that I can leave a project out, so I either had to finish it, or pack it all up and unpack everything when I wanted to work on it again which was a huge pain!

So a few months ago I decided that I wanted to do some crafting. I made such a mess of the main floor, and it took 3 days to get it all cleaned up that Jordan decided he would finish up the storage room, and make me a craft room. I was so excited that I did a lot of the work myself so that it would be finished sooner - including mudding, sanding, installing hardwood, painting, and touch ups, but it was so worth it!

The room is a fair size, but narrow, and I have to share it with some storage unfortunately, we do only live in a duplex.

I decided to move the kids table in there as well, so they have somewhere that is set up for them to craft as well, and all of their supplies are there for them to be creative geniuses as well.
Then there is all of the food storage which is also in that room. I have walked in on Ethan 'looking at it' he even moved the stool around the room so that he could 'look' at what he wanted.

Ready for Church

The last 2 years my MIL has given my kids new church clothes for Christmas, and I really appreciate it. I love seeing them all dressed up Christmas Sunday in their new clothes. This year Skyler is really excited about them because they have a red sweater that goes with them. Secretly my real reason for loving it is because they all match!

Ethan...

I walked downstaird today to see Ethan sitting on the couch like this

He was feeding his hot water bottle froggy that Grandma gave to him last night. I though it was pretty funny, and he got embarrassed and wouldn't do it again for the picture.

News Year, New Growth

so, I made some resolutions last year, and I think that as a whole a did achieve my goals. For this year, I have a few areas that I would like to see some growth. I am not going to make resolutions in the typical sense but rather acknowledge areas of my life that I would like to see growth in.

My personal relationship with my Savior. I am pretty good at going through the motions and doing the things that I know I should be doing, and this year I really want to feel a personal relationship.

Quality time with my children and Husband. When my house is perpetually messy I get really bothered, so I would like to see growth in my patience and acceptance so that I can leave the sink of dishes and play with my children, or finish laundry in the morning and enjoy a movie with Jordan.

I know this is only 2 areas, but hey, I have a long ways to come, so this is where I would like to see growth and improvement in 2010.

A Date in Hawaii

I was talking to Skyler yesterday, and telling him that I was going to take him on a date later this month so that I can spend some one on one time with him, and he was soo excited and started telling me all about where we would go, first of which was Hawaii. (oh, and he was going to be a super hero on our date as well)