the magic of ordinary days.

*help set up neighborhood fun run.

*ethans soccer game.

*clean church.

*clean house.

*grocery shop.

*vacuum out car.

*visit with friends.

*jump on the tramp with kids.

*pee my pants on tramp with kids.

*lounge around like none of us have a care in the world.

*get sams stitches out.

*Hires for dinner.

*Real Salt Lake game.

how was your saturday?.

ours was busy but delightfull.

happy weekend everybody.

so the camel just walked through the door,

with a straw on its broken little back,

my baby had chest x-rays this morning.

he has pneumonia.

i'm done.

enter husband stage left.

"this is what happens at my house when you spill paint on the garage floor."

or when you are an awesome kid

who thinks he can do awesome scooter tricks

off of your awesome ramp and you eat cement.

hard.

poor sammy boy.

we spent the better part of yesterday afternoon

and evening at primary childrens.

he ended up with stitches in the inside and outside of his lip.

along with a chipped toof.(thats what you have to call a front chipped tooth)

he was so brave. the doctors even said so.

they wanted to sedate him and sam just said,

"can we just do this already? i want to get it over with."

he even said that to the nice lady who came in to explain

the procedure using a doll.

he looked at her like

"really, does a gnarly dude like me look like a need a dolly explanation?"

the saddest part?

besides permanent scarring(for him and me)

he's missing the 2nd grade field trip today.

he's just not up for it.

he said, "thats ok mom, i'll just stay home and help you get things done."

i love this kid.

he was so brave, and i must say, i was so brave.

i am not good, in fact i suck when stuff like this happens.

but i manned up,

cause thats what you do when you're fly'n solo.

yep, josh is out of town.

i felt like sam and i should be doing the dora dance.

da da da da da da da we did it, we did it, we did it Horray!!!

love you sam.

ps. name the movie that the title came from.

i dare ya.

Griff just wanted to remind you what today is....

Griff, @ 7 months you.....

*have two little bottom teeth.

*play with your "ball toy".

*love to swing outside.

*get in pounce position, ready to crawl soon i think.

*bring unbelievable amounts of joy!!!

big bro's yo!

sam's friend jack just became a big bro for the second time.

they were telling me they needed "big brother" t shirts.

i kindly explained to them that they already were big brothers to aspen and eliza.

they looked at me like DUH,and said " we meant to boys!"

so i couldn't resist.

and when i say i couldn't resist i mean i really

couldn't resist.

they had no idea this was on their backs!

i laughed until my dear friend pointed out

that i had actually written stupid on 8 year olds backs.

hey, i kid cause i care.

congrats to the newest big bro(to a boy) on the block!

i'm apparently very busy.

i'll be back.

seriously,

obsessed,

with,

Griff.

"Cleaning and scrubbing can wait 'til tomorrow,

for children grow up, i've learned to my sorrow.

So quiet down cobwebs, dust go to sleep.

I'm rocking my baby and babies don't keep."

-unknown-

i just kept thinking all day,

i was born to do this.

this is my calling.

and there's no where i'd rather be than

smack dab in the middle of my beautiful chaos.

i hope you all had a great mothers day.

happy mothers day mom.

we all love you.

we have a toofers!!!!

attention, attention!

griffin is officially with tooth!!!

i was feeding him dinner and low and behold....

i spied a tooth!

its hard to see, but its there!

he's been biting that bottom lip just like that for days!!!

"hooray for me!!!! i have a tooth!!!!!"

this is big around here people.

real. real. big!

griff....

he's been enjoying the swing in the hit and miss weather.

he loves it.

he let's out these huge laughs as you let him go!

i don't ever want to forget that chubby hand holding on.

i seriously could eat him in that hat!

on another note,

i want to put a call in to the swing manufacturers.

it was clearly not made for the ''chubby challenged"

we have to squeeze him in!

ok, i had to get a pic of griff in his crib.

this is the first time he's ever been in it.

thats right, the first time.

i love to co-sleep my babies.

i love feeling his warm little body snuggled up to me.

and it makes feeding so easy!

he was looking around at everything like, "what the?"

"i'm not sleeping in here am I?"

not a chance buddy.

the crib is a sham!

maybe for naps when you are mobile.

i've come a couple of conclusions at the end of this post.

1. griffin has taken over my life.

2. i love it!

3. i use exclamation points way too much to convey my excitement!

oh my gosh!

have you read this book?

i just finished it and had to blog about it right now!

it is so moving.

it is a "must read"!!!

i love pioneer and early settlers stories.

if you do to you will love it.

it is amazing the things they went through.

get it, read it, you'll love it. promise.

now back to reality.

i've been neglecting some "must do's" for the love of this book!

ps. you really can't "click to look inside". just the lame image i grabbed.

the sunday line up.

"Mom, lipgloss is like a total miracle."

emma carmack