Long weekend

yep, it was a very long weekend. Cameron got sick (vomit, diarrhea) Friday night, Tyler and Kevin got it Saturday night and I was lucky enough to get is Sunday morning.. oh what a fun weekend. Tyler was nice enough to stay home and help us all begin to feel better on Monday.. plus I don't think he wanted to give it to his students, this wonderful little "flu bug" that we had. So we went through a lot of laundry and since have gone through a lot of lysol wipes, disinfecting is a must after that!...

But really I think we are all better now. ready to move on, go for our family walks again, play outside and get our garden growing. We all planted our seeds for family home evening, at least the ones you can plant inside. The ones that we can plant outside have to wait until we get the giant tumble weeds out of the garden. Turns out you can't leave a garden full of plants when you leave for 7 months and think that anything but weeds are going to be there when you get back..:). But we have big plans for our garden this year. Lots more plants, including Tylers very own blueberry plant anad we are going to try grapes again this year!.. Lots of work ahead of us getting all those dead weeds out and we are watching the weather close for some warm days.. we did get one 60 degree day in last week... it was wonderful!

oh and also on that 60 degree day we were the lucky recipients of a bike.. a neighbor (that i had never met before) rode by with his two kids and their brand new bikes from the school auction, he said that they were giving away a trike and a bike and wondered if we could use one, which was so funny becuase just a few days before I had thought about how Kevins legs were just a little too long (ok... a lot long) for his trike but that he would have to wait for his birthday in September. When he told me about it, he said that one of the training wheels was missing and I thought... training whells are cheap compared to buying a bike.. no big deal!.. but when they brought it over they had found the missing training wheel. The back wheel needs pumped up and it isn't new but Kevin doesn't care.. how cool is that! The funniest part was how Cameron ran over to Kevins ol trike the second Kevin got on the bike... he had been eye ballin it all along...I thank that mystery neigbor for the kind act that he did.. I wonder if he has any clue how much that ment to me (and Kevin, and Cameron)

I sure wish there were more 60 degree days to get out and pull some weeds, and let the kids run around the back yard, they sure do sleep alot better after playing outside. :)

Cool conference stuff and Cameron stats

So a good friend of mine (thank you thank you thank you!) sent these in an email and I thought I would pass them on... they are websites to conference packets to help your primary age children listen and get more out of conference coming up!

http://www.scribd.com/doc/13298891/2009-April-Conference-Packet

http://www.sugardoodle.net/mambo/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4195&Itemid=5


Check them out!

Also Cameron had his 18 month well baby apt today, his stats are:

29 lbs 6 oz
33 inches tall
19 1/4 in head circumference

Yep, we are back.

In Jerome that is. Tyler moved here a month (or a little more) ago, and me an the boys moved in last week. Tyler and his Mom were nice enough to go get all our stuff from Oklahoma and have the house set up when we got here.... I don't think I could possibly say thank you enough. Tyler and a few neighbors (thanks guys) even painted the boys room, and the living room, dining room, and front room.. its like anew house! So I am enjoying the organization part of moving at a leisurely pace becuase all the hard work has been done.

So tonight, we gave Cameron his first hair cut, he has started to get "mullet" comment so we figured it was time. His hair is so blond and thin it never looked like there was enough there to cut! But tomorrow he will be 18 months! He has his well baby check tomorrow and I have an appointment for his pictures later next week (he has a cold and I didn't want a bright red nose in pictures!)

But that seems to be all going on here! Pictures of Camerons hair cut coming soon!

Cameron Tyler

yes he fell alseep while 4 wheeling on vacation last summer!

Name & Meaning: Cameron Tyler. Cameron means crocked stream, Tyler means tile maker.. lol.. I don't remember those being the meanings when we named him that..lol He was almost named Noah but we changed our minds while at the hospital. and we had to go with family name for the middle name. with both boys I wanted Grant Allan but Tyler wouldn't go for it (he wants Allan Grant)...maybe with our next kid.. (that is if it isn't used already.. I did give permission for Grant to be used)

Age: 17 months or one year 5 months

Nicknames: the little one, Cam bam, your son, my son (depending on if he is being good or bad:) Cam-er-rom (said as if it was from the book of mormon), baby

Favorite Activities: going outside... playing with is brother, cuddling, being tickeled.

Favorite Foods: fruit- could be pears, strawberries, grapes, doesn't matter, Cheese- cheese sticks or medium cheedar, pasta, chicken nuggets, chocolate milk,

Least Favorite Foods: I haven't found anything he won't eat

Favorite Music: any music gets him dancing around and around and around in circles.. if he can't move ( like in his car seat, he doesn't want music on...)

Favorite Toy: his brother... he loves to play with his brother!.. blue mcqueens are his favorite (kevin takes the red ones from him so he sticks to the blue ones) and he loves to throw things, so balls are a must!

Favorite Book: McQueen books, anything with McQueen in it, or books that play music to him like the VTech ones, or the ones with animals, he makes all the sounds- ok so really he likes ANY books!...

Favorite Item of Clothing: Shoes!!!

What Makes Him Happy: playing outside, eating, reading, cuddling

What Makes Him Sad: when he can't find he brother, if you are holding him and try to put him down,

Funny Words or Phrases:"brother?" with his hands out looking for Kevin, juice and cheese are both said in his throat, so they both sound really funny..."darts" and "throw" and both said with a throwing movement, "tank you" is cute, "oes" and "ocks" are cute when he wants his shoes and socks on to go "bye bye" and his "on" "off" and "battery" all make us smile too! and "na nigh" when he is going to nap or to bed for the night, or when kevinis covering himself up with a blanket. oh and "pa yeee" for potty... he has tried to go potty in the potty a few times..lol

Kevin William

I saw this on a friends blog and couldn't help but copy it (thanks Whitney!). Today I'll tell all about Kevin, in a few days I'll do Cameron, Hope you enjoy!

Name & Meaning: Kevin William. Kevin means handsome, beautiful and William means strong willed warrior- both fit him perfectly :) he was almost Kevin Alexander, we all like the sound of it best but we decided to go with the family name- William is Tylers middle name.

Age: 3 years, 6 months

Nicknames: the big one, that one, your son, my son (depending on if he is being good or bad:) kevin kevin came from heaven)

Favorite Activities: moving, if it has something to do with moving he enjoys it, if it is outside, or up high, even better. Playing with his dinosaurs, or playing with lightning mcqueen. (we have plenty of both)

Favorite Foods: PIZZA- pepperoni pizza to be exact, chicken nuggets, cheerios, chocolate milk, fruit- could be pears, strawberries, grapes, doesn't matter, he would rather have it than chocolate,water

Least Favorite Foods: the only thing we can't get him to eat is eggs...

Favorite Music: the music on his night time thing.. he picked it out when he was a baby and has used it to get to sleep ever since. that and music from the movie CARS, he calls it mcqueen music (he even picked it out when one of the couples danced to it on dancing with the stars) He sings the ABC and his numbers regularly, then he also sings the sunbeam song at random times.

Favorite Toy: either his newest mcqueen car or his 'terry" dinosour (big red T-rex)

Favorite Book: he has two they are both about dinosours, and way over his reading level: Encyclopedia of Dinosours: Fascinating facts about the world of dinosours and The usborne world atlas of dinosours... at any givin moment you will find him sitting there looking at the pictures in the books.. with comentary..

Favorite Item of Clothing: probly shoes becuase it means he will be going outside!

What Makes Him Happy: playing outside, eating, reading, his dinosours

What Makes Him Sad: loosing his dinosours, having an accident in his pants (potty training totally sucks by the way) having to stop playing outside

Funny Words or Phrases: "I want to listen to you" (usually when he is in time out for NOT listening to me) "I want to be nice"(get the picture) "I just want...fill in the moments whim here" "hey guys!... listen to me"

I am a genius and an idiot all rolled into one!

So I am a professional diaper changer.. and I am proud of it!.. Today while changing Cameron's diaper I came up with the perfect solution to a diaper changing problem. Cameron like most little boys I know tries to grab himself every time the diaper comes off... When he is poopy this is even grossier and more annoying than normal, so my wonderful solution.. "Kevin can you come over hear and hold babies hands"..... they laughed and giggled the whole time I was getting that kid clean!.. it was wonderful.. hence the genius part.. the idiot part is that I think this is so genius (only a stay at home mom stuck with two kids would find it genius)

"A genius is an individual who successfully applies a previously unknown technique in the production of a work of art, science or calculation, or who masters and personalizes a known technique. "

yes i think it fits quiet nicely....lol :)

Very true...

So I found this on my friend Whitney's blog and thought I would pass it on. Click on it so it is big enough to read and I know you will enjoy it!


Cracks me up!

Another cute story...

So a few nights ago, everyone was in bed (except me- I was on the computer) the house was quiet, all was calm, and then all of a sudden there is a huge THUD.. and then silence. Ya wanna know how many bad things a THUD could be, just ask my brain what it thought in the 1.2 seconds it took to get to Kevins bedroom door. The light was on, it was supposed to be off, So I open the door just as my parents come sprinting out of their bedroom door to see what the sound was and I open Kevins door, he is sitting on the floor at the bottom of his bed holding his wrist.. ( i think he was trying to be quiet) when i said what happened he started to fuss... I asked where it hurt and he said his wrist and showed it to me... (nothing wrong, nothing broken ) Then I asked him what happend and he points to the desk and says he climbed up there to get something (have I ever mentioned that I gave birth to two monkeys- not children- they climb on everything!) and then I tried to get back here (he points to the bed) so you jumped off of the desk to get to the bed and didn't quiet make it? "yeah" he says.... I just start laughing... why? becuase my heart was beating out of my chest that something had gone really wrong, that he had broken a bone, or cracked his skull, or something but no, he just was trying to get back to the bed and I have found out that boys do things differntly then girls, I would have gotton down and walked to the bed but no, he was going to be more efficent and skip the walking part, beside jumping is sooo much more fun!... :).. I love my boys!

Kevin is so cute..

So Kevin took his favorite book to Grandma today and she said she couldn't' read it to him because she couldn't see without her glasses, which of course she can never find. So he said "I'm gonna go find the one that gives you a big head" and runs off, we of course have no idea what he is talking about but a few miutes later he comes back with the little plasic magnifing glass (that i got when i was like 8 in a kids meal) and hands it to grandma... "I found it!".. this magnifying glass gives her a big head (atleast when you look threw it the right way..lol. And Grandma read him his book..lol (maybe you had to be there).. he is a cute kid.