What we have been up to lately!!

Actually I am not a hundred percent sure what i have been up to lately. It seems like everything is going to fast and that i am trying to cram to many things into the next couple of months. I mean some days we are fine and laid back but i usually pay for this later because i won't be prepared for whatever is coming next!!

Creedance is on the competing dance team this year. She enjoys it ok but seems to get tired really easily while the other girls just burst with energy. I am not sure if she even will try out again for next year but really want to leave it up to her. Anyway, we have done two comps and have one left. Then they have to more performances still coming up in the next month or so! These are some pictures of her and Pearson while we were in Logan for the competion. We ended up performing friday night instead of saturday which was a little crazy but worked out fine in the end. Tyler and the other boys didn't come since Tyler had windows to put in on Saturday and i can't help the team and watch all of them we left the older boys with him. (It did drive from Logan to Rexburg to get them and then we came back home). I found these pictures and also remembered that we went up to my parents cabin for confrence!! Funny thing is i didn't have any pictures of toph or tj. This is cree and pearson in a cubby hole above the tv room there. My brothers use to call it the farting lounge though i don't think that is what my kids call it!! We had a great time. The kids love spending time with my parents and brothers. And getting to play in the snow up there!!

Let's see what else are we up to. Toph loves scouts and attends once a week. T.j. loves preschool but is on spring break this week, since his teachers daughter had a baby and of course grandma has to visit.( What girl wouldn't want grandma around to help and keep her sane!) I also have been doing other performances with my non competing dance classes. We just did our nursing home performances last night. Oh yeah my friend Jessica has invited me to come and play tennis with them on their team. I haven't played in almost 9 years but am way excited. Now if i could just get pack meeting, performances, and tennis practice to be on seperate nights(unlike last night) Then maybe i might eventually be able to figure this all out!! Oh well I'll try to stay on top of it.

It is a good thing that i have friends and family to remind me that easter is THIS week and that T.j.'s Birthday is Friday and not just some day in the future or i could be in ALOT of trouble!!!

The Weekend

To Start the weekend Friday was crazy hair day at school! The kids thought it was great getting to get to do their hair up however they wanted!!

After getting the younger kids off to school. I got to do the frantic pack a bag for overnight for the all of the kids. They went to my mom's house for the night while me and Tyler went to Salt Lake for the Blue Comedy Tour Show. It was the first time I have ever left Pearson over night, and I was a little nervous.

When we got down their we went to out to dinner with friends. We went to the Mayan where they do cliff diving and a little show while you eat. Was pretty fun, and Tyler can barely wait until he can take the kids. He think that they will love it! After dinner we headed to the show. Most of it was pretty funny, atleast i understood what two of the three guys were saying. Larry the cable guy sounded very mumbly to me. Tyler loved the whole thing, and laughed a ton!!! The next morning we went to temple square. We went to the south visitor center and checked out the cut away replica of the temple. It was really cool being able to see all of the rooms. After that we went out to eat and then to Kirkhams. Tyler got me a new pair of Chaco Sandals which i loooooove!!!

After that we headed to Ikea!!! Man that store is always fun to go through. We wanted to get a new table, a bed frame, and a new dresser. But in the end even though we found one's that we really liked we decided we didn't really need them right now and will wait since we can get them any time we are down there for T.J.

We also stopped at Smith & Edwards on the way home. And Tyler really enjoyed walking through there and finding more fun stuff for him.

The weekend was great, but i missed my kids.

Creedance's Dance's

So I got Tyler to upload the video from Cree's dance competition! Need to have him teach me, but atleast I have it on here!!! Oh and we found my camera!!! Tyler had set it up on top of the fridge when he took the last pictures of cree's birthday. He is the only one tall enough to really see it up there: ) I'm glad to get it back and will try to get picture's from it when i get done figuring out these video clips!

So her Music Box Dancer is my favorite. But they are really cute in my boyfriends back too! I didn't get the beginning of either of the dances since i had to help get them on the floor and then try to find a spot to do it from. Oh and i was holding Pearson too!!

Sick! and I'm overwhelmed!

So Pearson's ear is infected again. His tube fell out of his right ear when he got bronchitus a little while back. It was quite gross but i won't give details. He seemed ok for a couple of days but all of the sudden he has gotten mean. He hits bites and screams, screams, screams. So during my rather hectic day yesterday. (Broken dishwasher, wet bed, teaching dance, kids having friends over, and a primary meeting). I managed to get him to the doctor and yes it is infected.
Thus begins the medicine. Which gives him diarhea. Which came out of his diaper and he wiped on his brother and several chairs before i caught him! (Sorry was trying not to make the post gross, but i think i am failing). And for one of the other clinchers this morning i forgot about the glass bottle throwing he did yesterday. He threw when of cree's favorite glass dishes. Thought we got it cleaned up. Then he managed to get a hold of a candle. Big mess right before meeting and asked Topher to pick it up. While he is supposedly cleaning T.J. let Pearson in the storage room downstairs. He picks up a jar of salsa and throws it. While i am trying to help Toph and clean up salsa and more glass, i start to notice what i think is blood (hard to tell at this point with all of the salsa).
So i grab Pearson and he is bleeding everywhere. He managed to cut his foot. Oh and he is a bleeder so I'm trying really hard to get it to stop and the Primary Presidency is going to be here any minute. I grab a handful of bandaids and ended up putting on four before it stops bleeding. So this morning after his tub, where he gets the band aids off, i put a diaper on him and he runs and jumps back in the tub with his brother. So i pull him out again, rediaper and get him dressed. While i go to get a band aid he runs to the basement. And we start more blood. I finally get three more band aids on. And he starts screaming and attacking his brother. He is now in his bed, and hopefully sleeping!

Anyway, I was having a bad day until i looked at my sisters blog and she said she liked the present i sent her! Sometimes the smallest things make moms feel so much better!

Life!

I hate trying to post without pictures but if i don't post something soon it won't happen for a long time. Everything around here is busy!! We have a ton of things coming up!! And finished alot of things last month.
Cree turned 7 on Valentine's day. She is such a beautiful little girl! ( Would love to put a picture here!) She had two seperate parties. My family (Mom, Dad, Jake(and girlfriend), and Dave) came over on Monday. Early so they didn't miss their Valentine night. Cree got to open her presents, and loved them all. My mom got her an American Doll and she was sooooo excited. We had a heart cake!(which i took a picture of and is probably still on my camera were ever it is!) All the kids had fun!!!
That wednesday was the Scout Banquet in our ward! Tyler and Me are pretty involved in scouting in our ward. He is the scout master and i'm the person in the primary presidency over scouts. We did alot to get it ready and i wish we could show a picture of the gym after setup. We had lots of awesome friends and ward members that helped!!
On Sunday Creedance got another party. She had to share a little though because Tyler's parents were being set apart for their mission that day too! We had dinner here at our house with both Tyler's sisters families, and his parents. Then we went to the setting apart! It was really good! Afterward we came back and had cake and ice cream!!!

Coming up we have Creedance first dance competition this weekend. I am hoping to get both of her dances on film since i don't have a camera for stills. I hope she enjoys the competition because dance lately has been really hard for her.
And next week is the pine wood derby. Tyler helped both Toph and T.j. make a car, although T.j. won't really be able to race his! Toph's is pretty cool and I think he is excited. T.j.'s is a glass truck with real glass on the back. Maybe I'll try stilling Tyler's camera to take a picture. But it might take a while to figure out how to get it on here.
I feel much better now that i got this done!!!!!!

Netflix

So i am suppose to be posting more but have fallen behind because of netflix. I haven't watched a whole lot of TV since i have had Toph. I try to catch something here or there, but never really stay to caught up in anything for very long. But i have decided t.v. is addictive. I just can't stop using all my spare time to watch it!!!
I should be blogging about valentines day and cree's birthday. Which were both awesome. I lost my camera though so i have no pictures which lowers the likely hood of blogging about them. Anyway, now everyone knows my excuse!!

How do you know when they are ready?

With all of my other kids i knew when they were ready to be done with the bottle, binki, and needed the side off of the crib. Most of them were off the bottle at 12 months we gave T.J. two extra months so that he could have the comfort of the bottle while he was going through his surgery. They all just walked away from it like pro's. Except Pearson if he even saw a bottle for months afterward o.k. even cree's baby doll bottles now he still tries to drink out of!!!!
As for the binki all of my kids right around 18 months threw them away and were fine. I always worried but they did great and we never have much problem. Well i totally don't feel prepared to take Pearsons away we started letting him have it less around the time he turned one but right after he went through a phase were he had to have it all the time and i should have said no but didn't. I finally started phasing it back out last month. Trying not give it to him but at nap and bed time. But we are all dealing with the fall out of that. He screams high pitched all the time and you can' t figure out what he wants it just gets worse and worse.
Well yesterday i couldn't take him ruining the computer room, and truthfully i don't like keeping him in a pink room(can't change the color since i'm not allowed to move the computer desk, i did add blue and brown dots around his bed on the wall). Anyway we had been talking about moving him in with Creedance since she should be moving downstairs hopefully some time soon. So i moved him in there and decided to see if we could take away think binki and leave the side of the crib, so it is sort of like a day bed.
The no binki ended as soon as Tyler showed up with the scouts to stain and spray paint flag holders in the basement. I tried not to get mad but 10 boys all in the basement got very loud upstairs and Pearson couldn't handle it sooo out came the binki. I only had to lay him down the once, once he had the binki and he went straight to sleep. He did fall out once in the middle of the night but went right back to bed once i put him back on it. We did have a problem around 4 when he decided he wasn't tired. He didn't get out but kept getting louder and louder.
I decided i need a three day policy and shouldn't change anything until i had tried it that long. But at nap time today i almost caved. I had to put him back in his bed 5 times. Before he finally fell asleep. I am glad i stuck with it, but am wondering if i should put the side back on let him get used to the new room for a couple of weeks. Then take away the binki. And then in a couple of months try taking off the side again.
I HATE DECISIONS!!!!!