Trouble

The other day I was just getting Sadie and I breakfast when I heard Peyton's little voice from the top of the stairs..... "mommyyyyyy???????"  I went to the bottom of the stairs and I was greeted by this cute face....

 Somebody left her makeup out on the windowsill in the room that this little ragamuffin woke up in.  Of course it was entirely too tempting!  Two days passed and I finally decided to stop looking like a ragamuffin myself and wear my makeup....... I love brow gel.  It's just a clear gel that you apply to your eyebrows with a mascara looking brush.  It makes your eyebrows stay in place so the hairs don't look all skuu wanpus.  Wel......... looks like my brow gel is ruined.  This is what I looked like after I tried to put my makeup on...

Dang, I love my kids! 

Things I'm passionate about...

I love doing new things and trying anything once!  Here are my true passions right now, this month, february 2013.  Because let's be honest, some of them will change and I'll probably find other things to really love later.  Snapshot in time for now...

 #1. My hubby, and I'm pretty sure that that's not going to change!!!  I'm so grateful for him!  My love for him grows each and every day.  Some things are not always easy but when I look back on those moments I'm so incredibly grateful for them because we grew closer as a couple!  He is my other half!

 #2. My two raggamuffins.... pretty sure that's not going to change either!  These two have my heart and soul that's for dang sure.  Everything I do can be traced back to my kids!!  Eric and I just love these two like crazy!!!! 

 #3. Clean eating!  Seriously.... I think about this alllll the dang time!  Which meal to cook next, which foods to incorporate to get the healthiest me.... and family possible!  I've been learning everything I can about clean eating for the last couple years.  We've attempted this many times but failed. every. single. time!  I'm pretty confident in the knowledge we have about it, and the awesome foods we still get to eat!!!! So finally, it's sticking for us!  We've had more energy, my kids aren't as picky, health issues have resolved, weight loss, etc.  There really is no negative in this whole situation. 

 #4. My Young women..... I love everything about them.  This is the calling of a lifetime.  Love working with them.  Fun activities, fun girls, fun times!  I spend many hours thinking, praying, and pondering on these girls. 

 #5. Photography!  I've always loved photography but finally I'm taking the jump to start my own photography business.  Eric got me Photoshop for Christmas so I'm just jumping in two feet first.  I have sooooooooo much to learn yet but that's ok.  Excited for the two weddings that I have booked!!!

 #6. Haircuts!  Must admit.... don't really like to color (like to highlight), and styling is not my favorite either but I sure love to cut hair!!!!  This is one of my young women above... her hair had been way past her butt before I got a hold of it!  Our own Rapunzel....

 #7.  Of course, the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  It is everything I am.  I most certainly should've listed this first..... because without the Gospel, I wouldn't be where I am today.  I love everything about it!!!  My strongest desire these days are to raise my children to love it just as much as I do!! 

#8.  Zumba!!!  Oh man, I've loving it.  Tryed it for the first time the other week and I'm hooked!  I don't even feel like I'm exercising and I always leave class soaked in sweat!  Timing isn't right, for right now but eventually I want to be a zumba instructor. 
#9. Getting a good deal!  I love living by B.B.'s to get grocery discounts!!!  It is such a blessing!  Love the after holiday sales! 
#10.  Family, friends, and many more!!!

There are a few that I really really want to play a bigger role in our lives... like, books.  I haven't read a novel for such a long itme and I really miss it.  Different styles of music, exercising with the kids, etc.  Always more to do but I'm so happy where we are right now!  I love my life!

Life lately....

For Valentine's Day, we went to Cluggy's amusement park as a family!  Didn't take any pictures... dang it.  But we did have a blast!  Peyton is sooooo obsessed with arcade games so he just ran around looking at all the lights and pushing all the buttons.  Eric got to do a couple rounds at the batting cages in there and Sadie just took everything in.  We did end up hitting the jackpot so Peyton got a bajillion tickets for prizes!  He especially had a fun time picking out everything..... tootsie rolls, stickers, slinkies, candy, ball... etc.  One happy boy! 

 A few days before Valentine's Day we heart attacked our own house.  We had done it for my young women a couple nights previous and I especially want my family to know everything I love about them so we went at it for family home evening.  I absolutley loved this activity and we're going to do it every year from now on!!  Some of my favorite hearts:  I love Sadie because she has cute curly toes. (she is always so keyed up and excited and her little toes will just curl and uncurl) I love Peyton because he's such a good cuddler.  I love Eric because he's such a good kisser. : ) I love Sadie because she goes liek the energizer bunny. I love Bre because she keeps the house very clean (I smell a brown noser in the bunch)  I love mommy because she teaches me my ABC's. (Peyton seriously told me to write that!) I love Eric because he's so gosh darn good looking.  I love Bre because she puts Christ above all else. (that one meant a lot) I love Sadie because she's a good dancer.

 Sadie and Peyton kinda just chilled as we wrote the hearts and hung them but occasionally Peyton would chime in about what he wanted to say! 

 I definitely think this is an east coast thing but it was "fasnaught day" on tuesday last week.  Pretty big deal around here.  Fasnaughts are donuts, I think it's german.  Well, up at the farm they had dozens and dozens of donuts.... so Eric brought some home to us!  Sadie's a fan! 

 Peyton occasionally throws tantrums. Who am I kidding....... he throws one at least once a day.

 I follow Sadie around like a little puppy.  Even with vacuuming once a day, she always finds little things on the floor.  Stink bugs, crumbs, little pieces of paper, you name it.  No matter how many toys are surrounding her, she will ignore all of those and go straight for what she can't have.  She keeps us on our toes.

 Sprinkle love!  Probably ranked in this kid's top five these days.  We went post valentine shopping for some sweet deals and found a bunch of heart sprinkles.  This is what happened the minute we got home.  Sometimes you have to choose your battles.  sigh....

 All of our windows were replaced yesterday!  Hallelujah!  They look so wonderful!  I can't believe what a huge difference it makes in our house.  I absolutely LOVE them.  Brainstorming some MAJOR thank you gestures for Eric's boss.

                                     Sadie thinks it's time to climb stairs now.  Honestly could've waited for that milestone a couple more months.
                                     
 We love food coloring and all the projects we can do with it!!!! 

 Peyton's big thing lately is making sand castles as well.  Shhhhhhhh, don't tell him that corn starch isn't sand. 

I have the hardest time taking a decent picture of Sadie.  She is always on turbo speed and can never get her to look at the camera..... even when she occasionally is, she does some crazy face.  I feel like I have hundreds of crazy Sadie face pictures.....  love her!
The other night I was halfway asleep when I heard a little voice say to me, "look at my boo goo mommy."  Being on the brink of sleep I had thought he'd said, "boo-boo". Going to kiss it better, it wasn't till his finger was against my lips that I realized, "shoot, he said booger."  Nice
Sadie pulls herself to standing, crawls everywhere, dances to music, blows raspberries, eats lots of solids as well as baby food, and has recently become a little mommy's girl.  Needs to be held quite a bit.  She takes naps horribly if I try to put her in her bed.... but if she's in her carseat, she'll sleep the day away.  At least she sleeps well in her bed at night. 
Peyton is really into Doc McStuffins adn he conducts checkups around here all the time.  He'll tell me that I have bad eyes, bad ears, and bad everything.  Good thing my self esteem is grounded huh? ha.  Peyton is learning his ABC's and can count to ten.  When he throws a tantrum these days, I will let him know that that is not a good choice and he can choose to sit in timeout or choose to be happy and he'll always tell me, "NOOOOOOO mommy, I'm a bad guy.  Me mad!"  well then.  He put in a hoobastank CD the other day and told me that was bad music.  He's just hyper aware of everything "bad" lately.  If there is a picture of a person scowling or simply without a smile.... it's a bad guy!  He's really sensitive to different TV shows, which I'm grateful for.  It surprises me sometimes though.  He only likes watching thigns if they're 100% positive..... even in Jake and the Neverland pirates... he gets upset sometimes about Hook.  Tender soul. 
Well, that's about it for the day

Utah Part 2

We always have so much fun in Utah!!  We stay super busy and spend as much time with our loved ones as possible! 

 Sadie, Peyton, Tyler and Lydia got snowsuits from Ga-ga for Christmas so we made good use of them while there. 

 Uncle Zach pulled the boys!!  They would always tip over, get back on and do it all over again!

 I love this genuine smile!!  Love to capture moments just like this!  He had just fallen off and was just laughing because he was so happy!

 Love her!!!  We stayed outside for less than 5 minutes though because she had had a cold when we got to Utah.  We ended up going to Instacare because she was kinda raspy when breathing and it turned out she had pneaumonia!  Peyton got pneaumonia last itme we were in Utah as well.  I must admit that Sadie sure was much easier to get the chest xrays done for.  Peyton had thrashed so violently that they had to redo the xrays three times.  The next day he had bruises all over his body from thrashing so hard in that thing.  Sadie was teh opposite.  She just sat there..... she didn't even cry that hard.  I was super surprised.

 Zachy is such a good uncle.  The boys had such a blast with him! Peyton's hands started to get realy cold after awhile since his gloves wouldn't stay on but he was super upset when I brought him inside.  So Uncle Zachy let him go back outside with him to make snow angels and hang out for a little longer.

Thanks Ga-ga for the awesome snow suits!!!