So, I sat down at the computer for a few minutes while I ate my lunch (about all the computer time I get in a day). I was just about to get up and start dinner when Brayden came downstairs from his nap. I asked him if he wanted to help me make dinner, normally a task he loves. He looks at me still in a daze and croaks out, "I need to finish waking up first." He proceeded to push me back down in the chair, climbed into me lap and fell fast asleep. So here I sit with a to-do list so long I don't even dare to write it down unable to do anything but tinker around on the computer. I guess I should be grateful for the little break.
With Brayden curled up in my lap peacfully sleeping, I started thinking about a little lesson he taught me at the beginning of the month. As you all saw from my last post Labor Day here was cold, rainy, and miserable. Not my definition of a way to celebrate the end of summer. Up in the mountains it was snowing. Brayden and I were driving in the car and I mumbling about how I couldn't believe it was already snowing and how much I hate snow. Brayden innocently injects, "But Mom, Heavenly Father gave us snow and it's beautiful." Instantly humbled, I stopped my complaining and said, "You're right sweetie, it is beautiful isn't it." He responds, "Yeah Mommy it is, I can't wait until Heavenly Father makes it snow down here." It was a great reminder for me to find the good in all things rather than complain.
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Monday, September 22, 2008
Several Updates in One
So I have about 5 different posts that I've started over the past 1 1/2 months but haven't posted because I kept waiting to download pictures. Rather than doing several post I thought I'd condense everthing into one post. So here's a little of everything starting from most recent:
-On Saturday we finally did haircuts. All three of the boys were in desperate need. It was a battle and a half getting Brayden to agree to his haircut. He just kept saying, "No, not my curls, I like my curls." At long last we got him to agree to things and he was quite relived to see he still had curls when we were finished. We cut off about an inch but you can hardly tell his hair was so long. Tavita looks so much older (and chubbier) with his new haircut. I started the cutting but Junior had to finsih it because I couldn't get him to sit still. So aside from a little bald spot on the side of is head (opps!) Junior did a great job of doctoring up my mistakes. While we were cutting Tavita's hair Brayden kept saying, "Cut his hair curly Mommy, I want him to have curls." Sorry buddy, we tried but it just didn't happen!
-We entered our hideous kitchen into a Utah's Ugliest Room Competition and are currently one of the finalist. Keep your fingers crossed that this eyesore:
Will soon look like this:
-On Sept 4th my dear hubby turned the big 29 and being the neglectful wife I am I didn't even post anything. Luckily my mom is better than I am and acknowledged it on our family site. I am so grateful for such a great husband! We didn't do anything to big and exciting. Had a nice dinner at home then a major jam session to some MJ, one of his birthday presents (everyone needs him in their collection).
-Dear Uncle Ryan went back to Hawaii at the beggining of the month. The boys were a little lost for a few days after. They kept running into his room hoping he'd be there to wrestle with.
-Yeah, that's right, we had snow on Labor Day, I thought it was an ominous sign of things to come, luckily we've had relatively nice weather since that day.
-On Aug 28th Junior and I used some tickets I won from work to go see Boys II Men! That's right their still alive and kicking! Only three of them are touring now because their bass singer has become disabled from MS but they were still very entertaining. Turned out a couple of our neighbors also had connections so we all went together and had an abolute blast. I couldn't believe how many people turned out for the concert. We got there pretty early and still had to battle for a spot of grass to sit on. They've just released a Motown CD where they do copies of all the classic motown songs, which they performed with some priceless moves. It was great!
-Our good friends/neighbors have started an addition onto their house across from us. The boys absolutely love sitting at the window watching them work. Especially when they were in the digging stage and had all the tractors and backhoes. This phase was about a month ago and Tavita couldn't get enough of it. One day we got back from shopping and Tavita needed a diaper change and Brayden had fallen asleep on the way home. So I figured I'd at least get the diaper off Tavita, put Brayden in bed, grab a diaper and finish up with Tavita. I got Tavita out, cleaned him up and was going to let him run in the nude for a minute. However, due to the draw of the construction he started darting across the street. I brought him back into the garage and started closing the garage door, Tavita kept bending down farther and farther as the door closed so he could watch the construction. I left the door open a crack while I took Brayden upstairs. I came up and Tavita was sprawled out half asleep on the floor while he continued to enjoy the construction across the street.
Well, that about sums up all the blogs I had started over the past while. Hopefully (haha) I'll be better at posting more regularly so I don't have to do any more jumbo blogs.
-On Saturday we finally did haircuts. All three of the boys were in desperate need. It was a battle and a half getting Brayden to agree to his haircut. He just kept saying, "No, not my curls, I like my curls." At long last we got him to agree to things and he was quite relived to see he still had curls when we were finished. We cut off about an inch but you can hardly tell his hair was so long. Tavita looks so much older (and chubbier) with his new haircut. I started the cutting but Junior had to finsih it because I couldn't get him to sit still. So aside from a little bald spot on the side of is head (opps!) Junior did a great job of doctoring up my mistakes. While we were cutting Tavita's hair Brayden kept saying, "Cut his hair curly Mommy, I want him to have curls." Sorry buddy, we tried but it just didn't happen!
-We entered our hideous kitchen into a Utah's Ugliest Room Competition and are currently one of the finalist. Keep your fingers crossed that this eyesore:
Will soon look like this:
-On Sept 4th my dear hubby turned the big 29 and being the neglectful wife I am I didn't even post anything. Luckily my mom is better than I am and acknowledged it on our family site. I am so grateful for such a great husband! We didn't do anything to big and exciting. Had a nice dinner at home then a major jam session to some MJ, one of his birthday presents (everyone needs him in their collection).
-Dear Uncle Ryan went back to Hawaii at the beggining of the month. The boys were a little lost for a few days after. They kept running into his room hoping he'd be there to wrestle with.
-Yeah, that's right, we had snow on Labor Day, I thought it was an ominous sign of things to come, luckily we've had relatively nice weather since that day.
-On Aug 28th Junior and I used some tickets I won from work to go see Boys II Men! That's right their still alive and kicking! Only three of them are touring now because their bass singer has become disabled from MS but they were still very entertaining. Turned out a couple of our neighbors also had connections so we all went together and had an abolute blast. I couldn't believe how many people turned out for the concert. We got there pretty early and still had to battle for a spot of grass to sit on. They've just released a Motown CD where they do copies of all the classic motown songs, which they performed with some priceless moves. It was great!
-Our good friends/neighbors have started an addition onto their house across from us. The boys absolutely love sitting at the window watching them work. Especially when they were in the digging stage and had all the tractors and backhoes. This phase was about a month ago and Tavita couldn't get enough of it. One day we got back from shopping and Tavita needed a diaper change and Brayden had fallen asleep on the way home. So I figured I'd at least get the diaper off Tavita, put Brayden in bed, grab a diaper and finish up with Tavita. I got Tavita out, cleaned him up and was going to let him run in the nude for a minute. However, due to the draw of the construction he started darting across the street. I brought him back into the garage and started closing the garage door, Tavita kept bending down farther and farther as the door closed so he could watch the construction. I left the door open a crack while I took Brayden upstairs. I came up and Tavita was sprawled out half asleep on the floor while he continued to enjoy the construction across the street.
Well, that about sums up all the blogs I had started over the past while. Hopefully (haha) I'll be better at posting more regularly so I don't have to do any more jumbo blogs.
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