LET IT SNOW!! LET IT SNOW!! LET IT SNOW!!

Oh how Rylee and Cade love the snow. Especially when they have Aunt Shauna who has a great big field in her back yard where the kids go out and hook the sleds to the 4-wheelers. They look forward to this every year!! Well, this year we even got brave and hooked skiis to the 4-wheelers and boy did they have a blast. Cade is good for about 1 or 2 times around the field, or until the first flip over on the sled, and then he is done. Rylee could stay out all day...except last time when she did a little flip too, and had some snow burn on her face for about 1 week. Anyway, here they are doing what they love most in the winter!!

What Am I Going To Do With This Kid???

Caders, Caders, Caders!!!! This child of mine can be very difficult...but can seriously be the funniest kid ever. So, Bart commutes to work and drives to meetings pretty much all the time. He has absolutely no tolerance for retarded drivers and experiences ROAD RAGE quite often. Many times the road rage hits when the whole family is in the car. So...last Saturday as we were driving Rylee and Cade to their Primary activity (of all places) a car pulled out in front of us. Cade pipes up with, "Dad, that guy is a juice bag, huh?" Well, the juice bag is actually a douche bag. He also claims that the Grinch is a juice bag too, because he likes to eat glass and hates Christmas. So, that is Bart's issue that he needs to work on, and here is mine. Yesterday as he and Rylee were eating breakfast (yes, my kids don't eat breakfast until 9:00 or 9:30), Cade heard Paigey waking up...he says "Oh S*%# Almighty, Paige is awake!" I told him we probably shouldn't say that, because it is not a nice word, "Well, why do you and dad say it?" Ok, I am going to repent, and add ONE more thing to my resolution list!

How Do I Teach Humility???

So, yesterday was early out Monday for Rylee at school. I knew that and had remembered throughout the morning. Well, apparently I can't tell time, so I sent her out to the bus stop 1 hour late. I remembered right as I sent her, and looked up at the clock...woops! Anyway, she comes back in and she really only had about 1.5 hours left of school. Paige was down for a nap, so I asked Rylee if she would just stay home so I didn't have to wake up Paige, etc. Well, I should have known the answer to that... ABSOLUTELY NOT! So I got her to school and all was well. This morning at breakfast I was telling her that I was proud of her for wanting to go to school, and that I shouldn't have tried to keep her home because school is very important. I also told her how proud I was of her and her accomplishments at school. Her comment to me was, "Mom, it isn't easy being ME." OK, I was thinking to myself, "Well, how hard can it be to be a 6 year old?" I said to her, "What do you mean, why isn't it easy being you?" "Well, at school I always have to help everyone write their numbers and letters, luckily the people I have to help sit right next to each other. I mean seriously mom, it isn't easy being me." WOW! How do you praise a child, but yet not let it go to their head?

Blessing Day

So, we finally blessed sweet Paige! She was 4 months old, but we kept waiting for the basement to be finished to be able to accomodate guests. Anyway, it was a wonderful day. We had great support from both sides of our family, and Bart gave her a beautiful blessing. He said the key was for me not to hold or see Paige until the blessing was over. So, Bart held her all morning, prayed really hard she would be nice and not scream, held her for 30 minutes intervals in the "blessing hold" all morning, put a rattle, binky and everything else in his pocket (just in case) that would entertain her during the actual blessing...and, to his sweet surprise, she just looked up at him the whole time as if she was listening to what he had to say. What a great day it was!!

Fall Fun

We have had a lot of fun this fall, I just haven't really had time to post any pictures. Halloween was a great day. It was way warm, so we got to do lots of things, Trunk or Treat, real Trick or Treat, Trick or Treat down Main Street in AF and end the night at Grandma Childs. The kids had a great time. Rylee was a 50's girl, Cade was Buzz Lightyear, and Paigey had a cute Halloween outfit on until she peeed all over it during a diaper change (sweet!). We also went to Grandma Barbara's the week before for the annual Preston Halloween party. It is a great time of year, and Rylee starts asking me the next day what she can be for next year! Does her wheels ever stop turning...no, I think she gets that from me!

What have we been up to???

Well, let's see...oh yah-the basement!!! The story of our life! It is almost completely done! We have a few little loose ends to tie up such as a few window sills, a little touch up paint here and there, decorations, etc. Anyway, it has been kindof a pain in the butt, living in complete dust and it stirred up soooo many spiders that I told Bart if I saw one more giant spider, I was moving to a hotel! Luckily, I had the spider guy come Friday and spray. Phewwww. One day Cade and I were washing the windows down there and I was trying to clean all the black dirt in the bottom of one of the windows, and a spider came to stinkin life! Cade started screaming and said "The dirt is alive!" Man, I love that kid...he says some of the funniest things. Anyway, Bart has worked so hard on the basement, and has done such an awesome job...so without further adew, I present to you...Bart's baby!

Is She For Real??

Dang, my Paigey is seriously the best baby! I just love her to death! So, around Halloween she was struggling. I mean to the point I didn't really like to take her places, for fear of her freak out episodes. My first time to church with her, her and I left before Relief Society due to her screaming so loud I think the whole church heard, I was sweating like a banchie (is that how you spell it?), and just wanted to leave. Now that I have figured out that she is one that needs a schedule, life is fabulous. But, check out this schedule...wakes up around 7:30 a.m., eats, hangs out til everyone is up and fed, goes to sleep around 9:00 til about 10:30, hangs out til 11:30, eats, goes for the "true nap" and sleeps until around 5:00 or 5:30. What? Is she for real. Then, last night on her 12 week birthday, she went to sleep around 11:00 p.m. (after Bart and I got home from the Jazz game) and slept until 7:30 this morning. I could hear her at that time through the monitor munching her fists...so I walk in to get her, she starts kicking, gooing, and smiling! Man...I love her! If all babies were like her, I could have 10 or 12...o.k., not really!!