Almost last

Today I was a little late in picking up Tage from school - 8 minutes actually. As I drove up there was only 2 kids sitting alone along the school building. Poor Tage probably thought that I forgot about him. Luckily he wasn't the last kid - who was Deanna Inman's daughter, Ashley (a friend from church). I waited a few minutes and let Ashley call her Mom. Tage wanted me to take her home. But a couple minutes later Deanna came around the corner and all was good.

Nanny

I was at the library this afternoon and a lady asked if I was Emmry and Trey's nanny. Hahaha. Nope. They are mine. and then Tage walked over to me and I said, "he is mine too." I told her that I am older than she probably thought I was. She said I was super woman.
Hahaha.

No Napping

I am officially saying that Trey no longer takes naps. It has been 3 weeks straight that he has not taken an afternoon nap. Bedtime comes early around this house now. I try and get both Emmry and Trey to be by 7:30pm.
If we are in the car and he is super tired he will fall asleep, which is fine. A short little nap never hurt anyone. Somedays have been harder than others. The worst days are when I am ready to scream at 5:00pm and think, "how on earth am I going to hold him out another 2 hours?" Those are the worst times. But Somehow I manage and then I smile as he is sleeping and love him even more.

Family pictures

Iv'e spent several hours the past 2 weeks trying to finalize all the clothes for family pictures that were today. I hope they turn out good!
(pic of outfits laying out)

Sofie is 3!

Emmry's little friend, Sofie had her birthday party at Chuck-e-cheese's today. The kids had a blast and I had to take Trey out kicking and screaming because he wanted to stay. 2 1/2 hours was plenty long buddy....

Painting the garage

Ty and I have spent 2 long days prepping the garage for painting. Tyson has done even more than that in the previous few weeks repairing the ceiling by cutting out and replacing sheet rock and mudding and sanding. We did do more of mudding and sanding within these past 2 days but it took a long time to just tape and prep the garage.
Finally around 9:00pm tonight Tyson started painting. It went by really fast since he bought himself a new toy - a paint sprayer. There is still a little sanding to do on the ceiling so we will have to wait until Monday to paint the ceiling. (Tomorrow is Sunday - a day of rest. And a much needed rest day it is!)
It will be nice to have a clean garage! It's been over 2 years that I have felt with a messy, dirty garage. I'm excited for it to be clean and organized!

Relief Society craft night

Last night was RS craft night. I signed up to make this pallet board but Allison Kindler and Allison Stokes needed a few examples already done so I told them they could do mine for me. So really I didn't even do craft night but since I was 'in charge' of the evening I was busy helping others and making sure things went smooth.
Anyway, I am so happy with how the sign turned out and extremely happy that it is not sitting up in the craft room on the floor waiting to be hung. Tyson already hung it! I love where I put it - in the hall bathroom above the toilet. and on the other wall in the bathroom he hung my growth board that I have wanted hung for over a month. Two projects complete - that's awesome!

(pic of bathroom w/ growth board and pallet sign)

Privacy

I have been using the word privacy a lot lately especially with Emmry. I really would like to use the restroom or shower in peace one of these days. Maybe they will understand that word eventually.

Well today I asked Emmry to put on her shoes and she said that she needed privacy. She went to her closet and hid behind a blanket.

So I'm pretty sure she understands the meaning of the word - now if she will only apply it more often.

(pic of Emmry behind horse blanket in closet)

Little Cowboy

Oh how I am in love with my little cowboy.
(pic of trey in brown stripe shirt with boots)

It wasn't cold outside but that's the shirt he picked out and I needed to try on the jeans to make sure they fit for family pictures tomorrow. He looked like such a stud this morning.

Spice drawer

Trey was helping me with dinner tonight. Stacking the spices is one of the favorites in the kitchen for the kids.
"tim - ber!"

(pic of try stacking spices)

Soup Day

It's been overcast for the most part of today (down into the 80* temperatures!) so I decided that it would be a good soup day.
I made one of my all time favorites. Cheesy Chicken Chowder. Except I made it a little bit more soup like than a chowder. But it's still good.

(recipe of soup)
(pic of soup)

Mr. Skeleton

Mr. Skeleton needs a Mrs.
I should go find him a lover.

(pic of skeleton on porch couch)

Outfits

Worked hard on finding clothes for family pictures today. Pictures are in just 3 days! It's crunch time!

(pic of clothes on black chair)

Scissors

Emmry cuts everything. I better put away things that I don't want cut into little pieces. In fact - I was going to use this coupon but Emmry wanted to cut out the princess vitamins so I guess I wouldn't be using it.

(pic of scissors and coupon)

Cake fail

I attempted to make a gum ball machine out of chocolate cake this morning. It didn't work out so well and I was on a time crunch so I made a rice crispy cake instead. Except you wouldn't really call it a cake, huh? Oh, well. A gum ball machine treat. Hahaha

(pic of cake fail and final pic)

Smashed

I told Trey to eat his sandwich today at lunch. Instead he used it as play doh and squeezed and pounded on it.
Guess he didn't want lunch.

(pic of Trey pounding PB&J)

Popscicle

Emmry loves her cousin Avery. She talks about her all the time and she occasionally face-time's her. Today she had a popsicle and said that she wanted to save the last blue one for Avery so when she comes to sleep at our house she could have it.

Too cute and too sweet.
I love my little Emmry.

(pic of popsicle in freezer)

Tage has the touch

Tage must have the sleepy touch tonight. I tried for 30 minutes to get Trey to bed then finally gave up. Trey went out to the living room and cuddled with Tage and fell right to sleep within minutes.

Love my boys.

(pic of Trey on Tage's lap on floor in living room)

Clash of Clans

This is all Tage and his friend, Jalen, did ALL morning. And then again later on in the day. Ugh!
I made them turn off electronics and go outside and play basketball for awhile.
Boys, sheesh!

Preschool art

I love the cute art's and crafts that Emmry comes home from preschool with. I am so happy with the preschool (Happy Apple) I chose and even more happy that Emmry loves, loves, loves it!

(pic of pumpkin art)

Yard work

We did lots and lots of yard work today. Lots. Tyson trimmed trees and bushes and the rest of us cleaned up his mess. Then we decided to clear a small area between the back patio and the pool to put fake grass in. We cleared out all the rocks and smoothed out the dirt. Next week we will work more on it.

(everyone yard work)

Fight in and out

Most of the time it's a fight to get Trey into the shower/bath. And then it's always a fight to get him out. I add warm water multiple times because he won't get out. He was in so long tonight that he had really bad raisin hands and feet when he finally got out. We lighted and laughed about them.

(pic of trey in tub and hands/feet)

Face plant

Trey is a true boy. Bumps and bruises, scrapes and scars. Today he fell off the backyard swing face down in the rocks. I should have known this was going to happen sooner or later. The rope snapped on the other side a few months ago and I just tied knot in it. Now today the other side of the rope broke. I was standing right there pushing him but couldn't quite catch him. It happen so fast I didn't even have a chance to reach enough to break his fall. I feel horrible. This little man loooooooves to swing. I bet you he could swing for an hour straight. No lie. (I've done at least 30 min straight so I know another 30 minutes would probably happen...)
Poor Treyzer. I'm so sorry.

(pic of Trey face cut up on front porch couch)

Little Chops

After I dropped Emmry off at preschool I took Trey to a little kids hair place called Little Chops. Trey loved that there was toys to play with right when he walked in the door. The little kids get to pick a movie or video game and sit in a race car, airplane, or jeep. The slightly older kids just have a normal salon chair but they still get to pick a movie or game. It was actually really cute. And then they get a sucker and a sticker when they are all done.
Trey did awesome at first and then started getting a bit squirmy after a couple minutes. When they got to the part where it shaves close around his neck -  he did not like that. I pretty much held his head and the lady did her magic. Overall I would say that Trey was in the chair for 7-8 minutes max. It was definitely an expensive hair cut! $15, then I gave $3 for a tip - that's expensive if you ask me. But he looks like a little stud muffin and it beats me having to take 3 days to cut his hair little by little. That's what happen last time. And then I ended up having to pin him down on day 3 just to get it done.


(pics at little chops)

"No picture me"

I wanted to take a picture of Trey trying to get dressed by himself this morning. I laughed and then started to take a picture but he got mad at me and hid his face exclaiming, "no picture me!" "I don't like that phone!" "Don't look at me!"

I took this quick picture and then put my phone aside and helped him out.

(pic of trey in kitchen. pants on head and shirt on legs.)

Takin' pictures

Trey got ahold of my phone and wanted to take pictures.....

(few pics of what he took)

New car seat

Emmry's new car seat got delivered today! I should have just ordered 2 because Trey wants it.

(pic of me and trey in seat)