wrinkly feet

I can't tell you how much I love these 2! They are 2 of my favorite people in the whole wide world! I have been wanting to capture their wrinkly toes in the tub for along time now and finally took the time to do it. I knew that would be one I would regret if I didn't. I can't tell you the pure joy I get from being their mom. They can make me so crazy but I wouldn't trade my life right now for anything! I thank my heavenly father everyday for sending these 2 to me! They make EVERYTHING alittle more interesting and SO much more fun! Layne and I go through so much to try and get our little kids here with us and I wouldn't trade one thing we go through! I love them with every ounce of my soul!

Lots of random picts.

NO, this is not a giant turd. Derek has learned how to open the toilet lid and put things in it. This time he decided to put in matchbox cars in the toilet. He is getting so busy and fun!

I went into check on our chunky boy and this is how I found him. I love sleeping pictures and always forget to take them. I can't believe how big he is getting!

We were so stir crazy so we decided to go feed the ducks and play on the park for a bit. The kids LOVED getting out! It felt so good.

Derek loved the swings! His smile was this big the whole time he was swinging.

I was laughing my head off the first time we went and fed the ducks. My friend told me about popcorn and it's the best thing to feed them. They were running to us! I couldn't stop laughing at the reaction of the kids! Derek didn't know what to think and My got alittle nervous cause they weren't shy at all. I got bit about 4 times too! It was such a nice day to get out and did us all some good.

Derek didn't know what to think. I love his face in this picture. He was so scared of them!

My has been so funny lately. Poor quince! He gets tormented all day by the 2 kids.

This is why quince is so fat! He waits by Derek every meal and stills whatever food he can get. Derek loves to feed him too.

Layne and I were cracking up. My got this balloon from a cousin and was bouncing around on it everywhere.

Mylee playing dressups.

I seriously can't cook anything without my little shadow sliding the chair over to help. I would miss this so much if I didn't have it. I think it is one of my favorite things she does. Today we were making bread sticks to go with our soup for dinner. She had so much fun rolling them out and getting completely messy!

Our boring winter days! She decided to get a bib out and color. It looks like she had alittle taste of the markers too. Love this girl!

Is she really that old? First day of sunbeams! This was when she got home and her hair is so crazy by now! I really don't know where her 3 yrs have gone! I was so dreading this day. She loved it too. Good thing I had a taffy in my bag so that she could get distracted long enough that I could sneak out. She came home singing alot of new songs and had so much fun in her 1st day of sunbeams. I was definitely alittle heartbroken that she is already in primary but I guess I'll just have to get over it.

Happy birthday my little chunky monkey!

Happy birthday to our baby boy! I seriously can't believe how fast that went! I am so sad that he is already 1. He has been the most mellow little boy ever! He is SO good. I still can do anything with him. I thought have 2 would be harder but it hasn't yet. I decided that I wanted to make him a dr Seuss cake. I LOVE dr Seuss and the kids love the books. My cousin and Layne and I, yes Brandon didn't pass the test, molded all the things for the cake. I was kinda nervous to make it but it turned out better then I thought it would. Derek didn't know what to think. I put him by it and he just started poking it with his pointer finger. He does that with everything. He actually got a taste and then he was in heaven. He just kept looking at me with this puzzled face. It was so funny watching him! Mylee was being so patient waiting for him to get all the pictures with it. She was so excited to sit and eat his cake with him once she got the ok.

He thought he was pretty talented flipping his lip making all kinds of noise!

I think Derek was so stoked in this picture cause he was hucking the books. So different then Mylee. She could sit and read all day and he can't stop moving!

I was cracking up! My had to get some pictures with her brother. She was just loving him and then the two heads collided!

I really can't believe that a full year has come and gone since little Derek came into our family! It is crazy how fast it went. Layne and I were laying in bed new years eve remembering a year ago. I wasn't progressing at all. There was me and another lady at uvrmc in the race to have the new years baby. I didn't think I would win but at 11:50 he decided it was time to come. I started pushing around 12:20 and he was here at 12:33. It was one of the funnest nights and I will never forget the spirit that was with us. He was a healthy little boy and has kept going that rate. He isn't walking yet. He totally could but he is so lazy to even care. He loves to torment his little sister! She will get her dolls set up just right and he crawls over so fast and destroys them! I don't know how we are going to discipline this kid. He hears nothing! He is into everything! He especially loves Quincy's dog food. That is where the most trouble happens. His nicknames are chubs, chubby boy and still beefcake. I kinda feel bad but I kinda really like it too. It is so cute hearing his big sister go tearing into his room when he wakes up yelling chubby boys awake! Those two can get wild! She crawls up into his crib and they are out of control. They are both jumping and laughing hysterical! I love it when they do that! He has a mouth full of teeth. They all decided to come in 2's or 4's! He loves his big sister and has to follow her around the house everywhere! I'm so glad that our little family was blessed with him! I really don't know what I would do without this little chubby boy! Sorry there are a million picts and novel to go with it. I am making books out of my blog so I don't want to forget things!

randomness

Mylee begs us to always dance with her! She is a complete girl and loves to get her move on.

She is such a daddy's girl. She comes out every night to have her dad rescue her from bedtime. Yes it gets old but I love the bond these two have!

So chubs, yes that is his nickname right now is into distroying everything! He can't just unroll the toilet paper he has to shred it! He is getting so busy right now. I love this stage though cause they are learning so much!

This is when you know your uncle loves you! I had Layne come and sit with the kids while I got some christmas shopping done and came home right in time for this picture. I was laughing so hard! He is such a good uncle to my kids and we love him so much!

Sledding on Derek's birthday!

My dad decided to hop on halfway down the hill with Kait so he didn't have to walk it. It was such a long hill! We were all cracking up when we saw him hitching a ride.

My mom and dad decided to ride down together. When you get going you fly too. Joel decided to give them a good shove and my mom was chewing him out. I was laughing so hard watching them. I hope Layne and I are still sledding together at 50!

This was seriously one of the funnest days I have had! We decided last minute to go up to Todd and Tara's house. I can say I'm totally jelous of their place. Their driveway was SO long! We would drive up to the top and sled down to the bottom. We went with Layne's side and some of my family came too! I didn't think we would stay way long but we ended up staying 5hrs! I seriously loved it! I'm wishing it would snow again so we can head up there again. It was Derek's birthday and I was wanting to do something fun for it. He went down a couple times with us and I think he liked it. Mylee loved it. She loved riding on the 4wheeler with her grandma Harris and on the rhino with grandpa Harris too. I can't believe how many kids and people were there. I think the adults had more fun then the kids. I went down everytime there was an open sled! I felt like a kid again. We all got alittle hungry and in courtesy of grandpa Oyler and Harris we ate little ceasars pizza off the back of the trucks. We had 2 trucks hawling everyone up the hill. Bert had his snowmobil and a sled on the back that the kids loved to do. It was a blast! Other then Heather driving the truck down and getting kinda stuck and Bryce flying off the path into a tree on his snowboard, there weren't any accidents! I almost peed my pants though the first time I went with my mom. I was on another sled to the side of her and I was laughing my head off! You get going pretty fast and she wiped out 3 times. It was so fun! At the end the boys decided to race. Of course there has to be some competition involved. They were flying! I think Scott won almost everytime though. If you were in their way, you got mowed down! That was by far the funnest winter thing we have done! Can't wait to go back up!

Carson

This is my funniest nephew Carson! He cracks us up. He is such a performer and loves to entertain. This was some of the entertainment during new years!

I'm sitting here updating our blog and I hear this little squeaky voice say "mom I need to push out a turd." Yes we have tought our daughter it is called a turd cause she gets poop and pee mixed up. Well she thinks they are the same thing. My mom about died laughing the first time she said that to her!