Mikey's love notes

Five year old boys love their mommies. And I am saving all the proof. Here are a few highlights:

I found that one taped on the door when I got home one day. He worked on it himself while his dad took a nap.

Every day at preschool he chooses the "writing center" just so he can write me nice things.

I got this note attached to a delicious breakfast in bed.

I don't know who this one was made for but it sure wasn't me!

My boy loves me!

B is for Bojito

I do a little preschool with Lexi twice a week with some other families in our ward with kids her age. Yesterday was my turn to teach. I was reading a bug alphabet book (which was a real hit with the 3 year olds) and I got to the "B" page which looked like this:





I asked if any kids knew what that bug was. Lexi emphatically declared "That is a B for Bojito!!!" Just to be clear bojito is said with an entirely Hispanic accent with the j sounding like an h. And it actually means mosquito. And this picture is really a bumblebee.

There were so many things wrong with her declaration that I just burst into a pregnant belly laugh. Once I wiped my tears away I nicely told her "Yes Lexi, bojito does start with a b sound. Good job Loo Loo."

Things that make me smile today

A partially painted bathroom

A piano practicing session with no complaining

Making homemade Easter grass out of wheat

Today is a good day so far :)

Lexi: angel or monster?

I didn't know that girls marked their territory too ...


When I asked her WHY she would do this to her brand new little chair she defiantly responded, "That way I will know which chair is MINE!"


But who can't forgive this sweet little thing?

Updates?

So Julie clued me in to this sweet iPhone app that let's you quickly and easily update your blog. I've been posting fun stuff on facebook but it sort of gets lost there. So I'm going to attempt to do it on here and see if we can have a better family journal :)

I want to capture and remember the fun little day to day things about the kids and our life. So here goes nothing!

Here is us today :)






And here is Mike's problem (I mean project) for the day:

Business

That is supposed to be BUSY-NESS, not business. I haven't posted since August ... ok ya I totally suck. I do actually post on Facebook with news tidbits here and there, but they get lost in the shuffle so I will try to do a quick recap on WHY I haven't posted.

Food Storage
As you can see by the badge on my sidebar, I was working on a crazy food storage challenge. You can read more about the challenge in our Mormon Times article (yes we were featured in the newspaper ... SWEET!) It took a lot of energy to plan and prepare, and even more energy to actually live through the challenge. It definitely taught me a lot about what I am still lacking in terms of preparedness ... and inspired me to volunteer to lead a food storage relief society group in my ward. Eek. I'll let you know how THAT goes. We are also going to be featured on the Studio 5 tv show next week so we have had a lot to do getting ready for that! AND we re-did our network site entirely. Wow. Busy.

Hockey
Hockey season is upon me. That is always crazy business ... read BUSY-NESS. I run the Provo Blades women's hockey team and this year we have close to 30 girls signed up, running a B and a C team, website revamped, lost our coach from last year, and the list goes on. The beginning of the year is always tough getting things organized and games lined up. It's almost to the fun part now. Yay. I've also been continuing my role as the BYU Hockey Webmaster. JOY! I revamped the website in hopes that it would be easier for a new person to take over ... but alas no new people have jumped at the chance.

Preschool
Mikey has started going to preschool over at the elementary school by our house. He goes 4 days a week for 3 hours and he is just absolutely in his element there. I volunteered to co-op in the classroom for 14 days of the year, which means I get to swap babysitting with other mom's in the preschool for their co-op days as well. These leads to a lot of busy days either in school or with extra kids. But it's a lot of fun! I felt sad for Lexi because she REALLY wanted to do preschool too. So I am participating in a little home-based preschool with some of the other ladies in my ward. We do this twice a week and rotate houses. Again, very fun, but definitely makes life busier. If you want to see some pics from Mikey's first day at school you can check out my Facebook Photo Album. Both kids were so freaking cute.


BUSINESS
Ok this part truly is business but it's also BUSY-NESS. I spent most of the summer working for my dad helping with web and marketing work for his company Soleil LifeSciences. The last month included some heavy duty hours working on a new site for their Cold & Flu product at http://Sun-Dew.com I'm proud of the site and their product is amazing by the way. So you should go buy some. Right now.

Aside from all of that, our van is still broken after our Canada fiasco, and we recently discovered a leak in our icemaker that is causing some drama in our freezer. But we are all healthy and relatively happy and Lexi is FINALLY potty-trained (hallelujah!) so things could be worse :)

Hopefully I can give you some funny updates on the kids soon. They are so hilarious lately. But for now I'm on to some more busy-ness. Julie is making me declutter our blog ....

Blood, Battles, and Ice Cream

Since the summer days seem to be drifting away ... (pausing for you to sing the daa daa daa part) ... we decided we better have some fun before Mikey starts school. School? NOOOOOO! Ok just preschool don't worry.

Anniversary Celebration

So this week we celebrated our anniversary by eating a lot. What else would you expect of us? We had our Friday family Soleil lunch at Oliver Garden (Thanks Dad!) and then proceeded to go to Ruby River for dinner because we have to. Tradition. Then Marilyn (Mike's mom) tended the kids and we went "camping".

Camping in Salt Lake is apparently a little different than camping in Provo. We were supposed to have reservations, and there are all kinds of weird limitations on how far from the road or trail you can camp, have a fire, etc. We finally got settled in around 10 pm after a lot of driving, a little hiking, and some maneuvering with all of our stuff (we didn't think to bring backpacks cuz we didn't think we'd have to hike to a spot).

We had planned to play board games all night but ended up just chatting and reminiscing about all of the reasons we got married and how nice the last 6 years have been. It's nice to get away like that and take a step back from the chaos of life and think about the good things.

A Babyless Shower

We got up early and headed home so I could catch Teresa's baby shower. This was the first shower I've been to where there was no baby AND no pregnant mommy. Hopefully Vance will get to come home soon!

Blood, Battles, and Ice Cream

After the shower we took the kids up to the Dinosaur Park at the mouth of Ogden Canyon. They LOVE this place. There is one dinosaur statue that is shown eating another and the poor dead dinosaur is all bloody. I was trying not to show the kids but Mike brings them right over and points it out. Well the whole rest of the day they just kept wanting to go back to the "blood dinosaur". Mikey also loved the mechnical T-Rex and Triceratops that are having a pretend battle. Lexi did not so much like that part.

At the end of the day we got some delicious ice creams which were a big fat mess because the kids insisted on getting the stupid push pop kinds. Well Lexi's ended up spilling all over the ground and her shoe and it was bright red on a white shoe. Mike tried to tease her that it was dinosaur blood and she just looks at him like he is a dope and says "no dad, it's ice cream" in her deadpan gravely voice.

Overall it was quite a pleasant weekend. Pictures to come soon!