Love It When Daddy Comes Home and other random things.

The kids always ask if they can go outside and "look" for dad. Jacob walks home and he is usually home about the same time every day so I let them go out to wait for him but I get too stressed out when they are in the front yard so I only let them go out a few minutes before he comes. The other day they were asking to go find him a little over an hour before he would get home so I told them they needed to wait a little longer before they went out. They literally stood at the front door staring out the glass the entire time, waiting for me to give the ok for them to go outside. When it was time, they rushed out the door and over to the curbside to watch down the street. As soon as they saw him coming they ran down the sidewalk after him yelling in excitement. Luckily I had my camera out (because I was trying to take some pictures of Ash man) and was able to see them strolling down the street together. When I went outside Jake yelled to me "Mom, I found dad!" (Wow! That is one smoking hot dentist!) Their favorite thing to play when dad comes home is "Superhero"

And yes, I do get a little nervous when they play superhero. But they LOVE it.
Lily getting ready to fight.

Even Asher loves it. I'm pretty sure that "Cozy Sac" was the best thing we ever got and that one was free.
Random Things:

The other day I was making a grocery list when I had to run upstairs for a minute. When I got back, my list had a few added items. (pears, apple and marshmallow cereal) I love that Lily can write. Now if we could just work on that spelling before she starts school in the fall.
I love that Asher puts himself in his little chair to drink his bottle. Sometimes I literally can't find him and then I finally see him all the way over in the corner just chillin in his chair.

This morning I found him soothing himself with this little contraption. It is the nipple off an old bottle stuck on top of a metal pole.
It looked a bit awkward to use but he seemed to enjoy it.
What a little turkey eh?

Lily's Scriptures

In primary on Sunday the kids get to put a bean in a jar if they bring their scriptures. When the jar is full they get to have a pizza party. Lily is obsessed with this idea but after a couple weeks she lost her scriptures at church and was so sad. I realized that I hadn't even written her name in them so they just looked like all the other scriptures there. I decided to make a case for her new set in hopes that it won't get lost quite as easily. Lily picked out the material herself.
I wrote her name in them but just to make sure people saw it she wrote her name a few more times then drew a picture of herself. There is no mistaking who these belong to.

My Little Walking Man

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Asher's Nursery

I was pretty excited to design a nursery. Unfortunately, I've never really had the chance. All the other places we've lived were so small that the baby's room had to be used as a storage room also and was usually filled with boxes and other things. We were also poor students who didn't have the money to spend on decorating bedrooms.

When I got my chance, I wasn't sure what to do since Asher and Jake will be moved into the same room in about a year or so. I didn't want to do all this work just to have him switch rooms and have to change everything. Then I remembered I had bought dinosaur bedding for both the top and bottom bunk since I got it at a steal of a deal for when the boys were sharing a room so I designed the theme of the room around the bedding. At first I was just going to buy all the extra accessories that go with the bedding, but they have all been discontinued since I bought the bedding and all that was very expensive anyway. I decided to be brave and make everything myself even though I had no clue what I'm doing.

I repainted an old dresser that I used when I was a young girl. Above is a close up of the handles. I used words and designs from the bed sheets. I was nervous about the dinosaur paintings. I have never really painted anything before and I have no artistic ability whatsoever when it comes to drawing and painting. They turned out pretty good as long as you don't look too close and cost me about $4 each instead of $25 each.
This is part of the bed sheet that I got the dino's from. I had to change the colors a little on some of them because I didn't want so many of them green.
Ok ok so I realize that the A looks like a Q, the S is crooked and the A and E look like they are a completely different style of letter but I did my best. I got the striped material from the bed skirt that came with the bedding because I didn't need a bed skirt on the bunk beds. I made the curtains out of cheap bed sheets then jazzed them up with part of the bed skirt that came with the dino bedding.
I had a lot of fun doing this room and am excited to do the other kids room and my room next.

Asher Turns One

You know how people always say, "I can't believe my little baby turned one today? Where did all the time go?"

Not me. I know where the time went. The little dude cries every night. He's a royal stink. He's always screaming when he wants food or when Kat walks out of the room. He threw away our expensive Dish remote. He plays in the garbage. He tears apart the space under the kitchen sink daily. He teeths like four teeth at a time. His favorite game is Rip-Out-Your-Eyeballs-With-Sharp-Fingernails. And he has weird hair.

It's felt more like two years to me, but we love him anyway. He loves laughing, eats a pound of food, loves cuddling under blankets, follows the kids around to play with them, and is a great addition to our family.

We celebrated his birthday by hanging out, going to the Codetalker Memorial and doing a little rock climbing.




Then we had chocolate cake and ice cream. Yum.

Goings On Around Here

First off I have to say how proud I am of my big boy Jake. He has finally mastered being potty trained and it has been great. His favorite thing to do these days is dress up like Superman. He always has to wear boots and gloves along with his Superman pj's and cape. Here is my little baby. I can't believe he will be 1 in just a few days. He is pretty close to walking but I think it will still be a few weeks. He has 4 teeth on top and 2 on the bottom. He refuses to eat baby food anymore. It has to be the real deal or nothing. Although he gets into everything he has been so much fun and I have loved watching him turn into this happy little boy.

Lily and Jake have been quite the little buddies lately. They went through a phase where they were fighting all the time so I'm pretty happy about this. Here they are demonstrating a little teamwork.

This is what happens when the weather warms up and you get to play outside and spend the time digging in the dirt and chasing your big sister around trying to dump it on her. It can get really exhausting.
Living out in the middle of nowhere has it's benefits. Since there is nothing to go out and do, we are always trying to be creative at home. Here is Lily experimenting with colors. This fizzing color science kit was $2 and totally worth it. Her favorite color to make is pink.
Ever since we moved here I have been thinking a lot about my grandma Crosby. I think it's because there are so many things about this place that remind me of Kanab.(where she lived) One thing about my grandma is that she always signed her letters with ATRNTF. (Always To Remember Never To Forget) I have always loved this saying because of that. I thought it would be really neat one day to have a licence plate with those letters on it but once we moved here and were needing a new plate I decided that it would be better to not spend so much money on a licence plate. I had Jacob go to the DMV on his day off and take care of getting the new plate. A few weeks later I got a small package in the mail. I was so confused because I could sort of tell it was a licence plate but we had already gotten a new one just a few weeks earlier. I opened it up and literally got all teary eyed at what I saw. My dear sweet husband had heard me mention somewhere along the way about the licence plate I wanted and he got it for me. Now I feel like I can have part of my grandma with me everywhere I go. He had to add an A in the middle because they don't allow only 6 letters on a plate but it still works for me. Thanks Jacob. I LOVE it!

Always To Remember And never To Forget

Speed Dial

I have a wonderful little extension to my Google Chrome web browser called Speed Dial. It's awesome. Every time I open up my web browser, I get my top pages, customized exactly the way I want it. Here's what sites Kat and I like to use: