Projects...

So I'm trying to be creative.. :) I have this wall that is small in size that is in our front room..  So I've decided to create a wall of framed quotes. I've already found some frames from the DI for cheap.. Only one is super cool.. but gotta start somewhere :)  But I've found some quotes that are already cutesy that I LOVE but also quotes I love but can't find any cutesy art for it.. so I created some.. 

Here are two that I've started! I'm kinda proud of them :) 

Back to work on some more :) hopefully they print out well!

Friday Facts

 FACT: Creighton is ADORABLE!! And he LOVES trying new foods even if he spits it out right after.. He'll try almost everything!!

 FACT: Cayden got a haircut... and now everytime I look at him I think.. "When did he grow up so fast?!"

FACT: I'm very lucky to have these 2 boys in my life and to be their momma! :)

Thoughtful Thursday

Lately I've been thinking about where my niche is.. what are my talents?  I know I'm a mother but I've been feeling like I shouldn't be wasting my talents (if I have any).. I know there's a scripture about not wasting what Heavenly Father has given you.. but I'm spacing out on what it is. BUT my beautiful sister Sarah "pin"ed a quote and I love it!! It pretty much sums it up..

See? Perfect...

So that quote and this one:

 

..got me thinking that I need to explore being creative... explore using my talents... explore what my talents are! And I know what talents aren't just being crafty.. but there are musical talents, personality talents, people talents (like being a people person and being a person everyone can turn to.. I think that's an awesome talent!!)

I've made a list in my head.. and eventually I want to do a whole post on what I am planning to do to explore all of this but for now I leave you with these questions to think about...

Are you wasting your talents?  Do you know what talents and abilities Heavenly Father blessed you with? If you haven't figured them out (like me), then what is your next step to figuring it out?

issue of the day- Modesty

If you want your children to be modest.. teach them young. If you let your daughter wear bikinis and short shorts/skirts they will find it harder to be modest when they go through the temple. And yeah prom might be a special occasion but if you let them wear a dress that's immodest then you're teaching her that its okay to be immodest "for special occasions". Then she'll turn into a lady that wears a sports bra and super short shorts to work out in using the excuse: "its okay I'm working out"...

Reminds me of a scripture... Proverbs 22:6 

 "Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old, he will not depart from it..." 

To get off my soapbox... and to tie in a more religious aspect.. Teaching and leading by example.. Don't get me wrong I'm not a perfect parent or person in any way... Here's something that helps the point... This is from a talk by Pres. Gordon B. Hinckley called "These, Our Little Ones."

The Endurance of Example

Behold your little ones, and teach them. I need not remind you that your example will do more than anything else in impressing upon their minds a pattern of life. It is always interesting to meet the children of old friends and to find in another generation the ways of their fathers and mothers. 

The story is told that in ancient Rome a group of women were, with vanity, showing their jewels one to another. Among them was Cornelia, the mother of two boys. One of the women said to her, “And where are your jewels?” To which Cornelia responded, pointing to her sons, “These are my jewels.” Under her tutelage and walking after the virtues of her life, they grew to become Gaius and Tiberius Gracchus—the Gracchi, as they were called—two of the most persuasive and effective reformers in Roman history. For as long as they are remembered and spoken of, the mother who reared them after the manner of her own life will be remembered and spoken of with praise also. 

May I return again to the words of Brigham Young: “Let it be your constant care that the children that God has so kindly given you are taught in their early youth the importance of the oracles of God, and the beauty of the principles of our holy religion, that when they grow to the years of man and womanhood they may always cherish a tender regard for them and never forsake the truth.”4
 
I recognize that there are parents who, notwithstanding an outpouring of love and a diligent and faithful effort to teach them, see their children grow in a contrary manner and weep while their wayward sons and daughters willfully pursue courses of tragic consequence. For such I have great sympathy, and to them I am wont to quote the words of Ezekiel: “The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son” (Ezekiel 18:20). 

But such is the exception rather than the rule. Nor does the exception justify others of us from making every effort in showing forth love, example, and correct precept in the rearing of those for whom God has given us sacred responsibility. 

Nor let us ever forget the need to respect these, our little ones. Under the revealed word of the Lord, we know they are children of God as we are children of God, deserving of that respect which comes of knowledge of that eternal principle. In fact, the Lord made it clear that unless we develop in our own lives that purity, that lack of guile, that innocence of evil, we cannot enter into His presence. Declared He, “Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 18:3). 

Channing Pollock once wrote these interesting and provocative words: “Contemplating the adolescence through which we scorned the wrong, some of us must wish … that we could be born old, and grow younger and cleaner and ever simpler and more innocent, until at last, with the white souls of little children, we lay us down to eternal sleep.”5

 Overall this probably doesn't make any sense.. but reading this has made me realize how important it is to live a life that I want my kids to live.. to live a life that can be used as an example to them later in their life that they can turn to and say "see.. mom never wavered"..  I want my kids to always know that I tried my best to live the Gospel and to live as righteously as I could. I do not want my kids to look back and say "well when we were young you never made us pray, fast or be modest."  I want them to realize how important living the Gospel was to me so that it will be just as important to them!

now I can "want" all I want.. (haha) but it'll never happen if I don't make it happen. It is going to be my goal this month to make our home better.  These goals will be personal for now.. but I will keep track on here to keep myself in line :)

I hope no one was offended by this.  But do know that it is my opinions and everyone is entitled to their opinions.

1st Birthday in Pictures

Horrible momma! I haven't even done his 1 yr old picture with his bear! I'll post that in a different post.

Started the day with hanging out in the front yard

Cayden went running everywhere

Brotherly love

Random neighborhood cat

Decided to take a long walk (waiting for Daddy to get home)

Daddy came home~ while Birthday boy was sleeping we flew a kite

Birthday boy woke up and we hung out in the tree swing

dressed for the day and saw Kung Fu Panda 2

had to make sure the DirecTV guy was finished before we could leave

Didn't get any pictures at the Theaters... but Birthday boy did GREAT! only had to stand for the last 15 min or so.. Then we ate at In 'N Out with Adam's Parents... Then came home to our disgustingly dirty house that is still in boxes.....

he loved the bow more :)

 

 

He got a scooter walker thing! Awesome :) He loves it! Forgot to get a picture of that...
and we have YET to have a party for him or let him have cake he's been One for eight days! Yikes! Eventually... we're still settling into our house... (pictures to come)

Happy Birthday Creighton!!! We Love you!

down in the dumps

This is a woe is me blog post and might get deleted.. it might not.

The tiredness I am feeling is my own fault. I drank Mountain Dew too late. And I ignored a prompting to try to sleep about 3 hrs before I actually did. Looking back on last night, I'm ashamed that I ignored a prompting since its the first one I've felt in a while (or recognized).

Should have listened because Cayden is sick today. Like fever, laying around, not being able to aim his pee, throwing up apple juice and stomach acid cause he either had no energy to eat his breakfast or couldn't - sick. And I just don't know how to handle a sick kid and a rambunctious almost 1 year old.. Especially now in a house, where I don't want Creighton playing upstairs in all the boxes but I don't want Cayden downstairs because the couch and his bed are too far from the toilet. But my bed is feet from our toilet. Seriously I'm having doubts of how good of a mother I really am especially since I gagged just hearing him gag.

Now on to my other depressing news.. moving into the Jordan school district sucks! They do things too different and Cayden might not get the help he needs. Sucky!!!!!! They base off if he needs to be evaluated on a QUESTIONNAIRE!!! Seriously?!?! I wish we could have found a house right by his Preschool so I would know for sure he'd continue to get the speech therapy he truly needs. Frustrating!

Hopefully this all sounds somewhat intelligent since I taped it super fast to get my feelings down before either boy starts freaking out. Made me feel better though!

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BIG MOVE DAY!!!!!

Well today is the day we're moving to our house!! So excited!! And a little tired since we were doing a LOT of last minute packing and we STILL have stuff.. ugh! Hopefully our house won't be as cluttered!

So glad we have the Benson family to come and help! Wish I had my family here too cause I love and miss every single one of them!!!!!! But its okay.. At least we have a TON of help. Six definites and 2-3 maybes! Very lucky to have willing family! Makes things easier!

We pick up the U-Haul at 8! Which is less than an hr! Crap.. better stop blogging and start finishing the little stuff before the boys wake up! :):)

Yay for moving day!!!!

(Oh yeah... my awesome Father in law brought over his industrial carpet cleaner on Thursday! And he decided to go back to the house yesterday to do the whole house! We just wanted the boys (and the toy) rooms.. And he put in the kitty door we wanted in a door downstairs! Awesome!!)

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