Do they have this toy in Kindergarten????

Today I walked downstairs and this is what I found..... Gavin in Paisley's toy.... I wonder if they have this in Kindergarten???

Gavin finally gave up the tooth!!!!

Finally Gavin decided he wanted money instead of holding onto his tooth since he lost it!! So last night we took him in his room had him put his tooth under his pillow and then told him to lay down and go to sleep quickly so the tooth fairy could come, well... he didn't like that idea. He got scared. So we said a prayer so he wouldn't be scared of the tooth fairy... and I even gave him a demonstration of how the tooth fairy gets his tooth and leaves money so he knew that he knew it wouldn't scare him....Dallas walked him back to him room to tuck him in and instead Gavin came back in my room on the verge of tears handing me back him tooth. So I decided that we would lay in his room with him so he wouldn't be afraid of the dang tooth fairy. So Gavin and I layed in his bed, Dallas got the floor and we layed there until Gavin fell asleep. Finally he did and this morning he came in the room too dang early and said he was scared, I didn't want to deal with it and Darth Vader was clueless to Gavin being in the room so I just let him climb into bed with us. Dallas had to get up for work and Gavin woke up again and wanted to go and see if the tooth fairy came! Sure enough the tooth fairy did come and he got two golden dollars!! He was sure happy. He said he isn't scared of the tooth fairy anymore... we'll see... maybe it'll keep him from knocking his other teeth loose....

In the Jungle the mighty Jungle......

So our yard has sucked for the longest time. Our sprinklers broke last year and we never got around to fixing it so the good ol' yard went down the toilet. Well this year my sisters friend said he would be able to give us any left over sod that wasn't able to be sold before the weekend. Well we got the first batch of it a couple of months ago and we had tilled the rest of the yard up hoping to keep getting some sod on the weekends. Well they didn't have any left over sod for quite a while. Then on Monday around 3:30 ish I got a text from my sisters friend that said he has left over sod!! YAY!! I was thinking it was going to be about the say amount as last time... but no, he had enough for the rest of the backyard!!! Finally we were going to have a yard.... Now here is the problem.... we've been watering the yard like crazy so that the sod would keep growing, this in turn put a turbo growth on our "garden" as Gavin calls it. So we had a LOT of work ahead of us! Thankfully Dallas' brother Earle came over to help after he got off work and then Brittany and Mo came over after Brittany got off work to help (THANKS SO MUCH GUYS!!) Before they came over, we started to re till the backyard and to start raking up the weeds and try to make it as level as possible. Earle came over and helped with the raking and I'm sure wanted to kill us by the time he left! The sod finally got there around 8:30 and then they all started laying the sod, it didn't get done until around 10:30. Everyone was so tired and sore. So now we finally have a backyard that we can actually do something in!!! We still need to finish tilling about a foot around the fence where we are going to put flowers in!! I'm excited to get it all done!! Here are some before and after pictures!!!

BEFORE (obviously)

AFTER

Here are pictures of the kids playing!!

15 Week baby update

Your growing baby now measures about 4 inches long, crown to rump, and weighs in at about 2 1/2 ounces (about the size of an apple). She's busy moving amniotic fluid through her nose and upper respiratory tract, which helps the primitive air sacs in her lungs begin to develop. Her legs are growing longer than her arms now, and she can move all of her joints and limbs. Although her eyelids are still fused shut, she can sense light. If you shine a flashlight at your tummy, for instance, she's likely to move away from the beam. There's not much for your baby to taste at this point, but she is forming taste buds. Finally, if you have an ultrasound this week, you may be able to find out whether your baby's a boy or a girl! (Don't be too disappointed if it remains a mystery, though. Nailing down your baby's sex depends on the clarity of the picture and on your baby's position. He or she may be modestly curled up or turned in such a way as to "hide the goods.")

Peek A Boo Paisley

Paisley started playing Peek A Boo on her own, its the cutest little thing! She gets so smiley when you say Peek A Boo!! She does it with her blankets also, here's a couple pictures of her in action!

Getting ready....

Where's Paisley???

Peek A Boo!!!

My Big Girl

So I put Paisley in her crib, its official she's been booted out of the bassinett and out of my room, clear across the hallway and in her big huge spacious crib. :( Sad day!! Although now she won't have to "drive her bassinette like its a spaceship ready for take off"Nor will she have to manuver her body into the frog position to fit "comfortably" in the bassinette

and I won't be able to wake up to her doing a push up where she looks like she could just hop right out of the bed (sorry no picture ha ha). Awww.... sad. Well I'm sure she will get a better nights sleep and it will be more comfortable than sleeping on an inch thick "mattress" in her bassinett and she even has a cute little butterfly pillow to go in her crib. We'll see how well she likes it!! (just think... at least I didn't let it get to the point where she has to prop her feet on the end of the bassinette to fit... that's good right???)

Adventures at Bear Lake

We were able to go to Bear Lake again this year. It was a lot of fun! We left on the 7th and came home on the 10th. We had a lot of people come along this year, I think 40 people came!! My parents brought up their 5th wheel, the 1st day we got there it was already night time and it was pouring rain.... so we slept in the trailer. The next day we were able to clear the water out of the tent that got in when Dallas was trying to set the tent up the night before. It was actually a good day. We went over to the Raspberry Days booths for maybe 10 minutes ha ha! Gavin went on a little train and Brittany held Paisley in it also. After going to the booths we went back and Shari and Arthur and their kids got to the KOA so we played miniture golf with the kids, it was hot. Gavin had a lot of fun though, each time he hit the ball in the hole he'd yell " I won I won". The next day we headed out to the lake. We had a lot of fun there, we took Paisley in the water, I didn't remember my camera so I will have to see if someone else got a picture of her, she loved the water though. People went out on the boat and we just stayed on the beach. Frank and Rowena brought their 4 runners they were a lot of fun. That day ended with a huge rain/wind storm just like last year, we had to clean up super fast and get out of there!! After we got back we got all showered and ate dinner, then Gavin my Dad, Mom and me were in their 5th wheel and we turned out the lights and Gavin had his huge flashlight so we started telling "Ghost Stories" I took some pictures it was so funny, Gavin likes to do this until he scares himself!!! That night it rained and the wind was pretty strong too, we were in the tent and Gavin woke up scared so I pulled him and Paisley on the bed with me and we said a prayer (I was hoping it would work as soon as we said Amen) but it didn't and so we started singing primary songs trying to make it so Gavin wasn't scared. That didn't work either so we took the kids into my parents and Dallas and I went back to the tent, we could hear the tornado siren (Paisley) screaming from the trailer so we went back and rescued her, she is such a Mommy's girl!! The wind and the rain finally died down and we took Gavin back in the tent. This was a long night with no sleep. Anyways the trip was fun, we look forward to going every year, next year we are planning on staying longer!! Here's a few of the pictures that I took...

14 weeks

Your baby can now squint, frown, grimace, pee, and possibly suck his thumb! Thanks to brain impulses, his facial muscles are getting a workout as his tiny features form one expression after another. His kidneys are producing urine, which he releases into the amniotic fluid around him — a process he'll keep up until birth. He can grasp, too, and if you're having an ultrasound now, you may even catch him sucking his thumb. In other news: Your baby's stretching out. From head to bottom, he measures 3 1/2 inches — about the size of a lemon — and he weighs 1 1/2 ounces

Crib Time????

So Dallas told me that when Paisley turns 7 months old that she would need to start sleeping in her crib, I have refused this suggestion and have kept her in her bassinette right next to me.... where she should be right???? After all Gavin was in our bed until he was 4!!! ha ha!! Well she is almost 8 months now and she is rolling over now and does so all the time, she will also push up on her hands while on her tummy and lift up... so last night she was doing this and it looked like she could hop right out of the bed. So I took a picture and her head and her feet are touching both ends... so does this mean its really time to move her to that HUGE crib that looks too big for her and isn't right next to me?????

Learning Young??

I'm not sure how going to the bathroom requires you to grab a newspaper or a readers digest or make sure your battery on your phone is fully charged so that you can play the game on your phone long enough to entertain you until you finish the task at hand. This is one thing that I will never understand I suppose and that is why it takes boys/men so much longer than girls/women to go to the bathroom. Why would you want to linger around.. I'll just never get it..... so the other day we walk by the bathroom in which Gavin has generously left the door open for us, and there he is sitting with a newspaper... I don't get it. He can't even listen to anything we say let alone read... so why he has a newspaper... I couldn't tell you... but here he is doing what men do best!! I guess????

13 weeks

Fingerprints have formed on your baby's tiny fingertips, her veins and organs are clearly visible through her still-thin skin, and her body is starting to catch up with her head — which makes up just a third of her body size now. If you're having a girl, she now has more than 2 million eggs in her ovaries. Your baby is almost 3 inches long (the size of a medium shrimp) and weighs nearly an ounce