Teancum and the Alien's

Teancum's been participating in the Summer Reading Program at the Library. One of the activities he had to do was write a short story that begins with "I woke in the middle of the night to the sound of..." I asked him questions like "what happened next" and wrote it down. This is the product of his imagination.

"I woke in the middle of the night to the sound of the moon. there was an astronaut on my house. An alien went in my room and opened my toy chest and he got my flashlight. I was going camping in the morning and went to get my flashlight. I opened my toychest and didn't see my flashlight. I looked at the alien. He opened his hand and he didn't see the flashlight. I had grabbed it back and went camping. The End"

Teancum, we love your imagination and creativity, thanks for keeping our lives fun and entertaining.

4 weeks and counting

I always think the last month lasts the longest, and it's the most uncomfortable; the baby constantly pushing on my stomach making me feel queesy and making my stomach sore, swollen hands and feet, carpel tunnel, too big to bend and pick things up comfortably... you get the point. This month seems to be worse since I'm completely wiped out from all the things that have made this pregnancy speed by:

2 major weddings/receptions to attend out of state
1 funeral
1 family vacation
2 trips just me and the boys to visit my parents
1 trip with Ryan and the boys to visit my parents
3 visits from friends and family
Temple trips
Stake conference in Rifle

And those are just the things that had us driving long distances..oh and our Christmas trip.
With all those trips I'm am more than ready for a boring weekend where there is nothing planned, and I want to stay put for my last month. (We'll see if that last one holds, since my brother comes home from his mission in 2 weeks).

Phrase of the week

Jacob's been getting into our Q-tips lately. He sticks one end up his nose pulls it out, looks at it and says..."buga gows" then throws it away. There's hope for boys after all :)

Our house- the final chapter

First off, our favorite feature of this home:

Here's the first thing you see when you go to the backyard, then you look right and see this:

Go around the corner (behind the tree on the right) and you see this:

back yard and garden space (although a lot of our garden hasn't done too well we have plenty of peas and zucchini)

Here is the missing room from inside the house, the master bedroom

Here's a shot from the door (sorry it's a tight fit to get pictures of the rooms so you're missing the closet: but you can see the blue bassinet I found at the garage sale)

Here's Ryan's workspace because every man needs somewhere he can get his hands dirty.

And Last, a shot of our home and front yard. Sure it could use a paint job, but it's what's inside that counts.

Bathrooms and Basement

Alright, here's our next installment of our home: First, the room that gets the most use (since we never use the bathroom in the basement)

Our lovely sink surrounded by the bathtub curtain and console over our toilet (not in picture).

The other end of our shower curtain, towels and art decorating our bathroom

This was the most exciting part of the house (for me), our HUGE laundry room/craft room. You only see half of the shelves in this picture and you miss out on our washer/dryer which are on the opposite end of the photo.

Here is the basement view as you leave the laundry room. (there's another bedroom behind me, that has the extra furniture that came with the home)

The storage area and stairs...the mess is all of Teancum's empty boxes he uses for tower building. The door is to the bathroom which is large but quite scary and so not pictured.

Up Next: the backyard, garage, and master bedroom, stay tuned.

Phrase of the week

(picture taken by Teancum)

Jacob's been talking for a while, but lately has progressed to two to three word phrases: My favorites:

1. Ta-Ta tum (Teancum come): this one is said the most often when he's playing and I love it!

2. Ta-Ta tum side: this was at the park

3. Peas Peas Peas Peas Peas- this was said to his grandpa in order to keep playing with the nintendo 64 controller, how could you say No to that even at bedtime.

4. 1-2-5-7-7-6-2-9-10 : this is how he counts to ten

Happy Birthday Honey

Today is Ryan's Birthday so in honor of my honey I thought I would post a few of the reasons I love this great man.

He is a wonderful father: I love wathing wrestle and play with his boys with chlidlike enthusiasm when he comes home from work and even more on the weekends, he is patient in teaching them and is a great example of a righteous priesthood holder always trying to fulfill and magnify his calling.

He is a even better husband: I don't think I could have married a harder worker or one more diligent in providing for his family the necessities in life along with a few of the fun things. He is teasing and playful, understanding and supportive, loving and strong, he cares for me in all things and is everything that defines a helpmeet. Thank you Ryan for all that you do for me and our children.

Big Boys and Bedrooms

Ryan and I recently redid the boys room and Jacob graduated to a BIG boy bed. So here are some pics from the boys room...Sorry I could only get a small section at a time because the room is a little crowded.

Here is Jacobs bed (with dad resting on it) His name is above the dresser, but you can't see it here and there is a border near the cieling of different animals scenes that you can't see either.

Here is Teancum's side the room and Ryan's old Toy chest. Once again you can't see the border near the cieling (The alphabet extends from the corner shown to the corner above Jacob's bed). You can see a little of the animal scene and Teancum's name over his dresser.

Here is the closet where their toys are mainly stashed there's a bookshelf on the other side, and more animals in the corners. Jacob's transition has gone decent. Sometimes it takes him forever to fall asleep at naptime because he gets out of bed and plays. But he HAS slept through the night every night since making the switch, and has stopped waking Teancum up in the mornings. Yay for happy kids.