The case of the dissappearing everything!

Do any of you feel like things are constantly dissappearing? I seem to never be able to find pens, combs, my small notepad, occassionally my keys, wallet and cell phone. Maybe there is some little theif who runs around hiding all the things I need? No, it's really just my lack of organizing things and putting them where they go when I am done. Why do I always think it will be easier to do it later, when in reality it makes everything harder? Do you struggle with this same problem? I will conquer it, day by day, if I make it a goal and work toward it consiously. Wouldn't it be great to always be able to find everything you needed in your home right when you needed it?! This is not something I currently enjoy, but I hope to! It seems like what I usually am saying and hear is "Do you know where the ? is?"

Anna is Walking!

Anna is walking all over the place. She is still wobbly but is getting better every day. It's a good thing she has a diaper and some chub on her bottom because she falls a lot. She is determined to conquer this awesome and fun new ability. When we go for walks, she loves having her turn to walk. She doesn't want the stroller or helping hands, she wants to do it all on her own! The first video is kind of long and Anna only walks the first half of it. The second video shows more walking and her silly little crawl that she will soon stop doing, so sad. It is so cute!

Lily's Socks

Last week while Lily was putting her socks on right before we left for church she started getting frustrated and said, "I don't like these socks, I wish it wasn't Sunday, I wish I were a fairy!" She cracks me up!

Anna is 11 months!

My little baby is not so little any more. She is saying so many new words and she is walking. Last week was a big week for her. She got her two top teeth and started walking. She is saying a new word almost everyday this week. Wednesday I took a lid off a pan and the steam came up and she said, "ot!" Now every time I give her food she asks if it is hot. Too cute! She seems to say go and wow also. Yesterday I was putting cans of food away in the closet and she kept trying to pull them off the shelf. I kept telling her "ouch," to let her know it could hurt her and then she started saying ouch too, well it sounds more like oush, but it is super cute. She usually tries to walk anyplace first and then if she falls she resorts to crawling. She has taken 12 steps and soon will be running! She is such a climber too. She climbed up on a little chair of Ammon's, onto the end table and over the arm of the couch and then sat back against the cushion with a very triumphant look, we moved the chair so she can't do it anymore. Her favorite is to climb up onto the dishwasher door, silly baby. Adam is least excited about that because the door is loose now, oops! She loves the stairs and gets to them any chance she can get. The funny thing is that she usually gives herself away. She gets so excited that she has to let me know she is climking up by sticking her head next to the railing and hollering at me. She is hilarious. When I head over to get her she takes off as fast as she can to try to conquer a few more before I take her away. She is so much fun! Ammon and Lily love her and are the best fan club ever. Every time she stands up or takes a few steps they are right there cheering her on with intense excitment. We all love her and are so excited for her birthday which I can't believe is now less than one month away!

Sunrise

This world is so beautiful and amazing. I saw the most gorgeous sunrise this morning on my run. We have an awesome view of all of Vegas from where we live. When I left my neighborhood I saw the sun just peeking up over the mountains in the east, it was a little cloudy and because of all the fires the sun was bright red! It was huge and so amazing. It was bright, but not so much as in the afternoon so that I was able to stare at it. It is so neat that something as simple as a sunrise can be so exciting. I wished I had my camera, by the time I made it home the sun was up and behind the clouds and reddish glow in the sky had disappeared. Maybe tomorrow.

The moral of my story...

So, the story of the mouse continues. Our garbage can was still reaking, so I peeked inside and saw a sack in the bottom. I got a long stick to move it, it was stuck to the bottom. After loosening it, I realized that it was the sack I put our poor little mouse in. How it got to the very bottom I don't know, but it did and there he has sat decomposing for a week! I can't even tell you how absolutely disgusting it is! So yesterday was garbage day, again, and I hope he is gone. I left the can out all day and Adam brought it in last night. I haven't been brave enough to peek inside, I don't want to smell it again, but I sure hope he has said good bye to our can forever! I need to clean our garbage can out now, not a job I am looking forward to. So the moral of my story: Next time you find a dead mouse in your pool listen to your kids and bury him! It will probably save you a lot of work and stinky smells, and your kids will feel happier about the whole thing too!

Say Cheese!

Trying to get pictures of the kids is not always easy. It is hard to get all three of them to look at the camera and smile all at the same time! I still think they are all cute pictures, even with frowny faces. I love catching the candid moments. Hope you enjoy!

There's a what in the pool?!

On Wednesday morning I sent Ammon outside to water my tomato plant in the backyard. He came running inside telling me I had to come out and see something fast! He was pretty intense about it. So I go out and what do I find laying in our little kiddie pool? A poor little mouse! So sad. The poor little guy must have climbed up exploring or maybe trying to get a drink, and that was the end of that. The kids were really sad about it. I didn't want to get it out right then because we needed to leave soon and I wanted to make sure we all ready to leave before I spent my time removing the mouse, cleaning, sanitizing... Well, Ammon came up and was trying to tell me something through the bathroom door while I was in the shower and of course I couldn't hear what he was saying so I just told him to wait and I'd be out in a minute. As soon as I came out of my room he told me very proudly that he and Lily had gotten the mouse out all by themselves! Yeah! Gross! You did what?! I wasn't as happy about their help as they were. I felt bad for making them feel so bad, but I was so worried about germs, diseases...you know. So I got outside and I asked them how they got the mouse out and Lily said she used her fork from her tea set. Yuck! Ammon said, "Mom, I laid him over there in the sun so he can dry out and then run away!" "Oh, sweetie, the mouse isn't going to run away," I said. "Why not?" he aked. So I had to explain about drowining, and dying and such and then Ammon said, "Oh, so he is going to go to heaven, but first he has to get stinky." "That's right!" I said trying not to laugh. The kids wanted me to bury him but I decided to just throw him in the garbage can. I couldn't get myself to take a picture of the poor dead thing so sorry I have no gruesome pictures to show of our hilarious story. So, that was Wednesday and garbage day is Thursday. I didn't think it would be a very big deal to have it in there for one day...Well, the garbage man didn't come until way late afternoon and our big black garbage can sat there roasting in the hot vegas sun all day with the stinky dead mouse inside and so now our garbage can reaks! So disgusting! Also, I had to drain the pool, scrub the pool, sanitize the pool, wash the patio, sanitize the patio, all the toys I thought would have come in contact with grems... It was quite an ordeal taking care of it all. Funny memory though.

Why am I Up?

I was just thinking about what I just wrote, I did not wake up this early to work on my blog. I was up with the baby and then I couldn't get back to sleep so I figured instead of laying there awake I could use that precious alone time while the kids are asleep and get something done! I wish I could live on less sleep. It would certainly be helpful if I had more time to get things done.

Blogging

Ok, so it is early morning and I have been up since 2:00 trying to figure out what I want my blog to look like. I don't know if what I picked is what I want, but it is good enough for now. Do you always loose your pictures when you change your template with pyzam? I know I can save it with blogger...trail and error, I'll get it. I need to get blogs figured out soon because I am supposed to be teaching others how to create one in two weeks! I am not as stressed out as before, but I still feel like I have so much to learn... I am having fun creating this though. There are so many different things you can put on a blog, once I get it all figured out it will go more quickly, I hope.