Logan's blanket

This kid loves his blanket! He takes this thing everywhere with him. I thought it was so cute how he was dragging it between his legs so I took a picture. But he really does love this little blue blanket and it's kind of become a recent thing. I guess he started to get attached to it about three or so months ago. When he starts to get tired or he's crying about something he has to have his blanket and when he finds it he just pops his thumb into his mouth and he's a happy camper. He's also become quite the climber. Afton and Dax never did the whole climbing thing and getting on the counters, but Logan is the opposite. He's figured out how to push chairs over to the counter so he climbs onto the chair and then up onto the counter. He also likes to climb onto our table and walk around on it. It's great! No, not really. I can't leave him alone for a second because I'm afraid he'll climb up onto the counter and fall off. I don't have any pictures of him climbing on things, but when I get one I'll put it on here. He also loves to throw things and his favorite thing to throw right now is his food. Every time he's in that high chair he throws his food and he laughs when he does it. The little stinker! It drives me nuts! I'll tell him "No!" and bend down to pick up the food and then he'll throw another piece of food. Oh and he also loves to throw stuff at our television. And he has quite the arm so he actually has pretty good aim. Hopefully he goes through this phase very quickly. Any tips on discipline for a 19-month old?

Our Valentine's Day

Well, our Valentine's day wasn't too exciting this year. Jason and I decided to just make it a family day instead of going out on a hot date. We figured we got our date the night before at Prom, so we thought it would be fun to hang out with the kids. In the morning, the kids went on a little heart scavenger hunt for their valentine's. They got some yummy candy, balloons, and the movie "Madagascar 2". Then we loaded everyone up in the car and went to McDonald's for lunch (we let the kids choose where they wanted to eat). After lunch we went to Build-a-Bear because Dax had a gift card from his b-day that needed to be used. And it reminded me how much I hate going to the mall. The place was a zoo! I couldn't believe how many people were there. It was crazy! After the mall, we stopped by the Daley's to drop off some Valentine's and then headed home so the kids could watch their new movie. They had been dying to watch it all day long. Well, Afton couldn't wait. We didn't see it in the theater, so she was so excited to watch it. That girl loves to watch movies. She reminds me of her aunt Jessie.

This was about the best picture I could get of the kids together.

If you noticed, the only way I could get Dax to wear his cute Valentine's shirt was let him wear his b-ball shorts with it. They go so well together.

Prom Night....again

I went to Prom..... again and this time with my husband. Our ward had a valentine's activity on Friday the 13th for all the adults and we decided to do a Prom Night theme. Yes, I'm still on the activities committee and I thought it would be fun to do the whole prom thing. Well, not exactly like the real prom but I thought it would be fun to encourage people to come dressed up and play some fun games, show an awesome slide show of past photos and then do some dancing. We had originally planned to do it at someone's house in our ward, but that fell through, so we had it at the church and I think it worked out a lot better there. We were able to set up tables and chairs and make a fun balloon arch for the dance floor. The decorations turned out so awesome. I had a really creative girl in the ward help with the decor and she did a fabulous job. We even had a corner set up as a photo area so we could all get photos with our loved one. The night went really well. We started off with the fun slide show and then had a speaker talk to us about keeping our marriage alive and learning to communicate with one another. Then we played a Newlywed/Oldywed game. We had five couples participate and it was hilarious. I love that game! Afterwards, we were suppose to have a couple teach us how to waltz, but they weren't able to make it so we started off doing the hokey pokey and then opened it up to dancing. The "Prom" turned out to be lots of fun. I had a great time and it was fun to be able to do something like that with my husband.

These were the photos we used in the slide show. We just used our senior pictures and one of our engagement pictures.

Jason with his awesome 90's hairstyle.

Rickie

The decor for the party

The balloon arch

One of the cute center pieces.

Playing the newlywed/oldywed game

Doing the "hokey pokey"

Me and Jason with our friends Amber and Mike

Us with our friends Krissy and Chris

Us with the Thompson's and the Astle's (Nick & Lara). I love Jason's sexy pose.

The girls (Amber, Me, Krissy, and Lara)

Dancing the night away.

If you're wondering about my dress, it's not mine. I borrowed it from someone in my ward. She has a whole closet full of prom/homecoming dresses that her daughters wore. And they were great because they were all modest! In the picture above, the red, purple, and pink dresses also came from her closet. She had some amazing prom dresses and it was really cool that she let us borrow them.

Logan Bear

Logan turned 18 months back on the 26th of January. I still can't believe that he's that old already. It's so weird that he's already in Nursery. I was so excited for that day to come, but now I'm a little sad because it just means he's getting older and he's not really a baby anymore. We just love our little Logan so much. Well, I shouldn't say "little" more like our very chubby Logan. The kid is definitely a TANK! He's so heavy to pack around now. He weighs 27 and a half pounds and seems like he's gaining weight everyday. I thought he was catching up to Dax, so I weighed Dax too and he's 5 pounds heavier than Logan. He's going to catch up with that kid very soon. Anyway, we just love having Logan as a part of our family. I think it's so neat how each child is so different and they each bring something fun and unique into our family and make our lives so full and happy. I love being a mom and I love my kids! The other day I was taking some pictures of Logan because he was actually letting me take some. And I got some really cute ones, so I thought I'd post some of them, but first I wanted to jot down some fun things that Logan has been doing lately. He has actually been talking a lot more. When we say something he tries to copy what we're saying. I love it! And he's saying a lot more words now. His favorite right now is "dink" which is drink. He calls everything a "dink." It's great! He loves to play basketball like his older brother and is actually pretty good. He still loves to dance. Whenever we're in my bedroom, he points to the stereo because he wants to groove. In nursery the other week, during music time a guy in our ward came in with his guitar and played a few songs and they said that Logan just loved it. He was showing them all of his sweet moves. And he's got some awesome moves.

His hair is starting to get a little longer and I haven't decided him I'm going to cut it or grow it longer like Daxon's.

I love his chubby little face!

He was making this super funny face and I'm glad I caught it on camera.

I was going to post about this awhile ago, but forgot too. It was probably about a month or so ago, but Logan had the weirdest phobia. He did not like shiny floors! I know it was so funny! Any surface that he walked on that was shiny or reflective he started to cry and wouldn't move. I would set him down on the ground and start to walk away and he would stand their crying with his arms out for me to come get him. I guess the lighting and reflections on the floor scared him. A couple of places that scared him were the grocery store, our church's cultural hall, and Costco. I thought it was the funniest thing. But he's long since gotten over that and no floor scares him now.

Just some more cute pictures.

He was saying "cheese" in this picture.

b-ball

Lately, Jason has been playing basketball at the church for his young men's activity and we've been tagging along. The boys just loving running around the gym with their little basketballs. Daxon can actually make baskets with his little basketball. And then he gets to sit and watch the boys play and he loves it. My kids love going to the church when the youth are there. They really love the young men and young women. And the YM/YW are all so great with my kids.

He's so happy holding his daddy's basketball.

Daxon waiting for the young men to start their game.

Since I've been sharing some fun stuff about the kiddo's I couldn't forget about Dax. Seriously, this kid says the funniest stuff. I've been writing some of it down, so I wanted to put it on my blog.

-When Dax is wrestling with someone or wants to fight someone he says, "Do you want a piece of meat?" instead of "do you want a piece of me". We keep telling him it's "me" not "meat", but he keeps saying meat. I guess he thinks it's funny.

-Jason and Dax were watching a football game the other day and Dax came up to Jason and said, "Daddy, is the Indian heads winning?" One of the teams playing were the Redskins and they really have indian heads on their helmets. It was so funny that he would notice that and then call them "Indian Heads".

-At his birthday party, Adam told Dax happy birthday. Dax replied, "And a happy my birthday to you too." He's so hilarious.

-We were on our way to the park and walking by a pine tree and Dax said, "You know what mommy?" and I said, "What?" He said, "These leaves never fall off cause they sticked on there wuwie (really) good." He still can't say his r's and l's very well and replaces them with a "w" sound. Is it bad of me to think it's the cutest thing ever?

tutu

Afton got this really cute tutu from her aunt Kari a couple years ago for Christmas. In Afton's ballet class, they can wear whatever kind of skirt/tutu they want as long as they're wearing they're black leotard. So Afton wanted to wear her tutu that Kari made for her and she looked so cute.

I also wanted to share some fun stuff about Afton. This girl loves to sing and it takes her only a few times listening to the song and then she knows it. She loves learning new songs in school and church. And then loves sharing them with us. Her favorite songs to sing right now are "Called to Serve" and "O beautiful". She also knows lots of the songs from Guitar Hero-Legends of Rock. It's so funny when she belts out singing these songs. She also loves Bon Jovi's "Living on a Prayer". She heard the Chipmunk's singing it on the tv and so Jason let her listen to the song and now she loves it. Her and Dax also love to say, "Don't you wish your girlfriend was hot like me", courtesy of the Chipmunk movie. It's so funny when they start singing it.

When we were in Utah for Christmas, Jason was teaching her the 12 days of Christmas and she was singing it and for the third day she said something I didn't understand, so I asked her to sing it again and she sang, "three friendships"! It was so funny. We started laughing and she asked us what was so funny, so we told her it's not three "friendships" it's three "french hens". She started laughing too and then a little while later she asked me, "Mommy, are you going to put that on the blog?" And here it is on the blog, only a couple of months late.

Superbowl Party

For the Superbowl, we went to our friends, the Davenports, house. Jason grilled up some awesome steak and then we watched the end of the game and then played some rock band. I've only played guitar hero and not rock band. In rock band, there's a drummer, a guitarist, and a singer. And Jason and I got to try all of them out. It was really fun. I think Jason had the most fun singing as you can tell from the pictures. And he was actually pretty good.

Jason having way too much fun singing and playing the guitar.

Me on the guitar.

Jason doing some more singing. I think he was singing "Eye of the Tiger".

This is what Afton did for most of the night. She was super tired and wasn't feeling that good.

Logan loved their dog. He kept coming up to him and letting him lick his face. When he'd lick his face, Logan would giggle and run away and then he'd come back for more. It was so funny!

Logan saying "Cheese"! One of his new favorite words.

Captain Underpants

Dax learned this one from his friend Brenden. When they stayed at our house the other night, Brenden did this and Dax thought it was hilarious, so the next day he tried it out. I think he had like three pairs of underwear on over his pants. That kid cracks us up.

Watching kids

The other weekend (Jan. 30th & 31st), I watched my friend Amber's kids. They were in the process of moving and I know what a pain it can be to try to pack and deal with your kids, so I offered to watch them so she could just focus on her packing. I knew my kids would be thrilled and they had so much fun! They always love to have their friends over. We had a great time with them. We played lots of games, ate lots of food, watched some movies, and walked to the park. It was lots of fun and I love watching Paris, Brenden, and Sophia. They're great kids!

Sophia and Dax

Brenden and Afton. He is really into Sonic right now and made masks and little shoes for them out of paper.





They had to make silly faces!

Rylee Lynn

I am a proud aunt again! My brother and his wife, Brianne, had a little girl on the 3oth of January. They named her Rylee Lynn and mom and baby are doing great. Brianne went to the hospital a few days before Rylee was born because she wasn't feeling well and found out that she had toxemia. Things weren't going so well for Bri, so they decided to do an emergency C-section and Rylee came 6 weeks early. She weighed 3 lbs. 12 oz. and she's doing really good. She's breathing on her own and looks like she should be coming home in 4 weeks or so. The hospital likes the premature babies to reach at least 5 pounds before they allow them to leave. Brianne is also doing much better. It's really good that they decided to deliver Rylee early. We wish we could be there to see our little neice. Congratulations Jason and Brianne on your healthy baby girl. We love you guys! (I got these pictures from Brianne's sister-in-law's blog).

Rylee Lynn Phillips

My brother, Jason, and Rylee.