the garden

This year I really wanted to plant a garden, so on Saturday we spent the day doing lots of yard work getting ready to plant the garden. There is a planter on our patio that use to have flowers and plants in it, but over the years they've died and been ripped out, so we decided to use this area for the garden. Jason and I spent all day weeding that dang planter. There were so many weeds it was crazy! Now it looks beautiful and garden worthy. Jason's going to bring home some awesome fertilizer to make the soil even better. Let's just hope I can take better care of the food then the flowers. I have all the seeds to get started so I just need to get them planted and pray that they start growing. I went to this awesome seed store with some ladies in my ward. They had all kinds of seeds and I guess they're all really fresh and great to start your garden with. I'm really hoping that everything will go well. I'll just have to wait and see. But I'm very excited to have a garden!

before picture of the weedy mess

during

after. It looks so much better

I think it'll be a great little spot for my first garden.

The kids had a great time playing outside all day and riding on their jeep. Of course they had a hard time sharing it.

I love this picture because Dax wouldn't move and Logan was getting mad at him. You can see his arm swinging back ready to hit Dax and he sure did.

An adventure

On Friday, we went to the Temple with our friends Jason and Nichole. We rode up with them and after doing a session we went out for dinner. I guess they both really love sushi and wanted to find a sushi place for dinner. Jason and I were up for the adventure. Jason has had sushi before, but I've never really tried it. I think I ate a little piece in Hawaii, but that was it. So I was a little nervous and not sure how it would go. I definitely need to work on my chopstick skills. I was getting so frustrated because I really wanted to eat with them. I ended up using my hands and then a fork. As for the sushi, it was actually pretty good. We tried halibut, salmon, tuna, red snapper, shrimp and some sushi rolls. I was a big fan of the sushi rolls. It turned out to be a pretty good adventure. I don't think I'm going to rush out tonight to get more sushi, but I'll definitely try it again. In the meantime, I need to work on mastering the chopsticks.

the plateful of sushi

Jazz hats

Afton really wanted to take a picture of the boys in their Jazz hats. She actually did a pretty good job, although I did some cropping to help her out. Dax and Logan also have on Jazz buttons that Dax got for his birthday.

Norma

She's in our ward and I use to visit teach her a couple of years ago. Ever since we've become good friends and she just loves our family. Every time we go into the chapel for sacrament meeting the kids run over to her and give her a hug. They just think she's the greatest. I think she's 86 years old and as you can tell from the picture she's not doing so well. She uses a walker, she gets tired very easily and her hearing isn't that great. She usually only stays for sacrament meeting because she's too tired and weak to stay for all of church. So our family tries to go visit her when we can. We stopped by her house last Monday for family home evening. She's the sweetest lady and is always telling us how beautiful our family is. She loves little children and loves giving my kids hugs. She really wanted to hold Logan but he wasn't too sure of her. Maybe next time.

playing the wii

Last Sunday, Jason and the kids were playing the wii. They were doing some boxing and bowling. Dax was so funny to watch. He was really getting into it and was set on winning the boxing match. It's a great way to get all of that hyper energy out of his little body.


He was jumping up and down, making silly sound effects and calling the opponent some crazy names. I think one of the names was "Frankenstein". I'm still trying to figure out where he came up with that one.

Jason and his mad skills at boxing.

Afton posing for the camera. That girl loves to have her picture taken.

Just some cute pictures of Afton and Logan. She is such a great big sister and really takes good care of him. And she's such a great help around the house too.

Guess Who

I thought it would be fun to have you guess who's in this picture. So give it a try. Who do you think it is?

family pictures

I can't believe that I forgot to post these pictures. Back at the end of November, we had some family pictures taken. My great friend, Amber, who also took the kid's pictures, took some family pictures for us too. I was looking through them and realized that I had never posted any on our blog, so I thought I better get some on here. She took so many great ones I had a hard time just picking out some of my favorites. We went to the same place where the kids got their pictures taken. I love it there! They have some really cool places to take pictures.

Logan was so excited about the rocks that he just wanted to eat them!

So happy to have the rocks.

Me and my handsome boys.

I love the fun pictures that just capture the "real" moments of the photo shoot. As you can tell, Logan was done with the picture taking.


I love this pictures of Jason and Afton. It's so cute!

I love this one because of Afton and her peace sign.

They have this great covered bridge there and it makes for some awesome pictures!

They had these great rocks for the pictures and the kids loved playing on them

More of the fun photos where no one is looking except for Jason when he's usually the only one not looking.

I love the brick wall and old wood door. and I love Logan putting the rock in his mouth.

This is one of my favorites! He sure does love his daddy.



another classic moment. It was just a pretend slap.



Seriously, the rock is what made him keep smiling for the pictures.

I love the tall grass and thought it was a great place for a picture.

Finally, a real smile from Dax. I think I had to tickle him to get that smile.

Being sick Sucks!

I hate being sick and I hate being sick when my kids are sick. It really does SUCK! About a week ago Logan and I both got a cold/cough/sore throat/booger eyes. It was horrible! We had a cold in our eyes so when we'd wake up in the morning our eyes would be sealed shut. Jason thought it was pretty funny seeing me wake up in the morning and not being able to open my eyes. And poor little Logan would just cry and cry because he didn't know what was going on. And I was a mean mom and took a picture of him before I cleaned off his eyes. He only had one eye sealed shut so it wasn't too bad. But he sure looked miserable. We are both doing much better now. The coughs are still lingering, but the booger eyes are gone. Hooray! And thankfully the other two kiddo's didn't get the crusty eyes. They did however get the colds, but we're all doing much better. Have I mentioned how much I hate this time of year when all of the sicknesses are going around? I hate it!

I think he was wondering who that was in the mirror. Poor little guy!

I know it's kind of gross, but I had to take the picture.

Afton made me take this picture of her. I didn't know why at first but later she told me because she had her hair tucked into her shirt and it made her hair look short. She wanted everyone to see her with short hair or what she would look like with short hair. If you can't tell she really wants to cut her hair and I'm being a mean mom and not letting her. Well, I told her we could cut it if we found a place that does "locks for love". And she thought that was pretty cool to donate her hair to someone that really needs it. So I guess I'm going to let her cut it since it's for a good cause. I don't know when it will happen, but it'll be on the blog when it does. I'm just taking my sweet time enjoying her beautiful long hair.

b-ball & swings at the park

The boys and I decided since it was such a nice day we would walk to pick up Afton from school. On our way home we decided to stop and play at the park for a little bit. Of course the boys headed straight for the basketball hoop. Dax was upset at first because there was only one hoop and not two like the real basketball courts. But when he saw Logan and I having fun he joined right in. He actually does pretty good with his little soccer ball. I know it's funny that he loves basketball, but plays with a soccer ball. He doesn't like the little basketballs that we have. I think they're all a little flat. But we did have lots of fun shooting hoops. Logan tried really hard to make a basket and when he realized he couldn't get it any higher than a couple of feet, he just started to kick the ball around. Afton wasn't into the whole basketball thing, so she had fun on the swings. She's finally figured out how to swing all by herself. I don't have to push her anymore! I just give her a good little shove to start and then she's on her own from there. She loves it!

Dax getting ready to shoot a basket

Logan with his ball

Dax and Logan fighting over the ball

Afton and her mad swinging skills!

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?