Choco and Dylan

Dylan LOVES animals, especially dogs! This is Choco (my Mom's chocolate lab), he is over 10 years old. Choco is Lovin' up on Dylan, just as Dylan is lovin up on him. What a patient old dog to let this baby monster tug and pull on him.

I have to speak at church!

It is 11:30 pm and I for some reason am not asleep with my children. They are upstairs both sawing logs (as i can hear through the monitor) but my mind is racing. I was called this week to give a talk at church on mother's day sunday. Yes I know that I have 2 weeks until the day, but I am so nervous. I have been turning down the request for ever now, every time they call I say no. But this time, they got my weak spot. The topic is on being a mother, I mean of course mother's day and all. I love being a mother, so how could I turn it down again. So here I am stomach in knots, already mulling over the content of my talk. I am supposed to base my talk around the conference talk from Elder M Russel Ballard. This is the link, I think it is a great talk. And unfortunately I just read it today, because we watched the morning session of conference and didn't make it through any part of the afternoon session with our boys. Would it be wrong to hire a babysitter so we could watch conference?? Just kidding....kinda:) What I love about this talk is that it is not directed at just LDS moms or that perfect mother we are always comparing ourselves too... I felt it was written about me. I guess that is why I get to talk about it in a few weeks.
http://lds.org/conference/talk/display/0,5232,23-1-851-37,00.html

Playing with friends

We have friends (woohoo!!) that have boys 3 weeks apart from both of our boys. Today Aric needed to work on his car, so since they live close to my Mom's house we stopped by so they could all play. It was a nice day so the big boys were outside, finding sticks and rocks and beating on trees! The little guys hung in the house with us. It is nice to have friends.

The sun was out, so we took out our sons... to the park.

Yesterday was such a nice day, a pleasant sunny surprise from the rest of the week.. ok the rest of the season. When I returned home from work at Gymboree, we took a little early evening trip to the park with the boys. It was fun to see Clay get to play outside, and climb around and be a boy. Dylan had fun watching him, and we even saw a few dogs out and about. Dylan really was into that!

Dylan will be 1 next month

I have been working on pictures for Dylan's birthday invitations, I just grid collaged these real quick in picasa so you could see the ones I am thinking about using, some are duplicates because of the way it puts them on the grid. Look how much he has changed, and grown of course! I am excited for his party, I feel like we just recovered from Clayton's though. I enjoy the parties.. maybe more than they do!

Its official: he's makin' a mess

First of all I must apologize for my slothfulness. Aric just returned home from a 4 day work hiatus in mexico. So I have been extra busy taming the beasts, and not staying up late to blog.
I only took 2 pictures the entire weekend too, not for the lack of photo-ops but for the lack of hands to tote about the camera.
Dylan has found the one place that I keep a pile, in my kitchen. I have a black buffet/side table that holds diapers and baskets of clayton's craft supplies etc. Nothing that Dylan can hurt or will hurt him, but still something for me to pick up over and over again!
I think the picture speaks for itself. Although, during this activity Clayton was napping and I was trying to sweep and mop the floors. He was soon retired to the pack and play so I could finish!

Just a snipit from Clayton's party (more to follow) & Dylan has decided to crawl.

Having your first born celebrate another birthday, even his 3rd, is difficult when you stop and think how quickly it goes.... top the cake with your baby learning to crawl. Here are a couple of pictures of Dylan from Saturday at Clay's party with his first real attempts of crawling. Mind you the guy has been able to scoot or stretch/ roll and reach to get around for awhile now, but now we are really moving. Up on all fours and everything official.
Also you will see to funny guys under a table... Clayton and "goofpot" Grandpa Clayton are playing like the buddies they are, and ended up under a table at Clay's party.