The Kitchen Family: 11/1/12

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

loosing patience OR

boys getting more challenging?

Cutest faces you've ever seen, right?

I agree completely.

But here's a little mini vent session....

Lately I have felt emotionally EXHAUSTED and challenged.

These two play together better than ever.

They laugh and giggle, they wrestle, read books together, build towers together, share snacks, watch shows together, make me smile and happy at least once a day AND they both ARE TESTING ME MORE THAN EVER these days. I expect this, but at times I stop and think "oh my goodness, please tell me I'm not pregnant!" cause other than when I'm pregnant I am a very patient person. Not so much these days!

Ok, I feel better now that I got that out in the world.

My boys {all 3 of them} are my world.

And I will have hundreds of challenging days to be able to be with them every day. We teach each other, and MOST importantly we LOVE each other.

THE END.

A little info about the boys to end on a good note:

Cohen @ 3.5 years old - Brendon @ 16.5 months

Co could eat PB&J everyday. Brendon doesn't prefer bread of any kind. Cohen gags on most foods {he's a texture person like mama} Brendon is our garbage disposal most days. He loves soups, chili, pasta of any kind, mashed potatoes, cold cereal not hot. Cohen LOVES instant oatmeal and wants it most mornings.

Cohen loves to use his imagination at all times, Brendon likes go in dark closets or the pantry and play in the dark for a bit then screams cause he can't find the door handle to get out.

Brendon has 8 teeth and 2 top molars {10 total}

Cohen is still my cautious concerned boy that asks before he pretty much does anything. Brendon, fearless. Loves to be naughty and tell me no {mostly just shakes his head NO} Brend smiles or laughs when he's disciplined and Time Out is not working at all thus far. Cohen would cry when he got punished {still does most of the time} and would sit in Time Out until we got him out.

My two boys couldn't be more different.

I love it. Keeps me on my toes. Makes our family exciting.

Our life in a nutshell....

CRAZY.

Love.

Wouldn't change a thing.

Can't get enough family time all together.

At the end of each day WE ALL LOVE EACH OTHER more than words can say.

POST Thanksgiving

The tree and Christmas decor MUST go up the morning after Thanksgiving. So exciting!! The boys were giddy, just like me this year getting everything out and up.

The weekend started out great when my eggs smiled at me, we enjoyed dinner with the Larson girls and Gabe {Thanks again Davita for dinner!} and then drove home into a beautiful sunset.

Two of my favorite things:

spending time with family

and

going out to dinner.

I'm easy to please, right?

F.Y.I.

We made the biggest splurge of our marriage.

We got new phones!

The iPhone 5.

WAY over my head, but we are loving them.

So so so convenient and helpful.

Especially when I'm at the grocery store and I realized I forget to add multiple ingredients to my list for a new recipe I'm trying off Pinterest.

Brock wins the biggest upgrade award.

He had been using my Dad's old old old old {4 phones ago} phone.

Highly recommend the iPhone 5.

happy

THANKSGIVING

{November 22}

After the annual Fossil Ridge Ward Turkey Bowl, our little family had our own....
Co thought it was awesome to be on a REAL football field at the high school.

We went home to make a late breakfast, and open my parents Thanksgiving gift. They give us the "first Christmas" gift every year to open on Thanksgiving. This year our gift was Elf on the Shelf. Most fun thing ever! The boys LOVE finding Ernie, our elf, in a new place each morning. For those of you who aren't familiar with the Elf of the Shelf, he is one of Santa's elves that watches over our family to see if we're naughty or nice. While we're sleeping he magically goes back to Santa and reports, then appears in our house in a new spot every morning. :)
Greatest invention ever.

We hosted for the first time this year, I was very pleased with my turkey, and Brock's apple pie was delicious as usual. We were going to have 11 adults and 5 kids, but ended up 5 adults and 3 kids. Kinda a relief, but bummer a few families were sick and couldn't make it.
All the food was fabulous, extra good just because it was Thanksgiving.

Our guests were Casey and Charity Jordan {from our ward} and Kylie and Molly {across the street neighbors}

After we were all stuffed to our noses, we turned some football on and RELAXED.

After attempting WAY too many times to get a family pic with my phone, this is all I got.

The kids all made a new best friend having Casey at our house. He was sweating {poor guy} the kids were keeping him chasing them and plenty busy. The best part was him rubbing a balloon on the kids heads, then sticking it to the ceiling, and watching Cohen try and figure out how to get it down.
He got pretty creative!

Very enjoyable week!
Brock had two days off school and we took advantage of that time.
Thankful for all our blessings our family enjoys.
Oh so blessed.