My sweet little guy

Our little Drew has turned 10 months and hello!...... is CUTIER than ever!!!!!! He is so close to walking I can hardly believe it! And where did the Blue eyes come from? To me, he is so completely different than Sawyer. ( that might be a good thing) But any who.. We love this little guy so so much!!! kisses and hugs!

The Harness Buddy.

So I used to think "how could parents be so cruel as to put a child in a harness restraint".. until I had a naughty 3 year old. this is the best thing ever!!! A cute little puppy harness/backpack that lets me "control' my kid. And this one needs so serious controlling. He is everywhere!! So we tried this out at the zoo and it was great. Sawyer didn't like it a bunch but hah, hah he couldn't get it off and he had to stay by me. Thank you Harness Buddy!!

The zoo

I was feeling like a pretty bad mom lately cuz I feel like I don't take my kids anywhere, so My sister and I decided to try to be good mom's for the day and take the kids to the zoo for one last ho-raw before school started. It was a hot day to say the least but the kids had fun. The babies, (Drew and Gretta) were such good babies! sawyer loved the train and all the snakes and monkeys. Carsen and Gwen had fun on thier own ( they think they are so grown up!) By the end of the day we were all hot, tired and cranky and I was lucky enough to drive crying kids home in rush hour traffic. Lucky me.. 

And here is a little tid bit of Sawyer is like when he wants to ride the choo choo tran again and he is hot, tired and cranky.. Three year olds are so fun!!!

I have taken the plunge!!!

I have started to read this!!! Finally! I know I know I am behind all the rest of you, but yah, yah. I am loving it so far. So thanks to everyone to give me the push and thanks to stac for letting me use her books. I can't wait to see the movie with everyone! 

Carsen's first day of school

3rd grade!!! What!? My little boy is in the 3rd grade!? He is getting too grown up..CRAZY!! I remember when I was in 3rd grade. So this means he is not in the 'two young to remember' stages of his life anymore. Crazy!! So this also means I could seriously scar him for life by something I say or do. Crazy!!! So this means he is getting old enough for times tables and thinking girls are cute! CRAZY!!! I need to stop thinking about this it is making me feel so old!!

Family fun at the ballpark

For Salem Days this year, they had a Big movie night down to the ball park. We had never gone before so we did this year. The boys were pretty excited at first then Sawyer wanted to go home once it started to get dark. 

It was neat though. They played "SURFS UP" it was really a cute movie. Drew got a little restless there for a minute but by the end of the movie, Sawyer was happy, Carsen was happy, And Drew had fallen asleep. They even gave out free drinks, popcorn and growsticks. how fun is that!? We had a good time. A good night of Family Fun!

The Salem Days 5K!!!!

We did it!We ran the 5K this year. I was so glad that Nick ran it with me. How romantic! A few days before, my knee started really bothering me when I ran and Nick pulled his calf. So the night before we were kindof nervous. But it was great and I felt great the whole time. Nicks leg didn't start bugging him until the very end. We were at a good pace through it all and on the home stretch, I asked Nick, "Can you go faster?" Nick says "no my calf is hurting" Now I should have been the compassionate wife that I am and stayed right in stride with my partner, but this was the home stretch!!!! So I ditched him and went full force ahead. He didn't like that too well. We did good though. I beat my time from last time I ran. This year I ran it in 29 minutes 49 seconds. We were hoping to make it under 30 minutes. Nick made it in 29 minutes 57 seconds. So we made our goal!, ...barely!!! Nick placed  6th in his division and I placed 7th in my division. So all in all, I ditched Nick for a 8 second better time.(I am a jerk I know..) But the race was awesome. I always feel so good after one and anyone who is game for next year let me know!!!!