So there was this one day . . .

It was about 12:30 am on Jan 16 and I was feeling useless. Lydia was refusing to fall asleep and I had run out of good ways to waste my time. (Having internet would have solved that problem.)

I grabbed my handy dandy camera and . . .

Breathing, sleeping child in clean room below:

Game made by Caden about Benjamin Franklin.

The beginning of Caden's Fitness Activity Badge:

Proof! Okay, I don't remember what the last picture means, but I do know that paying bills, coaching basketball, making phone calls, doing laundry, playing games with my kids, cleaning stuff, taking down b-day decorations, helping Caden with his Webelos, icing gooseggs (the beans), playing the piano (these two pages is all my kids would let me play), changing vacuum bags, reading the paper and the ensign, family scriptures, and keeping my kids alive makes for an awesome day! Moms rock!

Of course, after finishing this post it occurred to me that my dear friend Noelle would read this (sorry sweetie, I just read of your plight Wednesday as I have not been online for a really long time). And, being confined to a hospital bed for weeks now, she may think me shallow for feeling sorry for myself at all. But we are all human, given to complain or rejoice at things large and small. It is good to climb out of our heads and realize how lucky we are. You're awesome, Noelle! Our prayers are with you.

Beautiful Girl

Garrett's Birthday

A few hours before Garrett's Birthday Party, he put about five bandaids on his face. I left the one he stuck to his eyelid on for his dad to pull off . . .









He asked for a "Blue Dragon Mountain Cake." I still need to work on saying no.

It was awesome.

Let's Go Fly a Kite

Caden and Mom, Jr Jazz

I was photographer and coach, so there are no game shots. The first two are Caden warming up. We did pretty well over all. And it was fun in the end. Caden was the leading scorer on the team. We surpassed our team goal of fifty points . . . total for the whole season. Our final record was either 5-3 or 4-4, I did not keep track. The kids had fun and got a lot better over the eight-week season, so I say mission accomplished.

A place for everything and everything in its place

Look mommy! I'm making! (Lydia-speak for cooking)

Caden's Birthday

He had friends over and they went to laser tag and came back for pizza and fat boys. Sadly, I am still learning how to be mom and photographer at the same time. This is the only proof:

Most of us like our new hats

Waiting for Christmas to Start

Potty Training, Day 1 (Jan 31)

This is six weeks ago, we are still working on it :)

Here We Go Again . . .

Maybe we will blog some this year.