Gotta love the bribes!!

Yesterday while I was sitting in Relief Society, one of the nursery leaders brings in Isaac (odd, Isaac LOVES nursery) he wasn't crying or looked like he had been but looked happy to see me. I took him to which she let me know that he was stinky! "Great!!!" Luckily she offered to take Gary while I changed stinky bum here. I took him, took care of business, and then took him back to nursery....he didn't want to go!! "What?! You DON'T want to go back to nursery?! OK....Then come with me!" We go back to RS and we sit down. He then proceeds to tell me all about nursery and starts goofing off. When I made him sit still and be quiet he then began to cry. I took him out and knelt down, looked him in the eyes and said "Isaac, if you're not going to stay in nursery then you have to sit with mommy in relief society and be quiet. So you can either go to nursery and PLAY...or sit quietly with mommy and be still." after 30 seconds of contemplation he looked at me and mumbled "nursery" "OK then, lets go" I took him back to nursery and he ran right in! I then returned to nursery just in time for the closing song!

A Razor, Flowers, and Ice Cream

Greg spoils me. I have had a Rotten week. It's just been one thing after another and it seems that everyday Greg has someway of making it better. Monday he brought home flowers and Taco Bell nachos (one of my weaknesses). Wednesday he brought home Ice Cream (a must have in our house). Thursday morning, I realized half way through my shower, I was out of razor blades so he let me use his razor! Today (Saturday) was probably one of the worst days and tonight he surprised me with creamsicles!!! I love the fact that when I have a rotten day (whether or not it was his fault) He knows exactly how to make it better! I am his and he is mine, For Time and all Eternity!

I'm LOUD!!!!

No!! Not that kind of loud!!
When I get mad...I'm loud!! I can't "talk" my way through it....I yell my way through it. Why can't people just understand that when I get mad, I yell! And to just let me yell it out would take a lot less time then standing there telling me to stop yelling and talk about it, because that just makes me more mad and I just keep yelling and yelling louder and louder! Who cares if the neighbors hear! At the time...I'm mad and I don't care who hears!!!! Accept it...I'm LOUD!!!

PLAY BALL!!!

It's here!!! It's baseball season!! What does that mean? For my family it means the following:
Sunshine
Green Grass
Screaming
Hot Dogs
Fast Balls
Curve Balls
Slow Balls
Sliders
Mariners
Rainiers
I could go on an on.
Our family LOVES baseball! From Greg to Gary. From Nana B. To Grandma B.
We love everything about baseball! Going to games, watching them on TV, Eating hot dogs (wherever we are), Hearing the crack when the ball hits the bat. The yell of the umpire, "Steee-RIKE" or "Ball 1, Ball 2, Ball 3, Ball 4" The sound of the Train (you know what I mean you Safecoers) The smell of the freshly cut grass, the 7th inning stretch, the homeruns, the strikeouts, the jerseys (eh girls?!), EVERYTHING!!! We love baseball and we love this time of year!

How much do I love spring?

I love spring! Here's a few reasons:

Napping in the sunshine!
Shorts!!
And of course my weekness: Flip Flops!!!

I went out shopping today (I had to go get a potty chair for Isaac) and I had my windows down, Cool air on, in my capris and flip flops, boys in their shorts and sandles, music up, wind in my hair, sun in my face filling my body with the warmth it has been desperatly searching for, and I thought to my self....how could you not LOVE spring?! It's been cold and snowing for months!! The sun is out! My thermometer in my car has not seen a 7 on the left side of the numers in a VERY long time!! Life is SOOOOO much better when it's warm outside, don't you think?! You can open your doors and windows, get fresh air, put on your shorts, t-shirts, and sandles!!! I love everthing that comes with spring. The park days, the fresh air flowing through my house, the ridding of clutter, dust, and all around stuffyness that comes with winter and closing of doors and windows. I love the flowers blooming, birds chirping, deer grazing in my backyard I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Spring!!!!!!

I let my kids walk barefoot

I know...2 posts in 1 day?! Wow! But this just cracked me up so I had to share!

I babysit this little girl that is the same age as Isaac. I think their a whopping 2 weeks apart. I was taking her home and had to wake up Isaac. So I took Celest and Gary down to the car and then I got Isaac out of bed (he's got on basketball shorts and a t-shirt). I threw on his Seahawks hoodie and wrapped him in his blanket (its like 40 outside) and took him down and put him in the car. I dropped Celest off with her sister and then came home. I took Gary out of the car and then unbuckled Isaac so he could climb out. He did and we headed the entire 10 feet to the bottom of the stairs at our apartment. One of our neighbors was getting out of her car (I have never spoken to this particular neighbor, not for any reason, just because we have never needed to or really had anything to say to each other) looked at Isaac and asked, "shouldn't he have shoes on?" I looked at her, then looked at him, and said, "No." and finished hauling my kids up the stairs and inside. She didn't seem like it really offended her or for that matter really effected her. I just laughed! It's 10 feet and 13 stairs!! Does he really need shoes?! What's he gonna step on....a rock?! I realize there COULD be hazardous stuff but I pay attention and it's not like we live with a bunch of druggies so there's needles all over the ground! It's just nature! I believe it was meant to be stepped on. Shoes or no shoes!

6:30am....REALLY?!?

I love my kids!!


I live for them, I would die for them, and if needed I'm pretty sure I would kill for them (you know if some horrible animal was attacking them....I would kill). They are my life, my love and my world. But 6:30!!!!!


I am SOOOOO not a morning person! Anything before 9 or10am is early for me.


We are on day 1 Million Bajillion of gett up at 6:30am!!! I don't know how to make it stop!!! I'm so tired!! Gary luckily still takes a nap after being up for an hour and a half, and Isaac is pretty self entertaining so i can lay on the floor or couch but nothing compares to the huge honkin pillow bed I have! Fortunatly they will take a good 2-3 hr nap at the same time in the afternoon. Unfortunatly they usually fall asleep just as the little girl I babysit arrives. There goes that idea!


So because it takes my brain a good 2 hrs to join the rest of my body, Isaac gets a ziploc bag of cereal and a cup of milk infront of playhouse disney when he wakes up in the morning.


When I took him in for his 2 yr check up his Dr asked how much TV he watches, I smiled, laughed and told her "I'll be perfectly honest. Isaac watches at least 3-4 hrs of TV in the morning. We do TRY and turn it off at 1030-11 but it doesn't happen all that often!" She just sat there with this shocked look on her face. I thought it was because of how much tv he watched and then she said "That is the most honest answer I think I've ever gotten!" then proceeded to tell me that she only wanted him watching 1-2 hrs a day! I smiled and nodded my head all the while thinking "Yah right! You're not the one that has to get up with them at 6:30!!!!!!


Now then, if your one of those "chipper in the morning because the sun is up and it's going to be a glorious day" kind of people....My hat off to you....Kudos....Mass props and all of that!! *Love you mom* I'm not! My kids are!! This seems to be a problem! They used to sleep till 8-830! What happend!? Why do they feel the need to wake up so early...nothing changed! They don't have a new bedtime...they light didn't change any...It's still super dark in their room (Thanks to Navy blue curtains...greatest thing since sliced bread) I don't get it! We need to figure this out because my kids can't keep waking up to this in the morning!!