easter

Easter gives me an excuse to buy new Sunday clothes for my boys. 

Since Easter was the weekend of General Conference, they wore the Easter clothes a week early even though they could have cared less about cooperating for pictures.

 Now I'm looking back and deciding this bow tie is probably a tad too big for my liking....

 This is just a snap shot later that day when we were outside.  Nolan was ALL smiles laying on the blanket enjoying the beautiful weather and breeze!

Easter weekend we headed to Dallas.  My sister's friend had a fabulous idea to do a glow in the dark Easter egg hunt.  We shoved money in the eggs with finger flashlights, made the husbands hide them and then the kids were off!  This will officially be our new tradition!

I love a good tradition.

 The next day we dyed Easter eggs in prep for the Easter bunny.  This is about an hour before we found out Hudson had strep.

 Nolan didn't care much about eggs.

 The next morning, the kids were thrilled to find what the Easter bunny left behind.

 I waited last minute to find matching Easter baskets for the boys.  I didn't love what I found and next year I will buy FOUR matching ones so I don't have to buy new each year we have a another baby.

 Then they were off to find the eggs the Easter bunny hid.

 Conference was a little crazy this year I must admit.  Trying to listen with 7 kids who were NOT in ANY mood to sit quiet for even the first session was almost impossible.  Luckily, Kristin found this cute idea for them to make "peep" houses.  This thankfully kept them occupied for us to listen for a little bit.

We finished with a tasty Easter dinner and carrot cake.

I love Easter.

I love my Savior.

I love that Easter helps remind me of the love my Savior has for me.

He lives.

soccer season

Hudson has been telling everyone for a year that he plays soccer even though he didn't.

  The time has FINALLY come for him to start his FIRST season.  I took him and got him some new "comfy" sports clothes and cleats to get him all geared up for the season. 

I swear all these bright colors these kids rave about are blinding!

 He did GREAT at his first practice and had a blast.

Then Kent took him to his second practice and Hudson didn't want to play AT ALL!  Hudson has a major attachment to his father so I wasn't completely surprised.

 Thankfully, we had a good talk with him and at his game the next day, he didn't hesitate one time.

 He SCORED his first goal! 

We were all proud and cheered so loud the last few seconds of the game. 

We continued the tradition that I had when I played soccer growing up---for every goal you get a candy bar. 

Then we were nice and let him pick our place to eat for lunch.  That boy was in heaven!

Can't wait to see how the season plays out.

I love watching my boys play sports!

7 months

I can't help but love these BIG blue eyes on this boy. 

7 months has come and I can't believe how quickly the time flies (although sometimes in the moment it seems like forever).

He now officially sits up all by himself.  Sometimes he may randomly topple over but I would say he's pretty consistently UP than DOWN.  This means that I've let him sit in the grocery cart as well as high chairs in the restaurants (so gross).  I think he's slowly getting used to it.  The first time he sat in the cart he was happy for about 3 minutes and then I had to hold him the rest of the time.  Needless to say I was EXHAUSTED at the end of that grocery trip. 

He now has TWO teeth.  They popped up out of no where really.  Unlike my other boys, there was no runny nose, no sleepless nights, and no temperature.  THAT was a blessing.  I can live with THAT kind of teething.

 This boy is trying SO hard to get up and crawl.

 He gets up on all fours and then collapses.

 In the meantime, he does the little army to get to where he wants to be.

This is now testing Hudson because his little bro is VERY interested in his toys which Hudson is NOT too fond of.

 He still enjoys his jumper but usually still only for a limited time.

 Sadly, Nolan was diagnosed with bronchiolitis and a DOUBLE ear infection.  It was seriously the saddest thing getting that diagnosis. 

 I've NEVER had to nebulize any of my boys until now.  Nolan HATED it and cried through almost the whole 20 minutes of nebulizing THREE times a day.  It was ROUGH. 

I DID love the nights that he was SO tired that he conked through the whole thing.

 On the upside, he's better now and hopefully we NEVER have to deal with that again!!!

Nolan has been trying many more foods this month.  I was SO happy when he took to avocados!  He is finally getting used to fruit. Why he hasn't taken to them much in the beginning I'll NEVER know.  Give me bananas over green beans ANY day!

 I died when I went to check on Nolan one day during nap time and found this. 

Who knows?

Each month always brings MORE change and I'm always so excited to see how they will develop and what their personalities will be like.  So far, Nolan is my ONLY kid who will somewhat cuddle me and I love it.  I'm TRYING SO HARD to make "Momma" his first word and I repeat it to him DAILY so that whenever he says his first word, that will be it (Dadda won with the other two--it's my turn)! 

He's happy over all (minus from the hours of 5:30-7:30 pm) and I just can't get enough of this boy!!

st patty's day

Any excuse we have to make a day special and exciting, we take it.

On the eve of St. Patrick's Day, I decided I would have some fun and roll the boy's bedroom.  They were a tad confused the next morning.

And yes, they do have separate beds but on more occasions than not, they want to sleep together.

 We had our "green" breakfast---lucky charms and green milk---and they both got a lunch box full of GREEN foods then headed off to school in their GREEN for the day to avoid getting PINCHED.  In the meantime, they attacked their dad with a million pinches for not having green on. 

I attempted to get some shots in their green after school but they were being so silly and totally NOT cooperating.  This seems to be happening so much more these days! 

We ended the evening with our traditional GREEN dinner and ended with SHAMROCK milkshakes.

Another St. Patty's Day down in the books.