say its not so

Bosten has had the worst time sleeping lately.

He goes to bed just fine...but every.single. night. he wakes up sometime between 1-4am crying his eyes out.  Sometimes he says he's scared, other times he just cries...for about an hour an a half.

We've tried everything...

snuggling him in our bed

rocking him

changing his diaper

giving him a drink

The list goes on and on...we don't know what to do for him, and we don't know how to make him go back to sleep.  One day I didn't let him take a nap to see if that would make a difference.

It worked!  

Hallelujah!

Wait, I'm not ready for him to not take a nap every day.  I love those couple of hours where Kaden and I snuggle or play games or work on learning to read or whatever else we decide we want to do.

The one problem with no nap is that he's either a total bear around 6pm or this happens:

He crashes.  Hard.

Poor kid.

grandpa fred and grandma patty

My grandparents have been here visiting from Oregon for the past several days.  We've been able to hang out with them every day, and its been so fun.  We don't get to see them that often, so we take advantage of any time that we can get. 

Did I mention the boys love them?!

We miss you guys already!  Thanks for coming to visit! 

Love you.

i scream...

...for ice cream!  

We're loving the nice weather.

melts me

I love these boys.

I love that they love each other.

I love that they miss each other when they're not together.

I love that they're best friends.

topsy turvey

The boys thought it would be fun to try planting tomatoes and strawberries in those topsy turvey hangers.  Kyle and Kaden went and got the supplies we needed, and then we got to work.

As you can see, everyone helped get them ready.  We are so excited about it!   Too bad it will be awhile before we get to eat any tomatoes and strawberries.

we want summer

This week its been raining.  Actually, that's not right.  This week its been pouring.  It has reminded me of being in Oregon.  I miss Oregon, but I don't miss all the rain.

Anyway, last week when we actually had a day or two of nice weather, Kyle and the boys got the sprinklers turned on and working. 

We want to do this on a regular basis!...now only if the weather would cooperate!

work party

Monday night we had a bark dust spreading party at my parents house. 

Our two best helpers:

The kids all had rakes and shovels too, and they had a great time helping!

 

With everyone's help, it only took an hour or so.  The kids got a ride in the wheelbarrow when we were done, and that might have been the best part of the whole night!

more of our daily pictures

Here's some of our random pictures of the day from lately:

Kaden paying his tithing (and wrote his name on the slip)

  Date with some of the cousins.

 Bosten got a hold of my diet coke and for some reason decided to dump it in with the silverware...that's after he drank as much as he could before he got caught.

 When Bosten wants something, he'll pat his chest and say "Pllleeeease....pretty please with sugar!"

We took advantage of "Kids Eat Free" night at Chili's.

 The boys are having tons of fun lately just playing....Army, play dough, outside, whatever.  So fun to watch.

 Kaden wanted Viking hats one day so that they could drive their ship (which was the stairs).  This is what I came up with...They were thrilled and played for hours.

We've finally had some good weather!  We checked out the Bluth's new trampoline.

First sno-cones of the summer!  They taste better when we eat them outside and with some of our cousins!

Kaden chose 1/2 bug juice (whatever that is) and 1/2 root beer.  Bosten had lime.

We've had some fun lately, as you can see!

that's ms. shelby to you...

Since my sister had her baby, I've been teaching her preschool class on Tuesdays.

Its been totally fine, but I would not want this for my full time job!

I gave Kaden the camera, so that we had some pictures of me in my new (and very temporary) gig.

show and tell

 I'm sure I was asking them some very important questions...

Look at the little angels doing their work!

the slap chop

Kaden is a thinker.  He's also very tender hearted and loves his Mama.

When a holiday comes up and Kyle asks him "what should we get Mom?", Kaden usually has already thought it out.  Mother's Day was no exception.  

He informed Kyle that I needed some flowers because:

1.  Mama's need flowers

2.  I had thrown some of my dried roses out last week because they were making a huge mess and were trashed.   He thought I might want/need some more

I am also the new owner of a slap chop.  He thought it might make my life easier when I had to cut up tomatoes and onions for dinner (So cute and sweet, and yet so funny.  I'm pretty positive that I've never said that its hard or that I hate cutting tomatoes and onions).

Sunday night we had to try it out...even though we didn't need a tomato at the moment.

sl bees game

Last Friday we decided to go to the Salt Lake Bees game.  We've never been before (although we used to go in Oregon occasionally).   We had a fun time, although it got a little long for our wiggle worms!

We watched the game, ate pizza and hot dogs, and rode the train behind the outfield.

 Don't you love Bosten's face in this one?!

Seriously, this just might be the best. hotdog. ever.

Don't worry, the seats filled in...it looks pretty empty in this one.

 It was a perfect night for a ball game.