boys best friend

so i have been wanting to post about this for a while, just really haven't gotten the right pictures, until yesterday afternoon.
This is a true story about a boy and his dog, Dannon.
Lol those two are so cute together!! Dannon usually does not like kids poking at her, and climbing all over her. She wont bite them or anything but she will usually give out a low growl. But with Kason she let's him climb all over her most of the time, or she just walks away. He loved to poke at her ears and try to eat her. Recently Dannon has discovered that Kason eats snacks, besides his baby food or fruit puffs (which she refuses to eat! lol).
Yesterday i gave Kason a bag of crackers, just to see what he would do with them. He loved the bag, and then discovered what was inside, FOOD! he loved crackers!! so of course away he goes at eating his cracker, then Dannon smells something, crawls out from beneath her comfy blankets and pillows and faithfully stands at his side, waiting for a fallen cracker.FOOD? as soon as this kid sees food he is all for it!
yumma!!! and Dannon is sniffing around for some on the floor.
OOPS!! one fell, and they both just stare at it.
The stare down.
Who will get it first???
Dannon. Poor Kason was so mad at her for taking the mushy baby drooled cracker. As you can see Dannon is all blurry in the back because she is running away fast!!

No worries, Kason did get more crackers!
On another note. Kason got in TWO teeth a few weeks ago, and i totally spaced on writing it on here. Finally my baby has some teeth. I didn't care whether he got them earlier or later than most kiddo's, but it has been hard finding foods he can mush with his gums. Kason loves table food and and chunky babyfood. none of that smooth stuff anymore. this kid loves to chew!!
and i love this picture because i was trying to get a shot of his teeth, but he wouldn't open up enough. but its still a super cute picture of Kason.

9 months?

Kason will be 9 months on Saturday... weird.
he got weighed and measured today.
19lbs 5oz (10lbs since birth!)
28inches (7.5inches since birth)
He is doing very well. right on track.
he is 25% for height 50% weight and 75% for head size (its logan's fault! lol)
we did find out though he has a double ear infection. weird. he hasn't been really fussy or anything.
his asthma is still ongoing. he gets his meds twice a day now. but she did say that he sounds alot better than usual. YAY!

Some of the things Kason does:
crawls (army and regular)
pulls up on stuff
found our DVD player!
loves books
can go from crawling to sitting
eats table foods and loves it!
I'm sure there is more, but im tired! lol
Kason got his first tooth brush today!

thats better

thats how summer is suppose to be right? about time.
We have defiently been taking advantage of the weather.
Friday was beautiful. We had our friends Chris and Kelly and their daugher Allison over for BBQ and then we headed over to Long Lake to swim. When we got there the sun had gone behind the tree's and it was shady. the water was a bit cold, but not bad. Kason even went in. He loved it.
Saturday we had our 2nd annual fathers day bike ride. The boys had to do a bunch of things which included-mini golfing, counting prairie dogs, quading, and much more. It ended with a super yummy bacon burger dinner.
Sunday was beautiful. Logan and I went to the park with his side of the family for a picnic and to say goodbye to his dad and step mom for 4 months, they are going to San diego for work. Lucky Ducks.
Monday was also beautiful!
Tuesday was great. We went downtown to the fountain and Ethan went in and played and the babies and i watched. Kason liked crawling on the wet ground, but as soon as the water got him he gave us dirty looks! lol it was funny.
Then logan and I made fried rice and went to the lake again with Carrie and Brinnon. The sun was out almost the whole time this time and the water was a bit warmer. The kids both loved it. Brinnon's first time in a lake.
Tonight not too much planned, laundry at my moms. she has a nice cool downstairs in her house. yay!

hybrid fruits.. who knew???

I have heard of it before, mixing fruit together, but never really tried any myself. Well the other day while shopping at walmart for soup for Logan when he caught my flu bug, i wondered around the produce section looking for some fruit for Kason. I got this mesh thing to put chunks of food in, and he chews on it and gets all the flavor but doesn't choke! pretty cool i thought. so anywho while shopping i saw plums, well what i thought was plums until i noticed they weren't as dark and too red to be plums. the sign said Pluots. im like What? so i bought a few got home and googled it (gotta love google). A pluot is 3/4 plum 1/4 apricot. Pretty cool huh? they taste mighty yummy too, very strong flavor. There are also Plumcots- 1/2plum 1/2apricot.

well here is a picture i took of the pluot for you all to see. the inside is REALLY red!

i bought three, two that were darker red on the outside and one that was lighter. this was the lighter one. i noticed that the darker they are the more flavor they have.
my hungry boy waiting for mommy to give him his fruit! looks so bored there. loland there Kason is eating his first Pluot. YUMMY! he loved it alot. I also gave him Mango the other day and he LOVED it! counldn't refil his mesh thing fast enough.

summer?

okay seriously is this a joke? haha joke over now.

it is June 9th and its POURING RAIN outside and COLD!

what the heck??? that forecast is this week. JUNE 10-16th!!

This time last year i was huge and preggo and sweating like CRAZY! I was constantly making slushies, putting out the sprinkler for Ethan and the neighborhood kiddos. We were often going down to the water fountain in Olympia, and the babies where in just diapers all day long.

This time around- kason is in jeans and long sleeves. Addie is wearing thick pants and sweaters. Ethan went to school in a jacket. there is no need for slushies, sprinklers, or shorts.

My cute Capri's i bought when we had a week of beautiful weather a couple months back are folded up in my dresser begging to come out.

so if anyone with the special ability to change the weather, please make the NW SUNNY like it should be! thank you.

this is for you Rae...

Rae complained that i don't post my layouts enough.
here are some i did recently.and here are some that i did a while ago, just never put up on here.
have a great weekend everyone. Logan is off at the Sand Dunes with his brother and some buddies so its just Kason and I. So far we have had a good time, watched a movie and cuddled last night. today we went to the farmer's market with Rae and Kevin, then did some shopping. i bought me a new pair of shoes-really didn't need them-but they were pink and calling me name. i guess its my treat for not being invited to the dunes because it was a "boys weekend" blah blah blah right? lol. Kason is upstairs giggling in his crib, falling asleep and I'm off to take a nap!

8 months

okay when did this happen?
my baby turned 8 months old!

wow seriously?

time has flown by so quickly.
lol lastnight i was talking to logan and was like "dude kason is 8months already when did that happen?"

and the smart butt that he is said "may 28th"
dork!

here is kason at 8 months:

• army crawls everywhere
• rolls when not crawling
• just got into a size 3 diaper
• eats 6 jars of babyfood a day (we dont thicken it with rice ceral or anything)
• drinks 2-3 six ounce bottles a day
• sleeps from 9pm until 7am on most nights
• goes down for naps and night time with out crying
• addicted to his binky and blanket
• wears size three shoe
• wears 3-9months clothing (depends on the brand)
• weighs just over 18lbs
• is about 27inches
• laughs all the time
• LOVES elmo
• sits in the grocery cart with out his carseat
• gabbers all the time
• love crackers, fruit puffs, rice rusks, anything that he can get his hands on
• uses an enhaler every day for his daily dose of steriod for asthma

over all Kason is getting big and it makes me happy but sad at the same time.

gotta share

a quick share of a layout i did tonight.
its been forever since i did a late night scrap. Use to do them all the time, now im too pooped to do anything past 9:00pm.this kit is at sweetshoppedesigns.com
its called ROBO-BUGGY by Shawna Clingerman and Zoe Pearn
i love it! and the colors were perfect for these pictures of Kason about a month ago in his jumper he loves so much.
hope you all had a great Saturday.
we did. Logan did some home work and i cleaned and organized our apartment.
Had a BBQ with our friends Chris and Kelly and their little girl Allison.
Watched a lamo movie
Finally met our new neighbor, cool guy.
And just had a great relaxing day with out any plans, its been months since we had one of these.

learning new things

if you have not noticed in the pictures from the beach, logan's hair is well... getting long, well its a big ol' puff. his hair just gets curlier and curlier as he gets older and as it gets longer. So he finally decided that he had to get cut, so he told me i could cut it. I have been telling him i could cut it, but he always went somewhere to get it done. so i was excited to learn how to do it, yes i have never cut hair. so we got everything out, and had to take before pictures:(please excuse the bad lighting, our kitchen has florecent lighting-yucko) you sure you wanna do this???a view of his puff from the back before we got startedlogan had me cut it into a mullett to start with, yes i actually did it-sad i know.. lol

yay! we are finally done!!! and here is a back view of his hair after we got all done.
i think i did a pretty good job for my first time ever!! :)
it was nerve racking because logan was sitting there -make sure you get everything, are you sure you are getting all the hair? on and on he went, seriously duct tape would have been handy! lol but i know he was just as nervous as me.

Well i dont have much planned today, or this weekend, which is the first ever. Seriously we are always busy on the weekends, i am happy we finally are not busy. our apartment has been neglected for a while and logan has tests to study for, so he is going to be studing all weekend while Kason and I play together and clean during naps and happy times.

well im going to go, breakfast is calling my name! and Kason. lol

memorial day weekend recap

hey everyone, hope you had a great weekend. we sure did. Every year since i was really little, like 6 maybe we have always gone to the beach for memorial day weekend. we stay at Pacific Beach. Its tons of fun and its great to hang out with family.

I didnt have to work on Friday so Kason and I slept in and Logan went to school until 1pm. then once he got home we packed everything up and headed out to the beach. we made a stop at Briana's house to get a front pack to haul Kason around in on the beach. such a great idea came in handy.

We got out to the beach at about 5pm. we stopped to get lunch and at Walmart to get snacks for the weekend. Once we got there we unpacked and played with the kiddos until dinner. See we have SO many people come that we have to get 3 houses that have 3-4 bedrooms each. So each house made a dinner one night this weekend. After dinner we played in the huge grassy backyard and enjoyed the beautiful sunset, and of course took a few pictures of Maegan and I.

super pretty huh??

Maegan and I. i think this is the only serious picture of us taken that night lol.
after getting pictures and playing outside we all came in and played games. it was fun, and i was super duper crazy! lol i had the giggles half the night and pretty much out of it. it was fun. we also played the wii and played mario cart racing, so much fun! love it!

Saturday we were suppose to get up and go to Ruby beach, but we all decided to stick it close and hang around ocean shores. we hit some shops and then ate lunch at a 50's diner we like there. We then went to the Jetty, the weather was absoulty beautiful, couldn't be any better!
my mom and me!!

my sister Amy and our MomMy Dad and his mom, Grandma ClineMe and my dad, pretty picture huh???

Brinnon, isn't he such a cutie? and getting BIG!!Kason and I at the JettyFamily picture, not the best but hey it worksour happy boy, he is 8 months now!! crazy!!I love the water hitting the rocks, so pretty!

Saturday night we hung around the house and played games, that was alot of fun, and i think i wasn't as slap happy, but still a little loopy. lol.
Sunday we went bowling. They have a bowling alley there and we rented out the building for two hours and bowled our little hearts out. it was fun. the kids had their own lane and the adults split the rest. it was awesome!

crazy andrew!Maegan, Matthew, and Adenmaegan and grandma cline (my mom) bowlingKason fell asleep through all the loud noise!my grandpa mcguire bowling.

That night we ate dinner and had smoothies. It was a great day.
We then watched National Treasure 2, awesome movie.
Monday we packed up and head out back home. It was a great long weekend and we really enjoyed the vacation!

an answer

its not the one i was praying for, but its an anwer. I have always been told that when you pray to Heavenly Father for an anwer he will always respond, but it may be not be the answer you wanted or in the way you wanted.

Kason has been sick. When he gets a cold, it quickly turns into something way worse, always accompained by wheezing. Well the Doctor told us last time she thinks it might be asthma, but we would have to wait and see.
Saturday Kason developed a barky cough, and by wednesday morning he was wheezing horriably, coughing, snotty, the works. he looked horriable. so we took him in, and she checked him out, and diagnosed him with Asthma.
He has a daily steriod that he takes in an enhaler that he takes in the mornings, and one with abuterol for short term use when we are out and about and if he has an episode and cant breath great.
For this cold, he has to have the nebulizer every 6 hours until Saturday or Sunday, depends on how he is.

we finally figured out everything that is wrong with Kason, whats causing him to be so sick all the time, but i dont think its the answer i wanted. i know its not the answer i wanted. what mother would want their child to be sick all the time, have issues breathing, and if he gets a tiny cold it turns into be something WAY worse.
I know that he will be okay, and its good that we figured all this out while he was so young. i hope that he will out grow this.

Oh for the love...

Okay so Wednesday was Logan's birthday. We are having a BBQ with some friends tonight, and well Birthday's are not that important to Logan. So he didnt really care what he did. So i convinced him he wanted to go to Cold Stone. lol. So after enrichment meeting i came home, and after he finally got ready we packed Kason in the car at 9:10pm and hit the Coldstone. As we pulled up, we noticed it was closed. SERIOUSLY CLOSED? at 9:25pm it was closed. What happen to 10? so logan decided we would try to go across town to the other one, just to see if that one had different times. Well finally we got there (after hitting almost every redlight on the way seriously) and guess what-CLOSED. well there is a McDonalds right across the street, so we drive over there, get into the drive-thru and start to make our oder.
logan- "um.... one med. oreo McFlurry please...."
Drive-Thru dude- "Sorry sir we are totally out of ice cream"
logan- "what? how can you be out of ice cream?"
Laura (me)- "Oh for the love" (thanks Amy E. for introducing me to that saying)
Drive-Thru Dude- "yeah the machine is down."
Logan-"Well no thanks then." and pulls out of the drive-thru. We then decide to go to the Dairy Queen all the way by the first Cold Stone we went to. Logan gets off the exit, and we forget that that exit you can only turn right and we wanted left, so we took a detour around town and got the Dairy Queen, ordered our food. here is goes
Logan- "One med. chocolate chip cookie dough blizzard, extra scoop of cookie dough please"
Drive-Thru dude- "anything else sir"
logan- "yes, do you still have the MINT oreo blizzards"
Drive-Thru dude- "yes we do"
Logan- "one large MINT oreo please"
we pull up to the drive thru, we pay, they hand us my cookiedough blizzard, and then we wait, and wait some more. Finally he comes to the window.
Drive-Thru dude-"sorry sir i made it wrong the first time, here you go."
logan-"thanks" and we pull away. well we started down the road, and we started on our blizzards. Logan takes a few bites, and then realizes its not MINT and its regular oreo shake. he looked like a little kid who's dog just got hit by a car. seriously sad.
me-"turn around"
logan-"no, i just want to get home now"
so yeah that was logan's grand birthday night!! lol.

guess who is a LAMO

yeah that would be me.

So a couple months ago Logan and I decided that for our third anniversary we would go camping again, like we did last year. Only thing was that we have Kason now, and well we weren't exactly sure how well he would do for four days. But we decided he would be okay and we booked our campsite at Dosiwallups State Park. Its on the sound here in the great northwest. My family has gone camping there every labor day since i was REALLY little. so we packed the car after Logan's double hitter softball game on Thursday, got to bed at 1 in the morning, and after a half day of work and school we hit the road. Of course guess who is the LAMO and forgot her CAMERA!! yeah that would be ME! so i have no pictures of Kason's first camping trip. Of course there will be tons of more trips, but still. i pouted. lol. Anywho. It was a fantastic trip. It hardly rained at all, like maybe a couple hours the whole time! it was sunny and pretty warm. Kason did awesome. He loved being outside all the time. And he slept through the night in his playpen. we will defiently be making more trips this summer. we want to go to a few places around Dosiwallups that we checked out while we were in the area.

well here is a layout i made this morning using mostly Shawna Clingerman's YOU AND ME BABY kit, LOVE it!! i can't believe he is already 7.5 months!!!!

21

want to see a good movie? go see 21. its awesome. go quick because it should be out of theaters really soon, its been out a while.
go to this link to see the trailer- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsK1c9ZBpuw
its got a great mix of comedy, drama, excitment, twists, etc. its just really good.
Logan and I went out lastnight with out Kason. Auntie Rae and Uncle Kevin came over and babysat Kason for us. THANK YOU! we went to see the movie and then ate Denny's. A great night. It was weird though, not having kason with us. we missed him, but it was good to get out just the two of us.
anywho.. not much else going on. Kason has to go get a shot this afternoon, one of his shots he needed at 6months but they didnt have it at the time. So im sure i we will have a cranky baby tonight. We do have a busy night tonight. Logan is on a softball team with his Dad and our friend Brad. He has a double hitter tonight (two games). we also are leaving for a 4 day camping trip Friday afternoon that we have to pack for tonight, as well as making the foil dinner. Its going to be pretty hectic. good thing i threw dinner in the crockpot this morning so i have no fuss tonight. yay for thinking ahead lol.
well i better get going, we have a playdate with our local playgroup and i need to go to my house and pick up formula, i forgot to get Kason some more. oops. talk to you all later.

three years and a baby later

it has been three years since we were married in the Portland, Or temple!

seriously three years? already? as Rae said this morning "three years already? i remember your wedding day like the back of my hand" lol Rae we love ya! :) i can't believe its been three years. we have grown so much. we have moved off to utah and back. started a beautiful family. started school, gone through heartaches, dissapointments, laughter, love, special moments, happy times, silly times, and we are looking forward to becoming closer through out the next fifty years and 11 more children! that's for you Clara.

no we are not having 12 kids, but Clara thinks cause im lds i need 12!! :) love ya!

Kason Update

Okay so a while ago, well last week Kason got really sick again. I think i wrote that on here. Well if you didnt know, Kason gets sick ALOT. everytime he catches a cold he gets really sick. He has been on antibotics twice now, steriods, abuterol, he has his own nebulizer. so well we were talking to the doctor because it wasnt getting better this time and this is after using the nebuilzer every four hours, and daily dose of steriods. He got a chest x-ray because she wasn't sure if it was phenomia, after waiting for ever in a waiting room, getting a 2 second x-ray and taking it back to the doctors, he does not have phenomia. She thinks he has Asthma, but she said that she wants to make sure before she puts him on a daily med. So if this happens again or if his antibotics that he is taking now for brochulatis (he has had this twice) doesnt work then he will be on a daily med for asthma. So far the antibotics are doing okay, but we are only a couple days into a 5 day treatment.

Other than all that he is doing great. he is always happy so besides being able to hear him weeze like an old man who has been smoking for 70 years, you would be able to tell he is sick. oh yeah and his nasty deep cough too.

here are some pictures for you. the ones in the highchair are from yesterday at lunch, and the ones of him sleeping are of this morning as i was getting us ready for playgroup. he loves to have anything that is fabric by his face when he sleeps. well he found this pink shirt on the ground for one of Addie's dolls. i thought it was too cute.