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.

layouts

i haven't scrapped in a long time until the other week. Seriously i mean like months.
i finally was able to create some thing.
here are some layout shares:
That is Hannah my niece while they were on vacation.
The kit is shawna clingerman's princess of lala land Okay so i have to explain this picture. We went out to Logan's moms (this was back in early feb.) and they have one of those playskool doctor kits. well these are the glasses from it, and we had to put them on Kason. he looked so funny!! i loved it
Kit is by Shawna Clingerman its called Take me home
I took these today. Kason will be 7 months TOMORROW! seriously insane!! today he has been a total pill with eating. he keeps grabbing the spoon and flinging food everywhere. seriously it is annoying, but look at him, who couldnt but smile at that face!! :)

tagged

thanks jamie! lol :)

So, this is how it goes:
A. The rules of the game are posted at the beginning.
B. Each player answers the questions about themselves.
C. At the end of the post, the player then tags 5 people and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know that they have been tagged and asking them to read your blog.

5 THINGS I WAS DOING 10 YEARS AGO:
1. enjoying being an auntie to Connor
2. Hating middle school. (agree with jamie on this one)
3. meeting my best friend for life
4. trying to survive the very awkward years of being a young teenager
5. Going to my first real school dance (we had friday night middle school dances)

5 THINGS ON MY TO-DO LIST TODAY:
1. Give Kason his last treatment of abuterol yay!
2. Give Kason his second to last dose of steriodes
3. Change too many diapers
4. Watch Greys Anatomy!!
5. Go to the park! its finally sunny again!

5 SNACKS I ENJOY:
1. Popcorn
2. Cookie dough bites
3. cream cheese and crackers
4. cookie dough
5. chips and nacho cheese

5 THINGS I WOULD DO IF I WERE A BILLIONAIRE:
1. Pay off ALL our debts
2. Build my dream home on property
3. Put away college money for each of our children (well kason and future kids)
4. Donate alot of it to charities
5. Never go into debt again!

5 OF MY BAD HABITS:
1. over reacting
2. not always listening
3. biting my nails
4. popping my nuckles
5. cant sit still

5 THINGS I WILL NEVER WEAR AGAIN:
1. Taco Bell uniform
2. shorts with tube socks and tennis shoes
3. tennis shoes with a skirt to church
4. A bathing suite without shorts
5. really baggy shirts that dont fit (this was my early teenage years)(okay i wear logans in the morning on the weekends, but other than that never again)

5 PLACES I HAVE LIVED:
1. spokane, wa (where i was born, dont remember)
2. clarkston, id (i was only a toddler, dont remember)
3. lacey, wa (from age 4-19)
4. salt lake city, ut (logan and i lived here for a year)
5. lacey, wa (where logan and i moved back to)

5 JOBS I'VE HAD:
1. Taco Bell (2 years)
2. Penser North America (secretary)
3. Nanny for Addison
4. C street child development center
5. Mother to Kason, Nanny to Ethan and Addie

5 THINGS PEOPLE PROBABLY DON'T KNOW ABOUT ME:
1. I was born in a hallway
2. I can flip my eyelids inside out
3. I can make my tounge into a W shape
4. I suffer from depression and anxiety
5. I want to go swiming in the ocean some where tropical and scubadive

i tag- AmyG, denise, Shawna, Carrie, Rae

cute pj's

so Kason has a ton of cute clothes, but for some reason i love him in bright stripes. they are adorable on him. so i took some pictures of him yesterday in his jammies that i kept him in all day long so i could enjoy them more, he is about to grow out of them!!

a bit blurry but still cute

hello therehe loves to take out his binky and play with it, and try to put it backokay so clearly this is NOT the best picture of Kason but it cracks me up!!! just caught him at the wrong moment. lol

sunny days

i hope they are here to stay.

Friday was beautiful. i took the kiddos out to the park in Olympia, down by the water on the boardwalk. it was packed full of kids, and that was awesome. Ethan and Addie had so much fun! My friend Brooke and her little girl, Brianna came with us. it was alot of fun. Then afterwards on the way home to go eat lunch i thought a picnic at the park right by Clara's house would be fun so Clara met us there and we have yummy food and played alot more. it was awesome. i really enjoyed the weather.

Saturday was even better. i think it got up to 80degrees they said. We got up a bit before 6am to go quading out in matlock with Rodney and some friends. it was awesome. we went for about 4 hours, i loved it. Val babysat for us, THANK YOU! :) then afterwards we went home and cleaned up and went to a friends house for BBQ. it was awesome. yummy food good friends. Sunday we went to church and then to Briana and Nick's for Braxton and Jehron's brithday party. We had some yumy food and fun. it was great being with family. Over all this weekend was awesome.

Update on Kason:

he is doing alot better, ear is all cleared up. he is no longer sick, besides a small cough, which is normal for him really. Im glad the whole ear thing is done and over with. my poor little guy was in so much pain it was horriable.

In two weeks logan and i will get to meet our new nephew, Connor!! :) Colette is having her little one on April 25th at 12. schedule c-section. we are excited. lastnight logan and i counted, and this will be our 16th nephew/niece. between both our families we have 15, soon 16!! seriously INSANE but i love it. having a large family is awesome. wouldnt have it any other way.

well here are some pictures.just to prove that there were no clouds and bright blue skys here in the puget sound!kason loves to stick his tounge out now and make sounds and spit.

two pictures to show why kason usually eats naked.not the best picture but i like it. outside at the park.

enjoying the sun

our VERY happy boy
and a video of kason talking

reptured ear drum

Poor Kason. Will he ever get a break?
After i wrote my last post, i was getting Kason in the car to go home from work, when i noticed fluid coming from his right ear, it was light green milky and i knew that was not suppose to happen. So i get us home and call the doctors before they close. My doctor and her nurse were gone for the day, so i was able to talk to one of the other doctor's nurses. I explained everything, and she said she would talk to the doctor and call me right back. Well they did call me right back and told me his ear drum had reptured.
That explains all the screaming, high fevers, fussyness, lack of sleep, lack of eating etc.
The doctors at the E.R. said his ears looked just fine, but one of them had a bit of fluid behind it, because he is not able to pop his own ears, but that was it. nothing about it being red, or anything. makes me fusterated.
So we got him medican to help the fluid clear up quicker. I was thinking that when the drum reptured it was a big ol hole, but no its only like if i poked a needle into it. teeny tiny. so thats good. it will take 6-8 weeks for it to all heal up, but he shouldnt be sick for too much longer.
Actually since his ear drum reptured, he has stopped screaming, eating way better, sleeping way way better, playing, and mostly his fever is gone, lastnight it did go back up for a while. but he was just fine.
Logan and I are sure enjoying the cuddle time though with him. he is so lovey, cuddley, and its nice. we missed that when he was small. now it seems he just likes to be held sitting up, or on the floor rolling around and trying to crawl.
well anywho i better be going. hope everyone is having a good day.

my poor baby

Poor Kason.

It seems he is always sick. we were actually getting excited because he had gone like two weeks with out being sick, and then this happened.this picture makes me so sad. He has gotten my horriable, no good, disgusting, exahusting cold.
i really wish he hadn't.
I had cold chills, fevers, sick to my stomach, runny nose, sever congestion, etc.
I felt like i was about to die. imagine all that in a tiny 6month old, my heart breaks!
one thing about kason though, he always smiles, no matter what

We had a rough night lastnight. Kason was up screaming in pain, there was no way to calm him down. finally after he was calm (after an hour or so) he just laid there on my bed like a rag doll. he had a fever and was just so sad. I called the on call nurse for his dr. and after trying to listen to him breathe (which was okay) she thought it would be best to go into the ER. so we got all ready quickly at 2am and drove to St. Petes. Waited for a bit, but got in rather quickly. after they took us back, checked him out and waited for the doctor, he had been diagnosed with "respitory infection" other words, "horriable, no good, disgusting, exahusting cold" so we finally got home at 4:30am and crawled into bed. Kason was zonked out until i got him up for work at 7:30am and slept until 9:45am on the couch with me. now he is taking another nap, which is good. poor baby.