FINALLY!

I finally have pictures!

yup you are reading that right.

I took pictures of Kason this afternoon. i LOVE how they turned out. i only had a few minutes to play with a couple. i will post more when i have the time too.

loser.

yes i am a lsoer. i completely forgot about my blog. sorry for all those who check it out.
we have been super busy!
On March 13th i took the kids and we met clara and derek up at the airport!! they were so excited to see eachother. the kids were very happy to have their parents back.
I also turned 22 that day, go me!! :) lol. Saturday we had a memorial for my uncle who passed away in the end of Feb. It was a sad, but a good memorial, lots of happy moments.
The 16th we had a birthday dinner for my sister, myself, and my mom (her birthday was the 16th!!!) it was yummy ham!! thanks boys for makin it!! we had fun with the birthdaycake as well! we lit candles for my mom, blew them out, took out the extra, lit candles for amy, blew them out, and then took out the extra, lit the candles for me and blew them out! it was fun!
Last week was busy and tiring. Addie is teething like a mad woman, seriously grumpy and in pain, poor girl! and kason is now teething as well. not sleeping, drooling, nasty diapers, fever, and everything else that comes with the teething package. so not exciting.
Easter was great. i made super cute bunny cupcakes! my sister took pictures, ill post them sooner or later. I am taking Kason's 6month pictures this week, as well as some easter ones lol. i was a looser and didnt take any on easter.
we died eggs lastnight! :) late i know but fun! they turned out cool.
Kason is getting so big, well not in size but in skills, here is everything he does now.

Rolls from Tummy to Back
Rolls from Back to Tummy
Rolls all around the floor
Pulls himself across the floor
Holds his own bottle
Eats veggies and fruits
Drinks from a sippy cup
Loves his toys
Puts his own binky in his mouth
And soon, prolly in the next month he will be crawling. he is SO close now. its insane!
well sorry no pictures will get back to you soon!

hello

hey everyone! we are alive :) we are doing good, its better than i thought it would be, watching three kids 24hours day for 13 days. there is one week left :). Today we are heading out to Logan's mom's house so Ethan can play with the puppies, and Logan can put the parts he just got on his quad. If Ethan is good, he gets a ride on the quad too! :)

So we have been busy, trying to keep Ethan's mind off his parents gone, we have been to the library twice, once for ethan's age for reading time, once for addie's age for reading/play group, the park a few times, walks, made cupcakes, and had a movie night. I am exhausted lol.

Kason is sick again, surprised? im not. poor kid. i think we should invest in a bubble for him to live in. He never really got over his (i cant spell it but here i go) brochulatis. he had a cough for weeks afterwards, then he got another cold and made it all worse again. so he is now on antibotics and we are already starting to see results. YAY!

So here are two pictures, the first is Kason at the park while we all played, poor kiddo, i cant wait until he can run around with us. The second is of him in the highchair while the other kids ate cupcakes, i think he was sad because he didnt get any, soon buddy soon.

we have a busy weekend ahead us of. Tomorrow i am not sure what we are doing, but im sure its not staying at the house all day long. Sunday we are going to church then heading right up to Amy's for the kiddos birthday party! Ethan is excited to go up there.

OOO i almost forgot! Logan and I get to go out ALONE tonight :) Adam and Carrie are babysitting all the kids tonight for us! so we can go to dinner and a movie. Isnt that awesome?? thanks guys!!!

whirlwind

seriously i think i might be loosing it. not because i have three kiddos to take care of now, just plain losing it for no reason at all. Yesterday was my sisters Birthday. I know her birthday is March 5th. I read her blog yesterday about march birthdays and the three birthdays in the first 5 days of march in just her immediate family. So here i am i am talking to her on the phone, blah blah blah, talking to her about Matthew's birthday the day before and then after we say goodbyes i hang up. Well lastnight at 11:50pm it hit me. "OH CRAP TODAY WAS AMY'S BIRTHDAY!!! WHAT A LOSER AM I!!" seriously i just blanked the whole day!! so Amy, please forgive me! lol :) :) HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
I have pictures of Kason to put up, so look for a double post today! :)

i just wanted to say..

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU, HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR MATTHEW, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!!!

seriously i cannot believe you are already 9 years old!!! your such a great brother, son, nephew, friend, cousin, and grandson. i love you lots and lots!!!

mom of three

thats right, until March 14th i am offically a mom of three, well sorta. See my boss's took a much needed vacation to California and a Mexican cruise! So until then i have the kiddos. So far so good, but thats because Clara's family took the kids until lastnight right before bedtime. lol! thanks Jack and Rose!! :) After dinner Logan headed home and did homework and picked up things we forgot all about like phone chargers etc. he came home late late, so he is now sleeping in a bit before he goes off to school, and Ethan is chowing down on breakfast so we can run out to the bus stop. Hope Clara and Derek are having a great time!! feel free to give me a cruise anytime! lol :) you know you love me guys!!!

Laura

beautiful day

so i know i already posted day, two posts in one day SHOCKER! i know right?! lol

Today started out beautiful. so i took the kiddos outside while Kason slept. Ethan rode his bike around and addie walked around and colored with chalk on the sidewalks with me. here are some pictures. finally i got some spring pictures of my own.

Also yesterday was kason's 5 MONTH MARK! seriously already?? holy cow! so here are a couple shots of him, and even a video! :) enjoy

dont get too close, i will slobber on you!
Big smile!! Kason is usually VERY happy most of the time!! so lucky
He loves his toys!Hello! He has the biggest eyes and i love them!! they look brown here, but they are actually blue with like a burst of yellow in the middle, he has my eyes. love it! :)

spring fever

i have never wanted spring to come this bad EVER! seriously spring is nice but usually i want summer to come. I guess this has been a wet and long winter!!! We have daffidols that just bloomed by our front door, trees are getting greener, and the birds are chirping every morning. i love it. here are some pictures i found on google. i cant wait to get my own.

how beautiful?!!?!?! i cant wait to go on walks with the kiddos, and have kason in shorts and barefeet in the grass! so excited

awww man...

Last night i got a call from Rae. She told immediatly told me that Kevin had been shot in the arm, a through and through. My heart dropped.

For those who dont know here is a bit of background on Rae. Rae is my bestfriend since 7th grade. She married Kevin Last march and two weeks later he was shipped off to Iraq. (he is in the army) he has already been injured once last year, but nothing extreamly horriable, but still come on!

So anywho... he is being sent to Germany about 2 this afternoon i think and He will have surgery there. The bullet shattered his bone. right above the elbow, but no worries he says his tattoo is okay! lol!! he will be home soon, hopefully here to Madigan.

Please keep them in your thoughts and prayers. here are some pictures of them last year when i took their engagment pics.

this is for you Rae:

sickos

last week logan came down with something that effected his tummy and made him visit the bathroom often. saturday it got better but then that night it was horriable again, and it got worse lastnight and this morning. i have NO idea whats going on with him. Then kason got something yesterday. he had two poopy diapers, and not the smooshy kind either. ug! and if you know all about kason and his issues with pooping you know he hardly ever poops more than once a week and when he does its the complete oposite of what i just discribed. so hopefully it was just his laxitives finally working and he is not getting sick, but who knows. oh man! i hope im lucky for once and not get sick this time!!

schedule

So Kason really hasnt had a set schedule during the day. At night it has been pretty normal routine. We get home, daddy plays with him i make dinner. We eat. He plays then its jammie time, story time, bedtime whenever we go to bed. Pretty basic and simple. Well yesterday i started a schedule during the day, mostly for his naps. he napped but nothing regular so i figured it was time to start him on that. so here it goes:

5-6am- Get a bottle

7:20am- get dressed and leave with mommy to work

8:30am- Breakfast usually applesauce

10:ooam- nap time

12:30pm- Lunch time

a bottle sometime between lunch and nap #2

2:00pm- Nap time

4:30pm-(about)-Bottle

6:00pm- Dinner

8:30pm- Get ready for bed which includes- bottle, story time, jammies

9:00pm- sleepy time in OWN bed!

Yesterday went SO well! he took two 2hour naps! and he barely made it to bed he was so tired!! He even slept in his own bed ALL NIGHT LONG!! see he got in this habit of coming in and out of our bed. it was bad we have a king size and it didnt bother us, but i figured that he needs to be in his own room. so there he is! he slept from 9:30pm (thats when he fell asleep) until 5am this morning!! i was actually surprised because he usually wakes up in the middle of the night crying only for his binky. i give it to him and he goes right back to sleep. well he cried lastnight i got up gave him the binky and he was still mad. i changed his diaper, still mad. i put him in his crib to go make a bottle (im thinking its like 2am) and im wondering why he is so mad and why he is already wanting a bottle. i look over and see our radio clock in the hallway and see that its 5AM!!! kason made it through the whole night!! Also new development. he holds his bottles now ALL BY HIM SELF :) he drinks the whole thing by him self now. so we just give it to him at 5am and go back to sleep! yay!

i offically love schedules!! today so far so good!!! :)

and just because i love baby feet and i LOVE kason's here is a picture of him lastweek taking a naked diaper nap on the couch.

kason loves to be naked (with a diaper of course) if he is fussy all i have to do is strip him down to the diaper and he is just fine! :) lol

talker

Lately Kason has been talking ALOT. he has always made noises but this last month all he does is gab! the other day he woke us up by just talking. he went on for almost an hour of just making noises and laughing and smiling. My camera doesnt have video so i havnt been able to capture it yet, until today. I totally spaced out that Clara's camera has video. so here are a couple clips of Kason talking.

I can't wait for the weekend. The weather has been wonderful this whole week! i hope it keeps it up for the weekend!! Recap of us enjoying the weather this week:

Monday-we went quading out at Val and Larry's. There were no clouds in the sky and you could see forever!! the mountains were amazing!!
Tuesday-i took the kids outside and we spent hours out there running around. Addie thinks its funny to escape into the road, haha not!
Wednesday- Ethan tricked me into going to the park. Totally worth it. It was so nice out!
Thursday- Logan and I used our grill again and BBQ'd hamburgers! OH YUMMY!! they turned out amazing! he put onion soup mix in the meat. it was so moist and delicious! and i made my favorite fries! perfect meal.
Friday- I am taking the kids out to a park, if they wake up in time :) thank goodness for naps! :)

I cant wait for spring and summer! im itching to garden!! found plants i wanna plant! cant wait!!

graditute

so a few times my mom has offered to do our laundry, but i usually just say "nah its okay" but then my mom asked the other if she could our laundry and well i knew that i had one shirt left that was clean and logan was getting low on clean clothes and well Kason has so many clothes i dont think we will ever run out with him. So i said okay and well i dont think she knew what she was getting into. i dont think either of kept track of how many loads, but im sure there was about 12. yeah seriously 12!! I think she likes to do the laundry, crazy lady! :) but a HUGE thanks to my mom! i dont know if i would have ever caught up if it wasnt for her! i cant wait until we can get washer/dryer. soon, maybe! lol

So i was looking at Kason's pictures and i realized that he has gotten alot of hair this past month. just all of a sudden it started to grow again. here is a picture from before christmas and then a picture from a couple weeks ago.This is from right before Christmas
this is from a few weeks ago. its getting longer too! :)

Also he has found toys and loves them!! so we have some on his car seat and then also he has tons scattered around the house. he is getting SO big!!

my valentine is...

so i got this from my friends blog.

His name? Logan
How long have we been together? Married for almost 3 years, together for just over 3 years
How old is he? 26
Who is taller? He is
What is his favorite sport? Football.
Who is smarter? we are both smart in different ways
Who does the laundry? I do, but he helps out alot
Who does the dishes? we both do
Who pays the bills? Logan
Who cooks dinner? Depends. Mostly me but he loves to cook and he is good at it.
Who drives when we are together? Logan, he hates my driving
Who is more stubborn? HIM! but he thinks me! lol
Who kissed who first? He kissed me on the cheek on our first date
Who proposed? He did. Perfect too!
Who has more siblings? We have the same. He has 2 sisters and a brother and i have 2 brothers and a sister
Who wears the pants in the family? We each have a leg in the pants :) but they may fit him better!! :)

happy v-day everyone! hope you have a great day!!
the day after Kason was born Rae told us she would take him for v-day and they would be eachothers date. So tonight we are off to eat and see a movie while rae chills with Kason at home :) i sure hope he is good!! Lol

cracked me up

so i got an email this afternoon from Clara (my boss) saying that she sent me the following to just insure i knew the guidlines and rules of watching her children everyday. i couldnt stop laughing for a while! totally made my day!

we are yogurt people...

logan and i both LOVE yogurt. We are always searching for it on sale because its starting to get expensive. Well the other day Albertsons had it for like 39cents each and if you spend 10dollars you get a couple bucks off so it was like 32cents each! so of course we went and stocked up. no worries on it going bad, we have already made a dent in our supply! lol

Kason had his 4 month check up yesterday
he is in the
30 percentile for weight
25 percentile for height
75 percentile for head (big brain people! lol)
dr. says he is doing fantastic!

Pictures!

So i finally uploaded pictures of Kason eating peas. It was pretty funny. He made the same faces that his daddy makes when he eats peas! lol Just like daddy i guess. After about 10 bites he started to like them and stop making horriable gagging faces! lol
First bite, doesnt he look impressed? lolThe result of the first bite. not too thrilled.
After about 10 bites. He started to show progress! lol
Our happy boy!! This was yesterday his offical 4 month mark! how cute is he? and he is a big boy in his highchair! insane!!

I gave him a ball to see if he would play with it. i didnt think he would, but after a few minutes Logan grabbed the camera, shoved it in my hands and said "look!"
He would hit it with his hands, sending it accross the tray and then laugh. then he would try to do it again!
He would try to pick it up.
Intense in play! i can already tell our little boy is going to love to have fun!!!

hope everyone is having a great day. no snow. which was nice to drive to work without having to deal with all the people on the road who have no idea what they are doing. thats prolly why they close school for an inch of snow here! lol

Snow Day

This morning as i am slowly getting ready for work i get a text message from Clara saying "ethan doesnt have school today, just to let you know" so im trying to run through my head thinking which holiday it is, and i realize it isnt one. so i text back saying "okay, why?" and i get the text back just saying "snow" i walk to Kason's room and look out the window, snow everywhere! i love snow, but this morning i was tired, lazy and already running late, why snow? lol. The roads weren't horriable, but they were a bit icy. I took the kids out this morning to play in the snow, they loved it. Kason was all bundled up in his snow clothes and in the stroller so i could keep chasing after miss Addie. here is a couple pictures.

also today is Kason's 4 MONTH MARK!!!! wow 4 months already?? INSANE!

how cute is kason??? he looked like the kid from the Christmas Story all bundled up.

when it started to melt away. weather man calls for more tonight, we will see.

Going Home...

Yesterday Pres. Gordon B. Hinckley passed away. He is finally home with his wife in Heaven. Prayers to his family. Click below for the news report from LDS.ORG

http://newsroom.lds.org/ldsnewsroom/eng/news-releases-stories/beloved-church-president-gordon-b-hinckley-dies-at-97

I hope everyone is having a great day. Snowed here. :) yay!

the biggest loser continues...

We have offically completed 3 full weeks!!! half way there! yay!! there have been many times i wanted to just give up, but im glad i havn't. I have lost 9 pounds total! yay go me!!! and all together we have all lost 38 pounds i think... as my sister said "thats a Maegan!" dang we are good!! im only 3 points from being in first!! Hopefully this week i can kick butt! lol.
well not too much else going on. Kason is yet again SICK! he was just getting over his congestion crap, brochulatis (spelling that totally wrong) and then yesterday he got the Flu. GREAT! There are days i think of putting him in a bubble for the rest of his life. He could be Kason the Bubble Boy! Hows that sound? yeah i know, i wont, thats no life to live.
Anywho.. we went to his doctors today to make sure it was anything worse because the nurse suggested it might be. No worries its not, but while we where there i talked to our doctor, who we love, about starting Kason on food. He is always eyeing our food, even has reached for it a few times. Making eating dinner with him on my lap alot harder now. Anywho we get to start him on VEGGIES!! yay! our little man is getting big!! the reason we are starting on Veggies and not ceral is because Kason has issues with pooping. He is severly constapated all the time. He is on a daily laxativ that helps, but he still has issues. A while back i tried a bit of Oatmeal in his formula to help him sleep, it did help him sleep but he got super constapated on just a little bit while he was on his laxativ!!! so she said to go ahead and just do the Veggies, start with green and work into orange, then do some fruits. NO BANANA'S since he has issues already. So hopefully he likes it and will start getting fuller and loving it.
Well not much else to say. No pictures sorry. i need to scan some scrap layouts and stuff from his baby books. will try to do that sooner or later.
well have a great day!