Tanner says the cutest things:

So one of my big reasons for keeping a blog is it takes place of my scrapbooking/journaling for my family.
So a few things that my Tanner has said lately I think if I don't write them down I'll forget.

This morning as Tanner was getting ready to leave we satdown to do our few versus of reading scriptures when I look up and see that he has taken a red pen and drawn the Harry Potter scar across his forehead. What he was thinking I have no idea. It looked just like the real scar that Harry sports but not so attractive on my first grader. We had to then rush our morning so I could scrub it off and I felt bad later that I wasn't very fond of the whole idea. When I called Todd at work and told him he said "you should have just taken a picture." That sounds nice now but with bus coming there was no time for it. Maybe next time I'll try to see the magic in what Tanner was trying to see.

Last month it was my mom and mother-in-laws birthday. Tanner called my mom on her birthday and as he was talking he pulled a funny face like he is shocked and confused. I didn't really think much of it. Two weeks later he was helping me pick out a card for Grandma Mons. He says "Well mom we won't be sending another birthday card to Grandma Carter again though." I asked why: "becuase she's going to die." I said "What do you mean?" "Well when I talked to her on her birthday she told me that she was stopping right there at that age and wasn't going to get any older." I felt bad that for 2 weeks he didn't understand that she just didn't want to get any older not that she was going to die.

A few nights ago I told Tanner that he needed to go and clean his room if he wanted to do a certain fun thing the next day. He was up there for about 10 minutes when he yells down, "Mom are you going to be checking in my closet." To which I replied "well I am now." "Ahhh Man!"

When ever I say to him, Tanner what did your dad say about jumping on the couch, or teasing your brother or whatever the current thing is, he always responds with Maters "Ta not to!"

Yesterday he came home from school and told me that today they would be practicing their lock down drill. I was thinking that it was if someone were to come in with a gun or something like that, oh no not here in the desert. He said "Mom lockdown is when a coyote, cougar or bob cat comes onto the school grounds, all the teachers have to lock there doors to the outside courtyard." It just amazes me how much my prayers for my childrens safety have changed since moving here!

My Muddy Buddy!

Carters preschool teacher has a tradition where once a year she has a mud party for the kids. I wasn't sure what to expect, but the kids really enjoyed all their playing in the muddy mess. Carter was covered from head to foot in mud and even though we hosed him down at the end I still had to bring him home and throw him in the tub.

Its almost October and we are still hitting 100 degress just about daily, so this was a refreshing way to cool down.

Harry and just a little Scary!

So we were walking home from the park Sat night to find a little, well big actually creepy crawly trianchula running on the driveway. The kids thought it was great and their dad did a little seek and destroy. He was the fastest one that we have seen, but obviously not fast enough. We also found a lizard stuck to one of the sticky pads in the garage that day. Tanner had discovered him that morning and I thought he was dead, when we came back that afternoon he was on the sticky pad so obviously not dead yet! I felt kind of bad since he was still alive but Todd told the kids he couldn't just pull him off, he would lose his legs, sooo gross!

Todd Turns 33!

Yesterday Todd turned 33 along with Tyler. And can you believe I have no pictures on my computer of Tyler, its a dang crime. Its just been recently that I crossed over to the digital world. We gave him some pictures for his desk at work.

So these boys really do love their dad! When we go out to dinner neither one will come over to my side of the booth so we have to bribe one of them to sit by me, it makes me feel super special. Seriously though I'm glad that they are so close to their dad.

So the rest of the pictures are just random. This is a picture of Todd holding Kinnedi at her blessing and I'm not sure if its just cause we are expecting but I love this pic.

Kelsey painting Todds nails. I was laughing to much while taking the picture that I'm shocked he didn't wake up.

Jason and Todd doing some Dance Revolution.

If you know Todd you know he loves to compete in just about any sporting event. Triathalons are his new favorite, and if you know me you know that I think that kind of mileage should only be put on cars.

He also loves to go fishing, especially down the Green River. Every year he and my brother-in-laws take a "bros no ho's" trip down there.

We held a big New Years Eve dress up party at our home this past January. You had to come dressed as a rocker and we had a guitar hero play off.
So there you go, Happy Birthday Todd! Now I just have to wonder what girl in her twenties is going to do with a guy in his thirties!?!

Count Down to Baby!

My boys keep asking how much longer til the baby comes. So, on Sunday we put together a paper chain. It is currently 39 days and counting. Anxiously anticipating our little girls arrival. So now each day they can pull off a link and see just how long we have. 37 days didn't seem like that long until we got to adding and adding more links. Tanner thought we should have a piece of chocolate to each each day we take one off, like what you do for Christmas. I must say I like that idea!

Its been fun getting her room all ready. I can't help but giggle at all the girly pink dresses in her closet each time I open it, and I just can't help but think to myself "this is going to be fun."

I don' t know why I do this after holidays and birthdays, but I like to see what was given. So these are the things that were give at the shower from my ward. I am just so grateful!

Toad to Toad

So last night my new ward was nice enough to through me a baby shower, which I will post pictures later. I got home at 10:30, which is past Todd and my bedtime. I opened the garage door and as I was driving in I see something sitting where I need to park. As I get closer it is a gigantic toad. So being the wimp I am I leave the car in the driveway and go wake up Todd.
Todd's longtime nickname is Toad, its fitting for the story. He gets dressed and comes downstairs, still half asleep. He goes in and is like "holy cow that is one big toad." So with a shovel he coaxes it outside, man that thing could jump. I didn't even know toads could get this big. So since I have no other wildlife to report on yet, happily! I thought I would share as close to being threatened as possible. However, these Toads are highly venomous to pets, when licked. Dogs and cats die each year by licking them.
This morning my kids are very disappointed that they missed the toadally awesome event!

Getting through the Garage!

So in Riverton we had a 3 car garage with an extra deep third car area, and so needless to say a ton of room for stuff! We got rid of a ton in Salt Lake but obviously not enough. It was a daunting task to visualize everything fitting onto shelves, but Todd was sure we could make it fit, and he was right!

Below is the before mess!

With a lot of help from his two apprentices he was able to get some shelves up. One of the perks was Todd getting a new framing nail gun out of the deal. So I guess for my boys nerf guns look and sound about the same.

This is the park by our house, the bus picks up Tanner here each morning, and Carter and I are pretty sweaty by the time we walk home at 8:15 am and 90 degrees outside.

Here's Carter sporting his backpack for another day in preschool. He was so upset the first day that the teacher didn't send him home with any homework.

Tanner is keeping the tooth fairy in business these days, he's lost 4 teeth in a week in a half.

So many have been asking about my belly and ankle condition. I have joined the ranks of cankles. I didn't even know the meaning of this word until a new friend told me. Apparently if you cannot distinquish your calves from your ankles it is called cankles. Oh yeah, I'm there. And this is on a really good day, two weeks ago while unpacking they were at least double this size. My belly as you can see is also swelling. I am super excited to meet my little Callie in approximately 6 weeks.

This picture was taken courtesy of Tanner!