First off, Wayne passed all four sections of the CPA exam!!!!!!! We are both super excited to have all of the studying out of the way. We will now have a lot more time together as a family which will be so nice. I am so so so proud of Wayne. He really showed amazing discipline while studying for that thing. We found out yesterday and celebrated by finishing up Christmas shopping for the kids.
The day before we found out about the test was Wayne's 33rd b-day. Seriously, he's getting old;) Our awesome friends took our kids from us for the evening so that we could go to dinner. We did our traditional dinner at Tucanos on Tuesday and will have cake and ice cream tonight with the Lewis fam.
It was so nice to be able to go out on a date with Wayne. We were in need of a night out after all of the studying that he's been doing.
In other news we may have narrowed our baby names. Well these have pretty much been my top three from the beginning but we don't discuss it too much and the other night Wayne put his in order so here they are.
Wayne's Amy's
1. Eleanor 1. Hazel
2. Holland 2. Eleanor
3. Hazel 3. Holland
Friday, December 9, 2011
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Silly Kiddos
I was having issues with posting on this blog so I have been writing silly things about the kiddos in my written journal. But since this is our family journal and it will eventually (hopefully soon) get printed I have decided to post them on here.
The Other day I caught Noah trying to clean out his poopy undies in the toilet just like his dad. It was pretty funny but he also made quite the mess:(
***** Reading this back I just realized that it sounded kind of funny. Wayne cleans out Noah's dirty undies in the toilet not his own:)
Presleigh and Noah held hands the entire way home from the Lewis'. When I asked if they were trying to stay warm, Pres said to me, "no, we are being safe."
Presleigh told us that the man at the tree lot was a dog because his hat looked like it had puppy ears:)
Noah pulling at his undies, lookings down and saying, "Look mom, my puppet is shaking."
The way Noah says ha ha ha ha ha when he gets away with something or is teasing. Or when he is playing the mean character from one of their favorite shows to act out.
Noah tries to stuff all of his favorite little toys into his pockets, and then gets frustrated when they don't fit.
Presleigh likes to get herself dressed these days. She changes clothes about 3 times daily. She usually has one piece of her outfit that stays constant, like her favorite skirt or dress but then she changes her leggings or tights and her tops. She comes up with very creative ways to put her outfits together. I guess this is probably my fault because I like to put random outfits together too. I use to try to fight her on it but now I let her dress however she wants, well usually:)
I am having an extra hard time understanding Noah. He is talking a lot more and it takes me a few times to catch some of his new words. Sometimes I just smile and say, "that's so cool Noah." But then he sometimes responds with a, "No, it's not cool mom." like he was being super serious about what he was telling me.
I love the way that Noah talks though. He has the cutest little voice. I love it when he says to us "Come and get me," when he wants us to chase him or play. Or when he pulls on my hand or pant leg and says, "Mommy, come here." Or when he asks me to hold him and then points to another part of the house and says, "Mommy, hold me over there."
We've been working quite a bit with the kids on their alphabet and each of them can identify almost all of the letters in the alphabet. Noah is a lot more interested in letters and colors. He loves to tell me what color things are. My favorite is when he will pick out letters randomly on things though and then make the letter sound. Especially when we are on the computer, he will show us where all the x's are:)
They both have the silliest reaction to the word bum and most potty words. Noah thinks saying bum is hilarious and can crack himself up by saying it over and over.
Presleigh is finally able to buckle her own carseat, except when she has a big puffy coat on. She can't unbuckle it though which is great.
On Sunday Presleigh wore a cute bracelet to church and it broke during nursery. She was so sad and kept asking me to fix it. I told her that it couldn't be fixed and that she would have to ask for one for her birthday. Wayne and I both told her a few times that we couldn't fix it. Then while we were having dinner she looked at us all excited like she had the greatest idea in the world and said, "I know how we can fix my bracelet!!!!" and we responded with a, "how?" and she said, "With teamwork!!!!!!" It was dang cute, because Wayne is constantly talking to them about working together and using teamwork to get things done. Plus it is something that her favorite tv say too. Teamwork was not able to fix her bracelet though:(
These kiddos keep us busy and laughing constantly. They are so fun to watch and even more fun to listen to. They are constantly pretending and sometimes we can't tell if they are using their own imaginations or if they are role playing from some cartoon. Presleigh is like her uncle Devin and has a lot of movie lines memorized. We love our Sis and Buddy and can't wait for this sweet baby girl to join in on the fun:)
The Other day I caught Noah trying to clean out his poopy undies in the toilet just like his dad. It was pretty funny but he also made quite the mess:(
***** Reading this back I just realized that it sounded kind of funny. Wayne cleans out Noah's dirty undies in the toilet not his own:)
Presleigh and Noah held hands the entire way home from the Lewis'. When I asked if they were trying to stay warm, Pres said to me, "no, we are being safe."
Presleigh told us that the man at the tree lot was a dog because his hat looked like it had puppy ears:)
Noah pulling at his undies, lookings down and saying, "Look mom, my puppet is shaking."
The way Noah says ha ha ha ha ha when he gets away with something or is teasing. Or when he is playing the mean character from one of their favorite shows to act out.
Noah tries to stuff all of his favorite little toys into his pockets, and then gets frustrated when they don't fit.
Presleigh likes to get herself dressed these days. She changes clothes about 3 times daily. She usually has one piece of her outfit that stays constant, like her favorite skirt or dress but then she changes her leggings or tights and her tops. She comes up with very creative ways to put her outfits together. I guess this is probably my fault because I like to put random outfits together too. I use to try to fight her on it but now I let her dress however she wants, well usually:)
I am having an extra hard time understanding Noah. He is talking a lot more and it takes me a few times to catch some of his new words. Sometimes I just smile and say, "that's so cool Noah." But then he sometimes responds with a, "No, it's not cool mom." like he was being super serious about what he was telling me.
I love the way that Noah talks though. He has the cutest little voice. I love it when he says to us "Come and get me," when he wants us to chase him or play. Or when he pulls on my hand or pant leg and says, "Mommy, come here." Or when he asks me to hold him and then points to another part of the house and says, "Mommy, hold me over there."
We've been working quite a bit with the kids on their alphabet and each of them can identify almost all of the letters in the alphabet. Noah is a lot more interested in letters and colors. He loves to tell me what color things are. My favorite is when he will pick out letters randomly on things though and then make the letter sound. Especially when we are on the computer, he will show us where all the x's are:)
They both have the silliest reaction to the word bum and most potty words. Noah thinks saying bum is hilarious and can crack himself up by saying it over and over.
Presleigh is finally able to buckle her own carseat, except when she has a big puffy coat on. She can't unbuckle it though which is great.
On Sunday Presleigh wore a cute bracelet to church and it broke during nursery. She was so sad and kept asking me to fix it. I told her that it couldn't be fixed and that she would have to ask for one for her birthday. Wayne and I both told her a few times that we couldn't fix it. Then while we were having dinner she looked at us all excited like she had the greatest idea in the world and said, "I know how we can fix my bracelet!!!!" and we responded with a, "how?" and she said, "With teamwork!!!!!!" It was dang cute, because Wayne is constantly talking to them about working together and using teamwork to get things done. Plus it is something that her favorite tv say too. Teamwork was not able to fix her bracelet though:(
These kiddos keep us busy and laughing constantly. They are so fun to watch and even more fun to listen to. They are constantly pretending and sometimes we can't tell if they are using their own imaginations or if they are role playing from some cartoon. Presleigh is like her uncle Devin and has a lot of movie lines memorized. We love our Sis and Buddy and can't wait for this sweet baby girl to join in on the fun:)
Friday, December 2, 2011
Our November
I can't believe November is already over. I'm pretty happy that it's over though. It was a crazy month for our family.
I finally stopped working. I had been planning on quitting for a while but never got around to it. I am officially done:) I spent the first part of the month working on tons and tons of projects for the kiddos for Christmas. This was the fun part of the month:) I'll have to take pictures of everything soon. I love having some homemade Christmas presents for my kiddos to enjoy. My plan was to get all of it done by Thanksgiving so that I could focus on real Christmas shopping after that. I did get it all finished but it sort of got me in the mood to keep going so I've been working on some other things like fixing up my house:)
The last couple weeks Wayne took off from work so that he could study for his (hopefully) last CPA test. This was the not so fun part of the month:( He locked himself in our spare bedroom and studied from 7:00 in the morning til sometimes midnight every single day. He took his test yesterday and we are hoping that he won't have to retake it. I am so proud of my hubby and all of his hard work. I cannot even imagine spending that much time going over boring accounting stuff but he was so diligent and studied his little tail off. We can't wait to have that test out of our life!!!
The kids have been doing so well with all the craziness around here. Presleigh has been asking for a while now when we will get our tree and Christmas decorations up. We had told her that we had to wait until after daddy's test. So last night we went and picked out our tree.
I don't know what I was thinking but I decided to start potty training Noah this month. Yeah, I probably should have waited until after Wayne's test. He has been doing really well with using the potty though. I tried to do the three day potty training with him and it seemed to work pretty well. We still have accidents though and this week we've had to resort back to diapers because Noah has had a little stomach bug. He is back in his buzz undies today though:)
Our Thanksgiving was really nice this year. We ate dinner with the Lewis family and enjoyed spending our day with them. I got Wayne to take a couple hours off from his studys so we got to enjoy it with him too:)
I chose to go to Target at midnight for black friday. It was a dumb move because I didn't really need anything there but black friday shopping is sort of tradition in my family. It was crazy and the line was super long but it was still fun:) Goodbye November!!!!!!
Friday, November 18, 2011
A Spooky Halloween
Spooky is one of Noah's favorite words right now. It's so cute to hear him say spooky instead of scary:) We had a very low key Halloween this year. I was all excited to make the kids alice in wonderland costumes but then I lost my motivation and we decided to dig out the costume box. Noah was given this cute buzz costume from my sister and he was super excited about it. Presleigh kept changing what she wanted to be but then found her old Minnie Mouse costume and decided on that. I barely took any pictures:(
We started the night over in the Lewis Family's subdivision. The families in that neighborhood set up their chairs around the park and the little ones just walked around the path to get their candy. It was perfect for our little ones because they were able to walk around the park without getting too tired. It was super crowded though so our little ones were having a hard time getting to trick or treat. At one point Presleigh said to me "Mom, getting candy is hard." After the Lewis' we went back to our own subdivision and walked around one of the loops. By then Noah was super tired and cold so Wayne held him most the time. But Presleigh and Mommy were running from house to house. Then we went home had some yummy hot chocolate and a very late dinner. It was a very very fun night.
Yesterday Presleigh asked for some candy and when I told her that it is all gone, she said to me. "I think we need to do some more trick or treating, to get more candy." Yeah, I wish every day could be halloween!!!
No more monkeys jumping on the bed!!!
The other day I spent a lot of time catching up on house work. I cleaned my bedding and then iron it too so that I would have a nice crisp white bed:) After I finished the kiddos were trying to get on my bed to jump on it. I quickly put a stop to it. But then a little while later I caught Noah being sneaky and quietly playing on my bed. I decided to just let it go and ignore him. Then I hear him run out of my room.
N: "Sissy hurry come here"
N "Sissy hurry come here!"
M: "No guys we don't jump on the bed"
P: "Yeah Noah we can only jump on our beds"
M: "No, we don't jump on any beds, we treat the furniture nicely."
P: "But mom! We don't have a trampoline!"
M: "So, that doesn't mean we can jump on furniture"
P: " Well what are we going to jump on?"
M: "The floor"
Then Presleigh jumps up and down a few times, looks at me and says "That's not fun mom."
She was totally cracking me up. Seriously I wish I knew what went on in their little minds:)
N: "Sissy hurry come here"
N "Sissy hurry come here!"
M: "No guys we don't jump on the bed"
P: "Yeah Noah we can only jump on our beds"
M: "No, we don't jump on any beds, we treat the furniture nicely."
P: "But mom! We don't have a trampoline!"
M: "So, that doesn't mean we can jump on furniture"
P: " Well what are we going to jump on?"
M: "The floor"
Then Presleigh jumps up and down a few times, looks at me and says "That's not fun mom."
She was totally cracking me up. Seriously I wish I knew what went on in their little minds:)
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Random Pictures
Noah Playing dress up. I think Presleigh helped him put the neck ties on:)
A couple weeks ago Wayne volunteered to take the missionaries up the mountain to Cascade, ID. He wasn't going to be back in time to be with the kiddos while I went to work so he came home right before lunch and picked the kiddos up to take them on a little road trip. We had just watched 17 miracles so I made sure to pack up the car with as much winter gear as I could find and I sent them off. But first I took a couple pictures:)
It was a nice little break for me that day. I was able to start working on my Christmas projects and got a ton of things done for the kiddos.
A couple weeks ago Wayne volunteered to take the missionaries up the mountain to Cascade, ID. He wasn't going to be back in time to be with the kiddos while I went to work so he came home right before lunch and picked the kiddos up to take them on a little road trip. We had just watched 17 miracles so I made sure to pack up the car with as much winter gear as I could find and I sent them off. But first I took a couple pictures:) 
It was a nice little break for me that day. I was able to start working on my Christmas projects and got a ton of things done for the kiddos. A Visit From the Shepherd Family
A couple weeks ago my sister Julie had fall break from school so her little fam decided to come visit us for a few days. It is always so fun to have them come visit. We love their family so much and Presleigh and Noah can't get enough of them:) They had so much fun with their sweet cousin Laila. Presleigh asked to hold her a ton and Laila was so good to let her most of the time. Laila was so adorable smiling and laughing at Pres and Noah. I think these little ones are gonna be the best of friends as they grow older. And I think that my kiddos are ready for their baby sister to join in the fun:)
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