We are still here

 What can I say I have totally fell out of blog world. I have been horrible. I have 3 kids that seem to consume 99 % of my time. And this little one consumes the most. I have decided life with a baby is busy. I have forgotten. It is so much fun but a lot different. Life is going good. We are just trying to make the best of winter. It is definitely  not our most favorite time of year. The kids are growing and growing right before our eyes. Tay is enjoying kindergarten. She is loving reading books herself. She is such a smart little girl. I know she gets bored a lot because she is ahead of the game but that is ok. She still loves being social. She is loving gymnastics. The past years she did dance and never really liked it. I told her she could try gymnastics. She LOVES it and counts down the days until her next class. Bridger is getting big too. He does school with me at home. He learns really fast and is such a perfectionist. I don't think we have any pencils with erasers because he wants it perfect. He must get that from his dad. Ok maybe the both of us. He is such a good little helper. He is a good big brother to Lincoln. Lincoln has no interest for baby toys only Bridgers big trucks, pirate ships, guns etc. I am thinking i should just pack away the baby toys. Lincoln is getting big right before our eyes. It makes me so sad. He is crawling all around. No desire of walking yet. He loves big people food. It is hard to get him to eat baby food at times. He is a pretty mellow happy baby. He does love being held and is a big time mommy's boy. I eat that all up. He is still a horrible sleeper but I still remind myself every waking that someday I will miss this. He has 6 teeth and waves bye bye. I just wish time would slow down. Jaman and I are both doing well. Staying busy with work, kids, and callings. Jaman got thrown a new curve ball. He has always served in Young Mens since we were married. They just recently released him from the young mens president and put him in as the Elder's Quorm president. It had definitely been a change but he is learning to love it and learning about all the service hours that come with it. We are happy and well.

A fun Halloween Pillow from placemat

I am really not one to post ideas much but we had fun making these pillows to put on our front swings. They are so easy and cheap. I saw these place-mats at target for 2.99. I loved them. I then  un-stitch a corner and stuff with pillow stuffing and restitch up and WA LAa cute easy cheap Halloween pillow. Now I plan to spray them with water proof spray so they can be outdoors.

Kindergarten

Well I never thought I would be old enough to have a kid in school. I guess I am old now. Taylor has officially started kindergarten. She loves it so far. Her favorites are recess, gym, and music time. She does hate getting up early. It has been a fight some mornings. She has opted to have her dad take her on his way to work so she can get 45 minutes more of sleep. Don't blame her. I took a few minutes to interview her.
Favorite color: pink  What you want to be when you grow up: a piano player and singer (she loves to sing..I hear her singing 90% of the day and have had multiple people tell me that she is really good and on tune. Jaman and I don't carry a tune so who knows where she got that talent)  Favorite Food: chocolate cake and smoothies Favorite TV show: Jessie  Favorite thing to do: be with her family

We love you Taylor..hoping for a wonderful school year.

Lincoln 4 months

 Oh how time flies. I am behind on this blog and need to do some catching up now that we have started school and life gets back into routine. I just had to post some pictures of little Lincoln I took the other night. He is growing so fast. At 4 months you roll over from back to stomach. Eat your rice cereal. Totally a mommy's boy. Such a happy baby as long as someone is paying attention to you. Get carried a lot by your mom. Some days I feel you live on my hip. Like to goo and scream. Love your older sister and brother. Hold onto toys. We love you so much. Life would not be the same without you. You have brought our family so much joy. Now stop growing!!

Potato Planting

 So after Lincoln was born it took me a good month before I felt like myself again. I feel like for that month I totally deserved the worst mother award. I had no energy or strength to take my kids to do anything fun. So one day Bridger heard the tractor out the front door. I don't let me kids play in the front yard hardly ever unless I am out there, but I told him if he sat in one spot so I could look out the front he could. He wanted to watch the tractors. They were planting potatos in the field and he was AMAZED. Seriously hours passed. I kept saying don't you want to come in? No Mom. At one point he came running in ecstatic. "MOM MOM the guy waved at me!" It was so cute to see him so excited. Not to long after the door bell rang. I panicked but had just checked on him. Here on the door step was Bridger and the farmer. I know the owners of the field well but didn't know the guy in this tractor. I could tell he was a good good guy. He asked if Bridger could ride with him to plant a few rows. I thought and thought. He told me his name. I felt like it was ok. Bridger wanted to go so bad. He said it would take about 15 minutes to go up a row and back. So I let him. Right after I called Jaman to make sure he thought it was ok. He said "YES those farmers are nice and he will be fine". It is sad that we live in a world that we do that I even have to worry. So Bridger loaded up. You can tell on his face how excited he was. 15 minutes later he was back and begging to go again. This kids LOVES trucks and tractors. I am thankful for the wonderful man who took 15 minutes of his time to make this kids day! Bridger said I talked the whole time about spiders and the list went on. 

Preschool Graduate

 Taylor graduated from preschool. I have sure loved her to be able to go to preschool. She already knew everything they taught but it was so good for her socially. She is our little social butterfly so it was good for her to be able to get out and spend time with her little friends. Her teacher was wonderful and did so many fun hands on things with the kids. It was quite the graduation. They walked in to the famous graduation song. Then they sang lots of songs that they had learned. Then we had a slide show of pictures of all the activities through the year. Then they received their certificates. We are so proud of Taylor. We love her so much. I am not ready to send her to school everyday next year. Even if it is a half day. I am going to miss her.

2 Months

 They truly do grow up so fast. I am thankful I get to take pictures and have them to remember all these precious times. I had to post a crying one because every day we have lots of that. Being a mother is so wonderful but I would be lying if I said every day was bliss and every day was easy. I heard the other day a quote that has really hit home to me. "We have bad days so we recognize and appreciate the good ones". Isn't this so true. Sometimes there may only be 5 minutes of perfect harmony in our home where there is no kids fighting and no crying  kids but that is ok. I know I am doing what I am supposed to be doing and I am learning to treasure even the hard times. Lincoln at 2 months you hold your head up really well. You will look at about anyone and give them a good grin. You love to be outside. You love to be held. You are spoiled rotten. You are LOVED!