Lets eat cake

It was Joseph's birthday on the 16th, but due to illnesses we ended up celebrating it last Sunday instead. The boys, well specifically Conner, had a great time helping me putting the candles on the cake and then more importantly, eating it! Happy belated birthday Sweetheart!

What Bump?

Did you mean this bump Trina? I know I have a little extra padding in there, bur for ten weeks and two days its a little ridiculous. I didn't show this much with Conner until way past five months...

And yes the bathroom mirrors are dirty and no I don't plan on cleaning them until Monday ;)

First trimester blues

I am alive and almost well, but will be taking a little longer of a break from the blogging world as my body adjusts to our newest addition. This first trimester has been a really hard one with me spending most of my time asleep or on the couch in a fetal position. So whenever I am feeling well enough to move I like to spend that time with the boys and give them all I've got while I can. Hopefully I will be back in a few short days, but I would expect more like a few weeks...

I want you all to know that I write great post all the time in my head. I will be doing laundry and think off something funny to share, or chasing after the boys for the umpteenth time and think of reasons I love being a mom. But for some reason I don't always have the time to sit down and actually write all my great thoughts down. Something about thoughts being mobile and computers being stationary. Technicalities I guess.

Life is getting even busier as I type, but hopefully I can keep up with keeping you all up.

I mentioned a while back that I would start nannying for a family with three boys mid September, well mid September has arrived but I felt it was necessary to tell this particular family that I could no longer take them on. This was such a hard decision for me as I cannot stand not helping someone out when they need it, but I felt the Lord was telling me I needed to back away, so I did. Shortly after, I was approached by another family with one 15 month old boy. We have been doing some test runs for the past three days and I am pretty sure the mother is going to go with us. I am so super excited about this and am so thankful to the Lord for opening my heart to this family.

One of the reasons (although not the big one) for turning down the other family is that as of Wednesday I will be two months pregnant! Super super super duper excited about this! I am not super super super duper excited about the full blown morning sickness that has decided to take residence in me though...Oh well

All right time to check out and head to bed. I am sensing a long night a head of me. Conner and Brooks are acting as if sleep is not necessary and unfortunately they seem to do this only on nights we have have the little boy overnight, so I cannot separate them. Sigh.

Thoughtful Thursday Camouflaging as Wordless Wednesday

Artistic freedom of a (slighty) unattended three year old

Today I was taking pictures for a craigslist ad out in our bbq area while the boys were painting in the garage, when the sound of too many giggles alerted me to the fact that Brooks now has a wonderful new blue hair do. Compliments of his big brother of course. Oh he had a blue leg too, as in the whole leg was blue, top to bottom.

So, when you give a three year old these paints

for this house

and leave him alone to take pictures of this microwave for all of three minutes

you get this!


I just couldn't resist throwing it into a mohawk

Definitely not a no mess product...

Missing a friend named Kai Kai

Before we moved, the boys and I used to be attached by the hip(s) to my closest friend Rebekah and her two son's Malachi and Jonah. If we were not out and about together then we were wrangling the children around one of our homes until it was time to go home and be with husbands. While Joseph was away Rebekah helped keep me sane, and her children, specifically Malachi, helped Conner forget that his Dad was not around. These two boys have a bond that I hope last a life time, just as I pray the same for their mother and I. And while they have been apart for way to many months, the other is never far from their thoughts. I am told Conner spends his entire days playing with his friend, generally getting Kai Kai in trouble, and when told that we are going to go play with friends Conner always asks if we are going to Kentucky to get Kai Kai. So in honor of best friends here are some pictures from last January that I thought both Conner and Malachi would love.