Terek at 6 months

On Saturday, my little T turned 6 months old!  He is growing up so fast!!!  He has become such a fun little boy.  He loves to smile.  He loves to be mauled to death by his big brother Joren (most of the time). He loves food and will eat huge bowls of rice cereal or any other kind of  baby food... except peas.  He can sit up, but doesn't have wonderful balance yet, so he falls over.  And I think his eyes are going to be blue... or maybe grayish blue.

Terek went in today for his well check and he is just over 16 lbs. and 27 inches long.  Poor little guy had to have 4 shots, so he's kind of miserable tonight.

Mr. Grabby Hands!

Warning!  This is what happens when you leave Terek's cereal bowl too close to him.

He is such a grabby little guy.  I took him to a movie the other day and he kept knocking the drinks out of the cup holders.  He's my only kid who could hold his own bottle at this age... wait, he won't drink from a bottle, so how does he know how to hold it!!!

Happy Valentine's Day!!!

The kids woke up this morning to some new Lego sets that Cupid brought them (I say kids, but I mean Brenner and Joren.  Terek didn't get anything for Valentine's day).

Brenner and Joren (or Mom) made these cute Valentine's for their preschool classes.  They said, "Read My Lips, Be my Valentine."  I thought it was a totally cute idea (and not tooooo much work), but they were both more excited about their Spiderman, Star Wars, etc.  Next year I'm doing the no work option.

Brenner and Joren went with Daddy this morning to the Build and Grow workshop at Lowe's.  They made these really cute Heart Jewelry Boxes.  It was quite the fun activity for them to do with their dad.

And last night, Ryan and I got to go on our first date since Terek was born without ANY kids!!!  It was so peaceful.  Thanks to Shellie for taking crybaby Terek who won't take a bottle.  And thanks to our cute neighbor Sam, who watched Brenner and Joren.  She even had them frost sugar cookies for us!!!

Why you should listen to your kids

So, yesterday Brenner told me they were having a fieldtrip for preschool.  "Hmmm, that sounds fun."  "There's a letter about it in my backpack."  (ok, I'll look at it later.  It wasn't on the calendar so it's probably for March sometime.)

So we get up to go pick up Carly (the little girl we carpool with).  Her mom answers the door and says, "ummm, we're going on the field trip today."

So, I checked Brenner's backpack and sure enough, there was a letter in there for the field trip today!  He was sick and missed a day last week, so she had given him his paper yesterday.  We jumped in the shower and headed down to the Planetarium for his field trip.  We saw a 3D movie about the ocean.  

(Okay, so later on I started freaking out.  What if I didn't carpool and I didn't know about the field trip and I just dropped Brenner off at preschool and no one was there.  And he had no way of calling me..... enough freaking out.  I will always check his backpack.)

Handsome

Brenner had been wanting a tie for church (something about not being able to be the spotlight). So, when Children's Place got their new spring line, I went and got the big boys ties.  Babies look too adorable in sweater vests.  Don't they look handsome!!!

Twiddle-Thumbs

I just wanted to remind you that my friends and I have started a craft blog.  We now have our own domain name.... it is www.twiddle-thumbs.com

Come and check it out.  We have a lot of fun crafting ideas.

We also did our first give-away.  It is a really cute paper bag album.  You get to vote on which one you like.  By leaving a comment you are entered to win it.  Come and check us out!!!

Sunny St. George

What a beautiful weekend in sunny St. George.  We went climbing on the rocks up on the red hill.  The boys enjoyed a hike through the narrows.  And they loved climbing everywhere.

It was fun to have Chad and Melissa's family there.  Their kids took such good care of our boys.
As always, Terek enjoyed the action!!!
He even got to go swimming for the first time!!!

Sitting Up

Look at my little boy sitting up!!!  He can only do it for a few seconds, but he's getting there.  He's growing up so fast.  What an adorable little guy!

Terek at 5 months

Terek turned 5 months old today. I can't believe how quickly he is growing up. He is such a grabby little guy. He loves to reach out and grab anything in front of him. He loves to play with his toys. And he especially loves to put them in his mouth and gag on them. He is really liking his rice cereal lately. He is a little roly poly and will roll over onto his tummy almost any time he is put on the ground. He hasn't figured out how to roll back yet, so he just gets mad. He is a little wiggly worm. Whenever you hold him on your lap he will rock back and forth. I think he thinks if he gets going fast enough he can go run around with his crazy older brothers. He is such an easy baby to make laugh. And he is smiley all the time.

I know I have seen a picture of Ryan somewhere that looks just like this!!!
Terek is sick with RSV, so he's not feeling too well right now. Hopefully he gets better soon!

Happy Birthday to ME!!!

So, today I turned 34.  I thought I'd post 34 things about me.

1.  I have a great husband that I've been married to for almost 13 years that I love tons

2.  I have 3 crazy little boys that are full of life and keep me going.  I love them so much even though they drive me crazy.

3.  I love to scrapbook

4.  I love crafts... especially home decorating crafts

5.  I love to decorate my home

6.  I love to sew if it's to decorate me home

7.  I love to shop

8.  I recently took up the craft of cake decorating

9.  I like to cook (if I have time and I'm not distracted)

10.  I like to read (or look at) magazines

11.  I love to eat

12.  I like to exercise (mostly because I love to eat)

13.  I like to take my kids on fun outings

14.  I don't like to be cooped up in my home all day

15.  I like to go on walks.

16.  I like to ride my bike

17.  I like to talk

18.  I like to hang out with friends

19.  I like blogging

20.  I like camping and barbecuing

21.  I like to play hostess (have gatherings at my home)

22.  I don't like to clean my house.

23.  I don't like to do dishes

24.  I don't like to do laundry

25.  I don't like to clean up toys

26.  Sometimes I don't like my kids (gasp)

27.  I hate hair balls (like when you sweep and there is hair on the broom.  Or when you clean and hair gets on the sponge or rag)

28.  I don't like to dress up.  I'm a jeans and t-shirt kind of gal

29.  I don't like to wear jewelry (except a ring)

30.  I don't like to watch movies

31.  I barely like to watch TV

32.  I don't like to read (for the most part)

33.  I don't like the cold/snow.

34.  I like people to comment on my blog, so leave me a comment if you can think of anything I forgot.

That was one HOT cake.
I don't know if you can tell, but my idea behind this cake was that I want it to look like a scrapbook page.  It has a strip of patterned paper down the side, with a border of ribbon next to it.  Then it has some swirlies and flowers.  And a cute journalling box with "Happy 34 Anisa" in it.  I bought myself a Cricut Expression for my birthday and I've been having fun cutting out letters and accents for scrapbooking and vinyl to decorate my walls.  I plan on doing a lot more fun crafting and scrapbooking products with it.  Thanks for all of the gifts from everyone... especially my gift cards because now I get to go shopping!!!