Books

I've been reading a lot of books lately but unfortunately I haven't really liked a single one. I have a whole list of books that I would NOT recommend. I guess I'll just have to wait until Breaking Dawn comes out to get my "awesomely good book fix" :)

One year ago today...

was the day Grayson was born :)
Happy Birthday Gray!

It's been a good year. Grayson was instantly loved by both his brother and his sister. As a baby he was so calm and let them play with him a lot. He grew up so fast!! He had 8 teeth at 8 months! He's so smart too :) By his first birthday he could say Hi, Mom, Dada, & Leah! He could give kisses, click his tongue, and wave goodbye. He also developed a love for the phone. If it's laying around he'll pick it up, hold it to his head (or neck :) and jabber. And don't try to take it away, he has an iron clad grip and a ear piercing shriek. I think Leah taught him that :)

My Boys

No, not Davis and Grayson...the Moffat boys. We just finished babysitting/housesitting the Moffat boys and it was a fun-filled four days. I miss them already! Jacob and Andrew are by far my favorite 11 & 1o year olds and Tyler told me my hair looked pretty so he gets bonus points for that :)
Here are some reasons why I consider our time there a success:
- We laughed a lot and according to Andrew I will probably die because I laugh too much :)
- Jacob and Leah shared in their common love of drawing/coloring.
- We set off dry-ice bombs on the basketball court and nobody was hurt or arrested.
- Everybody loved my cooking (well, they loved it when I brought home Cafe Rio :).
- After endless bean bag fights, rounds of hide-and-go-seek and jumping on the trampoline everyone had no trouble going to bed each night.
- We were only 15 minutes late to church.
- I didn't kill Tyler for making us 15 minutes late to church.

My favorite memory:
Autumn, Leah, Andrew and Jacob are outside jumping on the trampoline. Andrew climbs on the wall the easy way and jumps onto the trampoline.
Andrew: "Autumn, I bet you can't do that."
Autumn climbs on the wall the hard way to prove how tough she is and sits down on the ledge.
Autumn: "I don't want to jump on the trampoline from here I just wanted to climb up."
Andrew: "What are ya chicken?"
Autumn: "Andrew, I'm an adult I don't give in to peer pressure."
Andrew bocks like a chicken.
Leah: "My mom can't jump on the trampoline, she's too big. If she jumps on it it will break!"
Everyone laughs out loud.
And Scene.

See why I love them so much!? Until next time guys :)

Creativity Abounds

Leah LOVES to color, draw and paint. She spends time everyday drawing shapes, coloring them and then cutting them out. She's pretty talented if you ask me, but don't ask me I'm biased :) I'm especially proud of her latest drawing:
She explained it as this: "It's Davis surfing and a shark is going to bite him. A shark with a teeny tiny baby shark in it's tummy". Good job Leah, and don't forget the happy but slightly evil looking sun in the sky :)

Ummmm...

The other day a neighbor, who does daycare out of her home, asked me if I do daycare because she always sees me with so many children it caused her to wonder. No...these are my kids...all of them.

My Name

Jenny had this on her blog and it said there are 581 Jennifer Jensens!!

HowManyOfMe.com

There is 1 person with my name in the U.S.A. How many have your name?

Turns out I'm an original :) I don't trust this website but it would be cool if it were true. It did say there are 15,652 people in the U.S. with the last name Leavitt and I'm sure most of them live in Las Vegas :)

Mr. Pibb + Red Vines = Crazy Delicious

The title's just the beginning of the randomness.

My sister came to visit on the 7th and I didn't even blog about it! Here's the 10 days in a nutshell: laughing, eating, chasing around a lot of small children, exiling detergent and washing things with traditional soaps, looking at houses, watching Gavin Degraw put other artist's live shows to shame, hearing ourselves cheering for Gavin on YouTube. I miss her a lot.

Davis is the middle child right now and he kinda fits the bill. He likes writing on things with markers...mostly his face. Remember when he gave himself a mustache? Well, the other day he had drawn on his face and when I confronted him he said an ogre had cut him, "yeah mom they're ogre cuts". When I tried to explain that there aren't ogres in our house because I lock them out he said "they have big muscles and can break the doors". Well, before there were ogres doing naughty things there were bad guys. One bad guy had cut chunks out of Davis' hair!!! Not Davis, a bad guy. Good thing he looks so cute with a buzz cut.

We buzzed Grayson's hair too and now it's blond!


Jana posted about Anne Taintor who adds sayings to vintage pics. This one is my favorite:














Gossip Girl last night did not disappoint. I know it's a stupid show but it's the only show I got into this season so I'm sticking by it.

Today the kids were outside eating their Popsicles and when I walked out Davis informed me "Leah's pretending she's at the temple and I'm pretending I'm going to go get a massage." ha ha

Last but not least, I am now anxiously awaiting the Twilight movie. Only because they keep posting behind the scenes clips on MTV.com and they're good. "When you can live forever what do you live for?" I mean come on, that's a fantastic tag line. And Robert Pattinson is the perfect Edward. He really has no idea how celebrity he's going to be after this. Poor guy.