"World Spins Madly On"

I hate when I do something I don't want to do but I think my kids want it and then they pout the whole time. What am I talking about? Donuts. Last night out of the blue Davis starts saying he wants donuts so I tell him that we can get some in the morning even though I don't really want my anyone in my family to eat them since they're entirely devoid of nutrition (I'm crunchy I know, people tell me all the time). Well, Davis cried all morning but straightened up just in time to "earn" his donut but then once they ate their donuts Leah cried because she wanted two! And then once they got home they were both cranky and arguing incessantly. I sat down at the computer in hopes of distracting myself and good thing stepheniemeyer.com did not disappoint! Entertainment Weekly posted a snippet of the first chapter of Breaking Dawn, it's excruciatingly short but after the morning I've had I'll take it :)

One cute thing this morning: In hopes of changing their moods I helped the kids build a fort in the living room (okay it's really a few kitchen chairs with a blanket draped over them) and after it was built Leah said, "Now we have to decorate it". That moment of girlishness made me smile :)

"Racing through the void in my head..."

Poor Grayson had a rough holiday weekend. He started getting his molars Saturday and was not too happy about it that whole day. And then Sunday after church is when the "spitting up" started. He's a lot like me in the sense that once he's thrown up his stomach gets so sensitive that any little thing triggers more vomiting so anytime he ate or drank too fast a little would come back up. On top of all this he got a fever last night too. My poor little baby was up 4 or 5 times last night :( He seems to feel soooo much better this morning though, and his fever is practically gone. Here's a picture of us this morning all sleepy-eyed and what not:
And you can kinda see the bruise he has on his right cheek. He got that on Friday when he was crawling on our bed and his hand slipped between the mattress and the footboard. Like I said, my poor baby :(

* 5 cool points to anyone who knows what song the title of this post came from. Um Jeff, those cool points are pretty much yours for the taking :)

A Tag about Jeff

My friend Lisa tagged me but it's about Jeff so here it is:

1. What is his name? Jeff
2. Who eats more? Me.

3. Who said I love you first? Um yeah, that would be me.

4. Who is taller? He is.

5. Who is smarter? Ha ha. I plead the 5th.

6. Who is more sensitive? Amazingly it's me.
7. Who does the laundry? From the looks of my bedroom nobody :)

8. Who sleeps on the right side of the bed? Jeff.
9. Who pays the bills? Physically me but figuratively him.

10. Who cooks more? Me.

11. What meals do you cook together? What does that mean? Cook together?

12. Who is more stubborn? Jeff.
13. Who is first to admit they are wrong? Ha ha, it's me but he says its him.

14. Who is cleaner? Leah :)

15. Who has more siblings? He does.

16. Who wears the pants in the relationship? Jeff.

17. What do you like to do together? Laugh.

18. Who eats more sweets? Jeff.

19. Guilty pleasures? Jeff's: Fark.com Mine: blogging
20. How did you meet? At SUU, we lived in the same apartment complex.
21. Who kissed who first? Jeff kissed me first.

22. Who proposed? Ha ha, nobody. It's still a mystery how we got engaged ;)
23. His best feature? His rock hard body!
24. What is his greatest quality? He's a dedicated employee who makes everyone at work laugh.

OK so before doing this tag I wasn't feeling too chipper and completing it didn't make me feel much better but listening to some good ol' fashioned punk music did :) So, thank you Boys Like Girls, Fall Out Boy and Paramore.

"We'll scream at the top of our lungs
And they'll think it's just cause we're young
And we'll feel so alive"
- The Great Escape by Boys Like Girls

He Walks

Sorry the video is so dark, I'm technologically challenged.


Things to notice:
1. His amazing walking skills.
2. The jabber, he talks all the time but mostly jibberish :)
3. The celebratory headbanging... I think I'm raising a rockstar!
4. The cutest profile ever at 22 seconds in!
5. He starts to fall at the end, his flailing arms are so funny to me :)

"Things are shaping up to be pretty odd..."

Everyone knows I love Panic so I thought I'd share my favorite song off their new ablum Pretty.Odd. Follow the link to bask in their acoustic goodness :) http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90520630


"Things have changed for me, and that's okay.
I feel the same, I'm on my way, and I say.

I want to go where everyone goes,
I want to know what everyone knows
I want to go where everyone feels the same

I never said I'd leave the city,
I never said I'd leave this town.
A falling out we won't tiptoe about. "

Father & Sons

Last weekend Jeff took Davis to the Father & Sons overnighter. Davis was so excited he talked about camping all week. I kept telling him how many more days and he kept telling me "It's taking a long time!". Last year was the first year they went and Leah and I started a tradition too: Girl's night out to Coldstone Creamery after they leave :) This year, after we got our ice cream, we came home and colored together. Grayson had already gone to bed and Leah and I made a butterfly and a caterpillar. Leah said "This is the best day ever" which made me happy :) Jeff and Davis came home around 10 or 11 in the morning so us girls didn't have too much time to ourselves on Saturday.
Here's a summary of Jeff's account of the trip:
By the time they drove out to the dry lake beds it was really dark and you could see the moon and stars really well which Davis loved. They rode a 4-wheeler over to a neighboring camp where Jeff's brother and his kid were camping with their ward. At first Davis was scared to ride it but after he got on and they started driving fast he was happy and cheering :) They came back to their camp and made their bed in the back of the truck. Davis isn't a very good sleeper so he kept Jeff up all night! In the morning they ate breakfast. When it was about time to leave Jeff was pouring the water from the ice chests and Davis had a great time stepping in the mud puddle and was fascinated that the clay really stuck to his shoes!!

If you enlarge the picture you'll be amazed how much mud is stuck to his shoes!!

When they got home Davis was excited to tell me the ground had "cacks" and he used his finger to make them go away. Then for the next few days he kept saying to me "Do you know where camping is? Daddy knows. It's just for boys."

He Speaks

Here's a video of Gray saying Leah so cute!

Don't pay attention to the fact that Leah's without a shirt, she's my crazy naked girl!

And my mom sent me this picture from Summer '82 (making me about a year old). Don't you think Grayson looks just like me!?!

Gotta love the clothes. I think they're back in style now :) Yeah, I'm that old, ha ha.

EDIT: My mom said this picture was more likely taken when I was 8 or 9 months. She thinks this because I was walking by the time I was a year old. He still looks like me :)