Surprises!

Mark came home from work with something for each of us!

 Laina's flowers

She said to say "I love the flowers! Love, Laina."

 

 The boys got airplanes, a motorcycle, and a car.

Cheese!

 Daddy showing them how to play with them the cool way!

 

I love how they are just soaking it all in!

Laina and I laughed at her flowers on her head.

 And my beautiful flowers!!!!!!

What a sweet, sweet husband God has blessed me with!

The Boys' "New" Bed

Mark's Aunt Sara heard that we wanted to get a bunk bed for the boys. Aunt Sara said that Mark's cousin Billie Rae had one that she was wanting to get rid of. YAY!!!!!!!! It saved me the headache of looking for one and having to buy one since they were so sweet and just gave it to us!

So that led to Mark and me taking a "quick" 14 hour trip out to SD to pick it up at Mark's grandma's house while our kids stayed with my REALLY nice parents at our house. It was very nice to be able to spend that much time with Markypoo. He did get a little stir crazy the last 2 hours. hehe  But it was a really nice time! And it flew!!! Perhaps because we didn't have 3 little ones needing to go to the bathroom or asking if we're there yet or saying "I'm soooo tired of being in the car," etc. haha We said that we could go to a gas station and both go in AT THE SAME TIME!!! :D It was nice. But best thing of all was that we were bringing our boys something fun. While we were out there, we did get to see Billie and Grandma and Uncle Bill for a little bit. Mark was tempted to stay there forever but he knew he couldn't. :) It was hard to go there and have to leave right away, especially since the weather was beautiful (73 degrees)!!!

The next couple days I painted it. And here's the finished product.

I'm just so happy with how it turned out! Mark says that he wants one! haha

Bodie sleeps on the bottom. Such a huge bed for a little boy, but Sutton can always join him if he wants. Besides that, Bodie kept falling out off of his crib mattress that I put on the floor so now he has a big bed to roll around in and MAYBE I'll get more sleep cuz he will. :D And Sutton gets the top which he thinks is sooooo cool.

Grandma (and Grandpa) Brown bought them their cool Lightening McQueen sheets and throw and all their new pillows! It was sooo sweet of her/them. The boys absolutely love their new bed!!!

Thank you, Billie Rae, Aunt Sara, and Grandma Sally and my Mom and Dad!!!
You made two little boys very happy!!

That Sticky Whiteness

SNOW

We HAD to get out and build a snowman!

 I made the big one. 

Laina made the small one.

I don't have any idea what face that is! haahaha

And Sutton watched

and chatted and chatted

about the movie that Bodie was watching

(that was Bodie's treat cuz he had to stay in with dad).

Sorry this is blurry....

While I was working on the driveway,

they built this snow "castle". 

It's on the sidewalk between them. :)

Winter Wonderland

Just wanted to share some pictures of the beautiful white stuff!!

 

Just some Randomness

A few pictures of the stuff lately with a couple more drawings from Laina:

The boys in their Jeep.

Laina picked out her own clothes. Doesn't she do such a GREAT job!?! :D That's a sticker on her mouth. Silly Girl!

A teary "cheese" because he wasn't allow to go on the carpet because of potty training.

"Cheese"

The snowman Laina, Sutton, and I built.  He kind of blends into the background! haha I had told the kids that as soon as I was done with the driveway I'd make a snowman with them. Mark came home in the meantime and asked what was for dinner. I told him. So he said that he'd make it so I could make the snowman with the kids as promised. What a sweet guy!!!

A snowman with a broom

Spot, an Easter egg, a chick, and a heart.

The chick Laina made all by herself. She cut it out, colored it, and taped it together while I was up in my room reading my Bible. I thought it was so cute so we had to show you. :)

I tried to add videos but it wouldn't let me. I don't know if my video is not compatible for blogger...so maybe I have to change it somehow...I don't know. I'll have to figure it out.

More to come!

Hearts, Flowers, and Candles

I know that I have Christmas and Sutton's birthday to share about yet but thought I'd share how our Valentines' Day went. Not that it is an overly interesting story but it was a day in our life. And a memorable one for me. :)

I am potty-training Bodie. Usually I let Bodie run around without pants on and keep him on the linoleum so that he isn't having accidents on the carpet. I just want him to become aware of when he goes... Anywho, we decided to get a new company for internet. The technician (a man named Jim) was to come yesterday between 10a-12n. I couldn't have Bodie running around half-naked so I didn't put a diaper on him and just put pants on. It was a few minutes before 10a I smelled something.....he had gone number two in his pants.....I pulled the pants off so carefully but he still ended up with a brown leg....ewwww. So I was able to get that cleaned off before the man got here. It probably still smelled like poo.... I decided that we were forgoing potty training for the day. hehe

I had a list of things to do: I wanted to make a craft with the kids and just make the day special, a candle-lit dinner for supper for the fam so I had dinner to get ready and I wanted to bake a heart cake for dessert, I knew something was going to be delivered (Mark told me to expect something today in case they needed to call me first), laundry to do, the floor was covered in dog hair but I had Chester out in the garage where the central vac leads and wasn't sure how he'd handle turning that on, the floor also needed a quick washing (which it  needs practically every day), the counter (peninsula part) was full of things that just needed to be put away, AND I wanted to try to get some school in with the kids. After thinking about my list, I decided since it since it was a holiday it's a fun day and we were just going to make the craft for school.

First during breakfast, I was looking for a Valentine's movie on netflix but couldn't find one but Sutton saw this and HAD to watch it!

MONSTER TRUCKS!!!

This is them watching it. haha Zoned for all 25 minutes.

 We started watching "Hello, Kitty" for Laina but then the cable/internet guy came. And after I had cleaned the floor, he didn't even need to be in the kitchen using the phone jack that I thought he was going to need. He needed the cable up in my bedroom. Thank goodness I am good about keeping my room clean and my bed made! And he was here when I got my delivery so that kinda took away from the moment. hehe

Aren't they beautiful!? They came with a box of chocolates. First time I think that I have ever gotten chocolates!

   I was able to make the craft with the kids but they didn't like it because they had to touch goey glue (it took me probably about 45 minutes to get the craft ready - it was making hearts our of yarn and glue but i find the recipe to make the glue) so their hands got gross but I made them do it because sometimes it's OK to get yucky!!

  Oh, by the way, I bought Mark the candy hearts he likes a couple days ago but he saw them and then was playing with the package by throwing it in the air. The bag dropped and broke open so he said that he "needs to eat them otherwise they're going to get hard and gross (whatever allows me to eat them early)." Most of his Valentine's present was gone by the time it was Valentines' Day but Laina decorated a can and we put what was left in it at his place at the table

I didn't get the cake frosted or dinner made until after Mark got home. But I DID have the table set when the kids got up from nap/quiet time. Laina said, "Pretty!"

When I lit the candles at supper, Sutton asked if we were going to sing "Happy Birthday."

After dinner we watched a movie together.

All in all the day was crazy busy (what day isn't?!) but it was a really nice day.

December....

...At least the beginning of it. :)

Our house all festive for Christmas but missing snow!

No lights, except around the two living room windows from the inside. I was going to put them outside but the only outlet was by the deck in the back and we didn't have a long enough extension cord...oh, well, there's always next year!

 Bodie decided one day that he was going to pretend to drink out of one of those cups on the shelf with the green pitcher.....Well, it broke. He wasn't allowed to touch them again! hehe

More of December to come.