Catching Up

Okay so I am really horrible at keeping this blog updated so to catch up on all the things that have happened lately...
Alden was baptized on July 11th. He was so excited to get baptized and it was a really good day for him. Hopefully he will have good memories of his special day. He was spoiled with gifts from lots of family and friends and he was very excited to have Aunt Tara and Great Grandma Thurson and Norton there. Alden has lost five teeth in the last couple weeks though so while it doesn't show in this picture he has a toothless grin. It is pretty funny looking.

Since everyone was here for Alden's baptism we decided to have Lila blessed last Sunday too. She wore the dress that I was blessed in as a baby and suprisingly it was fairly white. It held up pretty good all these years. She was a little small in it but that is okay. She is just a little tiny thing, while my boys are all small they didn't start out that way as babies so I am still trying to get use to how small she is. She is still wearing newborn clothes and some of them are still big on her.




Dallin is the best big brother. All the boys are really. They all give her a binky the second she starts to fuss and they are good at throwing diapers away and getting me things for her like burp rags and stuff but Dallin takes extra good care of her. When she is fussy wanting to eat or something and I am finishing up doing something he gets right next to her and sings Twinkle Twinkle Little Star to try to make her stop crying. It is really sweet.

Uninvited Guest!

Today I kept thinking I was seeing things. I would catch a glimpse of something out of the corner of my eye but when I looked there was nothing. I finally stopped what I was doing at one point to investigate. I thought I saw something go under the couch. When I pulled the couch back I found a huge lizard take off running! Needless to say I was startled but lucked out when it ran into the small closet where I keep the vacuum. I threw a towel across the bottom of the door to keep it from escaping until Scott got home from work. As you can see, he and the boys had fun with it. The boys were a bit hesitant to go near it but Scott talked them into touching it. After they made it pose for photos, they then went outside and let it go and it took off up the side of the house. I'm not sure how it got in the house but I know I don't need anymore uninvited (or invited) reptiles in the house!

new diet

Okay so I must be the worst mom ever. I have really been taking advantage of the whole new baby thing. I sleep much more than I probably should. Our floor needs mopped desperately ( I figure if I hold out a couple more days Scott will get sick enough of it that he will do it himself), and my kids are pretty much on their own for breakfast and lunch which means sugary cereal or waffles with suryp overload and hot dogs and chips for lunch. Pretty much they have been eating junk for the last couple weeks. Brig has made up his own new "diet" though and I only wish that I had thought of taking pictures before cleaning up his messes.
First on Monday he decided he wanted french toast, well not really he just wanted the powder sugar we put on it. so while I was taking one of my many naps Brig helped himself to a powder sugar lunch. Ate it straight from the container got it all over the floor (yes the floor is still sticky) and was covered in it from head to toe and when one of the boys told me what he was doing he said he was trying to eat french toast for lunch. If that wasn't bad enough Tuesday for breakfast, while I was taking another one of my many naps. He decided he wanted cinnamon toast. Well he at the whole shaker of cinnamon and only used one slice of bread. however the bread did not have a single bite taken out of it. He just licked the cinnamon/sugar off and put more on and repeated over and over again. Yes again he was covered in it as was the kitchen. Iam thinking it is about time we might want to get some real food in our house again...