For Daxton's birthday I put a little bit of time into a Christmas tree cake (at his request) and neither him nor Lucas took one bit of the entire cake. Greg and I pretty much downed the whole thing ourselves in a matter of days. I. Love. Sheet Cake! Lucas wanted an airplane cake, but I didn't want to add another couple of pounds to my midsection so we opted for a rice crispy airplane cake. Lucas thought is was "really cool" and the boys ate most of it!

p.s. Lucas is a little bigger, faster and stronger, but informed me that he still has to be a little bit older to make his bed all by himself. lame. :)

Another One Bites the Dust

Dax thought this would be a great idea.

And it was.

Because I know my baby isn't going to be a baby for long, I just can't get enough of him now.

He got his first haircut, loves to smile, has giggled a few times, needs to be held, doesn't sleep well and is the light of my life.

Greg was out of town last weekend and I was so tired of this red lamp and picture board and I was going to be okay if the house was a complete wreck for a few days sooooo when I wasn't taking care of four happy, needy, giggly, crying, sleepy, bawling, laughing, playing, teasing, fussy but oh so sweet boys I worked on this corner of my house.

I spent a little under $15 to make a few needed changes. Everything else I already had. I started here:

Then did:

And it finished looking like this. Ahhhhh.....I like that a whole lot better....for now!

BE MINE

IDEA TAKEN FROM eigtheen25

Yesterday we visited the JOHN DEERE DAVENPORT WORKS for Lucas' birthday. He can hardly wait to be FOUR. He really believes he'll be bigger, faster, and much much stronger.

Here's a few of the things I have been working on when I'm not: running Dax to and from school everyday (one hour in the car), feeding a baby, fixing one of the three main very necessary meals, getting snacks, packing lunches, doing laundry, folding laundry, cleaning urine off the toilets, wiping urine off the walls, scrubbing the bathrooms, mopping floors, dusting, ironing, zumba tapes, walking, playing Uno, The Ladybug Game, legos, or rescue heroes, studying my lesson for the class I teach on Sunday, reading children's books, reading my book (right now it's Safe Haven by Nicolas Sparks), reading my scriptures, worksheets with Lucas, teaching Dax how to play the piano, teaching the ABC's and 123's, walking the floor with a screaming baby (he's been a fussy one this week.....it's been a bit frustrating to say the very least), bills, dishes, and baths.

Just a couple of valentines decor. I made the pillow by cutting out 2 inch circles and then folding them in quarters and hand stitching them on. It seemed to take forever.

The picture idea came from eigtheen25 This is the only frame and mat I had laying around the house, but the mat was the wrong color so I threw some glitter on it. Still trying to decide if I like it.

And then I did some quiet books for church found here. I used: scrapbook paper, 6x6 sheet protectors from Amazon, bought a temple poster and cut it up, bought all the New Era Postcards and then printed the Apostles and Prophets pictures from here.

another one of my babe, just because.....

I think he's real real sweet