im in love

Jonas loves his tiny iron man action figure and yesterday just before bed time I showed him that he could fit perfectly in the pocket of his cargo pants (iron man not jonas). He was amazed and for an hour kept asking "where's iron man?" and then point to his pocket until someone peeked in and said "there he is!".
He thought it was so funny.
It was a good night.


This month has been a rough month.
I have found myself mean and grouchy.

I have dealt with sickness,
messy house,
laundry that reminds me of the two-headed monster that if you cut off a head two grow back in its place. except in my case it seems that at least 4 take the place of one...
and so on and so on

But tonight as I sit on the couch with everyone asleep. eating my own personal pint of ben & jerry's (yep, my husband loves me).
I cant help but remember that even though things are not going as I had once planned I am truly a lucky girl. I have a husband that loves me no matter how many melt downs in the last few weeks I have had or how many times he has come home to me still in my pajamas. I have four incredibly amazing children who can figure out just how to make me feel frustrated and pure joy all in a matter of moments. Dinner tonight was no exception. It started like every dinner... aaron and I trying desperately just to get them to take a bite... ONE bite. We sing "yo gabba gabba" songs, try to make it a game, threaten, time out, and try not to completely loose it. Then Jonas does something funny and we all cant help but laugh. Abby then somehow starts a starring contest and its HILARIOUS!
I cant help but look around the table and feel totally amazed at how great things really are no matter how hard the journey seems.

I am in love with life. my life. its amazing. and I wouldn't change any of it.

and here is another favorite moment of the month I thought I would share (just so it doesn't seem like it was such a horrible month after all)

we were fortunate at the beginning of the month to have some really nice weather and so we ventured out on a family bike ride. Emma made it maybe 10 minutes and then she just... stopped.





and our bike cart went from this





to this.


she makes me smile. they all make me smile. and these are the very small moments in my life that I cherish. and every time I go back and remember them I cant help but feel good. I have many many of these "little moments" and I need to remember them more instead of the not so awesome ones all the time.

the end.

This would be Noah.
Yep, still cute.

saying good-bye is super hard to do

Being a military family we have had to say good-bye to many friends, but this time was the hardest. The Davis family have been our friends (more like family) for a long time. We met when I was pregnant with Emma and she was pregnant with Lilli. Its going to be weird not having Shari just two doors down. I miss them so much already!!

Moses

On Monday Aaron had told the girls all through dinner that someone special was going to visit for Family Home Evening. They were so excited to have Moses come and teach us about the ten commandments!



paper beard and all!