Free Range on Fairview

Only a month late, but here are pictures from Dylan's rockin' 6th Football Birthday Party!  Football Player Cake  Eating football stadium type food for lunch, filling the kids up with junk before sending them out to play football and obstacle course. Owen, Dylan, Josh B., Josh R., Andy and Cameron. 4 of the 5 boys are from his kindergarten class.  Linc laughing at the hilarious group of boys.  Opening presents on the step of a ladder? Yes we're that classy.  Shane said I had to get pictures of Dylan's friends at his party incase the kids grow up and become the "cool kids" just so we have proof... so cute at this age.  Dylan the ham with other kids playing or wrestling in the background.  Shane keeping an eye on all the crazies. I set up an obstacle course so the boys could have some football practice, I think they had a blast.  Mint Chocolate Chip Cupcakes with Mint Oreo "icing", Dylan invented this concoction to bring to his class for his ...

 Got all the boys together for a cute little picture. Lincoln up front, Liko, Shane and Dylan, just before he turned 6.  Linc concentrating hard on making a nice beat on the muffin tins.  Lincoln and friend Asher having a car playdate at our house. Notice how Linc (8 months) is tasting the cars while Asher (18 months) decided which one he will play with. Such big developments happen in a years time.  Lincoln smiling just like the baby on his favorite book.  Lincoln reading his favorite book. Smooches from Mommy

I know, I know it's been forever... but with finals week, a cold and then vacation it's been wild. Anyhoo... I will admit I used to loath overalls. Yes I wore them growing up, but I never put Dylan in them and almost handed down another pair that was given to Lincoln but I decided to try them on him today just to see and lo and behold, I love them! He is adorable and I don't know I've just changed my tune. I also put his tractor hat on him for our walk today (actual sunshine was present) and he just looked like he was ready to start his farming career in our agricultural community. so cute. He's getting huge and I've downloaded two videos on facebook of him "crawling" now so don't forget to check that out. Getting the other two kids back on Sunday to restart the craziness of my normal life. Monday I also start my Beginning Digital Photography class to finish up my AA so hopefully I will be taking tons more great pictures.

Adventures of our Crazy Life is right. We've been a little crazy and silly lately so I haven't posted in a while but here's a few pictures to recap what's been going on lately. Lincoln is now 8 months old, wowzer, what a big boy. He is sitting up on his own, spending over 5 minutes playing with one toy, eating all sorts of food, taking regular naps during the day, and we think trying to break so more teeth through. He's been uber fussy this last weekend so hopefully they just come out and he can relax again. The top three pictures are from March 3rd. In the first one he looks so much like Daddy, and in the third one he looks a lot like Dylan. I love seeing his personality come out! Last night we but together Lincoln's crib. He's still sleeping in the pack 'n play in our room during the night, but we put the crib together so he can start napping in there and hopefully transition when he is fully sleeping through the night. So of course I had to grab the c...

I really thought I was being clever when I realized that it might be a good idea to make reservations for our summer vacation this early in February. Much to my chagrin when I hopped on the internet to Farragut State park in Idaho (which is minutes away from Silverwood amusement park which happens to be the kids favorite part of the trip) and I started looking around expecting to find a plethora of options... I was wrong. Dead wrong. There is nothing left for the week Shane has off. We've been doing this for a few years now and I thought this far in advance  from July I was really planning ahead, but apparently other people plan better than me. So now we are trying to figure out what we can do. We have a trailer that we are still paying on and want to use it so we are looking into splitting up RV spots, or coming up with Plan B or maybe Plan C... The Ocean, the forest... anywhere just not the desert. We have over a week to fill with family time and I feel defeated because my brain ...

 I tried to sit Lincoln on my bathroom sink counter while I clipped his finger nails since I haven't found a way to efficiently do this. I did the hand closets to the mirror first while he held a little bottle of lotion first, then I switched and made my fatal mistake. I let his other hand free. Since I had a death grip on his right hand and was still only half done, I just let it go and knew I was in for some cleaning. He managed to flip over the tooth brush holder and dump out my entire make up bag. Figured I could snap some pictures rather than getting mad, it was my fault for putting him there right?

We were out to dinner the other night with the boys and my dad, Kevin. Dylan busily colored the leprechaun coloring contest picture. After he was finished he showed it to me and said, "Doesn't it look lanique?" Lanique, what the heck is that? I finally realized that the hostess had told him to color the picture and make it look unique . ahh That makes sense now. His tye dye picture will hopefully win him a gift card, but to me lanique is worth more than that! I am just so happy lately. I think I finally realized that while there are things that I want, I have so much more than I could need. I have a husband who loves me. Yes we have our day to day issues but we get along, we make decisions, we have a nice warm house and I get to stay home and enjoy it. I have a teenage daughter to impress upon and have real conversations with. I have an almost 6 year old who lets me cuddle him when I want, but can explain to me how trees grow on the tundra. I have a 7 month old baby that...