Happy Birthday Jeff

Jeffs turns the big 31 today and gets to celebrate by going to Scout Day Camp, a baptism, and and elders quorum activity! I guess that's what you get when you have 3 callings!! We had his favorite dinner last night of crock pot pork chops with gravy sauce over mashed potatoes and for dessert he wanted Icecream Snickers bars. The boys were more excited for his birthday than I think he even was, but couldn't understand why nobody was coming for a party:) Happy Birthday Babe!

Porter's first day of Preschool

Well his first day this year! This is actually his fourth year, thanks to mom who taught preschool and he got to join in on the fun and the fact that he misses the deadline for kindergarten by 23 days. He has been really excited and has said several times how excited he was to meet his teacher and see who his new friends were going to be. He will get speech through the preschool and is quite happy he gets to ride the bus. Jarom on the other hand was very sad that Porter was going to preschool. He cried for him all the way home and kept asking for him. Porter wasn't at all sad to see me leave, I can't wait for him to come home and tell me all about it! Oh he is growing up too fast! He sure looked so old all dressed and ready for "school" with his backpack on. He will only go three days a week, thank goodness cause I don't think I could handle him being gone more than that.

Cluff Family Reunion

I am late in posting... but we had a blast in the mountains. It was so nice that the boys just played away and I didn't have to watch them every second of the day. We enjoyed seeing all of the family and spending time catching up.
Here is Porter with his painted Pirate face doing his temple block craft which he absolutely loved! He sure loves doing crafts.

Seth also wanted a Pirate face. He and Cambry were quite the buds. The sandbox is always a hot spot to play.

Jarom had to get in on the fun by doing a temple block. He just didn't want any help from me!

I'm going Private

so if you want to be invited... email me so I can add you to the list!

Jarom's in a BIG Bed!

We weren't planning on transitioning him to a big bed until after baby since he was still doing so good and going to bed so easily... I was not willing to give that up:) BUT after reunion he hasn't been doing well at all going down and so last night we put him in the big bed and he slept through the night!! I put him down for his nap in the big bed too and he went right to sleep... hopefully it lasts!! Now I can make the nursery into baby GIRLS room :)

First Day of School

Seth started 1st grade today and wasn't thrilled at all to go. I would post a picture, but you see Seth wouldn't let me take one... maybe tomorrow morning he will. I think the fruit roll up in his lunch was what got him there! Since we missed meet the teacher night because we were at my family reunion, he was a little more apprehensive about going. I think he warmed up fast and was glad to see some familiar faces. When I picked him up (after counting the hours down, I have a hard time letting him go, I think I'd rather he stay with me forever) he said, "Mom, it's so different... we don't have green lights we have white lights!" I thought it was rather cute since the difference wasn't that big, but to him it was. We look forward to a hopefully wonderful year! Porter can't wait to start preschool and Jarom keeps asking where his backpack is. Oh the joys of school!

Trip to Grandma's

We had such a fun time for our week away vacation! We were able to be there for cousin Austins 8th birthday party where we played some awesome balloon games and ate a b.b. gun cake. Then we took Austin with us to Grandma's where we swam our little hearts away. Porter really caught on to learning to swim and actually enjoyed going under water! Jarom decided he liked swimming by the last day we were there :) Seth enjoyed the water as long as he was in a baby floatie... silly kid. We got to go to cousin Jacob's party where the boys loved playing baseball. The 24th celebrations were alright this year... the boys enjoyed the parade but the rest of it we pretty much got rained out. Then we went to Aunt Stacies and even got to go swimming where there was a really fun slide that Porter loved. What a fun week we had.

New Pet

So we are growing a little garden and have our first tomato... we were quite excited. A few days later I noticed 1/4 of the tomato eaten and discovered this rather huge caterpillar looking thing on the plant... which for sure we figured was the culprit for eating the tomato. So I googled it and found out that it is a Tomato Hornworm and it will eat all my tomatos! So we put it in a jar and it is now our new pet! I guess we'll have to keep our eyes out for more of these ugly critters.

SORRY

So we just finished playing a family game of SORRY and I asked the boys if they wanted to make a card for their cousin Austin saying sorry that you broke your arm. Jarom went over to the board and brought me back a card from the SORRY deck. We were all laughing! Seth thought that we should send Austin the real SORRY card for sure. It was quite funny. So here you go Austin- Sorry you broke your arm and got hurt!

Here goes Sarah, first time I've done one of these

THE RULES....list 3 joys, 3 fears, 3 goals, 3 current obessions/collections, 3 random surprising facts about yourself. Tag 5 people at the end of your post by leaving their names....

3 JOYS- #1 MY hot, handsome, sensitive, caring, loving, wonderful husband Jeff
#2 My 3 boys and little baby girl #3 Working out- it is a must for me as I love how I feel after I did it, how I eat better that day, how I feel rejuevenated afterwards, how it makes me more patient and happy, and how hot it makes me look LOL

3 Fears #1 Scary movies, I just don't do scary anything, I hate having nightmares #2 Not that I really fear it, but I would hate it... loosing Jeff or the kids #3 Not teaching my kids what I was sent here to have them learn

3 Goals #1 Loose all my weight from this pregnancy, hahaha I still have 4 months to go and I am already ready to loose it all, yes all 50 lbs that I am sure I will gain with this just like all of the other pregnancies #2 Beat my last Triathlon time (hopefully Sept 2009 Anthem Sprint Triathlon, as long training doesn't get in the way of the nursing thing) #Be a better, more loving and patient mom, wife, and homemaker by not raising my voice, cooking healthy delicious meals, and keeping to the budget!

3 Obsessions/Collections #1 Working Out, gotta have it! #2 Scrapbooking, although haven't done much of this lately maybe I should say cleaning instead... I kind of become OC about it #3 Reading I think I have read at least 10 books already this summer, I love getting caught up in another world.

3 Random Surprising Facts #1 I bribe my kids with an otter pop for leaving me alone every day so I can get my nap (hey I'm prego and I get up at 5, justification works for me) #2 I talk to Jeff on the phone on average about 10 times a day #3 I could eat a bean burro everday for the rest of my life and still love every bite

I tag Kerianne, Tif H, Becca, Rachel, and Mom