Tagged

I guess since I was directly tagged I will do it. = )

8 Favorite TV Shows
1) Chuck
2) The Big Bang Theory
3) Amazing Race
4) NCIS
5) Eli Stone
6) Mythbusters
7) Dirty Jobs
8) um... I watch other shows but I wouldn't say they are my FAVORITE

8 Things I Did Yesterday
1) fed the kids
2) changed diapers
3) tried to get Alex to wear halloween costume
4) worked
5) ate
6) bathed Zach
7) read to Alex
8) Played a game with Shawn

Things I Look Forward To
1) SLEEP!
2) Quiet time
3) Happy kids
4) Shawn coming home from work
5) The weekends!

Favorite Restaurants
1) Cafe Rio
2) Olive Garden
3) Smokehouse BBQ
4) Brick Oven

8 Things on my wish list
1) Trip to Europe
2) Happy and cooperative kids all the time!
3) No debt
4) finished basement
5) visit all the church temples
6) didn't have to work
7) NO MORE HEADACHES!!!!
8) easy weight loss

People to Tag
I think pretty much everyone I know has done this

I don't want to Halloween!

Every time we have asked Alex what he wanted to be for Halloween he would just say "NO!" so we figured we would go with the safe bet and have him be Mario since he is completely obsessed. A few weekends ago we went and found some overalls for him and some for Zach so they could be Mario and Luigi. Well today was Alex's preschool Halloween party I started getting him dressed and he had a complete melt down and started screaming "I DON'T WANT TO HALLOWEEN!" So with his ride on the way I finally got him to tell me that he did want to go to preschool and just wanted to wear his red shirt. So I sent him off, sans costume, red eyed from crying and told his ride to tell the teacher I was sorry but he said he wanted to go. Well he came home and was just fine and apparently had done well in school, and he told me he "LOVED trick or treating" So now I am left with the dilemma of what to do on Halloween, do I take him to the ward party and trick or treating sans costume, or do I just bag the whole thing and treat it like a normal night? Because he doesn't eat candy anyway?

On another note, Alex asked me for a drink of milk a little while ago, and I had set the milk on the counter while I was putting the lid on his cup and he looked at the milk and said "What is this milk???" and after the morning we had I thought "oh great we are in for it" I told him it was just milk from a different store so it had a different label. Thankfully he accepted that answer and drank his milk. He has a tendency to buck anything that is out of the "norm" he doesn't like it if I switch brands on anything the kid definitely has is quarks that is for sure!

First Field Trip

Today Alex went on his first field trip, and being October they went to a pumpkin patch. They got to go on a "tractor ride" out to the pumpkin patch and then they got to pick their own pumpkins. Most of the small ones were pretty picked over, fortunately we already had nice pumpkins from Grandpa Knight's garden. Then we rode back to the Red Barn and had apple cinnamon doughnuts and they gave the kids coloring books. It was fun to go and see Alex interact with the other kids, he had a lot of fun but was definitely tired and ready to come home.

Alex and three of his classmates Aaliyah, Katie (I think) and Andrew. I am sorry but when I went back through the pictures I thought this picture was just so dang cute, and then I also realized that it was blond, brunette, blond, brunette. I also realized it was boy, girl, girl, boy...

Alex on the tractor ride.

Alex's Class

Pumpkin Cake

I just got my Kraft Kitchens Food & Family email and there were some WAY cute ideas for Halloween in it. I absolutely LOVED the "Pumpkin" cake! If you don't get their emails here is the link to the cake. http://www.kraftfoods.com/kf/recipes/great-pumpkin-cake-65453.aspx?e=email.

Sorry for the random post, I just had to share that.

I'm not a baby

Alex got up this morning and came out to me, I said "Hey baby!" and gave him a hug (which is a normal morning routine) and then he said "I'm not a baby, I'm a Alex"
Okay then!

First Step!

So yesterday I got Zachy to take his first step and like everything else he does, he did it like he has been doing it for ages. I have said I wouldn't be surprised if he was walking by a year but maybe he will be walking by 11 months.

Random Cute Thing:
Alex was sitting here looking at the Fisher-Price catalog again this morning (let me tell you that keeps a kid busy for hours!) He pointed to one of the toddler toys that you put balls in and they move down a pipe and come out the other end. He said "I wanna play this" and I said "Um, okay" and he sat there for a few more minutes then brought it over to me and said "This is at Wal-Mart" and I said "Yes it is" (he had seen it a few weeks ago) and he sat there and thought about it then said "We have to go to Wal-Mart and get it, lets go!" Right...

Random Question:
Have you ever had one of those nights were you dream all night so when you wake up in the morning you feel like you didn't sleep?

I want to wear my pajamas!

I asked Alex to go pick out a shirt and he said "No, I want to wear my pajamas!" I figured I would just let that go until after breakfast, so I asked him what he wanted for breakfast and he told me "hot dog in a bun". I started to say "no" but then I thought about it and figured, what the heck what is wrong with him having a hot dog for breakfast if that is what he really wants. (Sorry Nicholle I know how you feel about hot dogs) So as I set the hot dog down in front of him I thought "well I won't be winning any Mother of the Year awards!"

This week is "F" so Alex brought home a fish picture. It's all in "Christmas colors" and I am not sure what that is all about. He told me this morning that you "stick the paper in the washer and go swish swish and then put it down to dry" It took me a minute to realize he was taking about the "paper mache" that they did on the fish.

Now what are you eating???

So we have officially entered the "what is in your mouth" stage with Zach. I have to admit we were really lucky and never really went through this stage with Alex (maybe that is why he is such a picky eater...) Anyways, Zach has really gotten his hand eye coordination down and can get everything in his mouth now. It makes it nice for feeding him because I can give him little things he can gum (he still only has his two bottom teeth) and he can sit and munch while I get the rest of his food ready. It's bad however because EVERYTHING automatically goes into his mouth, including the cat food... Oh well we have gotten him before he has actually swallowed any of it so hopefully it wont kill him. I know he isn't the first child to eat cat food and heaven knows he wont be the last.

Here is one of Alex's projects for the week. This week was "E" so they did Elephant puppets on Wednesday. Wednesday's are also "show and tell" day and they are suppose to bring something that starts with the letter of the week. So I sent some plastic Easter eggs that we had one was a "spider man", one was a football and the other was a really cool gold metallic one. So when I went to pick up the kids I heard one of the other moms talking to the teacher about how hard it was to think of something for "E". The teacher said that she had some kids bring "envelopes" and "egg plants". I thought that was pretty creative!

On a different note I had a thought earlier today about how tricky Satan is and how even if you have had a personal revelation/prompting about something, he works and works at you until you start doubting yourself and that revelation/prompting. As I had this thought, as clear as day another thought came to me: How true and powerful the Family Proclamation is and how bad Satan wants to destroy the bonds and ties of family. Now I realize this isn't earth shattering information and is something I knew before but I was just amazed at how firmly that was impressed on me and how I need to step back and re-analyze the doubts with these things in mind. I also felt that this was something I needed to put on my blog, I don't know if it's just for a reminder to myself or if someone else needs to hear it.

-Kim

Over...

So I am really sad that Conference Weekend is over. I have been on kind of a "spiritual high". The previous weekend we had gone to the temple and then I went to the broadcast of Women's Conference that night, then to have Conference this past weekend I have just been so spiritually uplifted! I hope all of you enjoyed Conference as much as I did! As Janalee (my sister) put it "we should have Conference every three months!"

On a side note, the other night Shawn was getting the bath ready for the boys and I walked passed and I just thought this was just a "Kodak" moment.

It just looked cute with them all lined up in their striped shirts.

Yea October!

Ahhh October the greatest month! Yes I am bias! Anyway here is my desktop for the month!


I realize that the picture doesn't really go with the month but I wanted a picture of both of the kids.