great humor

 I've seen this around lately. And I love it! It captures so much.

Monkey vs. Worm

Bodie is my little chunky monkey. He is up and down and all over, kinda like a monkey. And that round face, to die for!

Here is a picture when he's just over 1 year, almost the same age as Rafe is now. Don't you want to squeeze him?

 Rafe is my squirmy wormy. He squirms his way all over. In and out of my arms. I have to hold him carefully or else he could fall. Notice the scab on his forehead. That would be from Creed dragging him across the floor and his rug burn. And his red knees and feet from crawling. He is pulling himself up to furniture now. So hopefully by the time it's shorts weather he'll be off his knees.

So there you have it. My 2 little boys and their nick names. My older two said to me that their names are Stavin' Marvin, because Jax is always so hungry, he is a growing boy. And Creed had to think, but came up with Cereal Monster. Like Cookie Monster but with cold cereal because he loves it and I call him my cereal eater. Anyways. I'll enjoy my chunky and squirmy boys while I can.

More Randomness

We did some spring skiing on Saturday at Alta. One last time for the season. Creed was able to get some poles and was so excited. I love the way he held them while skiing. Straight up and down parallel with his body. It was mushy snow, like skiing on a Slurpee. It made for a wobbly time. In the picture is Creed, then me and boys. It was like we had the mountain all to ourselves. And the pretty mountain with us waiting at the top for Greg to tell us we can go down so he can get pictures. Then Jax, he thinks he's a pro now. Maybe a pro of the green runs, ha!

So we started buying another gallon of milk a week. I guess it deserves it's own picture. I hated running out mid-week. So yes, that's 6 gallons in our fridge. I wonder what it's going to be like when the boys are all teenagers! Jax isn't a big fan of milk and Rafe isn't even drinking it yet. Yikes.

I wanted to mention a few cute things. Jax's mind is always thinking and boy does he have thoughts and questions. Long after the boys were in bed, Jax came to the stairs and called out for me, which he does all too often. And his topic of discussion was the devil. It was a long conversation but to sum it up... he was feeling so sorry for the devil. Because the devil doesn't have parents with him in heaven. He's all alone. Jax even got teary eyed wondering if the devil is sad he can't hold hands with a mom and dad. I tried my best to explain things to Jax, and so he won't be feeling too bad and how Christlike his feelings were. I sent him to bed and told him to not worry or think too much about the spirit world and that there is much we don't understand and don't know of, so please just go to sleep and think "happy" thoughts. Creed had climbed the stairs to listen too and at the end said. "Yeah Jax, the devil is spupid".

Jax has a lot of deep thoughts. I just hope I can provide good answers for him and use the teaching opportunities and help him learn and grow. No pressure.

And on a lighter note. We drove by our local McDonald's and told Jax to look. He freaked out and started crying. McDonald's is gone, torn down. He was so upset. I guess he loves the place and has a lot of fond memories of McDonald's? I told him to calm down, they are rebuilding it and it'll be open in the summer. But still freaking out he was wondering what are we going to do until then. When I said there tons of McD's around to go to. No worries. But he's still worried, because this one had the BEST play land around. I have to agree. It was the biggest and best. I guess we'll see.

Buddies

Bodie can go from person to person to find a buddy for the day. After the older 2 boys go to school in the morning, he makes me his buddy. Then when Rafe wakes up he has Rafe be his buddy. When Creed gets home for the afternoon, Creed is his buddy. Here are Creed and Bodie being buddies. Watching TV one day, and watching Creed on the computer the next.

Bodie is funny, lately he will "take" his brother's seats. They have their usual spots on the couch, and when Bodie see's them coming, he'll run over and sit on their spot. I think it's hilarious. And now he can get himself up on the stools so he likes to sit at their spots on the counter too. Jaxon gets quite upset. For years he's had his little spot and now I tell him he has to share with Bodie, first one there gets it. But when Bodie will sit for a loooooooooong time on the stool, Jax doesn't even get a chance. I knew this day would come. Who's going to sit where?

Jax has a new best friend from school, Graydon. They try and play together every Friday. This last Friday we were going to have some boys over from our new ward to play that are in Jax's class at school. And he told Graydon about it and so we had 3 friends, plus my boys, it made for a fun loud afternoon. I kept trying to find stuff to keep them outside. I even judged a sidewalk chalk drawing contest. I really can't wait for spring to come and stay.

Just Random

So I hate that I've lost the "update the blog" groove. I don't want life to pass by without me mentioning the last few weeks or months. Although I guess that's the problem, nothing has really been happening. I don't have much to say. No excitement. Just some random pictures to share below I guess.

After a bath one day I asked Bodie to please go hang up his towel like his brothers do. And this is how he did it. Silly boy. And all of my children have pushed and played with their feet on the tray of the high chair. They'll just sit the whole time eating with their feet up against the edge like in the picture. So I decided to get a picture of Rafe for all of them.

Um, then we had some great spring weather. It's been windy but I'll take it. We were out with the stroller one day, Bodie loves it. He thinks he can just live outside now.

And it's been nice being able to wave at all these "new" neighbors that live just down the street that I've seen for years, some I've never really seen, but now we're in the same ward and it's like a whole new world has been opened in our neighborhood.

We Are Family

So this picture is from last summer. It was a hot. It is currently on my desktop because it reminds me of summer. My boys are all hot and sweaty, red faces, but it was summer. And on days like a snowy today. I long for summer. Look how little and bald Rafe was. Ooh, my baby is growing up too fast. I'm going to be an old mom raising kids not having babies. OK, back to summer and families. Speaking of family... here is the latest one of my side. The Williamsen's silly picture. This was taken 2 days before x-mas. We had to update our old one. It had a few new babies and a new spouse to add. So there ya go. Enjoy.
And speaking again of families...
I just wanted to mention that our ward family was taken apart. The Olympus 6th Ward was small, but we were tight. We went to church on Sunday expecting a new Bishopric and were blindsided when they announced they are dissolving our ward and splitting it down the middle and sending us to different wards! :( I was so sad. It was a teary Sunday. It's been a weird week. I wish I was able to say goodbye or something, have a little closure ya know. But off to new adventures. And I guess a little blessing in all of this is that we will have a big primary now. But I am still sad.