:: That'll shut him up ::

We have a new game to play during church, we call it "sticker leg,"
pretty inventive, I know. It was really the only thing that kept him
quiet during sacrament and the only thing that kept me from giving him
a boot to the head.

I feel that I have tried a lot of things to entice my children into
reverence, or at least to get them to try to keep it down to a dull
roar. There doesn't seem to be a lot I can to do to keep from having
everyone stare at our crazy family mulipule times during an hour long
meeting. It's not as bad if you happen to be at a different ward than
you usually attend, at least then you can pretend that it's not your
poor parenting skills that lead to your son's need to see the crowd
from the stand. It could be that this just happened to be a hard
Sunday for him, the little wipper snapper. However, your home ward is
much harder to fool, eventually they will realize that your daughter
doesn't have turrets and is just repeating words she has heard you use.

If I was to ever consider another religion, it would be something with
outdoors time, or maybe just two little seat belts on our bench to
keep them in one place, though I could just start bringing a roll of
duct tape to church.

For now, I'll just buy more stickers.

Birthday Pics

Since my parents got home on Saturday, we decided to have a belated family birthday party for Josh and Jane so that Grandma and Grandpa Jones could be there. Camille told the kids about their birthday cakes (rocket ship and princess) a few weeks ago and they ask about them and talk about them everyday. So yesterday was the day and the kids were super excited! We were excited about having our good friend and talented photographer Emilie Campbell over to take some family pictures. Below are a few of them with more to come. Thanks Em!

:: Old Books, Old Crush ::

I love children's books, but I especially love the work of Maurice Sendak, Mercer Mayer, Tomie DePaulo and Beatrix Potter. These are some of the Authors/Artists that my Mom read to me when I was little. Anyway I ordered these books from Powell, and they came in the mail today. Hooray! I love mail and I love books in the mail (who doesn't). "In The Night Kitchen" is for Josh and "Outside Over There" is for Jane, and the rest are for our library. I just can’t help sharing my excitement over new/used books and their beautiful artwork.

:: Battle Wounds ::

The Twins like to tell me about their "ouies" and how they got them, and why they need a band-aid for a scrape that healed two weeks ago and is now barely decipherable on their skin. Here they are comparing their "hurties" with each other. Just in case you are wondering, nope, my kids never wear pants.*

*Pants are so 90s

Future Boston Celtic

Here's Jane going up for the lay up.

:: Skadoosh ::

The twin’s birthday was so much fun this year. As always the kids got a home made gift from me, and this year they both got dress-up clothes. Jane is really into the princess thing, (I really don't know how this happened, but I am learning to embrace my inner princess too) so I made her some little skirts and veils.

I made Josh a tool belt and a shop apron, I didn’t have time to make him any super hero clothes, but I want to make them both super suits, (maybe for Halloween). Josh also got some tools and a cute construction hat. We wanted Jane to know she had options so we got her a Dr. kit too.

The day started with a trip to the park then we went to the Pizza Factory for lunch and then caught a matinee of Kung Fu Panda. I love Jack Black (who doesn’t, I mean really is there anyone out there who doesn’t like him?) and the movie did not let me down.

My parents come over for Dinner (Cafe Rio, cause the kids love it) and then watched the kids for an hour so we could sneak out to a friends wedding reception. The reception was beautiful (the bride, the flowers, the cake, the garden, everything was amazing) and it was nice to have a mini date with Kgordee. We ended the night with the kids and a lot of bed time stories and songs.

:: Yep, still three ::

At the park.