5 years old

Today my handsome man is 5 years old! 

Where has the time gone?? It seems like he was just barely this tiny little baby, that quickly grew into the bubbly happy child that he is now. 

It has been so much fun to watch him grow!

 I am the luckiest mamma to have had this boy in my life for the past 5 years! 

Happy Birthday sweetie!

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Valentines Day

Our Valentines was very low key this year. Having two rambunctious kids kind of makes it hard to go out on Valentines Day. My sweet Mother-in-Law offered to watch our kids but we decided to stay home and have a nice dinner together as a family. 

Here are Tatum's Valentines we made this year...

Eric had to work all day, so I thought I would try documenting a typical day at our house. And here is a day in the life of Tatum and Trey (pretty much all we did on Valentines Day). 

The kids woke up to streamers and balloons everywhere and little surprises at the table.

I made a delicious breakfast for everyone...seriously it was so YUM!

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We spent the morning playing wii and games together.

Trey learned to take his socks off...I don't know why this was so funny to me :)

Then after lunch we moved on to coloring. Trey also has learned to take off his pants!

Grandma then dropped off some cute goodies for the kids.

Then Tatum watched a show and totally past out on the couch.

Meanwhile Trey needed a snack and made a HUGE mess of his yogurt! Pretty typical.

Of course I had to strip Trey down to clean him up. He then found a balloon and seriously played with it for an hour! I just waited for that balloon to pop...surprisingly it never did.

Soon after Eric got home and I made him a yummy dinner. I found some recipes off pinterest for chicken curry and mango sticky rice and wanted to try them out. They were sooo good!

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That pretty much sums up our Valentines. The kids went to bed and Eric and I stayed up watching some of our favorite shows. Nice and quiet!

Ski Day

For Christmas Eric and I got season passes to Sundance. We were so excited to start going and thought since kids are free that it would be a good time to start Tatum skiing. We picked a warm sunny day to take Tatum up with us. 

Getting ready to start...

We started at the bottom of the hill and just strapped Tatum in and pulled him around to get a feel for it. He was a bit scared at first, but soon realized this could be fun.

Once he was comfortable, we hiked up to the bunny hill.

Eric was so good with Tatum. Eric and I both snowboard so its hard to be strapped in to teach a kid to ski. Eric had to carry Tatum to the top and then run behind him holding onto his leash.

Tatum quickly got the hang of it and soon had a great time. He only had a few moments that scared him, but overall he was really brave!

This next one made me laugh...

We taught Tatum to slow down by putting his skis in a "big pizza". In no time he was skiing like a pro with his hands on his hips and all.

Overall the day was a success and Tatum cant wait to go again!!

I'm so proud of my little skier!

Where's Waldo?

A few months ago I was called to be an adviser in Young Women's. I absolutely LOVE this calling! One of my favorite activities so far was Where's Waldo? We did this activity every year in my home ward and I knew it would be a hit in this ward....and boy was I right. The basic idea behind this activity is to have a group of adults dress in disguise as "Waldo's" and roam around the mall for the youth to find. They have a check list and the first team to get all the people checked off their list wins. We had a great group of Waldo's including my sister and her husband and myself. Here are some fun pictures from the night.

The whole group... all 11 of us!

The day of the activity I called the mall and arranged for these two to be janitors. It was awesome, they gave them official janitor shirts and brooms. I love Jason's wig...hilarious!

Elan was a cute old lady. It was pretty funny watching her walk around the mall!

And then there is me. I dressed up as a high school student and just sat right in front of the food court "studying" and texting the whole time! No one recognized me, not even the other leaders!

It was such a fun night and I can't wait to do it again next year!

All about Trey

On the 3rd of this month our little Trey turned 18 months old. For me this was a huge milestone! For months I have been battling Trey at church and pretty much got to the point of just taking him home because it was too hard. Now he is finally in nursery and everyone is loving it. For Christmas Trey got a drum set. He loves music and especially loves his drums. These pictures remind me of this post back when Tatum got his first drum set.

A few weeks before Christmas Trey fell and chipped his tooth (to read more about it click here). A week went by and he woke up with a swollen lip and his tooth was bleeding. I rushed him to the dentist were we found out the tooth had abscessed and needed to be pulled. We had it scheduled for a few days later but I wasn't happy with the plan. We took Trey in for a second opinion where the dentist said he might be able to save the tooth. The next morning we brought Trey in for the surgery. They put him under and starting drilling his tooth when they found it couldn't be saved. So they had to pull it. I was pretty sad about it but soon realized that it wasn't that big of a deal. Yes he will be my little "toothless" for a few years until his adult tooth comes in, but it hasn't changed a thing about him. If anything it adds a bit more personality :)

Trey is a very curious and mischievous kid. He currently has an infatuation with Monkeys...and actually reminds me of Curious George. With Tatum we never had to child proof anything because he simply wouldn't get into anything. Trey is completely opposite. If there is something you don't want him to have, he will find a way to get it. This is a typical day for Trey...

For his 18 month check Trey came out above average on all of his stats. Which means in no time he will surpass Tatum! We just love this little monkey more than anything and wouldn't change one thing about him!