Life

Blogging has taken a bit of a backseat to everything else going on in life right now. I'm finding I have much less discretionary time with three children. :)

This cute little (well, not so little....we guess he is about 18 lbs and isn't quite 4 months) dude is juicy (i.e. drooly, spit-uppy, blow-outty) and sweet. He is always smiling and cooing. He still insists on eating twice a night, but I don't mind so much when he looks up at me and smiles while he eats. :) He loves being held and I get great use of my moby wrap and Ergo carrier.

The three musketeers in their Easter get-ups.

Jack started his baseball season and is enjoying having Daddy as his assistant coach. We are playing in a difference league this year so he can have "coach pitch" rather than use a tee.

Can you guess where we are?!?
(Portland temple during spring break.)


Lindsey went to her first "real" movie: Tangled. Luckily, we had the theater to ourselves, so she was free to wander and make lots of noise. Blake felt so comfortable that he had a head to toe blowout and had to be changed in the aisle :)

Lindsey somehow made it to Portland without shoes (only a pair of flip flops), so we had to make an emergency run to the mall to purchase a pair of rain boots that will probably fit Blake next month.

That's the month in a nutshell. See you next month (okay, hopefully before then.)

I hope this sounds familiar........

After 6 years of not getting much out of conference weekend (see lds.org if you want to know more about this), Clint and I decided to switch off going to the stake center so we could actually hear some talks firsthand. I went this morning and found it delightful to sit for 2 hours in the dark listening to inspired men and women speak. It was quiet, peaceful and seriously addicting.

Clint headed to the afternoon session at the church and I headed upstairs to the playroom to watch it on the laptop. I settled the kids down with some snacks, crayons, and conference packets printed off of sugardoodle.The kids started quietly coloring and munching. I sat down with my notebook in hopes of actually taking some notes!! Well, this fine set-up lasted a whole 10 minutes. Somehow, things took a horrible turn for the worst. Crayons started flying, voices started raising, papers started flying, baby started crying (first, due to child #2 molestation and then due to starvation), chocolate started disappearing, and I started yelling (um, I mean raising my voice) and kicking people out of the playroom (um, I mean asking people to leave politely). I marveled at the irony of it all. I definitely needed to be hearing the things the speaker was saying, but I couldn't hear him because of the chaos my children were creating and the fact that I was riled up beyond comforting. I thought back to the touching morning talk about being like little children, and I asked myself how the current state of my children fit into that talk. At one point, Elder Oaks (at least I think it was Elder Oaks) spoke about the desires of our heart. I am sincerely hoping that the Lord knows the desire of my heart is to listen to every talk during conference, but I am not able to due to outside influences :)

I am hoping this happens to other families too. But if it doesn't, what do you do to enjoy the weekend?!? I always see this weekend going so much better in my head! But for now, I am looking forward to reading all the nuggets I missed listening to this afternoon next month in the Ensign (and I will be reading those in a quiet, dark, peaceful place (aka my closet).