If Only I Were Imelda Marcos and Had Millions Of Dollars

For anyone that knows me they know I love heels.

I don't think I own a single pair of flat dress shoes.

I haven't really purchased any new shoes lately. Which is odd for me.

But...

My belly is expanding so that generally means that I shift from buying clothes to buying shoes.

They always fit. No matter how much I weigh.

I just bought these shoes from Kohls for $17.

Woo hoo. I have my eye on the shoes below.

I just have to save my allowance.

Because they are NOT $17.

Now I just have to decide which ones to save for.

Hello Friends

Laney has a lot of babies.

She loves them.

She also names them.

From left to right:

Axe, Chloe, and Brown Baby.You got that right. The baby on the right wearing the pink with the blue eyes is called "Brown baby."

I don't pretend to understand.

Laney did however, let us know that if we wanted we could name the new baby "Axe"
I figure having a child named Canon and one named Axe might be a little much.

I have found her like this twice. Totally asleep...using the babies as a pillow.

Rock A Bye Baby

The snow has been coming down this morning.

When I heard a noise I figured it was the kids playing. That was until they rushed upstairs to tell me that the tree had broken.

They weren't kidding.

I am thankful that this is not my house because we don't have to pay to clean this up. To show how big the branch was I told Laney to go stand by it.

That perhaps was not my smartest parenting choice. Because right after I took this picture...I hear a snap.

I yell "RUN!"

Down comes another branch. Missing Laney but coating her in snow.

I am thankful it did not hit her.

I am, however, NOT thankful that it is snowing outside.

May Showers Bring June Flowers?

It is snowing today. No lie. Snowing.

I am about to Boo Mother nature.

Or at least give her a big thumbs down.

Hand Motions And All

The other day we were in bed and Canon started counting. Not only were we proud of him but we were also a little surprised because after every time he counted he would make shooting noises.

We still don't really understand where he got it from.

Also you may notice that the little guy that he is holding...He shoots him and then he dies. Just a little morbid.

He also is talking a lot more.

Granted his words for things are a bit off, but that is part of the fun.

I wish I could have "Beep Bops."

Huh.

How does a week go by and I not realize it? No. Seriously?

This last week I have more or less been sticking around the house.

Cleaning, taking care of the little monsters, and trying to finish some of the 900 projects that I have started and never finished.

Among the group were some hair clips. When my mom was here forever ago she taught me how to crochet these flowers. The flowers have been done, I was just waiting to put clips on them and to make some centers for them.

Done and done.

I can't for the life of me remember how I made the flowers though. I also saw a picture of these cute flowers made out of zippers.

Like so many things I think to myself "I can totally make that."

So then I buy all of the stuff that is needed and never get around to doing it.
No more.

Done.

A while ago I found this huge button. I had no idea what I was going to do with it, but I just thought it was too cute to pass up.

So I made it a clip too.

I have also been making these bibs for the baby.

And just so Laney wouldn't be sad...I made her more clips to match.

I have also been collecting green buttons for a pillow I am going to make.

I am so excited. It is going to be awesome. I hope.

I will note two things: buttons are expensive and green buttons are hard to come by.

I also added on to a dress that was too short that I bought on clearance.

So I guess my week hasn't all been lost.

Rainy Days and Mondays Always Get Me Down

When we moved to Utah I had no preconceived notions about what winter was going to be like.

I already knew.

I did, however, think that I also had some grasp of what spring and summer where like.

Boy, was I wrong.

I knew that spring time in Utah would be nothing like spring time in Vegas.

I am being honest when I say I was excited about that.

Moving to Utah meant that we could plant a garden.

Not that you can't plant a garden in Vegas (many people I know have fabulous gardens). It is just that in Vegas it is harder. You have to be "garden savvy" in order to make it work and "garden savvy" I am not.

So in anticipation of said garden I planted starts, so that when the weather was nice they could go out into the garden and we would have a head start.

One afternoon we planted our garden.

And then...

it snowed.

Since planting our garden it has snowed 6 times.

Mind you, that is all in the month of April.

My sister told us that here in Utah they don't plant their garden until after Mother's day.

Well, that would have been useful information prior to planting our garden. Surprisingly our garden has survived fairly well. There are a couple of plants that had died, so we replanted those on Mother's day.

For the last two days it has been raining.

Heavily. All. The. Time.I am crossing my fingers that it doesn't drown our poor little garden. One thing that evidently thrives in this kind of weather is dandy lions.

The kids love them.

They like to hold them under your chin to see if you like butter.

I also have my jalapenos, tomatoes, and herbs growing inside until it is nice enough to move them out.

Luckily they have a big window that gives them a lot of sun and Canon has only played in the dirt twice. I do feel a little bit like a crazy old plant lady with all of my potted plants lined up on the floor.

My Grandma Tame would be so proud.

Or just think that we have a lot in common.

Inventive

Normally our kids play pretty well together.

But occasionally there will be some screaming. I like to let them figure it out for themselves.

They are going to have to do that in life anyways...why not start now?

Today Laney was screaming...

then she came upstairs to inform me

"Gavin took my pink pony and I was playing with it first and he took it away from me."

Me: "Well, go tell Gavin to give it back."

(This is normally all I say and then they figure it out themselves...mostly)

Laney tromps down the stairs and I hear her yell at Gavin:

"Gavin. Mom says that you can't play with your Leapster for the rest of the day!"

We then had a discussion about not saying things that Mom didn't say.

Twenty Three Weeks

Oh, here she is in all her glory.

My hair is not so glorious being that we were lounging around the house.

I didn't post the 5 month pictures so the almost 6 month ones will have to do.The other day my sister gave me all of her old baby clothes.

I am fairly certain this baby won't need a single article of clothing until she is a year and a half.

I sorted the clothes into piles by age and then put them neatly back into buckets.

On another baby note:
I was thinking the other day about baby names. Then I got to wondering if people think that we name our babies strange names? I think that Gavin is a pretty normal name and Laney isn't too strange...Canon may be a little out there...
I was wondering because I have had several people comment that they are interested in what this baby's name will be.
I think we are somewhat decided on a name unless we find a better one that trumps it.
We liked the name Penny, but that was axed due to the fact that her initials would have been P.U. and lets face it, you just can't do that to a child. It is cruel.
So rested assured we will try not to make life harder for her by giving her a weird name.

(I would also like to throw this out there...In our ward in Vegas there is a family that is having a boy and naming him Canon. So it must not be all that out there?)

That's what she said.