Beckham: *pulls the dryer lint catcher out and cleans it off* "Look! It's as clean as a tennis racket!"
Bridger: "Let's play the function game where we have to guess commutative answers."
Me: "Okay."
Bridger: "Putting your shoes on before your socks is not commutative. ... ... Wellll I've done that before." *smiles and looks uncomfortable* LOL.
Bridger: "I spy something with blonde hair."
Beckham: "Me."
*They bust up laughing.* LOLOL.
Beckham: *changing into a gray shirt and gray shorts after church* "I'm camouflage!" With cement...and walls!" LOL
February 2019
*Benson keeps eating his suckers and giving Anderson the stick with whatever is left and Anderson takes it all happy and finishes it off.* LOLOLOLOL.
March 2019
Jeremy was saying bedtime prayers with Benson...
Benson: "Heavenly Father. It's not time for bed. That's not true. In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen."
*We talked about the miracle of Jesus walking on water and Peter having faith and walking on water too. Then Benson climbs up on the arms of the sitting chairs as high as he can go and says he has faith too. Then all the boys start doing crazy things to show they have faith*
Me: “You don’t have to do dangerous things to show you have faith!!!”
Me: “Beckham! Good job for keeping your feet off the bench!”
Beckham: “It’s because I’m a patient boy.”
LOLOLOL.
April 2019
Bridger: "You're not the best Mom in the world...but, you're the best Mom for me." *big, sweet smile*
May 2019
We went to the BYU Astrofest and got to watch a show about the moon in the planetarium, the boys were enthralled with how it felt like 3D and they were able to lay back to watch it. Benson kept making tons of comments, like, "it's CLOSE!" or "it's moon!!" Not realizing he needs to whisper because he's barely three. lol.
During one scene it showed a couple of astronauts coming out of their space station and Benson points to it and yells, "I want that my birfday!!" LOLOL. I could not stop laughing.
June 2019
We were out on the River Trail walking and there were a ton of butterflies!
Benson: We don’t eat bufferfies.
Me: Lolol nope, we don’t eat butterflies.
Benson: Bufferfies are beauful.
He kept pointing at different ones after that saying we don’t eat butterflies over and over, LOL.
July 2019
During cuddle time tonight...
Beckham: You can have my next lost tooth.
Me: Oh?
Beckham: Yeah, you can have my next lost tooth so you can get money. *with the sweetest little smile* You have to make sure you put it under your pillow and check it in the morning.
Me: Oh, ok, thank you! That is so sweet! Lolol
Beckham: Is this package the bows??
Bridger: Bows? What color are they??
Me: They are for our baby, lol, little girl bows.
Bridger: Oh. Not bows and arrows?
LOLOL. Getting ready for a sister!
September 2019
Bensons prayer one night:
“Jesus loves me.
Jesus loves me again.
Jesus share pocksickle.
Jesus share a green pocksickle.
Jesus share orange pocksickle
And blue pocksickle.
That’s yummy!
Name of Jesus Christ Amen.”
*Bridger won the Pinewood Derby*
Bridger: “I got two awards, one for first place, and one for the most awesome car because it’s the fastest even though it looks like a loser.” LOLOLOL.
November 2019
*I’m cleaning out the tiny spots between Roslyn’s fingers and Benson is watching*
Benson: “There’s chocolate in there, too!”
LOLOL.
Benson: “Chicken nuggets can’t talk.”
Benson: “Boogers are not snails. They’re not.”
December 2019
Benson: “Mommy.”
Me: “Yes?”
Benson: “I love you.” *the sweetest look on his cute face*
Me: “Oooohhhhh, you are so sweet for saying that, I love you too!!!”
Benson: “Mommy.”
Me: “Yes?”
Benson: “You’re really loud.”
LOLOL.
*Beckham brought me breakfast in bed*
Beckham: “For true, Momma, I love you. I wanted it to be like your birthday today.”
*Jeremy is putting away a bag of bread.*
Bridger: “Do you need a bread tag for that? I always keep some in my pocket.”
LOLOLOL.
(He has the biggest stash of bread tags I’ve ever seen in my life)
Benson: “I can’t be quiet. I don’t have quiets yet.”
Benson: “I saw a lot of boogers flying in the sky.”
Benson: “Mommy, you’re cute like a chickabooty.”
*I start laughing way hard*
Benson: “Don’t talk like that.”
LOLOLOLOL.
I started this post back in July or August, but I never got it posted! We also took a vacation to Wolf Creek at the end of August that I will post here. :) We had a fun, and very busy summer. I started walking five days a week on the River Trail starting in March, and Beckham would wake up early to go with me most of the summer. We got to see foxes, raccoons, a skunk that walked right in front of us, and lots of deer. I loved those walks! We also did T-ball for Bridger and Beckham, and we took a family vacation before Daddy's next semester started and before our baby girl was due, to Wolf Creek. We had so much fun! While on vacation we went to a Children's museum, the Ogden train station museum, and all the adults took turns doing initiatories at the temple (that was so amazing and much needed). We also did our first Pinewood Derby, and due to Daddy and Bridger's hard work...we won!!! So, there's a quick update, not many details, but I wanted to mention what we did before I forget! Now on to 2020. :)
Baby yoga. :)
Beckham lost his first tooth!!
I found him playing in his little car like this. Those thighs. lol. :)
Daddy and Benson napping. :)
He LOVES to play the piano with Daddy. Notice his little foot up there. :) It's adorable.
We've started playing games on Sunday afternoons and I love it!
Mr. Benz, little cutie pie. :)
Tasty bed hair. :) He has always had a hard time waking up from his naps, he usually needs some good cuddle time before he wants to play. I love it.
A dish I painted with Grandma Brown and Brianna. :)
We painted ceramics again, the next time with Becca. I was around 34 weeks pregnant in this picture.
This little tasty has started climbing on EVERYTHING. He will climb on to the very top of that chair and sit there to look out the window, it makes me so nervous!
Beckham playing T-ball!
Beckham running to first base!!
Bridger playing T-ball!!
Tasty baby yoga while we were watching T-ball. :)
And here are some pictures from our trip to Wolf Creek, I was like 35 weeks pregnant so we didn't want to go too far from home, we LOVED it!
We took the boys to a children's museum in Ogden one of the days, and we had a blast!
Aunt Brianna made this mask with Benson! :)
This was at the train museum in Ogden!
Some pics from the Pinewood Derby!
Daddy and Bridger, they built that car together for Bridger's first pinewood derby and they won!!
Getting his awards!
Benson and Mommy at the Pinewood derby!
It's been awhile since I've updated about what's up with school, plans, and all that fun stuff, lol.
Jeremy graduates April 23rd. That sentence alone holds more emotion than I can express right now. In short terms, we are both looking forward to it and can't wait, and we are also sad to leave this area and, to be honest, a little nervous as we enter a career we aren't super familiar with yet. My emotions are everywhere. The money from the sale of our last house will last us until the beginning of April, but we have decided to try to sell it before then so we don't have to pay April's house payment. That meant that right when we got back from Christmas vacation we had to start organizing a way to get everything done while Jeremy is taking 15 credits this semester. We are both motivated to do a LOT of prep work because I think we have a little PTSD from our last move and how stressful and emotionally taxing it was. So the last few weeks we have been going through everything. Selling stuff, decluttering, buying heavy duty totes and creating a labeling system, and starting to pack. Mom is going to come up to help me organize and pack and we hope to list the house for sale at the end of February.
Jeremy graduates April 23rd. That sentence alone holds more emotion than I can express right now. In short terms, we are both looking forward to it and can't wait, and we are also sad to leave this area and, to be honest, a little nervous as we enter a career we aren't super familiar with yet. My emotions are everywhere. The money from the sale of our last house will last us until the beginning of April, but we have decided to try to sell it before then so we don't have to pay April's house payment. That meant that right when we got back from Christmas vacation we had to start organizing a way to get everything done while Jeremy is taking 15 credits this semester. We are both motivated to do a LOT of prep work because I think we have a little PTSD from our last move and how stressful and emotionally taxing it was. So the last few weeks we have been going through everything. Selling stuff, decluttering, buying heavy duty totes and creating a labeling system, and starting to pack. Mom is going to come up to help me organize and pack and we hope to list the house for sale at the end of February.
A few journal entries I want to include in our family book:
1/20/2019
We have church at 9 AM. I woke up, the boys were eating breakfast and I had the strongest impression we needed to go to church. I told myself that would be crazy. I hadn't even started getting ready yet and it was 7. It seemed like too much. I kept feeling it. So at 7:15 I told the boys we were going to church today and to start getting dressed. I started getting ready and prayed so hard. I prayed that we could get ready in time, that it would go okay. I hadn't asked anyone beforehand to help us during Sacrament, and I knew we needed help from the Lord, but I was going on faith. A lot of faith. Because Sacrament with four children under the age of *barely* eight is a lot, but when there's only one adult it's borderline impossible. I was a little nervous, but also felt capable. I felt the Spirit. We got ready, and everyone was relatively calm, and we got to church early.
All of those things are miracles.
The moment we walked through the door, Brother Paxton was walking by and greeted us, and then followed us into the chapel. His family had a bench already, and he showed us to the bench behind there's and said that they'd saved it for us so they could help during Sacrament. I was so surprised and felt so much gratitude. I thanked him and we sat down, so grateful. A lady named Candi Jensen was sitting in the bench in front of theirs and she asked if we wanted her daughter to sit with us, thinking the Paxton's were there to help I told her we'd probably be okay. Well, their son, Davis (who is our minister and so sweet) left the bench to go up to the Sacrament table and an older gentleman took their bench, not knowing about the plan. Brother Paxton asked if they could sit with him, but the older man's daughter was coming. The Paxton's ended up sitting in the back, and I just told myself it was okay because I hadn't planned on having help anyway. Well, Candi turned around again and asked if we wanted to switch benches with the older man, I didn't want him to have to move, but she said, "let's just switch!" lol. So we did, they took Anderson while I moved our things, and then her daughter and son kept him busy for the first 30 minutes of church! I was amazed. He started crying and I needed to take him out, so she asked if I wanted her to come sit with the boys, so she did. After Sacrament ended Candi started packing my diaper bag back up and Natalie Paxton walked up and apologized for what had happened, I told her it was totally okay and that I knew they had tried! lol. She had even packed a bag full of books for the boys! I couldn't believe it. She took over for Candi, picking our things up, and then asked if she could help get the boys to classes. She took Anderson and the diaper bag to Sunday school instead and I dropped off the three older boys and helped Bridger do his scripture in Primary.
All through Sunday school the Paxton's helped me entertain Anderson, and then after, Natalie helped me pick up the boys from classes and get them out to the van. Both families told me to let them know when Jeremy wasn't going to be there so they could help me, they want to sit by us and help and my heart is so full of gratitude. I am not sure if these beautiful families realized that they showed me God's hand in my life on a day that I had worried about for weeks. It felt like a day of tender mercies instead of fear and stress. I am so grateful for their willingness to wear Christ's shoes and minister, they are full of love and understanding and kindness. I've cried already today a few times, amazed at the power of God.
He's showing me that by crying out to him in my pain and loneliness and feeling inadequate, by sharing that with him, He can make up for it.
*Funny things the boys said today:
"Let's play the function game where we have to guess commutative answers." Putting on your shoes before your socks is not commutative. Well, I've done that before *looks uncomfortable* LOLOL.
Bridger: I spy someone with blonde hair.
Beckham: Me!
They both bust up laughing. LOLOL.
Benson calls the show "Julius Jr." Junius Juneer. I love it. He is so adorable.
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January 2019
*Today Bridger asked me: "What makes a power plant meltdown?" I had no idea. He asks me questions like this all the time and I always have no idea. I told him to start writing them down and I will teach him how to safely search the internet so he can find the answers because sometimes he will start asking questions and they will just keep coming one after another. LOL.
*Benson did NOT eat the brownie yesterday, even though he said he did. LOL.
*We were playing kitchen yesterday and there are some play cookies with frosting on top in different colors. Bridger asked what flavor I wanted and picked up one with blue sprinkles and said, "this one is blue frosted snowman." He picks up one with green frosting, "and this one...is green grass." LOLOLOL. Green grass flavor. I love it.
*Benson did NOT eat the brownie yesterday, even though he said he did. LOL.
*We were playing kitchen yesterday and there are some play cookies with frosting on top in different colors. Bridger asked what flavor I wanted and picked up one with blue sprinkles and said, "this one is blue frosted snowman." He picks up one with green frosting, "and this one...is green grass." LOLOLOL. Green grass flavor. I love it.
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