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ids could be i was worried that if they saw my adorable little 2nd grader step on that stage with nothing but his witts and a microphone and begin to whistle eye of the tiger that they would be well cruel i never want to be the mom that doesn t encourage my kids to go after their dreams but i was finding myself coming up with ways to talk luke out of it i picked him up from school and i can honestly say i don t remember how the conversation went i m sure i brought up a couple of points to consider and he eventually talked himself out of it i really don t know if i did the right thing sometimes i don t think so now in my nostalgic moments i see my sweet little luke growing up i see him worry more about what other people think about him i see him developing more confidence in a lot of areas yet losing some of his childlike innocent confidence the kind that doesn t give a crap about whether or not 8th graders laugh at him in the talent show so when i heard eye of the tiger playing on the radio i found myself wanting to hold onto that moment a year ago onto to that sweet 2nd grader and his innocence i made sure to pay extra close attention to the whistling coming from the back seat then just this morning when tanner was reading to me on the couch i was marveling at what a good little reader he is almost instantly i was transported back to our 2nd house i remember sitting on the back porch with him when he was 2 years old i can still see his curly hair round little cheeks and gappy toothed smile i would show him luke s preschool flashcards he knew every color every shape and a few letters i was impressed but i wonder if i really knew how smart he was i wonder if i really how smart he is ellie is growing so much but still she seems to hold onto a lot of that childhood innocence that i see slowly slipping away from my boys she can lock herself in her room with a few barbies and her imagination and she s happy for hours she lives in the land happily ever after in her mind the world is made of princes and princesses and it won t be long until a prince whisks her away to start their own happily ever after she s probably right it won t be long i just hope and pray that it will be just that happily ever after my little mya with her blue eyes and bouncing blond curls is a constant reminder that our family dynamics are changing i ve said many times that she is the exclamation point that finishes our family story she s our last baby watching her take her first steps was a first for her and a last for me now she says things like oh no baby poot pooped she knows what she wants and tells me what she needs she wraps her tiny arm around her daddy s neck for a loving kiss good bye she s getting good at voicing her own opinions and she tries with all of her itty bitty might to keep up with the big kids however she still loves to be snuggled she still needs me she still takes baby size steps and she can still only wrap her baby hands around two of my fingers i hope i can savor these moments i know they will pass as quickly as all the ones before them our family has moved passed the expanding stage we re in the growing stage the watching in awe stage a stage full of changes and progress and while i am living my life in this stage i am sure that this year won t be the last time that i see a picture of mummy dogs when halloween time rolls around again and smile with tears in my eyes think of how our family has changed since we ate mummy dogs the year before i guess it s kind of a stage of reflection mixed with a boat load of anticipation and a good dose of savoring the moments it feels good posted by kaydee at 11 53 am 4 comments sunday november 20 2011 fall fun we love fall at our house so every year we try to do a few fun things to take full advantage of the season we spent an afternoon this year october 2010 at heehaws the kids had a blast and it was a lot of fun for launey and me to see them enjoy themselves so much i had to post a picture of red bear that little guy didn t leave tanner s side for a good three months i think red bear really enjoyed the slide ellie s favorite thing was the petting zoo she wanted to keep each and every animal there the first picture is of her trying to take the larger than life bunny home the second picture is of her hugging her favorite goat she hugged that poor animal for ten minutes straight posted by kaydee at 9 24 pm 9 comments summer summary part 2 we ended the summer on a high note in beautiful cache valley each year kylee conner and nixon are kind enough to host us for a few days and they always keep us entertained we enjoyed some time at the logan pool then headed up for a day at bear lake i love the beach there because there are shallow sand bars which make it an awesome place for the kids to play we always have a great time and we look forward to it each year posted by kaydee at 9 01 pm 2 comments tuesday august 24 2010 summer summary part 1 after months of having to listen to complaints from my favorite biological sister i guess it s about time i update my long neglected blog here s the thing so many things have happened since i last posted that i get incredibly overwhelmed and i just don t know where to begin even after typing that very sentence i looked at all of the pictures i took this summer and darn near closed this tab without ever finishing the post but i guess if i don t start somewhere i ll never get anywhere and the truth is i really despise that first picture of me and the snake that i last posted i m getting sick of looking at it so this just has to be done i am going to give you fair warning this is going to be picture information overload but i am forbidding you to complain because beggars can t be choosers and this is just the way a post four months in the making has to be i decided to break it up into two parts because well i ve got a lot of crap to post ute stampede our family has had the same ute stampede routine since i can remember we always go to the rodeo on thursday and the the carnie on friday i m excited i ve been able to carry on that same tradition with my own kids i have high hopes that someday they will be carnie employees and give us discounts so that we can ride the ring of fire all night with out paying a million dollars the rodeo is always intense but somehow tanner must have been getting a little bored because apparently he is trying to stimulate his brain through his nose 0 this is ellie s latest smile you ll notice she continues to pull this lovely princess smile in nearly every picture i take of her what a doll we wrapped up the ute stampede festivities with a little fun runnin luke and tanner ran in the kids race they both did a great job and have since gotten out of bed too darn early for my liking to train for next year bampa s farm those of you who know my dad may be surprised to know that he has a farm well ok it s not really his farm but the kids sure think it is he works security at young living farms in mona which means that there are a few special occasions that we get a backstage v i p pass to all the action at the farm there is a little western town that is the perfect setting for the imagination of two little cowboys to run wild they got all suited up in their cowboy gear which included a dinner napkin scarf for luke and a sideways pirate hat for tanner i always knew i d raise me up some real cowboys here the boys are busy being the law and keeping their town in order apparently order comes in the form of making their little sister keep the town clean after a hard days work they always make time to stop at the local pub for some good ole fashioned saspirilla here is my sweet little girl s lovely princess smile once again ps i would like you to take a second look at the ute stampede photos my boys were begging to wear these lovely cowboy outfits to the rodeo and i was begging my mom for suggestions on how to get around it luckily she came through with some new cowboy clothes so the pirate hat and dinner napkin could have a little break thank goodness for grandparents since this little outing i have had to convince tanner multiple times that cowboys wear cool clothes too yes these outlaws even have their very own mother and father swimming we live only a few minutes from a nice little desert oasis the payson pool just incase you weren t aware i am one of the most paranoid mothers on the planet so when i heard that my favorite juab high school alumnists were taking their kids to the pool i nearly had a heart attack my first thought was no way then i began thinking of meagan and alisha who are also matriarchs of their own three children and i told myself if they can do it i might as well attempt to do it too i set a few ground rules for the kids strapped a life jacket on tanner and away we went i am so glad i did because anytime i get together with these girls it s always a good experience i even made it home with all three of my children above water the pool check was made a little sweeter with slushies and pink cookies oh and this is ellie in her favorite pink robe which she lovingly refers to as her butt july 4th on july 4 2003 this handsome little devil made me a mother and stole my heart i can t believe seven years has gone by since then how blessed i am to have such a wonderful son he has already taught me more about ambition compaiton and patience than i can express i am so proud of him and i feel it an honor to be called his mom nephi s 3rd of july celebration we certainly lucked out this year with the 4th being on a sunday we got to go to nephi on the 3rd celebrate luke s birthday on the 4th and head up to provo on the 5th we usually try to cram all three celebrations into one day which makes for a crazy utterly exhausting adventure it s always worth it but i kinda wish the 4th was on sunday every year luke got his face painted like spiderman can you see the resemblance i m not going to lie it took me a few minutes to guess what character he was meant to be my parents spent two hours working as the train operators that meant two hours of free rides and entertained children for me it was pure bliss tanner was dying all day to try his hand and feet at rock climbing i tried to convince him it was a waste of tickets but needless to say he used six of his tickets which is equivelant to two bucks to make it three feet up the wall then have a level 5 meltdown because he couldn t reach the top after dragging my kicking and screaming 4 year old away from the crowd a kind doctor who happened to be by the rock climbing wall at the time tracked me down to see if he was seriously injured i reassured him that only his pride as assulted but other than that he was just fine best two bucks we ve ever spent i am pretty confident that at this point you are as tired of reading this as i am of writing it so i will put the 2nd half on hold and simply say to be continued posted by kaydee at 9 35 am 12 comments thursday april 22 2010 lessons learned from pooh so most of you know that i tend to be a tad bit on the paranoid side notice the look of sheer terror on my face when confronted with a situation or a proposition such as mom can i go outside and play i think to myself passively at first oh what s the worst that could happen at that point my thoughts inevitably lead from a simple afternoon outside in the backyard to one of my children being kidnapped and then who knows what else while i spend the rest of my life in an agonizing search for the baby i lost when i let him step out that back door so the passive question what s the worst that could happen turns into a small anxiety attack when chances are that whole mother s worst nightmare scenario really isn t going to happen and yes i actually do let my kids play outside and here s where my dilema comes in have you ever heard of a helicopter mommy i don t want to be a helicopter mommy i m sure you know them the moms that hover over their children at the playground and when playing with other kids never letting them experience so much as a scrape or skirmish i really try hard not to be that but i have this innate urge to protect my offspring last week my kids were watching winnie the pooh and i a major epiphany courtesy of that silly old bear in that particular episode rabbit had grown the perfect pumpkin the pumpkin was so perfect that he just had to protect it the super sleuths started building a variety of contraptions to protect the pumpkin from all the ills of the world but with each completed contraption another weak spot was revealed for instance they built a fence all the way around the pumpkin but it was left vulnerable on top their efforts eventually led them to building a completely enclosed structure around and on top of the pumpkin nothing could get in nothing could hurt it i m sure you can see where this is going but i ll finish the story anyway rabbit quickly realized that his pumpkin was getting weak the lack of sun water and fresh air made it frail and start to wither it turned out that smothering the pumpkin was actually killing it not helping it and so it goes if my kids are never able to spread their wings take a risk and be exposed to life they will never be able to learn they won t know how to pick themselves up when they fall if i never allow them to feel defeated how will they know the joy of success i could do my best to never let them scrape a knee or stub a toe but at what cost what journeys will they be missing out on and will they really be growing i love where i live now don t get me wrong i firmly believe that there are times that i will need to walk along side my kids i will arm them with the protection they need to fight their battles such as an unstrapped backwards helmet see below but eventually i ll have to do it i ll have to let go and i know if when i do i will be better for it and they will be too so until that day comes the day that i ll have to let go i m going to do everything i can to put all of my crazies aside and watch my perfect pumpkins grow side note most of these pictures were taken at baby animal days in logan thanks little sis for inviting us we had a great time posted by kaydee at 8 52 pm 9 comments thursday april 1 2010 april fools sometimes i crack myself up posted by kaydee at 8 48 pm 7 comments a big but smaller than a breadbox announcement need i say more posted by kaydee at 2 26 pm 12 comments older posts home subscribe to posts atom my family from widdlytinks com diaper bags ellie cousins kids say the darndest things lukisms 9 08 i picked luke up from preschool and like every day i asked him how he behaved he told me to ask his teacher the infamous mrs jenni so i did remarkably she told me that he was a very good boy that day i asked luke why he had decided to be such a good boy and he responded i just knew you ve been waiting your whole life to hear that he was right 7 20 08 i was fixing the chain on luke s bike and he asked me mom are you a grease...