Ayres Insanity

  As always, it's been a crazy few months, so here's a quick update.   Ryler turned 6 on November 10th, he wanted a new scooter after the one he had gotten for his birthday last year was stolen after only one use... yeah, I'm still a little bitter. well, his wish was granted and he was a happy camper again, and a very cute one might I add. I can't believe how big he is getting! He's such a character, half of the time he's telling me how beautiful I am and praising my mothering skills, and the other half he's tormenting his siblings and protesting my constant requests to clean up after himself, but we can't help but love him.   Aspen turned one on November 30th. At her 1 year doctors appointment she weighed in at just over 16 lbs. but has more than enough personality to compensate for her size. She is beautiful and very vocal but we love her in spite of her high level of maintenance!   The holidays were a busy blur but for the most part, went smoothly....

  Tonight the kids were talking about daddy's jobs and they asked if I was allowed to work at Union Pacific, I said yes, but that I didn't want to. They asked "if you had a job would you quit to take care of us?" When I told them that I did quit my job to take care of them, the looked at me, shocked and puzzled and said "YOU WORKED???" I don't think they understood why I was laughing.

  Kid conversations are the best and   I've had some fantastic conversations with my kids lately, a couple that we're worth remembering so enjoy!   The other day the boys were discussing flies at breakfast, they were talking about how flies only live for one day, then Taevin asked me is there is a heaven for flies to go to when they die. Being still early and not really paying much attention to the exchange, I just said "I don't know bud". Ryler immediately looked at Taevin and said, "Well if mom doesn't know then NO ONE knows!" Boy have I got those kids fooled!   This morning I was sitting on the steps with Zoey, she looked at me and said very matter of factly,  "mommy, you have boobies."  Me: "yep, I sure do"   Z: "to feed Aspy?   Me: "yep, to feed Aspen." She looks down and says "mommy, I don't have boobies." Me: "you'll have them when you get bigger." She smiles and says "I wan...

Zoey and her little friend Sadie   My little Zoey turned 3 one week ago. She is getting so big and more beautiful every day. A blond haired blue eyed princess, or should I say queen? Because she seems to think she's the queen, and is obsessed with princesses, particularly Cinderella. In fact this morning she was waving around her sparkly wand while wearing a tiara and singing bippity boppity boo!   For weeks before her birthday she begged for a pink Cinderella bike, and who were we to resist such a cute face? So a Cinderella bike it was, and the look on her face was worth every penny!    When I imagined having a daughter, I pictured a quiet, delicate girl who loved tea parties and princess movies so I was in for a surprise when I got Zoey. She is loud, spunky, wrestles with the boys, and has never showed any interest in a tea party, but she is becoming more and more girly every day.   She has recently given up the binky which has been a challenge to sa...

  What a crazy year so far! Last year we started discussing the option of selling our house and moving somewhere closer to Russ' jobs. We went back and forth for a long time being hesitant to leave the place we'd grown to love so much, but finally felt strongly that it was time to go.   We wanted to get Taevin through the school year before moving so we didn't list until March. Things went well, so well that we got ELEVEN offers the first weekend we showed our home. I couldn't believe it! Apparently it was a sellers market. We accepted an offer that ended up falling through after a few weeks so we started showing again. We had several more showings but one couple came through that really stuck out to me. Stuart and McKenna, they were a young family with a cute little girl. They reminded me so much of us when we first moved there, and I hit it off with McKenna immediately. They loved my house and I knew that they were the ones that I wanted to have it. They put in an of...

  The last few months have been well, crazy with the move and such (I've been meaning to post about that), but I had an interesting experience in church a couple of weeks ago.   It was a particularly difficult Sunday for the kids, they're always a challenge but for some reason they were all going crazy through sacrament meeting that day. I had to keep taking the baby out and the other three wouldn't stop  wrestling and pestering each other and Russ and I just kept giving each other that look of total exasperation! I was standing in the back bouncing Aspen on my hip when the closing song finally came. It was the week of Pioneer Day so the song was "Come, Come Ye Saints" and the 2nd verse hit me as it never had before.       Why should we mourn or think our lot is hard?      Tis not so, all is right I looked at my  family a few rows up and realized that all IS right, I have a beautiful family, and we were all there together, ev...

  Since we just had our big vacation I told Russ not to do anything for Mother's Day, but I knew that Taevin had big plans since he kept talking about my big surprise. I had suspected breakfast in bed and sure enough, Sunday morning I woke up to pancakes and eggs, a necklace made out of a matchbox, and a couple of really sweet notes from Russ and Taevin. I have to say, my favorite part of the whole thing was when Russ came to me on Saturday night and asked me how to make pancake batter! His talents definitely lie somewhere outside of the kitchen but despite his lack of experience, he did a great job.    Simple and sentimental, that's my kind of Mother's Day!