Randomness

Nothing incredible or exciting has happened lately. So I figured I would clean off my camera....especially since I keep telling my friend I will send her pictures of her son. These are in no particular order...okay backward, I always forget how to upload them and then hate moving them around.

Yesterday was a miraculous moment. Ady and Bennett were playing nicely downstairs. This is actually a common thing now and I LOVE it. They are the best of friends. FYI:If you want Bennett to like you (I've heard from many he likes no one and that's not true.) but, if you want Bennett to like you a: feed him, this boy LOVES his food. b: take him outside. Those are his two favorite things right now and luck has it Ady does both with him often.

So, while this was going on, I figured I'd find where the other two trouble makers are. Tanner and Matt have a really bad habit of leaving Ady out AND letting her know about it. I hear a sad, tearful Ady many times a day saying, "Tanner isn't going to be my friend anymore." "Matthew says he won't invite me to his birthday party, only Tanner." "MOM, they locked me out of the room AGAIN, it's just not fair." In fairness to the boys, she is a bit of a pain. We are working on both problems, but then again, Davis had a little sister and he smiles and says, "I soooo understand."

So, this is where the boys were. So cute, Tanner has to read 20 minutes a day and Matt (by the way he will only go by Matt, no Matthew, Buddy, Baby (my favorite, I am working on it) just MATT) today. Matt was so excited.

Okay the book was a bit boring. I found Matt like this when I came up with the camera. Who could resist.

Spring is sprining. This is a pile of weeds in the back yard. I am gradually trying to clean up our mess. I have no before pictures, and only a few pictures of what i have done so far. I will try to take a picture of more later.

This is where we will put the garden. Davis raked this area for me. We will spray weed killer, till and get ready soon.

For now the plants are in the greenhouse and on my table. No pictures of that, sorry.

Ah, what a cute bunch of kids. These are Matt's preschool friends. We have a co-op thing where we swap houses each week. My week was last week and we planted carrots. AHHHHHH

This is the monkey. Bennett is a ball of all sorts of stuff right now. He has a horrible temper, the worst I have ever seen. His temper tantrums are actually quite hilarious, it takes all my effort not to laugh out loud. He is busy busy busy. Worse than Adylin, thank goodness I don't have a Matt 9 months behind him or I would be in a looney farm. He's pretty funny. He does have horrible ezcema and no matter what I try it won't clear up. I think he might have some food allergies, but since he's a bit picky right now, it's hard to cut foods out. I think we will try harder this summer when the yummy fruits and vegis come out. This child is like Tanner and won't eat meat....an occasional hotdog, but is that really meat?!?!?!

His new favorite thing to do is climb, sit on and move the barstools. He dislikes his highchair most of the time. He would much rather sit on a chair or barstool, but if I can't stand next to him he goes to the highchair. As long as food is infront of him, he is usally okay with it. His favorite foods right now are bananas (I think he's allergic, so we are trying to stop giving them to him, after this batch I won't buy anymore.) craisins, raisins, chocolate (his all time favorite) oranges, peanut butter crackers, yogurt (I think he's allergic to this too.) marshmellows, and kidney beans. Yes weirdo!!!!

A little while Tanner had to do a biography. He chose Andrei Kirilenko (whatever kid) and then they had a "wax museum" at school where he had to dress up as the character and when you walked past the kid you pushed a "button" and they would give you a spill on their person. It was really hot in the library and I seriously just wanted to find Tanner and get out of there. He of course was the LAST child. SO I skipped ahead. Tanner is into the Jazz right now and loves to watch the games with Davis. I guess the other night Davis had friends over and he said Tanner tried so hard to make "cool" comments on the game and feel included. He even made everyone popcorn and got them drinks. If any of you know my brother in law Scott, Tanner, is very much like him.

Bennett and Grandma went to see Tanner. Notice Bennett is only concerned about one thing, the ball. One of his favorite things. That and he is into hats right now. I will have to start taking pictures.

We did it!!!!

So, last night was the big "reveal" for girls camp. We had all the young women and leaders over to our house last night to reveal our "M&M" character/theme. Well, let's just say when we first announced, showed them, it was COMPLETE SILENCE...okay a few not so kind words were spoken, but the silence was pretty BAD!!!!! I thought our YW president was going to cry....seriously. Well, luck had it we had them sitting at the table with TONS of card supplies and had them get going on those. Us leaders had a few words with one another and we finally decided to let it "simmer" and we would address it in a little while. If they wanted to dicuss other ideas, we would....okay, the idea of BumbleBee from transformers and SpongeBob were brought up with a resounding "NO" from the adults. Soon giggles and laughter and good girl fun came from the tables and all was well...for a moment. One of the girls moved over to the couch and I went to sit by her. She basically told me that she didn't like making cards and so she was just not going to do it....Okay! She then asked me what other ideas I had for camp (she was one of the verbally disappointed girls). We chatted for a little while and then the other verbally disappointed girl joined us. Hmmmmm, well I just told them how it was and a few ideas and reasons why I decided to choose what I did. They started to get more excited....I guess I should back up for a second. The old YW pres was in for 4 yes I said FOUR camps. They always had a Disney/Princess theme. Well, I for one wasn't into the whole Belle thing and neither were the new leaders, BUT we would do it if the girls really wanted to. We thought it would be fun to switch things up a bit this year......what were we thinking?!?!?! Okay, so the rest of the girls finally gathered around for the "BIG TALK" okay not THAT big talk, just the camp character. I had plugged Davis laptop into the TV, so we had a big old version of what I wanted to do. In the end we got much more excitement and joy for camp. The nay-sayers were much kinds and actually excited. So we spent about 30 minutes making our ward "M" Inroducing you to CANDIE yes, that's what we named her and I LOVE IT!!!!!



So, she is our MAIN girl and each of the girls will get on the M&M site (with me) and make their own M character. We have LOADS of ideas, but can always use more. We are still in need of craft ideas and a service project. The STAKE theme is virtue. We were learn more about that next Thursday.
So here's to another 136 days until camp is over and hopefully more sleep filled nights. Last night suce wasn't one of them.

1 out of 145

So about 6 weeks ago I got a new calling in my church....Young Women's Camp Director. For those not familiar, the girls (ages 12-18) in our church go to week long camps each summer. Lucky for me this one is only 4 days 3 nights. So to explain the title, last night was my first official restless night thinking about camp....and there are 145 days until the end of camp. So without going into too much detail yet, our color is yellow and the value for yellow is good works. I all ready have a few ideas but I am always in need of more. So, our first activity is making cards and Katie in our ward has kindly offered to help out with that (she is super talented, so I am THRILLED!!!!) So my first blog request is, if you have any scrapbook, card supplies you are willing to part with, we would love donations. Also, if you have any cute ideas for camp, I'd love to hear them. Yummy recipes, craft ideas....I will announce our theme and "character" in a week, after we tell the girls so that will help in the idea department too. Our budget is limited, so keep that in mind.

I am super excited for this calling. We have the BEST girls ever. I know quite a few of them and I know this will be LOADS of fun. I even heard they are all super talented and I have only briefly seen this, but can't wait to see more of it. If you don't want to leave a comment or have LOTS to say, feel free to email me at addisonsmommy@gmail.com

I can't wait to get closer and closer and get more and more ideas.

On the family front, my kiddos have been sick the past few weeks so that hasn't been fun, but we are surviving. Bennet is my crazy child and into EVERYTHING, but he's pretty hilarious so it's all good. Matthew is finally enjoying preschool and Adylin can officially write her name. Tanner recently did a biography report on Andrei Kirilenko...sigh, I like the Jazz and all, but really!!!!! Oh well, he is excited to be in his wax museum at school and we just bought him a Kirilenko shirt to wear for it, so he is very happy.