Pee-Pee go away!!

Have I ever told anyone how sick I am of pee!!  I remember with potty training, when I just couldn't wait for all the poop accidents to stop, but seriously when will all the pee end?  Every morning the first thing I do after waking up is make a sweep through each room collecting all the pee sheets, and towels that were put on the pee sheets in the night, and pee clothes and throw them in the washer.  Then this morning, Chloee had pictures at school, so she was dressed up so cute in her purple sweater dress and leggings. As I meet her in the garage to put Lincoln in his car seat, she looks at me and says, "I peed", as pee is dripping down her leggings.  Forget the fact that I was perfectly on time, which has happened only 2 times this year, and the fact that I had to meet a group of friends back at home, who would now be waiting for me... it was only 8:45 a.m and I already had two laundry piles of pee!  Not to mention the pee in Lincoln's car seat and on the floor of the car, where she started her "accident" before finishing up in the garage.  So, Lincoln's pants were also wet, since I couldn't fix the problem until I dropped Chloee off at school.  Then this afternoon as I walk into the powder room, the usual smell of urine seemed a bit more odoriphic and to my discovery there behind the toilet is a hidden pair of peed underwear.  (I think urine is forever embedded in the floor boards and crevices of the toilet in this bathroom, because no matter how hard I scrub and scour that bathroom, it always smells.)  And so, it is only the afternoon, how much more pee will I encounter today, tomorrow, next month, next year and the next century....!!!

October

Chris and the boys went to the BYU homecoming game and Chris was asked to run the alumni flag out... so much fun!


Is that the cutest witch you have ever seen?!  This is Chloee at her preschool parade.
Lincoln helping to hand out the candy
Cade could not wait for me to get the other kids dressed, so he took off trick or treating all by himself.  His goal was to go as fast as he could and get to as many houses as he could, so I took Nate and Chloee.

BaCk To ScHoOl!!

Cade- starting 2nd grade
Nate- starting kindergarten

Chloee- preschool girl

August Adventures

Yes, I am very behind on my blog here, so I will do my best to catch up!

Chloee decided it is better to let someone else do her make-up.

Cade decided he was finally brave enough to try the climbing wall at the gym and after a few climbs made it all the way to the top.

We all decided it was time to visit Dad at training camp in Latrobe. The kids always have a blast doing the football activities set up on the field next to the practice field.

Chloee dives backwards over the "tacklers"

Mr. Competitive (Cade) ran races with the other players kids. We died laughing at how funny these kids were. One of the other kids in this picture would start throwing elbows as they got close to the finish line. All the Dads were dying...no idea where all the competitive drive comes from!

Nate tries to thread the needle.

We were so glad to have V-ma visit!

Chloee tried out her first dance class. She liked tap the best.
This is pretty much how we all felt at the end of our summer days!! All that fun is exhausting!

Chloee is 3!

Happy Birthday to our spunky, cute and always fun girl!
On July 17, her big Bday, we took Chloee and some friends to a place called Lilliput. They have a little "town" of play houses with dress ups and toys, so they had a blast.

3 THINGS OUR 3 YEAR OLD LOVES:
1. pink
2. gum
3. girlfriends
We love you Princess!

Why we dream of a boat and a lake house on Deep Creek...

And so after spending a weekend boating and swimming at Deep Creek Lake, MD we are officially hooked! What a beautiful place, just 2 hours from Pittsburgh. We spent the first day with just our family tubing, skiing, swimming and didn't really get off the boat the whole day. Linc, was such a sport...he chilled in his car seat a lot to keep him out of the sun and took some great naps with the rocking and hum of the boat. I think what got Chris hooked on wanting to buying a boat, beside the top of the line, awesome boat that some friends took him out on the next day, was that our kids did not fight one time that whole day. All he could talk about the whole next week was getting a boat. Of course, me and my practical side said why don't we just rent one a few times a year and avoid the expense of a major purchase...not to mention cleaning, towing, and storing,etc. But, then I felt bad for raining on his parade. Chris grew up boating and so for him it is all about family memories and bonds...he claims, "can you put a price tag on that?"...he knows how to play me! We had the Clarks, Morleys, and Hohls join us the next day...so much fun!

Summer Vacation

We had a blast with all of our family in California!
We spent a day at the beach, hung out at Aaron & Kristen's awesome pool, did Disneyland, and went to Chris' Dad's river house. It is so fun to see the kids with all of their cousins and how they love to be around all of the aunts, uncles and grandparents too!

Baseball Boys

We had fun watching the boys do baseball and t-ball this year and Christopher REALLY loved watching and helping out. He was 3rd base coach for Cade's team. Nate had to miss more than 1/2 the season due to his surgery, but I think his favorite part of t-ball was the snacks and drinks at the end of the game. This was Cade's first year of coach pitch and they were on the bigger field. At his first practice, I wondered how he would be able to throw the ball all the way to first base, but he improved so much and had a blast playing on such a great team!

10 YEARS! HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO US!

I have to say, I am still that happy today. I will admit that before we got married, I thought Chris was perfect and I was so lost in la-la land that I can now see why my roommates were so annoyed. I have learned that he isn't perfect and he found my countless imperfections out very fast too...but I wouldn't want to be living my crazy life with anyone else. Chris truly is the one for me. (We would have loved to take a trip, but with a 3 month old and the kids busy schedules, we were only able to carve out time for a late night dinner at our favorite restaurant, Hyde Park...so it will have to be a big trip for the 20 year anniversary...right!?)

So, on our 10 year mark here are 10 things I love about Christopher:

1. How he laughs all the time

2. How he can light up a room and make a boring event seem fun

3. How he started wearing a white shirt and suit to church from the day Cade was born, because he wanted to be an example to his boys

4. How excited he gets about food

5. How he tells me I am beautiful, even when I am nine months pregnant, or nine days postpartum

6. How he makes our weekly date nights top priority

7. How he can sit and watch his favorite sports on TV with all the kids piled on top of him

8. How amazing he is at communicating and always being the first to say he's sorry

9. How I can talk him into ironing or mending my clothes

10. How he freely admits to watching chick flicks (used to be soaps) and cuddling with me on the couch