Taking a break and our Kitchen Couch

Finally Basketball season is over and I can stay home a night or two a week.  For a few more days anyway until the next thing starts up again. And I only had two playing. I am not looking forward to all four again in the spring. Finding balance is so hard when you have a large family. Priorities like family meals, family home evenings, and down time are easily lost if you just allow one activity each. So for now I am enjoying being home with my children. 

8th Grade Basketball team

I think this may have been the first time Kennon made a basket during a game and I caught in on camera. Pretty impressive I'd say that I snagged that while holding Calvin.

The jury is still out if we will ever have a great ball player in this family. With Kashann as their mother the odds are stacked against these wanna be athletes.

 Oh, Calvin!  How I love how you are growing and smiling back at us now.  (He's 11 weeks in these shots)
 I wanted to post 50 pics of just this chubby face in the sun because every single one is adorable.

 Especially this one. He is the love of my life right now. Sorry Brent!

 I settled on just these four after all. Kennon took them and has yet to edit them. She'll be mad that I posted them raw but I am not patient enough to wait or edit them myself. Most people know that about me.

 So happy until we had Marcus slide in next to him. Calvin is not a fan having a big brother yet. It is amazing how quickly Marcus closing in brings him to tears. He has never hurt him once but just gets too close, moves too fast and "Marcus why do you love to rub his head so much?" He really hates it.

 I get so tired of bed head and making Marcus tame it when we are hurrying out the door so I talked him into a buzz cut again. He loved it and said after looking in the mirror, "YAY, I look just like Calvin!"

And Dad. But you know how much this one hates taking family pictures so we left him out. 

We always said that someday we would have a couch in the kitchen. Brent wants a nice comfortable spot to hang out with his wife while she cooks and cleans up. :) 

We had the perfect spot in our new house for the supportive husband so we brought in our very first ever kitchen couch.  

I was happy to see him reading in the sun Sunday afternoon. Being a dentist, running a business, being high priest group leader, and a full time repair man around our house leaves so little time for kicking back with a good book. Thank goodness for Sundays. 

I am loving all the global warming this winter. I guess that's what it is. How else can you explain me going without a coat most days in January when I live in NH?


My life is so full. Here is what I am up to most days whenever I catch a break from housework. 


Trying to exercise at least 15 minutes a day. That was my new years resolution. It might sound like my aim was pretty low but let me tell you the 15 minutes is very hard to fit in. It's all so much work to exercise when you have a newborn, especially when it's not that warm outside for taking them along. 


Working an hour or so a day on the basement we are remodeling. The insurance came in and we of course decided that we wanted to save money by doing the work ourselves. Brent put up the drywall and I am plugging away each day on taping and mudding. 


Working on Marketing for the dental office. Somehow I ended up being hired as business manager and I have been doing my best to get fired for slacking. . .  but so far no one else has applied. So I am stuck.  


I found pinterest and now have zillions of home decorating and organizing ideas spinning through my head but don't hardly have the time to do anything about them. Just like exercise I keep telling myself that the day will come when these kind of things are all possible again.


Because I feel guilty about not running an hour a day, I compensate by trying one healthy recipe after the other. They are turning out so good though that I overeat and I'm pretty sure that all the fiber I am consuming isn't a good trade off for the extra calories that all this healthy baking is spurring.


Marcus and I spend lots of time together every day reading. He reads all the signs as we go down the road. He reads each item that I throw into the grocery cart. He reads stuff over my shoulder when I am on pinterest. It is so fun to have an 3 year old reader. 


But sadly, he can't write a single thing yet. He refuses to write his name. So I guess we still have plenty to work on before kindergarten.