My fun laundry room!

Okay so I decided one night that if you have to do laundry, and we all do, that it should be as fun as possible. So I gave my laundry room a makeover a little bit ago. I painted it this way fun color (my brothers tell me it is the "fish bowl" room. And then I hung the baskets on the wall. So now I don't have laundry all over my floor anymore and I can sort it as it gets dirty. And to top it off, 1 full basket is a full load! so I know exactly when to do laundry, no half loads. Then I hung a cute curtain in front of it so I can pretend I don't have a mess when people come over. There is also a shelf on the right side to put my bleach and what not. Okay so cool baskets!
Next I had this weird empty space in the corner so I built some shelves into it. I put all my small kitchen appliances on it. Can I tell you I use them so much more while they are there? I love it. I also gave the kids a shelf for their crayons and markers and play doh and now they see it more often and use it more. To top it off I don't have to stop what I am doing to get it for them. And I put a small laundry basket under the bottom shelf for the "outside shoes" so now I don't have dirt clumps coming off shoes all the way through the house and we just keep the really dirty ones in there and the cute ones in the closet (the reason for this post is, a friend of mine had a good "after" method of laundry, you know folding and putting away, so I thought I would share my good "before method of laundry). Now if somebody could come and mop my house for me I will be all set! (And by the way I did this all by myself other than Eliott helping me hang the board that went behind the baskets on the wall! Just giving my self a little pat on the back! that's all!)Anyway that is all!

Lyddie is a big girl now!!

So Lyddie is a big girl now in two senses of the word. She now weighs 18.5 pounds! So I thought she was a little small and needed to grow more so we started her on cereal! (if you don't know me very well, I am being way sarcastic) Ok so she was just hungry so she gets real food, well kinda real. Anyway... She was so cute, she was excited to sit in the chair and just smiled till we gave her the first bite and she was not impressed. After a few bites she decided it was okay and when we were done she was all smiles! Now she just gobbles it up like a pro!

Just Pathetic!

Seth was feeling sick the other day. He had been throwing up in the morning and didn't eat all day. A little bit before nap time I looked over at him and he had fallen asleep like this. My favorite part is the foot in the throw-up bowl (unused, but there just in case) It was so sad, so like a good mother I had to take a picture of it. He is so sweet, and feeling better now!

Too Cute To Pass Up!

There is just something so sweet about a sleeping baby! And I love one when they are just in their diapers! (but I do get her dressed too!) Man she is getting big!




And this cute little dress reminds me of "heidi" she looked so cute and had so much fun wearing it that I couldn't resist putting it on here for all to see!!













Have you ever had those days where one of your kids just makes you laugh? Well today is a Lexi day! She woke up the other day with these dress-up ballet slippers tied around her neck and she gave us the hardest time taking her picture. For some reason she just didn't want her picture taken, but we won.

How Do You Do It?

So I always have people asking me "How do you it?" Well I always think, you just do, I don't know how, but it just works. Well I was looking through my pictures and came across

these and thought it was a very accurate description of how I do it! With 4 kids under 5 and 3 of those are under 3, I do alot of this...

And generally, I love every minute of it!

Walmart Fun

So I went to Walmart the other day. It was a bad day to begin with. I was so exhausted and extremely hormonal and wanted to cry over everything. And none of it was really worth crying about and I knew it, but somehow that doesn't ever seem to help. Anyway we were having the missionaries over for dinner and my house was a mess and I need two things from the store so I deciede to go on my way home from play group, which would be my only time to do it. Well unfrotunately for me that was also lunch time and rapidly approaching nap time. So I figured if I could get Riley and Lexi to sit in the back of the cart and I could put Lyddie up in the front and Seth could walk then I could get them a corn dog from the deli counter and accomplish shopping and lunch all in one fell swoop then I could get home and put them all to bed and enjoy some much needed me time. Okay so the flaw in the plan was that Riley (who by the way has decided that 6 a.m. is a good wake up time) didn't want to sit in the back, she wanted to walk. Well I had already told her she was in the back so I decided to stick to my guns! Well that involved holding her arm so that she couldn't climb out and walking with my other hand on the cart so I could direct it. She screamed the entire time, which seemed much longer than it really was since I just got my 2 needed items (something fellow walmart shoppers know, never happens!!) when we were in the frozen food aisle this older lady stops and starts talking to her trying to calm her down. I just wanted to tell her to leave us alone so I could get out of there, but I have been recently informed that when I am hormonal I tend to lean heavily on the side of rude. So I was trying my best just to politely escape when I think she finally caught on and asked me "I am not helping am I?" I do have to be grateful for that because she wasn't, so then we proceed to the check out getting stares from everyone of course! Well with Riley throwing her awesome fit I decided to forgoe the "corn dog" plan and had to come up with something else, so on the way home we got taco bell, they ate in the car and as soon as we walked in the door Riley turned her little switch and became the cutest little angel! Of course! Well I think this story had a point but I don't remember it now. But at the end of this long morning I got everybody to sleep and sat in my room to watch a girl movie and had some ice cream!! Yummy! When all was said and done, my house was clean (at least the parts the missionaries could see!) the missionaries were full, my kids were happy and I got to go to bed at 8:30. Not a bad ending to a bad day!

It's Summer Time

So I got Seth his new swim suit for the year and thought I would try the girls' suits on them to see who needed a new one. Wouldn't ya know it, nobody would take them off. Riley and Lexi wore their cute suits w/ hats all day long. And seth wore his trunks w/ out a shirt the whole day too. The sad thing is we don't have a play pool for the backyard yet so they just wore them around the house. They even took naps in them. It was a funny day seeing them playing in their suits. And the nice thing is I don't even have to buy Lexi a suit unless I take Lyddie swimming, cuz her's still fits.
I was really excited for summer and swimming, but
I think they just might be even more excited than me. It should be a great season, even better though if it were 20ish degrees cooler! Oh well!
Happy Swimming!