We do it Dirty around here!!!

HA HA HA I think I'm funny :) Jon and I a while back decided to run the Dirty Dash. It's a 6 mile "run" and you go through all these obstacles like running up a hill with the sprinklers on and jumping over hay bales, getting sprayed with a fire hose, swimming through mud and running through a swamp. Needless to say it was really pretty....well fun. Jon and I had a lot of fun together because really we aren't together alone a lot these days. I am so grateful for my cute husband who is always ready for an adventure. I've always said I married a play boy and even at the age of 31 and the first counselor in the bishopric he's still game. He's such a little boy sometimes and I completely love that about him. Thank you babe for keeping me grounded :) Thank you for being so much fun. I love you more than love you and I always will!!!

This is the morning before. You can tell we just rolled out of bed and took off :)

1 down many more to go

So Maren has had 2 loose teeth for a while now it was finally time for one of them to come out and she started out pretty excited. (notice the 2 teeth growing up from her "guts" but behind her baby teeth.)

I gave it a shot first and started the whole drama off :)

Then Daddy tried

See Taylor in the mirror making Maren laugh? That's my girl!

Then we gave Uncle Jeff a call because she didn't want us to try anymore. For some reason she thought if Jeff did it it wouldn't hurt.

Well it still hurt, but at least he got her tooth out. She kept asking me "why do my guts have to bleed mom...why?"

Success!!

Pumpkin Patch

So life has been pretty busy so I have a lot of catching up to do on here. For Taylor's Preschool we went to the pumpkin patch and we had a ball! I hardly ever get to just focus on Taylor because Maren is busy and Lauren is a full time job right now. I had so much fun playing with my little girl I wish I could do it more often.

This is a picture of Tay when we got on the trailer to head out to the pumpkin patch. She is such a cute little turd!!

This is a picture of Lauren on my back pack on my back :) I had to ask my friend to take this picture for me...thanks Camille.

They got to pick out their pumpkins and then the guy would come over and cut the pumpkin for them. Taylor was so excited and it took her about 2 seconds to find the pumpkin she wanted.

This is Taylor's best friend Grace

So cute

After they picked out their pumpkins they got to go play for about an hour on the play ground there. I love this picture because Taylors little pig tails are bouncing all over the place while she ran to the slide.

Once she got to the slide she was a little scared. 

This cute guy at the top of the slide helped her down. (I am not suggesting that I think he is attractive mostly because he is probably 17 years old, but I am just pointing out that he was very sweet helping my little girl get down the slide)

Taylor wanted me to go on the barrel ride with her because she was too nervous to go alone so I of course brought my camera along and got this really cool shot of us going through the corn! 

Thank you

So I've been seeing a lot of this lately. Lauren has been quite mobile trying to keep up with her sisters. So needless to say now that I have 3 mobile kids my house has been pretty hard to keep up. I follow her around all day and she gets sticky fingers all over just like the other 2 do!

So the other day I was having a pretty hard day and I was anything but a happy mom around here. The girls were being noisy and I was trying to clean and it seemed like every time I turned around I had to get mad at one of them. 

Then I decided to take out my camera and breath for a minute. 

The girls were trying to be good so they went upstairs and got into the dress up stuff. They came downstairs and grabbed the brooms and played fairy princess cow girl running away from the scary monster baby.

for about an hour.

I love taking pictures because it's not just about trying to get the best picture you can...it's about a different perspective. It changes you! It makes you look at something differently. 

It helps me see how cute Lauren is trying to keep up with her sisters.

It lets me see how good of friends Maren and Taylor really are. 

Thank you girls for helping me see that some things can wait....

Thank you for all the giggles I hear and the never ending desire to play...

Thank you for you simple insight into this crazy world.

Thank you for your constant need for kisses and hugs. 

Thank you thank you for always reminding me to live in the moment with you. Thank you for letting me in on your endless game of dreaming.

So to the sticky fingers on my windows and walls and everywhere else....I have some fairy princess cowgirls to save from the naughty baby monster...so for now you can wait!

Family Photo booth 2010

Our family photo booth was pretty awesome this year :) The baby wouldn't stop crying and the girls fought most of the time, but we got some fun pictures.