Hello spring it's nice to see you!

Spring has arrived... although I hear it's supposed to get cold on sunday ( NOOOO) We are loving the warm weather. Yesterday ( didn't have my camera opps) sawyer and I played outside from 4 to 8. Yes you heard me right he had snacks for dinner ( bad mommy) we walked around the block almost 4 times. We had to turn around because he fell and was so sad. We jumped on the tramp swung on the swing, looked at the du du du (deer) walked up to my grandma's next door for a visit. He ran on her balcony back and forth searching for the du du du. He fimally spotted them on our neighbors lawn and we were out of there. He is a busy busy buys boy. He keeps me on my toes and he runs every where. it's rare when he will just walk. I have to make him hold my hand which he hates. These pictures and videos are from our day today outside. It's nap time, but I'm sure once he's up and he's eaten we will be right back outside throwing the ball around and blowing mommy kisses, but the most fun things is to run really really fast from her:) We are excited to play with our daddy outside all day tomorrow. He loves Braydon so much and i'm so thankful for their sweet relationship. We hope everyone is enjoying the warm weather as much as we are. Happy springing to everyone!!

He loves to swing. If you look close enough you can tell he had been crying. He loves my camera

He really wanted the camera

jumping on the tramp one of our favorites

He likes to go down the slide, but he really loves to try and climb back up

Juice break

mama mama ball ball ball

This time we tried sitting down to drink our juice it worked better.

This child of mine is the most darling, fun, crazy, adorable little boy, but he is a terror!!! His new favorite thing is to tell me no no no and shake his finger at me. This week he has loved doing things he knows are naughty. He stands on the couch and tries to play with the pictures on the wall. He looks at me laughs and says no no no and plays with him... so naughty. We go to church (sometimes I wonder why) and he yells, he laughs he tries to run around, he sees the basketball hoops in the gym and yells ball, he won't let anyone touch the hymn books... yes he needs all of them so they have to either sit somewhere else or go find their own, he wants to get out of the chapel, but as soon as we do he screams because he wants back in... really naughty. If you ask for a kiss he will come towards to and open his mouth ( yes we only get open mouth kisses) and right before he gives me a kiss he will say no no no and run away. Naughty!! My dad was playing outside with him and he told him to come inside Sawyer turned to him smiled, laughed and ran the other way SO NAUGHTY! He totally knows what he is doing. I don't know how to teach him everyone laughs at him so he thinks it is even more funny and like time out would work and the more I say no the more he says it and tries to do all the naughty things. Any ideas would be so great!

But just when I think i've had it with ALL the naughty He looks at me with this adorable face and I just melt. He is so sweet. Tonight during his bath I was washing his hair. Well he decided he needed to wash mine so he put shampoo in his hands and started washing my hair and then he just kept kissing me and laughing and kissing... he is just the best thing in the world! He melts our hearts everday and tests our patients all the time. He is the biggest joy and mother hood is so hard, but the most magical and amazing thing in the entire world. We are so lucky to have this little angel/terror!

Hotel fun!

Braydon's cousin got married this weekend at the Manti temple. We had to be there by 8:30 so we decided since it would be an all day thing that we would get a hotel. Thanks to my amazing mother for letting us use some of her points at the Marriott. We brought our swim suits and got take out and checked in. We were trying to get Sawyer in his swim diaper and swim suit, but honestly he only wanted to play with the hotel phone. It was so funny. He pretended to call people for about 15 minutes. He was just chatting away to himself. Who knows who he thought he was talking to. Lately, he only wants to call and talk to people. He loves phones ( all electronics actually) but, he has been throwing major fits if he gets the phone and it doesn't  call someone or have someone at the other end talking back. My favorite has been when he throws it at me because I didn't call anyone. So I'm sorry to all the people he has called. We get kinda desperate. We had such a great time swimming once we finally got him away from the phone He hated his life jacket but we wanted to see if he would try and float in it, but no luck so we just took it off. He laughed the whole time. We played chase and tried to blow bubbles and when it was time to get out we had a very sad boy. It was so much fun watching him just have a really great time. The wedding was beautiful, but we are also really happy to be home because Sawyer is already a very bad sleeper and it doesn't help sleeping in the same room with him and he can see us. Pretty much all night we heard "da da da da" "ma ma ma ma" and "uh uh" (he can't say the oh part) because he would throw his blanket or bottle out of the crib. Such a silly boy!

This is the best picture by far. He was laughing so hard. His face is just priceless.

Daddy trying to teach him how to blow bubbles

Trying to stay warm outside the temple. He had three blankets under there. It was really cold. We stayed for 2 pictures.

Mommy caved and gave him some cookies. He got really messy!

On sunday our church got cancelled due to the snow. So we bundled Sawyer up and he helped his daddy plow the drive way. He cried when I tried to bring him in the house.

He is just such a happy boy. He loves to hold our i pod and listen to music.

Because it's been so cold we have had to get a little desperate. We have been going to pet co almost daily to see the "ish" and the birds. He knows right where to go and loves to point to all the fish. He loves to get your attention and try and get you to come over and look too.

He wants to touch the fish.

Here are some of the things sawyer says, does, or that I find just completely adorable.

* He sits on the floor and flips through the hymn book and sings while he turns the pages and he will sometimes do this for hours. He sometimes will go play notes on the piano and then sit back down and sing. He sings in church with everyone else and he also tries to conducts.
* He can point to his noise and mouth
* He says dada, pa pa, mama, kitty, doggies, deer, more, no, that, this, ball, fish "ish", banana "nana" hot
* He blows kisses, but that just means when you say blow a kiss he just covers his mouth with his hand. It's pretty dang cute.
* He usually runs he hardly ever walks.
* He is terrified of elevators. He totally freaked when we rode on one.
* I thought he would love a bubble bath, but he started to cry and get all the bubbles off him
* He hates bubble baths but he loves to blow bubbles
* When I tell him his food his hot he blows on it.
* He will make me sit on the floor and he will sit on my lap and read books to me now. Sometimes he sings instead of reading!
We love this little boy of ours so much!

Grammie Great

I was going through my old camera and found these pictures. This was the last time I had the opportunity to spend the day and have lunch with my sweet grandmother. It was just like any other day. I picked up one of her favorites a kids meal and frosty from wendy's. We had a great time chatting about her life as a young girl and meeting my grandfather, having children of her own, becoming a grandmother. She was just so proud of her family. The love she had for all of us was indescribable and completely unconditional, but that was not the big miracle of the day for me. She made sure we knew she loved us. The miracle for me was that Sawyer my 8 1/2 month old sat on her lap for almost three hours. For those that really know Sawyer know that he hasn't been still like that EVER not even when I was pregnant. It was so special for me to watch him sit with my grammie and for me to see her love him. The way I have always known she has loved me. I will never forget that day and the gift that my sweet son gave to me by sitting still so I could watch the love between a great grandmother and her great grand son. It was pretty special.

Our darling little valentine!

He was so hyper running across the couch!

Showing him his balloon

Loves to kiss the monkey balloon

Hugging his balloon

The silly valentines shirt I made Sawyer

The let go of his balloon and was trying to get it! 

Happy day of Love everyone! Sawyer mommy and daddy love you so much and we love each other. You make our world so great!

Dad's surgery and a glimps of warm weather

My dad had surgery almost 2 weeks ago to replace his left knee. It was way messed up. The surgery went very well and he is jut at home recovering. Surgery is no fun for anyone. We hope to see real progress in a couple weeks. He is up and walking around and doing his physical therapy everyday.

 The other day Sawyer had just had it. He didn't sleep the night before at all, he took one twenty minute nap and just stood looking out the window sobbing. So I bundled him up really tight and made him very warm and we went on a walk and a little visit to one our friends. He loved it. He would stay outside all day if I would let him. Well, Today it was warm enough to play outside for a bit. My dad even came outside too. Sawyer and my dad sat on the swing for almost an hour. They both had such a great time. He loves his grandpa. He either calls him pa pa or da da so funny. And, sometimes the only way I can get him to do anything is by saying let's go get grandpa. Mean I know, but he really does love his grandpa and will do pretty much anything to get to him.

 Today I am missing ben a lot. It's a little challenging for me that by the time he gets home sawyer really will have no idea who he is, but we will show him pictures all the time and tell him all about his awesome uncle ben. He is doing really well in Columbia and he sounds very happy and very strong.

Some crafts I've done lately

So I've NEVER really been crafty. That was always my sisters emilee's "thing." I have been wanting to do some crafts because braydon is not around much and It takes a lot of time so since i have A LOT of time (not really) but a lot of time without braydon I thought I would give it a try. I have been making blankets, bows, burp cloths, flowers, binky clips and a bunch of crafty wreaths for different holidays.... mostly valentines. I also made a darling night light for Sawyers bedroom and if I ever have a girl I will make another one maybe more that are pink! No pictures of the night light, wreaths, or binky clips. They didn't turn out very well. Although they are not the greatest I know that they were made with love(and with no sewing experience) Hopefully you like them if not please don't tell me!! \

* side note: I am not pregnant and I would love to have a girl someday, but If I don't I will just have many gifts to give away!! 

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Not a typical baby girl baby blanket

This fabric is so hard to sew on, but it's so soft

girl version.

I put brown silk on the other side. Sawyer is obsessed with blankets with silk on them, so I though I would make some girl ones

darling burp cloths I'm in the process of making about 15 more, but a different style

boy version

Again so hard to sew on, but it's so to cute and to soft