After Dinner Bath

Hey, it's Ben. Amy and I thought the ol' www would get a kick out of this video:

From the first time he hears the word "bath" you can see him perk up.  It's funny, because just three months ago, a bathtub was worse than the gas chamber to this kid.  Now it's his favorite place to be.

I am a sucky blogger.......sorry everybody

 I don't really know why I suck so bad. It's not like I never take time to sit down at the computer. Because I do. I spend way to much time sitting here and looking at other peoples blogs and dream shopping (Ya know looking at stuff and houses that I don't intend to buy anytime in the near or not so near future.) But when it comes to blogging I always feel like I need to catch up. And then it gets so far away from me that I don't know where to begin. All the boys in my little family have had their birthdays since I last blogged. And I only have pictures of Jett's birthday on my camera because I miss-placed it for awhile. So I  had others take pictures of Jackson's birthday and don't have access to them yet. I can't post about Jett until I post about Jackson who's birthday is two days earlier. But I can't move on and post about something else because this was Jett's FIRST birthday. And then there is Ben's birthday and the family reunion and blah blah blah blah blah. You know. So therefor I suck. I can't promise that I will get any better. I would like to. I did just find my camera so that is something. But I have not uploaded any birthday pics so I am just going to post some oldies that I like just to keep things interesting.

We often all sit together in this chair so we decided to have a photo shoot.

Jackson did karate for a month and it was sooooo dang cute.

Eating a nice healthy snack after licking the cookie dough beaters.

Arm wrestling.

Jett before his cute new haircut.

This is what a day at the park looks like with my fam.

I just love this one!

Jett

He loves to play with the kids and they are great at including him. They sword fight with Ben almost every night before bed. 

Jett used to always make this fish face after every bite. I loved it!! I am pretty sad that he doesn't do it anymore. 

Vegas

Vegas was perfect. We had a great time! Instead of a story how about some pictures.

view from our room at mandalay bay

the tub :)

tv in our bathroom!!! 

cute playpen sofa in our room
(whatever that is....... it made me feel fancy)

3-d tv demonstration

rainforest cafe at the mgm grand

kissing a frog 

m&m store

my big hat

cheesecake factory
(he looks sad but he is really very happy!!)

caesars palace

the lion king was amazing

 in the lion king theater waiting for the show to start

i love the bellagio

inside the bellagio

house of blues in our hotel lobby

palm trees make me soooo happy 

best view of the whole trip

Back from Vegas

I will blog about Our trip soon, but until then enjoy this old video of Dutch playing with my paperdolls.

a little bit of sunshine

So I am totally a blog stalker! I admit that a couple of my daily blog checks are people that I have never come in contact with. Blogs are crazy! I feel like I know and am friends with people that I have never met. One of the girls that I blog stalk has super great style. Which is one of the reasons I can't stay away from her blog. To me, her house looks like sunshine. It's bright and beautiful. Now Ben pointed out that having a nice camera and living where the sun is actually shining most of the time helps. And I know that. But my style has changed and I have been waiting for an opportunity to decorate my house with a little bit of sunshine. I recently had a chance to do a mini makeover on my living room. I love it! It makes me so happy! And now that the sun is actually shining outside it's even better. 

Dutch's piggy bank was my color inspiration. I am really in love with  light, bright colors and white!

I painted most of my picture frames white and put up a painting( I actually made it for my room but it wasn't up yet so into the living room it went). I practiced this on the ground sooooo many times and took pictures of it until I got it just right. I just couldn't bring myself to really be random even though that is the look.

I got a new green pillow for my couch to go with my existing blue ones. I also got a new lamp. Someday I'll get a new, beautiful, white couch, but for now I've got to work with what I've got.  I also plan on painting my side table white.

My new $20 Ikea rug. It's right in front of my couch but I didn't get a picture of it  incorporated into the room. Oops!

Last but not least is my new Ikea TV stand. I absolutely love this.  I got the baskets at the bottom from Ikea. The blue ones were on clearance at Walmart. The little decorations like the orange vase and the green pillow came from TJ Max. Even though there are a lot more things that I would like to do, my house just feels much more welcoming! It makes me super happy!

Jack

(Jackson doing his version of the robot. It gets serious after his singing)

We really dance party it up in my house all of the time. The kids love to listen to the Tarzan sound track over and over again and dance there little hearts out. I love how there styles of dance change with each song they here. Anyway, I got super sick of Tarzan and put in a random mix of Ben's. For some reason Bootylicious really inspired Jackson to do the robot. I guess he thought that singing along would be fun even though he had never heard the song before. He's a pretty fun kid!

My favorite Jackson quote.... 

"Mom this parmesan cheese is the weirdest salt I have ever tasted!"