It's a sweater!

Since moving to Omaha, our taste in clothing has changed a little bit.
Ammon likes to now wear pink sweaters with cows all over it. I especially love the 4 cows going down his left arm

I like to wear cardigans with Indians on horseback. (which you can't see in the pictures but you can imagine)
I don't see anything wrong with our new clothing style.

We fit in with our new friends who have great taste in clothing as well.

So much fun. Ok, so we might have gone shopping at Good Will and we might have left our tags on our clothes so that we could maybe take our clothes back after the ugly sweater party that we went to. But just maybe....
Ammon won the "Cheesiest Sweater" award. Get it? Cheesy...Cows.... hahaha
I won the "Ugliest Sweater" award
It was some tough competition

On another note, look at this cute little mouse.
Yes it's alive in this picture and yes he washed his hands REALLY good after this picture

Maybe it's not as cute when it is running around your house. Our previous neighbors had this mouse in their house that they had been trying to catch for a while. He ran under a piece of furniture and Ashlee (our neighbor) ran over and grabbed Ammon since her husband was gone. Ammon was able to catch the mouse for her but then he didn't know what to do with it. He really is soft hearted and didn't know how to kill it so he just went and threw it in the forrest so I'm sorry in advance to any of you who this mouse chooses to live with next.
Cheers

Notes from around the house

I thought I would share some of the notes I have found around our house lately. I love finding these notes.
This first one we found this morning on Ammons pillow. Addie had made our bed and put Ammons slippers by the door and had this picture waiting for him when he came out of the bathroom. I love that it is a picture of a camel in a desert and it says "your hot" LOVE this note!

I love this happy rainbow picture that she drew that tells Kimball that he is rude to her. Classic

This one came she brought home from school this week. I seriously cannot believe her penmanship. It is better than mine and she is in Kindergarten.

And this one just touched my heart.

I tried typing on it what it says but just in case it is to small, here is what it says.
"To my family.
Dear Family, I love you so much. never stop going to church. Always eat the bread and water. You will have to have to! Eat the water because you will remember Jesus's blood and bodie.

I love this girl.

Do you ever feel...

Do you ever feel like you are not the person you imagined you would be? I remember growing up, I had all these wonderful ideas of what kind of a wife and mother I was going to be. I was not going to get mad at my kids, because they of course were going to be perfect children because I was going to be an awesome mother (ha ha). I was going to have creative things for them to do and be such a fun mom. Then....REALITY HITS and you are tired and your house is a wreck and you send your kids down to be babysat by PBS kids while you clean and do your own thing..like shower and check e-mail. I've been thinking a lot about this. I don't think I am a horrible mom, but I am not the mom I wanted to be either. I know there is a balance in there somewhere. Obviously growning up, I didn't think about the all the mundane stuff that takes TIME like doing the breakfast, lunch and dinner dishes EVERY DAY (which sad to say, I don't). I didn't realize how much patience really does get worn down and things stop being cute and start getting annoying when its the 100th time. Being a mom is really frustrating sometimes but then, I have these moments of absolute sweetness and joy and laughter and I could not be happier. Take for instance yesterday morning. Addie came in with a blanket on her head and said "look, I have hair like Repunzel now mom." She climbed into bed and snuggled with me and said "Mom, I love you so much, I love you as much as 5 hearts as big as the world with little tiny hearts inside of it. " MELT my HEART! Tonight I was at Addies dance class and while she was standing there waiting for the music to start, she ran over and gave me a big hug and kiss on the cheek. MELTING. Other moments like tonight when I thought Kimball had been asleep for a while and then I hear him yell to me from the top of the stairs "MOM, I dust tooted" me-"OK, can you say excuse me?" Kimball-"Koos me". Or when his eyes light up about sometime you say and he says "YEAHHHH! I'm so be-guided (excited)" and gives me the biggest hug and kiss. Or even when he gets hurt and just runs to me for comfort. I love that, and I love that I am here with him. Then there is Avonlea who is such a joy. I love her laugh that sounds like she is trying to clear her throat. I love that when I hold up a camera, she scunches up her nose and gives me the biggest cheese. I love picking her up and just feel her grab and hold onto me so tight and hug...I don't enjoy the bite on my shoulder that soon follows but I'm at least now prepared for it. I love her growling...which she does ALL THE TIME...infact, yesterday Addie said "mom, Avonlea is practically a dog huh" Thinking this was not very nice, I said "No shes not" but Addie replied "Well she growls and crawls on the ground and bites people." Ok Addie you have a point but she is a cute little puppy.
Anyway, I know this is a lot of rambling but there are frustrations and joys and that is what makes being a mom so rewarding and makes me realize that even though I am not the mom I want to be right NOW that doesn't mean I can't do better. I can make more sacrifices. If I were to spend half as much time actually doing crafts and decorating as I spent searching for crafts and decorating tips, I would have SO much done. I really love checking blogs and facebook, but I need to re-prioritize my time. My children need to come first. My childrens "status" is much more important that that person I haven't seen since 3rd grade. I have decided I am not going to be on the computer while my children are awake. I can use nap time and bedtime for that and this is a step. Becoming who I want to be is going to be a step by step process.
Ok, enough of this...