The love & Logic way

I honestly can't say enough GOOD THINGS about this book. My sister & I got this book as a gift from my mom, she works with all these cute girls at work that told her about this book, the minute we started reading it, our outlook on parenting had changed, and when we tried it on our kids it worked within one day. It's about teaching children responsiblity and to let them be the one to make their own choices with out realizing you are still in contorl.
Kaden has always been a sweet boy, but he has always had a hard time with anger and being told what to do. When we started this with kaden, I really started to cry because he become a completley different boy, he has learned how to deal with his anger, and feels so big because we are always giving him choices and he gets to be the one that chooses.
One night Kaden did't want to say his prayers, I said kaden; do you want to make Heavenly Father sad or happy tonight? He said ummm sad, I said ok kaden maybe you can make him happy tomorrow. He then said no mom I would like to make him happy! It really is all about letting them be the ones to make the choice, I have also found that I have become more calm, the more calm I am the better the outcome. This book teaches you to not pick battles that you won't win with your child. It teaches you how to win without them really knowing you won. anyways,this is something I just wanted to share with all of you. I would love to hear if this has worked for you like it has for us. Hope you like it as much as we have. UNITL NEXT

Weird Santa, 2 vistiors, playing in the snow

I didn't do the Christmas card thing this year, or pictures so I just took some by our fireplace and I think they turned out pretty good. I am truly blessed to have these boys and am totally biesed because I just think they are so dang cute.... Handsome boys:)

I could stare at these pictures all day I just love them so much

Vistiors

This week has been fun, we actually had some people visit which was really nice, kadens little cousin and his friend came down to play all day, the boys had so much fun, playing in the snow and using their shovels I think the best part was when they used their sleids to go down the slide and would run into the fence.... Such fun boys thanks heidi and alicha for coming down kaden misses you guys already

Then this same week we had our friends from west valley come down to spend time with us too, andrea came down with her boys and they had a blast there were 5 boys running around and a new baby boy it was crazy and believe it or not no fights, it was a lot of fun.... Andrea thank you so much for coming down, kaden cried when you left he loves and misses his friends so much... I really enjoyed it too:)

I also took the boys to see Santa and let me tell you this was one weird Santa

Kaden was sweet to tell him all he wanted, but this Santa was not fun or joyeful at all good thing the boys are still little to not know the difference

when it snowed the boys were quick to play out side we live in a circle so i would pull the kids around the street in the sled and also push them down our driveway

after awhile Mommy couldn't push anymore so kaden would run and jump on his sled and go down the driveway it was so fun to see him to that.

kaden and connor decided they wanted to make sure the shovling was down before daddy got home:) good job you guys

and of course

snow angels

I have not had this much fun in the snow for a long time and maybe it was because we lived in a town home that made it hard to do stuff right where people drive in and out here they have so much more room and noone drives in this circle so the kids can play all over and to have the driveway be a little down made it fun for them too. Or maybe it is just because they are at a more fun stage then they were before, maybe both huh! either way I love playing with them and seeing them have fun:) now if we could just get some neighbors to come play outside too and not be afriad of the snow that would make it more fun for them. Noah, Adam and matthew where are you guys when we need you lol :)

And this is what happeneds when you use to much bubbles

Yes this is totally my fault, I was taking a bath and got a little carried away with the bubbles (ya think) I turned the jets on and they got bigger and bigger and then I couldn't turn the jets off, so when I went to go get my camera, both boys had jumped in and made one of the biggest bubble mess ever, after 5 towels and chris having to hit the breaker we finally got it all cleaned up, next morning was dry bubbles all over in the tub! Note to self: watch how much bubbles you put in your jetted bath. lol

Dear Santa,Park city, Thanksgiving

One day kaden said he needed to write Santa a letter telling him what he wanted for Christmas so he would have plenty of time to make the toys he wanted. It was so neat to see how excited they were to write him a letter, I know the post office has a North Pole address but I couldn't find it so we I just put Nana's address on there and my mom saved them for me so I could keep it in there books, then Santa wrote back and that was the BEST day they said when they got that letter in the mail, so here we are putting the letter in the mail to SANTA...

They colored him a picture

Thanksgiving at my moms,me and all my sisters /sister in law and my mom

park city, don't ask! my sister and I got a little to friendly with a moose, ( inside joke)

Stacey I miss you so much! I will always be laughing at at our mooseand out RITE AID/ALBERSTSONS:)

My oldest sister Staci, she lives in maryland it has been 2 years since we have seen her, so just us girls and kids spent a couple days at chris's dads condo and we had a blast!

So in love with her

Is she not just the cuttest baby girl! There is something about this sweet baby Elliot that makes me not want to stop holding her. Kaden loves baby Elliot so much he is always talking about her and can't wait to hold her.

Steph thank you for letting us be apart of her special day. She makes me feel so close to heaven (as cheesy as that sounds) She is one special little girl and I am just in love with her.I miss her already and just thinks she is one of the most beautiful little girls out there. Love you Elli

HallOweeN 2009

They wouldn't let you wear masks at the ward party so we found this cool head band back when daddy was in football

pictures at the ward party

My cute friend and neighbor mindy and her little boy harry potter these costumes were way cute

bobbing for doughnuts

grandma had fun racing games

connor, matthew and kaden at nana's

This is what chris would look like with hair hee hee !

My brother is so funny, every year he dresses up really funny this time he was a chicken, I didn't realize how fat i look in this picture !!! The camera does not help me in any way lol I swear I am not that big at least I hope i am not

First we had our ward party which was fun with lots of games for the kids to play, then on halloween we headed up to Grandma betty's for a fun halloween party with all the cousins, with lots of yummy food and fun games, then we went with chris's family to the downtown provo shopping area for trick or treating, then we decided to surprise nana and off to bountiful we went for my mom's yummy chili and more trick or treating & games. It was a really fun and busy halloween with way to much CANDY, I think mommy was more tired than the boys they still could have gone all night. Connor was so funny, he had to be either Elmo or the cow couldn't just be one he had to be both....