Slight heart-attack

Last night I was giving Mallory a bath when Jared started yelling hysterically. I had left Sophie with him on the couch. In my mind, for some reason, I immediately thought something was wrong with her. I honestly had an image of her having a seizure or something. So what was he freaking out about? I thought my boys were in the shower, but they had come out, in just their underwear, to ask Jared something. For some reason, Conner's little manhood was sticking up out of his underwear (pretty sure he didn't know it) and I don't know if it was the cold air, or he just needed to go really bad, but he peed. And it went shooting up into the air, hitting the couch, the rug, a couch pillow and the ottoman. I run out of the bathroom, Conner has a look of shock on his face, so does Jared and Ashton. All the sudden, I felt weak in the knees and I was shaking and I felt like I was going to pass-out, my heart was racing so fast! I just stood there, staring for a second taking the situation in. Jared said, "Hello?! What is wrong with you, you are acting like it's not a big deal! He just peed everywhere!" I said, "Compared to what I thought was going on, it's not a big deal. You scared the crap out of me! I feel like I'm going to pass out." Jared noticed how pale I was and told me to sit down. "Great, " he says, "if something bad ever happens you're going to be a lot of help."

Spring cleaning....a little early

We found out today that if you give Conner & Mallory a soapy wet rag, they will get to work! This was this morning after breakfast, about 8:00. I decided to start wiping down the cupboards, and they thought it looked like fun. Soon I got Kelsey, Emma & Ashton helping out too. We got all the walls, doors, cupboards, baseboards, and shutters washed in the house. Spring cleaning a little early, but it was great!

Frosty Morning

It was really foggy around here last night, and when I looked outside this morning all the trees & bushes were covered in the frozen mist. I asked Jared to go out with his camera since it's nicer than mine and get some pictures before the sun melted it away.

Puzzles & Working from home

Conner & Mallory in all their puzzle glory. How many puzzles can they fit on the table? At least this time they weren't on the floor, where they usually put puzzles together.

I was making lunch & Jared was busy working, but stopped to help Conner & Mal get the edges of the puzzle hooked together. One of the many benefits of working from home. He stopped for only a few minutes, but it's moments like this that make me smile. It's the middle of the day, we are all still in pj's, and he gets to stop and spend just a couple minutes with his kids. It's great and we know how blessed we are to have such a great job and great people to work for! He's not home all the time, he is out to meetings and his properties a lot, quite a bit the last 4 weeks especially. But we get more time together than we ever have before and I love it.

4 weeks old

Sophie is 4 weeks old! They change so fast, and we have been trying to be better about taking pictures.

When Jared and I are in the office working, she gets to recline in her carseat and join in on the "fun".

Conner is so sweet to her! I wish he'd be just as sweet to Mallory, but no such luck. He's probably kissed her more than I have, and when she cries after her bath he's always right in her face singing her a song.

Look at that face! Look at those cheeks! Just before this picture she had pooped up the front of her pj's. I was at the school & Jared called...
"Are you on your way home?"
Lucky for him (and Sophie) I was.