September Birthdays!

September is a busy month, with Ashton & Conner's birthdays & our wedding anniversary. Our tradition is having their bday gifts waiting for them to open when they wake up (which explains why our kids are always in pj's & looking a little blurry-eyed=).  Conner's birthday fell on a Sunday this year! Jared made him a special birthday dinner and we had "the Grandparents" over to help celebrate.  

 Ashton got some of his birthday gifts early.  (A basketball from G&G S, a soccer net that was to both Ashton & Conner from G&G H, and the Nerf glasses above, that have lights to reflect off of the Nerf ball)

 Ashton's birthday is Sept. 12th, a Wednesday this year. Wednesdays are busy-busy, but we decided to go to dinner that night for his birthday (late, like around 8:00.  That's usually when I'm getting kids ready for bed).  He also got to have a special dinner of his choosing on Sunday, and he asked for ribs.

Happy birthday to my boys!!

Ronan

I usually only blog about the happenings under my roof.  I was on KSL today and came across this story.  I  decided to watch the video of Taylor Swift singing the song "Ronan" from the Stand up to Cancer" telethon.  I had actually heard some of the song the night before on iTunes (it's #1), but dismissed it.  I thought it was probably another break up song of hers, and I was just telling my girls the other day that I'm so sick of her always singing about break ups.  Well this isn't that kinda song.  Far from it.  I read the story, and saw the picture of that beautiful, blue-eyed boy and listened to the words of her song and I was bawling.  It's very touching.  I need things like this to remind me to hug my kids a little longer. Listen more intently to the stories they want to tell me about their day.  Don't sweat the small stuff.  Take time to enjoy the "normal" days we have.  Make sure my children know that they are so important to Jared & I.  Sometimes I yell, sometimes I freak out about the messes, the homework that was left to the last minute, the wet towel left on the floor.  In the big picture it's not important at all, it's just remembering to stand back and look at that big picture and put things into perspective that I need to work on.  Becoming a mother is the best thing that has ever happened to me.