the carnival came to wsu

we had a lot of fun at the carnival

i spotted on campus

as i was on my 7 mile (ouch) run this morning

and all the rides were free!

i've been sewing

i had this thought to take an ugly white shirt of hazel's

(i don't like the ruffly edges)

 shorten the sleeves

iron my fabric out to attach it to the shirt

making it a cute little shirt-dress

and i even took pictures of the progress!
turns out ugly shirt plus gingham

equals super ugly country 90's dress

no after picture... sorry

i couldn't do it

but i have been sewing a lot

with some fun vintage floral fabric

i got at goodwill for .50 cents

i'm almost done with some coordinating

outfits for me and the girls

i promise i'll post after pics of those

my 600th post

 i threw a baby shower, noah's birthday

and the stake primary easter activity

all within two weeks of each other

michael is stressed so i'm ready

for him to be done with this semester

only a week and a half left

i wish it would warm up

i need sunshine

olive got her first tooth a week or two ago

and now she has a second one 

i really want to go on a vacation

but i'd settle for a date with my husband

i feel like easter was a bit of a bust at our house

due to hazel vomiting

and me being too busy to plan anything

for our own easter

i was just thinking about my new years resolutions

and i'm sucking at all of them...

1. instead of running a marathon i'm running a half

(with both my sisters so i'm excited about that)

2. michael and i have read scriptures together

every day of this year

but i'm slacking at my own personal reading

3. i haven't sent my niece kamryn 

anything for her birthday

and it was a few days before noah's 

i rearranged the kids rooms

and it felt so good

we just needed a change, a break

we just need a little vacation

that's all

most awesome outfit award goes to....

noah who was apparently dressing himself

for a big race at the playground with all the

 other 5 year olds

this is his pumped up ready to win face

please note the backward shirt,

swim trunks,

tall church socks,

hidden knee pads, 

and the fact that he emptied his drawers

to create this perfect outfit

 sadly there weren't any other 5 year olds

 to race outside

but at least he has hazel

embarrassing

all day i thought my hubby looked so cute

all day long

i just thought he was having a good hair day

or something

or that i was just being sweet

and extra affectionate

i don't know

it wasn't until 

this evening

when he told me we need to buy

more contact solution

that i realized he was wearing contacts

..and that's why he looked so good

oops

turns out, our 5 year old even noticed

...this morning...

happy easter

love, noah, hazel, and olive

easter decor

better late than never, right?

here's a little bunting in our living room

made from scrapbook paper

stencil letters onto black paper

and

sewn to some bias tape

and a peep wreath 

layered on my mirror above the kitchen sink

 all it took was a dollar store gigantic wreath

nine packages of peeps

and a hot glue gun

confession: 

the only reason i made either of these

is so they can double as decor

for the stake primary

easter activity

Noah's 5th birthday

for noah's birthday we went bowling

and had a blast

this is noah's just-got-a-strike pose

 proud mommy of a 5 year old

 after bowling we offered to do whatever he wanted

but he just wanted to go home

i'm glad he likes home so much

so we picked up lunch and a few things for his party

and went home to get things ready

here are some pics of the decor

 noah wanted a thomas the train party

so i played off the fact that thomas is his middle name

and the theme was Noah Thomas (the train)  is 5

 here are hazel and olive sporting the hats i made

 and little thomas appliques on their shirts

 we cleared everything except the dresser out of olive's room

and made a train room

so kids could play with trains and watch thomas

we're really glad we set this up, it really helped

having a separate place for kids to be 

in our small apartment

 we had some pizza

 a pinata, opened presents

and sang to the birthday boy

it was such a fun day

and i was glad we went all out

 to celebrate noah's 5th birthday 

Noah is 5

It's true!!

Somehow this little baby boy grew up!

 Noah is Five!!

We had pancakes and hot chocolate for breakfast,

we will either go bowling or miniature golfing today,

and Noah is having a big fun party tonight!

Part of me is sad that he's so old but I am completely giddy for him to be five.

He can show his age on one hand

and he'll definitely remember this age.

Happy birthday, Noah bear!!

growing up

who's got spikey hair

too much gum in his mouth

and registered for kindergarten today?

this guy

sunday night camp out

almost a year ago for michael's birthday

i bought him a tent and some sleeping bags

with the intent of camping sometime 

much, much later..

michael decided tonight we might as well have

an indoor camp out with the kids

so he set the tent up

we had no idea it was so huge

we had to move everything out of the living room

other than the couch

and it barely fit

we blew up the air mattress,

covered it with pillows and blankets

and watched the new joseph smith movie

it was really good

a little scary for the kids

but they learned a lot from it, i think

i think i've had my share of camping for a while

we'll do this again next year

with smores

olive is 9 months

and a week old

i wasn't posting this out of protest

she's getting too big, too fast

(she loved ranch chicken)

olive is in the 20% for height and weight

she crawls everywhere

and pulls herself up on everything

says mama and dada

she is pretty easy going

loves to be one of the kids

and can't stand it if she's not in my arms

or within arms reach of me

which is tough since i have 3 kids

but a nice change from hazel 

who only ever wanted michael

we just love our little olive/mini me

my favorite thing about yesterday

noah chose to wear his jeans on backwards
all day

sweet

if you live in the middle of nowhere

then you know it's hard to find awesome places

but there's a way cool consignment shop in moscow (on main)

that i love

it looks really urban and fresh

and they have a lot of good stuff

include some hand made things

i took some of my clothes there to consign

about three weeks ago

and i've already made $31
that's my half, they charged double that

a lot of things i took there i got thrifting in the first place

and paid way less than what i'm getting for them

sure beats it sitting in my closet

three little monkeys

i love these torturous pictures

michael took while i was gone running one morning

the kids are so tired and blinded

but i love that noah's sleepy face is now documented

and that all three kids were so cozy in our bed

just a day at the park

yesterday the weather was beautiful

i think it may have been a cruel april fools joke

because it's snowing and super cold again today

but anyway we took advantage of the warm weather

and took the kids on a little walk around down town

and then to the park

 our double stroller occasionally works as a triple

if someone sits on the front foot rest

not bad, right?

 our little monkeys

 wahooo

 olive's first time down the slide

 our friends were at the park

so we asked them to take a family pic

hazel was pouting and noah was about to run away

but we take what we can get

(ps: i cut my hair a little more, can you tell?)

 three kiddies on the swings

 michael hates to be left out

 they look so happy

olive had never been on the swings like this before

she absolutely loved it

she gave nonstop belly laughs

i think we were all really happy to get out

after a long winter