the longest Easter ever!

This was a really really really busy Easter holiday! It was also very fun. We started at the Fowler's house for the annual easter egg hunt. Then straight to the church for the primary party! We then went out on the boat with Kyle and Amanda (pictures to come) We had a blast! Then the kids went over to Mike and Crystals to hang out with uncle Dust and Aunt Marge because it was date night and we went out to dinner! Needless to say we had some grouchy kids for dinner at mom and Dads on Sunday! But it was a really fun time.


Parker was so excited to collect eggs!



Brin having a tasty treat with her new best friend!



The kids can't ever wait until we get home to tear into the candy so I figure eat it now...less for later!

Even Grandpa got in on the candy action!

I have good reasons!

okay so I know I always give you guys a hard time when you go for a long time without posting and then here I stand, my head hung in shame because I know it's been a VERY long time since I posted anything new! But I really do have a few good excuses. First of all, Danny has been working a lot lately meaning sometimes gone 4 days a week and that makes things a little crazy, Second, softball season started and so I have been going to practices two nights a week. Third I started working two days a week at my brother in laws dental office (mon and tues when Danny is home). Fourth we have all been sick for about 2 weeks now, starting with Danny getting Pneumonia and then the flu/cough/cold stuff going through everyone except Kaden, and Lastly we are going to utah in less than a week and I have been trying to get things organized and packed for our trip! So .... those are pretty good excuses right? Anyways sorry I have been MIA but we are all better now and I promise to do better!

The kids are most excited about the snacks that they have seen me pack for the trip - hey whatever keeps them happy!

When was the last time...

I'm pretty sure there has never been a time in my life that I stood on the scale and had this kind of reaction!
Maybe more like this one:

The renovation starts right now...

Amanda making good use of the time!

Danny and Kyle hard at work

What a good brother.

the clampits at their finest!

The clampits

Our neighbor miss June always jokes that she is going to start calling us the Clampits because with all of the projects that we do on the house there is always something out front waiting to be taken to the dump. We (okay Kyle) just remodled the bathroom and I just love it! Now I just have to finish painting and get the top trim up. Man I love having a handyman and free labor! What a good brother. He and Danny worked until midnight and Amanda and I kept the kiddos busy until bedtime. What can I say...we are all about the class! ps I have a ton more pictures of this event but my computer won't let me upload them to blogger. Let's just say I am "very frusterated" with the stupid computer right now.

ok Ladies!

So I have decided that we have all fallen into the rut of not blogging unless we have pictures to post- or at least I have. And I have also decided that that is silly! I love hearing what everyone is doing and how life is going for all of you. So I say BLOG ON LADIES! Pictures are fabulous, but I don't think that lack of cute photos for the day should keep us from communicating! So here it goes - I guess the worst that could happen is nobody reads it and then...who cares right?

Today Danny left for work and the kids and I went to the gym. I have been trying to get there daily but sometimes the kids make that a little more trying - especially the smallest one because she likes to scream the whole time! But the more I take her the better it gets. I have been totally slacking though so I have gained a million (ok more like 12) pounds back! Dangit I hate when that happens! Anyways, I was able to do two miles on the treadmill. Sidenote: is it odd that I run to Kenny Rogers "what are we doin' in love?" - I think its because the beat goes with my pace...sssshh don't tell anyone!

I have decided that I am going to do my first 5K run in April in burlington - the tulip run - as it were! Wish me luck, this should be interesting.

Catching up.

Okay so it has been a pretty sad week around here in some ways. We had two funerals for members of our ward and one of them was a friend of mine that I served in primary with. I hate funerals, but it was a beautiful tribute to her. I was a mess as I listened to her children speak and thought of my own kids. Her husband is the sweetest man and you could always tell that they were best friends. When she got sick, he just took such good care of her. Right down to running her errands dropping off baby gifts at showers, and thank you notes that she wanted to get out to people to thank them for all of their help! She was an amazing example. It really made me grateful for my family. So with that, here are a few snapshots from our life this week, and some shots of my favorite people in the whole wide world!
The boys were scoping out prime realestate to "build" me a garden!Uncle Dustin - I mean Parker getting a little frusterated with the tractor.Brin was so happy when Danny got home she ran with the boys out the front door to greet him!The ultimate "excuse me ... I got dirty!" face.bbf : best brothers forever of course.Kaden on his hot rod!

There were never such devoted sisters!

Brinlee and Rylin are the funniest girls. They love eachother and fight with eachother and bug eachother just like sisters. But sometimes you'll catch them being so sweet. Brinlee is of course bigger than Rylin and has been walking a little longer so she will walk over to Rylin and grab her hand to help her, if Rylin gets sad Brinlee will bring her a toy! It really is so sweet. But then sometimes I'll catch Brin trying to smack Rylin in the face...nice. I tell ya, just like sisters!

Kaden - what else can I say?

Our son Kaden is a sweet boy. Sometimes I have to repeat this phrase to myself multiple times throughout the day. Only on days like yesterday. My kids wake up at 6:45 sharp no matter what time they go to bed. So 6:45 rolls around and Danny is trying to get out the door to leave for a 48 (hour shift) and I am trying to get three children their breakfast so they will stop saying that they are starving - I mean it's been a whole 2 seconds since they woke up...pick up the pace mom. Anyway, we are all running around like crazy heads and all of the sudden we hear fluid hitting the hardwood floor. I think to myself - "self, Brinlee is in diapers and both of the boys have been potty trained forever..." But I turn to find my sweet son wetting on the floor. Why you ask? I don't know, I don't even think Kaden knows. Lately he has been waiting to long to go in to the bathroom and sometimes he barley makes it so I got him all cleaned up and explained as lovingly as I could on a morning like this that we don't wet our pants. Later in the afternoon Aunt Marge (Ciera) came over and she watched the kids while Brin and I went to go get our haircut. Right before I left, I was telling kaden that if he needs to go to the bathroom - he needs to not wait but go right away to which he responds " no mom I'll just wear my peed pants" Needless to say Marge threw him in the tub and Brin and I left. Right after I got to my moms and sat in the chair Marge called and told me that Kaden just "messed" in the tub! SERIOUSLY! I'm not wanting to give you all of the gory details suffice to say - he made a huge mess. When I got home, I fed him and put him right to bed, letting him know that I was "sooooo unhappy with his choices today!" Then when I went in later to put Parker to bed, I opened the door and the room was so stinky! He had messed his pants...................YOU CAN'T EVEN MAKE THIS STUFF UP! Kaden got to take a cold shower. go ahead and call CPS I don't even care - it was so disgusting! I have decided that his behavior is because I put him back in pullups at night because he wasn't able to stay dry and I was washing sheets daily. But ever since then he wants to be a baby so we've gone back to no pullups and me taking him potty at 1am or whenever I go to bed. Oh the joys. And even after the nightmare of a day I had with him, he still is one of my three favorite kids in the whole world. He is the funniest guy and the spaces in his teeth make me smile (which them shows the spaces in my teeth) He loves to snuggle and he is a good big brother. Now if we could just get him to go to the bathroom correctly!

a preview of things to come...

So Brinlee seems to think she runs the place... Sorry for all of the videos but I just thought this was too funny! Maybe it's time to stop calling her Princess to her face huh? The first video is Brin having "issues" with me...the second one is 10 min later! Can you say Bipolar? I have no idea where she gets it from!

Oh Brin We love ya!

Night Princess

Brinlee thinks she is soooooo funny these days, when I ask her if she's ready to lay down she says no, when I ask her if she's hungry she says no, when I ask her if she wants to go outside...no. It's a good thing she's cute! She bounces in her bed at night, I think to relax, somtimes she wakes up in the middle of the night and she won't cry or anything we'll just hear the thumping and we know she's bouncing around a bit before falling back to sleep! What a nut. I just love her guts!

yucky blucky

So as many of your are also finding, I have been getting scary comments and virus - y crud on my blog so I am having to set it to where I review the comments before they are posted. Sorry guys but I just don't want that garbage messing up my happy place!

I almost forgot

I almost forgot to add this one! And it's a classic. As many of you know my son Parker is obsessed with trucks. We can't pass one on the street without him telling me the make and model, if it has a hitch, if it has a toolbox, ect. He is however a little shady when it comes to loyalty as it depends on who he is with ( uncle Kyle, Uncle Dustin, Grandpa, or Dad) Sometimes he's a Ford guy, sometimes a Chevy, and every so often a Dodge. Anyways, he like to draw pictures of Trucks with Trailors, and if you notice the photo below has a hitch drawn with explicit detail. And of course the truck has a lift and really big tires. Oh I think we are in for a wild ride with this kid!

This picture is going to be worth some serious bucks when he is designing vehicles for Weibling Automobile Company in 2028!

Ladies and Gentlemen: Parker Weibling

Parker was drawing the other day while I was making breakfast. Although I hate to admit it sometimes, because he is such a talker, when I am busy and trying to focus I kind of just say "uh huh" "cool buddy" when appropriate so that he is happy and I can accomplish my task. This was the case that morning and then all of the sudden I heard " see mom - here is you, see? And your BIG head." That got my attention. I love these artistic masterpieces, although I must admit it would be nice if my son didn't think I looked like an orange on a toothpick!
Parker Weibling circa 2008

look what I found!

I told the kids it was time to get ready for bed and then I ran to throw another load of laundry in and when I came back it was quiet... never a good sign. But when I opened the door expecting horrible things, I couldn't find them. Until Brinlee giggled! Oh they are so creative right? Stinkers!

is this thing on???

Is anyone else going totally buggy with this weather? I swear if I don't see some sunshine soon I am going to hurt someone! The kids are going nuts too which is no fun. Does anyone have a good place to buy therapy lights? for real. aaaarrrggghhh!

Dollar tuesdays!

So for family night (which happens whatever day of the week Danny is going to be home) we told the kids that we would take them out to the "ice cream store" as they call it other wise known as Baskin Robbins. They have dollar tuesdays and we thought that would be a fun treat so we get all of the monsters into the truck and then out of the truck and then into the building and they all picked the purple and green pop rocks ice cream (kindof looks gross to me) and we got them all seated and the power went out! Seriously you can't make this stuff up! We decided it didn't really matter because they already gave us our ice cream so we hung out in the dark answering a billion questions from Parker about what happened to the lights and where did they go and when will they be coming back on - you get the idea! When they were finished we borrowed a flash light from the ice cream lady and took the kids one at a time into the bathroom to wash up! They had a blast and hey - we created memories! Kaden and his HUGE licker!
The aftermath

A girl after her mothers heart!
good to the last bite!

So proud of myself!

So I am pretty impressed with myself tonight as I have spent quite a few long insomniac nights trying to master photoshop and getting so frusterated. I finally did my very first digital scrapbook page on photoshop and it was so easy! I will be able to do so much more now with all of our photos and memories and they look just like the traditional ones! I love it!

The one Uncle J

So my youngest bro. "uncle J" as my kids refer to him - is a total kick in the pants and somewhat of a mysterious fellow at times because he will appear out of nowhere! The other day he bought ice cream for my birthday and made me a sundae and then hung out for a while... in my bed...with Danny and I... I tell ya it doesn't get any stranger than this family! He loves to try to snuggle up with Danny and drive him nuts! Oh uncle J we love ya!

This is the classic - Jeremy get off me you're creeping me out look! - scheer joy for the accomplishment of annoyance on Jeremy's face.