thinkin' about it thursday.

{thomas the train}
just spent all. morning. long. ALL. morning. (including part of my baby-free time) putting together this:

for a 3 yr old.  without instructions.  yes, the tracks are numbered.......but it didn't help.  sorry, will.  holy crap, i must love this kid.  a lot, a whole lot.  trains - not so much.  now i need a nap.

easter.

egg dyeing and painting:

we kept the baby locked up in the high chair.  don't feel too bad for him, he had food.  cy loved, loved the painting although it was a huge mess.  we'll definitely do that again next year.

the neighborhood egg hunt:

 so, our super sweet neighbors put on an egg hunt for the little ones.  cy was more interested in watching the lake and playing with the sandbox toys than finding eggs.  we had just done our hunt around the house...........i was hoping that the warm-up would be helpful - not so much.  he still brought home candy and coins, though!

and, the last egg hunt at gma and gpa hills:

finally, finally the third hunt of the day, cy got into it!  maybe it helped that it was only him and maddax hunting.  oh well, we'll take it!

{have i ever mentioned my kids are super spoiled?  well, they are.}

thinkin' about it thursday.

it's a busy day in my head today.  try to keep up.

{easter candy}
these:

are my downfall.  i {heart} them.  double {heart} {heart} them.  *to my sister tilleea: i may or may not have bought 2 more bags of these and they may or may not be gone.  alright, 4 bags.  but, the other 2 are stashed away for a rainy day (in the summer perhaps?) so, they totally don't count.  you have some catching up to do.*  yes, i stash candy.  it's a sickness.

{t.v. -or lack of}
i know lots of people who have turned off their cable or dish.  i've thought about this......a little......and come to realize will and i would not be candidates for this.  first of all, baseball.  can't live without it.  secondly, when there's nothing on around 6 pm or 7 pm, we will turn it onto USA network and NCIS will be on.  (really just in the background) well, when we "assume the position" for the evening(aka sitting in our regular spots on the couch), NCIS will be on and we will finish watching the episode.  and then watch the next episode, and sometimes the next one.  even though we have seen them all.  a few times.  lastly, conan.  he makes us laugh.  jeremy does a great impression.  it makes me chuckle just thinkin' of it.

{vegas}
that's it.  vegas. (thanks a lot, katie, now i want to go.)

{blue frosting}
[giggles] o my heck.  this makes me laugh.  i wonder if it's gonna be funny to anyone else..........well,  shoot, now i'm feeling all this pressure.  so, for church, i had to frost cupcakes with different colors of frosting.  one of those colors was blue.  well, cy wanted a cupcake.  really bad.  but i didn't have extra and i wasn't gonna bake him a whole batch just for him, so i frosted a graham cracker.  well, when i turned back around, his whole mouth and all around it was blue.  which was funny, but then i wondered how people in their church clothes would look eating those blue cupcakes.  (yep, still makes me laugh.)

{egg-dyeing}

i have NO idea if cy is going to be interested in this.  (fingers-crossed.)

{thomas the train}
we constantly think about this.  cy is obsessed.  he knows all of their names.  he has a little magazine he looks through all the time.  he looks at trains on amazon.  he sets up tracks and watches them go round and round.  he takes his little portable trains when he goes places.  well, when we were in walmart the other day we were taking our mandatory walk through the toy section to look at trains and he saw this "rescue center" set with harold that he wanted really, really bad.  i didn't get it and he has been talking about it all week.  so, i sent will back to get it and cy is getting it for easter.  he will be so exciting and i can hardly wait thinking how much fun it will be to see his face.  can't wait for that!

{ashley}
who is at home with sick kiddos(the yucky sick.)  again.  i feel for her.  hi, ashley!  how ya doin'?  are you sick yet? (please say no.)

{my family}
i {heart} {heart} {heart} them.  (yep, that's a triple heart.)  they are so fun.  i love the random texts and funny comebacks and phone calls and words' game playing and love they share with me!  this is what makes me happy.

{sewing}
i made a trash bag holder and can't wait to get to some other projects.  where can i buy more time in the day?

{meals}
the other day i made the kiddos lunch.  the one-yr-old was chowing down by himself and i was spoon-feeding the three-yr-old.  they both had the exact same food.  that's messed up.  o, well, i guess there's worse things, maybe.

and all that is what's on my mind today.  what's on yours?

thinkin' about it thursday.

quick shots.
when was the last time you looked through the pics on your phone?  i just went through mine and found some fun stuff. {for me, anyway}

 1. lane giving kisses. love it.

2. lane knows without a doubt he's not to get on top of the counter. he loves being in the big chairs, though. so, today he was eating a snack and he kept inching up on the counter and i keep telling him not too and he would sit back.  well the last time, he got on the counter, and got onto all floors and i said, "lane, no!" and he immediately went to his belly. {like it would be ok, then.} i laughed then grabbed the phone.  i love love this age.

3. lane begging for candy.  i had to hide the candy.  every last bit.

1. cy could watch his trains for hours

2. i guess some things are still fun no matter how old you get.  like exer-saucers.

3. springtime. time for buzz cuts.

1.  i tried to camoflauge the carrots by mixing them with the chicken.  the kid picked out every piece of chicken and did not eat one carrot.

2. cy finally got a comfortable chair to sit in while watching his trains.

3. lane is into wearing cy's shoes.  it cracks me up.  he brings out whatever shoes of cy's he wants to wear that day and "insists" they be put on.  clothes on or not. so funny.

1. more seattle.  we had fun, can you tell?!?!? this is lane and cousin olivia she is 5 weeks older, they are so cute.  they were sitting on the suitcase in the back of the van.

2. going on the driving course in the police car with cam.  it was fun in the back of the car. {cam insisted it had been thoroughly cleaned. and i choose to believe him.}  me and angela got thrown around back there, as there was nothing holding us in.  there was one part that cam was telling us they go around 50 mph, and then he sped us through it and i said, "wow, that was 50, right?" and he was like, "uh, no. 30."  crazy!  i can't imagine faster.

3.  going through the 'skimming pool'? part of the course.{i can't remember what it was called, help me out here, angela} in the police car. my favorite part.

a fun reminiscing day for me!

thinkin' about it thursday.

general conference.


love, love, love, love, love general conference.  love.  i am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.  i love my religion.  every april and october we have a conference consisting of {4} 2-hour sessions and a priesthood session where the leaders of the church give instruction and upliftment (that should be a word).  i love these weekends.  the talks are always amazing.  i come away feeling uplifted {and} joyful {and} with a LIST of things i need to work on........it's what i'm STILL thinkin' about today.