..a gymnast in the making...

Payton has figured out that he can walk on the foot of our bed w/out falling off. His arm placement, focus, and footwork? I give him a 10! He loves it. Xo will even get up there and wait till I have her hand so she can walk across.

It is so precious to watch Payton want to help her when he grabs her other hand and talks her across there beam. It sounds something like this... "Come on sunshine, you can do it." When she makes it, she is holding onto the post and Payton is jumping on my bed saying... " You did it sunshine, I knew you could. You are so big." He is a great supporter!

..first attempt w/ makeup..

Xo loves to sit and play in my makeup while I am getting ready.
When I went to get my next item, this is what I found...

She is sad because I took her eyeliner away and on top of that, I had the nerve to take her picture.

She did a great job didn't she?

this is what you get when...

Here is what you get when you have 4 parent's in the dinning room talking and 3 kids being very quiet!

The white stuff is diaper rash ointment. As you can see, it got all over the floor...
(tile only thankfully)

the kids...

and the toys!

I think it came off the tile easier than the kids. We got a free tile waxing out of the episode. On the package it says... Goes on smoothly and wipes off easily. Well, the first part is correct. I think the kids were greasy for a good week. At least it cut back on the lotion.
Lesson learned... when kids are quiet, something big is going on!

..crazy sleeping positions..

I have found that kids can sleep anywhere in any position. Here are just a couple of Payton's favorite poses...

He held this position for a good 15 minutes. I don't know how he does it!

Notice they are all on the couch! He is getting to the point that he doesn't want to take a nap in his bed, so when he is tired he will crawl on the couch and pass out!

A very belated birthday...

I LOVE this little man! I can't believe that 3 years have passed by so quickly.

Payton loves to be w/ his family, and is very concerned when someone is missing and wants to know where they are and when they will be home. He is a great big brother. He is constantly teaching Xo songs and making sure she is folding her arm's when we pray. He will randomly sing which makes all of us happy. I can't wait to see what he makes out of the rest of his life. I know whatever it is, it will be amazing.

Payton's birthday was the end of last month. I know pics are a lot slow, but I had issues w/ getting picture's off the camera. Sorry!
Anyway, we had a great time. I wasn't planning on having anyone over for cake, but the morning of his birthday he said to me " Mom, I am so excited for my friends to come over tonight." What is a mom to do? So I called people over that day. I felt bad, but our friends over here are very supportive and we love them all. Payton had a great time.
Thanks everyone for coming w/ such short notice. We owe you one!

Happy Days are here AGAIN!

Gas prices going down + fuel perks = a HUGE smile on our faces...

If you click on the picture, you will be able to see that we got 15 some odd gallons of gas at $0.49! That's right .49 cents people. We filled up for $7.75. I bet you thought you would never see that right!

..A child's prayer..

We are trying to teach Payton the difference between his nightly prayers and the prayer on the food. We try to explain that when we say our nightly prayer's, we don't bless the food, and
he is catching on slowly.

Well, here is what we heard the other night from him...
(word for word)

"Dear Heavenly Father, I'm thankful for all of us, please bless not the food, in the name of Jesus Christ Amen."

Needless to say, Mike and I were trying to hold in our laughter!