Happy Valentines Day!!!

 

                       I'm one of the silly Mom's that dresses her kids in red and spends the day making all of the food heart shaped. That's right it was heart shaped pancakes for breakfast. They will be having PB&J's cut into the shape a heart for lunch. Dinner will be Pizza which (as you hopefully guessed) will be formed into a heart. Cheesy? Perhaps, but it's been fun to watch them be excited about their food for once. We have spent the morning making homemade valentines with crayons and construction paper for Daddy & Uncle Squeals. We made cookies last night (with frosting). With any luck, I'll find a cute kids movie about valentines to watch tonight. Hope you and yours are doing something great for this lovely day!

             Happy Valentines Day From The Flight Crew!!

The letter I

       I am very Imperfect, as I'm sure most people on the planet are.Earlier, in the year I set some goals to help me improve. I'll have you know that it has not been easy. However, I do feel like I'm making progress with each of my goals (especially with laundry mountain). Gordon B. Hinckley once said "You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove to be the greatest investment that you will ever make." This is certainly starting to feel like the truth. 
       We are all Important. Recently, I watched "The Help". It was such a great movie. The one thing that stuck with me is how we all have a story to tell. It also reinforced something I had always known but never really heard put so simply: "You is smart, You is kind, You is important." This is so true of all people especially, children. 
       It always amazes me how Impressionable kids are. I am quickly learning that anything and, everything can and, most likely will be repeated. Sometimes this is cute, other times not so much. In fact, most of the time it tends to be downright embarrassing. Hopefully, in the end my children will have learned the important thing that they are SO loved.
       Some behaviors are not really learned at home though and they tend to be Inappropriate. Lately we have struggled with three things at our house. They are coloring on the wall, pinching, and being bossy. Though I'm not proud I'm hoping it is just a stage that will pass quickly. Any suggestions on how to rid the house of theses and other such things would be greatly appreciated.

The letter H

      We're a very Happy bunch most of the time. M's favorite saying is Just let it happen. Basically it means go with the flow and love it.
       Though it is starting to get harder both of the boys tend to be very Helpful. They love to vaccum and unload the dishwasher. However, their most favorite thing to help with is carrying the warm laundry over to the couch to be folded. The only real fight I have when asking them to help is when cleaning up toys.
       I've become very good at making Homemade food. We went through nine months of unemployment this last year. Within that time frame it became cheaper for me to make our bread rather than buy it. Also with the help of the internet I've learned how to make lots of our favorite restaurant foods from scratch. We have grown so used to having homemade food that it's really what we tend to prefer these days. With the help of my new bread maker it's becoming a much easier thing to do. :)
       It seems to me that the three boys in the house are always Hungry. We'll eat a meal and easily 30 minutes later one of them will be perusing the cupboards for something else. I'm more of a late night snacker though. Because of this we're getting better about trying to have healthy foods in the house. So that when we all get the munchies rather than eating our beloved gummy bears we eat an apple or some carrots. It must be starting to sink in to P's head.While at the grocery store he'd been so good that he earned a treat and, my smart boy picked out a green apple as his reward. 

The letter G

        M and I are both Gamers. As result P is starting to be one too. Not to worry I do limit how much all of us play. We mainly play PC games. My game of choice is WOW (World of Warcraft), M's game is League of Legends, P's game is Plants vs. Zombies. I won't go in to much more about this cause I don't want to bore you but, let it be known we're one of those gamer families out there.

       I love Ghost shows. My favorite is Ghost hunters. If I were ever actually confronted with a real ghost I'd probably be the biggest chicken ever. For now though i love my paranormal shows.

        As a parent I feel I'm quite fluent in Gibberish. My children have been speaking it since about six months. I used to absolutely love to hear them babble on in conversation. Now, however I'm starting to wish they'd speak English just a little bit more. Especially since these days the gibberish tends to be most prominent when they are in a bad mood.

      We love Gummy stuff. Whether it be gummy bears, worms or whatever else the food industry can come up with. I don't know if it's the strange flavors or the texture. It is just the best junk food known to man. We also can never seem to have enough at our house.

       I've said it before and I'll say at least a thousand more times we have Good kids.I'm not sure how they have so much patients, kindness, love, and concern in them but I'm so very glad they do. These are good boys now I just need them to stay this way.

       In case you missed it in the last post my favorite color is Green. Just to recap my wedding was green and pink the bathroom is green, and some kitchen items are green. Not sure why I just love the color green.

The letter F

       I love Frogs. I love them so much that all of our bathroom set has frogs on it (towel's bathmats, toothbrush holder etc.). Some of our kitchen stuff is green too. In fact, even though I didn't make the connection at the time our wedding colors were green and pink lol. I'm not sure what it is about the jumpy green guys but I love em.

       The other thing I love is Fires. Hubby loves to go camping and since he knows that I enjoy a fire he normally will build a bonfire. It makes for a nice combo he can be all outdoorsy while I enjoy the fire.

       Obviously the word Family describes us. We both come from large families and we enjoy spending time with both sides. I'm excited for the boys to get older and really be able to play with all of the cousins. On the other hand it is SO much fun to have time with just our small little family. We love playing board games together or watching a movie. The best ever though is when there is some down time to just go the park and let the boys run wild while we all spend time together.

       We are very Fun loving. If he wasn't going in to the AF some days I swear he could be a comedian. He is always cracking jokes and making people laugh. P and Q quite funny too. They always say or do silly things. In fact, you can tell that P's imagination is really starting to take off. The other day while I was making lunch he picked up his plate (that has three different sections for food) and said "Look Mom, it's a smiley face." I love our small funny family. 

The letter E

       We have very Energetic boys. I know some of it comes from the age but I also know that some of it comes from who their Daddy is. M tends to be very Excited about things. It would appear that this is something he has passed on to our kids. They are up almost every morning at 7 and they don't seem to stop still bed time. Some days it is fun however, every mother knows that other days it just makes you want to pull your hair out.It seems throughout the day I am loved on multiple times. 

      The boys are very Embracing. They love to give hugs and kisses. They tend to want to cuddle alot too. I love that they are such Momma's boys. I just hope they don't turn into teenage boys who think it's uncool to give their mom a hug.  

     Lately there seems to be an Echo or perhaps a parrot in our house. Everything M and I say tends to be repeated by P especially if we are chastising Q for something. This is a phase that I cannot wait to see go away.

The letter D

       We like most families have a Daily routine. It is probably not the best but, it works for us. Besides, I'm sure it will evolve over time as things change.

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        We don't drink strong drinks at our house unless you count Dr. Pepper and Mt. Dew. If you do then, we drink alot and far too often. However, for those who say that we are grinches (because I don't put up the christmas tree or listen to christmas music at all til DEC 1st!) I say you are wrong we celebrate it year round with our red and green cans and outfits. Yes we are that extremist that we have shirts and pajama pants with our drink of choices logo on them

       My kiddos have the cutest Dimpled smiles ever. I'm sure you're sick of hearing how great I think my boys are but they are just too dang cute. Sorry (kinda)

        Finally Dancing, I love music I can't dance worth anything though. M is a great dancer and, thankfully both P and, Q got blessed with his moves. Most of the time there is music on at our house and I love to watch the three of them groove to the beat. Especially, sneaky Q cause he gets this crazy look on his face while he dances. If, you drive by and, see them rockin' it now you know why. It's cause "they've got rhythm."

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