Helping Hands

While painting at the new house Manning decided to lend his hand/s to daddy. Sadly in a much not so helpful way. This wall wasn't supposed to be blue and neither was the carpet. Oops! Good thing we love that boy.

Tooth fairy drama

We are starting to dread lose teeth around here. Mason for some reason has developed a fear of losing teeth. He discovers its lose and than refuses to eat with that tooth, brush it, or touch it. It gets to the point that this time it was nasty looking and just hanging there. Heaven forbid someone touch it. This time he was at baseball practice and bent down to catch a grounder and it bumped him in the mouth, causing his tooth to finally fall out. You'd think this being tooth number 3. He'd be used to all this by now. But he's not.
We got an envelope to put it in he wrote a note to the tooth fairy and that night I had somewhere I needed to go and the boys had to come along. In the car I guess he couldn't get the envelope to seal and kept trying. I'm pretty sure that's how he lost it. When we got home and it was time to go to bed, the tooth was gone. He was devastated. I tried to convince him we could write the tooth fairy an note. And I argued with him. He was certain she wasn't going to come. The later it got the harder it was to calm him down. After some advice from Facebook, I finally did the note myself and let the kid fall asleep crying. Sounds mean but what do you do.
I am happy to report the tooth fairy did understand. It happens all the time. He got his dollar for all that drama. Which I think I should of got one too. How many more teeth does he have to lose?

Things have a way of working out.

This may come as a shock to some. I know this is sudden. I hope you can forgive me for announcing this way but I find it more personal than Facebook. Matt and I are always up for new adventures. When you try your hardest to listen to the spirit and really have faith that sometimes, Heavenly Father will lead you where he needs you to be. We all have our agency to listen or ignore, going on with things the way they are. But as I have said in the past, change is going to happen weather we like it or not. We grow with change. 

So with that said, you're probably taking guesses. (No, I'm not pregnant. Not this time.) The Harris family, is moving. We have found a perfect house and a wonderful opportunity. We will be moving at the end of March. This is going to take a lot of faith but we have prayed and pondered on this for a little while and it's all falling into place. We are moving to Riverton. Matt's parents have sold their house and will be living in our basement apartment. We are very excited. We have seen many blessings unfold over the past few weeks and have started to gain a testimony of the Lord's timing. When something is right he sees no reason to waste time. 

I have had a very hard time telling everyone the news. It's hard to tell everyone because of the different reactions we get. But I have learned from our last moving away experience that friendships aren't always dissolved by distance. You may not see someone as often as you like, but thanks to technology and good friends, it will be ok. I have some pretty amazing friends. So don't write me off because we are moving. I am a huge fan of play dates and girl's nights. 

So I guess we are starting a new chapter. I am very excited to see what's in store.

Happy Valentine's Day

I guess you can call today my not so perfect, perfect Valentine's Day.

I had this vision in my head of how I wanted Valentine's day to go. I had all these ideas. But of course in my house with as many things that I have going on at once it's amazing that I get anything done. I wanted to do something special for Matt and the boys' teachers, so I decided to make muffins. I was going to make a special banana bread recipe, but never made it to the store to buy the missing ingredient. So I decided to make cinnamon swirl muffins. I made them once before experimenting with a couple other recipes meshed together and they were soo good. But this time they didn't fluff up and were crunchy and not so pretty. I was bummed out so I decided to try and make regular banana muffins. I thought I over cooked them so I cooked another batch. By the time I was done it was late and I had 70 muffins. So Matt (my stud "muffin") got muffins, the teachers got muffins, the office ladies got muffins and I even made some for the ladies I visit teach. (with muffins to spare) I did come up with a cute saying to go inside. "Because we love all you do... Here is some muffins just for you. Hope you have a very Sweet day." I hope they all liked their Valentines. I know the boys were super excited to pass them out.

I wanted to do something special to surprise the boys. So I made them an edible Valentine. It was supposed to be a cup of fish like an under the sea type thing and it says "I love you more than the fishes in the ocean blue." 

 The Jello set up faster than I anticipated and the fish wouldn't sink. So we had floating fish (dead fish). Matt says there are jumping for joy. I was bummed out but that's ok. The boys loved it. We love Jello.

Any excuse to eat pizza is a good excuse. Heart shaped pizzas for Valentines day, You can't go wrong.

They looked awesome and tasted awesome. Especially with our Valentine Jello desert. 

Don't mind my old cookie sheets.

The photographers toes. :) 

Which brings me to another mommy Valentine oops. What says "I love you. Have a happy Valentine's day!" better than mom scheduling an appointment to have your huge wart on your foot removed, on Valentine's day? Poor kid.Good things my boys are very forgiving and no matter what I think I did wrong today, they didn't seem to notice and if they did, they returned all my hard work and efforts with lots of hugs and kisses. I love Valentine's day. I love showing the ones I love that I do love them. I am willing to serve them and go the extra mile to make them realize that they are loved and they are the best.

Did you see the beautiful flowers my handsome hubby brought me? Yeah I got spoiled too.

My big helper

Yesterday Maxton had a rough day. He just wanted to be held and snuggled all day. Having Mattix as a big brother sure made things easier. He snuggled him and gave me a break for at least a half an hour.

He's my handful.

Manning... Manning.... Manning... I can't begin to tell you how many times a day I am left wondering, what else will this kid think of. Than I stop there and I never allow those words to come out my mouth. I don't want to put him up to any challenge. Weather intentional or not. It's not that he's naughty on purpose. But this kids is 100% curious. Have you seen the little monkey George? He's a good little monkey but always getting into trouble. That's my boy. One minute he's sending my canister of sugar down the stairs to see what it would do. The next he's running around the house with toilet paper stuck in his bum thinking he's soo funny, because he never ripped it off the roll as his tail is getting longer and longer.

So I guess you can say in our house there's never a dull moment with his kid around. As big a handful as he can be he is an even bigger sweet heart. He can give some big hugs and loves to plant wet kisses on me throughout the day.

We love to read.

I have always been a sucker for children's books and ever since I was little I have been collecting books for my kids. Now that I have kids it's become an addiction especially when they are fifty cents at the DI and even cheaper at yard sales. I love it all. The boys love books and ever since they were born they have loved being read to. Mason was a natural reader he picked it up and is progressing very quickly. He has discovered that he can read on his own, even big books like our favorite, Magic Tree house. I love that I have to tell him to put the book down and go to sleep at night. Mattix loves to be read to. He recently discovered with all the reading and sight words he's learned so far he can read "real" books. His favorite right now is Green Eggs and Ham. I am very proud of my boys. I love how their love for books is rubbing off onto Manning. His favorite is anything that has to do with firefighters and George the monkey. Our favorite Manning book is and always will be No David. It's all about Manning.

So it's no surprise that with a reading challenge at school to read the most minutes and our love for competition, my boys and I are reading as much as we can. I have noticed the more we read the better they get. I am excited to watch them grow and see what they can become. To me reading is very important . It opens the door to so many opportunities in life especially if you like to read. One of my biggest goals as a mom is to teach and instill a love for reading in my family. Think of all the wonderful things you can learn when you read especially in the scriptures. I am thankful for my knowledge and the things I gain and learn as I use this gift and blessing my Heavenly Father has given me.