Fish Pond

I took the boy's to the fish pond this morning to throw rock's into the water. ( I know, It takes so little to amuse them).

We stopped and picked up Cousin Carson to go with us.   It was freezing cold and we only lasted about 20 min but it was a hoot.

I took the camera in hopes of getting a updated picture of Knox for the wall. Well didn't turn out but i did get some funny ones.

These ones of Carson Crack me up

Oh my good H

(By H i mean the place, in vain)

These boy's are killing me!  I do love them but I think I will appreciate them more now that it's spring (cross my fingers that it stays) and they can be outside all day. 

But today they chose to be inside with me.  I'm trying to Paint Blazers room.    I'm trying my very hardest to do a good job.  Brad Does not like me to paint without him but he knows if he Say's anything about me not doing it, or doing a crappy job, that he would come home to me, doing the entire thing by myself just to show him i could.  But he's been so busy and Blazer is wanting his room painted so bad,  Since the big kids got there's done. So I decided i would tape and do it on my own.  EEK.   Brad Does not let anyone cut a room but himself,  He's super super Anal (sorry Mom,  I know you hate that word)  But I don't know how else to explain how crazy he is about how the room is cut.  So i just did yesterday with out him knowing.

So  Blaze walked in when it was taped and i had the first coat of paint around the top,  He was so excited,  He said "Mommy, You decorating my room with tape"?  In a very excited voice.  I said "No Blazer,  That just helps Mom color in the  lines, (which it didn't). I'm taking it down after" then Blazer replied with a " No way mom i like it``.

Anyway yikes is all i can say, but really it`s not horrible.  Brad walked into the room and did a very controlled smile and then walked back out.  This morning he made a comment like,  Hey Let`s put Blaze to bed in our Bed and we`ll paint together,   Bahhahaha  He was trying to make it sound like a really fun thing to do together so i would wait for him.  Well it didn't work.  I`m pretty much done. 

It does not look so bad if you don`t look really close.  But i do think i`ll wait and let Brad Cut Knox`s room.  Just so he feel`s unreplacable. 

Anyway that was a huge preface to these pictures.  Knox thinks he`s a big huge help!!  I was on the other side of the room and turned around in mid lick.  Yep,  He just had to taste the paint,  Like everything else in his life he`s got to have a taste.  Anyway, Don`t worry It was only a tiny bit on the tip of his tongue and i washed it off fast.

New Family

So for the last few day's this guy.......

keeps saying he wants a new family. 

Any Takers??????

(just kidding, kinda)

Budget Smudget.

So I've decided getting back on a budget is, what i believe, would be like getting off crack.  I'm going threw Panic attacks,  Second guessing my numbers,  i honestly had the shakes last night.  But it's time.  We've moved and have a goal to have our student loans, Credit card that we foolishly used to side and roof the last house (thinking of course when we sell it we'll take some of the profits and pay it off)  I guess that would have work had we not lost on the house.  Anyway live and learn i guess.  Anyway to get all that payed off in 2 years!  I'm so excited about it but to do it we've got to be on a super strict budget. 

So there is a reason I'm delving into a budget discussion,  I think best when things are "super cute" So i made us a super cute and organized Budget binder.  When we live on a budget we fully live on cash.  We don't use our debit cards or credit cards Period.  So here is the "budget binder" i made.
I used my Christmas Present which was a handy Dandy Silhouette Machine.  I love it. 



So i used a Mini Binder  you know the kind,  I think it's a good sized it will fit in my purse if i have to have it but it fit's anywhere.  So i Made this sweet Front Page,  Yes it say's "holy Budget batman"  That's how organized it is! Well for me anyway.


So Brad gets payed weekly so we split our budget into weekly amounts.  So each category has a front pocket like this one.  It's to hold the week's receipts and there is a back pocket so we can move the week's recipes to months recipes.  They all have what the weekly budget for that category is so we know exactly how much to get out of the bank once we deposit the check.


So you flip that page over and you get some lined paper,  That's were we write down what we spent and were,  So we are completely accountable for every penny that is spent.


Then we have our clear pockets that is filled with the money for the week,  The next clear page is the overflow (which I'm pretty sure will stay pretty empty) but it's for the money that is left over from that week that we can save for extra things.


This was just the next category.  Just showing how cute it is.  But the whole book is filled with our different categories Well i think 6 category's. 
And then finally at the end is a calender that we fill in with what day's and the amounts of the bill's that are automatically debited from our account.


So you may wonder why i care to put this on the blog??  Well really i just think it's so cute!  I love it!  And if you write down a goal your are way more likely to go through with it!

So Mom wanted to organized her recipes,  They had become quite a mess and she wanted to weed out the ones she didn't use, and organized them into categorized to make it a bit easier to find what she wanted.  So she went to the dollar store and got some floppy photo albums for a dollar.  They were kinda ugly on the outside but she went ahead and got all her recipes out and organized the all into 5 different categorises.  Then she brought then to me and i did the covers for them.  I used my Handy Dandy Silhouette machine (I'm pretty sure I'll always refer to it as Handy Dandy).  They turned out so cute and it's inspired me to redo my cookbooks.  Everything tastes better when the recipe come out of something cute!!  Am i right!?!

Knox's New Perch.

Knox Loves to go outside,  I don't let him very often unless he's in the backyard and I'm out there.  Well until Brad puts the fence back up.  He Screams and freaks out when he's not aloud out.  In this house he's even got figured out how to open the front door,  So we always have to have it locked.  Anyway he found a new Perch this past week.  The kid's like playing with the next door's kid's and basketball hoop.  Knox has it figured that Grandpa's walker is a perfect height.  So up he gets with his juice box and fruit snack's and watches and wishes he was out there with them.

So We are pretty sure we've got Knox's profession pinned....................

Can you guess???

Grandpa Rod came way across town this weekend for a visit.  The kid's love that he gets to stay over sometimes when Grandma has other things going on.   This week Grandpa got in a bit of trouble for laughing to loud and waking Knox up so he was sent downstairs to watch Tim the Tool Man.  Grandpa was woken up in the morning/afternoon by the two little boy's bringing him oreo's.  I don't know how he got them trained so fast,  but they were running back and forth with oreo's.  In the afternoon Grandpa showed the kid's a experiment he saw on T.V.

It was warm milk with drops of different food coloring and then you drop a bit of soap in the middle and watch.  It's really cool.  It would be even cooler if Grandpa remembered why it did what it did.

Oh KubKar

So it's been a busy week.  The little boys discovered our shower.  They pretty much want in it everyday.  I introduced them to the freedom of the had held sprayer.  They take turns spraying each other.  It's super funny to watch. 

We had a minor miss hap with the Hot water tank on Sunday.  It was leaking all over the place so we had to shut it off.  The kid's had all showered and i had, Brad was the only one who had not showered.  So before we shut off the hot water we got a bucket full of Hot water and Brad had to use that to shower off.  I was doing my hair and said to my ever so pessimistic Brad,  "Brad Cant you ever see the positive in situations?" and he said " what is the positive in this Kade really" and i said " I get to watch you squating over a bucket of hot water trying to wash your hair,  That's just plain funny" Yea,  he quite talking to me for a hour.  But it was the funniest thing I've seen in a super long time.

Last Saturday was the KubKar.  B is still doing cub's in 5th ward so he can finish his stuff up that he's started.  It was so fun to go.  He did a lightning Bolt,  he called it the BOLT.  Last year Blaze was super mad that B got a car and he didn't so this year Brad made him a skateboard car called the Blazer.  The Brody's car got 4th overall.  He was pretty excited until they let Blaze do one race with Brody and Blazers car won.  oh what do ya do.

The boy's love to help me make anything.  As soon as the mixer comes out the boy's come running.  It's super annoying but i think one day I'll look back and think it was fun.  I'm pretty sure that won't be for a super long time.  you will notice Knox has his shoes on with his diaper.  He gets up in the morning and puts shoes on.  I think it's on the off chance he gets a second to escape out one of the door, He would be able to take the opportunity. 

Boys

You may not realize from this blog that we do actually have 2 more kids. It seems that i only have pictures and story's about the little boys.  We'll i do.  The other 2aare  in school all day so I see them way less,  I only wish these 2 little boy's were in school so i could see them way less.  Just kidding (kinda). 

They keep me so busy with things that i don't want to be busy doing EX. cleaning up Pee and Poop.  Settling wrestling matches before someone body slams someone else.  Putting cushions back on the couch.  Sweeping up cookies.  Keeping them from locking each other in the pantry.  Picking up all the kitchen appliances around the house.  Taking the vacuum away all the time.  Trying to keep there girl like screaming to a minimal. 

On weekends Brad gets a taste of what these boy's are like, I know he's happy to be working the rest of the week to get away from there trail of dust.

Anyway i love my boy's but I'm not going to lie,  they are a hand full and as soon as i can, will be sending them to school!!  Anyway these are a few of the things that went on last week on the home front.

Knoxy helping Brad make Pizza.....  Not so much of a help.

Note to self,Don't eat Pizza at our house, Pretty sure it would have been on someones head before it was cooked.

Knoxy wears his boot's everywere.

We made rainbow cupcakes on sT. Patricks day. The boy's were a huge help..... Ok they were not at all, and i don't know when i'll learn to not use food coloring when they are not at least 10 miles away.

Knox is into taking off his diaper. so he was in bed and took it off and nuggets rolled out......

scared the Crap out of him no pun intended (just kidding totally a pun)

I'm pretty sure that won't happen again for awhile.

That was a week in the little boy's life. One day it will slow down and i'll look back and think "oh those were good times" I'm just not sure how long that will take.