Best Mother's Day Gift Ever!

This year Tori's Birthday fell on Mother's Day. Sharing Mother's Day with Tori's Birthday this year has made it a little bit more special for me. Above all this Mother's Day I am thankful that I have the opportunity to be a Mom. I know I have a long way to go before I am the kind of Mother that I hope to someday be but I am so thankful to my children who have taught me so much about love and life. I am also thankful for all the Mother's in my life who have influenced me and have set such great examples for me in my life. I hope you all have wonderful Mother's Day!
Back to Tori's Birthday.
It is hard to believe that my little girl is already 3! Tori is such a sweet girl and I love being her Mom. She is always reminding all of us how much she loves us. She is calm, content, and happy (most of the time) and I can honestly say she never really went through a terrible two's stage (though maybe that means we are in for it now that she is 3). She is so smart and so beautiful and such a great sister to Landon and Ella. Happy Birthday Tori, I love you!!

Newborn Tori

One year old

2 years old

3 years old

Yesterday I took Tori out to celebrate her birthday. These last two pictures are of Tori enjoying her birthday sundae from Applebee's. That thing was huge!!

29 more days!

I just looked at my blog and realized that it has been a month since the last time I wrote anything, sorry. We are doing well, I have just been tired and haven't felt much like taking pictures or posting on my blog.

We found out recently that my C-Section is scheduled for June 2nd, so only 29 days away! I am excited to meet this little guy and I am really looking forward to not being pregnant anymore. I have had to have ultrasounds done every week for the past month or so and at one about a week ago they did a 3-d ultrasound for me. The pictures are kinda creepy but kinda cool too!

Happy Easter!

I love going to church on Easter Sunday and seeing all of the kids dressed up in their new Easter clothes. Because General Conference falls on Easter this year I will have to wait until next Sunday to see all the cute Easter outfits, but that is OK . I was able to go out on Friday and take some pictures of my kids in their Easter garb. Enjoy and I hope you all have a wonderful Easter Sunday!I was not able to get a great picture of all three kids together, Tori looks a little goofy in this picture, of well

Easter Fun!

This past week has been full of fun Easter activities. On Thursday we died Easter Eggs and on Friday we had an Easter Egg hunt with our friends the Wilkins. Landon and Tori loved dying Easter eggs. They were much more into this year then they were last year. It ended up being pretty messy but the kids had fun and the dye washed right off so it was worth it. I think the Easter Egg Hunt was a success. All the kids figured out the concept of collecting eggs quickly and everyone seemed to be satisfied with what they collected. Tori was mostly interested in eating the chocolate Landon collected most of the eggs, but he was willing to share with the girls.

New Addition!!!

We are pleased to introduce you all to a new member of our family. He joined our family a couple weeks ago and he is an absolute to have around. I have to say he is probably my favorite child. He is easy going, polite, and very low maintenance. He also has some pretty cool tricks, like he can fly around the room (with the help of his brother).

So without further ado I'd like to introduce you to .....

Paper Landon!!

When Landon brought Paper Landon (PL) home from school he made sure that PL was assimilated into the family. He would save a spot for him on the couch, take him to bed with him, and play with him pretty much all day for pretty much a week straight. Sometimes I think it would be great to be 5 again!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!!

Here are some pictures of the kids in their green

Nesting

I was ready to write a post about all the things I hate about being pregnant when it dawned on me that no one wants to hear me complain, so instead I am going to post about one of the positive side effects of being pregnant, nesting. I was actually a bit surprised when this nesting side effect kicked in because I don't remember ever nesting in any of my previous pregnancies. I am not going to lie I really enjoy nesting, I feel much more accomplished at the end of the day because I am getting things done and I sleep better at night because I wear myself out during the day.

Here are 2 of the projects I have completed as a result of nesting. The first are wall letters to hang in the nursery. We are pretty sure that this little boys name will be Levi and if for some reason we change our minds I can always make new letters, they were super easy. You can't really tell from the pictures but the "I" has a solid brown background with darker brown polka dots. This next project was a little more involved. My friend Lillian gave us an old wardrobe they got from Ikea a while ago. I was super excited to get this wardrobe becasue we do not have a ton of storage space in our house. However the wardrobe was a light color and the furniture in the nursery is pretty dark. Not a big deal but I wanted it to match a little better so with the help of Jared I restained the wardrobe. The color isn't a perfect match to the rest of the furniture but I think it looks good. To finish off this project I made some curtains for the outside of the wardrobe.

Before:
After:Here is a close up of the fabric that I made the curtains out of. I am using these same fabrics in the baby blanket I am making for Levi.