Herding Cats

A friend of Jason's from school, Geoff, recently wrote us an email about our new assignment, Fort Carson. Anyways, he had this to say by way of congratulations on our third child. I thought it was right on the money, should be copyrighted, and printed on t-shirts that should be handed out at the maternity ward once you have your third and move into a different class of motherhood!

"I've always felt that once we went from 2 to 3 kids, the wife began the process of herding cats. The lead two scamper around wherever sunlight hits something shiny and she's one-arming the baby, the diaper bag, the car keys, 3 jackets, etc. Good luck Ariel! Being a mom is way harder than going to work."

Can I get an AMEN!?!

Where did the month go?

So...here is my excuse for being gone from blogging for a whole month: Life with three kids is HARD! You just don't know what your in for 'til you don't have a hand for each one of your children. Noah is the monster of getting into all things, and Elina is almost too much of a big sister helper. Heaven help me...

Anyways, when my family moved home from Germany they got a super ultra mega cell phone plan with a phone for mom, and a phone for each of the boys. With like a gazillion minutes and texting to share, and for only $10 bucks a month you can add a line to share even more. So Momma got me a phone on her plan and said "I want a picture of my grand kids everyday!". And I have been on top of that, then I realized...because I have been taking tons of pictures with my phone and it is so handy and convenient , I have been neglecting my camera. Meaning no pictures of the past month will get into the photo albums or scrapbooks. So I pulled out the camera this Thanksgiving weekend, and this is what we ended up with to make up for the "lost" month of November:


Elina loves it when I pump a bottle and let her help feed Lydia!

Noah loves it when I pump a bottle and Lydia doesn't drink it all!

The family starting to put up the Christmas tree. Jason loves that job ; ) !

My beautiful Christmas tree, I love my Angel Moroni tree topper from my Memaw!


Like I mentioned earlier, Noah is one crazy two year old. But I have noticed that when I take a moment to let him hold his sister his whole countenance changes. You know that feeling you get in your heart when you hold a new born, well it works for kids too!

In case you couldn't read it earlier, this is Lydia's Thanksgiving T-Shirt!

Trick or Treat

With "pumpkin" being our theme with this new little one, we thought it appropriate for our families Halloween costumes this year. And since we couldn't find an adult male jack-o-lantern shirt, Jason was the "farmer" of our "pumpkin patch"!

Long time no blog...

Well, with my momma leaving last week and mastitis setting in the day after she left :( I have done little blogging. So here are just some random pictures from the last two weeks.

Pumpkin

Since our "little pumpkin" waited until October to come, my mother and I thought this photo shot as totally appropriate!

Ellie Mae

So much has been put up recently about the baby, so I thought I would just take a minute and devote an individual post for my bigger kids. They do love to see their own pictures on the computer.

Elina has been such a good helper with her big sister. Very excited to hold her and help burp the baby. She is esepcially great about running to get things, like diapers and nursing pads, so mommy doesn't have to move around too much. . .

And Daddy helps her get out her energy when he gets home at night!

My BOY Noah

Last night during family scriptures Noah tooted and was hollering "farted, farted" and just laughing about it. So I asked him "well, what do you say?" and he said "KA-CHOW!". I guess we have been watching a lot of Cars lately...what a little boy!