tidbits from lately.

i took this picture the other day when the boys were watching a show.

it makes me so happy!

for 2 reasons:

1. i totally remember watching shows like this! i can't believe our boys are old enough to be doing things that i can remember doing. ahh when did this happen? they are turning into little people right before my eyes!

2. chet was first to lay down on the floor like that. and i watched as holden quietly observed his big brother for a minute, and then slid himself off the couch and down on the floor next to chet. and he kept checking to see if he was doing everything just like chetty. i am amazed by the relationship those two little turkeys have. they are best of friends right now. and i love it!

and here we are doing the worst thing ever - taking selfies.

happy:

grouchy:

be a weirdo:

pretending to sleep:

some more tidbits from life lately:

- chet participated in his first primary presentation this sunday. and it was seriously the cutest thing. matt and i watched with such pride. i swear we had the biggest, dorkiest smiles on our faces throughout the entire thing. unless, that is, i was sobbing from the sweet spirit that filled that chapel. there really is something so special about the primary children. they always manage to bring the strongest spirit to a room. i am so grateful that our boys get to grow up being taught in such an amazing organization.

- chet and holden are doing so good at gymnastics these days. to be clear, i don't think they are on there way to the olympics anytime soon. or ever. i am more just impressed with how chet is learning to be brave and try new things, and how holden is learning to follow instructions. i can't believe we only have a few more weeks of gymnastics, and then we will be onto something new. we are thinking of trying 'sportball' in the new year. it is a class where kids get to learn a different sport each week. for the record, i will support my boys in playing anything but hockey. mostly because i don't want to sit in cold arenas every week. ideally they will want to play basketball or volleyball - team sport, indoor so the weather doesn't matter, little equipment investment, and i like those games:) but if they choose to be band geeks, then i will be the best dang band geek mom there ever was.

- since i just mentioned hockey... matt's brother gave us a pair of his season tickets to a flames game. the flames lost. but we got to eat a malt and some mini donuts.. so who really cares which team won? another highlight was that got a tour of the ridiculously complex system that controls the ice rink. one of matt's counselors in the YM presidency is an ice engineer at the saddledome, so he took us down under the ice during intermission. i know it sounds kinda lame, but it was actually fascinating. i honestly just thought they filled the floor with water and let it freeze.. but i was very wrong. there is a whole team of people who take care of the ice as their full time job. matt almost got to ride the zamboni during intermission, which would have been so hilarious! but it didn't work out. hopefully next time it does.

- i made a quilt! i did it as a personal progress goal. and i think it turned out cute. but, one day as i sat at our kitchen table sewing a quilt with my headphones in (listening to the new taylor swift album, obviously.) matt told me i was a nerd! ruUUUde. especially coming from a boy who was playing 'clash of clans' at the very moment that he called me a nerd. but, perhaps he meant 'nerd' in a cute, intelligent, endearing type of way. 

- we inherited a whole bunch of lego. and our boys love lego. and when i say 'love' i mean 'loooOOOOove' it. they play with it every. single. day. and i step on the dang stuff every. single. day! ugh. but, despite the fact that lego causes me so much physical pain at times, i do love it too. i think it is a great toy. i love watching our boys fit the pieces together into little creations that they are so proud of. sometimes i am blown away by their creativity.

- we are basically celebrities. see:

ok, not really.
moving on..

- the boys and i went to the bow habitat museum & fish hatchery with the clarke cousins. we got to the feed a school of 27,000 trout in the hatchery, and then we spent a couple hours touring through the discovery center. it was really interactive and the kids loved that. i can't believe i had no idea this place even existed until a few weeks ago. 

- matt slammed his phone in his truck door. that means, that for the first time in our marriage, *he* was the first one to break his phone this round!

- chet told me he wants to be a mom when he grows up, rather then a dad. his reasoning? because moms don't have to do work.
but... chet i do work. being a mom is hard work. and i also literally go to work. remember?
"ya, but moms don't drive a truck to work like dads," he says.
oh. gotcha.

- matt is going on his first scout camp as a YM leader this weekend. it was supposed to be a fall camp, but the weather took a turn for the worse this week and nothing about this camp will be 'fall'. it will be a winter camp through and through. i feel so bad for him! there is not a bloody chance i would EVER sleep in a tent in -20 weather. not. a. bloddy. chance. let's hope the temperature rises a couple (dozen) degrees. matt is actually out in the garage right now chopping fire wood. keep chopping, sweetheart.. that fire could never be too big!

- when i was going to school in provo, my roommate's mom got us a wicked deal on those enormous 8 foot bean bags that used to be so popular back then. so, naturally, i got one. can't turn down a good sale, right?! haha. unfortunately, since the original purchase i have never lived somewhere big enough to house this monstrosity, so my parents have been given the great honor of keeping it in their homes. until a couple week ago. when they sold their canadian home in preparation for their move to arizona. and we were faced with the choice to either sell the bean bag or make way for it. i said sell. matt said make way. so we made way. we did some rearranging, and some furniture tossing, and we now have room for the beloved bean bag. it's a bit obnoxious, but our boys love it to bits. they play on it more then i ever imagined. and, if it helps us burn up some energy this winter, i will have to way it's well worth the space it takes up.

and now i will finish off this random post with - you guessed it - more random stuff.

this picture has been floating around our house lately.

it was from our pre-wedding family baseball game/BBQ.

we shoulda worn those outfits on our wedding day. it would have been more memorable!