Mommy for a Week part 2

Pretty Toes!

But, not who's you think....



Haha! I was painting my toes this afternoon and Gracie wouldn't let me do hers but Isaac really wanted his to be painted. So i did! What's funny is he has the strangest toes. His second toe overlaps his big toe which made it very difficult to paint. The bottom of his toe kept getting paint on it. Let's just say it's a good thing he is not a girl and has to deal with this painted toes problem his whole life.



I am a fun mommy! haha. We had tons of fun this week just being silly and having a good time.

Mommy for a Week

This whole week my parents have been out of town. They left me, Nate and Erik here with there 4 crazy kids and headed off to Cancun. Well they totally deserve the break so that's fine, but they don't have to rub it in! I keep getting emails and pictures from them on the beach saying that there sun tans say hello to our snow..blah..blah..blah. It's actually really fun to hear how childish they sound, which i think means they are having a blast!

But anyways..the week started off a little rough but has been great since then. On Monday Isaac decided i needed to get initiated into motherhood and threw up in the backseat of the van all over himself and the car while i was driving on I-15 in a blizzard on my way to Nanny. Yeah. I felt so bad for the kid...and myself. It smelt horrible! I quickly called my Aunt and she told me what to do...how to clean it, what to do for Isaac etc. (thanks Shannon!) We finally made it to the family's house and i stripped down Isaac wrapped him in a blanket and took him inside. Then i cleaned his clothes and the car out. It was so gross.

I am sure all the mothers are rolling there eyes at me being dramatic..but he is not even my kid...that is disgusting! Well i did live through it. And now i look back and i am soo proud of myself. But the funny part of the story (although I'm sure some of you already were laughing) was what happened the next day. So i told Isaac that we would watch him and if he threw up again he couldnt go to preschool the next day. Well he never threw up again but the next morning i hear a lot of coughing coming from Isaac's room. I go in and here is our conversation:

me: "are you okay Isaac? Did you throw up more?"
Isa: "No...but i am trying to make myself throw up!"
me: "why?"
Isa: "because i dont want to go to Preschool"
me: "why not?"
Isa: :"because i HATE the letter K! I am so sick of it!"

Hahaha....yeah he has yet to throw up again but has insisted on carrying around a bowl all day "just in case" he is totally milking this!

Photography Class

Here are some of the last prints i did for my Photography class. They turned out okay. I really enjoyed the class as far as learning how to develop pictures but i felt like they didn't really teach you how to take a great picture. I got so frustrated with aperture and shutter speed i would mostly shoot on auto. But i felt like i learned a few good techniques and some elements that make a good picture. I am grateful for the class my cousin Hannah is teaching though because already i am learning how to actually shoot on manual. It's been great! Some of these photos are too light or too dark...i still need to do better at the developing process apparently and these are also just pictures of the photos, sorry. I liked these photo's regardless just because i think the subjects are so cute...yes you too Amber! Thanks for letting me shoot you! :)

Tis the Season

Here are our Christmas decorations in our cinder block walled apartment. Despite the lack of space and lack of money i think they are pretty darn cute. I love Christmas decorations you cant help but smile when you come home and see all those bright colors and everywhere.

Here are some magnets we made as gifts this year for friends and neighbors. We gave them to home teachers, visiting teachers etc. They turned out really cute. The glare from the glass rock makes them not look too good in the pictures but i thought they turned out well. It was so fun delivering them. We just stuck them to the front doors with a note that said Merry Christmas. We almost got caught a few times with the sound of the magnet clicking on the door....it made it more fun to try to quietly stick them to the door than run away.

I love this time of year! Merry Christmas!

Our Little Christmas

Erik and I celebrated our Christmas together early. We exchanged a few gifts and ate some yummy Christmas candy. It was really nice. Really we were both just to eager to open our presents.

Thanksgiving!

Here are some highlights from our Thanksgiving break.

Wednesday: Me and the boys loaded up the 4-wheelers and headed to the sand dunes. We had a blast.

This is what they call sand mountain...it's huge and we rode up it with the 4-wheelers and then back down...so fun...and a little scary!!!

Thursday: piggin out with the whole Knudsen Family.

We spent the rest of thanksgiving day outside chasing around the stray cats and dogs that kept coming into Grandmas yard. We are all deprived children. We all love animals...but our moms do not!

Friday:

oh yeah! I FINALLY got to see High School Musical 3. I LOVED IT! My sweet husband agreed to come...he said he needed to supervise me with Zac Efron. haha. It was great. Isaac loved it too.

On Friday night we also decorated our gingerbread houses. I loved our design this year. It looks a little messy...i want to get better at it but it still is pretty cute. Erik and i love designing and decorating our little house. My cousin Kate (she is 8) told us that our gingerbread house "looks like a beautiful little cottage that we could run away too and live happily ever after!" haha..i thought it was cute.