Excuses, Excuses

Sorry about the hiatus...  Between watching my two nephews Friday-Monday (littlest cousin A somehow didn't make it in the photos...)

Catching a stomach bug and dealing with it in the two cousins + Peach  (we went through soooooo many diapers last week...)  The whole weekend would have been pretty fun, otherwise...

"Luckily", I was up all night with it the night before mothers' day, so I had extra reason for Jay to let me sleep all day Sunday...  However, this bug partly caused this

A clogged main pipe, which caused a leak from out master bath through to the ceiling below, right by the front door.  (which means we get to explain what happened a lot...)

Then, Jay was gone when the kids ate breakfast and didn't get home until after they were in bed because he hosted a computer science conference at BYU last week,

so I never really got caught up last week.

Hopefully I can get back on the posting band-wagon :)

Belated Mother's Day

For Mother's Day this year, Jay got me a "mom book".  It's basically a journal where my kids can write whatever they want to me at every mom-appreciation day (Mother's Day, Birthday, Christmas...)  I'm very excited about this new tradition.

I also decided that I want to take a picture of me with each of my children on Mother's Day because I'm almost always behind the camera and so I don't have very many pics of me with them.  Unfortunately, I forgot that I wanted to do this until after my Mother's Day nap, so we postponed it until another Sunday.  It took quite a few tries to get a good one with The Frog...  

Here are a my favorites:

I just love those beautiful blue eyes and squishy cheeks!

 When I was painting my toenails one day, The Frog wanted his done too.  He calls them "monster toes".

Happy Mommies' Day

love,

The Frog.

PS. In case you couldn't understand what he said at the end (with his tie clasp in his mouth), he wanted to say it "again!"