kid quotes

8 year old boy: 8yo
6 year old girl: 6yo
2 year old boy: 2yo

(2 year old has a habit of not swallowing food if he thinks its gross, it'll just sit in his mouth forever)
me: i'm going to count to 3 and you better swallow your food. 1-
2yo: 2

2yo: baby text
me: text?
2yo: yeah
me: text who?
2yo: mommy
me: and say what?
2yo: uh.. 2

*2 year old gives me a hug then rubs his face on my shoulder*
me: did you just wipe your nose on me?
2yo: yup. see?

*driving to palm springs*
6yo: i just saw a camel!
their mom: hold on, what?
6yo: yeah, literally!

*talking about snapchat*
8yo: can we send one to bryan?
me: no, he doesn't have a phone
8yo: no phone? that's just cray cray!

2yo: where mommy go?
me: out to dinner with daddy
2yo: ...doughnut

*walks into my bedroom*
2yo: uh oh, mimi make mess
me: yeah, i made a mess. will you clean it up for me?
2yo: yeah, *proceeds to pick up my clothes and throw them into my closet*

me: come wash your hands for lunch
2yo: *playing with trains* one minute
me: no, right now
2yo: i'm busy!

me: why are you such a messy eater?
6yo: it's just how some people are
me: *gives her 'the look'*
6yo: it's not me, it's my body
me: you control your body
6yo: it's my mouth
me: ...
6yo: it's God controlling me

6yo: am i cute?
me: ...yes
6yo: i don't think so but, if you say so.

6yo: i bought it with my own money
me: oh yeah?
6yo: yeah, but i never paid back my aunt

*eating breakfast in silence*
2yo: i want to see a picture of a yak

6yo: does my husband have a phone?
me: your husband?
6yo: yeah, your brother

sytycd

in honor of it being so you think you can dance season, here are a few of my all-time favorite dances:

writing prompt 6

describe the most vivid dream you can remember:

i used to have this one all the time as a kid, like, ALL the time. and to this day, i remember it better than any dream. k, so there were are (my fam) sitting in our house when suddenly there are earthquakes and fires and volcanoes and screaming outside. so we all stand up to run and a t-rex tips our roof off. mom and dad ran out to the garage and told us kids to run to gramma (oaks) house. so we start running through the streets hiding from dinosaurs and avoiding hot lava. we never made it, i always woke up before then. so.. we probably got eaten. or fell in a volcano, who knows.

more exciting business, bryan's little brother carson (or as i call him, crunch) was just called to serve the Lord in Jackson, Mississippi on september 11!!

(old pic... but it's a good one)

here's a laugh or two

meant to be

wanna hear something crazy? so when i was interviewing to be a nanny, i posted on facebook that i was having an interview and a girl from my ward at utah state commented on my status saying this:

little did i know, it was the very family i was interviewing with. and also the family i am working for now. i didn't find this out until later but it's like, even if i hadn't interviewed with this family through the agency, it was still a possibility for me to have crossed their path.

feeling blessed.

half way done!

bryan has OFFICALLY been gone for 365 days!

(of course i couldn't pick just one picture so here's an entire collage)

at his farewell just over a year ago. 

it's all downhill from here (that's what i keep getting told).

time to start counting down!!

(as if i haven't been already for the last 365 days)

b bob

happy birthday to my #1 fan!

baylor is always the most excited one to see me. whether it's been a week or whether it's been 4 months. and he is also the funniest person i know. 

i can't believe he's 12! he'll be passing the sacrament.

holy cow i'm getting old!

love you beebs!