Here's your screaming, bleeding child! Happy Mother's Day!

Ahhh. Mother’s Day. I heard Nate wake up and head into the kitchen to make me breakfast and I rolled over and thought, yay! Zzzzzz.

5 minutes later I woke up to a screaming baby. Not “I’m GRUMPY” screams, but “I’m IN PAIN!” screams.

Jenna had put Logan on the couch and he fell off and hit his head on the coffee table, right on his ear. Poor baby was bleeding like crazy and he wouldn’t let us touch it without a fight.

Yay for Mother’s Day! Yay for starting it off covered in blood!!!

We wondered if we should take him to the doctor, but he finally calmed down enough for me to keep pressure on his ear and although it took a bit, it finally stopped bleeding.



So I didn’t get to sleep in, but breakfast was AWESOME!

Being a mom: There is the good and there is the bad. Ain't it the truth.

Last week, within 2 days, Carter: dumped the salt and pepper shakers all over the kitchen table and then “cleaned" it up, therefore spreading little grains of salt and pepper to all corners of the kitchen.

Then, a couple hours after I got that all cleaned up and could walk into the kitchen without stepping on grainy particles, Carter smashed half a tube of Ritz crackers into fine dust and "cleaned" that up, too. It was EVERYWHERE!!! ARGH!

Then, Carter found our gas can on the floor of the garage and decided to pour it out and splash in his giant puddle of gasoline. (Soooo, time to get shelves in the garage, eh??) Our house finally smells normal again. At least close.

And might I just say: Carter + blue crayon + couch = angry Mom.

Carter is NOT the only one who causes trouble around here so I am not being fair at all in telling you only Carter stories. It’s just his stories stick out...

I can get so mad at the kids, but I can really say that being a mom makes me laugh every day. Like:

Carter asking me excitedly from the bathroom, “Mom, do you want to hear my poo-poo so that you can say, ‘Good job, Carter!’?”

Carter telling me the neighbor’s kitty scratched him, and when I ask, “Were you being nice to the kitty?” he says, “Yes.” Only to add a second later, “Then I pulled the kitty’s tail.”

Jenna tattle-taling, “MO-OM! Carter ate his runny nose!!”

Jenna saying, “We’re going to Grandma Pam’s? I LOVE Nate’s parents!”

Jenna saying, “Mom, my eyes hurt, because I’m STARVING!”

Jenna saying, “Whoa. DAD! Come look at mommy’s belly! It is getting big!”

My kids have been committing potatocide. They gather as many potato bugs as they can find and stick them in jars. Then they’re all dead the next day. Be sad, talk about how potato bugs don’t like living in the house, throw away, and repeat.

The other day I woke up to Jenna and Carter in bed with me using my body as a giant slide for their cars.

Logan initiated his first kiss with me yesterday. Huge, open, slobbery mouth, but guess what I loved it

Being a mom’s hard. But so good.

And now here are some pictures.


"Look mom, I have a baby in my belly!"






Mother's Day was fun visiting Nate's family and my family. I have the BEST mom and mother-in-law ever, thank you so much for all you do!!!

We got to talk to my brother Kenny, who is in Vancouver on a mission! We miss him!!

And thanks to my other brothers for flinging my kids in the air without any severe injuries!








I got to see my childhood BFF Haylee and her new little baby, Brinnley! I love her! The baby loved me, too, just ignore her crying in the picture. Haylee, I hope our girls can be friends just like me and you and get in fights all the time just like me and you and then make up the next day just like me and you! Memmmmoriiieesss!!


Happy Mother's Day!