Kay so this is not a joke. We were hanging out at home last Sunday and Corey and I were in the kitchen and heard Conner asking for help and we walked into the front room to find this.
This is not even a joke, I grabbed my camera and snapped the picture. Can you believe it? Oh my word this kid is just too hilarious.

On a side note, I'm sorry I haven't been much of a blogger lately. Just too busy and can't justify it when I need to be cleaning my house. Keeping the house clean and other tasks used to be so easy till Conner got older. Now I just can't seem to keep on top of things! I want to do better on posting so I can keep using it for our family journal so I will try to do better. Sorry if I never comment on your blogs. I try to check them when I can and once in a great while I will try to comment. Sorry such a slacker. xoxo

lawn mowing and other shenanigans

Conner is 100% mercilessly obsessed with mowing the lawn. Here he is helping my dad mow my parents lawn. Yesterday Conner and I were out with my mom and came home while Corey was just finishing mowing ours and Conner had an absolute melt down. He was so devastated that Corey would mow the lawn without him. You could tell he genuinely felt like he had been betrayed. This kid of ours is just so interesting. He just loves certain things so much.

Another one of Conner's passions. He holds the guitar better than me and he is only two!! In my opinion he is already a pro. He can sing the whole first verse of "Sweet baby James" by James Taylor. I used to sing to him when he was a baby and we call it Conner's song, so it is a very special song in our little family.
I can't wait to see if he ever does anything with the guitar as he gets older.

OH NO! Corey watching NasCar with the Con man eating popcorn.

I find Conner doing this from time to time. Just relaxing I guess, I don' know how he gets himself into this position tho...?

Corey's birthday dinner with our little gang. Corey and his brother Chris on the left, and our buds Levi and Megan and me on the right.

Conner has been so difficult to take to restaurants lately so my parents graciously watched him while we all took Corey to dinner. We came home and my dad had gotten Conner his first pair of sunglasses. Now I just hope he will use them.

I have two boys in my house who are not particularly good at posing for the camera. I am sure Conner's future wife, friends, and posterity will enjoy looking back at his tonsils.

Someone has a secret!
I love this picture.

Play date at Ashely's house.

Jace has a John Deer kids tractor...need I say more?

Much Anticipated...

Well the wedding went down without a hitch, it was wonderful and I can now officially say I have a new sister in law. She is the most wonderful person I have ever met and these two couldn't fit more perfectly together.
The wedding was wonderful and beautiful and perfect. Enjoy the pics!

Mr. and Mrs. Tom and Juleen Monson!

Corey loved his corsage...

Until he was told it was my bouquet and this was his corsage.

I don't have many pics as of yet from the reception I need to get some from my mom's camera! But it was beautiful. It was an outdoor reception and we were so blessed with no rain.
Conner was impossible and we had to keep juggling him around, I don't think I would know what to do with myself if I were able to just sit and talk and relax without having "where is Conner and what trouble is he getting into" in the back of my head every second!

My Bff Ash stopped by, she and Tommy worked together for a time so they are buds.

Our best friends. Megs, me, Corey, Levi and Conner.

Happy Birthday Corey

hey my friend
it seems your eyes are troubled
care to share your time with me
would you say you're feeling low and so
a good idea would be to get it off your mind

see you and me
have a better time than most can dream
have it better than the best
and so can pull on through
whatever tears at us
whatever holds us down
and if nothing can be done
we'll make the best of what's around

turns out not where but who you're with
that really matters
that really matters
it hurts not much when you're around
when you're around

and if you hold on tight
to what you think is your thing
you may find you're missing all the rest
she ran up into the light surprised
her arms are open
her mind's eye is...

seeing things from a
better side than most can dream
on a better road i feel
oh you could say she's safe
whatever tears at us
whatever holds us down
and if nothing can be done
we'll make the best of what's around

turns out not where but who you're that really matters
that really matters
that really matters
(our song)



I love you Corey.

interesting...

I read something very interesting the other day. I need to try it out to make sure its legit, but here is the deal. A man did an experiment where he put rice and water in a jar with some holes punched into the top of the jar and left it to stew for a week or so.
What he did was write negative words all over one of the jars, hateful words, swear words, you get the drift.
On the other jar he wrote positive, peaceful words. He said he would even go and touch the "positive" jar with tenderness now and then (i know, weird huh).
So after a week the difference in the jars was striking. He said after a longer period of time this is what the jars looked like.
What the man was trying to portray in this experiment was that the more we fill our life/mind with positive words and less negativity we will be happier. The more we fill our minds with negative thoughts, the more poisoned our mind and life will be.
I don't know how true it is, but I know my dad has told me on numerous occasions it is crucial to stop focusing on worries or problems because it just makes things worse. The more you focus on them the more important the negative things become in your mind.
Like I said, I don't know if it's really true or not, but I certainly like the idea...I am going to try the experiment and see if it works, I will let you know how it goes.