More August

Crafting Silvey kids are happy Silvey kids. I organized all the craft supplies and scrapbook supplies and scratch paper and crayons and everything. It took a long time. But now I'm more willing to let the kids get stuff out and make a mess, because everything has a place to go and it's much easier to get out and put away.

Nate took this giant white board from his parents' house. I'm not sure why yet. He hasn't used it at all. I wrote this message on the board. When Nate saw it I told him I guess it means the board is used for sarcasm.

Gray wanted a picture of his cucumber mouth. Colin likes to photobomb.

I sold the crib. It was harder for me than I thought it would be. But Jude wasn't sleeping there anymore, and I wanted the space. So I posted it on KSL and sold it pretty quick, teeth marks and all. And then I promptly spent the money I made on the crib on two beautiful yellow and white quilts my neighbor was selling. Oh well.

I thought Colin was so photogenic he couldn't take a bad picture. Guess I was wrong. This was after I blow dried his hair with Sun-In.

Jude is cute. He was delighted to be wearing a big nightshirt like the other kids.

Yay for free shirts and matching and siblings.

So, this came for me in the mail a few weeks ago. It made me happy because it was from Heather's soon to be mother-in-law, MRS. Troy Young. Her full name is Troy Marie Young. I had a lot of fun making Heather and Austin's wedding invitations because it looked like he had two dads and she had two moms. Richard and Troy Young, Sharon and Ruth Williams. Ha.

Jude loves playing with our trains. I like building the tracks, so it works out for us. I kept trying to take pictures/videos of him being adorable, but when he would see the camera up he would demand that I stop.

We went to the splash pad on the 12th. I was going to take the kids to the reservoir, but the weather app on my phone said it was going to rain. Then it didn't rain. So we made a quick trip to the splash pad and it was awesome.

He thought he was being so sneaky, pouring water on my feet.

Is it time for school to start yet?!

No really. And can kindergarten please be a full day instead of a half day? I think everyone would be much happier (well, I would be much happier) with two kids gone for 6 hours 5 days a week. Does that make me a bad parent?

Here is Jude singing our night night song. It's from the Lava Pixar short before the movie Inside Out. He sings the whole thing, but not for the camera.

On the 29th we took the kids to the park in the evening because we all needed a break from the house. Nate and I took turns on the kids' scooter and bikes. We played cops and robbers and I think there was a fire chief thrown in the mix too. Good times.

I bought this coloring book for my sister because I love her. You can find all sorts of awesome grown-up (I was going to write adult, but searching for adult coloring books can be dangerous!) coloring books on Amazon. The fashion ones in particular are awesome.

Please, someone buy me this backpack. I promise I'll take good care of it.

My rustic crusty bread had a hard time. One didn't rise well, and I forgot to slash the top of the other one, so it bulged weird and now looks like a jockstrap.

I like to play Legos just as much (or maybe more) than the kids do. I was very protective of the house I built. I kept smacking their little fingers away when they would try to steal my stuff.

It was a lovely little house, with a picture window and flower garden,

a mailbox with money inside and a friendly squirrel on top, a trashcan, a welcome mat that said "Keep out police" (you can take that to mean keep out because police live here, or keep out police, because thugs live here),

 a bedroom, a fireplace, a couch and two chairs, a table with room for four,

a sink, a refrigerator, and a stove in the kitchen,

bookshelves and a storage bin for weapons.

All in all, it was a pretty cozy little house for Emmett, WildStyle, and StormTrooper.

Jude loves messes.

Everyone loves popcorn in special popcorn containers for family movie night.

More Legos! Meet Robot Janitor. He rides a horse and carries a broom. He is accompanied by his pet dolphin.

WildStyle was hanging out with Robot Janitor. She wields a HatchetLightSaber. It's very dangerous.

These no bake coconut cookies are amazing. Just amazing. And when you smother them in dark chocolate, they are even MORE amazing.

#throwbackthursday
I went through some old pictures/scrapbook stuff and found some winners. I took pictures and messaged them to the parties involved, but I thought I'd share them here too.

This chant was written for my sister-in-law DeAnna. Lenna and I composed it on a road trip to Wyoming to watch Brad and D play soccer back in 2005. Good times.

My sweet li'l friends from my BYU-I days (Bonnie's kids, and they are like 14 and 18 now. I'm old). The little one's chins cracked me up. 2003.

 Me and my best roommate Amy Frederick Hillstead. We got married on the same day, but in different states. We did not wear these outfits for our weddings. This was for a How to Host a Murder party our freshman year. Outfits courtesy of DI (except for my shirt, which was a shirt I actually wore to school) (but only on Ugly Shirt Friday). 2003.

I finished my wedding scrapbook! And just in time for my 11th anniversary!

What the playroom looked like after the kids had been banished there to clean for 4 hours.

Good times with the Wheeler girls. What an adorable group of super heroes.

Oh, Kate. I have no words.

Yesterday I took the kids to Cabela's. I actually took them shopping at the outlet mall, but they didn't enjoy that very much, so I took them to Cabela's afterwards to shoot things to help cheer them up. It worked.