My Budding Little Artist

This morning when I woke up, I thought to myself, today is going to be a good day. That is what I get for thinking! I got Tylie out of bed and she was just playing in her room and watching her new Barbie movie... or so I THOUGHT! She was very quiet about what she was doing, so I had no clue. And of course she is very fast when she is doing something she knows she shouldn't be doing. So when she came into my bedroom and I saw a little bit of BLACK PERMANENT MARKER on her arms I instantly head to the kitchen to where she had a chair pushed up to the counters, and had climbed up on the counter and found a black sharpie off of the top of the fridge. So this is what I came upon...

Yes, these are my kitchen cabinets!!! And the last picture is my wood floor!!!

So you can guess what I was doing ALL morning long, trying to figure which kind of cleaner takes permanent marker off wood. I scrubbed, and scrubbed, and scrubbed. Much to my surprise, if you scrub hard enough and use enough different cleaners, it does lighten considerably. It still isn't all the way off, but I think the rest may just have to stay because it doesn't want to seem to come any cleaner. So, pray for Tylie that she doesn't do anything else today that she isn't supposed to because I don't know if I could handle anymore today!!!

Take Me Out To The Ballgame...

Saturday night after we went to Boondocks, we went to the Owlz baseball game in Orem. It was the final championship game and we had a blast. It was so fun because we were right up close and personal!

Carson is showing off his foul ball that he got. He was very excited about getting it.

This is where Carson spent the majority of his time, right down by the team. That is where he was when he got the ball.

Bryson showin that cute smile.
Tylie being just as cute as can be.
Dad and his boys.
This picture is just a bit blurry because Bryson was doing his famous dance moves to the music that was playing. He is such a goof ball!
We had a great time, and the kids were surprisingly good! Who knew! The Owlz ended up loosing, but it was still tons of fun.

Family Fun at Boondocks

This last weekend Jeremy had Governor's Day for Guard. They have this every year and it's a big production put on by the National Guard honoring the Governor. I help out with the Family Support Program in the guard, and we decided that we wanted to take the families to Boondocks after they did their guard stuff. We had a lot of fun there. I had never been there, but the kids loved it. We didn't have as many families as we would have liked come, but the ones that did had a good time. It's always nice when you can take your family out and have dinner and do fun activities like this for FREE!


Jer and Carson had a blast in the go carts. If you know Jeremy at all, he is very competitive, and that is where his son gets it from!
You can see that Carson is looking behind him, that is because he was telling Jeremy what everyone behind them was doing. They were in the lead and he wasn't about to let anyone pass him!
Still in the lead, and he stayed that way the rest of the race.
This is what I did while the boys did go carts, and laser tag... chased little miss around! She was having a great time running away from mom. It was good that there was lots of room outside for her to run, cause that is all she wanted to do.
Tylie hates to get her picture taken, so she would try to hide her face every time I tried to take one.
Once again trying to hide from the camera.
We ended our fun day with a round of mini golf. Of course Carson loved it since he loves to golf. He took the game very seriously. Bryson had fun too, but he got a little impatient that his ball didn't go in every time.


This was the last hole. You had to get the ball in this little hole and when you did the dragon would blow fire.

First Day of School

I know, I know... School started almost a month ago, and I am finally getting a post done about it. That is just how my life goes, I'm always a day late and a dollar short! Oh well, better late than never I guess.

Carson started 3rd grade this year! I know, I really can't believe that I have a 3rd grader cause I am not old enough to have a 3rd grader :) His teacher is Mrs. Child and when she told me she was excited to have him in her class, I told her she had no idea what she was in for! Now that they are a few weeks into school, I am sure she knows what I mean!
Bryson started Kindergarten this year. His teacher is Mrs. Farris Stevens and man she is going to have her hands full with him! He was very excited, but a little worried because he was picked to be in one of the all day classes. I know that I am a horrible mom, but I was saying my prayers really really hard that he would get picked out of the hat, and when I the letter during the summer I was seriously jumping up and down. How bad is that??? But if you know Bryson, you know why I was so excited. He is one VERY active child, and we tend to hit heads - a lot. So I think that this is going to be very good for him.
Bryson is quite the character and I call him our drama queen. Everything is such a drama for him. The first day of school he came home and this is how our conversation went:

Mom: Hey buddy, how was your first day of kindergarten?

Bryson: (Being very dramatic) It sucked.

Mom: No it didn't, I am sure that you had fun.

Bryson: No I didn't, it sucked.

Mom: (trying not to laugh) Bryson, you shouldn't say that, it isn't a very nice word for kids to use.

Bryson: Well, it did!

He just kept it up that he hated school, and finally at the end of the day he told me that he really did have fun.
Brotherly Love! At least for the moment :) These two have actually been getting along quite a bit better lately which makes it nice for me. They ARE still brothers, so of course they fight, but hopefully they keep getting better and get closer as they get older!

Tylie's at it AGAIN!!!

This post is a continuation of the post that I posted last night! I just had to add this so you can see what I am dealing with! So Tylie has her cousin Carlie over right now and they are playing so good together... until I leave the room! I ran upstairs to do a couple things and they are being so quiet and I can hear them talking so I think everything is fine and dandy. Oh, I couldn't have been more wrong. I was only upstairs for a few minutes and came downstairs to find this!

I told you that I had to put my make up and polish somewhere else, well, I had painted my toes this morning and left the bottle in my bathroom on the counter. Don't they look pretty??? I about died. I was very calm though and didn't beat her like I first wanted to. Instead I calmly walked over and got my camera so I could take a picture of them before I took it away. Oh they were having the time of their lives. Tylie actually did pretty good on Carlie's toes I must say. Luckily it was only on my wood floors and my tile, so it came off easily with polish remover (and I am sure that is just wonderful for the finish on the floors). So if any of you thought you heard me yelling T-Y-L-I-E, you were right! I must admit that I did say some other words too, but I am not going to admit what they were!





Here are pics of the finished product.

Oh ya, Tylie happened to get it all over her clothes... Brand new first time worn today! Yep, happy about that too! It used to be a very cute outfit, not so much anymore!!!

I hope you enjoyed today's "Tylie's Tales 2". Stay tuned for tomorrow episode!

Tylie's Tales

I thought that I would do a post today dedicated completely to my sweet little daughter Tylie. However, I am not sure that you are going to think she is sweet after you read what she has been up to lately!

I'll start with a couple pictures that show her silly side. I don't know where she comes up with the things she does (I am sure she gets it from her daddy), but on this day she put on Bryson's hat and shoes and was walking around the house doing her little "thug" pose. What a goof!

A couple weeks ago I walked into the kitchen to find this... Tylie decided that she was hungry and took matters into her own hands and made herself some mac & cheese. She had gotten the box out of the pantry, opened it up, poured it into the pan, put the cheese on top, and got something she could use to stir it up. What a girl!

Tylie has a thing with lipstick. I have had to take all of my lipsticks out of my bathroom because she gets a chair and climbs onto the counter to find it, and then this happens! And yes, this is the kind that stays on ALL day and you CAN'T wash it off! The day AFTER this picture was taken, I was at Young Womens and all the girls kept asking what happened to her because they thought it looked like scabs!

I was getting ready one day and ran out of the room for 2 minutes and when I came back Tylie had gotten out my fingernail polish and painted her nails! She didn't do to bad, only a little bit on her skin. But, I startled her when I came in and she jumped so high that fingernail polish flew... onto the mirror, the counter, the floor, and of course on her shirt!

Tylie went to play at her aunt Mo's house last week and not even 5 minutes after she had been there I got a text from Mo with these pictures. She had gotten into Mo's makeup and went to town. She did pretty good don't ya think? The light stuff all over her face is concealer, then she has lipstick on her lips, and you can't see it very well, but she even had mascara on a few of her lashes! In the second picture you can see that her cousin Carlie is quited disgusted with her.

Last week, she made macci & cheese again! Do ya think I am starving her? But this time she actually got the right kind of pan, pushed the chair up to the stove, and was even reaching for the back of the stove to try to turn it on!

This is her most recent makeup episode. Once again, she found my lipstick, but luckily this kind came off. The first two pics are when she just had it on her eyes. I took it away and put it up, but she climbed up and got it back and then got it all over her lips (so she thought). She kept telling me that she was gorgeous! She's only 2! What am I in for???





So if you wonder what I do with all my spare time, just imagine me yelling "TYLIE"!!!

What a Flippin Mess!!!

So it has been one of those days today! I have just been doing the normal every day cleaning and picking up after my kids. I swear all that I do is follow the kids around (mainly Tylie) and clean up mess after mess. I am so sick and tired of it. I am SO ready for the boys to go back to school on Monday so we can get back into some sort of normal... whatever that may be.

Anyway, I walked down into the basement to put something away and I didn't have my shoes on. I walked past the our freezer down there and the carpet felt a little wet, so I opened the freezer to check it out. WHAT A FLIPPIN MESS is all I can say!!! Everything in there was completely thawed out and there was LOTS of meat, therefore lots of yucky disgusting red juice EVERYWHERE! And of course the meat had to be on the top shelf, so yep you guessed it, the juice had dripped onto everything else in the freezer. I about puked. It was so gross!!!

I was sick as I had to unload the entire freezer and throw it ALL away. Do you know how much money that had to have been? There was hamburger, steaks, roast, 3 turkeys (YES 3), lots of different kinds of fish, and much much more. I wanted to scream, oh wait, I actually did scream!

It took me about 2 hours to get the mess cleaned up, and the freezer washed out and bleached and bleached and bleached.

As I investigated as to why the freezer was off in the first place (thinking one of the kids must have unplugged it), I found the problem. . . . the little safety button that is on the plug outlet had popped out, therefore turning the power to that outlet off. I don't know how that happened, but it did.

So now I have a COMPLETELY empty, but VERY clean freezer. Now I have to get a carpet cleaner to clean the carpet down there. Thank heavens it is just crappy carpet that we have put down there for the kids to have their playroom.