Happy Birthday to Cole!!!

Birthdays around here are never real big for Cole or I- which is just fine!  But this year I have been saving up my pennies to get something for Cole that I think he REALLY needs!  He got a new iPad!  Lucky duck.  I want one so badly, but guess I will give one to my hubs.  He needs it LOTS more than me!  Since his birthday about 3 weeks ago, he has used that thing SO MUCH!  So, I am so glad that we got it for him.  I love slam dunkin' a present like that!  Booyeah!  Anyways...here are some pics of the birthday boy in the morning- we are all looking really good.  Watch out!  Happy Birthday my dear.  I love you more than life!  I can't believe you are 32- SO OLD!!! :)  teehee

The kids were SOOO excited to get Dad up!  Dont' mention to them that he had already been up for about an hour and I made him get back into bed! 

Morgan was REALLY excited for this gift (a power adapter) and was devastated when we took it away from her.  To be fair- she did open the present.  :)

Everyone got in on the action of opening the gifts!

Ahhh...success!  He LOVES it!

Now maybe it's time for a shower and apparently a brush (morgan!)

Woah! Way behind!

I'm way behind in my bloggin'- so here's a modgepodge of pics that I've taken recently! Enjoy!

Such a handsome boy!  This outfit was given to Lincoln when he was a baby! I LOVE it so much!  I think he looks SO handsome in it!  Nice to go through 3 boys!  It helps that they only each wore it a handful of times because they grow out of things so dang fast! 

One day when I was getting ready for church, I heard Morgan having a conversation with herself that went something like this:  "Come on!  You gotta go potty?  Okay, take off your diaper!  Sit on the potty. Get it all out...Good job!  You got it all out?  Need to swipe your pee pee?  Good job! All Done!"  I couldn't see her, but peeked into the bathroom thinking that she herself was sitting on the potty, but nope- she was just helping Elmo to get the job done! 

So dang cute!

Hmm...kind of a scary pic.  She has a Chocolate Milk Mustache, and Pink Eye.  Attractive!

Nursing the baby...yep.  She did it during church too- sacrament meeting!  At least she's maternal right?!

She also LOVES to get into my shoes!  I think it is SO cute seeing her walking around the house in my duds.  Love it!

Wootie Woo!! 

Gotta show the angry bird! 

Cutest little tootsies!

Wax on...Wax off!

Link did a little session of Karate and really liked it!  He REALLY wanted an outfit- but Cole and I talked him into waiting until he is REALLY into it to get one.  Thankfully, he obliged. :)  Here's a few shots of the little crane! (Umm....Karate Kid for those of you wondering about the crane reference.) :)

I couldn't get into the room that they were in to take any good pictures!  BLAST!  So this is all you get. :)

I LOVE his totally serious face in this one!  He is so dang cute.  And QUITE the karate-er!

Through a window...sorry.  This is how they had to walk from place to place, and he was NOT messin around!

Well, maybe a little bit. :)

Cutest little dude!

This is just the cutest little dude ever!  I LOVE this kid!  I sure do love the baby stage...I tell you what!

Morgan needed in on the shoot as well.

Hello big eyes!  You can't really tell here- in fact they look rather brown!- but his eyes are going to be BLU-UE!!!

Not quite sure if he needs to fight or flee!  Poor kid always starts to cry when he hears any of his siblings.  Don't worry bud..it's all out of love!

Happy Mothers Day!

Hey, you.
Yeah, you.

The mom who has kids in dirty clothes, third day running?
You, who can’t remember when she got a shower, let alone her kids got a bath?
I’m talking to the mom who can’t find her kids’ left shoes to save her life. Not a single left shoe in the entire house.
Also, you, the mom who can’t craft, can’t cook, can’t bake, can’t do anything remotely homemaker-y, and hires a cleaner.
Even you… the mom who
works outside the home.

Listen up.
I’ve got something to tell you.
And it’s important.

So put down your iphone and stay off of Twitter for a second. You don’t need to pin that project on pinterest right now because let’s all be honest, you’re never going to make it anyway.

Are you listening to me?
Here it is:

Happy Mother’s Day.

You deserve to hear it most of all, the day when we feel the least like the best mom ever.

Because even when you lost the keys in the dirty laundry (again) and you screamed at your kids (again) and you are terrified someone might come to your front door and see the state your living room is in (again) and you have no idea what’s for dinner today, tomorrow, or the next (again)…

There is no one, and I mean no one, your kids would rather have for a mom.
Slacker ways and all.

And that makes you the best mom ever.