Stuff That's Happened Lately

Sometimes I like to dress Dean and Dawson in matching outfits. I hated it when my mother did that to me and my twin, and now I'm doing it to my kids. Hmm... Here they are before church with their new squishy balls from the Target Dollar aisle.

Jonathan mowing our yard for the first time! We bought a mower from a friend, and that didn't work. Then my sister Shelby loaned us hers and that one didn't work either. We finally borrowed one from a neighbor and got it done!

Dawson is the BIGGEST daddy's boy ever. He'll be grumpy all day for me, and as soon as Jonathan gets home from work, he's all smiles. He absolutely loves to snuggle with Jonathan on the couch and watch tv (which he never does with me), and we loved this picture because he's holding Jonathan's hand. So sweet!

I posted a few Spring Fair pictures a while ago, but my sister Brittany took Dean and his cousins back after we went. She got the greatest pictures! Here is Dean with Evelyn and Britton.

I love their funny faces. The goat in the background just adds awesome-ness to this picture.

I think this may be my favorite picture of all time. Seeing Dean happy makes me so happy.

Another picture of the rugrats.

Here is a video of Dawson jabbering to my mom. He doesn't talk much and can only say a handful of words, but when my mom came over the other day he carried on quite the conversation with her about his bouncy ball and how I took it away from him because he had put it in his mouth. Enjoy!

Ta-Da!! The finished product

Here is our beautiful home. We love the way it turned out. I have always wanted a yellow house ever since I was little, so it's really fun to have one now. And I have to give a shout-out to my man Jason who painted it.  He did a fabulous job and worked like crazy. Thank you Jason! Here is a link to his website in case any of you are in need of a paint job or pretty much anything else. He does everything, so check him out: jnpainting.com

 We also finished Dean's room (finally!). My brother-in-law Brian helped Jonathan put up the red trim around the room, and to decorate I put up pictures of Dean at 6 mos, 2 years, and 3 years.

 I also wanted to decorate with cars but didn't want to make his entire room "Cars," so I found these cute posters on discountpostersale.com

 This weekend was the Spring Fair. It is a 3-day mini version of the Puyallup Fair. It was beautiful on Thursday evening so we took the kids down and saw Bixby's Rainforest Encounter (pretty dumb) and saw a few rainforest animals. Good thing it was free.

 Dean loved it though.

 BIG fish that kids could play in. Dean wouldn't, of course.

 But he DID actually go into the petting zoo and after a little while of watching me pet all the animals he finally went up and pet a few! I was so proud of him. He loved the baby turkeys that the scary man is holding.

I'm Thankful For...

*primary songs to keep my kids company while they're locked in the car (and I'm locked out)
*my friend Becca for letting me use her van to get Jonathan's keys at his office
*the fact that Jonathan's office is only 4 minutes away so I can get said keys and get myself into the car
*McDonald's crispy chicken sandwich for making me feel all better about the situation

don't worry, between Jonathan and me, we've only locked the kids in the car twice. that's not bad, right?

It was just an accident mommy!

I feel like I've entered a new level of parenting now that we've finally had the "pour the entire gallon of milk out on the table" incident. I just kept telling myself that this happens in every household across the nation as I was sopping it up. I was kind of hoping I could use the "don't cry over spilled milk" saying, but Dean really wasn't that broken up about it. I came downstairs to find him standing by the table trying to keep any more milk from spilling on the floor, saying "it was just an accident." Which, I suppose, is so true. I guess that's what I get for leaving my children to go upstairs and get dressed. How silly of me.

The House and Haircuts

Hey this is Jonathan here.  Caprice has really been dragging her feet on this blog thing, so I am taking matters into my own hands!  Since we moved into our home it seems like there are ENDLESS projects to complete.  Our latest one was completing our formal living room.  We lucked out with some awesome furniture from some friends in the ward.  It's nice to finally have something to sit on!  Shelby made us some beautiful curtains to complete the room. 

Our front entryway was barren and plain so we spiced it up with some decor.  The candles my sister JaNae made for us have been resurrected! 

The new rug is also in the front entryway.

Dean recently found his long lost doggy backpack and now wears it around everywhere he goes...including to bed.

Yesterday we cut both the boys' hair.  Once in a while when it gets really long we like to just buzz it.  I made the mistake of thinking a "#1" attachment would be fine.  As you can see we cut Dawson's first and he looks like he is a cancer patient or from a concentration camp.  Poor thing!  Dad's mistake.

We cut Dean's second and went with the #2 attachment!  Don't mind the hairy leg and towel in the background...it's Caprice.

The other big news is we are getting our house painted.  Since we live in a covenant community you have to get your new color approved by the board.  Kind of dumb!  We are hoping to get a pastel yellow with brick red accents and white trim approved.  In the meantime our painter has not been wasting time.  We came home yesterday to a ghostly white primed house.  I wish I could say it looks celestial, but it doesn't! 

I took some fun pictures around the house of some cool plants that have come up and blossomed in our yard. 

Yep, that is bamboo.

Here's the skinheads playing in the backyard.

We bought this flowering viny plant for the backyard.

Hanging out and enjoying a sunny day (that is rare here in Washington)!

Don't worry, we're still here

First of all, I have to say thank you to anyone who is still reading our dwindling blog. There hasn't really been much to report lately, and as my twin sister, Monique, so lovingly stated the other day "Your life is pretty boring." Thanks Moey for that awesome reassurance. :-) I love her. Anyway, back to ME! This week was unseasonably nice, so my sister Brittany (who would never make comments like the one above), came over and we let the kids scooter themselves to a park near our house. It was a little slow going with them, but they had a great time getting there.

Dean's pose. Why do they think they need to shut their eyes to smile for the camera?

                               

Check out the sweet static in Evy's hair!

                                                

Dawson has found a new love for slides. He climbs up and goes down the big slides all by himself! (I keep forgetting that in 4 months my little baby will turn 2)

My beautiful sis Brittany and her baby Duke.

Checking out the scenery from the top of the slide

Another new love Dawson has found is getting into my pan drawer under the oven. Even though it's a little annoying and loud, I'm just glad it took him so long to figure out that he could get in there.

And I can't get that mad because most of the time he'll clean up by himself.

It's fun to see Dawson love other people's shoes because Dean went through that stage when he was Dawson's age. Dawson walks around the house in everyone else's shoes. And he loves to wear Dean's beanie.

To celebrate the first day of Spring, Jonathan and I went to Costco and bought some things for our backyard. We got a bin to keep all the backyard stuff in, and the boys had a blast playing in the box.

As we've been digging around our backyard, we've found quite a few frogs and one snake (it really is a jungle out there). I was weeding a while back and started pulling out leaves from in between two rocks when I noticed two small frog eyes staring at me. Creepy. Anyway, now whenever we find new frogs we put them in their little "home" in between the rocks. In this video you can't actually see them because they got too deep in the whole by the time I grabbed my camera, but it's cute anyway.

An Attempt at Family Pictures

Since Jonathan and I are gluttons for punishment, we decided to have my mother take family pictures of us in our backyard last weekend. It was 20 minutes of pure torture (that's how long I lasted). Dean tried really hard to be good because we told him he'd get a surprise, but he just could not keep still. Dawson, on the other hand, was the little devil. Needless to say, neither child got their surprise. Their little cars from the Target dollar aisle are still hiding in my cupboard. This was our best family shot, so you can tell how great the rest of them are.

Now, although we didn't get any good shots of all 4 of us, we did get some precious ones of us with each of the boys. Here's my shot with Dean.

This is my absolute favorite! I think it is purely fantastic.

Don't be fooled! Dean did not just stand there with that smile of his face ready for the picture. My mom had to play peek-a-boo with him and catch him right as he turned his head around. She did a great job!

This is one of maybe 3 pictures that Dawson actually smiled in. 

And last but not least, here is the funniest of them all. Here's to better luck next time! Thanks to my mom for having to witness all of this.