I could lie, but .....

 I have always prided myself in the fact that my blog is full of the truth.  I will always tell the truth ... good bad or ugly.  That is why I COULD just post these beautiful pictures of our trip to the Calgary Corn Maze and pretend it was a great outing for our family.  But the truth is ........

...................these pictures are a better depiction of our family outing.  

We can pretty much call this family activity a BUST!  :-)  

at least I did actually get some cute fall pictures of my little men.

Evan's prayer

Dear Heavenly Father

Thank you for me!

Now if I can keep this attitude up through his teenage years I think I'll call my life successful!

Love Letter #2

Dear Landon, 

There is one phrase that everyone (including myself) is constantly saying about you lately ... "he is soooo cute!"  Your little BIG personality is infectious and I am always looking at you and admiring this age you are at.  I love how curious you are about EVERYTHING!  I love your zest for life.  You totally give me a run for my money and I didn't have to start dying my hair until after your arrival into our family, but I would trade my virgin hair any day for the times I have had with you.  I love that you are really turning into a little boy and as challenging as it can be, I want to keep you at this stage of life locked up in my heart forever!  

I love how much you love your brother!  He is your favorite person on the planet and I adore seeing you interact with him.  I love your awareness of others.  Your "bull in a china shop" personality might make it seem like you are careless, but in truth you are unnaturally aware of others needs for your age.  

You added a level of excitement to my life the day you arrived to our family.  

I love you!

Love Mommy

Love letter #1

Dear Evan,

What can I say??  I can't believe how grown you are.  You make me laugh every day.  You are constantly coming up with AWESOME one-liners and I can hardly keep up with them.  Sometimes I wish that I could have a personal videographer follow you around just so I could have your best footage on tape.  You are funny and sweet at the same time (the perfect combination).


I am so proud of your little body and your ability to push it to the limits that you have been given.  Whenever you say "No Mom, I can do it" I want to melt because that is music to my ears.  You have such inner strength that so many people could benefit from.  Even when you don't want to initially do something I ask you to do because it is hard you will eventually push through and do it anyways.  I love that you trust me.

I secretly wish that the pirate phase you are in right now won't end.  I love that you think you are a real pirate.  One time when I asked if you wanted to be a missionary when you grew up, you got very angry with me and insisted that you were going to be a pirate and nothing else.

I'm sorry that I passed on my fear of spiders to you.  I guess we are just going to have Landon kill all of them for us. ;-)

Evan you are such a gift to me.

I love you!

Love

found a cord

Ok, I at least found one cord to hook up to the computer!!!  Here are the lovely happenings at our brand new house.  

 no joke ... this hole was about 30 feet.

So we still don't have a driveway.  The rebar is in and we are waiting for the weather to improve.  Hopefully we will be able to stop parking in the street soon!

I was supposed to deliver a baby today.

It makes me sad.

I'm grateful that there were people in and out of my house all day long and for the friends that came over tonight.  I don't think they knew and the noise was welcome.

Has it really been this long?  It feels like yesterday for me.

I sooo badly want to show pictures of what we have been dealing with.  It involves poo water coming up out of the shower drain in the basement, a pipe that wasn't attached properly to the city sewer system, a 30ft. hole in our driveway, and the loss of cement in said driveway.

Hopefully they will get the cement poured this week.

I'm glad it is fixed and we can shower and go to the bathroom, but I'm sad that I can't find the cords to download pictures.

The house is very slowly coming together though, which is wonderful.

I think that Ikea might love our family right now :-)