Nurse in Training

So, most of you know that my husband is a nurse. He gets teased quite a bit about being a "male nurse", especially from his siblings. He's a good sport though.

Well, the other day we went to meet Ben for lunch at the hospital and were looking around in the gift shop while we were waiting for him. We came across some kids sized scrubs that said "nurse in training" on the back. Maddie absolutely fell in love with them! After passing them up, we ended up going back later and buying them. On the way to buy them she said she wanted to be a "big girl nurse...like Daddy!" Haha, just what Ben wants to hear! Maddie wants to be just like her daddy, it's so cute!

She asks where her scrubs are everyday and carries them around a lot, calling them her "big girl nurse scrubs". I accidentally referred to them as her "pants" one time and she corrected me and said they are her "nurse pants". Excuse me :)

Lunch at Cafe West

(notice the guy picking his teeth in the background, lols)

Trying to get us all in the picture. This is the best we got.

The Darker Side of Me

So, I decided to go dark again! I just couldn't keep up with my roots. My hair seemed to be growing way too fast! I know, what a problem, right? Although some of you out there prefer me as a blonde...sorry! I can't please everyone, I just had to give this a try. It is quite dark (even to me), but I know it will fade fast, so I think it will be good. Maybe I'm just suppose to be a summer blonde and a winter brunette :)

The Celebrity in me

So, thanks to Debbie I found this cool website that shows you which celebrities you look like. I actually tried two different photos and got totally different people, so who knows! Pretty interesting though...

http://www.myheritage.com/collage

Lesson Learned (or so I thought)

Maddie, oh Maddie...where do I start. Just a few short weeks ago, I remember thinking to myself that she was such a good girl- a good helper and pretty well-behaved for the most part. I couldn't even remember the last time I had to send her to her room for a "time out". Well, I believe she has now entered into what I can only think to call "a phase" or at least I hope that's what this is. Today I had big plans...we (myself and the kids) were going to hit several stores to find a few odds and ends that I'd been looking for. It was 10am, so I figured we had a good two hours before either of them got hungry and cranky. Boy was I wrong! In store #1 Maddie had a meltdown. I told her we were going to leave when I could see she was starting to get antsy. She insisted that it was "too hard" to move her legs to walk out of the store. Which has been her excuse lately of why she can't help Mommy. "It's hard for me" she will say. Anyways, I threatened to leave her and she started screaming at me...a wonderful thing for any mom, especially in public! I ended up carrying both kids out of the store, both crying by this point. I was so angry with her, I thought I would scream. I told her instead of going to some fun stores, we were going straight home so she could spend the day in her room. When we got home I emptied her room of all of her toys or anything else I thought she might enjoy (see picture below). Not long after, she decided she would be a good girl. She apologized and everything seemed to be looking bright. So, we got back in the car and headed to store #2. On the way, she was talking about how "It is so hard for me to do it" but she followed that up with "Now, I know how to do it." I asked her what "it" was, but she didn't give an answer. Maybe something was sinking in, or so I thought. When we got home she was not listening to anything I was asking her to do, therefore she ended up back in her room. This is how I found her (picture at top of post--sorry they are out of order). Maybe I'm expecting too much from a 3 year old, I don't know! Anyways, sorry about the novel, I just had to vent!

I've created a monster

Not only does Camden wake up at 6am every morning (a nightmare in my book), but he insists on having candy all throughout the day....somewhat like his mother, so I can sympathize. However, since Halloween he goes over to where he knows I keep the candy and points and grunts until I lift him up so he can take a look inside the cupboard. So, at 6:30am this morning he insisted on candy. Even I (a lover of candy) think this is a little extreme. He even looks half asleep in this picture, begging for candy...so sad.

I couldn't help it, I let him take a look. Don't worry though, I didn't let him eat it for breakfast....I was able to distract him enough to make him forget about it and eat his regular breakfast--two packets of oatmeal with the occasional banana.

Trunk-or-Treat

This may be a bit of a Halloween overload, since I already posted some pictures of us in our costumes, however I just couldn't help posting a few more. So, here we are at our ward's trunk-or-treat on Halloween night.

Me and the kids holding up the fort until Ben got home from work.

Camden all hyped up on sugar, swinging from his highchair.

Cornbelly's & Farm Country (again)

I met some friends (Ashley, Luci, & Steph) and their kids up at Thanksgiving Point's Cornbelly's & Farm Country. It is confirmed that Maddie is still scared of pretty much every animal that exists, while Cam can't get enough of them. We had a good time. It's nice to get out w/other moms once in awhile and do something fun that everyone enjoys.

Here is Maddie & her friend Elizabeth (making a funny face b/c she didn't want her pic taken). When Maddie was younger she would pronounce her name "Beef If"...it was pretty funny. We'd always make her say it just to get a good laugh.

The kids and I on the horse ride.

On the jumping pillow. That thing was pretty cool. I even enjoyed a little jumping myself.