Killing and Obedience

Oh and just a couple cute things Tyler said yesterday that I don't want to forget...since I'm blogging anyway.

We were driving around waiting to pick up Bobby from work and Tyler said, "Mom, you said we were picking up Daddy from work, but this isn't his work! Where are you going?!" (he knows the exact route and if we deviate he knows!) I said, "Well we don't have to be there for about 15 more min. so I'm just killing some time." Tyler said, "Mom!" (Totally worried like) "We DON'T kill!"

I was getting ready to put Kylee in her car seat and Tyler jumped into the drivers seat to "drive" (don't worry the car wasn't on). I said, "Come on bud come get it in your car seat."
Tyler: "No! I'm driving right now."
Me: "No Tyler come on I don't have time for this."
Tyler: "Just 5 more min."
Me: "okay Tyler you can sit there until I'm done buckling Kylee in, then you have to come get in your seat."
After I get Kylee: "Okay Tyler I'm done lets go."
Tyler: "Okay, thanks for letting me drive mom!" and hops right out, runs around to his seat and climbs in.
Me slightly baffled that it didn't turn into a full fledged argument and a crying tantrum says, "Thank you so much Tyler for being obedient, I really appreciate that!"
Tyler: "Heavenly Father loves me when I be'd obedient! Yup, Heavenly Father loves me!"

Yea, that was proud mommy moment.

So So So busy!!!

There are so many things I need to write about and pictures I need to post but my camera is somewhere packed in a box where it will be moving to our new home this week. Yes HOME! I'm guessing it'll probably be January before I make an actual post again (like a "real" angela post that takes you hours to read) so here's a little info just to get you caught up on our lives and to remind me what I need to post about later in more detail!

• Had a WONDERFUL thanksgiving with some of our GREAT friends here in Logan-the Fackrell's and the Ellet's. I am so grateful for good friends that make life so enjoyable!
• Have been thoroughly enjoying the company of my children. We've had some awesome relief society lessons over the last month that have really inspired me to be a better wife and mother, as well as reading some very motivating talks from general conference (our Bishop has asked us to read one conference talk everyday till we have read them all-not as hard as I thought it'd be!) that have put the importance of "Listening for the Lord's voice throughout your day [including] ...in childrens laughter." I LOVE my kids. They are everything to me and then so much more.
  
• Have finally accepted an opportunity to move and I can't even begin to put into words how grateful I am that we chose to follow the promptings we received to stay put here in Aggie Village (as much as we hated it!) instead of accepting THREE previous offers over the last year to move to better places! Finally we got our "YES" and it was more than worth the wait! We signed papers on Mon. and we've moved about 1/4 of our stuff over there already. Hopefully we'll finish over the next week or so. Filled with gratitude does not even begin to describe how I'm feeling. I'll suffice it for now to say that our family has been shown yet again that Heavenly Father truly does know us and has a plan for us. How grateful I am for His hand in my/our life! When we put the Lord first and follow faithfully His will for us, we are always blessed. Not always right away, or in the way we want, but the blessings DO always come. (so much more info and pictures of our beautiful new home to come!!!
  
• As well as packing up our entire apartment-myself...well Tyler likes to "help" too- (which is actually a bigger task than I would have ever thought possible for such a small place) this week Bobby and I both have lessons to prepare for Sunday (Priesthood and RS)-which I will be bawling my eyes out the entire time I teach because 1. it's on "Standing Strong and Immovable in Christ" and I can't ever talk about the love I have for my Savior without getting emotional. And 2. It will be my last time teaching in this ward and you have no idea how much I LOVE the sisters in our Relief Society. They are such a strength to me and my family and I'm just not sure I'm ready to say goodbye. So those of you in my ward...consider yourself warned!
• Tonight was our Ward goal activity. (Every month the Bishopric has selected a different topic for the ward to focus on and has set a goal for us. Last month it was FHE, this month it is "serve a neighbor, meet a friend.") So we baked cookies and then took them to neighbors we haven't met!
  
• Our RS Christmas activity (no longer enrichment-really hard for me to remember!) is on Thur. and I'm so excited for our white elephant exchange!
• Visiting and Home Teaching reports due by Sun. (not to brag on my girls or anything but we have some seriously awesome visiting teachers. Our stake Pres. calls VT numbers a "love index" and we have so much love it's oozing out of our ears, and have been asked by the stk. RS pres. what our secret is. That's just how amazing the sisters in my ward are, I wish I never had to leave you! I love you guys!!!
  
• Oh and somewhere in all of this Bobby will fit in 9 Test (an online class), 1 paper, and 2 finals by this coming Mon.! Needless to say I am literally doing ALL the packing-I guess it's only fair since he's basically done the last 2 moves by himself since I was sick with pregnancies.
  
• And one of my bestie friends bday is on Sat.! Happy Birthday Mindy!!!

Hopefully we'll get settled into our new place over the next couple weeks and then we'll be off to St. George for Kylee's birthday (is that even possible that she's almost ONE?!) and New Years! I'm going to really try to get our Christmas cards out this year, but they might just have to be Happy January cards...we'll see! (And if you'd like our new address to send us your family Christmas card-and I want one from all of you!-let me know and I'll send it to you.

Happy Birthday Babe!

Since it's 3 minuets from midnight it is still technically Bobby's Birthday so I can still wish him a happy birthday!!! I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE birthdays and surprises, so with the crazy schedule Bobby had today I had to sneak in as many things as I could to make him have the best day possible! He has class from 8:00 to 10:30 on mon. mornings, then he comes home changes clothes and heads off to work till 6:00. So when he came home from class this poster was hanging off our front balcony for all to see!


A couple hours after we dropped him off at work we came back and brought him some birthday balloons and cheesecake for everyone! Tyler was SO into Bobby's birthday this year and wanted to be apart of everything. He carried the balloons into the bank and was so proud to hand them over to his daddy and say, "Happy Birthday!"

*They were a BIG hit with the kids, as you can see many of the balloons are now floating around the house*

Later that night I surprised Bobby by picking him up from work...ALONE (thank you to the Fackrell's for watching our kids!!) and we went out to dinner at El Torro Viejo-always delicious-and enjoyed our hour long dinner without mashed potatoes being thrown all over the floor, screaming fits of, "No mom, I don't want to eat it, it's gross!", having an actual conversation uninterrupted, and nobody clinging to us with sticky, dirty hands. It was SO nice!
*I totally brought my camera with us and then forgot to take a picture :(. Too busy enjoying being alone I guess...

Then we came home and Bobby opened his presents:
Tyler gave him a wireless speedometer for his bike, some gum and chapstick. Kylee gave him a carrying case for his external hardrive and same Cajun trail-mix(his current favorite obsession), and I gave him The Unit (season 1) on DVD and some beef jerkey (his lifelong obsession).

Then he went straight off to do homework (which he is still currently doing) while I bathed the kids and put them to bed. I hope you had a wonderful day babe, we love you so much! Happy Birthday!!

Sometimes he surprises me

Tyler gets super annoyed with Kylee a lot of the time, mostly when he's afraid she's going to take something he's playing with and he will start screeching, "Mom, come get Kylee away from me! Hurry mom, take her away from me!" But there are times when he is just the sweetest ever to her.

One morning Bobby heard Tyler talking in the bedroom, but he hadn't heard Kylee up yet (I was in the shower) so he was going to go in and bring Tyler out so he wouldn't wake her up. When he went in their bedroom he saw this:


Apparently he thought she needed her morning dose of Bambi.

*my favorite part is that he only has one sock on. somehow during the night he always loses ONE sock!

It's cold here!

I don't know what it is about kids, but they LOVE to be outside-at least my little boy does. It doesn't matter if it's 110 or -10 degrees, he wants to play outside. So being that it's already cold here (well, at least when it gets dark it's cold) he has to get all bundled up if we leave the house after dark. Bobby took Tyler with him to campus one night to turn in some homework and it was the perfect time to try out his new hat/glove set. He loves it-especially the mittens.

For some reason he thinks it's so funny that all his fingers are stuck inside this piece of cloth and his thumbs get to be all by themselves. Yup, he's a weird one!






He literally could not take his eyes off these miracles.




Off to school...