BETH day

Oh what a day! Oh what a day! I'm in HEAVEN simmering rice, Columbian black beans, and cabbage at Beth's house. It's #snow -ing ❄️🌨☃️ outside, the boys are playing #starwars ✨ and Vikings in the toy room #boymom , and it's just the most perfect day EVER!!! P.S. Beth is educating me on tea pots. Have you heard of the Alessi⁉️ My my, you've never heard a bird sing so sweet 🐥☕️ #teaforTWOplease #bff #friendsies#bethday She stuffed a bag of tea in my purse for #bedtime 😴💤 tonight, and I'm just really #excited about it 😍👏🏻🙌🏻 Heaven bless best friends and snow days.

from sun up to sun down {the cade and brennan show}

brennan: if i see a black widow i will put shoes on and turn it over. cade doesn't have shoes on. should he scream for you if he sees one?
cade: can black widows climb?
brennan: will we die if we get bit by a black widow? 
me: kids can die from a black widow bite yes.
brennan: do grown ups? would a grown up die? or would they just pass out?
cade: what is passing out?
brennan: it's when you go to sleep for a bit and you don't move.
cade: oh, my mom does that every day.
me: no, that's called napping.
brennan: no, it's NOT napping. napping is SWEEEPING. passing out is when you sleep like you have no bones.
cade: emily, when did you say the black widows come in the house?
brennan: WHEN IT RAINS CADE!!! they come IN when it rains!
me: i said i found a little ORANGE spider that was dead. there are NO black widows in the house.
cade: ohhhhhh, so can black widows dig through walls?
brennan: they can cade THEY CAN!!!
cade: how high can they climb?
me: there are NO black widows in the house.
cade: OHHH MYYYY GOOOOSSSSHHHHH. if you tell me more stuff i'm eating faster so i can get out of this house with the black widows in it!!!
brennan: CADE!!! they only come inside when it rains!
me: there are nooooo black widows coming in the house. i have never seen one in my house. {siiiiiigggghhhhhh}

...

inseparable just doesn't 

quite describe it.

from sun up to sun down.

now that's more of what it's like.

siblings.

it's more like siblings.

there's no other kid on the planet that feels more like family than cade.

sometimes i want to pinch myself because i love it so much.

because a friendship like that is once in a lifetime.

and for some people, it doesn't even happen that once.

i'm so glad brennan got to have his once too.

{ballet west nutcracker. at the sugar plum fairy party. 

1989?? stacie was my cade:) luckiest girls ever!}

"hanna BE-nana"

"hanana BE-nana" helped max make peace with soccer.

and now she loves it.

who knew?

there's nothing better than a good friend who's there to hold your hand when you're nervous.

nothing:)

that time when we lost ross {valentine's day}

valentine's day.

when you invite over people you love,

and then you have your husbands 

screw all of your deadly 

armoires, bookshelves, and dressers 

to the wall.

now that's love:)

dear linsey, todd, and sean,

remember that time we lost ross under sean's desk?

yeah, that was almost really sucky;)

and then we talked about how 

cliche valentines things are not for us,

and how it's better to have husbands 

nailing things into the wall 

and eat heart shaped pizza,

and drink soda,

with friends and stuff like that instead?

that part was pretty great.

love,

em

...

other valentine's things that were fun:

 {i had so many treats on my counter it felt like christmas! it was awesome.}

experts of girls {convo's with cade & brennan}

while eating apples 
and jumping off of 
my coffee table 

onto coolie, the 6 foot bear, 
the following conversation occurred between two 5 year olds...

brennan: i went to girl world, and they taught me how to be experts of girls. 
i know more about girls than you. really i do.

cade: no, i'm experts of girls.

brennan: all the girls of the whole world know me though. and they all love me too.

cade: ok ok they love you, but they love me too. they're in love with both of us. 
but we won't ever let them come here because then they will try to kiss us.

brennan: we DON'T want them to kiss us. not even our sisters. 
just our moms 'cause they're our moms and they can do stuff like kiss us.

cade: yeah yeah just our moms. cause we love them.

{chase's new favorite game: riding brennan like a horse. trust me, it's mutually loved.}

brennan in the wagon with a fever {halloween}

it was cold.

and it tried to rain.

but we would not be deterred!

max went as ariel.

her THIRD costume of the week.

and repeat costume of last year.

good grief. that child.

she asked to go home after the second house.

we pulled brennan in the wagon,

covered in a blanket,

hot with a fever.

we tried to convince him to stay home 

and let max take his sack around for candy,

but he was just too devastated to let the best night of the year pass him by.

so his friends walked around the neighborhood with us,

and he laid in the wagon,

sick as a dog.

fever and a headache.

poor guy.

after about an hour and half the motrin finally kicked in,

and he got to do about 3 houses for himself.

this year chase figured out that if you go to someone's house,

knock and smile,

they will give you candy.

DREAM COME TRUE:)

after an hour and a half he showed no signs of wanting to stop.

after every house he would say,

"moor, moor, moor, moor"

until we got to the next house.

and then he would do it again.

even though we had to use our armpits 

to warm up our freezing hands.

in fact,

he tried to escape down the street to double dip on the neighbors 

with a pack of girls that had just collected some loot from our house.

good thing we caught him or he really would have painted the town red.

or orange.

whichever.

phew.

after we dragged him inside he found the candy bowl,

and stuffed his bucket full with that.

then brennan and max passed out all of our candy,

and all of chase's candy to every last trick or treater that came to our door.

until 9pm when we were bone dry out,

turned off the lights,

and sent the kids to bed.

then paige and i watched hocus pocus,

and went through all of our old high school pictures,

while sean slept on the couch.

i'm still finding red sequins all over my house.

best Dorothy shoes ever.

compliments of linsey.

this was definitely chase's year.

thank you linsey for your dorothy costume.

you the best mama;)

{the end.}

the day the waitress told us she looked good naked {the scarecrow walk}

-thursday october 17th, 2013-

the walk where i decided we needed to move to park city.

but by the end, 

we were freezing our buns, 

and i changed my mind.

i give you,

a 

SCARECROW

photo gallery...

the skiing scarecrows

were my favorites.

only in park city:)

imagine a hillside full of yellow brushstrokes.

that was probably a week ago.

wah!

and then we took the kids for hot chocolates at mcdonald's, 

where the waitress told us she was a gymnast in her youth,

who never had kids,

and still looked great with her clothes all off.

true story.

the ladies and chase all sat in our own booth,

and we put the kids in their own booth behind us.

with halloween oreos for everyone to pass around.

relaxing lunch with kids on a whole new level:)

so relaxing that max spilled her hot chocolate all over the table,

and i didn't even know it.

and brennan and blake wrestled on their side of the booth,

and no one but us could really see them,

although we pried them off of each other every 5 minutes or so,

just to be grown up like for a minute,

or when one of them punched each other in the crotch and someone started crying.

whichever.

i also learned that the southwest chicken salad my mom ordered 

was better than the chicken bacon ranch salad i ordered.

but that i would have been better off just ordering a hot chocolate for lunch instead.

except brooke's was watered down.

i always forget how much i love park city.