TWO.

Somebody is DEAD MEAT tomorrow morning 😳😳😳😳😳.

TWO DOORS look like this.

two. 

#kids#gibsonhouseofchaos

'twas the very best halloween night yet.

Last year on Halloween I was on DAY 2 of plexus 🎃👻😜. At the end of the day I realized I hadn't eaten a single piece of candy 😳🍬🍭. I thought that must be placebo 😂😭 so I ate a peanut butter cup and hid another on the top shelf of my pantry for the next day. Mama has to hoard and hide y'all 😂😭. Normally this would have been gone the next day after lunch, but last night while i was digging around for the pumpkin 🎃 carving 🗡 stencils I ran into my old friend and started laughing out loud. My old #candy hoarding tactics 😂😭🍬🍭🍪🙈 bahahaha!!!! Happy to report it wasn't Placebo, and that my old friend Reese's Peanut Butter Cup was right where I forgot about him. HAPPY HALLOWEEN! 🎃👻

'twas the very best halloween night yet.

especially bc i finally remember to not make dinner on halloween.

all hail the hot dog cider doughnut house.

roomba

TIS TIME!

also, dean is a mini vacuum.

i think they call that a roomba?

who needs a dog when you have a baby dean :)

without any rush to get to the next

This year will forever be the year that's engrained in my mind as 

the "year of the little boys." 

It took us two attempts to go walking today 

bc the first time we got caught in a sudden downpour. 

Like hiding under trees bc a flash flood literally appeared out of nowhere 

Also, if you missed the breaking news, there was a tornado in Utah today, 

and I swear to you the skies were swirling all day long across the entire state. 

I have video to prove it. Have you ever seen an entire sky of clouds move in circles??? 

Like FAST circles with an eerie black, grey sky. 

Well Maria and I did today, and it was NUTS! 

So in between our two walks today we sat in the garage 

and went in and out to be in the rain. 

I told chase the wetter he got, the taller he'd grow. Basically I bribed him to brush death with lightening, but let me tell you, it was my favorite part of the entire day. 

I think the best part of being able to do the little years part deux 

is that you know it's not going to last, 

and you know they're going to grow up and get obnoxious, 

so basically anything they do that might have been "naughty" 

when your oldest child did it at the same age just seems sweet and innocent 

with the second pack that comes through. 

Love these little boys, 

and this year where we get to soak it all in 

without any rush to get to the next. 

sandwich haters unite {good things utah}

you'll find me on Good Things Utah this morning!

any sandwich haters in your house?

yeah, me too;)

sharing my ideas on how to keep the kiddos happy,

and not lose your mind in the process.

9-10am Mountain on ABC4

#adventuresinhomelunch

the places we find chase at 2:33am.

the places we find chase at 2:33am.

always perched so he never misses out, LOL!!!

climber

and then

OUT

OF

NOWHERE

the 14 month old climbs up onto the couch

and steals the popsicle out of your mouth.

we have a climber folks.

send reinforcements.

keep calm, and may the odds be ever you in your favor {school's around the corner--stay strong guys}

we've officially hit the point in summer 

where we are all just ready to be back in school.

late nights are old.

except when they're not.

you get to this place, and you wonder 

how did i ever want school to be out?

you wonder if you're just being negative,

and then you see a mom at costco with 4 kids.

2 of them are going for blood,

the baby is asleep in the cart covered in pizza sauce,

and the 4th is doing the potty dance,

and you just give each other the

"keep calm, and may the odds be ever your favor"

look.

you KNOW the look.

no hand signals necessary.

it's times like these where you don't care one bit about enjoying the last days of summer.

you just want school to start.

carpools, and crazy mornings, and not homework at all.

ain't nobody that misses homework.

but then the next day,

everyone sleeps in until 9am,

you make little pita pocket pizzas for lunch,

{maybe there's no vegetable, but darn it, it was hand made, 

and you didn't even make the kids microwave it themselves 

bc you were feeling so generous right then and there}.

you read books at the lunch table,

and go for a walk,

and the thought of carpools and early mornings just seems like nothing you'd ever

want to actually do, and you can't believe you were wishing for that just the day before.

and that's when it hits you.

just when you can't handle the flow, the ebb comes in and makes it alllllll ok.

also hormones.

it's possible hormones might be involved in all of this.

either way,

when you get to this point in summer,

ain't nobody cares about 4 servings of veggies a day;)

that's for sure.

only two dimples left on his hands guys.

my favorite summer nights lately,

are when sean and i get the little boys bathed and in bed.

i sing to chase.

he likes baby beluga the best.

and he always falls asleep with the light on before i even walk out of the room.

i walk by sean sitting with maxine on her bed.

sometimes she's being sweet.

other times she's freaking out and i can tell sean has had it.

those are the times when we locked wide eyes 

and i give him the "stay strong brotha! you've got this" look.

and then i walk down the stairs into the big room,

and brennan has a book on the recliner,

with one of the big cozy blankets.

you know the ones costco has every year?

and they go on sale like right when it's starting to snow outside.

i've bought one every year for the last 5 years.

we have lots of colors.

the grey one is the newest, so that's the one the kid fight over the most.

i've got my eye on purple next year folks.

it doesn't match a thing in my house, but i just love how bright it is.

so anyway,

brennan reads to himself, while i go through email and messages,

and then he curls up and falls asleep.

and it's the little routine that i love.

this older kid routine.

where they can hang out with you bc they're older.

and they're not so little.

and i love it.

only two dimples left on his hands guys.

we're on borrowed time.

#thegoodolddaysrightnow

i finally wrote about being a working mom.

When I used to hear working moms talk about the judgment they felt, 

the criticism they received for it, and the guilt they felt, I remember thinking that was SOOO the 80's ‪#‎soapbox‬ of the past. This is the 21st century for crying out loud. We must be past all of that right? And yet, here I am, finding myself as a working ‪#‎sahm‬ feeling the judgment from others, the guilt of being a working mom (sometimes it's suffocating), and criticism for the outlet which my passion has led me to. And it's real. It's so undeniably real. How can this be? How can a woman, who's helping to provide for her family, while caring for her children, be criticized and judged for the same thing that society is so accepting of in a father? God bless Sean for always seeing me as an equal in all things, whether I was working or not. He has and always will be my number one supporter. Can a woman not have passion as a mother and have a professional vocation? Does it make her less of a mother if she does? Does it make her pursuits greedy if she is successful? Boastful? What if her pursuit is network marketing over a more traditional job? Does that make her selfish? Less worthy of success? What about negligent, or out of balance? Does it imply that she is putting her marriage and family second if she pursues both? After 8 months of learning to harmonize and balance being a mother AND a working mom, I have learned that nothing is black and white, you can't have it all, AND that things aren't always how they appear. As a society, I can see that we can do better. As women, let us embrace each other, regardless of the path we take. I have done a lot of reckoning with the woman I was before all of this, and I'm grateful for the experiences God has brought into my life to see another side. It has given me more empathy for others than anything I've ever experienced in my life. When we as a human race learn to truly LOVE one another, we will STOP criticizing each other, and BEGIN embracing each other for the bravery it takes to pursue what we truly believe in WITHOUT judgement...and that's when we will have become progressive. 

This is my prayer. Amen. ‪

#‎breaktheglassceiling‬ ‪#‎workingmom‬ ‪#‎iamaMOTHER‬