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Tyler starts Preschool on Tuesday! I'm doing a rotating group with a few friends and we will do abc's, art projects and playtime! I think this will be a great way for him to learn social skills and will give me a nice break for a couple hours twice a week.

Jackson has two teeth now! He is an amazing sleeper, beating Tyler at sleeping through the night by about 4 months! YAY for that. He eats well, plays by himself and is crawling from room to room now. He is my little explorer.

A couple funny stories (that pretty much sums it up!) Tyler was taking a bath because that's his favorite thing to do right now. He'll stand at the tub yelling BATH! ME! BATH! ME! BATH! Until I just give up the, no it's 9 am you're not dirty yet argument and just let him in... Anyways so he's in the bath and I walk by to see him dumping cup fulls of water onto the carpeted floor. I yell at him a little and say, "Man, you are being such a bad boy, it's making me crazy!" and he yells back at me in the same voice and tone "yeah!"

Tyler, Jackson and I were in my room. I was in and out of the room and Tyler was following close behind me. Jackson of course was a little slower but also trying to make it from bedroom to living room. He got distracted at the door stop and started playing with it. It made a very loud "boing" sound and it totally freaked tyler out. "Oh no, dinosaur get me! Bite me! Oh no!"

It's really funny the words that come out of his mouth lately. He makes me laugh all day long. Even midst yell, I start cracking up sometimes at his reactions. I decided 2-year olds are the cause AND cure to needing anger management!

**Mom, this is for you... I know you asked to see Tyler but Jackson really wanted to show off his riding skills, so here it is:

6 Things I LOVE...

...about Jeff!

1. Everytime I tell him "I love you", he says, "I love you more."

2. He's always up for an adventure and makes sure we do the craziest thing possible. (see pic below for proof)

3. He works so hard for our family and comes home excited to see us.

4. He's so supportive of me and my dreams and desires (especially with kirstikoo)

5. He is the strongest person I've ever met. Physically and emotionally- he holds me together and picks me up when I need it!

6. We are a team. I love that about us. If he needs help, I help him and if I need help he helps me. Sometimes sacrificing what we want to do for the other person. I love that.

HAPPY 6 YEARS JEFFERS!

And of course 6 flashback pictures are required for this post:

Our first date: Hotsprings in Yellowstone. Take that for a first date. Nothing ordinary or boring with him! I think that's why it was my last first date!

Just being silly, sometime between October 2002 and February 2003...

Right after our engagement on my 19th birthday weekend. Notice I'm flashing my ring? Thinking about that night still makes me smile!

In Sacramento the summer before we were married. He was working in Sacto and I was working in So. Cal. I got to visit for a weekend and here we are at my Aunt & Uncle's house.

A year or two after we were married a group of friends went to Havasu Falls and backpacked about 10 miles each way. Here we are at the final destination. We are sitting on a ledge of lava rock thousands of feet above the falls. I told him to hold me tight and do not let me fall or else...

My OVERproductive Day

Last night, I lay in bed so proud of myself and the day I had.

We woke up at 8ish and got ready to take Tyler to camp at 9. From 10-12 as Jackson slept, I sewd away. From 12-12:30 I decided I better pay attention to my very messy kitchen. I cleaned that and then Tyler got home from messy-fun-camp (he's been going all week!). He took a bath to wash off the tatoos Jeff gave him during mutual. (I wish I took pictures, they were hillarious. Envolving all of his favorite things from a fire truck to a snake and of course mommy's face. I was impressed, and glad that I was smiling in the picture. Ok, good.)

Soooooo, getting back on subject, Tyler bathed and I got the sudden urge to clean the toilets. This does not happen very often, so I took the opportunity and started scrubbing away. Tyler started casually chanting the word "poopoo" which was the exact word I was thinking about as I scrubbed that toilet. So I didn't think anything of it. Until he said the dreaded "uh oh". And then I was awakened from my cleaning coma and said, "Oh, no" and saw two lovely pieces of poop floating in the bathtub. YES, too much information, I'm sorry. I tell you this because suddenly my urge to clean the toilets increased about 100 degrees and suddenly I had to clean every single surface of the house. I did the tubs next then the countertops and tile.....That took place from 12:30 to about 2 o'clock.

From 2-4 I put the boys down for a much needed nap and I slept for about 40 mins. When we woke up, we met the Lofgrens and Taylors at the pool! We swam until Tyler remembered that there is a park outside the gate and moved the party there. Then we walked home, made dinner, and went to bed.

It was a great day, I got so much accomplished and wasn't lazy at all. I planned to have the same type of productive day until...

...I woke up this morning and my back was broken. Ok, not technically broken, but it hurts to move or bend or sit or walk. That's what happens when I pack hours of cleaning AND sewing in the same day.

Oh well. Today I will have the opposite. An UNDERproductive day. With lots of cookiedough eating and blog browsing and thinking about getting stuff done. I have a movie rented for Jeff and I to watch tonight and I'm excited!

Total Slacker

...sorry I've been slacking on my blog lately. I've been busy! I haven't taken any pictures of the kiddos in awhile and they've been watching a lot of movies... I blame it on my sewing machine. It taunts me when I'm not using it. I swear I'm a little addicted. Oh well. There are worse things I could be addicted to. (That's my justification, and I'm stickin' to it!)

Ok, so to give my family and friends a bit of an update:

JACKSON is officially crawling!! Yup, he started about a week ago and is pretty close to becoming a pro. He is taking bottles during the day which has been a wonderful thing. And he's sleeping pretty well at night.

TYLER is either my little sweetheart or my little devil. (Those of you who have 2 1/2 year olds, I'm sure you understand. Those of you who don't probably think I'm either over-exagerating or a really mean mom.) But seriously, we're a little bi-polar over here. He still loves running around the house like a crazy person and is so nice to his little brother. Sometimes I get to sit and read (or sew, of course) while they sit together and play. It's been nice.

AND for those of you who are still reading (thank you-- Jeff would say there are two many words in this post!) I've added a picture of me and my big brother. It was Christmas '85 so I was a year and a half old. I've looked at this picture before, but just today I looked again and noticed that Tyler looks a lot like me!! I always say the boys look like Jeff, but imagine short hair, and I see Tyler... what do you think?