Undefeated Season

Landon: 

Oh this guy. Tonight it the first time he's been home for bed time in over two weeks. Between work and interviews, its been crazzzzzzy. He was gone again all of last Sunday and Monday in Dallas for an interview. He got home after 3:00am on Tuesday morning and heading into work at 6:00 am. He then worked til 8:30pm on Tuesday and he worked Wednesday through the night til Thursday morning. (When I say Landon is "on-call" thats what "on-call" means. He's at the hospital all night.) He got off the train at 7:30am Thursday morning and came to Books and Bagels with us at Jaxsons school. Then came home, packed and headed straight to Stanford. He got home from his Stanford interview at 1:30am on Saturday morning. I then was super kind and left him with the boys to go to a KonMari consultation at 8:00am. He had boys party from 8:00-12:00. Then we picked up pizzas, and went to the little Soccer Awards Ceremony we had put together for Jaxsons team. After that we went and watched my cousins kids for a wedding. We did luckily end the week with a date. Landon and I went to my cousins wedding reception and talked to some of my favorite people til midnight! On Friday night a member of the Bishopric called and asked if we would speak on Sunday. Sooooooooo Sunday morning we woke up, hurried and straightened and got the boys ready, then turned on Lion King while we prepared talks. After church we fed the boys and put Luke down for a nap. Then we set the boys up with quiet time in their bedroom. It was 2:00pm. Landon and I both crashed on the couch at 2:01pm. 

THE NEXT THING I REMEMBER IS JAXSON TAPPING ME ON THE SHOULDER AND SAYING, "Uhhhhhh mom? It is 5:40pm." 

To say we are tired. Hahaha! Well actually we feel great right about now ;). 

Becca: 

I'm grateful for the help I had this week. Angelina came over and filled up my Monday! My mom watched my kids while I went to a doctors appointment(I rarely make it to doctors appointments without my kids, but I was so grateful I could make it to this one without them.) My friend Mary brought us dinner on Thursday. PLUS I always have little angels help me with calls and text messages and marco polo.  OH and Cristy at Dodge didn't charge us for the AC fix they did. We walked away with a $0 charge. It was such a blessing! This month has been really exhausting. I was able to get a few KonMari sessions in and work out most days. Honestly my heads still spinning from the last few weeks and the 3 hour and 40 minute nap I took. I can feel Landon and I growing right now. Sacrificing in ways that our parents sacrificed for us. I feel a sense a joy through the work and hope we can continue to grow closer and become stronger. With how exhausting everything feels right now, it really is a beautiful time too. 

Jaxson: 

I coached his last soccer game on Tuesday (Landon missed most of the this season, so I felt like my coaching skills grew a little ;)). Jax ended the season 7-0. It was so fun to coach his cute team for the second season. Jax also presented his research project on the Black Panther in school. On Saturday when we went to watch my cousins babies, they were staying at an Airbnb and when we pulled up there were two boys playing basketball. Jax leaped out of the car, ran up to them and said, "PASS!" I motioned him over and was like, "Dude, you kind of need to introduce yourself and say "Hey i'm Jax can I play with you." Well he did end up doing that. And he played with them for an hour and half. I'm so impressed with his ability to make friends everywhere he goes. In fact the airbnb family loved Jax so much they text me to ask if we would bring Jax over again sometime. He learns a lot from moving over and over again. 

Ty Ty: 

He said two of the cutest things this week. He's started calling himself of loser "i'm a yoser". I think having Jax as his older brother who is always winning is a little hard. So i've been telling him that "loser" is not a good word and he is a winner always, even if he do lose a game. At one point he said to me, "But mom! It doesn't hurt God's ears when I say i'm a yoser." And my heart just melted. What a beautiful way to explain exactly what it does do. Then today we had just gotten home from church and Landon was making the boys bagels and cream cheese. When Landon put it on the table, Ty leaped off the couch and said, "Today is a yovely day". (Lovely). Today is a lovely day my dear!! 

Luke: 

He is starting to have more opinions and more tantrums. Seriously he hates when we come inside and hates when we don't give him fruit. He also just kicks and screams when we say "No no bud." Hopefully its just because he's teething haha! I plan on blaming his mood on that until changes back to his calm happy go lucky mood because thats the only way I can cope with it. He is standing up on his own and taking a step or two here or there. I love him SO much! 

I asked Maddie, "How do you work through moments of feeling like it all lays on your shoulders and you're exhausted." She said "Lists! And then I do the easiest things on the list and then determine my own reward for crossing off the list." So I made a list and it was really helpful! 

We took Landon some energy food on Tuesday morning. I said a little prayer when we got to the hospital that we'd be able to get it to him somehow. And luckily he was right inbetween patients! I'm so happy we could see him for a minute. 

We dropped our car off at Dodge Friday morning. Four miles away. Ty, Luke and I ran home afterwards. Then they called 4 hours later and told us it was all fixed and they cover ALL of the costs! WHAT? Amazing! So the 4 of us walked the 4 miles back to the car. Jax and I did math the whole time. Luke babbled. Ty picked flowers. It was really a lovely 2 hours walk! And thankfully it didn't rain on us at all. 

A Four Year Old Mummy

Ty is obsessed with Halloween and wanted a Halloween birthday party! Since I kind of LOVE throwing parties, I went all in. It was one of the craziests most exhausting weeks but also really fulfilling too. It seems like most weeks are like that. 

TY LOGAN WOOLF

Oh this boy. He gives us a run for our money. Here are some of my favorite things about TY: 

I love that he has obsessions. When he was 2 life was all things Diggers. When he turned 3 it turned to all things Batman. Now at 4 we are at all things Halloween. Its incredible easy to know how Ty feels about things and I love his little loves. 

I love that Ty is a little hard to break. He doesn't give his love to just anyone, you have to earn it, but once you do..... oh man! It is the best! 

Ty feels deeply. I love this. He comes out every night and asks me to pray because he had a bad dream. He also comes out every night and says, "I forgot one ying." and then gives you a big huge hug! Even if both these things are so he can stay up longer, I will never refuse them. Prayers and hugs for days. 

I love that Ty wants to be just like Jax and always wants to claim Lukers as his too. His loyalty runs deeps. Once he decides you are apart of his life, I believe you are apart of his life forever. 

He doesn't take NO for an answer.

 "Mommy can you go get my mummy in the car. I left it there." 

"Yes buddy, as soon as i'm out of the shower." 

Well I hop in the shower, Luke is asleep, and while in the shower, Ty puts stool on a bucket so that he can stand tall enough to get the keys. He then opens the car sliding door by pressing the button two times, unlocks the doors, walks all the way downstairs and when I come out of the shower, I hear a little knock at the front door. I open it to find Ty and his mummy. Now believe me I recognize how dangerous this is. I didn't find it disobedient however. When I told Landon the story he both smiled and said, "What a capable creative dude" and "But really that is NOT okay." Both emotions ran through my veins when I opened the door. "BUD!!! You can't go outside without telling me. Thats not safe." Was what was said out loud. But in my head I though, "DANGGGGGG! Thats amazing." 

Ty loves the color black 

Ty likes spooky things, but not too spooky of things. In fact when we told him we were going to Advengers: End Game he asked if it was scary, "Yeah I think it is." And then he just started to sob. "I don't want you to see a scary movie." Its such an interesting thing to me. He loves to be in the dark with snakes, mummies, and ghosts. But he doesn't like to be filled with dark things. The other morning we were talking about the Prodigal son. I said, "Jax how would you feel if your little brother went and took all of your daddy's money, spent it, didn't' make good choices, and then came home and dad and I threw him a party." Then I started, "Ty how would you feel,".... 

"I DONT WANT TO BE THE BAD SON MOM!!!!!" Oh sweet boy. 

I love watching Ty run. 

I love (and hate) that he won't let me kill spiders in the house anymore because he wants them to just go outside to their house. So he tries to scare the spiders outside. 

I love how Ty's "LOW" for the day (we always do High/low every night at dinner) is always, "I missed daddy. 

I love when Ty peaks his little head into my room in the morning 

I love Ty's voice! 

I love that Ty is his own little person and NO ONE will make Ty anything he doesn't want to be

I think Ty is amazing. He is loyal. honest. smart. inquisitive. observant. determined. creative. capable. artistic. happy. grumpy. clever. goofy. loving. adventurous. tender. firey. driven. entergenic. 

I hope he knows how much he is needed in our family and how much he is LOVED. Landon and I spend lots of nights and date nights just talking about how much we love Ty ty!! It always ends with Landon saying, "Ty is going to do big things one day!" 

Happy Birthday 4 year old Ty Ty. You can now officially strap yourself into the car seat, put on your shoes, and get on the potty by yourself. Oh and fill me with sooooo much joy and love!!! You are at a good age my dear. 

Landon: 

He worked the night shift the entire week. Boo!! We HATE night shift weeks. He'd leave just after 5:00pm and get home and go to sleep after 8:00am and repeat. We've gotten better at dealing with these weeks though. I asked him last Saturday if he could try to make these three things possible:

1: Be to some of Ty's party ✓

2: Help me set up Ty's tramp ✓

3: Take me on a date Saturday night ✓✓✓✓

Other than those three things and work. He finished training for his marathon and on Saturday morning he PR'd in the Ogden Marathon! 3:14:10 (7:25 per mile)!!!! I wish I had married someone that tried just a little harder in life. 

Becca: 

I know I made the crazy of this week, but birthdays are a big deal to me. I want my boys to feel so special on their birthday. I planned Ty's party, made his costume, cleaned, got all the supplies, Orange theory, took dinner to someone, grocery shopped, cleaned, made dinner, dishes, talked to my sweet neighbor about her recent divorce :(, set up the party, did the party, took down the party, made dinner, coached Jax soccer game, cleaned, dishes, blew up all the balloons (which Landon always helps me with because it hurts my jaw, but not this night....), hung up birthday pictures, got Ty's favorite foods, took Ty on a Birthday date (with the other boys), set up his tramp, made his favorite food, cleaned and that was just the beginning honestly. I'm positive the only way I made it through this week was because i've been binge watching the show Victoria and I LOVE it! So I just set a goal that I could watch as soon as the house was clean at night. And I did just that. I actually take that back. I had a lot of help too. Jen made the most amazing cupcakes. Breanna Haslam called me monday night randomly when I was feeling soooo overwhelmed. Anna gave me all of her Halloween supplies, my mom took Ty on a birthday date while Landon and I set up the tramp, Sarah & Nate picked up the cupcakes and took pictures of the party. Lace watched Luke during the party. Ty's primary teachers helped me him feel so special by bringing him cookies, Abril watched my two little boys so I could coach Jax's soccer game without them, Jael & Mary also gave me Halloween supplies. Maddie always. Tiff's Marco Polos, Mama Woolf's phone calls, Landon sent loving text messages..... So I guess Victoria AND all the amazing people in my life. I know i'm forgetting people but I just want to remember that I really don't do this motherhood gig alone, even though SO often it feels lonely. 

By Saturday after Landon's marathon I was feeling EXHAUSTED! So exhausted. I was rocking Luke before nap time and I had every intention to put him down and then go turn on the TV and veg until date night. While rocking him, he looked up at me and started to talk to me. I talked to him back and we just chatted for a little bit. At the end I looked up and down the hall I saw Landon, who was looking for something but he was smiling. He had quietly listened to the whole conversation between the two of us. I don't know, that little moment meant so much me. So much, that I put Luke down, got up, cleaned out the car, played with Jax and Ty, got super cute for date night, did the dishes aggggaaaain. No dishwasher sometimes man. I think the greatest motherhood victories are often the ones unseen and unknown even to the mother. I had this thought when I saw Landon smiling, if He is smiling, I bet my Heavenly Parents are smiling at this moment too. It always feels good to be genuinely noticed for what you are trying so hard to do. 

Whoops. Sorry this was long!

THE FAMILY HIGHLIGHT:
Was Friday evening after Lando woke up we went and picked up his race packet up in Ogden. It was super late and I hadn't planned well so we stopped and got dinner. Sushi. The boys DOWNED the sushi sooooo fast. It was one of the few moments where I could say that eating out as a family was worth every penny. Most times we eat out together I just wish we had had egg tacos or PB& Honey. But not this night. They were eating raw fish left and right and I just loved the whole experience. 

Jax: 

Cutest olderest brother. 

Luke: 

Cutest youngest brother who is teething, hopefully. He also took on little step on the 19th.  I know that because Jax kept saying I needed to document that. As if I don't document enough already. 

I don't often think about a dishwasher. But I did this week. A LOT!  

TY SMILED the ENTIRE 2 hours of his party!!!!! HE was in HEAVEN. 

The kids made a monster together! 

These monsters went on the doors in the church so the kids knew which ones to knock on to Trick or Treat

The girl with the golden hair from his preschool class

 I read a story about 3 little ghosts. And then after the big monster that they colored brought a present for all the kids. Ty opened it and it was ghost flashlights. Then we turned off the lights for the next story and they turned on the flashlights. 

Then they went trick or treating. I had Jax and his friends dress up and be the ones to give out the candy! 

 AND THEN HE WAS FOUR!!!! I forgot to get a picture with him at the party which made me sad, but this was an good substitution. 

My mom made a comment to me about how she didn't feel like she was naggy about the kids washing their hands after they came inside. My mom was NOT a naggy mom. BUT I had to take a picture of why I am that way. Our yard is not like the yard your kids grew up in mom ;). 

Mary and I cheering on our husbands! It was so fun to hang out with Mary all morning!