Happy Mothers Day

 Jaxson:

This kid is crushing his cooking skills. He made cookies, Spanish, and salsa today. I wish I had taken pictures of all the things he’s made so far this years. Mostly potato things. Also bread. Some salads. He also PRd in the 1600 on Thursday. And three girls asked for his number on Saturday after the dance. What am I going to do with this darling child. 

Ty: 

His coach brought something to my attention. Ty has incredible body control and balance. The way he can flip and ski and play soccer so well, all have something to do with that. He scored two goals in his game on Saturday.  And one of them was SOOOO incredible. Ty’s teacher stopped me at a baseball game on Tuesday. He asked if Ty shared the news with me, he had not. Apparently Ty scored insanely high on his language SBA. Something like 2580 out of 2620. I think what’s amazing about that is he’s worked so hard to become more efficient in language. Ty’s speech was so far behind which made his reading behind as well. Between reading the Book of Mormon last year and many other books + taking good time on his writing assignments I think he earned that score! 

Luke:

He’s my cuddliest boy. And lovingest too. He just loves me so much. Which is probably why it hurts so much when I’m hard on him. I should be better at that. I think he’s my only child that has ever told me I look beautiful. Just in his nature. Bishop asked looked today if he could give him tips on how to be more awesome like Luke. Luke said “love people! And practice.” Which is such a combination of me and Landon. He’s been working hard on his audition to sing in the talent show. And constantly throwing balls at hoops or up in the air to catch. Lukes in a tough place in our family, the legit middle child. 

Brigs:

I think the words “radical intervention” were used talking about brigs this week. It might have had something to do with the 5:45am waking up, walking downstairs, turning on the tv and feeding himself sour patch kids, gum and recess for breakfast. The thing is this kid has learned that he can just get what he wants by doing things. Like today after church, he wanted to go home, and instead of begging us to go, he just got his scooter and left. Which is going to serve him well! But is quite a struggle now. I think the number 1 problem with Brigham is he’s gotten so much less sleep than any of his brothers. But also more sugar and less boundaries. Brigs is a firecracker and he’s so capable and I can’t wait to figure out what he loves to do!! 

Lando did all the things to celebrate me today. He decorated the fireplace with pics of me as a mom. He had the boys write me the letters! And they were the best. He made me take a nap and he made me the yummiest dinner. Ugh! I love enchiladas. I love him. 

So many moms have blessed my life over my 36 years. I’m grateful for all of them. My mom and Mama Woolf! My grandmothers. Connie Jones. Linda Urquhart. Lacey, Erika, Leah, Sarah and Jen. Becky Thomas and Paula Taylor. Ruth Campbell. Tiffany Hobson and Maddie Daetwyler and Breanna Haslam. Jessica Christensen. Trina Fishburn and Ami Bunker. Rachel Cope & Janelle Cobb. Angelina Barlow and Anna Fetzer. Elise May. Rebecca Parker. Emily Peterson and Annie Ditto and Katalyn Pickett and Kyla Fague and Emily Packard. 

I mean, that’s just to name a few. And I know I missed hundreds. I’m just grateful for all the mothers in my life that have made huge impacts on me. 

My View!!

 

Yesterday Landon and I were on the phone with each other. Landon was on his way home from Seattle with Jaxson and Luke and I was with Ty and Luke on our way home from dinner. I said “man babe! One of my favorite parts of motherhood is watching my boys do what they love most.” Landon agreed. 

So with that, here are the things that I loved watching my boys do this week:

Jaxson:

Jax had three games, I was only able to watch them over FaceTime but still, it’s so fun to watch him play. He puts so much hard work into basketball. I also loved watching Jax run track. He is fast!! And at least in the race in Thursday, he smoked everyone in both the mile and the hurdles. But the thing I was most proud to watch Jax do, was when he ran the 200 and he let his buddy take the 400 leg of their relay race. I know Jax wanted to run the 400, and they may have won if he had, but he let his buddy do it. And Jax assured me “we don’t know we would have won even if I had run the 400.” Oh and I love Jaxson learning how to cook.

Ty:

I loved watching Ty play soccer this week. And also watching him paint my a new platter. He came up with the idea and did it all free hand. It was a joy to sit on the other side of that table and watch his shaking hand draw and paint. I also got to watch Ty feel something within himself, that something compelled him to get up and bear his testimony. “I know that God loves me and I know that Jesus died for me.” Pretty simple and so beautiful. Oh and he’s so good at playing with Brigs. 

Luke:

Man he is so fun to watch shoot hoops. It feels like he makes everything. I also loved watching him play baseball this week. He connected with every pitch. He also grounded 6 balls in a row and threw to first. It was so sweet to watch him see Brigs pain when he couldn’t go to Dairy Queen. He went and got some of his candy and he shared it with Briggy. That brotherly love was so evident in that moment. Oh and watching Luke prepare for the talent show. MY HEART! His cute little voice singing A Million Dreams

Brigs:

Then there is Brigs. Who has the most beautiful eyes ever and the sweetest sounding voice. I love watching him make things for people. I love watching him wake up before everyone and sneak down and find candy and open it with scissors and read books. I know that’s probably naughty, but also so resourceful and independent. I love watching him make himself breakfast. Or fight for what he wants. I love watching what he does when he knows he has his parents uninterrupted attention. And of course the only child I feel guilt over right now is Brigs. Toddlers man. They have my number! 

We are so proud of our boys. We love them and love being with them. How did we get so lucky?!!! We had PPIs with each of them today. We talked about goals, pornography, bullies, learning how to lose, using our words, praying and reading scriptures. Then we had the yummiest enchiladas. 

Im grateful to be married to Landon AND to have the blessing of watching these boys GROW UP! 

Happy Spring

family home evening this week was Luke: He picked baseball and taught about following God. 

 Lando:

I love him. He’s the hardest work I know. He was on-call Thursday night. He sent this text to a few of our friends/family:

Last night I took care of a patient shot 3 times by a drive by shooter, and there was also:

1. 17 year old self inflicted gunshot wound to the head. Not operable. Not survivable  

2. Man found down near downtown library with a huge gash and an empty bottle nearby. Went to OR for brain bleed. 

3. C section 

4. Car crash with one fatality and another seriously injured 

THEN! He got home and he watched Alayna and Clara. Then he went on a walk with Brigham. I’m sure he then worked out. Logan joined Ty from school and they played. Then he took Logan home. He then got a birthday present for Ty’s friend and took Ty to a birthday party and picked him up. All while having brigs. He was probably awake for 36 hours. I don’t know how he did it!! 

Becs:

I worked on the house all week (only have it be another weeks worth of work by Sunday) and then I got to hang out with Jax and Luke and my family this weekend!! Meeting baby Luke!! Family coming to games. It was all soooo happy. 

Jax: 

He had a great tournament. He had a really awesome stretch in a close game with great passes and good takes and some steals and rebounds. It was so fun. 

Ty: 

On Friday morning Hailey woke him up at 6:15 and he watched Briggy for an hour while Landon was finishing work. And I popped onto Vivint to check in and see if everything was okay. He was getting brigs breakfast and then he was playing with him and packing his lunch. That kids is so responsible when he feels needed. I think he’s changed the most from the Phillipines! 

Luke:

Luke loved his birthday trip with family. It was so happy! One funny thing about Luke that I want to remember. Every Wednesday is piano. And we have bagels that morning to make things simpler. Luke, without fail, eats everything but the last bite of the bagel. Then he sets it on the middle console, goes to piano, comes back and finishes that last bite. He is not a hurry up kid. And that’s a beautiful thing and sometimes hard when you live in a family like ours. 

Brigs:

On Monday he prayed that he could govern a raisin to his teacher. I told him we didn’t have any. Then he went and found raisins (cranberries but he doesn’t know the difference) in the fridge and put them in his backpack and then ran to Mr Kenyon to give him his raisins. Later that afternoon Mr Kenyon told me that Brigs had asked him the previous Thursday if he had ever had a raisin. And then he promised Mr Kenyon that he’d bring him one. AND HE REMEMBERED all on his own. I thought it perfectly incapsulated brigs strengths and heart.