keepin it real

i'll be honest, i am in a sleep deprived haze and am kind of in survival mode. ok, really in survival mode. i have been doing my best in keeping up with everything and consider it a success if i get my teeth brushed. as crazy as life is right now i am loving these two kids. (however, if you would have asked me last thursday i was on the verge of putting them both on craigslist. i am just keepin' it real--it was a really hard day.)

family home evening--griffon leading the music and nova and dan helping. it was super cute.

 nova started preschool. she is LOVING it. i am doing it with 2 good friends and they are the greatest group of kids. we take turns doing it at each of our houses and its going really well. nova on her first day.

 nova wrote preschool herself in this one---i told her the letters and she wrote them--she was really proud of her R----she has been working hard on that one.

 changing clothes after church

 this was the first day i had preschool. the kids got here and they were working on learning centers and LITERALLY 10 seconds after they started going on it.......

 THIS happened: thats, right---zoom in on that pic---out the nose and EVERYTHING. luckily i hurried and cleaned him up--and the floor while the kids were still occupied.

 johnny appleseed day 2012--griffon is second guessing his family selection---we told him tough cookies. :)

 last saturday we went down to the farmer's market and nova has been saving her money. she really wanted to buy something at the market. she chose flowers. dan and i kept trying to tell her that flowers die, and it really wasn't the best way to spend her money, but she was dead set on it. so we told her if it was something she loved, she should get it. so she did.
she selected carefully:

 dan talking about the money---her looking sort of forelorn about it

and paid for it by herself.

















and was super excited about it.

 also, in other news, nova is SUPER into super hero's lately. dan has taken her on dates to the comic book store and she really loves pretending to save the world. here she is as wonderwoman.

 but really, i think she just thinks its hilarious to wear her underwear on the outside of her pants. she giggles everytime she does it.

a family of four plus martin

nova and i capitalized on griffon's nap and made some paper boats with styrofoam people and had put them in the tub and raced them. here is nova with her winning boat.



 here is nova oog-ling her brother. man she loves that boy.

 2 weeks ago we took griffon to church for the first time.

 nova had fun showing him off.

 we also took griff for a walk and nova brought 'martin' along as well. martin is our 2nd baby. he normally is pretty quiet, but according to nova, he 'can get pretty stinky and he wakes up 16 hundred and 36 thousand times a night.'

 griffon and martin.

 griffon in some orange jammies loaned by cousin camden--thanks elisa!

 yesterday we made our family of four official. well, not really, but we blessed little griffon. i know as a mom i am completely biased. but he looked really adorable in his church clothes. (side note: i have been debating standing outside a grocery store and having a poll set up to rate the cuteness of my children to get a true outsiders perspective......you know so i can validate my opinion. thoughts???? hahaha....just kidding. really thought, stranger things have happened outside a grocery store in CA...just sayin...)

anyway, i opted to not have him wear all white and we blessed him in a shirt and tie--which i made with liquid stitch--the tie, not the shirt----i may or may not be REALLY proud of myself for that---but i digress. here are the pics for those that couldn't be here!

we also had dan's family here for the weekend and it was so much fun having family here. because we don't live close it is a real treat when we have people here to play!
our family of 4 and the best pick we could get on our camera. (sorry martin.....you missed the photo--maybe griffon is looking for him?)

 and apparantly griffon was confused....this was NOT a crazy face picture. but its good to see he is in the right family---he knows how to pull a crazy face. i can not NOT laugh when i look at this picture! HA!

 a close up of our boy

 tired of pictures.

 both my handsome men

 and the sweetest boy on the block. it was such a sweet day. dan gave him a really awesome blessing and i felt so blessed and overwhelmed to be trusted with another of Heavenly Father's special spirits.