Mother, I love you!

Mother dear, I love you so!

 I'll try the whole day through.

 To please our Heavenly Father,

 I'm so glad he gave me you!

Happy Mother's Day Mom! We love you! Can't wait to see you in 2 weeks!

Easter Sunday

We had a wonderful Easter this year. There were lots of activities leading up to Easter Sunday but my very favorite part was being together as a family going to church and remembering what we were really celebrating. Brother Cameron who spoke in church gave a powerful talk. It inspired both Matt and I and was just what I needed to hear that day. I was grateful.
I made the bow-ties the boys wore to church. We think they looked darling in their spring outfits!

Jamsey, the Musician

James has always loved music. He must take after his dad, because I don't have any musical talent in me! From a very young age, he has been taken with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, in particular. During church, his favorite parts are the opening, closing, and intermediate hymns. He can be found standing on his chair watching the chorister and pretending to 'lead' the music like she is. At home, he will grab the hymn book from the piano stand and sit with it on the couch and 'sing' songs and lead the music. He also knows how to turn on our CD player in our room and start the Children's Songbook CD. Today we were in a book store and James just busted out in song for several minutes. It was so funny because it kept getting progressively louder and louder. The cashier finally said, "Wow, what a pretty song!" James then realized what he was doing, but it didn't bother him; he kept right on singing! So cute. This conference season, James was mesmerized by the choir. Every day since Conference ended, he will come up to me with his right hand up, pretending to lead the music and take me by the other hand into the computer room where he points to the computer screen. I know what this means: "Mom, will you please pull up YouTube so that I can watch and listen to the MoTab some more?" He will then sit there and listen to 'Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing' over and over again and say 'choir'. What a sweetheart.

We love our Jamsey.

Happy Wednesday!

Jacob and James- March 21st, 2012

We have spent hours outside every day for the past week! We are loving this early Spring weather! Sunshine-please be here to stay!

James and Jacob-February 14th, 2012

Mr. Handsome

 We cut Jake's hair.
If I could go back in time, I wouldn't have done it. He now looks like a little boy instead of a baby boy. I want my baby back! It was getting so long and thick in the back  that the curls were more like waves. I ended up doing it one night and it didn't turn out so well. Cutting little boys hair is hard! So we took him in and let a professional work on it. Matt and I both want his curly Goldilocks to grow back! He still looks very handsome; just little boy handsome and instead of baby handsome. He did awesome while she cut his hair. Not one scream or cry-impressive! James was going to get a hair cut that day as well, but once we saw how much older Jakey looked, we couldn't let the same thing happen to James! So, he gets to keep his locks for a little longer:)

 

All 3 Mr. Handsomes. I love my boys!

 In other news, we turned the boys car seats to facing forward and boy do they love it. Can you tell? The first time we put Jake and James in their seats and drove away, Jake kept saying, "Woah! Woah! Woah!"

a lot on our plate

The next several months are going to FLY by-here's why:

*Lindsey is in her FINAL semester of the online BSN program for nursing. As such, she's taking 13 credits and much of that is independent learning. Unfortunately, she does much better with scheduled tasks and tests because she can't procrastinate those. She can't wait for graduation in May!
*Did we mention we have twin boys that are absolutely adorable? They are busy, active, and FUN!
*Lindsey is working 12 hours a week, weekends mostly, when Matt is home. Matt is still working his usual days, plus overtime lately!
* Matt has been submitting resumes to several different airlines and opportunity has opened up with two airlines! The crazy thing is that the jobs are in the middle east. (Like the middle east of the entire world.) We are deciding between taking a job with Qatar Airlines or Emirates Airlines. As such, we would be moving to either Doha, Qatar or Dubai, UAE this summer! Matt has already been to Qatar and we are both going to Dubai in March to get a feel for which one airline we should go with. We are in the middle of deciding to rent our home or put it up for sale. Either way, there is a lot of fixing up the house to get done.
*We are having another baby BOY in May. Three boys age 2 years old and under. It's gonna be a mad house!

Ok, so that pretty much sums up why I'm overwhelmed and will be for the next several months. Just typing it all out makes it feel like organized chaos, haha! I really can't complain though-everyone is healthy and happy and I feel very thankful for that.
Here are a few of my favorite pictures from the last month or so. Enjoy!

Sister's gettin' hitched!

My sister Brooke is getting married on December 29th, which just so happens to be mine and Matt's 5 year wedding annaversary. Anyway, I stole these pics off of the photographers website and included the link, so I hope that is Ok with her! Aren't they cute? We have never met Ryan before, but get to at Christmas this year. So excited for them--here's to forever!
To see more of the cute couple visit the photographer's website, listed below.
http://www.carlybinghamphotographyblog.com/2011/11/r-santa-clarita-couples-photographer.html