What The?

How does someone become a follower on my blog, whom I have never known or care to know because their name is extremely mind burning in a negative way and their profile picture is their naked boobies???? Seriously!? What the!?? Sorry for anyone who happened to notice this vile picture. Heaven knows how long they were my follower because I have not EVER checked my follower in the past 2 years!!

A Little Update

I have decided once again to run another marathon. =) Of course I decided to run it 8 weeks before the race. Oh did I mention I haven’t been training. Yes, I really want to push my body to its limits before I am 35, because we all know after 35 everything is down hill from there. (literally)=)
School has been time consuming this semester and I have felt at times very overwhelmed with it. Speaking with Jason we have decided it would be best for me and the kids if I hold off on my education until they are all in school. It was definitely a bitter sweet decision. I really wanted to go to BYU this year, but I miss the kids when I am gone and feel staying home is the best. I figure I can always work on my education when the kids are older.
Jason and I are teaching the 13 year old Sunday School in church. We enjoy it. =) It’s nice to be able to teach the youth, yet still be able to attend Relief society and Priesthood meetings. Oh ya, and this is the first time in 6 years I have not had to lug around a child through all three meetings and or not be pregnant!! Yeeehaaawww!!
Jason quit his job at UVU and was hired on at BYU doing basically the same thing, interpreting sign language. Currently it has been very slow there so he has been a little bored. It is a much slower pace at BYU verses UVU, with only six deaf clients at his current job verses forty deaf clients at his old job. The absolute best thing about his new job is the environment. He is surrounded with people that have high values and great work ethics, plus many spiritual and uplifting seminars and conferences.
Oh yes, another bonus to his current job is that he had the opportunity to interpret some of General Conference. You know the person in the corner of the television who flaps their hands all over the place? =) Yup, one of those weirdo’s was my handsome husband.
Michael is the same crazy child as usual, saying the same crazy stuff he always does. Keeping me on my toes, he continues to make me laugh, cry, scream, and fall to the ground curling up into a fetal position. I can’t believe he will be in kindergarten this year!
David seems to be moving right a long. His teacher is always commenting on how the other mothers think he looks like a mini brad pit. I do have to say so myself, he is quite the cutie pie. The poor little man is still smaller than the average 3 year old and he knows it too. We never comment on his size, so for him to figure out he is smaller than others his age, shows just how bright he is. He always says, “Mom? I wish Bella would stop growing and I could grow tall, tall, tall!” Bella is almost his size, or “Mom? I wish I would just grow.” =( poor little man. On another note his heart is still doing great. It’s time for his checkup so we shall see how he continues to do shortly =)
Bella, Bella, Bella. She is so dang cute! She is definitely spoiled and she knows it. I try so hard not to spoil that child, but seriously I just can’t help it. She plays well with both of her brothers. They love her so much and absolutely love to play with her and teach her new things. Oh and also her brothers LOVE to get her into trouble by trying to teach her naughty things too. She signs many sign and signs them well. It’s funny to see the difference between her brothers in regards to signing verses her. Her brothers would sign things that would kind of look like the sign but not quite. If you would correct them they would give you a face expression like as if to say, “You know what I am trying to say, I don’t need to sign it perfect.” Bella on the other hand gets this determination in her eyes that she WILL sign it right and you’d better teach her. =)
Things are going quite well aside from the many little mishaps we are so blessed to have in our lives. In general though? Life ROCKS! ;) What doesn’t kill us only makes us stronger…..right?

Welcome to the Average Day in The Burr Family

As I was shampooing the couches(by hand) I put Bella at the table to eat a P&J sandwich. As she was so amazingly quiet I thought to myself," Man, it is so nice to have Bella so quiet, what a good girl." Then I looked up.........




I guess I forgot to put the Peanut Butter away after I made the sandwich.....

She sure had fun!

Then I threw her in the bathtub.....

This is her making a lovely face at me as if to say,"See mom? I get away with everything!"

Yes,yes she does.

Welcome to the daily life in the Burr Family

Ran 20 miles Saturday!

I am planning on running "The Top of the Mountain Marathon" in Logan September 18th. I really havent been preparing like I did the St. George Marathon, so I decided to do a very long run! Today I have lost one toenail and another one soon to go. =( It took me 3.5 hours of running and 1 hr of walking/crawling =) I didn't mean to do that many miles I just got lost.....again. I seem to do that alot lately lol!

Isabellas Picure

Here is a picture of Bella, I thought for sure she didn't get any good pictures of her......she was a WIGGLE WORM! Obviously the photographer did well =)

 

Pictures of the Boys

The kids got their pictures taken.....this explains the boys personalities more than ANYTHING!! lol

 

Sister Missionaries

I came accross this picture of sister Missionaries I served with =) Ahhh the memories!

 

Finished Product

This is the finished product!!!! It's a Beauty isn't it??? I don't have a very good one of the whole play house....I'll work on it ;)


 

Swing Set

Well this month I decided to buy a swing set for a really good deal....problem was I used all of the grocery money and personal money to get it. I thought "Oh well my kids maybe starving but they will have fun on the play set dang it!" It came with no labeling on the 100 pieces of wood so I printed out some labels of each piece of wood and had to measure each piece because there were NO pieces the same! That took me almost 4 hours to do, they are such tards to not LABEL the dang wood! Well Last Saturday I decided to start the task which said on the instruction sheet for two people it should take 12-14 HOURS! FOR THE LOVE!! Needless to say I FINALLY finished on Monday night while it was raining/hailing (I was determined to finish) I could barely see with the water dripping down my forehead and screwing the nails in the wood....but I finished it. Even though some of the wood was ripped apart from the screws, out of complete frustration from the screws being stripped BALD! I built the playhouse backwards (somehow?) and now the slide goes the opposite way it's suppose to, and it's slightly wobbly! But hey! It works and it's somewhat safe....right?


 

"Indian Day"

Thursday was Michael's Preschool day to celebrate "Indian Heritage" I dressed Michael in a vest gave him one of my headbands and cut up a turkey centerpiece from Thanksgiving for the feathers. I then put some makeup under his eyes to make him feel like an old school Indian. =) After Michael stared at himself in the mirror and made faces for over ten minutes, I asked him for a picture and told him to cover his mouth like an Indian dancing. He was facing straight forward towards me at the time, he then turns his backside towards me puts his hand over his mouth and starts flapping his eyelashes! He was doing a Marlyn Monroe POSE!! It was HILARIOUS!!! I swear he is one of the funniest kids I know and I have no idea where he learns this stuff from! I didn't get a picture of him in full pose, but there was one of him coming out of the pose.


 

Family Home Evening Time

Last Family Home Evening Jason decided to talk about the importance of Temples (that his sister Anne so lovingly prepared) Well the lesson went GREAT and the boys LOVED it. Then we decided to sing the song "I Love To See The Temple". Jason and I started singing and it was almost like a trigger for the boys to act CRAZY, below is an enactment of how it went:

Jason and I singing while staring at each other: "I Love to see the Temple, I'm going there somedaaaay"

Michael and David get up and start running circles around Jason and in front of me.

Jason and I singing still staring in each others eyes: "To feeel the Holy Spiriiit to listen and to Praaayy"

Michael and David smack head on into each other, fall to the ground and start screaming uncontrollably.

Jason and I still singing slightly glancing at the boys then returning our gaze: "For the Temple is a House of God a place of Love and Beautyyyyy"

Michael and David still on the floor in fetal positions crying.

Jason and I finish singing still staring with slight smiles: I'll prepare myself while I am young...this issss my sacred dutyyyy"

The boys get up and start running.....again.

I know someday they will come up to us when they are grown and say "Mom and Dad? I am sure glad that we had Family Home Evening despite the chaos....we sure learned many things even if we were passed out with concussions during 80% of them ;).....happy thoughts...happy thoughts!

Michaels 4!

Michael's Birthday was today, last night I blew up 100 balloons and filled up the living room with them.



I made him a hat to wear to Preschool with some cupcakes for his class....so cute =)



We went to McDonald's at lunch to play on the toys and eat some Chicken Nuggets and Fries. We then came home and watched "Princess and the Frog" 4 times (Michael's Birthday request) It was good the 1st and 2ND but then starting getting old the 3rd and 4Th, I finally set the limit at 4 I couldn't handle watching it anymore.



Michael wanted Mac and Cheese for dinner(easy enough), then we had cake and ice cream afterward. We also went to DI so David could pick out some toys of his own, he was feeling left out.



When we came home from our favorite store DI, Michael opened his Birthday presents.


Don't you just LOVE the wrapping job? =) Trash bags...so convenient!

"Story Time"

This is how a basic "Story Time" is here at the Burr Home:


Jason "Once upon a time"

Michael "Time? What's time?"

Jason "Just listen to the story son...Once upon a time, their was a little boy"

Michael "Little boy? What's he doing?...the little boy?"

Jason "Listen to the story" (with a slight screech to the tone) "There was a little boy named Jack, and Jack was"

Michael "Jack? Was jack sad? Why was Jack sad?"

Jason "No son...Jack wasn't sad...just let me finish the story."

David "Up up and awaaaaaaay!"

Jason " Jack and his mother were very poor so one day his mother asked him to take a cow to the market and exchange it for some money...so Ja"

Michael "Jack was a bad bad boy..he had baad manners"

Jason "Yes son he had bad manners"

David "Up up and awaaay!"

Michael "AAAAhhhhhhh...bbbllblllbbl...aaaaa..aaack!" (with his eyes crossed, tongue sticking out and hands flapping uncontrollably for a full 30 seconds)

Jason "Do you guys want me to finish this story or what?!"

David "Up up and awaaaay!"

Jason "Jack found some beans, climbed up the bean stalk, played with the giant and came back home...The END!"

David "Up up and awaaay!"

Jason (let's out a big sigh while picking up the boys and taking them to their bedroom)

The Boys "Blaaahhh haa haa!!! (with crocodile tears running down their face)

It's Hilarious being a bystander...not so hilarious for my dear dear hubby,he has so much patience!

Valentines Day Flowers!!!

Enough said!!!! XOXOXO =)

Trip to St. George

We decided to head down to St. George for the weekend. My Dad has some work back east in Pennsylvania. He will be gone for 6 months so we wanted to see him before he left. We also decided to go up to the "Red Hill" while we were there, here are some pics =)

Jason and the boys


Dyamond (my nephew)

David looking all cute


Sonner (brother in law)

A Song NOT for Sacrament!

In sacrament meeting today we were sitting in the cultural hall (because we were late) in consequence every noise you made had an echo. They were passing the bread and it was obviously a quiet time in sacrament, David was sitting with Jason and Michael was sitting on my lap. Suddenly Michael belts out the song "I am Ironman" by the 70's group Black Sabbath, I quickly said to Michael sing "I am a Child of God" he just looks at me and says "NO....I am Ironman Da Duh Da Duh Da Dah Dah Da Da Da" Then I start singing I am a Child of God and he stopped. A few minutes later I then took him to the bathroom and told him I would be waiting outside. As he was in their going number two again I hear the previous song above echoing through the restroom. Which by the way was just right by the foyer and everyone sitting in there could hear him. Just for the record...the only reason why he knows that song is because he has a pair of Ironman Pj's and every time he wears them we all sing "I am Ironman"

Michael Christmas present to me.

Michael has the most AMAZING preschool teacher EVER!! For Christmas She and Michael made me this calender.... ADORABLE!!

Each Month had a different picture of Michael =)

Another Blog?

I'm starting a new Blog about thoughts of my children and about life, if you are interested in reading it let me know, here is a sample;


At times it's really hard to be a Mom to three very young children....but at the same time I look into their eyes and see the innocence, love and pure trust that I would hope to have some day. I love my kids and feel the Saviors love through their eyes each and every day.
I wish that I could throw out the things in life that don't really matter to me or my family and focus truly and wholeheartedly on my husband and children. Where do I start? How can I stay focused? What kind of mom can I truly become? Who will my children become if I take those steps?

It's been a while since I wrote! No excuse just a crazy life! Finals are coming up and my mind is NOT ready for it. The kids have been sick, Michael getting over two ear infections and David had some crazy bacterial eye infection, plus the usual swine flu and colds.
We had family up for Thanksgiving and it was so much fun to have half of them stay with us, I sure miss the family =)


Grampa Sapp with Isabella and Bear (summers boy)



Isabella and her mommy =)


All the grandkids Thanksgiving Day.



and finally me....watching the kids...yup this is how it's done, don't they look safe? =)

Halloween

Ward Halloween Party "Scripture Power"
Theme was to dress up as a scripture character.


There were many more cute little activities for the kids these were just two of them. The pumpkins were center peices for the tables.





Jason as Lehi and David as Nephi for the Halloween Party. Michael kept calling Jason "Prophet" he would say "Hey Prophet, come here" "Hey Prophet, are you going to eat that?" etc. it was cute


Michael "The Tempest" (Storm)

He made sure everyone called him "Storm" not Michael.




David as "Batman"


A neighbor friend had a Halloween party for the kids and Michael was sick, so it was just David that could go and he dressed up as "Batman"