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Well Kanyin is pretty much walking everywhere! He can walk from one side of the room to the other and sometimes around the corner- HE is better when you just let him do it himself. If I were to try and show someone that he can walk and stand him up to get him ready he will just plop back down, but like 40 sec later he will stand himself up and walk away! I am going to have a tough one on my hands... speaking of tough, Auklin today. So he does this thing where he talks back to me- weird huh? :) Yeah so I was telling AUklin if he didn't come eat his cereal he would not get his snack for today- well he comes walking into the kitchen wearing my shoes and says "YOUR not going to get YOUR snack today!" well I looked at him and said "Auklin, you are not the mom. please be a good listener and just eat your breakfast." He looked right at me and said "yeah huh, I am the mom because I am wearing your shoes! and you need to be a good listener and YOU eat YOUR breakfast!" :(

...I am doomed!

Spring Fever!

So the weather has been amazing so most our days are spent outside! We are loving it! Auklin is finally tall enough to ride his big boy bike and he live on the thing! We fixed our swing set and Kanyin loves to swing- We actually set up our little one person hammock we got on our honeymoon and so we can all swing together! :) its pretty much Awesome!

Kasey is almost done with school for this semester so we are gearing up for some camping trips and vacations baby! we basically could go up camping just about every weekend- so we are way excited! One thing that is going to be great is Auklin is starting tiny tot sports! He starts soccer April 10th and baseball is in May. I get half off with the city so its pretty cool and we are excited to see him grow up! He has recently found some friends over at the neighbors and always wants to run over there every time they are outside- after establishing its ok that he can play we just watch out the window like stalkers and comment on every little thing that happens. Its crazy that he is getting old enough to just be independent and go play with his friends... Weird! Kanyin has taken about 7 steps. He is learning to walk between furniture and from and to different people. He gets so excited he tries running but for now its 7 steps! I am just trying to wrap my head around the fact that he will turn 1 in about 2 months! the time goes by so fast! He just broke through his 2nd tooth last week and his 1st tooth came out the week before that! he can climb up stairs and small furniture but has yet to master getting down things!

Auklin is all of a sudden getting brave- he loves primary and he went up to sing in church all by himself- he didn't want anything to do with it at the beginning of the year- he goes to art classes at my work by himself when before I had to be everywhere he was. He loves primary and I love hearing him randomly singing primary songs and asking questions about stuff he is learning! Kasey interviewed at work for a new position that we are hoping goes through- he is basically working the position anyway! He is enjoying some of his classes at school and getting excited to graduate. He is also getting pretty pumped about yard work and our garden- He is already starting to try and set up his lawn care business- he has wanted to have one since forever and he is going to give it a whirl...

Now I am going to take this challenge from my sister in law and post 11 random things about myself...

1. I don't have my ears pierced- to go along with ears, I have one lobed ear and one attached.

no this is not why I don't have pierced ears, my mom always tought me that if God wanted holes in my ears he would have put them there- :) I could choose when I was old enough but until then...When we were old enough to choose for ourselves me and both my sisters decided we didn't want them anyway!

2. I love the heels and the crust of bread- especially with tuna fish sandwiches!

3. When I eat multiple color candy I like to sort the colors and eat them in order of the kind I like least and save the best for last! Or I have to mix a green or yellow with a red or purple...hehe

4. When I read signs- sometimes in my head I repeat the word over and over in different variations of the word including backwards sometimes emphasizing on different letters :) I am not crazy I swear- unless there is some psychiatric person out there reading this and diagnosed me with some disease... please let me know!

5. I married my high school sweetheart!

6. I have a deep deep love for childhood activities including the fair, carnivals, parades, cotton candy, the whole shebang!

7. I hate to read- I have probably read about 7 or 8 books my entire life- 6 or 7 of them being read as a class during school! But i love the movies of book series! When a good book comes out I always say "I hope they make it a movie"

8. I curl my toes under my feet when I am sitting... where my feet actually reach the ground.

9. When I see cool dance moves on tv I secretly try them out in front of the mirror to see if I can look as cool as they were :D hahaha

10. I love people to ask me for help or their opinion or for advice, I don't think I could ever get sick of people telling me their drama- venting what not...

11. I am addicted to fruit snacks, fruit by the foot, gushers, fruit leather, all that good stuff- yeah my children are doomed!

Christmas time is here...

This year has flown by- they seem to go faster and faster. It is Christmas time and we are so excited for the month of December. First things first, Auklin turns 3!!~ He is going to start primary in January! They started taking him into primary half way through and so he can get used to it, I peeked in there the first week they did it and just watched him looking all around in total shock. I cant believe how big he is! Then the next weekend is our Anniversary, 4 years! We were talking the other day and Kasey said does it ever hit you that we are our own little family making our own memories with our kids and stuff? We are putting up our own tree in our own house... Sometimes we are just on cruse control going about 90 mph and forget to realize and enjoy what we have. Then the next weekend is Christmas! Auklin is old enough to realize now that SAnta is coming if he is good and it is so fun~ He is old enough to realize what Christmas is and it is fun to talk to him about Jesus and what what he did for us- I love to watch his face get all serious and he LOVES his little baby jesus from the manger scene Grandma Great gave him. he plays with him all day long. We love December and are sad to say it will go by way too fast. But another year awaits and next December will be here before we know it! Happy Holidays!

YW modesty fashion show

I would recommend this activity for all to try!!!

So for Young Womens this week I decided to really hit them hard with modesty. In today’s world it seems to be hard for the girls to be modest when they want to be fashionable. They also seem to be afraid of wearing certain clothes because by themselves they are not modest but they don’t realize you can make them modest- SO I planned a Modesty fashion show but the twist was I collected tons of clothes from tons of people who are awesome and over a few weeks I was able to get a huge selection. I was also able to clear with our budget to buy them all new under shirts from down east so they could stay modest. We spoke to them before hand about how to be modest in all different ways and had the bishop take a few moments as well. Then we set all the clothes out on tables and told the girls they were there to make a cute outfit and they would walk the runway and show them to us- we had tables lined on the ground to look like a runway with lights around both sides and a big sign that said “Modest is hottest fashion show”. The fun thing was they didn’t know they could keep the clothes until the very end- It was fun because we kept hearing things like “oh I wish I had this” “I want this outfit now” and “whos are these cause they just lost them!” J It made more and more excited to tell them that they could have them- I had 6 categories they needed to make an outfit for (first day of school, sportie, spunkie/edgy, night out with the girls, date night and formal) they were judged on each category on if it was modest, fashionable, and how well it matched the category- (We had the bishop join us for one of our judges) these points came into play at the end… Well during the show we were able to help them pick out clothes that looked good together and tell the to pick a new shirt cause the one they picked was too small or didn’t look good- (we were fun about it) hehehe. We wanted them to learn how to dress good and appropriately. They got better and better as the night went on. They had so much fun with it and didn’t want it to end. The best part of all is when we told them they could keep the clothes- their faces light up better than if it were Christmas and all gasped and shouted “really” and as they were about to run over to the clothes we told them to be respectful and help each other out so everyone gets clothes that they want. They were actually very good at sharing and picking things out for each other and their were no fights about anything- we thought there would be more girls wanting the same thing and that why we did points for judging so they could bid on the item with their points but it only happened one time and it went smoothly! The best part for me is when one girl came to me with pools in her eyes and said “like I appreciate this sooo much, you have no idea, I just feel so grateful” her dad had lost his job this summer and she never got the chance to go school shopping- That made everything worth it! We had so much help and contributions and it was such a fun activity- I will probably make this an annual thing!

piles of clothes collected all clothes on the left are smalls then the next row is Medium then large and then Xlarge... we also got shoes and jewelry and other accessories!

My Hubby

So this is my husband Kasey Reed Craven, sometimes you just want to shout from the roof tops how amazing someone is and I did that already but I am still just full of energy just wanting to spill out to tell the world how much I love my favorite person EVER! You are all probably waiting to here some fantastic reason or story behind this but nothing out of the ordinary- My new favorite quote is "It's best when you make the ordinary- Extraordinary!" (I wont reveal where I heard but I am sure some of you know ; ) ) Anyway, Kasey is just like the greatest person ever- he loves me, all of me even the bad parts- and he is the best dad- I love watching Auklin look up to him and run to the door when he gets home and chase him down the sidewalk when he leaves. He works so hard to provide for us- and goes to school to support us for the future- Everything he does is for his family and I just want to thank him for making my ordinary life with him Extraordinary! xoxoxo- Love Love Love you babe!

St George..... Disaster?

So St George was a blast as usual! We loved everything we did and everything about it... except :) all the injuries and accidents. hehehe this trip caused more accidents than any other I have been on. to start....

this week has been Auklin and mines accident week and I am glad our injuries were not too serious although Auklin had us all scared- I will start with Auklins horror story of the week- we were all swimming out in the pool don’t worry he did not drown… he was going down the slide and loving it so much well he ended up slipping and falling and hitting his head on the cement- it swelled up pretty fast and look so horrible and this was right after his other bump on his head was just going away- in the exact same spot a tennis ball appeared on his head- he actually didn’t cry as long and hard as we thought he would. The bump went hay down and he was himself, we called a know and asked if we should take him in and he told us some signs to look for and if he was acting normal he would be ok- he was right back to himself in no time. And the bump has gone down a ton! Although all the little scrapes and scuffs got worse and now scabbed over and he just looks so sad! Then the next day we went shopping and when Kasey went into the dressing room Auklin followed him, well Auklin shut the door and got his finger pretty good- we are going to probably have to drill it because it is filling up quite a bit- poor thing! I think it hurt worse than his head- It looks like we are the worst parents in the world and we abuse out child. He posed pretty good for the picture I must say.

Well then the next day we were playing ultimate spoons in the pool and as I was diving for a spoon I hit into Kyron either an elbow, a knee, or a fist but I sure got a black eye- It swelled up pretty good but went right down, it just stayed purple. Then we came into make dinner and I was cutting lettuce and on the last cut I sliced my finger and I must say it was pretty deep- I saw purple… : / probably needed stitches but I opted for some super glue and a band aid. I am just waiting for the next major accident to happen. . . Besides the accident when Kyron backed into an expedition in the golfing parking lot! He can join our sad week of accidents! J

(So i wrote this while still in St. George and I am sad to say I spoke too soon...)

But to our dismay this was not even the worst of our trip- on our way home our little Luke had a tumble out of a shopping cart when we stopped at Ikea and at first he was fine and nothing seemed to be terribly wrong- for the next few hours he was doing fine and acting normal, well after a few hours his head swelled up more and more and he started to throw up and we all had learned thats not a good sign so he was taken right in to an instacare and form there he was sent to the hospital and it was there that we heard life changing news, our little Luke stopped breathing and was put on an inhabiter to breath for him and was given a CAT scan and was life flighted to primary children's. On his way there Davis hospital called PC and told them to get ready for Emergency surgery, Luke had a fractured skull and a ruptured artery in his brain. The minute he got there the team was ready and he was rushed in for surgery to fix the artery to prevent more swelling. Well with much prayer and a special blessing his few hour long, life threatening surgery lasted about 45 min and went perfectly. He is recovering good- he is breathing on his own and now we need him to eat on his own so we can get him out of ICU. He is such a trooper and we are so thankful he is ok! Thank heavens for the priesthood and for strong family and friends!

Getting there

So Kanyin is making up for when Auklin was born and I never felt like I had a newborn cause he was pretty strong and a good size from the get go- he rolled over at 3 weeks and I felt he grew too fast. Well Kanyin barely reached his birth weight at 6 weeks and now is still only 9 pounds at 7 weeks and tiny as ever. he still fits into his newborn clothes and I am kinda loving it! He is perfectly healthy so no worries... So here he is almost 2 months old and cute as ever! He is such a good baby- I really lucked out! Auklin loves him so much and always wants to hold him. I can tell they are going to be such good friends- at least I can hope for now :) Being a paretn is the best thing ever! It really keeps you in check and you learn so much- I just love my kids!!!

Kanyins blessing day

So Kanyin was blessed a bit early, my brother was from England and I wanted to do while he was here- it was such a special day! The only sunday he was here we had other obligations at the same time as our sacrament meeting so we decided to do the blessing in our home- well we didnt have enough room in our home so we did it in the chapel just at 5:30 and i actually really liked it. I was sad not to be able to do it in church with the songs and spirit there and our ward family so to still have it in the church was awesome- it felt just like we were in church. We sang and the bishop conducted and had it feel just like a meeting. I was so thankful for that! It was such a great day and thanks to everyone that helped make it special!

hahaha i love his eyes!!!

Sweet Big brother

So Auklin is loving having his brother home- he loves him so much. He is always exciteted to see him when we have him. He wants to hold him all the time. He is so soft with him and always whispering to himself... hold his head :) He freaked out yesterday when my sister was getting all her kids ready to leave my house and she was also holding Kanyin and Auklin said "NO! not taking the baby home" he thought they were going to take him home.. it was so cute. and as we were sitting in the front room the other day he went up to Kanyin and did this all by himself... I had just been taking pictures of Kanyin so I had my camera out. He is my sweet little boy- and he is growing up so fast! :(

Similarities but oh so different...

So here is a comparison... They look so much alike but so different at the same time!