It Is Lame

That I've been slacking so much on posting to my blog.So an update on our fam:  I am fully recovered from my surgery. I had so much help from my mom, Jeff's parent's, my sisters in law, and my ward family. Thank you everyone for loving my little boys and taking care of them when I couldn't and for all the freezer meals, it helped immensely! I have the best ward, seriously. I hate to ask for help because I hate putting people out. But I didn't even have to ask! They just are so awesome.
Bennett is doing great in school. We went to a parent night at his school this week and I haven't seen him that excited in a long time. He was showing us everything- even the bathrooms :) He introduced Jeff and I and Casey to his teachers with out us even asking him to and introduced us to his friends Quinton, Zane, a boy who he forgot the name of, and his girlfriend. Yes. He has a girlfriend. Okay, okay, so he calls his friends that are boys his boyfriends too, he has no idea what any of that means. It was funny, the girl's family walked by us and Bennett yelled "That's my girlfriend!" (I guess he forgot her name too) but the mother of the little girl turned and laughed. It was so fun to see all his little crafts  he made hanging up on the walls.  His teacher says he's a great helper and takes his job as line leader very seriously. He loves going to school, he just gets right out of the car with out crying or anything (even has that smile on his face where he's trying not to smile because he's so excited). I'm so proud of my little man!
I've been trying to start my photography business again and I'm getting into Pampered Chef which I'm really excited about and doing Relay For Life stuff.
We've been redoing our back room. The carpet was just gross out there. FYI if you plan on getting a puppy, consider also getting pergo floors :) It was really bad to begin with though, the back door is in that room and mud just would get tracked in. So we are putting some laminate flooring down and I painted the walls a milk chocolate color. It looks so much better and the floor isn't even down yet! The floor will be dark walnut.  I'm trying to convince Jeff to let me do a faux board and batten look around the room to go over the wainscotting we currently have in there. It's a big job so maybe we'll have to do one wall at a time. After it's all done we'll have that be our dining room with a desk for my crafts and sewing.  Where the dining room table is now there used to be a fireplace that they sealed up. Jeff wants to put a pellet stove there and get rid of our old, loud furnace. It's a great idea (especially if we put a fireplace mantle around the stove) but I think it's a bigger project than Jeff has in mind.
The boys are now sharing a room and doing awesome! I wonder if Casey feels safer with his big brother in his room with him. It's fun to listen to them chat before they fall asleep although they don't do it very often. They are such good friends and I hope they always love each other as much as they do now. The other day Casey bonked his head and when I was holding him he was calling for Bennett so Bennett came in and he asked Casey what was wrong and Casey said "I bonk head" and Bennett kissed it better, then Casey was fine. I bet they really bonded over my recovery period when they had to rely on each other when they'd go to other people's houses.
So now that the boys are sharing their room, Jeff and I have our room back which is sooooo nice. We were in the back room before.
Casey's hair has still not been cut. He's talking so much more. The other day he was playing with our vacuum cleaner and got yogurt all over it and I said "Oh Casey..." not even really mad just annoyed and he said "I sorry mommy" I didn't even know he understood the concept of sorry. It broke my heart, so sweet. He is constantly talking to himself or us. And he sings to himself. He reminds me of Boo from Monster's Inc when she's going to the bathroom singing. You can't really understand what he's saying exactly.  His favorite song to sing is the Buzz Lightyear song when Buzz finds out he's a toy and tries to fly but falls. He's pretty good at remembering the words.
Lucy is doing great although she's becoming more brave which is not that great because if she gets out of the house she'll head right to the park. We cut her mop of hair, now she looks like a cocker spaniel and a million times cuter! We love her to pieces! She's still my dog though. :) She does have a problem with loosing control of her bladder when she gets excited. So if you come to our house or when you meet her, just don't pet her until she calms down or talk in a high pitched voice. Yesterday we got rid of an old recliner that was in pretty good shape but we just listed it for free on craigslist. A guy came to get it and when he came in Lucy jumped up on it and he pet her and she peed. Just a little, don't know if he noticed cuz he sat down in it right after. Oh well, it was free. Nothing a little soap and water won't fix.
Jeff has been busy at work. I'm so lucky he gets to come home every day for lunch and is off by 4:30.  I love that guy so much. He is the worlds best daddy and husband. He's had a lot of stress this past year and had to fill in for me a lot and he has handled it amazingly! All the while with a sense of humor that helped more than anything.
So that's us right now. I love my little family, I'm so thankful for all the laughter and love in this house.