Love those kids!

Some Fun Facts:

Lincoln loves TV
Lincoln Loves TV
Lincoln LOVES TV!
He loves playing with his buddies Inara & Grant.
But best buddy is always "Sissy"
Every middle aged woman is "Grandma"
He can count to 20, minus 13 15 and 19. Add 18 18 18 18 20!
We are in the process of counting objects correctly.
He knows almost all his letters by sight, but still working on "A"!! (also G, N, Y)
He knows all his shapes and colors.
He's not a fan of the color orange.
His friend Jennifer (speech) says he is talking very well.
If there is a hammer in his hand, it will be banging the wall just like Daddy:/
He can say his own name own, "Yinkin"
He loves having his Mommy home all the time.
Flash cards are his favorite toy.
The rocking chair is the best place to sit on Mommy's and Daddy's lap and read.
He is a good sleeper.
He never holds still, unless he is watching the best invention in the world.
Daddy wants to have more boys because he is awesome!
Very rarely does he throw a tantrum.
Mommy hobby, sewing. Lincoln's hobby, hitting people.
He loves bath time with Sissy!
He takes good care of his sister's baby dolls and is sure they get their nap.
He is now a social butterfly.
"Butterfly" is our favorite word he says
Winnie the Pooh translated: "I-need-a-poo"
Lincoln loves eggs!
Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, number one baby!
Lincoln is our favorite:)


Sequoia (Sissy, Quoia, Quoi, Baby Girl, Beautiful Daughter, Beauties, Darling, Princess, Turd, Crazy... the akas, whatever comes out of my mouth at the moment)
A tractor is her favorite toy.
She loves to wear necklaces and shoes.
She is talking so much!
When Mommy asks a question, she answers yes or no. (Love!)
If ice is seen, it must be in her mouth.
She is a good eater, even veggies!
She can do anything her big brother can do, just ask her.
She can definitely hold her own.
She will sit at the bottom of the stairs with her blankie and say, "Nigh nigh" when its time for bed.
Mommy wants to have more girls because she is so sweet and good.
She loves bath time with brother!
She LOVES to play in water.
She loves Little Einstein and will "pat, pat, pat"
She loves riding in the car with her brother.
She is still a blankie and binkie girl.
Mom doesn't like cleaning up after she eats.
She loves to wake up early and cuddle with Mommy on the heat vents.
Daddy is her favorite person ever.
She knows when Mommy is going to leave the house without her long before she
actually walks out the door. Its a tragedy.
She love noodles!
She does NOT like the neighbor's dog. (Don't worry darling, Mommy will shoot it. Heeheehee, kidding??)
She loves her sandbox.
One tough little princess right here.
Sequoia is our favorite:)

Thinking of our kids and all the awesome things they do, I totally want another one right now. But tomorrow, when they are pushing, smacking, and clawing faces (Sissy!!!), not so much. It just depends on the "moment" at our house:)

"Happy!! sad..."

We miss you Daddy! (I think that phrase is in almost every post???) But it's true every time:) I want you to be able to see the kids for a bit while you're gone.

For a little while we did have a "normal" life and Mike was home quite a bit, but now its back to the old days it seems. He had to leave for 2 jobs back to back in Eastern Wyo so I'm thinking home by next weekend?? Hope so darling!

This Sunday was actually a pretty good day. It seems Sundays (which is so sad) are the worst days for us when Mike is gone. These two think church is visiting the circus. Lincoln only escaped from me twice today, he actually laid down by me for like 15 min reading a book. That's a record!!! Sequoia decided to find a new squeal in sacrament meeting. Its super loud and girly. Anyways, not too bad of a day. I got to go to most of young womens and about 2 minutes of Sunday School. 3 more months couldn't come faster! Watch, as soon as she turns 18 months I'll be released from my calling and put in the nursery:)

Lincoln wanted to play with my flowers. When I went to check on him for nap time this is what I found. What a sweet boy:)

Our Precious Girl

Our Crazy Girl!

Grandma Phister will be so happy. She does "muscles" very well:)

He was laughing so hard he couldn't do it

Mike, this is for you today of your little babes...

Her hair was done so cute today but we took it out after nap, so now its back to the usual crazy. And don't you just love her rockin 80's outfit?!

I'm so happy she likes baby dolls now, finally!

Mom and her sweet boy:)

And her babes... Tried to get one of me and Quoi but she was not having that. Linc held still great because Mulan was right in front of him.

So my new favorite hobby... sewing! I love it! Toni gave me a rag quilt for Quoi when she was born and I loved it. So I thought of this blanket to make for the young women for their birthdays this year. We embroidered the values on some patches. I want to make me one! I still haven't frayed this one yet but I'm working on it. Its my third one!

"Happy!!! sad..."

Seriously, this kid makes me laugh so hard!! I love it! We were affraid by the time we got this on video he wouldn't do it anymore, no worries!

Wow, almost a full month!

Time is flying! I am the worst at posting stuff. We've been busy busy as usual! We painted the outside of our house (and it only took a month!) Seriously, our house was half gray and half yellow blotches forever. I'm pretty sure our neighbors hate us. But its finally finished (ish-still some touch ups, oh well) Even our Fed Ex guy told me our house looks way better. Was it a compliment or was our house really that ugly??:)

Before...

Now...

Just had to throw this in... Linc at the time of the "before" pics. Look how little the guy was! Time is flying!

Along the lines of painting, we did Sequoia's room as well. I LOVE it! Its not finished so no pics yet, but I'm so excited. We painted it all in one day (one very very long day). Thanks so much Mikey for doing that, what a darling:) Its so nice to have the kids in their own separate rooms. We no longer hear screams coming from Sequoia when Lincoln decides he wants to sleep with his sister and jumps on her in the middle of the night. And they've been pretty good about splitting up. I think it was time.

I have finally found the perfect park for us! I'm actually excited to take them! This is the 4th time we've been to one this summer now, look at us! Sad I know, but I hope we can make up for it before it gets too cold. This park is perfect for little kids. I still have to follow Sequoia around but I'm just so happy she can play too now!

Our sweet boy:)

On the cold mornings they will go and sit by the heat vent with their blankies and warm up. Just love these kids!

I love my sleepy time pics!! Sequoia did not sleep right through it like Linc did. She woke right up and gave me the grumpiest look. I love it!

We have to read his "Wite-neen Akeen" book at least 3 times a day right now. He even sleeps with it.

Dad and Linky playing

This was Lincoln after Mike and I danced to Mickey Mouse Clubhouse doing our "Hot Dog Dance" He is so funny!! He hates it when we sing or dance around him, weird!

Since January Mike has had maybe a week total of days off including weekends. So he took off 9 days in a row a couple weeks ago. Loved it!! Mike and I went to Wendover for 3 nights (thanks to my very loving mother who got to play with our darling children, and also Tenille for a night!) It was so wonderful to get to spend so much time together, get lots of rest and just hang out. What made it even better was Ty and Rachel drove 13 hours last minute to come hang with us too! What a blast! Us girls spoiled ourselves with massages and the boys had a good time hanging out together. We love you both Ty and Rach and hope we get to see you very soon! Of course no pics, you know Mikey!!:)

We stayed home and worked on the house and also did absolutely nothing and loved it when we got home for the week. It was a good time to get to spend with the kiddos. On Saturday we drove back to Utah and went to Annie and Morgan's for Tragon's baby blessing. That was super fun to get to play games and vegg with the family! Kim and Steve made it up (which was so kind of them to spare some of their time away from the Hatch's...you're so VAIN;) It was good to stay in Annie's cute PERFECT house, thanks for letting us come! We couldn't stay long, we had to hurry our GREEDY little bums home and make some more money! ;) It was so fun to watch all the little cousins play together and see how much each of them are all so different. And again, too lazy to get up and take pictures, of course. Sad now cuz it was really one of the funnest times I've had with the Goodman clan, but I'll just have to make up over Christmas with a bunch more pics!

I watched my friend Jenna's kids for a couple of hours a few days ago. The kids had a blast! The bins are always the favorite. Corbin and Sequoia are only a couple weeks apart. He is a stud! And Haidyn is darling. I'm happy they get along so well.

My clean eater, more than his sister at least!

I go crazy every time this girl eats. This is always the end result. She loves to "style" her hair during dinner.

Good Ol' Wyo... We went on the annual Hayride in McKennon and a dance after for mutual. It was super fun!

We are back home now and trying to get used to normal life again. Mike is still going out on jobs (he is gone now-love you mister!), but not as many so we really can't complain too much. Its pretty much feast or famine when it comes to him and leaving on jobs. We at least get to see him a few days in the week:) Things are pretty good with us. Sequoia wasn't feeling well last week and is trying to cut a big tooth in the back so she has been delightful as can be and NEVER sleeping, but I can live with that. She's way too cute! I think she's also been kind of missing her big brother to sleep by. They are so cute together; they are still just great besties!

She was so funny!!

And this was the crazy boy she was laughing at. Nerds!

Ele-Fant.... Et-e-tent

Yeah! Finally! Elephant! I love listening to him talk!