I am not expeciting a single person to read ALL OF THIS!

I just copied this from my online journal. Therefore it so very grammatically incorrect, but if i focused on that then I woudn't have time to write all that i did. So, as a disclaimer this has many mistakes and I don't care!! I am so glad it is DONE!! I can't get my pics uploaded and it is driving me crazy!!!!!!

Well, it has been almost a month, but i better jump on this right away or I will regret it!

What have I been up too? Let me start with this last weekend. Jason, the kids and I went to the Kentlands Farmers Market. It was fine, but nothing to do again! After that we went to the nursery to find plants for our front planter in the yard. We weren't able to find what we wanted so we headed home to put the already asleep mitchie and matti to bed. After that i rode to Lowe's and picked up some hydrangaes and little flowers. I can't remember what they are called at the moment. We came home and worked really hard and put mulch down and just had a good time. I borrowed the Thurston's blower and blew the walk clean. That night jason and I had a date and snuck Potbellies and a Diet Coke in my purse and went at watched RObinhood. It was pretty good. I was entertained, but we were reminded how we HATE movie theatres. People (kids) are so obnoxious and annoying that it could just ruin the show for you. When we left that night the power had gone out, so i told the babysitter, Kara Crowder, that pioneers were babysitters too, and to read by candlelight! Luckily the lights came on shortly after we left. When we pulled in at 11pm i noticed the boys light was on! Woops! I guess it was on earlier before the power went out. They were fast asleep in the bright has heck room! It was nice to get away. I am starting to think that date night weekly is a MUST for jason and me! The next morning the Young Women had a brunch for Kristi Cutler, our YW president at the Crowders. It was great and really nice. So, remember those plants we planted on Sarutday? Well today I pulled them ALL up, plus the 3 existing roses and replanted them all, plus 5 more and put a different color mulch down. I like it more now, and the plants will look better when they grow bigger and fuller. They weren't in a great order before. Last Friday after horseback riding jayne, john, kelley, me and all our kids went and picked strawberries at Homestead Farms. I LOVE THAT PLACE!!!! The boys sat and picked strawberry after strawberry and were so darn cute. They loved it. ALexis just ran ahead with the boys and did a great job picking our families strawberries. The best part about doing things like that is that usually the weather is perfect (despite my allergies) and the backdrop is always BEAUTIFUL!!! I NEVER GET SICK of driving around here. I love it. I can't make myslef bring the kids home before dinner if i can help it. I can tell they also just want to be out in it as well. AFter the picking, the boys and Alexis sat at the chicken coup for 20 minutes just playing and watching the chickens. They loved it and were mesmerized. After them, it was the goats. we went into the store to pay for our strawberries and buy some honey sticks and candy sticks and their fresh honey from their own farm. I just love going there!!

I AM 32 years old now! The night before my birthday we went to the Hanson's new home to celebrate mine, Natalie and Matt Markoff's birthday. It was fun. The kids loved it. Jason stayed home with the boys. It was fun and there was great food. Friday night jay, jon and Jayne and I went to Papa Razzi in Georgetown for dinner to celebrate my birthday. It was fun hanging with them. We people watched after while eating Haagen daz. IT was a fun night. Mom and dad left the morning of my birthday. They were here for a week to watch The Savior of the World play that we were ALL in and that Jenn directed. That was a very big production that was put on for the ward. Jenn worked her bootie off on it, and it turned out marvelously!!!! It really was an amazing experiecnce and it was a beautiful play! I was an angel, but jill, john and Jayne and Jon layne had really big roles. Jon Layne portryaed Christ, Jill was Mary Magdalene and johnny was doubting Thomas. My parents LOVED it and so did everyone else!

Enough of catching up, let me get caught up with the kids.

Just tonight jason said that Alexis is just totally getting older. it is so bittersweet. She is even looking a little pudgier on her arms. She is more mature, more helpful, actually that girl has ALWAYS been very helpful to me, thank goodness. She usually does anything i say, i really appreciate it too. She loves playing with her cousins. I am so glad she gets to be with them almost everyday. She enjoys playschool and she really loves horseback riding. She trots and even stands up on the horses. She can do 2-point and around the world very well. She is such a doll. I love how excited she gets to go places, any place. Friday is her last day of horseback riding until fall. She has a horse show on Saturday where she will get a ribbon. She is into combing her hair or mine, she loves how she looks when we do her hair in bows and roses. SHe likes to dress herself and she is very independant. She is able to do her carseat on her own about 30% of the time. It is pretty hard to latch both bottom straps, but she sure likes to try! I usually let her get out of her buckle when we are at the property. SHE LOVES IT!! i think most kids do, i loved when we got to do the fun things in the car. She is still VERY lovey, huggy and kissy! She is especially to MATCH Hanson. SHe has a REAL crush on that boy!! It is really cute, becuase she means it wholeheartedly! Sometimes she is WAY to clingy and kissy with him, so I have tried to teach that a little goes a long way and SLOW IT DOWN! I think she will definetely take after her mother in the boy crazy department!! I don't encourage it though at all, but i think it is funny how she is just naturally like that!!

The boys. where do i start? They are the cutest little things i think i have ever known, (with ALexis of course!), but i think that because there are two it's just a cuter little package!

Mitchie 22lbs

Mitchie is the sweetest litte thing ever!!! His gappy grin is to die for cute. He has most of his top teeth besides the molars and is has 4 bottom teeth

He finds me to give me huge open mouth kisses that I LOVE!!!!!!!!!!!

Walks around like he is a 14 year old boy, ( so cool!)

Loves hats

LOVES the outdoors

loves to take toys from Matthew

hugs my legs and rests his head on my leg when we are standing.

lays his head in my lap a lot.

So sweet and just darling

LOVES Sunny and lays ALL over her and has no fear of her at all (he hates her loud shocking bark though)

Understands EVERYTHING i say and does what i say even with a couple of commands.

Tries to climb out of his highchair often.

OFten opens the oven door and climbs sits on the door. SCARY!!

He will let me cuddle him and hug often.

He is starting to try and take off his diaper. He h

Matthew 24lbs.

He is my big man boyfriend I call him. I feel like he is 20. I love this kid. He is so sweet and charming and loving and cuddly.

He gets so frustrated when Mitchie comes after him to take his toys. Usually he just hands it over to him, but he is getting tougher. He is so much bigger than mitchie too, so it is so funny to see him get bullied.

He has such broad shoulders and big wide feet. I love it.

He loves shoes

He loves being outside

He loves when Alexis plays with him

He loves baths and standing up in the water and putting his face down in the water and drinking it up! YUCK! He loves hitting mitchie on the head with his hands or toys. That happens a lot!

He lays on me and lets me cuddle OFTEN! he will snuggle and watch a show with you.

He loves daddy and Grandpa Miller. He will sit on the laps for a long time!

He loves flying down the stairs.

He LOVES his bottles in the morning and at night and screams for it!

He will dive onto his bed when he sees you in the morning out of excitement.

I could go on and on about each of these kids. All i know is that even though life is busy and at times WAY stressful I am in awe at how much I love each of them SOOOO much. They make me so happy and I am so blessed to be their mom. They bring me so much joy and happiness that i never thought imaginable!! I am entertained by them on a daily basis and they brighten my mood whenever I am down, or stressed or just mad! I can't imagine my life without anyone of these cuties and I just want to continue to enjoy them for years to come!!