Sage is getting OLD!

My old Sage is starting to show his age. He turned 3 years old this last week. MAN that is OLD. When you think of it from my perspective (the fact that he is my baby) it really doesn't seem possible that he can be that old yet. But indeed he is.
We had two birthday parties for him. He LOVED all of that attention and it dragged out his birthday for a few days as well, which he TOTALLY got into. I think we are done with cake for a while though. Although the boys tell me that they really couldn't ever get sick of having cake. In fact this morning they were asking when the next birthday was. Crazy Kids.
Here he is blowing out the candles on the cake. He didn't even let us finish singing, he saw candles he is allowed to blow out, he blew them out. Plain and simple!Blue Tiger and Sage ready to cut the cake.Opening presents. That is my favorite part, and the gifts last so much longer than the cake.He spends hours playing with all of his new toys. Exactly what 3 year olds are supposed to do.His brothers are happy to play with him too!Our next party we had a couple of days later with other friends. Boy we are so blessed to have so many friends. This is one of our friends who when he found out we were having a party really wanted to come. He loves our Sage, and our Sage loves him. It's a good relationship!Grandpa Crimson, looking quite dashing with his cool (although temporary) beard.Grandma Crimson, beautiful as usual. (I loved what Grandpa Crimson said about her, he told me "I married her because I thought she was the cutest thing ever.")And our Ray of Sunshine. She is taking Cake decorating classes and made a cake for the party. And although I didn't get a good pic of the cake I thought it was darling. It was a clown cake, and Sage LOVED it. In fact he kept trying to put the clown face on it in different places until there was no cake left to put it on. Happy Birthday Sage. I love you!

Wow, did that really happen?!

Today at church the most INCREDIBLE thing happened. We all stayed in Sacrament Meeting. Now I know that shouldn't be considered a feat, but believe me, it is! I can't remember a time for maybe the last ten years when we weren't taking one kid or another out of the meeting. But today it didn't happen. Now trust me, there were moments when I was sure that one of the boys was just pushing things too far, but each time we were able to calm them down pretty quickly and stay in the meeting. I looked up at the clock and we only had ten minutes of the meeting to go. I was SURE that we would make it, and then sure we wouldn't make it. But suddenly the time was up... WE MADE IT! I'm not saying that I expect it to become a steady trend, but it's nice to know it can happen every once in a while. YEA!

Another room down! Whahoo!

Being that today was a break from school I took advantage of the fact that I had my boys home and started off first thing this morning with Star and Blue Tiger. ORGANIZING! We cleaned their room thoroughly and vacuumed and everything. And just when they thought they were done I told them that was just the PRE-cleaning.
We took everything out of drawers and closets. Cleaned out under beds and dressers, and on top of shelves and dressers. Totally organized games, books, nick knacks and then vacuumed again. Star told me that his room totally feels empty. Well it should! We took a whole bag of junk to the garbage and two bags of clothes, shoes, and stuff to give away out of there. We were finished in the early afternoon so they could go and spend some time outside in the (desperately needed) beautiful day we had today. YEA!

Sage Started School

Today was officially Sage's second day of school. The first day I dropped him off and picked him up, but today he left and came home on the bus. The bus drivers told me how easily he was transported, how he never cried, how he went along with the other kids, and how cute he is. (I knew that one already.)
His teacher came by after school today and told me he had already gotten into the routine of things. And how incredibly smart he is. He figured out the kid gate they have to keep the kids from going into the play area. Not only that but he got in there twice before they realized how he did it. She told me he did it so quietly and quick, and asked me if we had a gate like that since he seemed to come with the knowledge. I told her I didn't have any gates and all he had to do was watch once or twice and he would be able to figure it out. I then showed her the precautions that I keep on the doors around my house. (I've dealt with the escaping kid problem before.)
She told me that she thinks he will be making big progress. And after what she has seen in just these two days she will probably be sending him on to the more advanced class next year. And here I insisted on this class because I thought the advanced class would totally be too much for him. I guess I should have known...after all....he IS my Sage.

2010 A House of Order

My goal this year is based on Doctrine and Covenants 88:119
Organize yourselves: prepare every needful thing, and establish a house, even a house of prayer, a house of fasting, a house of faith, a house of learning, a house of glory, a house of order, a house of God.
Each month I will be studying one of the different topics (prayer, fasting, faith, learning, glory, and order). This month I am focused on order.
So, with my initial focus is organization. I am trying to go through each room in the house and make it organized. Have a place for everything and everything in it's place. We started with the master bedroom. It only took a day and it feels so good to have a place in the house that is totally organized (at least almost). I've been working a little bit on the boys rooms. I keep thinking it would be easier if I had a bigger house, but I need to work with what I've got so I just have to throw out and give away a bunch of stuff. ARGH That is the hard part. Anyway, I thought I would post this and maybe somehow it will help me knowing that everyone knows my goal.

Welcome

Hi There,
I have made a couple of changes to my blog. I wanted to start from scratch and so I made a book of my blog and have that to keep. And now I am starting over. I will probably write most of the same kinds of things. But wanted to call the boys by different names. I'll probably change it again next year (I am a woman, it's my prerogative.) In the mean time. I hope I don't confuse anyone.