Chris + Brooklyn

Crazy hair Mia

 Mia loves this snap chat filter that turns her into a puppy. 

Rhett and Lewis

Early morning snuggles in mommy and daddy's bed

 Everybody gets tummy time. Even Mia's dolls.

 These two…:)

Rhett and Eve

 Rhett and Lewis

Mia and Lyla…we were all inside talking when Ron looked out the window and said "um…they're naked!" 

 Mia was happy when Reggie came back from training after a month of being gone

 Tucking Mia in for bed. Bedtime is seriously one of my favorite things, and not for the reasons you might think. There is something about being tired that bring out the snuggly side in my kids, and I can't get enough of it. I love how time seems to slow down as we say prayers together, play a quick game of hide and seek as a family, tell stories, talk about our day, and give tons of hugs and kisses. It is seriously such a sweet time of day!

 Mia rough housing with daddy

 Mia has a serious case of bed head

I'm so sad to admit that this little precious got a little banged up because of me. She was crying for me to hold her while I was already holding Rhett who was also crying. She was crumpled into a little tantrum lump on the floor. I grabbed her wrist with one hand and tried to pick her up while still holding Rhett on my other hip, but her limp little tantrum body was resisting too much, and I heard her poor little wrist pop. She wouldn't use her hand or even move around very much that whole day. She got a blessing that night from Chris and Grandpa Brower and Grandma Kim wrapped up her little wrist in some ace wrap to help stabilize and support it. We got it x-rayed, and there was no break. The Dr. said it must be a pretty bad sprain. I felt terrible, and cried when she cried. Mia was a trooper and finally felt better a few days later.

 "Don't smile Mia."

 The relationship these two have is one of my very favorite

I don't think there is anything sweeter than these two faces.

Rhett Babbles and yells

Mia "What buddy? You love me??"

Mia

"My brother so cute mom!"

When I was jumping to reach something on a high shelf. "You a really good helper mommy"

We were driving home from church one Sunday and Mia started singing "Follow the Prophet, Follow the prophet, don't get hit by a car…" 

One Saturday morning after I had worked that night, I came home and fell asleep. Chris had the day off which hardly ever happens and he so sweetly thought to let me sleep and take the kids over to his parents' house to hang out. When I finally woke up, it was 2:00 pm and I was shocked I had slept so long. Usually the kids woke me up by 9:00 at the latest. I had no memory of Chris telling me where he was going with the kids, even though he had. I called Chris and he came to pick me up. I felt horrible that I had missed a whole day of being with the people I love so much, especially since Chris almost never has days off. A huge reason why I choose to work nights is that I want to miss as little time with my precious family as possible, so I was seriously a wreck about loosing so much time with them. When Chris came to get me I was crying. He obviously had no idea why his crazy wife would react like this, so I tried to explain how sad I felt about loosing so much precious time with the three of them when Mia piped up and said "Mommy sad. She love everybody so much. She my best friend. She gone all day, I miss her so much!" It was the sweetest little moment hearing such sweet thoughts from my baby girl that my tears of regret turned to happy tears. "Mommy happy now!!" Nothing can make me happy like this sweet family of mine.