This is the closest thing I have to family photo!

were going to have to work on that!

We are Oregon bound! It is nothing short of incredible how much stuff such cute tiny little people require! Between The husbands shoes and my makeup.....just kidding

I really feel like I packed everything we own for our week long adventure...It is probably a good thing considering it is raining ashes outside and all of poor Utah is on fire!! here is to hoping our home is still standing when we get back! There is only a 13 hour drive standing between us and fresh air!

wish us luck!

Today my little mister turns two...but don't tell him!

 My little mister turns two today!! But we aren't telling him. We are going to celebrate his "puppy theme" party with family in OREGON! I am counting down the seconds...my beautiful twin sister (I always worry that it sounds conceded to say that? :) and her cute family already beat us there.....but it seems slightly wrong to celebrate without them! So in the mean time we are making it a birthday week!

And I can't help myself from posting the last one....she has been a dream of a baby. I feel like if I don't brag about her then I would be ungrateful for the last six weeks of bliss! I feel like as I am typing this I am jinxing myself....

 When you ask him his age he will say "twooooo" and hold out one finger...It is so sweet that I just want to pick him up and squeeze him....I actually did do that a few months ago and his back popped four or five times....it was one of those moments where you slowly set them down and look around to see who just saw....he really is that cute though!

we have  had pizza at the park, cupcakes for dinner (and yes that is wynnie on the counter...seems safe right?) ice-cream for dessert and been letting The Little Mister play in his new sandbox with his new toys......just for the heck of it. Yep for no other reason except turning two is a pretty big deal!

chocolate makes sweet babies

 A sweet friend informed me about a study that claimed that ladies that ate chocolate every single day of their pregnancies had sweeter calmer babies. Sign me up!

Oh how I love sweet calm babies....and I love chocolate. Everyday I ate it. My little Mister never once complained!  And it worked. My little Miss is in fact so sweet and so calm.

 Now here I am with one sweet baby and an extra 40 pounds to love.....it was so worth it!!

 my favorite recipe of late has been this one. I didn't even know it was possible to make decent chocolate chip cookies with out at least 2 sticks of butter?! What? But I suppose the crisco and entire bag of chocolate chips is what makes the magic happen for this recipe.

Sadly I have decided to give up sweets until my anniversary....I have never made it 7 days we shall see how the next 7 weeks go....I mean I still have 40 dainty little pounds to lose remember? So feel free to make this recipe for me and in Cate fashion make yourself sick off of cookie dough and eat a half dozen cookies fresh out of the oven...while there still so hot you can't even taste them....you know I would....

 Love Cate

xoxoxoxxox

a super {hott} dad

Yesterday The Husband woke up to balloons, with his babies sporting handmade super dad shirts. He even had a few gifts just waiting to be opened. Our children gave him ingredients for chocolate chip cookies....the other bag was a gift from me, the mother of those same children, his wife ;)Friday night I ran into walmart trying to discretely make my purchases. Naturally, with those intimate gifts in hand I ran into my next door neighbor and her college age daughter....I felt so embarrassed thinking she knows.....as if my wedding band and two sweet babies weren't my first giveaway....

Left: Jett and Wynns Dad Right: Dallas Dad

The little Mister was thrilled about the balloons, The little Miss was more concerned about when she was getting breakfast. After present were opened and sweet babies were fed.  I brushed my teeth and announced to The Husband to put on a nice pair of pants because the little Mister and I were taking him out to breakfast. We dropped little Miss Wynn  off with her wet nurse auntie and the three of us went to the diner for a heaping stack of french toast. 

Balloons and french toast...I am pretty sure that at least Jett had a wonderful day!

This morning (actual Fathers day) I woke up to the roar of the vacuum and the smell of cleaning detergent. Kyler smiled at me and said "I thought if I didn't clean everything, it wouldn't get done." I glanced from the mountain of pots and pans waiting to be washed to  cheese stick stuck to the wall next to my foot, I was pretty sure that this was his attempt at trying to make me feel guilty .....But how could I do anything but smile and be blissfully happy? My house was being cleaned by a pair of hands that didn't belong to me!! I knew there was a reason I wanted to marry that man and have his babies!! He really is that wonderful! 

*supplies needed for shirts

-Transfer paper

-White T-shirt

-Font 28 days later

-I ran this photoshop action first and then this action second(tip: you can leave it looking like a comic strip or you can go into the history and delete the last step and it will have the same effect that I used....enjoy:)

we're in bed today: Mastitis

we're in bed today.

I have mastitis.

Kyler woke me up because I was crying in my sleep. I had the chills and my entire body hurt. I started seeing honey bees coming towards me singing the theme song to the cat in the hat (what the heck).....Then my fever broke. 

I feel so sorry for myself......and my poor left breast.

 luckily with a little cabbage, antibiotics and a priesthood blessing

 I am on the mend!

any mamas out there with any tips or tricks up their sleeve please share!

getting this once has been one time too many!!

holy. smokes.

apparently first crushes run deep!!

Every time I step into a shower I feel like I am stepping into a vacation! The shower is where my most profound thinking takes place and I let myself completely relax. I seriously wow and amaze the husband with the intelligence of the questions I yell out  to him over the roaring water.  

Me: yelling "who was your very first crush?"

The Husband: "What?"

I start feeling dumb after the third time of repeating my seemingly important question. I am sure The Husband is debating the fine line of how many times it is okay to ask "what?"

The Husband:  finally hears and without hesitation  answers "Oh, Winnie Cooper from the Wonder Years. Who was yours."

Me: already knowing the boy that stole my five year old heart "Mine is was Benny the Jet  Rodriguez from Sandlot." I didn't mention how soon after I would break up with Benny for the one and only JTT (my niece asked who JTT was! I felt like I was dating myself. I had no other choice but to speak her language....picture Zac Efron and Justin Bieber but waaaayy cuter. She understood ;)

Ironically I ended up getting my Jett and The Husband now has his Wynnie!

 I thought Jett was giving his baby sister a kiss, unfortunately he wasn't......I spanked him for the first time and we both cried (for the record this wasn't the misters first offense).....On a happier note the world could use a few more photos of the little miss

 and her sweet little toes!

The first five days of the week are the hardest

 There are two things I LOVED about feeling under the weather this weekend, all the wonderful advice you my dear readers and friends gave me to help me get better, thank you it totally worked! And having The Husband home for three whole days...that man is so helpful!... His Mama taught him well. Life is just easier with two set of hands instead of just my one (there was one point at the park today where more than one set of hands would have been super helpful ;) Needless to say I woke up this morning longing for it to be the weekend again!

luckily my sweet cousin posted 25 ways to get out of the mommy rut! I love the first item on her list... Especially since me getting ready this morning involved changing out of my sweat pants into exercise pants. I like to give the illusion that I exercise..ha. 

I am pretty sure that the first five days of the week are meant to be enjoyed as well as my beloved weekend. I want to find a rhythm where I feel like we are thriving those first five days instead of merely surviving. My six weeks is nearly up....I have no choice but to put my big girl panties on and make the best of the weekdays. I am the Mama to two sweet babies who deserve a mama that completely enjoys life and not just endures it until Friday rolls around!

My goal this week is to try to look and feel pretty...I wish I could say that it meant wearing pants that buttoned but that would exclude all my maternity jeans and I would be completely pantless ....not a cute look. But I know a shower and some makeup would be good for the ol' self esteem! So this week I am getting head to toe ready everyday...for no other reason then I feel better when my teeth are brushed.