This is the way we layout our clothes

When reading the title you must sing it. Haha

Call me a dork but I have been wanting to post the organization to getting ready in the morning with implementing independence but also having your child use all their clothes in their closet and look decent without wasting hours. I start by organizing the closet with the boys' clothes organized by sleeve length. I also put the clean clothes in the back of their particular section ( this is how I get them to rotate their clothes.) Every saturday (preferably) morning, I put together 5 outfits for the week. I also pick out church clothes including shoes to wear for sunday morning. I pick out of the front end of the clothes to keep clothes and pants rotated. I put them in a drawer in their room that only has these outfits in them. This way there isn't confusion nor a mess of picking out THE outfit for the day. Saturdays are a pick your own clothes day. Therefore I have answered your question of "who dressed them" if you see us on a Saturday.

This has been a saving grace to getting everyone and myself ready for work each morning. If I find an outfit that is too little, I have a constant box for once upon a child/city mission/next size down depending on if they are kenner's clothes, patton's or ike's.

Enough of the boring details.... Thought I'd share.

Wonder why

Wonder why I haven't posted any pics lately? Well this is why.... 3 boys always doing 3 different things. We have had fun at home the past couple weeks without dad around but are so so so looking forward to having dad around again!!!! I have set some big goals with my sister since my Boise trip. 1) drink 8 glasses of water a day 2) do something active for 30 minutes each day 3) only have firsts, not seconds or thirds or fourths ( not that I ever had fourths..... But really I gotta stop eating like I am pregnant that ended over a year ago. ) weightloss is a behavior modification plan. If you embrace it, life is good. If you go through it with a poor me attitude it stinks. Therefore this week has given me an extra half hour of my day that I didn't think I had. It is also amazing that if you put yourself as the priority how everything just comes with you. Here's a journey to a 5 k and feeling better with the way I look. Note: I didn't say losing an amount of weight....just want to feel better in my clothes however that might be.

Back on

In attempt to get some normalcy in life, I am going to try to blog. Why you ask put one more thing on my plate. If I blog, I take pictures. I take pictures, I write down fun memories. The purpose of the blog in the first place. Hopeful
That I can keep this. Also keeping my sister Annie accountable to work out 30 mon a day until I see her again. She is doing the same for me. We can do it!!!

My handy man

Casey has been working super hard on our house. Yesterday the siding and trim, today tiling the shower in the basement. I love him !!!

SNOW much fun!

Snow snow snow!  We took pictures the day before in the yard without coats and grilled out.  This day it snowed snowed and snowed.

 Ike was SO SO SO sad that he couldn't go outside, because I didn't have any snow things for him. 

 So I just put his coat on and put on big socks over his jammies...he was the happiest little boy in the world!

 Digging a ole friend out!

Lunch with Kenner and Ike's real birthday party

One morning, I found out that I didn't have daycare as we were on the way out the door...so I turned a sour day into a great one.  We got to eat lunch at Kenner's school and it was chili day!  Note to self...don't go to eat with Kenner while you have Ike. 

 Fun times at Ike's party with Grandma Jim, Grandpa Pat, mom, ike, and Grandama Jan  It was beautiful outside, but it was snowing only 45 minutes away. 

 Grandma Jackie, Grandma Carlece, Cheeseball Ike, and Mom

 Look at the Cheeseball! 

Grandpa Dennis, Grandma Kelly, ike, and Daddy

His party was a baseball theme with a "concession" stand for the cake.  I took a bunch of pictures, but they are on Grandma Kelly's good camera.  To be posted in the future.

Happy Birthday Ike

It was a combination of getting a checkerboard cake kit from my grandma Jan and Ike's birthday.  Instead of cupcakes at Daycare, Ike got to take a baseball cake.  Thanks to Sarah for taking the pictures!  What a cheese ball

Christmas and New Years!

Having fun in North Dakota at Grandma Ruth and Grandpa Cuyler's house.

 New year's in Hebron

 Great Grandma and grandps in their new NE gear!

 Playing sequence with Kenner.  Kenner is ALL about games!

 Having a blast at Kurk and Kris' house for New Year's eve! What a fun time again with family!

 More sequence w/ Kenner

 Fun with Grandma and Grandpa!

 Kenner the Cook with Grandma Kelly!

 Christmas at Grandma Kelly and Grandpa Dennis' house

 Playdough from Aunt Lucy.  Hey Lucy when are you coming to our house to play w/ them again?

So so grateful for our family and for the birth of Jesus!  So blessed!

Christmas

Fun Times with the Svitak's in December. 

 ike didn't really care about the presents...instead he liked the bag of kleenex's

November

This is a picture of a huge hotel in San Diego.  I can't remember the name...but I just liked taking fun pictures. 

 Happy 5th Birthday Patton...at Red Robin, of course.

 Rhi in San Diego at the San Diego Public Park.  It was the Grinch Stole Christmas Tree...gotta love Dr. Seuss!

 My buddy in the bathtub. He loves the bathtub, but just a little water.

 Daddy and his friend finishing up the roof before the storm comes.  This was the last picture taken with the old camera.  I realized just now why I don't have many pictures...the old camera only took 2 pictures per 4 batteries.  So frustrating!  I am so thankful that I bought the extended warranty at Best Buy.  I took it in and they gave me a new camera!  Woot woot!

October

 October was extremely bitter sweet.  We lost a great grandpa, but got to share some new memories and freshed family ties with all the love shared in the grief over a quick loss of our grandpa.  I have always had a special relationship with my grandparents, but many times you take them for granted.  I didn't get to spend a lot of time with my Grandpa Roger.  It is the little things in life that you miss the most.  I miss hearing his laugh at my brother.  I miss hearing new stories of Grandpa driving slow.  Life does go on and I am so proud of my grandma for all that she has accomplished.  I have NO idea what it is like to lose your best friend of 50+ years, but I do know the experience of  having an empty house and getting used to all the little noises that you take for granted when you shield and trust is next to you in bed or beside you to care for you.  I am so proud of all that she has done.  Love you Grandma Jackie!

October

Some tidbits from late September to October.  I think this picture is my view of what "after school" looks like.  Kenner was so excited about school each and every day. 

 Flowers from Casey.  They were suppose to come around my birthday (in August), but they came the week before Casey came home.  It is always fun to have flowers delivered to work:)

 Someone really enjoyed spaghetti!  Gotta love the spaghetti face

 Not sure why I took this picture, but i think it was my attempt to take a picture of what my life is like after school.  any ideas?

 Happy Happy Birthday Aunt Lucy!

Fall festival

This is crazy that I am just posting about the Fall Festival in September, but I realized that this was the time that Casey was gone.  I made the boys' capes the night before.  I had great ideas on what we were going to do...in fact I think I was going to make an ice cream costume for Ike and have the boys be DJ's and be dancing to Ice Ice Baby. As you can see, idea #1 didn't come to fruition.  Instead we had Super Svitak boys on bikes.  I always feel the need to participate in the parade, as it is in our front yard.  Fun times!

 Ike didn't participate, but instead had fun in the bounce house.

Yikes!

It wasn't until I felt the need to update my blog with real pictures from my camera that I realized that I haven't put a real picture on my blog since September.  Sorry folks who have wasted their time in checking my blog since then.  Stay tuned for fun pictures of the last 6 months!

Happy valentine's day

Kenner and Patton and I had fun making kenner's I pod touch for his valentine box. We also had fun w making non edible valentines. I took pics of them but w my camera. Stay tuned. Maybe this weeks I will get to downloading pics. I miss blogging but we haven't had much time around here. I still need to post about Ike b day.

Taken one day a part

Gotta love Nebraska