Franklins first official BOOBOO and truly BAD/whitetrash parenting.

It happened! Franklin was playing with a frame on a table and it fell and caught his finger in between the frame and the table. This resulted in a BAD BOO BOO! I of course freaked out inside but was calm on the outside, Thank you, for your applause! It was masterful acting on my part! Now comes the part of the story I am awfully embarrassed about....upon looking for bandaids Jake and I realized that we were not good parents and had NO bandaids. Truth is we had just never needed them and therefore didn't even notice we were such bad parents. Jake was very inventive and constructed this beautiful make shift bandage out of toilet paper and tape.
Awesome...that is the part where our parenting went from bad to WHITE TRASH. Hooray for problems and an even bigger hooray for solutions in a pinch.

Mort Family Reunion

Here is Jake sporting our family T-shirts. It was sport themed so we were the referees!

This year my family was in charge of the Mortimer Family Reunion. Now for anyone who doesn't know this family reunion is not your average family reunion. I have 71 first cousins (my mom will probably comment with a more accurate number:) and they all have multiple children, in fact, I think my little Addy was the 165th great grandchild born. So as you can tell this reunion is HUGE and it is also taken VERY seriously! There are games, raffles, mingling and eating. It has been judged by the elders (My Uncles and Aunts) That this reunion has to be at least 2 nights and 3 days. So this year was my families turn to be in charge and make it THE BEST REUNION EVER! If you also don't know my immediate family love to plan parties and we take pride in being AWESOME at it. So the verdict....the reunion was AWESOME! We had Mortimer money issued for cleaning or participating in activities that could then be used at the family concessions. Hello, we had a popcorn maker and snow cones!

Franklin wanted nothing to do with anyone or anything that wasn't in the sand box. I think he spent the entire 3 days in there. I pushed through even though I was 8 months pregnant and we all had a great time. This was also the last reunion my Grandma Mortimer was at. She passed away in aug. She was an incredible woman and an amazing example to her family.

Day at the Museum

With Jake being in school it isn't very often that we get to go and do fun stuff as a family. However this day was a special day. This day we got to go to the museum at Thanksgiving Point, it was awesome. Aunt Suzy and Aunt Mckell and all the Cousins came too which made it even better! We watched a reptile show upstairs and were lucky enough to watch the giant snake PEE all over the guy doing the show. Frank hadn't found his love for dinosaurs yet but he loved being with all the cousins and loved playing in the sand.

My Jake Ben

I love this man. I was reading Stephanie Clarks blog and felt so inspired by a post abut her husband. It was so sweet. I feel that way about Jake all the time. I love him so much sometimes I feel dizzy. One of my favorite things in this world is to snuggle next to him and just be near him. Did I mention he cleans, cause he does, all the time. Especially with me being pregnant, he has just picked up my slack. Jake remember the day we decided to get married. We were sitting on the couch in Ashley and I's apartment and you looked at me and told me you wanted to marry me, and we cried and we hugged and we kissed and we made out :)How about the day you proposed in the park. We were alone on a blanket and you kneeled down and everything. Remember when I cry for no reason and you try to make me laugh. Remember the day we were married and how handsome you looked. Remember the greatest day of my life? The day we were sealed to each other! It was my Birthday, I've never felt power like I did that day. When Heavenly Father made us a family forever. Remember looking at Franklin for the first time and just falling in love with him. Thank you for making me a mom and giving me such an incredible boy! Thank you for our baby girl who is almost here. You always make me feel safe, you always make me feel beautiful. You are so creative and talented and awesomly good looking. It has been a pleasure being your wife for the past 2 years and I am looking forward to our eternity. Thank you for being MY JAKE BEN!

FLASHBIZZLE!

Just wanted you to know this is a very different post! Not exactly a flashback. More like a flash present, so it pops! Flashbizzle......ouch my eyes! Get it?



Now who doesn't love a good AM parade? I know I love em! Love em so much I cry when the veterans pass by and I sing with the fight song as Orem High represents! I also yell out at the state government people that I am "Doyle's Daughter" sadly for my dad, the people actually know who I am talking about. Example: Orem Night Parade year 2000 and something. Governor Mike Leavitt rides by in a very nice vehicle and smiles and waves I yell, "Mike, Mike, Doyle's daughter." Governor Leavitt nodes and then gives me a little worm point salute. It was like he was going to tickle the sides of a small child but it was just pointed at me, needless to say it did make me giggle and even tickled. Isn't that weird when you can tickle someone and not even be touching them....sorry off subject! PARADES, God Bless America and our ability to turn any holiday into a 2 hour advertisment for anyone willing to pay an entree fee!

FLASHBACKS!

This post is called flashbacks because I want to feel good about myself! You see in true JULIE fashion I actually lost my little camera for awhile and then when I found it, I didn't know how to use it. Now that I do I feel it important for myself, my children and all of my very loyal readers! To flash back to some very important parts of Franklin's little life!
I.E. The FIRST BIRTHDAY


The CAKE I made him! I know what your thinking and YES, it was delicious!


Watching him dig into the cake was everything you could hope for as a mother!

Bad Mom? Good Mom?

When I was a kid I used to think, "When I'm a mom, I'm gonna let my kids do whatever they want. Watch whatever they want on T.V. Wear whatever they want and eat junk food all day long." To my 7 year old self this indeed sounded like the perfect Mom! Today I found myself actually being "That MOM" and it wasn't as much fun as I once believed it to be! In fact I think it brought on some guilt! However guilty I felt about this mom moment I was not to proud to post some very awesome photos!
This is Frank! Today while I was facebooking and being rather unproductive I let Franklin watch his very favorite T.V. show, Yo Gabba Gabba!

I was however unaware that sitting next to him was this lovely bag of chips. Cute part of the story, Franklin actually asked if he could have them. He said, "Mom mom, dis?" His cutness won me over and I became to Cool MOM! "Yeah sure you can have those chips! Forget the fact that it's 9:30 in the morning and your only in a diaper! Sure my love eat away. Ok now tell mom, Do you love me more?"

So listen up all you! I'm sure there were plenty of "No Nos" in our little adventure this morning but for one second I got to live our a 7 year olds fantasies and doesn't Frank look really really CUTE!