A Crazy Week

Well, my crazy week has finally come to an end. With my new calling in Relief Society and my still helping out the Young Women I've been BOOKED this week. Just this week I've helped with a funeral, made six banners with Young Women symbols on them (I couldn't have done them without Amy's artistic skills! She's amazing!), went to the Community Shelter, sewed patches on 16 shirts, decorated and attended the Young Women's program (New Beginnings), made some headbands for Amy, attended our Stake Relief Society Women's conference and had company come over too! Whew! And I couldn't have done it without my great husband helping me out. =) I love him! And to top it all off, our friend Marcela became a citizen this week!!!!! Yay Marcela!!Anyway, I wanted to post a few pictures of the kids since it's been awhile.

First, we have Sadie pouting because she doesn't want to eat her dinner. Like she has a plate of vegetables or something...geez...

And here's Katie Belle. She was running around and fell, hitting her head on the corner of the wall. The bandaid made it better. Funny how that works, but it does! That explains why I have so many different boxes of bandaids around here. "Do you want Barbie, Dora, Kitties, SpongeBob...?"

And here's the baby pool table we found for really cheap at Target. Casey couldn't help himself. You can see Katie Belle LOVES it!And to get you all in the Valentine spirit...we have a picture of Luke saying "I Love You!"

Okay, not really. Basically he was kissing into the camera but I thought it was cute. =)

Help me!

Maia was yelling for me to help her tonight. This is how I found her. (Yes, like a good mother I made her stay while I found my camera.) Uhhhh...how does this happen?

Fishing!

We had some family come and visit us over the holiday weekend. This time Grandpa Rawson was determined to go fishing and so he took Luke and Sadie on Saturday just to the stream across the road. They didn't have any luck so then he and Sadie went to the pond and tried again. No luck....again. But Sadie was instantly hooked!!!! Can you even believe it? Yes, she went fishing in the freezing cold in a SKIRT with WORMS and she was totally good with it! Just another reason to love Sadie. She begged to go again all day Sunday so Monday we all decided to go. We could actually walk to the ponds from our house. You can see the house behind the cars in the picture. (Okay, maybe you can't but that's where it is!) The ponds aren't much farther away.

It was really cold again so most of us didn't stay very long but Grandpa stayed and caught a few trout. What I thought was really funny was when he brought the fish in for the kids to see.

Maia's comment: "Can we take them to the hospital?"

Sadie's comment: "Can I hold one?"

Katie Belle's comment: "It got wet." =)

Yeah, so all the kids held one.......except for Luke. Puzzling isn't it? He must take after his dad!

Casey's Birthday

I know it's late but I had pictures to add to the blog of Casey's birthday party. He had actually invited some of our friends over but since they were on the verge of having their baby, they stayed home and the party was just us...again. So here's the birthday boy way excited to blow out his candles. And then he's handing out the candles for the family tradition of...........sucking the frosting off the end! =) Even Amy joined in on the tradition. It's a good one! I can't even begin to convey to you all how grateful I am for Casey. He is such a handsome, kind, generous, funny, loving, hard working and just amazing man. I know he tries his hardest everyday to let me know he loves me and the kids. Happy Birthday, Casey! We all love you so much!

You'll just have to bear with me but I just thought he really looked handsome in this picture. =)

Our Virtual Family

Let's talk about Mii for a second. So we got a Wii for Christmas were able to create ourselves digitally in a program called "Mii." It allows you to create a person using a variety of styles from lips to shirt color and this is what we got.

Originally I was just making one of me but the rest of the squad had to have one of their own. Here is what I (Chico) look like.

Not bad. I even have a mild gut if you can't tell. (Yes weight can be added also). Here is "Hottie".

Notice the hotness, the poise, the mole! I know, stunning. It is worth mentioning that her and I wanted something that represented us to the best possible description. Both Luke and Sadie decided to do something that best represents how they view their life or see themselves internally rather than look though they are close as well.

Now Luke and Sadie were both insistant on us naming them both "Vader" and "Alexa." Vader for obvious reasons and Alexa because she thinks the world revolves around her, well like a Barbie princess.

Now for the award winning Mii of them all. Yes it is Katie Belle. Here is the one girl who simply is unlike any other. I tried so hard for her to do differently but she kept yelling at me and getting mad. She even named it "Curvy" since it most closely resembles her. Here you go.

Katie Belle absolutely wanted every single thing that you see here. The hair, the glasses (glasses? I don't get it.), the mole, the triangle nose, but most of all she chose the skinniest, shortest profile possible. Yep she is 100% geek and proud of it.

Now for the Mii that is a shocker. You know how DNA in humans produces a certain kind of person. Well this is how Mii DNA composed Maia after Hottie and Chico got together.

Yep, Maia thinks she is black. She still named it Maia ironically the one out of all of us who stuck with the original name. I tried to change it but found that I just didn't care anymore after the battle with Katie Belle. Also she chose the fattest, tallest template possible. I thought she just didn't understand but no! Everytime she wants to play with "Maia." I am so lost and confused. Either way it goes to show that we Mattox's are tolerant of all races, genders, sizes, looks, and mental problems in the world.