Little Things

Sometimes I get so wrapped up in life and all the "stuff" that goes on that I sometimes literally have to remind myself to slooooow. it. down. Step back and take a real good look at all the beauty around me...  Like when Bronx tries to flush Bridger's t-shirt down the toilet, or when I turn my back and the new puppy takes a crap (potty word..naughty mama) on my clean carpet, or when BOTH kids are screaming bloody murder and the doorbell and phone ring at the same time. Nice. Or the bajillion times I have caught Bronx eating cat food or digging for treats in the trash can...WHYYYY!! Oh and I just LOVE cleaning the toilets every single day because my 4 year old struggles to keep it down! Changing diapers like its no ones business, cleaning up barf covered EVERYTHING, constantly wiping noses and drool like I invented Puffs, making mac & cheese with my eyes closed. Oh and don't even talk about trying to use the bathroom alone!!! Cooking and cleaning up three times a day plus snacks, laundry piles from hell (another 25 cents in the potty mouth jar), answering so many, "Why" questions that I am begging to be put in the quiet corner. "No!", "Don't hit your brother!" and "For the love, where did you find ANOTHER roll of toilet paper?"  Beautiful isn't it? I thought so.  

 

 Oh the faces only a mama could love.. and I do. More than I ever knew you could love a person. We are far from perfect...we don't pretend to be but we are happy. So I will continue my Mama journey covered in whatever we had for lunch, baby in one hand and my phone in the other...just in case 911 needs to be called..

XOXO

Bridgers BATMAN party

You know when you are little and you just CAN'T wait for your birthday...like you start counting down the days from the year before, someone asks you how old you are and you add a 1/2 or 3/4 to your age just to make it sound "that" much closer to your big day?? Well birthdays for me growing up were ALWAYS a BIG deal. My sweet mom always went WAY out of her way to make it the best day EVER! Now that I have my own little wolf pack I want to do the same for them..except it makes me tear up just thinking of another year going by, another birthday..I do NOT want my kids to grow up. Selfish right?? I mean, they have it made...Breakfast, lunch & dinner prepared for them EVERYDAY.. clean clothes, more toys than should be legal, play time ALL day, nap time when they want?? Why would they want to grow up?? Crazy kids! If it really were possible to keep them little I'd do it in a heartbeat BUT I cant so I want to enjoy, thoroughly love, all the time I get with these little men. They are the greatest. Enough sappy crap... January 3rd Bridger turned 4!!!!

Isn't he handsome??

He LOVES superheroes..all of them. Like alot. Our house is overloaded with them. So of course he wanted a nananananananana...BATMAN party. I was all over it. He took cupcakes to pre-school that morning..

We had a family party that night with "SUPER DOGS", "BEANS-O-POWER", "WHAM BAM VEGGIES", "CHIPS & MUSCLE DIP" and of course CAKE :)

What did I do to get SO lucky?? I'm still trying to figure it out! 

It was a day full of mixed emotions for me..Full of presents and the royal treatment for Bridger and it turned out PERFECT!!

XOXOXO

 

 

Christmas Party

Part 1...Oh you lucky people :)

 I know Christmas was so last month and I am really sorry to put you through this but what can I say?? I'm a procrastinator! We held the 1st annual KUPFER side Christmas/Birthday party the week before Christmas. We have 3 birthdays in December Dad, Kensie & Kortney so we decided to combine the birthday parties with the Christmas party. It was a 2 day event and it went down like this..The first night we wanted to go to St. George to dinner and look at Christmas lights but there is 13 of us all together and driving around looking at lights in 4 separate cars seemed insane..even for a crazy family like mine. Soooo what does Papa Chris do??? Oh just rents a 15 passenger van to hold all of us!!
                                              

(Sorry about the blurriness but if you know my Mom you get this!)

How fun does this look!! Most of us, especially that gorgeous brown haired girl in the middle, were SUPER car sick by the time this was over. It brought back so many FUN memories of being squished next to your smelly brother in the family van on long trips!!

 

 

We finally made it to St George...ALIVE!!  I know its only 45 min away but when you have 3 whiny kids, 5 smelly men, and 5 yapping girls, IN ONE CAR, this is something to brag about!! Snapped a quick family pic on the Temple grounds, watched an awesome movie at the Visitors center and headed out to eat! Dinner was loud and fun as usual and the Christmas light looking was my favorite :) I must say that even though a few of these people in this pic (no names need to be mentioned) can drive me to my wits end I STILL feel like the LUCKIEST girl ever.. ever ever ever....

Part 2 

The next night was dinner and game night at my moms house! We did the "MINUTE TO WIN IT" theme and I'm not sure that any of us have EVER laughed as hard as we did that night!! (WARNING) "slight" picture over load!

Stack The Golf Balls

Pick Up A Cheerio With A Spaghetti Noodle & 

Pass To Your Partner

 Get The Cookie From Forehead To Mouth  

(Nice matching turtlenecks guys)

 Suck Up An M&M On A Straw & Drop It In Bowl

The Nuts Stacking Nuts

To me this perfectly dysfunctional, annoying, loud, loving, family is the BEST thing in my life and I LOVVVVVE the time we get to spend together!! XOXO