Green family

2010-10-15T18:36:00.000-07:00

We are so excited to announce...we are having a GIRL! We waited a long time for this little one and even longer for this girl! Everyone in the family is thrilled! We love her already and can't wait to get to hold and spoil her! We have pretty much decided to name her Katelyn and have her go by Kate. We don't have a middle name yet, we use a family name and are still working on it. Did I mention I can't wait for her to get here!!

Hunter's 1st day of First Grade!

2010-08-29T22:27:00.000-07:00

My first grader! I can't believe it!

He wanted a school T-shirt, mostly because the mascott is a dragon! He was so excited about it, he wanted to wear the first day of school. He actually wanted to wear the 2nd day, but I made him change!

Hunter and his Mommy (13 weeks pregnant)

Hunter was so excited for school to start! I'm so glad he loves school. We got to meet his teacher at back to school night and see his classroom. He's teacher's name is Miss Oliekan. He loves getting to eat school lunch and being at school all day. His favorite day so far are Friday's. Friday's in his class are Fairy Tale Friday's. Every Friday a new fairy tale is taught. This week it was Little Red Riding Hood. He got to make a flannel board story board of it. He thought it was the coolest thing! He can't wait for next Friday to see what the fairy tale is.

Hunter's Kindergarten Graduation!

2010-06-09T22:22:00.000-07:00

Us with our little graduate! It's been a great Kindergarten year! Hunter loved his teacher and his classmates. He never wanted to leave school. He loved it so much! I hope he keeps his love of school over the upcoming years. He is very excited for 1st grade where he'll get to stay at school til 3:30pm and eat lunch at school (he's very excited to be able to do both these things). I had a great time helping out in the classroom! He loved learning how to read and is very good at it now. He also really likes math and science!

Hunter's kindergarten Class!

Hunter giving me the present for being a helper mom!

They had so many cute songs they sang!

Hunter got two parts in the program, his first line was for the letter M. It was," M is for the mom's who help in our class, will you please stand up now and take a bow!" Then he gave me a present since I'm a helper mom. His next line was,"Y is for yesterday. It seems like only yesterday we started kindergarten!" It did so good and wasn't even nervous!

Ethan decided to watch the whole program on the floor

Hunter receiving his diploma from his teacher!

Hunter with his friend Landon, sporting their diplomas! I have no idea why Hunter can't smile normal!

Hunter and his teacher, Mrs. Wood

Hunter and his friend Emerson eating graduation cake!

Night of FUN!!

2010-05-31T08:30:00.000-07:00

I was feeling like I hadn't seen my sister Sheyene in a while and was having withdrawals! So I decided to entice her over with a night of fun! We made desserts and played rock band! We made muddy buddies and snicker doodles and I had stuff for Oreo shakes and root beer floats (but we were too sick for that!) This first picture was just funny because Ethan wanted a frozen pizza for dinner but didn't want me to cook it! He likes to eat some of it frozen, he's a weird kid! The night was exactly what I wanted it to be....FUN with my family!!

Sheybe and her Hunter-bear getting ready for FUN!

I love when they hug each other like this!

HAHA! they are concentrating so hard on measuring everything right for muddy buddies!

Ethan and I made the snicker doodles. I measured everything out into bowls and then he dumped it all in. They love to help me cook....and I love that they love to help me cook....most of the time ;)

Sheybe and Hunter made muddy buddies! She was impressed I just had all the stuff on hand! Of course I have stuff for treats on hand! Hunter wasn't sure about them at first because they have peanut butter in them...but he ended up LOVING them!

They loved getting to shake up the mix in the powdered sugar!

Ethan's face cracks me up!!! Shaking the bag is a whole body experience!

Will and Sheybe mostly played rock band! I just like to listen to the songs and watch Will's awesome skills! He plays on expert and is amazing to watch! Hunter and I did sing for a little bit.

Sierra surprised us and showed up!!! She was jealous of all our fun!!HAHA ! She should be! It was awesome!

The end result of the snicker doodle making! They were REALLY tasty!
All in all it was a really fun night and I love my sisters SO MUCH! I'm so glad I have a house I can invite them over to and it has the room to have FUN!

Spring Break!!

2010-04-16T20:38:00.000-07:00

I wanted my kids to have a good spring break, so we tried to do lots of fun things!! It was cold and rainy for most of the days, which was too bad:( but we still managed to do some fun things in there! We went to see "how to train your dragon" the boys LOVED LOVED it and have been talking about it ever since! Ethan keeps asking to watch the dragon show, I guess he doesn't quite understand the movie theater. We also went to the park with two of my sisters, it was so much fun for the kids and me! I LOVE hanging out with my family, it really can just make my day! Love you guys :) We also went swimming with some of the cousins from Will's side. We had a really fun park day scheduled for Liberty park in Salt Lake, but it was too cold and windy...the pool ended up really fun for the kids. We went to Lagoon on saturday as well. It was WAY fun and Will got to come with us! I love when he can do stuff with us, he's usually working during our fun outings! All in all it was a FABULOUS spring break! Ps..Lagoon pictures will have to come another day...gotta upload the pictures still...!

Natural little fishys!

We went to discovery Park in Pleasant Grove, we
love it there!

Ethan in the "spaceship" he loved it there!

Get your game face on!!!!

2010-02-10T13:39:00.000-08:00

They love playing the Wii together! Their facial expressions crack me up. It's hilarious to watch. They get SO into it!

They are playing Raving Rabbids 2. It's this game where you are these weird bunny creatures doing all sorts of silly games. I can't decide which is funnier the games or watching them!

I
I love it when they play so nice together!

How late is too late to post something? Hopefully never right! I would try to pass these pictures off as more recent, but the Chrsitmas tree in the backround is a give away! Although these were taken in the middle of January!

Hunter's Birthday---I'm a slacker..I know!

2010-01-21T11:30:00.000-08:00

Hunter unwrapping all his cool gifts!

Ski ball is one of Hunter's favorite games to play at chuck-e-cheese!

This blonde cuttie is the famous Madison, Hunter has made plans to marry when he's older, hehehe! They've known each other since they were a year old!

We had a Chuck-e-cheese birthday party for him! He loves that place. He invited friends from school, cousins, and friends he's had for a long time! It was so much fun! I can't believe he's 6 already! Thanks to everyone who came and for the great presents! He's loved them all!

Tender Moments with my children

2009-11-13T22:45:00.000-08:00

Our primary program is coming up. I decided to practice the songs with Hunter to see how ready he was! I knew most of the songs for the program, however they were singing two songs ("My eternal Family" and "The family is of god") this year that were written for the program and are new. I'd learned both of the songs while I was still teaching primary earlier this year. I knew I was a bit rusty though on the lyrics. So, I set out on the Internet knowing I could find find an mp3 or something with the music and lyrics so we could practice. I found it and called Hunter over to me so we could practice. We started out singing the primary ones we knew well, " I lived in Heaven", I'll seek the Lord Early", "How firm a foundation", "Baptism", "Families can be together forever". He was standing next to me singing to start out. We got to "Families can be together forever" and he climbed on my lap to sing. I started to get a little emotional, but I was OK. I turned on "The family is of god" and we began to sing together. Without realizing it I had began to rock him gently back and forth. We got to the chorus, "God gave us families, to help us become what he wants us to be, this is how he shows his love, for the family is of God." I COMPLETELY lost it! I started bawling. I could no longer sing. The words touched me so deeply. The spirit seemed to pour out of my computer encircling my son and I. He very sweetly and tenderly continued to sing the following verses. My son must be used to the spirit touching me in this matter, he kept right on hugging me as he sang. In this tender moment with my son, I was reminded of my Heavenly Father and Savior's love for each of me. My testimony was strengthened. Especially my testimony of eternal families. I am so grateful I have my family forever. I know Heavenly Father placed us in families to help us grow, and it was an act of love. I am so grateful for my husband and the sweet kind example is to me and my children. I am grateful our marriage can last forever, I love him so much. I am grateful for each of my boys and the joy they bring me on a daily basis. I am grateful for my sisters, more than I tell them, more than they know. I am grateful we are close and do things together. That is so important to me. They are such a blessing and a strength to me. I'm grateful for my two brothers,and the happiness they bring me, even though I don't see Shered much, I'm always glad to see him. I'm grateful for my parents, for teaching me about Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ, so I could teach it my children. My want and desire to have an eternal family started with them. I am grateful for Will's family and the added joy they brought to my life. I know we can be together forever someday!! In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

Here's the words to the song, "The family is of God":

Our Father has a family. It’s me! It’s you, all others too: we are His children. He sent each one of us to earth, through birth,To live and learn here in fam’lies. God gave us families to help us become what He wants us to be—This is how He shares His love, for the fam’ly is of God. A father’s place is to preside, provide,To love and teach the gospel to his children. A father leads in fam’ly prayer to share Their love for Father in Heaven. God gave us families to help us become what He wants us to be—This is how He shares His love, for the fam’ly is of God. A mother’s purpose is to care, prepare, To nurture and to strengthen all her children. She teaches children to obey, to pray, To love and serve in the fam’ly. God gave us families to help us become what He wants us to be—This is how He shares His love, for the fam’ly is of God. I’ll love and serve my family and be A good example to each fam’ly member. And when I am a mom or dad, so glad, I’ll help my fam’ly remember: God gave us families to help us become what He wants us to be—This is how He shares His love, for the fam’ly is of God.

Pumpkin Land!

2009-11-08T16:38:00.000-08:00

Pumpkinland 2009

Every Fall it's been a tradition to go to Vineyard Nursery for their Pumpkinland in the fall. I LOVE it there, I usually end up going a few times. We went twice this year. Once with just our little family and again with all my sisters. Ethan loves the animals, especially ducks...until one bit his finger! They have a fun little Halloween play yard and bounce sides/houses! Hunter loved climbing and jumping off things! I love doing stuff with my family, I believe that's what life is all about...enjoying each other and creating bonds to last into eternity.

RV/Fishing trip with Grandpa and grandma

2009-11-07T22:18:00.000-08:00

This September we took the boys down to Manti to visit Will's parents. Hunter has been begging his grandpa to take him fishing! So we had a spontaneous fishing/RV trip over labor day weekend! The boys ABSOLUTELY loved every last second of it! Rocks, dirt, sticks, more dirt, fishing, junk food, camping... a little boys dream come true! We packed all up the RV and headed up manti canyon somewhere...with no reserved place to stay...on labor day weekend...I tried not to have a panic attack. As we all know, I need vacations to be planned out. Will and apparently his family does not :). We ended up staying at Fish Lake. By some miracle there was still a RV spot left. So we set up camp there for the night. The boys thought the campground was awesome and went out exploring it. Then they "helped" build the fire. They thought it was beyond awesome to sleep in the RV with everyone. (Hunter informed us that we need an RV now.) We got up early the next morning to fish some more. Hunter caught quite a few fish and was pleased as pleased could be with himself! Ethan had fun running around in nature. Grandpa kept trying to tell him to be quite, not to run by the bank of the river, not to throw sticks and rocks in the water...you can imagine how well that went...what do you expect from a 2 year old? :). Ethan and I slept on the way home, we were exhausted! It was DEFINITELY a fun camping trip with grandpa and grandma!

Best friends for life!

2009-09-01T08:59:00.001-07:00

Hunter and Ethan had to find ways to occupy themselves while we packed up our house! Will had sort of adopted a neighborhood cat (mostly cause he kept feeding it!). The boys just loved it. Ethan's hands are by his body like this because Will kept telling me not to pick the cat up anymore! He kept trying to carry it around, but we were afraid it might bite him. He kept his hands like this to help resist his urge to hold the kitty! The sequence of pictures on the stairs are my favorite! This is so how it goes!!! One minute they are best friends and the next they have been banned to seperate rooms of the house so I can keep my sanity from the fighting! And they show CLASSIC Hunter "looks" when he doesn't want to do something. It was our fist real day at our apartment and Will was trying to get some pictures. Hunter didn't want to like Ethan right then, then finally he came around! Gotta love being a mom! Most of the time they really are best friends. Ethan follows Hunter everywhere, copying and playing everything he does. Hunter loves it most of the time. Ethan wants to be like his big brother so bad!! Oh man!!! I just love my boys SO MUCH!!!

1st day of Kindergarten!

2009-08-28T21:25:00.000-07:00

Hunter's first day of kindergarten! He was so excited! His teacher's name is Mrs. Wood. He has morning kindergarten, and in his words kinderdarten is "totally awesome." He's so excited to go everyday so far. I'm so proud of my little boy, who's not so little and so eager to grow up! The thing he looks forward to the most is learning how to read. We couldn't resisit the photo op, so here's a few pictures! It almost made us late for the first day. Him and I ate breakfast at the school that morning, he thought that was pretty cool!

New Home!

2009-08-16T12:19:00.000-07:00

Well we finally sold our house and closed on it Friday! Yeah!!! We found an apartment in pleasant grove that's letting us go month by month! We are still looking for a house. We have offers one one in pleasant grove and 2 in lehi! Hopefully one of those pan out soon. I'm sick of living in the apartment already! I'm not sure how people with kids do it! I'm constantly worried my kids are making too much noise or going to spill something! Our dining room is carpet....not the best for children They get "cabin fever" really easy here, there's not much room to play and be boys! But I am so grateful we sold our house. The apartment has a pool and playground, the boys and me love it! We are a lot closer to well, most everything! We should be able to spend more time together as a family.

Hunter starts school on the 27th. I can't believe I have a kindergartner. He is both excited and nervous. The school is bigger than he was expecting and is nervous about making friends. He is really excited about getting to be a big boy and learning how to read.

I'm cutting back my hours at work when Hunter starts school, I'll only work about 8 a week. I want to be able to spend time with my kids and be home when Hunter comes home from school.
Will's job is CRAZY!!! They've been working massive amounts of hours and his computer contracting business (System's Green) has more work than they can handle right now. Even through it's crazy, we are grateful he has work and a good job. We are working on a number 3 addition to our family...we'll let you know if anything happens!

More of the fun of $.82!

2009-06-12T12:16:00.000-07:00

Who knew $.82 could be SO much fun!

2009-06-12T11:29:00.000-07:00

They had so much fun playing with this! It's just cornstarch and water and food coloring! It makes a bit of a mess, but who cares!!! (nothing water and rag can't fix!)

My boys are growing up....

2009-06-04T21:36:00.000-07:00

I had kinda of a sad realization the other day, my baby is no longer a baby. He's 2 going on about 6! He definitely is in the "independent stage". He wants to try everything for himself. He doesn't want to be left out of a single thing! He loves to help mommy do stuff. Whatever I'm doing he's right there saying "un help you?!" He gets SO SO proud of himself when he gets to help or does anything his self. Watering the flowers is one of the favorite "chores" of his. He waters the flowers then states, "flouwers firsty? need drink water?" Funny story.....the other night we are having dinner. I had made corn, which Ethan really likes. He is getting really good at asking for what he wants. He had eaten the first helping I gave him. Will was closest to the corn, so he said, "daddy un more porn?" Will kinda a little confused, said "what?" Again Ethan asks, "Un more porn?" Perhaps we need to work on the pronunciation of our words! Ethan loves Winnie the Pooh and Blues Clues. He has got the entire Blues Clues song memorized including the actions! It's so cute. The other day he was walking around singing, "Winnie the pooh, Winnie the pooh!" over and over again. Coloring is his new favorite activity. Only with a pen or marker though. He's gotten in trouble a bunch of times for coloring on his self. So he'll say, "mommy un color. un paper, un color (that means marker or pen). paper only, huh mommy?" He whole time he colors he reminds him self, "paper only!" Alright it's late, I'm tired, I'll do Hunter's update another day!

2009-05-25T10:51:00.000-07:00

Frosting is of course the best part!

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Ethan blowing out his candles! He was SO happy it was finally HIS birthday and HIS turn to blow out the candles!

2009-05-25T10:40:00.000-07:00

Ethan's cupcake birthday cake we had at grandma and grandpa's. He loves wonderpets and blue's clues!

2009-05-25T10:36:00.000-07:00

Last time the picture didn't post with the three cousins!

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Ethan loves holding babies! He say's "so cute" over and over when he's holding them!

2009-05-25T10:26:00.000-07:00

Three Cousins on Ethan's birthday dinner at grandma and grandpa's!

2009-05-25T10:20:00.000-07:00

The park is the boys most favorite thing in the whole world.....actually the love outside! If Will built them a house in the backyard they'd totally live in it! These are from the park by the serra pool in orem.

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We had homeade oreo shakes! TASTY!! Ethan loved getting to mix his!

2009-05-25T09:58:00.000-07:00

What can I say......I LOVE HIM!!! It makes me want to kiss that face!

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Eggs are for eating right.....?

2009-05-25T09:46:00.000-07:00

Hunter when he found the spider man tatoos the Easter bunny left

2009-05-25T09:42:00.000-07:00

Ethan thought the "chocolate bunny" was real! He kept talking to it and carring it around! Since it was cheap chocolate it didn't melt.

2009-05-25T09:40:00.000-07:00

Ethan finding Easter eggs! He thought it was SO much fun!

2009-05-24T21:49:00.000-07:00

My boys on Easter! I know I'm a little late updating things, but evenually I get around to things!

Snortin noodles!

2009-04-05T15:43:00.000-07:00

At dinner last night Ethan decided to shove egg noodles up his nose! Will tried to pull out what he could with tweezers and a light (he pulled out 4 pieces or so). We could still see more way up in his nose, so I took him to an insta-care. Never once did he complain about the noodles being uncomfortable or bothering him in any way. In fact, when we walked in the door to the insta-care he promptly told the receptionist, "Noodles me nose!" He was smiling ear to ear, so proud of what he'd done! The doctor used special tweezers and a special light and pulled out 3 more, making 7 total! These are one of the great moments of having a toddler! Gotta love him!

2009-04-05T15:24:00.000-07:00

Hunter and Ethan being "best buddies". I tried to upload the video we took, but I think the file was too big. It was really cute, Hunter sang, "Follow the Prophet", his favorite primary song. They we both sitting in a laundry basket I had with blankets, pillows, and their stuffed puppies! Hunter's aunt Sheyene took him to make a puppy at build-a-bear for Christmas. He loves that puppy! He takes it every where. He named it "Brown shigar puppy" (he can't pronounce sugar very well!) I love when they play so nice together!

2009-04-05T15:14:00.000-07:00

Ethan enjoying some ice-cream, which he calls "cream"! This and Popsicles are his favorite treats!

2009-04-03T09:52:00.000-07:00

me and the boys at our house christmas morning.

2009-04-03T09:42:00.000-07:00

Ethan on Christmas morning at grandma and grandpas'.

Little family Update

2009-03-30T21:59:00.000-07:00

Yep, sorry! Ya'll have to deal with the purple! I'm way out numbered by boys around here, I gotta feel girly sometimes! Again, sorry to those we see semi-often, this may not be so interesting to you. We still (and unfortunatley) live in Eagle Mountain! We are still trying to find someone to buy our house. We are ALL sick of driving. Will is working for a company called Softwise, he's with the IT department. He no longer "tests" software which was news to me. See even after seven years, I'm still learning things. Oh, and I recently discoverd he likes peas on his salad! I never knew that, and I LOVE peas on my salad. I am currently working for Utah County doing the childcare side of a substance abuse facility in Spanish Fork. It's still part time and I still can bring the boys with me. However, I probably will be done working in September when Hunter starts Kindergarten. I also teach a 7 week parenting course at the treatment center and I ABSOLUTELY love it. Child Development and child discipline are subjects I could go on and on about. Our two boys keep me going constantly. When the play nice together, it melts my heart! They love each other so much! Hunter is 5 and very anxiously waiting Kindergarten! He loves being grown-up. He is very smart, he recently scored 136 on his IQ test! He really wants to learn to read and practices all the time. He's mostly taught himself to do some basic addition. He has an amazing memory and NEVER forgets anything! He has been diagonosed with sensory processing disorder. Basically his senses are hyper-sensitive. Touch is the most sensitive. He goes to see an occupational therpist. She is awesome and has given Hunter (and me) some hope and light and the end of the tunnel. For those who don't know what this is, the best way to discribe it is: you know that adrenline rush you get if a bug or something crawls across you? This is the sensation Hunter gets every 10 minutes or so. It makes clothes unbearable at times and new sensations such as uninvited contact with substances (wet, sticky, etc) intolerable. Anyway, we are working on it and are going to get through it! He is such a joy to have and I LOVE hearing how he is interpreting the world around him. He loves playing his DS and is pretty good at it. He is also very good at art and loves to make things and hang them up in his room. Ethan...Ethan is a typical 2 year old. Never a dull minute. He's on a constant GO! I love this age! 2's really are my favorite! He's talking in sentences now and it's so cute. My favorite's are "I love you", "I na like it" (I don't like it) "I na want it", "Sit me, mommy!", "hum on" (Come on, as he's leading you somewhere). Sure he throws his tantrumns and thinks the world belongs to him, but that's the age. I just enjoy it, they aren't little forever! I really love being a mommy and the chance I've been given to raise and teach these precious boys. Everyday is a new adventure. Back to Will and I for a sec, currently our callings are; Will is the financial clerk, I teach the 9-10 year old Activity days, and we both teach sunbeams. Until next time!

We made it!

2009-03-30T19:48:00.000-07:00

So, I finally created a blog site! We'll see how this goes! I'm new to this and still am not sure what I'm doing. I'm hoping it will remind me to take more pictures of my kids. I'll try to get a family update in here soon and some pictures for those who live far away....which is pretty much everyone from where we are! Love you all!