I often think about all the things I should be blogging and then I get busy and I forget. I really want this to be something my wild things can look at and know how much I love being their mom. But for now here are some pictures of our crazy life. 

 Elijah 4 months. I really love that hair do

Lucas 8 months old. I love those curls.

I think these boys look a lot a like and I love that I have pictures of them in the same outfit. I am sad Isaac never got to wear it.

my heart

These pictures are out of order but they show some of the fun things that happened in May. 

Isaac turned 4! He had his birthday party at Jungle Jim's and it was so much fun. He is such a smart handsome boy. 

We went to Chicago to visit Sam's family. I really like Chicago. And I really like being around Sam's family. 

Elijah loves his Hip-Hop class

Every moment

The only thing I am sure of is that we have to love the life we are living. We never know when life is going to change. One moment we are living and the next everything has changed. I am not going to live in fear and I will not teach my boys to live in fear. By living joyfully we win.  I am amazed at all the goodness I have in my life. I have the most amazing husband, three stubborn wild sons, a wonderful  family and awesome friends.
Yesterday my parents were in Boston when the bombings happened. They were a block away. One block and fifteen minutes and today would be a different day. I am so grateful fate was on their side but I mourn for everyone that was hurt and for everyone that lost their life. I also feel sad for every runner, the Boston Marathon is every runners dream and every runner that ran yesterday had that dream taken away. I will never understand.
I am even more determined to run the Boston Marathon one day. I am more determined to keep living my life with joy.  And yes today my heart hurts.

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 Elijah Samuel had his six year check up today. His doctor said he is perfect and I believe her.

He weighs 40 lbs and is 44.5 inches tall. He is getting to be such a big kid. 

He is so thoughtful and so loving. 

He tells me I am as pretty as a rose. He loves to make Luc laugh and he loves playing games with Isaac. 

He is very proud that he looks just like his daddy. 

Elijah is also very popular in school which is not a shocker considering how nice 

he is and what an amazing sense of fashion he has.  

 Lucas Dalton had is six month check up today. 

He weighs 18 lbs 10oz  and is 26.5 inches long. He is in the 50th percentile! 

Elijah weighed 18 lbs at 12 months. Captain has already started the phase where I can not be away 

from him, which makes taking a shower, cooking and cleaning kind of hard. 

He is such a cute baby! He has the cutest smile, he shakes his head "no no" and 

he makes the cutest babbling baby noises. 

 Did I mention how much he likes to eat? 

Can you tell they are related?

Moab

On March 17th my Dad will turn 60! We went to Moab this last weekend to celebrate. Saturday we were suppose to go hiking but it turned out to be a cold snowy day. Instead we went to Dead Horse Point and did some shopping. Saturday night we chilled as a family and drank wine. Which I think is a perfect way to spend a Saturday night. Sunday was a nice sunny day so Lucas, Sam, the boys and I went hiking. We hiked Fisher Towers which I have now hiked four times and I have never made it to the end! We did hike four miles and the wild things did great. We got home late Sunday night and rushed to get the boys to bed. We were all tired yesterday but it was a perfect weekend.

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 Captain is getting so big!

 We got the Wild Things baptized.

 "Is he going to spit up on me?!" -Sam

 I am not sure what was going on in this picture but it is super cute.

 Isaac being Isaac

 How to shop with three boys! 

brothers chillin