William and Hunter have just unloaded my paper products cup
board. Anybody want to help pick up 1000 untinsils? and My carpet is still we from the toilet they overflowed yesterday!
Codys Missionary Adventures!
6 years ago
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Messes!
board. Anybody want to help pick up 1000 untinsils? and My carpet is still we from the toilet they overflowed yesterday!
Monday, October 12, 2009
Wyatts blessing
Dallan,
WE pulled off another baby blessing and nobody got hurt. We missed you and your ewok. But all in all everybody brought great food. We all ate too much. And I need to clean my house really bad now. (sounds a bit like a trip to powell).
In other news our last FHE got cut a bit short when Hunter burned his arm really bad on the hot cookie sheet. I tell you that boy is a walking hazard area. The cookies were good though and we did eat them all up for desert.
Will is shifting into real walking mode. He has decided that he can take some steps and is pretty successful with about 3-4 at a time. He won’t walk between Jon and I like most little kids but will walk in pursuit of a toy. When he does venture to take steps he usually starts giggling so hard I think that is the main reason why he falls down. I did catch him once this week stand up in the middle of a room without an help. I don’t think he realized that he did it. Will continues to check the potties to make sure there is water inside them and then proceeds to TP the bathrooms. He has almost figured out how to come down the stairs but someone has to line him up backwards and pull him down off of the top stair then he les gravity do the rest.
For Wyatt’s blessing I decided to crochet a blessing blanket for him instead of get him his own outfit. ( he can borrow one of his brothers right!?!) Do you know how many times I came back to my crochet project and found that William or Hunter or even Erica had decided to mess with it and pulled out all of the stitches I had done the last hour I had worked on it! It probably helped to make the blanket better than it would have been otherwise but I was frantically trying to finish the blankey on Saturday evening. But I got it done and I hope it will survive so that Wyatt will have it when he has a chance to bless his own babies.
Erica - cut her hair! School pictures are on Wednesday! I seem to see a repeating pattern in my life. She was trying to cut out the elastic hair tie that was in her hair and cut a little lock of hair out with the elastic. No body can see I readily unless they try to do her hair. I tell my kids almost daily- You can cut and glue and color all you want and whatever you want as long as you do it in the kitchen. I found the scissors and hair in Erica’s closet. Such is life.
Parent teacher conferences went well. The school is not treatening to kick my kids out and the teachers all said that my kids create no problems in the class room. On visiting Marcus’s class room I found out why his attentions have shifted away from Little Kenadi Austin to Danielle Ward, Another little girl in our ward who lives just down on the corner. Danielle and Marcus sit right next to each other in class. And I’m pretty sure Danielle has a bit of a crush. The other day she made her mom bring her over so she could give ‘something’ to Marcus. I don’t know what it was and neither did her mom. I don’t think Marcus will ever stay home from a girl ask guy dance in high school.
This week we had a talent show for our ward Party. They were not having much luck getting people to sign up for the show. So On a whim I signed up Myself and my friend Heather. We did a lipsync to the hilarious song “cleaning gets old” which Sara tipped us off to in an email about 6 weeks ago. We included our oldest children in the skit. Their job was to be themselves and make a mess of the stage. Our first run though was cut off very early when a huge Santa clause doll sailed over Heather and I’s heads and off the stage onto the floor of the gym. We then gave our children specific things they were to mess up and that throwing anything was just not allowed. We got quite a few giggles and we had a very fun time.
Trevors Wedding reception was this weekend and I took Wyatt and went. Jon stayed home with the rest of the kids. It was a very lovely reception and It was a delight to see and visit with cousins from both the Woodland and Wall side of the family.
Well I must go and clean some parts of my house even though ‘cleaning get’s old’ somebody has got to do it and it seems I am the only one who does.
The church is true. Families are central to the plan. I love my family and I am pleased that you get to be part of my family. sorry if you don’t feel the same way but you can’t pick your relatives, so the best you can do is just put up with us.
Love Monica and the rest of the little people at the Woodin Nickel.
WE pulled off another baby blessing and nobody got hurt. We missed you and your ewok. But all in all everybody brought great food. We all ate too much. And I need to clean my house really bad now. (sounds a bit like a trip to powell).
In other news our last FHE got cut a bit short when Hunter burned his arm really bad on the hot cookie sheet. I tell you that boy is a walking hazard area. The cookies were good though and we did eat them all up for desert.
Will is shifting into real walking mode. He has decided that he can take some steps and is pretty successful with about 3-4 at a time. He won’t walk between Jon and I like most little kids but will walk in pursuit of a toy. When he does venture to take steps he usually starts giggling so hard I think that is the main reason why he falls down. I did catch him once this week stand up in the middle of a room without an help. I don’t think he realized that he did it. Will continues to check the potties to make sure there is water inside them and then proceeds to TP the bathrooms. He has almost figured out how to come down the stairs but someone has to line him up backwards and pull him down off of the top stair then he les gravity do the rest.
For Wyatt’s blessing I decided to crochet a blessing blanket for him instead of get him his own outfit. ( he can borrow one of his brothers right!?!) Do you know how many times I came back to my crochet project and found that William or Hunter or even Erica had decided to mess with it and pulled out all of the stitches I had done the last hour I had worked on it! It probably helped to make the blanket better than it would have been otherwise but I was frantically trying to finish the blankey on Saturday evening. But I got it done and I hope it will survive so that Wyatt will have it when he has a chance to bless his own babies.
Erica - cut her hair! School pictures are on Wednesday! I seem to see a repeating pattern in my life. She was trying to cut out the elastic hair tie that was in her hair and cut a little lock of hair out with the elastic. No body can see I readily unless they try to do her hair. I tell my kids almost daily- You can cut and glue and color all you want and whatever you want as long as you do it in the kitchen. I found the scissors and hair in Erica’s closet. Such is life.
Parent teacher conferences went well. The school is not treatening to kick my kids out and the teachers all said that my kids create no problems in the class room. On visiting Marcus’s class room I found out why his attentions have shifted away from Little Kenadi Austin to Danielle Ward, Another little girl in our ward who lives just down on the corner. Danielle and Marcus sit right next to each other in class. And I’m pretty sure Danielle has a bit of a crush. The other day she made her mom bring her over so she could give ‘something’ to Marcus. I don’t know what it was and neither did her mom. I don’t think Marcus will ever stay home from a girl ask guy dance in high school.
This week we had a talent show for our ward Party. They were not having much luck getting people to sign up for the show. So On a whim I signed up Myself and my friend Heather. We did a lipsync to the hilarious song “cleaning gets old” which Sara tipped us off to in an email about 6 weeks ago. We included our oldest children in the skit. Their job was to be themselves and make a mess of the stage. Our first run though was cut off very early when a huge Santa clause doll sailed over Heather and I’s heads and off the stage onto the floor of the gym. We then gave our children specific things they were to mess up and that throwing anything was just not allowed. We got quite a few giggles and we had a very fun time.
Trevors Wedding reception was this weekend and I took Wyatt and went. Jon stayed home with the rest of the kids. It was a very lovely reception and It was a delight to see and visit with cousins from both the Woodland and Wall side of the family.
Well I must go and clean some parts of my house even though ‘cleaning get’s old’ somebody has got to do it and it seems I am the only one who does.
The church is true. Families are central to the plan. I love my family and I am pleased that you get to be part of my family. sorry if you don’t feel the same way but you can’t pick your relatives, so the best you can do is just put up with us.
Love Monica and the rest of the little people at the Woodin Nickel.
Sunday, October 4, 2009
conference and cold weather
Dallan, this week has flown by and I can not recall most of what I did or rather did not do. I did pick grapes and make grape juice. I did not stay on top of my laundry, and will have to pay the piper on that one tomorrow. The Kids did not have school on Thursday or Friday and drove me batty. I sent them to bed early. Hunter decided that it would be great fun to break a light fixture to pieces and that required me to bring out my handy shop vac to pick up all of the pieces of glass. I did manage to cut Stiles and Marcus’s hair but in doing so I plugged the drain with hair- the shop vac fixed that problem. The toilet in the main part of the house keeps on getting plugged- I think William deposited something into that toilet that is giving us woes. It has turned cold and rainy and even a bit snowy here in Pocatello. I had to harvest all of my tomatoes at once and then let mother nature kill the rest of my garden- I did not cry. I have 4 flats of tomatoes ripening in my kitchen and have plans to turn it into spaghetti sauce later this week. Wyatt is growing like a baby should and crying in the night like every baby does. The alarm clock seem to go off earlier and earlier every day especially now that the days are getting shorter and the sun rises later and later in the morning.
I really enjoyed Conference I was very impressed with Elder Hollands Testimony of the Book of Mormon. I don’t know how it could be put forth to the world any plainer of the truth of the book. His words were so powerful and to the point I hope that as his testimony is translated into all of the different languages the powerful message of his words does not get lost. His words make me want to spend all my time reading that wonderful book. I also enjoyed Elder Bednar’s talk about being consistent with our children. I think Jon and I really needed that reminder. I needed to know that FHE, scripture study and prayers in the home of one of the apostles was perhaps not all the time reverent and even chaotic at times. I know that it is usually not a spiritually uplifting experience for us, Jon and I are usually just grateful we got through it and nobody was hurt. So with a new determination to be Consistent in our FHE and Scripture study and prayers we will sally forth with “He’s touching me and breathing my air” and just keep at it if we can. President Monson’s words to serve were wonderful to hear and I hope that I can be a better servant to those around me. (I do feel like the slave most of the time, and my kids are sure I am the slave driver) My kids loved that President Monson has a huge jar full of warm fuzzies and wanted to know how they can get their own jar of warm fuzzies. Perhaps we will have to make it part of FHE tomorrow night.
Well I need to go. We love you and pray for “Uncle Dallan on his mission” always. We miss you and love you and look forward to Feburary when we can all play together again. There are quite a few people who would like to meet their awesome uncle Dal. I’ve got two of them and so does Crystal and MJ. Dan has snuck one in as well as Camille and Seth. So if I am counting correctly that is 9 new people. That is our whole family! Keep working hard! The church is true!
Love Monica, Jon, Stiles, Marcus, Erica, Hunter, William, &Wyatt.
I really enjoyed Conference I was very impressed with Elder Hollands Testimony of the Book of Mormon. I don’t know how it could be put forth to the world any plainer of the truth of the book. His words were so powerful and to the point I hope that as his testimony is translated into all of the different languages the powerful message of his words does not get lost. His words make me want to spend all my time reading that wonderful book. I also enjoyed Elder Bednar’s talk about being consistent with our children. I think Jon and I really needed that reminder. I needed to know that FHE, scripture study and prayers in the home of one of the apostles was perhaps not all the time reverent and even chaotic at times. I know that it is usually not a spiritually uplifting experience for us, Jon and I are usually just grateful we got through it and nobody was hurt. So with a new determination to be Consistent in our FHE and Scripture study and prayers we will sally forth with “He’s touching me and breathing my air” and just keep at it if we can. President Monson’s words to serve were wonderful to hear and I hope that I can be a better servant to those around me. (I do feel like the slave most of the time, and my kids are sure I am the slave driver) My kids loved that President Monson has a huge jar full of warm fuzzies and wanted to know how they can get their own jar of warm fuzzies. Perhaps we will have to make it part of FHE tomorrow night.
Well I need to go. We love you and pray for “Uncle Dallan on his mission” always. We miss you and love you and look forward to Feburary when we can all play together again. There are quite a few people who would like to meet their awesome uncle Dal. I’ve got two of them and so does Crystal and MJ. Dan has snuck one in as well as Camille and Seth. So if I am counting correctly that is 9 new people. That is our whole family! Keep working hard! The church is true!
Love Monica, Jon, Stiles, Marcus, Erica, Hunter, William, &Wyatt.
Thursday, October 1, 2009
SO TIRED!!!
Ahh isn't that precious!
William goes up stairs without any problems but has not figured out the going down bit. He will sit at the top of the stairs and rock back and forth and cry until someone helps him down. (he is very smart, he has only fallen down the stairs once and that was enough for him). Well the other day, at the top of the stairs, he rocked himself until he fell over and was sound asleep.
this Truck is Hunters toy box. He recently realized that he is now strong enough to dump out all of the toys and push the massive truck around the house. I caught him playing inside of the truck and though the moment was just too cute. (Yes he does have a few of those.) now remember that because the toy box is empty his bedroom is now a mess! Got to love that child when I can!
Hunter- Go clean your room!Monday, September 28, 2009
Jon Hates IT!
Ah HA! You have opened this hoping for some new light and knowledge to spew for from my tapping fingers. You are hoping for a laugh, a giggle, a chuckle, and perhaps a story to share with your friends about Monica and her crazy family and the dumb things that happened to them this week.
First off. School is really working for Erica. She informed us that “Dot’s have a new name they are named ‘periods’. And the Dots in a Dot-to-Dot. Are really named periods.” She tells us that sometimes the teacher has to tell her to get to work and that she needs to be quite. Next week is parent teacher conferences. I am nervous to be told that Erica needs to tone it down a bit.
Wyatt and I are getting along better with the nursing thing. People ask me if he is a good baby and I of course respond that they can believe what ever they want to believe. If they want to believe that he sleeps all through the night and politely asks for some thing to eat, and only poops his pants at 10 and at 4 then they can go ahead and believe that. Those of us with less cordial babies will continue with our 3 am feeding and the 4 am diaper and the alarm clock then going off at 6 am to get the kids out the door to school! We are getting LOTS and LOTS of sleep.
William has forced me to learn to shut the door to my bathroom. He is a full fledged toilet paper prep engineer and I am often finding the roll all prepped (unrolled) and half of it sent to it’s watery grave. The ole’ plunger has been used to unstop William’s mess my bathroom on more than one occasion. In other news he has taken a few steps but not more than two at a time. He cannot be convinced into walking back and forth between two people. Most of his steps I am sure he does unintentionally and usually between two chairs or the like. He does think that climbing into the dishwasher is a fun past time. (I think he is looking for seconds) And watching him eat of late is quite humorous or really gross depending on your point of view. Since cutting his molars he is much more efficient at the chewing process and since that realization has been made Will literally STUFFS his mouth full of food. Then soggs it up, and often realizes that there is just to much in his mouth and begins spitting it back out. (yes that is the gross part). But when he is shoving it in you would swear that the kids hasn’t eaten in days. He is shoving it in so fast! That is the part that is funny!
Hunter-- HEE HEE! Yeah well Hunter made it though another week again didn’t he! A Kitten has adopted our family. All of the Kids are deeply enthralled. They have named the said Kitty “Georgia” they all play with and hold and pet the poor cat to pieces. Hunter is totally fine with being with this kitty when it is being totally controlled by someone. But one day while the kids where at School Hunter got out of the house without me knowing and was soon screaming bloody murder. When I realized that he was outside and that his cries were hysterical!!!(understatement) I was sure that something must be dreadfully wrong. SO I tore outside to find out what had happened and Hunter is running for the house as fast as he can and the cute little kitty is following him at a dainty trot. Apparently Hunter was sure the cat was going to get him. He has had many dreadful encounters with the cat and is electing to stay indoors when the kids are at school so as to not have another run in with the cat. (It must be noted that this kitten is the most docile feline in the world. She has not scratched, bit, or clawed, one of my kids despite their manhandling of the poor thing.)
Marcus was the special person at school this last week. Apparently that is a big deal. He brought home this huge poster where the teacher had written down a list of his favorite things and that kind of thing. And all of the kids in his class colored a picture for him that he got to bring home with him. They are very treasured pictures and we are suppose to love ALL of them. I hung the huge poster up and am waiting for the opportune moment to circular file the 25 drawing sent home with him.
Stiles is of course being the best boy in the world. He is happy to do his jobs every day. His bed is always made and his room is forever clean, his homework is always done perfectly. He never fights, teases or manipulates his siblings. He does everything I ask him to do the first time and I’ve got some ocean front property I’ll sell you for dirt cheep! No honestly He is a great son and I love him dearly. We do butt heads and one day I might grow up enough to get over that. I just hope it is long before he becomes the same headstrong teenager that I was. I am defiantly running out of time!
Jon went hunting with is buddies this last weekend. He was the caller and they tried really hard to get his friends an elk but I think Billy will leave the hunt empty handed this year. While he was gone I decided that I was out of time if I wanted to have my Kitchen painted before we had everyone over for Wyatt’s baby blessing. So upon surveying the work to be done I decided that I really just needed the paint. So After Jon left for the mountains I left for Home Depot and came hope with the supplies I needed. I spent one day masking the entire room and prepping every thing that could possibly be prepped and then that night I put the kids to bed and started to actually paint I finished painting at about 3:30 that morning and I love the results. I spent the next day putting everything back together and cleaning up. Then I took cute pictures and posted them on my blogg and waited for Jon to come home. He of course had no idea that I had under taken any such project and proclaimed that he “Hated it!” I told him that since he was not willing to do the work he could not complain about the work that was done. Some moral of the story about a little red hen comes to mind. Got to love that guy though he has not said anything except that he hated it and has since left the whole thing alone. I think it will grow on him and eventually he will like it or he might be willing to help me with the next project either way I win.
The Church is true. And Families can be together for ever. (as much as you think you might be better off if you weren’t stuck with us, it is for your own good!)
Love you
Monica, Jon , Stiles, Marcus, Erica, Hunter, William, & Wyatt Woodin
First off. School is really working for Erica. She informed us that “Dot’s have a new name they are named ‘periods’. And the Dots in a Dot-to-Dot. Are really named periods.” She tells us that sometimes the teacher has to tell her to get to work and that she needs to be quite. Next week is parent teacher conferences. I am nervous to be told that Erica needs to tone it down a bit.
Wyatt and I are getting along better with the nursing thing. People ask me if he is a good baby and I of course respond that they can believe what ever they want to believe. If they want to believe that he sleeps all through the night and politely asks for some thing to eat, and only poops his pants at 10 and at 4 then they can go ahead and believe that. Those of us with less cordial babies will continue with our 3 am feeding and the 4 am diaper and the alarm clock then going off at 6 am to get the kids out the door to school! We are getting LOTS and LOTS of sleep.
William has forced me to learn to shut the door to my bathroom. He is a full fledged toilet paper prep engineer and I am often finding the roll all prepped (unrolled) and half of it sent to it’s watery grave. The ole’ plunger has been used to unstop William’s mess my bathroom on more than one occasion. In other news he has taken a few steps but not more than two at a time. He cannot be convinced into walking back and forth between two people. Most of his steps I am sure he does unintentionally and usually between two chairs or the like. He does think that climbing into the dishwasher is a fun past time. (I think he is looking for seconds) And watching him eat of late is quite humorous or really gross depending on your point of view. Since cutting his molars he is much more efficient at the chewing process and since that realization has been made Will literally STUFFS his mouth full of food. Then soggs it up, and often realizes that there is just to much in his mouth and begins spitting it back out. (yes that is the gross part). But when he is shoving it in you would swear that the kids hasn’t eaten in days. He is shoving it in so fast! That is the part that is funny!
Hunter-- HEE HEE! Yeah well Hunter made it though another week again didn’t he! A Kitten has adopted our family. All of the Kids are deeply enthralled. They have named the said Kitty “Georgia” they all play with and hold and pet the poor cat to pieces. Hunter is totally fine with being with this kitty when it is being totally controlled by someone. But one day while the kids where at School Hunter got out of the house without me knowing and was soon screaming bloody murder. When I realized that he was outside and that his cries were hysterical!!!(understatement) I was sure that something must be dreadfully wrong. SO I tore outside to find out what had happened and Hunter is running for the house as fast as he can and the cute little kitty is following him at a dainty trot. Apparently Hunter was sure the cat was going to get him. He has had many dreadful encounters with the cat and is electing to stay indoors when the kids are at school so as to not have another run in with the cat. (It must be noted that this kitten is the most docile feline in the world. She has not scratched, bit, or clawed, one of my kids despite their manhandling of the poor thing.)
Marcus was the special person at school this last week. Apparently that is a big deal. He brought home this huge poster where the teacher had written down a list of his favorite things and that kind of thing. And all of the kids in his class colored a picture for him that he got to bring home with him. They are very treasured pictures and we are suppose to love ALL of them. I hung the huge poster up and am waiting for the opportune moment to circular file the 25 drawing sent home with him.
Stiles is of course being the best boy in the world. He is happy to do his jobs every day. His bed is always made and his room is forever clean, his homework is always done perfectly. He never fights, teases or manipulates his siblings. He does everything I ask him to do the first time and I’ve got some ocean front property I’ll sell you for dirt cheep! No honestly He is a great son and I love him dearly. We do butt heads and one day I might grow up enough to get over that. I just hope it is long before he becomes the same headstrong teenager that I was. I am defiantly running out of time!
Jon went hunting with is buddies this last weekend. He was the caller and they tried really hard to get his friends an elk but I think Billy will leave the hunt empty handed this year. While he was gone I decided that I was out of time if I wanted to have my Kitchen painted before we had everyone over for Wyatt’s baby blessing. So upon surveying the work to be done I decided that I really just needed the paint. So After Jon left for the mountains I left for Home Depot and came hope with the supplies I needed. I spent one day masking the entire room and prepping every thing that could possibly be prepped and then that night I put the kids to bed and started to actually paint I finished painting at about 3:30 that morning and I love the results. I spent the next day putting everything back together and cleaning up. Then I took cute pictures and posted them on my blogg and waited for Jon to come home. He of course had no idea that I had under taken any such project and proclaimed that he “Hated it!” I told him that since he was not willing to do the work he could not complain about the work that was done. Some moral of the story about a little red hen comes to mind. Got to love that guy though he has not said anything except that he hated it and has since left the whole thing alone. I think it will grow on him and eventually he will like it or he might be willing to help me with the next project either way I win.
The Church is true. And Families can be together for ever. (as much as you think you might be better off if you weren’t stuck with us, it is for your own good!)
Love you
Monica, Jon , Stiles, Marcus, Erica, Hunter, William, & Wyatt Woodin
Friday, September 25, 2009
A MAKEOVER !
As my husband was away hunting the big mighty elk, I was more anxiously employed. My Kitchen has been in makeover stage for a year now. When we bought the house it was Wallpapered in some very early 90's Country blue and mauve hearts. Under that was some 70's avacado green and harvest gold baskets of food. And that Paper was stuck directly onto the sheet rock. So I stripped and then textured and then masked everything and finally last night I stayed up until 3:30 am and painted my heart out. Here are my results.
This is Jons elk
The door leading out to my garage
Coming down from Jon and I's bedroom
Now I need some new window treatments fo finish off the room
the view from the livingroom
Yes! I have completed this project- well almost I still need to do behind the fridge, maybe next year!
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
clear your calander, you have been invited...
hear ye hear ye!
We plan to bless Wyatt Logan Woodin on October 11th. Sacrament meeting is at 1:00. We plan to attend the whole block session and then have a potatoe bar potluck meal about 4:30ish. ( if you would prefer to only attend sacrament meeting our house will be open and you can skip out on the rest of the meetings)
This is the same weekend of Trevors Wedding, If anybody would like sleeping accomidations at my house holler first to get the good bed! (okay it is just an air mattress or a hide a bed, but your choice!)
Our building is located on Yellowstone about 5 1/2 miles north from the chubbuck freeway exit. The building is brown in color. You will pass a purple colored building and the Tyhee stake center before you get to our building which is on the reservation. If anybody needs directions to our house feel free to call!
Please let me know if you think you are coming so I can get enough potatoes in the oven! 237-1719 or just email me back.
We plan to bless Wyatt Logan Woodin on October 11th. Sacrament meeting is at 1:00. We plan to attend the whole block session and then have a potatoe bar potluck meal about 4:30ish. ( if you would prefer to only attend sacrament meeting our house will be open and you can skip out on the rest of the meetings)
This is the same weekend of Trevors Wedding, If anybody would like sleeping accomidations at my house holler first to get the good bed! (okay it is just an air mattress or a hide a bed, but your choice!)
Our building is located on Yellowstone about 5 1/2 miles north from the chubbuck freeway exit. The building is brown in color. You will pass a purple colored building and the Tyhee stake center before you get to our building which is on the reservation. If anybody needs directions to our house feel free to call!
Please let me know if you think you are coming so I can get enough potatoes in the oven! 237-1719 or just email me back.
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