Friday, February 16, 2024

Walker Time & Trip Prep

Michael took Camden on a date to Texas Roadhouse on Monday and he said it was so much fun. Asher has kind of taken over Michael these days, as our two-year-olds usually do, and so it was fun for them to spend some one-on-one time together. Camden is such a goofy, sweet guy.

 Pam & Charlotte came Tues-Thurs while Gary was working here all week. Katie came up for the day with Finn on Wednesday and we had fun taking all the little cousins to story time at the library. Then that night we had Valentines fondue and heart-shaped ravioli for dinner. The boys all got cereal bowls for Valentines Day and it was fun to write each other notes.

Then we went into trip mode! Which basically means a lot of laundry. It started snowing so hard Friday afternoon. We thought taking Luna to get her last vaccine then straight to her Rover family would be about a 45-minute deal and it turned into almost 2 hours. But we were packed and ready by 10:30 that night and I've learned after 35 years of life to just take melatonin the night before I travel. So in the end it all worked out pretty well.

Maui tomorrow!

Sometimes Asher becomes the weights of our weights workouts :)

Cute little toddler Valentine party at my friend Aimee's.

This is how Asher hits 6:15am and he knows just how cool he is :)

Westin's class had Valentines boxes as optional this year, and I assumed he wouldn't want one. I helped make Bennett one and then Westin asked me if I could help him do one too. My initial thought was to tell him we should just skip it, since he really didn't have to have one anyway, but then I wondered how many years this sweet boy is going to be asking me to make a Valentines box with him.
So we made his Chiefs dreams come true and he was so excited about it :)


Spiderman for this guy :)



Pam and Charlotte visited for a couple days!
It's so funny and great that Gary works in Fort Collins every few weeks. We were happy she and Charlotte came this time! We did a cousin trip to the library for story time.

Valentines Fondue with Pam and Gary and Charlotte

Always turning our stairs into a slide

These cute little cousins!

We spent their second day at the children's museum.






Sunday, February 11, 2024

Super Bowl Sunday

I loved this week!

Playgroup at the park, science project for Bennett and Westin, Sofi teaching us to crochet at Young Womens, initial doctor appointment to figure out Bennett's sleeping, sweet guy, a doctor appointment for me and being DONE with my dumb hormone medicine that ruined life for 10 days a month, a pedicure before beach time, registering Camden for preschool next year instead of starting kindergarten, staying at Katie's house Friday night and doing pizza/movie night with cousins, playing on Saturday before a nap time drive home, getting a babysitter for the adult session of stake conference, a solidly successful stake conference on Sunday morning even though we expected it to be kind of miserable, making SO MANY yummy Super Bowl snacks (macro counting paused for today and there is a bowl of muddy buddies with my name on it), the Whitneys and Schmidts over for the big game, cheered for Brock Purdy but can't help but also cheering for Taylor's boyfriend so it's a win-win. 

Westin spent hours with our babysitter on Saturday making fuse beads to spell out "Super Bowl 58, Kansas City Chiefs vs. San Francisco 49ers," each letter fused together and laid out on our table for Sunday's game. This kid has been all about this Super Bowl since basically last year's Super Bowl ended.

Also the half time show was incredibly joyful and I will be watching it many more times. And maybe buying roller skates?

100 days of school!
His brothers liked helping him with all those band-aids.
I'm going to try to convince Camden and Asher to go this same route... so much easier than Westin's 100 creature power discs we hot glued all over a shirt haha.

Still down today. He took 3 naps before nap time, poor guy.

Stocking up stores for Easter!

Luna's shots are more high maintenance than my children's!
They don't like to combine much of anything for her so we are taking her in 3 weeks in a row for a different vaccine. 

Science Fair beginnings! Bennett is doing some Skittle experimenting.

First you need to know how many of each color there are.
Because, first grade.


He is dissolving them in water, baby oil, vinegar, and rubbing alcohol. We'll see!

Michael had a conference in Parker Saturday morning so we decided to do a cousin movie night Friday and all stay with Katie. She's so sweet to let us bring Luna down so that we can do little getaways like this and get all the boys together.

There's something about all 7 of our boys playing with a train track that melts my heart. Soon our older boys won't do that and they'll be in a much different place than our little guys. But right now they are 7 magical boys who play trains and cars together and these are just some sweet years.



Another successful cousin time.

Water won! Who knew. His hypothesis was alcohol. The baby oil did absolutely nothing and the vinegar came in second place.

Some Jenga building before church!
I spy new floors... this is going to be a big project when we get home from Hawaii.

My friend snapped this during stake conference and I love seeing Asher in action.
He was actually really sweet during the two hours, which I was grateful for. Westin sat by his bestie playing the dot game and getting hyped for the Super Bowl, Bennett went a few rows behind and sat by our cute babysitter, Camden didn't feel great and laid his head on Michael's lap most of the time, and Asher just wanted to pet my head and give me kisses. I had multiple people come up to me after telling me that watching us made them miss their little kids, which I'm sure is NOT the typical reaction we cause in people during stake conference so we were happy to get an easier-than-predicted day.

Michael whipped up some sourdough pretzels for the Super Bowl because he's domestic like that.

Can you spot the KC one and the 49 one? Westin couldn't decide who to root for.
But once kick off happened, his heart went to the Chiefs.

The curliest of curly fries and the rest of our spread.
We all picked a snack or two and it's probably my favorite meal of the year. That or New Year's Eve, which is when we have appetizers for dinner and looks EXACTLY like this, so, there's a strong theme to my favorite foods.

Asher was LOVING Usher. He couldn't help but dance. Finally just stood up on his chair, turned around to grab the back, and just started booty dropping haha. Me too.

Such a fun game to watch! We had a couple other families over and everyone bounced between the basement and upstairs, but we all watched halftime together downstairs. So close and fun, but I have to admit I wanted Brock Purdy to take the win (sorry Westin!) But I also wore my Taylor sweatshirt as my Super Bowl gear so it was obviously a win-win outcome for me.


Sunday, February 4, 2024

Growing Boys, Growing Dog

 This week was a bunch of routine so I'll just write about our Friday afternoon.

We hopped in the car after school and drove to a new park. Westin threw the football with Michael. Camden and Bennett chased each other around the playground. Luna ran free off leash in the field with Michael and Westin and ignored all the other kids and dogs there, and came every time I beeped her electric collar. She let all the little kids who wanted to love on her give her pets and hugs without reacting poorly. Life is so much easier with a good dog than with a puppy. Asher chased after Michael and then played on the playground with him some. We talked to a family wearing Purdue gear who will be moving back to Indiana soon to be near their parents since they just had their first baby a year ago. I thought about how different life would be to live by family, and then just didn't really think much about it anymore because it really hasn't ever been or will be our life, and we get blessings from that and some sad stuff too. It just is.

These boys are at a sweet stage. I can't believe how old my baby is. I need to potty train him but I don't want to do it before our February and April trips. He's not the oldest Daetwyler boy to still be wearing diapers all day, and since we still call him Baby Asher on the regular, it's fitting.

This sunny and mild winter feels like such a huge life bonus. Friday afternoons at the park in February. We'll take it.

Dress Up Day at preschool, no theme just anything you want, and of course this cute guy reaches for our firefighter costume. I love how much he wears it.

Asher totally loves shoes. I love his love for them.
He was really into these and I could tell taking a picture of them for him made him happy haha.

My mom sent me this and it's a little trippy for me to read.
This sounds like little Camden chatting with me.
We really all were just little kids once, and someone did everything for us.

Madeline, 5 years old, typical morning:
"Mom, I'm hungry. Mom, how come this arrow points to this. Mom, I wanted My Little Mermaid Bubble Bath. Mom, my bouncy ball got stuck in this house. Can i put my stuffed animals in the bathtub with me? Why no? How about my Barbie? Well then how about Skipper?"

Maybe my favorite moment of the day lately. 
Some afternoons we walk to get the boys at school and sometimes we stay close to home and watch them walk up the hill.
Asher always runs to them for the biggest hugs either way and it melts everyone's hearts.

Just pulling up to a table at "CBR" -- Colorado's Best Restaurant, ready to be served by four super cute waiters. They used Camden's cactus from preschool as the table centerpiece :) And our secret basement play spot as their restaurant kitchen. 

Here's my order! Pizza, even with fish, strawberry smoothie, and a six-layer cake.
Colorado's best restaurant for sure.

Luna gets big love when she goes to get shots.
These guys love her so much.

The whole family was watching Bluey because they got ready for bed fast enough for two episodes,
but Asher was upstairs in Camden's room. I went in and told him, "Don't you want to come watch Bluey?"
He immediately said, "No! Play cars me!" And so I sat and watched him line them all up so carefully.
It was just so cute to me that he knew this needed to be done before any Bluey should happen.


He wanted to pour his own cereal and Michael helped it happen.
We love this little workout buddy of ours who usually drops out halfway through to start eating breakfast and watch us instead haha.

My first walk to school pick up with no stroller.
This felt a little mind-blowing.
Asher is still very much learning, but he's faster than any of our two-year-olds have been thanks to wanting to keep up with Camden.

Just a typical doodle from Westin.
I can't make this up.

Birthday parties! Camden got to celebrate Teddy at the trampoline park.

And Bennett got to celebrate Ellis at the bowling alley.
Bennett so often says, "This is the most fun day of my life!" and it just so sweetly shows this kid's contentment and gratitude.

Two valentines crafts, a 100-days-of-school shirt, and Asher playing Sleeping Queens with daddy which is not very rule-abiding at all. While I make dinner and breathe through the noise while also just love the sights.

We have had a rock climbing gift card for almost a full year,
and when all of our date nights come up we say,
"We could go rock climbing?"
And then we don't. Until finally we did.

These auto-belays were honestly super scary for me. 
It feels weird to just jump back knowing the machinery is going to slow you down,
rather than the person at the bottom being able to actually completely stop you. 
The jumps off were psyching me out!
But over time we both got more used to it and made it up a few climbs. 

I told multiple people who asked what we were doing that night that Michael and I hadn't gone rock climbing together since we were dating.
Then when I mentioned that to him, he told me we had never done this together.
Haha.
I truly only see his face at the quarry in Provo and I have NO idea who I went there with during my college dating days, so I guess I'm just replacing my memories with Michael :)


My sick fever boy.
This little guy is our fever guy.
If there's something to catch, he'll catch it,
and it'll hit him harder than anyone else. Sweetie.


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