Who you gonna call?

Rhett loves the Ghostbusters song. He's started dancing to it and it cracks us all up! Of course as soon as the camera comes on he gets stage fright. But I did manage to catch a little of it a couple of days ago. He danced for a few seconds before demanding more food. Ha. For your viewing pleasure here is a clip. Enjoy!

Our little turkey

Jagger's pre-school class made these little turkey hats for Thanksgiving. I thought he looked adorable. I think my mom said it best when she said, "That's the cutest little turkey I've ever seen. And I've seen A LOT of turkeys!" Ha.

A great report

Lawson came home with his second report card last week. All pluses again! We are so thrilled that he likes school so well. Great job Lawson! Hope you keep up that great work!

Great recipe

So, I rarely share recipes because I'm usually snagging recipes from all you who have your own blogs. :) However, I do want to share one quick recipe that was given to me by one of my best friends. It is perfect for a cold rainy night (like tonight) which is what made me think to post it.

It is Tortellini Soup. Here's the recipe:

1 large jar of Salsa

2 cans chicken broth

1 can stewed tomatoes

1-1 1/2 lb. ground beef

1 bag tortellini noodles

Brown ground beef and mix with salsa, broth and tomatoes on high until boiling. Add tortellini noodles and cook until noodles are done.

Super easy and fairly quick! We eat ours with Parmesan cheese on top and serve with either corn bread or cheese bread (depending on how much time I have.) The noodles can sometimes be hard to find (I usually can't find them here in town at the supermarkets but they do have them at Wal-Mart Supercenter--frozen foods over by the frozen bread if you shop at South Wal-Mart).

This was perfect for the cold rainy night tonight and definitely hit the spot. Enjoy!

Exhausted...

Yesterday was just that--an exhausting day. To start out, I didn't sleep very well the night before therefore waking up not very well rested. Never a good way to start the day off.

But never-the-less, the day must begin. So we began getting dressed and ready for church. After a few episodes of "I don't want to wear this" and "I don't want to eat that" mixed in with Rhett's own language of grunting and squealing I was short on patience before we even made it to the car! Deep breath though. I can do this.

Upon arriving at church we sit down. A quick glance down the pew to make sure we had all made it there fully clothed and, check! Mission accomplished. And we were even on time. About two songs into the service I realized that I had left the iron plugged in. Great. Super. Fantastic. Sheepishly: "Honey, I forgot to unplug the iron. Will you pleeeeeease run back home and unplug it?" No problem except that it caused my other half to miss the entire church sermon. Well, actually it caused us both to miss the entire sermon because I don't think I heard one word in-between wrestling my year old wiggle worm and taking the bigger one to the potty with the aforementioned one year old in tow. I turned around to make sure the biggie was following behind me to the restroom to notice that he was walking all the way down the isle, literally holding "it". (I'm sure we often look quite comical! Boys; you've gotta love them!)

After church services were over we headed to our respective bible classes where Rhett screamed and cried and attached himself to my chest like a koala bear. Normally cute and sweet in an "oh he loves me and doesn't want to be away from me" kind of way except...I'm exhausted.

But, after prying him off of me and running for cover I head over to my 2 year old class that I'm teaching this quarter with the help of my mom. Teaching (entertaining) two year olds. Enough said. Exhausting. And it's only 10:00 in the morning.

After church we headed to Cracker Barrel with my parents for an early lunch. Three small boys; restaurant full of people; keeping food on the table rather than the floor (but a very good meal!) but I'm exhausted.

Home. Home to a house waiting with dishes to be washed (rather, loaded into the dishwasher--thank goodness for those!), clothes to be washed, folded, put away, and ready for evening services at church and I'm still exhausted. Evening services at church are spent trying to keep my one year old from throwing a fit, climbing over the pews, dumping the container of animal crackers into the floor and throwing the sippy cup four rows in front of us. He wiggles, he squirms, he jabbers, he's up, he's down, he wants a book, no, not that book, the other book and then...there it is. He looks up at me and grins that squinty-eyed grin and I melt. I'm not aggravated anymore. But still exhausted.

After church came the dreadful trip to the place that so many love--Wal-Mart. Sorry. I don't share the same enthusiasm for that place as many. We always stay too long, spend too much and, yep, you got it! Walk out exhausted.

We get home and there are groceries to put away, kids to get ready for bed, clothes to lay out for school the next morning back-packs to sit by the door and where did the day (*ahem* weekend!) go?? I'M EXHAUSTED!!!

Finally, everyone's pajamas are on and we are all ready for bed but take a few minutes to all pile on the bed and enjoy a little snuggle time. Below is a picture of me surrounded by my very special men in my life. Below is the reason I keep going even when I'm exhausted. I'm still exhausted--but happy. And I know I'm doing exactly what I need to be doing. :)

Halloween 2009

Well, I've already posted below about what a crazy, hectic week Halloween week was for us at the Young household! Here are a couple of Halloween pics from this year. Hope everyone had a great Halloween! :)

The Young and Welch kids with one of their favorites, Ms. Kimberly.

The Young kiddos, Welch kiddos, and Weekley kiddos. A couch full!! :)

Happy Belated Birthday to my sweet Peanut!!

Although his birthday wish on my blog is somewhat late, we did celebrate his birthday all week long last week! Man! That is one busy week for us Youngs! We started out with Brandon's birthday lunch on Sunday afternoon at the Spaghetti Store. (Yum! Yum!) His birthday was on Monday (so belated blog happy birthday to you as well!). Monday we sent birthday snacks with Jagger to his pre-school. Tuesday night was Trunk or Treat at church (as well as preparing sandwiches for Jagger's Halloween party the next day. Wednesday was Jagger's pre-school Halloween party complete with more Trick-or-Treating. Thursday was Trick-or-Treat in the dorm. We were also treated with a visit from the Weekleys! We were able to have pizza afterwards and visit and catch up a bit which we all really enjoyed! Friday was Lawson's Halloween party at school. I got to go and help with centers and he was pretty excited about that. It was fun but I must say that I know without a shadow of a doubt why I was not an education major! Ha. :) Then Saturday we ended our week long celebrations with Jagger's family birthday party. Whew! I'm tired all over again just typing about it! Ha.

I'll post Halloween pics in the next update but for now I want to say Happy Belated Birthday to my Peanut, my cuddle bug! You are my snuggly loving child that I always wanted! Still at 4 years old you want to be held and give the best hugs I could ask for! :) I'll continue to hold you as long as I can breathe sitting underneath you! :) Then maybe you can hold me! :)