A Peek at the Poulsens

This little boy has so much character!

HOORAY! Makall is HOME!!! Austin's sister came home from her mission in Nauvoo, IL this weekend and it is SO FUN to have her back. Everyone in the family got to see her while she was in Nauvoo when they came for visits but I never got to go, so I am the only one who truly had to wait all eighteen months! She is awesome and we are so happy to have her back : )  We had SIX devices going - three on Facetime, one videoing, and two taking pictures.   She ran straight for Natalie, who of course was thrilled   It was hard to know who to talk to, which device to look at haha  Stockton was over it after the initial excitement and amused himself with his blankie  She finally gets to hold a baby!!! Welcome home, Makally : ) 

A. Lately it has been a struggle staying patient all day and all night with my Natsby - she is figuring out how to be bossy, doesn't know how to deal with not getting what she wants, and is generally overtired so she is pretty unreasonable. Little things set her off and then she can't calm down for a while. I love how much she wants to do every day and how busy she likes to be and how she treats little Jack and usually Stockton, but then we deal with these tantrums and freak outs and feel like we're getting nowhere. B. I've been feeling pressure to do preschool for Natalie. A lot of my friends either have their three-year-olds in a preschool program or are doing a joy school with other moms. I pretty much have no interest in joy school, and I don't think it's necessary to pay for preschool. As I have thought about this for the past few weeks I realized that I kept trying to make preschool work and I didn't really want to do it and THAT'S OKAY! Somet...

My long lost childhood friend, Kalie, was in Omaha this week visiting her brother and his wife and two girls, and we went to play at her hotel and it was a blast! We hadn't seen each other since before either of us got married, and now we each have three kids! Some of her family and some of mine were there too (her mom and two brothers, my dad and one brother) and it was a fun reunion. PLUS they were staying at this place with an awesome (and FREE) water park inside! ta daaa! the kids loved it.  kalie's twins, rhett and evie! in the "hot pool"  any time anyone got close to Stockton I think he was afraid we were going to say it was time to go, so he kept dashing off everywhere, haha. he also loved playing in the bottom part of the water slide. Jack didn't really care for the water 5-week old Ellery, Aaron's second daughter  kalie and evie, jack and jack pop-pop in the "cold pool," which Natalie actually preferred ...