Chronicles of my crew!

blog giveaway

2011-08-24T21:21:00.000-07:00

so i entered a blog giveaway. which I usually don't do but it looked like some fun stuff so I did.
You should check out her blog she creates super cute stuff!

Ward Campout

2011-06-19T18:30:00.000-07:00

This past weekend was our ward campout! We went up a day early along with some other families to reserve some spots for those
that couldn't make it until Friday. One of the families that came had set up a zipline next to their site! The kids got to try that out for the first time! I was surprised that they were okay w/ it! They had it going over a little ravine too! Riley jumped right up and went and so did Seth. Lyddie had no intrest at all! And Lex was a tad nervous but thought she would try it out but before they let her go she started to flip out so we took her down. The next day she tried it again and was okay as long as they would keep hold of the rope. So she went the distance to the ravine and then got down.

Then we went to the fish hatchery. The kids had a great time looking at all the fish! They even got to feed the fish which they thought was pretty cool!

We walked from our campsite to the hatchery which ended up being about 2 miles roundtrip by the time you walk all through the hatchery too. Walking was a bad idea!! There was a big incline right before the hatchery. I have a really hard time walking up or down hills with my bad hips so by the time we got up there my hips were hurting and then we still had to walk around and back. By the time we started back we had a 4 yr old that was tired of walking and a 5 yr old w/ a broken toe that was bothering her and a 6yr old w/ her dying femur that was bothering her. So I got the 4yr old and Eliott rotated the other two!

It was about half way back when Lyddie laid her head on my head and said "mom I think I am gonna go to sleep on your head, okay?" It was too cute!

I love this scrunched up nose picture! Too Cute!!
Lexi decided to hang w/ me on the way back after her shoulder ride. She hung on my pocket so she could keep up. It was cute but made my journey a little more difficult! We had tons of fun but I don't think we would walk again!!

We have an amazing ward and I love going to ward activities but this by far was my favorite! The kids got to run around and play w/ all the other kids while we got to visit and relax with friends! I can't wait till next year!!

A bit of sewing...

2011-05-29T16:50:00.000-07:00

I have been doing some sewing lately and I love it!! We had a few birthday parties in May that the girls were invited to but of course I didn't have a gift or time to get one. So I went digging through my stash to find something suitable and came up w/ a couple super cute aprons. I made one that was red w/ white polka dots and a white ruffle. And the other one was this cute little cupcake one!! I am in love w/ them and want to make some cute ones for my girls and possibly for my Etsy shop. That isn't quite up and running yet!!

With it being graduation and all I have 6 laurels leaving! (graduating seniors that are in my class at church). So for a gift we decided to make aprons and recipe books for the girls. They are seriously cute. I make things for other people all the time but somehow I never end up making anything for myself. After making these aprons I have decided which cute ones I want for myself! I made 6 aprons (one not pictured because we had to give it to her early because she was going to be gone for 2 months) and out of the 6 only 2 were the same. So I had 5 different ones to choose from. This 1st one is sooo cute! I found the tutorial online and I am in love with it and I think I will make one for me!

This one is one that I made after making the cute little girl ones. I am sure I saw it somewhere but I have no idea. It is just put together from different ideas that were floating around my head! This is the other one that I am gonna make for me! I think I might even use the same fabric cuz it is seriously cute!!

This one I made for our girls camp fundraiser auction. People seemed to like it so I made this one for one of the other girls.

The next 2 I saw a picture of and tried to recreate it.

This one is the shortest of all and of course it is for the tallest girl so I am gonna go add a ruffle to the bottom to give it some more length. I am thinking a black ruffle will be cute.

A little late

2011-05-28T19:49:00.000-07:00

I don't use a pattern to sew but I really wanted to feel like I could. So the week before Easter I decided to tackle dresses for the girls. We all went to Joann's and I let them each pick out their fabric. Which was actually alot of fun! And then I got to sewing! I finished the dresses the day before Easter. I think they turned out super cute. And the girls LOVED them!! I love all the happy twirling and posing! I may even tackel a pattern again. But I still kinda prefer making my own!

love these girls

2011-02-19T20:50:00.000-08:00

I took this picture a month or so ago but just came across it again. I love it!! I love how they all want to be close to each other. How they are the best of friends. How they protect each other. How they play together. How they love each other. I hope they can manage to keep the awesome relationship that they have as they grow.

the how

2011-02-18T08:16:00.000-08:00

i guess i forgot to say how exactly the toe incident happened. so here is a little explanation for you. The bench is just a regular wooden bench for your dining room table. It doesn't have sharp edges on it or anything unusual. The best we can figure is that she was sitting w/ her knees bent and sitting on her lower legs. Riley told her they should tip the bench and then jumped off and Lexi must have tried to do the same and in the process pushed the bench harder/faster down. In the process it got her toe. Really just a random freak accident!

quite the story...

2011-02-12T09:16:00.000-08:00

This is a looooong post!! And at the end there are gory pictures fair warning!!!

So wednesday evening Eliott and I were sitting on the couch chatting when we hear the dining room bench fall over. Eliott starts to tell me how he is so tired of the kids messing around on it. At that point I hear the cry to change to one that encourages us to check out what happened. So right as I start telling Eliott he should check (cuz I don't do blood so if there is a cry that might indicate blood, it is his job!) Seth comes around the corner super white and just says "there's blood". So we jump up to check and there stands lex next to the bench w/ half of her toe barely attached to the rest of it. It all happened so fast after that. I ask Eliott if it was bad, he says yes, then I say ER? and he says yes. So I rush the kids 3 doors down to my friend (scare her to death w/ my crazy pounding on her door and trying to open it) when she opens it I just tell her lex chopped her toe off and she takes my kids inside. Meanwhile Eliott puts her toe back together and wraps it in a towel. I So we go to the pediatric ER and on the way we pray and Eliott gives lex a blessing and we sing primary songs. The only thing that could keep me somewhat calm was the primary songs. Whenever we would stop singing my whole body would start shaking again. So primary songs we sang! Since I don't do blood Eliott held lex on the way and I drove. Which we decided was a good thing since I didn't see all the blood, the toe hanging or her exposed bone. Eliott would have driven way crazier trying to get us there!!

So once we got there the first nurse looked at it right away and said it was cut pretty bad and that they would give her some pain stuff in the waiting room then pressure wrap it and take some xrays. Eliott tried asking her if she saw the toenail and she said thought it was somewhere in the towel. Well at that point we kinda started worrying that she didn't really know what she was doing. cuz if she couldn't see the toenail then she was looking at the inside of her toe because it was chopped off. Well we had to wait another 30-45 minutes to be taken into triage to have them pressure wrap it. When we got there a different nurse and a tech were looking at it and said that they couldn't pressure wrap it because it was a partial amputation. At this point I have lexi's head in my arms and my face right next to her singing her primary songs trying to calm her down and here they are throwing out the words "partial amputation". I am so glad she didn't really know what that meant, cuz the words alone were enough to freak me out!! So then we get put at the end of this hall waiting for the next room. After sitting there for another 30 minutes we get moved to a room. Then to another where we stayed till we got to go home. We were in the second room for another 30-45 minutes waiting for xrays, and dr. and whatnot. They finally came in and the dr. told us he would sedate her and sew her toe back together. The xray showed that she broke the bone on the very tip of her big toe. So after being there for about 2hrs they finally had her iv in and were starting to sedate her. She was awake but she had no idea what was going on. When I kissed her she didn't kiss back. Then we went to wait in the waiting room. When we were called back in she was starting to wake up and her toe was put back together!!! It was soooooo gross! I never saw it before it was stitched back together and barely looked at it when it was. There is about 1/4inch on the bottom of her toe that didn't get cut but that was it. So she has a stitch inside her toe and then a ring of stitches around it and one going through the nail. She has to be in a boot and can't walk for 4-6 weeks because of the broken bone.

She has been in such a good mood and hardly ever complains. We moved a twin mattress downstairs and that is her safe zone. I have been sleeping on it with her so I can help her in the night. And it about breaks my heart when she wakes up for medicine. She just rolls over and in a sad voice will say "mom, my toe hurts" so then we start the drug routine. She has been showered w/ love and gifts and is doing soooo well!!

This pictures was her being funny w/ Eliott on her safe zone!

We took her to the podiatrist and they unwrapped it for us. We didn't have a camera at the hospital and my phone battery was dying so it wouldn't take a picture. So we didn't get any before or during pictures. But here are the ones we took 36 hrs after. Eliott says it looks amazingly good considering what it looked like before. I didn't even really look at it at the podiatrist's yesterday. I caught a glimpse of it and that was enough for me! But oddly enough I can look at the pictures. They look sooooo much better than the actual toe. But it gives you an idea!

On the picture below you can see the part that doesn't have part of the black line going across there in the middle... That was the only part of the toe still attached.

new beds!!

2011-01-18T17:33:00.000-08:00

So the girls were outgrowing their small room so we decided to get bunk beds!!

we got a twin over full and the girls are in love with it!!!

For the first week they rotated turns on top but lately they have been all snuggling up together on the bottom! it is so cute! I love that they are such good friends! and having it has helped free up tons of space in their room making it a bit easier for them to clean and more fun to play in. so all around an excellent purchase!!

hmmm what to do...

2011-01-15T15:24:00.000-08:00

Well blogland, I am not gonna lie, I love comments! If I didn't like them or didn't care if anybody read my blog or not then I would just have it private and keep it to myself. I have gotten emails from people telling me to keep blogging when I start to slack. So if you want me to keep posting then you better start commenting. GOT IT LURKERS?!!

Thanks!!

Lexi's party

2011-01-07T19:26:00.000-08:00

In our house you get a family (meaning, uncles, aunts, cousins...) party every year but on the years you turn, 5, 8, 12,16 and maybe 18 you get to have a friend party! The kids are okay w/ this deal and I love it!! So this year Lexi got to have a friend party. First we decorated cupcakes and had lunch

and then there was asurprise visit from some princesses!

The Princesses got to paint all the girls nails and then we took some pictures with them!

The girls LOVED it!! Lexi was so cute!

We had presents and then she got to blow out her candle in the cupcake she decorated!

In the evening we had our family party where she got more presents and more cake! All in all I would say she had a fantastic day!!

Lexi turns 5!

2011-01-07T19:19:00.000-08:00

My Lexi is 5 now! look how gorgeous, sassy, fun and simply wonderful she is!!

Christmas

2011-01-02T21:40:00.000-08:00

Here are some of my favorite pictures from Christmas morning.

The kids didn't get to bed until about 10 on Christmas Eve so they slept until about 7:30. Eliott and I got up at 6:30 and waited for them to wake up so they could come downstairs. Here they are on the top of the stairs in their new jammies!

They have been wanting zhu zhu pets and Riley has pretty much been the ring leader on that one so she was super excited that Santa had left one for each of them!

Lydia was more excited for the bubbles in her stocking!! I love this rag-a-muffin picture of her!

Well and then there was chapstick which is always a huge hit for the girls!

All the kids were having so much fun w/ all the stuff in their stockings that they checked everything out for a good 15 minutes before we reminded them that there were presents under the tree! I love that they are so happy w/ the little things!

This is what happened after Lexi opened the present from Riley (it was a cell phone from the dollar store). Apparently Lexi loved it because she attacked Riley in hugs to thank her. They were rolling around on the floor and it was hilarious!

Seth had a great time too I just didn't snap any pictures of him looking at the camera. But overall we had a great day!

Happy New Year!!

2011-01-01T20:13:00.001-08:00

I thought I would start the year out w/ a blog post! Now I am not gonna go all crazy and say I am gonna be a better blogger this year. But secretly I am gonna try!

I need to put Christmas pictures on my computer so I can blog about Christmas. It was a fun day and I love watching te kids get sooo excited!

well that's about it for now. short but sweet.

stuff

2010-12-08T07:18:00.000-08:00

So let's play catch up...

Thanksgiving was fun! I love a good holiday w/ good food!

We took family pictures. I wasn't really excited about this and even debating doing them but it took about 15 minutes for us to get an excellent picture of each kid and a good family picture. So I was happy we went ahead and did them!

Then last thursday I finally got to have the surgery on my hip that I had been fighting for!! I have had weird hips for a while now but for the last 2 years they have been hurting. I found a dr. that was willing to help me out. The MRI wasn't conclusive w/ a labrum tear but that is what it was looking like. There was also a bump on my bone that could cause the labrum to tear if it hadn't already so he was going to shave that off. The good news is that the labrum was great but there were several bumps all over the top of my femur. So the ball and socket weren't sitting together properly so he had to shave the bumps off and reshape the ball. Sounds creepy but hey if it works then it's okay! And he said he was confident that it would relieve my pain.

It was kind of a long surgery. It took about 4.5 hours and an hourish of that was spent manipulating my body into a position so they could get into the joint. man was my body sore after all that! Luckily I was out for that part.

The recovery is no walking on that leg for 3 weeks. Which made it difficult for the first couple days because they must have pinched a nerve and I couldn't feel my good leg at all!! It was a bit difficult trying to get to the bathroom!! Eliott had to wheel me in a computer chair!

But the feeling is back and I can get around on my crutches!

I am lucky to have awesome friends and a fantastic Mother-in-law who have been soooo willing to help w/ food and kids so that I can recover quickly!

So I spend my days hanging out on the couch and watching Monk! It is going to feel great to be able to take care of my family and do things soon!

And Seth had his piano recital last night and did a great job!

And that my friends is my recap!

halloween!!!

2010-11-12T20:08:00.000-08:00

Better late than never....

Lydia the super girl!

Lexi the princess! Belle to be exact!

Riley the princess! Cinderalla was her princess of choice

and last but not least we have Seth the baseball player!

I know the pictures are small but I was trying to upload them a different way. Obviously it didn't work but you get the idea

weekend update

2010-10-04T11:57:00.000-07:00

Friday - was a poopy day. I can't even tell you why, it just was. So I talked my fab sis in law in coming to the valley early and we went to dinner and a bit of shopping. First time at cheesecake factory which was good and yummy!

Saturday - would have been great if I had actually watched General Conference. As it was I knew we wouldn't be able to see all of the sessions uninterrupted so we had it on but were recording it and Eliott and I plan on watching it this week. So I made yummy frozen cookie dough balls dipped in chocolate. Seriously they are as good as they sound! I will post a picture of them and the recipe soon. I went to kohls to use my $10 off coupons and my 30% off coupons and got some christmas gifts for the kids which makes me almost done w/ their stuff! Whoo hooo! and I got a cute shirt and a pair of shoes and all of that for about $30 w/ my awesome coupons!! Then we went to a friends house to eat yummy food and attempt to watch conference.

Sunday - should have consisted of more conference but the youth in the ward were assigned to go visit Randolph. So up at 6 and outta here by 7. I have to admit I had kind of a bad attitude about it due to missing General Conference but I was trying to change that attitude. I had never been before and wanted to make it a good experience. And it was! it was actually amazing and I am so grateful to have had the chance to go. Next would come where I ran over my Ipod Touch. That was a sad moment. But it is still usable and doesn't look too bad. Then for 2nd session of confernce I slept. It's true I did! I was sooooo exhausted and again I am watching them all this week when the kids go to bed! Then we got to go to a Family Birthday dinner. which is always delightful. and the day ended w/ some craft blog hopping and a good night's sleep!!

And that my friends is pretty much my weekend. Not terribly exciting but that's life!!!

the truth is...

2010-09-22T15:15:00.000-07:00

The truth is I don't have any truths for today. cuz the truth is I am having a rough week and seriously missing this lady....

It has been 7 years on Saturday.

Weekend update

2010-09-17T23:05:00.000-07:00

Friday- Jammie day, finished yw invitations, end Jammie day when the nurse called to tell me Riley was sick and should come home, load girls into eliott's crap car only to have it die on me 3 times before I made it into the street, best neighbor ever offers to let me borrow her car, get Riley and reinstate jammie day( yes I really put my jammiea back on), costa vida salad, made snickerdoodles and didn't even eat one, then eliott went totals night with his bro and I watched lots of tlc and hgtv

Saturday- slept in a bit, had a lazy day with the fam. , went to hobby lobby with kelli, annoyed the hobby lobby lady w/ my 14 different colors of satin for flowers, had a yummy costa vida salad. made handouts for my lesson, watched movies with eliott

Sunday - church, then meetings, then a twice interrupted nap. surprise cookies dropped off! thanks Carly!! Brinner (breakfast for dinner) then bed for kids and movie for us. Lazy sunday! Love it!

Kind of a boring weekend but sometimes that is nice!!!

Look what I did...

2010-09-17T10:07:00.000-07:00

So I am going to start another regular post. I am going to post some of the projects I have been working on are have already finished.

I saw this on a blog forever ago and have no idea where I found it but thought it was cute! You just buy $store plates and candle holders to make this cute party tray.

I got the clear candle holders and spray painted them white and then used E6000 glue to to put it all together.

I think it is way cute and it was fun to have but here are somethings I would do differently next time. And there will be a next time! I need a pink one!!

First the top of the candle stick holders weren't level, so when picking them out check them to see if they are level. Next double check that your plates aren't warped at all.

I made this the night before Seth's baptism so I was busy and my dad was just sitting here doing nothing so I put him to work. So the next thing I would do differently is tell him not to make his "sharpie' marks so big when marking the center of the plates!!! Thanks Dad!! Also if you make one I like the bottom candlestick holder standing right side up and the next one is upside down.

Okay next up are these cute ctue flowers!! I have seen them everywhere but have yet to make them. My sis-in-law Jess showed up the other day w/ some in her hair so I quizzed her on her technique and away I went. I was making some invitations for a Young Womens activity and thought they would be cute on there. So now I have tons of practice and am ready to make lots of colors for my hair!!

And here is the cute invitation!! (see I told you I love making them!)

They were fun and I think they turned out cute. They are going in a clear 5x5 envelope!

I love love love crafting!!

the truth is...

2010-09-15T10:58:00.000-07:00

The truth is I don't mind going to the dentist. But some where in that 6 months between visits I completely forget how uncomfortable it is to have somebody scrape sharp metal things against your teeth. Seriously!! Ugh! I went this morning and I am pretty sure I will forget the yuckiness of it in about a month so come March I will not mind going again!

The truth is I love making cards. I mean I really love it! Cards and Invitations! They are so fun to me and they are so pretty and I love to look at them. But I am soooo not the send out a card kinda girl. I often forget thank you cards. I mean come on I said thank you several times when you did whatever it was you did for me. Do I really have to send out a thank you card? (I know sometimes I still have to, but I don't like it) So since I never send cards out I like to make batches of them and give them to friends who actually do send cards out.

The truth is I have really long finger nails and I like them. They grow well and they look nice when I make sure to take care of them. But since starting piano, my teacher makes me clip them. I don't like this. I don't like feeling the very tip of my finger it is weird and sensitive. But I like piano so I suffer.

The truth is I am really really excited for my girls to be teenagers. I mean really excited!!! But mornings like this morning remind me that it won't be all fun. Like when lexi was sobbing one second and smiling the next. Oh man it's gonna be rough for the 2 boys in my life when all of us get to have "that time of month"!!

weekend update

2010-09-13T09:12:00.000-07:00

Friday - lots and lots or prep work for seth's luncheon. mango salsa, snickerdoodles, yummy homemade "costa vida style" ranch dressing, guacamole, sweet pork, mopping, cleaning... hair coloring.

Saturday - up at 6:30 to finish the pork and start the rice. Had everything ready to go for luncheon (seriously smoothest luncheon ever!!) Seth's baptism (deserves a post of it's own) lots of family and friends over for the luncheon, clean up, dad stayed the rest of the day so there was alot of sports on tv with him and eliott. Scriptures, where seth grinned ear to ear with his new set. kids bedtime, more football. lesson prep

Sunday-church (we made it on time!!) and then I had meetings. Came home and napped while Eliott watched football. Read for a bit. had a yummy dinner and then went over to a great friends house. The girls played games while the boys watched football. and the kids ate goodies and ran around outside. Then i stayed and helped her w/ some price tagging on her jewelry and came home w/ a super cute necklace.

So all in all it was a fantastic weekend!!

Seth got baptized today!

2010-09-11T21:08:00.000-07:00

My big, sweet, serious, silly, kind, loving boy got baptized today!!

Eliott took him out shopping for his snazzy suit and then took pictures for an invitation.

He picked all the people he wanted to come celebrate with him. He even helped address the envelopes and will send out thank you's to the people who gave him gifts! He is sooo big! When did this happen!

He is such an amazing kid!

I have decided I really like the stake baptisms! We didn't have to do anything. We got to focus on Seth and how he wanted to celebrate his day instead of worrying about talks, and prayers, and pianist. It was a beautiful day! Our stake has gone to a lot of work (I assume) in getting the day to be a well oiled machine. It flowed so well! And was so wonderful!

My dad went in on a set of scriptures for him and he was sooooo unbelievably excited! He was excited when we gave them to him, before we left for the church. But when we it was time for scripture reading before bed, he ran upstairs to get his scriptures and came back down w/ this smile on his face! I have a hard time getting a real smile for pictures but this one wasn't forced at all. He literally could not stop smiling while we read. In fact when it was his turn to read, you could hardly understand some of the things he read because he was still smiling sooooo big! I hope he keeps this excitement for scripture reading.

He is such an amazing guy! I love him to pieces! And guess what..... HE IS MINE!!! (Jealous? you should be!!!)

2010-09-08T14:17:00.000-07:00

The truth is I turned Eliott down the first time he asked me out. To my credit, I didn't actually hang up the phone. Before our conversation ended my roommate was silently yelling at me to go out with him! It wasn't that I didn't want to, it was that I already had plans. So i broke those plans and went out with Eliott instead! Thanks Julie for the silent yelling!!

The truth is i really don't like running. I am not good at it. I am really slow and I look like I just ran 10 miles right when I start running. How I managed to go 4 years through cross country in high school and a 1/2 marathon a few years ago, I will never know, cuz really i don't like running.

The truth is I am really enjoying not having any shows that i "have to" watch. It has been nice! Yet I am sooo excited for my shows to start in a few weeks! This year I have dvr so I don't have to be home when it plays! Ah the freedom!!

The truth is I hate loud eating. It isn't necessarily the crunching, it's the extra saliva going on in there. Seriously people why is so sloshy in your mouth. I sometimes feel like a bad mom when I don't want to sit next to my kids when they sound like this. The worst culprit of sloshy eating would be my mom! Seriously she was so loud!!!! Love her though!

weekend update

2010-09-07T10:41:00.000-07:00

bet you thought I forgot huh?! well with it being a 3 day weekend I decided to wait until today.

Saturday - we had to prestons over. The one I watch on a regular basis and the most adorable little redhead ever! Trip to the grocery store - solo! Then I got to go hand out a friends house for the rest of the day. While there I got to snuggle a sleeping newborn for 1.5 hours! Seriously it is my favorite thing in the world to hold a newborn on my chest with them all curled up and sleeping. It is so relaxing! After that sweet baby went away my friend and I sewed all afternoon. I made 2 skirts and a dress! So cute. The dress is too wide so I need to alter that a bit. Made the dress w/ a pattern! go me! fyi i still hate patterns. I would rather figure it out myself. another friend came over and made yummy stuff to eat! sooo yummy. Then I came home. I read for a bit then it was off to bed!

Sunday- Lexi woke up feeling yucky so we had to play the "who will stay home" game. Well I was assigned to say the prayer in church and open the library for my librarian friend who was out of town and Eliott was supposed to teach 3rd hour. And I wasn't feeling terribly fantastic anyway. But Eliott had counted on 2nd hour to finish lesson prep. So I had to go for the 1st 2 hours. Then we switched. I got to sleep for 2 hours got up for 1/2 an hour and then back to bed for 2ish more. It was sleepy sunday. Then dinner. After kids were in bed Eliott made a cake and we played the friends trivia game! It has been forever and we were a little rusty on our trivia!! Then to bed by 9:30. Seriously that is a lot of sleep.

Monday - Eliott had to get up and do flags for labor day. So it was another non sleep in day. So we decided to tackle the kids disaster of a room! So we cleaned and cleaned and cleaned. And then rearranged them a little. Then we hung out and watched a movie then dinner. Eliott went to do more flags. And then Eliott and I got to watch a movie. I got started on my laundry which makes tuesday laundry day easier and then to bed!

not terribly exciting but it was fun for me! I just might have to take some pictures of my projects!!

the truth is...

2010-09-01T05:59:00.000-07:00

So my sis-in-law also does this fun one. The truth is wednesdays. So basically I tell you random things...

~The truth is I can't hear or say the difference between and "i" or an "e". Especially when it is in a 3 letter word. Eliott says it is kind of a combo between the 2 sounds. So if I need a pen I will usually say "can you hand me that P-E-N?" and spell it out for you. Yep I get looks but I get them when I try to just say it then I have to spell it anyway. This issue always makes me wonder how I say my name... when we go to eat I always have them put Eliott's name down cuz I have seen more than one person put Gin or Jin. As a result of this little defect I have to turn the kids over to Eliott when they are trying to learn those sounds!

~The truth is I still haven't decided if I want my girls saying boobs or breasts or what. So I still call it my chest. Seriously though, I can't imagine either of those words coming out of their cute little mouths so my theory is to just avoid!

~The truth is I hate blue lights on electronics. Seriously why did they switch from red numbers on your alarm clock to blue. I have a stereo in my room that has a blue circle display. I can't sleep if it isn't covered. So I have a polka dot gift box lid hanging off the front of it. That blue is soooo blasted bright. I have had the same alarm clock since I was about 10 and I hope it never dies cuz they all come in stupid blue!!

~The truth is I hate word verification thingys on blogs. I can understand them on public blogs. But come on people if you switch to private take away the verification!!

~The truth is I don't ever know who sings what, or what songs are titled. (with few exceptions) I just can't remember all that detail. I can usually sing along to it, but even then I have been known for some pretty awesome made up lyrics. But oh how I LOVE to turn up the music and belt it out!

~The truth is growing up my brother made a rule in his truck that I couldn't sing along unless I knew the artist. So that pretty much guaranteed I couldn't sing along to pretty much anything. Which I don't really blame him since I am pretty sure I sounded horrible!

~The truth is because I pretty much sounded horrible and have always felt self-conscious singing, I now take voice lessons from a good friend. It is so much fun! I will never be fantastic but I do feel much more comfortable just singing in church settings.

weekend update

2010-08-30T09:44:00.000-07:00

In an attempt to blog more regularly I am going to follow in my fantastic Sis-in-laws steps and provide my few readers (if that!!) with a weekend update.

~friday we had seth's birthday party. I decided a year or so ago that I wasn't throwing birthday parties every year for every kid. So they get a friend party at 5, 8, 12, and 16. And every year regardless they get a family (meaning grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins...) party. So he was pretty excited this year. He invited a few friends and they went swimming at our community pool.

It was hands down the easiest party I have every thrown. Eliott went and sat at the pool with them and I was going to get little ceasars pizza but my friend was on her way to get some for her family so she picked up mine as well. So all i had to do was walk the food over to the pool! It was great and he had a blast!!

~saturday I went on the youth lake trip! we had sooo much fun! I came away with lots of funny funny memories, one really awesome bruise and lots of sore muscles! So I am gonna go with, it was a success!!

~Saturday evening Eliott and I got to go on a date! WE went to red Robin which was absolutely delicious!!! I think it was perfect after a day at the lake! Then we went errand running and to kohls. I love kohls!!! We got a new church shirt for Eliott and a pair of sunglasses for me (since I dropped mine in the lake!!) for $13ish! Thank you kohls cash and coupons!

~sunday we had church of course. A tired lyddie crawling all over me for the first part. Not fun! A really cranky afternoon. I make no apologies for my crankiness. I did make a texas sheet cake from scratch before. Did you know you have to boil stuff to make that? I had no idea!! And of course I had to make the goody for seth's class so we had funfetti cookies all over the kitchen. And then we had his family b-day party. He chose teryaki chicken. I'd say other than the crankiness seeping out of my skin it was a successful party.

back to school, back to school

2010-08-11T21:38:00.000-07:00

It's that time of year....

This year I have Seth in 3rd grade, Riley in 1st and Lydia is still in Preschool for her speech. So that leaves Lexi and I home together.
My 3 school kids

These girls love each other so much and have tons of fun! Lexi was sad at the thought of being left out but she has since changed her opinion. She is so excited for the fun that the 2 of us can have together!

My big baby girl!

Interesting pose she's got going on here!!

Such a handsome guy!

The summer seemed way to short for me. I wasn't nearly as ready for school to start as I normally am. But I am excited for all the fun and new things that this year will bring!

riley turned 6!!

2010-06-26T20:17:00.000-07:00

Little Riley Rae turned 6 this week. I can't believe she is that old!! I just love that little munchkin!! So here are some pictures I loved of her and thought I'd share
I love love love this crazy bed head picture!!! It makes me laugh everytime! If it was just the hair it would be awesome enough but she had to add the crazy eyes and tongue!! (1 year)

This is on her 2nd bday (i put all these pictures on here and then they all disappeared and I wasn't about to fix this one, it took way too much time as it was) I love how excited and happy she is!
She had crazy eyes so a few days after her 2nd bday she had eye surgery to correct it. She was such a sad sad sight, but when i scrolled through it I had to post it. Such a sweetie, I just wanna snuggle her. Look at those cheeks!
Here she is just being riley at 3 years old

On her 4th bday she wanted to help make her cake. She is as excited as can be!! Love it!!
She has had a pool party for several years and this was at last years family party. Such a pretty girl!
And this is at the spring concert for Kindergarten a few months ago. I love her sassy pose!!

She is seriously such a fun amazing girl!! And ALL girl. For her bday she requested clothes, shoes, (high heeled ones, not wedge) and make up. I love how girly she is. I don't think a day goes by that she doesn't ask to do a craft or put on makeup or paint her nails. We are gonna have us some fun!!

happy father's day...

2010-06-20T20:35:00.001-07:00

So I was looking around for a picture of my dad so I could do a father's day post. But, alas, a good picture was not to be found. So I did this one instead! Doesn't it rock!!! It is pretty much one of my most favorite pictures simply because of the awesomeness that it is. (that's my great grandpa over there by my brothers) Anyway Happy Father's day. I would do a whole tribute thing to my dad but frankly he doesn't care. Love ya dad!

But for Eliott... Man he is amazing! I had surgery this week on Wednesday so he knew that Father's day wouldn't be some magical lazy day for him. Now let me just say on Mothers day I want everything to be allllll about me and I don't want to have to do anything at all for anybody! And he delivers he gives me all of that and more so on Father's day I try to do the same thing for him but not so much this year. He did anything and everything for me all week and even made his own father's day dinner. I sure love him!!

He is an amazing dad and I am soooo glad that my kids get to have him as a dad!

To all you other father's out there (cuz I am sure so many check my blog!!)

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!!!

laundry day

2010-06-06T14:21:00.000-07:00

So I am unbelielvable tired of washing laundry that is already clean! So we have talked about making sure the clean stuff is put away and the dirty stuff goes in a basket. So after many of these talks I decided to take action! The kids had to do the laundry. Every last thing!!! The only thing I did was pour the soap and fold my understuff. They sorted, started, switched, folded, hung and put away 10 loads of laundry!!!

It took 3 days from start to finish (because of the time of use plan) But they finished and they actually did a pretty decent job. I was really proud of them. They didn't even complain alot. At first they thought it was fun but by the end of that last load they were soooo done. We have a standing thing on Wednesday morning and that was the last day and I told them they couldn't go unless they were finished. They had 1 load to fold and one to put in the dryer and then fold. So Seth got up at 5 a.m. that morning to make sure that he could get it done!!

So we will see how well they learned come monday or tuesday when it is laundry day again.
One of my favorite parts was watching riley try to get the last of the stuff out of the washer!!

one of my favorite things...

2010-06-06T14:11:00.000-07:00

I love when I ask a kid "are you tired" and the answer is "no" and then I come in to find this....

notice the unfinished sucker!

Good Morning!

2010-05-23T09:02:00.000-07:00

Last night we told the kids that we didn't want to get woken up in the morning. They could come get us at 8. So at about 8:20 there was a knock on the door and this is the scene that greeted us!! I love love love these little goobers!!!

Piano Recitals

2010-05-21T12:50:00.001-07:00

I have a fantastic friend who teaches piano. So Seth and I started taking piano lessons from her in March. I have absolutely loved it. I think it is such an amazing talent and am soooo excited to learn to play. Seth is having almost as much fun as I am. He loves it and is constantly practicing his songs. Well last night we had our recital! He did so good! He had to go first which would have been intimidating to me but he didn't even care. And he did such a great job. I was last. And by last I mean that there were about 10 kids in front of me. I felt a bit stupid being the only adult. But I will have to say I am glad Idid it and hope the next time I play in front of somebody that my hands will be steady! They couldn't stop shaking. (and we didn't intend on matching here it just happened!)

a new post

2010-05-18T12:01:00.000-07:00

so I needed to post something and since I don't have my most recent pictures on here I thought I would post a couple things that you missed while I was on blog hiatus...

Did you know that lyddie goes to school? ya she has what we like to call a "little bit of a speech problem" (we actually don't say that but for some reason chris farley jumped into my head) Anyway after all the testing and what not she was finally accepted in the preschool/speech program. She loves it, I love it, it is a win/win, except for sad little lexi who feels like the odd man out. So here she is on her first day of school.
The bus picks her up at my door and brings her back everyday. It is most fantastic!!

OH Riley!!

2010-04-29T08:49:00.000-07:00

Some of you have already seen this on Facebook but I couldn't resist blogging about it too.

So I get a call from Riley's teacher yesterday. (not in love w/ her) So this is how the conversation went

Teacher: I saw Riley Rae (cuz she renamed my child) flashing money to some friends on the playground

Me: (thinking okay lady that's odd but really worth a call home??) Okay

Teacher: When I got closer to her I noticed it was a hundred dollar bill, so I took it from her. I asked her where she got it and she said she got it from home. Where at home? and she says Where my mommy keeps her money. So I told her "your mom is not very happy w/ you right now" And then I took it from her. I will keep it and give it to you after school

Me: (during the beginning of her story I run over to my pickle jar and sure enough my 100 was missing!!!!!) Thank you soooo much!!

So after school I go to get the kids and this is how it went

Riley: why are we waiting here?

me: your teacher has something of mine that I need to get back

Riley: what does she have?

Me: what do you think Riley?

Riley: I don't know

Me: did you take something of mine today that she took away from you?

Riley: oohhh umm I am too scared to tell you

So I get my money back and on the way to the car I start asking some simple questions

Me: So Riley why did you take my money?

Riley: Oh! I wanted a cookie!!

A COOKIE!!! My 5 year old stole $100 to buy a 25 cent cookie!!!!!!!

What the Heck!!!!

Oh how I love that girl and Love her even more because my money came home safe and sound!!!

And for those curious minds that want to know what happened to her...

We decided since she really didn't have a concept of the amount of money she stole we would just use consequences to fit the crime of taking something that didn't belong to her.

We go babysit for a friend on Wednesday and the kids have to do what they are supposed to do at school in order to come and play with us. So since she didn't do what she was supposed to do during the day she had to sit next to me at the park and she was allowed a pen and a piece of paper. But she kept moving and I had to keep reminding her to sit back down. So that really drained my energy so when we got home she had to clean a bit to make up that energy.

Farewell Doggie...

2010-04-22T17:48:00.000-07:00

So when Seth was born he had a brown mole like birth mark on his left ankle area. (see that little brown spot?)

So when he was little he called it his "doggie" we have no idea why but it stuck and has been known by that name forever!! It grew with him and it just made me slightly nervous and every year they measured it and told me that it would most likely have to come off at some point so we decided that point was now!! So a couple weeks ago he had it taken off. I had mentioned doing it a couple years ago and he about flipped out so I was curious to see how he would react. To my surprise he was excited!! This is the morning of the surgery.

It took about 20ish minutes to do the surgery. He was put out for it too which was weird. They said if he was older they would do it in office but he wasn't so they didn't! He actually did really really well with it all! He usually is a weepy kid after coming out of anesthesia but there were no tears this time. He did however refuse to talk because he knew he would cry! He is doing really well with it. It is kinda gross cuz it dips in, in the middle but he doesn't seem grossed out at all. He will even ask you if you want to see it so you don't get grossed out.
And with that I will say, "farewell doggie..."

Let's give this another go....

2010-04-19T21:25:00.000-07:00

Well I honestly can't say what happened to me! For starters I am going to un-private my blog with this post. I am hopefully going to keep up, cuz really it is just lame to have a blog and not post!! Sorry! I don't even know if anybody even checks this anymore. Oh well! It will be good for me!

Okay so it would be way to insane to try and update my entire year, especially with pictures. So I am going to basically give you a blown up version of a Christmas card letter and highlight the big things with each family member. And then hopefully I will just keep it up!

Eliott: Well in these hard times we LOVE that he has a job. He still works for the same place and doesn't hate it. So that is a bonus. He doesn't change too much so that is pretty much it for him!!

Me: Well I am Loving living in the valley again!! I love love love our ward and have met some incredible people to add to the list of people I call friends. I get to work with the laurels and I absolutely LOVE IT!! I got to go to girls camp last year and had a blast!!! Life is pretty much the same as it always is, I get 4 people dressed everyday and take those 4 people where they need to be, feed those same 4 people plus, clean up after those 4 people and love on those 4 people! I love my job!!!

Seth: He is in second grade and I love his teacher she is fantastic. He loves it too. He started taking piano lessons from a good friend of ours and loves that too! He turned 7 while we were away from the blog world. He had his adnoids out in February and can breath and hear soooo much better!!! Last week he had his 5th surgery and had his birthmark removed.

Riley: Loves Loves Loves kindergarten. Her teacher has renamed her and has "Riley Rae" on everything around the room that needs her name. Yes that is her name but I didn't intend on her being called that. It is kinda our thing. So we I go to the school I hear all this little kids saying bye to "riley rae". In October she kept complaining her leg hurt so after she crawled up a little incline into the school I decided to take her to the dr. to see what was up. Well she was diagnosed with perthes. Basically it means the head of her femur is dying. The blood supply gets cut off, but they don't know why and the bones starts to die. But eventually remolds itself. So in the mean-time We have to keep her from doing anything that could cause the head of the femur to collapse. So no high impact anything. Ever try to keep a 5 year old from running or jumping? It's been a little difficult and we have had some issues w/ her teacher. We were told it would be 9ish months before she could run or jump again. But we had an appt last week and were told that she really has 3-5 YEARS before she can run or jump!!! (the 1st doctor most likely gave us the length of time for the first stage, stupid man!!) So yep it is pretty sad.

On the upside of things, she can swim and ride a bike. She learned how to ride her 2 wheel bike over spring break and loves it!!! It was a bit rough going for a bit for my little shrimp. We ended up having to buy a littler bike just so she could learn how to start since her bike was a bit tall for that. Now that she has that down she rides her bigger one all the time! She is too cute on it!!

Lexi: Ah Lex! she is such a funny girl w/ such a funny personality and great sense of humor!! Not much happens with her. She is a bit sad w/ everybody in school (lyddie started last month) She is trying sooo hard to learn how to ride a 2 wheeler bike just like everybody else. But man alive her bike is soooo short and my back is killing me!!! But she gets sooo excited I can't say no!! So if you see me walking around like an 80 year old, you'll know why!!

Lydia: well Lydia still doesn't talk. She tries, sometimes, but nobody can understand her. So we had her tested and finally got her in the preschool for her speech. She gets to ride the bus everyday and they come to my house to get her too! I love it, she loves it!! She has only been going for about 3ish weeks and already she is trying to say more things. It is simply fantastic!!!

Wow this was long, if you made it through, you are a true friend!!! I might go back and add pictures (they are on the other computer)

Alright, friends, here's to blogging!!!

Camping

2009-08-31T22:58:00.000-07:00

I love when you go somewhere and all the kids insist that they are not tired. It pretty much cracks me up because the following usually happens (Seth is hit and miss as to whether he will fall asleep or not but the others are pretty much always the same!)

Lexi definitely looks like a kid who wasn't tired!
So we headed up northeast of Payson to go camping for the 4th of July. We met up w/ Eliott's mom and her hubby Todd. and we had a fantastic time. It was such a great trip. The weather was great. It even poured on us a couple times. The little random storms would last about an hour. The first one proved to us how non-leak proof our tent is. Eliott was busy having kidney stone pains in the tent when it first started pouring so Todd helped me cover the tent w/ the tarp that was used for covering the wood. It did manage to keep the water out of our tent. For which I was extremely grateful. By the time I got back in the tent after getting the tarp and helping Todd throw it over the tent, I was completely soaked!! But it was fun. The last time we went camping Eliott bought me this awesome hammock. So I took full advantage of having it there. I brought w/ me some cheesy books and laid in the hammock and read. It was fantastic and sooo relaxing! And as you can see the kids love it too.

This picture makes me laugh and I am not quite sure why. I do love Lyddie's eyes in this one!

Seth is actually holding a caterpillar in this picture! He is usually scared of everything but this little caterpillar was his buddy!

I do have to tell the funny potty issues we had while camping! Riley decided that she could go pee outside by herself. And dog-gone it she was gonna learn how to do it. Even if it meant peeing on everything we brought. And that is exactly what it meant. She would try soooo hard but her legs are too short and she would pee on her pants or undies every single time.
And then Lyddie was absolutely terrified of peeing outside. She would freak out and not go. And then she would end up peeing her pants. Luckily Eliott's mom and Todd have a pop-up trailer w/ a toilet. So Lyddie was able to go there. I can't remember exactly how long it was but the first day she went potty at home and then didn't go again until it was late evening. She held it soooo long.
So between Riley and her desire to go by herself and Lyddie and her fear of going outside, we literally peed through every possible thing. Even the dirty clothes from the first 2 days, that Lexi kept dry. It was getting a bit ridiculous!!
But I love camping and can't wait to go again!!

Summer fun Movie day!

2009-08-31T22:46:00.000-07:00

We love the harkins summer fun movie day. We got to go to almost every show this summer. It was a lot of fun. I was a little worried about not having my movie buddies that I had last year. But it ended up being okay. Lyddie and Lexi thought they had to go to the bathroom every time. But Riley and Seth did such a good job! The kids would go back and forth as to whether or not they wanted the booster chair. This was on Riley's b-day and they decided they didn't need the chair! she is funny!

These 2 pictures of Lexi just make me laugh every time I see them. She watched almost the whole movie like that!

look at the face on her! Too funny!

Oh Lyddie

2009-08-31T22:40:00.000-07:00

Oh my little Lyddie. She is such a joy to me. She is my snuggle bug. She cracks me up. I borrowed this bumbo chair from a friend so that I could use it for the little boy I babysit. I usually have it in the top of my closet but the second it is free she is in it. She could sit in it all day long. She has been into barbies lately and this is how I find her allllll the time!

She will just sit where ever, (if the bumbo is available that is her choice, but the couch works just as well) and hold 2 or more barbies and just quietly play w/ them. Back and forth! And yes the "daddy" barbie is naked and I don't know where the clothes are! Eliott even found her in the corner of her closet one day just playing away! She is tooo funny!! Look at that face!!!

my boy is big!

2009-08-31T22:34:00.000-07:00

Seth turned 7 yesterday! I can't believe how time has flown!! We have decided to only have all out huge parties when the kids turn 5, 8, 12, 16 and 18. And every year we will still have a family party. So for his family party we met at our community pool and swam and had barros and of course cake. Eliott made him a yummy german chocolate bundt cake! But he forgot the candles on the counter so Seth got to blow out the lighter quite a few times! He is such a good sport. It almost didn't seem real that it was his birthday, he didn't have a ton of hype leading up to it. He seems soooo grown up. He had been requesting a few different things from different people. It kinda made me laugh how he had it figured out. He had Eliott's mom getting him "twister" and he had us getting a slinky. But he wouldn't mix that up he would only tell us slinky, and her twister. I didn't even know he had requested that until she and I were talking. Such a funny kid.

We asked him if he wanted to open the presents from us on Sunday, his actual birthday or if he wanted them the same day as his party, which was saturday. He thought about it for a minute and then told me he would rather have them on his actual day, so that way he still got presents on his birthday. I love that kid! I soooo would have chosen the earlier day!
Another funny thing that he did that made me realize he is getting older was: he was talking to Eliott on Saturday and said "dad you don't have much time left to go shopping for my presents"
Eliott told him that we knew for a long time that it was his birthday and that we had it covered!!

So Sunday morning he came into our room to open his presents. He got his slinky and he got it to walk down 3 stairs! This kid can read like crazy, and has been reading the "Boxcar Children" books from the library but he hasn't read the 1st one, so Eliott got him that one. He was excited and then he got an MP3 player. (I wish I could type how he says it. It cracks me up, he didn't realize that it was 2 letters and a number, he thought it was a word and the word was soooo funny!) anyway so he got that and some earphones. He was soooo happy. He just loves music and the best thing about this one is that it can charge through the computer! No more batteries!! So Eliott loaded it w/ music last night and he was in love. I woke up this morning to hear him belting out "i want to ride my bicycle, I want to ride my biiiikeee" at the top of his lungs!

He is such an amazing boy! I just love him to death! He is a great helper and an excellent big brother. He has such a fun personality and funny sense of humor! I don't know what I would do w/ out him!

Super Saturday

2009-08-31T15:01:00.000-07:00

Somehow I got roped into doing Super Saturday w/ my ward this year. I had fun working w/ my good friend, Kelli. But there was lots of drama where others were concerned which made it not so super! But it is done! It turned out well and I think everyone had a good time.
I was in charge of 4 of the crafts this year. (mine are in the second picture)

Kelli did, the family blocks, the christmas sign under the hammer, a candy jar that says "gobble til you wobble" a glass block, one said "boo" the other said "believe", a recipe holder that had a small sheet of tin to put in the slot on the top of that block of wood and then we had 2 free things, magnets (the ones that are clear flat marbles w/ cute paper under them and then glue the magnet on) and composition books that you could cover w/ cute paper
So I did the picture frame (we did this at my old ward last year and people loved it so I suggested it for this year)
and then we also did the soaps from last year. They have inserts in them displaying different quotes.
Then the monogram letter. And the last one I did was the tin box.

It was a ton of work! I had to visit all the micheal's, walmarts, and joanns in my area and most of them more than once. I had to collect 97 clear soaps! But it is done! and now I can focus on other things!
Seth's birthday was yesterday so after super saturday he had his party. So it was a fun filled day. I will post more on his b-day soon.

smokin' deal!!

2009-08-26T23:17:00.000-07:00

I love shopping!! Mostly when I get to save a ton of money. Or shop guilt free w/ somebody else's money, which frankly doesn't happen. So I gotta get my kicks off the good deals. Well our van has been kinda out of commission for the month of August and Eliott was gone for almost 2 weeks before that. so really the last time I got to really really go shopping was a month or more ago. So last night I went to fry's! I don't think I could have taken a picture if I wanted to, but I spent $93 (I know it doesn't sound fantastic until you hear what I got) I got 146 items. among those were gogurt, yogurt, granola bars in all brands and flavors, fruit snacks, and much much more! It was fanastic!!
Then today I went to walgreens and got...

3 full size Air wick sensor sprays
3 mini air wick sensor sprays
3 glade sense and spray
1 glade refill
3 glade candles
4 cand of Blue Diamond almonds
2 packs Chinette plates
50 4x6 prints
and I paid a grand total of...
$12.31
(the bill came to $112ish)

I love a good grocery high!!

moving on..

2009-08-25T21:48:00.001-07:00

Okay so like everybody else who goes private... I just decided that it was time. There are lots of weirdos out there that like to blog stalk!
So anyway! and ummmm now that I know how many of you wanted an invite I better be seeing some comments people!
But now that I have finally converted over to private I can go blog crazy and update you on all the happenings this summer!
brace yourself!

2009-08-06T16:49:00.001-07:00

going private! let me know if you want an invite!

A visit to the dentist

2009-07-09T09:17:00.000-07:00

Ah little X!! she has been dreading the dentist for a week. We had appts. yesterday and she had been crying for the whole week and telling me almost as much as she tells me she loves me (which is pretty much ALL day long!!), she would tell me that she didn't want to go to the dentist
So in the morning of the dreaded appt. We ran an errand and when we got back she just kept telling me she didn't want to go. So I tell her not to worry about it we are gonna go for a car ride. So we get in the car and after I made a couple turns she shouts "YAY this isn't the way to the dentist!!" (she has never even been to the dentist!!) So I keep driving. I get to the office and she asks where we are I tell her we should walk around the building and see where we end up. When we walked in the office she shouts to the waiting room "see this ISN'T the dentist office!!!"
Luckily none of the other patients pointed out how wrong she was and CJ (the receptionist and good friend) Says of course it isn't the dentist you just came to see me huh!!
Well after ALL the crying that Lexi did and Riley did her fair share too, We had no tears at all for the whole appt. Seth even went off by himself to have his teeth cleaned while I stayed w/ Riley!! And no cavities!!
It was fabulous!!!

A little behind

2009-06-17T08:20:00.000-07:00

Well a few months ago we went to get Lexi's ears pierced but the lady told us she wouldn't do little girls unless there were 2 people there. She would do it but if Lexi move after the 1st side, she wouldn't do the second side. Well I wasn't willing to risk the whole no moving thing, cuz come on what 3 year old sits perfectly still while some stranger pokes something through her ear. So when we left we told Lexi if she could dress herself for a week straight we would take her back to get them done. Well since she didn't know how long a week was, we were able to milk it for a while. And she would always tell us everytime she got dressed "I did it by myself, now I can gets my earrings peered"
So a couple weeks ago we went and got her earrings peered. She did soooo good. She just whimpered a bit shed a tear or two and that was it!

Petal Party

2009-06-01T16:10:00.000-07:00

While blog hopping one day, I came across such a fun idea. A petal party! What you do is have everyone bring one bouquet of silk flowers and an embellishment for the center. Then you just switch and trade and make a bunch of flower clips! So I decided to have a petal party. I invited some girls from my new ward and sent out cute little invitations. The only bad part was I had planned it on the last day of school and didn't realize it until the invitations were all done. So most of them couldn't make it. But tons have said they want to do. So in the near future I will do it again. We had tons of fun and one of the girls stayed until 2:30 and we just talked and talked. It was such a fun way to get to know some people. Anyway, I made like 17 clips. Now I love to wear them in my hair, or add them to a bag. It is seriously so fun!
This yellow and pink one is so pretty, but I haven't found anything to wear it with yet. but I will, oh yes, I will!!
I think this orange one is my all-time favorite! It is so fun and bright, I love it!! I have even worn it a few times already!
At girls camp I got a cute hat and put a different flower in it each day. The girls all loved the flowers so now we are doing flower clips for our laurel activity this week! Check out the sparkles. One of the girls I invited that couldn't come gave us some stuff to use. This glittery stuff was called sickles. and it was soo fun! So I had to go out and get some!

New scrap area!

2009-06-01T16:00:00.000-07:00

So I got a new scrap/craft desk. I was going to make it but decided on this route instead. At Micheal's you can get these cubes and mix and match them to make what you want. So I went and picked them up. One at a time, so I could use my 40% off coupon. Then I went to home depot and got the shelf material and had them cut it to size so that I could just lay it on top. And wala, a perfectly custom area!!! I am so in love!

Check out the inside of the drawer. I have 2 of those!! Awesome!!
And the cute little hutch thingy. With the awesome ribbon holder! It is sooo perfect!
I seriously love my new little station. It makes me want to craft. It is nice to have room for my awesome cutting machine, my computer and lamp and then still have room on my desk for the crafting!
I am a happy girl!

Lately...

2009-05-10T09:24:00.001-07:00

Lately I've been missing this lady
I''ve been missing the innocence of her
I've been missing the laughter
I've been missing the loveI've been missing the grandma
I've been sad that none of my kids will remember her
I've been missing the person she is

I miss my mom! And on days like this it makes it worse!

Sleepy Lyddie

2009-05-02T13:28:00.000-07:00

Okay this kid can fall asleep anywhere and in the funniest positions. There are tons of pictures! But I just thought it was too funny, I had to post them. I would say over half of these pictures were taken in the last month or two. The rest were within the last six months! In no particular order...
This one was right after we took her crib down! At least she is on the pillow!
She just looks so sweet here. This is after we got her toddler bed. I love that she is still covered up and has a book!
We can't forget the sick/low blood sugar, fall asleep on the stairs picture. Just pathetic!
Mid hamburger in the car!
While camping. Everyone is right outside this tent playing.
In the middle of the living room.
At Nana's house in the living room. Seriously I don't know how she can just crash! I love the kicked back feet in it!
This one amazes me. On the tile! Really!!
This was the other day. She was missing and I find her on the landing just out!

In the middle of a movie.

Eliott walked in and found this one a week or so ago.

How comfy is that arm!!

Again, in the middle of the living room. when she goes she just goes!!
I have no idea how she does it. I have never had a kid that will fall asleep like this!!
And that is all!!

So fun!

2009-05-02T13:20:00.000-07:00

So my bookshelf it overflowing and I decided I wanted another one. Well my friend Wendy had her hubby make her one. And it turnded out so great that I wanted one too. So since Steve is such a GREAT guy he said he would make if for me. So he made it and I got it a few weeks ago

but finally had the chance to paint it last week. Here it is is! I love it and it turned out great! It fits exactly the way I wanted it to. Now I want to makes shelves and tables for every room!! I even got the baskets I wanted on sale at Ikea. And the cute little box on top matches the colors I just got for decorative pillows for my bed! It is just so fun! Now I just need to add my books! Thanks Steve!!

My funny boy...

2009-04-27T22:13:00.000-07:00

I just love this kid...

We were just getting done w/ dinner tonight when Seth says...
Seth: Mom is this tooth big or little? (as he points to his tooth)
Me: Uh, it looks like it is little
Seth: Oh Good!
Me: Why?
Seth: Cuz it is gonna fall out

I love that he had to check to see if it was a permanent tooth before he told me it was loose!
The funny thing is, I kept laughing about it and he kept asking why I was laughing! He said he didn't know what he said that was funny!!

Silly Girl!

2009-04-27T13:04:00.000-07:00

So I went out to the dining room where the girls were coloring and Lyddie was missing so I ask them where she is. Of course they have no idea so I go on a search. I glance up the stairs and see this...

She had completely fallen asleep. What a sweet baby! (she had eaten lunch so I know her sugar wasn't too low. which of course will be my thought every time I see this!!)

Phew!!

2009-04-18T09:12:00.000-07:00

So Lyddie gave us a huge scare yesterday. It all started when I went to check on her at night. She has potty trained and managed to stay dry all night except in the morning when she gets up, she can't get to the toilet in time. (whooo hooo, totally fun news in the middle of a scary story!) So when I went to check on her she was a little wet, I didn't know if it was pee or if she had gotten wet from the sink (their latetest thing). So I took her potty and changed her and noticed she had white stuff in her hair. I couldn't figure out what it was and it didn't have a smell so I just didn't worry about it too much. Well then Riley came down in the morning and told me Lyddie was asleep on the stairs again, w/ a wet bum. So I go up to check on her and she barely even looks at me. And sure enough she is wet. So I get her up and start cleaning her up. I notice her bed was dry and the floor wasn't wet enough for her to have peed while laying down. So she got up wet her pants and then layed on the floor and fell asleep hard. So while cleaning her up she is like a ragdoll. She wouldn't hold any of her weight. It was difficult to try and get her dry after her bath and dressed! So at this point I kinda start freaking out. Thinking maybe she ingested something (remember the white stuff from las night!) So I call Eliott's mom and she agrees to watch the girls while I take her in. Luckily my dr.'s office got me in w/in 1/2 an hour so I didn't have to attempt the E.R. or urgent care.
When we get there he can't find anything wrong w/ her, except her extreme lethargy. She wouldn't even stand for him. I have never had such a rag doll. So he sends me for labs. We get there and she is supposed to give a urine sample. So we go attempt that. It was the hardest thing trying to hold this floppy girl on a tall public toilet while holding a cup under her and pleading w/ her to pee. I have to say that was the worst for me. I about lost it in right there in the bathroom. So when I finally gave up I had to work her floppy body back into her undies and shorts and then lay her on my purse so I could wash the toilet water off my hand. When it came time to give blood she just layed there she only whimpered once. It was heartbreaking. After that we went to my mother-in-law's to sit and wait for the results which the dr. said would be about an hour since he put them through STAT. So when we get there she ate an apple slice and some bannana and she started to perk up. I was nervous to give her anything to eat or drink in case she had ingested something, I didn't know what would be okay. But the dr. said it was unlikely that it was caused by ingestion after going over what things she had access to. (which made me feel better, but yet the unknown was still killing me) So she had some water and I finally managed to get a urine sample. So I ran that back to the lab and the guy there told me it wouldn't be until 2 or 3 before we had any answers. Oh great!! At this point I decide that I have had enough stress for the day so I went and pulled Seth out of school early (he had 1/2 day and only an hour left of that) since I didn't want to have to remember to get him or whatever! Well after a lot of back and forth between me and the dr.s office and the dr.s office and the lab. They finally told us at 2 that all the labs came back normal but the one the dr. really wanted, the glucose one. Well all day long all of us kept thinking it was going to be diabetes. She was showing every single symptom. It runs in my family and it just seemes like that was what it was going to be. Finally at 3 the dr. calls me and tells me that she is ketotic hypoglycemic. Her blood sugar was at 26 (normal levels between 70-150) and her CO2 was 15 (normal is 20-29). So thankfully she also had keotones in her urine. Because of that she fell into the hypoglycemia category instead of the diabetes category. It was such a relief!! So basically I need to make sure she has something in her tummy all the time. 6 small meals a day and make sure she has a carb snack before bed. THIS I can handle. Needles and shots and medicine every day all day, would have been a little much. So we are so grateful right now for our little hypoglycemic baby!!
And thinking back on things we can remember lots of times where she is unusually sluggish in the morning like this picture where she fell asleep 1/2 way down the stairs. I think at the time she might have had a cold and we contributed it all to that, but now we are thinking it might not have been just that.I think next week will bring an official diagnosis from a pediatric endocrinologist and hopefully some more info!
Just thought I would share our day w/ you!

Look What I Did!!

2009-04-03T19:19:00.000-07:00

Okay so a week ago I was browsing craigslist and found a Bosch for sale. So I snatched it up real quick. It is old and faded but it works great! So I was super excited. So then I went and bought wheat and bread pans and stuff so I could use my "new" bosch to make bread! My awesome mother-in-law gave me her wheat grinder that she had had forever. I have had it for about 5 years or so and have never used it. I am one of those people that had no idea what to do w/ wheat. So I used it today and it worked great!! It was so fun! So I ground my wheat and made this yummy display of bread goodness. I was making spaghetti for dinner so I decided to do some breadsticks, and they were soooooo good! The girls even helped shape the breadsticks, aren't they pretty!! So anyway this was my domestic display for the day!

yummy!!

2009-03-30T09:28:00.000-07:00

So I decided to make some cookies or something today so I put my butter on my counter to thaw. Well I came into the dark kitchen to find Lydia standing in the middle of my kitchen having a snack. She had unwrapped the butter, and didn't even tear the package might I add, and was taking bites out of my stick of butter. MMMMM what a yummy snack! Anybody want some of the cookies!!

such cute bags!!

2009-03-30T07:43:00.000-07:00

While blog hopping I came across a give-away for a new company. they make diaper bags, and they are super cute. So if you post on your blog you get entered to win a bag and some free stuff!! Check them out!

Oh Riley!

2009-03-25T17:57:00.001-07:00

So this is what Riley tells me today while she is eating dinner:
(said w/ exasperation)
Riley: Mom?
me: yes
Riley: Everyday I keep thinking about Jesus
me: Well that's good
Riley: I mean it's every Sunday, everday, all day everyday even at meal times, I just can't stop thinking of Jesus! It's all the time, every day! *sigh*

I don't really know what to make of that silly girl!!

It's got to go...

2009-03-24T20:49:00.000-07:00

Well, it is time for me to get rid of my stock from my dying website!!
I will be yard sale-ing the rest of my inventory on Saturday the 28th but thought I would pass the word along to family and friends first.
If you would like to buy any of the kits just let me know. I would really prefer not to have to ship them but let me know if you can't make it up here and really really want something.
I attached pictures of all the kits I have. There might be some embellishments too, but I haven't gone through those yet.
So let me know if you want any of these. The kits w/ embellishments will be $5 and the kits w/out will be $3 or 2 for $5. You can paypal me or just come over and bring cash when you get them. (I am in Gilbert)
Pass this along to anybody you know that might be interested!!
Thanks guys!!

If you can't see a picture or want a better picture of any of them just let me know and I can email them to you.
The first 4 you can find detailed descriptions of on the site

biggest losers!

2009-03-23T16:55:00.000-07:00

Okay so I participate in an on-line biggest losers group. Some of the people I know and some of them I don't. But it is nice to have to weigh in once a week and stuff. So Anyway we are starting our next round on Thursday so I thought I would invite you to join us if you would like! It pretty much goes like this: you weigh in at home and email one of the girls your weight and then she tracks it and posts the weekly results. If you want to put money in the pot it is $10. For every person that put money in she takes $1 per week and gives that to the winner of the week. The round lasts for 8 weeks and the overall winner takes the remaining $2 from every person that put in. You can choose to put money in or not. Either way it is great.
Also this round there are some people that just want to maintain their weight and need to report to somebody so there will be a point system. You can choose to do the points or just choose to lose weight. Points are basically given for doing good things for your body and subtracted for doing bad things for your body. If you wanna check it out you can go here
Anyway if you want to participate let me know and I can get you her email.

I heard angels sing today...

2009-03-18T20:41:00.000-07:00

I have to say thanks to my friend Donna, who is absolutely FABULOUS, she suggested Kohls for my red heels!
And Kohl's delivered!!!
I picked up these bad boys today! and I absolutely love them.
It was really hard not to bust out in song when I found them!! I can't wait to wear them on Sunday!!!
Anyway thanks for letting me go on for a minute here!! I am just so blasted excited! This has been a 2 year mission.

One year older...

2009-03-16T07:52:00.000-07:00

I don't know if am wiser though!!
I had a b-day last Thursday and somehow it managed to continue through yesterday!! So here is a run-down of my b-day weekend!
I have/had a laptop that was a piece of shmee that Eliott kept fixing and then it kept breaking so for my b-day he bought me this cute little thing!
It is called a netbook. It is smaller than a laptop but just as functioning. It doesn't have a disc drive but you can get an external one. It fits into my purse! Seriously it is sooooo cute!! and you know how somtimes you get a present that you know the giver wanted or something you know will turn into a family present. well not this! it is pink!!!! so it is all mine and i absolutely love love love it!! Eliott is the best!!
My actual b-day was just another day though. The kids were all sick and it was just there. But my awesome mother-in-law helped me out w/ kids that day so she saved me!!!
Then Friday I went to a friends house to play (who also happened to have me over and a couple friends for a movie and dinner on Wednesday. ) When I got home at 5, I knew Eliott had something planned so I was ready to go out and then there was a knock on the door and it was one of my good friends from Casa Grande. It was so fun to see her and her hubby but I was so confused. So finally somebody explains. Eliott had planned a come and go surprise party for me. He wouldn''t tell me who he had contacted so everytime the doorbell rang it was a surprise. It was seriously such a fun idea and I loved it and for sure felt loved!! Then for those who couldn't come they were instructed to call during the specified times. So I got a few phone calls and emails too!! It was so sweet!! Thank you guys for coming, especially those who had to drive a bit!! I really really appreciated it!!!
Then on Saturday I managed to get out by myself to do my grocery shopping but first I went shopping shopping! I just found a skirt but it was only $5!!! I am on a mission for red heels if anyone sees cute ones let me know!
Then on Sunday we got to go to Eliott's mom's house for my b-day dinner. She makes the yummiest egg rolls so that was my request this year and boy did she deliver! Soooooo good!!
So it was fabulous! I had a great b-day. It will be quite a different week this week! Oh well!!!
Thanks everybody for making me feel sooooooo loved!!!

Funny Girl!

2009-03-01T13:55:00.001-08:00

You know how you go through phases w/ your kids. Well right now we are in a phase where Lexi is hilarious! She is constantly saying things that crack us up. Here are few:
We were walking to the park the other day and she fell. Not bad but it hurt her knee. As soon as we get to the park I sit down on the bench and the kids go off playing. I here Lex say to the other kids, in a funny voice "oh no! Now I have to walk like an old man!"
I look up and she is walking half bent over, pulling her dress up a little w/ a limp.

One of her favorite things to say these days is "I's a kid now mom!"

I don't think I could count how many times a day she says:
Lexi: Mom?
Me: Yes Lex?
Lexi: Um, I love you
Seriously this one happens alllllll day long! I think she might love me!!

I can't think of the other ones now. I always say, I gotta write that down and then I forget. But she is too cute. I can't seem to get enough of that funny girl!

Seriously?

2009-02-25T19:01:00.000-08:00

I have become hooked on Biggest Losers this season because I have a friend whose brother is on it. Or WAS on it. Seriously why on earth would they vote Dane off. I think they pretty much just sabotaged their team. They have to be morons to do a move like that. Ron will keep them below the yellow line. Stupid stupid stupid!!
That is pretty much it. I am so frustrated right now!
(Just had to get that out!)

Help please!!!

2009-02-23T08:59:00.000-08:00

This year is our 10 year anniversary!! I have been wanting an anniversary band to go under my wedding band. But my wedding ring isn't just straight across so I can't just get any ol' band to go w/ it. So I am pretty sure I am going to have to have it custom made. So my question to you is ...
Does anybody out there know of anybody that makes custom jewelry? I want to start pricing it out so I can see if I can really get one this year. So if you know of anybody, let me know!! You can leave a comment or email me whatever!
Thanks!!!!!

what we've been up to...

2009-02-18T14:45:00.000-08:00

Well, I keep thinking I will post when I put pictures on the computer. But the office is still a mess and the only thing left to organize, so I am not sure when I will actually put the pictures on the computer. And my laptop is a hunk a junk so no pictures there either. So if you are really bored you can read what we have been up to and imagine all the brightly colored pictures that would go along w/ the fun!
So let's see what we have missed

*Christmas was fun and fabulous w/ lots of presents, smiles, family and candy!! What more could you ask for!

*Lexi turned 3! I can't believe how big she is getting!!

* We are now Gilbert residents!

* The move went smoothly w/ the exception of my broken toe and the fact that the people helping us load our truck forgot so we had to call and remind them. (it always happens to us, we are used to it by now!!)

* We had fabulous friends meet us up here to help us unload and it worked out great!!

* The house got unpacked and decorated (except the aforementioned office) It took me longer this time. But it was still done in a week!

* Seth started his new school and doesn't same much. He did say he likes it better than his old one because he gets a snack. But seriously anything was better than his old one so I am in love!!

*I got to go on a scrapbooking retreat w/ a group of fabulous girls!! And we had a fabulous time!! I would love to go again, but alas it is not in the cards yet! Amazingly we had 7 girls go and there was no drama!! No tell me how that happens. It was great!! And maybe one day I will do a post all it's own for that fabulous weekend!

* While I was gone on my retreat (in Colorado) Eliott was a fabulous hubby and took the kids to our new ward for the first time.

*Eliott got tons of "kudos" for taking the kids to church by himself.

*We went to our ward activity the next week and I heard all of those "kudos" for myself!

* Our new ward is absolutely fabulous! It has to be the friendliest bunch of people ever. And I LOVE it!!

* Lydia had a birthday! My baby is now 2!!

* Having my baby turn 2 made me miss having a for reals baby around the house! :(

* Seth got signed up for t-ball, for which he is super excited!!

* Lexi and Riley got signed up for dance. I tried for ballet but the classes were full, so we thought hip hop might be fun. Riley did not. We had to watch kid hip hop videos on-line until she found one that she liked. Then she agreed that she would go to dance. I thought for sure she would want to no matter what but apparently she only wanted to do "ballerina classes"

*Lyddie is standing next to me crying. I am pretty sure she just wants to be held. So maybe I will go do that for now!!

Until next time, my blog friends, until next time!

Randomness

2009-01-16T07:27:00.001-08:00

Okay so it has been forever since I have posted but let me just say life is crazy!! Okay so everybody has a crazy life, well that is my excuse anyway. Well I missed posting about Christmas and Lexi's Birthday and all kinds of things but I will catch up later, well at least w/ Lexi's birthday. (cuz that would be just sad if I didn't even mention it ya know) Anyway, I haven't even put those pictures on the computer yet so that will have to wait. But I was feeling bad for not posting forever so I will put a few things up now...
Okay so my friend, Wendy (who I will miss hanging out in the halls with!!!) and I have been getting together at least once a week since the end of October to do some sort of craft. It varies what we do, but it usually includes good times, laughs, and the yummy ghetto mexican place right around the corner. So she brings her kids over and they all play. Some days are better than others as to whether or not the kids will all get along. But this day was too cute. I looked in the living room and they were all just sitting there watching a barbie movie. Riley and Beth were sharing a pillow and it was too cute!

And Kortney had this piece of toast that she would tear a piece off and put it on that little green plate and hand it to Lyddie to eat and then Lyddie would give her the plate back and Kortney would give her more. It was too funny! (Riley was happy I think she was annoyed I was interuppting her movie)
In other news... Lyddie LOVES to get her hair done. I was laying in bed reading and she came out of the bathroom w/ a brush and the hairspray and a big ol' goofy grin. She is too funny.
And she has enough hair to do 2 french braids. She seriously looks so stinkin' cute w/ them done, maybe I will take a picture for you all to enjoy!!
Oh and one other thing, we are moving!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am excited if you couldn't tell! That is all!

Funny Seth!

2008-12-14T14:23:00.000-08:00

I have a friend whose 3 year old is sick and in the hospital so I got to watch her 2 month old baby today. Have I mentioned how much I absolutely love love love that age (and younger) where they just sleep cuddled up on your chest. AAHHH it is heaven to me. So I spent the whole time just snuggling w/ her. And it was just as good as I remembered. And of course all of my kids LOVED her. They all took turns holding her and holding the bottle while I fed her. It was all very very sweet. So after Eliott came home from church, he and I were talking and I said something to the effect of "we like babies in this house" and Seth busts in w/ "LITTLE babies" so we had a good laugh about that. and then when a friend came to pick her up from our house she brought over some goodies. After she left and tears were shed by Lexi (because the baby left) I told her, "but look she came and took the baby but she brought us some cookies!!!" and Seth says "wow, we made a good trade mom!!"

Dad is out of town

2008-12-02T18:54:00.000-08:00

I have a friend that has a husband that goes hunting, so while he is gone they have a good ol' time and go shopping and watch movies and such. Well I am not that cool. Eliott went out of town early Monday morning. This is how my day went. I had to call the insurance to make sure Seth's insurance really became active today because they put him on a different plan than the rest of the family and by the time I called them they couldn't fix it till December 1st. So after that I called the dr. because he has major goopage draining out of his ear. So I can't get in until 1:30 so I decide to take the kids to the library and then to get a burger so that we didn't have to sit at home and wait for nap time to come and go w/out taking naps. So I did kinda score the good mom points w/ the library trip and the mcdonald's run. So after they play for a little bit, we go to the dr. And some how my kids manage to be the best behaved kids EVER!! We get in there and there is a massive line so I have them all sit on a bench in the sign in area and wait for me to get through the line. They all sat there for about 15 minutes w/ out fighting or complaining. They simply put on the best little faces and had conversations w/ the other people in the room. So once we get into the waiting room they wait patiently and watch the movie. Then we get called back to the area were they check your measurements and what not and this is how they sit. I tell you perfect!! Then we go to the exam room (I know seriously a ton of rooms) and we wait mostly nicely for the dr. to come by playing "I spy" and "rock, paper, scissors" (which is always funny to play w/ lex cuz she says "I spy something... your shirt" or some other object. and w/ rock paper scissors, she is always scissors and scissors always wins)
Then we go to leave and Riley loses it. She had been so great, they all had and she just melts down. It was fabulous!! Oh well, it was great while it lasted and I have pictures to prove the perfectness!!
So the deal w/ poor pathetic seth is: he started this yucky drainage thing later in the day on friday. But it wasn't too bad and knowing he changed insurance on monday I just didn't want to deal w/ it. Well the goop got thicker and greener. Serious nasty stuff here. So he had a bad infection that caused so much pressure it caused his ear drum to rupture. Poor kid!! And to top it off, he has a cough that won't quit and a fever tonight. So I had to call our home teachers to come over and give him a blessing since Eliott is still out of town. But thankfullly he gets home tomorrow!! Wahooo!!! So much for trying to be a fun mom when dad leaves town!! At least I hit the library!

Thankful and stuff

2008-11-30T15:22:00.000-08:00

Then:
Now:
We had our 9 year anniversary on Wednesday! I can't believe it has been that long! I love looking back at our wedding pictures and seeing how excited we were! I love even more looking at pictures from now and still seeing how excited we are. I am so in love w/ this guy! I love that we have this wonderful family and that we get to spend forever together. So this Thanksgiving I am grateful for my fabulous hubby!
Also just so you know how wonderful he is let me share our turkey day w/ you!
Eliott always makes the turkey for me and then we kinda just help each other w/ the rest of the stuff. Well this year he made every last thing! It was great! the only thing I did was put the frozen rolls in the pan to rise. He even made the cinnamon rolls for breakfast, they were pillsbury, but still!!
Anyway he is great and I am so thankful that he is mine!! Love you Eliott!

Pictures!

2008-11-30T15:09:00.001-08:00

So we went out to some pecan groves to take our pictures this year. We decided to take them ourselves, meaning we got situated and Eliott or I would push the timer button and then run! It was kinda funny but definitely fun. I think they turned out great and I love them. Lyddie was sure hard to capture though. She was not thinking pictures were fun! Anyway enjoy!

Not that I am claiming to be a pro or anything, but I think I would like to try my hand at this whole picture taking thing, soooo if you want to get your pictures taken and you don't expect perfection and you are willing to be a guinea pig for me, I would love to take pictures for you!

Christmas cards!

2008-11-14T10:19:00.000-08:00

I am making Christmas cards to sell this year. So if anyone is interested you can check out my other blog for other pictures and pricing. There are horizontal and vertical options for each of these. (you can see them at the other blog)
Pass this along if you think anybody will be interested!

Girls, girls, girls, hair, hair, hair!!

2008-11-10T07:34:00.000-08:00

Okay so while blog hopping the other day, I came across THIS site. It has tons of cute hair do's for little girls. So I decided that I would try some out on my girls. So I wanted to do Riley's hair like this. And I gotta say it turned out pretty cute, especially for a first try! I usually don't have the patience to do all of their hair, but they have such pretty hair that I think I might put more of an effort into their cuteness.

And then we had Lexi, her hair is about shoulder length so not as much to play w/ but I think it turned out super cute too.

Lexi on the other hand was horribly sad about her hair. She wanted "barbie hair" (braids) I even did hers first so it wasn't like she had seen Riley's, but she was so sad. And when she doesn't get what she wants out of her hair she gets frustrated and just starts rubbing her hands all over it and trying to pull out rubberbands. So before she could manage to destroy her cute hair, the awesome mom that I am, I bribed her w/ candy to leave it alone. Luckily it worked, but it also brought candy to the front of her little Lexi brain, so while I did Riley's hair she grabbed the candy bucket and helped herself. Oh well it stayed cute!! It was super cute on the way to church (I was only late by like 2 or 3 minutes too!!) Lexi and Riley both sat in their seats w/out putting their head on the back rest so that their hair would stay cute. And it is a 20 minute drive to church too! Girls are so fun!!

Lyddie doesn't have much to work w/ but she has some curls in the back that my other girls never had, so she just got her hair scrunched. But I did put it in a cute little half ponytail. She looked so big!!

So part of the bribe was that I would do braids another day, so why not today huh? So this is what I came up w/ for today. I am new to parting, it is kinda hard for me but I didn't do to bad eh?!
and now she is a happy little lex w/ her barbie hair!

3 pretties and a scary!

2008-11-07T05:44:00.000-08:00

So a little recap of our night. Lyddie = snow white, Lexi = fairy, Riley = barbie ballerina (you had to make sure to say barbie though!!) Seth = scary ghost

We had tons of fun trunk or treating. Our ward always does a pot luck chili right before we fill up on candy. Lyddie was too funny, she didn't quite get the concept of the trick or treating thing. Everytime she would get a piece of candy in her bucket she would take it out and hand it to me to open. So by the next car she was hurrying to finish the piece in her mouth so she could get another one. She only lasted about 5 cars before I took her back to Eliott to help pass out candy. We had a great time and that pretty much wraps it up!

By popular demand...

2008-10-29T17:12:00.001-07:00

Okay so I have had quite a few people that wanted me to order more letters like this

If anybody would like me to order them let me know. The company I ordered these exact ones from has no more "A"'s so I had to order from somewhere else, so the font is slightly different and they come in the cardboard color. So let me know if you want to order. They are $2 a letter and you can get whatever letters you want. (last name, holiday ones and whatnot)
Plus at super saturday a couple people told me they wanted them, and my brain was fried that day so I don't remember who everyone was that wanted them. So if you told me saturday, then tell me again! I will most likely order them in about 2 weeks and I will need the money first please!! Okay that is all!

So sweet

2008-10-15T17:49:00.000-07:00

This picture doesn't really have anything to do w/ my story other than the fact the story is about Riley. I just had to put a cute picture up so you could picture her face!
So we have a Primary Activity Day coming up where the kids are going to be putting together Hygiene kits for the Humanitarian stuff. So the kids are supposed to bring something to put in the kits (there is a list of things needed) and they are encouraged to work to earn the money for the item they bring. So today I tell Seth and Riley about it and tell them they need to help clean the house so they can earn money for soap. So of course they have tons of questions so I am describing cases where the hygiene kits would be used. So I tell them that if there was a hurricane or a tornado and people lost their houses they... then I hear Riley sitting on the floor and w/ this cute go-getter type attitude she finishes my sentence w/ "then here come the Reynolds kids"
She thought they were going to go in there and give the people the kits. It was too funny!!

Mission accomplished...

2008-10-04T19:44:00.000-07:00

So a few years ago I decided it would be fun to run a marathon. I talked about it off and on for those years and finally this year I decided to do it!! I found a half marathon (13 miles) in Payson. It is called the Rim Country Challenge. So I found a training guide and set out. I ran 5 days a week for 12 weeks (minus the last couple weeks, I wasn't very consistent!!) and I worked hard. So the day was finally here. We dropped the kids off at 2 different friends houses (thank you thank you!!) and set out for Payson. We left the seats to the van in Casa Grande and blew up our air mattress. It was such a gorgeous night! We opened the back windows and crashed in the van! It was so fun!! In the morning we headed over to the registration area. I thought there would have been more people but there were only 87 registered to do the half marathon! Which made me nervous since one of my main goals was to NOT BE LAST. Now you might laugh at that, but I ran cross country in high school, and it was not uncommon for me to be the last runner during the meets. I can go and go and go but I go slow!!! So seeing that there weren't many people I was a little worried about that, so I decided to focus on my next goal: TO FINISH. Now I didn't really doubt that I wouldn't finish, I had done my running, but still that was a main goal! My only other goal was to do it in under 3 hours. I really wanted to do it in 2:30ISH but I didn't know how well I would do on the hills and in the altitude since I trained in Casa Grande area and it is completely flat. So anyway we got to the start and off we went.

My dad came up there to watch me run so he and Eliott went down the course a ways to wait for me and yell and take a picture and what not. So after my awesome picture they headed off to Denny's for breakfast!!
Then after breakfast they came and tracked me down again, at this point I was pretty much by myself w/ just a few runners that I could see and some more behind that I couldn't see. They drove by me for a minute or so until I told them to leave, it was too hard to run like that. But on the upside, I need something in my stomach, so I got to have a few bites left over from my bar from breakfast and a much needed drink of water!!

The weather was gorgeous!! It could not have been better! It was overcast the entire time and had a slight breeze. It felt great. And the scenery was so pretty. We ran through neighborhoods and it was fun to see some of the different houses.

They met up w/ me once more but didn't snap any pictures, instead they got out of the car and cheered for me like goobers!! My best friend from growing up, April, came to cheer for me too!

I felt pretty good considering the difference in where I trained to where we ran. I do have hip problems and the hills were killing my hips. But I moved along and I finished!! I actually met all 3 of my goals. There was one girl that I knew was behind me but I didn't think anybody else was and I couldn't see her anymore so I didn't know if she dropped out. So when I finished I thought that there was a good chance I was last, but Dad and Eliott told me there were quite a few people behind me. And when all was said and done I think some of them dropped out!! So, not last, finished, and I did it in 2:30ish. 2:39 something, to be more exact!!

It was such a good feeling to accomplish something that I have worked so hard to do!! Eliott has been a great support too, during all my running. I tried doing it before he left for work but sometimes that didn't happen. And on Saturday mornings when I would do my long run, he never complained about the time I was gone! He is fabulous!! Thanks Babe!!! I love you!!

Girls night out!

2008-10-03T09:35:00.000-07:00

Lately Eliott has been taking Seth out on Saturdays, just the boys, to run errands or do something fun. So I decided it was Riley's turn. So we got all dressed up "like big girls" and went out.

She was so excited!

So first we went to Olive Garden. We love having a new Olive Garden and Riley loves the breadsticks. But I can't lie, I love Olive Garden and it was a good excuse to go.

And then we went to Claire's so she could get some new earrings. She hadn't ever been before so I was hoping she would LOVE it. Well, LOVE it she did! she walked in and was oohing and ahhing over everything. She couldn't decided what to look at or touch first. It was hilarious, I really wish I would have thought to video it. She was in little Riley heaven!!

She picked out earrings that were little flipflops in different colors and patterns. She even passed up flowers and hearts for these flipflops!!

After Claires we went to Walmart to find a pair of black shoes for Carly's wedding. We found a super cute pair, but I didn't take pictures.
We had a blast and I can't wait to take her out again. Although the next one on one is Lexi and she picked to have Daddy take her on a date!

I love to camp!

2008-10-02T14:59:00.000-07:00

We went camping a couple weekends ago up northeast of Payson with Eliott's family!
We had such a fun time! Everybody got appropriately dirty and ate an obscene amount of sugar. So it was just like a camping trip should be. It was the first time we had gone camping as a family ever. I have taken Seth and Riley a couple times with my family when Eliott couldn't go and Eliott has taken the kids on father/son or Daddy/daughter outings. So it was fun to go as a whole family. We got there Thursday night and Riley and Seth decided they wanted to sleep in the Pop up camper trailer of Eliott's mom's. They had a blast in there. But I don't think anybody had as much fun as Lexi. She was SO EXCITED to sleep in the tent. She couldn't contain her excitement it was hilarious!! Lyddie had a good time to. she mostly walked around (still so excited she walks!) and sat in peoples laps. Although she loves camping chairs, she sat in those a fair amount of time. And the bottle in her hand is a fancy shmancy root beer bottle but it was too funny not to take a picture of! Seth enjoyed talking "nature walks" and he even got to shoot Papa Todd's BB gun! Riley played in the soft sand by the camp for a good portion of the weekend. The kids had a blast w/ Eliott's mom. She probably had almost as much fun! She would take them on little walks and feed them sugar. The kids obviously loved it!! Eliott bought me a hammock and it was OH SO NICE!!! So we both got to lay around in that for a little bit. It only took 10 minutes (no joke!) to sunburn me and give me an awesome farmers tan. So I had to plan when I could hang out it in. We had a great time and can't wait to go again!! Enjoy the pictures!

super saturday

2008-09-26T12:04:00.000-07:00

So I am enrichment leader in my ward and we have super saturday coming up so I thought I would post our projects (email me if you want to do one and I can hook you up!!) (super saturday is October 25th and the money is due by the 15th)

Personalized soap. Teacher, Christmas, and Friend ($1.50 each)
Super cute collage frame, it will be 16X20 bring your own ribbon for $13 or we will bring ribbon for $17 there will be white brown and black paint

Glass etching, bring your own dish ($3.00)
Child size apron ($2.50)

These are paper mache letters, they come already black and stand on their own (the F needs to lean on the A) and they are 8 inches tall ($15 w/ paper and embellishments $12 w/out)

This is a cute calendar. There is vinyl on the back and your write on the front w/ a dry erase marker ($23.50)

the bottom block is about 10 inches long ($9.50)

This is a double sided decoration (one side Christmas the other Thanksgiving)($6)

Seth's B-day Bash!

2008-09-11T19:23:00.000-07:00

So I am not gonna go and rearrange all these pictures so my story will go backwards!

Seth had a birthday a week and a halfish ago. He is 6! Crazy. Anyway we started out the day w/ 2 friends of his choice and an activity, I will go into that more at the bottom by those pictures. So he asked me for a Transformer cake for his b-day. Well let me tell you I like to think of my self as somewhat crafty but I am not artistic by any means. Whether it be a pencil, paintbrush or frosting, I can't draw. Soooo this was a job for Eliott!! He made 2 cakes and cut out the 2 guys in the middle and all the corners so it was 3-d ish. I guys the guys are the logo for the good transfomrer and the bad ones. I think he did a smashing good job (much better than anything I could have pretended to do!) and Seth absolutely loved his cake!

So after we had our morning of fun the evening was a family party and cake and presents and what not! He had a blast got tons of stuff that he doesn't need but loves and was appropriatley spoiled!
I do have to say this is the coolest thing ever! Eliott's mom and hubby made him a "treasure box" it has a lock on the front so nobody can get in but him (and of course us). She even lined the inside. Anway it is fabulous and he loves it and now he can keep all his treasures away from his sisters! Yay no more scratched cd's!!
So my new thing for b-day's is that the kid gets to pick 1 or 2 friends and then pick an activity to do. I just think the family party is the thing that will last and that way the family that wants to come, doesn't get uninvited just cuz they have friends over, and they don't have to come to a party where we do kid activities. Anyway, it worked really well this year so I think I will stick w/ it. So when I asked Seth who he wanted to invite he told me he wanted to invite Gabe and Carter since he asked Parker and Mathew last year, he thought the other 2 would like a turn! (I have such a sweet boy!) So we decided on bowling. I called the bowling alley in town and they told me they opened at 10:00 and no they weren't busy at that time on saturday mornings and no they couldn't reserve me a lane. So I figured it was fine so we went and picked up 2 VERY excited boys and get to the bowling alley only to be told that it is league time and there are no lanes. Well every lane was empty and they were still signing people up for leagues but he said we couldn't bowl until 1:00. So LaMe!! Let me tell you it put me into the worst mood! But luckily the boys were just as excited about Peter Piper. So we went and bought a ton of tokens and let them loose! They had tons of fun and got tons of cheesy prizes.

and of course they thought they were so funny to ride the tractor! It was hilarious watching them.

They all 3 picked vampire teeth and had to model them for us!

After we were done at Peter Piper we went to McDonalds and had lunch and then took the boys home. So all in all I think he had a ton of fun and was way spoiled! I can't believe my boy is 6!!

Tagorama

2008-08-25T11:02:00.000-07:00

I am it! This tag goes like this...

7 things Jen would never say:

Scrapbooking is stupid, and I especially hate scrapbook night

I have all the patience in the world

I never need a break from my kids

I hate food!!

Whoever invented chocolate is such a moron.

I don't like crafts at all.

I hate shopping especially when I have money for clothes

7 things Eliott would never say

I love shopping, especially when Jen makes me try stuff on.

Chicken for dinner AGAIN, gross.

I love my 2+ hours of commuting time

I hate chocolate malts.

I am so stress free, it is amazing!

I hate fiddling w/ computers.

I hate when I come home and my kids all run up and grab my legs, what a pain.

Now it is your turn, everybody get ready, get set..... GO!

About time!

2008-08-16T20:23:00.000-07:00

It is about time! Lydia has decided to act her age and start walking!! Some of you might be thinking "well, of course she walks, she's old" but oh no she doesn't! She started taking some steps wednesdayish. And now she walks I would say about 60% of the time. Little enough that all the kids still get excited when she does it! But oh man I am soooo excited! She turned 18 months a weekish ago, so yes it is about time she did it! The video is sideways, sorry!! But her little giggle as she goes is too cute!

Souvenir

2008-08-15T19:55:00.000-07:00

Update on my nastiness. I went to Urgent Care on wednesday. I don't really care for this particular doctor. We had been in once before and I remember thinking he wasn't much help. So anyway, he looks at my nastiness and tells me it looks infected. So he decides it is a staph infection. (he didn't test it which I thought was odd) But he did say it didn't look like MRSA. When he said that I remembered getting a paper about MRSA when I was in the hospital w/ Riley. And of course I didn't read it!! So I asked him if I could have picked this up at the hospital and he told me "you most certainly could have" So there you have it folks, a lovely souvenir from the hospital!! Don't ya love it!!

He did give me antibiotics for the staph and then another one that would kill anything else I might have picked up. And can I just say one of them I have to take every 6 hours. Who can honestly do that unless it is pain meds and you NEED them? So annoying!

Any guesses?

2008-08-12T14:37:00.000-07:00

So it started yesterday. I got a couple little blisters. No idea how or what. It is the most bizarre thing. And they don't itch but they are super tender. I think I will have them checked out tomorrow but for now, does anybody have any guesses as to what the heck they are? They are just on my arms and hands. Tops of my hands and on both sides of both arms. but none above the elbow.

Whew what a week!

2008-08-09T20:49:00.000-07:00

How many posts start out like that for me!! Okay so first of all Monday:
Seth started FIRST GRADE!! So weird! So this year he gets dropped off the bus the same time as everybody else so he gets off at the bus stop instead of the house. So I asked him if he wanted me to wait for him at he stop and he said he could do it by himself. Same with walking to the bus stop in the morning. So I told him I would watch him from the yard and he informed me that he didn't want me to. But lucky for me I am the MOM!! So I pulled out the mom card and told him I could walk him or watch him. He chose watch. So off he went. He had a blast and so far is LOVING 1st grade.
And moving on...
So I think it started Sunday that Riley just wasn't feeling good. She had been complaining that her stomach hurt for about 2 weeks. But come Monday she started throwing up. So I took her in and she had lost a pound from her checkup a couple weeks ago. So that concerned me a touch since she only started at 32.4 pounds! So the dr. does a urine test and an x-ray and everything looks okay. So she assumes it is viral. My instructions were to not give her food and only give her pedialite for a day and see how she does. Well towards the end of the day I gave her a bite of a peach and up it came. I know stupid!! So Tuesday was more of the same, laying around totally limp. No food! And no going to the bathroom. So Wednesday she was still the same, couldn't eat anything. And she had only drunk one bottle of pedialite since monday morning, that is 1 liter. Not enough! So I take her back and she is now 29.7 pounds. Dehydrated. And still hurting tummy. So after talking to the dr. we have her admitted to the hospital for dehydration. She was soooooo sad! They of course had to give her an I.V. and then the dr. ordered blood work. Well she was dehydrated so she didn't have good veins to begin w/. and then to add that she apperatnly has my veins, which is no veins. It was so sad holding her while they did blood. She got poked so many times, in both hands and both elbow pits. Poor thing. And then the dr. wanted more blood!!(this is just one arm. all other entry points look the same or worse and now she has bruises all over)
Well we got there at about 11:30 Wednesday and we got to leave at about the same time on Thursday. The poor thing was soooo hungry. She hadn't eaten since Sunday at breakfast. She had a few bites of food here and there on Sunday but not a meal. So by the time they were drawing blood again on Thursday morning she just looked at me and started crying and saying she was soooo hungry! Broke my heart. But on the upside of things: we had a ton of fun spending time w/ just the two of us, they didn't care if I slept in her bed, so we shared a bed, she got tons of attention and toys and she is feeling much much better now!(this was this morning in the sprinklers!)

Part 2

2008-08-05T10:07:00.000-07:00

On Wednesday we headed over to Salt Lake to stay w/ my brother and his family for a few days. On Thursday we got to go to a beautiful lake called East Canyon. It was great!! My kids were so great! If any one has gone swimming w/ my crew, you know they are scared! (Except Riley seems to be pulling out of that phase) I couldn't believe it all 3 of them (the ones that can talk and walk!) wanted to ride on the tube and all wanted to go faster. And by the end of the day all of them would get in the lake to play. Except Lyddie of course. She just chilled on the boat the whole time. We actually made it 4 hours before we decided to call it a day!! After cleaning up the boat we headed over to the little store and had ice cream. It was a great day!

Then the next day we went fishing at a little park close to my brother's house. The kids had never been fishing before, so that was fun. Surprisingly though Seth got bored of it after nothing happened for a bit. And as soon as he went to play Riley caught a little blue gill. It was so cute! Then we headed over to the light rail. We rode the train into downtown to visit Temple Square. That was a ton of fun and really a great thing! We got to see 2 of the sister missionaries from our ward serving there. And the kids loved being at the temple.

Then on Saturday my brother watched the kids for us so we could go to Eliott's best buddy's wedding. Big Seth and Jane finally got married!! We couldn't be happier for them.

After the reception we headed home!! It was a long night but Eliott drove the whole time w/ the exception of a 25 minute catnap. The kids slept the whole way and we got home at about 8:30 in the morning. Driving all night was nice considering the kids but it took too long to recuperate! Where as driving all day but leaving early was fabulous and we didn't need to recoup from that.
Anway there you have it, our first family vacation!! (pathetic I know! but the last time we took the kids anywhere was to utah when seth was 8 months old!!)

Such a fun night

2008-08-04T17:03:00.000-07:00

Okay I know that I am supposed to be finishing my vacation post but I just had to post this first. Like many others out there I love the Twilight books so when some friends invited me to the releasing of Breaking Dawn, I couldn't resist. A few of us met to scrapbook first and then at about 10ish we went to Ihop to meet some other girls and have way too much bad for your body food way too late in the day. But who could resist? We had so much fun then we went to walmart and chased the poor manager guy around the store waiting for him to find out where on earth we were supposed to wait. Poor guy! But seriously you would think he would have had that all figured out by then. There were about 12 of us in our group. And at least 20 others and one of the managers pretends that he is going to read off the last page. It wasn't pretty!I tried to steal pictures from Elissa's blog...but it didn't work so you can check them out over there. And yes I am huge dork but it was really late!!
Loved the book!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Vacation!!! (part 1)

2008-07-31T21:14:00.000-07:00

Okay so this might be long but oh well!! And there are tons of pictures but I hate doing the slideshow so just deal w/ it!!
We left for Utah at about 4:00 a.m. on the 2nd. It was fabulous, about 3 miles away from home we get pulled over by some completely bored cop. I was a little too chipper and he thought I was odd. He pulled us over for our license plate light being out. We were such a threat that 2 cops had to stop for it!! But then we were off and I have to do a little bit of bragging here. We borrowed 2 dvd players and we had the laptop just in case. But we both decided we wanted to wait until we had at least gotten to Flagstaff before busting out the movies. Well the kids did fall asleep again once we got going but woke up for good at about 5:30 a.m. We managed to make it about 6 hours into our trip before we got the movie going. and then when we did it made Riley carsick about 10 minutes into so she moved away from it. But that was the only movie they watched on the ride up! I have great car kids. They had such a good time entertaining themselves.
We stayed at Eliott's Grandma's house and his sister and brother and wife stayed there too. It was such a fun fabulous time!! Eliott's Grandpa used to love a place called Marion's. They have burgers and shakes and stuff. So it is tradition to go over there and get chocolate malts. So that is what we did! The kids loved it and this is the girls outside waiting for dad to pay. The best part of small town is we could walk over there. It was so fun!

At Grandma's house she pretty much let us have the basement. That left a room for the kids and a room for Eliott and I. It was nice to have a bed for them to sleep in, instead of sleeping bags on the floor. So she had a full or a queen size in there and the kids just laid sideways on it and they slept there pretty well the entire time we were there. There were a couple nights that Riley and Lexi were laying on each other!!
We got to set of fireworks on the 4th and go to a parade. The kids had never seen a parade before and they loved it!! Riley couldn't get enough of any type of cheerleader or dancer that they had. Before the parade they flew (i wanna say) F-16 airplanes overhead. And of course Seth and Eliott loved that!!

Lexi's face in those pictures cracks me up!!

We stayed there until the next Wednesday. We had the best time just relaxing in the beautiful weather. I brought some books w/ me and just sat on the swing and read or layed on the grass and slept. It was great!! The kids did awesome finding things to do. We didn't really have the T.V. on a ton and they didn't take naps. But the colored or played in the sprinklers or just hung out outside. They had a blast!!

There is a dinosaur museum close by so we took the kids over there. It was very kid friendly w/ lots of things for them to do. There was a little tunnel and this is Lexi coming out the other side!
The day we left we went to the local park. It was a fabulous park and everything was so green! The kids had a great time. And I am not gonna lie , so did I! They had one of those zip thingies where you hold on and push off and it zips you to the other side. I would post pictures but I hate how you have to do it and then move the picture all the way down and let's face it this is a huge post (by the way does anybody know how to do it w/out having to move the picture all the way down, like post the picture where the cursor is?)

Anyway it was a great time in Roosevelt and I will post maybe tomorrow about our time in Salt Lake!!

Riley had a b-day, shout hooray!

2008-07-18T08:38:00.000-07:00

So Riley turned 4 last month, but things have been so crazy I haven't had a chance to post about it. So beware... This is a Riley picture overload!!
This 1st picture isn't from her birthday but it was too cute not to put in. So I have the kids take turns each night helping me cook. This night was obviously Riley's turn. I went to put some stuff on the table and I turn around and she had balanced 3 plates in her hands and arms and was ready to take off to the table! She thought she was pretty cool. And she actually made it w/out spilling!

So on to her actual birthday... First thing in the morning she got her gift from Eliott and I. Our kids love music and Seth has a CD player in his room, so for her birthday she got her own pink CD player. Then we made her the funnest CD. We put random Disney songs on it. Most of them being princess songs, which she loves! Now you hear her all the time, twirling in the living room, singing, "that's how you know" (from Enchanted) over and over again!

Then for dinner she picked pizza and she wanted cupcakes. So she got to help make her cupcakes and loved every minute of it.

Then while the cupcakes were cooking, she wanted to make a princess hat. So we made one and then she posed for pictures. She cracks us up, she poses by herself and she is always doing some sort of thing with her leg. She is too funny!

Then it was candle time! She was so excited.

And of course we had to burn her hair. I mean come on, it is too gorgeous! I felt pretty bad, but at her party a few days later she remembered to hold her hair out of the way!A few days later we had a family pool party. She had a blast. She decided that she was brave. She would go running and jump in the pool (she doesn't know how to swim) and there were a few times we had to hurry to catch her.
She also discovered she could go anywhere as long as she had a noodle. She would just cruise around the pool w/ her noodle. It was fun! Then we finished of the birthday celebrations with her getting her greatest desire. Actually 2 of them. She has been asking for a Barbie nonstop for the last couple months. We aren't even sure where she found out about barbies, but she wanted them. She was so excited to get 2. She is funny when she opens presents she gets all shy so this picture isn't a very good representation of her excitement but man did she love them!! All in all it was a fun week. But a little sad that my baby girl is 4! (I know I have 2 more "babies" but ya know...)

Don't Forget...

2008-06-25T22:47:00.000-07:00

To come to the Boutique (click or scroll down a post or 2) on Saturday June 28th!!
I will be selling my scrapbook kits - Stinkin' Cute Kits! They will be on sale Saturday, so now is your chance to save a few bucks. So don't forget to come visit me. If you want a preview of the kits go to my site - www.stinkincutekits.com. I will have a couple at the boutique that aren't on the site and I will have mini kits for you to choose from. There will be lots of other cute stuff to check out too.

Okay I am done! Thanks!!

(okay I have one more thing... feel free to pass this on!!)

Story Time...

2008-06-18T08:14:00.000-07:00

So my friend Kristine did this on her blog and I though it was cute... so here we go.

Here are the directions:

1. As a comment on my blog, leave one memory that you and I had together. It doesn't matter if you knew me a little or a lot, anything you remember!

2.Next, re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you.

It's actually pretty cool (and funny) to see the responses. If you leave a memory about me, I'll assume you're playing the game and I'll come to your blog and leave one about you. :) If you don't want to play on your blog, or if you don't have a blog, I'll leave my memory of you in my comments.

Boutique...

2008-06-17T14:49:00.000-07:00

So I am going to be doing a boutique w/ one of my friends and quite a few of her friends. I am going to be selling my "stinkin' cute kits"! I might even try to make some smaller kits, enough for a page or two, we will see. Anyway there is going to be tons of cute stuff there. So if you get a chance come check it out. You can mapquest the address but the cross streets are Southern and Harris. Pass this along so the rest of your friends have the chance at some cute stuff!!
Thanks!!

As always don't forget to check out www.stinkincutekits.com

Pictures

2008-06-16T12:00:00.000-07:00

So for Father's Day I decided to take the kids and take their pictures. I put them in a cute little frame and that was his gift. Anyway here are the pictures I think they turned out pretty cute, but I am a little biased!!

What a story!

2008-06-12T08:19:00.000-07:00

So Seth came running in here to tell me he lost a tooth. Well he didn't have any loose teeth that I knew of so I wouldn't have believed him except when was running in here as he stopped a tooth went flying out of his hand. So I asked if he knew that it was loose and he didn't so I asked how it happened. He told me he didn't know then went to clean up his mouth. When he was done I told him he needed to tell me how it happened. This was his response: "I don't know, I was just trying to open the game with my fingers and it just fell out!"
Hmmm that one is hard to figure out huh!!
The things they come up with!!

latest project

2008-06-06T17:41:00.000-07:00

I have been wanting to make the kids aprons for awhile and since Eliott is coming home late today I just did it.
Super easy too! I made them extra long too (on purpose!) so they wouldn't mess up their jeans when they wear them. I always hestitate to let them help cook or do crafts because I don't want to worry about their clothes so it will be nice now to just throw on the apron.
Not to mention they were super duper excited. and it only took me about 45 minutes from start (picking out fabric from the stash) to finish (tying lexi's on)!! Great project!! Guess now I actually have to make dinner now!

Cute Invitation!

2008-05-14T16:21:00.000-07:00

So I am throwing a shower/bachlorette party for my soon to be sister-in-law (who I absolutely love and adore!!!) anyway the invitations turned out so cute so I had to post a picture of it here. (sorry this doesn't mean you are invited I just wanted to post my cute stuff!!!)

One Word!

2008-05-12T12:25:00.000-07:00

One word. That's all you can write as your answer. Can you do it?

Not as easy as you might think. Change the answers to fit you and post! It's hard to only use one word answers!

1. Where is your cell phone? .................... dresser
2. Your significant other?....................... Eliott
3. Your hair?.................................... brunette
4. Your mother? ................................. dead
5. Your father?..................................Fabulous
6. Your favorite thing?.......................... Sleep
7. Your dream last night?........................ none
8. Your favorite drink........................... water
9. Your dream/goal?.............................. happiness
10. The room you're in?.......................... bedroom
11. Your ex?..................................... none
12. Your fear?................................... widowed
13. Where do you want to be in 6 years........... together
14. Where were you last night?................... home
15. What you're not?.............................fake
16. Muffins...................................... yummy
17. One of your wish list items?................. hawaii
18. Where you grew up?........................... wickenburg
20. What are you wearing?........................ clothes
21. Your TV?..................................... off
22. Your pets?................................... none!
23. Your computer? .............................. laptop
24. Your life?................................... fantastic
25. Your mood?................................... blissful
26. Missing someone?............................. mom
27. Your car?.................................... filthy
28. Something you're not wearing?................ jewelry
29. Favorite Store?.............................. target
30. Your summer?................................. hot
31. Like someone?................................ yep
32. Your favorite color?......................... pink
33. Last time you laughed........................ today
34. Last time you cried?......................... yesterday

How cool is this...

2008-05-09T12:51:00.000-07:00

Okay so this is a sheet that you put all the way around your mattress then the top zips on and off so you can change it w/out having to take out the bumber pad! I wish I had known about this with Seth, I was constantly changing his sheet. And taking the bumber pad off. It would even had been worth the extra money. Anyway I just thought I would share this marvelous idea!!