Love My Big SIster

I decided instead of spending the night cooped up at home by myself, I would go over and bug my sister Samantha =].... We went for a walk with her two and my three, over to my moms grave. I am sure she gets a kick out of our kids. They are quite hilarious. Samuel rode Betty's barbie bike all the way to the cemetery, Which is like 3 blocks from my sisters house. And Betty Walked the whole way, pushing her pony baby in her stroller. Whenever she looked as if she was getting tired, I offered to help she would say "I do it". Aidan rode in the stroller, but on the way back he took turns riding Bai's bike. They are doing so good!
Oh and I don't have any pictures because I walked out of my sisters house with out my camera, and I didn't want to leave her outside with 3 wild kids on bikes and two other impatient kids in strollers while I ran back inside. And for those of you who know me, you know it killed me to go to the cemetary with out my camera! haha.

When I went into put a movie on for Aidan in my sisters room,
I saw she has a picture of Her and Me at Chuckie Cheeses hanging on her mirror...
I love her... ♥
Your not only my big sis
but one of my best
best friends.

I would totally say that today was a really good day! It started out with playing the Wii with Paul (we are seriously addicted!). Then Samantha called and asked if I would put highlights in her hair, and so she came over and we just sat in my room and watched TV while I pulled her hair through the little cap thing(It turned out really cute, I have a picture of that too, I am just over at my sisters and there for have no access to my computer). My Dad showed up to give Betty her birthday present. So it was just nice sitting around upstairs, talking about old times, teasing my dad and Paul about silly things. I love days filled with Laughter and Family, They are by far my favorite!

Just now Samantha and Bai were sitting on the couch coloring, and I looked over and Bailey is totally asleep, yet still coloring on her page. I was laughing so hard that when I pulled my camera out of the backpack the batteries fell out, and by time I got it all situated she had moved and was looking for a new pencil, wide awake. But oh man it was FUNNNNNY!

I seriously do not know what we all did for entertainment before we had kids.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MIRANDA!

Sorry we have not called, but you were defiantly in our thoughts.
Wish you guys would move back here.
We miss you
And
Hope your birthday was amazing
like you=]

Happy Birthday Princess!

We celebrated by singing Happy Birthday many times over the day. Going to Wal-Mart and letting her choose whatever she wanted, and then Mommy made cupcakes. Yummmy!

Some pictures of Betty in her birthday dress, that she almost didn't let me put on her this morning. But after much bribery she let me!

I couldn't get her to stand up for me,
and I didn't want to make her to mad before
we sang Happy Birthday to her.
You gotta pick your battles right? haha

The kids enjoying those yummmmy cupcakes.

Here are some pictures of her in her Princess Crown
that her Auntie Mel and cousin Mary sent her.

What a cute girlie!


Here is her bounty just from today.
I am almost afraid to see what she gets on
Saturday when we have her real party
haha

Betty's last day of being a 1 year old.

~~We spent the day doing our regular routine: Wake Up, Cartoons, Play Time, Get Kids Fed and Dressed, Walk Samuel to the bus.

When she wakes up, she always wants her sippy filled with milk and she has to watch Dora. Play time consists of playing with her babies, wrapping them up in wash cloths, scarfs or whatever other cloth she can find in the moment, pushing them in their stroller, walking around in her dress up shoes, and carrying around her favorite purse for the day. Breakfast is usually either cereal or a pop tart depending on her mood. She does really good with not spilling on her self. drinks all the milk and then puts the dish in the sink. It takes a while to get her dressed, because if you do not pick out the exact thing that she wants, than she will run from you. And even if it is snowing she will try to con you into wearing her new pink flip flops, even if you put socks on her. She does not walk Samuel to the bus, more like tumbles down the side walk in her own little world, her tumble consists of running, tripping, crawling, bear crawling, skipping, hopping, walking, walking back wards, more hopping and more running. At the bus stop she plays ring around the rosies with her brothers and Bai (Wish I'd Had My Camera Dangit!). She picks flowers for her mommy. And gives her brother a big hug when the bus finally comes.

All the while I watch her and know... Today is her last day... as a 1 year old...

When we get home our routine continues: Lunch, Rest Time, Cartoon Time, Play Time.

Lunch was yummy potatoe salad that she plowed through and a bag of fruit snacks. Rest time was actually spent playing dolls with Bai on the bed. She watched most of Wonder Pets. And Play time consisted of more dolls, and she found her baby ponies and playing with mommies cell phone which she asked for "I hello. I hello" (how do you say no to that?).

In the evening we waited for daddy to come home from work. She finally feel asleep watching Dora. And when she woke up, she was actually happy. She played with a baby kitten for a few minutes until she got too rough and mommy had to take her away. Then she helped mommy cook dinner and take care of daddy who isn't feeling very well. She helped by taking her own tempature with the play thermonitor.

She took a bath with her brothers and dressed her self for bedtime.

A couple of pictures of her
on her last night being 1

A quick game of Ring around the rosies before bed.

And now she kicks me off the computer so she can watch Dora and fall asleep soundly.

Good night sweet girl!

And So Another Week Begins

This past week seem to fly by and drag on at the same time haha. With a few rainy days cooping us up inside, including raining out our day of Zoo fun. We actually got a lot done this week.

The boys got a much needed hair cut.

Samuel was so funny he kept just saying
"This is so AWESOME!"

And Aidan kept saying
"Samuel you look A M A Z I N G"

Then when it was Aidan's turn Samuel said
"Oh Aidan don't worry. It only hurts a little"
HAHA!


And YES Aidan hair is shorter. Everyone gets on my case about not cutting his curls, and then I do what they want and now everyone is getting on my case because he doesn't look any different than he did before! WHAT DID YOU EXPECT hahaha.

I can't even believe how patient my little girl is.
She just sat there and let me do this to her haha.

I am hoping maybe she'll get some curl from it!?

Oh and when I took her in the bathroom and showed her.
She goes "MOM-MAY! I don't like it!"
I explained to her why I did it
and she stopped trying to pull them out.
However she does get upset when you call her
"Coolio"

And I think this picture has a slight resemblance to Olivia.

I can't even believe this little girl is going to be 2 on Wednesday!
2
Who told her she could turn two?!
Well more like 2 going on 5.
She is way to smart for her age.
Sometimes I feel as though I have
two 4 year olds.

Welp sorry I don't have much of anything exciting to report.
I could have a big long post with lots of pictures and fun stories
If it wasn't for our Zoo day getting rained out!

But this upcoming week I am sure I will have something to report.

Oh Oh! and I cooked some delicious yummy meat loaf! With OUT setting the house on fire!
The recipe called for way to much "Steak Seasoning" but that was my only complaint. I am really loving this cooking kick I am on. Food is always better when you cook it yourself. Last night we had Pork Chops... Oh my they were good!

Warning: May Gross You Out

But we thought it was hilarious.

sorry its sideways, but I couldn't figure out how to flip it haha.
and it's really wobbly because we were driving down the road.

On Your Mark.. Get Set... GO!

This is the kids newest and most favorite Past time....

They can go for hours riding down and then climbing back up with their bike, or scooter.
Good exercise if you ask me! This was the perfect way to end the day. Playing hopscotch, racing and just enjoying the warm weather. I hope there are more and more days like these.

I took these pictures of Betty playing on the swing set and thought I'd share them

She's a doll!

We also had open face burrito's for dinner. And although I almost burned down the house by turning on the wrong burner, haha they turned out to be pretty darn good. Sometimes I almost think I am too absent minded to cook! But it always turns out good, so maybe I just shouldn't cook by myself!

Truly Blessed I am I am

This morning, I was awaken by giggling.... not always a good sign.... I listen with out opening my eyes... more giggling... the bed moves just a little under me.... I feel a small hand on my head... its Betty... Smoothing my hair back she says "Mommy"... I turn to see and I am tackled.... Three little bodies, giggling, kissing, and hugging "I love you mommy".... What a good morning... What great kids....

After our usual morning routine, of cartoons, breakfast (in many forms) and then everyone gets dressed and we all walk Samuel down to his bus stop.

And if you ever want to know how I know that my kids love me:

Look at the hard work that went
into picking those

After coming in from the dandelion picking
We played with some play dough.







This is the "Eagle" Aidan made.
This picture was just too cute
I was trying to show how he got yellow between his top lip and nose
from smelling the dandelions.

After we put all the play dough away, we made lunch.
Then we laid down for a nap.
No arguments.
No Crying.
Or Pouting.
These are the days that I love.

Pretty Freaking Interesting

Nemaline Myopathy

This explains a little more about Nemaline Myopathy. How it effects the muscles and all that good stuff. It's really informative, so if you are interested in learning more on how this effects Paul and the boys, then take a few minutes and watch the little animations and Dr.Beggs go into a more indepth explanation at the end.

Birthday Party!

Yesterday was Brooklyn's birthday party. We had a lot of fun. I miss being around my family and I am getting so excited for this summer. I am having great hopes for a huge camping trip with all of us again this summer. I love my three sisters and I do not know what I would do with out them. Summer means more time with them, so I welcome summer with open arms!

Any who. We went to Nielsen Grove Park. Its behind Orem Walmart. It is one of my favorite parks. During the summer their fountains have water in them, and you can take your kids to play in them. It's also great for pictures. and I took a ton.

Here are just a few. I am also going to post some I took of my niece Chelsea on my photo blog. So keep your eye out for that.

I took some pictures of Samantha and her girls.
This one is my favorite

This is the kids playing Red rover Red rover
or as Madison put it
"Rundover"

After the party, we went to the library and then grocery shopping
Betty past out in the car
and I was able to move her from there to the couch
and she did not wake up
I went down after about an hour or so,
and she was still past out

The flash from my camera didn't even wake her.

Sami bought her those pink flipflops
Her new favorites!

We had a lot of fun.