The Roundy Clan

Well...

2011-09-29T00:19:00.000-05:00

Well, I was on a roll for a while there getting some new stuff up here on the blog. Then I hit another rough patch! I even have pictures saved and ready to put on here but let me tell ya! Tyler starting school has kicked my big old booty! I have been having such a hard time managing my time that it has completely taken over and it seems I have gotten nothing done for the past 3 weeks. Grrrrrr

So real quick I am going to post a couple of pictures from our life over the last little bit

First and foremost, Cody finally got his BS! WOO HOO I know what you are thinking...I am pretty sure he was a BSer already but he was not. Not only did he get his first BS degree but he also got straight A's! That's my boy!

My crazy kids in the bath tub. This was JUST taken Monday. They had LOTS of fun. ( they are supposed to be growling at me in the pictures. It went along with the game they were playing haha )

Kayla decided this spot in the entertainment center is her new favorite hide out. Here she is practically naked, playing her brothers leapster with a sticker on her nose. Hmmmm

We had visitors this weekend. Papa and Nana came to see our soon to be new house and to take us shopping. It was a GREAT weekend. Here are the kids reading to Papa.

Kayla and I went grocery shopping and while I was putting the groceries away Kayla decided to play hide and seek.

"Where's Kayla?"

"There she is!" ( those are my HUGE green bags. I LOVE them! )

Here she is getting tired before nap time. Butt up in the air. We call this the stink butt position.

And here she is tired once again ( remember I mention how Tyler starting school is kicking my booty? Well, it's kicking her's too! ) Right before I snapped this picture she moved her legs. They were actually spread open and straight up in the air. Even bent legs, I thought this was still worthy of a giggle.

That's it for now folks. I'll post pictures of our HOPEFULLY house soon! It's gorgeous and we can't WAIT for November.

Drama Queen

2011-09-19T09:34:00.000-05:00

No the title is not referring to me but to my lovely daughter who is SUCH a drama queen. We have a hard time brushing her hair as I mentioned in a previous post. We also have a hard time brushing her teeth on occasion. I snapped a picture a couple of weeks ago of Cody forcing the teeth brushing on her. What we do is pin her to the floor, sit on top of her legs and arms so she can't kick or smack you, and then brush away. It's awesome.

Good times!

First Hair Cup

2011-09-10T18:37:00.000-05:00

Kayla got her first hair cut about two months ago. I slacked and didn't post pictures. Now she got her second hair cut so I guess I better post pictures from the first one.

Waiting to get it cut

It was so long!

And here it was all done! In case you were wondering WHY we got her pretty hair cut it is because she do NOT want us to brush it and she NOT let mommy put ANYTHING in her hair any more. Her hair was so long that it looked so ratty all of the time. This was the solution.

Oh and the title of this post is not wrong. I meant to write hair CUP because that is what Kayla calls it.

And now for her second hair cup

I really liked her first hair cut but the second one was even cuter! I didn't really like it just below the shoulders the first time we cut it. This time I asked her to cut it just above the shoulders. Ahhhhh much better! Daddy thinks it is too short but mommy loves it. :)

Park Playing

2011-09-10T18:30:00.000-05:00

We had a great "play date" at the park letting the cousins play during on of our Utah trips.

Sorry I had to sneak a nature picture in there!

Somebody wrote a naughty word inside the tube! Noah thought it was hilarious! He was giggling about it for ever! haha It was a nice park trip!

Dino's

2011-09-10T18:23:00.000-05:00

A couple of months ago we went to Utah and got to hang out with Papa and Nana. They took us to see the dinosaur tracks in St. George. I have always wanted to take Tyler to go see them. He LOVES dinosaur's. Especially since the TV show Dino Dan started. He absolutely loved that show when it first came on. We have been sad that they never made new episodes. It was really hard to get good pictures in the exhibit. They were either blurry or dark. Here's what we got.

The next picture cracks me up! Tyler was so excited that he couldn't stop moving. I LOVE how you can see the huge smile on his face even though it is so blurry.

I asked him to stand still for the next one and this is what I got.

HAHAHA

Then we went to McDonald's and then drove back to Cedar City. Kayla knocked out in the car and mommy took pictures out of the window because the sky was just so darn pretty I couldn't resist!

It was a nice visit!

Sicky

2011-09-10T17:22:00.000-05:00

Monday was labor day. Cody had to work. So while I kept seeing all these post on facebook about BBQ's and family get togethers the night before, I was thinking, "I'm taking the kids to JoAnn's and then letting them pick something out at the dollar store." Woo hoo right? Well....it turned out not working out that way. First we woke up to no internet. AWESOME. Then Tyler was sick. BOOOOOO I gave him some meds and he started feeling better. He begged me to take him to the dollar store. I said sure. We drove out there and went straight to JoAnn's. Parking lot was packed so we went to the dollar store instead. We then went to lunch ( I am addicted to the Wendy's Spicy chicken salad!! ) and Tyler started getting chills. BOOOOOO again. He also didn't feel like eating his lunch I had JUST paid for. Wish he would have told me that before but I am thinking someone just really wanted that toy!

We get home and give him more meds. He starts to feel better again. Take naps ( I BEG him to try REALLY hard to sleep...) he does not sleep. By dinner time he is glued to the couch and doesn't want to eat. Dinner is done and Cody tells me, "Why don't you do to JoAnn's now." He felt really bad that I didn't get to go. I decided that is a good idea for me to go and then get groceries on the way home so that I don't have to try and go with a sick Tyler the next day. Tyler says he is hungry so I gave him some juice and a celery stalk!

I get about FIVE minutes from JoAnn's and I get a text that reads, "Tyler just puked everywhere!" Awesome. Straight to the market I got to get groceries and hurry on home. JoAnn's just wasn't meant to me and when I walked in the door I found this

Hugging the bowl in one hand and the ipod so he could play angry birds in the other. That's my boy! And I apologize to those who read my other blog and had to hear the story twice. Sometimes having two blogs ( or three but whose counting ) is such a pain.

He missed school for the first time already but made it the rest of the week. He LOVES school so much and I feel so blessed that he now has some where to go every day and friends. :)

Silly Faces

2011-09-10T17:13:00.000-05:00

The other day as we were getting ready for naps, Tyler asked if we could do silly faces in the mirror. Why of course!

So Mommy went and got her camera ( because who wouldn't want to document that?! ) and we did some silly faces.

Holy cow do my teeth look yellow! YIKES

Tyler's Homework

2011-09-03T11:06:00.001-05:00

Here is Tyler's first homework assignment from his first week of school.

The first paper said to point to each letter and only give your kid SIX seconds to answer. I pointed to A and then B and by the time I pointed to C Tyler was already reading F! haha Makes me laugh.

This sheet says to point to an object that is the color and ask your child what color it is. Um...that's too easy. SO I pointed to the word and said, "What does that say?" and he would read it to me and then I would say, "Point to something that is that color."

The last page said to tell your kid to write out the alphabet as best they can with NO help from you. So That is what I told Tyler. I told him to sing to himself the alphabet song and he'd do fine. Then I went and made his lunch. He only missed one letter! WOO HOO

Then it says to tell them to write as many numbers as they can. He got up to 23 and then he tells me, "Mom I'm gonna stop now!" hee hee

I was pretty impressed with how well he wrote his alphabet with no help. Normally he writes HUGE and runs out of space but this time he did it perfect. Good job Tyler.

Kayla Painting

2011-08-31T23:59:00.001-05:00

Kayla had a good first day of TYLER'S kindergarten. haha She asked mommy if we could paint. I said, "Sure!" She had a blast painting...herself. :) Check her out

Ain't she a cutie! The next day she played with playdough. Today, we went on a walk, painted AND played with playdough. Notice how I didn't mention NAPS! Yeah...because Tyler's school gets out at 3:30 her normal nap time wasn't gonna cut it. So we have TRIED to switch to an hour earlier. So far....not happening. I am crossing my fingers she naps tomorrow. We'll see.

First Day of School

2011-08-29T14:02:00.000-05:00

Today our lives have changed forever! Like I mean FOREVER! Tyler started school this morning. He has been SO excited to start. He has been counting down the days and keeps telling me, "Mom, I can't wait to start school. I can't and I WON'T!" haha Um okay Tyler. He's very dramatic.

Any ways. Today was the day. Yesterday there was some lightning and a power line got hit and started a fire. Our power went out and didn't come back on until almost midnight! It was REALLY hot in the house and I was so worried that the power wouldn't come back on and school would be canceled. He would have been DEVASTATED! So glad he came back on. He was awake before 6! He must have been so excited he couldn't stand it.

We took some pictures before we left. Mommy took a couple of him getting ready to go.

He was just sitting watching TV waiting for mommy to tell him it was time to go.

Here we were getting ready to leave.

What a big boy! He loves his new shirt and picked it out special for the first day. He is also super proud of his new shoes. AND his lunch box!

We got to school and I handed my friend Kevin the camera ( he is here visiting ) so that I could help Tyler. He took some pictures of Tyler's desk, his cubby and Tyler drawing a picture for the teacher!

Can you tell in the picture that Tyler is at least a foot Tyler then everyone!? haha My friend kept saying, "Oh my gosh, Tyler is huge!" I kept saying, "I know." He told me, "I didn't realize how big he was until I see him around kids his age."

He was supposed to draw a pretty picture for his teacher to hang up on the wall! He decided to draw a picture of himself and write, "I am excited!" Man I love this kid.

We left him and Kayla yelled "Bye Tyler!" We drove home and when I went to get her out of the car I said, "Are you ready to go inside now?" To which she replied, "No I go get my Tyler." I said, "Nope we can't go get him until later." And then she started balling.

We walked into the house and she moped around for about an hour wondering what to do with HER Tyler. Finally mommy got out the paints and she had a blast! I took pictures but they aren't on the computer yet. Maybe later on today I'll get them up. Then she had a bath and now she is about to have lunch.

The first day is almost over! It's a minimum day so we pick him up a little after one. I can't believe how fast the first day was. I am sure I will get LOTS of talking the rest of the day and hopefully tomorrow morning he can sleep passed 6! Here's hoping anyways.

Well

2011-08-23T17:13:00.000-05:00

I suck! How horrible have I been at blogging lately. I can tell you the reason...once I got my mac it seemed so much harder for me to shrink pictures. I don't know if y'all know this about me or not BUT I like pictures. I hate blogging without pictures and so for me it has been a constant struggle to get pictures shrunk so I can blog about them.

I am going to try EXTRA hard in the next couple of months to blog at LEAST once a week. YOu heard me....don't hold your breath or anything but that is what I am planning.

I have missed lots of things I still wish to blog about and WILL still blog about. So at thew beginning of the post if it is from a past event I will be sure to let you know.

Just so this post is not void of pictures here you go

We made it up to Alton in July for the 4th of July weekend. We had lots of fun and I got to take some great pictures. This is one of the many things I need to blog about. So for now, just know it's coming. Also, I FINALLY updated all of our outdated stuff on here. Our profile, our pictures on the side. Man it took me long enough. And now I must go back to cleaning my house. We are having the missionaries over for dinner and I need to get more of my house picked up and then start working on making the dinner.

See y'all next week....I swear!

Crazy Days of Summer

2011-06-22T18:02:00.000-05:00

Here is how my kids entertain themselves while mom is cooking and cleaning. By the way, I did not strip their clothes off of them or put the helmets on. Aren't they styling?!

The Kids

2011-06-16T09:04:00.000-05:00

Kayla does this thing where she pretends to be an animal. She LOVES doing it. So much so that when she pretends to be a kitty she will meow and then lick my arm. NICE! Whenever she pretends to be an animal she will make the noise of that animal and then one of us will say, "Oh look it's a baby kitty." Then she will bark and we'll say, "Oh look it's a doggy!" Then she'll change to a pig or horse or cow. Ironically she ALWAYS asks mommy to be the cow. Hmmmmmmm

Any ways. She is so cute and clever. We noticed a month ago that she started discovering new animals that DIDN'T make sound but she would want to be them. SO she would get to something like a whale and didn't know what to do. So she would say, "Whale, Whale." My favorite ( and she does this one quite often ) is when she says, "Snail, Snail." It's so cute because she says it with a Southern accent! :)

And the boy....man he has been a GRUMPY old man lately. Even when saying something to me where he should have no emotion in his voice he sounds angry. It's so annoying. But when he decides to be sweet he is SWEET! Yesterday after finishing lunch and having peanut butter ALLLLL over his hands, he walked to the kitchen sink to wash them off. On his way to the sink he stuck his booty out at me and said, "My can you pull the underwear out of my bum please." So polite like. I laughed and then politely declined. Too bad for me since I laughed he knew he had said something funny so I am sure he will ask me again sometime soon just to get a laugh out of me.

Kayla has discovered Jalapeno Cheese Cheetohs. NOPE it was not ME he gave them to her ( or buys them ). I prefer the flaming hot ones but those are too hot for her liking. I used to eat a bag of flaming hots with a 12 oz dr. pepper everyday for lunch in high school. Sometimes I would throw in a cookie too. NOw I eat lots of fruit and fiber and hardly ever have dr. pepper or flamming hots and weigh a million pounds more. Go figure.

ANYWAYS.

She has discovered them and LOVES them. Her and daddy share them together. Yesterday she brought them to me at lunch time and said, "Peeeeeeease momma, Peeeeease." So I out some on a plate for her and then cooked her a hot dog. I put ketchup on the plate so she could dip her hot dog in it and she felt in necessary to dip the cheetohs in the ketchup instead. She LOVED it actually! YIKES.

Tyler gave his first talk in Primary on Sunday. Mommy had to give a lesson at the same time so I didn't get to sneak in and here him. He is usually so brave and ready and willing to talk in front of people so I wasn't worried. We typed it up for him and made him read it to us several times. One word kept tripping him up but otherwise he would do great. After church we asked him how it went. He said, "Well, I skipped a little bit." Hmmmmmm. So when we got home I had him show me what part he "skipped". Apparently half way through the talk he got nervous and decided to just say, "In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen." haha That kid cracks me up. He said, "Mom, I got a little nervous." Maybe he won't be asked to give a talk again! haha

I figured this would be a nice break from the Disneyland pictures, although for day 3 we only have like 10 any ways. SO the next post will probably be day three from there. Until then...

Disneyland Day Two

2011-06-11T10:38:00.001-05:00

The day started off at the hotel. I had to wake the kids up at 8 because they were still KNOCKED out and they stop serving breakfast at 9. So we ran downstairs and got some breakfast. Kayla kept telling us that we were going to Disneyland. Except when she said it she made it about 4 syllables long. Because some how in the passed two weeks she has picked up a Southern accent when she says certain words. It's so funny and really freaking cute! So Disney= two syllables Land+two syllables

Here are the kids waiting for the elevator.

Tyler walking with Kevin in the parking garage.

Waiting for the tram.

I swear she was WAY more excited this time!

More waiting and having fun!

I love this picture because she was so excited to be on the tram that she sat up on her feet and turned around to watch everything.

We started off the day this time in California Adventure. WAY more fun for the kids here. We saw Minnie Mouse. Apparently she is a pilot. Cody wanted to see her pilots license but we didn't ask her.

Then we went to Monstropulous ( no clue if that is spelled right! ) We got to see Sulley! Just in time too because he had to rush to be in a show that we watched!

The whole gang took a picture with him. Notice the extra person? That's another one of Mommy's fun friends. Her name is Stacy. She has a pass and comes to Disneyland regularly and so we thought she'd be a good person to have come with us. In fact, when Mommy called to tell her we were coming and wanted to see if she could come too her reply was, "Oh I'm off that day and I think I was planning on going by myself anyways!" Perfect!

Next Daddy and Kevin snuck off too ride a big kid ride while the girls took the kids to a Bug's Life world. LOTS of kids rides there. We spent a good amount of time here. Our first ride was kinda like the teacups but you didn't spin it yourself. It kinda did it on it's own. Oh also we were in lady bugs!

Next was a train ride and we also did some bumper cars!

Then we got in line to ride something that went in the air. It looked fun until we got up close and TYler didn't like how high up it went. He chickened out and him and mommy left the line. Kayla wanted to stay and ride it so Daddy stayed with her. It was funny because Kayla was so small you couldn't see her so it just looked like Cody was a pathetic guy who wanted to ride kid rides by himself! haha Love you Honey

Next we got some lunch! Kayla liked her nacho cheese sauce a little too much!

We also saw Mr. Incredible walking around

After this Kevin and I snuck off to do a big kid ride together. We did California Scream. That was fun and since it had scream in the title we decided that SCREAM was what we would do. IN fact, we had a contest to see who could scream louder. If you ask Kevin he won. If you want my opinion, Kevin was too busy hyperventilating to here me scream and when I screamed I was MUCH louder then him!

The guy behind us looks THRILLED he got to ride with us doesn't he?!

At this point we headed to Disneyland to hit a few things and then head back to California Adventure for there water color show.

Daddy and Kevin took off for a ride again and Stacy and Mommy took the kids to do some kid things. We saw Mickey Mouse

Check it out kids! EVen Mickey Mouse recycles!!!

Then we saw Pluto

Then we played at Donald's house

Next Mommy and Kevin got choosen to make the LONG voyage back to the car to get everyone pants and sweaters. We were SOOOOO tired at this point that our whole bodies hurt. It was awesome. Here we are on the tram

And here we are "resting" on the escalators. We were the ONLY ones on here and so Kevin sat down. Then I sat down and then we both sighed. Then at the bottom of the escalators there walked up an old man who looked up, saw two grown ups totally exhausted sitting on the escalators and laughed his booty off at us. NICE

Here we are about to go back to California Adventure but FIRST on the way back inside of the park, Kevin and I got the grown ups Pretzels in Down Town Disney and they were amazing! They were pepperoni, cheese and jalapeno! MMMMMM

Oh yes, before we went into Disneyland we rented strollers. I am telling you my whole body hurt from carrying Kayla on my shoulders or with my arms. Tyler was exhausted too so we got two of them. Tyler BARELY fit! While walking around Kayla decided to give herself a tattoo with her new MInnie MOuse Pen we got her. NICE

Also, in my family we have this thing that happens to us when we get SUPER excited. We get delirious! Like totally out of control laughing for no reason until you cry or pee yourself. Kayla had this happen to her about now. She was laughing hysterically at Kevin making faces while stuffing her face with cheese popcorn. It was a lovely combination!

And now we were off to WAIT for the water show. We waited for ever. We had to be there about an hour and a half or so early to get good seats. Kevin swore up and down that where we were going to stand was the best spot and despite what the people at Disneyland were telling us we would NOT get wet....just misty.

Lies.

LIES.

We got soaked and Kayla did not like it. I had brought an extra shirt for Cody that was long sleeved and he decided not to wear it. She started freaking out about the water so we wrapped it around her. I would have taken a picture because it was so cute but it was dark and I didn't want my camera to get WET! :)

Anyways. While we waited I took some artsy pictures.

The cotton candy we bought Tyler had a flashing light in the stick. It was a hit with him and Kayla!

Here is a picture from the water show. Tyler pretty much LOVED it! I took a video clip of him dancing during it. One of these days maybe I'll even put it on here ( not likely though ) haha

On the way home from Disneyland we got some McDonald's, We were all starving. Kayla had fallen asleep but mommy figured when we got back to the hotel and got her out of her car seat she would wake up and want to eat. NO SUCH LUCK. She was out cold. We layed her down on the pull out couch in her clothes. I took her shoes and socks off and she didn't wake up until morning when at 8 AM I woke the kids up again so we could get breakfast. Did I mention it was midnight again when we turned the lights off at the hotel. YIKES.

She was in this exact same position when I woke her up! Well that concludes day two. The next was sure to be fun since they were opening up some new rides and it was a Friday. Oh the joy I felt when thinking of how tired and sore I was and how many people we would have to fight through. Oh goody!

Day One Disneyland

2011-06-10T09:25:00.001-05:00

I am going to do our Disneyland post as Day One, Day Two and Day Three. This will make it easier. I have a MILLION pictures so these post will be long. Hopefully when I am done with these I can finish up with our last Utah trip.

Disneyland Day One

Tyler didn't know we were going to Disneyland. He knew we were going to a hotel and that we were going to have FUN! We didn't get there until late the first day. Cody had to work and then we checked into the hotel and mommy realized I forgot to pack jeans for Tyler. It was cold in the evenings so pants were a MUST. We found a Walmart and had dinner and bought some pants. My kid is 5 years old and I bought him a size 8. They were too small but lucky for me he suffered through it. We met my friend Kevin at Disneyland. He took this picture of us waiting to go on the tram.

I love how it is clear by looking at this picture that Tyler is beside him self. Kayla, on the other hand, still has no clue whats going on. haha

Group shot of us on the tram ( as you will notice Kevin has his phone in his hand already posting the picture he took on facebook. I think he was on facebook ALLL night and ALL the next day posting pictures as he took them! )

Kayla looks THRILLED to be at Disneyland for the first time doesn't she?! Yup, she was STILL trying to figure out what the heck was going on. So we decided first things first. It's a Small World. While in line we noticed how gross this horses butt looked as a bush!

Not the best picture of me OR my three chins....moving on

Here's Tyler and Kevin

Daddy and Kayla ( starting to get it a little now )

I thought maybe I'd put myself in a few pictures. This next picture of Kayla is not the best but I love the look of wonder on her face.

Here is Kayla and Daddy buying cheese pop corn and Mickey MOuse shaped suckers. NOW we're talking.

And here's a picture Kevin took with his cell phone of Kayla enjoying her suckers. I LOVE this picture of her.

Now she was having a blast! Also notice the cute purse sitting on my lap. :)

Next we went to go check out Fantasmic...that freaked Tyler out so we left JUST in time to get a perfect spot for fire works! Tyler was on Cody's back and Kayla was on my shoulders. Holy cow does 30 pounds get heavy QUICK! I did manage to get a million pictures of the fire works.

On the way out of Disneyland we bought some Mickey Hats. Tyler wanted to find the PERFECT one so I was a little surprised he settled on the R2D2 one. He got mad when we called it that though and said it was a ROBOT hat! Silly us. Then we ran into Goofy

And then Donald

In which Donald proceeded to steal Kayla's Minnie ears and she just kinda stared at him. HAHA

Kevin with the gang in the parking garage. What a fun first day and we were only there about 4 hours, rode one ride, saw some fireworks and got us some Mickey and Minnie ears. We didn't get the kids to bed until midnight ( which I wanted to get them to bed by 10:30 or so silly momma ). Oh and one picture I forgot from Day One was taken with Kevin's cell phone in the parking garage before we even got to the park.

Clever if I do so say myself. Maybe when we move back to Texas I can get me an IIIIILOVEIT License plate! And this was day one...NEXT will be day two and if you thought this post had a lot fo pictures, JUST WAIT!

DISNEYLAND

2011-06-04T21:04:00.000-05:00

Tyler didn't know we were going to Disneyland! We surprised him. When we got a block or so away he noticed the street was called Disneyland Dr. So I started filming this. Heeheehee

Our Memorial Day

2011-06-04T15:14:00.000-05:00

We had a great memorial day! It was nice and relaxing. I had it in my head that I NEEDED to make me a new purse for our Disneyland trip. THEN, I realized I was out of interfacing. BOOOOOO Well, Joann's has a great sale on Memorial day ( or pretty much any holiday for that matter ) and I begged Cody to take me. Cody needed to be back early enough to start smoking! Yup, you heard me right. Cody was going to smoke for the very first time. His meat of choice was some brisket. He was VERY excited. We got up early, dressed us and the kids and headed out the door. Cody dropped me off at JoAnn's at around 9:05. It opened at 9 so I was worried because it was a sale it would be packed! No such thing. In fact, it was the least amount of people I had ever seen there.

While I shopped around, Cody took the kids to Target. We have been tired of the whining and begging for toys that goes on in our house every time Tyler see's something on TV he wants ( which is everything! ) We finally told him that he needed to earn some money and buy a toy by himself. Daddy made a deal with him that if he helped daddy take out the recycling every night ( into the garage and where it properly goes ) and then help him take it down to the recycling center once or twice a month, he could have HALF of the money. Tyler scored because we hadn't taken the recycling in 2 months so they went and got 44 dollars! Tyler got to have half. He was VERY anxious to get to target and buy a power rangers toy! While they were there Cody let Kayla pick something out. She picked out a Dora fishing game. But instead of fish it was pink, purple and white heart shaped diamonds. Thanks Dora. It was on sale and let me tell you it was on and running pretty much ALLLLL day. Here are some pictures of her playing her new game

She was lining them all up by color! She LOVES her game.

This is what mommy got at JoAnns.

I got 5 patterns, two things of elastic, a bow, a bunch of really pretty, sparkly buttons for my etsy shop, some fat quarters, some interfacing and a thing of parchment paper. My receipt said I spent 29 something and saved 96 bucks! Yeah, I scored too! mostly because the patterns were 5 for 5 and normally they were 15 or 16 bucks a piece. Also the buttons I bought were 50 percent off and some of them were ten bucks. Yikes!

On to Cody...

Overall the meat was super yummy! We were both happy with the results. Overall we all had a great day! The kids and I jumped on the trampoline and then they had popsicles.

It was a nice, relaxing day. Thank you for those who serve our country. Our know many who do so and I thank you for helping to keep safe and free!

I HATE IT!

2011-06-04T12:29:00.000-05:00

I REALLY hate being beinh on here. I am HOPING to get a post a day up for a next little bit. I never finished our Utah trip and now we went to Disneyland for 3 days! I took lots of pictures so we shall see if I can get all of that done. Something is going to have to get neglected but I am going to try REALLY hard to be sure it isn't THIS blog again! :) Until then stay tuned...

Randomness

2011-05-29T10:18:00.000-05:00

I have been trying to edit and shrink pictures so I can put up some more Utah post. I have been failing miserably at doing so. Last night I got a couple random pictures edited I wanted to post.

I love all of these pictures. They were all taken before we left for Utah. The first was here playing behind the couch. She loves the little space between there and the wall.

Second picture is her in her tutu I made her.

The third is here holding a balloon, wearing her Easter hat watching TV. I just thought she looked so cute!

Here are some Utah ones from our Utah trip a month ago NOT the Easter trip

I love these of her playing peek a boo because I have many pictures of Tyler at this same age playing peek a boo in this tree house.

And this is her eating her ring pop on the drive home. It was a LOOOOOONG drive home. We forgot about Sunday going home traffic from Las Vegas and out 5 hour drive took 8 or 9 hours.

And since there is no rhyme or reason to the pictures I am posting, here are some from just two days ago! Cody got a new grill and smoker. He is SUPER excited and quite frankly, so am I! There are a number of reasons but mailing because this changes things for our little family. It means outside more and that is always a good thing. Here is Cody using his grill for the first time.

It is monstrous!

Here is what Kayla had. She kept asking me for some red and I didn't get it. Then I realized she meant ketchup!

And this is what we had. Sorry the picture is blurry but it's pork chops and broccoli and cauliflower.

And her are some pictures of Kayla blowing bubbles while daddy grilled.

HOPEFULLY this week I will get some of the Utah pictures fixed. We are taking the end of the week off to take the kids to Disneyland. They don't even know yet. Tyler just knows we are going somewhere fun! :)

EASTER

2011-05-20T17:35:00.000-05:00

It started out in our house. I woke both of the kids up and they were very excited to see their Easter baskets.

Tyler had been wanting one of these spin fighters SO bad!

Kayla got some new umberwears ( as she calls them ) We haven't tried them out yet.

She also got a Dora hat and a microphone

We then packed up the car and headed for Utah. Daddy had to stay home but we talked to him on the phone every night before we went to bed. We got to Grandma and Grandpa's house in St. George and it was sunny and kinda hot out side. We had dinner and then the kids had an Easter egg hunt. The next ten or so pictures are from Kim's camera, not mine.

Bradlie May

Kayla

Tyler

"Look what I got!"

This was Scott and Tyler trying to get the eggs from Noah's pocket! Noah hid those eggs REALLY well!

Check out those baby blues!

Ender and Jacob after the egg hunt getting ready to die Easter eggs.

Here is where Scott knocked down mom's curtain and was trying ti fix it! I think this picture makes him look like a drunk! haha It's the crazy look in his eyes and the cup in his hand.

And now watching some movies on grandma's bed together as cousin

They were either fighting or laughing! haha

And this is from the next day right after we did our cousin picture that actually turned out really cute! This was day one of our trip....so hopefully one of these days I will get some more post up. Hope everyone else had a great Easter too! Ours was very nice. I forgot to mention that by the time we were about to do the easter egg hunt, it got really windy and cold out side. Then I realized I had forgotten to pack the kids tooth brushes and so I got my purse and headed out the door to go buy some. As soon as I set foot outside of the house it started sprinkling. By the time I hit the store it was raining pretty good. I ran into the store grabbed some stuff and talked to Cody on the phone for a minute. I got in line and as the lady was putting my groceries in a bag, I realized NO TOOTH BRUSHES! BOOOOOOO So I decided to put these groceries in the car and then come back in and get the tooth brushes. I look outside and it's POURING! DOH! By the time I ran to the car, ran back inside and then went out to the car again I was soaked. I guess that's what I get for spending money not only on a Sunday but on EASTER! :)

Catch Up

2011-05-16T16:52:00.000-05:00

Here are some pictures from a month or so ago that I never posted. Thought if I waited any longer they would never get posted for y'all to enjoy!

Here is Kayla sitting in her laundry basket watching TV. HAHA I think this is so funny.

This was Kayla crying because SHE wanted to use my camera and I told her no. She is a funny girl. VERY dramatic

This was taken about 30 seconds later and notice how she is no longer crying and now watching TV.

And here is my Tyler sporting the tie he asked me to make him. It turned out a little small which sucks because it toke forever to make.

Hopefully in a day or two I'll get some pictures up from our Utah trip. That's right, we had another one.

Easter pictures

2011-04-27T12:01:00.000-05:00

We took a new grandkids picture for my parents! The last one we took didn't come out. I don't remember if I posted it on here or not. Here's the new one

Serious picture

Funny picture ( I love how a silly face for little kids is to stick your tongue out )

This was our horrible one from Thanksgiving YIKES!

Here is Tyler and Noah. Tyler LOVES his cousin Noah

And her is Miss Kayla with her new Dora hat

I love her hat on her and lucky for me, she loves it too. :) She should since she picked it out. More pictures to come when I have some more time. And when I don't have plastic cups taped over my eyes. haha

Play Ground Fun

2011-04-26T10:40:00.000-05:00

When we go to Papa and Nana's house in Cedar City, Tyler always has to go across the street the the play ground. He loves that play ground. This last trip when we got there it was SO windy! Kayla was having a ball on the swings!

And back in St. George Tyler and grandma had fun reading together on the bed

Trying to catch up since we are IN Utah again and I never got all the pictures up from last time. Hopefully later on I can get some more up!

St. George Dirt

2011-04-14T01:32:00.000-05:00

What is it about red dirt that makes it more desirable? All of the kids when they get to grandma's house in St. George Utah want to rub their hands in the dirt. Kayla got outside and couldn't wait to run her hands in it. And her legs and whatever else she could.

She had a ball! Oh and by the way she STILL has red on her socks when I take them off of her feet from her shoes getting dirt in them and this was almost 2 weeks ago! Gotta love the red dirt!!!

A Quick Conversation

2011-04-12T15:37:00.000-05:00

I caught the glimps of a quick conversation that I am SO glad I didn't miss. Yesterday we were having an okay day. A little bit of yelling ( on my part and Tyler's ) but it was a fairly normal day. NOt too crazy and not to wonderful. The kids don't play together. Kayla constantly tries to play with Tyler and he yells at her, rips things out of her hands and tells he NO! It's very frustrating and annoying. I constantly have to tell him he is NOT in charge and he can NOT tell Kayla no. It goes in one ear and out the other.

Yesterday however, they were playing together! Not only were they playing together but they were having SO much fun! Kayla was chasing Tyler and he'd squeal and shriek and say "No don't get me" and she'd growl and laugh while she chased him all over the living room. It was so nice to hear and see. Immidately after this it was nap time. We brushed teeth and then were sitting on Tyler's bed reading a story. Kayla crawled on the bed with us and kissed TYler on the arm and said, "You're my best friend" It melted my heart because no one provoked it and she is only TWO! It amazed me that she even understood what she was saying and doing. Then I said, "Tyler did you hear that? Kayla said you are her best friend." To which he replied. "awwwww Thank you Kayla. I love you." Then he paused and said, "Now you say that you love me" and she said, "I love you too Tyty!" It totally melted my heart. Then Tyler went even further to say. "Mom, I don't even care if she plays with all of my toys now!" I guess it melted his heart too.

Too bad he didn't remember that today because I can't get him to give her a break! Oh well....it was good the whole 5 minutes it lasted and gave me a wonderful memory it keep with me always.

Crazy Kayla

2011-03-24T23:54:00.000-05:00

Kayla is my girl! I freaking love her. I took this picture of her last night drinking her baba before bed time on Daddy ( her favorite spot to drink her baba before bed! )

Makes me laugh every time! She is soooooooooooo much like her Aunt Kimmie it's SCARY! haha

Good Day

2011-03-24T10:06:00.000-05:00

We had a good day yesterday. The day before was awful. Glad yesterday was better. It was better partly because I TRIED more. I knew I did NOT want to yell and be impatient again. I am sure the kids didn't either. We got dressed and went to the play ground. We for SURE need to be getting way more vitamin D. Studies show that depression is HIGH in areas like NOrthern Utah where they don't see the sun for too many days in a row. Ours bodies NEED vitamin D to survive and thrive. The last couple of days we have gotten a little here and there and I truly think it makes all the difference.

OKay enough rambling. Here are some pictures from the play ground trip. Tyler decided to be my little model. WHich is odd. Usually he is too busy to stop and pose but this particular day he decided to play along. So glad he did.

I got a couple of Miss Kayla as well. Don't let the cute face fool you. She is s STINKER! BUt she is a CUTE stinker and believe me it helps a LOT! haha

I had one or two of them together but apparently I didn't save those ones yet! haha Oh well.

You know I have been thinking about how I used to update our blog daily and sometimes more then once a day! Now it's once MAYBE twice a week. The culprit? Well other then the fact that I have two kids now instead of one, we moved and have no lives! haha Seriously though. If I was still posting once or sometimes even twice a day I have NO IDEA what I would be blogging about! SERIOUSLY. Maybe showing you pictures about the mess Kayla made. She is a tornado or destruction! She can NOT stand to have the floor showing. Yesterday I was brushing my teeth in our bathroom so I was in there for 3 minutes TOPS and she brought me a bag of fake coins, opened them up, threw them all over my bathroom floor and then left. Grrrrrrrr

OKay I need to go for now but I will update when we ACTUALLY have stuff to update about.

Pretties

2011-03-11T01:09:00.000-06:00

Kayla has such pretty hair. She goes back and forth between liking to wear things in her hair to pulling them out two seconds after I put them in. For some reason this last week or so she has been bringing me her bag of hair things, other wise known as "pretties". One day last week she brought me Boots and Dora and said, "Pretties momma." She then handed me her bag of pretties and said, "PEEEEEASE" Those are the magic words. So mommy did what ANY mommy would do and put pretties in everyone's hair.

Later that day she brought me ALL of the things she put on her bed to sleep with. Kayla, Boots, Dora, Bolt, Buzz and all 4 snuggies. YUP! She sleeps with a lot of things. :)

Last week while Tyler and I were sick her and daddy were trying to entertain themselves. Kayla got out all of her pretties and her and daddy had some fun! Kayla even got daddy to wear one.

He pretended to cry when I took the picture but I think it just made it that much more funny! haha Here is Kayla with a BUNCH of them in her hair

And here is Kayla and Daddy together

Very pretty!

Grandma and Grandmapapa

2011-03-07T11:01:00.000-06:00

That is what Kayla calls me mom and dad. Grandma and grandmapapa. heehee It's cute. I meant to post this a while ago but you know how it goes. Honestly I thought I HAD posted them already. Kayla has discovered stickers! The night my parents came she was playing with them and found some new places to put on.

SOrry the pictures are blurry. I am still struggling with a setting on my camera for inside of the house after dark. I guess I need to give it up and just use my flash but I am being stubborn.

Tyler also found a place to put stickers on grandma. On her boobs RIGHT where you think he put them is exactly where he did. I will spare you those pictures for my moms sake! haha

It was fun having my parents here. They were here for the night and then half way through the next day. Then we went to Vegas to pick up my sister and her baby Jacob. My parents had to go visit my grandma for her birthday. I got lost in Vegas for EVER trying to find Hooters ( where I was meeting my sister and her husband for dinner ) Then we brought them back home. The next day we ate at Tommy's MMMMMMMM and my parents came that night and watched the kids with Kim so Cody and I could go out on a date. This was the day after Valentines day. That night we were all up late ( except the kids and Cody. ) I was working on a onesie for my nephew to take home with him and a couple of other things too. My sister went to bed with her baby and they were staying in Kayla's room. Kayla was in Tyler's room with him. At around midnight I was getting ready to crawl into bed and I hear Kayla start to throw up. AWESOME.

I run into TYler's room and she just keeps throwing up and throwing up. I drug her into the hallway and she threw up some more. My mom came over and was trying to help. Kayla's clean clothes were of course in her room where the baby was sleeping but I remembered I had washed some clothes earlier that day and hadn't put them away yet. SO we got her dressed and she was already half asleep again. I laid her down on the couch and told my dad I needed to go to the bathroom and to watch her for a minute. Well she heard Papa's voice and opened her eyes back up. By the time I was done in the bathroom she was wide awake again and it was 3 before I got to go to bed that night. My mom, dad and Kayla were all on the couch and I slept on the floor. It was so miserable. I got about 4 hours of sleep and it wasn't even good sleep because the floor hurt my back so bad. Cody woke up at 6 to go to work and was probably wondering what in the heck was going on. haha

It was fun having everyone visit. Check out my cute little nephew Jacob

he's a super good baby! Can't wait to get to see him again. Whenever that may be.

Right now Tyler and I are sick. It's been awful but lucky for me it was during Cody's four day weekend. Which was both annoying because it feels like we wasted his four day BUT at the same time, I REALLY needed him here a couple of those days because I was passed out on the couch. Yesterday we went to the urgent care instead of going to stake conference ( Cody said stake conference is a free day any ways hee hee ) Tyler got some antibiotics and some cough syrup and mommy got a Z pack....so far I am still feeling pretty crapy. Stuff better kick in soon because Cody had to go back to work today. I'm allllllll alone and the house is a MESS! Oh JOY

BUDDIES

2011-02-23T00:06:00.000-06:00

Kayla sat Woody and Buzz next to her on the couch to watch a movie with her. I HAD to get this picture. Isn't it cute?!

Grandma Papa Came to Play

2011-02-23T00:03:00.000-06:00

My mom and dad came to visit. Kayla and Tyler had so much fun.

I was going to post some more pictures but apparently I haven't shrunk them yet. SO I guess there are more to come in a day or two

STUCK

2011-02-16T17:43:00.000-06:00

When I am cooking in the kitchen Kayla likes to come in and try and get attention. She tries this in many different ways. My favorite is when she goes over to our cupboards and tells me "Oh no momma, I stuck!"

This particular day this wasn't enough I guess. She actually crawled up inside of the cupboard. Then she pretended to be asleep.

Then she tried coming out feet AND head first!

crazy little girl. She also likes to hide in her curtains

And just so this post isn't ALL about Kayla

That Tyler guy sure wears some interesting outfits around the house! This one is one of my person favorites from a couple of weeks ago

No pants on, underwear, big t-shirt, a tie and his helmet. HAHA Then there was this one from a few days ago...

His crab hat, no pants again and a t-shirt.

He sure can look handsome too though! Here he is with daddy sporting his new church outfit. He picked it out himself. And lastly....

What makes me kids so weird?! Seriously?!?! haha

Tired Daddy

2011-02-12T23:22:00.000-06:00

Yesterday Daddy got home late and was tired! Mommy had a migraine. I asked Daddy if I could take a shower because it usually helps me head. I got out of the shower and daddy was passed out on the couch. Kayla thought it was so fun that daddy was sleeping on the couch. She went to her room and got daddy all of her special sleeping stuff. Mommy was laughing. I HAD to take a picture. He is not super happy about that but look how cute he looks sleeping on the couch with his mouth open holding Kayla's snuggies! heehee

On a Roll

2011-02-11T12:23:00.000-06:00

That's right TWO post in one day. I go weeks with none and then hit you with two! This is actually just a quick post. We found a new play ground that my kids LOVED! It is only 3 or so blocks away and had lots for them to do and see. I didn't bring my camera and then I of course was kicking myself the whole time because I could have gotten so many amazing pictures. Oh well...that is what my cell phone is for right?! And so, that is what I did. My little red camera wasn't even in my purse because I had switched purses that sunday and didn't transfer it. Darn. These cell phone ones are pretty good so I am still happy.

Here is Kayla and Tyler both sporting their new spongebob wrist bands Aunt Stacie and Madison sent them ( they LOVED THEM! )

And here is Miss Kayla ( That's what I call her ) making faces at me behind this plastic bubble

NOtice there are no pictures of TYler except the one? Yeah that would be because he will stop to take a picture for Aunt Stacie but he won't stop to take pictures for mommy. SOmetimes I am so loved! haha

More of Kayla she stops SOMETIMES

She was killing me with the pig tails! She own't leave ANYTHING in her hair any more so I was thrilled to get some pictures of her with something in her hair. It's so cute when she leaves them in.

Kayla's birthday

2011-02-11T12:10:00.000-06:00

I hate posting birthday post without a new born picture but alas, our router isn't hooked up and thats where Kayla's new born pictures are. Just picture a REALLY fat faced dark hair baby. She was 9lbs 5oz when she was born and now she is just below 30! I'd give you an exact number but since we just moved we haven't found her a new doctor yet so she has yet to have her two year check up. We were lucky to have Papa and Nana come visit for her birthday and my dear friend Danny and his boy ( whom I hadn't met yet! ) So glad everyone could make it.

Kayla loves pizza so we had a pizza party complete with a pizza cake.

We also had pasta, salad and these yummy garlic cheese rolls I found a WONDERFUL recipe for! They are to die for.

I also made some Texas cookies since we miss it dearly!

Here is the birthday girl in her new Dora dress Danny got her

Kayla and Holten hit it off really well. They played in Kayla's room and hung out in the Toy Story tent and Danny and I arranged their marriage heehee Wouldn't they make beautiful kids?!

Tyler told Danny he was one of his buddies now. That's a pretty hard honor from Tyler. The only other people who hold that title is Cody, Papa and Grandpa!

I TRIED to get a picture of Kayla with Danny and one with Papa and Nana but it wasn't happening. I also tried desperately to get a picture with her myself....no such luck. What a punk! haha

Happy birthday Kayla! We love you and hope you had a wonderful day!

Cuddle Bug

2011-01-26T16:54:00.000-06:00

Kayla absolutely LOVES when Daddy gets home from work. The last week or so her and daddy have been playing on the bed together. Some times for 5 minutes and sometimes they are in the room for half an hour or so. She loves it. She is a very playful girl and she LOVES to cuddle. She has been loving her thumb lately too. She is also a little stinker. I call her that so much that she has started to call herself a stinker. She'll throw something and then when I look at her she'll say, "Stinker" She has decided she doesn't like to have her hair brushed any more OR her teeth. Momma's not having that. I consider certain things non-negotiable. Brushing teeth has to be done no matter if I have to pin her down on the ground while she kicks and screams and tries to get away ( which she just did at nap time. ) Brushing her hair is something I consider to be super important too. I am not gonna let it slide. The other day she got out of the bath and her hair was every where and super tangled. I had to wrap my legs around her to get her hair brushed. BOOOO Hopefully this too shall pass. She reaches are terrible two's officially on Saturday but I am pretty sure un-officially reached them months ago!

Bath Time

2011-01-26T16:34:00.000-06:00

We had fun in the bath tub the other night. Sometimes bath time is a horrib;e because Tyler wants the toys Kayla has and Kayla constantly tries to drink the bath water and steal Tyler's cup. Sometimes they play and have fun but usually they just get in each others way. Here are some photos

Notice in the one picture Kayla sucking the water off of her hands...

A Fun Day

2011-01-25T23:49:00.000-06:00

We ventured out and found the playground here. Let me explain something about where we live. We live in a golf course community. We pay a association fee ( well we actually don't pay it...it's in our rent ) and they have a club house and what not that you have to have ID cards to use. The same goes for the play grounds. NO JOKE. While we were playing a security guard came and asked me for my ID card and then wrote down my ID card number on a clip board. CRAZY but check out how pretty the park was

We had lots of fun. I was having fun taking pictures of Kayla so I have a LOT of her. Her hair was so red today and I was trying to capture that. She is a hard one to get pictures of but Tyler is worse lately. A couple of times lately he has said, "Mom, don't take pictures of me please."

Tyler

Check out Kayla's red hair in this one!

She LOVED the sand

She loved it so much that she decided to make sand angles...then Tyler joined her

Here are so cute ones I got of Kayla playing

I love the next couple ( she looks special haha )

AND I am so happy because I got some good pictures of Kayla and Tyler TOGETHER and they actually look like they like each other too! YIPPE

And I love at the bottom of the Beach Rules what it says

Heehee

Pictures?

2011-01-18T23:01:00.000-06:00

Yeah I still don't have pictures ready for the blog. BOOOOOO Things have been busy just doing stuff at home around the house and what not. Yesterday we had our first play date. It was nice for the kids to run around and play with someone. They thoroughly enjoyed it.

Here is the only picture I have for you guys tonight. It is RIGHT around the corner from us. I took the picture on our way home from church because the sunsets so freaking early here it is almost totally dark by the time we get home. We were really depressed when we found out that church didn't start until 1:30. It is gonna take some getting used to but I am happy to report that both kids went to Primary and nursery perfectly fine. It was wonderful. In fact, Tyler just before bed time asked us if it was gonna be Sunday again soon because he really liked Primary.

Hopefully I'll have more updates soon. My baby girl turns 2 soon....

NEVER Been Happier to Do Laundry

2011-01-12T17:44:00.000-06:00

We have been without the washer and dryer since the two days before we moved. YUP! It has been rough. I made Cody go to the laundry mat one time to do some sheets and towels. The plumber just left and I can now do laundry again! WOO HOO You have no idea how happy this makes me. :)

I also got some seriously unpacking and cleaning done yesterday. Which meant I felt comfortable enough to take some pictures. heehee It was so messy before that there was no way I was gonna post pictures of it. Now keep in mind come friday ( which can't get here quick enough ) we will have a table, chairs, couch and giant ottoman so more pictures will be taken and posted then.

This is our living room. WHY is it still turning my pictures side ways!?!?! Grrrrr

Any ways.....

here is Kayla's room. We don't have a bed for her yet so my parents let us borrow their toddler bed. Hopefully I can find a bed for Kayla in the next couple of weeks. :) She has a HUGE closet for it being such a average size room.

bad picture I know but it is almost impossible to get a good picture of a closet...

Tyler's room

here is the bathroom between Tyler and Kayla's room because we have TWO now! haha

And this is the front door. I took this picture so you could see the cute arches the lead to the hall way. Also I LOVE that it is tile right in front of the door and on the other side there is a COAT CLOSET! Never had one of those before but you have NO idea how happy that makes me. This means I have some where to put our shoes, my purses and the vacuum! Before they were always in the living room and it was so annoying. Sorry the pictures are all turned. I seriously think it is my dumb lap top because I spent the morning posting two new blogs on my photography blog from my MAC and it didn't turn one single picture. Booooo

And now, I am off to do a thousand loads of laundry and I am actually happy about it. :)

Opps!

2011-01-11T00:21:00.000-06:00

The first thing I was gonna blog about in my last post I forgot to do. We had a last play date with our good friends at a the pizza place we loved to go to ( you know the one I was angry with for a while! haha )

Check out the cute picture Sarah got of the kids before we parted ways

I LOVE that Colin and Tyler have the same look on their face! I also love that Julia is holding the purse I made her for her birthday last April. It was an old baby outfit of hers that Sarah gave me because she knew I could do something creative with it. So I turned it into a purse! I think it turned out really cute and I am glad Julia enjoys it still. We are gonna miss these play dates a LOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A Quickie

2011-01-11T00:16:00.000-06:00

I have NOT had time to blog and am still using the internet from my phone ( and we don't have ANY WHERE to sit other then the floor or our bed ) SOOOOO I haven't been able to blog. I have wanted to VERY badly but just haven't been able to swing it. The house is nice. We like it a lot and there were things about it that make me SO happy. Like all the storage space PLUS garage. EEEEEEEEEEE But let's go back a little to the days before the move...

This is Tyler crying by the front door telling us he was NOT moving...

This is Kayla and Tyler on the porch right before we got in my car to leave!

And here is what I got to stair at the WHOLE second day while driving

The third day there was LOTS of snow in the morning and it was really pretty. It nearly killed me to be driving because that meant I couldn't take pictures out of the window

And then we got to the house ( and I am mad because I forgot to take pictures of the house empty! )

We are here but have no furniture except our two ottomans.

Tyler and Kayla were SO happy because Grandma and Grandpa met us here and helped move us in and keep the kids entertained!

And Tyler is finding LOTS of awesome places to put his "guys"

We have a AWESOMELY HUGE couch with an equally HUGE ottoman, a table and chairs being delivered on Friday. we can't wait because I am so sick of standing!!! I also can't wait to take pictures of a couple of the rooms and post them. I am crossing my fingers that now we can get our dryer hooked up so I can do laundry and the internet. We got direct TV today the kids are ecstatic. No if only we could have clean clothes...

Birthday Party

2010-12-30T21:37:00.000-06:00

Tyler had his birthday party at chuck-e-cheese. I didn't get very good pictures because I was trying to talk to everyone and kind of make sure everything was going okay. However, my friend Sarah got great pictures and sent me some. So here are the pictures she took of our party! I feel SO bad because I forgot to take a group picture of everyone who came....and I call myself a photographer!

In case you are wondering what the heck is going on in the last two pictures, its called the ticket blaster. You go in there and they blow tickets all around you and you are supposed to grab the tickets in the air. Some of them are worth 50 tickets or 100 tickets for one slip of paper. Tyler was SOOOOO excited to do this. He also HATES loud noises. He gets in there, they start it up and it's so loud he didn't take his hands off of his ears the entire time. He came out kind of freaked out and had zero tickets. The lady who was in charge of his party went in and grabbed him some and he ended up with about 500 tickets. She was VERY nice!!!

I love the grumpy face one of Tyler and I Love the one of Kayla with his face pressed against the glass of the ticket blaster booth. She was intrigued! Thanks for the pictures Sarah!!!

Last

2010-12-29T23:21:00.001-06:00

We had fun last week when some friends of ours came over for a last play date with the trampoline before Daddy and Papa had to take it apart. We had fun jumping and playing in the leaves. LOTS of fun until Madison got leaves in her eyes and then about 5 minutes later got elbowed in the face and got a bloody nose. Booooo She is a tough girl though because 5 minutes later when the blood stopped flowing out of her nose she went right back on and jumped some more.

Last time at dance class

And we have been going to our local library for story time since Tyler was a little over a year old. This is Miss Cheryl and we are gonna miss her!

Today was our last day going to story time! We have LOTS more LAST I am afraid....

moving SUCKS!

Random

2010-12-29T00:05:00.000-06:00

A few random pictures from WAYYYY back that never got blogged about

The first....Kayla's bum

I thought this was HILARIOUS and I HAD to take a picture of her outfit taking a crawl up her bum...

This picture of Kayla was SOOOOO washed out but I fixed it the best I could just so I could post it because I love the look on her face

This is Tyler at his last dance class. He kept giving me a thumbs up and winking! :) He cracks me up!!!

This is Kayla with Santa. Heehee I LOVE IT! Is that sad that I love a picture of my baby freaking out? In the second picture she was saying, "Mommy!" haha

This was dried mud! Kayla kept saying "Chocolate momma!" She REALLLLLY thought it was chocolate.

I loved this picture I got of Kayla and Tyler when we were in Corpus Christi. I love that they are on the same foot and everything. I wish all those people aren't in the picture with them but oh well.

Tyler with his BIG GUNS

Kayla with her Papa back when we were still in Utah. She had him wrapped around her finger :)

Tooth Fairy

2010-12-28T08:38:00.000-06:00

Tyler lost his first tooth a little over a week ago. I was shocked. He JUST turned 5 people. Then Sunday night he lost another one. While Nana was here for Christmas she told him that when he loses another tooth she should sell his tooth to HER instead of the tooth fairy because she would have given him more. So we called up Nana Sunday night ( after much deliberation about WHO to sell his tooth too...) and she offered him 8 quarters. The tooth fairy only gives him 4! Well, my handsome little guy had watched American Pickers with us that afternoon after his nap and he came back at Nana with a counter offer. "TEN" I started laughing because I thought it was pretty funny of him to up her offer. She accepted and she gets a tooth. He gets 10 quarters. That's my boy!!!

TOOTH FAIRY

2010-12-19T21:24:00.000-06:00

My boy turned 5 just a couple of weeks ago. Now he has decided to do a bunch of growing up. Tonight he did a BIG thing. He lost his first tooth! There was a little blood involved so he started to panic slightly. Then he remembered he got a dollar form the tooth fairy and it made it ALL better!

These are cell phone pictures but they do the trick for now. Ain't he a cutie. The tooth right next to it is loose too! We'll see how much longer it takes for that one to pop out too. Man my little guy is growing up. It makes me happy and very sad all at the same time. :)

HAHAHAHAHA

2010-12-16T08:46:00.000-06:00

So just out of curiosity I decided to go to one of those sites that prints your blog for you to see how much it would be. I would HATE to lose my blog! It's my only diary for the last 3 or so years of my life and my families. Not to mention the kids baby books since I never really filled Tyler's out and poor Kayla didn't even get one bought for her. Any ways. I put in the first year ONLY. HAHAHAHAHA It was gonna cost me 118 dollars to print it. I guess that's actually not TOO bad considering just the table on contents took up like 4 or 5 pages! It reminds me of how much I have SLACKED off lately in the blogging. After we move and I have no life for a while, I plan on getting some things caught up and trying to be better at the blogging. We'll see how that goes. :) I COULD print the book in black and white with no pictures for just under 40 dollars but what's the fun in that?!

Birthdays

2010-12-09T08:19:00.000-06:00

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I have been meaning to write and guess what? I have been failing miserably. But I have good reasons. First we are back in Texas. Yeeehaw! BUT it isn't for too long because Cody gpt a new job and we are going to be moving in a couple of weeks to California. We are STRESSED and BUSY! But we have had TWO birthdays. Tyler turned 5 on December 1st. We had a Chuck-e-cheese party and it was lots of fun. Then Cody turned 29 yesterday. The night before we found his first gray hair...that didn't help! haha Cody is always depressed about getting older, I could careless. Who cares how old we are?!

Any ways. I have lots of pictures and stories to post and I think once we get settled down in California I will go posting crazy and try and get them all up. In the mean time I have a talk to write for church, a sunday school lesson to prepare, a yard sale to organize, a couple of photography sessions coming up to take and then edit and then that whole PACKING UP AND MOVING THING! Sheesh

Oh and don't forget Christmas. BOOOOOOO too much to do. I am hoping I live through it

Experimenting

2010-11-14T23:42:00.000-06:00

I think I may have figured out why blogger keeps turning my pictures....if what I think is right, I am SERIOUSLY ANNOYED by this. Let's see if I am right

Hmmmmm as I suspected, I think it is the size of my pictures that is screwing up the way it post them. Both of the pictures that posted up and down like they were supposed to were shrunk to one size, and the one that is side ways of Tyler with the pumpkin, was shrunk but was bigger then the other two. Must be screwing with the process. How annoying because I like shrinking them the size it doesn't like because then they are better quality if I wanted to print them out. I know this is all boring to you but I had to know....

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO blogger

Catching Up

2010-11-14T23:23:00.000-06:00

Do you ever get so behind in blogging that it seems easier to just start from what's happening now? Yeah, me too! I will go back a little and just do a quick over view of what we have been up to here in good old Utah!

Let's go back to when we first got here.

My dad was in the senior Olympics! WOO WOO I never got to see him compete because the first day I was driving Cody to Vegas and the next day I got there with the kids right after he finished. But we stayed and watch a relay race. There was this old chick ( Duh, everyone was OLD! ) who was SCARY! my dad said that the rumor was that she got suspended for a couple of years for steroids. Check out how scary she is ( oh and I saw her run and those boobs did NOT move at all! haha )

Then we had my sisters baby shower in Northern Utah. It was fun! I got to see people I hadn't seen in forever.

This is my brother Scott, My best friend Amy, ME and then Amanda ( Amy's sister )

This is a Shane girls picture starting from left, Lauren, Kim, Kristy, Mom and ME

This is Ender modeling what I think is pretty much the cutest onesie ever!

This is a picture of Jen, the birth mom and then Ender and Kim ( they are adopting for those who missed that and are wondering what the heck I am talking about. ) It was really sweet because Jen's Mom, Grandparents and 3 of her cousins came to the baby shower and had a blast. What a great support group she has!

The day after the shower they ahd me take pictures of the three of them and this one was my favorite. My sister printed it out in Black and White and they are framing it for the babies room! :)

Now what came next???

In no particular order we have...

A batman mask that everyone has enjoyed putting on!

Screwing around at walmart

A hat pattern my mom and I have been having SO much fun making for everyone! This is one I made for Kayla

Playing with grandma and grandpa

More fun at Walmart

Lots of sewing ( and "help" from Kayla )

Lots of gorgeous sunsets!

My sister and brother in law were good troopers and put on their wedding gear and let me take mock wedding pictures of them at the temple! haha It was fun and nice to have some wedding pictures for my portfolio

YOu know I was SO excited that it wasn't turning my pictures and for SOME reason it started turning them half way through my post....GRRRRRRRRRRR

So for now I HOPE to get another blog up tomorrow. We went to a farm and I took lots of pictures of that so I want to do a whole post about that and Halloween!

The Mother of the Year Award...

2010-10-22T09:51:00.000-05:00

Was given to me from my boy yesterday...well maybe it should be called Mother of the Hour! That is probably more fitting. And what great thing did I do to deserve this honor? I let him play in the rain puddles and splash in the mud. Then I let him take a bubble bath and all while he was supposed to be taking naps. He had so much fun and I of course took pictures. It was GORGEOUS outside. I love visiting here!!!

Why do I seem to be the ONLY one who can NOT get my pictures to turn the right way on blogger!!!!! I can NOT get them to stay the way they are suppose to. It is getting REALLY annoying. I can NOT figure out a way to fix them. If someone knows how, PLEASE let me know because I have tried everything.

Any ways. Tyler had a great time and I got to be a good mommy for the afternoon. Now we are off to go spend the weekend with Daddy in Barstow California! WOO HOO That means I get to eat at Tommy's and I can't freaking wait!

Family Night on the Trampoline

2010-10-10T23:09:00.000-05:00

The other day I baby sat for my sister so she could get her hair cut. after she was done her and Noah stayed and played for a while. The boys were having fun wrestling on the trampoline. I got my camera out and started taking pictures. Then Noah decided that it was FAMILY NIGHT on the trampoline and had everyone get on. I got these

Then Noah asked if HE could take some pictures...why not. He took these

The last one was what Noah called the "sisters" picture. We thought it looked more like the lesbian picture! I was sitting in between her legs too but that got cut out. ( gladly! ) Then I grabbed the camera back for this one

I asked Noah to take a picture of Kayla when she started balling and he told me NO! I will NOT take a picture of her crying. I said, "Hand it over, I will!" I guess I am just mean but check out how cute she is with her eyes all watery

I just realized I left out one of the pictures I let Tyler take. Don't worry, it was SO unattractive of my sister and I you don't want to see it any ways. I am, pretty sure even skinny people laying down on a trampoline with someone over them taking pictures makes them look fat! haha And the last picture of the night was this

Noah had been plotting and planning as soon as we all got on the trampoline to take this picture of ALL of us. He even took it himself with him super stretch long arms! It was a fun night and made us laugh looking at all the pictures on my lap top. Hopefully some of y'all got a kick out of them too.

Papa and Nana

2010-10-07T11:41:00.000-05:00

We left friday for our LONG drive to Utah and it wasn't so bad. The kids did MUCH better then I expected. They didn't really sleep in the car at all but they were being really good through out the LONG day of driving. The first night of driving Kayla had fallen asleep and then Cody hit a huge bumped and it woke her up. She was still half asleep and the Wonder Pets were on her DVD player at the time. She kind of looked up at it and they were just about to yell, "WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE" and Kayla, half asleep, lifted up her head and yelled "WEEEEEEEEEEEEEE". It was hilarious. This trip has turned her into a Nick Jr couch potato. :)

We got to Papa and Nana's house at about 1 in the morning. The kids were asleep and exhausted. Not to mention Cody and I were exhausted from all the driving. We all slept GREAT that night. The next day we got up and Papa made us all breakfast. Then we all showered and took baths and got ready to go for a drive to look at and take pictures of the yellow leaves. It was gorgeous! Check out my cute kids

I also got some classic pictures of Tyler pouting because he does so quiet a lot.

And here are a couple more of Kayla.

We took some family pictures too. It is funny to me how I can see myself in the mirror and think a shirt is flattering on me, and then SEE pictures of me in it and think, "Oh gross!" HA This was one of those moments.

Thanks to Mom and Dad for taking pictures of us for me. And here are a couple of the boys...

For some reason the photo uploader won't let me load any pictures that are up and down today....stupid blogger. SO I will post again later with all the up and down pictures and hope it works.

Any ways...we had fun and I took like 300 pictures of JUST the leaves. I will spare you and just post a couple and the rest over at my photography blog

It amazes me how blue the sky is here! Isn't it gorgeous.

Conference Weekend

2010-09-30T09:39:00.000-05:00

So what are YOU doing for conference weekend my Mormon peeps? WE are driving to UTAH! YEAH! So excited. Well....I am NOT excited to DRIVE there with two babies....BUT I AM excited to GET to Utah! Seriously, I can't wait. So I will not be needing these but thought I would pass it along to those who have kids who will be watching conference Go http://www.somewhatsimple.com/2010/03/general-conference-packets.html and print out the conference packet she made for kids to fill out and color during conference. It is really cute and I great way for kids to pay attention while coloring and having fun!

If you are in Utah, hopefully I will get to see you. I may also be making a California trip for those in that area too. Let me know if you want to see me and my rug rats.

Also so I don't forget to write this down on something other then face book, Tyler said something last week that about knocked the wind out of me. He wanted me to put something away for him. I had JUST sat down and it was NOT something that needed to be done right then and there. I told him I would do it when I get up again. He got mad and said, "Do it now mom." I looked over at him sitting on the couch looking all innocent and then he added, "Do it no mom, I command you!" He even pointed when he did it. My mouth literately drop open! He knew he was in big trouble and finally a couple of hours later I got him to tell me where he had heard that. It was from a show I never thought would be a problem. The Backyardigans. It was the Tale of the Mighty Knights episode and the king "commands" someone to do something. BOOOOOOOOOOO Man my boy is a feisty one.

Qick Trip

2010-09-26T16:34:00.000-05:00

Last weekend we made a quick trip to San Antonio for a graduation. One of Cody's cousins husband was
graduating from the Air Force boot camp so we went. Well,I use the term "We went" very loosely. Cody went to the graduation while me and the kids stayed at the hotel. heehee Which trust me, Cody probably got off as the easy one. I don't know what it is about my kids being in a hotel that makes them so unmanageable. The night before we got to the hotel at 9ish. It was probably 10:30 or so by the time we got the kids to bed. Cody and I had a hard time falling asleep. It was at LEAST midnight by the time I fell asleep and at 2 in the morning Kayla woke up SCREAMING! I think the pack-n-play is finally too small for her. I got her up and her and I went into the other bed ( our room had two beds and Tyler was sleeping on the pull out couch in the living room area. ) So her and I were in a bed by ourselves. She basically went right back to sleep ON MY ARM. Well she sleep solid for about an hour or so and then tossed a lot until about 4:30 when she decided she was gonna try and wake up even though she was exhausted. Mean while this whole time, I have been laying there trying to prevent her from falling off the bed and to keep my arms from falling asleep. Just before six she FINALLY started to settle back down and go to sleep when Cody's alarm went off. DOH! I struggled with her for 40 or so more minutes and about 7ish we both knocked out! Thank goodness. We sleep until 8:30 or so and then got up to find poor Tyler WIDE awake. I have no idea how long he had been awake for. So needless to say I didn't get much sleep. We got all dressed and Cody came and picked us up to take us to lunch around 12:30. We went to McDonald's and they didn't have any soda! WHAT?! They were serving ice tea and water bottles. BOOOOO I hate drinking water with food. When I am working out, I LOVE water but just not when I am eating. We played for a while and then we went to the River Walk where we found Tyler's happy place. That would be the Disney Store. Him and Kayla both were going nuts! This what Tyler picked out

WARNING: Toy Story 3 spoiler below
Tyler is in denial. He thinks Lotso is a good guy. He fell in love with Lotso before he saw the movie and when he came home from the movie he kept saying Lotso was a good guy. Daddy kept laughing and was telling me how he was actually the bad guy. We kept telling Tyler that it didn't matter how many times he said it, it wasn't going to make it true! haha So now he tells everyone that Lotso was a good guy at first, but then is a little bad at the end. haha He told Uncle Kurt ALL about Lotso and how he was a bad guy. Uncle Kurt was upset he ruined it for him so he ruined the 6th Sense for him....if you haven't seen the movie, skip to the next paragraph. BUt any ways, Uncle Kurt ruin the 6th Sense for Tyler and told him the Bruce Willis was a ghost. I don't think Tyler cared...haha I thought it was hysterical.

Any ways. He was IN LOVE with this little Lotso doll so Cody got it for him. Kayla ( thank goodness ) fell asleep in the stroller

I don't know why blogger turned the picture because it looks weird but any ways. She also got some new shoes and she is in LOVE with them. She keeps saying, "Wook, pridy new shoes"

After the Riverwalk we went to dinner with everyone and had a lot of fun. Then we went back to the hotel and hung out all evening and went to bed at a decent time. We sleep from 9:30 until 9 the next morning. My back was hurting me so bad the next day from laying down for that long. In fact, a little after 7 I didn't sleep much but stayed in bed because everyone else was still fast asleep.

On the way home, we stopped off in Round Rock and had lunch at Jimmy John's and then let the kids play on a play ground. Tyler actually made a friend with someone and shared his toys with him. For those who follow along with the McDonald's happy meal toys, Tyler had gotten two skate boards and he let this kid play with one while Tyler played with the other. It was SO nice to see as a parent. I took pictures, of course.

Here are some of Kayla with her pretty new shoes :)

And here are some of Tyler being silly with mommy before he made friends with the other kid.

I love the last one because it me it looks like Tyler is pointing the way to the GUN SHOW!

And I forgot one from us at the hotel messing around. I am SO proud of this picture because I was able to capture this moment ONLY because I learned how to get proper exposure with my pictures while NOT using my flash. Look how good this picture turned out because the flash didn't go off

And that in a nut shell, was our trip. Short but nice. Even with the lack of sleep. I wanted to write one more post but I promised Tyler the computer so maybe I will get one more in later on tonight.

Pregnancy photography

2010-09-19T20:11:00.000-05:00

SO my sister and her husband have been married for almost 7 years and have not been able to get pregnant. That got some great news recently when they found out they got picked by a birth mom to be parents. SO exciting for everyone and I can't imagine how exciting for her and her husband. Since meeting the birth mother they have become friends with her through the process and have decided to do some maternity pictures with each other. I get the pleasure og photographing them! YEAH! However, my sister and I are kind of stumped on ideas. So far we have ONE picture planned and that would be the typical hand forming the heart over the belly but it will be with one of my sisters hands, one of her husbands and obviously it will be over the bith mothers belly. I think it will be very sweet. Other then this idea we got a whole lot of nothing. Any one have any ideas? Just curious. I will be posting this on all three of my blogs so if you read more then one of them you obviously can ignores this on the other ones and only have to comment on one. But seriously ANY ideas would be nice, even if you think it might be dumb, you never know.

Thank you in advance! I get to take these pictures at the baby shower on the 16th in Northern Utah and I couldn 't be more excited! WOO HOO

Weird

2010-09-16T14:41:00.000-05:00

I titled all of these pictures "WEIRD" meaning, "My kids are weirdos and sit in WEIRD positions ALL day long!" I need to get a copy of some of the pictures my mom has of us sitting weird. She has a really funny one of my sister Kim and brother Scott watching TV together I will have to try and get a copy of. :)

here goes nothing...

He is looking at the TV upside down. When I went on the lower level in front of him to take a picture he moved so it is kind of hard to tell that this is weird but TRUST me, it was!

yeah, I got nothing for this one except to say why did he put his leg up on top of the chair? I guess he thought it was more comfortable that way

I don't know what is funnier about this picture? the fact that she is wearing a dress and spread eagle, that she is so cute in her pig tails, or that she has a piece of cheese in her hand just like her momma always does. It cracks me up that she always wants to be half in the kitchen and half in the living room. this chick certainly knows how to be in two places at once!

If her eyes weren't open you would swear she was dead. AGAIN, she has cheese in her hands, her shoes at still on and she already has her snuggy. Someone was a tired girl!

AND LASTLY maybe the WEIRDEST

I know this does not LOOK weird in the picture but she actually has her head sunk down inside of the couch between two cushions so her butt was facing up in the air and she still had her bottle in her mouth! HAHA MAN, I love that crazy girl. Even when she does things like THIS

or this

OR THIS

This particular day we had company over and she decided she was gonna take every thing that mommy had worked so hard at putting away the day before, and DUMP IT ALL OUT! ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL of it! I could have cried when I saw Tyler's room. She had literately dumped all of the toys out of his toy bins. It took me at least an hour or two to clean it all back up. It is a good thing she likes to do this

and sit so quietly to do this

she has also been REALLY into shutting doors! Good thing we were smart and took the door knob off of Tyler's room and didn't put one with a lock on her room! I got to sneak this picture of her reading and brushing her teeth ( which is also a favorite thing to do that she request on an hourly basis by saying, "Bob teeth!" because it is a Sponge Bob tooth brush! )

And now we are off for the weekend. Boy am I glad I FINALLY got some stuff posted. Now if only someone could come and clean my house, do my dishes and sew for me while I am gone that would be GREAT! Also if you could prepare my lesson for Sunday that covers ISSIAH! That would be even more fantastic. :)

Quality Time

2010-09-16T14:19:00.000-05:00

Look who started up dance class again

Which means Kayla gets a LITTLE quality time with momma now on Mondays. YEAH! We mostly go for walks in our little down town but so far it has been fun. Poor girl never gets mommy to herself.

Each time so far I have documented the occasion. I am not sure however where my first set of pictures went. I must of placed them in my "August" folder and have since moved onto "September" maybe someday I will get back to August so I can post them too!

Here is what our walk looks like

She takes off for the stop sign as soon as she is passed the door. Hoepfully it doesn't involve a stumble! she can NOT run without crashing. Her knees have the cuts to prove it!

Then the court house. Isn't our court house awesome?! I Love it! I have many pictures of it and I swear every Monday at walking time there is always big puffy clouds around it that just scream at me, "Take my picture!"

Then we reach the nail place where Kayla stops to give all of them high fives! "SLAP HANDS!"

This is where she sees the flower pots outside of a store and proceeds to say "Ohhhh Pretty" over and over again until mommy says, "No pick" because she tries to rip one off and then she just ignores me until I make her start walking again.

Oh my what do we have here? A feather! I won't post the picture of the dead bird hanging over it's bird nest a few feet away...don't want to scare any one. :) and then.....

....We head back! It is VERY exciting and we do this about 5 or 6 times depending on how crazy she is that day. Oh my how these walks make me happy though. Quality time with my girl.

Zoo Continued

2010-09-15T14:36:00.000-05:00

Okay so I promised mroe zoo pics and here they are! The above picture is obviously not the best of either Tyler and I BUT I decided to post it any ways because I feel like you can totally tell my face is skinnier! haha Okay so I am being vain but seriously....it's looking smaller.

So here is some boring animal shots first. The kids got a kick of the monkey's. They are so small and they just had a baby that was on the mommas back the whole time. They were SO cute!

Kayla kept making monkey noises for every animal. I guess she thinks they ALL make that noise. :) Then we had to take pictures with the cheetah! She had her hands up on the glass so we got to compare. It TOTALLY freaked Tyler out to put his hand on the glass for this picture

At this moment the cheetah was fast asleep. My friend Sarah and I were talking and she said the word sausage and the cheetah's head sprung up like she was ready to pounce! It was hilarious!

"Did someone say steak?" haha

Then we went and watch the orangutans ( sp?) and it had it's leg ALL the way up over it's head on the glass and was just standing there staring at us while he peed BUCKETS full of pee for at least 2 minutes straight. The kids thought this was hilarious as well. Colin kept saying "PEE PEE" I'll spare you THOSE pictures.

Then I got some good pictures of Kayla running around

and Tyler put on a show for me on the stage. The coolest light from the sun was streaming in through the clouds and it looked cool in the pictures.

His dance teacher would be SO proud! haha

And then they have this really slide where the otters are that is see through and goes through their water. It made for cool pictures ( Until Kayla tried to go down head first on her stomach, got stuck and Tyler had to help push her down by getting he arm caught underneath her and giving her some plastic burns on her forehead! haha )

After all of this we headed for McDonald's where we just did a drive through run and then off to the post office to send grandma some pictures and the wallet I had sewed her, and we went home EXHAUSTED! It is hard work walking around the zoo with two kids in the Texas heat!

PS You do NOT have to tell me how sad and pathetic Kayla's pig tails were. I know and I tried to fix them and after 3 times I gave up. She was so hot and kept rubbing her face and head so they would just go right back to being all messy again. They are kind of cute messy just not when one is up high and the only down low. heehee

Zoo

2010-09-14T21:45:00.001-05:00

My mom makes fun of me because she says I go to the zoo a lot. WELL, it's another zoo post guys but I have WAY cute pictures. :) I have been trying REALLY hard to figure out how to use my camera the right way. You know...actually taking my camera off of auto. ( shhhhhh don't tell anyone! ) The results today were half and half. Either really good lighting and a great picture, or too dark or way blurry. You win some, you loose some.

My kids being butterflies

trying to get a picture of the two of them together is impossible!!!

So I SWEAR every time I sit down and am excited to write a blog or post pictures or something along those lines my INTERNET OR BLOGGER FREAKS OUT! Booooooooooo I will finish this post tomorrow. Cross your fingers for me.

Are You Kidding ME?

2010-09-09T07:34:00.000-05:00

This is what I said to Tyler last night as I walked into the bathroom to get him out of the tub and saw that he had pooped a little in the bath tub! After having a particularly rough day with him due to a LOT Of whining on his part, it pouring rain out side the better part of the day and us needing to run around and get some errands done I was exhausted when we got home after 5. I was also not feeling well with a burning throat due to allergies.

He had had gas while playing and I said, "Do you need to go potty?" He assured me he didn't and it was just gas. He has NEVER pooped in the bath tub before. I told him if he did poop in the bath tub I was putting him straight to bed! I got Kayla out of the bath tun ( thank goodness! ) and was TRYING to put her diaper on as she continued to kicked me repeatedly ( she is having some private parts issues ) and I hear Tyler starts to yell "MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM". I yell back, "In a minute Tyler!" I didn't think anything of it. He does this 50 times day if he thinks I am not fast enough. He continue to yells for me and finally as I am walking through the kitchen I yell something back about I'm coming be PATIENT! I walk in the bath room and he says, "I had an accident"

"Are you kidding me Tyler!" You could tell me was upset. I told him to get out and sit on the potty. Basically his tummy was upset and when he was yelling for me he had to GO RIGHT THEN! I have told him a thousand plus times not to get out of the bat tub by himself and to WAIT for mommy. Well, he waited alright so I really couldn't be mad or punish him for my slowness. Grrrrrrrrrrrrr

I get him dressed and go into the living room to finish what I was doing. I had a photo shoot on Friday and the girl I did pictures for wanted me to put some up on my photography blog so she could see some. I was in the middle of doing this. Normally I don't do stuff like that in the middle of us taking a baths and what not but we had been without internet all day due to the rain and I had been trying to get the blog posted for almost 2 hours. I was about to hit "publish" and I notice that Kayla is gone and I could hear her making unfamiliar noises off in the distance. I thought to myself, "Oh no, I hope she isn't in side of the bath tub playing!" She LOVES the bath tub. She will crawl in that thing morning noon or night and just sit and play with her toys. She tries to get her alphabet letters to sticks even though they are not wet and has tons of fun knocking down all of mommy's shampoo and what not.

silly me finish doing what I am doing which took about TWO extra minutes ( oh by the way, Cody was doing homework while all of this was happening so he really couldn't be of any help! ) I get up and start to walk down the kitchen and into the hall way. Nope, she isn't in her room or Tyler's and that leaves the bathroom. I slowly turn my head in that direction and again exclaim, "Are you KIDDING me!" She had NOT found her way into the bat tub THANK GOODNESS since there was poop still in it but instead went straight for the toilet. Now you are probably picturing her with her arms in it or something but oh no! Not my girl. She is special so she figured out how to actually get INSIDE of the potty and was sitting in it! You should have seen her face when I caught her! I am sure she would say the same thing about mine if she could talk.

PRICELESS. If only my camera had been handy...

Girly Girl

2010-08-26T14:30:00.011-05:00

My girl hasn't been much of a girly girl. All of the sudden she has been getting more into girly things...especially if mom says, "OHHHH PREEETY!" She REALLY likes that. My friend asked me to make a tutu for her to give one of her friends daughters. I got out the one I made Kayla when she was a baby to look at it and she saw it and got all excited. I put it on over her PJ's and she was SO excited. Then I gave her some Peanut Butter on a spoon and she was LOVING life!

Kayla and I have been having fun with my camera! Too bad it is SO hard to get good pictures in my house because it is SO dark. We played on the bed. She is SO funny because she will lay down an pretend to be asleep by snoring. She doesn't actually close her eyes, just snores!

Can you believe all of that hair! I swear it grows an inch a week! She loves playing peek-a-boo too!

I love this picture and I so wish it wasn't so grainy!

Where is Tyler when all this is going on? Apparently he is trying on my shoes!

"Mom, do these shoes make my butt look big?"

"Nope Tyler! That huge pull up does!" He NEVER wears these shorts but I made him where them because our air conditioner was having issues and I didn't want him to get hot at night. HAHA

And now for the BEST sibling picture I could get of the two of them

Pathetic, I know. And I call myself a photographer!

One more dose of Kayla sucking her thumb looking so cute.

This is one of her favorite spots in the house!

What's for Dinner?

2010-08-25T15:01:00.002-05:00

Kayla

She is what's for dinner! Apparently

Scooter Love

2010-08-19T17:38:00.008-05:00

Tyler wanted skates REALLY bad. We were gonna get him the ones that slip on over your shoes as a starter. They are under 20 bucks. He had been begging me and one day I said, "We need to go to Walmart but how about we buy skates today!?" he was SO excited!! We get there and I read the box. They only go up to a size 12 and Tyler's latest shoes are a 13. DOH! Also, max weight was 45 pounds. Not a problem for most 4 year olds. However, I do not have a normal sized 4 year old. he had weighted himself the night before we went to bed. He was 54 pounds. SIGH

he was VERY sad we couldn't get the skates. Mommy and Daddy talked it over and decided to try a scooter. He had said he wanted one of those too but it took a little convincing. we went to Target and picked one out,. I didn't really want him doing it without a helmet. Cody didn't really want him doing it without pads. We got both. So basically 80 dollars later, he had a helmet, pads and a scooter. The skates were only 18. We got suckered!

We got home and he put all his equipment on and I asked to get a picture ( I don't know if y'all know this but I like to take the occasional picture ) So the flash goes off because are house is horribly dark and he blinked.

"Tyler you blinked can I get another one?" This time he blinks on purpose. For some reason he thought I WANTED him to blink. Sigh

But third times a charm right?
"Tyler can you PLEASE keep your eyes open?"

Oh how he mocks me with those HUGE open eyes. Oh well. And here is one with Kayla trying to climb on too and Daddy attaching the bell that came with the helmet

And one more of my little/big man about to go out on the street for the first time.

The the helmet has been really popular around here. And pretty much EVERY time one of the kids puts it on by themselves, it is back wards.

She is my cool girl!

PS Before posting this I was showing Tyler. Without saying ANYTHING about him having his eyes closed in the pictures he says, "I just think the flash is really bright!" haha OPPS

Corpus Christi

2010-08-14T22:03:00.005-05:00

I didn't think the beach in Corpus Christi was gonna be as awesome as it was. Technically, we didn't go to the beach at Corpus. We went to Padre Island and then drove to the National Shore Line and went to the beach there. It was SO pretty. Check out how gorgeous it was

These were all taking at the national shore line. The only down side to going there was all the jelly fish

Poor Tyler got stung by one! He wore a shirt the whole rest of the time we were there.

And you can't take anything with you. Tyler REALLY wanted to bring home this feather

and some shells

Other then that, it was REALLY nice. The water was warm and the waves were really small. It was perfect!

To Hold You Over

2010-08-11T23:07:00.003-05:00

Just a few pictures to hold you over because I just know you are all DYING to see our vacation pictures ;)

More clips

2010-08-10T14:32:00.002-05:00

More water clips

Vacation

2010-08-10T14:10:00.002-05:00

I took a couple of video clips while on vacation. This was Kayla's first time to the beach and she LOVED it! I mean absolutely loved it. She loved the sand, the water, the birds, the freedom...everything. Tyler loved it too until he got stung by a jelly fish! BOOOOOOOOOOOO I don't think he will watch the jelly fish episodes of Sponge Bob the same way ever again! Stupid jelly fish...

Any ways. Here are a couple of video clips of Kayla playing in the water until I can get the pictures all shrunk to put on here. I know video clips are annoying sometimes so I hope you will enjoy these. PS check out how red her hair is looking with all the sun

Just Like Aunt Kimmie

2010-08-03T19:30:00.004-05:00

When my sister was about Kayla's age she crawled up inside of something and hide from my mom. My poor mother looked for her for an hour or two and FINALLY found her. If I had the picture I would post it.

Today I glanced into Tyler's room to see what she was doing and found this

Just chilling reading a book in a REALLY cramped space. HAHA Silly girl. She smile for me once she realized I was taking pictures

Trouble with taking pictures of your kids doing naughty things is that now she keeps crawling up there. Grrrrrrrr.

Kinda hard to be mad at that face though! haha

One more

2010-07-30T22:07:00.002-05:00

I know this is my third post in one night ( CRAZY! ) but I HAD to share this. I was waiting for my friend a month or so ago outside of the restaurant we were gonna eat at and I looked back in the car and saw THIS

How freaking cute is that?!

NO!

2010-07-30T21:59:00.002-05:00

18 MONTHS

2010-07-30T21:19:00.005-05:00

My BABY girl turn 18 months old yesterday! BOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I can't believe how fast it went. I think it went even faster then Tyler's first 18 months. I decided to take some pictures to document how she is at this age.

That is not a phone. It is actually a flip video recorder. She thinks everything is a phone and holds it up to her ears and talks on it.

she LOVES her snuggies! She has 4 of them now and sleeps with all 4 of them ALL the time. Sometimes I will hear her crying in her room when she is awake and playing. I will go in to check on her and she will have her arm in her crib, yanking on one of her snuggies trying to get it out and it will be stuck. It makes me laugh every time.

I can't believe how long her hair is. I swear it grows an inch a month AT LEAST.

Kayla says NO a thousand times a day! I have a video clip of her reading to Madison and she says no every other word.

I was gonna upload the video clip but I can't seem to find it right now so onto video clip number two! About a month ago we realized Kayla could count all the way to TEN all by herself! In this video clip she loses focus a couple of times and needs help but I swear she can do it on her own.

Family Reunion ( from Tyler's point of view )

2010-07-27T08:18:00.008-05:00

On our family reunion everyone had cameras and were taking pictures. Even 9 year old Genna. Tyler felt left out and wanted to use mommy's camera. I told him he could use my little red camera I keep in my purse. He was thrilled. Good news was he got to take some pictures for a day or two. Bad news...I hadn't charged the battery so it died on day two and he was a very sad little boy. I was going through his pictures and they made me laugh. He is so random in his pictures and my favorite of all of them had to be this

LOVE IT! He got 3 butts in one shot! That's my kind of boy. He also did a couple of self portraits. Which cracks me up because I always did that when I was younger.

The second one is pretty epic if you ask me!

Then we got a half shot of Genna

Then he decided to take some of the scenery

I love how the first picture is of the guard rail. heehee

Now we got a half shot of me and some other people sitting around talking

And then one of Nana taking pictures of Kayla

And lastly, a lone chair...

another epic shot by the awesome Tyler! You rock Tyler

LIES, All Lies

2010-07-25T21:18:00.012-05:00

I know I said I was gonna start trying harder to post a LEAST once a week. In my defense I DID try and couple of times and blogger was giving me serious issues. Then, my in laws came and stayed almost a whole week with us and I didn't really blog much while they were here. We were busy shopping and having fun. I know Tyler had fun because he balled when they left. They took him and Madison to chuck-e-cheese, McDonald's and then the movies one day! Tyler slept great that night but woke up bright and early the next day ready for more "fun". I took Tyler, Madison and Kayla to story time at the library and then to get lunch with Aunt Stacie while the other grown ups painted and decorated Kurt's house. Holy cow were Tyler and Madison both cranky! Especially Tyler. He had two pretty big fits were I just wanted to take him out of the car and leave him on the side of the road....I didn't so don't worry. ;)

All in all, we have had some fun times recently. Today we went and picked Cody up from the air port. He was supposed to fly into Killeen which is an hour away and instead he missed his connecting flight and ended up going to Austin instead which is more of a 2 hour drive. Then we had lunch at Jimmy John's which is so wonderful and then over to Ross to buy some clothes. This is exciting for me to say...I lost enough weight that all of my shorts and Capri were too big and falling off of me! YEAH! I did not however, lose enough weight to go down a dress size! BOOOOOOOOOOOO So basically I had to find another pair of shorts/Capri that fit me right. I found ONE pair at Ross that fit. I am proud however to say there was one pair that was a size 14 that actually fit me. I could button them and everything they just looked retarded on me. haha I settled for the first pair I had tried on even though they had the retarded faded sections on the front and backs of the legs. I settled because they looked hot on me! haha

We got back on the road and headed for home and got stuck in HORRIBLE traffic. Like California, down town LA traffic. It was awful. Tyler was asking us every 5 minutes if we were there yet and Kayla was crying off and on until I gave her one of her phones and she talked on it for quite a while. Then we stopepd and had dinner at Chili's. MMMMMMMMMMMMM

Sorry this post is kind of random and boring but I AM posting. ON to some pictures...

This is Kayla hanging onto the fridge like she hasn't eaten in days. She does this two or three times a day too. It's pretty funny because she is usually crying too. There is a reason why we call her our little fatty!

Here is one of Kayla playing hide and seek

Tyler with my boots on ( very proud of himself for this by the way )

Tyler and Madison with their Primary teacher at her baby shower

After the baby shower on Saturday I took the opportunity to try and do a impromptu photo shoot with the kids out side of the church. I got some darling ones of Kayla

And some not so good ones of Tyler

And a really cute one of Madison

And last week before Papa and Nana came we went to the play ground AFTER dinner hoping it would have cooled off a little. Check out the red faces and you can see how "cool" it was at 7:30 pm

And lastly a very random one of Kayla with a hat on Aunt Kimmie bought for Tyler two years ago.

SORRY AUNT KIMMIE! Mommy is a dummy and accidently dried the hat even though she KNEW it wasn't supposed to be and kind of killed it. But as you can see Kayla demonstrating in the picture, it can still serve it's purpose...it just looks a little sad in person. OPPS!

And that is it for today. I have other stories and pictures from events from this month that I will TRY to get to before next month starts which is SOON. Can y'all believe it is almost AUGUST!?!?! Where did the summer go?

Ugh

2010-07-13T15:07:00.010-05:00

I am SO mad at myself for not keeping this blog up to date. SO ANNOYING! My biggest issue honestly is that I just don't put my pictures on my lap top and edit them right away like I used to. Then I go to write a blog and remember I didn't edit the pictures yet, so I surf craft blogs for now things to make instead. LAME! I am going to try a lot harder over the next couple of weeks to update this AT LEAST once a week. I remember back when I started this blog I would blog like...three times a day sometimes. Sheesh. That of course was before baby number two and I didn't sew yet. Need I say more?!

So we started out the month of July with another trip to Utah. I know right, since I didn't even get all my blogs written about our last trip in May to Utah. Now I have to catch up on both. Since the last trip is still recent in my memories I wanted to update with some pictures of all the fun cousins we got to hang out with while we were there. This was a Roundy Family Reunion up in Alton Utah. It is a SMALL town. I am not kidding. Check out the "STOP" sign from the stree corner there

Apparently some of the signs had to be changed to actual stop signs because they were on a state highway. I love it though. I actually had a picture in mind I wanted to take in front of this sign but we got busy and never made the time. Some day I will have to do it...

The drive up was SOOOOO pretty

This is just one of many pictrues I took out the window while Cody was driving. We got to see TONS of nieces. Poor Tyler was kind of in a sea of girls. Except for one boy who is barely old enough to walk...who is pretty darn handsome

This is Dash and this is only one of many cute pictures I got of him. Kayla and Dash were running around together for a while. Here is she adorable sister Amaya

I have more of her too I will post another day. Then there is the oldest Ella who was too quick for my camera. I haven't one through all 900 photos I took while I was there ( no seriously, I took that many! ) so I will post one of her later.

Then there is Ashlee

Ashlee is amazing and LOVED all her cousins. One of Ashlee's siblings got to come along who used to be glued to my hip when we first moved to Texas. She was only 3 and her and I were best buds!

Now she is 9 and all grown up...TINY but all grown up.

Elana

I am going to have to cut this short. Nap time is over AND Blogger is driving me crazy!!! It has been giving me a hard time lately. I hope tonight it will be nice so I can get some things updated! Happy Tuesday everyone.

Fathers Day

2010-06-21T07:28:00.004-05:00

Father's day is a day to celebrate the men in our lives who take care of us. The ones who provide for their families. We don't always have it easy with Cody traveling all the time but I know how much my husband loves us and wants us to be taking care of because he does it despite the fact it takes it's toll. We got daddy at a card at Walmart. I honestly wasn't even thinking, "Oh I need to get Cody a father's day card" but there I was standing in line and I looked to my right and there was a display of cards. I saw they had Simpson's ones whom my husband loves dearly. I pick one up and it was perfect, so I bought it. Check it out

I'm not a huge steak person but Cody loves it. I FINALLY started letting him buy it and cook it for the two of us for dinner a couple of months ago. Now that I started the South Beach diet we eat steak twice a week. Cody is having a good time with that! haha

Here is the picture we took before church which I must point out how awesome my kids look! Tyler's new outfit he has on ( which fit him absolutely perfect and looked awesome on him ) was only 7 dollars for ALL of it. It was originally 20 but Walmart had them on sale for 7. Sweet. Then Kayla has on a dress I happened upon at the thrift store for THREE BUCKS! It is in perfect condition. I was SO happy about it.

And this is a quick glance at how the rest of the day went

Both kids were all over him after nap time. Climbing on him, jumping on him and so forth...but I mean, what are dad's for right?!

Toy Story 3

2010-06-19T22:04:00.002-05:00

Tyler and daddy had a special day today just the two of them.

While Kayla and mommy went to a bridal shower, Tyler and daddy went to see Toy Story 3 in 3D and they had a ball. I am so happy for them. :)

A Girl and her Phone(s)

2010-06-17T22:08:00.005-05:00

My little girl is such a GIRL sometimes. Lately her favorite thing ( other then her boyfriend Buzz ) is PHONES! She has like, 5 or 6 of them. Check out this picture I got of her using two at the same time.

She has been talkative girl too. She has been jibber jabbering ALL day lately. It's so funny. I need to try and get it on tape because it is so funny.

So Tyler had to draw a picture of his family at church. We were supposed to be doing something fun and so he drew a picture of us playing skee ball at Chuck-e-cheese. That was not the funny thing about this drawing though. Check it out yourself

One guess which one is ME?!

Yup, that one is me...I am just relieved her didn't draw nipples! haha

Oh and check out the pictures I have gotten lately of my kids sitting on the couch together.

Man they drive me crazy sometimes but they sure are cute!!!

Kayla and Buzz; A Love Story

2010-06-16T07:28:00.007-05:00

Once there was a girl named Kayla who fell in love with a strong and handsome boy named Buzz. She loved him so much. He would go any where she wanted him to and would do anything she made him do! :)

"Oh Buzz" Shed say. "No one holds me like you do!"

"Back off ladies, he is ALL MINE!" Kayla tells us

"Buzz, you give the best kisses. You are such a gentlemen!"

"Oh Buzz, that tickles!"

"You are my hero Buzz and I won't ever let you go..."

And they lived happily ever after. THE END

Family Night

2010-06-16T07:17:00.005-05:00

Monday was family night. Mommy made spaghetti which was a nice change from the chicken and steak we have been eating because of the south beach diet. I FINALLY got to start adding back in carbs as long as they were whole grains. So we had wheat pasta noodles and wheat garlic bread and it was delicious! What is it about kids and eating spaghetti that is so darn cute?

Kayla reminds me SO much of her cousin Genna and I have pictures of Genna eating spaghetti with it all over her face so these make me smile extra big because of that! Then Tyler wanted in on the action. "Take my picture too mom!" SO I told him to say cheese and he had just shoved about 4 fruit snacks in his mouth at once. silly boy.

Then we played a game together but instead of using the pieces that came with the game, Tyler wanted us to all be Toy Story characters. ( Imagine that! ) So I was Jessie because she is the girl but her head had popped off! haha Looked very funny me using a game piece with a missing head.

Family night was fun! AND we managed to get along just fine WITHOUT eating ice cream. ( Tyler thinks going and getting ice cream IS family night! )

Daddy Love

2010-06-12T22:22:00.005-05:00

My kids LOVE when daddy is home!

This is Kayla trying to poke Daddy's eyes out with her Apple Jacks and Tyler tickling him.

And this is them later that afternoon sitting on the couch together watching BOLT. They are such cutie pies!!