Not alot has been going on at this Leavitt home. It is to hot to leave the house, so when we do leave, it is before 9 in the morning or after 7 at night.
To entertain children during the summer months here, you have to have TV, movies and alot of patience, I for one, am running thin on the patience.

When Kyle is home with us life goes alot smoother and when he sees that look in my eyes he will take over with the kids for fear of all of their lives!

I have been almost 4 weeks sober,
it has been a very hard 4 weeks but i am feeling better "stomach wise" and maybe with stopping Pepsi I will loose some weight.
Pepsi just doesn't taste the same to me when it gets hot outside, and my stomach needs some major changes, so hopefully it will help a little!

We move out of our house in August, it is a happy/sad thing for us. We just have to keep telling ourselves that it will be the best thing for us in the long run.
I have slowly been packing things up so it wont be as bad, but holy cow you sure do collect alot of junk in 5 years!

Kyle has been planting a few things down at his mom and dads.
He got some pumpkins in the ground, but every time one comes up the Quail eat it. He built some "cages" for them and the Quail still got them.
I was really hoping for a ton of pumpkins cause I have alot of cute ideas pinned so hopefully Kyle can figure out a way to make them grow!

We have been fishing alot lately. The last time we went out to the reservoir there was a flock of geese. We thought they would fly away as soon as we got close, but they decided to come over to us and see what we were doing.

Addison was all excited about them, she went into the water to swim with them and got hissed at! I didnt know geese hissed but they do! They started to swim away and Addison was right behind them, she is a really great swimmer!

Kyle is really into fishing right now, so we spend at least a few hours a weekend down at the reservoir. I am kinda sick of fishing so i took pictures the last time we went! 

I have been sad this week, between the passing of a young mom and her young son, the shooting in Colorado, and a baby being thrown in a dumpster, I just cant turn on the news. We live in such a horrible world that it makes me scared to raise children in it.
It also makes me grateful i grew up in such a sheltered loving community and I hope my kids will grow up feeling the same way, sheltered and loved!

About everyday I think about deleting facebook. People who i like in real life become idiots. People who i already dont like much become unbearable! The same goes with blogs, come on people we all know that like is not perfect, why do you pretend that it is?
I hope people dont feel like that about my blog, you just read it to make fun of me or to see what ridiculous thing i have to say for attention. Anyways that is all i have to say about that for fear i might start naming names!

Grace has been for realz trying my patience, wow it really stinks when your kids get a mind of their own I dont like it.

Who knew kids were so hard!?!

Well I have wasted as much time as i can and now have to get something done!

Randomness from the Leavitt home

No one in this house listens to me. I blame it on me not feeling well since my gallbladder came out. I could scream and yell or be so nice but it is like the girls tune me out. It is becoming super frustrating.
Grace has been doing things that she knows she shouldnt be doing and so today "mean mom" came back and they have all been in time out alot today. 

Hopefully they start listening to me again, or i might go crazy-(er)!

The other night at dinner Addison goes running away to her room, I didnt think much about it. Then all the sudden she comes running back down to the kitchen and is naked as a jay bird singing, "I'm naked and I know it".
Have you ever seen the M&M commercial where the red M&M takes his shell off cause the brown M&M looks naked, ya thats where it came from!

I have been learning alot from this photography class I am taking, but I need models for upcoming pictures assignments I have to take. My children are not the best models for me for some reason. Every time I see some great light Grace says it hurt her eyes and I get that look from her. And the twins have to be bribed in candy to hold still. So any one out there who wants to be my model let me know!

We got some life jackets awhile back, I can honestly say one of the best investments ever. When we go fishing they just swim around out there, when we go to my moms to swim they just swim like fish, It takes so much worry and stress off me that I just really LOVE them.

 

Fishing

My mom took the girls for the night, so we woke up kinda early and went fishing!

I dont fish much anymore, even though I love it, really it is one of my favorite things to do. I thought i stopped fishing cause when the girls are around I worry about them getting in the water, stepping on something, wondering away, I just worry, alot.

But then we didnt have the girls and I fished with Kyle and I remembered the real reason I stopped fishing is cause I am so much better at it then Kyle.

Ok, that might no be the real reason, but I did catch 7 fish and Kyle caught 1!!!
We had fun!

Graces friend party

Since we were in Marysvale for the week of Graces real Birthday, I decided to throw her a friend party this year. Plus all the family seemed to be gone!

She decided that she wanted a water party. She wanted a cake that looked like water, had a sprinkler on it, sand on the top, and flip flops in the sand. So this is what she got...

We decided to just play with squirt guns, the swimming pool, and the sprinkler.

For some reason the girls were shooting at me with the squirt guns. I yelled, "lets get Kyle" and well they got him!

He was just sopping wet head to toe. He told me he was to nice at this party and he will not be joining us on any future friend parties. He also said it took all he had to not shoot one of them in the eye!!!!

They ran around for about an hour out there, then they decided to come in.
I got asked what craft we would be doing.
I had to say, "ummmm no crafts at this party!" Are you suppose to do crafts at birthday party's and i just didnt know this?!?!

I did have a chocolate fountain that was a big hit and i think it made up for no craft!

These girls dipped everything and double dipped it again and again!

After all the chocolate they could handle, they dressed up and danced around to music while Grace took some pictures and videos. At one point she says " Hey guys, dance really good, then we can put it on the blog"!!

When it was time for presents, this little girls yells, "I bet no one can tell what mine is!"

Grace had alot of fun,
Kyle decided for sure this would be the one and only party he would be attending,
i cried for the future teenagers at my home,
and we all ate chocolate and cake till we were sick!
It was a good day!!!

PS... look for a post with Grace pictures, she is watching me write this blog and is pretty upset none of her pictures made it on here! 

Grace, the photographer/videographer

These are some pictures through Graces eyes....

Every time I get my camera out she is by my side and now wants a camera like mine so she can move things.
Shes nuts! 

I told Kyle, when she is a famous photographer, we can look back and say it all happened on her 6th birthday.

This is a weed in the grass, when she is showing me all her pictures, she says " And this is Dads first flower in his grass!" Kyle was sad his grass has a weed in it and went and dug it up ASAP.

We are not at all sick of having a camera in our faces all the time, now I know how my kids feel!! 

The day after her birthday and new batteries and a fresh memory card, I got into the shower. While having a shampooed head and enjoying my quiet time, Grace comes busting in with the video on asking how to shut it off.
I didnt want to beat her at all.
We had a nice little talk about how when I am naked in the shower, or have a towel on she does not come around with the camera!! 

She didnt know that the video had sound till I told her. So as she is walking away from me she gave the camera a tour of the house, outside, all the vehicles and lots of shots of herself!
 

Her birthday was on Sunday, today is Wednesday, we have went through 3 sets of batterys, and i had to change the size of her pictures so now her memory card holds 1000 pictures, we are about 600 in!! 

This picture of dog food is even funnier when you watch the video i found! The camera is a good babysitter!!! 

Grace turns 6

So my baby is 6, where does time go?

This year we decided to do a friend party and so Grace didnt get a cake till her party.

The next best thing to cake is a panCAKE, right?!

We stuck her candles in there and sang her happy birthday. She thought it was pretty cool.

While she was in the shower I got her present out and sat it on the table.

Pretty much as soon as she walked out she seen it and started asking if she could open it.

Once everyone got their hair brushed and clothes on, (or just not bare butts) we let her open it up.

She really has wanted a camera for awhile so I found a kid friendly one at a good price and decided to just go for it!

She was pretty excited to open it and see a pink camera and a cute purse to keep it in.

She filled the memory card up and ran the battery's dead before we even made it to scoop for ice cream.

We had a camera in our face all day and she is now a professional movie maker and photographer, just ask her!

I asked her what she wanted for dinner and for a dessert, her response... BBQ chicken, my favorite noodles, (pasta sides) and scoop for ice cream.
When we got to scoop she asked for a cone with a scoop of cake batter and a scoop of bubble gum!

When she went to bed she said "today was the best mom, thanks". It really made me tear up, she is such a great girl!
And Kyle even agreed that if the camera broke the next day it still would have been the best present ever, she for real didnt put it down at all!!!