life

I love the rain, so when we woke up to rain this morning I was happy! It was that or a little sugar high from my iced coffee that I think I am addicted to after being at Jerricas!

Either way we went out side to enjoy the cooler weather and to turn on my camera and really used it for the first time in awhile. 

We did a practice run today for Grace cause she starts school on Monday, (I am jumping for joy) She wont get on the bus till 8:15ish and school is alot closer so I can take her if we are running late.
I am trying to see all the positives in moving from our home, being close to the school is one of them!

Another positive is I can get to mesquite in 24 minutes!! That is only about 10 more minutes than running down to Overton to Linns.

 Kyle found out that it was not the quail or bunnys eating his pumpkins, it was ants!! I think down here they have every species of ant, but no worries Kyle and I are killing them off slowly but surly! Anyone out there have any great ideas or secrets on how to get rid of these buggers??

I have felt kinda lost here at Nancys house, I havent really been here long cause of my little vacation to see Jerr, Joey, and the kids, but i am trying to stay busy and get into a routine. I do better with a nice predictable routine,( can you say control freak )!!! But I have found that I enjoy painting my nails, even though they look like Grace did them.
Also I have been hulu and netflixing, ya those are words. I have started watching Parenthood, it is like real life, I love it!
I also clean and organize, i still have alot to do, but it is nice to feel useful! Nancy has these little cubby holes that hold so much junk, really those cubbys are the only reason all of our stuff has fit upstairs! But they need some for real help, I just have thrown stuff in there to get it out of my sight. Next week when Grace is in school all day (Yahooooo) I will be doing those!

Am I the only one that is going to pee my pants with excitement that school is starting?!
Grace has gotten quiet the attitude problem lately, I feel overwhelmed and crazy when she gets like that. I didnt think that kids were suppose to get these little mood swing, attitude, think they are so smart and you are so not, meanness, issues till they were teenagers. I am afraid that it has started about 6 years early at this house.

Graces attitude makes me really scared for Alaynna to get older, she already is my emotional, whinny, soft hearted child. I really thought kids were suppose to get easier as they got older!

I think it will take awhile, but life here at the Leavitt place is good. We are just trying to get use to change still but hopefully life gets back to "normal" when school starts and I can feel less crazy, scatterbrained, and maybe have a little less ADD and anxiety.

I guess now i better go get something done, or maybe just watch another episode of Parenthood! 

P.S.
Since being here in our new home, I am trying to be better with meal planning, can anyone give me some tips?

I have to get use to Linns being like a car ride away instead of just across the street.
I would love a calendar type thing to keep track, anyone do this and been successful?! If you have is it easier to do it weekly or monthly?! 

Through Graces Eyes -Trip to Jerricas-

These are Graces pictures from our trip!

Going to see Jerrica

Since Jerrica had the boys, I have really been wanting to get down there to see everyone. I was trying to wait till things calmed down for them, but then finally decided that we were going and told Jerrica to be ready for us!

I woke up early and got ready then woke the girls up and threw them in the car. The trip there was pretty good, we only had a few fights and only had to pee on the side of the road once!
I also, may have smuggled my apples over the boarder!

We were all so excited to get there and see everyone the girls jumped out of the car and ran to see Khole, Joey, and Hudson, Jerrica and Owen were at the hospital.

Joey let me babysit while he traded Jerrica shifts with Owen. After Jerrica got home we ordered enough pizza for a week then ate it all! It was so nice to spend sometime with Jerrica, I miss my sisters and wish we lived alot closer.

Tuesday we woke up to the fox on the neighbors roof, we all thought it was really cool and Grace and I took pictures all morning!
After getting ready we went over to the hospital to see Owen. None of the girls really liked sitting or holding still so Joey and I took all 5 kids down to Mcdonalds. We got alot of compliments on our 5 kids under 6, really you should have seen the stairs and heard the comments!
We just hung out all night letting the girls run from one end of the house to the other for the rest of the night!

Wednesday Joey had to work and then spent the day with Jerr and Owen and I was in charge of all 5 kids by myself!!!
I was on a roll, had the house clean all the kids clean, hair done, and dresses. I thought "i am going to get in the shower, I have this!" Then I got naked, turned the water on, put my foot in and slipped and thought I was going to die in the shower while 5 kids ran wild!
But i stopped being a baby and got up.
As soon as i got up Grace starts freaking out cause someone was knocking! So I got out, got my towel on, and went and opened the door for my dad. I guess thats what I get for locking up everything!
We just hung out at the house all day. The girls had alot of fun and I cuddled with Hudson all day, it did not help my baby hungriness even alittle, I can still smell baby!!!!
When Joey and Jerr got home we had Mexican and I went for a ride for a pepsi, 5 kids is alot of kids!

Thursday we got up early so that Jerr, Hudson, and I could go to the hospital to see Owen. Joey got to take care of the 4 girls, he took them to the park, fed them lunch and wore them out! When we got back home they were all pretty much asleep, even Joey!

The trip home was busy, stop and go till Victorville, and then it was still busy after that. I have decided that when you register your car in California, they take the cruise control out of your car. This trip reminded me why I dont carry a gun.

I wish thing would have been a little different, but we still had a great time and tried to help as much as we could. We cant wait to get back down there when stuff calms down for them!

 I didnt get alot of pictures, but be looking for graces pictures, she seems to always have the camera out in your face!

weve moved.

After being in limbo land for a few months with our house, we have moved. We surely didnt get the outcome that we had hoped for but we do know that this was the right choice for our family. 

So you are probably wondering where we moved to. We have moved to the other end of the valley with Nancy and Penn. 

We have been here for less than a week but as of right now we dont think it is going to be to bad, not to bad at all. We are lucky enough to be able to move in with family and so we can save a little money. We sure do appreciate Nancy letting us come and crash her house, hopefully with me cleaning and cooking and kyle keeping up the outside she wont get to sick of us to fast! 

I really am going to miss our home, the day we moved stuff out i cried, i cried for the next day and if i think about it to long i still cry. 

When we moved our bed there was red marker all over the wall, that is when i lost it. When I was HUGE pregnant with the twins Grace decided to crawl under my bed and write all over my brand new mattress and all over the wall. I was to huge to fit under it and clean it so i got what i could and then forgot about it till i seen it. It seemed like after that everywhere i would look there were memories.

This home is where...

• All three of the girls took their first steps
• We brought the twins home
• Kyle and I's many many water fights
• Where i made lots of great friends who just so happened to be neighbors
• 5 Christmas's, Easters, Thanksgivings all happened
• Countless working hours on the inside and especially the outside
• Wonderful gardens were grown
• 3 great kids grew like weeds
• Countless games of hiding go seek were played
• Countless books were read
• Countless kisses were given
• 5 years of wonderful memories were made

I have to keep telling myself it is just a house and this will be better for us in the end.

I am in a little of a funk so if you dont hear from me  or see many blogs for awhile i am just trying to pull myself out of "this".
On a side not the heat is not helping this little "mood" that i am in at all.

fish lake

We had so much fun last time we went to fish lake we decided we should go again. This time we didnt check the weather like we should have.

We stopped in Richfield for some worms and lunch, I think Sandys is one of my favorite places to go! 

It is where I stop and get a vanilla pepsi, i quit till i go there or cedar! 

It rained a little on the way up there and we thought it would just blow over.

We got out at our normal spot and the lake had dropped a little so there was a lot of moss and seaweed and nastys that kept getting caught on the poles and there were no fish biting. So we left that place and went to find a new spot! 

We went up by all the cabins and hiked down a little hill to get to the water with all of the fishing crap.

Kyle got the poles in the water and they started getting bites. It is always fun for the girls to catch some little fish, the girls really love to touch fish lately so they fight over who gets to throw the fish back.

We had caught 5 or 6 fish then Kyle turned around to look at the sky since the lighting had not stopped and he said " get the poles out of the water and lets go." So that is what i did, i started up the hill with the girls while kyle got the rest of the stuff and came behind us. 

As soon as we got up to the car and cabins it was a downpour! We made it inside just in time and got some popcorn and watched the rain fall. 

After our popcorn was gone we loaded back up and went on our way! 

On our way home we seen a bald eagle and so Grace and I took some pictures. 

It rained alot for the rest of the weekend and it was wonderful, we all love the rain. We just sat around the trailer and didnt do a lot all weekend, it was really nice.