Birthday partys!

The girls love rolled up pancakes, but they are a pain to make, so when its a birthday we eat them for breakfast! Grace ate 4 of them for breakfast on her big day!

Jakell brought over Tiffany's for lunch, its Graces favorite spot to eat here in the valley!

Then Grandma Merri and Steve came over and we made homemade pizza and breadsicks for dinner. and played outside with the cousins!
Grace decided she didnt want a cake, she wanted to make brownie sundays and a mess!!
She got a kayak, life jacket, heelys, cool books, and clothes.
Her favorite thing was the Kayak and the Daring Book for Girls.
She had alot of fun bossing all the kids around!

For Graces friend party, we rented a bounce house water slide and had lots of screaming 9 year old girls over!
They came over and set it up at 9 in the morning and the girls didn't get off it till it was a muddy nasty mess back there at 6 o'clock!

They played on the water slide, in the pool, and the slip and slide.
We had a pinata, a singing competition, and made ice cream sundays.
It was so much fun having them all over running around.
Grace had a great time!

Grace is 9!

To the one who made me a mom-
Grace, you are 9, when did that happen?

You are turning into such a smart, loving, independent, strong, beautiful, young lady.
I love to listen to your long pointless stories.
I love how you want to be in charge and I hope you carry that through your life because you are a great leader.
I love how you take care of your sisters and all your little nieces and nephews. They look up to you and you are a great example to them.
I love how you help me with everything, I would be lost without you around.
I love your imagination and how creative you are.

You make me so proud.
I love you more than you'll ever know and I know you are going to do great things in life.

Some of Graces favorite things...

Color- Black Grey White and Silver

Food- Italian Sausages or Homemade Pizza

Desert- Brownies 

Drink- Sprite with Cranberry Juice 

Hobby- Drawing

Animal- Cheetah 

If you could visit anywhere it would be the Amazon.

When you grow up...

You want to be a Chef and a Mom.
You want to have 2 or 3 kids.
You want to live in somewhere close to Mom and Dad, but not like on the same street!

The messy party

This year the twins got a friend party! They were so excited.
We decided to do a messy swimming party!
The day of the party it was cold, so we just did the messy stuff and then I sent them home for their parents to deal with!

We did shaving cream on their heads then threw Cheetos to see how many they could get to stick,
they ate powder donuts from a string,
sucked Jello from a straw,
decorated cupcakes,
and ran and ran and scram like little girls!! 

My babies turn 6!

My little tiny 5 and 6 pound babies,
who cried for the first year of their lives,
who didnt let me sleep for the first year,
who covered me in throw up and poop for the first year,
who completed our little family,
who are the most loving sweet children,
turned 6!

We made a deal that they would stop growing up, but they dont seem to be holding up their end of the deal. They just keep growing up into beautiful, smart, caring little girls, (beautiful on the inside and out)!

We kept it pretty low key for their day.
They got to wear cute 'birthday girl' pins to school.
We ate homemade pizza and bread sticks for dinner.
Addison wanted a chocolate cake and Alaynna wanted a strawberry cake so they each got their own cake!

I think it was a good day, they love everything that they got and thought it was all "the best"!

Birthday post

I turned 28 last Friday!

I usually hate my birthday, I hide out and don't want anyone to recognize the day, but this year I didn't mind it at all. I have been repeating to myself, "old age is a privileged denied to many". I am ok with getting older, cause that means I get longer to watch my monsters grow up and more dates with Kyle!  

This year Kyle got me tickets to wicked, I love Broadway and have wanted to see wicked for, forever. 

It did not disappoint and when elphaba sang Defying Gravity, a tear came to my eye!! (all my children know the song. I thought everyone did)

I got lots of phone calls, texts, a few visits from friends, lunch with friends, and Kyle took me out for sushi and bunny busting, it was a very good day!

I thought I would write 28 things about me.

(28 seems like alot, I hope I can think that many!!) 

1. My favorite thing to eat is sushi, surprising.....
2. If I had to much money, I would give to the arts. I cant wait for my girls to get old enough to go with me to Broadway musicals and the ballet. 
3. I think if I would have had an art teacher growing up, I probably would have turned out 'more' like my Aunt Toni, and spent my days painting beautiful things, molding cows and giving them away for $12!!! 
4. I try and call my grandparents once a week, I like to see what the old people are up to and make sure they are taking care of themselves.
5. I don't like complaining, and I try not to do it. I always feel like there are so many people who are going through more than I am, why should I complain. Except on my blog, cause that is where I vent and I figure if you don't want to read it, don't click on it.
6. I love vegetables, I think the only one I don't love is pumpkin.
7. In fact, I hate pumpkin anything! Pumpkins should only be carved or used as decoration!
8. I feel like if people would do what I said, when I said it, the world would be a better place. Some would call that controlling, others would just say that I was smart!
9. I am always cold, unless I am having a hot flash, but I am never just right.
10. I just agree with people to shut them up. I only argue about something when I know I will win the argument, know I can change your mind, or am so passionate about the subject that I can't not try and convince you of my the right way!  
11. My biggest fear is something happening to my kids, something happening to Kyle, or having my cancer come back. 
12.  I could live off good bread, cheese and coffee.
13. I love to knit!
14. I cant wait to buy a forever home. I cant wait to decorate and paint, and call a place ours again! 
15. I love living here in this valley. After a long time of wanted to move I finally feel like this is home. 
16. I am more liberal than you would ever know.
17. I try and live my life with the mentality "live and let live". I let you pretend the way you live your life is the "right" way, let me pretend to. 
18.  I love to take pictures, I think pictures are like memories. You look back and you can feel the feelings you were having and remember little details that you wouldn't have without the pictures. Thats one reason I love my blog, I have wrote things down that I probably would have forgotten! 
19. I love to listening to my music to loud, Kyle hates it when I turn it up.
20. I love to cook, I just dont like to decided what to cook.
21. I love my chickens, I love to watch them peck the ground, it is very relaxing! 
22. If I was braver and not scared of needles, I would probably be tattooed neck down. I'd have huge angel wings, a rosary around my ankle, an arrow, all my kids names, and for sure a sleeve done up! Maybe someday! 
23. I don't really get "inspired" by people. Like motivation boards and such, they just don't do it for me. I feel like people who try to be inspiring, aren't. You don't wake up in the morning and think "what can I do to inspire someone today?"  You should just wake up and think "what good can I do today?" 
24. I love a man with a beard, that's why Kyle looks like a grizzly man!
25. After 28 years, I am A-OK with my extra squish that I have. I will never be a skinny mini, and I am fine with that. I hope it doesnt take my girls 28 years to be ok with how they look.
26. I love Iggy Azalea, I cant listen to her with the girls around cause she swears like a sailor, but hey so do I!
27. I love to watch people trip, I know it is horrible but it is so funny!! 
28. I think the answer to being mad at someone is egging their house, someday I might just actually do it!! So if one day you wake up to my organic eggs all over your house, know you've pissed me off!!!

Grace turned 8!

My oldest child,
my baby, turned 8 years old!

We didnt do alot for her big day this year, she wanted to eat Italian sausage and an ice cream cake and go swimming!
She didnt want anything for her birthday so when we went to cal ranch she picked out a cute outfit with blingy jeans and a zebra belt! We also got her a rubber band book, play dough and a latch hook kit, the girl loves arts and crafts!!

Age 8 favorites....
Color- black, white, and blue
Food- Italian sausages
Desert- Ice cream
Drink- Strawberry lemonade
Hobby- Play with the sisters
Animal- Horse

You want to be a mom and librarian.
You want to have 2 kids.
You want to live in the valley, somewhere close to mom and dad!
If you could visit anywhere it would be Disney World.

Grace had a little birthday party, I was not to good at planning this year so we just had two friends come over and swim. They both had to leave early and it was a bummer for Grace, but she was happy they came over and got to have a fun for awhile!

My babies are 5!!!

My babies are 5 years old! It does not seem like they should be that old!
We had a birthday party for them on Saturday, we had all the family over and just played out back!
They had alot of fun and it was such a relaxing fun day with lots of people we love. 
Monday, there real birthday, we went to Vegas to the doctor, then went to Cici's pizza for lunch!
They loved everything about there birthday weekend! The frozen cakes turned out great, they loved there bikes, and they really love the baby chicks Luke and Sierra got them!

These two are so much fun and so hard all at the same time! They are the weirdest little children ever. Addison whistles all the live long day, and Alaynna talks like the cookie monster and can turn "let it go" into a heavy metal rock song!
They are best friends and still love to dress the same, some days. They push their beds together and try and find Waldo! And then 15 minutes later have an all out fight!

Addison gives in to anything sister wants and takes care of her! She loves me and Kyle and loves to talk and be close to us both. She loves her alone time with all of us and never wants anyone's feeling hurt or left out!
Alaynna beats Grace up when she looks at Addison wrong! She is also a weird little hippy! Her "energy" tells her things, like "the chickens are out, my energy told me!" She also told me that a kiss on the lips goes straight to your heart so when you are sad that's the best place to give a kiss!

I have been able to enjoy them so much in a different way the last few months, One of my favorite things to do is just sit far enough away that I can hear them talk! They talk about the funniest things and love each other so much!

Happy birthday little sisters, I love you!!