A NEW HOUSE OF GIGGLES AND LAUGHS!

OKAY, It is about time. I am so far behind it is incredible...After the play, we decided to buy a house! We did! This would be the number one reason for the incredible gap of time with my blog. We have one! We love it. We are moved in and have been in our house for a couple of weeks now! During this time consuming event we had three birthdays! Mother's Day and Father's day!What a lot to do!

Eleanor turned three June 1st. I must confess I shed a tear when she did!
I thought I needed to share a funny story.
Eleanor is now fully potty trained save night time.

She was in PJs earlier then usual, so we forgot to put on her pull-ups.
I woke up that morning at 4:30 am to use the bathroom and nearly tripped over a little girl sleeping on the floor. There she was laying on the ground with her knees tucked under her and her little bum in the air. I woke her up, and when she finally woke up I asked her what she was doing.
She said as coherently as if it were the middle of the day, "My bed is wet and my clothes are wet." I then remembered what I had forgotten to do earlier, "Did I forget to put pull-ups on you?" "Yes, you'll never forget to do that again, huh Mom?" "No, I won't!"

I then went up to get her changed, she was shaking from being cold and wet she continued being pretty cheerful (even for 4 in the morning)...."I have the goosebumps, I am so cold mom." I got her changed and asked her why she never got us earlier. This is her true response "I was coming to get Dad but I needed to take a rest so I laid down on the ground and fell asleep."

Given the time I decided not to change her sheets but laid a blanket on the floor and covered her with another blanket. "Mom, you can sleep with me on the floor too, if you want to."
I smiled at her and declined with a kiss, "Daddy will miss me."

I have never had an experience with any child in the wee hours of the morning so calm, humorous and sweet. Most occasions like that consist of mostly trying to calm my child down.
I went back to bed and smiled myself to sleep. What a night!

This is the nature of my sweet Eleanor. She is usually a peaceful loving little girl.
She doesn't like to make anyone upset and is very sensitive to any negativity.
Her big blue eyes melt any one's heart. I am so happy to have her in my family.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, NORI!


Owen had his Birthday June 8th.
He Turned one!
He is already quite the handful. He is so busy!
Cute as can be, and always happy! REALLY!
He gets into anything he can reach and follows the girls around everywhere they go.
He is all boy.
I have caught him climbing on almost anything, and into almost everything.
He doesn't know how to walk yet...so I am still in big trouble when that happens.
Look out World Owen is on the Loose!

NOTE: The unraveled toilet paper!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY OWEN aka BUBBA-BOO!


I had a birthday June 21st. I turned... (you think I am going to tell!)
I shared it with Father's Day. (Every 7 years!)
So we gave each other a TV and A HOUSE!!!!
Don't think we can top that next year.
We moved in the week of those two celebrations but we did take a break from our unpacking and cleaning and all the joys that come with moving to go on a date.
I surprised Brian by taking him to a roller coaster simulator in the mall! Not as great as the real thing but cheap and no lines in the hot sun! It was fun!
We then went to Sonora Grill were I got a free dinner for my birthday!
OUR day ended up being on a Sunday were Brian and the girls surprised me with a VERY chocolate ice cream cake! It was a good weekend and a GREAT cake!


AND NOW- OUR HOUSE!
Our house is a home built in the 1930s. That makes it quite unique.
In our search for homes we found that most of the homes that we could afford needed work and improvements. With Brian's travels I knew that I did not want to take on projects that would not get finished or would cost us more then we wanted to spend.
SO we stumbled upon the most charming house as we were becoming discouraged with our search. We wondered if we could find anything, so we chose a neighborhood and we saw this house. IT was the right price a good neighborhood and had all that we needed! Talk about Luck (or providence). The house had been on the market only for about 12 hours.
We went in and put an offer down with in the hour! AND we love it!

I want to see pictures you say....OKAY, OKAY!

This is upstairs:








This is Downstairs:





(The bedrooms are not ready for pictures yet! )
I do have to paint two rooms.
The girls' room is blue, they want pink. And Owen's room is Purple and Green.
I need to make his room into well, a boy's room.
Other then that I don't need to paint anything else. I'd say that is great deal!


I did need to add that Madi was in the ward talent show and she HULA HOOPED!
She was amazing and did to the Music 'I get Around' by the beach boys! I wish I had taken pictures she was quite the star! GO MADI!

DAYS OF OUR LIVES.... PART 1

NEWS FLASH:
Because the past few months have been so extremely insane, exciting, stressful and very, very eventful, I have put the highlights here.

IN SHORT OUR LIVES ARE FULL.

Brian is still traveling...it is currently everyother week.

If we survive this I think we can do anything.

My children have had colds, impetigo and are now on the road to recovery.

Owen is now mobile....oh no!

Eleanor is potty trained! YAY!

Madi has been reading and writting.

ME....busy.

ALL in ALL we are blessed and look forward to the next crazy adventure.

MADI IS IN LOVE

Madi loves her baby brother so much.

She is a good big sister.
I captured this very special moment on camera.

I am so grateful for the blessing of being a mother.

I am not perfect, but I try.

I do love my children.

Sydney Leaves for Missouri....

Sydney came to our house on Thursday to play and I was glad to be able to see them.

Sadly, the Abshires will be leaving Logan in May.

Our dear friends for the last six years, these two girls have known each other since they were babies.

We will miss you Abshires.

Come see us soon.

THE SAVIOR OF THE WORLD

I had the opportunity to play the part of Mary's mother in the LDS production of

Savior of the World

by Ogden East Stake.

It was wonderful.
The experience kept me and my family very very busy

I am still trying to catch up with all that I was unable to do.

But my testimony was strengthened and I was able to share that with many other people

Thanks to all those who came.

I hope you felt the Savior's Love!

WE VISITED THE TULIP FESTIVAL

WHAT CAN I SAY? GORGEOUS!
(IN A GOLF CART TO BOOT!!)

NEED I SAY MORE?

TO BE CONTINUED....

Please read on.

DAYS OF OUR LIVES...Part 2

Part 2
Well...Busy, Crazy and insane am I.
We have been so busy I will have to keep this simple to cover all the events of the last few months.

Spring?


I took these pictures on March 21st, I think.
Right after a week of beautiful sunny weather.

We had over hundreds of robins in the trees in our back yard.
They flew from the tree to the vines and they were there all morning long.
When the snow was gone, so were all the berries from the vines.

I wish I could have captured the beauty of it all.

Baby Animal Day
Tradition, Tradition.

We had a great time.

I love watching my kids faces light up.

The Easter Bunny Comes

May the magic never stop!
(New Dresses Too!)

Eleanor Gets a Tricycle

Madi Gets a Helmet (with Knee and Elbow pads!)

Owen Gets a Box! YAY!

I HAVE DONE IT AT LAST...THE UPDATE!

Do you think I should bribe Owen with this when he is old enough to Date!

A song comes to mind..."SISTERS, SISTERS"

I haven't been very diligent about much lately.
Writing in newsletters, updating my blog, eating right, exercising....showering.
It seems that when Owen hit 6 months old everything just spiraled out of control.
I could not keep up with anything. He has arrived at the age of need. He cannot crawl but can sit up. So he becomes frustrated when he is not being entertained. My girls do a good job entertaining him but that only lasts so long. He really needs to be with mom.
This makes doing the things I need to do almost impossible.

I am not complaining though just saying at as it is.
I am truly enjoying every bit of his babyhood.
He is a good baby, he just really wants to get moving, once he does I think he will be happier.
He has had problems with spit up still. His medicine stopped working so we have upped the dosage, we will have to see how that goes. I really am sick of being wet all day.
He is beginning to have a schedule for naps and goes to bed by 7:00 every night, and wakes
up at 7:00 every morning. That has been nice. He is in need of more calories then Mom can provide. He loves to eat. He is already going through 2 jars of stage one baby food a day. It is so fun to watch him grow.

Eleanor is so fun. She is blossoming so much. She is so often lumped with her older sister that it is a real treat to have her alone. She is such a tender sweet girl. She will still let you hold her for long periods of time. Those are my favorite moments, when we just cuddle on the couch. I know that they won't last.
She loves to be everywhere that he sister is, this drives Madi crazy. But she learns a lot from her.
She is so pleasant as is often more quiet then Madi ever was.
When Madi is not home the house is actually very quiet and Eleanor is content to play alone. Although I become a little suspicious when it gets too quiet. More often then not she is happily in her room playing with the ponies or Legos, content as she can be. Only once in a while has she found the lotion and decided that her face, arms, pants, and shirt were in need of some soothing moisturizer, it is winter after all. Or that she needed a little bit of color to her pale face blue, or green are a nice shade. I didn't know that the markers were out.
Independence is a much needed thing to her, getting water out of the fridge every ten minutes. Spilling water from the cup every ten minutes and wiping up the water from the fridge every ten minutes. She is TWO after all. What a fun age. Challenging, but fun.

Madi is 5 and with that age came a new sense of self.
She assumed that she would finally get to ride that bus that comes in front of our house everyday. What a heart break it was when she could not. It is hard to hold her back. She is so determined to learn and grow that she is reading and writing already. She reads everything that she can. It is amazing how fast she learns.
She is full of energy, so much energy. Santa gave her a hula hoop. What an investment. We were not sure if she would get the hang of it or not. She did! She can hula hoop now for at least three minutes at time. I must say I am impressed. She and I read the Tale Of Desperaux together, it was nice to spend that time with her and a good book that we both loved. (The movie pales in comparison to the book.) We also finished reading the Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane. We have enjoyed that too. Kate DiCamillo is a good author. Now we are looking for our next adventure.
I have been just been trying to keep up with everyone.
It will be nice when Madi can start school and I will some time with my other two in the mornings.
And she will be able to talk to people her age, for once.
I am serving as a Second Counselor in Primary.
I am also preparing for the Stake play..."Savior of the World", where I am playing the role of Mary's Mother. I am very excited to have the chance to do something like this, it is already a testimony building experience.
Brian has been traveling about every other week now. It is getting a little easier each time he goes. I still get pretty tired, with three little kids to handle. When he is home it is always wonderful.
Brian was just called to be a ward missionary, since that call came we get called by the missionaries at least once a day. Is that normal? I don't know. I know they need help but we do have a family too. Our family is blessed for his service though, when he goes out, it has been a spiritual experience for him.
We had a casualty in our house recently, our computer stopped computing. It has been frustrating. I think we have about seven months of photos stored in it. We were stupid and never got them onto a disk. So now we are trying to find a way to recover them. Then we will get them onto a disk. We have a new computer now. Which of course is something we did not plan on having to buy, yikes. We thought we could go with out one, but have found that it is almost impossible.

DID YOU KNOW THAT SANTA CAN DELIVER TOYS YOU LEAVE SOMEWHERE ELSE.
WELL, HE DOES!
My daughters left behind some of their special toys at my brother's so I asked Santa if he could help me out! He did!
Christmas morning they found their old loved toys under the tree with all the shinning presents.

THEIR EYES LIT UP WITH LOVE. Ithink we could have stopped with those two things they were so happy to have them back.
SANTA IS SO NICE!