Games

Sunday was a fun day! We went to church at my "home" ward it's always fun to see all the people that I grew up with. But kind of embarrasing too because as much as we try to teach our kids to be good and quiet it always turns out that one is rotten! My dad said it must be fun because every Sunday is a new adventure. If that is what you want to call it!! We went home after Sacrament meeting and we decided to take it easy and we watched the latest Harry Potter movie (not my favorite one) and then had a snack of my mom's chicken rolls, potatos, and frozen fruit cocktail. It was so good!! Then we headed up to Bluffdale for Nathan's birthday. Tanner has wanted to go there all week to see Nathan and Justy (Justin) and play video games. He loves going to their house. We got there and ate dinner, and Nathan opened his gifts. We got him a nerf gun...hope he liked it!

Kaylee and Kylie

The kids had a great time playing downstairs and we played Taboo. I had the hardest time playing..I couldn't think of things to try to get my team to guess the words. We ended up losing in a play off between Jason and I. Won't hear the end of that one!! We had a great time though visiting and playing.



We went back home and played Phase 10 with my dad (couldn't believe it he has been working so much and not a whole bunch of sleep), Kim and Trent, and Lori. We had so much fun!! We stayed up until after 1:00 but it was well worth it. I think we ended up basically on the same phase so there was no clear winner although I know a couple of people that would say otherwise!



We were cleaning up when Trent and Jason decided that it would be fun to scare mom. So we all snuck downstairs (I don't know how quiet I was being because I was laughing already!) and mom was in her craft room working on my sister's christmas gift when my husband let out a huge roar. Mom looked like a deer in headlights! Then she didn't know whether to laugh or cry! We were all dying of laughter, and Kim being prego had a little accident which made me laugh harder, and Trent and Jason were dying of laughter, and Lori who was supposed to be recording the whole event didn't get much because she was laughing so hard. Mom was a great sport and although was pretty scared (and luckily didn't hurt her neck) had a good laugh too!

WOW

I love BYU football and all I have to saw is WOW! Can't believe that they pulled off that win last night. I thought that the game was over but it's always fun to watch a miracle!!

Holiday Shopping

I have the hardest time shopping with all 3 kids. I don't know how some moms can take all their kids and go shopping. I can't that is for sure..I get really uptight and forget half the things that I am looking for. I'm sure I will get better at it when they get older or maybe I will be smarter and just hire a babysitter!

Jason got back from Rock Springs and we were so excited to see him! The kids didn't want anything to do with me, just their dad which is fine I was okay with that. I decided that we should go out to dinner so we went to one of my favorite places and the kids were amazingly good!

After dinner we got the kids to bed and Jason and I were able to go out just the 2 of us. It was lots of fun!

Woggle Finger

The last time we were here my dad threatened Tanner with the "Wobble Finger" when he wasn't being good. So now Tanner and Kylie are afraid of the wobble finger until tonight....we were sitting down for a late dinner when dad started teasing Tanner with the "wobble finger". So Tanner came back at him trying to do make his finger shake like dad's and saying "woggle finger, woggle finger!" Now Tanner doesn't seem too frightened by it but instead it's a big game.

Today I was feeling so much better! Yesterday I woke up sick to my stomach and stayed in bed for over half of the day. I was so tired..I guess my late nights really caught up to me. Thanks to mom and Lori they took care of the kids for me I am so grateful to them. We got up and dressed and then headed to a store to get part of the gifts for my friends and neighbors. Hope they don't mind but they will be getting them late...sorry! I guess instead of a Christmas gift it will be more like a New Years gift. I couldn't find what I was looking for in AZ and found it all here in Utah. Then we headed to Kenzie and Hunter's school to listen to their Christmas program. Tanner and Kylie loved it they were singing and dancing to the songs. They thouroughly enjoyed themselves...then we were off to the candy store. I wanted to get a few things for the Christmas Stockings and since it's tradition to have Startup candies in my stocking I had to do it especially since we are here.

Kylie with her sucker from Startup's Candy

We headed home and then back out with mom to run a few more errands. It took a lot longer than expected and I was so glad that the kids were as good as they were. They were not perfect both Kylie and Tanner ended up in the cart, and then they were fighting over the box of Cinnamon Toast Crunch so they started hitting each other. It was so fun....not. Sometimes I wonder why my kids can't be perfect like I was (hahaha!!!). I see other kids standing right by the cart listening to their parents and whenever we go to the store with our kids they are all over the place. I get so stressed out....maybe some day I will get the kids to listen to me. Bed time was a joke too, first they went to bed late, then I was trying to read scriptures they were all over the place, and Paige was screaming and wouldn't eat so I ended up giving her a bottle and she actually took 2 ounces! I was so happy..so my dad went up to help with the kids that were jumping on their beds and boxing. I love him to death but he layed down on the floor and fell asleep and the kids were still going crazy. Thanks dad for trying. We finally got them to settle down and now I am going to go to bed too!

Travel

Jason was gone in Washington from last Tuesday night and didn't get back until about 8:00 Saturday night. I'm proud of myself for doing as well as I did when he was gone I just need to go to bed at a decent time. The week went by pretty fast as I was trying to get everything done that we needed to before we left for Utah for Christmas. I had to make sure we all had enough warm clothes, Christmas stuff taken care of, house cleaned all the normal stuff. Thursday we went to the park and met friends from church and the kids had so much fun! It was great to see them running around outside having a good time. That afternoon my friend watched all 3 kids for me as I went and ran a few errands. It was so nice to be by myself yet it was wierd every time I went to get out of the car I felt like I should be getting someone out! But I thoroughly enjoyed myself thanks Karolyn! Friday just did laundry and more laundry, and cleaned the house. I went to bed semi early because I was wasted from staying up late doing projects in a quiet house. Plus I found out Jason wasn't coming home till later Saturday night so I didn't have to be ready first thing in the morning. Saturday morning we just continued to get ready to go, and then we went and got a pizza for lunch...and then Jason came home! I thought that the kids would have been in bed, but they were way too excited to see dad. We finally got the kids to bed and then we packed the car to get ready for the drive to Utah.

Sunday morning at 6:00 we left and really made pretty good time. The kids did so well...even Kylie. She usually cries and whines most of the trip but she did amazingly well. I was so tired and don't remember most of the car ride! I think I slept for about 1/2 of it...glad I didn't have to drive! We got to my parents at 4:30 and unloaded the car. Kylie ran right up to dad and jumped on his lap and started talking. It was pretty cute, I think he has a new buddy! Andrea and Amy and families came over to see us and of course the kids were way excited to see cousins. It was a great day!

Crazy

Dentists....I have never really had a hard time going to the dentist. I just have a hard time making the decision to go and finding one that I like and can trust. I went today and had to have a piece of my baby tooth removed from my gum. I originally thought I had a popcorn kernal stuck in between my tooth and gum, but no the dentist that pulled 7 of my baby teeth seemed to have missed just a tiny piece and it decided to make it's way to the surface of my gums and cause some trouble. It was a painless procedure and I am so glad that I am now baby tooth free! And I don't have any cavities!!

Paige went to the doctor again today (she went last week because she had the croup) and had her 4 month checkup. She is now 15 lbs 11 oz. and 24 3/4 inches tall. She had to get some shots today she wasn't too happy about that but is doing really well.

Today I had lots to do in order to be ready for the Beehive Christmas party. I stayed up way too late the night before baking some treats, and doing some uniterrupted cleaning. And of course the kids decided that they needed to get up early. We finished cleaning the house and ran to Target. Tanner and Kylie were so excited to have the girls come over it was nice because Tanner even wanted to vaccum his room. He kept asking all day if it was night time and if the girls were coming over. They came over and he had so much fun! I hope the girls had a good time. We had a gift exchange they were pretty boring though no one was taking other gifts away. Then we had all the treats which maybe wasn't such a great idea because they got so crazy!! I don't know what got into them we tried to get them to sing some Christmas songs but they decided that it would be more fun to yell them. Of course then Tanner and Kylie thought it was okay to yell too, so that ended really quickly. But it was fun to have them over, and hope they had a great time.

Kylie fell off the bar stool and got a nice bruise on her cheek. It was awful I was watching her and then I saw her fall but it was like I was in slow motion and a couldn't get to her. I am just glad that all she got was a bruise!

Camping

Who would have thought that a camping trip would be planned for December? Seeing how I grew up in places where it was common for it to snow in December I guess a campout in December seems strange (unless you are builing a snow cave to sleep in). I am finding out that their are different rules here in Arizona so our YW and YM Standard night was originally planned for October but due to conflicts it was rescheduled for December and the class presidencies decided it would be fun to camp. So the plan was to have dinner, and then Standards night and the girls would camp out and the boys and parents would go home. I wasn't planning on sleeping over due to the fact that I have a 4 month old but would attend the program portion. But things changed and I was needed to stay overnight because we didn't have enough adult leaders so of course I was happy to go. I will admit I was a little nervous first because it's been a really long time since I have been camping, secondly the forecast called for rain, and third I had a nursing baby at home. Don't get me wrong I was looking forward to being with the girls and the leaders. But I was still really nervous about going and if I was going to be warm enough etc. I am sure we have had a great time, but Friday came around and it started raining and I mean really raining. We totally need the rain here in the desert, but I didn't think we would actually get it the day we were supposed to go camping. Let me just tell you Jason was laughing all day long. I think he thought it was pretty funny to think of me camping in the rain. In fact I am sure he would have loved to see me do it. Maybe I will just to show him that I'm not as big as a baby as he thinks.



So the campout was cancelled, although we still went to the White Tank Mountains and had a great dinner put on by the bishopric, and had a great Standards night. We did fight the rain and the wind and the cold the whole night but we had a great time. After the program was over we headed over to Becky's and had treats and snacks. We sat around the fire pit and got warm, making smores, and drinking hot chocolate. Most of the girls were inside playing a game and having a great time. Even though we didn't camp, I think it was a pretty memorable night!

Thursday Night Craft

I was trying to think of something for the kids to do to keep them out of trouble...and I remembered I had the stuff to make candy cane reindeer. They had a lot of fun glueing the eyes and nose on, and Tanner loved wrapping the "antlers" on the candy cane. It kept them busy for about a half an hour which was really nice. After Tanner finished making Rudolph he went and brought me a dress and my shoes and told me here is your green dress put it on and your shoes, get ready and go to church. I guess he was tired of me and wanted me to leave. I would have loved a break but I just put the kids to bed early instead of leaving just the break I needed!