The Poulsen's

Mckenzie's Birthday Party!

2011-03-29T19:31:00.000-07:00

Mckenzie had a great Birthday and if I wasnt so tired I would post more but I thought I would just get some pics up for now :)

2011-01-25T11:45:00.000-08:00

Bella is getting so big this is today and she is 4M and 3WKs

Madisons School Picture

2010-11-21T17:17:00.000-08:00

Madison is really enjoying preschool she comes home telling me that Jesus loves her and she knows all these jesus songs. I was a little hesitant puting her in a Lutheran school but I love it now!

Halloween Fun!

2010-10-30T19:26:00.001-07:00

Can you guess who Brian is?

Can you guess who I am?

we were invited to a Halloween party and man they sure knew how to throw a party here in WI they even had a haunted house that was very scary! We had a great time!
The girls wanted to be scary witches so I bought some green paint I painted Madi's face and she loved it but when I started to put the paint on Kenzie she started freaking out because it burned her face and she wiped it all off. She wanted me to try it again but I knew she would cry again and wipe it off, so she didn't get a green face.

Mckenzie and her school principle

Mckenzie's Shcool halloween party.

Mckenzie had a school Party and it was a lot of fun, they had a haunted walk and a hay ride, they had dancing with a DJ and face painting. It was so much fun I didn't know elementary school was so fun! They never had cool parties like this at my elementary

2010-10-14T15:25:00.000-07:00

This is Mckenzie's kindergarten Picture. This girl has grown up so much just in the last few months. She just became a big sister to her baby sister bella and she takes care of her all the time. She is my big helper the other day I gave her the task of cleaning the living room and she did as good of a job or better than I would do. She dusted and vacuumed and it looked great. She learned last week how to ride her bike with no training wheels all in one day and now she is cruising all around the streets with her bike. She is reading entire books and doing really well in school I am just so proud of how smart and talented she is becoming such a little lady!

Bella's Blessing

2010-10-14T14:54:00.001-07:00

The Family and my grandmother. She is from WI and this was her first blessing of our three girls she's been to.

I felt very fortunate to have my in-laws drive all the way to WI just to see Bella's blessing and meet there new granddaughter. My father also made it to the blessing and I was so great full!

Bella is getting so big she just got weighed and she was 10 1/2 lbs.. I cant believe how fast these little munchkins grow!

Bella's Blessing was so beautiful and I am so glad that we had some family and lots of friends to come to the blessing thank you all who came! Also I missed all the people who couldn't come because we just live to darn far away!.. We miss you!

Madison's first day of preschool and first project!

2010-09-09T19:39:00.001-07:00

This was her pose before she went into class she couldn't wait to start preschool!

Madison goes to a lutheran preschool. Around here most all the preschools are private schools from the different churches. Madi loves her teacher and she was so exctited to bring home her first project. It was kissing hands and she talked all about how she made kissing hands the first day of school but couldnt take it home that day because it had to dry. The next picture is of Jesus with little children. They learn all about Jesus and that he loves everyone!

Catching up from before baby! Mckenzies first day of School

2010-09-09T19:28:00.000-07:00

This was meat the teacher preview the night before school started

On the way to school it was cold and rainy

Lining up to go into class

Long day of all day kindergarten she has class from 8:45-3:35. I missed her so much it seems like she is gone for the whole day!

We both made it through the first day! I cant believe my first child is growing up!

Mckenzie has been so excited to start kindergarten she woke up extra early to get all ready. It was so fun to get her ready and off to class she was such a big girl no tears on either end. I'm not much of a crier anyway but I was really proud of her and excited for her!

Meet Bella Jane Poulsen

2010-09-04T19:36:00.000-07:00

Bella Jane Poulsen was born September 3rd at 1233pm. She is 8lbs 7oz and 20 inches long. She is very healthy and is doing great! I'll post more later

where did it go.

2010-09-02T19:26:00.001-07:00

I lost my friend list so for those who visit my blog make a comment so I can place you back on my list! BTW getting induced tomorrow morning! cant wait!

Brians White Coat Ceremony

2010-08-29T18:34:00.000-07:00

This is Brian after they put on his new white coat that says Dr. Poulsen. To the left is the school Dean.

Brian and the class of 2014 80 students total!

Mckenzie's card she made her daddy she was so excited to give it to him she worked so hard painting it just right for him

This is madi's card she made for Brian its him in his white coat!

Some of the wifes

The Families

Dane and Brian

The guys

Trip to Chicago

2010-08-24T19:11:00.000-07:00

Here is my profile pic for those who care how big my belly is getting!

The big jelly been up close! I think the kids liked this the best (probably cause they loved looking at their reflection!)

The big Jelly Been from a distance

I know, I have been horrible updating my blog but I am going to try to redeem myself now that I have a little more regularity and consistency. We now are living in Wisconsin in a little city outside Milwaukee so Brian can go to Dental school at Marquette. we are in are in a very safe and quaint town and I really love it! We have a Costco just down the street a community pool and park walking distance so I feel right at home! Since we have been unpacked we have been enjoying sight seeing so we decided to go to Chicago zoo and Millennium park.

Brians Graduation! Wow its really over, or is it?

2010-05-08T12:40:00.000-07:00

Well he did it Brian Graduated! Im so excited to have my husband home for a few months before he's back in school in Wisconsin for Dental School. Really its not over but we get a break!

Look at all those smart students! I'm so proud of you Brian!

16 weeks

2010-04-29T20:13:00.001-07:00

Okay this was nearly a month ago on Easter but I thougt I would share! this was the first time I really felt large! BTW did I mention I'm Having another girl!!!!!

Mckenzie is 5!

2010-03-30T20:23:00.000-07:00

Madi and Kenzie anxioulsy waiting for their guest

Hannah and Mckenzie I meant to get a group pic when all the kids arrived but that never happened I completely forgot.

Cherish and Mckenzie

Paige and Mckenzie

Hailey Eleanor Kenzie and MAdi

Musical chairs.

Everyone in line for the bean bad toss

Bingo

Gift opening and apparently we didn't get a pic of her blowing out the candles but is only took her one blow! It was such a fun party glad its over but I think everyone had fun I know Kenzie had a blast with all her friends!

I cant believe my little baby is 5 years old and in a few months I have to send her off to kindergarten. Apperently where we are moving they have k5 all day long :( I'm sure going to miss you i was hoping she could be my sec0nd mom but she will be to busy in school to be my helper. Kenzie is very excited to have a baby in the family she is very motherly and likes to take care off all her pretend babies.

Disney on Ice

2010-03-10T21:02:00.000-08:00

Kenzie begs me every day to straighten her hair so she convinced me since Ariel's hair is straight and it was a special occasion. I really had to convince Madi to wear tinker bell but she just looks so darn cute in it!

So every year we have gone to Disney on Ice and Every year without fail the kids where sick and It always is this miserable thing. Not this year! this year was so fun. The kids where so excited and they had energy to show it ! Its hard to plan a perfect day months in advance its a risk you take but it turned out good this year and here are a few pictures. They had Tinker bell, Ariel, Cars, and Lion King. It was so cute to see the kids so into the show with big smiles on their faces! We had a great time!

Cravings!!!!!!!!

2010-02-10T00:49:00.000-08:00

Okay so the other night around 9:45 I was getting very hungry and wanted to eat. The bad news was everything I had at home sounded disgusting. When Brian was going through all the foods he mentioned potato's. That sparked some interest and this great desire to have mash potatoes and gravy came on!! Brian offered to make me some like a sweet hubby but I couldn't wait I wanted in NOW!!! So my resolution was to order some from Mimi's since its just down the street. I decided to get the whole turkey dinner(bad mistake) Brian brought it home and I ate every last bite of the Mashed potatoes but only one bite of the turkey and stuffing. Note to self: When I have a craving just get what I'm craving cause nothings going to be as good or worth eating!!!!! I'm so glad I have a great husband who will drop everything to help satisfy my cravings!!!! I love you Brain!

Pregnancy at 8 weeks

2010-02-06T21:17:00.000-08:00

Okay so today it took me all day to do the Laundry every 10 minutes I had to lie down and rest. Brian let me sleep in until 10:30 (what a great hubby!). He made me breakfast and then I went to lie down. After lunch he said. "lets take another pregnancy test to make sure your pregnant". I laughed and said "why" he said "Well your so tired and what if your not even pregnant." I could't believe he was saying what I was hearing and I laughed and said "FINE!!" Guess what the test was positive heheheh! I'm glad too, because what if I wasn't prego and I was feeling this horrible. After I took the test Brian said to me "I guess I just don't remember you being this way the last few times" Note I was in school full time during my last two pregnancy's and at the end of the 2 years of nursing school I was known as the girl who learned via osmosis. I absorbed the information from my dreams and from my head on my book all day! I dont know how I passed nursing school with how much I slept through it! Well I just cant wait till the first trimester is over. I can't get anything done around my house, so...... no one can come over because you'll just find me in my jammies with my kids running around and my house a disaster!

I think I forgot to Mention

2010-02-04T12:14:00.000-08:00

Brian got into Dental School at Marquette! Thats why we are moving! Brian said the other day that he couldn't believe I didn't post it! Well I did post it on facebook but for those who aren't members that was the big news we found out December 1st. So we are very excited scared and anxious. We are moving on. Not sure where we are going to live not sure how we are going to manage 3 kids and Brian in Dental school cause I here I wont ever see him the first year. so those of you who live in Wisconsin, like my aunts, cousins and grandma please call me all the time! I cant wait to spend more time getting to know my moms side of the family! Here is a picture of Brian at a simulation lab at UNLV. Doest he look like a sexy Dentist, hehehhe!

Im Pregnant

2010-01-20T22:58:00.000-08:00

Well since my girls have told the whole world and Brian posted it on face book I guess I should make it public. Im having a baby. I'm only 6wks into it so I hope it doesn't go south. It couldn't have been worse timing. I have been trying for 6 months, so I was thinking I couldnt get pregnant. (I blame the stupid birth control to get out of my system.) I really wanted to get pregnant around August so I could take maternity leave at work and then quit when we move to Wisconsin. Now I have to move to Wisconsin and I wont get paid maternity leave. Well I guess everything happens for a reason I just have to put my trust in the lords hands. . I'm sure it will work out just fine. Yay I'm having a baby I love babies! I hope its a boy but if its a girl thats cool too!

Family Photos

2009-11-12T18:50:00.001-08:00

So I wasn't going to post all the family pics but I had a few requests so here they are!

This is the funniest picture ever! The girls had a huge tantrum during the photo shoot and starting balling because I told them they don't get ice cream because they weren't cooperating and smiling for the camera. Hehehehe! I guess I'm mean!

If anyone likes the photography Hollie Hansen in my ward did them and she did great I love how much time she spent with me check out her photo blog at http://holliehansonphotog.blogspot.com/

My girls found their prince to dance with at the ball!

2009-11-09T16:41:00.000-08:00

Stratton and Madison Dancing!

I am officially a ball room dance teacher, heheheh! Check it out!

Madsion's updated Book

2009-11-05T22:21:00.000-08:00

I have a goal to get Madison 2nd year book ready for Christmas. I have been catching up. So I dont have much time to do current things. For those of you intrested in what I'm up to, here is a sneak peak of the book. It looks about the same as before but I have finished about 5 more pages! They are the Christmas pages, so look for those if you've seen the other ones! Just click on the link below and it will take you to the book

http://www.heritagemakers.com/projectBrowserStandAlone.cfm?projectID=974079&productId=5

Lagoon!! Fun!!!

2009-11-01T18:18:00.000-08:00

Some one nice enough to offer to take a picture of both of us! This in the only one.

They had so many pumpkins! Since we didn't have anyone to take our pics all our pics were done separate!

This is as close as I got and Brian got to wearing a halloween costume!

I had so much fun ramming into Brian on the bumper cars! Talk about whiplash!

On the Sky ride!

Brian won 2 tickets to frightmares at lagoon on the Radio. So we got a babysitter on Halloween and went at noon! I was worried we wouldn't get to ride many ride but I was wrong. The line were so short!!! I went on wicked 2 times in 20 minutes and on most all the rides the line was about 3 min long. some rides didn't even have a line at all, we had to sometimes wait on the ride till more people showed up. IT was seriously the best day ever to go to Lagoon. We went to one haunted house that they had only because they didn't open till 3 and we had to leave at 3:30. It was way scary I wanted to go to a few more but we just didn't have time. We had to get home to get the kiddos all ready for trick-or-treating! I;m such a chicken I was really scared in the haunted house and they really did a great job. I thought it would be cheesy and maybe Brian thought it was but I'm a Wuss!

Princess Cinderella and Bell

2009-10-31T21:03:00.001-07:00

Dancing like little princesses!

Here are a few halloween Pics of the girls. When I got our Family pics done the first time the girl who did it had her camera broken and she didn't know it so none of the pics turned out. So to off set the inconvenience of having to re shoot our pictures she offered to do a free Halloween session. I thought that was a really good deal!

2009-10-26T13:43:00.000-07:00

Okay I have been really bad about updating my blog so I have to confess I have been busy creating a digital scrap book with heritage makers. Its my new addiction and I love it. This book of Madison it one of my projects I am working on. Its a year book of madison's 3rd year. I just completed Mckenzies 3rd year book so I will try to figure out how to add the link so people can view it. When I am done with a book the company prints it and sends it to me. I love it! This link below is Madison's book I am working on Check it out!
Heritage Makers Project Browser

Vacation

2009-08-14T19:37:00.001-07:00

Our fun boating adventure.. I got both the kids on the tube. They had a blast. On the last boat ride, Madi and I actually got thrown off the tube, and when Brian went he almost broke his nose. He got a bloody mouth and a black eye. It was a lot of fun!

Brian Tubing

kenzie loved the flowers

Cute Madi trying to catch a fish with the net.

The girls jumping to daddy from the dock. They did this over and over again.

The girls caught a frog with Aunt amy and the kids were to scared to stand near it for a picture. Silly girly girls

daddy cought a little fish!

Amy on the kayak

Chillin at the cabin

me and my hunny

My cute girls at the cabin

The Poulsen Family

Bob and Brian On the left is Carol who planned and organized the reunion, the poor thing broke her arm the night before the reunion and still managed to take care of everything with help of coarse. The girls!
The cousins
Little Cousins Madi was fighting to keep her place in the middle.

Playing games.

For the kids, this is what the party is all about! CAKE! Cute little birds near our event. Brian and I where in a couple horse shoe contest. We made it through the first round but then was defeated with my dads team. Errrr!!

I caught a little fish with my girls princess fishing pole. heheheh, I let it go after the picture.

Brian spent most the the time trying to catch a big fish with the girls Princess pole, he looked so masculine with that pole, hehehe.

I just love this pic of Madi

Brian was the pro fire maker. He also prepared these yummy foil Dinners. After we roasted marshmallows and made smores.

When we drove through Chicago we met up with my Uncle and Aunt Miller and of coarse Jeff, at the hard rock cafe. It was Crazy in down town Chicago.

In front of Michigan Lake

This is the picture of Crazy horse near Mount Rushmore. If you can see behind the statue is a mountain were they have started to make the mountain like this statue by Kenzie. It will be amazing when completed.
We had a great opportunity to go to my family reunion on my dads side. every 4-5 years they have one at ford lake in Michigan. Last reunion my fam didn't go but I'm so glad I went this year it was such a blast to see all my Aunts, Uncles and cousins. Mckenzie and Madison really had a great time on the lake. I think it helped them with their bug fobia. We stayed on the lake for 7 days it was so relaxing and then after we headed the Wisconsin to visit the other half of my family on my moms side. Brian also payed another visit to Marquette which is one of his top schools he would like to go for Dental school.

Mckenzie's Last Dance performance

2009-07-05T23:28:00.000-07:00

On the way out the door. this is one of the only pictures of my family with all of us looking at the camera and smiling

Mckenzie and Laylah waiting to go onstage!

Kenzie Walking off stage after her performance

Amy (my cute little sister) and Madi. I think they look so much a like!

Mckenzie's fan club

Sarah and me!

Mckenzie had her last Dance performance at Taylersville Dayzz. She did such a great job and I am so proud of her. She is so sad to have the season end. when I was doing her hair and makeup before the performance I told her this was her last performance for the year. She was really bummed and said "I don't want it to end I want to dance all summer long" I was shocked because she sometimes tell me she doesn't' want to go to dance class. I guess she does really like it.

Stuck in Bed

2009-06-25T22:50:00.000-07:00

*CAUTION*(very long post you may skip if you want to.)

Many years ago when I was a foolish silly teenager trying to show off, I tried to do a jump with a snowboard.. Well, unfortunately I crashed and couldn't get up. Embarrassed, I had to be gurneyed off the slopes and sent in an ambulance to the hospital. The doctors said I was fine and that I probably just bruised my muscles. I remember being in bed for 5 days after the accident because I could hardly move with out having pain. After I recovered I didn't think anything of it and went on with my life with no problems. While pregnant with Mckenzie I remember having severe back pain and I asked my OB what it could be. He asked if I had possibly ever injured my back and I remembered my accident. He said pregnancy can cause irritation to old wounds. I still didn't think much about it. Well, about 2 years ago I hurt my back so bad that I could hardly get out of bed I went to a chiropractor and he said I probably have a herniated disc. When he told me that I immediately scheduled to see the spine specialist where they did an MRI and confirmed my Herniation. I recovered and went on with my life scared to work out or do anything that might hurt my back. I then re injured it about 6 months later, but it wasn't as bad and after three days it felt better. The reason I'm saying all this is I injured my back AGAIN!! Tuesday I was picking up Mckenzie to set her in the chair to do her hair and I instantly had shooting pain up and down my back and down to my leg! I was so mad at my self for not using good back mechanics. I guess it's been so long I forget that I need to be careful ERRrrrrrr! I wanted to cry. I have been really good about working out and strengthening my core so why did this happen? I've been stuck on my back since Tuesday night and I cant bend my back. I walk like an old lady with a hunch back because when I straighten my back my spine crunches my disc that is bulging out of my spine. When I am moving around I can remember the pain I had with my snowboarding accident and it is the exact same pain I had then. So I guess it wasn't a bruise after all! There is some good things about being stuck in bed, one is I have almost caught up with blogging and 2 I finally started my digital scrap booking I have been meaning to start. The bad thing is my house is a disaster. Luckily and thankfully my kind mother stayed over late last night to help me finish folding a putting away my huge piles of laundry. What a great Mom! Thanks mom! I think laying around for 2 days have payed off because I am laying here now and I'm not in constant pain like I was 2 days ago it's only when I move. The funny thing is today I was laying belly down with ice on my back (actually it was a bag of frozen peas) when Mckenzie asked if she could open the bag and eat the peas. I didn't really care either way, so she opened it and started eating the frozen pea's. Then Madi came over and started munching on the pea's. Personally I hate pea's but they were lovin it so what ever gets them to eat there vegetables. Okay I've rambled enough I better go to bed!

Fathers Day

2009-06-25T22:23:00.000-07:00

Fathers day morning was really great. I made breakfast for Brian While he slept in. I made our favorite German pancakes and eggs with Bacon. Can you tell Brian just woke up. I didn't think he would sleep in as long as he did I was done making breakfast and he was still sleeping so I had to wake him up so the food would not get cold. I had to work after church (bumber!) Brian went to his dad's house and celebrated there and my dad was out of town so we didn't really get to celebrate yet. I am so grateful for my father for all he does for me and for all he's has done for me growing up. I also am so grateful for Brian, he is such a great dad! He always gets down and plays with the kids. He is so patient with the kids and he teaches them so much! He always makes up funny songs for the kids and they always rhyme, even if it doesn't make any sense, it makes the girls laugh. He tickles, tackles, and wraps the girls up in burritos (they love the burrito wrap). He Loves his family and it shows by his actions. I Love you Brian and Thanks for being you!!!

Mckenzie's Dance Recital!

2009-06-24T12:40:00.000-07:00

This will be Kenzie's second year of dance and she really enjoys dancing. She loves to get all decked out in her makeup and her costume and Dance on stage she was so excited to perform. This is her before the recital started.

This is her showing us first position. I think she has great form.

Proud parents excited to see their little Dancer!

Ornery sister. I think she's mad she doesn't have a costume to wear. That, or she hates getting her picture taken.

Mommy and her little Dancer!

Daddy and his little Dancer!

Lining up to go on stage!

One last pic before to performs

I had no memory left on my camera so I didn't record it, but she did great!

After her first dance the kids were having a blast dancing in the isles. It was so fun and entertaining to watch them dance it cracked me up!!!

Okay, Kenzies second dance didn't go as smooth. If you cant tell she is so mad, ornery or something. She bonked her head before the dance and she did not want to perform anymore. She just wanted to go home. So, what did she do? The pictures say everything.

She stood there on stage sucking on her fingers during the entire dance, Errrrrrr!!!!!!.

After her dance there was an intermission and grandma gave her some flowers. That cheered her up and she was in a better mood

She changed back into her tutu and danced along with the others kids in the isles.

Joe breakdancing

Madi, Daphne (her best friend) and Joe Dancing

Waiting to go onstage one last time to bow and get her trophy

Kenzie has one last performance this Saturday and the season will be over. I am so proud of her and even though she didn't do her second dance she was still the best one out there!!!

The trip to Vegas!

2009-06-24T11:09:00.000-07:00

Dental simulation class at UNLV

Brian was accepted to participate in a Dental simulation class a UNLV and we decided to make a mini vacation out of it. Sorry this post is so late but we went the first week of June

Doesn't he look Hot in his scrubs!!!

He really enjoyed the coarse and it was a great opportunity for him to meet the admissions staff, and explore the campus since UNLV is one of the schools he is planning on applying to.

On the way to Vegas.

The kids were so excited to go on a road trip. They love road trips because they get to watch all the movies in the world and that's a treat for them!

We left around 6pm so the kids got to watch 2 movies and them they zonked out. ahhh Peace and quite!

We went to the Bellagio Hotel and enjoyed looking at the decor inside, and then, of course we watched the beautiful water show

Brian loves to make silly faces!

Madi Mylee and Kenzie

The show was amazing I love how the water mist your face it feels so good.

Kenzie got a little scared from the water show when the water went really high!

KB toys in Caesar's Palace

Playing with the toys!

The fish in the large aquarium in Caesars palace

This picture was awesome! I think Mylee got a little scared!

Playground fun!

This is what we did during Brian's class

The playgrounds in Vegas are so nice because they have canopies over the jungle gym so the hot sun doest heat up the slides and the kids don't get sun burned, its great!
Swimming

Like my farmer tan from the playground?

Kenzie learned how to do a back flip in the water. check it out and don't mind that lady in the way.

The ride on the strip

We drove through the strip and let me tell you I wont ever do this again. It took about an hour and all you saw were tons of almost naked women posters everywhere (like I want to see that).
The hotels are fun to look at but thats it! Not worth it!

Sunday!

The girls got all ready and decided to play us some music. I think they need a little practice but it sure was cute

Going to church

The Drive home

After church we left and headed home. We were all tired from staying up late every night but it was so fun. We stayed with some friends of ours who were so nice to open there home for us! Thanks Sharie and John!

Dancing at Raging Waters!

2009-05-30T21:41:00.000-07:00

Mckenzie had the opportunity to perform with her class at raging waters and it was so fun!

Kenzie and her Dance friends

Ready to dance

Walking off the stage after performing.

I was so proud of her she did great!

Madi going on the kid slide

Kenzie having fun with the tube!

Madi loved playing on this crab. She would get so mad when the older kids jumped on the crab and she would come to me and say they wernt sharing. They really were I just think she got scared when the crab started moving rough.

I tried to get both kids in the pic on this one but it just wasnt happening.

Mckenzie's Pre-school graduation

2009-05-30T21:00:00.000-07:00

Kenzie went to a three year old pre-school class this past school Year and she made it through! She Graduated and next year she will move on to the 4-5 class and get a cap and gown.

Ready to go to graduation

On the ride to graduation

Madi dancin with a boy!

Her pals from school

Kenzie's favorite boyfriend Joe (in green)

Kenzie learned a lot this year at school. She knows her alphabet, all the months of the year, she can count to 40 and she can read a few words. Her favorite part of school is doing the crafts and learning fun songs. They did a great little program for us at the graduation. The Video is a little blip of the program.

Kenzie walking!

Mckenzie had a deal with mom. Since she was always really nervous and clingy when I dropped her off at school in the morning, she always wanted me to walk her to her class. All her other classmates walked to class a lone. I didn't mind walking her at first but it got old after a while.

About two months before school ended we made a deal. When she had found a really cool clock at target that she really wanted (I really didn't want) I told her if she walked to class all by her self every day till the end of school year she would earn the clock and I would buy it. Well, she did it!! After graduation we went to target and she picked out her princess clock. Check out her pics she was so excited!

Getting out of the car to get her prize!

The clock!

Buying the clock!

Sister love at Wingers! Kenzie was so excited about the great day.

We ate at Wingers after she got her clock. There is a wingers that we pass every day when I take Kenzie to school and every time, she asks to eat there. We decided we would let her pick where to eat and she chose Wingers.

New pet

2009-05-18T20:16:00.000-07:00

Brian went golfing this weekend and brought home a cute pet for the kids, my girls named her Kelly. Not sure if its a worm, Caterpillar of what, if anyone can Identify this bug It would be great. Brian is insistent that its a Caterpillar and that it will turn into a moth or butterfly. We'll see, the kids are having fun with it, there are no pics of Kenzie holding Kelly because she's scared too. Silly girl. we are going to try to keep it untill it turns into a moth/butterfly. I'll give you updates on if we kill it (dies in our jar), or if it lives long enough to pupate.

Mothers Day

2009-05-18T19:56:00.000-07:00

This is really late but its been really busy around here. I was lucky enough to work a 12 hour shift on mothers day so all the other mothers could have the day off (that's what I was telling myself) I was actually suppose to work a 16hour day but I was cancelled the last 4 hours (thank goodness I was tired) I made it home just in time to tuck my cute little girls to bed, and to my surprise I came home to a very clean house with the laundry almost all done. I was so excited because I new my house was very messy since I had worked all weekend long. I read to my girls and went straight to bed. I was very grateful to my husband for all the hard work he had done for me. I had no idea he was going to clean the house. I think he nailed it with my gift this year. I really couldn't have asked for anything more it was the best gift ever. Even though I worked this year for mothers day I had the opportunity to spend time with some sick lonely mothers in the hospital and for some reason I didn't feel so sad being at work knowing that I was helping in some way.

Tesitmony meeting.

2009-05-03T23:51:00.000-07:00

I was so proud of Kenzie today. She got up and bore her testimony all by herself. Before church today I was preparing my lesson about fast Sunday and I made some signs that went along with my lesson she was asking me what each sign said. One of them said "Fasting prepares us to bear testimony" She said she wanted to bear her testimony today at church. I explained to her that if she did she had to do it all by herself. She was totally fine with that and was really excited. Well as soon as testimony meeting started she jumped up and sat by the bishopric. Someone was before her. When she got up she said "I like to bear my testimony I know this church is true and our Church is the church of Jesus Christ of latter day saints, in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen." I was so proud of her! It was simple and sweet and she said what she knew and that's what counts. When she came back to sit with the family she told me she bore a short testimony and next time it will be longer. I think she likes standing up there with the microphone. Today was a proud day to be a parent!

Out with the old, In with the new!

2009-05-03T00:18:00.000-07:00

Today Brian and I went to celebrate his end of semester. We went to see a movie and after we still had some time to kill before we had to be home. My Mom was watching our kids and we had an hour before we had to be home at 10 o'clock. Well we stopped by our dealer who sold our old Corolla to check out the cars and well 3 hours later we traded our old car for a new one. Our lease was up in 2 months and they were having a killer deal. Its still a corolla, but it has a few upgrades from the last. I'm hoping the next car we get will be a big SUV or yes I will admit to a "mini van" Toyota actually has a way nice mini van. It hardly looks like a van and it is a very reasonable price. Well my mom was a trooper and stayed with the kids all night till we got home at 1AM. Brian is actually in the car right now working out the voice command thing for his phone in the car. hehehe! I hope he comes to bed soon. This pic above is not our actual car but looks Identical to it. I love Leasing. Its fun to trade after 3 years. I am definatly pro leasing for this reason.

Bug or Seizure?

2009-04-30T20:05:00.001-07:00

Today Mckenzie, Madi and I were on the couch eating grapes. All of a sudden Mckenzie screams from the top of her lungs BUG and jumps of the coach as she is brushing off every inch of her body, then she starts rolling on the floor shaking and screaming and crying and brushing her body off. If she hadn't screamed bug at the beginning of this unnecessary scary bug episode I would have thought my daughter was having a seizure. After she had rolled, shook, brushed and screamed enough to get the bug off her I grabbed her and started hugging her and asked her what was wrong. I thought she had thought she saw what looked to be a bug, but maybe it was a shadow or a lint. I tried to convince her it was not a bug. She was insistent that it was crawling on her arm. After she calmed down a little I saw Madi looking at this toy that was sitting in our living room. (this toy was an outside toy that MAdi brought in a few minutes before we sat down to eat grapes) She said there was a bug and Kenzie started screaming KILL IT MOMMY. I picked up the toy and and talked to the little bug and then let it go outside. So, I guess there really was a bug from the toy. I was just so shocked at how afraid Kenzie is of bugs and how she reacted. What do I do to toughen her up. She literally is a wimp when it comes to bugs. A little later that evening Mckenzie told me that she didn't ever want to play outside because there are to many bug outside. I tried to have a little pep talk with her about bugs being are friend and we should love bugs, but I don't know if it helped any. Any advice to get her less afraid of bugs? Maybe we should go camping for a week? I don't know. I wish I had her on camera I think she would win on America's Funniest home videos. Me explaining what she did gave no justice to what I actually witnessed.

Easter! in a nut shell

2009-04-21T19:41:00.000-07:00

I have been working a lot so unfortunately we did not start coloring eggs till 10:30 the night before Easter. Luckily grandma Jean colored eggs with the girl a while back so they still had the fun of that. i know I'm a bad mom but at least they had colored eggs to look for on EASTER!!!

Big cheese!

Brian was so proud of this egg. You cant see it very well but he used one of those white out crayons to make a smiley face. He was hoping the kids would like that and they did!

The egg hunt at our house!

Cute Madi and Daddy going to grandmas house!

The girls new sun glasses from the Easter Bunny!

What a "stud"!

All afternoon I was on call for work so I hung out in my scrubs. Luckily I didn't get called into work till 7pm. I had the whole day with the fam, and it was great!

Me and my cute sis Amy. I was sad that Angela couldn't make it I wish she lived a little closer.

Egg Hunt at Grandma and Grandpa Millers

Yummy Eats

Easter Baskets prizes from Grandma and Gradpa Moffit!

It was funny the girls got 3 sets of swim suites. One from me one from the Millers and one from the Moffits. The catch was, the suites had to stay at the house they recieved them, so Grandma and Grandpa could take them swimming. What fun!! It was a great Easter celebration and I was so furtunate to spend it with my family instead of working.

Easter Egg Hunt and Farm day at preschool

2009-04-21T18:09:00.000-07:00

Okay I know this is a little late but it has been crazy and I havn't had much time to blog, so I have a lot of catching up to do. Kenzie had a field trip to a farm with cows and chickens. Madison was also aloud to come on the field trip. They saw cows poo, moo and eat, and got to feed chickens. After all the smell and fun they had a easter egg hunt. they had a blast finding all the eggs.

Road Closure, Blizard and tornado oh my!!

2009-04-10T11:34:00.001-07:00

On our trip to WI we drove there in 24 hours we had left at 6Pm and arrived the next day around 7PM WI time. The kids were great they slept the whole night and watched movies during the day. Well, I wish it had gone as smoothly on the way home. It was one thing after another keeping us from getting home . We left right after my grandpas funeral around 1pm. We thought, this will be great we'll get home tomorrow around 12 and we will take a nap. We didn't really listen to my Uncle when he said there is supposed to be a bad storm going across the plains. I hope you don't run into it. We figured we would take our chances I mean how bad could it be? We don't even know if it would really affect us. We started off going the wrong way and had to turn around and then we got lost again. Then we were off ready for the long nights drive. It started getting really windy so we called my dad to see what the weather was looking like ahead of us. He told us there was tornado warning in Omaha and a blizzard to follow. We were praying not to run into any tornado's, but while I was sleeping around 9:30pm Brian swears that when he was approaching Omaha he saw two funnel clouds forming ahead of him. He was so freaked out that he gunned it at 95MPH on the highway. I told him he should have woken me up. After that, the blizzard came and the road closed. We had to find a hotel for the night. We stayed in a dumpy motel 8 for the night hoping the roads would open early morning. That didn't exactly happen. We woke up to really load winds blowing at the window and got up for our continental breakfast. When we got there they had taken away the cereal (the main course) because they were out of milk). So all they had left was toast and muffins. When we got to the room after breakfast, Brian got on the Internet to watch for road openings, when all of a sudden the window screen blew off! It was so windy that the wind forced it off our window, CRAZY! We waited until 1pm before the roads opened back up. We drove for about 6 hours and then got off for Dinner. (all the way we were going 30-45MPH and sometimes at a complete stop, It wasn't snowing anymore but the old slow was blowing so fast, gust up to 40MPH I thought we where going to blow away. And some cars did get blown off the road, hence the pic above. The roads were so slick and it was really dangerous because if the snow blew on the road and you didn't slow down your were off the road stranded. We saw many cars off the road even a tow truck!) When we got back on the highway to drive the next exit had the road closure sign up. It was only 7pm. So we checked into another motel. This time Best Western, which was way nicer than our last motel. I went in search for a KMART to buy the girls a swimsuit so we could swim, because who knew how long we would be stuck in the middle of no where. I had a map and headed to Kmart. I was driving alone and I was driving away from the city, but I could have sworn I was going the right way. The road I was on was not plowed so it was slick. When I finally realized I was going the wrong way I decided to flip a U. Well that didn't go so well. I flipped a U right into a HUGE snow bank and got stuck! I was about to cry. I call Brian and he asked me what I was going to do. I was expecting him to save me, but how was he going to save me with no car and 2 kids. Luckily some guy with a HUGE truck stopped and had a toe rope. So he tied me up and pulled me out. I was so grateful for that guy. I think his name was Jason. I will always remember his kindness to save me. I don't know what I would have done if he hadn't stopped who knows, I might have had to walk all the way back to my motel with no coat miles away. I didn't end up getting to KMART because by the time I got saved it was to late and I was scared to go searching again.

I just went back to the motel and we all got cleaned up. I was board and wanted to be entertained so I decided to experiment with Mckenzies hair. I straightened it. How do you like it? She loved it. She is trying to grow it out so it is long and when it was straight is got way long. Well, by morning after Kenzie sleeping on her hair, it was curly again. We did end up making it home alive, but it was a rough trip home. I think after that drive we could drive anywhere and it would seem easy! I am just blessed that the lord was watching out for us and we always had a warm hotel to sleep in when the road closed. the kids had a blast at the motels and we didn't loose to much sleep. It actually let us recover from the trip a little.

Trip to Winsonsin! Grandpa's Funeral.

2009-04-06T20:05:00.000-07:00

They had a little train ride in the mall, the girls enjoyed ringing the bell.

The fist day in WI we went to the South Ridge mall to kill some time while Brian was chatting with the Director of Admission at Marquette. Marquette is one of the schools he will be apply for Dental School in June, so he wanted to check it out. Brian tells me that the meeting went really well. Maybe he made enough of an impression that the director will remember his name when it comes time to review applicants.

The second day we were there, we went to visit my cousin Julaine who lives an hour away from my Aunt (where we were staying) She just had a baby 2 months ago. Baby Addison. She is so adorable and my girls addored her. Kenzie kept saying "we need another baby sister like Addison" I would love to have another baby but not another girl, Im ready for a boy.

This is my cousin Julaine and her husband Jason. they are the cutest little family and I had to throw in the Pic with Julaine and me becuase of the cool background.

The Funeral was very different than the funerals I'm use to here in Utah. My Grandpa was cremated so there was no viewing and we were in a Church, not sure what the religion was, but they had the sacrament during the Funeral . We did a lot of sitting and standing with singing and sighting scripture and then we sang "Take me out to the ball gam"e (that was my grandpa's favorite song) After the ceremony they had a display of pictures and memories of Grandpa. I really liked it so I took a picture of one of the displays. If you look really close you will find a pic of me and my fam when I was about 13 or so, with my Grandpa.

My Aunts and Uncles and Mom and Dad!

What a cute couple!

To the left is my Uncle charlie with the glassed and my Aunt Pam. to the right is my Aunty Georia holding Addison and Uncle Don. In the purple is my Grandma and then Julain, Jason and Johnny.

Madi made a huge mess pigging out on strawberrys. She loves Strawberrys or any berry for that matter. The bottom pic is cousin Noah on the left and cousin Gracie to the right and of course my sweet Mckenzie. Gracie and Mckenzie really got along really well. Gracie especially loved it becuase Kenzie like to chase and Gracie loved that she would chase her, so that was the game they played all the time. Is was funny!

We left Tuesday around 6pm and arrived in Wisconsin at about 7Pm the next day (yes we drove all night long) We were tired but the kids were angels! (Luckily we had a DVD player so the kids watched movies the whole time!) They were so excited to see their cousins for the first time ever!! We stayed with my Aunty Pam and Uncle Charlie. And let me just say, They have 5 children all adopted. They are the best most well behaved children I have ever met. The three youngest children share one room ( 5 year old Girl Gracie, 7 year old boy Sami and 8 year old Noah) They are so good, Its almost unreal. She adopted two older girls from Ethiopia. The girls are 15 and 16 and I was so glad to meet them because I here all about them but I have not ever met them before. I didn't see them much because of school and stuff, but what I did see was impressive they are very thoughtful girls who are helpful and kind. I'm just so impressed with that family. When I was married 6 year ago my Aunty Pam and Uncle Charlie came out to visit and they only had little Noah. And in six years they went from 1 child to a mature Family of 5 children. Only a super family could handle a challenge like that. Over all it was a great visit. We were only there from wednesday night till Saturday Afternoon, but it was worth seeing my family. I think I can count on one hand how many times I have been back east to visit, so it was nice to see them again.

Mckenzies 4 year Birthday Party

2009-03-28T19:23:00.000-07:00

The kids came to the party and got all dressed up in princesses and Pirates costumes

The first game at the party was the treasure hunt. The kids all got a treasure box and had to search for hidden chocolate gold coins, play coins, jewels, rings and necklaces. They all were so excited to fill their boxes full of treasure

The second game was catching Tinkerbell in the field of butterflies (or living room of butterflies). The third game was a bean bag throwing contest. That game cracked me up because all the kids were pushing a shoving to have a turn and they would step right in front of the board and still miss, they really enjoyed it though . Last game was the classic pin the princess at her window of the castle. The kids are so funny they all wanted to go first and be the winner. Luckily they all got a prize and it turned out great!

THE CAKE!!

All Kenzie asked for was The Little Mermaid II

She was so excited to get it!

What the cheese ball! She posed for every gift. Well, she did until I ran out of room on the camera.

Grandma Jane and Grandpa David couldn't be here to see her face from their gift she really loved it and was so surprized! The party was a blast, I even had fun. All the kids cracked me up they are all so darn cute at this age. They say the darnest things.

Mckezies Birthday Fun day!

2009-03-28T16:44:00.000-07:00

Since Mckenzies real birthday was Friday 3/27 and her party wasn't till Saturday, we made the whole day especially special for her. I got work off and I had the whole day planned with fun activities

She started out opening her first Birthday present. She got a swimsuit and diving rings with goggles. She loved them! she was so excited! Then I told her we were going swimming for the activity with her favorite friends, Layla, Daphne and Joe (Sarah's kids). She loves swimming with her kids and they play so well together.

I made her favorite Breakfast, besides her most favorite, which is oatmeal (YUCK, besides I cant put a candle in the oatmeal.) she loved the pancakes and we also sang Happy Birthday!

After a fun day of swimming (sorry forgot to take a pictures) Grandma Jean and Grandpa Lyle had a great evening planned for the kids so I could get the house ready for the party. They took them to the aquarium. Mckenzie said her favorite fish in the aquarium was the Jelly fish that turned colors.

Before Swimming Grandma Jane and Grandpa David (my parents) came and dropped of some gifts for Kenzie since they where leaving out of town for Grandpa's Funeral. She opened one of the many gifts they got her. It was a Snow white dress up costume. Kenzie loves it and you'll see it in my next post for her party! Mckenzie had a great day full of surprises and excitement it was a blast and was so fun to see her smile so big!

Better late than never: Our Visit to the New Draper Temple

2009-03-18T22:39:00.000-07:00

We finally went to see the Draper Temple the last day and it sure was beautiful. Mckenzie was so excited to see the sealing room where people get married. She talks about getting married in the Temple like mommy and daddy when she gets older. It makes me so happy to hear her say that. I hope she doesn't change her mind when she gets older. She already has her husband picked out and has told him, I'm not sure he's up to it but she thinks its going to happen. I remember when I was in preschool I thought I was going to marry a boy named Hunter he stole a ring and proposed to me (at least this was the story my mom always tell me) Kids are so cute and innocent at this age. Madison just says what Kenzie says so she is going to get married in the temple too, with the same boy, Kenzie corrects her and tell her she needs to pick someone else. I love my girls they make me laugh!

The Girls has so much fun riding on the bus. Funny thing is Madison needed to go potty so I took her to the potty on the bus. Well it wasnt a very good bathroom(stinky no soap to wash hands NASTY!) and we got locked in. I thought I was going to be in their forever but Luckily I figured out the lock and got out just in time to get out of the bus. I missed the scenic ride to the temple, bumber! I think next time I will make Madison go potty after we to a place with windows in the bathroom. I did get to enjoy the view on the way back, and luckily there was no bathroom on the second bus.

Our Crazy Disney on Ice trip!

2009-03-16T19:52:00.000-07:00

This was Kenzie and daddy before we left for Disney on Ice. The kids love to dress up the the occasion It gives them and excuse to wear there little Princess Costumes.

Train ride the the Show!n (don't mind my ugly hair.)

Peter Pan was the Best I liked how they actually Flew!

So, when I purchased the tickets for Disney on Ice you don't expect the kids to be sick ornery and whiney when you go. My luck they were both sick with influenza and Kenzie was in the making of an ear infection. I coundn't just stay home and waste the tickets. Brian and I tuffed it out and took the kids knowing it was going to be a lot harder to keep the kids happy when they were sick. Well It started out with me thinking the Program started on 4pm. When we got there, there was not any one in sight. Brian looked at me and said "are you sure this was tonight?" I responded not so confident "yes". We asked one of the guys manning the event parking if Disney on Ice was tonight and he said yes at 7Pm. Brian just looked at me like "you have got to be kidding." I was thinking the same thing. So not only were the kids sick ornery and whiney but we were going to have to stay up past their bed time to watch the show. On top of that we didn't want to drive all the way home to come back (we probably should have done that but we didn't want to deal with parking late. So, we parked front row and walked to the gate way mall and ate at chillis, since the kids said they were starving (funny thing is, they didn't eat one bite) then we walked around and checked out nickle cade and then we went to Gymboree . because I knew they had a little TV. I thought they would like to sit down and relax but they really just whined more about everything. Finally we decied to walk back to the Arena but we jumbed on traxs for fun. The kids really liked riding the train. Once the show got started it was wonderful. I was so surprised that the kids sat the whole time in a trans. They loved it. In the end it was worth it. The kids are still talking about how cool it was. I guess I should be more positive about the whole thing. It's just hard when you imagine a fun day planned. You think smiles laughter and giggles. It was a little off but oh well, thats the way life goes sometimes. We ended up taking Kenzie to the insta care for her ears a couple days later and now she is finally starting to feel more her self. Madi is still recovering from the infuenza. I hate viruses. You take the kids to the Dr hoping for a cure but when its a virus they say it should probably last 4 maybe 5 days and then it seems to always last longer. Blaagh I'm rambling.

Cold Day! No Play Outside.

2009-03-05T20:05:00.000-08:00

Monday morning the girls and I were listening to the weather, and the stupid weather guy said it would be a nice day in the 60's so I thought not bad lets got to the park. (this was me wishing for warm weather) well I invited a few people and planned a fun picnic at the park. As you can see from the kids face they were not enjoying themselves all that much. Kenzie even tried to play on the play ground and she comes running back saying "its freezing!" I called everyone and cancelled. We finished out lunch and headed to the warm library.
kenzie has been bugging me to let her do her own hair, so we made a deal. She gets to do her hair Mon, Weds, Fri, and some Saturdays. Its been working out okay. Today was her day to do her hair. How did she do?

We decided to go to the mall park with Sarah's cute kids, of course they had a blast, and the day was saved at the indoor warm and toasty mall park. Now, if only the mall close to my house build a park I would be set for a long winter. I just can't wait for Spring. I love taking the kids to the park putside to enjoy the warm sun feeding my skin with Vitamin D. Till then, I guess I will wait for some warm weather.

The kids are standing on this half ball. They love to jump off of it.

No more Binky!!! Yeah!!!

2009-02-23T19:55:00.000-08:00

Madi has always been a very quiet baby with her binky. If she had a Binky in her mouth she was the happiest girl in the world.

My baby is officially no longer a baby! I got her off the Binky last week. whoa!!! it was way hard. We told Madi the night before we took her Binky away that tomorrow we were going to throw all her Binky's away because she was a big girl and not a baby anymore. She seemed okay with the idea and in the morning gathered up all her Binky's excitedly, and tossed in the trash like no big thing. Well then, at night we tucked her in and and gave her a kiss, and then............... She asked........... "I need my Binky" Brian and I told her that they are all in the trash and that she was a big girl now. Madi frowned and then....................she Busted out bawling with big dart tears. It was the saddest thing ever to see. I felt like such a horrible mom at the moment. So, after a few pep talks from mommy and daddy she finally calmed down. I told her that the Binky fairy was going to come tonight and get all her binky's from the trash and take them to all the new baby's that need bink's. I think she liked that story and she went to bed. But it doesn't end there. She got sick that night with some virus, but we didn't know she was sick we just figured she was getting up every hour because she couldn't sleep without it. Well, after two night of no sleep I called the Dr. (only cause she spiked a fever) I took her in and that's when we found out that she had a virus. Brian and I searched all over the house to find a binky for her because we felt so bad that we took it away when she was sick. We searched high and low and could not find one soooo..... I guess that was a blessing in disguise because now her virus is gone and after 6 days of endless nights she is sleeping through the night with no binky. Yeah for Madi. The next project for her is training her at night to sleep with panties. Anyone have any suggestions? Mckenzie was a breeze for everything so Madi has been my challenge I will take any advise I can get.

Romantic night out!

2009-02-16T12:39:00.001-08:00

What a beautiful Temple. It has been a tradition ever since we got married to go to The Roof for Valentines day. It all started with our first V-day. We wanted to go to the Roof but it was booked. We ended up getting reservations for the day before V-day. We thought it was such a romantic atmosphere that we have gone every year since. They play live piano and you have the gorgeous view of the SLC Temple (where we were married). Its so nice because its not like most restaurants where you have to yell across the table just to hear the conversation. Its quiet and peaceful.

The last couple of years we have gotten a group together to enjoy the evening. Its always fun to have friends enjoy something you like. We had a blast. I don't know why but I must have eaten so much that the blood left my brain and into my stomach. I was laughing at everything. The waiter was taking our pictures and I thought it was so funny watching him struggle to figure out how to use each camera. He actually did a great job with the pics I don't know what my deal was.

This was our Beautiful View from our table. It was nice because our group was a little late so Brian and I had a while to enjoy the view and the piano alone.......

Ready to go out. Its been a long time since we had a night to ourselves so it was nice to get out of the house without the kids interrupting our conversation. I love our kids but sometimes for my

sanity I just need to get away.

These are my beautiful Flowers Brian got for me even though I told him not to get me anything, hehehehe, How did he know I would still love something. He's the best!!! Brian is the most thoughtful man a live, he also went to Dillard's and spent hours trying to pick out a dress for me to wear. Unfortunately it didn't fit right and we had to take it back but what a great guy!

Valentines day for the kids

2009-02-16T12:27:00.001-08:00

Grandma Jean and Grandpa Lyle Came over on Saturday to watch the girls so Brian and I could go out. They brought a fun surprise for the girls. They both got new valentine Jami's and a basket with chocolates (their favorite) and a teddy bear. they were so excited. Kenzie also had gotten some popcorn from one of the kids from school so they had movie night with popcorn.
Kenzie made a valentine bag at school for all her valentines. She was telling me about her day at school and she said a little boy in her class didn't like her princess valentines, but Kenzie said she didn't like the transformer valentine. I thought that was funny.

Grandma Jane Gave the girls Valentine shirt to wear so I had them wear them Thursday for Kenzies school My cute little Valentine girls!

I was Tagged

2009-02-09T16:36:00.001-08:00

Okay, so I don't usually do the tag thing but for my best friend Sarah, I will do it.

My Six Happy Things.

Link to the person who has tagged you.Write down six things that make you happy. Post the rules, tag six others and let them know you did it. Then tell the person when your entry is complete.

1. I am happy when my house is all clean. Its the best feeling when you have slaved for hours cleaning and you get to sit down when all the hard work is done and enjoy the cleanliness.

2. I am happy when my husband gets home from a long day of school. I feel like the whole day woulnd't be the same If my cute hubby wouldn't be coming home. I always get excited when he walks in the door. On a hard day he makes everything better.

3. I am happy when I get to go shopping!! What can I say I love to shop.

4. I am happy when I see someone I havn't seen in a long time. It's so fun when I am out shopping or at a resurant and I run into an oldtime friend.

5. I am happy when my kids do cute stuff. If your a parent you know what I am talking about.

6. I am happy when we have family get togethers or dinner. I love my family and I love spending time with them.

I tag; Julaine, Molly, Liza, Shayla, Candice, Maria.

In Memory of Great Grandma

2009-02-04T00:31:00.000-08:00

Norma Hunsaker Spencer Newbold (Brian's grandma) Died Yesterday 2/4/20o9. She died with family all around her. when I asked how she was when she died Jean replied, she was peaceful and looked as beautiful as ever. Grandma lived a full life. She was born March 11, 1919 she had almost made it to 90 years old. Now she is watching over all of us with our father above. I remember visiting Grandma Newblod (the kids great grandmother) and she was always so kind. I think every time we came to her house she was trying to give away something whether it be books, or stuffed animals for the kids. We will miss her dearly but we want to celebrate her life and want everyone to know that Grandma is in a better place without pain and loneliness. I found this poem on the internet that I thought would be appropriate.

there'll be two dates on her tombstone

everyone will read them..but the only thing that matters

is the little [ dash between them ]

We love you Grandma Norma!

2009-02-02T21:23:00.000-08:00

This is Brians Bio from the Pre-Dental Association if you can't see it on this post you can check it out on the website http://web.utah.edu/predental/Pre-Dental_Society/Bio_-_Treasurer.html The latest project they are working on is planning a 5K marathon for operation smiles or some other cause. Its early in the works so hopefuly they can make it happen. I know that they have been talking about doing this for a couple of years so, hopefuly this year they can organize and get it done. I know I will be running in it, if they plan it.

Today at school

2009-01-27T21:24:00.001-08:00

Today was cowboy day at school and Kenzie was so excited. When I told her what she was learning about, she wanted to wear her dress up cowgirl hat. I was a little worried she would stand out but apparently another little boy was all decked out in his cowboy clothes, so I guess it was the thing to do today. Thursday will be pajama day so I'm sure Mckenzie will love to wear her PJ's. Also, the latest thing Mckenzie is doing is recognizing the letter "M" Any time we pass a bill board with letters she will find the letter "M" and say look mommy the board has the letter "M" for Mckenzie. Today we were driving to school and she saw a licence plate that has 1 letter "M" and again she pointed it out. I'm glad she is recognizing letters. She is also really good at her number recognitions. She can do most of them but she always gets "3" and "5" mixed up. Madison is also progressing. It has been over a week with no potty accidents, now all I need to do is wean her off the binky at night. She is my little baby and I have a hard time letting it go. I guess I just need to let her grow up. Brian keeps nagging at me to get her off the binky, I just don't have the heart to do it. I'm sure it will happen soon though, I told Brian after we get Madi potty trained we can wean her off. Well the time has come. If anyone has some good suggestions on the best way to go about doing this I could really use the help!!!

Nothing to say

2009-01-25T19:03:00.000-08:00

I hadn't really posted much this week so I thought I would talk about nothing. Now that all the holidays are over it seems that there is a calm at our house. Things are getting back to order, Kenzie is back at school and Dance. Brian is back with his crazy schedule at school and I am doing what I always do. Trying to keep the house and the kids tamed. Okay so I was thinking the other week that I would try really hard to maintain the house everyday. With working full time right now this is very hard to do, since after a 12 hour shift or sometimes 16 hour shift, the last thing I want to do is unload the dishes. Well, it turned out okay, I maintained. It was nice not to worry about having to spend the whole day cleaning because it just took a little while to clean. I think I will try it again. For me it's frustrating when the kids pull out all their toys and don't want to put them back when they are ready to do something else and if you have ever been in our little 1000SF home a few toys make the entire house look like a disaster. I was talking with my mom and she said she has a friend who raised 9 kids in the same amount of space (she never gives me any sympathy) Can you imagine? I have a hard time with 2 kids in this space. Well, the light at the other side of the tunnel is starting to show. Brian applies for dental school at the end of this semester so the stakes are high! I am praying everyday that he gets in. He is really excited about shadowing dentists. I think he really likes this semester because he is taking a lot of classes that apply to dentistry. I love when he talks about it he gets so excited. I'm excited too. The other thing I have been thinking about is having another baby. I am getting baby hungry and it is driving me crazy. Who in their right mind in my situation get baby hungry? I don't really want to say anymore about that becuase it's not in the picture right now and wont be for a while its just what I think about.

Bob Marley Makes Kenzie Shake her Booty

2009-01-22T21:54:00.001-08:00

What can I say my kids love to dance. Like Mother like Daughter.

Club Express

2009-01-18T23:10:00.000-08:00

The entire family was shopping the other day at express and the kids started dancing in the store. Madi was being her usual free spirited wild child self and Mckenzie was dancing as a flirty go go girl next to a manequin. After a while of dancing a couple of other kids started flocking over towards them and started dancing also. It was funny watching these kids dance as if they were at a dance club or something. Check out these goofy kids... check out the first 35 seconds or so.

Depression!

2009-01-15T18:48:00.000-08:00

So the last month Brian has been out of school on break. I'll tell you I felt like I was married all over again when he was home. This week Brian went back to school, and I think I'm depressed about it. I know that once school starts I will hardly see him. So I'm depressed, today I just looked at my messy house and said "I just don't care" and I vegetated. On top of Brian gone I'm on my crimson tide so that enhances things ten fold. I know, I know, we all get mad at men when they blame our crankiness on the time of month, but I can do it all I want. Brian is such a sweetheart! He came home and saw the messy house and didn't even say anything, like he didn't even notice the hurricane that hit our house. Well I'll be better, tomorrow I work a 16 hour shift so my gaol is to clean and do laundry Saturday, and I will not rest till it's done, till then!

Kids say the funniest things!

2009-01-14T17:55:00.000-08:00

Alright so I haven't been very good at writing down what my girls say so I thought I would write down what Mckenzie and I talked about at dinner

Kenzie -Mom, do girls fart?

Mom -Yes, every one farts.

Kenzie- No, thats not right!

Mom- Than what do they do?

Kenzie- They Pass gas

Mom- Thats right, good job, who taught you that?"

Kenzie -"Daddy"

Mom- Does mommy fart?

Kenzie -No! She passes gas

Mom -Does daddy fart

Kenzie- YES!

Mom- LOL!!!!

Okay so if you don't know me very well than this conversation might sound crude, but oh well I thought it was the funniest thing. I'm glad Brian is teaching the girls some lady like manners. Brian is so good with the girl It amazes me how patient he is with the girl. One day he sat with Mckenzie for an hour in front of the fridge, going over the alphabet toy magnets. I have never done that more than 1 minute. (I think he was suppose to be cleaning)This is Madisons thing. Ever since she has discovered how to squirt the squirt bottles, Madison will stop at nothing to do this!! She will not drink hardly any water all day. The minute I give her a water bottle the water is a goner. I don't know why the water taste so much better in the squirt gun, but it does, and if I ask her why she likes to drink out of it she says "because I like it!". Its the cutest thing until I can't find any squirts guns cause they are all in the toy box. Besides squirting the water in her mouth, she also loves to clean everything and anything with the bottle, even carpet "I just want to scream when I see her squirting the electrical TV and my alarm clock." she loves the squirt gun, it will keep her entertained for a long time, so I let her use it but any time Brian's home all the squirt bottles go missing. (he can't tolerate her squirting, LOL) I guess I'm a push over mom, or maybe its just one small thing out of the big picture. Whatever it is I let her use it hehehe. Whats the harm? (as long as she stays away from the electrical stuff.) Okay I am rambling so good night!

Chocolate Chip!

2009-01-13T21:31:00.001-08:00

Brian was bathing the girls the other day and was shampooing Mckenzie's hair. He was making all sorts of funny hair doo's, but this one was the funniest. Brian was making a big deal about how funny she looked that we got the mirror for her to see. The minute she saw it she said "I look like a chocolate chip". It doesn't sound as cute explaining the moment but it was hilarious hearing her say it. we laughed and then took a picture.

Kenzie's new Booster

2009-01-13T21:02:00.000-08:00

Mckenzie needed to upgrade to a booster so we went to the store and picked one out. We both agreed on a really cute pink one, but then I saw this gray car seat for the same price that looked way more comfy and had lights on it so she can read in the seat (cool) on top of that there was not only a cup holder but a snack holder too. I convinced her of the better bargain and she got the gray one. I was so surprised that she picked comfort and convenience over pretty in pink. I am so proud of her she is learning to reason and think of more than just cool colors. Yea for Kenzie! Well as you can see the kids were having a blast with the box that the booster came in. I thought they were so cute hiding I had to post a picture

Mckenzie's First Day in Primary

2009-01-06T14:31:00.000-08:00

Mckenzie had her first Day of Primary. She was so excited. She kept saying she was going to Primary school. After the class I asked the teacher how she did and she said she was very reverent and she offered the closing prayer in her class. Then I talked to the Primary president and she said what a great addition she was to primary. She told me that she asked the primary during sharing time if anyone new who the living prophet was. Mckenzie raised her hands really high and said I know!!! "IT'S ME" I laughed!! I'm glad she is participating. (The next day in FHE we learned about our Living Latter Day Prophet President Thomas S. Monson.) Mckenzie loved the singing and had a great time. I'm so glad she had fun and enjoyed Primary She is getting so big. I'm sure I will continue to think she is always growing big. I just can't believe that almost 4 years ago I had this helpless little child in my arms that couldn't do anything on her own and now she is this beautiful child of god that is constantly learning a growing, and maybe growing too fast for my liking.

New Years Eve Day!

2009-01-03T21:37:00.000-08:00

Giddy up Horsey!

Madi riding the horse

Kenzie has been aching to get a play register for a long time so when she saw this she was so excited to play!

I think Madi was thirsty cause she kept drinking the play water "gross"

LOL!

My girls love to play house. I think they could have played here all day.

The weather today will be partly cloudy with 10% chance of snow.

Look we are in a real helicopter. When you go inside, there's a button you can push that assimilated the sound of what a real working helicopter would sound like. Madi and Kenzie were a little scepticle about getting inside cause the boy in the front had pushed the button and the noise was really loud. After they got in they loved it.

Musical sounds

We had a blast at the Discovery Gateway Childrens Museum. It was all hands on and my kids loved it. We were trying to think up something fun for the kids for new years eve and a friend posted on her blog how great this place was. She was right "Thanks Randi" It was more fun than I thought it would be. Actually Brian and I were ready to go before the kids were ready to go. I think I will have to take the kids again when it isn't so crowded.

Madi is officially Potty Trained

2009-01-02T21:40:00.000-08:00

My big girl going poopy!!

Okay I know this is Nasty, but I have to have it on record. We have been letting Madi wear panties all day for the last week and the first day she had no accidents and every day after she had about one accident a day. ( I thought that was really good for her) I was so proud when madi at dinner time said she had to go poopy (which is usually what she says when she needs to pee) She got the big girl potty all ready and really pooped. She had pretty well had the urinating down, but not number 2. This is a big milstone yea!!! The last 2 days she has had no accidents. She really is on a role!!

Going Pee, yepee!!

~Christmas~

2008-12-27T20:55:00.000-08:00

Christmas at my Moms house!!

Okay, so I took so many pictures so I condensed them to a collage.

Madison and Mckenzie got the Sleeping Beauty costume, they love to play dress up.

Christmas at our house!
This was Mckenzie's favorite gift and biggest gift from Santa. She was so excited!!! She was hoping and wishing for this Vanity set forever. So far, it has paid off for Santa to get it for her, because it is all she wants to play with. She is also being so nice to share it with Madison (most the time).

This was Madisons gift from Santa. Tinkerbell head! She is into doing everyones hair. She also got a blow dryer and brushes to style her hair.

This is a little summary of what went on, on Christmas morning

The girls got warm blankets from their Great Aunt Dolly! They love them.

Before the unwrapping

"Look Santa filled the stockings"

~Chrismas Eve at the Moffitts house~

Brian and Ernie (brother)

Okay, I have a lot of Brian but its hard not to put all these cute pictures of him on here, cause he is so darn cute!!

Grandpa Lyle

Grandma Jean opening her present from us.

Both Madison and Mckenzie were so excited for everything they got!

~A week before Christmas~

My sister Angela came into town a week before Christmas so we had a mini celebration at my moms house it was so fun to see Angela her boyfriend and her son Sheldon.

The girls got the cutest little Kitten hats.

Brian was really excited to get a new blue tooth set since I lost his old set last summer. (I wonder if he will let me borrow it)

You can't see what Madi is holding up, but they are the coolest set of crayons you will ever see. They draw so good.

Kenzie calls this purse from Aunt Angela her "MULAN" purse since its from china.

Sheldon Looks so cute in a bow.

Baby Sheldon trying to open up his gift

I'm glad Kenzie didn't drop that.

Scott and Angela

My kids love their little cousin Sheldon they are so cute with him always playing and keeping him entertained.
We ate at the Garden up on the 10th floor of the Joseph Smith Memorial building. We worked up quit the appetite taking family photo's that we had to get a bite. I love this restaurant!!

This is a picture that Mckenzie took. She was the photographer for most the night.

Kenzie couldnt keep her hands off the camera. I think I have five different pictures of this pose and yes she is taking the picture! (Pretty good for a 3 year old.)

~The nut cracker~ I think this is the biggest I've ever seen!

Brian and Baby Sheldon. Doesn't Brian look like he needs a little boy of his own?

This is as close to seeing the temple lights as we have been. Pretty pathetic don't you think? all though it was a beautiful view. I am still planning to take the kids before the new year.

Madison's Milestone

2008-12-27T20:12:00.000-08:00

This was Madison a couple of weeks ago. After she started climbing out of her bed she didn't stop. I told brian as soon as he is done with finals he has to convert her crib to a toddler bed. And behold Madison is in a big girl bed!! She does so great in the bed and she really likes it. I was a little worried that she would climb out and never fall asleep but I still to this day have had no ploblem with her nap times and bed time. She's even better at staying in the bed than Mckenzie (that little stinker!)

My sleeping Angels!

We are so proud of Madison she is growing so fast. on top of having a big girl bed she has big girl panties!!! Today was actually her first day with dry panties all day long yea!!!!!!! I wonder how she will do tomorrow. If she keeps it up she'll be able to take dance class in January like I promised. She has been asking to take dance class all year long and the only thing stopping her is the panties! I figure dance class is cheaper than a box of diapers so it will not be much extra cost, right?

Family Pictures

2008-12-20T23:19:00.001-08:00

The Big Family. Unfortunately we couldn't get Brian's parents in the picture because one was ill. Maybe next time :(

Kenzie adores her little Sheldon. She hasnt seen him very much because he lives in California. That doesnt stop her from loving him to pieces or forgetting about him, she talks about him all the time!

Mckenzie, Baby Sheldon and Madison.

Baby Sheldon is my nephew he is so adorable

"STRIKE A POSE"

I love this picture it cracks me up.

They look so little on this chair. I got them excited to sit on the chair by saying it was like Santa's Big chair at the Mall

You can actually tell what Madi is trying to say in this picture, hehehehe. If you can't figure it out heres a hint. "Cheese"

Work Chritmas Party!!

2008-12-18T00:52:00.000-08:00

Mckenzie and Audrey became insta best friends they both love to dance!

This is Mckenzie's new Dance partner. As they listened to the amazing One Voice Choir, Mckenzie Madison and Audrey Danced the night away they were having a blast, and I was laughing my head off!!

Kenzie telling Santa what she wanted for christmas. Mckenzie's gave Santa a Christmas wish list. I didn't even know that she had brought it for him. What a smart little girl!

"Cheese"

Santa's Candy Bag!! I was thinking that I really need to hide these treats.

The Party was a blast!! It started out with a great dinner followed by the One Voice Choir and that's when the kids boogied on down! Then Santa came. It was so cute Mckenzie handed Santa her Christmas list that she made at school. i cant recall exactly what it said but it went something like this. "Dear Santa, My name is Mckenzie and I am 3 years old. My teacher is helping me write this letter at Preschool. I have been a good girl this year or at least I am trying to be. Please bring me a PRINCESS VANITY. Madison is my sister Please bring her a TINKER BELL VANITY." Then I cant remember how is ended but is was so cute. I hope Santa brings what she wants. After Santa we played karaoke. It was a blast. That's me on the left tyring to sing. I really suck at singing but I was being a good sport. I tried to convince Brian to do a duet with me, but he refused. I think he enjoyed watching everyone make a fool out of themselves. Actually I think we discovered a few hidden talents from CVU3. Over all it was a successful party and I was so glad I went. The kids had a blast and so did Brian so what more can I ask for, right? I love this time of year it is so fun!

~Winter Recital~

2008-12-15T21:16:00.000-08:00

Mckenzie did so great at her Winter recital. This is her after showing us her favorite dance move! She is so funny check her out in the video she the second on the left.

Your looking at The New 2009 Pre-Dental Society Treasurer!!

2008-12-15T21:02:00.000-08:00

~2009 Pre-Dental Officers~

Brian Decided he wanted to be more involved in the PDS so we went to the Winter social where they were having an election for the new leaders for 2009. He should have ran for President he would have totally won!! I was so proud of Brian. He gave the best speech ever he was so calm and collect and didn't even seem nervous I guess everyone one else was thinking the same thing because he won. Brian was up against two other candidates and they were both great but brian was the BEST :) Okay I can be biassed because he's my husband hehehe! I am just so proud of how hard he works on his school work. Brian will be applying for dental school in May so wish him luck!!

PUNK KIDS

2008-12-15T10:32:00.000-08:00

Rebecca the kids and I were driving to Grandma and Grandpa's place when we came across this little house. The kids said they wanted to see it again so we turned around to look at it again, except when we turned around the Deer on the left was tipped over. Rebecca said to me that's weird it wasn't tipped over a minute ago. We had to flip a U again to go back in the direction of Grandma and Grandpas when we saw these three kids walking, I said to Rebecca, I bet those kids tipped it over. I put my headlights on the kids and unrolled my window and told them they were "busted" and the cops were on their way. One of the kids says what are they on their way for? I told them they are coming because you all tipped that deer over. The kid says "well, I can go put it back up!" I told him it would probably be a good idea. So, two of the three kids just kept walking and didn't really care or believe what I told them, and one of the kids went chugging back to the house, and put the deer back up. So the kids were able to see the entire display the way it was supposed to be. It was pretty funny, Rebecca says we're lucky they didn't pull their guns out on us and shoot us. Funny wife of mine.

Festival of Trees Dance Performance

2008-12-08T21:46:00.000-08:00

Kenzie all ready to go!

Getting her Ballet shoes on!

Some of her classmates.

Proud Parents of Mckenzie!

The Moffit Family waiting anxiously to see Mckenzie.

Mckenzie on stage (She's the one on the right behind the big black box, isn't she adorable?)

Kenzie was so excited to get her tutu on all day she kept saying "mom we need to hurry or we will be late!" I know she was trying this tactic because I use it on her in the morning before school and it works every time. I explained to her that we didn't need to get ready till after we ate lunch. Well after lunch Kenzie said again "we need to hurry they are waiting for us". I thought is was so cute how excited she was. check out the performance I think she did great, considering last year at her first performance she cried the whole time.

After she performed Kenzie said "that was so fun lets do it again!"

Kenzie and Laylah.

The Trees!
The girls favorite tree, we had to restrain Madi from going inside the gate. She wasn't so happy about that.
Okay Mckenzie was really tired at this time and any picture we took of her was a fake smile if we even got her to smile.
SO this picture kind of looks bad but we stood there forever because Kenzie originally wanted us to take a picture of her in front of the tree but we had some camera issues and we were standing waiting forever so by the time the picture took she was trying to run away.

Walking around to see the cute tree's. This was one of the only times Madison wasn't crying. She didn't get a nap and all she wanted was, me to carry her.

The family

~Getting ready for Christmas~

2008-11-28T21:44:00.000-08:00

The Christmas Tree all decorated..... I do have a skirt I just forgot to put it on for the picture. It's such a relief after the tree is all decorated it seems like that is the hardest and longest part.

Last but not least, the Angel on the top. The girls wanted to put the angel on first so when it was finale time it was extra special.

Madison is concentrating so hard on putting the bulb on right.

The girls were such great help decorating this year.

When Brian got the tree out from storage the kids were jumping up and down saying Christmas tree yeah!!! They have been bugging Daddy to get the decorations for 3 days (yes before thanksgiving)

Christmas is such a fun time a year actually once October hits it is so exciting with Halloween then thanksgiving and the big finale CHRISTMAS!! I love my house in December cause all the decorations fill the blank spots on the wall and it is so festive.

The kids were so excited to see Santa this year so we decided to go on black Friday since I was canceled from work we had some christmas fun.

Look Santa's Beard is real.

Kenzie Asked Santa for a Princess Vanity. Madison wants a Tinkerbell toy.
I cant believe they sat on Santa's lap. Every year till this year they both would scream and they would only look at Santa from a distance. This time mckenzie ran right up and Madison wanted me to hold her hand till she got on Santa's lap. I tell you it was nice for a change to see them happy and excited to be with Santa instead of scared to death!!!

Thanksgiving Feast!!!

2008-11-28T20:30:00.000-08:00

Madison and Kenzie anxiously waiting for me to get ready so we can go to Grandma's for dinner.

Kenzie caught red handed chowing down on the the nuts before dinner!!! My honey waiting patiently to eat some grub

The Lukowski Crew.. It's been a tradition since before I can remember that we have the Lukowski's over for thanksgiving.. Our parents are really good friends and I dont know what it would be like without them here for dinner. This family is so funny they always make me laugh.
The love birds!!! Newly wedded this summer and alreay expecting. Yeah!

Thanks to the great Jane Miller (MOM) We had a wonderful Thanksgiving feast. She always works extra hard to make this holiday super special and she always succeeds. It's been my one of my favorite holidays because it brings the family close together.

Enjoying conversation..

Eating the Grub!

Grandpa Dave, Mira, Maria, David and Karen all enjoying good eats.

The kids table...Where we were sitting.

" I'm all done mommy" Said Kenzie. Look, at least I ate all my food, I was stuffed! The girls on the other hand, well you see their plates.

Mckenzie was so thirsty after the dinner, but I really think it was from eating so many peanuts before the dinner.
Amy and Mini Amy...Madi looks just like Amy if you saw Amy's baby pictures you would think they were twins because they looks so much alike. Madison adores Amy. When Madison was a baby I accidentally called her Amy a couple of times.

Daddy talking to Mckenzie, telling her we had to go.. She wasnt too happy about that.

We really had a great time at my parents house. The kids were very excited and had fun getting all dressed up in their sunday dress for thanksgiving feast. I am so greatful for my family and all the many blessing in my life. Most of all I am greatful for the love that I share between my family and the lord. I know I couldn't do half the things I do if it wasn't for the lords love and blessings.

~The night before Thanksgiving~

2008-11-27T21:20:00.000-08:00

We all went to Grandma Janes house to help her bake pies and set up for thanksgiving. We got home late and the kids were so excited to have thanksgiving feast the next day. Kids are so fun during the holidays!! They make everything so exciting.

What I've been up to!!

2008-11-27T21:03:00.000-08:00

So all week I have been miss crafty. I love it. I never really make many things but I have had an itch for making bows and tutu's lately. It all started when I found out we didn't have much money for Christmas. I was thinking of what my mom did when I was younger.. She always made her family some cute craft decoration of some sort. they were always so cute. My family didn't have much money growing up but I do remember my mom spending hours crafting gifts together for Christmas. So, this gave me the idea to make my kids tutu's for Christmas. I never new it would be so fun. If you have never made one but want to for your girls or for your nieces it is way easy. I made Madi 2. I don't have a pic but the first one I made a lot of mistakes and I had a lot of material so I started on another and it turned out great I'll post a pic soon.. This tutu is Mckenzie. I think she will really like it.

I am making flower bows!!!

2008-11-20T09:00:00.000-08:00

The other day I was at the mall looking to buy some bows for my girls to match their outfits and I couldn't find what I wanted. I have been wanting to start making my own bows for quit some time but I didn't do it. I decided to go to the craft store and look. Of course I found just what I needed but everything is sold in bulk. So, If any of you want me to make you some bows I will be happy to, just tell me the colors and size and I am way cheep!! I'll make it for the cost the the stuff.

Kenzie didn't want to smile but this is one of the bows I made. I'm so excited

Cookin'

2008-11-16T19:56:00.000-08:00

Rebecca always asks me why I dont ever put anything on the blog so I thought I would make a little post. Rebecca and I were doing the thing which I enjoy the most.... well probably second most.... and that is eating. I thought Rebecca looked good in this picture so I thought I would post it. You can kind of see the big ole juicy steaks I grilled up not too long ago in the background. Mmmm they were good. I love my grill. Rebecca and the fam all chipped in a couple of years ago to buy me the mother of grills and I love to grill on it. I will post some of my creations someday soon. Rebecca is such a wonderful wife and mother. Mckenzie Madison and I all love her so much.