Coming!

We are in the second week of February already! I am so glad. It has been a rough few months. Not cause anything bad has happened but because of something wonderful, exciting, beautiful, and something that we have wanted for about a year now.

I can't even tell you how excited we are. We have been trying for over a year and at the beginning of November my hubby and I sat down to talk about it. Emotions were a little high, but we decided that maybe God had a different plan for us. (Our 3 boys were so easy. We thought, "we want a baby" and boom. We were pregnant) so to go for an entire year with nothing, one starts to wonder.

Anyways, after talking it over we both decided that we were going to move forward and love the kids we were given. All I can say is WOW.......God works in mysterious ways.

At the beginning of December I had zero energy. Seriously, we are talking I HAD to take a nap every day or I was so out of it by 7pm that it wasn't even worth it. Other then that I didn't even think of the possibility that I could be pregnant. About 4 days before Christmas I was looking at the calendar and all of a sudden it dawned on me that I was like 2 plus weeks late. I am NEVER late. So thinking to myself, "well you have been under stress form this and that, and you're not having ANY signs of being pregnant so why worry about it." However I did have a pregnancy test so I thought "what could it hurt right?!" Well I think the test showed positive before I was even done peeing on it! I was so shocked I just sat there like an idiot not sure what to do next. How could this happen? We have been trying for a year with nothing. Then all of a sudden? I seriously didn't know what to do. I went about my day and tried not to think about it.

About 5pm it all fell apart. I started crying, I was excited, scared, wondering if it was real or not. After my break down moment I started thinking of ways to tell my man. I mean it was just a few days till Christmas so I thought that would be so cute to have and extra little something for him to open. However, we have had a miscarriage so we really like to keep things under wraps until we are through the first trimester. We were going to have family over on Christmas day so I knew that wasn't an option. I still wanted to do something cute, but I could come up with nothing. Then he walked in the door from work. I wanted to run over to him and tell him right away. NO.....I had to do it cute!!! (See this battle that I was fighting) Long story short, the next morning when he got up to go to work. (4:30am) When the house was quiet, the boys were still sleeping and it was just him awake. I woke up, gave him a hug, and told him....."I'm pregnant"

How can this happen?

As I sit here thinking about life, family, husband, kids, house, dishes, laundry, church calling, friends, and everything else I wonder......How can this happen?

How can I be so lucky to have a fantastic husband who loves me to pieces and tells me and treats me in such a way that I can't deny it? How can I have such cute kids, who make me smile, laugh, cry, and enjoy being a mom? How can I be a home owner? (we have owned our house for over a year now!!!) How can those dishes keep creeping up on me? How is it that the laundry is NEVER done? How did I get called into a super amazing church calling working with the wonderful Young Women? How did I get so blessed with great friends, who care about me and what I am going through?

All these things make one stop and think, just how lucky one is. I also can't believe that it has been so long since I wrote on my poor blog :( super sad face. I have been so busy. Between sports for the boys, keeping up on the house, church calling, and still making time for my tweet heart life has just flown by. Not that I haven't thought about my blog, but more of a........"I have a moment to myself, should I do blog, or sit here and enjoy cuddling with my baby?" Well needless to say my boys always win. 

I have, however, decided that I still need to be keeping this blog up to date. Not only for myself, but for my family who lives far away and don't really have any other way of knowing what is going on in our lives. So here's to my resolution for the New Year. That I will keep my blog updated as much as I can!!

Easter

How was every ones Easter? Ours was fantastic! What a wonderful day it was at our house. We started off with an egg hunt just for the boys (with their eggs that they decorated). We did it outside and it was so cute to watch them find their baskets and then their eggs. We went to Church, which was also wonderful. The talks were perfect for the day. After Church we came home and had grandpa, uncle, aunties, and the cousins over for BBQ and Easter egg hunt. It was crazy, but so much fun.

 T finding his basket........we don't have very many good hiding spots with the new house.

 Krash and Ky

 This was in the afternoon. I tell you what, we had 154 eggs for 5 kids. They went crazy running around finding all the eggs.

 Krash was so funny. His little basket got so full that he would drop eggs randomly. Then he would notice them and it was so cute cause his face was like "WOW another egg"

 T with his basket. We had to remind him that he didn't get the ones just dropped on the grass. That he actually had to look for his. And he found plenty.

 The gang......

 Adults "helping"

We color coded every ones eggs. Each kid got a different color so that way nobody got left with nothing and it worked out great. The soccer ones each kids got 3 cause there was something extra special in them. After the day was done I just sat with a smile on my face. I am so glad that God sees fit to bless me in so many ways. Happy Easter!

Bithday Gifts

I am in the Primary Presidency for our Church Ward. I have been at this calling now for 3 years. WOW just typing that makes me sigh. It has been a good 3 years. I have learned lots, made wonderful life long friends and have come to love the kids that I work with........most of the time that is. When I was first called into this calling we talked about what to give the kids for a gift on their birthdays. I love birthdays and feel that we need to sing to them and have some kind of gift that they can have for a long time, all while staying within our budget. The first year I pushed to have something other than a pencil or candy bar and was told "if you can find it for $2 a kids then you can do it." I accepted that challenge and cam up with a picture, matted and framed for each child. It was a huge hit and I have been told by many parents that their child loves it and it is placed in their room somewhere so they can see it all the time. After I came up with that idea the President said "that's it, you are officially in charge of birthday gifts." With that being my job each year the next year I made 5"x5" mirrors that where etched on the top their name and at the bottom was etched "A Child of God." it was finished off with a white ribbon that they could hang up somewhere. Again a huge hit. This year I wanted something even more and after looking and searching for the perfect prices I found exactly what I wanted. A CTR shirt!!!!

The back of each shirt has the scripture theme for the year "CHOOSE you this day whom ye will serve...."

 I found the shirts for $1 each from Walmart.com which came in packages of 5.

 The front of the shirts have the CTR shield on it. As our theme for the entire year is Choose the Right.

 All of it was done with t-shirt transfer that I got from expressionsvinyl.com for $6.50 a sheet and my silhouette that my hubby gave me for Christmas last year. Again we had a budget and I was able to make (after turning and squeezing each shield and scripture) each shirts transfer for $1 each.

There you have it. Super cute right? My son was so happy when he had his birthday cause he got his shirt. We even had one little boy that wore his to Church the Sunday after we gave it to him. And all this was done while staying within the budget of $2 per kid. Hope you like!

Krash

What can I say about this kid? With one brother at school till 3 and the other brother doing preschool we have been having a lot of one on one time. At first it was kind of hard. Not going to lie, it was really hard. It reminded me of when my oldest went to school. Ky would follow me around the house asking me what he could do, or if I would play with him. He just looked so lost without his big brother to be there every moment of every day. I would have to say, this is worse then that. He just follows me around. He looks at me like I am suppose to do a magic show or something. Ky was 3 when T started school. Krash isn't even 2 yet, so this has been a challenge for the both of us. However we have made it through, and now look at our time together as "fun" time. This is the time I get down and play with him. Even if it is just rolling a car back and forth to each other. He is so happy to just hang out with me now. He helps with the laundry, and I mean he really helps. He like helping vacuum (he has a toy vacuum) he like cuddling with me knowing that I am not going to get up in the middle of it just to get his brothers to stop fighting with each other. It is our time and I am going to say it for the world to see. I love every moment of it.

He was so happy to just sit in the window and watch the wind blow stuff around the back yard. He would laugh and point and babble.

He said cheese for me.........love it!

 Yes, laundry and playing is a hard job. It just drains all the energy.

This was his "love bug hat" he enjoyed wearing it and showing me every 5 seconds how he was keeping it on his head. He would say "mamma........I tute" aka "mamma......I cute" Yes, Yes you are super cute.



One of the best things about being a parent (in my opinion) is taking those embarrassing pictures. I remember my mom doing it. I hated it, but now that I am a mom I just love having those pictures that I know one day they are going to say "Ahhhhhh MOM why would you do that?" I like taking sleeping pictures of them. WHY? Cause they are so relaxed, and cute, and they can make some of the best pictures ever. My only problem.............I laugh the entire time I am taking the pictures so I usually wake someone up before I am done. Here are the 3 of them, after spending a day with Uncle Peanut's family. They were sooooo tired.

Awwwwwww.........

They did have a blast that day. I am just glad they got all their energy out.

Ky's Birthday

How does life just pass me by without me even noticing. This past week was my son's 5th birthday. Talk about make me sooooo sad, we registered him for Kindergarten too which just made it even worse. I don't feel old enough to have 2 kids in school, I just don't. With that being said, we have specific birthday when we "go all out." 1st, 5th, 8th, 12th, and 16th birthdays are the big ones for us. I know some do it every year but I just can't do that, so this is what we do. We still have a party for every birthday, but not super big. Well with this one being his 5th birthday we had to make it everything he wanted, and this year he wanted a MARIO PARTY!!! It was so much work, but it was so worth it. We invited 18 kids and 16 of them showed up. I know right? I made Mario and Luigi hats for everyone, we played Mario bingo, pin the mustache on Mario, Bean bag Bowser, Yoshi egg hunt and a brick pinata that they had to jump up and hit. It was amazing, bottom line...........KY had a blast. Here are some of the pics from the big day.