What do you get?

What do you get when four moms get together that need a very big break? A crazy night at the Jazz game. These are some of the craziest women and I love it. They are just like me!! Dancing in the parking lot, singing with the windows down (yes it was cold), and being gangsters. I think I still had a nacho cheese hangover on Sunday. What good times!! Thanks ladies for a fun evening.

Boutique...

As you all may (or may not) have noticed I have fallen off the face of the bloggin earth. With the adjustment to starting yet another, but last, semester, I am trying to get my brain in functioning status. SO, I am going to give a boutique plug and invite EVERYONE that is close and reads my blog. A friend of mine is hosting one at her house Friday Jan 30th(if you want to address let me know, fo privacy sake I will not post it here). She will have scentsy there, I will sale crayon rolls, for a little cheeaper then on the blog (I don't have to pay to ship), someone else is selling some cute Valentine/St patties decor, there will also be someone selling Sophia Lee jewelry. I know there is something else BUT I cannot remember what. So I guess you will have to come on over and check it out. Please support her and me!! Love you all.

The other part of our first day on vacation....

So the 11th was not only our first action packed day in Southern California BUT it was also the wonderful fabulous hubs birthday. Happy later birthday mister! I love you.

So this post I get to brag about what a super duper guy he is (And I know he read this). He lets me be lazy and just sit if I want to, but he also gets to be lazy and just sit, well most of the time. He is great at letting me sleep in WHENEVER I want.

My mister super duper brings me flowers whenever and for know reason at all. The first year we were married he brought me roses on the third of every month (the day we got married). He is a great pancake maker and a super kitchen cleaner. I am so glad that He is my hubby.

When you spend your actual birthday in Disneyland, they give you a button with your name on it and all the "cast members" tell you happy birthday. He had fun with his critters for sure. It is our tradition to ride the haunted mansion ride first because that is his favorite and during the holidays it is changed to The Nightmare Before Christmas. This is a favorite amongst him and the two critters. So he got the best birthday present in the form of a ride. Happy Birthday!!! I am glad you got to spend the entire day with your family at the happiest place on earth. Your family loves you!!!

Our Vacation.

We had such great fun on our vacation in December that the girls keep asking when we are going back. We thought it would be fun (and much more convenient) to fly. So the girls were quite excited when we showed up at the airport instead of driving for a long long time. Pinto had so much fun with the wings they gave her she kept flying them around. I can still hear her saying her shhhhhhhh sound. As you can see in the pics her lips are working hard.

We stayed in a house in Huntington Beach that was right on the beach. The view was AWESOME!!! Though it was too cold to go swim in the ocean, we sure enjoyed looking at it from our windows and the sand where we played. The funny part was the bathroom in our room was SO SMALL! The picture is of the hubs standing in the door way. I guess you pay a lit to live on the beach for a little house. That is why we just enjoyed the stay and would not live there long term.



We spent that same day in Disneyland and the girls loved it. This is my most favorite place in the world!!!! ( I love in this photo how Pinto is pretending to be a bug)

A much better day!

Thank you to all of you who offered you kind words and thoughts. I am so grateful that I have people out there to say just the right things when I need it. SO for today, I am going to poor out my heart for what I am grateful that I have.

We will start off with Lima. I am so glad for her. She keeps me in check. When I get frustrated she comes right up to my face and asks "Mommy are you still mad?" How do you explain to a four year old the difference between frustration and anger? She also is a very caring generous girl. her pre-school teacher told me that she made sure everyone had something before she took care of herself. Yup that's my girl! She is a little stinkin' spitfire though and keeps us on your toes. I have never seen such a huge imagination in anyone other then this girl. She is every animal, Disney character, you name it she is it and acts the part. She is also a girl after my own heart who will break into song at any moment. Even in line at the store. Who would have thought a four year old could sing with such passion and vibrato. I am glad she is here!!!!

The next love of my life is Pinto. We call her Bitty around our house. She is so darn cute, I could keep her in a jar on the shelf FOREVER. Her favorite phrases right now are "hold you" and "I do it byself". She is my "my way or the highway child". I love to watch her play and interact with her big sis. When I had Lima lay on the floor today Pinto offered Lima her blanket to lay on (we have wood floors) and her GG to hold. Now this is the beloved giraffe that Pinto does not leave home without and she is offering her sis it to hold while lying on the hard floor. And who could not love a little girl who is obsessed with pink and purple everything at the age of two. I love this girl and her chocolate obsessed thoughts.

That biggest thing I am grateful for is my hubs. He is super duper awesome. He is such a solid support to me and my girls. He has stepped up and filled in the super dad roll while I have been in school for the past 1 1/2 years. He will bring home flowers for no reason at all, and is a great neck rubber. No one can wash dishes and bath kids like he can. Sorry ladies, he is the best there is out there!!!

Other things that I am really grateful for are, not having to walk through snow with two small kids to get to my car in a farm parking lot and then having to scrape it off. Oh I love living in a house and not an apartment. I am grateful that I chose a career that the economy will not affect. I am grateful that the hubs and meself will be done with school and living like real people not beyond poor college students as of May. Well the hubs was done last May, but he is waiting for me to graduate to get his career going. I am not grateful for the snow (though come spring I will be) BUT I am very grateful for hot chocolate, marshmallows, warm blankets, jammies and good books. I am also VERY VERY grateful for the great friends that I have. I do miss my cable but I am very glad that I don't have it because I am the pro procrastinator. And I just can't do homework when there is a great show in tv to watch.

There is a bagillion more things I can write, but I think I have done my part to help with the excuse for spending too much time in front of the computer. Is there are such thing as too much time? Thanks to all of you out there. You are great examples to me!!!

Next time I will actually get caught up on Christmas and Disneyland.

A Day that tops above all others...for STINKY!

So today was a very challenging day for me. Well, one of the most I have had in a long time. As many of you have read in earlier posts I was going to Vietnam for school. Well, as of today that is all a dream that has faded into a puff of smoke. I had a Joseph Smith moment today. Cheesy maybe, but I can not describe it any better then this. (And Ina knows from youth conference experience that I get have weird thoughts that consume me for a short time). Anywhoo, to explain. Several months ago I had to decide if this is what I wanted. I was very torn between going and staying. When it came down to it, I was so confused that I decided to go because the thought of not going was to much. Well, so the rest of the money was due today, and with the generous help of a person that is very near and dear to my heart, I was going to get a little help paying to go (no worries, I would pay this person back). But, I awoke with a feeling of uncertainty. This is where the Joseph Smith feeling comes in. This is the same feeling I had way back when, then I made the decision to go. And here it was again. How could I ask God to make this feeling right again and again when obviously if it were right I would have been okay with it today. See where I am going with this. Think of Joseph and the 180(guess on the number) pages. So after much stuporing around the house and tears and ho hums what should I do, I finally swallowed my own this is what I want to do tantrum and asked my super dupor hubs to give me a blessing. Can I say how grateful I am that he is here and has that ability at any moment. Well after the blessing he left to run some errands and I jumped in the shower while the critters were entertained (thank you Disney movies, you are my shower hero). I pondered and pondered and prayed and thought. BUT I knew, deep in my heart I knew what the right answer was. SO, in my not so often seen fashion I admitted defeat and called my saving helper and told them alas I would not need to little help. After I had to call and explain to the several wonderful friends that I was supposed to go with. After tears while explaining to each of them, I accepted the fact that God wanted what was right for me. I wanted what was selfish I guess.

After all of this emotional blah, my hubs called in sick so we could go to dinner as a family for cheer up sakes. Then we got a call that his family was going to dinner for his brother's last night home before heading back to Marine training tomorrow, so we made arrangements to go. BUT mother nature must hate me also. Because of this snow (People, I hate snow. Always have, always will) my fabulous last minute sitter was going to be way late. So I sent my hubs on his way alone. Oh trust me, it gets even better. I get a call from the hubs at the restaurant and he had a siting. My heart during American Idol belonged to one person that would melt my eardrums,and people that was David Archuleta. HE, YES HE WAS AT THE STINKIN' RESTAURANT. My only thought was seriously, what else could happen today that was a big you get to miss out on haha moment. Well the hubs being funny and silly tried to get a picture for me, and got in trouble. He did manage to get a little video of the top of his head but nothing to spectacular.

SO, as the day goes, I am glad that it is almost over. This is one to look back at and know, I made the right decision and I know it will be okay. BUT, if any of you still want a crayon roll, I am still making them for the heck of it. I will be selling them at a little boutique in a few weeks (still waiting to get the word on the date. my friend is doing it at her house) for a little less then listed on the blog because I don't have to pay to ship and package.

Anywho, don't feel bad. I feel good. I am glad that there is a higher being that keeps me in check because sometimes I go CRAZY with ideas of what I want out of life. I did tell the hubs though, that because I won't be abandoning him for two and a half weeks now, he gets to fly me to LA to see Wicked since every stinken ticket was sold out in 10 seconds. We shall see.

Until next time...

Even Better Then Before!

We have all said goodbye to another year and a big fat hello to a new one. Last year was a good one! The hubs graduated from the U WOOHOOOOOO!!!!! AND, AND after four long dreadful years of living in a cinder block land of mold, we moved out of student housing into a house in Sandy. (sigh of oh yeah) Both of my critters are doing dance now. Lima has started her LAST year of preschool. But she has informed me she will not be going onto kindergarten because she has learned enough and does need to learn anything more. Ok, honey WhAtEvEr. And we ended the year off with a bang and a great trip to the happiest place on earth......Disneyland. It was good times, but went all to fast.

This year will be an even better one!! I will get to be the one to graduate WoHOO. I will have a license to do stuff that I am really not sure how to do. (Doesn't that bring such confidence in your nurse next time you are being taken care of?) AND AND we are praying that the super hubs who has so wonderfully waited for meslef (yes i meant to spell it that way) to graduate, will be able to get a super duper fantabulous job SO that we will be able to buy our own lovely house. Oh I yearn for the days to paint a wall a color other then then navajo white or some odd shade of white/blue. ONE DAY!!! We also have some travel plans ahead. My before mentioned side trip to Vietnam, and if all goes right an awesome family vacation to the beautiful country of Canada.

My goals for this year. #1 DO NOT, I repeat (hair are you listening?) DO NOT go anymore gray then I already am. My other lofty goals are: Graduate with my sanity, well just graduate actually. Get my house back in my oober freakish organized clean fettish way that I like it. Be a better mom, well actually after a fabulous relief society lesson on Sunday, our house has much more love moments. A huge goal for myslef that I have already started working on is evaluation relationships and what kind of a person they make me. If I am not a better person, then I will move on to bigger and better water with fish that are just my size! And I am sure that I have many other things I want to accomplish BUT too much is just too much. Therefore I must keep things super simple!

I leave you all with a few pics of my super adorable little girls. Don't be jealous of how cute they are. As I strive to work on my goal to accomplish nothing this week (the last one of freedom for four months) I will attempt to post and relive my awesome trip to Cali. Until then, love ya all!!! Go hug your kids.