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Did I mention this?

2011-08-15T02:52:00.000-06:00

So when Josh Groban walked around at the concert, He touched my hand. Yeah I was excited. It was such a great night with my wonderful husband!

Jason Rocks!

2011-08-14T12:12:00.000-06:00

We went to the Josh Groban concert last night! (Thanks for babysitting Mom!) It was so amazing! We were in the center section on the floor in the very back row. We realized there was a second stage right behind us. So for part of the concert I was front row! (Except for the annoying people who ran up to the stage. Oh well) The first time he went to the stage I was so in shock that I didn't even realize what he was singing. The second time I got a few pictures. I didn't want to spend my time that close to him at his concert watching through a camera. It was such a nice night with my wonderful husband.

Don't Say It!

2011-06-28T20:55:00.000-06:00

Lately our conversations with Harley go as follows:
Harley "Mom, Novalee is..."
Me "Are you tattleling I don't want to hear it"
Harley "No but she is doin....."
Me "I am not going to hear tattleling"
Harley (loudly) "Mom but she is..."
Me (louder) "Harley is she alive, are you alive are you hurt? No? I don't want to hear it"
Harley (loud and fast) "novalee took my doll and won't give it back"
Me (while she is talking) "I told you I don't want to hear tattleling"
Harley "You never wanted to have kids!" Followed by stomping down the stairs.

Harley "mom can I have this"
Me "no you can't have it"
Harley "I really want it"
Me " No Harley not right now"
Harley "You never wanted us!"

Harley has not learned how to not talk when we tell her not to and everytime I tell her no we apparently never wanted her! Luckily I love her and she's cute! (Well at 2 she was)

Now Hiring

2011-06-21T12:48:00.000-06:00

A cleaning service who works for free. I will let you watch Netflix with me if time permits. They must have their own car because I will ask you to run to Charlie's for my Diet Coke w/ lime and a shot or two of vanilla. Also I want to take naps sometimes so you will have to be able to watch my kids for me too. I will let you do yard work if you can get my kids on a schedule. We do have an empty grave in my backyard to fill. Accepting applications/

So I am super tired but..........

2011-06-07T22:21:00.000-06:00

I think I need to mention who I got to see today!! My wonderful, Grandpa!! He is such a great example to me and such a great person I don't think I can describe exactly how much he means to me, if I could I would go and visit him all the time. I also got to see.............. my Aunt Nola!! I am so happy to see Granddad so happy. Its always nice to see family. This picture is from last year but I didn't take pictures today. Bonus also BONNY IS HERE!! Did I mention I am tired and this doesn't seem to make sense?

May 2011

2011-05-20T21:04:00.000-06:00

This month isn't over but thats okay. Its been a fun month. I turned 30! I feel so old. I am still adjusting to this new house. Its kind of funny but the thing that is the hardest is that it is a lot more work to clean since there are so many rooms it has been hard to adjust to a new cleaning routine. I am just a dork I guess. Axel got really sick this month for like a week with fevers that were around 104. We took him to the instacare and they just said that they didn't know what it was but if anything else happened to take him in to the ER. The next day his nose started bleeding and was walking really funny like into walls and stuff. We called and they told us to take him into the ER. We had gotten his fever under control but if we tried to take him off his medicine it would go back up. The ER told us we just had to let it run its course. That really stunk because we were scared of his high fevers. So after too much money spent in co pays, hours at the insta care and the ER we just basically did at home treatments. Gunnar and I were exploring our new neighborhood but then it has been raining alot which is good but then we are stuck inside. I remember a few years ago when it rained non stop in May and June I think, our grass was so high that the girls were afraid to go and play in the backyard. I better go now. I got Axel to bed early (Yay skipped pm nap today) and the girls are downstairs probably fighting. Gunnar is asking me his password and I am hoping that tomorrow I can take pictures of the house if Jason will mow the yard (what he can for now). Crossing fingers.

April 2011

2011-05-20T20:56:00.000-06:00

April was such a STRESSFUL month. We signed on the house on April 7. We had to wait until the next day to get the keys. We started painting our house so we could have that done before we moved in but we discovered that our little house was really to small to pack. We had NO room to put boxes. We took 3 weeks loading up our friends truck and our van and getting things over. I would not recommend that. I would do it in one day if I could. I had finals. I had a root canal. We had Easter. We are moved in and now our house is almost 3 times the size of the house we had been living in for 8 years.

March 2011

2011-05-20T20:50:00.000-06:00

March was all about getting a house. Anyways the house I had orginally liked in November and the same one that we bid on but then didn't get it came up again. They called and asked if we wanted it and of course we did. I was so stressed worried about little details, like about FHA inspections scared me to death! I was so worried it wouldn't pass and if it didn't then we would have to negotiate with the sellers to fix it. I could barely focus on anything. Well my focus was worse then normal.
Jason ended up going to Las Vegas to help a friend move things out of his grandma's apartment after she passed away. It ended up being snowy and extremely scary. I couldn't sleep, I was without a car, and then when Jason called and said talk to him to stay awake while he was driving. I was so relieved to hear him since he was up for basically 24 hours I was also so scared for him. Luckily he made it home safe and we were out for the next day.
This picture is of Novalee when they had their formal dinner at school. They had to practice manners. Parents were invited but I was the only one that showed up so I took a picture and then I left. I kept getting dirty looks from her all night.

Feb 2011

2011-05-19T06:06:00.000-06:00

Axel turned one. He has been such a fun baby. He is so active and is always always always getting into things. He wants to be one of the big kids and run around with them but he is too little. We did just cake and ice cream at our house with some family and friends and Axel was loved on by everyone. I wish I could do the video of him but for some reason its not loading.
We also spent a lot of the month looking at houses. I hated it. We started at the cheapest houses and went up. It was such a stressful time we shopped around with different mortage companies. We had a miscommunication with someone who thought they were our relator. The house I wanted since November when I started looking at houses was on the more expensive side of our budget luckily it went down and we were able to afford it. We bid on it but they had another bid so they took the other bid since we bid so low. I was so mad but what could I do.

January 2011

2011-05-19T05:59:00.000-06:00

So Harley's party was at Fat Cats Bowling, that was SO much fun. I wish all my kids would do it. It is a little bit more money but it was worth it. Not to mention that the kids were entertained the whole time and after the party we bowled with some friends there and we ended up with free food since the guy who was in charge of our party was still there and he hadn't totalled up our bill yet so we were getting food until he had done our bill. Also I have no idea why there are no pictures of Harley alone at her party. Maybe she didn't want to take one.

Finally December!!

2011-05-19T05:28:00.000-06:00

I know its 6 months ago and all but I want to show something that happened. Just so we remember it. Of course it was busy with me and my finals and then the Christmas season. I was really sad this year since we couldn't put out all the decorations since our house and become increasingly small to us. Not to mention Axel started walking during this month and was pulling everything down. Luckily we got to have a tree up. The girls got Nintendo DSI's and Gunnar got a talking bigfoot that does flips. Axel got an activity center which was perfect since he started walking a week before. There was a huge snowstorm on the last day of school before Christmas break. I went to start the car to take Jason to work and I saw how deep the snow was and I wasn't sure I was going to be able to take him. I couldn't just have him take the car since I had to help with 2 parties that day so I had to hurry pack bags for the boys so we could spend the day at his school. Half of the kids made it to school. Most of the kids walk but the buses that do go to the school were late. I wonder if the kids just stood there at the stop until the buses came. Some teachers weren't able to make it. Even though we were stuck at the school all day we had a lot of fun. There were treats brought in both classes that Gunnar had. The school fed us lunch and then there was hot chocolate for all the employees so Gunnar and I had hot chocolate too. Santa came to the school and brought a check that was donated by a local company with gift bags for the kids.
As you can tell my picture taking skills Christmas morning weren't that good. I only took one of each child but they are so horribly dark I can't tell if I got a picture of each of the 4 kids.

We are in our new house!

2011-04-28T07:30:00.000-06:00

We have been here for a few weeks, I still have just a few things at the other house in the shed. It feels so nice that our goal of buying a house is finally out of the way, now we can do more fun things like fixing up the house, working on Jason's Nova (which as of last night is at our new house), going to AZ (which I always am up to do, however Jason doesn't want to go over the summer, I don't know why yet), and going to Disneyland (next year over Spring Break). Maybe eventually I will take pictures of the new house and update the blog I am still at Dec, which I have no real good reason why I didn't blog about that yet. Maybe because I don't want to admit how few pictures I took of the kids opening presents. The more kids you get the more you have to do as they open presents or something.

I should be posting about December

2011-04-06T05:38:00.000-06:00

I should be posting but I am busy doing homework, whats new I know. However we are also MOVING next week. Slightly excited but very stressed. You know its sad when you start crying about all the work you have to do in addition to all the everyday things you do anyways at Walmart AND at Taco Bell when they say "hi how are you ?"

No need to worry but,

2011-03-18T11:32:00.000-06:00

I normally don't do this but the next few weeks for us has a lot of things happening that can affect us greatly. Nothing bad don't worry, I just don't want to go into detail in case it doesn't go as planned. However any prayers for us right now is greatly appreciated and wanted by our family. We love you all and will keep you informed!

November 2010

2011-03-10T05:52:00.000-07:00

I didn't take any pictures in November I guess. These are the extent of our pictures. Axel of course and then paper the girls taped to the wall using this thick double sided tape that is super hard to get off. I took a lot of pictures of it because I apparently thought it was funny until I couldn't clean it off. We had our own little Thanksgiving like always and enjoyed the break.

October 2010

2011-03-10T05:47:00.000-07:00

October is always a fun month. With the pumpkin patches, the parties and of course Halloween we always have fun. Gunnar turned 5!! We had a party at Pirate Island and had a great time. The pictures didn't turn out good since our new camera we bought in Feb right before Axel was born broke and Jason tried to fix it which voided the warrenty. The kids were all super heros for Halloween. I don't know why I didn't take a picture of Novalee in her costume when it came in the mail but they all looked super cute. We had been looking forward to something called the Scarecrow Festival but they didn't have it for some reason so we took the kids out to a pumpkin patch it was fun but no where near as fun as the scarecrow festival. It was however soooo much cheaper. On our way home we went to Walmart to buy some fun Halloween treats since we were going to a friends house later that night for movies and they had a picture thing for How to Train Your Dragon which is one of Gunnar's favorite movies. As you can tell Novalee wasn't very happy. Trick or treating didn't involve pictures. We were kind of rained out so we only did a little last minute but we did pretend trick or treating with Logan and Julia and had a lot of fun with that.

September 2010

2011-03-10T05:32:00.000-07:00

September was fun. I already posted some of these pictures and talked about September because I must have been having a good day. Axel started crawling. He also stopped taking binkies which made me slightly sad. Gunnar started preschool and the girls enjoyed their school.

August 2010

2011-02-21T14:34:00.000-07:00

August was just about going back to school. I think we spent a lot of time buying clothes for the kids, getting them registered at their new school . I started a semester of school that included a stressful stress management class (which was shortly dropped) plus my computer crashed which meant we had to buy a new computer.

July 2010

2011-02-18T09:07:00.000-07:00

Keeping it short and simple the big things that happened this month was that Axel was blessed and Novalee was baptized. Jason blessed Axel and baptized Novalee and it was such a great thing to see. We did it all at once. It was a great day with help from great people. I wish I took more pictures but with the blessing and the baptism, it was busy. I wish I could put into words how wonderful it was and the feelings that we all felt that day.
Novalee also turned 9! Instead of a party she wanted money. So she got to go shopping with the money.

What?

2011-02-18T06:21:00.000-07:00

Axel turned 1! I do have more recent pics of him but not on the computer! He is such a fun boy. He has been walking since 10 months. Which means he loves to get try to sneak outside every chance he can. I used to let him just look out the screen door and watch people outside but not he tries to walk outside which has started my love of using rubber bands to secure the lock even more. He doesn't say too many words yet but says uh oh and is starting to call for ma ma. He does like to yell if people are talking he tries to be a part of the conversation but just be louder. Its pretty funny to play with him and try to go louder then him. He loves to chase around the house. He still hasn't completely slept through the night but that is on my part that I have never really made him but he is a lot better then he used to be. He wants to be a big boy but then wants me to cuddle with him. He loves to play with Daddy and sometimes just follows Jason around the house. How can you not love this boy?

year 2010 in review PAUSE

2011-02-09T16:35:00.000-07:00

I am going to finish however life is busy with homework a TON of homework should I mention, housework, being a mom, being a classroom mom to two classes, being a cool mom (added by Gunnar), distraction of new games, playing with cute boys all day, not to mention this house feels like it is shrinking by the day.

June 2010

2011-01-25T08:17:00.000-07:00

June was a fun month. Jason started his new job. They have a playground there. Lots of fun. We also were "lucky" enough for the kids to have swimming lessons 2 times! Bonny came and played. We loved it. It is getting harder and harder every year to entertain the kids over the summer in this house.

May 2010

2011-01-15T06:05:00.000-07:00

The first few days of May were beyond hectic. On April 30 we drove to Mesa, we stayed there for a birthday party for my Granddad, then we left on May 2. It was so fast up and down and we were so tired when we got home. I love love love going to Mesa. We stayed with my Aunt Laura and my Uncle David. It was the first time my kids have ever been to Mesa and it was the first time since I have been down since my Grandma died. It was different but we had fun. My Granddad got married 2 days after I had Axel so it was nice to see him and his wife (we already loved her though). Also Jason got a new job at the end of the month it was a lot of ups and downs but it was such a blessing to us and we love it.

April 2010

2011-01-15T05:26:00.000-07:00

This month Jason and I celebrated our 10 year anniversary. We had gone out to our now favorite restaurant the night before since he forgot to take the night off on our real anniversary and the next day I had roses and I forgot why I got them for a minute. I love my family!

March 2010

2011-01-15T05:03:00.000-07:00

We spent most of March playing with Axel. He had spent the first two weeks of his life in his bed since he had to have a bili blanket and then every other day we had to go to the hospital for the poke on his heel to test the levels. It was so hard to do. Luckily while I was in the hospital Jason got this wonderful card for Sonic. It was a discount card that was given to everybody who worked in the school district and great thing for us there are 2 Sonics close by. One just down the street from the hospital too. We ate there almost every day those two weeks that he had to go get checked. I always have a hard time the first few weeks after I have a baby but this time I had a hard time since I also had a tubal ligation. My stomach hurt. I of course was emotional and I was tired. I was also going to school and Jason was busy with his jobs. I couldn't just lay at home and put a movie on for the other kids so I could rest like I had done before. They are older and in school and need more. Luckily we have great people around us that would take the kids to school, and when we started letting the girls walk to school on their own, they would watch for them for us too. It is only across the street but it was a big step for us to do that. I had a great teacher that semester too. I took one class but the few weeks I couldn't think I was able to miss stuff and she would let me make it up later. It was hard but honestly making myself do things taking one step at a time and thinking, that I needed to get through this one thing say get the kids ready for school. I would do what I needed to and got them ready and then I could focus on something else.

February 2010

2011-01-14T16:41:00.000-07:00

For some reason I can only post so many pictures on here at once and I have wasted enough time trying to get it. However February was a VERY eventful month. All weekend, we went to Chuck E Cheese, Jason baptized his nephew, had 2 valentines parties and had a BABY! Axel was born on Feb 16 and we are so lucky to have him The picture of Gunnar is him with a toy from Lord of the RIngs that he is dethly afraid of.

2010 in Review - January

2011-01-12T12:56:00.000-07:00

January

January was a fun month. Harley turned 7!! We also spent a lot of time preparing for Axel. I was so tired of shopping I was amazed at myself. Yes those are fake nails on Harley Jason took both girls there as a Daddy daughter thing. They loved it. I also had to throw in the picture of me being humongous. They were singing to her at the skating rink and she wanted me out there with her. Slightly embarrassing since my jacket didn't fit well (kind of pregnant and all). Later on she was sitting in the middle of the rink crying because she fell avoiding some older kids and wouldn't get up so instead of bending down to talk to her, I sat down in the middle of the floor and then next thing I know, there are people running up to me thinking I fell.
Also Gunnar started sleeping in his own bed. We spent alot of time playing card games as a family that Santa brought to us. A lot of fun!

Coming Soon

2011-01-03T13:59:00.002-07:00

updated blog

Our Family

2010-09-28T11:17:00.000-06:00

Our family has changed so much since I have posted anything real. Here is a quick update on all of us.

Jason is now the Head Custodian at a local elementary school. Over the summer the girls decided they wanted to go to the school also so we transfered them over and they love being able to see Daddy at work. WIth his new job he decided to take some time off school so that he can get things settled at the school but that is okay I get to see him more. He loves guns and shooting. He actually has free time now that he doesn't work 3 jobs so he has had time to spend with us lately and we love it! He loves to read and watch Star Trek but not more then his family.

Katrina loves her babies! I get to stay home with my kids but since 3 out of the 4 are in school I get to have more quiet time to myself which is really weird. I am in school full time and at times I hate it because I just want to play, I know I need to do it. I am a great procrastinator. I am so excited for the holiday season and excited even more to get more sleep as Axel gets older.

Novalee is in 4th grade and loves it. She loves her new school and loves her new teacher. Novalee comes home excited all the time about the new things that she is learning in school. She is at a really fun age where she isn't a little kid anymore but not a teenager and not quite a preteen. She loves to do her hair and anything with fashion. She loves to write in her diary and loves to help out with the little boys. Novalee recently discovered the Fablehaven series which is one of my favorites and I can't wait to read those with her. She loves math and is really good at it. She likes to read to her brothers and sister.

Harley is a little mommy. I worry sometimes that Axel prefers her to me. She also loves her new school and LOVES her teacher. She is currently the student of the week at her school and we got to go to McDonalds yesterday to celebrate (her choice) she loves to read also and loves to take turns reading with me. Harley loves to play on the monkey bars at school. She loves to rock Axel to sleep and can do it magically fast.

Gunnar is now in preschool 4 days a week and a bus picks him up.He loves it too! How lucky am I? I am trying to get him back to napping but its hard since I am apparently so much fun, he can't sleep. He loves superheroes. He loves to sword fight and shoot guns (most fun to shoot is at dad, with nerf guns of course). He still loves to dress up everyday and Jason has started buying replacement costumes for all the ones he has worn out. He has slept in his own big boy bed which is a fort bed since a little before Axel was born. He is finally starting to want to play with other kids and its great!

Axel is getting so big! Last Thursday (9/23) he started crawling and doesn 't want to stop. Ever since he was born he wants to see what is going on and as soon as he wakes up he wants to go. Luckily now he can crawl and go pretty fast. He is still having skin problems and the worse is around his neck which constantly itches but we are going back to the dr for that tomorrow. He pulled himself up to standing yesterday which was really cute! He loves to play outside and is just a happy baby.

Test Post

2010-09-24T09:17:00.000-06:00

This is just a test post, let me know if you can read this in your email!!

I work for the Devil

2010-09-17T09:12:00.001-06:00

Gunnar told me I work for the Devil. Does he realize what a mommy does?

Not busy just tired

2010-08-27T05:49:00.000-06:00

Okay I am setting my blog back to private in a few days so let me know if you even read this anymore since I haven't had much time to blog. I am also on a new computer now so I have will have to redownload the Gunnar movie since that is why I made it open in the first place. I don't know where any of the pictures are or if they are all back on my computer but I just have to find time to go through what Jason put on the computer. When our computer crashed I was so nervous that we lost all of our pictures but we were able to get most off the hard drive.
In case you didn't know having 4 kids is harder work then I thought. I can't seem to keep up with what they are all doing at once and Axel who did so great the first few months has now decided to wake up every 2 hours. Our dr told us to let him cry it out and it will take 3 nights but because of other reasons Jason and I have gotten little sleep the last few nights. We were so tired that we weren't making sense to each other. I woke up Wednesday night when I heard Jason come in from football and I couldn't remember who he was for a minute. We finally put on a cartoon series on for the older kids and we went to bed last night at 7:30 so even with Axel waking up I got pretty good sleep. He only wakes up for about 10 minutes. Maybe next weekend with Labor Day off we will let him cry it out since he sleeps in our room.
The girls are back in school and they love it! They go to school where Jason works and they are in heaven. It is a great school. Its weird because Jason will tell me to wait in the Teachers Lounge but I feel like I shouldn't wait in there because I am a parent too not just waiting for my husband to get off work. Yesterday I felt dumb because I brought Jason lunch after I had run a bunch of errands and I was so tired. The roads were blocked off by my house from an accident that knocked the power out, school was going to be out in 45 minutes so it would have been a huge waste of time to go home sit for 15 minutes then come back. So I stayed there. Luckily everyone is really nice. Anyways I know this is boring but the camera is on the couch like 10 feet away from me and I don't want to go get it.

This Summer

2010-07-29T09:12:00.000-06:00

Alot has happened and I should put the many pictures that I took up, but that involves being on blogger instead of netflix, hulu or what I should be doing, homework. So for now imagine that you are looking at pictures from the 2 sessions of swimming lessons, the video that we made when Aunt Bonny came over, or even pictures from Novalee's baptism/Axels blessing. I will get to that someday because those are actually really cute. For now I am going to go back and help the kids count down the days until school starts because while they are excited to go to school and that is the reason for the countdown to them, I will be counting down the days until I have some sanity back.

News Flash

2010-06-15T08:29:00.001-06:00

Gunnar just woke up and told me that I am boring because I clean and he wants to do something fun like watch a movie. Sorry Gunnar.

Also in case you wanted to know, when Gunnar takes his clothes off, he looks like a werewolf.

Oh I'm not pregnant! I just thought a ultrasound of Axel was fun to put up.

Dear Jason

2010-06-02T20:42:00.003-06:00

The house is unbelievably hot tonight, please come home from work early and hook up the AC. Otherwise we are getting a hotel for the night.
Love
your extremely HOT wife

Pictures of Arizona

2010-05-12T22:03:00.005-06:00

Here are some pictures of our trip. We had so much fun for such a quick trip. My Aunt Laura and Uncle David were so nice to let us stay at their house. The kids loved it and miss them already (mostly their dog).

Busy busy!

2010-05-02T21:17:00.002-06:00

Our family has been so busy lately, however as of last Wednesday school is out for me for the semester. I might do summer school but I need a break for now, I haven't really had a chance to just be a normal mommy in a long time and I just need to focus on my babies and not homework for a while. Not to mention Jason is working 3 jobs right now since summer break is coming up.
We had such a fun weekend!! I am too tired right now do put all the pictures up but here is a blurry picture of an explanation why. Me with one of my favorite people of all time. I will put the rest up later. Forgive my look I had just traveled 12 hours with 4 kids one of them 2 and 1/2 months old and I just had a baby.

Boys and their Toys

2010-04-27T15:00:00.004-06:00

This last weekend we went to Gunnison to spend time with some of our good friends. Harley went shooting with Jason. She had a lot of fun. The boys, Novalee and I stayed at our friends house, while I watched my friend make the food for the barbecue. They got back from the range and we ate, played games, and Jason wanted to get home before dark but we had to take pictures of him and his gun first. We didn't leave before dark but luckily we only saw one deer in the road and were able to swerve to not hit it.

For those who are wanting to see Axel

2010-04-14T16:21:00.003-06:00

Before The Baby

2010-04-14T11:13:00.002-06:00

The week before Axel came Jason had some time off work since there was a school break. We went to Chuck E Cheese since Gunnar now sleeps in his own bed. Jason was also asked to baptize his nephew Tru. It was pretty neat!

2010-03-07T11:23:00.005-07:00

We were at the hospital around 7. I got hooked up to the pitocin and the IV. My dr came and broke my water. Of course I had the epidural. By about 10 I was at a 4. I was so excited because I thought that meant we would get to see Axel sometime in the afternoon. However Axel had other plans. He decided sometime after 10 to stick his hand above his head which slowed the labor down and I was at a 4 until at least 4 in the afternoon. By 5 I had went to a 6 which was so exciting because the dr had been thinking that we would have to do a c section just in case there was a problem with Axel's hand and arm coming out first. At about 5:45 I started feeling so miserable and they checked and it was time to get the dr. I went from a 6 to a 9 almost 10 in 45 minutes. The kids rushed up to the hospital with our mom's. The dr came and at about 6:15 pm we had Axel! Nothing is better then seeing your baby for the first time. The kids were in the room while I had Axel but they were busy playing games. When Axel was born they were so happy to see him! He was born healthy and adorable with a heart shaped birthmark on his chest. He has been such a blessing to us. He was on bilirubin blanket for a week and a half. That was an after effect from the blood imcompatibility problem we were having. Everthing is good now and we love our Axel!

I will update soon!!

2010-03-06T08:37:00.000-07:00

Axel is here and is great. He was born just over 2 weeks ago on Feb 16. He is so adorable. I will post more later.

Fighting

2010-02-06T10:17:00.002-07:00

Harley is coloring and telling us that she is not using her imagination while coloring its just how it needs to be, Novalee tells us she is using her imagination. Don't you love how our arguements start out?

2010-02-01T14:49:00.002-07:00

Today my kids love me, well they LOVE to make me feel guilty I think because they know how to do it so well.
The rule at our house is if you want to have Mommy curl your hair before school you need to get right up and get ready. I knew Novalee wanted to curl her hair today so this morning I went in at 6 and turned the light on, Harley was already awake anyways so I said, "Novalee you need to get up now if you want your hair curled" I went in there at least 5 more times. At 6:40 I gave up trying to get her up since I can't do more then tell her to get up over and over again and I got in the shower. I got out and she was up and dressed and said, "Mommy! I am ready for my hair to be curled!" I told her, "Sorry, you should have gotten up when I came in the first time" Her smile instantly faded and had this look of disappointment on her face. I hate seeing my kids sad so I told her to finish getting ready while the curlers warmed up and we would just take Daddy to work with the curlers in her hair. We got Novalee's hair in curlers in time, had to fight with Harley to get dressed even though she was up, she didn't want to get dressed because "I like to tell her what to do, and I control her life" something like that.
We take Jason to work, run back home, take the curlers out, get back in the car, and Harley tells me that she wants her hair curled too. It is after 8 by now and if you have ever seen Harley's hair, it is incredibly thick and takes a long time to curl. I sighed and said, "well we don't have time if you had asked earlier I could have done it but can I please do something else to your hair? At least let Mommy brush it?" Harley goes to school everyday with this wild hair and bangs that are growing out. She looks at me and said, "Well I asked you before to curl my hair." I didn't remember that and she said, "I came in when you were sleeping last night and asked you" I smiled and said , "Harley that doesn't count if I am asleep" then she said, "well it wasn't last night and you were awake and playing with Daddy" Then she got a sad look on her face. I HATE SAD FACES! I didn't curl her hair but I told her if she got up early tomorrow we can curl it. She seemed halfway okay with that. While we were driving to school, Novalee was sitting in the front seat and kept moving the rearview mirror to look at herself in the mirror. I don't live far from the school at all but it was driving me crazy, so I told her to stop looking at herself in the mirror. She moved the mirror again and started posing. Finally I just said, "Novalee I am sick of this stop it! This is ridiculous! don't sit there and look at yourself" Another sad face.
Gunnar and I got home, he wanted to way a dinosaur movie which was fine so I could clean. I put it on and started cleaning. His movie finished and came out and wanted to play preschool. I was in the middle of cleaning out the oven so I told him to hold on. He said okay then kept asking if I was done. Sad face.
Novalee JUST called me and told me I need to come down right away to sign a paper for the science fair that she wants to be in, doesn't know what she wants to do for it but she wants to be in the science fair which is around the time that I am due. Jason told her he would help her with it but I apparently needed to go down this minute and sign the paper. Gunnar just fell asleep, I have to go pick them up in 10 minutes anyways can't I come later, I hear a big sigh then with this sad voice, "Okay Mommy" I tell her it will be okay and she can still do the science fair, then we hang up I call the school and talk to the teacher in charge about it, and I can come sign the paper tomorrow.
My kids know how to get me good.

3 WEEKS!!

2010-01-31T16:49:00.003-07:00

This week, I have 3 weeks left. Which finally doesn't seem so long! Its great knowing that I could have him any day, which in reality I most likely won't until my due date, but still I am so excited. I still haven't gotten around to taking a pregnant picture of me which is okay since I look miserable everyday. I put makeup on one day last week, went to check on the girls in their afterschool art class, they didn't see me, but when I picked them up, they ran out to the car asking why I had makeup on. I guess the word got around. We are pretty much ready for the baby to get here. Well, I guess as ready as we are going to be. We bought all the baby things a few weeks ago and yesterday we stocked our pantry and freezer. There is a store going out of business by Jason's work so we have a huge supply of baby lotion, they were pretty much out of diapers by the time we went over there but Jason was able to buy a few packages. We were also able to stock up on non food items. After being too tired to go to the store for groceries for the last 2 months, it is SO nice to finally have food in this house again!
I am waiting for something to be shipped from Walmart and I want to get a digital camera still but we have time.
So lucky me I get to wait for the next few weeks, trying to keep up on housework and homework for me and the kids. Crossing my fingers that pretty soon my baby will be here!!!

Suprise I am Reading!

2010-01-27T08:30:00.002-07:00

While I have always loved to read, I don't do enough of it, I have been reading this good book called Princess of the Midnight Ball, by Jessica Day George. She came to Dixon and signed books and Jason bought I think one of all hers and that is the one I started reading. Its a different version of the 12 dancing princesses story.
Today though I have been reading an old Ensign that was near the computer, its Feb 2007 about Temples. If anyone hasn't read that lately, it had really good article and I am glad I found it today. Here is the online link (hope it works!!) http://lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?locale=0&sourceId=933b3c7842470110VgnVCM100000176f620a____&vgnextoid=ccb1d48fa58db010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD

Harley is 7!!

2010-01-22T08:23:00.003-07:00

These last week has been beyond hectic. However, Harley still turned 7 and had so much fun! She is such a fun girl! She is such a loving girl and is getting to show more and more personality lately. We love her so much!! We went to Classic Skating on Monday which was so much fun. Only Novalee and Harley went out and used scooters. Daddy and Gunnar went a little wild with the Deal or No Deal game on the side to earn tickets for prizes. She got a Disney Polly Pocket castle that we have been keeping hidden since last year with 2 princess sets to go with it from Jason and I. Also thanks to some wonderful grandparents, she also got a creepy doll that won't stop making noises and a Hannah Montana microphone. Don't you love loud toys? I don't have a lot of pictures since I forgot my camera at everything we did but even though tears came and went and then came again, she loved her birthday!! To end it all we ended her birthday celebration on Wednesday by finishing up their room and going to our new favorite place for dessert.

Things I Have Learned Watching Jr Jazz

2010-01-16T13:47:00.003-07:00

I am sitting at Dixon watching 4th grade boys playing basketball. We came to visit Jason and he gets home in a little over an hour so I am not going to go home and then come back to pick him up. Its so interesting sometimes to watch these how these parents talk to these kids playing basketball. I used to come with Jason all the time but as our kids have gotten older and don't just sit and watch anymore. The first year Jason did this I think was the hardest for us to get used to because the coaches would not only yell at Jason because he used to keep score and supervise the gym but they would just be so mean to the refs and the kids. Fights break out between adults watching and refs have quit because of the parents being so mean to them. Now Jason can take it all under control no problem. There was this guy who coached for a few years and I guess after he was kicked out of the games so many times, he wasn't allowed to be a coach anymore for that neighborhood. However he would still come to the games to "help". One family that we saw for a few years had a really mean dad. I would have thought it was just during basketball but, when I was working at Dixon as an aid, I worked with one of his sons and his sons friends that didn't know that I knew the family would tell me how mean his dad was all the time. Talking to Jason about it at home, he told me how they had discussed the family at a school meeting.
We have gotten to know a lot of nice people through this job and while I sometimes wish Jason would tell them he can't work, he does a great job at it.
The game just finished and we are waiting for another game to start. one thing I am sure of right now, my kids will never be in a sport where the coaches act the way they do.

When Gunnar Grows Up!

2010-01-11T17:26:00.002-07:00

(He wasn't really asleep in this picture, I told him he had to take it off around his neck but he wanted a picture first)

Today while we were waiting for our ramen noodles to cool down at lunch Gunnar was telling me what he was going to do when he grows up. The majority of it was about Jason and I.

Gunnar: When I grow up I am going to slap you and Daddy.

Me: Why we don't slap you

Gunnar: I am going to slap your faces

Me: We don't do that to you why would you do that to us?

Gunnar: You are mean and put me in time out

Me: Well you don't make good choices and have to go to time out

Gunnar: You and Daddy are mean and I am going to slap you and Daddy and Novalee because she tattles.

Aren't I a great parent

So maybe

2010-01-04T05:13:00.001-07:00

So maybe I have been up since 3 this morning, I felt fine, just couldn't sleep. It may be the messy house that we are trying to get back to normal, it may be because I am 33 weeks pregnant but it most likely is that even though I had a Spicy Chicken sandwich from Wendy's yesterday, I still am craving one, so maybe I will take Jason to work today just so I can go get another one.

Christmas spoiling and other things

2010-01-03T17:48:00.004-07:00

Some of you might want to see a post about Christmas, being woken up at 2 am I took one close up picture of each of the kids and blurry ones too. From then on until about 6 we were putting things together and taking things out of boxes.
We have spent the last 2 weeks cleaning and putting things out in the shed. We still have more to do. We are getting Gunnar a "fort" bed which is a loft bed with space for his new playsets underneath, however to do that Jason is going to have to put it together and buy 3 new mattresses since the girls need that also. We told the girls that they can get new sheet sets too since Gunnar is getting one. That means no more toddler bed for my getting bigger boy. This project will take a whole day to get set up not to mention the time to shop and wait for the kids to pick out what they want on their beds.
I think it should go with out the pictures though that my kids had a great Christmas, the girls each got dolls that need diaper changes, numerous barbies and a new Snow White cottage. They got things for their dolls like a playpen and a stroller and high chairs. They got little princess playsets that haven't been played with. Novalee was lovingly given a microphone from Grandpa and Kathy. Still don't like that we were woken up Christmas morning over and over from Novalee telling the other kids what to do. Gunnar got more Bakugans then we can count in case you don't know what those are, we called those monster balls at first, its supposed to be part of a game but we haven't figured that out yet Gunnar just wants to have his monsters attack us and if we want to win we are told thats not how you play, he got a batcave, a dinosaur castle and a toystory playset with figures for all those different playsets with them. Luckily we got those ones last and they came with the figures so we didn't have to buy any extra. That is only a small portion of what they were given for Christmas. Maybe I will take pictures of the kids playing with their new toys later, maybe not. I still have a lot to do to get ready for the baby.We finally got the carseat this weekend and now I need to go buy some clothes. We didn't save much from Gunnar but thats okay its just the matter of having enough energy to go shopping.
Jason took the girls to get their nails done last night and they had so much fun! They can't wait to go to school tomorrow and show them off. I wanted to get a mani and pedi but since I am pregnant that wasn't an option. Gunnar and I went and got ice cream and Jason sat with the girls and helped them pick out their colors and all that fun stuff.
School starts tomorrow Jason and I are both going to only go part time this semester. It will be nice to have a chance to clean the house without my kids following us pulling stuff out as we clean. I have loved having Jason home but time is up and he needs to go back to work, and the girls get to go back to school.

Just a Few Pictures of my Kids

2009-12-28T15:29:00.002-07:00

These are just a few pictures of things we have been doing, Harley had a program in her class where they all sang, I had to be sneaky on taking pictures because she kept getting mad if I took her picture. She also stood in the back so I couldn't take them. Luckily Jason was able to leave work early so we could both be there. The picture of Gunnar was when we went with Novalee on her field trip to BYU for the Christmas around the World program. I was so tired that day because I had Gunnar with me I couldn't ride the school bus to BYU but when I got there they made me park in a completely different parking lot and had to walk to the building. Not a great day to not bring a coat too. I think Gunnar just had a sweatshirt on too. It was freezing! Then we also were able to go to Disney on Ice again. It was the princess on this time and it was so fun! We had spilled slushes on us and Gunnar almost had an accident because he didn't want to leave to go potty but luckily made it on time. We were close to the ice and the kids came home happy. The picture of Novalee's hair is how we did her hair for the Christmas program at the girls school. Harley didn't want a picture but we did the same hair to both girls. I did take video but I didn't download any videos yet to my computer and plus the program consists of Gunnar pulling the camera down to see through the camera.

Quick Update....also known as may be too much info

2009-11-26T21:39:00.004-07:00

We have been so busy lately. There are so many things on my to do list but yet I seem to be spending my time not getting anything done. Jason and I have both been swamped with homework and are both looking forward to next semester where we are both only taking 6 credits. We still have lots to do to finish up this semester. At times I have felt overwhelmed by it but I keep telling myself what is the worst that is going to happen? Jason hasn't had too much work with his sports job which is good because the one at Dixon has been more time consuming working with kids that can't be in a regular classroom. I haven't had time to help at the school a lot which makes me so sad. I can't even get enough energy half the time to walk upstairs to Novalee's room so usually I just walk her to the ramp by Harley's room so she can go upstairs. I miss playing with the kids in the classrooms and letting Gunnar have fun with the other kids. I know he misses that one of his friends in Harley's class moved and he was really sad about that.
I have so many pictures that I need to download along with videos but our new camera that we got in September has so many different things I still need to look up to figure out before I want to download them to the computer.
I have been feeling incredibly guilty lately for the things that I haven't been able to do with my kids and for my kids and I feel so lucky that they have great teachers this year that understand and give me too much slack on my part. I am really excited though because I am starting to do one on one time with each of my kids each day which has been fun. I am glad that we started doing it and Jason takes the other 2 while I am doing this.
I am counting down the days which at time goes by too slow for this baby to get here. He is constantly kicking me which the dr found to be really funny last time we went. Next week I am in the third trimester which seems to have taken so long to get here. I don't know how many of you know how this pregnancy came to come to our family. In case you are wondering, Jason and I have been praying about this for a long time. I didn't want a huge age gap between this baby and the other kids but we never had the strong impression to start trying. So last May, we realized that Gunnar would be 4 before I even had another baby. We started trying which meant I had to stop taking this prescription that I had been taking hoping to lose weight (it wasn't working) going off that was so hard and I was sick for over 2 weeks where I couldn't walk very well, and was so lucky that my husband was able to be home with me. We had only been trying for 2 weeks and I had the strongest impression that I was pregnant which didn't make sense because after 4 years, I thought it would take at least a year and but still we had promised each other that if nothing happened within the summer we would stop trying. I took a test at my dr's office that was negative, (helping with the withdrawls) the following week, I took 3 tests and they were all positive. Obviously this baby knew the time frame that we had set and wanted to come to us. At times, it has been scary but for the most part I am so excited to have him here. I can't wait to meet him. There was a time where the specialist that I was seeing told me that we might have to induce early but as of now all the problems have cleared up. I can't wait for our last little baby to get here and we can continue and grow as an eternal family!

Fall Break

2009-11-02T20:22:00.005-07:00

The original plan was to go to AZ but, things happen and we didn't think the trip would be a great idea right now. Anyways we did something fun everyday and the kids had a blast!

We started off the fun week by getting the kids some cold weather clothes. That is something that Novalee loved to do. There was only school for 2 days so on Wednesday, we went to Cornbelly's. It was so cold but the kids wanted to go so bad! We got there right as it opened and they didn't have any of the little activities open! Gunnar did find the big lizard called "The Creature" and he went through that a few times. Then after trying different activities and waiting for the face painting booth to open, we went through the corn maze. We got lost, we lost Jason, and then gave up and cut through to the end.

The next day we woke up and went to the zoo since we wanted to be there when they fed the animals. We made it with perfect timing and the kids just stared at the animals while the ate. The baby animals were out and playing and it was a lot of fun. If you notice in the giraffe picture. The 2 were outside and then the one just stuck its head out too. We also had to get as many pictures as we could of the wolf for Harley.

Friday, we stayed home for most of the day, then for dinner we were invited to our friends house for games and dinner. I had been looking forward to it all week since my friend makes the best Thai food. I was reminded while playing spades that I am not very good at it yet. I still had lots of fun and the kids ran crazy through the house with their friends.

Saturday, we went to the Scarecrow festival. It is put on by school as a fundraising project. They had over 10 blowup slides and jumping thins. The kids could have spent all day there! They also had the long waited face painting booth that Novalee had been waiting for and pony rides. We also got to go fish and get fun prizes. Gunnar spent the day following Logan around and after we hit the little craft store there buying fun decorations for Halloween and Christmas, we went to eat at this hamburger place down the street.

I can't find my picture of the other activities other then the zoo but I did take some. Maybe on the other camera. We had a blast and I had to spend the next day resting from all the fun things we did. Check back later for those pictures!!

Pictures of Gunnar on his birthday

2009-11-02T20:16:00.002-07:00

After not planning a big party for him last year, I was going to be a better mom this year, however that didn't work. He kept talking about all his guests that were going to come and all the presents he was going to get. Then the morning of the "party" I realized I should have invited more and planned more for his party. Luckily he didn't seem to notice that he only had one friend come with his 2 sisters. (I had invited 2 but with their siblings it would have been more like 6 kids) Once again I felt like a failure as a mom but the party was during conference sessions so as soon as it was over, we went and saw Toy Story 1 and 2 in 3d. I am so lucky that Gunnar is such a happy boy despite my flaws as a mommy. So next year I can't make the same mistake 3 times in a row!!

Halloween 2009

2009-11-02T20:11:00.002-07:00

Novalee was Cinderella, Gunnar was Captain Hook, and Harley was Ariel

I couldn't get Novalee and Harley to smile for pictures at school, well really at all. Despite my constant crying and oversensitivity, the kids had a blast. They came home with tons of candy that they don't want to share and were exhausted by the time we got in.

What Harley Thinks...........

2009-11-02T07:58:00.002-07:00

Harley really likes to come to my class with me on Mondays, my teacher has 4 different classrooms and teaches from St George. Its a Parenting class, its really interesting.

Last time she came with me, I had her fill in the blanks on a piece of paper.

2009-10-30T06:23:00.003-06:00

We have had such a great month! We did so many fun things and we are going to have a blast this weekend! Not to mention Jason and I both have math tests today to take but we will forget about that small bump today while we have fun! I will put the pictures up of our fun month hopefully tomorrow but for now know that today wi th the school parties, we will be eating lots of junk food!

We are having another....

2009-10-19T17:39:00.001-06:00

BOY!

Sisters!!

2009-10-09T21:10:00.002-06:00

I am so excited right now! I feel like such a proud mommy! My kids have been getting along so good today. I know it might change tomorrow or in the next 5 minutes but I am so proud of my girlies. Novalee has been reading to the Harley and Gunnar, I went in to my room and Novalee is reading her home reading book to Harley. They have been working as a team and I am loving it. I know they won't always get along but I am so loving things with my kids right now. My girls are becoming awesome people and I feel so excited for them as they are learning new things and learning how to work together as a team. They love to hear stories from when I was younger with my sisters and the silly things we used to do.
I should mention though how awesome my sisters are. Crystal is AMAZING! She is so strong and I know that I would never be able to do half of what she does. She works full time, goes to school, and still has time to be an awesome mommy to her 2 great kids who may I mention are so awesome. She is always willing to help others with what time she has and does it with a smile! I wish I had at least half of her strength.
Bonny is an awesome sister too. While she lives in Canada she is always willing to listen to me vent online and is such an open person. She knows how dorky I am and still listens. She loves my kids and I know she misses all her neices and nephews. She is creative and bright and loving.
I only wish right now I was closer to my sisters but I know that we are all either far away or incredibly busy. I do wish I had a better picture of us three together but that will have to wait until "Jaws" is born.

Gunnar had a birthday!! Lots of Pictures of my Boy!

2009-10-07T14:46:00.009-06:00

Well my little big boy turned 4! WOW! He had an Ice Age cake and got some fun toys and books. Can you believe he is 4! He is my little friend and its just Gunnar and Mommy all day. I learn so much about having fun with him. We play hide and seek which doesn't work too well since he tells me where to hide and then pretends to look for me. He told me that when he is big like Daddy he will carry me since I am really heavy. He is my little boy and I love him!

I will download the pictures of the party off my camera later. I can't figure out how to download videos to full screen but maybe if I read the instructions more I can.

Our baby

2009-10-05T02:33:00.003-06:00

I am pretty much at the half way point and yet I still am not able to tell you boy or girl. You might just have to be suprised. Thats okay though. I'm fine with it.

You have to see this one!

2009-09-24T21:49:00.002-06:00

Jason hates this video but I think it is so adorable. I have stopped letting Gunnar act like a girl since he has started wanting to use the girly cootie bug eyes. He starts laughing so hard but still......

How to Get Your Kids to School

2009-09-21T10:41:00.002-06:00

I had this terrible dream last night and so I wasn't going to send the girls to school and we were all going to stay safe at home. However after I got up more this morning I decided to let the girls go to school. They don't have to be there until 8:30 so I got them up at 7:30 which is a lot later then I usually get them up.
Novalee came out on the couch and told me that she wasn't going to school until I got a job and Gunnar went to preschool since it wasn't fair that we got to stay home all day and she didn't. I told her that wasn't going to happen and that she needed to go to school or I would call the principal to come and get her. He might even have to call the police to come and make her go to school.
She tried telling me that they couldn't make her go to school because she was in charge of herself and that no one can make her do anything. After a few minutes of listening to her tell me why she wasn't going to school. I got up and pretended like I was going to grab the cell phone and call the school. Quicker then you could do anything BOTH girls got up and got dressed and we were out the door only 3 minutes late for school.

Maybe I Will Post Something Real One Day,

2009-09-21T08:03:00.004-06:00

I haven't posted a real post in a long time, actually has anything I said ever really made sense? Anyways here are some pictures of the kids on the first day of school suprisingly Novalee didn't want her picture taken. As I am sure most of you know she is such a poser for the camera. Let me explain something first about the girl's hair. I have been so tired this entire pregnancy I had let the girls do their own hair all summer. The first day of school comes around and

I have no hair ties or bobby pins at all to do their hair. So we searched in the couch cushions and found like 5 bobby pins for Harley's hair and 4 rubber bands for Novalee's haird. It wouldn't have been a big deal at all but they also needed their hair cut. Harley's hair when it needs to be cut is out of control and in her face. I felt really bad and that night I went and bought some hair ties then that weekend we did hair cuts. Such a slacker mom! Now that I finally posted that maybe I should make sure that the girls are ready to go to school now.

Going Private September 19

2009-09-12T20:55:00.001-06:00

Way too many weirdos out there. Leave me your email.

My blogging friends

2009-08-21T09:17:00.002-06:00

We have had a busy week this week with the kids starting school and Jason back to work. However I took really cute pictures of all the kids and I can't figure out the reason my camera is not uploading them to my computer. Its all Jason's fault probably.
I have been thinking about making my blog private again. Its a pain to log in but sometimes I say more then I want and I don't want anyone to know too much.
In case you haven't noticed the list of people whose blogs I read, there are some amazing people who I am lucky enough to know. Some of them have the greatest strength and overcome so much with faith and a positive outlook. Some of them are just great people and have accomplished so much.
For example: (I know you all want to know this)
One blogging friend used to live next door to us. They have had our kids walk in without knocking on the front door to show them their new bikes. The wife worked with LDS adoptions and the husband made a movie that was shown at Sundance I think a year ago. They have since moved but we loved having them next door. They are a great couple.
Another blogging friend is a friend from high school. She dances with a dance company in Salt Lake and has traveled all over dancing. She has an adorable little girl and has always made me laugh.
There is a family that recently lost their infant daughter. They are such an example because they are always talking about the eternal perspective of things. They are raising their kids who are incredibly cute to be great people and I always love to read their posts and then cry because they have such a love of life.
I have a friend whose son had a heart transplant less then a month after the baby was born and he is now 2 years old still in and out of the hospital but this family is so strong and doing all they can for their little boy.
One of my friends I knew in high school but didn't become good friends with her until I moved in my ward that I am in now. Even though I don't see her much now that she has moved, I think she is absolutely wonderful and is always so sweet. She has 2 little boys one of them is autistic and is always willing to help others and look gorgeous while she does it!
There are so many more examples of other people who are wonderful and are always examples to me. I could go on for days about some of my friends but my messy house calls my name.........

I never knew

2009-08-06T19:44:00.003-06:00

We went to the dr today for a baby checkup. Everything was good. We don't know the boy/girl yet but after the ultrasound Novalee was so excited because we are having a black baby!! This is the 8 week ultrasound.

What did you do over summer vacation?

2009-08-05T15:59:00.014-06:00

What did you do over summer break? Our family
had a little bit of fun. The kids took swimming lessons and learned alot.

Gunnar actually put his head under the water! Novalee swam in the deep end.

Harley wore herself out trying to use her arms and turn her head to breathe not to mention she had to kick her legs too!

Our Novalee turned 8 in a quiet way. Playing wii bowling is a great way to entertain kids when you are too tired to go outside and play.

We did fireworks with our grandparents.

This is the first year we went to the parade when we only live 2 blocks away. We also ate lots of

donuts.

We went to the childrens museum in Salt Lake and made kids cry by bringing spiderman with us. I think we left Gunnar at home.

We met Ronald McDonald who thought Novalee was Miley Cyrus! The highlight of the day for her.

Instead of playing in the hot sun, we chose to be inside and sleep. It was so fun.

Oh yeah, we also found out we are having another baby this summer! Maybe that is why we also took lots of naps.

So Anyways

2009-07-31T22:09:00.001-06:00

We talked to this guy we have been working on and there is a positive future!

About earlier........

2009-07-31T02:37:00.002-06:00

Ok so I deleted that other post. I felt alot better after I wrote it. Things are going to be okay. We are going to have a great life here in this house as long as we can. We are going to save up and have Jason finish school. I am learning alot about patience right now.

I passed a test!

2009-07-31T00:41:00.002-06:00

I know that life is full of many tests and not all of them are going to be life changing or something that is considered hard. If you are around me lately I am so not a fun person. I either feel tired, really sick to my stomach, extremely tired, and always feel in a bad mood. I have been so mean to my kids lately its sad. Tonight, I was worried about things, the house is messy, I have wet laundry in the washer, not to mention I ate way too much food at dinner. The girls were in the kids room watching Gummi Bears and Gunnar of course was in my room, I guess what we were watching was over because Jason and I were both asleep and so Gunnar woke up Jason and told him it was over. Jason turned off the tv and went back to sleep. Gunnar started kicking and screaming and crying. I of course yelled at him and he went in his room crying but I know that is not how I want to be as a mommy so I went and got him we walked back to my room with him crying and I told him without yelling that we don't have to watch tv to go to sleep so he came in my bed and we cuddled and tried to sing songs. It was a really sweet moment that I haven't had with my kids for a long time. After about 5 minutes, Gunnar was asleep and I realized I haven't felt that good in such a long time.
Maybe this is a test in itself. These little trials of patience with my kids I know I am going to have to push myself to be a strong example for these kids. I need to take a breath and remember the big picture in life.

My Summer

2009-07-29T01:57:00.003-06:00

Like always, this summer was going to be well planned. My kids were going to be on a schedule, they were going to be doing some of the many workbooks that we have boughten over the year but not used. We were going to be spending hours outside soaking up the sunshine and letting the kids run wild in the backyard. We were going to work hard on our garden and watch the plants grow and enjoy the fruit or vegatables of our labor. Gunnar was going to sleep in his bed.
Like always, something has come up. I am lucky if I wake up before 9 am. My kids wake up at all different hours. Novalee could sleep in until 11 if we let her. The house is never clean and the only time the dishes are done is if Jason get tired of the smell and does them himself. The only thing that has really survived out of my garden is the tomatos. The kids don't want to go outside they just want to sit inside and play Barbies. When they do go outside, I watch them from the kitchen window until I get tired of breaking up fights. Then I make them come in the house which only results in more crying. Workbooks haven't even gotten out of the box. Harley and I have been reading the same book since May, its hard when you only get around to one chapter a week if we are lucky. I hope we didn't lose a library book thinking about it now! Gunnar sleeps in our bed only if Jason is asleep and I can't sleep because I have gotten used to him in our bed now and I sleep better. My kids don't eat breakfast alot. I think they only ate lunch and didn't say anything about dinner since we were so full from our 2 pm lunch at Wingers.
How I am going to get back to the Mommy that I used to be and yet it was the mommy I didn't want to be? I need to get my energy back soon school starts in a few weeks! Oh the joys of pregnancy.

I'm Dreaming of Smoking?

2009-07-25T17:17:00.002-06:00

This morning I actually woke up early because my house has taken on a funny smell to it lately and suprisingly Novalee woke up too. I was suprised because lately we have to fight her to get up before 10 most days. She came in and was crying. She told me that she had dreamt that she smoked in her dream, then she asked me, "Mommy, is it bad that I was smoking in my dream?" after I told her that she can't help sometimes what she dreams she asked, "Am I going to be sick?" and "Am I in trouble?"

Poor Girl!

Something New Every Day

2009-07-23T23:40:00.003-06:00

You know being married for over 9 years now there are things that you never would imagine yourself saying almost on a nightly basis in your bed something that Jason and I have to say almost every night is, "No guns in the bed" This is why

What Weird Kids I Have

2009-07-22T00:06:00.001-06:00

Its midnight and none of my kids are asleep. Harley is saying, "Kill the spiders, free the diapers" among other things. Gunnar is wearing his back purse that is filled with guns while loading his big construction truck up with dinosaurs not the blocks that came with it and Novalee is screaming "Spider!" randomly maybe wanting me to dump water on her. Isn 't life great!

2009-07-18T23:03:00.002-06:00

This week is the last of our busy weeks! I am so happy that it is over with while we did do some really fun things. We saw Harry Potter, had a birthday, swimming lessons, not to mention a baby shower yesterday and another one tomorrow. We also had the normal day to day things mixed in with dr's appointments and Provo City Basketball games. Jason has one more class this summer and then will start Dixon again in August. I am just having fun sleeping and reading which is what I am getting really good at. Novalee still needs to set a baptism day but we aren 't really letting her until she decides she is going to start going to church again. She has been doing makeup nonstop on almost everyone for 2 weeks. Harley wishes it had been her birthday especially since Novalee had told her she could get her nails done with her but of course Novalee made that up. Her best friend Kate moved away today and of course when Harley and Kate hugged good bye and kept saying "more, more" I started crying. Gunnar is getting to be such a big boy and now completly goes potty in the big toilet since Mommy got tired of cleaning out the other one. He is into guns and sleeps with them even when he comes in our bed.
Such good news today Harley gets the teacher we wanted who also very nicely watched the kids so I could go to the dr this week. Anyways we have cute pictures but for some reason I can't figure out the camera. Hope you are all having as much fun as us!

My little Novalee

2009-07-12T07:49:00.004-06:00

Well, today my little girl turns 8! Isn't that so weird that she is that old? She has been such a fun daughter and so full of energy from the day she was born here are some of the many pictures (She is the oldest so you know how that goes)

Busted!

2009-07-10T22:35:00.001-06:00

I am sitting here wondering today why Harley thought we were going to steal our groceries from the store! I will never know.

2009-06-29T21:39:00.002-06:00

My lovely little boy went into a sugery center for a day. He had some 3 fillings to get done but doesn't like to have the dentist look at his mouth. After considering our options that would be best for Gunnar, we decided to have him use General Anesthesia to get the work done. He woke up the morning before so hungry we went out and did what we could to keep his mind off food. These pictures are of us waiting for him to go back.

Then when they were listening to his heart, he told the lady, "I cut my hands in my dad's beer can" It didn't happen in beer can, it was a dr pepper can that Gunnar was drinking and for some reason stuck 2 of his fingers in.

Traditions and Chores

2009-06-27T04:09:00.003-06:00

Don't you love traditions? I always loved the traditions that my family did when we were younger especially the ones that we did around Christmas time. We are trying to set up traditions with our kids and teach them the reasons that we think having traditions in our family are special.

Something else I love is chores. My girls are getting old enough to do chores. They each have a chore one has the bathroom and the other has the living room. Since our house is so tiny its not that bad ever. Gunnar? Well he follows me and usually ends up putting dirty clothes off the floor in with the clean clothes in the dryer.

How can I tie these together you might want to know? According to Novalee, whose turn it is this week to pick up the living room, our family has a tradition, it is to have a messy living room and we are ruining that tradition by making her clean.

Is my house that messy constantly that my kids think its a tradition to have a messy house?

Confessions of a Crazy Woman

2009-06-25T20:06:00.003-06:00

Well, actually first of all it is weird that I am writing this about me because calling me a woman is weird. Despite the fact that in 2 years I will be 30 years old and also my husband will be 30 (wow really old) in August.
Anyways my crazy confession for today is so embarrassing but since most of you who know me know it is not uncommon, at Walmart today, I saw this couple that looked familiar to me. Thinking for a minute I realized they are from this blog that I happened to find when blog hopping and the reason I liked their blog is because the husband is my great Aunt Nola's grandson. Most people would drop a line on their comment section introducing themselves but not me, I went up to them and talked to them at Walmart . Yes I talk to strangers that I admit I read their blog. I know its different since we are related still, I love being the crazy one.
While we were there, we also saw Jason's bosses from Provo City. In case you don't know he also works for Parks and Recreation Department supervising basketball games. Our original reason to go was to buy a swimming pool for the back yard. We were planning on just buying the $50 one. Novalee had other plans in front of Jason's bosses she threw this huge fit including throwing the box with the pool we were buying, she punched Harley and was having an attitude moment. All in front of Jay's bosses. You didn't hear about that from me though!

Dear Novalee, PS

2009-06-12T18:19:00.002-06:00

I am so happy you washed and put away the dishes, next time don't wash them with the lysol cleaner! Mommy is going to have to wash all the dishes tonight since I don't know what you washed!

Me hating something

2009-06-11T21:34:00.003-06:00

Sometimes I hate being so close to perfect. I went to the store today and this man kept following me. Finally I turned around and said, "look man stop following me" he then told me that he was hired by Josh Groban to follow me. After thinking about it for a while, I decided to take a picture with Josh Groban. The minute I agreed to he was on a plane coming to Utah.

These are our pictures, we wanted to take our pictures ourselves so I took his picture and he took mine. Can you tell he was tired of the photographers?

Dear Novalee

2009-06-11T21:07:00.002-06:00

Dear Novalee,

Thank you for being you! There are so many great things I should say to you that I don't daily because I am too busy hitting my head into the wall or trying to follow behind the three of you picking up.

First let me tell you how greatful I am for you. You have brought out a sense of humor in me that I thought mom's shouldn't have. Mommy's aren't supposed to fall over laughing all the time like me. You love me even though I am not nearly good enough for you. I remember when you had first come home from the hospital I had no idea what to do and Grandma Karen (the really old (young) one had to leave to go make dinner for us. I didn't want her to leave since Daddy was buying a new car seat for our Buick and I didn't know if I could be a Mommy all by myself. Luckily I was able to do it for the few hours I was alone and I have loved being a mommy to you! The first week you were home I had quite a few scares. I guess I fell asleep with you in my arms and you rolled off me onto the floor next to the bed. Another night (I think this happened twice) I woke up and you were in between my legs on top of the comforter but as I got up to get you out of bed I didn't know you were there and covered you with the blanket. Luckily Heavenly Father knows how special you are and how much I needed you and let me keep you with me on earth. You have been such a great example to your younger brother and sister. I love everything about you! You have a love for life and a love for the dramatics. Thank you!!

Remember this always Novalee!

Love

Mommy

Thank you for doing the dishes tonight and setting the table for dinner!

I'm Back!.....kind of

2009-05-28T18:16:00.002-06:00

Well anyways, I am so happy to announce that we are going to be back to our regular blogs well, maybe, I am trying to work on some personal things and that will mean less time to play on the computer but I do want to spend what time I do have on the computer keeping our families up to date with what is going on! Jason is planning on some time off and we plan on doing what we can to enjoy our time and grow stronger as a family. Can you tell how tired I am while I was trying to get a new picture for my blog of me?

What We Have Been Doing!

2009-05-28T17:58:00.005-06:00

This is just a random bunch of pictures that give a sampling of what we have been incredibly busy doing!! We didn't even get to work or school for Jason and I but life is busy yet great and we are so incredibly blessed! I have really cute pictures of Harley on field day but it has has the school name with it and I try to keep things a little private. If you want to see it email me at utahespinoza1@gmail.com the pictures are hilarious!

Isn't This Beautiful!!

2009-05-11T21:22:00.003-06:00

dad's cousin had this picture. Its my dad's parents and my dad! Aren't my grandparents so great looking? They both died while I was in high school so Jason and my kids never got to know them. They were wonderful grandparents! Its small so click on it and hopefully it will get a little bigger!

So many things, so little time

2009-05-10T23:09:00.002-06:00

Let me start off with something that happened tonight,
Gunnar and Harley were asleep. Jason was getting ready for bed but Novalee asked him to go for a walk with her. He told her he would run with her, I said I wanted to go too so we locked the front door and ran back and forth on our side of the block. It was so frustrating that I am so not in shape and that I was falling behind. As I grew more and more tired, I would tell myself that I couldn't do it anymore. I would stop take a break while the other 2 passed me. Then on the final time back we were racing to our house, Jason took off, and then Novalee and I started running trying to beat him. About 4 houses away from mine, which is not that far, I felt my body become tired. I know that you need to push yourself in order to succeed but I didn't think I could do it. Now that I think about it I really wished I had done it. It was not far at all to really be an accomplishment but the fact that I gave up bothers me.
The other day, I was checking my grades on the computer. I am sure that all my faithful readers know that I am not one to be on my homework and to get it done right away. I think one of my greatest weaknesses is procrastinating. Anyways, suprisingly, I didn't get an A in a class I was hoping I would get an A in. I missed a few of the discussion boards that I was supposed to post on but, for some reason it was a shock that I didn't ace it. I don't know why it was so upsetting to me anyways since I failed another class (Luckily it was a 2 credit class that had wayyy to much homework for what it was worth). However, as I looked at that grade, I found myself crying. I didn't just cry, I started sobbing!
Jason was sitting on the couch by me and told me to come sit next to him and talk. He is such a great man, I feel so lucky to have him. He just put his arms around me and just let me cry. My feelings just came pouring out to him about so many things and the trials that I have. He is so wonderful and just listened to me.
At our home we go by school years since that is the schedule we have been on for about 8 years. Let me tell you this year has been one of the worst but as I have come to accept the trials that I have been given, I have come to learn to love that families are forever and that at times we don't think things could get worse but they do. I have also come to learn this year that I am actually an adult not just playing one. While I am constantly making mistakes, I am grateful that Heavenly Father understands me. He knows that I am not perfect, I am so far on the other side of perfect. He loves me. I know that Satan does what he can to try to discourage me from happiness but as learned tonight, I need to push past what I think is going to be hard and get to what I want to accomplish in life. I can't give up on myself or my family when I feel I can't and together with my wonderful husband by my side we can get our family to where we want to be.
I also tonight feel so grateful because after a few discussions with Novalee she has decided that she wants to be baptized. At times, I have wondered if we were ever going to hear that out of her mouth. Our typical Sunday involves Jason and I trying to convince her to go to church so we can be a family at church and learn about things that Heavenly Father and Jesus want us to learn. As usual this morning while we were getting the kids bathed, we had a "loud discussion" with her about her attitude towards church. Now I know she is only 8 but we really want her to love the gospel as much as we do. We want her to learn for herself the importance. So usually when we have brought it up to her, we hear, that she wants to be baptized when she is 20. We aren't going to force her but we want her to know exactly what it means when you get baptized and the responsibilty that comes with it. My lovely daughter told me with tears in her eyes, "Mommy, I love Jesus, and I want to get baptized and make the right choices, I just don't like to sit in church because it is so long." It was so sweet to hear that from her. I love my kids so much!!

Look at my Breath Mommy....

2009-04-19T21:24:00.002-06:00

The other day we had a really lonnnnnnnnnnnnng day. Jason woke up and wasn't able to hear out of one of his ears. I wasn't sure how long it would take him at the doctors office or what exactly we would need to do so I just kept the girls home from school. We ended up spending a few hours at least getting Jason somewhat better after leaving we realized that Jason had to go to school soon. We ended up just staying out in Orem and the kids and I waited in the car while Jason ran in to take some quizes since he didn't feel good at all. While we were watching tv in the car, I told Gunnar to tell Jason when he came back in that he was a princess now and was going to wear dresses. Luckily Gunnar is all boy and told me, "Mommy, look at my breath, I am a Gunnar not a princess"

Katrina.......where have you been lately??

2009-04-17T14:20:00.002-06:00

I know all of you are wondering where I have been lately and why I have not told my life story lately but I have been really busy with school. 2 more weeks then I am off until August! I also have 3 kids and a husband who are all very demanding of my time and when I try to update my blog, I am interrupted by the 50 milllion things that I should be doing.
I also have been sick lately. I found out a month ago that I am hypoglycemic which from what I am understanding is that I was comsuming too much sugar. I had no idea more then 2 44 oz Dr. Peppers could do that to you! After a scary moment one day, we did blood tests and then we have come to that decision. Because of the stress from hearing what was wrong, I kind of was not paying attention when I got the call saying what it was. This website should give some help on understanding it. It has actually been a lot harder on me then I thought it would, no DP, no pink cookies, no mint milky ways. Its terrible!! I know that in the long run it will be better and it made me really upset at first because I am way to young to be in this situation but I am lucky, Jason has been so supportive of me and is helping in any way that he can.
Meanwhile I have been taking lots of pictures everywhere we went and I will put them on probably next week!

Zoo Day!!

2009-03-28T08:38:00.005-06:00

The zoo was really fun! Gunnar was in love with all the snakes, Harley got to see her beloved wolf, and Novalee got to pose for pictures! They didn't have the butterflies that she wanted to see but she had fun. It was kind of chilly but it was worth it. Afterwards we went to the Mayan for dinner and the kids got to watch the diving show. Ending up with a round of Spades with Grandma Kathy and Grandpa Jerry. It was a great day.

Novalee was in the Spelling Bee!!

2009-03-28T08:25:00.002-06:00

For some reason it was really dark. She did awesome she made it through 4 rounds I think but ended up starting the word wrong and if you know how spelling bees work, when you start the word off wrong, even if you go back and spell it right, it is still a missed word. I am so proud of her. She is so smart and such a fun girl!

Happy Valentines Day???

2009-03-28T08:15:00.002-06:00

I am so behind on what has been going on at our home if you can't tell by these posts, this year on Valentines Day, I helped at Harley's party. I ended up not feeling very good so I just took pictures while others did all the work. I didn't get to go to Novalee's class for her party but she came home with lots of candy too. The next day on the actual Valentines Day, we went with Grandma Kathy and Grandpa Jerry to Tucanos. They had a wonderful set up for Valentines Day and all the girls got roses. My girls each got 2 because they asked for a different color. After dinner we went back over to Jason's parents and played Spades which is now one of my favorite games. Its even better if I win though.

One last post

2009-03-08T20:28:00.002-06:00

Thanks everyone for emailing me and leaving me great comments. I think that yesterday I just woke up after a dream I had about my Grandma and it just really was hard. Its so frustrating for me right now. I mean its not like I talked to her everyday but the fact that I can't call her or go see her. I can't just vent to her or get a hug from her. I just miss her so much and I can't even imagine how my Grandad is doing it. She always just let me talk which everyone knows I love to do. She always encouraged me to do my best and it would motivate me being a mom. Growing up she was always there for me and I could call her when everything was going on with my parents. In my dream I was so frustrated I was on my way to see her but I kept missing her and then I missed her and we were on our way to her funeral. I woke up just so upset from it. It put me in a bad mood and having kids that kept fighting and then laughing at me when I got mad at them didn't help.
Well, that is the last of my unorganized thoughts for now. Getting ready for the spring!!

Is this too personal?

2009-03-08T09:36:00.003-06:00

Well, today is Sunday and I am still feeling kind of just here. Just thought everyone in the blogging world should know. However. I just found out that we are not going to be able to make it to church again today and I know that on days that I feel just not like going are the days that I actually should go. I just always feel so terrible when I miss church and like I am disappointing my kids even though they don't want to even go. That makes it harder because I want them to want to go. When I was going by myself it was easier it seemed because I was focused on going every week. Jason also wasn't working as much as he is now. I don't know I am just so worried because I haven't been for 3 weeks. I am so worried that the Bishop will come and tell us that we are losing are recommends now. I have a strong testimony I just am going through a lot right now and just am worn out mentally and physically every day. The kids don't listen so the whole first hour is me taking them out to the hall and watch them laugh as I get frustrated. I love the temple and I never want to be not able to go. We pay our tithing and do everything we should be doing except make it to church everyweek. AHH! Oh well, I just had to vent. I might even delete this later today.

Blah!

2009-03-07T22:02:00.002-07:00

Well, today has just been one of those days, I could tell when I woke up and just was upset from my dream and then the kids have just been out of control today. I have been doing pretty good lately but then today just I have been crying on and off and trying to not freak out on my kids and somehow when my house is all clean in the morning by 2 the house is torn up and the sink is full of dirty dishes. Right now I should be cleaning like usual but all I can do is keep thinking about one thing and keep crying. Anyways, tomorrow is Sunday and we will hopefully have a great day!

The Lovely Jonas Brothers! In Provo!

2009-03-04T06:12:00.003-07:00

Here is the plan, Friday night at 4:30 you know where I wil be? At home getting ready to buy tickets to the Stadium of Fire. We missed Miley Cyrus last year and Novalee was heart broken. We couldn't afford it so we didn't try this year we are going to try and get something. They love the Jonas Brothers! I am keeping it all a secret until we know what we get.

Gunnar is handsome!

2009-03-01T06:54:00.002-07:00

Last night Gunnar went potty in the toilet while we were at Grandma Kathy's and Grandpa Jerry's. He knows when he has to go potty since the only time he will go is when we promise him a treat first. I think he is just stubborn. Harley and Novalee had been off the wall all night and after a few instances of time out we were not going to get the girls a treat too. We go home and Gunnar started eating his skittles Novalee was so mad that she didn't get one, she started asking why Gunnar got candy and she didn't. Gunnar just answered for us, "Because I am handsome and good"
That was too cute not to mention.
On the other hand the girls have been saying some pretty funny things lately just some that I don't want to post on Blogger!

24

2009-02-26T05:34:00.002-07:00

Has anyone else ever seen the show "24" on Fox and wished that you could type as fast as those people could, or even had a reason to type like that?