Catch up

So my grandparents came up last week, and we celebrated Byrnley's birthday, we just went out to dinner and than opened her presents and had cake- than the next day on short notice my mom decided to go back down to Utah with them and wanted me to come along to celebrate the 24th of July, so off I went with just the kids me and my mom. It was fun being there with all the family, but man talk about DRAMA, and stress. The kids were crazy and there were so many people and alas having so many horrible dreams lately about having my kids kidnapped or drowning in a pool I was a little stressed out about where they were the whole time, It was quite the workout. All in all it was a very fun and busy week, I love going up and spending time with my "Sisters" (really my aunts but they feel more like sisters) and of course shopping since that is what we end up doing most the time. It's nice to be home to, (Dave has turned me into such a homebody) Now I just need to play catch up though for all those things I neglected for the week. :)

Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

Well the last two weeks were miserable. So miserable I didn't want to blog, or talk about them so were really not. But HALLELUJAH! the semester is over, the last night of the semester I went up with Dave to the lab because truthfully my patience was gone and after two weeks with no break from the kids cuz Dave wasn't getting home till after midnight every night and leaving before eight I had had it, but ya the last night Dave stayed up all night working on some group project, seriously all night, I crashed on the guys(some guy in the group)couch for a couple of hours while they worked on, than at 10 that morning Dave went and took a final, than finally came home at noon and slept the rest of the day.
We are glad it's done, it's too bad though that Dave starts class tommorrow though-urghh, hopefully it won't be too bad since it's only one class though. Anyways while Dave was gone I tried to stay super busy and do fun stuff with the kids so I didn't stress out as much, so we went to the zoo, and swiming, and playing at the parks, and on bike rides, and out to lunch together, and they helped me mow the lawn, and we jumped on the tramp, and we shopped. It was pretty fun, but pretty tiring at the same time, I don't do well without some quite personal time to just think or get some things actually done. Anyhow heres some pics we took.

I ain't doin that again.

So as I'm cleaning the house, it always seems like I run in circles. I'll clean the living room go to clean the bathroom and by the time I come out to the living room again the kids have it messy again, pick up the living room Walk back to the bathroom and guess what. This I know as common mom life but still! If we didn't have kids our home would be immaculate, I pick up after myself, Dave does fairly well, and I pick up his slack. It's just the kiddo's. Of course I think I would much rather have my kids and the love and joy they bring to my life than an immaculate home, but ;lakdjf;lklsadfj;lksaf sometimes. It would probably be better if I had the mentality of an ant, instead I'm the one off to the side sayin "I ain't doin that again" there just going to tear it apart. Still in the end I can't live in a mess it drives me more nuts so here I am doin it again, and again, and again.

Not my Brian, but still kinda funny

So was bloghopping and found this video, since I don't have enough time right now to make a real post this will have to do.

Activity Day girls BBQ!

So we had a Daddy daughter BBQ the other day and they wanted me to take pictures. Ya I don't know It feels so awkward taking out my big camera at things like that, I can't just blend into the background as is my usual behavior, I'll probably get more use to it but being very much an amature, (I just started learning about photography in like January and I don't think I got my camera till march or so.) I feel super AWKWARD. Anyways I know I do this layout all the time but you gotta understand only my fellow bloggers really see these, and they wanted something to hang on the primary bulletin board so I went with what was easiest for me to do. So once again, we have almost the same thing :) lol.

A new obsession

So I'm hoping we get to stay here after Dave is done with school cuz' I really want to go to school myself. I really want to go into graphic design because it's something that has really interested me since I've gotten married and my husband turned me into a computer nerd. I never went to school before we got married because I did not know what to go into, it seemed like everyone that I knew, knew what they wanted to do and a lot of that included becoming nurses ect. which ya is very very very much not me, you start medical talk and my brain goes numb. So now that I know what I would like to learn I might not have the chance, not that I think I'll get a career after school, just having the option open and learning all the stuff I want to and being able to a little on the side would be great.
Anyways I love looking at typography art, It's pretty close to being my favorite just because I love words so much. I've never been good at getting what I want to say across by talking, but give me some paper and I can explain it a lot better. So ya I love to look at www.deviantart.com Cuz' they have some amazing talented people, Some stuff can be bad so be at your caution. Anyways Dave thinks I'm crazy for liking this stuff, but it's fine cuz' I'm in charge of the home decor and if I want some typography art around it's gonna be around and he'll learn to like it. :) Tell me what you think of it, yay or nay.

Just Chillin

So Payton got a T-shirt from his great grandma that talks- wahoo- just what I've always wanted, like Payton doesn't talk enough on his own :)
So anyways this t shirt came with a sticker on it and ya we of course can't just throw a sticker away I mean come on it's a sticker and it sticks ta stuff :) So this sticker has served as our morning entertainment. Payton first stuck it to Brynley's bottom but I teased him and said his bottom seems to talk a lot more than Brynleys does. Of course he disagreed and said mine talks more as he chased me down the hall trying to stick it on me. We finally agreed that Daddy's does the most talking so when he gets home, He gets the honor of having the "i Talk" sticker on his bum. Just another day in the life of a Mom with toddlers. :)

Lazy day, depression, and Seriousness

So I've had a way lazy day today, pretty much just sat around and I didn't even get ready for the day which really is unusual for me, but this sort of day instead of being relaxing and rejuvenating for me actually does the opposite and makes me fairly depressed, same with movies lately, I can't watch a movie and not feel like "wow that was just a waste of two hours". I guess I just hate thinking that I've had such a wasteful day and not accomplished much, I did relax with the kids a bit but nothing with active attention for them. Than reading the news I came upon the story about a younger woman who has cancer and her blog, checked out the blog(http://toddlerplanet.wordpress.com/) and it talked about her friend who just died from cancer. Well now you see me crying because we have such short lives, and there is no guarantee for how long we will get. And I just wasted a day in which I could have spent time with my wonderful kids to love them to teach them. That is one of my worst fears in this life is losing that time, I want to love my husband spend so much time with him and grow old together, I want the memories, I want to see my kids get married and love and play with my grandchildren. Sometimes I feel like we have all the time in the world and I know I at least don't always focus on the most precious things of this life. So I am really going to try and simplify, love, and enjoy everyday more, and work my butt off cuz' this is the only time I get, maybe Heavenly Father will give me enough time to become if not perfect at least more exceedingly pure. "Maybe I'm crazy but sometimes I feel like I won't get to have a long life-does anybody else ever get that feeling, cuz' it's scary, not scary in afraid of dying but more scary in I don't want to leave my family behind, I want them with me always and through every earthly experience I want to be here. Anyways I know I'm crazy you don't have to tell me. Just thought I'd get my thoughts out. :)

Fourth of July

Hope everyone had a great weekend, we had a very busy one. So busy that on Sunday I collapsed on the In-laws couch -awkward-

ANYWAYS WE:
*Watched Rigby's fireworks, with which Judd Ball totally beat with his little display
*Floated the Drybed twice, almost three times except the boys opted for bombs instead
*Watched the Menan Parade, which we left accidentally in the middle because they had such big gaps.
*Went to the Menan Park for a little bit, I remember it being so much more fun when I was little. Miss the good ol' days
*Watched the guys make their little dry ice toys, above picture features Levi in his bomb suit :)
*Found a letter F made out of grass on our floor, it was actually stuck together like that. Crazy.
*Took pictures of the Whole Fam and Riley and Dafne- Isn't Dafne beautiful, how do you compete with that, I told Levi he can't marry anyone pretty cuz' I don't wanna be the ugly duckling in the family :)
*Levi also showed us his amazing Jumping skills. Pretty cool :)
*And we went to our friends annual BBQ and got pretty up close seats to watch the Idaho falls fireworks, which held my kids attention for about a min is all. And you can't forget the hour long drive home, always so much fun :)

Anyways that was our weekend in a nutshell, now I get to experience two weeks of being a single mom because finals week is coming up. Wish me luck, And pray that Dave will pass all of his classes and still have his health.

Payters Birthday!

Fun, Fun, Fun! After being anxious because many people called and said they couldn't make it, we had a great turnout and a lot of fun. Dave's hamburgers were excellent- (my grandma said they were the best she'd ever had?) and I must say he did a good job carving the watermelon following my directions :) Aunt Debbie got Payton a water gun and let's just say she got what was coming for that one :) And the boys had fun throwing the water balloons as always. Brynley ate much much chocolate and thought every present for Payton was hers. He of course will do the same on her birthday. All in all a fun night. This I think is gonna be the thank you card we give out. Anyways it's late, I'm tired, so night :)

I hate gardens!

So I'm kinda having a very frustrating stressful day, and the fact that my garden is outta control with weeds urghrghah. I don't know about any body else but my allergies this year are BAD! For a month now I have had constant itchy eyes and a stuffy/runny nose. So working outside in the garden has been outta the question. All the stupid allergy medicine knocks me out 2, I took some while shopping the other day and I was pretty much ready to lay down on Walmarts floor and take a nap, luckily my mom was with us so she could drive me home. Grrrrr frustrating. I don't know why I expect myself to be perfect at everything, I wish I could just accept the fact that I can't garden, I've tried really, for 3 years now and every year it's the same thing, I guess I'm just worried about disappointing my mother in law 2. I've got issues sometimes, but don't we all? Anyways once again a post on me freaking out. lol. Well when everyone around you is either too busy to talk to you or care, or at the age where actually conversation is outta reach, you end up complaining to your blog a lot. :)

Hmmmmm

Yep hmmm that's about all I can say. Not sure if I like it or not. I created it because part of our gift to our friends new baby was going to be some free announcements if they wanted them, but hmmmmmm.