Caid Quotes

I know, everyone's kid is the funniest. But seriously, mine is. :) I know one of these days, they will grow up and yelling "You idiot" at her sister won't come across quite as cute so I've got to write 'em down as I hear the cute things my little girls say!

We were getting ready to go for a walk with some friends, but when I pulled out the stroller, the pin holding the wheel on was broken. I told Caid we couldn't go because it was broken. She said, "It's ok. Just call grandpa. He can fix it. He's my fix-it grandpa. He can fix anything!" (And it's true! My dad can fix anything...even the broken stroller wheel.)

Caid: I'm hungry.
Me: What do you want?
Caid: I'm thinking something round like a circle.
Me: Ok, what food is round like a circle?
Caid: A chocolate chip cookie is round!

I picked Caid up from preschool and asked how her day was and what she did. She said she was playing with the boys and told them she wanted to play princess. They were playing Star Wars and told her they weren't playing princess. She said she would be the princess in Star Wars (which she has never seen, or probably ever heard of.) They told her there were no princesses in Star Wars so she'd have to go play something else. So she told them "Nice try. So, mom, they said 'Ok, fine. You can be the pretty princess in Star Wars.' " I'm not sure what the real story is, but this is the one she told me after school.

I told Caid I had to finish something before we left for Costco so she turned to Jord and said, "K Jord. Let's go entertain ourselves."

We were running errands and she wants to know exactly where we are going. I told her we were stopping at RC Willey. She said, "Oh I love RC Willey! He is so handsome!"

I was helping out in her preschool class for the day and it happened to be black day. They were talking about bats and how they sleep upside down. Ms. Karen asked how they sleep. Caid said, "I sleep upside up. But then once I hear my parents go to sleep I tippy toe sooo sneaky into their room and get in their bed and sleep in with them. But I have to be sneaky."

Another place to waste your time dreaming...

So I have found a new website that has given me so many ideas of things I would like to do, but will probably never find the time (similar to my relationship with Pinterest.) It is a whole site of before and after projects, everything from furniture to rooms to clothes. Below are just a few of my favorites, but by far the hot pink zebra kitchen is something I am dying to make! betterafter.blogspot.com

Gluten Free+Sugar Free=Taste Free

Okay that's a bit dramatic. But if you know me, you know how much I love food. I eat because I enjoy it and I want to eat what I enjoy. I'm not as healthy as I would like to be sometimes, but I believe in eating what will satisfy me, not what will just fill me up until the next meal. So, with that said, I haven't been the best wife when it comes to cooking for Zach. He has Celiac and has to be on a Gluten Free diet. When we were first married, I tried making multiple loaves of homemade bread...that all came out looking and feeling like a brick. I tried making him dinner by converting recipes I had to GF, but they tasted gross. I tried new GF recipes, but some were good, some were a complete fail. We basically ended up eating tacos for our whole first year of marriage. Once I gave up trying to make disastrous dinners, (not to mention Zach works til 9:00 most nights so we always had late dinners) we finally got to the point where we'd make our own dinners. He goes through about 5 dozen eggs by himself every month since his dinner of choice is scrambled eggs with corn tortillas.

Then we had kids. One ended up with Diabetes so my whole mindset on food became counting carbs. Making sure she's getting enough carbs, but not too many. Making sure she gets enough insulin to balance out the carbs. Making sure that if her sugar is low, she gets enough carbs to bring her sugar up. Then when we think we've gotten that figured out, child number two thinks she needs more attention. :) Jordyn has been little from the start. But at her last appt she was only in the 5th percentile. Also, the last two weeks she has been grabbing her stomach crying and had diarrhea. All symptons Zach had growing up. We haven't confirmed it with the dr yet, but we are going to take Jordyn off Gluten for a while and see how she does. But this means I am now GF. If you are or have ever been a mother of a small child you know you cannot eat a meal without them wanting it. Even if you get them their own plate with the same food, yours tastes better. So...here's to experimenting with new GF recipes and finding food to satisfy, not just fill! If anyone has any recipes that you have actually tried and work and taste delicious, pass them on!!

The Wizard of Oz

I decided to buy tickets for Caidence and me to go see "The Wizard of Oz" at the Grand Theatre. I told Caid we were going on a special date, but not what it was. She wouldn't have cared what we were doing, she was just excited to get a special night out with just us. I was a little nervous that she would be bored since she has never seen the movie so she didn't know the story and that she would get bored sitting through a 3 hour play. She absolutely loved it! I asked her at intermission if she was done and ready to go home and she said she wanted to stay for the rest. The whole last half after every scene, she would ask to make sure it wasn't over because she wasn't ready to leave. Then once it was over, she told me she was "so sad because she just wanted to see more." She asked if we could come back the next day and bring Jordy and Daddy so they could see it, too. And all day today she keeps giving me hugs and telling me that she loved our special date. Zach was very jealous that I got to take her out so next time they may have to have a daddy/daughter date.

Pun-kin Painting!

I've decided this is so the way to go with pumpkins. Every other year we've carved them. Which means me and Zach get stuck cleaning out the gooey crap. And then me and Zach get stuck carving them because the girls are too little. Then they are bored and don't get anything out of it because they didn't really get to do a pumpkin. This way was much less work and mess! And how can you not love a good cheesy grin! I think my girls are so sick of me telling them to say cheese all the time and posing for pictures that they've decided to just pull the cheesiest face they can.

Stories

My girls love to read!! I am constantly picking up books, which I get so frustrated about, but at the same time love that they are continually gettting pulled out and read. I checked in on the girls the other night and saw Caidence sweetly reading to Jordyn. I grabbed my camera to get a picture of the sweet moment and then just started to laugh. These pictures show it perfectly. Caid is trying to be a good big sister and read. And Jord's attention span is that of...well, an 18 month old.

Caid Quotes

Caid was climbing up on the sink and shelves to pick out her own toothpaste and I got mad at her and told her to get down. She asked if I was happy and I told her I wasn't happy with her climbing up there. She said "Well are you happy cuz I'm cute?"

We have a cousin that we hang out with a lot named Korbin who is Caid's age. His full name is Jeffrey Korbin, but he goes by his middle name. When he is in trouble or his mom is trying to get his attention, she yells "Jeffrey Korbin!" So all of a sudden lately, whenever Jordyn is getting into things or bugging Caid, Caid will yell "Jeffrey Jordyn!" Apparently she thinks it's just something you say to someone when they are in trouble.

Caidence tends to get ornery and mean when she watches too much tv. I told her she was done watching tv for the day because she had watched enough and was getting mean. She said "Well then turn on a show that teaches me to be nice."

We were driving and Caid kept trying to tell me something, but I was watching the road and not looking at her while she talked. She finally said to me "Hey Miss Attitude, look at my face." Yes, apparently I call her Miss Attitude too much (but with good reason!)

Silver Lake

The weather has been amazing for October! We've been in the '80's, still wearing shorts and t-shirts and playing outside until bedtime...and now the cold is coming! We headed up the canyon to Silver Lake with my friend Chaly and her boys. Other than being a little cool, it was fantastic! The leaves are gorgeous right now! The kids loved getting out and walking around the lake and feeding the ducks their cheerios. We told the kids to be careful and stay away from the water and they were being so good. Kacen was being so careful as he was feeding the ducks and tried to step around his baby, Kellen, who was crawling, but he tripped and fell right into the freezing lake! Luckily there was a step that he fell on so he didn't go further under, but he was soaked head to toe and freezing. We wrapped him in a blanket and he was a trooper the rest of the time.

New 'Do

This was me a few days ago. I've been every hair color possible: brown, red, black with fire engine red streaks, blonde with hot pink chunks, and a few others in between. I've been short and long. So it only made sense that I went to hair school so I could continue with the changes. However, once I graduated from hair school and became a mom, I got boring (or too busy to keep changing) and pretty much stuck to long hair with blonde highlights. For someone who is used to changing it every 2 months, I was long overdue for something new. I knew I liked having long hair better than short, but I needed a change so I had my fabulous friend Teisa cut me some bangs. We started with the side swept and it was enough of a change for a few weeks. Then once I needed them trimmed, I did it myself and decided to go more bold and I cut them straight across. THEN, last night Zach was working late and I decided, "Hey, why don't I dye it?" I've never dyed my own hair. And it is not very easy. I couldn't tell if I had covered all of it. I had strands rubbing all over my arm so my arm ended up all streaked. But I did manage to do it.The end result? Red!! But the blunt bangs made it a little more drastic than I could get used to in one day so they got pinned up. Maybe with time I'll get used to them down. And I need to add some darker brown lowlights cuz once this baby starts fading, I'll look like the Kool-Aid man. Not quite something I think I could pull off without a tan first. :)