When Mom's away, the kids will play

A few weeks ago, we had planned to go down to St. George with my mother-in-law and sister-in-laws for a girls weekend. It started out as Friday morning to Sunday. Then some had to wait til Friday later. Then some had to come back Saturday afternoon. We decided it was pointless to drive that far for just one day (and we're glad we didn't go down because none of us realized it was Spring Break and the traffic would have made for half of our trip!) So instead we got a deal on a room at the Homestead in Midway. It was wonderful! When they showed up to pick me up, Allison and I realized what great taste we have. We both happened to be dressed in black and white striped shirts and bright blue skinny jeans! Plus we both have close to the same length and color of hair. We got to Midway and checked into our room and then headed out for pedicures and dinner. It was so nice to sit in the massage chairs and just talk and hang out. (And me and Allison happened to pick the exact same color of polish without knowing it.) After dinner, we went back to our room to get in pajamas and hang out. And, once again, me and Allison came out in the same outfit...that we had both bought the day before and had no idea the other one had. Great minds think alike!! The next morning Allison had to leave early, so the rest of us got ready and went to breakfast and then a fabulous day of SHOPPING! Zach was great to take off work and stay home with the girls. He only called about 27 times to go over diabetes questions. The girls loved having daddy home. They went to McDonald's for dinner...and then again for lunch the next day. And apparently McDonald's has face painting! (Yes, my wonderful mother-in-law Jane was with us, but she just happened to be the one taking pictures so we only got her in one of them.)
         Natalie, Mandy, me, Allison

My latest project

When my in laws were moving out of their house last year, all the kids went thru the stuff they weren't taking and got to take what they wanted. They had this desk in the play room for the grandkids and no one was going to take it because they didn't know what to do with it. I knew I couldn't pass it up. It has sat in my storage for a year and I finally decided it was time to pull it out and refinish it for my girls to play school with. I'm so glad I didn't leave it behind or I'd be kicking myself! I'm not sure how old it is, but I know it was out of the old Park City school district.

Bring on the sun!!

We are so ready for summer at our house! Nothing like playing out in the sun to cheer you up! And this first picture just melts my heart! The girls love helping grandpa mow the lawns! My parents just spent 2 weeks in Australia and the girls could not wait to have them back!!

She finally caved...

When Caid was potty trained finally, she decided she wanted her ears pierced as her reward. When we got there, she found out it might hurt a little so she quickly changed her mind. She did not want the white shooty gun anywhere near her ear. So we did Jordyn's instead since we were already there. And since she was a baby and couldn't tell us no. So ever since then, I've asked Caid if she wants her ears pierced yet and she always says no. Then the week before her birthday she told Aunt Jami over Skype that she was getting her ears pierced for her birthday. We were ready to go and by that afternoon she had already changed her mind. Finally two days after her birthday she had a dr appt for her yearly checkup and had to get two shots. And she screamed and cried. But as soon as she stopped and we were walking out I told her that getting her ears pierced would hurt way less than those shots so she said "Ok let's go get them." I kept waiting for her to change her mind, but she picked her "Princess" earrings, sat in the chair, and they did the first one. And she screamed and cried and tried to get out of the chair. I had to hold her down to do the second one and she yelled at me "You lied! It did hurt!" But she got over it once they gave her a sucker. And she looks so cute and grownup with them.

4 Years Old!!

How did I get such a little grownup? Caidence has been so excited to turn 4 and now everyday since, she keeps asking if she's still 4. She's scared she'll go back to being 3 again. She is the best helper and my little buddy. Caid is loving preschool and gymnastics, brave with her Diabetes, and Jordyn's best friend. We went thru a phase a few months ago where I was ready to give her away, but she grew out of it (after being grounded from TV repeatedly) and is now a great happy little girl! For her birthday, she decided she didn't want a party, she wanted a date with mom and dad. But she didn't want Jordyn to be left out so she wanted her to come, too. In the morning, she woke up to open her presents, "Sleeping Beauty" (which happens to be her favorite princess even though she had never seen the movie so I finally got it for her for her birthday) and a new bike. I let her go to the store to pick out a helmet, and of course she picked the princess one. She is not real girly and doesn't play dressup, but she does love the princesses lately. Then we went home and practiced riding our bike.

Then she chose lunch at the Cheesecake Factory. I ordered the pizza and ate most of it with the girls help. As the waitress was taking it back to box up the rest, another waiter bumped into her and it fell on the floor. The manager told us we could wait for them to make us another pizza or we could have a couple pieces of free cheesecake. Cheesecake it was!!

The next stop on the birthday date was a movie. She chose to go see the Snow White movie "Mirror, Mirror." We loved it! We got the girls their own drink and popcorn to keep them entertained. They were both finished within the firve first minutes of the movie and Jordyn did not want to just sit. She had to stand and walk up and down our aisle (which luckily was only us on it and no one in front of us.) At one point Zach looked over and asked what she was doing. Uh, just eating popcorn off the ground. I'm pretty sure most of it was hers that she had spilled, but I didn't care. At least she was quiet!

Daddy mashed the car

Well, we had a good 10 years! My first car I bought myself got totalled last week. Zach was driving to work and a lady was walking her dog without a leash. The dog ran out in the road, the truck in front of Zach slammed his brakes, and Zach hit the truck. No one was hurt, but the lady grabbed her dog and ran away before making sure of that. And I wasn't much better. When Zach called and told me to come pick him up, he sounded ok but I didn't actually ask him. Instead, I asked "Did you hit the dog?" So now the search begins for a new car...

And here is Jord hanging out in the back of the Xterra waiting for the tow truck to come. She kept saying "Oh no! Car mashed! Daddy fix it!"

Jordy Quotes

Jordyn is hilarious! I definitely got my share of sass in this house. She never really cared for TV and Dora the way Caid did, until lately. She always wants Diego on and she wants it on Netflix so she can watch me scroll thru the titles and when I get to it she screams "Yeah that one!!" And this is usually her TV viewing position. Then as soon as the show ends, she comes running out as upset as possible and tells me "Mom, De-go's ober!!"

Whenever Jord is in trouble or I tell her no about something, she gives me this super cheesy face and says "But I happy, see!?"

Caid definitly seems like my easy child looking back. My sister's would call her a "coloring book child," the kind that you can put in front of a coloring book and she would color for hours, not causing any trouble or coloring on anything but her paper. Jordyn...isn't. She smears cortisone cream all over her dresser, dumps out her bowl of cereal to see the milk run on the floor, throws her dishes in the garbage instead of the sink...Ok she actually is pretty easy too, but just more curious. But she is very independent! If I try and get her dressed, she grabs the clothes and says "I do it!" It's pretty funny watching her try to put her own diaper on. The other day I was watching her try and get into the fridge. She opened it but couldn't reach, so she left it open, went in the other room, and came back carrying a stool. She definitely does not want help. She'll do it herself. The "I can't do anything myself" stage starts around 3 years old.

Jordyn loves to dip her food and always asks for "betchup." Today she asked for "panpakes." Then she wanted "betchup" on it. Translation=ketchup. And in this case betchup=ketchup=syrup.

Happy Easter!!

Egg dying, Easter egg hunts, candy, new dresses, too much posing for pictures (see last picture), forgetting to take pictures in new dresses until after church and naps so messy hair, parties at both grandparents. Made for a good weekend at our house!

Spring Break

I didn't think 2 days of preschool a week made that much of a difference, but after two weeks of Spring Break, I miss it dearly!! The girls have watched more tv than I'd like to admit, the weather hasn't been that great so we've been cooped up inside for most of it, the house has been a mess, no matter how much cleaning I do, and we are all so ready to get back to school and a normal schedule! Good thing we have a lot planned for the summer or I don't think we'd survive!