April is Eventful

Today, April 22nd, 2009 is our Anniversary... 7 years baby!

This year we found out something new about our wedding date...

It's EARTH DAY, and it always has been,

why didn't anyone ever tell us?

In honor of Earth Day...

KayBree decided in the winter that she wanted to have a Spring Flower Shop... so we finally did it! Here is the flyer she sent around our apartment complex. (p.s. if you didn't get one... please don't be offended we only printed out a few and if she saw someone outside, she would give them one. Oh and I'm sure this will be a yearly event so I will be sure to get it to more people next year.)

In preparation of our sale Daimen helped me with the house work... under the fridge was especially exciting for him....

The SALE, as Kaybree and Daimen called it, all set up and ready for some customers!

This is Daimens sale... he named it "I Like Sunshine Shop." If you look closely, his prices were pretty steep, somehow he still got customers.... probably because he is such an amazing salesman. He would just hand people one of everything and then they probably felt like they had to buy it because they touched it. Good strategy... although I was so embarrassed. Full refund for anyone who felt forced into a purchase. :)

KayBree with her BEAUTIFUL Viola flowers! She woke up early today so she could take care of her flowers, now that we sold all of those we will be getting some for her so if anyone wants one, let me know and I will pick one up for you! :)

Our VERY FIRST customers! KayBree's cute little friends were so excited to come to KayBree's sale, they did extra chores so they could earn some money to spend. Thank you so much!

Jake just liked us for our sugar cookies!

Daimens friends liked the popsicles that he made all by himself.

They were so good!!!

This "flower, popsicles, lemonade, cookie stand" was WAY out of my comfort zone! I didn't do anything like this as a kid. I don't like to take the chance that no one would come, and I will have to suffer through thick clouds of depression with heart broken kids all day... I cant handle when my kids are heartbroken, I just cry. I am so grateful for all of my neighbors and friends who ventured over to the sale, my kids were happy just to have someone to give their stuff to, money or not it didn't matter. Thank you. In the end we completely sold out of EVERYTHING! I made 60+ sugar cookies, Daimen made 20 popsicles, two pitchers full of lemonade, and 8 pots of flowers, all sold... I really had no idea that it would be such a great turn out. People have even asked me for more so I am taking orders now... maybe I will start a business. ;)

And last but not least it was Josh birthday on April 18th. He's 25! I cant believe it! I remember thinking how weird it would be when we turned twenty five and KayBree would be 6 and in school. I felt like we were going to be teenagers forever... how fast it has come and gone. Now on to bigger and better things... here's to the next 25 years!

I love ya babe!

Oops I Did It Again.....

Well I have been dragging my feet on this subject for a while, wondering when would be the best time to spill the beans... honestly I've come to the conclusion that there is never going to be a time that is better than another, or a time that I will feel ready.

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So.... we would like to announce that we are apprehensively expecting our third, and hopefully final, accident. We are having a girl in August... which means the GIRL team wins! We bought the kids 6 balloons and put them in different rooms, then made candy trails all around the house. KayBree's trail was pink, purple, and yellow M&M's and Daimen's trail blue, green, and yellow. They had to follow them all over the house to find out what their baby was going to be by what color the balloons were at the end of the trail. KayBree is very happy with the news to say the least. She will be an excellent big sister. Daimen was a little dissappointed at first, but then Josh told him that he could be her protector so he felt a lot better. As for Josh and myself, we are coming to terms with the idea and are both starting to feel the excitement of having a new personality in our house. Hopefully she will survive having Daimen as an older brother... only time will tell.

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As for this pregnancy... it truly has given me new perspective on why I would like this to be our last baby. I was blessed when I was pregnant with KayBree or maybe it was due to the fact that I was so young, but I felt like I could have a million babies because pregnancy was so easy. My pregnancy with Daimen was a little harder only because I had migraines the first and the last trimesters, but then birth with him was a cinch, 45 minutes of labor + two pushes - epidural = perfection. Now this one has had every possible annoyance that every pregnant woman in the world has complained about, all rolled together into one big lump of sucky, and I'm just waiting for labor that comes too fast and I'll have the baby in my front room, while I call Heather Maile to come get my kids so I can ruin our carpet in peace. Although right now it looks like I might be forced to have a C Section, since the placenta decided to cover the opening of my cervix. Thus far, who knows what will happen.

Yes this is going to be a new adventure in every way possible...

Easter Weekend

I love Easter! Not only for the loads of candy, but for the time that is spent with family.

On Thursday we had a fun family night. KayBree and Josh went to pick out a movie while me and Daimen prepared a special dinner. We ate in the candle light and although it wasn't a fancy dinner, the kids thought it was awesome.

After dinner we watched The Tale of Despereaux.

My parents came up on Friday and spent the night. My dad took Daimen with him to Walmart to get the oil changed on his car and they came back with some surprises. Daimen got Lego's and they bought KayBree a fancy dog named Tutu. It's always fun to have my parents here, and I appreciate all they do for me and my family.

This is the "creature" that they made with Lego's... dragon, dinosaur blob.

On Saturday we headed to SLC to This is The Place Heritage Park. FM 100.3 hosted an Easter Egg hunt for families. We were able to get a picture taken with the Easter Bunny. The kids also got their face painted, and went on train rides. They had it set up so there was different places for different age groups to hunt for eggs, which was nice. Me and Josh waited with Daimen, we were close to the front of the line, but when we got in there were no more eggs on the ground. Daimen was heartbroken. He didn't get one egg. The parents were pushy and awful, and kids that couldn't even walk had 15 eggs in their basket. It was very sad. So we took Daimen over to the next age group with KayBree and he went in with her to get some eggs. They got about 5 each. He felt a little better. Later we found a little boy around Daimen's age who hadn't gotten any eggs so KayBree and Daimen both gave him some of theirs. I was so proud of them for being aware of others around them.

It was a good learning experience for the kids, but I bawled all day because of it.

We were waiting for the Train to take us around the park.

KayBree, the Easter Bunny!

Daimen with Batman and bones on his face!

Easter Sunday! My mom found these outfits for the kids in Salt Lake.

They are so cute! She made the little shrug for KayBree in the car, Saturday!

She's amazing! Thanks MOM!

My beautiful Princess!

My studly little Man!

KayBree asked the Easter bunny for Bakugan!

Daimen got Halo action figures in his Easter basket!

All in all it was a great Easter!

I am so grateful for my family, I only wish that some weren't so far away.

Why Parents Drink

The boss wondered why one of his most valued employees was absent but had not phoned in sick one day. Needing to have an urgent problem with one of the main computers resolved, he dialed the employee's home phone number and was greeted with a child's whisper. ' Hello ?

''Is your daddy home?' he asked. ' Yes ,' whispered the small voice.

May I talk with him?' The child whispered, ' No .'

Surprised and wanting to talk with an adult, the boss asked, 'Is your Mommy there?' ' Yes ' 'May I talk with her?' Again the small voice whispered, ' No '

Hoping there was somebody with whom he could leave a message, the boss asked, 'Is anybody else there?' ' Yes , ' whispered the child, ' a policeman . '

Wondering what a cop would be doing at his employee's home, the boss asked, 'May I speak with the policeman?' ' No, he's busy , ' whispered the child. 'Busy doing what?'' Talking to Daddy and Mummy and the Fireman , ' came the whispered answer.

Growing more worried as he heard a loud noise in the background through the earpiece on the phone, the boss asked, 'What is that noise?'' A helicopter ' answered the whispering voice.'

What is going on there?' demanded the boss, now truly apprehensive. Again, whispering, the child answered, ' The search team just landed a helicopter '

Alarmed, concerned and a little frustrated the boss asked, 'What are they searching for?'

Still whispering, the young voice replied with a muffled giggle... ' ME . '

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Oh man, reading that story all I could think of was Daimen? He would honestly do that, and think he was so dang funny.

Seriously those are the times when I love being a mom the most, the times when your kids do something totally erratic and dangerous with only the thought of making you happy or showing they love you. Like Daimen not wanting to wake me up really early in the morning, so he gets out the toaster, makes himself some toast, and butters it with one of my sharpest steak knifes. Boy was I glad he didn't cut his little fingers off, but he was so proud that he did it all by himself, I just couldn't get mad.

I live for their cute little giggles after they tell a nonsense joke that only makes me laugh because they are on the ground hysterically laughing and/or peeing their pants at the awesomeness of their own joke.

I am constantly awed by their one of a kind creative, totally ingenious creations made out of whatever they can find around the house. KayBree can make anything out of paper, a purse, some butterfly wings that have straps to put your arms through, whatever you want she can make it. She is so crafty.

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Her paper wings she made after watching Thumbelina. Daimen and I also made him a rockin shield out of cardboard and bright green duct tape but I couldn't find it.

Let me just say that it was AWESOME!

The rabbit/pig cross breed only available at our house, and only during Easter time.

Our family of rolling pink, and sometimes green, heads. I can totally see the resemblance, can't you? Created by KayBree.

Created by Daimen.