Bernard Family Memories

New Swing set

2010-02-05T14:56:00.000-08:00

Only in Arizona, do you set up a swing set in the month of Febuary so the kids have enough time to play on it before the hot months roll in.

We had planned on getting the kids a swing set later in the year but my parents called us from Sams club saying they found a deal we couldnt pass up.

We ended up buying it on the spot to the delight of our children.

It took Alex, dad and brother 2 full weekends and a few scattered hours through out the week before we got this thing done.All out of the box and ready to go!!!

Thanks for all you help Eric!!!! I got a picture of your whole body this time. Just not your legs from the pinata pics at Christmas.

My dad all balled up at the top.

The finished product!!! the kids love it. Notice there are no kids in the picture......thats because they are back in the house pooped out from their day at play.

Christmas Eve

2009-12-24T13:53:00.000-08:00

It has become tradition that we spend Christmas Eve over at my parents house.

We had a fabulous dinner, played Christmas songs with chimes, watched a Christmas movie, broke a pinata and then grandma tops off the night with a Christmas story.

Ever since the girls were little it has been tradition that we let the kids open up the gift from Mommy and Daddy on Christmas Eve. And every year its the same thing......Pajamas!

You think the kids would catch on but it cracks me up every year listening to the girls discuss what they think they are going to get. And then a little disappointed when they realize its just clothes. Hopefully they catch on at some point because its never going to changeHere they are opening their gift thinking they are going to be a Littlest Petshop adoption center and a easy bake oven candy maker.

NOPE........Just Pajamas. Darn!

Brian and Jennifer had taken the girls shopping the day before and thought it would be fun to break a pinata on Christmas Eve. The girls were so excited to do this. They got to pick out the Pinata and named it Mexico T because that's what the tag on the bottom said. They talked about Mexico T all day long and couldn't wait to break into it.

Christmas Lights

2009-12-23T23:17:00.000-08:00

AHHH,Christmas.......The most wonderful time of the year. I love Christmas time. I Love everything about it, the spirit, the smell, the christmas music, and everything seems to taste better at Christmas time. But with it all, the craziness starts.

Its December 23rd and we are finally taking the kids out to see Christmas lights.

We started off the night headed to Zoo lights but once we arrived it looked as though the whole city of Phoenix had arrived at the zoo the same time we did. We turned around and thought we would have better luck at the Temple lights.

Once we got to the Temple it was also pretty busy but it was so nice to walk around and see all of the lights. My favorite are the Palm trees with Angle wings on them.Alex's mom came to spend Christmas with us. She came from New York so she is really enjoying the weather. What we think is cold, is perfect weather for her.

Its hard to tell but those are Palm trees with angle wings.

The kids were having fun pulling funny faces

We found a place to sit and the kids had a blast posing for pictures for us. We spent a lot of time at this little seating area just taking pictures and talking. It was nice to just be with the family.

Here's Kyler trying to get up on the bench. He had fun getting up and down.

Proud of himself once he got up.

Auntie and Uncle Brian came from Utah to spend Christmas with us.

Happy Thanksgiving

2009-11-26T23:09:00.000-08:00

Happy Thanksgiving!

We spent the day with family and dad watching football.

To keep the kids entertained, we painted wood crafts and created fall pictures before we went over to Grandpa and Grandmas house for Turkey dinner.

Happy 3rd Birthday Austin

2009-11-24T22:57:00.000-08:00

Happy Birthday Ozzy!

Today is Austins 3rd Birthday and he has had a day of excitement!

Earlier in the day he had a little party with his little boy playgroup friends which was fun.

We later had a family dinner, opened presents and ate birthday cake.

Happy birthday Sweet boy!

Happy 6th Birthday Hailey

2009-11-04T22:42:00.000-08:00

Happy Birthday to my sweet little girl! I can't believe you are 6 years old today. Oh, how the time flys by. Here she is doing her famous Diva pose.This is the excited reaction we got from Hailey as Daddy brought in her Birthday present

All Hailey wanted for her birthday was a Hamster like her big sister. Except for in a pink cage.

Welcome to the family Grey

Happy Halloween

2009-10-31T19:36:00.000-07:00

Halloween was crazy this year. I litteraly have never seen so many kids in my neighborhood at one time. It was exactly how it is portrayed in the movies. At one point I walked past my house and saw about 30 kids standing on my front porch waiting to get candy.

My neighbor didn't make matters better by creating a haunted house off of the garage. It brought in swarms of people.

Its funny, Alex is not into the holidays, he could care less about halloween! But I tell you, he totally ditched me and the kids so that he could scare kids in my neighbors haunted house.

It was kind of nice though. He screamed so much that he lost his voice for a couple of days.Here are the goulish girls that walked the neighborhood
My cute little kiddos all dressed up.
We had a Bunny, octopuss, lion, and witch.

Austin is not into costumes. The lion was not what we had originally bought him to wear.
When we went shopping he picked out a skeleton costume, but once we got it home and I tryed it on him he looked down and saw the bones and wanted nothing to do with it. He wanted it off ASAP!
Trying to get him to put on the Lion costume was quite the task. He didnt want to be dressed up.
Once I told him that no one would give him candy unless he was in costume he put it on.

Earlyer in the day the kids carved their pumpkins. It always cracks me up to watch them gut their pumpkins. I love the facial expressions as they try to pull out all the slime.
They really enjoyed themselves this year. They created how they wanted their Jack-O-Lantern to turn out.

Hailey's Halloween Birthday Bash

2009-10-23T19:19:00.000-07:00

We celebrated Haileys birthday a little early this year. She wanted to do a Halloween birthday bash this year.

The next 2 pictures aren't from her birthday, but from our ward Halloween party. She just looked so cute trying to bob for apples that I just had to add it.

They just happen to be first in line because I forgot when you load pictures you have to load them the opposite order of how you really want them and I am just being lazy and not wanting to change things around!
For Halieys birthday the girls ate lots of pizza, decorated sugar cookies, played Halloween bingo, decorated and colored haunted houses and we had a giant bounce house for them to jump around in.
It was fabulous for me because I was able to keep all the mess outside.

Schnepf Farms

2009-10-14T18:53:00.000-07:00

I have to warn you I have fallen terribly behind on our blog that I'm just going to post a bunch of pictures. My brain is so fried these days that I can't seem to remember all of the fun things we have been up to the last couple of weeks.

Here is our family outing to Schnepf Farms.

One night Alex got home from work at a decent hour so we thought it would be fun to surprise the kids by going to the farm. They had so much fun, and had so much to do.

We started off the night going through the pumpkin patch.Ky was a little overwhelmed with all of the choices of pumpkins around him. I think he tried to pick up almost every single pumpkin around him at least one time.
Here are the girls enjoying one of the many rides they went on that night

My cute kiddos

Here they are doing the pumpkin launch

Here's Hailey riding the bicycle obstacle coarse

My little Cheerleader

2009-09-12T22:37:00.000-07:00

Here's Hailey all decked out in her Cheer leading outfit! She looks soooo stink'in cute

Here is Hailey at her first game. The girls have been working so hard on their routines.
We didn't know what to expect at the first game. The girls stood at the side line and cheered the flag football team on. Every once in a while they did their little cheers, but Hailey kept looking over at me and would ask why they were just standing there.
Oh well, shes not to impressed at the games.......but darn it she just looks sooooo cute just standing there I could just eat her up.

Olivia's 7th Birthday

2009-09-05T21:47:00.000-07:00

Today is Olivia's 7th Birthday!

Awwwh.......how the time flies by.

Auntie and Uncle Brian came down from Utah to visit over the Labor day weekend. It happened to be the same weekend of Olivia's birthday, so she was pretty excited.

Olivia wanted to start the day off by going to see G-force at the movies. She was so excited to have the whole family join us.

When the movie was over, we headed off to Grandma and Grandpas house for lunch and presents. We had a big surprise waiting over there for her.

Olivia has been asking and asking for a hamster, so we wanted to make her think she wasn't going to get one.

Here she is opening up some of her presents......all of which were clothes and shoes

She was excited to be getting clothes for her birthday, but as we handed her the last gift, you could see the disappointment on her face when she realized it was a pair of shoes.

Here she is being a good sport.

I couldn't take it any longer.......I was so excited to give her the real last gift.
I brought in the Hamster cage and her face lit up, she knew what it was.
I think it is so much fun when you can give your kids exactly what they want and see how excited they get.

Olivia and Hailey were in complete AWH, they just sat there for a long time watching.

Here is Olivia and her Hamster Fluffy

After all the excitement had calmed down we ate a Cookies and Cream Ice Cream cake from Dairy Queen......Olivia's favorite.

Or should I say my dads favorite. Hes on a diet and that cake must have tasted really good because he scarfed up a quarter of that cake all on his own. Oink Oink Dad!!!!:)

Happy Birthday Big Girl!!!!!

We LOVE you so much.

Ward Campout

2009-08-23T14:09:00.000-07:00

Its time for the ward campout again and I was determined to go this year.

Alex had to take time off of work for his radiation treatment so I knew if we were going I was going to have to do it on my own. The kids have never been camping before and were very much looking forward to it.

I'm bummed because somewhere between driving home from the camp ground and home I lost my camera so I have no pictures to share. They were just a bunch a pictures of dirty kids and pine trees that I miss so much.

I followed the Spencer family up the the camp ground a day early and got camp all set up. It was so peaceful and quiet. the camp ground was empty so it was nice to let the kids run around, scream and holler without worrying they were disturbing anyone. A little up the mountain side the kids found a little fort and spent a lot of time playing up there.

The next day the rest of the ward showed up, the kids played card games, ran around & roasted marshmallows. We really enjoyed ourselves and hope to do it again next year.

First Day of School (WOO HOO!!!!)

2009-08-10T13:59:00.000-07:00

Schools back in session and I can hardly contain my excitement!.......Don't get me wrong or anything, I LOVE having my girls around but I also enjoy the peace and quiet in the home while they are gone. I almost don't know what to do with half my kiddos gone. I'm sure the boys and I will adjust real soon.

Here's the girls all ready for their first day back at school.Almost to the school.

Here's Hailey standing in front of her class. She couldn't wait to start kindergarten. She was most excited that she was going to eat lunch at school. The most simplest things seem to please her. What a cutie.
We ended up leaving Olivia crying in her class line. She was less than thrilled to be starting 2nd grade. She is defiantly a creature of habit and didn't want to start a new school year with a new teacher and new class mates. But I do have to say its been a week and she is adjusting well. At least I don't leave her crying in line anymore.

Makutu's Island

2009-07-29T16:44:00.000-07:00

This was our last playgroup outing before school starts. We ended up at Makutu's Island. We went to this place last summer and my girls have talked about it since then. So they were pretty excited when they found out we were going again.

Its a pretty cool place, once you let your kids loose don't plan on seeing them for awhile. My kids enjoyed the tree house with the zip line most.

Us moms spent most of our time in the little kiddie area with the little ones. Ky was pretty daring and started climbing up the ramp and then sliding down the little slide all on his own.

Ky proud of his new trick!

This is Austin and Wrigley with there cheese faces. They were making some cute little poses but my camera is on the slow side and I missed most of them.
Here's the girls and Porter in one of the towers. I got pictures of them going on the zip line but they all came out dark:(
Hailey and Adilyn, partners in crime

Family Home Evening

2009-07-28T16:22:00.000-07:00

Thanks to the Dababneh family for letting us join you for family home evening. We went to the visitors center and saw the Joseph Smith Movie. We were all under the impression it was a

15 minute show that ended up being an hour and 15 minutes..... Not the best show to be showing 8 children all under the age of 7. But..... Olivia who I fight with when it comes to church was really receptive to the film and was full of questions afterward so I took it as a good teaching moment.

Afterwards we went out for some yummy ice cream. We had a good time. Our cute little Families! Its funny how all of our kids are about the exact same age.
Olivia had mosquito bites all over her legs, so she was having a hard time putting on a smile. This is what we got when we told her to fake it.
This is how all of our family pictures seem to turn out!!!!

Totally Wicked

2009-07-17T16:48:00.000-07:00

What a fun girls night!!!! a group of us went to see Wicked.

We first started the night off at The Cheesecake Factory and had some yummy food. But everyone knows you can't leave without a piece of Cheesecake. We were running a little late so we all got our Cheesecake to go. We consealed it in purses and figured we would eat it during the play.

When we got to the Play everyone was seated and the play had begun, it was fine because we hadn't missed much, but our seats were 1st row balcony, dead center. There were 10 of us trying to climb over the top of about 25 people to get to our seats. I was praying at the same time I didn't trip because it was a long way down and not much of a rail to keep me from going over. It was great once we were seated. What a fun play.

At intermission when the lights went on, we busted out our cheesecakes to devour them. I was hoping I wouldn't make eye contact with anyone I had climbed over earlier.

It was a great play.... I would totally see it again. We had such a fun night. I haven't laughed so much.

It comes in threes, Right?

2009-07-14T15:07:00.000-07:00

Where oh where to begin. Alexs' cancer decided to come back, He went in on Tuesday to get his Radiation treatment and everything went well. Its always kind of freaky when the doctor quarantines him in this little room about the size of a coat closet and then brings out this big egg shaped metal container that contains his two little pills and dumps them into Alexs' hand (because the doctor doesn't even want to touch them) and then watches as Alex swallows them.
He then was Quarantine in our house for a week. Me and the kids spent the week at my parents house.
The following Tuesday Alex went in for an X-Ray. The Radiation he took would gravitate towards the cancer cells and would lite up on the X-Ray. The results of his X-ray was there still is little spot that lit up in his neck, but had not spread to Lymph nodes or any place else. They are hoping that this session of Radiation will kill off those cancer cells. If not he may have to do a third session of Radiation or they might have to just cut it out, just depending on how much it shrinks.
On the Friday before Alexs' Radiation Treatment we found out his Grandma in Jamaica had passed away. And on the Tuesday of his X-Ray my Great Grandma passed away. So we hope all the bad news ends there.

Visit to the dentist

2009-07-09T14:48:00.000-07:00

I took the kids to the dentist. It was Austins first time, he was a little paranoid when we first walked into the office but was put at ease after a few video games and a movie in the theater room. I tell you where were these kinds of dental offices when I was growing up?
The kids did great and were cavity free. They were pleased when they received 3 tokens once there cleanings were finished and got to choose 3 prizes each from the prize stand.
They hope the next 6 months cruise by so they can go back in for another cleaning.

Olivia Insisted

2009-07-07T20:34:00.000-07:00

Olivia cracks me up! She thinks when anything remotely funny happens at our house we need to blog about it. Olivia even went as far as to take this picture of Kyler to co-inside with the story that she thinks we need to blog about....so this post goes out to you Olivia.

I told the kids they could have a piece of gum after they had finished eating lunch. The girls had gotten theirs and Austin was trying to get his piece. He walked over to me with a big wad of gum in his mouth and said "Ky Ky gum". I asked him"Did you give your brother a piece of gum?" I hadn't even had a chance to react before Olivia was to her feet in ten seconds flat. Being the second mommy in the house, she immediately started swiping the gum out of Ky's mouth with him clenching his teeth and screaming.

Olivia was hollering at me"TAKE CARE OF YOUR SON" because I was just sitting there laughing at the scene. I told her to just leave him alone and that one piece of gum wouldn't hurt him if he swallowed it.

I tell you, Olivia will make a great babysitter one day. It amazes me with the things that come out of her mouth, she's like a mini mom.

Power Washer Dangers

2009-07-03T11:14:00.000-07:00

EEEEWWWWW......... We have been invaded by gross, disgusting, creepy, eight legged black widows this year. We have never had a problem with them in the past, but have been over run with them this year. So in our attempt to eliminate as many of these creepy crawlers as possible we cleaned off our back patio and cleared up as much as we could in our half finished back yard.

Now here's where I get to the power washer danger part...... All the kids were in the back yard playing around as Alex and I cleaned, I was in charge of power washing and was excited with my new task, I had never used one before and was oblivious to the fact that water could actually be dangerous. As I was washing Austin caught my attention, I Put the hose thingy down to my side with the water still running and immediately felt a sharp pain on my toe, I looked down and saw nothing but blood. For a split second I thought the water blasted my little piggy off. After confirming my toe was still attached, I washed it off and doctored my big gash, it then swelled up and has been aching the last couple of days. I think the power washer broke my toe. Who knew.

I thought I would spare everyone a picture of my grimy toes. But I promise its ugly.

Grocery Game On!!

2009-06-30T21:04:00.000-07:00

Okay, so I'll admit that I have had no desire to clip coupons and play the whole grocery game that I hear so many people talking about. I don't have the patience to sit and look at all the different adds for each grocery store, clip all the coupons out of the newspaper, surf the web for printable coupons, and the thing I hate absolute most, hauling all four of my kids to 5 different grocery stores trying to get the best deal.

Well, the other night after the kids had gone to bed, I put a list and coupons together and sent Alex to Albertsons to pick up certain items. He did really well, and didn't deviate from the list. We ended up getting $102.37 worth of grocery for $35.67 that was a savings of $66.70. I thought that was pretty cool.

The following day Alex was home so I hit up Safeway and got the best deal ever I got $101.90 worth of groceries for......... get ready...........$10.35 CRAZY!!!! I saved $91.45 Here's a picture of all that I got.

I was so excited that I hit up Frys later and got $212.13 worth of groceries for $111.13 a savings of $101.00.

I added everything up and we got a total of 416.40 worth of groceries and paid only $157.15 I am now officially a grocery gamer, I can't remember the last time my grocery bill was that low. I can't wait until next weeks adds come out.

Best Cinnimon rolls ever

2009-06-28T20:44:00.000-07:00

Yummmmy! Do I need to say more.

I found this recipe awhile ago but have kept holding off making them because they are so time consuming. Well Sunday I decided to give it a whirl and well, I don't mean to toot my own horn, but hands down these were the best Cinnamon rolls I have had in a long time.

They tasted just like the Cinnamon rolls me and my mom use to get at Deerly Impressive boutique up in Utah.
Here's the recipe if anyone wants to taste a little piece of Heaven. Just a heads up, they took about 2 1/2 hours from start to finish to make and I was constantly doing something. There is no way I could have made these if Alex wasn't there taking care of the kids.

But they are so worth the time.

1 can evaporated milk
4 cups hot tap water
1 cup sugar
1 egg
1/2 cup oil
1/2 cup potato flakes
3 Tbs. yeast
2 Tbs. salt
12-13 cups flour
*Mix all ingredients until it pulls away from sides. Then mix for 6 minutes. The let it rest for 10 minutes. Divide dough in half or into thirds, depending on how big of cinnamon rolls you want. Roll out dough onto floured surface. Cover with melted butter. Sprinkle with a cinnamon/sugar mixture. Then sprinkle with brown sugar. Roll up tight and cut with string or floss. Put them on pan and let rise until doubled in size. Bake for 20-25 minutes, depending on how big they are. Frost with buttercream frosting.
Buttercream frosting
2 cubes butter, softened at room temp.
2 boxes powdered sugar
dash of salt
2 tsp. vanilla
enough milk to make it spreadable

Circus Fun

2009-06-27T11:58:00.000-07:00

On Saturday we went to the Circus with one of Alex's co-workers family. We have taken the girls every year since Olivia was 2 years old. (Every year except last year because Ky was due the same week.)

This was Austins first time to come along. He had a blast, his eyes were the size of golf balls trying to absorb everything that was going on. He kept copying his big sister Olivia and repeated everything she said WOOOH!!!, AWESOME!!!, COOL!!!

They did a lot of Magic tricks this year which was pretty cool. Hopefully my kids don't try to recreate any of them. Hailey liked the Elephants. She thought it was pretty cool that they would hold each others tails and walk in line.

The tigers were Olivia's favorite part. My favorite part was when they shot 2 ladies out of a cannon. My picture didn't turn out that well on that one:(

Here's a picture of Austin on a cotton candy rush. He was wide awake on the ride home from the days events. You can see Olivia passed out in the back.

Olivia with straight hair

2009-06-16T13:01:00.000-07:00

Here's a picture of Olivia with straight hair. It doesn't happen often because it takes so long to do. I needed to give her a hair cut and decided to straighten it out so that I could give her an even cut. Its hard to do when you have to go through a bunch of curls.

It took me an hour and an half to round brush and cut it.

Here's a picture of her after I had straightened it, but had not cut it yet.

I am so jealous of all of her natural body, no back combing, or products to get all this volume.

Here's a picture of her after I had cut it. I kept looking at her all day long thinking she looks so much older. My 6 year old could pass for a 10 year old. Crazy.
I had to take a picture of the back. This kiddo has so much hair and it also showed all of the beautiful natural highlights. Gorgeous!

Kylers 1st Birthday

2009-06-04T21:19:00.000-07:00

Happy 1st Birthday Ky!
I can't believe it was a year ago today we were racing to the Hospital hoping and praying that I didn't give birth in the car.
I have to say Kylers birth was the most memorable and the most painful ( No time for drugs, I really don't recommend it.)
Kyler came into this world with a bang. Literaly, I think the doctor caught my placenta on her head.
He arrived on June 4th at 8:40 am weighing 7 lbs and 20 1/2 inches long

Kyler is such a sweet little boy! I am so privileged to be his mom.

He definitely completes our family
Some fun little facts about our little man:

1. He is the only one of our kids to have straight hair.

2. He only has two teeth so far.

3. He gives the best hugs when he gets out of bed in the morning.

4. LOVES, LOVES, LOVES to dance.
5. Would eat cheetos for breakfast, lunch and dinner if I let him.

Just getting started on his Birthday cake.
This is the end result. It looks like he really enjoyed his cakeHappy Birthday Kyler! We Love you so much.

Olivia's Fathers Day Gift

2009-05-31T14:38:00.000-07:00

Olivia cracks me up! I had to post this before I got busy with kids home and forgot.

On the last day of school Olivia came home and dumped her bag pack full of papers and things she had created through out the year out on to the kitchen counter. I was kinda sorting through things that I wanted to keep, when I came across a paper tool belt and in the tool belt were paper tools she had colored. I asked her what it was and she told me she had made it for Daddy and she was going to give it to him for Fathers Day.

As I was looking at the cute little paper tools I started reading what they said.

One of them asked: What is you dads favorite Hobby? Olivia answered Watch TV.

The other one asked: What can I do to help my dad out? Olivia answered Get him the remote!

I started laughing my butt off.

I think Alex needs to do a more activities with the girls besides watch TV.

For the Love of Hailey

2009-05-13T22:36:00.000-07:00

Oh my goodness. How I love Hailey! I love the fact that she is my free spirited daughter, that nothing really phases her and that things just kind of roll off of her.

Well that was not the case today!!! Here is the conversation we had today.

Me: "Hailey, did you carve an "H" in the table?" ( Our kitchen table)

Hailey: "I don't know."

Me: "Its either a yes or no"

Hailey: " I don't know, I can't remember."

Me: "YES or NO and I want the truth."

Hailey: "Yes, But I didn't do it today."

ME: "Go to your room, you know better than to carve letters in the furniture."

After a few minutes in time out I decided to go up stairs and talk to Hailey about why I was so upset with her. As I was talking to her I could tell that everything I was saying was going in one ear and out the other. I thought I was going to loose it when she started laughing about the fact it took me a couple of days to notice it.

Now me biting my tongue, because all I want to do is yell at this point try to think swiftly of how she will be punished. First I said she will be grounded from friends for the day. I get no reaction. I could tell that had no affect. Next I say no TV for the rest of the day. again, Not the reaction I'm looking for. So my final attempt I told her she was going to wash all the windows down stairs.

I hit the Jack Pot!!! I got the reaction I was looking for. She thought I was torturing her, Crying, screaming, carrying on and on about how mean I was to do this to her. Oh how she hates to clean! I now know what kind of punishment is going to get to her! And I felt so much better knowing she hated every minute of it.

Relay Night

2009-04-29T23:10:00.000-07:00

As most of you all know my wonderful friend Rashelle was diagnosed with Non Hodgkin's Lymphoma back in November 2008 and has been in a fight for her life since then. After having surgery to have a mass removed around her heart and lungs she went right into six rounds of Chemotherapy and now Radiation treatments to come.
Our fabulous friend Marie put together our Relay team to raise money for Cancer research in Rashelles honor.
Here are a few pictures of Fridays Relay festivities.
To kick off the night they started with a survivor lap. All survivors of this horrible disease made the first lap and then their loved ones met them half way.
Alex was able to walk along side with Rashelle because he too is a cancer survivor.

I love this picture of Rashelle! Even though she had a fever and wasn't feeling good she can still be a goof ball.

Some of the goof balls I had the pleasure of spending the night with!

Here was our group! We were the highest fundraising team. One of the things we did to raise money was sell the shirts we were all wearing. They were designed by Rashelle.

It was a fun evening that included an Elvis impersonator, live band, Hypnotist, lots of music, dancing, eating, playing games laughing and spending time with friends. the relay ran from Friday 6pm to Saturday 6am. I didn't stay the whole night, I took off at about 1:30 am. About 10 of the girls stuck it through the entire night.

We can still make donations up until August so if anyone is interested in making a donation to the American Cancer Society in Rashelles Honor leave me a your e-mail address in the comment area and I will get in touch with you regarding this.

I hope this post made sense. Its really late and I'm super tired so sorry!

Why do I Jinx myself?

2009-04-21T13:00:00.000-07:00

So..... I'm already complaining about how hot it is already.

And how I refuse to turn on the air conditioning because I'm not looking forward to those $500.00 a month power bills yet. Well today I thought I was going to die. My make up literally melted off of my face! I couldn't take the heat anymore and caved, I turned on the air conditioning and nothing happened.

YEP! Its broken!

So this is a warning to all of my neighbors, don't look through my windows because I'm going to be walking around in my under wear until its fixed. Oh, but I will have make up on.

BLAH!!!! ITS HOT!!!!

2009-04-20T22:32:00.000-07:00

Oh my gosh its hot and its only April. My girls came home from school today and were dying of the heat so I sent them outside with some friends to have a water fight to cool off. They had a blast and cooled down enough because I refuse to turn on the air conditioning.

I just saw the weather and we have our first 100 degree day tomorrow. UGH! I miss our pool. I didn't realize how bad our tree was leaning until I saw this picture.
Poor Ozzy, he wanted to join the water fight. But he got sprayed once and he was done.

Happy Easter

2009-04-12T16:25:00.000-07:00

The Easter Bunny found our house.

We had a pretty relaxing Easter. The kids were up around 7:00 and immediately we were on the hunt for Candy filled Easter eggs and baskets. Every year the Easter Bunny hides there Baskets and the kiddos have to search for them. Olivia usually spots out everyone Else's basket before the younger kids get a chance. We are going to have to make sure the Easter Bunny hides hers in a really hard place next year just to torment her.

Austin didn't find to many Easter eggs. He found his first one and was content with the candy inside that he sat down and started eating. He pretty much was on a sugar high before 8:00 in the morning. We let them just enjoy, your only a kid once!

Ky was on a plastic egg hunt. He liked the way they sounded when he tapped them together.

After everything had settled down and we had a good nutritious breakfast of scrambled eggs and sausage. Olivia did her most favorite thing to do on Sundays. She went out and got the news paper so she could read the comics!

Rain, Rain, Go Away!

2009-04-11T12:17:00.000-07:00

Saturday was our wards Easter breakfast. The kids were so looking forward to the Easter egg hunt but it rained all morning long and we had to forgo the hunt. Needless to say the kids were tired, wet, and disappointed.

Alex and I are on the activities committee so he stayed to help and I took the kids home. When we got home the girls ran upstairs and put there pajamas back on and sat by the fire place to warm up. It came in handy that day. I think the only other time we had used it was Christmas Morning. Cute Ky all bundled up for the cold rainy morning!
After everyone had warmed up, the girls wanted me to hide the Easter eggs that they didn't get a chance to find at the breakfast. And then afterwards we colored Easter eggs.
This is the first time Austin has colored eggs and he was pretty proud of his colored creations.

Olivia coloring as many eggs as she can at one time.

And then we have Hailey.......... She just wanted to finish coloring eggs as fast as she could so that she could eat them. Her eggs weren't even finished drying before she ripped into them. She loves hard boiled eggs.

A Visit from Grandma

2009-04-06T21:24:00.000-07:00

Alex's mom came for a visit. It was her first time seeing Ky. She lives in New York so we don't get to see her very often. It was nice having her around and the kids loved playing with her. She kept commenting how loud it would get in our house. It cracked me up, I guess I'm just use to all of the commotion
While she was here the kids wanted to take her to the zoo, and being the fabulous New Yorker grandma she is, she agreed to going even though animals are not her most favorite thing. While we were looking at the Elephants Olivia made an announcement that a squirrel was standing next to grandma, when Alex's mom heard that she started screaming at the top of her lungs and bolted the other direction. I'm just glad my kids weren't standing if front of her or else she would have flattened them like a pancake. She didn't care who was in her way, she was out of there. Alex and I were laughing so hard at the scene she created I almost peed my pants.

Olivia learned to ride a two wheeler!!

2009-03-20T11:22:00.000-07:00

Here is the video of Olivia finally learning how to ride a two wheeler bike. She wouldn't do it for Alex and I, So I thought she might do it for her Auntie Jennifer. And it turns out it wasn't as scary as she thought it was going to be. In fact as soon as she started riding we could hardly get her to get off.

Happy 7th Anniversary

2009-03-17T10:17:00.000-07:00

This post goes out to you Alex!

I can't believe it has been 7 years since we tied the knot.

Some times it feels like we have been married alot longer than 7 years.

But then I have to take a step back and see how much has happened in our lives in such a short period of time. I am looking forward to the next 50 plus years with you.

LOVE YOU!!!

Austins new Piggy Bank

2009-03-11T22:30:00.000-07:00

For the last couple of days Austin has been playing with an empty gum ball machine. He could hear the money shaking around in the bottom and has been working diligently on trying to get this thing open.
I wasn't to concerned with him having it in his room at night. I never thought in a million years he would ever be able to get it open. You needed a screw driver in order to do so.
Well......This morning I got him out of bed as usual and began changing his diaper when about a dollars worth of pennies fell out.
Sometime in the night he had gotten out of bed, opened up the gum ball machine and shoved all the money in his diaper. I don't know how comfortable that could have been trying to sleep last night. All I can say is I'm glad he shoved them in his diaper verses swallowing them and then me finding them in his diaper later.

Ky's crawling!!

2009-03-11T22:05:00.000-07:00

My little man is mobile now. This means baby proofing the house. As you can see the first things he has gone after are the outlets and my curtains. It seems like in the last week he has grown up so much. He is not crawling but is Army crawling. It hilarious to watch. He is going to end up with a huge upper body and little chicken legs if he keeps this up. He might end up looking like his father. LOL

spring has sprung

2009-03-03T21:05:00.000-08:00

I had to post this picture.

I have been meaning to pull this plant out all winter, it was deader than a door nail. Or so I thought. That was until Monday when I found it struggling for life. Among all the twisted dead branches one flower had bloomed. I dont know why, but it just cracked me up.

Ky's new room

2009-02-27T20:40:00.000-08:00

Since I have been car less I have had to occupy my time with at home project, one of them has been spent painting Ky's room. I know it may not .look it, but painting those stupid strips took forever. I measured every line to make sure it was perfectly even. then I went through and Caulked every line to make sure there was no bleeding through. In the end I was very proud of the way it all turned out. I was so excited that I took this picture the minute I was done. That the reason why you see paint cans all over the changing table

Containing Austin

2009-02-18T20:17:00.000-08:00

I know this is horrible, but bungee cording Austins door shut is the only way we can contain this kid at night. He is taking advantage of his newly found freedom since we moved him out of his crib. The other night I was headed up the stairs to bed when I was hit with a pungent smell of nail polish. I started to head into Ky's room to check on him first when in the dark hall way I saw Austin book it out of the girls room and into his. I was thinking what the heck is going on? This kid should be asleep! So I followed my nose into the girls room where I found them both asleep. Austin had been busy while the girls slept. He had painted his toe nails, attempted to paint Haileys toe nails, painted her sheets and last but not least gave all the stuffed animals lip stick with nail polish. That is why we bungee him in at night!

Olivia FINALLY lost her first tooth

2009-02-17T10:04:00.000-08:00

Yeah! After weeks of wiggling and tugging at her tooth it finally came out. She had just gotten out of the shower and was dragging her towel across the floor with her teeth when she stepped on her towel and pretty much ripped her tooth out. It started to bleed pretty well and was hanging by a thread. She was freaking out every time I tryed to touch it. I kept telling her I wasnt going to pull it but I did anyway. She hadnt even realized it until I handed her her tooth.
I sure hope the rest arent as hard to pull out!

Can you get spinners put on a bike?

2009-02-16T20:06:00.000-08:00

I know, I know, you are all jealous of my new ride!

We are having issues with my car and are down to one vehicle.

So I am now forced to stay at home with my bike as my only means of transportation.

The boys absolutely love it and actually start to cry when I pull into the driveway. I'm hopping to at least loose a couple of pounds out of this.

From the Mouth of Hailey

2009-02-14T21:23:00.000-08:00

My top 5 things that came out of Hailey mouth this week
5. "Are these cookies for us this time? or do we have to give them away again?'
4. "Is dreaming like watching TV in your head?"
3. "I have to accessorize my heart shirt and polka dot pants."
2. "Don't make me kick your butt!"
And my all time favorite.
1. "I don't want one husband I want two!"

Hailey lost her first tooth

2009-02-09T21:36:00.000-08:00

Hailey lost her first tooth! We were unaware that she even had a loose tooth.

She came up to me and my mom and said "I think a little piece of my tooth just broke off"

With a little further examination we realized that her baby tooth just fell out of her mouth.

She was really excited once she learned that she could survive with a missing tooth.

And the fact that she could rub it in to Olivia who has had a loose tooth for the last two weeks and has had no luck. Olivia is a little distraught that her baby sister lost a tooth before she did.

Girls just wanna have fun!

2009-01-29T22:25:00.000-08:00

This is what a girls night out looks like when you are married with children.
We all got together on Rashelle good week and had a pot luck dinner and entertained ourselves with Breannes
six year old daughters High School Musical Wii game. We had so much fun playing this game we were up until about 11:30 shaking our booties to HSM. I know I know 11:30 not that late but it was a school night, so it really kinda was.
It was good to hang out with Rashelle and see her in such good spirits. You would never guess she was going through Chemo the way she was shaking her money maker. I cant wait for another two weeks for when she feels good so that we can do it again. Love ya Rashelle!! Keep getting better so that we can unlock some more songs.

For the record, my daughters not a Pig!

2009-01-22T08:35:00.000-08:00

Olivia is upset with me because I didnt name her Kelly. If you have kiddos that watch nick, you may know that there is a new show comming called Olivia. And my daughter is completely devistated that the main character "Olivia" is a Pig! That is why she wants to have her name changed to Kelly. She doesnt know of any pigs named Kelly. HEE HEE she makes me laugh.

Check out my flower clippies

2009-01-21T09:04:00.001-08:00

I finally have all of my Flower clip blog up, Im still working on it, but I at least have pictures of all the fun color and sizes and still more to come. Check it out at http://www.toosweetbowtique.blogspot.com/ or you can check my side bar of blogs we like. I have it as my flower clip blog. Thanks for lookin.

Doin the Chicken walk!

2009-01-16T12:34:00.000-08:00

Soooooooo, The bus broke down today and I had to drive Hailey 6 houses down and across the street to get her to school. That is where she jumped out of the car and started to jump hop skip and flap her arms like a chicken to the pre-school gate entrence. As I watched her frolic to the gate one of the teacher aids (who I dont know from Adam) comes up to me and says "Now I see where Hailey gets her walk, I see so much of you in her". Say what? I guess I need to be a little more self concious now, last I checked I didnt think I walked like a chicken but I guess I do to pure strangers. Oh well.

Kylers New Diet

2009-01-13T22:04:00.001-08:00

Don't let his happy face fool you!!

This was the scene three minutes earlier. This is all because I tried feeding him baby food. Kicking, crying hystarically, arching his body, and spiting food at me. He has now decided that he no longer wants baby food! Remember the happy face? That is because he got the Cheeto that he thinks is going to make him grow healthy and strong. What was I thinking!

A Day in Haileys head

2009-01-08T20:23:00.000-08:00

Hailey is my random thinking child. Some of the things that come out of this little girls mouth are hilarious. And since this is the closest thing to a Journal I have I thought I would share them.

This morning I was in a hurry trying to get the kids in the car to get to Kylers doctors appointment and in my rush Hailey asks me if she can pick a prize out of the prize drawer when we get to the doctors office. I told her no because you only get one when you get a shot. She smiles at me and said "I'll take a flu shot then!".

Hailey also informed me today that we need to put a little televison in her room because it is to hard for her to keep walking up and down the stairs when she wants to watch TV.

Austins Dance Moves

2009-01-04T10:47:00.000-08:00

This is what happens when you give my kids Rootbeer at 10:00 at night

Go Utes!

2009-01-04T10:02:00.000-08:00

We went to my parents house to watch the Sugar Bowl. What a great game. Alex was so wound up by the time we got home that he couldnt sleep. I had to restrain him from going over to our neighbors house (a BYU fan) at 11:00 at night and rubbing it in.

Happy New Year!!

2009-01-04T09:47:00.000-08:00

New Years was great. Jennifer and Brian came down from Utah to party it up with us. We started off the night with a fancy schmancy dinner of steak and lobster tail. Yum Yum!!

After stuffing our faced we had to work off all that food with a three hour session of Rock Band. We were so into it that we almost missed bringing in the New Year

MERRY CHRISTMAS 2008

2008-12-31T22:19:00.000-08:00

The morning started bright and early! The kids rushed down the stairs as fast as possible to see what santa had brought them. Olivia was just relieved the big man up north came. Dec. 23 She came busting into our room frantic that santa had not filled her stocking and claiming that, "he must of skipped our house". Within in minutes the living room was filled with opened gifts and pleased kids. The quote of the day comes from Hailey,"this is the best Christmas ever....santa didn't do so well last year". Austin got the hang of opening presents quickly although it came to a hault when he opened the BIG green hulk hands. He immediately stopped when the big hands in a monsterly voice started talking to him. He threw the gift and started crying, he has yet to finish opening them! We have found that the Hulk hands has become the new baby gate. If you don't want him leaving the room all we simply need to do is place the hands in the door way and he won't even attempt to go near them.....BEST GIFT EVER!

Christmas Eve 2008

2008-12-31T21:57:00.000-08:00

The Christmas tradition started with a great family dinner at the grand-parents house, after the ringing of christmas songs played by the kids on chimes we read the night before christmas. The kids opened their gifts of Christmas jammies and were ready for bed by six o'clock!