summers gone

So I wanted to blog about the first day of school on yesterday, but when I pulled all the pictures off the camera I realized that I haven't blogged at all, so lets see what happened.

 Dailynn got to play Coach Pitch Ball this year. She loved it!

 We went to the splash pad in Spanish Fork with Brittney and Sean, and Jeff and Kenzie and girls.

 The girls got sick of the water and just wanted to walk and slide on the walls there.

 Of course we went to La sal for an annual trip.  We took our good friends with us, so there are a lot of pictures with them and their kids.  This is at Sand Dune Arch.

 Look a Picture of me not looking awful,very rare!

We asked Charles if we could borrow a horse  to ride.

 Jeslyn watshed me lead him around with everyone on, and wanted to do it herself.

 Who can go to La Sal and not go swimming?

 Mom was so nice to let the girls drive her tractor!

 The Indian museum in Blanding

Lets go PLAY!!!

Can you see the Indian Head

 Look another picture of me, wow!

 Grandpa was nice enough to let the girls drive his tractor too.  He gave Jeslyn free reign on the wheel, and they went out to spin doughnuts for a few min.  I might have that video, we will have to see if I can find it.

 Mom got these cool toys that you can use screw drivers to take apart and put together again.  It entertained everyone for at least an hour!

 Stay tuned, this is just June.

Spill the beans

So now that certain people have been told, I guess it's time to spill the beans.  I am at just shy of 16 weeks pregnant.  I have my second apt on Monday.  At the first one the doctor was having a hard time hearing the heart beat, so he sent me in for an ultrasound.  It was so fun to see the baby wave to me, roll around, kick and everything that I thought it was way to early for it to do. I love ultrasounds, they are so wonderful to make you just so much more excited for the impending future.
Now, how has the pregnancy gone so far?   Not that fun.  I am unable to eat dairy, if I have syrup on my breakfast, I am out for the count the rest of the day (there goes most of my breakfasts), I'm extremely weak, and I'm still very tired, but I'm still very excited!  I keep hoping that the weakness will go away, but it seems to want to stick around.
A typical day is I get up, take a shower, make breakfast, usually get the girls something, do dishes, and go back to bed.  A nap by 9:00 is pretty typical for me.  I then get to tutor for 1-2 hours, try to eat something, feed kids, get Jez down for a nap, and lay down myself.  I drag my self out of my room, wake JJ up, and try to make dinner while grumpy kids complain to me.  After eating, I either tutor or go lay down again.  By about 8-8:30 I have enough energy to get the kids moving to bed.
I have had some good days, but they are rare.  I do get about one cleaning project a day in, but with 3 kids home all day, there is no way of keeping this house clean.  I've gotten good at averting my eyes and not letting things bug me too much.  Just a heads up I need about a weeks notice for visitors to get my house clean :-) .
Avi and Dai are hoping for a girl, JJ says its a boy, but she also says that there are 2 or 3 in there.  I'm just trying to not get my hopes up either way, and Nathan is resigned to the fact that we don't make boys.  4 more weeks to find out.

summer fun

This summer we have been trying to have fun.  Here are a few movies for you to watch to see what we have been up to.

Quick note

So my friend Katie has had a wonderful set of posts this month, and the last one was about her love language.  I have heard a lot about them, but haven't really been able to pin point what mine is, so I took the test that she directed me to.  I found out why I can't pin point the one language, I had a 3 way tie for first with "quality time", "acts of service", and "physical touch".  "word of affirmation" came as a close second and gifts were a far behind last.  Some of you will laugh at that if you have every been to one of our combined b-day parties.  We never buy gifts for each other except Christmas, and we both agonize over it.  I think I will have Nathan take one and the girls to see what theirs say so I can help them in what ever way I can.
Thanks Katie!
PS whats your language?

It's been a while.

I just kind of dropped of the planet for a little while, sorry.  I was working from Jan to the middle of April, so that kinda took a little bit of time, but the real kicker is that I was also tutoring for 2-4 hours a day on top of that.  Now that work is done, and I have had a little bit of time to try to find myself again, I am going to try to catch you all up. 

So Dailynn has been doing awesome in school this year.  She has learned a lot and just loves kindergarten.  They had this cute little program they did, and here is one of the cute videos.  If you want to see more, go look them up yourself. :)

Avi wrote her own autobiography.  It turned out cute, and we got to come to her class for a mini luau. 

Jeslyn let me potty train her.  She was a little difficult the first week, but after that, she is done!!!  She spent this whole week telling me every time she needs to go.  We didn't have accidents for 5 days!!!!

Nathan has been working on his own project.  He tore apart the tree house that we had out there because it wasn't safe, and has started the reconstruction.  He has 1 and 2 half walls up, and it is going to be a lot of fun for them.

Dailynn was racing up and down the sidewalk on our friends bike with training wheels, and we just in a whim decided to teach her to ride.  We went to the church 2 blocks away (I know there are at least 6 within a mile of our house) and gave it a go.  She climbed on her bike, I ran across the parking lot, and back with her, and by the time I got back to the car she was doing it herself. She spent the next hour while I was trying to help her friend learn flying up and down the parking lot as fast as she could.  It was so fun to watch!  I have video and pictures, hopefully I will get that some time soon.

Nathan met up with us after work and decided he needed to show off.  He jumped on Avi's bike and took off.  Once he got going fast enough he wanted to just stand on the petals and ride, the only problem is that the bike has petal brakes.  Need I say more?  He has a few pavement bites that he has been babying for a few days now.  That video will be posted too if I can figure it out.

For Mothers day, Nathan asked if we could do a combined gift for fathers day too.  I agreed because it meant that I got a BBQ and he got some patio chairs.  Since we got it a week ago, we have had 5 BBQs.  We love having it, now we just have to figure out how to cook things on it without burning them. :)

Independence

Each new stage of development in life takes on its own joys and stresses. We are facing that now with Jeslyn's new found independence. She loves to get dressed, but picking out her clothes means that they all end up on the floor, then putting them one usually gets them on backwards, inside out, or in a tangle that takes surgery to fix. There is the getting her shoes on, the socks go on skeewompus causing her to freak out because it feels funny in her shoes, but I don't have to take the time to getting them on. She has to walk out to the car herself, makes it easier for me because she is getting pretty heavy, but then it takes 3 times as long to get there. Her favorite phrase is "I do it" or "Jessy do it". It's great when she wants to put the puzzle together, but pouring milk on her cereal isn't as good. She is learning that there are things that mom will not let her do yet, and she is coming to accept that a little bit. She gets very excited every time she figures out something new yelling "I did it" as loud as she can until someone acknowledges to her that she did it.

Jeslyn is so cute right now. She loves to play with her friend Dani, and asks to go see her constantly. They are still learning to play good together, but it is so cute watching them play together. Her smile is adorable, a casual smile is normal, but if you ask her to smile she squinches her eyes and bares her teeth. She loves Ferb! It's about the only thing that will calm her down if she is so sure of something that she isn't going to get. Oh yeah and the tantrums are here, FUN! She is usually good natured, but she sure knows when she isn't getting what she thinks she deserves. I love my Jessy!

Time and Teachers

So I have noticed that at this time of year there is so much more demand on my time. First off, for some reason the math teachers in this area are not getting through to every student, and the parents are finally finding out. I have been called so much this week with new students for me to tutor. I have put in over 8 hours of tutoring this week. The problem is that I only have about 14 hours that can be used for tutoring. It's been great though because I not only is that helping to pay for Christmas, but it has been so fun to see the students get excited about knowing what is going on in their classes. I picked up a Calculus student last night and I was so nervous. Luckily it is still in the easy stuff, so I was able to fake my way through it, but by the time he left, he was excited about knowing it, I was excited I remembered it, and I was just so happy to have helped another person.

Also, I am just so greatful that my kids have such wonderful teachers at school. They are both so kind and good at controlling their classrooms. I am so glad that Dailynn is still excited to go (I was really worried about that), and that Avi has friends and is doing great on her work.

Ok, so I am surprised that time is being given to me. I look back at each day and wonder how I got things done. I have had so many extra things show up in my day to day this last week, and yet my house isn't destroyed (it's not clean), my kids have had some extra mommy time, I have been able to work on our super secret Christmas present after kids go to school, I have done extra tutoring, and I have been able to help a friend with projects to improve her life. I don't know how I am doing this because last year there would have been no way.

I also have to put a plug in for my wonderful husband who has supported me in everything going on, watched the kids for me, and taken up slack where I have faltered. He has helped me get things done and motivated me to do the things I didn't want to. There are others who have helped with the watching the kids and keeping me going, so thank you everyone that is so kind and helpful!