HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY

Happy late Mother's Day to all the great mom's out there. I am doing alot better since my last post!! Peytons feeling better, Caleb is back to being a good boy and Quinn, well still working like a race horse but we still love him. I had a great Mother's Day Caleb made me a very special card and a cute bookmark at school and he was soooo excited to give it to me, so I loved it that much more because of his excitement!! Quinn gave me a beautiful ring with my kids birthstones in it. That was his way of saying we cant have anymore kids because there is no more room on the ring to put the other kids birthstones!! My mom was in town so we were able to celebrate it with her, we took her to Madelines, they had a good buffet. I want to tell my mom that I love her and appreciate everything she does for me and my family. She has always put her kids first and did everything she could for us as a single, working mother. I would truly be lost if it was not for her I honestly talk to her at least 2 to 3 times a day and I consider her one of my best friends. A bonus she is a GREAT Grandma and my kids love her to death!! I hope you had a great day and we love you!! Then we went to Quinns parents ward to watch Caleb sing it was pretty entertaining. He had a little to much sugar from the chocolate fountain at the buffet he was half way up on the wall of the stage and was all over the place, but still cute. Then we had dinner at Quinn's Mom house, she to is a GREAT mom and Grandma. She raised a very polite son whom we adore and does everything to make sure she keeps the family together and has a very strong testimony of the church. She is always willing to let us come sleep at her house when Quinn is out of town (because I am a wuss) and loves my children!! We love all you guys and thanks for everything!!

WHAT A DAY!!

Can I just go off for a minute because I need to or I might lose my mind. So to start off Peyton is SICK, well so I think she is but my doctor says it is just teething but I hate to tell the man who has the degree and went to years of school it is not teething. She is crying 24/7 then normally my little boy who is my angel decided to be NAUGHTY with his sister. It's like they are gaining up on mom they are fighting all the time, then while out running errands Caleb wanted to bring his Nintendo DS. I normally don't let him but I thought it might keep them from fighting so I let him. Well he decided to put it down and not pick it up, so when I asked him where it was at, he did not know or did not know where he left it so after back tracking to 3 stores I found it! Then we get home and I thought maybe if there are outside they will be better. Peyton finally found something that made her happy so I let her do it but little did I know that she was playing in an ANT farm so when she came over to tell me she had a ouchie I saw the ants all over her. So we got them inside in the bath and in bed by 7:00 P.M. Then my poor sweet husband has started up 2 companies of his own plus his regular job so he is working 3 jobs right now and is pulling in 14 hours days at work then comes home and works until 11:00 P.M. then is out the door at 5:00 A.M. again. I love you honey and am grateful for evrything you are doing for the family but I hope you come back soon we miss you!! So needless to say I am kind of like a single mother but am with my kids 24/7. Then I just heard a loud noise so I went to find the noise and I had just purchased a BIG thing of laundry detergent earlier in the day from Costco and it had somehow fell off my shelf unto the floor and just spilled the whole ENTIRE thing out so now I am off to better things like trying to mop up a 1.32 GAL bucket of soap. FUN FUN!! Then to top it off I have been taking Pilates and have LOVED it so much and is such a stress reliever but Quinn's not home to watch the kids and I don't think the gym would like me to show up with my snotty nose child so I didn't get to go tonight so sad. So thanks for letting me get some anger out. I hope everyone else is having a good day!!!!

BIRTHDAY PICTURES!!

I wanted my kids pictures taken for their 5th and 2nd birthday. My best bud Laurie has just started getting into photography so we thought the kids could be the guinea pigs for her. I think they turned out way cute considering my kids weren't really in the mood to take pictures. We took them down to Wheeler Farm and there was to much for them to do, so they weren't really sitting still to smile for the camera. I love them still! Thanks Laurie for doing that for me!
He loved to climb this tree and would never look at the camera for a smile, but I like actions shots as well.
It was kind of hot and sunny so Caleb was squinting in almost all the pictures. So this was the best one we could get, oh well still cute!

I can not get this girl to smile for pictures Her dancer pose

I love these ones, she had a hay day in this field of flowers/weeds

I have always wanted a picture like this so I made Laurie take one but little Miss Peyton did not want to hold Calebs hand right then, of course she just wanted Mommy's hand so I told Laurie to get ready and then I ran out of the pictures. So the front of this picture would have captured her crying and Caleb pulling her to make her hold his hand. Gotta love these moments!!

This one makes me laugh she loves her brother so much and he is so good to her (most of the time).

Not another one Mom!

I got so behind on all my blogging so scroll down to see all the new posts!!
Hopefully life will slow down soon!!

HOPPY EASTER!!

We started off Easter with my family, still in town for Peyton's party. My mom did a Easter egg hunt for the kids with money inside the eggs. I do not have pictures from that beacause Quinn and I were trying to score some money as well so we were to busy running around. My sister Loni took pictures so maybe I could get them from her. They scored quite a bit of money so I made them put all of it in their piggy banks but $2.00 then we went later in the week to the good old dollar store and told them they could pick ANYTHING they wanted. Caleb really thought that was cool. Then headed to Quinn's parents house that night and had a yummy dinner and did a Easter egg hunt as well as Peyton's birthday party! Daddy and Caleb at our house on our Easter egg hunt
This was the only picture I could get of these two. One or the other would not cooperate for me.

Daddy and Peyton

All the grandkids at Quinn's parents house. All the kids are looking at the run away kid!! Great job Tate j/k

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PEYTON!!

Back on April 10th my little girl turned 2! Happy Birthday Sis! We love you and are so grateful for you being in our lives. You bring so much happines and laughter to us. This is the funnest stage they are learning to talk and their personalities start to shine. I love how happy you are and how much you love life! I love watching you and Caleb play together and be buddies. I love our nightime ritual and everytime I leave the room you tell me "I wuv you mommy!" I love how exciting you get when your daddy gets home from work. I love your kind words you always use and you know how to turn the charm on when you really want something. I love how you always are helping me clean the house (we have a clean fetish in common) and how you take such great care of all your babies! I love you sis and hope you had a great 2nd birthday.

For her party we just had a little get together

with my family and some friends.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

She is obssesed with Strawberry Shortcake so we had a "bob bob" party as she would call it. I am not a fan of characters so I found this little dress that had strawberries on it, so I let her wear that and she loved it. Now every morning she thinks she gets to wear her "bob bob" dress.

The whole set up of Strawberry
We had a chocolate fountain, boy that was sure a hit from the kids.

My sister Loni made this cute cake for her.

Caleb "helping" her open her presents.

She got all kinds of Strawberry stuff and so much more. Thanks to everyone for giving her a present. She loves them all!

Peyton getting ready to blow out her candles!

EASTER EGG HUNT!

Quinn's parent have a egg hunt every year in their neighborhood so we went up there on Saturday. Caleb got robbed they split the groups up and since he just turned 5 he went to the other lawn with the 5 to 10 year olds. Lets just say the older kids ruled the younger ones. I think he walked away with a whopping 3 but he didn't care, so thats all that matters. Peyton and Caleb getting ready to walk over to the egg hunt.
Peyton getting all her eggs. It was fun this year with her because she was excited and could run around getting them herself.

Caleb with his "whopping" loot.

Peyton enjoying all her many eggs. She kicked her brothers butt when it came to getting eggs!!