Big Guys-Little Guys

On Saturday Paul and Kacen went to the Provo City Library, where they hosted Big Guys Little Guys. So the Little Guy gets to go with a Big guy to a fun filled hour at the library!
Definitely fun! Kacen got to keep a Book and got a shield painted on his face.

a magician!

mmm Hamburgers

digging for treasure

sword fighting

shooting some hoops

Balloon guy made Kacen a mouse

petting a real lizardtarantula

Just letting everyone know, I think you are great. Everyone that I know that can read this are people that that I have come in contact with through out my life and are people that have amazed me in some way...
You are Great!

The Real Easter

We went to a Primary Easter Activity at the Church. One of the Easter Activities was watching a video of Jesus washing his disciples feet and then they had basins for the children to wash each others feet. I was in there to get a picture of Alona, but she was convinced that you only wash your feet in the tub and not at church. And then they were challenged to provide an act of service for someone this week.
Abbi and Alona were able to do this activity. There were 12 eggs filled with different things

Egg #1: twig, Mark 11:8-9
Egg#2: sacrament cup, Mark 14:22-24
Egg#3: dirt(Jesus sat on in the Garden), D&C 19:16-19
Egg#4: nickel, Matthew 26:14-16
Egg#5: thorn, Mark 15:16-18
Egg#6: A cross made out of toothpicks, John 19:16-18
Egg #7: A Nail, D&C 6:37Egg #8: paper "king of jews", John 19:19
Egg#9: sponge, John 19:28-30
Egg#10: linen, Matthew 27:57-59
Egg#11: rock, Matthew 27:60
Egg#12: nothing in it, Mark 16:6
They decorated Eggs(rocks) with markers. Abbi and Kacen had fun earlier in the week rounding up pretty rocks from the yard and put them all in to a pot. They brought them all along with them to the church activity. They were so proud of their hard work. They used their "eggs" instead of any of the other more egg like ones available to them.
And the last activity was making a birds nest. They were given a nest made out of rice krispie treats and got coconut for grass and robin egg candies.
Kacen ate his nest and was left with his big "egg". "Mom this is my egg. (with widened eyes) Its gonna hatch! I'm gonna keep it safe. Its going to crack open. and then it will be a birdie! Its going to be a daddy bird" :)

good days/ bad days

SPARE!!

MY Baby can bowl!

Daddy had a good time helping the children!

brother and sister.
(My cute kids that are a year a part)

A day like yesterday was a pretty GOOD DAY.(12:00)Paul was able to get to sleep at a good time (by 4 am) and wake up by noon. So he was awake, I was able to leave the baby here while he was napping so that I could go pick Abbi without waking Jesse up. I was able to go pick Abbi up and head to The Children's Place for some Easter clothes for the boys. That was a mistake though, I should have taken the kids home and went there another time without them. It was a bit more anxiety ridden and stressful taking them and I wasn't able to make computer class taking too much time at the store. So that was my only "bad day" experience in my good day and I was able to overcome it, yay! After lunch and picking up Alona from piano we played at the park for an hour. Abbi got to bring her new bike and Alona rode her bike too! They all had a lot of fun.There was a new friend there that was named Abby, Abbi had fun saying, "Hi Abby"!

She can FLY!Slides are for climbing :)

Kacen tried to climb them in his socksAfter Paul got home from running his errands we went to Fat Cats/ Costa Vida to use Alona's gift certificates that she got from school. lots of cheering, excitment and laughter :) good night with Paul and my children. They had their Mommy laughing, they were trying to pick up "jewels", dots of colored light on the ground, they couldn't figure out why they couldnt pick em up. They were amazing bowlers too! they all beat me and some beat their daddy too! Jesse even played along :)

Monday and Tuesday though Paul's work days, went well too. Even with Mondays stressful activities, Preschool, Dance class,etc. Paul woke up early! And I was able to go grocery shopping without the kids! He kept them at home, had fun with them and took care of them! It was great, and Tuesday Paul gave the younger ones baths and I was able to get out of the house by myself for 20 min. Paul has been great this week, so thoughtful, helpful, wonderful! I LOVE GOOD DAYS!!!

Okay so after all of the good things from my good days, my mood is brightened. But its a "BAD DAY", with Paul's decision to stop taking Ambien his nights of getting to sleep at a decent hour are hit or miss, actually its always been hit or miss. And last night was one of those nights that was a Miss! I know that today Everything falls on me and that is where my anxiety comes from. And that is why Abbi and Kacen are watching a movie right now. I am glad that I am handling it ok so far :) I still need to do baths for four children, bag and freeze meat, do dinner, take the two older ones to the library, putting them to bed, the cleanup and everything in between.

(12:45) While I was typing one handed on here I was nursing Jesse and went to go lay him down, and he sat up right when I placed him in the crib and now he is in his room awake making happy noises. Four kids, one being a baby, and no napping, doing it by myself, wow, here I go!

(3:45)The kids were signed up for library kids jr. but since Jesse just fell asleep, I will prioritize and not go and just let him sleep! I wish I could have some time to myself and or nap(Jesse still doesnt sleep through the night and doesnt like naps), but Alona needs to be picked up from cooking class soon and dinner needs to be made. Today can be a good day! And I might just get to go to a book club in my ward, though I haven't had 2 min to read the book, I will get some time without the kids and get some insight into the book that someday I will be able to read!

Mom I want to drive to Easter!

The phrase is was Kacen told me when he told me he wanted new sandals, I told him maybe for Easter...
We made leprechauns while the girls were at school on Monday.

Abbi at preschool this morning. Green shirt, pants, socks, hair bow and scrunchie.

Grandma met us at the park, she came all the way down here to pick up her girl scout cookies. It was such a nice day, 63 degrees that we were able to play at the park for an hour.
There was a boy at the park that took on being "Big Brother" to Kacen. He let Kacen shadow him in everything that he was doing and was instructing him on how to do everything. He came to me and said, "your son is pretty cool, you've got a really cool son, i hope you know that."

We came home and make St. Patricks Day hats. I thought they were super cute.
Look at him :)others weren't as excited.
Alona woke up last night being sick and stayed home today from school.
Very coincidental, last month on this very same day she stayed home from school too.

9 months old

My little guy turned nine months old this past Friday. He is my little big guy. At his nine month old appointment he weighed 16 lbs 14 ounces and was 28 and 3/4".
At nine months old he can:

• Stand up to almost anything and dance while doing so
• Say: Duck, bath, ought oh, Mama, Dada, Cat
• Army crawl and has started to crawl on hands and knees these past few days
• can go from crawling, to sitting to standing in any order
• walks in between things that he is holding on to
  
• loves to go to the cupboard and pull out all of daddy's movies
• Loves cereal and Mommy's milk. will eat half a jar of baby food twice a day when he is not sick.
• Got his first ear infection
• Loves the water, he crawls around and splashes in it
• has four teeth and is working on some more.