Gardner Village

From the look of this picture it doesn't seem like we had very much fun at Gardner Village, but I promise we did! When we first got there I wanted to just take a picture and get it over with, but I think picture taking was too fresh on their minds from the night before. ( Paige took their pictures for me. ) Towards the end they warmed up a little. We had a fun time, Charlie really enjoyed the witches. Next time I go I'm going without my kids so I can do some shopping. I did get a couple Halloween decorations at half off though. Thanks Paige, Amy, and Jayme for the company, this is an official tradition now!

Charlie really liked this witch, he stared at it quite a bit.

Three little monkeys-Dylan, Hayden, and Charlie.

Charlie said "Look mom, I'm a sloth hanging upside down from the tree." I believe he learned this one from "Big Big World." Maybe TV's not so bad after all. :)

Charlie and Hayden, I don't know if their dad's would be too proud of this one but their mom's think it's cute!

Here's my little cutie pill, that's right pill not pie! She wore me out! Or maybe that was Charlie it's a bit of a blur now. ;)

Doctor's, Doctor's, Doctor's!

This has become a pattern in our house, going to the Dr.'s office! Let's just start out with the most recent incident, Charlie swallowed a bolt! We were walking to the car from the dentist (next story) when he apparently picked it up off the road and hid it in his shirt as I put him in the car. As we were driving he started talking to me and the said, "I just swallowed a nail!" I said "What! why would you put a nail in your mouth! How big was it, where did you get it!" He told me he got it off the road and said it was "just little." Well I started crying, (I was on edge from the dentist) then HE started crying, "It hurts! It hurts!" "Where does it hurt?!" He points to his chest "right here!" I was freaking out a bit, thinking if he really did swallow a nail how are they going to get it out and is it going to tear something? We got home and I showed him a couple nails asking if they looked like what he swallowed, he pointed to the small 1/2 inch nail and said that was it. So I called Cami the nurse and we came to the conclusion that we better take him to the ER. So Mark took him to Davis Hospital, luckily we had already met our deductible this year so we didn't have to worry about that. Mark gets home an hour later and says "It wasn't a nail, it was a bolt!" Sure enough he swallowed a bolt and the Doctor said it should pass so now we get to dig through his poop to make sure it comes out! The doctor gave us the x-ray so above is an actual xray of his stomach. So glad he's ok and It wasn't anything sharp but what almost 4 year old swallows a bolt? Well mine does. :) A couple weeks ago he was riding his little spider man push car that's Kenya's size and I'm constantly telling him he's too big for it and not to ride it when he flipped over the front and banged his mouth on the cement. It was bleeding but that was it. About a week ago Mark noticed that his tooth started turning brown and I realized that it must be from his fall. So I called a new pediatric dentist, made sure they took our plan and went to his appointment only to find out after a 20 minute wait and paperwork that they don't take our plan so I walked across the street to our usual dentist very annoyed and made an appointment. It was after this that the swallowing of the bolt happened. At his later appointment we were told he needs a baby root canal to clean out his dead tooth and he'll now have a pretty discolored tooth until it falls out. And can you handle one more doctor story? I'm sure you've all stopped reading by now but I'll keep going. Last week Mark was trying to get him to get up so we could go on a bike ride before it got dark. He tugged him by his arm to get him to get up because he wasn't minding. Well Charlie has a very loose elbow I guess (He must get this from me, I'm now convinced that this is what happened to me as a kid and it never got fixed,) and Charlie screams "You broke my arm again!!" Through his tears "You broke my arm just like last year at our old church!" Yes this did happen at church as Charlie was trying to crawl under the benches Mark grabbed his arm to pull him back and he yelled during church "You broke my arm!" It's actually called Nursemaid elbow and it happens all the time to young kids. We had to take him to the insta care and get it put back in place. Whew! Three doctors in 2 weeks, that's a new record. Love ya bud but please be more careful and mind your parents! :)

Pack's Pumpkin Patch

We went to the Pumpkin Patch last week on a Monday night, as lot's of others have learned it's not a good night to go, it was very crowded!  We road our bikes out to Pack's Pumpkin Patch since it's not far from our house which was fun but by the time we got there it was getting dark and so crowded so we didn't get to spend much time there and we didn't search too hard for our pumpkins which I'm regretting now and I've just realized that we haven't even carved them!  Maybe we'll have to skip that event this year, we've been so busy every night!  I love the fall and feel like every year there's so many things I want to do before the weather turns and the leaves fall and Halloween arrives!  I love it though, It is my favorite season and I'm glad it's been such beautiful weather!  After Pack's we went back home and enjoyed some pumpkin chocolate chip cookies with Paige and Russ while our kids ran wild.  It was a fun night!

I've got my posts backwards soo, if you want to scroll down first to Catch Up and read up from there it will be in order! :)

We Love Grandpa!

Thanks dad for letting us invade your bachelor pad for the past 6 months!  As I have come back to his house since our move I've realized what a mess we were in his house!  Thank you for putting up with the mess, the screaming, crying, yelling, early wakings, time-outs, neighbor calling, couch ruining, dish breaking days!  What a great dad I have, my kids miss seeing their grandpa!

Kenya always wanted my dad to hold her, she had him wrapped around her finger already!
Kenya helping or hindering my packing. :)
Charlie being Charlie and Kenya being Kenya.

Bear Lake

In the midst of all our packing Itransact (Mark's place of employment along with every other sibling or spouse in my family's place of employment,) decided to have a little retreat over nighter up in Bear Lake.  Unfortunately it snowed but that didn't stop us from riding the rhinos for a bit.  We played rock band the night before and my trio got first and last place! :) What can I say, my inner singer came out, I just got to sing by default my drum skills are non existent and my guitar skills need practice before playing. :) 

Mark, Rich (brother in law), and Dan rocking out.

We're In!

We are all moved in and loving it!  I am so grateful to my dad for letting us live with him for so long but it is so great to have our own house again!  I know he's thinking the same thing too.  Here are some pictures, still a lot of decorating to do, give me 5 more years! :) I don't have a picture of the outside because they still haven't put up the wood beam and arch that go on the front porch so I'll wait for that before I take a pic of it.

Charlie's room, yes his mattress is STILL on the floor!  It's only been a year and a half!  I have decided to give up on trying to decide what kind/color/size of bed to get him until we have another baby, that will help me determine if I will need bunk beds or not so until then we'll have to put it on a frame, why I didn't think of that forever ago, I dunno.
The office.  I need to paint that desk black still, who has the time and energy? We all know where my last painting ambition landed, maybe I'll call Jose again for this job...

Kenya's room,  I know my kids' rooms don't look too different from their last ones but I wanted them to feel at home, plus I was fresh out of new ideas.  I had to think about too many other decisions at the time.

Great room.  What can I say, it is great.

And the kitchen/dining area.  Now if only I could figure out how to keep my floors clean for more than a day!  Really, if anyone has any advice on how they clean hard wood I would love to hear it.  I've been using the swiffer jet mop thingy which I've always used but now it takes forever and I went through a bottle of the cleaning solution in a week and a half! I need another easy solution...

Catch up

If you're wondering why I haven't posted in a while besides the fact that I've been unpacking boxes it's because I couldn't find my camera cord to upload my pictures!  My mom just gave me this camera right before our move and I was soo happy to have a better camera and sooo frustrated that I haven't been able to upload pictures!  Well tonight I decided to tackle organizing the laundry/mud room.  Although we have managed to unpack most of our things I think we've been enjoying our direct TV and TiVo a little too much!  It took all my will power to stop watching episodes of John and Kate plus 8 and get something done on my house and I'm so glad I did!  I was emptying out my last purse that I had been using (You know how you go back from wanting a big purse to a little purse, well it's time for a little one for me,) and had put a bunch of stuff in it while we were moving and I came across my camera cord, yeah!! I also found our extra set of car keys (and I thought Mark had actually lost keys for once :() a pair of earrings that I've often found myself wondering "what happened to those earrings I bought and only wore once?" Some lip gloss that I was about to buy again, and a whole lot of trash!  So happy I decided to organize tonight.  Soo let's just say this may be a long post, I have lot's of catching up to do!

Tagged

I feel the pressure since Paige is waiting for my tag post. :)  The problem is that I don't know if there are six peculiar things about me, I'll try!

1-I am a hair stylist and don't like doing my own hair!  It must be the mom in me, I've become so lazy.  I always try to do it for the sake of helping me to feel better and to keep my clients coming back to me.  Who wants to go to a hair stylist who doesn't style her own hair?  As I am typing this my hair is wet because I'm too lazy to dry it.  As long as it's done before Mark gets home...:) My kids hair never looks that great either.  I better work on that.

2-I have a retarded elbow.  My bone sticks out, it must have been dislocated when I was a kid and nobody ever knew it, how do you not know it you ask?  Who knows, I like to give my mom guilt trips about it though.  I just noticed it when I was around 7 or 8, or maybe my gymnastic teachers brought it to my attention when they would say "straighten your arm!"  I would say "I am!"  Now I get to hear it from the yoga instructor.  Mark likes to make fun of me by pretending he's me as a cheerleader and doing a high V with his arm bent.  Not funny.

3-I have an extremely big big toe, or extremely small other toes.  I was very self conscience of this as a kid, I didn't even like to wear sandals because of it.  The things kids worry about! Again Mark likes to make fun of this "The doctor must have pulled you out by your big toes!" 

4- I loved 'NSYNC back in the day and got to touch Justin's hand at a concert, (sigh). They were the funnest concerts I have been to and I'm not embarrassed to say it!  I am so happy that Justin lives on in the music world.

5-I had blue eyes until I was about 12.  Then they started turning green.

6-I have always wanted to have red hair.  Not the dark red but the bright copper color.  Not that I've wanted to be born with red hair, I just want to try it out for a while.  I know most people don't like that color but I think it's so pretty and hard to achieve artificially.:)  One day I will be brave and do it.

There you go!  I tag Andrea, Brooke, and Hailey.  I too will be looking for your posts!

Moving!

The time has FINALLY come!  We are moving today, three weeks later than expected BUT six weeks earlier than our contract so I guess we came out on top still.  I don't know when we'll have our internet up and running but I'll keep you posted! :)

A Day With Kody

On Monday morning my old neighbor Tina called me to see if I could watch her boy Kody while she went to work.  Charlie was so excited to have Kody come over!  Charlie and Kody were born on the same day November 16th, almost four years ago and they've always played great together.  Well Monday was no exception, they entertained each other all day, from 10:00 to 5:00 and I got so much done!  It was so wonderful, there was  not one fight or argument they played house, built forts, crashed cars, for hours.  It helped that Kenya took a four hour nap too!  What a great day!  Hmmm....When did being able to do 2 loads of laundry folded and put away, and clean and organize all day become a great day?! :) 

After I took a picture of the boys I turned to Kenya and said "Kenya say cheese!"  And right on cue she did this with a little "ba da da!"  
Charlie has loved building forts lately so this was what they came up with.  That stuff on the left is insulation!  Later they were both saying how they were "so so itchy!"