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Okay so as I was going to post this I realized I put this on the wrong blog so if anyone knows how or if it's possible to copy and post to another blog please let me know...

Well life has been anything but boring around here.......

Just yesterday Shaylee was telling me that everyone in her Sunday school class except her had already lost a tooth.

I could tell she was feeling a little down about it.

After all losing a tooth is exciting stuff.

Who doesn't want a grill with a couple missing teeth in the front??

I told her that people lose teeth at different times and it was nothing to be concerned about.

It'll happen when it's suppose to.

Then later that day she bit down on something and started crying.....

I came to find out that she had a loose tooth.

The poor girl was soo scared so I comforted her best I could and helped her to see how exciting this really was.... After playing with it all night and most of this morning it finally came out.

She hasn't decided if she wants to keep it or give it to the tooth fairy, but let's just say this girl can be easily bribed with money. So I have a good idea what she'll choose at the end of the day.
...and now she has a new smile to start off kindergarten with.

Along with that Chad and I are very excited.....
we finally broke down and got new phones.
I know you thought it'd be more exciting than that, but really... my phone has been broke for a little while and it was getting a bit ridiculous.
It's no iphone, but it's nice to be able to read my texts again.

I've also been holding down the fort in RS.
In our new ward everyone seems to disappear June and July and it turned out that a week ago Sunday I had the RS president, 1st counselor, secretary, chorister, and teacher all on vacation. It was very lonely sitting by myself in front of the room.
I'm just grateful that it was an uneventful week and I didn't have to deal with to much excitement on my own.

We've also had the opportunity to meet alot of new friends in the ward.
Don't worry they'll never replace my friends from Campbell Ward.
We've had plenty of invites to dinner, games, playdates and more.
It's times like these that make me sooo thankful to be members of the church.
I couldn't imagine moving somewhere and not knowing anyone and not having many opportunities to get to know people.

I asked Shay a couple weeks ago what things she wanted to do before school started again and she wanted to go to the zoo.
So we invited some of our new friends and had a hot, but great day at the zoo....
I will have you know that we are generally too lazy to make it to the zoo in time for the giraffe feeding, but we finally made it there and we weren't going to miss out.
Even though I'm not a big fan of touching animals like this. I just feel dirty and like I need to wash my hands right away.
I guess it's a good thing I don't live on a farm.

...oh, and Cache wouldn't go near them.

The kids had a blast playing in the water area...

My friend has a daughter Shaylee's same age (same month even) that is also starting Kindergarten at the same school.

She is already Shaylee's new best friend.

I'm sooo amazed at how fast Shaylee makes friends.

If it were only that easy at my age.

our excitement didn't stop at hanging out with new friends though....

We had this friendly guy camping out in our garage for a couple days.

He was the ....

biggest

ugliest

cockroach looking thing I've ever seen....

Chad and I both avoided the garage for a couple of days until I talked Chad into killing it.

So gross!

So I already shared Shaylee's exciting news with her loosing her first tooth,

but here's a few other things Shay's been up to....

About a week ago we took Shay to the dermatologist to have a couple bumps above her lip froze off.

We saw this doctor a month ago about this problem and he prescribed some medicine, but the medicine just pealed off layers of skin and didn't do a thing to the bumps.

So we decided that we'd try freezing them even though that is the painful route.

Well I have to tell you that Shay was a champ.

She didn't even tear up.

I've had that stuff before and I know it hurts so I just couldn't believe how brave she was.

What a tough chick she is.

We also signed shay up for dance class again.

Since we only have Shay going to half day kinder we decided we better have some extra curricular activity she can do during the week.
So Friday is her first class and she can't be more excited.

This is just a random pic of Shay.

I don't know why, but I love pics of my kids sleeping.

I love that Shaylee's favorite dolls these days is a red head.

and the last of shay's exciting news is that we gave her her own room...

...i know it looks quite boring.

I haven't even had time to go out and look for idea's on how to decorate it, but I'm pretty sure that Shay will choose some time up rockstar theme.
We figured that with her having to wake up so early for school that she should finally get her own room so she's not waking up her brother.

I thought she'd have a hard time the first night.

Maybe be a little lonely... but no.

I think she's enjoying her space.

Shaylee and Cache can be the best of friends at times.

It's times like this when my house feels soooo peaceful...

Cache

is all smiles as usual....

he thought he was sooo funny for wearing his dad's shoes.

Nothing too exciting has been going on with this kid.

He stays busy playing with his cars, dinosaurs, riding his bike, and scooter, these days.

Recently he hasn't been taking a nap.

I'm not sure I'm ready for that to be gone, but he does great staying in his bed and having a little quite time.

We are signing him up for a sports class where he'll play football, soccer, and teeball.

I'm excited for him to try this.

I think he's gonna love it.

Although I'm still counting on him being my basketball player.

I'm just giving him a chance to get these sports out of his system so he can focus on his basketball career when the time comes. =)

Cache is still my silly boy.

However, he's surprised me with how quiet he is around other people.

Maybe he won't be the class clown, but at home he keeps us laughing.

The other night he came in with his pants pulled up as high as he could get them....

of course once Shay saw Cache getting attention she had to join in the fun....

...and now for our sweet

Kaelyn

Kaelyn has been up to a lot these last few weeks.

She's busy busy busy.......
She has finally decided to start walking.....

... and not just with her grocery cart around the house.

I seriously love her cheeser.....

she has become a very messy eater.

I usually have to prepare to give her a bath after most meals.

She LOVES her fruit and loves to style her strawberry blonde locks with the juice from her fruit.

Somedays the result of this is a quick bath in the sink...

Like I mentioned in my last post... this girl is a climber.

The other day I was fixing dinner and when I turned around to find Kaelyn in her high chair.

I didn't put her there so I asked Shaylee how Kaelyn got in her high chair.

Shaylee didn't do it.... so Kaelyn must have climbed up herself and sat in her chair.

A little scary, but now I know when she's hungry.

I didn't even have to teach her sign language.

She just walks over to her chair and starts climbing up....

hmmm.... maybe sign language would have been safer.

another cheeser....

and Cache's and Kaelyn's new room.....

I was a little nervous to how this would work out, but so far it has been great.

I think Cache is liking being the BIG brother in the room.

As for Kaelyn's other happenings.....

She loves to point at all the pictures in the house and say something to the effect...

"look at that"

I start a mommy and me class with her in about a week

She loves to give kisses

At night time when we tell her goodnight she gives us lots of slobbery kisses

She's also good at blowing kisses

She has climbed out of her crib once... however, I'm assuming once she got over she fell because I haven't noticed her do it again... oh, and she was screaming when I found her.

She likes to shut the doors

In the mornings if she wakes up before the other two I have to keep my eye on her or I'll find her in their room on their beds waking them up

and last today I came in to get her from her nap and found her diaper off and "stinkies" all over her crib.

Luckily, I found no evidence of any in her mouth.

So I guess that's our update for now.

Alittle all over the place, but that's about all I can do with the craziness three kids bring.

One more week til school starts.

I'll be sure to post all the excitment!

Blog update

I updated my family blog.

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To be SELFISH or SELFLESS

I've had to make a tough choice lately. No it's nothing eternal, but it's something that's important to ME. It's my hair...... yes ladies (and gents if there's any out there reading this) my hair is very important to me. I enjoy getting it done every three months if my pocket book allows. It's one of those things that when it's done it makes you feel like a million bucks. Unfortunately, lately it's seemed like I "need" everything. A couple examples..... I need some new workout clothes, I need a swimsuit to swim laps in, I need goggles, I need some new clothes, I need a new car, I need to decorate the new house a bit, I need chick-fil-a once a week, and the list goes on and on. Most importantly, I need to get my hair did. Seriously it looks awful. Well..... since I'm not rich and can't call and make a hair appointment whenever I feel like it I've been saving my money...... and guess what I have it. Enough money to do whatever I want to my hair, but there's one small problem...... the kids need swimming lessons. Okay they don't' "need" them, but some might argue I don't "need" my hair done. So do I do the selfish thing and get my hair done? After all I've been saving my very own money for it. Or do I do the selfless thing and use my hard earned money to pay for my kids swimming lessons?

Well I'll let you know I have already made my decision, but I'd still like to hear what you think. If your roots were grown out about 3 inches and it looked like you stopped taking care of yourself would you do the selfish or selfless thing?

Why and who decided this?

*** WARNING ***

***There may be..... okay there IS some inappropriate language below***

Soooooo last night I was rudely awakened by a barking dog. To my disappointment that barking dog was mine and he had jumped over into the neighbors yard and couldn't get back (different story). As I laid in my bed trying to go back to sleep (after fixing the situation of course) I got to thinking about WHY some words are bad or inappropriate. For example the work "hell" or "damn". Growing up we were definitely not allowed to say these words, but we weren't allowed to say stupid or shut-up either. As a matter of fact I don't let my kids say shut-up or stupid, but I feel it's for a good reason. They just are not nice words. They are words that you'd use to put someone down and I personally would rather teach my kids to use words that would raise one's spirits=). However, as I thought about these two words I couldn't understand why they'd be "bad". What is different about saying "what on earth is going on" verses "what in the hell is going on". They mean the same thing. Why is earth socially okay, but not hell.

*BTW- I understand that some people don't believe it is a "bad" word, but like the word "damn" you probably would go using it while you were giving a talk in church. (unless used in the right context)

So then I got to thinking about the other curse words. Who decided that these words are bad. For example what's the difference between "please get your a** off my table" and "please get you're butt of my table". Who decided these words were inappropriate and WHY? Obviously, saying "get your a** off my table" sounds worse, but isn't that just because society views them as bad words?

I want to know you're opinion on this. Although I may not totally agree or understand why these words are "bad" I will refrain from using them around my children and in public (and most likely some words all together) because society views them as inappropriate and I don't care to have my kid dropping the f-bomb in the middle of primary.

I went post CrAzY!!!!!

Yup!

I couldn't control myself and went a little crazy with the posts on my family blog.

Chem em' out here if you want...

grrrrrrrr....

Many of you know this already, but we are a bit crammed for space.

We have 5 people living in a 2 bedroom house.

When we bought our house we only had Shaylee and planned to live in our home for 2 maybe 3 years and then move.

We bought in the first phase so we felt pretty good that we'd make some money off of it.

4 years later the market is terrible and we owe a lot more than our house is worth.

Apparently there is a lesson we need to learn and it's been a tough one.

However, we've come to realize and except (as much as one could in this position) that we will not be selling our house anytime soon.

We were at least hoping to refinance to decrease our bill a little.

Unfortunately no one is willing to help the honest people in this rough economy.

You have to either have bad credit or foreclose on your house to get help.

It's been VERY frustrating as Chad and I have called bank after bank trying to work something out only to find out that no one will help us out.

It's no wonder so many people are walking away from their home these days.

They're more likely to get help once they do.

I'm convinced that doing the right thing is going to pay off, but really sooner rather than later would be great.

grrrrrrrr!

Brilliant I tell ya!

I have a friend who I believe is

BRILLIANT.

You know she's one of those girls that likes learning and reads alot.

I'd like to introduce you to her. Her name is Bridget.

She's so brilliant in fact that a magazine wanted to interview her.

I heard about this one day and didn't think much about it. To be honest I wasn't surprised. After all she is a smarty pants so why wouldn't they.

Well it just so happens that one day as I was in a store looking at the magazine section I couldn't help but notice a familiar face looking at me from the REAL SIMPLE magazine.

I couldn't believe it. After all REAL SIMPLE is a magazine I like. I expected her to have an article in Newsweek or something (which she may have preferred), but to my surprise and liking she was right there on the cover of REAL SIMPLE magazine. Not only was she interviewed, but she got front cover. WOW I was impresses.

Well the story gets better because as I read her interview I found that she was being interviewed about motherhood and right there in the middle of the article was a HUGE shout out to me!!!

Now I've always felt like Bridget thought I was a good mom, but I was on cloud nine reading about how she felt I was an example of a good mom.

Unfortunately, I was reading this interview around 3:00pm last night and was rudely awakened at the best part by my sweet little boy who had had an accident in his bed.

So yes, this was a dream. That is most likely why this doesn't sound at all familiar to you Bridget.

I thought of casually mentioning I had a dream about you =), but I thought this would be so much more exciting.

However the truth is....

-Bridget is brilliant

-I apparently took the compliments from Bridget about my parenting to my head

-and, for real, one day I was walking in a bookstores coffee shop and as I was walking through the magazine section something caught my eye. I turned back to see what it was and it was my cousins face on the cover of a magazine (Steph that's a shout out to your bro!). I was very impressed to say the least!

*Bridget- I hope you dont mind that I wrote a blog post about you. We're even =)