Makenna's Four!

The night before Makenna's birthday I reminded her that when she woke up it would be her birthday... bad idea!! She could not sleep! She even came out and said "I can't sleep mom!!! I'm SOOOO excited!!!!!" She was up till about 10:00! (We put her down at 7:30) It was so cute though. So on her birthday morning she got to open her Ariel outfit that she really really wanted and I let her wear it for her party which was "under the sea" theme. We even did her hair "just like Ariel." :)

After I took pictures of Makenna, Jace came over and started saying "cheese!" so I had to take a picture of him too! Did I mention he is obsessed with balloons?

So at the party we played musical chairs (to little mermaid music), fishing for magnet fish, crab races, threw water balloons at a shark, and fish fish crab (duck duck goose).

Then we had cake and ice cream with her Flounder cake.


Then she opened her presents which were so much fun! She looooved them and wanted to play with them as she opened them!

We finished the partay with a little treasure hunt where we found a treasure chest full of all the kids' party favor bags. They LOVED that. It was so much fun and such a fun party. I'm such a sucker for parties that I start out doing something little, and it ends up a whole fiasco. It's so much fun for Makenna though so it makes it worth it!

She also got to go to her cousin Brody's birthday party which was really fun. When she got home, we surprised her with this!

She looks so big on that bike! I can't believe how big she is!

Here she is on her birthday last year on the bike she outgrew!

I love that little girl to pieces. She is seriously my best bud and we have so much fun together. I love her cute, fun personality. I am soooo lucky that I get to be her mom! Happy 4th birthday Ken!

Can you top this?

I loooove to think about the future and what kinds of things will change. Sometimes I have a hard time thinking how certain things could possibly be improved upon! I specifically remember back in the 90's thinking that the styles and everything were so cool and advanced that they could not be topped! I thought it would be funny to list what I think those things are right now, and it will be funny to look back at what I wrote! (or maybe I'll be right!)

MP3 players!

I mean how much better and more convenient can listening to music get? I cannot fathom a better idea than this...

TV's
Yes, that is a TV! It displays a picture when the TV isn't on! AMAZING! Seriously, how much better can that get??! I guess the only problem is, where is the DVD player?!

The spikey do:
Guys have been wearing their hair like this for a while now, and I just can't see this going out of style!

Cars
This is definitely not the coolest car out there, but it is our car that we recently got. For a plain ol' ford car, I'm thinking cars are looking pretty good these days! The front grills and headlights look awesome on all the new cars and the paint jobs look really pretty. Can't really see cars looking much prettier??

longer shirts
I just can't imagine now going back to those shorter shirts- awful!! (BTW isn't this Anthropologie shirt cute?!)

This style of jeans
I think no matter what may be the fad of the time, women will always go back to the slight flare jean because I think it is the most flattering! Perhaps someday our children will call these "mom jeans." hahaha, you have to see this SNL skit if you haven't... :)



A few things I think will change fo sho:
DVD's- can't stand them (my kids ruin them)
Telephone lines- I'm sure there's a better, prettier way!
All the mystery ingredients in our food
self-cleaning toilets? a girl can dream...

Joy school!

Makenna was so excited for her first day of Joy school! Mom is excited too because I have been CRAVING a routine lately! I love routines!



So here it is! The Routine:
6:00 AM wake up/scriptures/clean
7:00 kids wake up/clothed/fed
7:30 running
9:00 Joy school/mommy and Jace time
11:30 Pick up Makenna
12:00 lunch
12:30 Jace nap/quiet time/mom and Makenna time
3:30 Jace up/play time till dad comes home/prepare for dinner
5:00 dad's home/ make dinner
6:00 dinner
6:30 family walk
7:30 kids to bed
8:00 kids are finally in bed/ mom and dad time!
9:30 mom and dad to bed!

Probably won't happen perfectly, but c'est la vie!

Hiking the Sandias

We went for a little hike last weekend in the Sandias. I was pleasantly surprised how much the kids loved it, which made me think "why have I not been doing this?!" I want to go every week now! It reminded me of when we used to live up in that area and would go hiking up there- such a pretty part of Albuquerque. Pretty you ask? Well it's all relative I guess!


little hiker

this picture kills me


our view


Jace LOVED running down the mountain


...until he fell... about 20 times
Then poor Jace face was walking right in front of me and I saw a cactus next to him, but thought he missed it... nope! The poor kid got cactusized. He had about 20 needles sticking out all over his hand! it looked disgusting! Luckily they came out really easily and were smaller than a pin, so it didn't hurt too bad, and 2 minutes later he was loving it again!


Makenna running down the mountain

6 years!

When I was younger I always hoped I would marry someone that could give me butterflies years after the wedding ceremony. Someone that would balance out the dumb things I do. Someone that could make me laugh at myself and everything else too! Of course I wanted someone charming and, (uh-hem) hot. I always wanted a man that was strong in the gospel and that I knew would help me get the forever family I really wanted. I hoped I would be able to find someone that would be understanding when I cried for no reason at all! I wanted a man that would be the kind of dad that plays with his kids and reads them bedtime stories. I wanted a man that would make me want to be better and that was worth improving myself for. When I first started dating Scott, I was amazed and surprised that I was able to check all those things off my "list" so quickly. Did I really hit the jackpot with this one?? I was willing to find out! Now, 6 years later, he has still lived up to all those things I thought he was back then. I feel so lucky that I found such a good match for me.

One of our first dates! Sweethearts dance.

7 months later!

Nowadays

D-R-A-M-A

This girl is all about the drama. Sometimes I even call her drama. She is so cute and funny. Today at the grocery store she was telling everyone (in a very loud excited voice) that her birthday was in two weeks and she is three but she's turning four on her birthday and she's going to have a party and she's going to invite her friends. I had to write it like that because when she said it, it was like one long sentence. The funny thing is, her birthday is in 3 weeks, but she insists that it is not in 3 weeks mom, it's in 2 weeks. Everything she wants to do is very dramatic too. She needs to have her friends come over to play. She has to go outside and ride her bike. She has to have a snack right now! Or she just might keel over. At least that's what it seems like. drama. Let me just say I get a lot of laughs out of that little girl and the funny things she says.

This picture reminds me of her dad.

18 month- stats

Height 34.5 inches (95%)
Weight 29.5 lbs. (85%)
Head: 85 %

I need a boost

I mentioned in the last post that Jace scoots chairs around the house for a boost... hahaha well here's a great example of that! He pushed this chair all the way out to the garage from the kitchen (they are not close in proximity) so that he could get to the juice boxes! I could not stop laughing when I caught him!

18

Sweet baby Jace Face
You are a big 18 month old now! It doesn't seem that long ago I looked into that cute face of yours for the first time with your beautiful dark eyes and the little cleft in your chin. You have brought so much love and joy to our family. We love your big chubby smile, and your sweet chubby-boy laugh. You have a fascination with life, and we love to watch you explore the world around you. You are cautious yet open to the people around you. You have so much fun with your big sis. I often see you two laughing so hard you are sprawled across the floor! You are my active little boy: running all around, climbing on everything, and throwing anything even remotely ball-shaped as far as you can. You are my little talker these days, and although there are still only a handful of words you use, some days you surprise us by blurting out sentences like "Where did it go?" and "I want some." You amaze us all the time by your smart little mind. You are such a funny little boy too. We giggle to ourselves when we see you move the chair around the house for a little boost, pick all the fruit and veggies from our garden and eat them raw, dump everything out all over the floor, and obsess over carrying around toothpaste and toothbrushes. Best of all, mom loves the time she spends with you at night exploring through books together and rubbing our noses together. You are the little boy I never knew I always wanted.
We love you Jacey!

unexpected hospital visit

If you are a man and don't like to talk about women stuff, don't read on. thank you.

After being in cramping pain for 3 days, I decided to go in to my OB to see if she could find out what was wrong. After checking me and doing some tests, she thought it looked like I had appendicitis, and that I should go to the ER. So I made my way on over to the ER, reluctant at what was in store for me, but relieved that I may finally figure out what was wrong. They did a CT scan of my stomach, and husband joined me in the ER as I waited for the results. The ER doctor was finally able to tell me that my scan came back abnormal and it looked like I had an ovarian cyst that ruptured and bled a lot. I had a pool of blood in my lower abdomen and going up my sides. She then told me she hadn’t seen that much blood from an ovarian cyst for a long time (about 12 oz) and I would probably need surgery, but she would wait for the OB to come and make the final decision. So here I am gearing myself up for surgery, when 3 hours later (KILLER!) one of my OB’s partners graced us with her presence, and decided we would just try to wait it out and see if my body absorbed all the blood. So I will just need to continue to deal for the next few days. The good thing is, I don’t have the constant cramping feelings anymore, just a little dizzy and uncomfortable, and a lot of pressure in my abdomen. The bad things is, I am still pretty helpless. The good thing is my wonderful MIL will be here till tomorrow, and my husband has really stepped it up and been amazing! Thank you so much to everyone that called and prayed for me. I truly feel I was blessed throughout all this. Hopefully I will be up and around in a couple days!

In conclusion- my IUD may have caused the ovarian cyst and I have decided to take it out. I guess there is no easy way to do birth control! Here is a lovely picture of me at the hospital...