Mascara in My pocket

So while you are getting ready in the morning, and almost all your make up and hair is done but your mascara - which is in your hand almost ready to apply - you of course get interupped by your 6 year old telling you that your two year old is in the paint. Crap!!! So you hurry and pick up your 8 month old off the bathroom floor so she doesn't crawl and get into something naughty while you are gone, and stash your mascara in your pocket. You find your two year old painting himself and the kitchen chair - which of course is fabric with the painting box that was left down on the kitchen counter by his dad. Who of course pulled it out to help build and paint your 8 year old's first pinewood derby car. Which looks totally awesome. So you carefully take the paint brush away from your two year old and carefully pick him up - because you are finally showered and dressed and you don't want to do that again today. Then you dump him in the tub - clothes and all and first try and wash his hands. Then you work on the shirt so you can take off the shirt and on to the pants and rinse them really good in the tub. Drain all the blue water and rinse the tub and fill it up. Then after he is totally striped down you enroll your 6 year old to watch him in the tub. Check on the baby who is crawling around and heading towards the bathroom with your 6 and 2 year old. Grab diaper wipes, because lets face it they wipe off way more then bums, and start to clean off the chair. But soon you figure out you better just stick the whole chair in the tub to get it clean. Then you proceed to look at the paint bottle that he got into and need to call poison control just to be safe because your two year old also has a blue tongue. Whew he is going to be fine. The two year old is done in the tub, so you must wrap him up and lotion and put cream all over his body because he has eczema all over him, and has really dry sensitive skin. So onto the second set of clothes. Which reminds you that you really need to do laundry because it is laundry day and you will soon run out of clothes the rate the day is started. You get him entertained, check on the baby and make sure the bathroom door is shut. Then you wheel the kitchen chair which is still blue into your bathroom to spray off in the shower. Once that is done, and amazingly enough the blue is gone, you rinse out the shower because it is now blue. You still haven't had breakfast, so you cook up oatmeal and slice an apple on top because you are trying to be good. The two year old insists on you sharing so you scoop up some and put it into his bowl. You eat. The baby is hungry and so you get her a bottle and sit at the computer to waste time, but enjoying watching the royal wedding, and dinking around because you needed a break. After a while you get up and notice a lump in your pocket and remember you still haven't put your mascara on. So you zip in to the kids bathroom and apply it. And hey since it has been sitting in your pocket for over an hour it applies and goes on really smoothly. You leave the kids' bathroom and unfortunately leave the door open. As you head over the the computer to write a witty post about your day, your two year old seems to move fast and your six year old is telling you that he has got the body wash all over his hands and is pouring it in the garbage. Thankfully he only got his hands, so you clean him up again, and send him on his way, with the door shut. You go write your post, (really to show what such a typical day looks like in our house and it is only 10:30) which took too much time, and you realize that you need to start the laundry.

Oh well my mascara looks great.

Easter 2011

Easter: The girls got dresses and new church shoes. The boys got swim trunks, Tannen got sandles, and Landon got a skate board.


Coming out to check out the loot. Tannen and Aria slept in


Hey look what I got





Treat hunting, with Kylie jumping


Kylie dancing in her new dress and shoes


Tannen putting treats in the bowl


More Treat hunting


Aria checking out her basket with the help of Kylie


Aria and her new shoes


My Grandma Woodbury, my mom (Grandma Vernae), Aria (isn't her dress so pretty), Me, And Kylie. My four Generation picture that I have been wanting for a while


The annual Cousin Easter Egg hunt begins


Landon in thought as to where the next egg will be hiding


"Oh look an egg on the swing"


Tannen Hunting with Mom


Gonna get it


Aria playing while the kids hunted - and she has the cutest new Easter shoes


Standing


Just the cutest thing ever!!

We had a great Easter this year. We started off on Saturday having the Easter bunny coming Friday night. The kids were very excited. They got up at 6:30 and glanced at their baskets, and really went right to work hunting down all the candy the Easter bunny hides throughout the house. Then we hurried and packed up and headed out to Pocatello. We got to relax and visit, and the kids got to soak up cousin playing. We did our annual Easter egg hunt with all the cousins. We provide a dozen eggs for each of the kids, and with everyone putting in there is always a lot of variety. They kids got toys, money, and of course candy.

We had an Easter dinner. The weather was so nice we got to eat out on the patio. My Grandma and Grandpa Woodbury were able to drive down and see us for a few hours. It was wonderful to see them. My grandma told Aria that she was the reason they came all the way down. They hadn't met her yet. Of course my Grandma held her - she loves the babies. Tannen hung all over my mom which was easier for me than keeping him out of everything. I don't know if my mom would agree. But she has said "It is hard not to love someone who loves you and wants you all the time." I love visiting with my family, and seeing my nieces, and nephews. They are what keeps the world moving too me.

Busy Busy Busy and a house

So life has been so busy lately. The lack of posts is probably due to so much going on. As by my previous posts there has been a mission call for Marcus' parents, so of course there must be a grand get together. Aria has started crawling, and keeping me on my toes keeping the floor clean and her out of things she ought to say out of. Landon started counseling at school. We have figured out that a short temper, perfectionist, very smart, and anxiety causes a difficult, stubborn kid at home and school sometimes. It has been helping me the most meeting with the counselor getting better ideas on how to work and manage him. Marcus took his PE Exam and was are still waiting for the results with fingers crossed. That in itself was highly stressful because he studied every other night for two months and the last month practically every night. I have to say I am so glad he finished school, because it was hard. So please please please pass so we don't have to do it again.

The weekend he took his test we finally put in an offer to a house we wanted over a year ago. It was a short sale last year, and we had an offer in. It ended up foreclosing and so we have been for it to come on the market again. When it did in January it was over priced so we had been waiting for the price to drop into our price range. It finally did. We put our offer in and after going back and forth quite a few times five to be exact they finally accepted our offer. We are planning on closing in the middle of May and painting and cleaning and moving in at the end of the month after school is out. We are so excited. Here are some of the before pictures. When we move in I will give after pictures.


The front of the house, we need a better picture. This was over a year ago, the first time we looked at it.


Upstairs bonus room


Living room


Kitchen (obviously)


Laundry room


Living room


Kitchen with a peep hole into the living room


Stairs up to the bonus room


More kitchen

Cuz I'm Cute

Snuggled in a warm load of laundry right out of the dry and ready to be folded

Simons Family 3/11

Poland

Marcus and Kylie playing around before pictures


Sweet poser


Marcus and Wendi's Family 3/11

In March Marcus' parents got their mission call to Warsaw Poland. They are very excited. To celebrate and give them a send off they rented a cabin and we all got together. Marcus' brother from South Carolina flew out with his family. All seven siblings and their families were able to make it and play for a weekend. There was lots of four wheeling, pool, xbox kinect, food, and cousin playing had by all. It was a wonderful weekend.

Swim Lessons, and Crawling

Aria started crawling when she was six months old, but just a week before she turned seven months. Pretty crazy if you ask me. But the whole month she kept getting up and rocking back and forth so I wasn't surprised when she finally figured it out. She has been pulling herself up to standing from the couch and cruises along it as well. I don't think walking will be too far after. Not surprising because Kylie took her first steps the day she turned nine months. And my little bugs seem to like getting around.



My little lady crawling around.




Landon and Kylie got to take swimming lessons this winter. I signed them up at the college, and they had a great time. It was fun to do it in the middle of winter and break things up. Besides sometimes summer seems so busy. I was impressed with the college more than I was with the community pool lessons that they took last year.


Landon Swimming


Kylie Swimming

Roller Coaster

So life has been compared to a roller coaster before, but.... Have you ever felt like in life you were on a roller coaster and it keeps going up and down, and the ups are amazing and the downs are so frustrating, and they keep coming. And you keep going up and down. I just feel like I would like to jump off and throw up. Then take a nice long nap and then get back on.