My day from....a very dark place

I hope I can make it through this blog entry, because the things I will reveal from my very frustrating day was just !@$%&@! AHHHHH! (BIG SIGH!!!)

Okay, so yesterday I had a day, yes a very rough day. Aubrey woke up on the wrong side of the bed. I came out to find her face in the cereal bowl Rylan gave her before he left to work. I clean her up, but she was just getting started.

After breakfast is over I put her in a bath, because usually they cheer her up and plus her hair was pretty gross from dried milk in her hair, remember the cereal earlier. Yeah! Well, then my sister Emily came over to drop off her kids for a while because she is moving. I have watched her two kids with my two kids before and it was actually pretty easy, well the stars were not aligned that day. So, while she is dropping them off Aubrey comes from around the corner with pink, peptobismol pink ink on her hands. I go around the corner, to discover that she found a pink ink pad and had decided to color on my moms walls with it. I quickly respond with super hero speed and force to pry off the ink from the wall. "Whew," I think to myself that was a close one. Well, it gets even better. Emily leaves and I decide it is lunch time. I feed the girls pears and chicken nuggets with a little pile of ketchup. I sit at the table with them until the babies both start fussing and need me to hold them. So, I leave my post to console the fussy babies. Meanwhile, I hear the girls giggling behind me, and I think, "oh how sweet." As I turned my head towards the giggling, my mom's white bichon frise dog (Yuki) comes walking around the couch with ketchup covering her back. KETCHUP AND WHITE FUR!!! YUCK!!! I quickly shew her outside before she shakes and sprays ketchup everywhere. Aubrey is put in time out.

I strongly believe that while she was in time out, she was conceiving another strike against me. Once she is out Aubrey plays quietly for a moment by Addy. However, she seizes another opportunity and begins pouring water all over Addy's head. Oh my goodness!!! I need help or therapy!

THAT IS IT!!! IT IS NAPTIME!!! I put the the older girls down, and then Addy down for a nap. Emily comes and takes the little guy with her to keep packing.

I have a few hours of no mishaps, it's a miracle!

Well, the girls wake up and I give them a snack and then send them outside to play. We have been having beautiful weather here in AZ. So, I leave the sliding glass door open, so they can come and go. I begin cooking dinner. As I come around the kitchen island I discover that Aubrey has been smuggling sand in a play-doh rolling pen and dumping it in in the middle of the kitchen floor just hidden from my view!

Now, at this point in the day, I begin to question, "who is this child and what has she done with my angelic little girl !?!?!" Well, I decided that I need to take a picture of her with all of her little accomplices.



The evening continued on with a struggle to get to bed because cousin Louisa was still over and Aubrey and her just have too much fun. So, there it is my day from a very dark place!!! (SIGH)

Just some random moments

Daddy braided Aubrey's hair and I was so proud that I had to take a picture of it. What a STUD!

I need to have some fun with bath time too, instead of being just the life guard. My mom and I couldn't stop laughing, simply because they looked so funny.

Ahhhh...just a adorable pic of Addy if I may say so (:

Here is Aubrey posing in her Aunt Mimi's boots. She could hardly walk around the house. You should see the footage of it. Ummm.....we still need to figure out how to do that on our blog.

"Tag your it...." favorite childhood game

Okay, so my lovely mish comp tagged me after I had just had a good ol' chat with her last Sunday and I am complying only because...she is one of a kind and I couldn't let the ol' gal down could I? So, I hope you don't mind learning a little bit more about yours truly.

8 Things I want to do before I die (in no particular order)
1. Raise happy, honest, faithful children.
2. Build my dream home and have a HUGE garden
3. Serve a mission with Rylan
4. Finish an Ironman, preferably the one in Hawaii
5. Backpack Europe
6. Acquire enough wealth to become a humanitarian philanthropist.
7. Finish my degree and possibly get a Masters
8. Live my life with no regrets

8 Things I am Passionate About.
1. Being a mom, I LOVE IT!!!
2. Making Rylan feel like he's the "luckiest" man in the world.
3. Gospel doctrine...I love learning and gaining insights
4. Emotional and physical well being.
5. My growing vinyl business
6. I LOVE PEOPLE!!! I LOVE MEETING NEW PEOPLE! I love striking up conversations with strangers in random places.
7. Learning about things that are deemed "old fashioned" I love to know things that the modern woman would hire somebody to do for them or have no clue about.
8. Taking time to enjoy the journey.

8 Common phrases (keep in mind I am surround by little ones all day)
1. Ahh....MAN! (some sort catastrophe just occurred)
2. UH...OHHH! (usually directed towards Aubrey)
3. What's wrong baby doll? (speaking to either Aubrey or Addy)
4. Aubrey what is that? (responding to her often asked question, "whats dat?")
5. Ya know?
6. BLAST!
7. Hey sweetie!
8.

can't think of any others....like I said earlier....

Recently read books.
1. I am a Mother
2. The Goose Girl
3. Harry Potter #7
4. Of Love and Logic
5. Girl of the Limberlost
6. 7. 8. Twilight Series

Characteristics of my friends...
They are HAPPY PEOPLE and are up for having FUN TIMES! I enjoy having good conversations, so they are usually pretty talkative and great listeners. Optimistic! You can always pick up where you left off with them, even if it was months ago from when you last heard from them. INSPIRATIONAL!!! I can honestly say that I always see great things in my friends that really inspire me. Honest and dependable.

8 of my album covers... (music I listen to when my kids are in bed or napping)
1. ANYTHING from the oldies goldies...I LOVE the 50's 60's music. (cleaning music)
2. Izzy
3. Siriusly Sinatra (best when I am cooking)
4. Sarah Brightman
5. Eva Cassidy
6. Enya (especially when it's raining)
7. Josh Groban
8. Andrea Bocelli

8 Random things about me
1. I love cooking new foods from ALL ethnic groups
2. I hate eating raw broccoli, YUCK! Other raw foods I'm good with, but broccoli...
3. Deep down I wish I was more creative!!!
4. My heart always aches when I hear of children hurting, I cry a lot...I can't watch the news anymore.
5. I think Steve Nash is one of the only decent sports icons left! GO SUNS!!! We joke about naming one of our kids after him...if our next is a girl "Nasha", what do you think? j/k
6. I want an even number of children, and '4' is our minimum.
7. I NEED to LIVE where there are GREEN TREES, GREEN GRASS, and CLEAN AIR!!! I want to live some where that has an 'small town' feel to it with a Target, Home Depot, JoANN or Michaels and cook specialty shop.
8. Being the CFO of the household, finances has become a 'secret' obsession of mine.

TAG YOU ARE IT... WINGMAN, LIZ (super duper blogger), and STEF (my ultimate trainer)

A Day in the Life of the Girls

Aubrey at the park






Aubrey loves to go to the park. She rides her bike and then loves to go on the swing! She's quite the daredevil - "Look mom, no hands!!!"

Puddle Time

If there is water around - Aubrey will find it. Here she is trying to splash Mom and the camera. Everytime it rains, Aubrey gets so excited and wants to run and jump in puddles. She found this puddle in the back yard.

Play Time

Addison is beginning to turn over. She is getting better with tummy time too. She loves to explore and has become very tactile. If it feels neat in the hands, you can be sure that it's going into the mouth!

Dad's Little Helper





Yesterday, Dad was cutting and routing boards for Mom. Aubrey saw Dad wearing his particle mask and safety goggles. Being the "Daddy's girl" that she is - of course she wanted to help out! So she got her own glasses and face mask! What you can't see is her enormous smile under the mask and the giggling getting a kiss from Dad!