Tagged!

How to play this game. Post these rules on your blog; List 3 joys, 3 fears, 3 goals, 3 current obsessions/collections, 3 random surprising facts about yourself. Tag 5 people at the end of your post by leaving their names....

3 Joys
1. Watching my children learn knew things
2. Having a conversation with my husband at night before bed.
3.Waking up next to my husband ever day!

3 Fears
1.My Laundry room(there never seems to be fewer than 3 huge load of laundry)
2.Not preparing my children enough for the real world.
3.Heights I have become such a chicken since I became a mother I used to be such a dare devil

3 Goals
1.Dropping 40lbs
2.Having some sort of FHE lesson every week with the kids
3.Actually preparing my Primary lesson during the week not the night before or morning of.

3 current obsessions/collections
1. Reading (I have read a ton lately, finishing most of my books in like 2 days)
2. YARD SALES (Anyone can now tell I am married to Joe cause both of us can now talk anyone down on a price, I gotta say I think I can definitely beat him)
3. Clearance Sales I love to find them and then share them with everyone I can think of! So if I haven't called you to let you know about a great one I have run into you best be sending me your phone number so I can share the clearance shopping wealth!

3 Random Surprising Things
1. I hate veggies and fruit unless they are in a smoothie I have to make myself eat them(doesn't go over well when you are trying to lose weight.
2. I love the Olympics!!! I can't wait till they are over though so I can get some sleep and as Joe put it "I can't wait to have my wife back"
3. I love Boston and would live there if it wasn't so expensive!

I tag
1.Brittany S.
2.Jeni
3.Marybeth
4. Sat in the Sun
5. Nat Pack

Beethoven you better watch out!

Bria is making her move!

A little behind!

So Happy 1st Birthday to our little girl I know I am posting a little late but my camera wasn't working so here you go. She wasn't totally into the whole candle part but just like Joey(on his first birthday) she wasn't into the cake part.....


That is why I love this picture Joey and Ellianna have a great time eating Cambria's cake even though she hated every second of it.

How cute is she?

Walking...almost!

Cambria is starting to walk a few steps here and there I gotta say I am really exicted about this for some reason. I don't want my baby to grow up but I really would like her to be walking it does make my life easier at this point as I am still trying to recover from surgery. So "Yeah for Bria" as joey and Ellianna say. It is really cute cause Ellianna will help her by holding her hands and walk backwards "walk bria walk" I love watching them!

Ped's Doc

Okay so I am looking for some responses from other mom's in the area. I am in the market for a new pediatrician. I have not been to happy with ours for a while now and I am even less happy with them now after having to sit in the room for 30 minutes waiting to see the doctor with a one year old. Already checked in and weighed but waited 3o minutes after all that for anyone to come and see us. But that isn't it....I have not gotten a single straight answer about anything that I have taken the kids in for in the past year I still don't have any answers as to why Ellianna has had the fevers of 103 and higher for more that a week straight every month for almost a year, so If any of you go to any one but Idaho Falls Pediatrics I would love some recommendations!

What??

Okay so this morning the kids and I were headed to the library to check out some new books. I had one to return but was trying to carry everything else out the door along with a baby who will not walk yet, so I handed the book to Joey. (This was a book for me, not the kids mind you)He stopped and looked at it and said
"Mom this book is about a Blue Gondola"
Me "What did you say joey?"
"Mom I said this book is about a Blue Gondola"
Me "Joey how the heck do you know what a Gondola is?"
"Mom the little Einstein had to ride the Gondola to...." All I needed to hear was the little Einsteins part and knew what he was talking about but he said more than that.
And I can now say that my 3 year old knows more than his dad and his Papa when it comes to Gondola's when I called to tell them what he had said neither one knew what I was talking about I just had to laugh, my dad even looked it up on the Internet while I was talking to him. I gotta give it to the Little Einstein's they really do have a way with their little movies of teaching Joey something new every time he watches them. I would recommend them to anyone!

We had an eventful Thursday last week and took the kids bowling....they loved it and we are totally taking them back. Earlier in the day we took them up to the splash park with our cousins and they really had a great time in the water with Papa and Josh...they also got to ride the Carousel which they wanted to do many more times!!!

Visit with Great Grandparents

Ellianna was always bringing toys for grandpa to play with her! I was so greatful they got this time with them and that we got some pictures too.

So I knew it had been a long time since we had done anything with the extended family and not many were able to come this time but we got to play with Great Grandma and Great Grandpa Butler, the kids loved it! They were totally fasinated with Grandma's Hair curlers and really wanted them on so she was nice enough to indulge them!