Need Input!!!

I am sitting here just wondering why am I still awake? I should be asleep its almost midnight and my kids have school tomorrow, my in-laws are coming in tomorrow as well, and what am I doing up? I could be cleaning ha that is a joke. So why do we do this to ourselves from time to time? Any Ideas? Please I am leaving this open for discussion I need to figure out my insomnia problems. Am I the only one that does this? What do you do to make yourself fall asleep? ANYTHING PPL!!! You know I will sit here and keep hearing noises and of course anyone that knows me knows I am def so is it all in my head? Probably,but then what would it be my kid snoring too loud next to me when she should be in her own bed? The dog whining I want out please oh please!!! ERRR shut up! Go Ahead give me your advise I'd like to see where this goes

Picture Day!!

I feel like I need to explain this scene. Katelynn came home from school and expressed that thursday was picture day and that she wanted to wear her superhero shirt. LOL ok I felt that this was not really picture taking attire so what do I do? If anyone knows Katelynn they know she hates things in her hair, so like the devil I struck up a deal with her. "You can wear your superhero shirt" I told her "but you have to let me do whatever I want to your hair. Whether it is putting piggytails or ribbons in it braiding it anything". She thought about this for a moment and then smileds and said "OK"... HA HA HA so I started to look for Idea's you see Katelynn does not let me do this a lot so I feel I am inexperienced. So silly huh. This is what I came up with and I think she looks very adorable. I also think she likes it very much to have her hair done up. Who in their right mind doesn't?


Austin is just so cute look at his smile. Love those kiddo's..

update on Savannah!!

Savannah is getting so big! She loves to put things in her hair,and bonus her hair is getting long enough to put things in it. She is getting better about keeping things in her hair now, whereas before she would take them out to see the pretties and expect me to keep putting them back in her hair. I would give up after awhile you can only do so much. LOL Here are a few of those days where she just looked so adorable I had to share. She is doing great now that brother and sister are in school she helps with Laundry, dishes, sweeping (which is more damage than help sometimes), and loves to help pulling weeds she is just an all around good helper. She is mommies little sidekick.

Here she is showing the doll that looks like her with the piggy tails how cute she is...

The day before the first day of school!!

It was Sunday we were having a fairly good day. We went to church played some games, and I was just starting dinner. I had planned to have dinner a little early this day because we had to do our check list for school, get the kids there priesthood blessing (since daddy is away) get to bed early.The kids at this point were getting too rowdy, so I told them to go outside and run around... twice... three times...then four... and then it happened with my hands full of raw chicken Katelynn comes running in... " MOMMY MOMMY AUSTIN FELL AND HE IS BLEEDING" Uh OK so I run my hands under water no time for soap, and grab a towel as I run to the bedroom. Well he was bleeding with a nice hefty gash over his right eye! " Holy smokes" I said "What happened"? as I run him into the bathroom to wash it so I could better assess the situation. Katelynn is crying and telling me he fell off of the bunk bed and cut his head on the corner. "WHAT" I yell and then start to cry, cause the gash was pretty deep. I ran got him a rag to hold to his eye and ran and put the chicken away in a bag quickly so that it would not be bad by the time I got home. Everything else I left out who cares I had a bleeding son. AHHH get in the van as I am looking at Austin's eye which is no longer bleeding really I am running the other two kids over to a friends house, so I did not have to deal with them at the hospital. As I get there they look at his eye and suggest butterfly strips cause his eye was looking much better than at first sight. Ok I get calmed down we do the procedure and I felt a little better. Then I decide to go and stop in a friends house who just happens to be a pediatrician. "So Amber what do you think should I run him to the hospital or what" She looks and looks and says "Well If he was in my office I would put a liquid bandage on it or even give him a stitch, but this will do he will just have a scar could be a pretty big one" she says. We both look at each other and she speaks again "although on boys scars are cool"... I smile and decide I am doing the right thing. I went home just in time for our Home Teachers, and the kids get their blessings for their new school year. Finally I sit them down and make some quick cheese crisp cause now it is way too late for chicken anything. By this point Savannah is super cranky so we read a short scripture say prayers and get her to bed. Then we do our check list of tons of supplies for their first day, and brush teeth then its off to bed they go. WHEW!!! I sit and think about what a day it was, and then I start to clean up the mess in the kitchen lol... Never ends. Austin's eye looked worse than it is now I call him my Wolverine. It is a miraculous recovery I will post another picture of that someday, so look for updates!!

First Day of school!!

Ok so the kids were excited to be going back to school. Austin is now in Pre-Kinder and is happy to be going to Katelynn's school now his teachers name is Mrs. Luckie. !
Katelynn was happy for several reasons she could play with her friends, she has the same teacher Mrs. Carrillo that she had in the 1st grade, and she is so excited that her Grammy got her the Star Wars backpack. My little girl is now a 2nd grader! She is much bigger now and really strong on her beliefs which I am very proud of her for standing up for what she believes in. Congrats to you both!!


Can you believe all the stuff you have to take for school these days!!

Katelynn's Birthday!

I wanted to have a post of remembrance of Katelynn and her special day. She means so much to me in so many different ways. At the time James and I were struggling to have children, and when I decided to change my life and I like to call it making a pact with heavenly Father he blessed me for keeping my end of the deal. August 14th 2000 is when I made this agreement. I have kept my end of the deal since. I have to say that when I found out that I was pregnant for the 6th time I was very scared. I was recieving the misisonary discussions at the time and had been praying for the answer to know this church was true. My ultrasound had confirmed that the lord is there and listening. My due date was set at August 14th 2001 one year from our so called pact. Katelynn of course was 5days late, but that did not matter to me. I knew that I had changed my life and was ready for motherhood. Katelynn was 8lbs. 14ounces. 21inches long. She was the loudest baby on that wing you could hear her the minute you walked through the doors. I love her so much. Katelynn is such a happy child and she is a rock with her beliefs. She knows that she is beautiful and no one can tell her otherwise. She is smart and very happy to be a big sister. I love her so much my heart swells to think about it. She is the sparkle in her daddy's eye she cannot do wrong. When we named her we decided we needed a meaningful name. Katelynn is not a family name, but means (Pure) and well (Faith) we truly had to have pure faith in the lord that he would provide us a way. I love you so very much Katelynn Happy Birthday!! Love mommy.

Katelynn's superhero Birthday!! (Part 1)

We decided to do low key this year, and let Katelynn have three friends over for a slumber party. Lizzie could not stay the night so she came an hour earlier to spend some extra time with her, and they decorated door hangers. My mother came out to help Thanks mom...


We had the sprinklers going and then I had made up a game of superhero's vs. villains. The object of the game was to go around the yard and find pictures of villains, and I gave each of them some silly string to shoot the bad guys along with some water balloons. It was so much fun to watch them run around and they seemed to enjoy it. I love homemade games they are great. !!!