We are in! It has been a CRAZY couple of weeks but we are moved into our new house! We love it and hopefully it will prove to be a great neighborhood. The girls can't wait to meet all their new friends(that's what they told me the other day)! It is still a mess but it will soon feel like home...hopefully...



The girls have been awesome through this whole thing and have moved quite easily into the swing of things. And we couldn't have done it without all our family and friends! You guys are amazing and you are sooooo appreciated!!!!!! We love you all!

The girls are so excited for halloween. Emma is being Jasmine and Maycee is Tinkerbell. And they are the cutest ever if I say so myself. They decorated their "haunted house" this afternoon and had so much fun.




We will invite you all over for a party when the house is all put together so you can see it. We have an awesome patio so it will be party central!

It was my birthday last Monday, and I spent the day cleaning our old house for the landlady. Oh well-It was a good day. They kids were well behaved and I got a lot done that I needed to so even though it wasn't the most exciting day, we had just bought a house 3 days before. I can't complain...

Anyway-I must go back to working...packing and homework and kids and laundry and should I go on, or do you get the picture? I am sure you all know it well...

'till next time

SOOOOOO Busy!

I don't know why I do this to myself but I do it a lot! I get so many things that I try to do all at the same time and I get so stressed out that I can't handle it! But somehow I get through. I can't wait for the day that I have nothing to do... I don't think it will ever come but what's a little wishfull thinking?

So both the girls said they wanted to play soccer this fall instead of dance but they are both better cheerleaders than players so I think we will stick with the dance next year(it is so much more expensive but oh well).


Maycee's attempt at soccer



Go Emma!!!

They are all finished playing for the fall now, and it is a good thing. Brad and I found this house that we really liked in West Bountiful and it was reasonably priced so we went to look at it and decided to make an offer on it, and they accepted it. So we are buying a house! (I am freakin scared out of my mind, but I'll deal!) I just can't think about how much money it is! So anyway, we will close on it next week and next weekend we are moving! I am so excited and the girls are very excited too. It is kind of sad because we have lived here for three years and have just started to make some really good friends but it isn't that far away I guess. My friends in this ward are great, but hopefully there will be great people in our new neighborhood too. The girls are excited because they can now get their kitty or dog. It won't be until the new year because Brad wants to buy a boxer and they are super expensive too. But it will be wonderful to have my own house. I don't have any pics available yet but next weekend I will take tons and post again once we are in the house. It is going to be a wild ride for the next 2 weeks or so. And to add on top of it all, I am right in the middle of the semester. And we decided to do this just as the economy tanked, man it's been a stressful couple of weeks, and it ain't over yet...

Odds & Ends

It has been a pretty routine couple of weeks. Emma and Maycee LOVE school! Em comes home everyday with lots of stories about what she is doing and her friends at school. She is getting so independent and it is a little scary. She is participating in the school choir and she loves it too. They hold practice every Thursday morning from 8:00 to 8:30 but school doesn't start until 8:45 so Em informed me that she knew the way to her class from where the practice was held and that I did not need to wait for her. I then informed her that she was only 5 and that she was not going to wait by herself for 15 minutes unsupervised( I am not that ready to let her be "Big"). But she loves everything about school, and her favorite part is recess (I don't know a child that doesn't say that is their favorite part).

Maycee loves preschool too and she is doing really well. I haven't gotten a call from her teacher saying that she is beating the other kids up yet so I am very proud of her. She even got to pick a treasure out of the treasure box for being good last week. My little princess Maycee picked the one inch rubber fly...who knew...it is her most prized possession this week, crazy girl.

Brad went hunting last weekend and while he had a great time, he lost his one contact out of his worst eye. Brad's vision is aweful and he has a degenerative disease so his contacts are VERY IMPORTANT to say the least, he can't see anything without them, so we have scrambled this morning with the Moran Eye center to get him a new one ASAP because he can't drive or work without it. We got them to order him a new one and they overnighted it so hopefully it will be here tomorrow and I can go pick it up. He had an awesome time hunting with his Dad and Brothers. It is very much a male thing though I have decided. I am not sure that my little girls would appreciate it like their father thinks they should, Brad needs some boys...Crazy boys...From what I can tell they all had a good time and it's good for them all to have some time spent together. However I decided that I depend on Brad A LOT for a number of things, mainly just companionship, more than I thought I did and I missed him tons for the four days he was gone. But it was good for him to get away for a while and do something he really enjoys. But it's a good thing it is only an annual thing...

Anyway,that's about it for now...

'till next time.

How Does the Tooth fairy get in my bedroom?

So Emma lost her first tooth this afternoon. And Brad didn't even have to tie her face to the doorknob! ( I am pretty sure that I am permanently scarred from the time that my father really did that to me!) She has been working on it for a couple of days and it finally fell out this afternoon! My kids have an issue with blood and so she was really worried that it wouldn't stop bleeding (I know, I have no idea where they come from either!) She is very excited for the tooth fairy and has been asking all kinds of questions about how she knows, and how she gets in the house, and oh boy it is quite the story let me assure you! So now the tooth fairy has to visit--thank goodness she is a pretty sound sleeper-because this tooth fairy is pretty green!

Tagged...again...

My Three Favorite... Tag (thanks Linds!)

What are the last three things you purchased?
1. Groceries
2. Printer Ink
3. Scrapbook stuff

What are the last three songs you downloaded to your IPOD?
1. I have no clue
2. I have no clue
3. I have no clue

What are your three favorite movies?

1. Legends of the Fall
2. I don't really know--we watch lots of movies but it's been a long time since I have really seen one that I just totally love. They have been just so-so lately.
3.


What are three things you have not done yet?
1. Homework-I am the worlds best procrastinator-I have a paper that is due today that I haven't even started and here I sit blogging!!
2. Bought a house
3. Finished school

What three things can you not live without?
1. Brad
2. Family
3. My laptop/daily planner

What are your three favorite dishes?
1. Chicken Fettucine from Olive Garden
2. Cereal-It's a meal in my book!
3. Steak and Potatoes

What are your three favorite TV shows?
1. Grey's Anatomy
2. 90210 (ya'll know you loved it in the 90's, and the new one reminds me of those great days, I just watched the series premiere last week)
3. I don't watch tons of tv

What are the last three places you have traveled to?
1. Anaheim, CA
2. Brad and I haven't been on vacation since we got married, except for Disneyland back in June...we are terrible planners, and we never think about it until its too late!
3.

What are your three favorite desserts?
1. Ice Cream
2. Cheesecake
3. Brownies

What are three things you would buy if money was not an issue?
1. A house
2. a maid to clean the house
3. Everything-I love to shop!

If you could have three wishes, what would they be?
1. Millions of dollars (yes, it's plural, as long as I am wishing I might as well make it worth it!)
2. Magically be done with school, diploma in hand
3. That I never had to do laundry again (it's that whole maid thing, I hate housework, I am such a horrible housewife!)



three people I tag:
1. (Your name here)
2. (Your name here)
3. (Your name here)

Growing up is hard to do...

So I have come to terms with growing up and letting my first child go to school. It has been the weirdest couple of days without her here all the time. And yesterday I had 2 whole hours with no children and I kept looking in the back seat of the car wondering where my little singers are (Em & Mayc love to sing along to the radio)! It was the weirdest thing. But alas I then realized that I have kids old enough to do CHORES!!!! YA!!!!! Now I don't have to everything myself, so there are advantages to growing up...So I was in the scrapbook store the other day and saw the darlingest idea and decided that I was going to copy it. So here it is, I thought I would share with you all. They turned out so cute and the girls think they are fun. They are little magnets of pictures of the jobs that they have to do, and you stick the ones they have to do that day on a flower. So anyway...maybe this won't be so bad...