DISNEY WORLD!!!!!!!!!

That's right we went to Disney World in Orlando, Florida this past week! It was so warm!! It was a little too humid the first couple of days but then we started to get used to it! I am so lucky to have awesome parents that save up money so every few years my whole family can go on vacation together and have fun together!! We had so much fun but I am so glad to be home recuperating from the traveling and the go-go-go that this vacation was!! The kids actually slept really well at night and the poor things had to take naps on the go... Anyone that knows me knows that I do not like having my kids on the go sleeping. I like them to get their full naps in so there is no grumpy kids in the evening. It didn't turn out too bad though at night time which was surprising. You could tell every night at dinner that the kids were just done and worn out from the day. So we would bring them to the hotel give them baths and put them to bed. They would of course think that when mommy and daddy said its bed time that that meant it was PLAY TIME!!! The play ride back was oh so exciting with a hyper 1 1/2 year old wanting EVERYONES attention and wanting to run up and down the aisle and not wanting to sit still or even let his eyes halfway close!!! So yes I had the screaming child that people want to throw out the window!!!! Its okay we survived and thankfully the people that sat around us were not grumpy people. Weston is such a little attention getter. He would say hi to everyone and if someone didn't say hi to him he would scream to get their attention and then say hi again until they said hi back! I was surprised his arm didn't fall off with how much waving he did the whole week to every single person that walked by! He seemed to really like the trip though! Our first day at the park we went to the Magical Kingdom and we had perfect timing because as soon as we walked up to the big castle the little Mickey Mouse show began so Madi got to see the princesses and Mickey and his whole gang on stage singing and dancing! Madi was so excited to see the princesses!! I swear that girl does not show much excitement over anything!!! The only way we can really tell if she liked something is if she continues to talk about it for days after! We went to Epcot another day and Madi and Weston got to say hi and hug Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Pluto, and Goofy! Weston freaked out with those characters it was kinda funny!! Okay who am I kidding it made me laugh!! Madi wasn't too sure with the first character but everyone after that she would give big hugs to and stuff it was so cute!! Later that night she was in bed and all of a sudden got really sad and told her daddy, "Daddy I didn't give Donald hugs! I need to go give him hugs!" (Brett replies) "Sweetheart you did give him hugs you gave all of them hugs today" "No daddy not Donald I need to go give him hugs!" It seriously was so cute! She had this sad little pouty tone in her voice and everything and she seriously was so sad because she didn't hug Donald! (by the way she did she just didn't remember!) We also went to Sea World! This was Brett's first time ever going! It was fun and by far all of our favorite place! We watched the Shamu show (which by the way the trainers stay their distance away from the whales and no longer get in the water with them because a trainer was killed a year ago by one of them...) But it was still awesome to see them and have the kids be so close to them and see them and everything. We saw as Madi would say "mingos" (flamingos) and all types of fun things!!! The last day in Florida Brett and me and our 2 kids and my dad headed to the beach and everyone else headed to Universal Studios! We had fun on the beach and it was nice to just lay back and relax the last day there and just enjoy ourselves in our own slow pace. Madi is too much like me and is scared of the ocean and Weston had so much fun going out in the water with Brett and he loved the waves until they splashed his face! Over all though we had fun getting nice and sandy and being able to be on the beach was amazing! I can actually say for the first time in a very very long time my kids were very healthy there! The humidity helped Weston a ton with his breathing and Madi didn't cough all night and slept so good! We have cool mist humidifiers in their rooms right now but obviously they aren't doing the trick!  Oh and Weston had his 18 month old check up today! Here are his stats!!!  Length 35" he is way above the 97 % line he is way above the curve which makes his daddy so proud! lol! Weight 25lbs 50% which means he is tall and skinny!!! Head circumference 49.2cm 75% which means he is tall skinny and has lots of brains lol!!! Oh and to my not so good surprise he has a double ear infection! I had no idea! I thought he was healthy!! But nope that couldn't be the case! At least we caught it though before it got really really bad. He never shows signs of an ear infection its weird. The times that I have thought he had one he didn't! And when he has had them it is a surprise for the most part. Oh and I almost forgot to put in one of the best surprises that I have had in a long time!! We have some very very good friends that have been like second parents to me growing up. They used to be my parents neighbors in Vegas and they have known me since birth and have treated me like their daughter! Well we get to the hotel after traveling all day and all of a sudden I hear a familiar voice I turn to see the person who has this voice and there they are! Mike and Gail totally surprised me and my siblings! My parents planned this a few months back to have them meet up with us out there in Florida and somehow my mom didn't spill the beans on accident and neither did Gail! It was such an awesome surprise! We haven't seen them in a couple years and so it was so awesome to be able to spend time with them and have them meet Weston for the first time and everything! Hopefully one day we will live closer together so we can party all the time!! Well enough of the rambling I'll post some pictures now!

These two cheese ball crack me up some days!!! Weston loves to do whatever Madi is doing and Madi loves to boss him around so it is a pretty good thing they have going!!

On the little tram thing on our way to The Magical Kingdom on our first day there!

The huge castle behind us! I believe that Walt Disney himself had a little apartment inside of it! I don't think I would want to live in that castle unless it was completely sound proof from the outside world!

Madi watching the show on daddy's shoulders!

The Sword in the Stone!

I love this picture! This is a little look into the relationship of these two cousins! Madi trying to tell Kai what to do and Kai shrugging his shoulders like well I guess I should do it!(really tho these two get along some days and others well lets just say it could definitely become a cage match very quickly!)

This is what I saw the whole trip. These cute little eyes looking up at me just begging to be picked up and held..... (these eyes are going to get him a lot of girlfriends in the future!)

Pointing at his yummy food! These kids loved eating as much fruit as possible there! It was just so hot and muggy that fruit was so juicy and delicious!! He also loves chicken nuggets!



This is at Epcot it was so cool they did an amazing job on these bushes! There was I think all the princesses and everything sculpted into the bushes all over the place! They had amazing detail too!



At Cocoa beach in Florida! It was about 45 minutes away from where we were. It was either Cocoa or Daytona and we decided to go to the least touristy one because by this time we were just done with all the people everywhere! These two are such good buds! I absolutely love this picture of the two of them. There is nothing like seeing your husband have such an amazing bond with his kids.

FYI swim diapers keep water from seeping in and blowing up the diaper but it sure as heck doesn't hold liquid it! Poor Wes was soaked by the time we got to the beach! So I put a regular diaper on him and let him run around like this for a little!

Papa showing Wes how to dig and get dirty in the sand! I'm seriously so grateful that I live so close to my family. I had such an amazingly close bond with my dads parents and I will never forget the things I learned from them and the love I felt from them. I love that my kids are so attached to their grandparents. Weston is a total Papa's boy and Madi is 100% grandma's girl! I cant wait to be able to see Brett's family more and have my kids know them so much better. Thank heavens for Skype so my kids can at least know what Brett's siblings and parents look like and sound like!!

Chillin with Papa!

Papa trying to get Madi to go closer to the water! She is just as bad as I am poor thing! Its okay she had fun building things and playing with her papa.

Weston loved the water!! He went out with Brett and was having so much fun playing in the water! I'm pretty sure Brett is thankful that at least one of the kids is daring! And I'm glad Madi is chicken like me so that I have a good excuse to stay out of the deeper parts of the water!!

Look how awesome these look!!





SPRING!!!!!!



It was a nice warm day a few weeks ago so I let the kids outback to run around and play for a little while. I decided to take a few pictures and my beautiful little girl is just a little poser for pictures!!!!! She automatically started to pose when I took the camera out! She makes me laugh.

 

Here is my cute little boy I can never get a normal smile out of this little guy! He loves to "cheese" for the camera and it makes me laugh though!

This is the story of this little guys life. We are constantly having to give him breathing treatments and watching his and Madison's coughs very carefully. Last weekend we ended up taking him to the doctor which seems to be a weekly experience for us and he had the beginning stages of pneumonia! yipee!! So we started him on breathing treatments every 4-6 hours and an antibiotic to get it out of him. The poor little thing is most likely going to have asthma when he is older and that is part of the reason when he gets a little cough it turns into something a lot worse very very quickly.......

Look at HE WOMAN AMBER lol!! This is the beginning stages of the building of my parents' playground!! Amber and I went out back opened up the boxes that the parts and pieces came in and sorted them out... It was exciting! Then when the boys decided to get off their computers and lallygag outside it was ready to start getting put together!! Brett got off work later then expected that day so when he got there we put him right to work!! Amber was the "boss" of the operation. I handed the instructions to her and wished he luck telling the boys what to do! They actually listened to her! Maybe because they have had to listen to me bossing them around for the past 26 years so it was probably nice to have someone else boss them around! hehe!!!

How do you keep a 1 1/2 year old distracted? Give him a bowl of fruit in the slide in the middle of the action! It worked very very well!!

This is everyone working and you can see Amber looking at the instructions. Her and I would grab everything and bring it to the boys. We tried to be one step ahead of them so that it moved very smoothly. Thank heavens these boys are handy with the tools!!

This is the finished product!! 2 slides, climbing rock wall, a solid ladder and one that moves a little side by side, a little steering wheel up top, 2 swings, and a teeter totter swing thing, a picnic table under one side and a sand box (we probably wont put sand in it tho), and monkey bars under the bridge! It seriously is awesome! All the kids love it! Weston can't make it all the way up the ladders or anything tho but its okay he will be able to soon enough!

So on Easter the Easter Bunny hides the kids' baskets so we told Madi lets go find your Easter basket so she hurry and got dressed like this! I told her I'm pretty sure the bunny hides it inside of the house and that she didn't need to wear shoes and her beanie, but she insisted on wearing them so I had to get pictures of her!!

Going down the stairs to our basement I had to get a quick picture of them close together because its not very often they sit next to each other without tickling each other, fighting, or just being silly and giggling!!

This is at Grandma's house! (from back left to right) Landen, Javan, Weston, Madi, Rylee, and Kai! We were missing Gavin I think he was sleeping plus Amber needed 2 hands for grabbing more candy hehehehe!!!!

Look how gorgeous she is!!

After baths and everything one night Madi decided she was hungry so I put Weston to bed and came down stairs and she had her little spot at the table set up with her napkin and cup and was waiting for her "butter and Jelly" sandwich to be made! She is so funny! Her little personality comes out more and more everyday. She has an attitude of a 16 year old but can be so sweet and innocent the next minute.

I am so excited for this summer! Brett is finally done with the fall semester and now we get to have fun this summer! My family is going to Disney World in Florida this summer!! I'm SSSSSOOOOO excited! I don't know who is going to have more fun our kids or Brett and I!! We went to Disneyland on our honeymoon so that should tell you how big of kids we are!!  We are going to go to the beach one day and a couple days at Disney World and then a day at Sea World!! Brett has never been to Sea World so I am even more excited to go with him for his first time! I hear the one in California has gotten run down and just isn't as nice of a place to go as it was when I was younger.... So sad!!! So hopefully the one in Florida has been kept up and is so much fun! I think my kids are going to freak at all the cool water animals!! Okay lets be honest so will Brett and I!!! I am so excited for the warm weather to come! I am so done with the warm one day and snowing the next!! Just let it start warming up so we can play outside all the time without jackets and coughing kids!!!!

Such a slacker!!

So we heard a deep breath coming from our stairs one night and when we looked up them this is what we found! She totally passed out! This was only the start of it! She has done it at least 3 more times after this! Thankfully she hasn't fallen down the stairs. Sometimes she will be at the very top on the landing so that's a little better but yes this is our daughter who wants to fight us every night about going to bed!

So my cousin lives right down the street from me like 5 minute max walking distance if all the kids are walking. So we play at least once or twice a week! This is our girls playing "dress ups" with Rylee's princess dresses. It is so funny watching these two girls because Amber and I were not girlie girls at all growing up so we are very confused on where these two came from!!! But we love them to death they crack us up with the things they do and say!

Little mister Weston decided to get on my table and play with stuff and he found his breathing treatment mask and thought it was to play with. I cannot keep this child off the table or chairs or anything! He has learned to push and drag the chairs to wherever he wants and loves to get into trouble and gives me cute little innocent looks like this to get out of trouble!

So this is the only decent shot I got on my camera at Madi's 3rd birthday party! She turned 3 on the 20th of this month! I can't believe my little baby girl is 3!!! She had so much fun! On Saturday we had our usual family/friend birthday party at grandma's house and in this picture we are missing Landen and my sister in law's niece and nephew. But the kids had a ton of fun and that's what was nice! They played and ran and ate all day long! Well all afternoon at least! Thank you everyone for coming!!!

This is my goofy daughter! Grandma got her this cute scooter and sunglasses and helmet! She had to wear a dress on her birthday she wanted to wear a summer type one but I talked her into wearing at least a skirt and long sleeve and thick tights so I was okay with her going out in the cooler weather like this. She is so freaking cute whether she looks like a goofball or not I love this little girl!!

My cute little boy is OBSESSED with "Baby Signing Time"! So one day he was bugging me running after me saying "baby baby baby" while signing the word "baby" so I finally put him on the couch bundled him up and turned it on and he loved it! Madi wanted to be bundled up to so I did her to but that only lasted a few minuted for her!



He kept kissing the cake!!! Not taking bites out of it but kissing it! There were cute little lip prints on the cake!



So I have really cool neighbors and they might be moving and they got this for their grand babies and didn't want it anymore so I bought this from them for $20!! These kids love it! They pushed it up against my back doors so they could look outside so I opened up the blinds and fed them lunch and they absolutely loved it!!!

We had a "guys" basketball watching party today and this is how it started with Amber's husband Chad and Brett and Weston all watching the games together. Then my other cousin came over and Rob and Nick so my couches we full and the front room was very loud but there was a bunch of happy boys eating yummy dips and salsas and everything. Oh and don't forget the Dr. Peppers and other caffeinated drinks! YUM!!! Oh look how cute my new couch is!! Yep that's right I got a new couch! Its a sectional a chocolate brown color 4 MECHANICAL (not manual) foot rests! We love it! And it cleans super easy which is a must with 3 kids running around!!

DAY 14 Someone you could never imagine your life without

I don't ever want to imagine what my life would be like without these 3 in it. The love of my life and our beautiful babies. I love what an amazing father he is after a long day at work and school he comes home and lays on the floor and all the kids just attack him and he has so much energy to just play with them forever!! It makes me fall in love with him more and more everyday. He is so considerate and loving and loves me for who I am faults and all. He is an amazing father and picks up my slack and never complains.  He is the love of my life and I am so grateful to have him and our kids with me in this life and "For Time and ALL Eternity"

I am so grateful for my beautiful kids. They are crazy and hyper and mischievous but I wouldn't want them any other way! They cuddle and love on me and no matter how our day goes good or bad at the end of every single night I thank my Heavenly Father that he has trusted me to take care of these two amazing spirits. They are such a blessing to my life. I couldn't imagine my world without any of these 3 in it.

DAY 13 A picture of your favorite band

So I love Rascal Flatts! Their voices are amazing and they have amazing songs. My hubby laughs cause I will blast their music and sing really loud to them! (That is when the kids aren't in the car!!)

DAY 11 Something I hate & DAY 12 Something I love

Lets be honest we all have a love hate relationship with junk food!! I love it until I look in the mirror or step on the scale then I HATE it!! But while I'm indulging in its amazing yumminess we are best friends then I'm hating it for giving me a sugar head ache or a yucky feeling tummy!!! Oh boy is this a messed up relationship!!! haha I know I cheated by combining 2 but hey get over it!!! hehehe!!

DAY 10 The person I do the most messed up stuff with

We have been together for over 8 years now! We have done a lot of stupid, fun, and crazy things. He is so fun to be around and makes me do things that I normally wouldn't do. He gets me to break out of my shell and be crazy sometimes! I love him so much!!!