lessons

I laid down with both of my children this evening to put them to sleep. I don't usually lay in their beds with them to get them to sleep but i felt they needed a little extra care tonight. Its funny what comforts each of them. Madisyn always wants me to pick her back or arm weird i know but it puts her to sleep every time. All i have to to is find one little bump and rub or scratch over it and she is out and she always always ask me to sing her "i am a child of God". After laying with Madisyn i climbed up the ladder to the top bunk to lay with Marquis. I asked if he wanted to say his prayer and he said yes. He taught me a lot with the prayer he said tonight. He started out thanking Heavenly Father for his mom dad and sister. And went on to talk about Jesus and what he learned about Jesus in the movie he watched to. He talked about Jesus getting nails in his hand and asked that Heavenly Father not let his mom and dad get that done to them. The prayer went on and on for about 5 minutes. The main thing I learned from him this evening is that when you say a prayer you can talk to Heavenly Father just like you talk to others. He felt totally comfortable talking about anything and everything with Heavenly Father. He talked about his toys and friends and any thing he wanted to. I need to take that example and apply that to my own prayers.
My two kiddos are sure growing up fast and teaching me alot. I love them both very much. Marquis will be 5 this year and we have been trying to make decision about holding him back for kindergarten or enrolling him now. I can't believe how fast this time has come. Marquis is very loving and is almost always trying to help keep Madisyn happy.Madisyn is changing alot still thinks she is in charge of everything and has added temper tantrums and melt downs to her daily routine. Madisyn also love putting on layers and layers of clothes for some reason.
The kids play great together for the most part and i love listening in on the things they talk about and play. Most of the time i hear them talk about getting a drivers license and a boyfriend/girlfriend when they grow up. They also love to pretend their stuffed dogs are real and that they got hurt and then they take care of fixing them up. They play tons of imaginary things and its so fun to be their mom.

Changes!

We have had a few changes in our life lately.
this guy (who let his kids paint his face)


has gone back to college. He is super busy with being a full time student and working full time. He also has to watch the kids at night when he gets home so that i can work. Which means yes, I started a new job, i work from home but i have shifts i have to work. I started working for JetBlue airways back in November.Someday we will start using the flight benefits we get with me working there. So with these 2 big changes things have been super busy and i have realized just how lucky i was to be a stay at home mom without a job. The kids are handling it ok i think. They have their moments where they do crazy things to get attention. But things are going good.

Christmas was good the kids got what they wanted,Marquis only asked for skates (and he loves them) and Madisyn asked for real make up(which is what is painted all over glens face in the above pic)we had our first Christmas with just us 4 and then i had to work that day so Glen made us a wonderful Christmas dinner. We took the kids to Temple Square 2 nights before Christmas to see all the beautiful lights and nativity.
We are absolutly done with winter, i am so tired of the cold and the brown ugliness. The kids both keep asking if we can just move to Hawaii. And Glen is tired of working out in the cold. It is our goal to SOMEDAY hopefully sooner than later move back to Hawaii. We are not people who like cold and are dreaming of warmer weather.

So i always remember

The things my kids like right now.

Both
me to sing silent night or i am a child of God to go to sleep at night.
playing together (well sometimes)
being loud
annoying mom
climbing all over mom whenever i sit on the floor
spaghettios
ravioli
yogurt


MARQUIS
Scooby-doo
butter knifes (he always has to have one)
digging for bugs
never going to bed
Jumping off of everything
building forts
being a super silly (i didn't think he would ever get to that goofy little boy stage)
playing with friends
gymnastics




MADISYN
princess everything
babies
being the boss
playing with her brother
gymnastics
cuddling with daddy
getting into the fridge or freezer and sneaking things.


those a just some of the things off the top of my head. but i wanted to remember.

Madisyn's 3rd Birthday!

Its been crazy birthday time these past couple weeks. I can't believe how fast birthdays come up.I always say i am going to be prepared before hand and then it comes up so fast and i am running around like a chicken with its head cut off. So Madisyn wanted a princess birthday this year. She has totally been obsessed with Disney princess for awhile now. So we invited Cinderella over and of course all of Madisyn's friends. The day started out with me running around trying to get things ready and then taking the kids to gymnastics and running home afterwards to finish everything up before everyone started heading over. We had a pretty good dinner with everyone, tie dyed some shirts (wish i could have gotten a picture of everyones), had a pinata, opened all sorts of gifts and had some pretty good cake ( i think). It was a pretty good party in my opinion. We love having all our friends over and having a good time. Madisyn really enjoyed her birthday this year. She loved for everyone to sing to her.
Madisyn has been really into getting herself dressed and picking out her own clothes. Heaven forbid i try and help. She will only wear her jean shorts and pink shirts. So i have had to go shopping and buy some pink shirts so she doesn't wear the same thing everyday. But if i buy new shorts it doesn't matter because she will only wear a certain 2 pair and you can really tell because they are getting really worn out. She is also very motherly. She loves to take care of everyone and help clean up. At her birthday she was sitting at the little table with all the little girls 18months and under and was taking turns feeding each one of them. She is definitely cute but can be a handful. We love our little 3 year old. Time is sure flying by.
Thank you everyone who came to the party and helped us celebrate our little girls 3rd birthday! We have some wonderful friends.

Marquis turns 4

I can't believe my little boy is 4 years old already. Having kids really does make time go by super fast. We had a really fun birthday party for Marquis. He chose his them this year and he wanted Superman,batman and the hulk. So thats what he got. We decorated, i made him a cake and i made superman capes for all the kids. WE played games and ate and the kids swam and all the kids helped Marquis open his gifts. HE has been really excited about his birthday this year. He is growing up so fast. He is in the "goofy" little boy stage and its funny to see. But there have been some things going on lately that i don't know how to deal with. HE gets really angry and gets really mean and he gets really emotional. Not sure how to deal with it. He is also into asking me about things that i am not really sure how to explain, like "mom, where is your dad?" why don't you talk to him" etc. Not sure how to explain that to my now 4 yr old. I love him very much and can't believe he is already 4. He has been asking if he can have a brother to.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY LITTLE SUPERHERO!!!

Hawaii

We had a wonderful vacation to hawaii this past month. Me,Jynifer and the kids left thursday night the 29th of april and we drove to Seattle. We drove all night not sleeping. It was a hard trip. I got so sleepy at one point I stopped at a gas station and bought one of those 5 hour energy shots, I guess mixing one of those and no sleep is not a good thing, I started seeing things and felt like the van was spinning in circles so i had to let jynifer drive for a bit. We made it to seattle around 10 am friday morning. What a drive. The kids and i stayed in washington for 4 days. We got to visit cousins, and friends and have lots of fun. Then we went to the airport early tuesday morning and flew to Hawaii on a 6 hour flight.The kids did pretty good on the flight there. We rented a digiplayer on the flight b/c the kids insisted, bad idea they watched it for maybe 10 minutes and were done with it, a waste of money. We were very excited to see Nana,Chyanne, and Jynifer when we arrived. The greeted us with beautiful leis.
We had so much fun the 3 weeks we were in hawaii though. The kids loved the Polynesian cultural center and the dancers, they absolutely loved the beach. we were at the beach everyday we were there except 2. Even when it rained. We caught geckos,snails,starfish and toads. We always were doing something and keeping busy. We had so much fun with Nana and ChaCha and Jyn when she was there with us. We took lots of pictures, swam with some turtles, found cool shells, floated in innertubes (one of the kids fave things to do) and marquis learned to surf and madisyn learned to swim all by herself in the ocean and she loved snorkeling. We spent lots of time at the beach and we loved every minute of it. We did the touristy stuff to, like went to matsumoto shave ice, Kua'aina burger, the swap meet Dole planation for the delicious pineapple icecream went out to dinner at Turtle Bay resort (where Nana works) and well the PCC 3 times.OH and can't forget that i rode my moms bike down to Ted's bakery for their famous yummy chocolate haupia pie. Some lady thought i was so funny carry a pie on my bike she asked to take my picture. And speaking of pictures, i can't even count how many people i caught taking my kids picture or asked to take their picture. Guess i have pretty cute kids. Madisyn got her first kiss while there. We were playing at sunset beach and a little boy came up and played with the kids for awhile, when we had to leave madisyn gave the little boy a hug and he decided to kiss her right on the lips, then all 3 kids got embarrassed and started running around. SO cute, as we walked off marquis yelled back to the boy "thank you for giving my sissy kisses". It was so cute, Madisyn talked about it for days.
We had so much fun and hope someday we are able to move our family there. we feel like thats where we belong. The kids were like little fish in the ocean and i loved watching them enjoy themselves every day. They changed alot while we were there. Madisyns hair was super curly while there and marquis was tan after being there like a day. I am sure there was lots more that went on but thats all my brain can think of right now.

Preparing for nice weather

we have gotten the kids a big trampoline with encloser, a tire swing, and a new PUPPY. I finally gave in and let them have a dog again. they are loving him. WE got a 8 week old pit bull. I know what everyone thinks of pit bulls i felt the same way at first. But i have found out there a few people i know that actually have one or have had one and i think we can make him a great family member. WE named him Rowdy. The kids are enjoying all their new things and it has been keeping them outside playing for hours at a time allowing me to get things done around the house without retracing my steps cleaning up after them again. So that's what has been going on around here the last little bit we are having fun and cleaning up lots of puppy potty messes.