Friday Confessional #3

I am horrible at remembering birthdays. Simply horrible. I have forgotten my best friend's birthday twice (sorry Ash), my mother-in-law's birthday, and more. In fact, this year I forgot it was my birthday until I saw all of the Facebook happy birthdays, I'm not kidding. What reminded me of this is my sweet sister-in-law Nicole just sent me a package for my birthday with a nice card and some cool Pampered Chef stuff. I got it last night and it totally made my day (late presents are almost better because they are such a surprise). She always sends my girls a card for their birthdays too. I know there are ways to remember birthdays, like write them down, etc. so please don't feel like you need to give me tips in the comments section, I'm just confessing, not asking for advice. I am great at remembering my immediate family members' birthdays. I have never forgotten one of those. But I've come to the realization that I'm just not going to be that cool aunt that sends a card on every birthday (that was my dad's sister, by the way, who still sends me a card on my birthday). And I'm okay with that. I can be good at other things. So if I forget your birthday, I apologize in advance. In the next life when I'm good at everything, and I make special breakfasts for my kids on random holidays that no one really celebrates like St. Patrick's Day, or I have a spotlessly clean house always, or I shower every day and put on makeup and do my hair, or give my infants tummy time, or take bottles and binkies away when they're one year old, (this list could really go on and on)-- THEN, then I will remember your birthday!

Happy weekend everyone!

Friday Confessional #2:

I like fast food. There. I said it. And I don't mean the salads. I like burgers and fries and lots of mayo. I even don't mind McDonald's chicken nuggets (they are all white meat you know). And yes, I've seen "Supersize Me." I still like it. I of course don't eat fast food very often because I know it's not healthy, blah blah. But the other night we went to Carl's Jr. and I got a Small Carl (still had 2 hamburger patties on it) and I ate the whole thing. With fries. And fry sauce. So. Good.*

So while all of you food snobs scoff and eat your sushi (which I hate, although have pretended to like on 4 different occasions), I'll be eating my bacon burger.**


*I think one word sentences are kind of a blogging trend of late. At least my trendy friends do it, so I had to incorporate a few in this post so as not to fall behind.

**Only about once a month I promise :)

Friday Confessionals: The Beginning

So my friend/old roomie Jen does this thing on her blog called, "Friday Confessionals" and it's hilarious. She's a much better writer than me, but lately I've been thinking in terms of confessionals and since I need a subject to write about besides kids and housework here I go.

Friday Confessional #1: I don't like other people's kids very much. There. I said it. Unless they're my nieces and nephews (family bonds must be very strong because this is a major exception to the rule. I love my nieces and nephews). I especially don't like babysitting other people's kids. I've never liked it. Even when I was 12, it was all for the money. Now don't get me wrong... it's not that I dislike your kids, I just don't particularly want to babysit them. I'm really not an ogre, I am always nice to my kids' friends in my home, and I volunteered my services in nursery for the last 10 months (and I promise I was so nice), but it was a stretch at times. I'm just not that kid-lover who is going to come up to you and ask to hold your baby. Or care about the cute story you're telling me about your kid that is not that cute and every other kid does or care what grade level they're reading on (again, exception to the rule on my nieces and nephews).

Ah, that feels good to let out. I think I will like this Friday Confessionals thing.

My Big Kindergarten Girl

Well Marin started Kindergarten today. She was so excited last night she told me she was sure she would not be able to sleep. She did sleep, and today she had a blast. I did not think I was the type of mom to get emotional when I dropped her off, but I really surprised myself by shedding a few tears. I went to hug her good bye and had to sneak out really quickly before she saw me crying. I just couldn't believe my little girl was grown up enough for school! Then Kate saved the day by providing a good distraction since she had climbed out of the stroller and was tearing down the hallway full speed in the opposite direction. Here are a few pictures:

Marin and her cute teacher

Oh I love the little person Marin is becoming. She is sweet, kind, and she gets so excited over little things. The bazillion times I've made her "say it again nice" and say please and thank you are starting to pay off. She's a good little helper and I'm so excited for her to learn and grow this year in school!

Little Man Is Camera Shy

Andrew is the sweetest, smiliest {just had to insert here that auto-correct tried to change that word to "slimiest"} little guy and I try and try to get his adorable open-mouthed smile on camera and instead I get this:

And this:

Or this:


Doesn't he look a little horrified?

Oh, now this is more like it... 1 of 20 isn't too shabby little buddy!

Our Latest Happenings

This is going to be pretty random. I haven't blogged about much that we've been doing this summer and I'm so behind so I'm going to do what I always do when I have a lot to tackle... make a list. I love lists. I'm totally the type of person who adds things to my list just so I can cross them off (even if I've already done them sometimes). So here you are, our latest happenings:

1. Our Alaska cousins came to play! Mitch's brother's family lives in Alaska. They used to live quite close, but moved several years ago. Their little Olivia is Marin's age and they are best cousins. Their 2 older boys have grown up so much since we last saw them. They are like little adults these days. Mitch had fun with some non-wussy kids trying to throw them off the tube! We were so happy they came and stayed several days with us! Hopefully we'll get to visit them soon in Alaska!

(side note: these pics are actually from a week later during the baby blessing when our Alaska cousins came back and boated with us again. And upon further inspection, that is not in fact Ethan and Olivia from Alaska, but 2 cousins from Idaho. Oh well, I'm too lazy to re-upload more pictures, sorry Nicole!)

2. We celebrated the 4th of July! We went to Romney Stadium with my family and watched the Logan City's fireworks show. The main attraction was the band Diamond Rio, which is a total 80's, 90's old guy band now, but good old Mitch knew every single song word for word and so did my mom! I knew a bunch too. We're old and lame, ha ha!


3. We had a ton of family come for Andrew's baby blessing later that weekend. It was great! We had about 30 people staying at our house and it was crazy but so fun. Mitch took everyone boating (well except Alisa and I who stayed home with the babies) and then we blessed our sweet little Andrew.


4. My mom came to stay for the week and we had a blast! My brother Jaren took a ton of pictures of us boating, but I don't have any of them. My mom took Andrew in the night and I got 3 nights of sleep, hooray!

5. I turned 29! Oh I'm so close to 30 I can smell it, ha ha! This is Kate pounding some pink frosting off of the cupcakes Mitch brought home. She ate the frosting off 2 cupcakes, and let's just say it made for several unpleasant diaper changes the next day! My birthday present is a shopping trip with my sister Avree this Saturday and I cannot wait!


Well that's about it!

I Am In Love...

Seriously, could he be any cuter?!