Last Night Daniel and my little sister decided to go to a friends house for a birthday party. I obviously had to stayed home with my kids. They promised it wouldn't be to long.
Mean while I decided to put Bryce in my bed to watch a movie with me, so we could cuddle. I stayed cuddling with him for at least 45 minutes. I am timing that on what I remember seeing last on the movie. Then I was out. I just couldn't wait for Bryce to pass out first.....
The next thing I hear is Daniel and Katlin saying.... Bryce what in the world are you doing? Goodness son you are supose to wait for Christmas. You better hope your mom doesn't wake up! Then I heard Bryce crying because his Daddy had spanked his little bottom.
This is what Bryce had done after I had fallen asleep.......
He opened ALL of the presents tear under the tree. He even atempted to open the boxes as well, but he was only able to open a motorcyle box. So Daniel had brought him back into our room. This morning I woke up to take pictures of the mess and Bryce started screaming...Thank you mommy, Thank you! Thank you for all my presents mama, Thank you! I did miss the expressions on his face while opening them but we now has a memory and a million Thank you's from this naughty little boy! The hardest part will now be waiting another week to open presents that you already now is there...
On another naughty note...
Yesterday I was sleeping after working all night so Daniel was watching the kids. Everytime he has them together by himself you can almost garuntee something will happen. Could be anywhere from Bryce dumping out his lunch onto the kitchen floor to coloring on Collyn....
This was Collyns first little tattoo that his BIG brither gave him!
It is so darn hard for me to keep in a SECRET if it is GOOD news. Even though there are times I am put in that situation I ALWAYS keep it too myself. Ok so I lie. I do tell one other person and that would be Daniel, but Daniel and most other guys I know really don't care to hear....SECRETS! Daniel did like to hear this one and he was even with me when the person told us. I have waited very patiently and I CAN finally tell the WORLD the GOOD news!!!
WE ARE GOING TO HAVE ANOTHER NIECE OR NEPHEW...DUE IN JUNE!!! I am tickled pink and the excitement is overwhelming. My brother in law and his girl friend are having their second baby...I hope it is a little GIRL!!! She goes to the doctor today. She has know idea how far along she is so I am hoping they will do and ultrasound so we can see him or hopefully her. Wish them luck on their new ADVENTURE!!!
Last year for my Birthday my mom bought me a gift certificate to Nearly Famous. I held on to it for a special day for me to enjoy a quiet few hours to myself. I knew I wanted to use it for a massage more than anything! I just couldn't decide if it would make more since to split it into two trips, one while I was pregnant and then one after. Before I had the chance to split it up the twins came and there has been NO such thing as MOMMY TIME! I recently looked at the certificate to see when it expired and THANK GOODNESS I did because this is the final month! So I decided to use it ALL up on their BIGGEST package for.....Drum Roll please............A 1 hour massage, a spa manicure and pedicure, and a facial!! I'm tickled pink for Friday to come!!! I sure need it!
It sure has been awhile since I have updated this thing. I figured I better post a few thing's to give an update on our resent activities! It seems like I have been so darn busy lately but I am getting NO where...
In August...
My little brother came down for a almost two weeks. He is in the marines and we only get to see him every once in a great while. I was so very busy the week he came down, so we were only able to see each other a few times. I guess getting the chance to see him was what counted. I just wish I could have spent ALOT more time doing thing's with him. He did spend time with Bryce though. They are great buddies! Bryce is always looking at the pictures I have of him on the wall and informing me that that is his Uncle Austin up there! Right now he is on tour and won't be back until January if ALL goes well... I wish him and his platoon a VERY safe, healthy, and fast trip home! I had to help my mother in law with the San Juan County Fair. I have been helping her for five years now and I love it. We are hoping that with all that she is teaching me I can one day be on the fair board when my kids are old enough to participate. I also had Bryce's second birthday party which turned out GREAT!! I found a cute little Tonka Truck party set, and there it was... A Truck Party!!! I really didn't want to spend $30.00 on a cake so I did some investigating and this is what the out come was.....
Dirt!!! Easy, simple, and the kids LOVED it!! I used sugar free pudding topped with Oreos and threw in a few gummy worms to make it look like real dirt! Saved so much money on a store bought cake, as well as time that I didn't have to bake one myself.
Collyn and Madi also had their four month well child visit. This was the first visit that I actually took all three kids in by myself! That's a plus!!! I tell you three babies all under the age of two is quite the chore with an extra set of hands! The hardest part I think was not having four arms myself to hold two crying babies that just received shots :-( My little ones sure are small compared to all the little tike's that I know that are around the same age. They are both in the 75% percentile for height and 25% for weight!!! Their pediatrician said she wasn't worried about their weight because they are still growing in a curve. She said since they are both nursing and only getting one side at a time meant they just weren't getting over fed. Bryce was mostly formula feed and the picture of him compared to the twins at the same age is RIDICULOUS! He is a chubby little thing! Collyn and Madi are just so small. (I know exactly how you feel Megan,"Geez they sure are small" gets REALLY old)
This is Bryce 12 days before he turned 6months old (This is the only picture I have of Bryce when he was a little guy saved on my new computer...Thank goodness I had one!)
Both of these pictures are actually right after their 5 month mark but you get the point right!
Thursday the 8th of October I broke down and bought them formula and I am now switching back and forth between feedings. I will nurse one while the other is enjoying a bottle. Then the at the next feeding I will nurse the baby that had a bottle the previous feeding and bottle feed the baby that nursed! It is working out great and oh my goodness I have a house full of HAPPY kids. The babies are not as fussy because they are actually getting fed, and Bryce is much happier because I am not always feeding on the couch!! It's nice! The twins had their 6 month appointments the Monday after I bought the formula and thank goodness I started them on formula because they hadn't grown that much :-(
September...
It has been so long since September I can't remember anything we did in September. That is sad huh....We went camping on Daniel's aunt's house boat! We sure did have a blast. Bryce LOVES the water and is not at all scared of it....Which is a scary thing! I like that he enjoys the water because Daniel and I love it as well, but he would just jump right in by himself if he had the chance. My Aunt and Granny were very sick and were both hospitalized. My granny pulled ligaments in her legs and had several blood clots. My Aunt Dorothy's vocal cords were paralyzed which landed her in the hospital with emergency surgery for a tracheotomy. She still has it in and we are praying everyday that she will have it removed soon. Daniel and I celebrated our four year wedding anniversary on September 17!! We have not gone out to do anything yet :-( Maybe we will soon! The twins are still nursed so leaving to go somewhere would not be an option. All we would be able to do is head to Circle S to check out all the stuff they DON'T have. Head back home and BOOM it's time to feed again.
October...
Daniel, Daniel, Daniel...What can I say besides CRAZY!!!He and his friends are ALWAYS looking for fun and new things to do with their ATVs. Several years ago Daniel's dad cleaned out the pond that we have out here. The boy's had made a whole bunch of jump out of the extra dirt, for both Dirt bikes and BMX bike's. They soon got old and there were a select few that they still use. So mostly they just go on a "Ride" out behind our house which is BLM land and it goes on and on forever. Well they have decided that it is now time for some new jumps!!! Can you believe that junk??? New jumps? What for? In case they have all FORGOT 99% of our friends that ride have kids, therefore what in the heck is the point of killing yourself on a 100 feet tall jump. They seem like a hundred feet anyways. I wouldn't have jumped the old ones and DEFINITELY wouldn't jump the new ones if you flashed money under my nose. So two weeks ago a friend of ours brought out a front end loader, and before I knew it they had a "double" that is 40 feet apart or something like that. The second one it 60. Yeah you didn't read it wrong, really it's 60 feet long meaning you won't hit the landing for a LOOOOOOOOOOOONG time! We have already had a friend shatter his shoulder. He went to the ER go get x-ray's and the doctors found a growth of some sort on his hip which had NO relation to the dirt bike accident. I guess it was a blessing since he will have to have surgery to remove the growth and have it sent out to get a biopsy on it. So back to the jumps...They also made a jump in front of the hill we call the "pond" hill. This means they hit the jump in front of the hill to see if they can make it in top!!! Craziness I know. All the boy's were hitting this jump and Daniel's brother Rob decided to use Daniel's dirt bike, because it is newer than his and lighter I guess. Well they jumped all day long and at the VERY end of the day this is what happened to Rob on Dan's bike...
Needless to say he broke Daniel's back and one side fender and has a beautiful skid mark on his bottom! I love that Daniel enjoys riding dirt bike's and taking Bryce on adventurous 4-wheeler rides, but jumping is a little scary. Tiffiny, Madella, and I are always crossing our fingers!
This month is HALLOWEEN and I am sooooo excited. The first of the month we decided to go to Napa and pick a few pumpkin's for the kids. We got up to section 2 were the pumpkin patch was, Daniel driving. He started to pull into the office for directions and I said oh NO we can find it so keep going. I probably don't need to tell you that an hour later with screaming kids in the car, we didn't find it! So we turned around to stop at the office. I was a little turned around myself because I thought the office was in the other direction than we were going. Daniel insisted that we were headed the right way...we were! I was wrong AGAIN!!! So we stopped at the little scary old office to ask how in the world to get there and I guess it had been a bad day for the office crew too. We talked to an old man that was a bit of a rude ASS if I had to put it in a nice way! He told us they were not opening the patch to the public until the 18th!! The 18th was two weeks away. I really didn't want to wait that long, so we went to Sutherland Farms instead! Good thing we did because Bryce had a BLAST! There were all sorts of thing to do there. ..We all played in the corn box. I guess that's what you would call a sand box minus the sand and filled with corn. We went through the corn maize, which was really short but with Bryce's little legs it ended up being pretty darn Loooooooong! We rode the Hay Ride to the pumpkin patch and bought 3 pumpkin's that I guess were VERY special to the Sutherland Family because we spent a fortune on them. Then it was time to turn in for the day, we had three very tired kids! Bryce is going to be Cat in the Hat and I am in the process of making Thing 1 and Thing 2 costumes for the babies. I will keep you updated on current events I promise. I am going to post a collage of pictures from the last three months since there is alot of catching up to do!
OK SO I MADE THIS COLLEGE WAY TO BIG AND NOW YOU CAN'T SEE A DARN THING!!! I HAVE BEEN WORKING ON THIS POST SINCE AUGUST I SWEAR AND EVERY TIME I START TO GET SOMEWHERE A KID WAKES UP THEREFORE I AM JUST GOING TO POST IT. SORRY FOR THE IMFORFECTIONS...
Ok so on this video I copied two and I left clicked on it and I have NO idea how to delete it, herefore there will be two on here!!!
Before you have children other mom's tell you ALL the time that they GROW up so fast. I guess I never knew exactly how fast it really would go by. Bryce is already TWO years old! It seriously seems like yesterday I found out I was pregnant. I remember that day like it just happened. Now three and a half years later I have three babies and they won't stop growing. Bryce had a GREAT Birthday. Daniel and I took him to the fair and he was sure to tell everyone we came in contact with that today was his birthday. If you asked how old he is he looks at me to remind him how many finger to hold up!!! Next weekend is going to be his birthday party and he CAN'T wait. I keep telling him about it and about ALL the kids that are going to be there and he gets so excited! When he comes across something in the house that's for his party he screams my party!!! I miss that he is NO longer a baby, but enjoy the fact that he is now my little buddy. He is getting so smart and is becoming mommy's little helper!!
Milestones and Things Bryce has enjoyed in the last year!
~ Uses his little potty
~ Fresh tomatoes from the garden
~ Loves his Best friend and Cousin Josh
~ Loves to "Ride" the 4-Wheeler and Daddy's Dirt Bike
~Loves helping mommy cook
~ Swimming and Sprinklers
~ Dances to music as soon as he hears it!
~ Enjoys reading his books!
~ Coloring Pictures for everyone
~ Playing in his sandbox
~ Being with ALL his grandparents
~ Carries conversations with us!
~ Holding his baby brother and sister
~ Fireworks!!
~ Sleeping with his Bear from Uncle Austin
~ Very independent
~ Picks out his own clothes and shoes :(
~ Informs us when his diaper is dirty
~ Picking vegetables from the garden...No matter if they are ready or not
~ Loves to hide from mommy...If given the chance he runs straight to Josh's house
I don't know what I'm going to do when they move :(
~ Picnic's at the park
~ Going to work with daddy
~ Playing with the kids at daycare
~ Bugs...His favorite time of the day is at night when he can play with all the bugs that our porch light has collected
~ Animal's-every kind imaginable
~Waking up at 6 in the morning and sneaking out of bed to play with things he is not suppose to...Scary!!!
If I listed every thing this kid enjoyed I would have to Blog all day. I have been so blessed to have such a wonderful little boy that loves life and all that he is given!
Oh my lordy, so I have had my niece Lizzy staying with me since Sunday and she is a question machine. I guess it has been a really long time since I have been around a six year old for an extended period of time because I have totally forgotten about ALL the 10,000 questions they ask in a day. Now Bryce's new question that has been his question for several months has been "What's That?" Well that is the easiest question in the world all you have to do is have a one word answer!! Lizzy asks me, "how are babies born"???? Um ask your mommy that question OK babe! Why don't you know you have three babies??!! Well my babies came out through my belly! They just popped out? Yeah something like that!!! I have an Ostrich egg that I have had for years that was a gift to me from one of my bff's grandparents. She wanted to know how they got the Ostrich that is supposed to be the BIGGEST bird in the world out of the egg without it cracking? So I replied, Before the bird starts to become a bird it is a big yellow yoke like a chicken egg in the fridge. So they drilled that hole in the bottom and drained the yoke out. She said,"What do you mean it is yellow?" The picture of the ostrich you should me was black! Well it was just a yoke because the bird hadn't developed yet remember! How did you know it hadn't developed yet? Because the mommy had just layed the egg and it takes a few days for it to start becoming a bird. Where does the mommy get the egg? I said, "through her belly"!!! lol I had no idea what to tell her she is only six and I didn't want to traumatize her! Well then we were headed to Durango and she and Bryce were looking for cows and horses out the window and we came upon a horse with a colt. She first asked if we could take the horse home. I told her that that horse belonged to someone. She said, "Does the horse have an egg we can take?" No horses have their babies grow in their tummy like humans do! How do they get the babies out? Does someone cut it out of their tummy? Well they call a veterinarian to come and get the baby out and I have NO idea how, you have to be a vet to know how they do it. So once in Durango we were in the waiting room of the hospital waiting for word on my aunt that had just had surgery. Lizzy was looking through a magazine and came a across a beautiful wedding dress and informed me that one day when she had enough money she was going to buy herself that dress. I told her so you can get married in it and she said, "No way, I'm not ever going to get married". "Why not Lizzy", I relied. She said "because I don't EVER want my tummy cut open, that would hurt"!!! Bless her heart I have traumatized her. I had no idea what to tell her and she is not my kid so I also have no idea what her mom and dad would want me to say when faced with questions like these! I do know one thing at least she knows that you aren't suppose to have babies until your married!!!
He opened ALL of the presents tear under the tree. He even atempted to open the boxes as well, but he was only able to open a motorcyle box. So Daniel had brought him back into our room. This morning I woke up to take pictures of the mess and Bryce started screaming...Thank you mommy, Thank you! Thank you for all my presents mama, Thank you! I did miss the expressions on his face while opening them but we now has a memory and a million Thank you's from this naughty little boy! The hardest part will now be waiting another week to open presents that you already now is there...
Dirt!!! Easy, simple, and the kids LOVED it!! I used sugar free pudding topped with Oreos and threw in a few gummy worms to make it look like real dirt! Saved so much money on a store bought cake, as well as time that I didn't have to bake one myself.
OK SO I MADE THIS COLLEGE WAY TO BIG AND NOW YOU CAN'T SEE A DARN THING!!! I HAVE BEEN WORKING ON THIS POST SINCE AUGUST I SWEAR AND EVERY TIME I START TO GET SOMEWHERE A KID WAKES UP THEREFORE I AM JUST GOING TO POST IT. SORRY FOR THE IMFORFECTIONS...
