I'm so proud..

First My new hair color darker brown with Carmel highlights I think theses pictures are hard to tell but oh well..

A few days ago my awesome sweet husband was on his way home from work when he saw a older lady out mowing her lawn and decided that she could use some help so when he was done she gave him some cucumbers and a zucchini from her garden I thought oh that was sweet of her but I don't cook so what in the world am I going to do with this Zucchini well then I thought well I suppose I could try bread so I called my mom who agreed to help me so I was like sweet this will be awesome so last Saturday Felicity and I headed up to my mom's Marijo took Felicity and her boys so the tree house and my mom gave instructions and I made the bread all by myself and for those who know me well know that I HATE cooking so this is big for me and I am so proud the bread is yummy to! :)

15 months

I first just let me say say that Felicity is amazing because we had her 15 month doc. appointment today which also means shots one in each leg!  During the examination she wanted the cookies she found in my bag and after giving her two I said that she could have more after the doctor was done and after her shots.  She didn't want to talk or show off all and when I first put her on the table she got a little nervous but she was so brave and didn't cry at all!!  I got her a cookie and the nurse gave her a Ratatouille sticker and she was good!  I couldn't believe how happy she was as we walked out I saw the nurse and asked "your sure she's done you got both shots in her right?"  yep she's awesome!

Felicity stats:

Weight: 22.1 lbs.

Height: 31.6in.

Head: 18.5in.

Felicity at 15 months Can:

• Run
• Walk
• climb stairs
• go downstairs
• dance- turn and stomp feet
• take her diper off
• take shoes off
• 1 leg through pants
• wears my shoes
• give Cody treats
• open drawers and cupboards
• waves hi and bye
• say cha ching and buts change in money bottle
• signs more, please, done
• says mama, dada, purple, boom, yes, blue, thank you, yogurt, cheese, uh oh, ruff, hot- of course the words are not perfect yet but she is getting really good and she doesn't understand the colors yet but she can say them!
• drink vit. D milk and juice(white grape peach mango is our favorite)
• eats corn, pbj, grapes, strawberries, vanilla wafers, green peppers and cucumbers
• she hates meat and green beans
• will watch world world or super why on her train so that I can put funny uneven but cute ponytails on her hair. 

Russell says this pictures with my socks on makes her look like a Dr. Seuss character...

Change in the money jar!

Nephew sleepover

I think my husband is the weirdest guy I know(see picture below) but he is the funnest guy I know.  This summer he had a camp out in my parents backyard no wait it was supposed to be  but it rained so they slept inside so it was more like a sleepover with the some of the nephews on both side of our families, but sadly there are no pictures of that night. 

A few weeks later he had another sleepover this time at our house with the nephew's from his side.  We at hot dogs, watched toy story 3, they went swimming and then played video games!  I sure they all had fun getting together because William was in town from Wyoming so this worked out great Alex couldn't sleep over though so Russell took him home pretty late.

The next morning I had to babysit Damion and Dean.  Damion really enjoyed having the boys to play video games with! 

Check out Felicity's awesome bedhead hehe:)

Bees game

We love getting out to the baseball games to sit on the grass and eat dipping dots and nachos! We sat on the grass and Felicity was so cute cheering and dancing even though it rained on us that didn't stop Felicity I barely got her jacket on but when I tried to wrap a blanket around her and sit on my lap she wouldn't have it!

 

of course she had to wear the super cute bee hair clip

Then there was fireworks the big "bomb ones" where way to loud and scary for her but she like the others fine and I have no idea how she can fall asleep so easily watching fireworks especially because they were so close but she did again!!!

Magical World of Disney

Intro for "The Magical World of Disney" 1980's
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hyc-NUcM0Kc&feature=related

Intro for "The Wonderful World of Disney" 2000's
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHrYDL9LkIQ

When Russell was younger, he remembers that on Sunday nights his family would watch a Disney show "The Magical World of Disney".  I love this idea so we have decided to start a new family tradion of this.  We have gone to Deseret Inudstries and bought nine different movies for just ten dollars!

The first week we watched Lion King; the second week we skipped as we were at the hospital with his sister; the third week we watched Winnie the Pooh; the fourth week we watched Hercules! :)

Felicity of course is still little that she doesnt sit down and watch, but when the songs come on she stands up and dances. She then goes back to playing, but some day I think she will like the tradition.

Sadly, Disney's version on TV networks ended in 2008, but we'll be snapping up plenty of cheap movies to keep it going for our family. 

 

Activity Days

My calling in a my ward is in primary Activity Days age 8-11 and when I was called there were 3 of us leaders and shortly after they both moved and I was left alone just thrown in with out any help or any idea what I was supposed to do so I kept asking for help.  Then when they finally called a lady she isn't very active so I never met her but I had talked to her a few times on the phone trying to get her to come to the activities and she never showed up!  It has been months and months and I have still been asking for help and NOT getting it!!

Luckily Russell was available to come with me yesterday because I didn't have enough room in my car to take all the girls that wanted to come and since we only have one car I took Russell and Felicity to the church then left to get the girls I picked two girls took them to the church and left them with Russell then went back to that same apartment complex and picked up three more girls then went to the church and then then the reverse after! it was such a long process that it felt like it took so long!....

We built a Fort out of blankets, chairs and tables (Russell says "it was one tough fort") and then sat it in and talked about "building your fortress". We spent some time talking about building our own personal fortresses to protect ourselves from the adversary. In medieval times, great fortresses were built around castles or cities to protect them from enemy attacks. In the Book of Mormon, the Nephites built fortresses to defend their families against their enemies. We talked about building our own fortresses protect ourselves against the adversary, (spiritual ways) i.e. gain a testimony, pray, have faith... the list could go on and on. Then we talked about the watchtower which guarded against enemies coming too close, (temporal ways) i.e. Avoid peer pressure, bad movies, immodest dress... again the list is endless. Then we read Helaman 5:12 which about building a foundation.
There is a great article by Joseph B. Wirthlin, "Build it right" (March 1990 New Era).  That we read also ... I hope they had fun... I'm trying to learn a do my best!

I really hope that I can get help from my ward soon that would be so helpful!!

out of my mind

Tonight I'm overwhelmed, tired, frustrated, mad, sad and everything in between why am I so nice? Why can I never say NO!! I just can't handle this.  I want to scream into a pillow and cry!!

Let me explain this week I started watching two more kids so I have a ten year old, a 14 month old (Felicity) a 7 month old and an almost 6 month old.  I don't know why I thought I could handle it I'm freaking out my thresh hold for this many kids is not this strong. 

When I was asked to watch theses two more boys Russell said he would change his schedule to be home to help me but it just isn't enough because it is only for the first few hours in the morning or  the last few hours in the afternoon don't get me wrong anything is helpful and I am grateful for him trying to help but then that also means he has so close and doesn't get home till after 1 am and I hate being home so late alone well not completely but still...

I have the boys everyday from 830 am to 6pm and Leah still from 745 to 530 Tuesday through Thur. and all of these babies are crazy won't sleep at the same time to wake each other up and then are so grumpy and I just can't handle it.  When felicity cries it so much harder because well she's mine and she is my everything!  She cries because I am taking care of another one and it makes me so sad but I only have two hands!  I didn't think this was going to be so tramic for me but I am in tears just thinking of all of this because I want to be nice I want to help out but I am getting paid not nearly enough the two boys I'm getting paid less for them then I do Leah and I have them more and longer!! I want o scream kick and cry.  Why do I do this to me Why am I to nice??? Because she is a single mom two different dads one in prison and the other well who knows, She has a new job hopefully getting some decent pay checks soon??  Yes this is why I do this to me because I know she is struggling to pay bills but She need to be paying me a more I mean really  and50  dollars two kids all week shouldn't child support and the state be helping  with the dad in jail??  Come on really!again I don't know how to say NO!

thanks for listening well reading my vent and someone please help me...