New Years Resolution

I am the worst at these things! I always want to make goals and I am good for about a week and then well I give up or just forget I had made goals! But maybe this year will be different? Ha ha ha guess I will see! So my long list of goals equals to about 3 things...okay so it's not to long but I had to start somewhere!

GOAL #1 Run on the treadmill at least 20 minuets a day. (lol I had to set my goal small or else I would fail everyday! My goal is to at least run 20 but if that's all I can do then at least made my goal!)

GOAL #2

Double whammy! I don't want to drink soda anymore. I have been addicted for so long and I just want to stop. I need to make water my best friend! Also to stop eating out. I am the worst. It's so much easier for me to grab the kids some food that someone else made so I don't have to do anything. I like the convenience the most I guess. I know this one will be hard but I am going to do it!

GOAL #3

I want to be debt free! John and I both have about 5 credit cards I want to pay off and then cut up! We will still owe money on a house and a car but I want out of the smaller debt we have. I know I am going to have to watch my spending (which isn't usually a problem) and get us out of debt before John returns home from Iraq. Not to mention with baby #4 on the way I don't want to have to worry about money owed. I know we can be it's possible. Especially money coming from the tax return we will be very close to getting it all taken care of. First card to go will be Best Buy! John is so naughty with that card. He loves his electronics!

Max & Maddy

The twins both got these talking singing ride on pony's for Christmas. A few days before they were to get them I thought that I should maybe just take them back that they wouldn't really like them. I kept asking John what he thought and he said just keep them! Regular price was $40 a piece but I hit a sale and got both of them for $40. Thinking I would just see if they like them on Christmas if not I will return them.... well it turns out these little pony's are their favorite toy! They are always pushing his ear to make it talk and sing and they are constantly dragging them around the house to ride on them! I guess it was a good investment! Here are the babies having fun on the pony's....

OOOHH BABY!

IT'S A BOY! I can't believe it! I had an ultrasound yesterday and well sure enough were having a boy! I am way excited...he was so hyper during the whole thing! Too cute :) The first picture with the tiny arrow is pointing too his little man part! Second pic is a side profile, and the third he has his hand in the air right above his head! My sweet little boy!

Counting down the days

John sent me a few of his photos while he is on tour in Iraq. It's fun to see what he has been up too! I do get to talk to him everyday. He calls me at least twice a day. He also has access to the internet so we talk through email, facebook and also skype! As hard as it has been having him gone I am so glad I am one of the lucky ones who gets to talk and see my man everyday!

Breakfast with Santa!

I took Parker to have Breakfast with Santa this morning! It was fun...kinda. It was done by the school and I purchased a pass for Parker, Allison and I. We ate pancakes and sausage! Parker isn't a shy boy but when he sat on Santa's lap he didn't say anything he wanted for Xmas...he just kinda sat there! But at least he believed he was the real Santa and I was able to get a cute picture!

Footsteps In The Sand

One night a man had a dream.
He dreamed he was walking along the beach with the LORD.
Across the sky flashed scenes from his life.
For each scene, he noticed two sets of footprints in the sand:
one belonging to him, and the other to the LORD.
When the last scene of his life flashed before him
he looked back, at the footprints in the sand.
He noticed that many times along the path of his life
there was only one set of footprints.
He also noticed that it happened at the very lowest and saddest times of his life.
This really bothered him and he questioned the LORD about it:
"LORD, you said that once I decided to follow you,
you'd walk with me all the way.
But I have noticed that during the most troublesome times in my life
there is only one set of footprints.
I don't understand why when I needed you most you would leave me."

The LORD replied:
"My son, My precious child, I love you and I would never leave you,
During your times of trial and suffering,
when you see only one set of footprints, it was then that I carried you."

Author unknown

Missing you already

Recently I flew out to Mississippi to see John on his 5 day break. I was so excited since it had been two months since I had seen him last. It took me all day on 3 different planes to get there but I finally did! We got to go to New Orleans Louisiana and Pensacola beach Florida. Time went by way to fast. And I can't wait to see my baby again. I miss him so much! But it was good to spend some time with him before he leaves.

Little Gymnast

I was looking for Max earlier to get him dressed....I found him in the closet hanging from the bar! Saying weeeee as he swung back and forth.... I couldn't help but laugh :)

It finally happened.....

I finally got a picture of all three kids smiling! I just had to share....it will probably not happen again. They were in such a good mood that night so I asked for a picture and they all cuddled on each other and said cheese! Love my babies!

Well I'm a big behind

So much has happened I haven't event thought twice about my blog! For starters my honey buns is gone....and will be gone for awhile. John left for training to go to Iraq and will be gone for a year. Well good news since I heard that horrible news is it's already been a month! only 11 months to go! Wow such a long time. I send him packages a lot and letters well mostly cards with funny stuff on them since I am not big on writing long love letters to my honey. Now for an update on my kids!

Parker- He started preschool not to long ago and loves it! He is a peer model for kids who are a little slower. He loves every min of it. Oh and he even has a new girl called Bethany that loves him. Made me laugh when he said that. He will turn 5 in Feb! My little baby boy, who reminds me he can't be my little baby anymore since he is too big.

Madelyn-My little miss diva, oh and she knows it. She tends to get a lot of what she wants using her extremely loud vocal cords. She also likes to slap her brother....lucky me! Oh and my favorite...every time she goes poop she takes her diaper off and plays in it....and most of the time Max joins in. So if I am not watching them every single second I will walk into a room with two babies covered in poop and all the toys they have touched. Those make for long days. Gotta love kids! Oh and did I mention she loves shaking her head "no" when you tell her something?

Maxton- Oh my little baby who always feels so picked on! He has been using his words lately and it's cute to hear him! He loves following Parker around and playing swords with him. He is my naughty little boy though when it comes to bed time....he crawls out of his bed every five min when he doesn't want to go to bed. But the bed does have a bar thing around it but he has figured out how to climb over it...again lucky me! Oh the joys of having twins.

Me-I have been going crazy with kids, missing John, attempting to clean the house multiple times laundry dishes..... oh how I miss my John! I was normal before he left. But I am afraid I have gone crazy!

Fun Times

I have no words for this photo! I just love it!

Open House

We had an open house a couple weeks ago. It was tons of fun! We had lots of food and dessert. We based it around a Hawaiian theme which everyone seemed to enjoy! I even decided I wanted a big pig to sit in the middle of my table like most people do when they have luau's! Here are just a few of the pics...there were so many and my computer is being slow so that's why I stopped where I did! Enjoy!

Fishing Fun!

We went fishing the other weekend up at Meadow Lake..it was so much fun! All three kids loved it. We brought tons of food bug spray and fishing poles for the kids! We spent all day there and ended up catching about 10 fish. Parker even caught a few of his own! He loved it! I wasn't sure he would sit there and wait for fish but he did! It was a beautiful place to go and we had tons of fun!

***SUPER STAR***

Parker was on the news! Parker was out on the farm and the news showed up because of the huge fires that were out burning close to the farm. Kevin's (Parker's dad) Uncle David is the one talking about the farm...and a little half way threw they show Parker in his t-ball shirt just smiling away! Copy and paste the link below and you can see him! :)

http://www.localnews8.com/video/24264854/

Watch out for the DRAGONS!

We have the best T-Ball team. It's a fact! It's so fun to watch our team of 13 boys aged 4-7 play ball. Half the time they don't know what they are doing! And they occasionally get bored in the outfield, but it's fun! We have games twice a week and my wonderful husband of a whole 2 weeks is the coach!

IT'S OFFICIAL!

John and I are now married! If you didn't get an invite it's because we didn't send any out! Only our best and closest friends new about what was going on. Our original plan was to secretly get married then plan a wedding during the summer and then let everyone think we were just engaged. Plan failed! ;) On Friday June 4th we went to the courthouse and got married. This date had been planned for about 3 weeks. Right after we got married John had to go to work and I needed my moms help picking up some stuff....while we were in the car I showed her the ring and told her we were engaged! She was way excited and way shocked...then came her 20 questions about the wedding...I couldn't lie! I told her we were also already married and had done it earlier that day. She was speechless! But after that we just started telling everyone. John wanted to wear his wedding ring so it was pointless to keep it a secret! The only attendees at the wedding were my sis Alli and our three kids! We decided changing our "status" on facebook would let everyone else know! Which is has! We still plan to have an open house or some type of reception later on this summer, so we will be sending invites for that out! I love John he is my best friend. He knows everything about me...and still loves me! I couldn't have found a better match. We have so much in common and love doing the same things. He is a wonderful dad to all three kids. He never gets angry or yells out, which I love about him. If we fight it never lasts long. I can't wait to spend the rest of my life with him and our 3 amazing kids. I have never been so happy. Love you babe!

4 Days left...Tell Carrie Underwood In Nampa!

I have been waiting three long months for this concert! Carrie Underwood is one of my favorite country singers! That is next to all the other ones I love! I wanted the best seats I could get...so I paid out 130.00 for 2 front row tickets! Okay so they aren't front row...but they are the section right in front of the stage row F....I can't wait! John and I are taking the twins to Nampa with Brittany who is going to be our babysitter while we watch the concert! Ahhhh I'm super excited! Here is one of my favorite songs Ms Underwood sings enjoy!

Our New Home

I was able to find a slide show of pictures of our home when it was still on the market! I thought it might be fun for those of you who haven't seen our home to get a view of it! A few things have been updated since we have moved in. It shows the backyard with only some fence, but the owners finished it before we moved in...kinda nice! You will need to copy and put this in your browsers..

http://idx.imprev.net/03782F07/29/39229/899686/index.ipv

10 Looooong days

For those of you who don't John, he is in the National Guard. He has been in for 4 years and still has 4 years to go! As much as I dis-like it, John loves being a part of it. Which I support him for that. Last year John left for Boise for 3 long weeks. It was horrible! The kids and I stuck in the apartment all day long while he was at training. I still can't believe I made it that long without him! Well that time has come once again for his training in Boise. Lucky for me we are now in a house! And the other plus side they shortened the training to 10 days. Which then he will do another 10 days in July I believe. It's still no fun for me. Half the time I want to rip my hair out. So enough of my complaining, I miss my honey and since the day he left I have been counting down the days....we are down to 7 days left! Can't wait till he gets home! In the mean time I get to enjoy photo's he sends me.....

Happy Mother's Day...To Me!

The one day a year that honors mothers is officially over! I had such a good day! When I woke up I was so happy to be a mother of the 3 best kids ever! Oh and the best looking ;)

John and I made breakfast together which was delicious! No I didn't get served breakfast in bed but why would I want to chance spilling anything on our California King pretty white sheets! Lol and we all know that I am kinda a messy eater. Yes I said kinda cause I'm not THAT bad. Anyway after that we just had a fun day together being outside playing and enjoying the nice weather! I got some amazing gifts! John bought me an IPOD doc. Which was long over due, mine had been used downstairs during the construction of the basement and well it didn't make it out alive. I already love it! It's amazing. This is my gift from John and my little ones.

Parker was extra sweet to me too. With help from his Grandma Johnson Parker got me this really pretty charm bracelet. Which has birthstones of the three kids, John and I. He gave it to me at Red Robin, Susan and Parker had taken me out to lunch for Mother's Day... pretty cool idea! It also has some cute charms like a shoe and purse!

It's kinda hard to see and this picture does no justice! It's one of the prettiest pieces of jewelry I own. Thanks so much Parker! I also received a card in the mail from my AMAZING ex mother in law. I hate to call her that because I consider her like a mom to me, but then again I can't really call her my mother in law anymore...but I love her just the same! Anyway she sent me a really sweet card which was so thoughtful of her. She also threw in one of these...

A $25 dollar gift card to Chili's. We can't wait to use it! Thanks again Susan!

Later on that night we had John's parents over for dinner. Which was yummy! And John's mom gave me a gift card to Macy's...for $50 dollars! Pretty sweet can't wait to get me some new clothes! Hope all the mothers out there enjoyed their day as much as I did!

Poor Baby!

We finally finished our basement and we have been so excited about it! We got all our furniture out and put together, hung our big screen on the wall and brought all our electronics downstairs. Didn't take long before trouble struck! Maxton was being his silly self and had a blanket over his head walking around, just giggling! Until he ran into the table....with his head! John picked him up fast and was just holding him while he cried, when I walked over to him I saw the deepest cut on his face right by his eye! So we immediately went to Community Care. Where we found out he had to get stitches.....here is Max and John while we are waiting for the wound to go numb.....

it didn't hurt him to have the stitches put in, he was just scared when his daddy and the nurse had to hold him down so the Dr could sew him up! Made me so sad. I wish I could say it looks better but still is kinda gross looking. Here is Max with his stitches....
kinda hard to see but he wouldn't hold still! Today we had the stitches taken out and I plan on buying him some Mederma so hopefully the scar will go away.

The other day...

Our cat Ki Ki

decided she wanted to wander off back behind our fence into the neighbors back yard...I didn't care much because she is a cat! She is going to do whatever she wants! Well Parker on the other hand didn't like that Ki Ki had "run away". After a few minuets of listening to the things he was saying, I thought I would record it. I was trying so hard not to laugh at the poor little guy! But he was pretty upset, and after the two min video I finally got off my butt went over to the other side of the fence and yelled for her to come back (which she did).

The Husband Store (So funny!)

A store that sells new husbands has opened in New York City, where a woman may go to choose a husband. Among the instructions at the entrance is a description of how the store operates:
You may visit this store ONLY ONCE! There are six floors & the value of the products increase as the shopper ascends the flights. The shopper may choose any item from a particular floor, or may choose to go up to the next floor, but you cannot go back down except to exit the building!
So, a woman goes to the Husband Store to find a husband. On the first floor the sign on the door reads:

Floor 1 - These men Have Jobs
She is intrigued, but continues to the second floor, where the sign reads:

Floor 2 - These men Have Jobs and Love Kids..
'That's nice,' she thinks, 'but I want more.'
So she continues upward. The third floor sign reads:

Floor 3 - These men Have Jobs, Love Kids, and are Extremely Good Looking....
'Wow,' she thinks, but feels compelled to keep going.
She goes to the fourth floor and the sign reads:

Floor 4 - These men Have Jobs, Love Kids, are Drop-dead Good Looking and Help With Housework.
'Oh, mercy me!' she exclaims, 'I can hardly stand it!'
Still, she goes to the fifth floor and the sign reads:

Floor 5 - These men Have Jobs, Love Kids, are Drop-dead Gorgeous, Help with Housework, and Have a Strong Romantic Streak.
She is so tempted to stay, but she goes to the sixth floor, where the sign reads:

Floor 6 - You are visitor 31,456,012 to this floor. There are no men on this floor. This floor exists solely as proof that women are impossible to please.. Thank you for shopping at the Husband Store.

To avoid gender bias charges, the store's owner opened a New Wives store just across the street.

The first floor has wives that love sex.

The second floor has wives that love sex & have money & like beer.

The third, fourth, fifth and sixth floors have never been visited.

It's Official....

Both babies are walking! I can't believe it's already that time. Maddy has been going at it for a while and recently Max has been walking everywhere! Oh and Max has now figured out how to climb up on the couch without any help! They are getting so big! Literally they are growing like weeds. They are now 14 months. So sad! So here is to me remembering the past, really it's the past...it's been over a year!

Four-Wheeler Fun!

We have this green Four-Wheeler we have had for a few years, I first bought it when Parker was about 1. I finally brought it home from my parents house after it's sat in there backyard forever! And the babies LOVE it! Especially Max, he knows how to push the button and drive himself! Maddy hasn't quite figured it out, or at least doesn't really care to do it! Here is a video of some Four-Wheeler Fun! Enjoy!

I must say "NO" too much!

Okay so having and raising twins isn't the easiest thing I have ever done! Especially now that they can walk and crawl at the speed of light! I have recently started noticing the babies shaking there heads "no". And obviously they have learned it somewhere! I can't really blame that on anyone else so I have come to conclude I must say "no" too much! Case in point here is the video! They do this all the time!

My little Parker Bear

I have been thinking a lot lately about my little Parker. He will be turning 4 next Saturday, and it makes me so sad! He is my little baby and he always will be! It's hard to believe the time has gone by so fast, wishing I could go back and hold him when he was born again. He is the sweetest boy. I love my little Parker! So here are some pictures of my little baby boy, Parker.

I LOVE YOU PARKER!