These can't be MY twins !

So, really is it all possible that I am getting old? You're right! It isn't possible, but then how do I explain that my twins, who are so young, sweet and innocent (yeah right!)children of mine , how can they be old enough to graduate PRESCHOOL and are going to start Full day kindergarten on July 27th, 2009? Aye yi yi!!

They had an adorable little ceremony with graduation caps and a little light refreshment afterwards.

I wanted to do something nice for their teacher Miss Sharon, so I purchased a Visa Gift Card from Walmart, thinking that she could spend the money wherever she wanted. I should have just gone with CASH, because after I spent money and put it on the card, I get a call from her a few weeks later, just as an FYI that she couldn't use the card because it needed to be activated! ??? what? really? the store didn't take care of that while I was there? and apparenetly they needed the receipt to activate it? That receipt was LONG GONE!! HOW absurd is that? I am just out the money now, that was intended for gratitude purposes! NICE!

Enjoy the pics!

How long since my last post? Yaowzers!

It has been QUITE some time since I have posted. I do have an explanation, but it is so long, and drawn out, let's just chalk it up to the economic crisis and internet service :D! So I have quite the task of getting everyone up to speed! It honestly has been so long, I am sure I have missed out on some awesome posting opportunities, but I am just going to have to go on what my camera from the last point I remember!

Here it is! Mckenzie and her "play"! We got Mckenzie involved in "UP WITH KIDS" which is run through all the rec centers around the valley. It is ingenius! All the rec centers do the same play throuout the valley, that way all the same costumes, and props are just transported to each place. what a great idea! Anyway... Mckenzie was thrilled when she heard about this last year and decided that we would see what it was about!. The play this year was called ENCHANTED featuring Alvin and the Chipmunks! It was very cute. Mckenzie was Mike Wazaowski from Monsters Inc and in another couple parts as a Rat and then a Bride in the end. We are both excited to get her involved in this next year!

Eggs, eggs, and more eggs!

So I think I went a tad overboard on the eggs this year! You may or may not have read on Facebook about my stellar egg boiling skills.... :)
Let me back up. My mother usually goes to visit my brother Kevin and his beautiful family around this time of year in Connecticut. But most of the time it is before Easter, or right after Easter. We have always, always gone to her house to decorate eggs with all the cousins. She even boils all the eggs for each family and lets us take them all home too. I KNOW!! My mother! Aye yi yi!! She is incredible!! IT IS TRUE! This year she went over Easter and I thought what a great thing for us to do our own eggs at our house. SO, went to Walmart, and found the box that says 5 dozen eggs! Oh wow. . . I think I will get that! I hope this is enough! (says me!) Then down the aisle to the egg dye! OH MY GOODNESS!!! Look at all the pretty colors (says me again!) Oh let's buy this sports one for Isaac, and Olivia... she will love the GLITTER EGGS!... Kenzie I think will enjoy the all - in - one decorating!! So YUP I walked out of the store, 5 dozen eggs and 3 packages of dye in hand. (of course after paying for them... I am crazy - not criminal!) Get home and start the big ol pan full of water and stock it full of eggs! Then - - Dum dum dummmmmmm!! I forget about them!! Isaac comes running into the bedroom and says MOM! THE EGGS ARE POPPING! ! ! I said, Oh yeah eggs!! They are boiling!! It is okay Isaac! SO slowly, I get up off my "duff" and walk to the kitchen to hear actual POPPING!!! Let's just say, All the water had evaporated, and the eggs were actually burning. Literally black and brown burn marks on the shells!!! My pan... RUINED!!! YIKES!!! Seriously, I need some lessons on either boiling eggs, or even just water, or a lesson on, just leave well enough alone and let my mom do the domestic loving to my children! :)
Oh did I mention the part about all the different egg dye I purchased? Yup, DISASTER! The glitter eggs -- bad idea! Open up the box and what fall out all over the floor, me, table, but a TON of glitter!!! I am still finding it everywhere! DON"T GET GLITTER!!!


Trying to get all the children in one pose,
smiling at the camera,
by my favorite tree on a beautiful day???? PRICELESS!!!!

As you can tell from this picture,
Olivia is in her prime form by being very
obstinate and grumpy because she wasn't the
first to get her picture taken!!!
Whew she is a handful at times! Don't let that adorable face fool you!!!!

Isaac being has charming and handsome as he possibly can be,
knowing that he can come home from church and eat MORE CANDY!!!

Kenzie - Always the happy child! (when she gets her way and gets to be first with the pictures!) She LOVES her Easter dress, as do I! It was a miracle that we made a choice we both agreed on. If she had it her way, she would have had the puffy pink sleeveless prom dress she swears is an Easter dress!!!

You can't hide forever SPRING!!!!

Just a glimpse of spring was all we got so far! Look my yellow tulips are even blooming!!! Gosh darn you -- Utah weather!! I am still hopeful that it will stay!
Happy Easter to us all!!!

Pediatrician say what?

My poor little ley ley! She is such a trooper! She has had this rash under her arms and stomach now for a few months. First we took her to urgent care and they said it is a viral thing and not to worry about it. Then we get home from our trip and she is COVERED in this Rash all over her poor little body! SO I take her to the doctors office on Monday morning, and our pediatrician says that the rash under her arms and on her stomach IS a viral rash called Molluscum Contagiousum! (HUH?) and he is "thinking" not sure, but thinking that the rash all over her body that are these itchy red bumps that resemble chicken pox, but aren't must be her body rebelling against the virus!! ?? WHAT? He ended up giving us some antibiotics just incase the under arm wart thingys are infected, and that has seemed to help a bit, but she still is covered in this horrible rash! Has this dampened her spirits? Not in the least!! In fact, I think she has become more arrogant ! Little terd! :)

Vegas - Baby!!!

Wow, I hadn't realized it had been so long since I had posted on my blog! I do apologize to all my devoted fans out there! LOL!!

So as luck would have it, Aaron and I were fortunate enough to have one of our loving sister and newphew to come and stay with our kids while we traveled out of town for an "extended weekend" with Lynn and Megan Dannenberg! We were able to find nice hotel in Mesquite, NV and travel down to Vegas for one day to watch the National Monster Truck Jams! I know what you are thinking.... HUH? She can't be serious right? Well too bad ! I am totally serious. And since we are being serious, I will tell you right off the bat, that I was not too thrilled about it. I mean hey, we got a screaming good deal on the tickets last minute from a friend from High School, that I have recently connected with on Facebook, and they were unable to use them. AND how we were already planning on going to Mesquite for that weekend anyway, why not have a little fun in Vegas too right? I loved every bit of that show. It was so FUN!!! These monster trucks, jacked up HIGH with these HUGE wheels, racing and jumping, and climbing, and smashing.... Totally AWESOME! I know I sound like such a hillbilly, but dang cussin good times!!! LOL !

Here are some pics I took of the show! They are only from my phone cuz, I forgot my camera! Sorry for the quality!!



This was one of the coolest cars! I had to take a picture cause it is so cool!!! Who doesn't love BATMAN!

Here is Megan standing next to the wheels... GINORMOUS RIGHT? see- Told ya :)

This was the beginning of the show... all the trucks came out running around making their engines roar, fireworks, pyrotechnics, etc. A THRILL!!!

This is an example of what they did, two trucks would come out from either side of the stadium, race to the other end, round a corner, and then jump this big dirt mound and whichever truck made it over the line first went to the next round! One truck was coming so fast around the corner, he ended up in the bottom rows of the stands! (they don't seat people on the first 15 or so rows because of that!)

The rest of these pics are of the "FREESTYLE" round where one car would come out for 2 minutes and do all sorts of jumps, tricks, crashes etc to get points. Totally awesome. And they were all so gung-ho about it. The final freestyle of the season so they didn't seem to care to much about what damage it did to their trucks!! SO AWESOME!!!


Who's coming with me next year?????

You can't be serious???

Last night we went up to the University of Utah to see the Women's Gymnastics Meet against Arizona State. Man that gals are awesome!!!! My kids loved it. Especially Olivia, she couldn't believe that they were balancing and dancing on a bar!!! But as fate would have, nothing that we do ever goes very easy!

I picked the kids up from daycare and got home in time to get changed, and back out the door again to make it to the meet. We were going to meet my sister Mel and her husband Brent. Just as we were going to get on the freeway, Isaac says to me, "MOM hurry up! I am gonna frow up!" I said what? Then KaBAM! There it came! All over him and the back seat of the car! Of course as OCD as Issac is, he is FREAKING OUT cause puke is all over him, and Olivia is screaming because Isaac is being so loud and it SMELLS! I pull into a gas station and buy some water and papertowels. Clean him up a bit and the seat and start to take him back home. Half way back home, he says, Mom I feel so much better, I want to go to the "nastics" meet! I said no buddy you are sick! He says no I not sick, I feel better. So I thought maybe he got a tad car sick in the back! So another U turn and we are on our way to the U. Of course we were late, but we still caught 2 1/2 rotations so that was good. Isaac acted just fine. Up and down the stairs and laughing and having fun. For sure it was just car sickness! So on our way home the kids are complaining that they are hungry. As well they should be. We didn't eat dinner! It was about 8:50pm! So we stopped at Subway to get a sandwich. We were in line waiting, and Isaac starts freaking out, Mom I am gonna frow up ... so I rush him outside just in time for him to puke all over the sidewalk, and then to the bushes ahead. YUCK! But near miss right? SO I put him back in the car with Kenzie to watch him and take Olivia back inside with me. Just as soon as we are wrapping up the sandwiches, the funny guy helping me looks horrified and starts pointing at Olivia. I look over to see her holding Puke in her hands and it is all in her hair. OH GROSS! I run her right outside in time for her to puke all over the sidewalk as well! OH THE HUMILIATON!!! I came back inside and apologized profusely! The guy helping me said.. Man ! I am sure glad my shift is over in a minute. I don't think I can look at food the rest of the night! The other guys says... Dude that totally just made my night!

YES<>... Zeus (our bulldog) just puked all over our bed!

A night to remember Forever!!! Sorry U gymnastics gals!! RED ROCKS! but we won't be doing that trek for a long time to come! :)

No Habla Espanol !!!

Let me preface this story by telling you, last summer, our kids thought it would be funny to open our bedroom window and stick their hand out the bottom corner of the screen (cause there was a little rip in the screen) Which of course made is a HUGE rip... so we just pulled the screen out and have meant to replace it, but haven't gotten to it yet.

Sunday morning 2/22/09 at 6:47am. Aaron and Teresa are sound asleep in our bed, window cracked open a tad, cause we like the fresh air at night. Suddenly, we are abrubtly awoken from our slumber to the sound of somone at our door. Not just a polite ring, or knock.. no this was the doorbell getting a beating!!!! Constant ring ring ring ring!!! Aaron jumps out of bed and looks out the window and sees this person at our door and shouts (because our window is open a bit) What do you want/? Who are you? and this little latino man comes over to Aaron speaking nothing but Spanish, realizes that our window is open starts to slide it more open, and starts to make his way into our bedroom!!!! Aaron grabs him by the head and pushes him out the window yelling at him to get out of our house, you are not coming in here. Aaron slams the window shut, gets dressed, and makes his way outside to find this little man, over at our neighbors ringing thier doorbell, and banging on the door!! Aaron convinces him to come back down to him to see if he can help. He ends up calling the police who arrive in about 5 min, and the police can't get a thing out of him either. They end up calling a translator and he says that this guy was stabbed and had been running from 8400 West. Once the police heard he might have been stabbed, they started "frisking" him to see where his wound might be, but couldn't find anything. One officer started patting down his pockets to see if he had a weapon, and was stabbed by something sharp. He was freaking out cause they thought it was a needle, but ended up turning his pockets inside out and a bunch of tacks came out. WEIRD right? This guy must have been "tweaking" from drugs of some kind. ! The police ended up taking him back to the station because they didn't know what else to do with him!

My hero, my husband! What a man!! What would I do without him? I don't want to know!!!

Who is this Cupid guy?

For starters, I am not a big Valentines day person. I don't get all "gushy" at V-Day, I don't expect any presents or things from my hubby! I know he loves me and honestly, it is just another day to spend money that we don't have!!! SO I am perfectly fine having just the day as another day in the week. BUT... on the other side of the coin there is VALENTINE"S DAY CANDY!!!! THAT IS SOMETHING THAT I DO GET INTO!!! SO, alas, my kids get all excited to get Valentine's ready for school, and to receive all the goodies later on. Here is the proof of what goes on behind closed doors after the candy has been given out and my kids have "over done" it again!!! They take after their mom with the candy! :O



Olivia, going through her goodies and finding what is best... OBVIOUSLY it HAS to be the FUN DIP that turns your tounge GREEEN!! YUMMY!!! I LOVE FUN DIP!!!!

Isaac after the FUN DIP !! ! Check out those EYES!!! HE IS TOTALLY FOCUSED ON THE CANDY!!! That's my boy!!! SO PROUD!


Kenzie getting her Valentines goodies ready for school the next day!!!

I am going to end with the most precious thing out of the mouths of my babes!!

Conversation on the way home from Day Care on Thursday evening!

Isaac: " MOM!"
Mom: Yes?
Isaac: "did you get a hurt when Cupid shoot you at the heart?"
Mom: What? Cupid ? Is that what you talked about in preschool today?
Isaac: Yeah! And he shoots the peoples and do it hurts?
Olivia: I know how he shoots the peoples... He does it like this... ( Olivia motioning like she is pulling a bow an aarow back!) And they look and it goes whoosh... and then (insert GINORMOUS SIGH!!!) and they say AWWWWWWW !!! (like they just found love!)
Isaac: Yeah mom and guess what? They get very BIG EYES!!!!


TRUE STORY!!!!

Happy valentines Day to all! Happy Treating !!!

9 years seems like forever... yet not long enough!

January 28, 2000! Seems like so long ago, yet just yesterday ! That was the day my bald headed babe and I tied the knot!

Happy Anniversary Aaron! I know you don't ever read this blog, nor do you know how to access it (I am guessing!) But this is just my way of letting everyone know how much I love you!!!

We met almost 11 years ago in April, at Olympus Hills Bowling Lanes. We were both on a summer bowling league that had just started. I remember seeing Aaron at the bowling alley on a Tuesday night, the night before our Wednesday Bowling League started. I was on another league on Tuesday night, and I saw Aaron practicing with a girl down a few lanes from mine. I remember thinking, he is really handsome. I really "DIG" (yes, DIG, remember I am OLD) the bald head and the scruffy beard. Too bad that is his girlfriend. :(
The next night we started our Wednesday Nite LIVE bowling league. AND.... as Fate would have it, My team was bowling against Aaron's team. AND.... as fate would AGAIN step in, we were placed at the same time to bowl. I got all nervous getting up the same time he did thinking, do I talk to him? What should I say, when out of his mouth says.... Okay, Let's go.... let's see who can strike it out! I thought... Oh jeez... what a weirdo.. he is one of THOSE bowlers who are all cocky like and think that bowling a strike means they are the BEST!! We both got up and he let me go first... Deep breath, find my mark and GO....... STRIKE! Ha ! In your face KOJAK!!! He just rolled his eyes, as if that was beginners luck. Of course he bowled a strike. You could just see the cockiness building inside him. Again, it is our turn to bowl, for three more times.... Strike, Strike, Strike. Hee Hee, you can see him getting a little frustrated. Beginners luck my boot!!! I am on FIRE and I LIKE IT!!!
5th frame, it is GAME ON again. He tells me that I am going to choke! and off he goes! Ohh.. ohhh almost.... D'OH!! SPILT!!! Too bad, so sad baldy... better luck next time, STRIKE for "T"! 5 in a row. ! Oh yes... I totally choked after that... but I beat him!! That was all I needed for satisfaction.

It just blossomed from there... Bowling and Best Friends! ! !

Thanks for all the memories, love and laughter we have had so far! ! !