our week

We had a great week! Busy week...

Pajama day on Monday

SCVi spirit day on Tuesday

Wednesday, Crazy Hair Day (Sierra has a bunch of pony tails, not just 2) :)

 and a field trip with Ashton and his class to LA zoo...here is Ashton with Eliza G.

 Wednesday night I had my 3rd exam and practical. I spelt brachii wrong and it is killing me! I emailed my professor and asked for mercy cause I erased it 4 times, with an h and without an h. We'll see, hopefully I did well. I NEED an A in the class.
Thursday was twin day and my kids were twins (actually quintuplets and triplets) :) with their friends. They looked darling.
Babysat Melanie Thursday evening, went to Janelle and Terry's for dinner, Sierra had a playdate at Chloe's with Karlie there too.
Friday was Carnival day or rainbow day...kinda lame but whatevs! We drew (instead of face painted) pictures of a dinosaur and a basketball hoop on Ashton's face and Sierra wore lots of fun colors and we painted her fingernails rainbow.
I went to a meeting where I got lots of advice on how to get in a nursing program.
After school we ate lunch, waited for the Rayne water guy to change our filters. Then we went to Pinkberry to use a gift card I got a long time ago, it was so yummy. We ate our fro yo out by the fish at the mall. We tried to save a fish that looked like it was stuck, hopefully we did, don't know for sure. Ate In N' Out for dinner.

 Saturday morning I was up early to go for a run, then off we went to Mormon Helping Hands. Jake chopped crab grass away from the curb and me and the kids painted alot of red curbs red again.
Then we had invited the Delhoyo's to a play, "Wartime Romance", that Jake's company sponsored. His company fed us lunch too. It was so fun hanging with Miles and Heather. We had their family over after for pizza and they brought yummy chocolate cupcakes. The kids really had so much fun and grownups did too. We got to snuggle sweet baby Xander, oh I love to snuggle him! :)

Last night we got a phone call from the primary pres., Theresa Jensen. She asked if tomorrow in Primary Sierra could  share a moment when she felt that Heavenly Father loves her. She didn't write anything down she just knew exactly what she wanted to say.  So today she did it and got emotional and I guess every woman in there was emotional and I wasn't there to witness it but I got an email afterwards from Shauna W. saying how amazing Sierra is and how proud they are of her. Tonight I saw Theresa and both her and her husband were praising Sierra too. :)

We celebrated Grandpa's birthday! Happy birthday Grandpa! Loves and Hugs! Many more! :)

"A Little Part of Me Died This Morning"

On the way to school...
Ashton: Mom is Santa Real?
Me: Uh...No
A: He's not!
Me: No, I'm sorry!
A: (sad face)
Me: The excitement of Christmas morning will still be there!
A: I kinda had a feeling when I saw Sierra come out of her room with stockings on Christmas Eve. (She filled mine and Jake's stockings and apparently buddy boy wasn't asleep yet, oops!)
Who eats the cookies?
Me: (I raised my hand)
A: That's why you said "maybe we should put out cucumbers so Santa can have something healthy to eat".
Me: haha, now Ashton you have a special job. You have to keep the secret and help others to still believe, especially those who are younger than you.
A: ok, especially the kindergardners.
Me: :)

BYU Graduation

Yesterday me and the kids hitched a ride with sister Sophi and Rich and kids to Utah, my mom sent us a pic of the graduation that happened with everybody yesterday, an awesome sight! Today my brother and sis-in-law graduated, what a great day! So proud of them!
We went to dinner at PF Chang's with everybody. :)
Then we went to the park, watched a movie at Uncle Norris', helped Uncle Norris load a little in the truck (cause they're moving to Cali) :), the girls left and got yogurt.
So fun being together, the time spent together, priceless!

posting on the go

I have been posting from my phone lately cause it is SO easy! But the pictures from my camera are so much better, it is what it is, I do what I can...haven't been feeling the love lately though, 0 comments. Was it something I said?
Sunday's have been quite depressing since my mom doesn't live up the street anymore. She doesn't even cook much anymore. Some Sunday's we are invited to eat with family but it seems that mostly we are on our own and after I get over the hurdle I quite enjoy a nice evening with just the 4 of us. :)
Tonight we had our mom's over (Terry is out of town). It was a nice evening. We ate Lemon Chicken, rice, roasted veggies, salad and bread.
We watched Frozen Planet and ate chocolate.
We watched our new movie "we bought a zoo" and ate popcorn.
Signed Ashton up for summer basketball, crazy?! He has been obsessed, watching Lakers with daddy every chance he gets and is GLUED to the TV, he knows all the players names, and he plays basketball every chance he gets. Maybe, we'll see! :)

OH BOY!

A baby boy is almost here! We celebrated he and his momma this last Thursday! Miriam has great friends and family who love her dearly! It was a beautiful night!

Can't wait to snuggle him! :)

Easter Weekend and Sharky

Finally posting Easter weekend but what a great day to get caught up, Sunday. We had a great weekend, made frozen hot chocolate!

 Annual Easter Egg Hunt at the Halladay's, here's me...hiding the eggs we brought. Have to bring 12 plastic filled eggs per child and then each child leaves with 12 eggs. :)

 All the kids! So FUN!

 Then we dyed eggs at home, the kids were so clever. They drew such creative things on each egg, I even cooked more eggs so they could draw and dye some more.

 Easter morning, before all the searching and searching began, we had the kids come in our bedroom and Jake shared an Easter message with our family and then we each shared our testimony of our Savior, really brought the Spirit into our home, a great start to a beautiful day...in their baskets they each got new flip flops; a movie, "We Bought a Zoo;" Sierra got a lava lamp ;) and a Reester Bunny; Ashton got a Lakers t-shirt, sour bunnies and a giant ball. :)

 Happy Easter!

 LOOK at my Easter shoes! Aren't they so VERY cute!

 In Ashton's class at school the kids in his class and the adjoining classroom sold popcorn at recess and lunch to help raise money to adopt a sea animal. Well, they raised enough money to buy 4 sea animals. :) With the adoption they send a real picture of the animal, a stuffed animal so all of the kids named their adopted animals and now take turns bringing them home and journaling about their adventures. This last week Ashton got to bring Sharky home with us for a night and Ashton LOVED taking him everywhere with us, to piano lessons, the grocery store, he played basketball with him and jumped on the trampoline with him. :)

Hiking

Today on the agenda...hiking with Aunt Sophi and Uncle Rich, Kim H., Nate and Amanda A., and lots and lots of kids. So much fun!!! There was a stream, we could hear frogs and we saw a snake! The sun is shining and we are happy! :)