You know you are a grown up when...

I was at the morning safety meeting this morning right before my shift and saw the Redbook magazine turned to this page that says "You know you are a grown up when..." and then listed the thing below it. One of the things made me laugh so hard everyone one asked what I was reading. I thought it was a cute thing to share. It reads "you know you are a grown up when... you retire those sweatpants that have 'flirt', 'princess' or anything written across the butt." now you might not find it as funny as I did, but I just bought some of those last year! I thought they were so cute although mine say "phi beta pink" on the bum! Anyway, I guess that means I am not yet a grown up.

My Honey

I am kinda copying this idea from a friend, but I though it was about time that I talked about how great my husband is. I love him so much, he is my best friend. We knew that we would not be able to celebrate Valentines Day on the day everyone else was celebrating it because I was working and he had to work the night before and the night after. So, we decided to go out on Wednesday night. We went to Tepenyaki (I really am not a good speller by the way). It was so fun to watch they chef cook our food on the table right in front of us. After he was done cooking our food, he flipped shimp into Blaine's mouth. Out of 4 pieces Blaine caught 2. It was so fun. Then we went to a movie and he let me pick it out. We went to "He is Just Not That Into You". It was such a funny movie, we laughed and I cried. It was a really great way to spend the evening. We have not really had a chance to spend time with just each other for a while. We work opposite schedules and share the child raising. It is pretty busy. Getting to spend time with each other alone is so rare, I cherish it. I had the best time just talking and laughing with my best friend.
I fell in love with my best friend after just a short time of dating him. He is usually thinking of everyone else but him. He is constantly telling me to just relax and he will take care of things. he decided to work the night shift after Kayla was born because he knew I really did not want to, and we did not want Kayla to go to daycare. He never even asked me to go to the night shift , he just did it.
He bought me flowers and taped them around the house with cute little notes taped to the flower on Valentines morning. He got home at 3:30 am and I got up at 5 am for work. He even got all of the kids cute little things for Valentines day. I am usually the one that remembers those things, I totally forgot them this year. I did remember to get my honey a card. The funny thing was he got me the exact same card. I guess great minds do really think alike.
He is the best thing that happened to me. He is my perfect partner. He is the best husband and father that I could ever asked for. I know my Heavenly Father had a hand in getting us together. He knew how perfect we would compliment each other. I can not believe that I get to soend eternity with such a special man!

A jazz Game, New Clothes and A Ponytail

The Jazz occasionally have a family fun night where it is $90 for 6 tickets and 6 hot dogs. Blaine thought that we should do this at least one time before we leave, so at the spur of the moment we did. Monday Feb 2 we went to the Jazz game. We invited Lynn and Tammy to come with us because Josh had bad grades we did not let him go. While we were there they had jerseys for some of the players on clearance. Of course i thought how could we go to the game and not get a jersey! I bought each of the kids one. Kayla's is a onsie and is pink. I thought it was so cute!

Here is Cayden and Jared posing with their jerseys on. Josh got one too, he was just sleeping by the time we got home.

Aren't they the cutest kids ever!!!

Here is Miss Kayla and her tiny ponytail. Hard to see I know but it is there. there was just enough hair to put an elastic around it and then put the bow on. What a cute face, I just love it!

How do you spell S-T-R-E-S-S!

It has been another crazy week. We are still in the process of packing everything, my house is not organized, it is boxed. That is a bit difficult for me to handle. I am kinda a clean, organizing freak. I know that is such a surprise to many of you, anyway, I am really stressed out about it not being perfect. Not to mention, people want to show the house at the most inconvenient times. You know dinner time, nap time, husband worked all night and is sleeping still time. I am really struggling with it all.

We were so excited that Blaine was getting this great job in Phoenix, we were going to move and he would finally be making enough money to support our lifestyle. Well, news flash, if it seems too good to be true, it probably is! He has been trying to get a hold of the guy that hired him to plan a start date and definite salary amount and the guy said, "Well, the company is still not doing as great as we had hoped so I am going to have to put you off for a bit longer." Blaine, the forever optimist, says it was meant to be and he will find something soon for sure. I am stress out! This was the whole reason for moving in the first place. I am really afraid that we are going to go from bad to worse. We have a house there, we are selling our house here, but do we have jobs yet??? Of course not. Why not just live spontaneously and moving first find work later? Because we are grown ups. We have a family of 6, bills and other responsibilities.

Now you did not think I was done did you?? Of course not! Kayla has had diarrhea for the past 3 weeks. I thought we had tried everything. I took her in for her monthly RSV shot and found she had only gained 7 ounces this month. (That is half of what she normally gains.) I took her into the doctor and they had me get some stool samples (yuck, even for a nurse). I waited for the results only to find out I had labeled the containers wrong and they were thrown away. UGGG! Went to get more containers, got a second opinion (who told me just try her on milk and soy again, she can not get any worse.) , I promptly got a third opinion. Come to find out one of the little snacky crackers I had bought her were made with whey in them (that is milk by the way). So my precious little daughter was sick for so long because of me! I felt like the worst mother in the world. I read all of the labels but I did not look close enough and missed it on this one thing. My poor baby, she had a sick belly and a red bum because I was in a hurry at the store. I do not think I will ever forgive myself for that. I am just so thankful for the little prompting that I had to recheck the ingredients of everything she was eating. Now that she has not had any of those snacks for 5 days the diarrhea has finally stopped.

Jared, my pain in the butt, has decided that he no longer has asthma so he does not need to take any medicine. Well, he is wrong. He too went to the doctor because he could not figure out why he could not breathe well. Come to find out, he still has asthma! I know shocker, but and 11 year old is always right and you are always wrong. The doctor told him he picked a really dumb time to quit his medicine because our air quality has bee so poor for the past 3 weeks. Fortunately he does not have to do a round of oral steroids this time, but he does have to double his inhaled steroids for 3 weeks to get over this. It really is too bad that my smartest kid has no common sense!

I think that we deserve a break after the stuff we have had to deal with this past week. Blaine is taking a day off for his birthday, the following day I am going to use my spa day that Blaine got me for Christmas. I hope these moments of relaxation will help us to get through the next whatever we need to get through.

This week

Cayden loves to take pictures. We even got him a cute kid digital camera for Christmas. Will he use it, no, he wants to take pictures with Mommy's camera. Here is the one he took of me this week. I was looking at it and decided that although he did great as an amature photographer, I really am starting to show my age and weight. So consider this my before picture. i have started exercising and eating better and there is no way i am going to post anything other then my face so anyone can see the real before picture, so this will have to do. I had the flu over the weekend so I did not join in the daily exercise video with everyone. Jared is off track. This means that he does not have school, until February 23. he has decided that he needs to gain weight since he will be 12 this year and still does not weigh 80 pounds (I wish I had that problem!). So Blaine and I now have "buddies" to work out with because Cayden has to do everything Jared does. It is great to get them in the habit early of working out. Each morning when Jared wakes up he says, "What workout are we going to do today Mom?" He is great at motivating me to get my bum in gear!

Since we are packing to move, we have come across somethings that we need to throw away, need to get rid of, thought we had lost, and just things. Cayden found these Spiderman stickers and decided he did not want them to get lost again, so he used them. He put them all over his face! He is so silly. I was giving Kayla a bath at the time and he said, "Mom look at me!" when I looked all I could do was laugh. He is such a funny boy!

Kayla is just a cute as can be and getting cuter everyday! She is now eating Cheerios. She was cute by trying to get them in her mouth. She would get part of it in her mouth, spit it out and then try again. The second try usually ended up with it stuck to her face. When I said, "Kayla, what are you doing silly." , she would just smile.

While I was getting her bath ready the other night, Cayden was taking photos of her. He would get so close that part of her head was cut off. Her is one of the better ones. He sould not quite catch her smiling, but then again, I rarely am able to get get that on film either.

I was so excited that Kayla finally has a few tiny long hairs on the top of her head! Just enough for a clip to make it look like a ponytail. There is no way I could get an elastic around those tiny things but a clip stayed in just long enough for a cute picture! She is sitting up so much better now that she really does not like to just lay on the floor. She is starting to get on her hands and kness and rock back and forth! :( I am so sad that my baby is getting so big. not in size, just in milestones. I took her to the doctor the other day and at eight months she weighs 13 pounds 10 ounces.

Hope you all have a great week. Do not get too upset with the lack of posts in the next coming month. We are trying to move and time is limited. Be patient and I will fill in the details as I can.

BIG NEWS

We have had some very big news and I have been waiting until things were more definate to blog about it. We are moving! Not just to a different house but a different state. We are moving to the Phoenix area. About 2 months ago, Blaine got a call on his resume that he had handed out to a guy in the Phoenix area 2 years ago. Blaine went down for an interview and got the job. he is still in the negotiation process so a start date is up in the air, but we are moving.
I have mixed feeling about our move. I am so excited to be where it is warm and it does not snow. I am excited to be closer to so many of my family members. I am also sad, I love my job. It is the first job that I have had in a very long time where I am excited to go. I lopve caring for the babies and their new mommies. I love the friends that I have made up here.
I know that God has his hand in this. We were meant to move up here. I am not sure why. It has been a very humbling experience. Blaine and I have never been so close or had such a good marriage as we have right now. We hardly ever fight or argue. It is so amazing to have such a close relationship with my husband! I never imagined that is was possible to be this in love and love each other this much!
We have decided that what ever happens is meant to be. We will move when we are suppose to and we will live in the area we were meant to live in. We have our faith renewed because of this answered prayer. It just was not answered how we wanted it to be. "Sometimes Gods greatest gifts are unanswered prayers."

Bath Time

Kayla is finally sitting up well enough to be in the "Big Girl" bathtub. Cayden loves to take a bath with her. he loves to do anything with her where he can ba the BIG brother. He loves to help her get washed and hand her toys to chew on. I love that I can get them both washed in half the time of doing 2 baths. They are just so cute. I hope they stay this fun and do not start fighting anytime soon.

Here is the best picture of her cute little smile. She normally smiles and then stops right as I snap the picture. I was so excited to get this one while Cayden was talking to her.