CRESAP FAMILY

Logans Birthday....

2010-10-10T15:02:00.000-07:00

Logan turned 7 yesterday, and as he put it " it was the best birthday ever!" The day started out crazy since I had to go to the store, bake 2 cakes, and get us all ready to be out the door by 11. I had to stop by the bank before heading out to Peter Piper Pizza. My kids were as friendly as they always are and were talking to a nice old lady in the line. They told her we were going to PPP and that it was Logan's birthday. We headed over to PPP and about 15 minutes later, that same nice lady from the bank came in and found me. I thought maybe I dropped something in line, and she was returning it. Nope. She brought Logan $5 for his birthday. How nice is that? You don't meet people like that very often, and I was so touched. Logan got everything he could have wanted. Video game system with awesome games, a TON of silly bands( apparently they are the new thing..everyone has them and he has been begging me for weeks) and money. The kids had a blast of course. You cant go wrong with Peter Piper. We went home for a few hours before we went to meet Mom and Dave for dinner and more cake! We went to Pei Wei's ( my favorite! Thank goodness Logan picked chinese for dinner!) and Logan got more birthday money. He has saved up $45 which is good for him, but bad for me. Logan has saving for a motor scooter forever, and Zach told him if he saved up half of the money we would pay the rest. Apparently we will be paying sooner than I thought. Anyway, besides the going to Walmart 3 different times it was a fabulous day. Thanks everyone for coming and making the day so special for Logan!

Lila and the kids at the prize counter. Lee and Trace wouldn't let me take pictures of them, so I had to be sneaky with this one.

Logan and Hunter...

This is the nice lady that we met in the bank, that brought Logan $5.

My girls and their Lila.

Logan, Trace and Hunter playing with their awesome PPP blow up hammers.

Grandpa doing some cool tricks with Logans PPP yo-yo.

Mom and Dave with the kids...

I am so proud of what an awesome little man Logan has become.

Jocy....

2010-10-03T22:21:00.000-07:00

All 3 of my kids were binki babies. They used them until they were about 2 years old. It is always hard to take them away, but once they were gone...they were gone. Jocy has been another story altogether. She was a thumb sucker when she was born, which I was totally against. I bought every kind of binki the stores had, trying to break her from the thumb sucking. I finally found an ugly looking butterfly binki that she would actually take. when she was about 18 months, we noticed that the binki was messing up her teeth. When she would bite down, only her molars would touch, and there was a big gap between her top and bottom teeth. The dentist said it was caused by the binki, so away it went at 18 months instead of 2 years. Apparently, she still wants to have a binki.......I caught her hiding in the corner behind the tree...with a binki in her mouth.

She realized she was caught...but is playing the "I'm Cute" card.

I took the binki away...

She was mad at me...

So, why do I still have binkis around my house for her to find and cry about? who knows!

September.....

2010-09-19T17:17:00.000-07:00

Yes, I know...I'm a horrible blogger. And you're not going to get much out of me withe this post either! I have slacked a little with my picture taking, but I have a few from the past month I thought I would post.

Logan just moved to a yellow belt in Karate. He did a great job. He has a graduation every two months, so he should be a black belt in no time! One of Railynn's many faces...

We took the kids to Peter Piper Pizza a few weeks ago and it was actually really fun. The pizza was surprizingly good and the breadsticks were even better. I usually have a hard time at these kinds of places, but not this time! Zach and I even played Deal or No Deal. ( We used a lot of the kids tokens to play, but it was fun! Shhh....)

I know Logan has a face full of pizza...Most parents would pass on putting a picture like this on their blog, but I thought it was funny! Logan gets really embarrased about this sort of thing, so I have to be sneaky when taking pictures.

Logan teaching Stormie how to play video games on the Playstation...

Logan thought it would be a good idea to play with his dads razor in the shower. He refused to let me shave his head to fix it, ( It was quite the battle actually) Like I said, he gets embarrased really easily. He was afraid If I shaved it all off he would get made fun of at school. So why did he think that trying to cut his own hair would be a good idea? Your guess is as good as mine!

Every once in a while we have a night where Jocy hates going to bed with out her dad. Her dad is a push over and gets her out of bed, so she thinks she can get away with it all the time.

I had some fun videos of the kids, but they wouldnt upload. Maybe next time!

Scentsy giveaway!!!

2010-08-19T14:28:00.000-07:00

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Happy Birthday Jocy!

2010-08-08T19:40:00.000-07:00

Jocy turned 2 years old on friday. She started the day off with the daddy breakfast tradition. Technically it was always a tradition that Zach wanted to do, but I always ruined because I thought I should be able to go. Rude I know. So....you will all be happy to know that it is officially an official tradition! haha! Jocy and Zach went to burger king. woohoo! What a birthday celebration that must have been! Kids are so easily pleased. :)

I have been watching cake design shows on TV lately, so I decided to try to make a barbie cake. I carved it and everything. I had a bit of a mishap with the frostin in the back, but luckily Melissa was there to fix it for me! Here is the before picture...

After....

Happy birthday Jocy!!!

First day of First grade!

2010-08-08T19:33:00.000-07:00

I cant believe how time flies. My little boy started first grade last week. We went to meet the teacher night on monday, and Logan was less than thrilled about his teacher. His closest friend wasnt in his class which didnt help the situation. We went into the classroom and Logan already had tears in his eyes. Thank goodness for his tender heart...I told him he was going to hurt his teachers feeling if she saw him crying. He immediately calmed himself, and we met his teacher with no problems. he even acted happy when he spoke with his teacher. He hasn't had a problem with it since. I love my boy. I think we have started off the year pretty well!

Taekwondo!

2010-08-08T19:15:00.001-07:00

We put Logan in Taekwondo a few months ago and he loves it! I was a afraid at first of the concept, because Logan is a boy who really likes to throw, punch, kick, fight as it is. After looking into it, it is much more than that. Logan is learning respect, how to listen, how to protect himself, and courtesy. They had a graduation a few weeks ago and Logan did awesome. They went up in a group of 5 and had to do all of their forms for Master Lee in order to graduate to a higher belt color. Logan moved to an orange belt and was picked to move up to a higher group because of his leadership. I am so proud. It has been really good for him. Now to get Rai into dance classes......

Poor puppies....

2010-08-08T19:01:00.000-07:00

I am a sucker for all things small...but Zach is even more than I am sometimes. Our friend found some stray puppies out here in buckeye. There were about 7-10 of them and they were starving to death. Well, we couldnt just leave them. Our family headed out a few sundays ago to save a couple of them. I felt so bad. We took the smallest of the bunch of them since they were the least likely to fend for themselves. They had ticks on them, and were very malnourished. We had them for a few weeks, and took care of them until we were sure they would be ok. We had some people come and pick them up today. I hope they will be happy puppies.

BEST VACATION EVER!!

2010-07-09T15:21:00.000-07:00

I just had the best vacation ever. As some of you may know from all of my bragging....Zach let me go to Vegas while he stayed home with the kids. Thats right...you heard right...NO KIDS!!! Woo HOO! My parents were going because my niece had a dance competition, so they let me tag along. It was soooo much fun. I don't get to go to many of her competitions, so I was very excited to finally see them in action. We watched dances, ate good food, floated in the lazy river...(I can't remember the last time I laughed so hard). We even talked my mom into getting in! It was a short 3 day trip, but I loved every minute of it. Let me just say, I have the best parents in the world, and the greatest husband I could ever ask for! I love them!

My cute niece and Char Bar right after her solo performance.

Dinner with the family...It's the action shot. FYI - Best Mexican food ever. Not that it does you any good since I can't remember the name of the restaurant!

Catching up...

2010-06-19T21:04:00.000-07:00

Just a few pics of the Cresap Happenings the past few weeks...

I have the best husband ever. Let me just start by saying that Zach never buys me flowers. Ever. We have been married for almost 9 years and he has bought me a single rose maybe 2 times. But, times have changed! He surprised me with these pretty roses AND he even had them delivered as a suprise. Its amazing how the little things can make you so happy. I love my husband.

Since summer is finally here, I decided it was finally time to find some things for my kids to do so they wouldnt be so bored aroung the house. I bought a kiddie pool on sale at Fry's and the kids LOVE it!

Logan started Karate this week. I am excited to see the impact it will have on him.

Rai and Jocy get into my make-up a lot....I should probably find a better place for it....

Camping....

2010-05-28T22:05:00.001-07:00

Let me start off by saying that I am NOT a super adventurous type of person. That being said, you should all be very proud of me for going on a camping adventure with my family....even if it will be the last time I go camping for a very very long time.

Zach had been talking about taking the kids camping for quite some time, so when school was finally out for Logan he couldnt wait. I didnt really want to go...( as much as I hate to admit it, I am a bit of a girly girl...) but I decided that it would be fun to go as a family. We went to a campsite that Zach went to as a child. It was really pretty, with a little river running by it. When we got out of the car, Jocy immediately started crying/whining. That continued until we were able to get the campsite set up and headed out to go fishing. We only had 2 poles, so the girls and I got pretty bored. Well, I guess I got pretty bored unhooking Logans fishing hook from the bush, the branch in the water, my shirt, etc. all while making sure the girls didnt fall into the water. I decided to snatch up the fishing pole, but while walking to the water I tripped, fell backwards, and landed smack on a rock. I bruised my back up....but that just adds to the fun right??

We hiked around, roasted hotdogs, ate smores, and dug around in the dirt. When it was time to go to bed, Railynn started freaking out because of the bats she was sure were going to fly into the tent through a little hole, and becuase of the "snowbears". Jocy wont go to bed unless she is in her crib. Logan didnt want to go to bed...after all, we were on a camping adventure and he thought it was only right that he get to stay up. The kids finally all fell asleep around 10ish. They all had their own sleeping bags, but within 2 hours, they were sleeping with us. Which would be fine, but It was FREEZING cold and I was kicked out of my spot and ended up sleeping on the tarp with hardly any sleeping bag. To make matters worse, I had a big bruise on my back from the fall on the rock, so it was not a comfortable sleep. We finally all woke up about 5:30, packed up and headed away from the cold and into the heat. I think next time I will just let Logan and Zach go camping. I will stay home with the girls. I know...I am a big baby.

Logan's Graduation!!!

2010-05-19T20:33:00.001-07:00

Logan had his Kindergarten Graduation today. They had little diplomas and everything!!! It really was a lot of fun. I cant believe that my little boy is growing up so fast. Makes me want to cry a little!!! He is such a good boy, and he is so smart. After they handed out the diplomas, they gave certificate awards to the best reader, best writer,best character, and best at math. Then they gave out two medals, one for the overall best reader and one for the overall best writer in each class. Logan got the overall best writer in his class. One of 6 medals given out to all of the Kinders! I am so proud of him...and he was very excited.

FYI....My camera doesnt take good pictures from far away, which is why this picture is so blurry. Logans class did a skit, and Logan was one of the strawberries. Before the Graduation family picture....I love timers on cameras.

Logan with his diploma, and his "Gold Medal"

Mothers Day!!!

2010-05-09T23:00:00.000-07:00

Today was the best day. Charai was nice enought to let me invite all of the family over to HER house for dinner. Bri made the famous Dr Pepper roast, which was delicious. And of course there were mint brownies. What family get together is complete with out them??! I got a fun new bracelet from my parents too. To make a long story short...It was a great day!! I love being a mom.

The girls on our Mothers day.....

My kids cant seem to get enough of their grandpa. They were both laying on his shoulder right before I took this picture...

Silly Grandpa...heehee.

The family singing. We were able to talk toby Snoby into staying for dinner on sunday, and our "sister" Kresta came over with her family.

On our way home....They were soooo tired. They were all holding hands, so I had to take a picture and blog about it because I thought it was cute.

Happy Day...

2010-05-08T18:57:00.000-07:00

For a Pre- Mothers day celebration today, we traveled into town to meet up with my parents and my younger brother Toby. We don't get to see him very often, so it was nice to be able to spend a little extra time with him.

Dave and his bent and now broken glasses thanks to my kids. We aren't even sure when my kids ruined them. Good thing Grandpa buys them in bulk knowing eventually one the grand kids will get their hands on them sooner or later!!

On the way home, Logan was having a meltdown. We talked about a few things he needed to work on, and it turned into him saying "I am such a bad kid" " You don't love me" "You want to send me away" etc. I explained that I love him very much and we had a talk. Of course none of these things made him feel any better. This video is Zach's attempt to make him smile. It is pretty funny if I do say so myself!

More of the kids....

2010-05-03T14:21:00.000-07:00

Sundays are always are busy busy day as we try to get 3 kids ready for church...but that didn't stop me from finding time this past sunday to take a few great pics! ( I had to post most of the pictures I took because of the funny faces my kids were pulling!)

P.S. Check out the newly fun decorated wall behind the kids! I finally moved out the boxes....

Rai's face is great in this one....

Logan and Rai checking out each others silly faces and Jocy trying to copy...

It is officially summer here in our house! Well, technically school doesnt get out for another three weeks, but we have been making the most of the warmer weather a little bit early! Thanks goodness for early release wednesdays! Apparently, I am not the best picture taker in the world because these were the best ones I could find. someone...(LISSA) was supposed to email me other pictures. :) I will post them later!

My kids vs. the MUD

2010-04-11T13:54:00.000-07:00

We were home all day yesterday, bored of course, so when my kids went out to play in the mud...I let them. Granted, I didn't know that is what they were doing at the time. Once I realized what they were doing, the damage was already done. But...there was no anger on my part, even though they know they are NOT supposed to play in the mud. Some days you have to pick your battles. My kids had a lot of fun. I guess sometimes I need to remember to let my kids be kids!

The end result of Rai and Logan...regardless of what you might think, Logan did not roll around in the mud.

Jocy was trying to "muddy up" Logans bad guy. She wanted to be like her big brother.

Where to Begin???

2010-04-08T21:36:00.001-07:00

Um...It has been way too long and I have so many pictures to post that this blog is going to overloaded with info. Sorry!

EASTER

The kids and I went over to Lissa's House to decorate cookies the day before Easter. Jocy didn't decorate, but she had a lot of fun licking all of the frosting off of the cookie!

NEW CHAIRS

OK...They are not technically new, but they are new to me! I was sick of looking at my nasty dirty chairs, so Lissa talked me into buying some fabric from Joanne's at 50% off and recovering them. I love it! I bought some plastic to go over them as well so there will be no more stained chairs and a lot of easy clean up!

Before....I probably shouldnt have posted a picture of the before chair because it is so gross. I'm not going to lie, I'm a little embarrased! so...I will have no judging! :)

After....I love it!

Rai turned 4 the end of March. I think she had a pretty good birthday!

( Don't mind the messy face!)

The Donut Cake...It did NOT turn out as planned. It was supposed to be a barbie cake, but turned out looking like a giant donut. At least Rai liked it right?

Lissa called me the week before Easter will a brilliant idea to make the girls Easter dresses. She thought of up the pattern, I came over and we got to work. We worked all day putting the dresses together. We tried the dress on Rai and realized we forgot to cut a little bigger for a seam allowance. Oops! They ended up with Easter skirts instead, but they were still really cute!

My girls and their Lila.

This picture is random, but I thought it was funny. Logan and Amber were playing Mario on the Wii. Can you tell they are related??!

We went to Freestone Park a few weeks ago for Jades birthday. The kids had a lot of fun playing at the park and I had a lot of fun eating bees. Seriously.

I had put my soda down on the table for a minute. When I picked it up again, I shook it around to make sure that no bees had wandered into the can. Well, apparently that is not the thing to do. I drank it for a few minutes satisfied that their were no bees. Afterall. none came flying out of the can when I shook it. When I finished off the last bit of the soda, I ended up with something lumpy in my mouth. I freaked out , and spit it out....and this is what I found! I dont know how I didnt get stung. Anyway...lesson learned. Dont shake the can to make sure there are no bees in it.

The toothless grin.....

2010-02-01T13:10:00.000-08:00

POOR JOCY and her missing tooth.......

Oh... the DRAMA!

2010-01-18T16:40:00.000-08:00

So...It has been a while since my last post, not for the lack of things to blog about, but mainly because I havent been very motivated. Lissa and David moved out of their home in Buckeye, and they took their camera with them! I know! So now, I have no way to take fun pictures which makes blogging not fun AT ALL. But, I figured I should at least give an update of the happenings here at the Cresap house. Like I said, David and Melissa moved out mid December, so we are now living in their house until we move to Prescott in a few weeks. I was able to find my pretty purple Christmas tree, so we moved the Christmas bush into the kids room and started a new tradition out of it too. The ugly old Chrismas bush will be coming out every year because the kids loved it. Christmas was great, if you are not counting the chicken pox and the flu we had around my house the week of. The monday before Chrismas I got Jocy up from her nap and noticed a big blister on her forehead. By the next morning, we realized she had the chicken pox( and since Lissa took her camera in the move I have absolutely no pictures), so there went our Christmas with my family. We were stuck at home for the next week and a half. My parents and my younger brother Toby came over Christmas night for dinner, and that was a lot of fun. The day after Christmas, Logan got the flu. The day after that, Railynn got the flu. Good times I know. A few weeks later I found out that we gave the chicken pox to Paisley ( Lissa's baby) and my nephews friend. Oops!... We were also hoping to move back to the east valley which is obviously not going to happen. Prescott here we come! Everything went back to normal for a while, until Sunday... Jocy was coloring at the kitchen table. She had fallen off a chair onto the tile and was crying. I rushed over to pick her up and snuggled her for a minute, Then I noticed the blood on my shoulder, I just thought she bit her tongue or cut her gums or something like that. I looked in her mouth, and noticed that her upper left front tooth was missing!!! Thats right...It was gone. I looked over by where she fell, and saw her little tooth on the floor. I felt horrible. Ane there is absolutely nothing I can do. She will be toothless there until her permanent toorh comes in. Poor girl. She looks like a hillbilly, but at least she is ok. And once again I have no pictures. I am sure in the next 4-5 years I will get a camera and then you can see the toothless grin! Oh..on a side note, Logan has lost his first 2 teeth. (The natural way of course.) Hooray!

December fun...

2009-12-14T13:29:00.000-08:00

Since Lissa and David are moving this week, we had to put up our Christmas tree. The problem is, we couldn't find our good tree...all we could find is the 4 ft "Christmas Bush" as Lissa and Zach would call it. ( seriously..Logan is as tall as the bush). We had to put up ugly old ornaments and everything. I am going to the storage unit tomorrow to try one more time to find our good tree. I am bound and determined to put up the pretty purple Christmas tree before Christmas. I dont know how it will look against the blue walls...but at least I will get to put it up!

A few weeks ago Logan got an award in school. He got the award for the best writer. I was very proud of him. There were only about 5 kids in each class that were recognized. Plus...drumroll please... he knows all 55 sight words! hooray! He can graduate kindergarten! I am very proud of how well he is doing at reading. ( Logan's teacher is the one in the pink dress)

Zach started school a few weeks ago to continue on the path for nurse anesthesia school. Zach let Logan help him with his lab. It was very fun for Logan.

The kids have been drving me just about crazy lately. So...we took a trip to the good old park! It suer is easier to handle them when they are having fun!

Jocylain loved the slide...but she didn't like to go down by herself. She would climb up and wait for Jade to come and help her down.

Jocy has been helping me in the kitchen lately. I have to keep her busy so she doesn't get into everything.

I have been meaning to post this picture for a LONG time. I love the picture and I think Grandma and PaPa will too!

November so far....

2009-11-24T18:54:00.000-08:00

We have had to seperate our kids from David and Lissa's kids at night because the talking never ends. We started putting all three of my kids in our room. The first night Logan kept coming out saying that Rai was bugging him so he couldn't sleep. I told him to ignore her....you can see that this is exactly what he tried to do. I went in to check on them and he apparently had fallen asleep plugging his ears!

My musical girls...

2009-11-10T15:44:00.001-08:00

so...Ever since Logan could talk he has been against me singing. I would sing at the piano or in the car and he would tell me to stop. I think he may have even plugged his ears a time or two. Maybe he just thinks I am terrible at the piano and at singing. *sigh* I tried to give him a piano lesson a few months ago, and he wasn't having any of that either. It really is too bad because he has a great voice! He makes up songs all the time, loves the radio, but he just isn't a music guy himself. But... It looks like I might have some hope with my girls! This is a duet waiting to happen!

Just look at those fingers...they are getting technical and everything!

I always have some random picture in my post that doesn't fit the "theme" so here it is... I looked up some hair- dos online and copied them so that I could actually make Rai's hair cute. Look how great it turned out!

Halloween!!!

2009-11-04T06:39:00.000-08:00

ok...so this picture isn't a Halloween picture, but I had to post it! This is Rai's Christmas dress and I made it!!! I know! Isn't it cute??! I will say that the tulle was VERY hard to work with but the dress turned out so great it didn't even matter! I am working on Jocy's matching dress now, and Lissa is refusing to help me...so I have had to do and re-do almost everyhing I sew. I closed up the sleeve seam ( both of them) before I even put the sleeves on. That was a big pain to rip out! I guess that is one way to never make the same mistakes again!

This is Jocy's favorite cupboard in the whole house...Its where all the food is!

Happy Halloween!! We went trick or treating in Lissa and David's neighborhood this year for Halloween ( since.. you know... we live there and all!) It seems to me that Halloween is kind of going by the way side. We walked around the whole neighborhood, and there were only about 4-5 houses on each street that were handing out candy to the kids. Luckily we got a really good walk out of it and the kids still got a lot of candy. They had a lot of fun! Rai, Jocy and I dressed up like witches. I think this is the first year I have dressed up since I have been married! Zach went as a Paramedic ( original I know). We realized that Logans only dress costume that I left unpacked for him was WAY to small..so we had to improvise on his costume. David cut jagged sleeves on Logans pajama shirt and Jagged bottoms on his sweat pants to make a pirate costume. Lissa had a pirate hat that he used...which was good because I don't know that anyone would have known what he was with out it!! Logan LOVED his costume and that is all that matters!

The three witches!

Oh.. what a week!

2009-10-29T14:50:00.001-07:00

I had my sister in law take some pictures of my family yesterday...I love them! I have some more of me and the kids that Mindy took of us while we were in Utah.I havent picked my favorites so I dont have any to post yet..I will soon though!

The girls decided it would be fun to put make up on mom. I look lovely I know.

We had a trunk or treat on saturday in Melissa's ward. I only had one costume for Logan since the rest are in storage, and it didn't fit. HIghwater legs and all. SO...he wore this ghost costume of Lissa's and it was way to big. They tried to tie it so it wouldn't drag, but it didn't work. The bottom is black and it doesn't want to come out! I think for halloween we will change it u a bit and he will be a pirate ( which is also a grown up costume...and its a girls..just don't tell Logan that) But it looks really cute on him.

The girls before church a few sundays ago.. I made Jocy and Rais matching dresses and Lissa made her girls. I am in the process of making Christmas dresses now and they are beautiful!!!

Logans Birthday...(and some other random pictures!)

2009-10-19T18:00:00.000-07:00

Logan turned six on the 9th of October. I can't believe how big he has gotten. He is so smart, and very giving. I am so grateful to have such a special boy in our family!

The kids watching a movie...I love Logan and Stormie in this picture.

Um...I don't know what to think about this one. Logan hates to do anything girly..so how in the world did Amber convice him to dress up like one?

Logan and his birthday cake.

We made a fun double layer cake. I wasn't strong enough to write with the store bought icing, so Zach had to do it for me. THis is how it turned out. I did frost it myself and even put o few sprinkles on it though!

Finally updated!

2009-10-05T11:04:00.000-07:00

Oh wow. Where to start.....It has been a crasy couple of weeks and way to much information to possibly type all of it. So...I am just going to post some random pictures of the last month!

This is Rai doing an arabesque as she saw it on the Barbie movieThis is Lissas next door neighbor Frank. He came over, and Rai came running into the room and started hugging his leg. I thought for sure that she thought it was her Dad or even her Uncle David....nope. She just immediately loved Frank. She would stop rubbing his face and put her head on his shoulder. Luckily he is a nice man and Lissa and David know him really well...Even still..We will have to have the stranger danger talk once again!

Jocy LOOOVes the cats at Lissas house. She cant get enough of them!

Logan and his Uncle David playing at our house in Las Vegas.

Jocy does NOT like sitting with Lissa at the table for breakfast. This is a regular occurance at the table. In fact, she doesn't like when Lissa talks to her at all! You would think that she would be used to her by now since we have been here for 2 and half weeks already!

Cutting Logan's hair. I did a pretty good job too if I do say so myself!

Logan, Amber and Jade in Las Vegas

My Girls and their matching shirts...

2009-09-03T13:29:00.001-07:00

I looked in the closet today and realized that my girls had matching shirts ( Thanks Lissa!). How have I not bought them matching clothes before??!! Isn't it cute? I am going to have to raid Lissa's clothes and make her give me more matchies!

Logan's First Day of Kindergarten!!! WAIT...didn't we already do this???

2009-09-03T13:20:00.001-07:00

Logan started his first day of Kindergarten at his new school in Las Vegas a few weeks ago. He was very excited to go after having a few weeks off of school. They started Aug 24th here so we had plenty of time to move and get situated before we had to start up again. They do things a little different here...Logan doesn't have full day kindergarten anymore ( which is a huge bummer - I was very spoiled at eduprize) you have to pay $300 a month for all day kindergarten here in Las Vegas. Not going to happen. Logan doesn't seem to mind though. He loves his school and he has made a lot of new friends and has adjusted very well. The second day of school he told me that I didn't need to walk him to class because " he can do it himself". *sigh* My little boy is growing up so fast!

Our new house in Las Vegas!

2009-08-21T20:50:00.000-07:00

What a crazy week! We packed up and left for Las Vegas on monday. I have been unpacking ever since... I got a few good pictures of the house. I havent finished cleaning up my room or Logans room, so I was absolutely not going to post a picture of that mess! Here are a few pictures of the rooms I was able to clean up...

The cute front shot..

The family room
back yard
Front room
Another shot of the front room. I had to take pictures at different angles since Charai is going to help me decorate by picture... :)
The kitchen
This room is obviously not finished yet...
Rai and Jocy's cute bedroom. I had to take a lot of pictures of their room because it makes me so happy! I pulled out all my purple decorations from my purple room growing up. I love it!

This is one of two big splash parks in my neighborhood. We have already been 3 times this week!

We love our home, and we know we are supposed to be here, but we sure do miss our family and friends in AZ. We love you guys!

Jocy's 1st Birthday!

2009-08-07T20:55:00.000-07:00

Happy Birthday to Jocy!! Storm turned 1 yesterday! I know I say this a lot...I can't believe how big she has gotten! She has a ton of personality, (and a ton of attitude) :) We are so happy to have her in our family. word to the wise...strawberry cake..not that good...

We woke up from her fun birthday yesterday and it was like she grew up overnight. Today she decided to actually try to walk everywhere. She has been taking steps for a few weeks, but was never really interested. Now, she tries to walk everywhere! She also decided today that she likes to climb on to everything. My other kids never really did that, and I don't know how I feel about this! It probably doesn't help that I have boxes everywhere for her to try it out on....

Climbing...
she made it...
time to crawl into the DIRTY laundry. Gross I know...
She made it ! Look how happy she is with herself...

Las Vegas Update....

2009-08-03T09:28:00.001-07:00

Its Official!!! We are moving to Las Vegas! Zach got the official word this morning...he got the job! He has to be there on the Aug 24 to start the academy, so we will be working hard to get packed up and settled by then. Woo Hoo! Thanks for everyone's prayers!

Kindergarten!!!

2009-07-30T20:37:00.000-07:00

Logan started Kindergarten today! I can't believe my baby boy is old enough for school! Here is the run down of Logans first day...

Logan just before leaving our house...

We just arrived at the school...
Dad walking Logan over to the "Kinder Gate" To meet up with his class...
The fam...
Logan and his teacher..Mrs. Eicherly
Lining up with his class to go inside...I was so proud of him. He was so excited to go.
Notice how Logan is the tallest one in the class! The boy in the white shirt next to him was the second tallest and Logan was easily 2 inches taller than him!
Logan had a wonderful day today... He said he learned about science and his teacher said he did great in class. He found a baby lizard that his teacher said he shouldn't play with and it died, according to Logan, because he played with it too much...( what a boy)! After school we drove up to the main gate and his teacher walked him to our car. He had such a great day and we can't wait to do it all over again tomorrow!

Logan....

2009-07-14T23:20:00.000-07:00

mom: Hey Logan..I think we are getting the Scooby Doo movie in the mail today.

Logan: Which one are we getting?

Mom: I don't know Logan.

Logan: Is it the Spookiest Tales?

mom: If that is the one you told me you wanted last, then yes.

Logan: Oh good!!! That one has 2 new bonus features!.....Whats a bonus feature mom?

Right...Apparently he has seen one to many previews for this movie!!

Another call from Vegas...

2009-06-21T22:41:00.000-07:00

Zach got another call from Vegas! He passed his Crazy test, and now he has an interview with the Fire Dept Chief on July 1st! Hopefully this is the last step in the hiring process and if all works out well and the chief likes him, Zach will finally be a fire fighter Paramedic! Woo HOO!! We will keep you all posted!

DISNEYLAND!!!

2009-06-21T21:31:00.000-07:00

This was the California Screamin ride. It didn't even phase him. He loved it! My son is more brave than I am!

I think this was the Pirates of the Carribean ride. Jocy and Rai were scared to death the whole time.
My cute cousin Katie that got us in to Disneyland!!!

So our family was finally able to go on our much needed and VERY late family vacation to Disneyland! My cousin works at the Disneyland hotels and she was nice enough to get my entire family in for free!!! Park Hopper passes and all!!! Free vacation!! That is the best kind! We left on monday and stayed with David and Melissa ( Thanks Guys!) in Buckeye so that we could leave very early the next morning and go to Disneyland. Our plan was to leave at 3 am and get to Disneyland early Tuesday, stay at a hotel Tuesday night and head home on Wed morning. Of course things didn't work out quite as planned.... We left as scheduled at got to Disneyland about 9:30 but my cousin forgot we were coming, so we went to the beach instead and planned for Disneyland the next day and a long drive home afterwards. No big deal. I didnt bring swim suits because we weren't planning on going to the beach, so we went in clothes and got soaking wet. Logan had a blast, Railynn screamed and hated it( the water was way to cold for a foof like Rai), and Jocy ate the sand. We stayed for a while and went back to the hotel. The next morning we checked out, I put the bags in the car, and of course the car wont' start. Nice. Zach had the car towed to a shop, and we headed out for Disneyland. Luckily we had something to do while we waited! We had so much fun...Logan was tall enough for every ride he wanted to go on...including tower of terror and California Screamin in California Adventure. Railynns favorite was probably Its a Small World ( BORING!!) she only wanted to go on it because it was in a castle. Again...she is such a foof. Meanwhile, both of our cell phones died so we had to find and buy chargers and sit at a little shop while our phones charged so we could figure out the car situation. The shop couldnt figure out what was wrong with our car, so we had it towed again, this time to a Chrystler Dealership. Now of course, it was to late in the day for them to fix our car, so now we had to stay in a hotel for another night. All of our bags were in our car at the shop, so we slept in our dirty clothes, wore our dirty clothes the next day, and drove home in our dirty clothes because that is all we had. We ended up paying about $550 for the car. So much for a free vacation! Now...on the bright side. I do feel blessed. If my cousin would have remembered to get us in to Disney on the first day, what would we have done if our car broke down on the way home in a dinky town? At least we had somewhere to go while our car was being worked on. And we got to go to the beach!

Fun Family Moments...

2009-06-01T21:08:00.000-07:00

So...I have been a total slacker with blogging. I have been spending all of my time watching the Batchelorette and reading Eragon. I decided to catch up today so you would all know how we are doing! I posted a lot of pictures...sorry for the over load!

To give you a family update, Zach started his job with Southwest Ambulance (as most of you know) and he LOVES it. We are finally able to spend more time as a family and hopefully we will be able to go on our long awaited Disney Land trip in the next few weeks. Jocy finally had some teeth come in. She has 4 right now, but they aren't in all the way. She is really starting to show her personality, and she loves loves loves Logan and Railynn!!! Logan and Rai are as good as ever. Logan starts kindergarten in a few months and Rai will be in pre- school. I cant believe how old they are! I love my family!

Hunters( Logans cousin) birthday was Saturday and we got to go celebrate with him!! Happy birthday Hunter!

We went to my cousins house on Saturday for another birthday party...the kids got to swim which is always fun!! I love this picture of Jocy...
Logan and his goggles...
Rai and the Allens!
Apparently we have another piano player in the family...
Dave, mom, and Charai at our Memorial Day Dinner!
Rai and Davis.

The cousins...

I put make up on Railynn a few weeks ago...she is so darn pretty! If you notice, she has a crooked smile. Just like her Daddy!! :)
I let the kids run through the sprinklers in their clothes. Definately not as fun as with swim suits. Rai didn't like it that much. Can you tell??

Pretty hair...I put Rais hair in a bunch of mini braids and this is how her hair turned out. She looks so grown up!
We did the sprinkler thing again but this time with swimsuits and the cousins! Much Better!

Random...

2009-05-07T20:07:00.001-07:00

Here are some random moments with the family this past week....

My mom and dad took us out for dinner to Outback last night to celebrate Zach's graduation. It was so much fun and the food and especially dessert ( icecream brownie whipped cream and fudge. DELISH!!)was wonderful! Thanks mom and Dave!!

Logan made a spider web today out of string. F U N . It kept him busy all morning!

Who knew baby dolls were so much fun to put in your mouth???
Before church...I got the pants and vest at garage sales. I love them!!!

Best husband ever....

2009-05-07T19:58:00.000-07:00

I told Zach that he needed to clean the bathrooms, fold laundry, spray weeds, etc while I was at work yesterday. When I got home, The whole front room was clean, the garbage was taken out, the tables and desk were cleaned off, The big pile of JUNK and bills on the kitchen counter was gone, the weeds were sprayed, the shoes were put away, Logans room was clean, kitchen was clean, dishwasher was unloaded and loaded again, and a cupboard in the kitchen that is always a huge disaster was cleaned out and organized. Zach went way beyond the call of duty on this one. It was so nice to come home to a pretty house. I didn't have to do anything but sit on my buns and NOT DO ANYTHING!!! I love my husband.

Jocy

2009-05-07T19:43:00.000-07:00

Look!!! I told you all she was crawling!! Here are the pictures I should have put on my last post....

I love this video! If only we could all be this trusting!!

Stormie's growing up!!

2009-04-26T12:58:00.000-07:00

Jocy started crawling!! She has been doing this army crawl for a few weeks now, but today she crawled all the way to me! I can't believe how big she is. How am I supposed to take her to work when she can get anywhere she wants and get into everything??? I think she may finally be getting a tooth too. It's a good thing I am going to be done nursing in a few months!

On a side note... All of my kids have had certain habits when they nurse. Logan was ALWAYS kicking one leg over and over and Over when he would eat. He also had to have his arm laying across his face. I would move it and back it would go immediately. Railynn would always play with the ends of my hair and rub it across her face. She has a duck with a little tuff of hair on the top of its head and she still plays with it when she goes to sleep. Jocy pinches my arm. What?? Yes thats right. She pinches my arm. What kind of habit is that??? It really hurts too!! She gets her two tiny fingers and pinches over and over again!! Again...I am glad I will be done nursing in a few months!!

Trip to Vegas!!!

2009-04-15T15:07:00.001-07:00

We went to Vegas last week since Zach had an interview with Clark County fire department. It took us 10 hours to get to Vegas, complete with grouchy kids and traffic jams. Luckily the rest of the trip was great and the ride home was a breeze!

One of Zachs mission companions lives in Vegas so we got to spend a little bit of time with them. They had a cat that just had kittens. They were so CUTE!

We went to the coolest play area for kids at a mall. You can't tell by the pictures, but it is gigantic and so much fun for the kids.

Zachs mission companions family has some horse stables and they let the kids ride a pony.

At the Bellagio...

I don't think I will EVER take the kids to the strip again...Definately nor a place for a five year old. Luckily once you get off of the strip life seems to be pretty normal!! We find out in 3-4 weeks if Zach passed the interview. we will keep you posted!

VEGAS!!!

2009-04-04T14:59:00.000-07:00

So , Zach got a call from Las Vegas Fire yesterday!! He has been trying out for Fire Departments for the last 3 years and it looks like it may pay off! He has a Psych evaluation on monday and tuesday for Clark County Fire. As long as they don't determine him to be CRaZy..We may be moving to Las Vegas! The fire academy starts in June....Here is to hoping!!!

It's Official!!!

2009-04-02T14:36:00.000-07:00

Zach is PARAMEDIC!!! He took his last test for National Registry on Saturday and of course passed with flying colors!! He has an ID and everything!!! I am so proud of him. He worked so hard and studied ALL THE TIME. Obviously it paid off! After a year of no church and hardly seeing our family at all is has graduated. Life has finally started to get back to normal. He is starting a new job at Southwest Ambulance starting on Tuesday. He is still trying to get on with a Fire Department, Apache Junction is the only one hiring this year. Hopefully he will have a good chance of getting on there. He knows a lot of the fire fighters and they all seem to really like him. Here's to hoping!! LOVE YOU ZACH!!

MY WONDERFUL Husband and beautiful baby Stormie.

Railynns Birthday!!!

2009-04-02T14:27:00.001-07:00

Railynn turned three this past Sunday!!! I can't believe how quickly our children grow up.

Railynn was soooo excited about this present. In fact, I don't think I have ever seen get so excited over a gift. She got this princess drawing pad, and a giant plastic nail polish bottle full of girly things...hair ties, nail stickers, etc. Of course she would like that!!! Thanks lissa for helping find the perfect presents!

Rai and her birthday cake. word to the wise...Cherry frosting is the best ever.

Cresap birthday party!!

2009-04-02T14:12:00.001-07:00

We had a combined birthday party for all of the March/April birthdays in the Cresap family. (Me missed you Tera and Don!!) We all had a lot of fun. The kids decided to go swimming in the freezing cold pool...They lasted a lot longer than I thought they would!! I think I actually had to drag Railynn away from the pool. Here are a few pictures!!

Here are all the cousins in the pool...Amber looks like she is freezing already!!

Here is when Logan decided that the water was just way too cold...

Logans feet...

2009-04-02T14:07:00.000-07:00

Logan got his feet casted last week for his "special Shoes". I guess technically they are just inserts for his normal shoes. He will have to wear the inserts for a year, but it will keep his ankles from turning in. Hopefully this will fix the problem so he doesn't have to get surgery in a year. Poor boy.

Worst day ever...

2009-03-27T17:03:00.000-07:00

Logans ankles...can you see it?
Dont mind the bruises. He is constantly running into things.

Today was the worst day ever...( Besides finding out that my plants grew and being able to start reading the 4th book of Fablehaven Love it!). I woke up 6 am to the sound of Jocy choking through the baby monitor. Apparently she has picked up the flu bug and was throwing up in her room. Logan woke up and told me his stomach hurt, but I figured it was just because he was hungry. Why did I think that?...who knows. I got the kids dressed thinking Jocy would be fine to take Logan to the doctor. Wrong. She threw up 2-3 more times, once all over me and another all over my bed. Needless to say, I decided to stay home and Zach took Logan to the doctor. Logan had a appt with a pediatrist to look at his ankles... When logan stands,his ankles turn inward and it looks like he is standing on the inside of his foot...does that even make sense? I guess you have to see it to understand. Turns out he has weak tendons on one side of his ankle, and he has to get special shoes so he wont have chronic leg problems. Can you say $600? Yes thats right. My son has never ending problems. On the way home from the doctor, Logan threw up all over the car. Hopefully it will just be a 24 hour bug and Railynn wont get it!

My first plant!!

2009-03-27T16:52:00.001-07:00

woohoo!!! after almost 2 weeks of watering my garden, I finally have a sprout! I was starting to worry that I did something wrong and I was never going to have any veggies come up. Hooray for me! My kids and I planted peas, watermelon, carrots, and squash. I don't know which one this is...but I am really excited about it! I have never had a garden before, but thanks to our good friend Nathan, we do now! I just went out to stare at my new plant and I noticed that I have several more that sprouted. WOOHOO!!

Such a GIRL...

2009-03-19T18:30:00.001-07:00

SO...I was making dinner tonight and realized that it was extremely QUIET in my house. I went to go find Railynn, and she was hiding in her favorite spot ( Under the table) playing with fingernail polish. She had painted every last toe and finger nail with light pink and very dark pink polish. How long was she under there!!?? And yes there was some spots on my newly cleaned carpet...luckily it wasn't much and you can hardly notice. Zach has always hoped that Railynn would be a sportsy Tom Boy type...Um...I don't think so. She is as girly as they come..as you can tell by the pictures!! He still has hope with Stormie...

Blogging help!

2009-02-26T12:15:00.000-08:00

So... I am not very computer literate. I can't figure out how to post more than 4 pictures at a time when I am blogging. Everyone else seems to be able to post a lot of pictures, but not me!! Can anyone tell me how to do it?

6 months old!!!

2009-02-15T11:27:00.000-08:00

I cant believe Stormie is 6 months old!! We just had her 6 month check up and things look to be good! She weighs 16 lbs which is pretty normal I think, and she is off the charts in height. I am not used to having such a big baby!! Railynn is off the charts the other direction. She is too small! I am sure that Jocy and Railynn will be in the same size clothes in a matter of a year or two. Especially considering Railynn can still get away with wearing newborn pants as pajama shorts. Jocy is such a happy baby, at least when I am holding her or she is getting some kind of attention. She is one baby that needs to be entertained! She wants to be a part of anything you are doing. She just started eating baby food and all is going well! I still cant figure out who she looks like. Blue eyes? Blonde hair? I dont know. If I didn't see her right after she was born, I would wonder if she was mine! What a pretty baby she is!

Blog Award!!!

2009-02-08T19:24:00.000-08:00

So Apparently I am super cool! Woo hoo!! I was nominated for the coolest blog by one of my dear friends ALLY, and now I get to nominate my favorite 5 blogs.

1. MINDY

bloggingwithmindy.blogspot.com

I have known Mindy since I was 13, she was my sisters best friend and is now married to my brother. I have always looked up to her and have been able to go to her for help or advice for anything. She has always been there for me and I love her dearly!! She recently moved to Idaho, so I haven't been able to see her or even talk to her quite as much. Which is one reason I LOVE her blog. I love being able to keep up to date on the family. She is always inspiring and has very meaningful and spiritual stories to share . I always feel uplifted when I am around her, so naturally I would feel the same way when reading her blog. She is a great example to me and I am so lucky to have her as a sister. Love you MINDY!!

2. Allyson

paulandallysonburton.blogspot.com

I know this is kind of silly since Ally is the one who nominated me...but her blog really is one of my favorites. I have known her since I was 13 as well, and we have always been really close. We have had some great memories...Ally and Zach went to a school dance together once and I am pretty sure he had a big crush on her at one time! He just confirmed. He DID have abig crush on her! I am and always will be so grateful for the friend that she has always been to me. As we have gotten older and had families of our own, it has become harder and harder to keep in touch with good friends. That is why I love her blog! Ally and I can talk all of the time on our blogs! Love you Alls!

3.Tera

I have not always been super close with Tera...only because I didn't think she liked me. Of course this was not true!! I apparently had/have a complex where I think people hate me all the time??? Tera has lived in another state since shortly after I got married, so we never got to know each other as we should have...as sisters. She has been able to visit a few times and we have become family!! Tera has recently started blogging and again...it is so nice to keep in touch with the people you love. I love feeling that I can be a part of what is going on with her and her sweet family. One thing I love about Tera: I was having a bad day... I was crying, and Tera came in and gave me a hug. She talked to me for a while, and helped me to work everything out. It meant a lot to me, especially because I thought she didn't like me. How silly I was back then. I am so grateful for her and for the wonderful person that she is. Love you Tera!

4. Melissa

lissacresap.blogspot.com

I have known Melissa since high school. I don't remember the age because we were not friends, I just knew who she was through passing. We were in orchestra together for one year and we were in the same seminary class when I was a senior. I remember thinking Melissa was mean...and a BIG flirt. You can imagine my suprise when I realized she would be my sister in law. Great. Well..obviously I was completely wrong about her. You should never judge..I learned this first hand! Melissa is one of the greatest people I know. Zach and I had to live at Zachs dads house for a few months and Melissa and her family lived downstairs, so we very quickly became great friends. We would share dinners, and go shopping together. I am so grateful for all the help she has given me over the years. And it has been a lot. Whether sending me hand-me downs so that my girls have beautiful clothes to wear, or just talking to me when I cant hold in my crying, I know I can talk to her about anything or go to her with anything. She lives in Buckeye..(much better than the Hawaii she lived in last year) but it is still hard to get together. She is a great person and I am so grateful for her and her blog!. Love you Lissa!!

5. Joele

azbuckos.blogspot.com

I picked Joele for a different reason than everyone else. She doesn't live far away..in fact she lives right around the corner! We have been in the same ward since I moved here and I absolutely adore her. I have a hard time making new friends, if it weren't for Zach, I don't know that I would have any! I was Joele's visiting teacher for over a year, so I was able to get to know her. She was one that you didn't HAVE to go teach, she was one that you wanted to go because you loved her and the wonderful spirit that she has. I would never have known how funny she is if I didn't get to visit her and read all of her funny blogs. There are a few people out here in Queen Creek that have made a difference in my life and Joele is one of them. Love you Joele!

For those who won, here are the steps you need to take, in order to award your coolest blogs!

1.Place the logo on your blog.

2.Add a link to the person who awarded you

3. Nominate other blogs for this award

4.Add links to those blogs

5. Leave a message for your nominees on their blogs

6. give a reason why you consider their blogs cool

sweet baby...

2009-02-02T20:22:00.000-08:00

Trip to the snow!!

2009-01-30T12:42:00.000-08:00

We took a trip up to Flagstaff last week to let the kids play in the snow. They have never seen the snow so we were all very excited. You would think Zach and I had never played in the snow because it turned out we were not very prepared! First of all it was a VERY last minute decision to go. For some reason it took us about twice as long as it should have to drive up to Flagstaff. Not to mention all the stops and screaming children and feeding Jocy and lunch. ( I guess that might be a clue to why it took us so long to get there). We finally got there and the kids got to play!! We all had so much fun! I had my kids double up on clothes so that they would be warm enough since they don't have snow suits, but apparently snow is wet. Yes I know, how did I not realize that the kids would be soaked through by the time we were done, who knows? I didn't bring any extra clothes for my kids, so we had to make a quick stop at Target for some replacements. Hooray for 75% off sales! We got to see my younger brother Toby when we were finished with our snow adventure since he lives in Flagstaff. We went to dinner at Chili's (complete with children with no shoes, and mismatched clothes) and had a great visit..( Sorry Toby for all the embarrasment from Zach!) I would have more pictures to post, but one last thing had to go wrong...my battery died on my camera! Luckily the fun that we had spending with our little family and the memories that we now have made up for all of the mishaps! We had so much fun and never again will I go to the snow without some snow suits!

Rai's Hair....

2009-01-19T19:38:00.001-08:00

Since I was posting about Lotties hair, I figured I would show everyone how cute Railynn's hair was on sunday. I am NOT good at doing hair...Railynn always has the same hairstyle-(a pony on top of her head). My brother in law asked me once why I always do her hair the same way..BECAUSE I CANT DO HAIR!!! I decided to switch it up a little and it turned out so great! Maybe I will try new things a little more often.

This obviously isn't a picture of Railynn's hair, but it was such a great picture I had to put it in! Jocy is already 5 months old and wearing 12 month clothes. Can you believe it?

Lotties Hair

2009-01-19T19:29:00.000-08:00

Charai came over last week with the kids and I took some pictures of Lotties cute hair...It is curly! This post is mostly for Char ( she wanted to show her husbie). Lottie is the first grandchild with curly hair. You would think since Zach and I both have ( had in Zachs case..HA!!) curly hair, that at least one of our kids would get it. Nope...just Lottie!

I know you cant really see her hair, but I thought the picture was cute!

Love ya Char!

Playing the WII...

2009-01-04T21:15:00.000-08:00

This is seriously the funniest video ever... Logan is a natural at the WII, he can beat anyone at bowling and boxing which is what they are playing here. I am pretty sure he beat Zach. What a workout!

Close Call....

2009-01-01T14:46:00.000-08:00

Logan was in the shower yesterday and I went in to check on him since he had already been in there FOREVER!! ( He takes very long showers) I walked into the bathroom and smelled smoke. I looked up to see his spongebob pajama shirt hanging from the bathroom vanity light. I obviously freaked out and when I asked him why his pajama shirt was on the light , my too smart for his own good son came up with the brilliant idea to hang his shirt on the light so it would be warm when he got out of the shower! We had a long talk...as you can see by the pictures we are very lucky!

More Christmas catch up

2008-12-25T15:43:00.001-08:00

We went to an extended Christmas party on Zachs side of the family last weekend. It seems like since Zachs mom passed away, we don't get to see them very often. It was a VERY fun party and I am glad I got to see everyone.

David gave little miss Jocie a soda and a candy cane. I think she was pretty happy about that.

The kids did a white elephant gift exchange at the party. I brought a package of silly putty for one gift and a package of play dough for the other...so what does Logan do? He picks our silly putty gift!! He does love silly putty, but I cant figure out if he knew it was ours or not....
Me, David ( Zachs brother) and baby Stormie
Thanks Lissa for the pictures!

christmas fun catch-up

2008-12-25T15:29:00.000-08:00

I have been super busy lately and I havnt had any time to post. I dont really have any realyl exciting stories to share( I do the same thing every day...clean, work, cook etc.) but a lot of fun pictures!

This picture is the result of Railynn helping us put ornaments on the Christmas tree. She put every ornament she hung on the same branch. We let her have her fun and just cleaned it up later:)

Lissa and her family came to spend the day at our house and helped me put up my Christmas tree. We had so much fun as we always do!!

I am Thankful

2008-11-30T20:43:00.000-08:00

So my sister in law Melissa had a thankful Post and I decided to copy and have a thankful post of my own in the spirit of Thanksgiving!

1. I am thankful for my beautiful baby Stormie. She is such a blessing to our family. She turns 4 months old on the 6th and she has been sleeping through the night for about two months now. She is a very happy baby and she is on a great schedule which makes it really easy for me when i go to work! She has a beautiful smile and is a very special part of our family.

2. I am thankful for my little Pheonix. She always wants to spend time with me which makes me feel pretty darn great. Her heart will break for you if you are sad and she will do anything she can to make you feel better. She will always be the first one to give you a hug or kiss when you need it. I love my Railynn.

3. I am thankful for my WOLVERINE boy. Logan is such a burst of energy and he is so funny! He is such a smart little boy. He just turned five but you would think he was so much older by the way he understands and speaks to you. He loves to spend time with the family, but especially with his dad. What a sweet boy Logan is.

4. I am grateful for my husband Zach. He is such a hard worker and soooo smart. ( I guess that is where Logan gets it!) He has so much patience and continues to teach me everyday how to be a better person just by his example. He is a wonderful father, always making the time to make each one of our kids feel special.
5. I am grateful for my family and Zachs family that we were able to spend time with for thanksgiving.

6. I am grateful for my friends Nicci and Greg. They are letting us rent their home which is helping us to be able to save a little money and pay off our debts!

7. I am grateful that I am able to work with my parents and take my baby to work with me.

8. I am grateful that my kids can go to my good friend and neighbors house while I go to work. They absolutely adore her.

9. I am grateful for our Disneyland vacation we get to have when Zach graduates. Our family needs a vacation!

10. I am grateful for my dads car that I can drive every once in a while. It is nice to have two cars so I don't have to worry about the beater truck breaking down...Plus it has heated seats!

Sunday Fun

2008-11-23T21:39:00.001-08:00

Today was such a fun day! Lindsay and Kete came down from Utah to visit for thanksgiving so I had the whole fam over for dinner. Grandma, Grandma, Lin and Kete came to my ward ( it was so nice to have the help during Church, I was actually able to stay in the chapel the whole time) Then everyone came back to my house to hang out until the rest of the clan came over for dinner. It was so much fun. I love Family!! ( We missed you BJ Min Toby Ann Jamie and Steve+ kids! We wish you could have been here!)

Saturday Fun

2008-11-23T21:25:00.001-08:00

I am so grateful for family!! Toby had his senior recital on friday..( he did amazing and I LOVED it), so Lissa came out to watch my kids for me so I could go. We had a spend the nighter and it was soooo much fun. We were going to so a garage sale, but we didn't. Instead we made my house look wonderful. It is really hard for me to decorate since I am just not that creative. Not to mention, I have a tendancy to start a project and then not finish completely. While I was gone on friday, Lissa hung up all my pictures thatI have been meaning to put up all week, pulled random things out of my garage that I would never have thought to use in my house and put them up, and she rearranged Logans room!! She hates it when I tell everyone the things she does to my house but I just cant help it!! ( HA HA Lissa now EVERYONE knows! :) On Saturday we organized my bedroom. I cant say how much better it is to be in my house now that it looks so pretty!

The causins...

Thank you Lissa for such a fun weekend ( and for watching my kids, and cleaning and decorating and rearranging my house :) Next time I will go out to Cali to see you!

Terrible Twos

2008-11-16T09:07:00.000-08:00

Railynn is 2 now... and the hardest of all my children at the moment. We are working on sharing and not screaming about everything. She continues to learn and get better. Every morning for breakfast I make her a yogurt drink. Yesterday morning we had run out of yogurt, so she had to settle with a Nutrigrain bar. She didn't scream, she didn't throw a tantrum, she was just very sad. At least she didn't get mad right?

She is such a sweet little girl. She has her moments of course, but she is such a caring little thing.

Keeping secrets from mom

2008-11-15T19:32:00.000-08:00

Zach wanted to take Logan to a movie tonight but I didn't want him to because he had been gone all day. Zach got on the phone with Logan and this is how the conversation went:

Zach: Logan, I am going to take you to a movie. Go get dressed and don't tell your mom about the movie.

Logan: What MOVIE are we going to see?

Zach: Logan don't talk about the movie!!

Logan: Why can't I tell mom about the movie?

I didn't hear any of the conversation they had because I was in the other room. I went to see what Logan was doing. He, of course, was changing...

Me: Logan what are you doing? ( He had already been in pajamas for the night)

Logan: I can't tell you.... we are going to a mooov...

Me: Zach he just told me what you guys are doing. ( I was on the phone with Zach still)

Logan: No I didn't!! Not all the way.... Will you let me mom? Because I Will tell you if you will let me...

Family Fun

2008-11-13T17:08:00.001-08:00

We don't get to spend that much time as a family because of Zachs work schedule. So it is always a blessing when we can even just watch a movie together! We just got Journey to the Center of the Earth in 3D. Such a good movie and so much fun to watch with the fam!

Don't they look just like father and son in this picture? Logan is such a miniature Zach.

My Bug Boy

2008-11-13T16:49:00.000-08:00

Logan has always wanted a pet...we have tried a few times, but I am just not an animal person. We just recently gave our Great Dane to my sister in law, so Logan has been asking for several different pets...a farret, smaller dog, lizard, tutle etc. His newest find for pets are bugs. I hate bugs!! For a long time I would freak out if Logan tried to touch even a beetle or a grasshopper but I have come to realize that I need to let my little boy be a boy! He knows how much I hate bugs... so he told me that when he grows up he will still like them! We will see!

The Church is TRUE!!!

2008-11-09T19:44:00.000-08:00

Every week I toy with the idea of not going to church. As most of you know, Zach can rarely go to church because of his work/school/clinical schedule....this of course makes it so I am pretty much a single mom taking 3 kids with me to church. It is definately not fun. I usually end up in tears by the end of sacrament meeting because I can't keep a handle on my young kids. Luckily I know the church is true, and I have such a strong desire for my children to know the same. Every week is a battle and a struggle, but We can all leave uplifted and hopefully have a better week the next sunday. Zach and I took the kids to the temple last week to practice being reverent. We took them through the visitors center, and they actually did really well. Today I took another try at sitting in the Chapel with my kids...we only lasted about 5 minutes. I am happy to report, however, that after we moved to the couch in the hallway, Jocy stopped crying and was amazingly ok with sitting in her car seat, and Railynn and Logan sat quietly on the couch most of the time. I dont know why moving to the couch would make such a difference, but it really did. Next week I will try again to sit in the chapel and hopefully one day I can stay for a whole meeting! I am grateful for the testimony that I have to know that the CHURCH IS TRUE!!! It keeps me going to church every Sunday!

The kids in their sunday best! :)

My Stormie... The thumb sucker

2008-11-09T18:00:00.000-08:00

So just a few days ago Jocie starts sucking her thumb. I don't know how I feel about it....well actually I do. I don't like it at all! My other kids always did just fine with a binkie. Now that Jocie has found her thumb, she never wants to take her binkie! I will stick the binkie in her mouth and leave the room, I can come back literally 10 seconds later and she already has her thumb in her mouth. Everyone I have been talking to lately says it is a lost cause. She is going to suck her thumb. Any suggestions??? I have been using the little mittens on her hands to try and break the habit. Hopefully it won't stick...

Well do you???

2008-11-09T17:58:00.000-08:00

Do you like my new background? Lissa made it herself....special for ME!!! :)

Baby's first Halloween!!

2008-11-02T10:34:00.000-08:00

I know this isn't a great picture, but it is all I had of her in her cute Halloween onesie. It says babys first Halloween on it. ( Thank you Kristin for letting me borrow it!) She had a blow out, and I wanted a picture before I had to take it off. She wasn't happy!

Halloween!!

2008-11-02T10:11:00.000-08:00

Here are a few halloween pics. We went to mom and Dave's trunk or treat with Char and Bri. We all had so much fun!! My kids dont get to see grandma and grandpa very often so it was a good excuse for us all to get together!

Logan and Davis.

I love this picture... Railynn and grandpa having so much fun!!

Logan, Dalty B, and Davis

Railynn and her "baby". They are only 2 months apart, but she is insistant on calling him baby.

2008-11-02T09:48:00.000-08:00

( Railynn and the pumkin she and Logan carved with Kristin)

I am so grateful for the power of Prayer!! I have been working for my parents for the past year and a half. It has always been very hard for me to have to leave my kids with a daycare person. Logan and Railynn have always had a very hard time with change.. especially when they have had to change daycare people. I am so grateful for the power of prayer. My sister, Charai, was able to watch them for me for a few months.. which was wonderful for me. They were able to play with there cousins, and they didn't have a problem with the change because they already new and loved their family. When Charai decided that she couldn't watch them any more, I have to say I was a little panicked. I didn't want to have to change again...I called my good neighbor and friend Kristin to see if she new anyone that was doing daycare in the ward. She just had a baby herself, and the other 3 of her kids are in school. She has been able to be a stay at home mom since her new arrival. My children absolutely adore her. I was suprised when she said that she might be able to watch my kids for a while. What a blessing. My kids have been going to her house for about 3 weeks now. It hasn't been a hard change for anyone because they know and love Kristin and her family so much. I am so grateful! She has been so much fun for my kids..they are always entertained, and since Kristin has been a kindergarten teacher, she always comes up with fun activities for them to do.

Thank you Kristin!!

The kids made paper plate pumkins at Kristins ....so fun!

Stormie's Blessing

2008-10-28T21:24:00.000-07:00

We blessed Jocy on October 8th. We were able to bless her in our home. We have done it that way with all of our kids and I love it. I cant believe how old she is already!

She is almost 3 months old and already the biggest of all of my kids at this age... not BIG by any means...still in the 15% for weight. She is my beautiful baby!

NEW BLOGGER

2008-10-10T15:35:00.000-07:00

HELLO!! I decided to try this blogging thing. I have had a page forever but have never tried to figure out how to do it! Heres to blogging!