"Home is where the heart is"

Im going to miss this view:( But I am super excited for the NEW house! Pics to come... soon!

This little man cracks me up! He loves to dress himself and would run around all day in his "choneys" if I let him! Of course its hard to get him to take a "normal" smiling pic-always making a goofy face (just like his dad) but thats what I love about him! I had to put this pic of Miss Addi on here to cause she looks so adorable in her little buns, she is such a sweet little girlie girl and Im pretty sure she thinks that SHE runs this household not us!

Spring Break 11'

Spring Break this year we went down to San Diego with my family and spent the week in this great condo right off the beach in Mission Bay. We had so much fun relaxing, rollar blading down the coast, playing on the beach and we even spent 3 days at Sea World! The kids had a blast Addi especially loved the dolphins! Just the vacation we needed:)

5 more days...

School is stressful and so is building a house- scratch that- building 6 houses!! I cant wait for it to all be over and be in our new home. I really like where we live so it will be hard to leave this area and I think I will really miss it but it will help that we will be in our OWN home with more space to grow. Also I am looking forward to start the DH program in the fall but its scary at the same time because I know it is going to be the hard I am not one that can just look at something memorize it and ace any test... what should have taken me a couple years took me 6! Of course starting my family and being able to be home with my babies was totally worth it I just need to get my butt in gear! Tay and I were going through all the baby clothes in the garage and although I have NOT had any desire to have anymore kids at this super crazy moment in life... I knew just looking at those adorable little baby clothes and hearing Addi talk about how she cant wait to give them to her "little sister" it made me realize that I so want more eventually. Having children is alot of work and we live in a world where its all about "ME- MY career- MY needs-" but family- thats where its at! Thats where the REAL joys in life come from, being surrounded my those you love and there is something so very special about creating and giving life to these wonderful and precious spirits that the Lord has trusted us with and as hard as it can be sometimes I do LOVE being a mom:) I have another 2-3 more years till that is an option again but I know as tough as it is when they are young it will be all worth it! I cant imagine my life with out my other brothers and sisters- man it would have been a lot more dull if it was just me and my brother. Heavenly Father knows what I am capable of so I just need to take life one step at a time. Im going to try and be positive and enjoy living in the moment. Things can change so quickly so we just need to live life and not take things for granted! I am so thankful for an amazing family, husband, children, and friends and for my testimony of the gospel and what I know in my heart to be true! For the first time in my life I am LOVING to read and study the scriptures- particularly the Book of Mormon- they truely strengthen and enrich my life. They remind me of the pride cycle and how easy it is to forget. "Live in the world but not OF the world" hard to do in the times we are in with so much technology and things to distract us. Wow, this is a random probably boring post if you have made it thus far but it was mostly for me:) If you are still reading I just want to say thank you to all my friends and loved ones who support us and are there for us, life wouldnt be the same with out you!! Haha oh and the title of this post... 5 more days... that will be when I am laying on the beach relaxing in the sun... ah... good old Cali.... cant wait:)

FINALLY THE DAY HAS COME!!!

I HAVE OFFICIALLY BEEN ACCEPTED INTO THE DIXIE STATE COLLEGE DENTAL HYGIENE PROGRAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have been working very hard for this (since 2003 minus a couple years of child bearing) and although this is only the first step of a 2 year long road ahead... I feel so great to know that this day has fianlly come! Most of you know that my mom has some pull being the director of the DH program but we can both proudly say that I did this on my own! I worked my butt off to make sure that I could earn this privilage myslef and after 6 years of night classes (even having to retake a few to get better grades) and juggling it with being a full time I am on cloud 9 knowing that it was all worth the sacrifices that were made! I have always felt strongly that this is what I need to do and in a couple more years I will be able to finally check this off my list of lifelong dreams/goals... Thanks to my family and amazing husband for supporting me in this- I will need lots more of it the next couple years to come! I am super excited to start this new journey!
Oh and PS if you didnt already know, we are also building a new home in LaVerkin(yes I know) we are doing about 70 percent of the labor ourselves along with helping build 6 other homes on our street and although it is alot of hard work I cant wait to finally own our own beautiful home! It has been alot of fun designing, picking out colors, and dreaming while making plans for the future! I will post some pics of our progress, I am REALLY hoping to be done and moved in by the end of the summer (before school begins in August). With the rate we are goin at now it definatly seams do-able! So heres to a whole new set of adventures this year!!!

Counting my blessings!

I love these 2 soooo much!! There are many days (almost every day of my life) that being a mom is oh so very hard. It requires lots of patience and selflessness which I dont feel I have alot of... but at the end of the day when I come home from a long night of class and they run up to me excited and giving me loves, or when I am tucking them into their little beds, I think of how grateful I am to have 2 healthy sweet little children who are loved and who love me back in-spite of my many faults. They are so forgiving, and they make me laugh! I am very blessed and I owe it all to a Father in Heaven who is aware of me and my family and who I can feel his love and grace through the innocence of these beautiful little faces:) I am also grateful for the knowledge I have of the Gospel and for a wonderful husband who loves and supports our family. I dont know what I would do without my family and friends. I LOVE ALL OF YOU!!!!

Halloween!

We all enjoyed our 2 days of Halloween, Friday we went to Addi's kindergarden parade and then went trick or treating over at Dixie middle and got lots of candy! Grandma Mace came over friday night and we all hung out, ate some fried chicken and talked while Addi put on some great musical theater:) Saturday we had our ward party then went to my moms ward (their food was better and they had a bounce house) then we went to see uncle "MJ's scaries" and ended up at the green valley mansion getting train rides. Payson loved his batman costume so much that he kept it on for about 42 hours straight-Im pretty sure it started to bond to his skin! Addi and I were matching witches as you can tell and Tay was Indiana Jones! It was a fun weekend filled with LOTS and LOTS of candy!! Today we have all been laying around in a sugar coma.. I am seriously debating secretly throwing the buckets and buckets of candy away I dont think I can handle anymore sugar fits from the kids and after about my 500th candy bar I dont think I will be eating sugar for a long time! Let the Holidays begin!!