Carousel

Today was a great day~ We had preschool that afterward we went to the superstition mall to ride the carousel. It was Marlee's reward for sleeping in her room. She had a sticker chart and it was reward time! Its a step up from Marlee looking forward to riding on the "escalator" when we got rid of her pacifier. I wonder what will be the next big thing... Of course i will add pictures once I can. She chose to ride on the pink horse.
Natalie and her boys went with us and it was a fun play date! We also saw my cousin in law Rachel and her girl, McKell there!

I got a whole bunch of baby boy clothes from Hina and Nat. It made me excited to have a little boy and a little nervous for reality to set in that I WILL be having a boy. How am I going to handle it? Its going to be totally different than having a girl. I feel like I have the girl thing down!

I met with Sasha to plan wedding stuff and had an enjoyable dinner with the Macks. Afterward we went to my moms and of course its always fun to go to both Nana and Grandma's house in the same night. They've died and gone to heaven after a day like today!

And as for me, I am worn out from all the fun. I am getting bigger as we speak, it feels like my skin can't stretch any further (Still have four weeks left of skin stretching to do.)
Once again, grateful for the little joys in life-- like riding a two minute carousel ride!

Day of Service

I love the quote by Pres. Hinckley's Father while Pres. Hinckley was serving on his mission, "Forget yourself and get to work."
I feel like I was able to accomplish so much today because of this quote. I taught someone how to make hair clips, made six dozen cookies to drop off to friends for belated birthdays and for other acts of service they've done for our family, was able to do five loads of laundry, dishes, cleaned bathroom, swept entire tile floor, made gross brownies for Young Woman's, fed the animals, etc. (Then at mutual we talked about the importance of motherhood. What an uplifting activity that was!)
Going to go and play a matching game with the girls while Ivan does homework. He only has three classes left til he has his Masters! Oh happy day!

Preschool

Preschool started up again today. Had an enjoyable class: learned about the letter "K", made kites and went for a walk to fly the kites. Kids are so darn cute! Got to take nap with the girls today after preschool. That's it for highlights of the day.

Surprise

Just got back from a Surprise Birthday Party for my sister in laws' fiance... Pedro! It was fun. The kids enjoyed hiding behind the couch with the lights turned off waiting for Pedro to come in. Great dinner and company, as usual. Marlee thoroughly enjoyed dressing up in Grandma's princess dress ups stuff. She was quite the little show off tonight! (once again, wish I had my camera cord:))

Sold one of our goats today-Oreo. She was a friendly little one (we only had her for about a month.)

Battery wouldn't start in the car, nice neighbors jumped it for me and spent some much needed time with the Winters family. My kids love playing with them and we haven't gotten together for a couple weeks.

This baby boy just loves to kick right now, maybe if we ever decide on a name for him, he'll stop kicking me?

Preschool starts back up tomorrow. Better go to bed.

Oh, remembered one more thing... On the way to my in laws, Marlee saw a van that looked like the Lesueur's and said, "Its Brody and Mack's car, just kidding." Then we got closer to it, it really was and the she said in a disappointed voice, "And they are watching Toy Story?" Kind of with this, "I wish I was watching Toy Story'" tone. Its amazing how kids can recognize other peoples cars, different routes we take to familiar homes, etc at such a young age!

Wish I could find my camera cord...

Then I could post pictures of  Life!!!!!

Refreshing Sunday

I just love Sundays. I feel so refreshed mentally, spiritually and physically. At church today, a few things during our YW lesson stood out to me. First of all, the new youth theme for the year is the 13th Article of Faith. Here is a link to all of them...  http://lds.org/scriptures/pgp/a-of-f/1?lang=eng. 
Our lesson was how all of the Articles of faith are what we believe but the13th AoF is where we take ACTION on our beliefs. It is very easy for us to sit around and believe things in life, but it takes ACTION to fully get the most out of life:)
Then we talked about how all of us should live the guidelines outlined in For the Strength of the Youth (No matter how old or young you are.) Link... http://lds.org/manual/for-the-strength-of-youth-fulfilling-our-duty-to-god?lang=eng
This lesson made me want to be a better person! I am going to try and be more focused on these two guidelines in life:)
After church, we all took our much needed Sunday nap! I seriously look forward to them each week. Afterward, Gavin and Mary came over and we had dinner together and had an enjoyable visit with them. They are so much fun . The girls love playing pretend with Gavin:)
Its ten thirty at night but I don't fell totally exhausted, in fact I feel rested and ready for the up and coming week. Goodnight.

Much accomplished-Saturday

Woke up (at my in laws house) and made waffles for everyone for breakfast. Took Marlee and Josie with me and Sasha to the fabric store to look for fabric for table runners for her wedding. It was NOT fun having Josie with us. She ran around the store (they have no carts) and was just into everything. Ivan met up with us at the freeway after he got off work and was so kind to take the girls home with him so Sasha and I could get some wedding stuff done! BIG THANKS TO IVAN!!!
Sasha and I got to spend some time getting wedding stuff done. It was very enjoyable to spend one on one time with her.
Then I headed to Costco. ALL by MYSELF:) It was amazing. I actually got to fill my cart since I had room for stuff. (Normally I only get to buy a few things here and there since the girls take up half the room in the cart. All you moms out there know exactly what I am talking about!
Came home and was greeted by the cute girls and hubby outside in the yard. The girls love spending time with Ivan and he is so good to let them play outside with him while he works on yard/animals stuff. Hung outside a little til it got to dark. Ate dinner,  hung out and watched a movie and enjoyed another great day!

(The girls LOVE their daddy! Here are a couple of shots of him drawing pictures for them on their princess doodle pad.)