Something I Will Miss...

I don't know a lot about what will happen and how I will feel once my children are grown, but one thing I determined today, is that I will miss fingerprints. Earlier I decided to clean and polish the stainless steel in the kitchen. Literally 10 seconds after I had finished, Scarlett came in and planted her little hand, smack dab on the Dishwasher I had just cleaned. Usually this irritates me, but not today. I looked and thought...WOW...she's 9 months old. So soon she will be 1, and then 5, and then 10, and then 15...and so on. Today I loved her little handprint.

It's our anniversary!!

Okay, I have been trying figure out how it's possible that I am now in the TEENS (13 years today) for how long I have been married. Does time really go by this fast?? It seems like such a short time ago. This means in 13 more years I will have been married 26 years. And the scary/sad part is that it will be here in the blink of an eye. I love Chris so much that I do not want it to fly by. But that is the beauty of having a forever family. I WILL be with this man forever, so why the sadness?? I'm now focusing on how blessed I am to have Chris in my life forever.

I woke up at 8:30 am today. Church starts at 10. We leave at 9:40. I had little time to get my children fed, diapers changed, hair fixed, teeth brushed, and then myself dressed. But when I got up, the diaper bag was packed with diapers, bottles, toys, and paper and pens for entertainment at church. Chris was feeding the kids malto meal, and 4 out of 6 kids were dressed. It doesn't stop there...the dishes were unloaded, the house was actually pretty darn clean. The greatest part is that this is not abnormal for us in the least Who makes breakfast in the morning at my house? Chris. Who helps me bathe and feed kids? Chris. Who takes the time to tell kids stories from the scriptures on a level little kids "get?"...Chris. Chris doesn't view our marriage as anything less than a loving, selfless partnership. He knows that when we work together, we love each other more. I cook sometimes, he Cooke's sometimes. I change Grace, while he changes Scarlett. He makes breakfast, I make dinner. The list goes on. We make an awesome team! If I start to lose it, he is there to pick up the slack. If we both lose it, and can't hardly stand the chaos, we are there to pick it back up together. Times aren't always perfect, but we choose to make things work even when it isn't easy. I love him and I am truly grateful to him for striving every single day to make me a happy girl. He has succeeded.

Am I a happy girl??????

Heck yes I am! I mean seriously...can't you tell?? I love to take pics of myself when only half my face is showing....haha...j/k. Grace begged to take a picture a of me with my camera. I guess she thought the other half of my face wasn't presentable. Oh well, she's probably right.

This has been a great week. I have been in a crazy mood. I just want to laugh about the dumbest things. Maybe it's the fact that Spring is coming, but it has lifted my spirits and made me a danged happy girl. Plus, my husbands mom has been here for 12 days and she is like a bright light to be around. We don't get to see her often and the kids have loved it. I can see where Chris gets his kind/fun loving heart.

Happy Spring in two more days!!!

The Bachelor is an idiot

And after giving this lots of thought I have decided that this is okay. Yes, he is an idiot, BUT oh well...after two weeks post finale I am now okay with this fact and am moving ONNNNNN. Actually I moved on the next day, but have been too much of a lazy neglectful blogger to post my feelings on the issue. I did find out one thing though...if you watch it with a great friend, it softens the blow...thanks for your moral support Tammy. Onto other wasteful trashy T.V shows.

Strike Three And You're Out

School was out yesterday and even though it didn't rain much, it was way too cold to go outside for long periods of time, so we mostly stuck around home. It seemed as though all day long the kids were arguing over the silliest most ridiculous things. I feel at times that I am a full time referee! Needless to say, when 8:30 pm came along I was completely thrilled. I was able to go running with a friend and that relieved some of the earlier stress. When I came home around 9:30 I came across some photo's I forgot existed. They are on the laptop I rarely use. I saw this one of my Austin and Christian and it melted my heart. They actually look happy to be sitting beside each other. I also realized that this is how it is a lot of the time, it just doesn't seem often enough! But I guess we can't live in a perfect world, and it is possible that my expectations are too high. Either way, I love each of my babies. I have to admit though, I'm really happy school is in today.

Girls Weekend

I'm currently a very happy, refreshed, rejuvenated woman at the moment. I don't know very many husbands that would take on six kids for two nights while their wife runs away on a girls weekend, but mine did because he's wonderful. There were seven of us girls there, and we just shopped, ate out, hung out and went to see the movie Dear John. We stayed up the first night until almost 4:00 am , and were exhausted Saturday, but even still it was so fun. I recommend this to any and all mothers. You WILL come home a better mother.:)

Need warmth NOW

These two images were taken last year when my oldest sister and her dear family came for a visit. I'm feeling especially cold today and it's just so darned dreary out. This pic makes me long to have a tan, and to not have a coat or sweater on at all times. It makes me want to get out and hike and go to the park. Somehow looking at this pic just makes me feel warm inside!! I'm also shocked that Grace has no hair and it's straight as a stick...weird. Oh and I had to throw the picture of Christian in, because I'm amazed at how much he grew in a year and a half. Somebody...please send sunny warm days sooooooon.