Letters to Julia from her friends

This is Cal - haha. she's gonna kill me for this later..

Cheerios for Jillian

I just got off the phone paying bills. I gave Jillian some cheerios to keep her quiet while I talked. Jayda gave her a few more. UGH!

Julia's Caterpillars

Julia has been waiting forever for her caterpillars to get here. Monday they finally arrived. She was out of town with Jayson for the day. I called her to tell her they were here. She couldnt wait to see them. Here is day one.




We had to put them up after day one because she wanted to take them EVERYWHERE. She took them to school the day after she got them. We didnt even look at them yesterday. Today i took them down and they've grown 3x their size. They kinda scared me..


Day 5....











Day 6.....



Day 10. They were all in their cocoons by day 7. We moved them to the Butterfly Pavilion on Day 8. Now were just waiting. 04/24/08

Jayda's 3rd Birthday

Good thing we have a big family!! A trip to the toystore for gifts, the dollar store for decorations, and the grocery store for a cake and a party was born! Jayda had fun. Her babysitter had a party for her too at her house. Jayda had a fun day!

jackson laughing

this was a while ago, but havent put it on the blog yet...

Hawaii shirts

Papa Donuts!

My dad drops off donuts EVERY Sunday morning for the girls on the front porch. We hardly ever see him because he gets here so early. This works out so good for Jayson and I since we, more him than me, like to sleep in on sundays. I dont know how Jayda knows it sunday, but she is usually the first one awake, and I can hear her opening the squeaky front door to check for donuts. Sometimes they're not there yet, so she says out loud, "No Donuts." and then closes the door. I can hear all of this from my bedroom. When they are there, we hear, "Yay". This has been going on for a few years now, I think. Julia used to be the one checking and we were amazed at how she knew it was Sunday too. Its probably because Mommy is still in bed. Recently Ive been doing long runs on Sunday mornings so I leave before the donuts get here. Jack and Jill got their first donuts a couple weeks ago, but the other kids didnt realize that the donut holes were for the babies, so they ate all but 2 of them, Today they got all their donut holes. 5 for Jackson and 2 for Jillian.

Brocks Birthday

If you have ever spent time with Jayda, you have heard about Brock! Its all she talks about around here. Sometimes she calls him her boyfriend, but we correct her and tell her its her best friend and she says, "Noooooooooo, he's my boyfriend!". Yesterday Jayda and I went to his house for his 3rd Birthday Party. When we got there he had a Transformers mask on and Spidey gloves. They pretty much stayed on the party. She had lots of fun in the bounce house and on the play set.

Funny story... I started taking Jayda to the babysitter when she was 9mos old. This is where Brock and her became best of friends. Brock's mom met Jayda and told her," oh, there was a Jayda in my hospital room when Brock was born." Well Brock was 9mos old and we quickly put it together that Kara and I were in the same room at Clovis Community. I remember she didnt have a name for Brock yet and she was thinking about naming him Landon. I also remember that i have never seen anyone get dressed packed and ready to go so fast after delivering a baby in my life. She was ready to get out of there. That is the story of Brock and Jayda. Hopefully they'll be friends forever.:)

Her birthday is next.....stay tuned

SuperHawk Jenna

Jenna recieved the SuperHawk Award on Friday for passing PE testing. Jayda, the twins and I went to watch her. She got a backpack that says Superhawk on it. She also brought home her report card Thursday. All A's!!!!! Yea! We are super proud. We told her that if she get all A's at the end of the year we would take her to Pennysylvania in the Fall for a Hog Show. Its incentive for her and for us for her to get good grades. Go Jenna! We love you and are very proud of you!

The Kids Artwork.

So I have decided that I cannot possibly keep every piece of artwork that the kids bring home. Instead I have chosen to take a picture of it and post it to my Web Album. Brillaint, I now. Too Bad someone else gave me the idea. A clutter free life is my goal.

Julias art work

Jennas artwork

Parenting

When I was pregnant with Jenna someone once told me, just remember what you felt like when you were a kid. That was probably the best parenting advice ever. The other good tip I got from Jayson just the other night. Ive really been on the girls to pick up after themselves lately and i was frustrated by the end of the day and sick of my own voice from repeating myself. I told Jayson,"I hate that nothing gets done around here unless I am on thier a** about it." He said, "Welcome to Parenting." Aaahhhhh! Light Bulb! This is how it is suppose to be. Duh. Okay, I'm doing alright then. Haha.

Dear Ice Cream Man,

You and I have a committed relationship. I will always buy ice cream from you because I can remember as a child hearing your music in neighborhood, and rushing frantically to find my parents to see if i could get one. The music is getting louder and louder and that means that you are getting closer and closer. Oh the the stress that you caused me. How am I going to find a parent, get the money and be outside in time as you drive by! I finally find one of my parents only to hear them say, no, you don't need it or I don't have any money(which was a lie, I mean who doesnt have a quarter! Come on!)And then the the disappointment and heartache that had to be endured as I watched you pass by our house and torture of listening to that music get quieter and quieter until you were gone forever! Its not like you came by everyday. Well maybe you did, but I only saw you once every couple weeks. I believe that if I was home at the exact same time that you chose to drive your truck by my house, it was fate. Well sometimes our fate connected, but the bad memories are what i remember most. So you know, I turned out okay without your yummy treats, maybe i didnt them, but that wasn't the point. It was fate, I tell you. God wanted me to have an ice cream. That is why is sent you to MY neighborhood! Anyways, I now have 5 kids and promise to buy something from you as you pass by, but please do not come by everday!!!! I will be listening for you...........





This Is Miss Jayda with Nadine and Jenna today. After buying Jayda her ice cream I turned around and saw them staring at me with puppy dog faces, so i turned around and said, "Okay, 2 more!" Im such a sucker. They live next door. They don't speak English but they do like Ice Cream!!!

Princess Jayda

It all started this morning when i was begging Miss Jayda to at least put some panties on because she was running around all morning naked. She said she wanted to wear tights. So we found some tights, then i went looking for a dress. I found one of Jenna's dresses from a wedding she was in when she was two. then i started putting on my makeup and she asked if she could have some make-up. We put blush, lipstick and glittery eye shadow on. We found a tiara and a wand and the princess was born. I thought this was a good opportunity to take some pictures, since the poor child has absolutely no pictures up in the house. i dont think i even bought the ones from the hospital. Poor middle child. i know i will hear about this forever from her as an adult. We took some good pics and had a fun day. The dress came off when it got too dirty and naked Jayda was back. She got a time-out for running outside naked for the third time!

update

Jillian started crawling this weekend and Jackson has not interest in even rolling over. Just goes to show girls are smarter than boys!!!They've both had the sniffles and a cough for almost a week now. Jayson says I need to stop taking them to the gym. That leaves my workout hours to early morning. Uh-oh. I'll manage. My Parents bought us the Chipmunk movie and that has been playing for about 4 days now non stop! Im going to start screaming ALVIN in my sleep! Nothin alse is really goin g on here. Oh Jenna's softball game.... She has sixteen girls on her team so we were disappointed that she only got one at-bat and she struck out:( bummer. The game was an hour and a half. We did win though.Ill put some pictures up...

the swing and the hammock