Every action has a consequence!!

As every mom has probably done I left my children unattended while I cleaned and tried to regain sanity. They were upstairs playing TOGETHER and not fighting, I check on them after half an hour(just cracking the door open a little), Grants room was somewhat messy, but at first glance not bad and they were playing a VERY intense game of I spy. So I let it go! By this point I have already made MULTIPLE mistakes! Oh what's one more-so I go downstairs for another half hour. So it has been one hour of happy bliss in a quiet house with children who are getting along sooo well(I also lost my phone so I don't hear that ring either-very quiet house.)
So we now have to answer

WHY are they getting along so well????!!!!????
Let me tell you!
After one hour I actually walk into the room to check on them

I find
-every book in their room on their floor
-every toy bucket dumped out
-3 broken toys
-2 empty sippie cups(that is alarming-WHERE is the water)
-Grants 400 ish piece diego game on the floor
-everything from on top of his bed bookcase on the floor
And then I see IT!!!
-2 bowls
-1 EMPTY BOTTLE OF DORA LOTION(OH NO!!!!)

They had taken the dora lotion and put it into two bowls, with the water, mixed it with some spoons AND GIVEN SOME OF LUCIES BABIES A BATH(IN GRANTS ROOM).
Water and lotion are all over the place.

So due to my action of ignoring my angelic children for one hour I spent 45 minutes sitting in Grants room watching them clean-making sure to put everything away.
I am exhausted-I need a long backrub and a longer nap!!!

Therefore tonight I am treating myself to...

A fun filled family fun night at the ymca with a lot of people, even more kids, NOISE, NOISE, NOISE! Just what I need right now...I don't mind passing up a backrub and a nap for 2 hours of watching my kids laugh and play.

In my life a backrub will never come and I will probably get a nap right before my backrub!!

Happy Birthday to my precious little boy!

Grant turned five today and I am so happily sad it is unbelievable. My baby is officially a BIG boy. I was looking through our photo album to find pictures of him through the years and I almost started to cry because he is so sweet and he has filled our lives with so much joy over just five years! He is always so happy and fun to be around, he plays with everyone and loves to have fun and explore new things. It didn't really hit me until I wrote the word FIVE-WOW, that is such a huge number when you are talking about your little baby. I am going through major baby withdrawals. I think it is going to be soo much worse in 4 months when Lucie is 4, I will have a 4 and 5 year old, but what about my baby??? I know Grant can't read this but I want to thank him for being the best little boy EVER!!! I love you!

Reunited!

So about a year ago I remembered that my mom made a bear for Grant and a Bunny for Lucie for Christmas three years ago, I couldn't find them and I swore I gave them to my mom to fix!! So I have just been waiting because SHE had them. Well the Sears in town had rubbermaid bins on clearance so I picked up some(actually alot) and started organizing all of our JUNK!! In the basement I found a few boxes of toys, I opened them to sort them and sure enough there they were. They must have been in there for almost two years. I am so excited I found them it made my day!! I called my mom and apologized and told her that she is always right-just like my kids mom(ha ha ha.) Anyway I found the picture I took of the kids when they first got them, and I just took a picture again. They are getting sooo big-it actually makes me want to cry a little bit!!

Fun with an old friend!!

Yesterday we met up with an old friend of Josh's(he was up visiting his brother in IL), since we all have kids we took the kids to Chuck E Cheese so they could play while their daddies caught up and reminisced about old times. Lucie loved playing with their daughter Eliza-they danced, played games and ran around like crazy little three year olds do. It was fun getting to know Dale's wife, Raina-the kids were all really good so we actually got to talk a while(which usually doesn't happen with kids.) Lucie figured out how to put her tickets in the "ticket monster" and get a receipt for it so she did it a lot, one time she only had one ticket!!

What is COLD???

This is for all of our Arizona friends and relatives who wear a winter jacket when the temperature reaches 60.

I was born and raised in Wisconsin and I don't have the best memory but I can't remember the temperature EVER being THIS COLD!! I took a picture of the computer screen this morning. Just a note, the -15.5 is WITHOUT a wind chill. It is -35 with the windchill. School is canceled for the FOURTH time this year and tomorrow isn't looking any better then today!! Even though this winter is HORRIBLE-I have another day home with the kids-so it works out to my advantage!!

So grateful!

I am so grateful that Josh's job at Chase took a turn for the worst and he was forced to get a new job. Thanks to his new job and my mom and dad being willing to watch the kids 2 days a week I am a part time stay at home mom. I work tue-th 6:30 to 4:00 so I am off Friday through Monday. I love staying home with the kids. Today I took them to a place called Family Fun Land which just opened in the beginning of December (famfunland.com) They had a huge jumping tent, a smaller one with blowup animals in it, a huge indoor playground and an arcade. The kids got $1.50 each to spend in the arcade and the rest of the time was spent running around, we were there 4 hours. We are all beat, we don't have anything like this in our area so I was soo excited when I found the add in the paper!! We took Lucie's little friend from school(Jayden), he loved it to, we will be going back lots!! The picture of Lucie and I was taken by Grant-I think it turned out super cute.

Steak Fajitas!

I found this recipe and changed it a little, and let me tell you these are better then restaraunt fajitas-they are GREAT!!


Steak Fajitas

In a crock pot combine
1 (1 ½ pound) beef flank steak or rib eye steak-thinly sliced
¾ cup salsa
1 can diced green chiles
2 tsp garlic powder
1 tsp cumin
1 teaspoon chili powder
½ tsp salt

Cover and cook on low 4-6 hours

In Saucepan add butter and sauté
1 medium onion (sliced)
1 medium green pepper (sliced)
1 medium sweet red pepper (sliced)
Add to crock pot and mix

Heat vegetable oil to medium high heat and put corn tortillas in it to make them warm and soft.

It is what???AGAIN!!!

So last night I watched my sisters two girls, we woke up this morning, ate breakfast, and started to get ready for church. I was doing great, everyone was in there clothes and showered by 8:00(church is at 9:30.) I just started drying my hair and we got the call-church is CANCELED-AGAIN!! So far this winter church has been canceled three times-one for alot of snow, one for freezing cold weather -35, and now because we got half of inch of freezing rain last night, it hit the ground and froze right away so we are now living in a slippery winter wonderland!! These are the kids attempting to walk on the ice covered ground!!! Church has been canceled three times and schools have been closed three times this winter, I guess that is what I get for complaining about the 4 1/2 feet of snow in December and the week plus of negative degree days, this winter is absolutly ridiculous, but I am a home body and it keeps me home, so it is somewhat enjoyable!!

Roller Skating!!

The kids went roller skating yesterday with my little sister. Lucie did really good, Grant became frustrated and said "I can't take this anymore", I locked Josh out of the house while he was ice fishing so he had to come up and get the keys and he helped Grant skate a little.

Christmas at the Waterpark!!

Not much to say, the kids had a blast-here are the pics!! Grant and Lucie used goggles for the first time. In the picture of Grant underwater I was holding my camera waiting for him to put his head up so I could take a pic of him half up and half down. I waited and waited but he didn't come up-I thought he was just holding his breath really long, turns out he lost his footage and wasn't coming up. Way to go A+ mom and lifeguard of 15 years!!