m & m

We had friends over today.

They love "baby Gage".

Guess who is three today?

My favorite kids.

I miss them.

the Twinsies!

It's been awhile since I have posted pictures of M & M!
Here are a few.

(this is what I get when I pull out the camera and point it at M. She's got the Chandler Syndrome. :) )
They are growing so fast and are changing everyday.
We spend a lot of time playing, tickling, and running.
Lots of fun times.

Tick-tock.

We are tending the twins tonight. It has been a good day. We played, went to Mc D, gave the twins a bath, and now they are currently in bed, hopefully falling asleep.

I don't have a lot to say tonight, but here is the question for the day.

Do you wear a watch? What kind?

I do not currently wear a watch. I need to and I wish I did, but my watch battery is dead. I never remember to get a new battery. It is a Fossil watch.
The tricky thing is that I can not let the metal on the watch touch my skin or I get hives or a big itchy rash. The watch I have now is pretty good since it is a full piece of leather with the face on top of the leather. I love it. It's super cute!! It even has this fancy feature where you can push the side button and it goes to a mirror background, push it again and it has flowers on it. I really need to get a new battery. 

A post of randomness.

I finally got all the Christmas decor taken down and cleaned up! I am so excited, because it seems like most years I put it off until after the new year. This year I can focus more on partying in the New Year and not having to worry about getting the cleaning done before Monday. Nice. Very nice!

These cool people are coming to our house for New Years! I am so excited. I hope they don't get too bored with our po-dunk town. lol Either way, we can party hard, play lots of games and eat lots of food!

The one part that I do not like about winter - dry skin. Ouch. I have so many cracks on my hands and I am horrible about applying lotion consistently. It is a habit that I need to develop. Is there such thing as waterproof lotion? I wash my hands far too much during the day.

Speaking of ouch, and hands... yesterday when I was packaging up some lights in a cardboard box, I got a BAD cardboard cut on my palm. Ouch! Gotta love those, aye Michelle? Takes you right back to the good 'ole days at Smead. Ugh.

My legs ache today. You know, like "growing" pains ache, but times ten. Ouch. I hope it passes soon. Guess I was on my feet a little too long yesterday.

So one time I read in a blog post that you are only suppose to put one space after a period now-a-days. (And she's smart. And a better reporter than I would ever be.) I really, really, really try hard to do it, but I seriously cannot change the habit that I developed all those many years ago. How do you fix a habit like that? Seriously.

I am tending today and MyMy is still sleeping. Silly girl! It's almost 9:00, that is unusual. Mal, on the other hand, has some serious bed head. lol (She woke up right after I typed that.)

By the way, this is going to end up being an all day entry.

I think I left my phone home. Dang. I hate that. What ever did we do before cell phones and internet?

I keep neglecting to mention our Christmas Eve. I was great! We went to Dustyn's sister's house and had dinner and games. Fun times, fun times. Of course we had Steak and Crab because that is the tradition. (thanks guys, it rocked)  Then we played a few games. They were even good sports and played Quelf with us. If you have never played it, it is a super crazy game. Crazy, I tell you. But there was definitely good food and good times.  (Thanks again guys!)

Oh yeah, I took ZERO pictures during the Christmas Holiday. What is up with that. I have one small video of Dustyn opening his present and that is all. At least I have that! Oh yeah, and pictures of the race track. :)

Dustyn is so funny with his race track. I walk in the room and there he sits staring at his tracks. (during the 15 minute rest time) He comes up with a new configuration tries it out, makes adjustments, tries something new, and over and over again.  It makes me laugh. He's cute. Here is one of the tracks he came up with last night.

I have a lot to clean up. So many new toys! But for sure a disaster. Guess I should get busy. I guess that is all for now. Have a great Tuesday people!

Did you say silly?

So . . . I have plenty to blog about.  Plenty of time to blog.  And yet, I do not blog.  Why, you ask?  I have no idea.  But here I am.

First of all, here are some funny pics of the twins.  They crack me up.

We have been having a lot of fun playing with the now two year olds! Even Dustyn likes to join in on the fun!

Love her!

Why I was posting my photos from Disneyland, I found this picture.  

She's so cute!  And funny, even when she's mad.

Silly Kid!

I took this while I was babysitting today.  Mal was being funny!  He was laughing much harder before I decided to take a video, but it still cracks me up.  Silly kid.  Of course My was sleeping so I was just waiting for her to wake up.   (And apparently the sound doesn't work on video from my cell phone.  So you can't even hear him laughing.)  :(  Anyone know how to fix that?)

Lazy Friday

I am so extremely tired today.  I have been fighting sleep for the last few hours which has resulted in a  headache.  I should have just slept.  I don't have a reason not to, besides the fact that I hate napping in the middle of the day.  

I subbed over at Dustyn's school today.  It was a nice relaxing day (I think that is my problem).  I had 4 freshman classes and a few senior ones.  The freshman are always pretty quiet and don't give too many problems at the beginning of the year.  So that was nice.  I started reading "Breaking Dawn".  I almost fell asleep about every page.  But I did get through the first 3 chapters or so.  *yawn*

My house is pretty messy today.  Sadly it would take like 10 minutes to get it all clean up, but I have yet to start.  Maybe later.  ;)

I finally downloaded some pictures last night.  It has been since about the first of July since i have downloaded any pictures.  Sad, huh?  I haven't even attempted to catch up my photo blog.  I just haven't been taking pictures.  Oh well.  But here are some cute ones that I found on my camera.

Here is a picture of all the kids when we were tending the twins and Dustyn's brothers kids.  Dustyn brought them over to place once when I was tending the twins.  They had a lot of fun!

Here is my attempt to taking a picture of me and My.  Apparently she did not want her picture taken with my.  Silly girl.

I was changing REL's diaper and told her to lay down, all of a sudden I had all four kids laying down.  It was funny!  Too bad I can't get them to lay down for my any other time.

Here is my My.  I love the twins. They are so funny.  Sometimes they like to act shy.  

Here is Mal.

We took the kids over to the park to fly a kite.  They had fun running.  We had fun keeping track of 4 toddlers two and under.  

Here's My, REL, and Mal chillin'.  They loved sitting up to the picnic table on their own.  It made them feel so grown up!

Here's ADN running free.  He is such a funny kid!  And so good!  We had a lot of fun with both of them that week.

Here is the prep work for Dustyn's mom's living room.  It took us a good couple of hours to get to ready.  Sadly, I never took an after picture.  But her walls are no longer purple.

This is a picture that we took when we went to the SLC Temple on the way home from the FSA conference.  We did some sealings.  It was really neat.  I want to go back and go through a session.  It was my first time in the SLC Temple.  Beautiful.

We took a picture of ourselves.  And man, was I looking stunning that day!  Ha ha ha.

Then I took a picture of Dustyn.  Then the little man in the background took the time out to get a picture of both of us.  He was a funny little man.

Here is the picture that he took.  Nice!  :)  And again, don't I look stunning?  :)  I was exhausted.  

Here are some picture from Dustyn's grandpa's funeral.  Dustyn's cousin, his mom and Grandpa's sister.

This is my niece Bobbie who is getting married tomorrow!  Congratulation Bobbie!  Love you!  You can also see her mother (Hi Jer) and Dustyn's other sister and her family.

Here is Dustyn's older brother and a few of his kids.

And here they are again with a few more of the kids.  I really didn't take too many pictures, but here are the ones I did take.  It was a really nice day.

And here is a random picture of me that was taken yesterday.  Just in case you wanted to see my sunburned head.  Lovely, huh?

And that concludes the picture portion of this post!  I know these pictures are old from past post, but hey...  you still might be interested, right?  

Well enough rambling for one post.  Have a great weekend ya'll.  

"Maam"

I am babysitting the twins this weekend.

I have always wondered if there is something that they call me, since they have names for everyone now. But they usually just come get me when they need something.

Well today I think I figured out what they call me. "Maam". They keep yelling it when they need me. It cracks me up. Cute, cute kids. I took some pictures, but I forgot my cord. So these not so focused old ones will have to do! :)

(And really - they probably just want their mom. But this makes me feel better!)

Random blogginess.

Seeing as it is after 1:30AM and I have to get up in less than 6 hours . . . this is going to be short.  :P  

But I thought I would share a picture or two and say Good Night.

Cute Kids

Beautiful Skies

New Hair 

(yeah, I know.  Crappy pictures.  Oh well. But you get the idea.  Maybe I will take some tomorrow.)

Good Night.  Have a fabulous Thursday!