General Conference

I LOVE GENERAL CONFERENCE! It always inspires me to be better even if I fall asleep during one of the sessions. I love going back and reading them it's my favorite scripture study. Here is the only picture I took. The girl's decided to cover Ky in all of their blankets.

Candace's Baby Shower

I threw a baby shower for my friend Candace (her and Shelby were in choir with Kyle in High School and now are some of my best friends.)  They have really saved me here in Cali. here are a few pics.

Shelby

7/8 Months

This month went way too fast! Phoebe started doing the army crawl at 7 1/2 months. Nothing is safe! I have to post for 8 months as well because I can't remember when what was what. She is super fast now and goes straight for the things I want her to stay away from. She says dadadadada just like that. She doesn't laugh as much as she screams or yells when she gets excited. She is eating solids or rather pureed foods. She is another Kylie eater...AWESOME! She eats her food in 2 seconds flat and eats whatever I give her. She really liked the avocado/peach blend. She gets a lot of peaches, applesauce, and avocados since we have those trees in our backyard. She loves to be around her sisters and starts crying if we leave her alone in a room. She will start crawling down the hallway crying as she tries to find us. I am still nursing which is a big deal for me. This is the longest I have ever done it! Nursing and potty training are by far the hardest things about being a mom for me. (so far:)) Here are some pics:

Happy Halloween. A lady in my ward her is in the primary presidency brought this over one day for Phoebe. I think it's awesome. Hopefully it will fit on Halloween it barely fit when she tried it on in this pic.

All of the above are 7 months. All below 8 months.

She kept trying to crawl off the chair...not cooperating!

I got a groupon to JCpenny's and got some family pics for $25 bucks! I was able to get three images on a cd and these are the ones I picked. Maddie was actually smiling that is why I chose hers and its cute.

More pics. from my B-day

I stole some pics from my friends facebook page. I forgot our camera as usual:) The top ones are from our Home Depot fun and the bottom ones are with our good friends Nigel and Shelby (taking pic.) their kids Dean and Kensley and Candace who I am blocking with her little girl Brooke. Candace made the cake for Nigel and I and it was the best cake I have ever eaten! She is the best cook I know.

30 Day Challenge!

My sister Rachael suggest I do this and I think it will be fun. Ha! we will see if I actually do it.

It's my birthday and now I am 30...WHAT!

I know it's not like 30 is really that old, but I used to think it was super old and I still can't believe I am there already. I have to say that my twenties were amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!and if my 30's are anything like them than I couldn't ask for more. Let's see what happened in the last 10 years:
-Before my mission worked as a janitor at the Widtsoe bldg. on BYU campus (early morning), worked at camp W.I.L.D. as a back packing instructor (helped develop the program awesome experience), right before my mission worked at a day care with the 18 month- 2 year olds (good practice in diaper changing, the kids were adorable) and did a lot of babysit to save money for the mish. When I got back from the mish I worked at the Cougareat's Taco Bell for a very short time, then I worked at New Haven as staff (Treatment Center for teen girls), I did my internship at Maple Lake Academy with Karie, and then got my first job as an RT (Rec. Therapist) at Heritage School. I absolutely loved my job and LOVED the people I work with, and now I have the best and hardest job....being a MOM! (way harder then my mom made it look)

The picture above is of me rafting when I was a camp W.I.L.D. I am the one  you can barely see with no helmet and am screaming. This is a good picture of how I feel about my 20s it was so fun and amazing with some hard things and some great things that you just have to scream about sometimes.

-Ran the Richmond Marathon right before my mission
-Served a mission in Dallas Texas
-Lived in the wilderness for 30 days (we did take showers once a week...I got college credit for it too!)
-Hiked Timp and met my future husband (never would have guessed it at the time)
-Got married in the Redlands, CA temple
-Graduated BYU in Therapeutic Recreation (AMAZING loved everything about it! Met Stacy Taniguchi and Karie Swenson two of the most amazing human beings I have ever met.)

-Had 3 beautiful, healthy, crazy, girls who keep me on my toes daily and make me laugh and cry daily, but have made me the happiest!

-Callings I have had in the past 10 years: Ward missionary (I think 5 of those years), Sunbeam teacher, Visiting Teaching Supervisor, 13 year old Sunday School teacher, CTR 5 teacher (3 weeks), Primary 2nd Counselor (2 weeks), and now Primary Secretary (we had ward boundary changes so my callings didn't last very long). Can I just say I absolutely love being in primary !!!

-Lived in too many places to count. After I got married lived in a duplex in Provo off of 9th for a year, then moved to the most amazing apartment complex ever if you have lived there you know what I mean (Legacy Apartments, name is definitely fitting) we lived there for 3 years, then moved to Yucaipa, CA (one of the worst years ever), and now Redlands, CA in my in-laws house (best year ever!) and what the future holds I have no idea...I guess I will have to create something amazing!

I had a wonderful birthday! The day before we celebrated with some friends. Our other friend had a birthday on Thursday so we celebrated both of our birthdays. Sat. we did some yard sales, then went to Home Depot and did the kid craft, the kids went home to take naps and I did some shopping. Kylie wanted to get a present for me so Ky took her and Mads to the dollar store. They got me a target gun. We had some fun playing with that. I then went to a used kids clothing sale and got some amazing deals for Kylie. Came back ate some food and the we went and got Slurpees instead of cake. It was late so the girls were already in their jammies. The glow sticks they also got at the dollar store. We had such a good time.

That's right I'm 30 and I have a princess wand.

I think this pic looks cool like this. It's way too late and I had fun playing with the editing buttons.

Don't you love Kylie's pj's thanks Aunt Kelsey. Gotta love Vivint.

Phoebe has a nice hairstyle going on in this pic!