Sunday Mornings

Sunday mornings David sometimes has early morning meetings at church.  You would think that it would be harder to get the kids ready because David is gone, but actually it goes a lot smoother without him around.  Don't tell him I said that, he thinks he is such a big help.  He is such a hands on dad, but sometimes he just plays around too much on Sundays, and he is busy off in the kitchen making wonderful fruit smoothies for "the kids" (me).  Before I know it the clock says its five minutes till church starts.  When David is not around to throw us off schedule by being an amazing husband we have about forty minutes to kill before church starts.  And, this is what we do.  Viggo and Nana love to take pictures of themselves on the computer.  They think its hysterical.  My little boy has such a big personality lately.  I feel like you can see what a goof he is in these pictures.  I have a funny story to tell you about him, but that is for another post. Here are my silly beautiful babies :0)

I love the one on the bottom right hand corner.  That is suppose to be his serious face lol. 

Father's Day Everday

Since the first day my daughter was born, I knew my children would be daddy's kids.  They absolutely adore him, and with reason.  He is the greatest dad.  He is never too tired to play with them, and he is sooooo patient and loving.  He is so proud of his kids.  Simple things like the mass quantity of food that my little boy can consume makes him so proud.  Or, the other night we went and had a picnic in the park and had family home evening.  There is a splish splash park their, and no one was around because it was becoming dark.  We decided that it was the perfect time to play in it, clothes and all.  David was so happy just seeing Ariana play in the water, and see her not have a care in the world.  Seeing her run around the water in her clothes dancing and making funny faces just made him so happy.  Simple things makes him happy.  And I am so happy to have him in my life.  And my kids truly are always so glad to see when Daddy comes home.  He gets a celebratory greeting everyday.  

We love you David :0)

Lemon Pound Cake

I don't know why but anything with the taste of lemon settles my tummy lately.  So, I decided instead of making more lemonade I would see if a lemon pound cake could do the trick.  My tummy, and my family were very happy.

Cravings

Seriously I have never really had cravings like I am having with this baby.  And sometimes I find myself cranky because I can't find a single thing to appease my cravings.  Until today...... I was looking at Lillie's blog ( If you haven't seen it, you must it is so beautiful, it will make you feel happy every time you read it, and while you are there you must look at her photo-blog and website. One word breathtaking.  Lillie)  She posted a post about bread and almond butter that caught my attention, because anything with food quickly catches my attention these days.  And it led me to a blog called The Little Red House.  I couldn't believe my eyes.  So many beautiful pictures, of FOOD!!!! Her deserts, oh and then her soups, and wait her homemade pizza, and then her deserts. I know I said deserts twice, but seriously they look delicious!!  I stayed on her blog forever.  My heart sang with joy.  So tonight I am trying her chocolate cake with STAWBERRY BUTTERCREAM frosting.  Its suppose to be a cake decorated with beautiful pink frosted ruffles.  But I am just going to make it into cupcakes. And I am going to inject the cupcakes with her chocolate buttercream which originally was suppose to be used as the middle layer of the stacked cakes.  I just want to eat them as quickly as possible, and not risk ruining her frosted ruffles idea.  Maybe I am extra hungry because I am still exercising, and normally by now you would only find me in the gym maybe three times a month.  But, I have made the goal to keep going.  So far so good. But maybe not so good, because instead of staying in shape, I find myself more hungry than ever.  Oh boy, but at least now I have this wonderful blog to look at to satisfy my sweet tooth.

Can I just say how much I have found that I enjoy blogging.  I feel like I have become a better mom, and person through reading other people's blogs.  I feel like there are so many gifted and talented people in this world, and they have allowed me into a small part of their lives, and I have gotten to learn so much from them.  I feel like my home with them is better.  So thank you bloggers who have allowed me to peek into your lives, and have helped me to enrich my own.

Here are the cupcakes!!! They were delicious!!!! I know I have a bias for strawberries, but I think this is the best buttercream frosting I have EVER tasted!!! I am for sure going to buy her cook book when it comes out.  Tomorrow night I am going to attempt making my own puff pastry from scratch so I can make a Napolean desert from the master chef cook book, which by the way also involves strawberries.  Maybe I should just create a strawberry blog.  I think I am going to have to start having people over for dinner to make sure I don't eat everything.  What are your favorite food blogs?

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Tune Up

 We have had a history of buying used cars from craigslist.  We have had some really good buys and some really bad ones, but David learned a lot from each buy.  My brother in law Kevin has taught David a lot.  He can fix anything, and you should see his cars/trucks, they are amazing.  This is now one of David's favorite things to do.  Sometimes I kid with him that he likes doing it because he likes having another excuse to talk to Kevin.  They have developed quite the relationship lol.  David loves to just work on our cars.  He has so many things he wants to do.  Something about adding a cool air intake, and flushing out all fluids and adding synthetics. I am glad he likes doing it.  He really seems so content after working on the car, it makes me happy.  Okay, I was also happy because we went out for Slurpee's after.  Another bonus is that he saves us a lot of money.  Yesterday he gave our car a tune up.  He changed all the spark plugs pretty quickly, and after putting the car back together it drove!! A tune up on the Durango would normally cost around 300.00 something dollars.  It cost us $30.00!  Now if only I could get David to like wood working.  Then I could get him to make me some fun furniture :0)

Part 2: Father's Day Party

 Here are some pics from the party.  Can you tell Ariana is right in her element?  She is my little social butterfly.

 Viggo danced two songs with me, and quickly decided that he was ready for bed.

Part 1: Father's Day Dance

 Yesterday, our ward had a father's day party.  The kids performed the cutest dance that they prepared for their dads.  I loved it!!! I am so glad that I recorded it, because I can watch Ariana do this over and over again.  I don't know when she got so big, but I look at her and I can't believe that this cute little girl dancing before me use to need me to rock her to sleep every night.  I can tell the pregnant hormones are in full swing, because I cried almost through the whole thing.  I felt so ridiculous.  I was so happy, but I couldn't get myself to stop crying.  David just had the biggest grin.

My little girl is the one with the pink boots, and cowgirl hat :0)

What is happening?

I am still very excited about having a third baby.  I still feel really good.  But....... is it normal for my belly to be already expanding?  I am not even two months yet.  Please, tell me its just what happens on the third.  Lie to me if you have to.  I promise I have been eating like I always do, and I still exercise, but my belly is not what it was two weeks ago. Okay I lied, maybe eating apple pie with ice cream around 11:00 p.m is not a good idea.  My husband was even surprised when I showed him last night.  I keep telling him its because we are going to have twins lol.  I know...... but I have to make myself feel better some how.  So here we go, loving having a baby in me, but never too excited about seeing my body morph out of control.  I am not one of those women that gains and it only shows in the belly.  I get it in the back, booty, face, thighs, hands.  Well, everywhere.  But it will all be worth it when I see my cute chubby baby.  I love me a chubby baby with extra rolls.  Between my mom who topped out at having a 11 lb baby (Jessica), and David's mom producing some of the cutest rolley babies I have ever seen, I should just accept that this is how it is.  Did I mention that I get to be pregnant at the same time as my sister in law Belem.  She has amazing baby making genes.  She never looks pregnant while pregnant, and the day after she has the baby looks like it was impossible for her body to have ever held a baby.  Someone needs to bottle up her genes, and give me a shot of it.  Here is proof.  Embarrassing for me but oh so wonderful for her.   

I think she was seven almost eight months here.  Because they had their baby in November.  Crazy right.  Look at her arms, I would be happy if my arms would look like that even when I wasn't pregnant.

 

I told you I have amazing in laws :0) 

The Four of Us.......

The video is not the best quality.  I hope its not too hard to watch, but we are soooooo excited!!

Memorial Day Weekend

My family came up to visit us for Memorial Day weekend.  Both my parents came up.  Its been really neat to see how they have tried to make this whole divorce thing go as smoothly as possible.  I don't know if I could do what they have been able to accomplish in such a small amount of time.  I guess it goes to show you how much they do love us.  I was sad that I was sick the whole weekend that they were here.  I even lost my voice.  I tried so hard to try and enjoy the time that I had with them while they were here.  My kids had a blast.  They love family, it makes me wish I lived closer to family every time.  Maybe, one day......... but, for now we will make the most of fun family vacations together. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On Monday everyone wanted to go to the wet n' wild water park.  David gave me a bunch of vitamin C pills some Tylenol and off I went to spend time with my family.  The plus about losing your voice, at a water park, people can't hear how scared you are going on the slides......... but, I think walking out of line and then coming back due to David and my brother's pressure may have given away how scared I was. 

Dreaming

When I first got married I always said I could not picture myself living in anything else but in an apartment.  A cute apartment but none the less an apartment.  And then with time I wanted to rent a home, and always said that I just could never imagine wanting to purchase a home.  Especially with all the foreclosures that have occurred.  But then....... something happened I don't know when or how but I started getting the bug to want to purchase a home.  It may be because the ridiculously low prices out here in Arizona.  You can get a four bedroom 2,300 square feet home in surprise for about 89,000.  Making our home payment to be around the high seven hundreds, low 800's.  Ever since I found out that I would be saving money if I purchased a home, I have not been able to stop thinking about it.  But we are not rushing into anything.  Rushing into things has never worked out for us. Its been fun thinking about how I would decorate my home.  I could paint it, add things to it.  Oh how I have been dreaming. I have always wanted a home with a lot of light.  I want lots of windows!!  I picture lots of whites, creams, greens, some gray.  I found this picture on a designers blog.  And its how I would love my master bedroom to look like.

I love the wood backing the bed frame.  Well, for now I was thinking of simple ideas to decorate my room with.  Because I am renting I don't want to invest too much, but I thought this would be fun.

I like the frames.  I thought I could do that to the wall behind my bed frame.  And in some of the frames I would like to put pictures up of like our hands holding,  or an embrace. You wouldn't be able to tell that it is David and I because it would be so close up that our faces would not show up.  Well this is probably as far as I will go on this for now.  Its just fun to imagine :0)