December 14, 2006

Well my house has been so clean the last few days. I don't know what to do with myself. Jason actually took the kids for a few hours on Monday night so I could have me time. I ended up doing the deep cleaning. I got all the laundry done. I even got to eat a meal by myself! No one wanted my food even though its the same as theirs and no one dropped their silverware 20 times just so they could have more then one fork. I turned the tv on when I was done and I was going to watch "How the Grinch stole Christmas" but I felt guilty watching it without my kids so I turned it off and we later borrowed it from Jason's mom.
Everything has stayed really good with constant picking up but I had time to go to the library without being in a hurry to come home and clean. Harley got to color there and had so much fun. I even took a nap! Oh my goodness. Wow. The girls got to color Christmas pictures last night and are getting so excited for Christmas. Its so fun. We just need to work on a time that I can paint their nails without the baby getting to things. He doesn't like someone else being the center of my attention. I hope everyone is great!

December 11, 2006

Today I got so much done except for what I set out to do. I went to the library and just got stuck in the young adult section isn't that sad? I actually checked out some Nancy Drew books. I used to love those. I also recently read all of the Ramona books. I did not get Baby-sitters club books just for those people who know what I am talking about. I am too embarrassed. As soon as Novalee got home I decided that I wouldn't wait until next week to get Gunnar's immunizations done like I had planned. I took all 3 kids and got them all flu shots and got Gunnar's other shots done. I did get some of the housework done too. I didn't get the laundry folded. That is the thing I didn't do. I felt so bad but it is so nice to have that done with. Just a great day to get that done. Bonus news too. Jason is done for school this semester. YES! Then next semester he will only go part time since he is going to be working his junior jazz job. I hope everyone is great and reading this wonderful thing.

November 30, 2006

Guess which one is not my baby?


November 27, 2006

I had the best Thanksgiving. We just had our own little family by ourselves and it was so wonderful.. Stress-free and the kids had so much fun. We had so much food and it was just great. I am so doing that again next year. We did go shopping on Friday. We waited in line at Target and some people totally cut in front of us in line and pushed and everything. I saw an old lady even cut in front! When we actually got in the store someone stepped on Harley trying to get to something before Jason. Too bad he wasn't even trying to grab anything. He ended up yelling at her in the middle of the crowd. She stepped on his daughter what do you think. We only went to get a certain Barbie that was half off and apparently no one else was trying to get it. They were crazy. We grabbed our Barbies and then spent 5 minutes trying to get out of the toy department so we could go get diapers.

November 21, 2006

I feel so bad for my kids. Gunnar has has a stomach bug since Saturday night. We thought it was just because he ate popcorn on the floor but then it didn't go away yet. Its gotten better but still kinda has some tummy problems. Harley is sick now too. She was so excited since I let her go with Jason to work last night. She ended up getting sick at his work. I felt so bad for her. Then when she was laying in my room last night she got up went to the toilet and then came in and told me she threw up. Poor girl. Then while we are in the midst of cleaning up the "problem" Novalee wakes up in the middle of the night with a wet bed. I think it might have something to do with sneaking some of my Dr. Pepper that I had by my bed. I feel so guilty because Novalee didn't do her Friday homework and then last night only did part but I have so much going on making sure the kids that are sick are taken care of, washing the loads and loads of laundry this is causing. Plus all this sickness is making me feel kinda sick too. I don't want to be sick. This is going to be the first Thanksgiving that I make our own meal with just us. I am excited no fighting about whos house to go and where we are going to make it at our house. We are making it and I am so happy. If only I had someone to come do laundry and clean my house. Ok I am going to wiggle my nose and nod and its going to get done.................I guess not.

November 18, 2006

These last few days have been so busy. On Thursday the kids all had a dentist appointments. I was kind of nervous because we had a new dentist since our old one really wasn't the nicest guy. This office was so nice. They gave the kids all these things for their teeth. They did thorough cleaning on all of the kids even Gunnar who only has a few teeth. Our old one didn't want to do that. Novalee has one cavity that needs to be filled. She also needs to have a tooth pulled since her permanent tooth is already poking out of the gums but here baby tooth hasn't fallen out yet. Harley didn't have any cavities so they gave her some stuff that said she was cavity free and she was so happy. I would have thought she would have one since she doesn't like me to help her brush. We get home and I try to do what I can to clean the house. The girls decide to put the recliner up (which they have many times) to relax and watch a movie. Gunnar decides to crawl underneath it. He climbs around the metal bars and gets himself stuck. I try for like 5 minutes to get him out. He was screaming and I was starting to cry of course. I called 911 since I had no idea what to do. As they are sending the ambulance out he stops crying and crawls out himself! I felt so dumb. They told me they could still send someone out to check out his scratches but my house was so messy I knew they shouldn't come out just to check out scratches especially since Gunnar was playing with his dinosaur just fine. It reminded me of a time that Novalee started screaming for no reason saying she couldn't stand up. Jason rushes her into the ER and when we get there she makes a big show about sitting in a wheelchair. The doctor asks her to stand up, she does. She starts smiling. Jason was mad for like a second and then takes her to buy ice cream.
Back to Thursday night someone gave us tickets to go see Savior of the World in SLC. We quickly found a babysitter and we went. It was really good. It was interesting to see the life of Christ's parents and the struggles with her being pregnant before they were married. It really made me think about the struggles Mary must have had as a mother. I mean I feel enough stress worrying about how I am raising my kids but to be the mother to the Savior must have been hard but I know it was a great blessing too. It turns out that the girl we went with was in the cast last year so we had to go meet some of the people that were in it. She was telling everyone how Jason just got baptized so they were talking to us. The only thing was that the play took longer then I thought and so it didn't get over until almost 10 and then with meeting people it took another 20 or so minutes. We didn't get back to Provo until 11 . I was so worried I figured we would be back by like 9 I don't know why I thought that because it started at 7:30. I realized halfway through that Gunnar doesn't usually go to sleep unless I nurse him. I was stressing during the second half of the play because of that. We get back and they said that Gunnar went to sleep with a bottle and he was really good. I was so relieved. Until I saw how sad Harley was. She was crying because she didn't want to have a sleepover with her friends. I felt bad but it was ok. The people who watched the kids are incredibly nice and we totally trust them. In fact the husband was the one who confirmed Jason and he gave Jason the Aaronic Priesthood on Sunday. We also we saw a deer just down the road from our house on our way home which was really weird. I have seen some scary movies and so I thought it was a big monster wolf at first. I am a dork I know.
The next day we woke up totally drained. We had to do Novalee's homework since we didn't have time the day before. Her show and tell was the letter k or L. She wanted to bring her lunchbox from Disneyland. She wanted to bring a treat to stick in it. So we had to run to the gas station on our way to school try to find something k or l we just got smarty suckers and she was like 10 minutes late. I had to run home get Jason take him to work. Run to his moms work go to the library since they had something on hold for us. Go pick up Novalee. Then go visiting teacher. I had to do all of this by 12 and in clothes that I just threw on. Harley and Gunnar were in their pjs. After that I came home and got the house clean, children dressed, and myself dressed by like 6. Without Gunnar having a pm nap. Jason went to Wendover for the night with some people from work for like 15 dollars that paid for his food and ride out there. The kids and I had Chinese food. They never like it usually but they ate a whole combo meal by themselves. Novalee who didn't have a nap got mad at me and broke her new pink glasses. I was so mad. She stayed in her room for like 10 minutes and fell asleep. Jason didn't get home until like 5 this morning he can only sleep a little longer since we have to go to Payson to go pick up 2 free turkeys and go to Walmart to go get groceries and be up in Salt Lake by like 1:45. My dad is taking us to see Happy Feet. I hope its good. I wanted to go see Santa Clause 3 but since he's paying I don't get a choice. Sorry to bore all 2 of you with the details. Its just been crazy. Have a good weekend.

November 16, 2006

I wokeup today at 5 to get the house done before the kids woke up but now the baby is up so there goes my plan.

November 12, 2006

Well, today is going to be a great day. I am getting rid of a huge pile of baby clothes in my hallway. Since we are not going to have anymore kids for a while we are getting rid of our baby clothes. Also that means when I do get pregnant I get to shop. Something I totally love. Plus. My house is clean except for the girls room and my room but both of those are being cleaned by Jason and the kids since they messed them up. (More reorganizing for Jason) The most important though is that Jason is getting the priesthood today. I am way excited. THere is however family drama going on right now though. We will see how it goes.

November 11, 2006

I can't believe it. Right now my kids are watching Pee Wee's playhouse. Oh my goodness. So lame. I can just blame my darling husband. AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

November 4, 2006

Well today was so fun for my kids. They totally loved the movie. It was great. I hope everyone (the few) who read this check out Liken the Scripture movies. They are so good and the kids love them. They are making the Bible ones without an LDS theme so they can market them to other Christian groups but the movies are awesome. My kids were so excited that they met the girl who is in a few of them and she told them they were cute. It was awesome.
Last night Jason and I went and met the author of the Levan Thumps books. I don't know if you have ever heard of them but, we did start reading them last night and they seem pretty good. He came to Jason's work yesterday for an assembly and gave them some things for display case's and then told them to come to another signing last night for more so Jason bought both books had him sign those and then the author gave us other signed things for us to keep at home too. Pretty neat.
Tonight we are going to a screening of a Liken the Scripture movie. They filmed parts of the movie at the school where Jason works and so they are going to have a showing today there. Its good for us in more then one way. Jason was in charge of getting the rental deal with them at the school. He did have to miss most of the filming because we were in AZ and I felt bad because he worked hard to get them to use the school and then he had to miss 3 days of shooting. Luckily he was there to see some and meet some of the actors (I guess one is a basketball player) and so he was happy about that but he will be paid to help them tonight. The movie will be Samuel the Lamanite. I am looking forward to it because the girls love those movies. I only hope Gunnar will be interested enough to sit so I can watch it. I love the story and I am looking forward to seeing it. I loved the Christmas one they have. When they were shooting at the school they gave Jason all of the movies that were out at the time and so we got six then they have come out with one more I think Daniel in the Lions den and then this one. Its great. Plus I have a coupon that I need to go buy a Christmas Eve scent Salt City Candle at Deseret Book. So much fun things. I love the Christmas scents too bad they are not out all the time. Well sorry this is stupid but this weekend is going to be fun!

November 1, 2006

Don't get me wrong I love seeing my kids have fun but I am sooo sooo glad Halloween is over!

October 25, 2006



Yeah he's reading it............. He loves this book

October 24, 2006


Novalee dancing (we were having a fun day) Don't you like all the layers

This is Jason right before he was baptized.

Harley dancing

my boys playing pirates with the cake. the pictures worked!!
Why can't I upload the pictures??? I am trying to get pictures posted but that is my stupid computer. I had Gunnar's hair cut yesterday, it looks cute but, I miss the curls at the back of his head that I play with while I am rocking him to sleep. I was so sad last night while I was putting him to bed. The front lawn is still not mowed. Our neighbors I swear are selling drugs. The way they have people go in and out of their house especially early morning. They keep have all the screens pulled off the house and in the front window one of the panes is missing and my neighbor sits there by it with the curtains close and everytime someone goes by she lifts the curtains open just a bit and looks out the window. Also people park down the street to walk to the house. It started off as a BYU approved home but the owner is selling the house so they don't care anymore. We have a cop who lives across the street and he is starting to notice things I think. He was saying something to me about it the other day. I am almost done with my visiting teaching. Just random thoughts because that is all I can think about lately. My mind can't concentrate on one thing for more then a minute. Well my life is interesting. You can tell I am around kids all day. Kimbo I don't have your email address now because my email changed so email me at utahespinoza1@wmconnect.com. I check it often because sometimes my husband actually emails me and tells me we are going out without the kids. Its an event for me.

October 22, 2006

Shocking news! Jason didn't mow the lawn. I did the backyard but I am refusing to do the front yard. The backyard has more grass and is twice the size of the front but he won't do the back since no one sees it. Then of course the back yard gets to be monster size. We did have it taller then Novalee once. It was sad. He said he would mow the front today but, I highly doubt that. The joy of husbands. The girls are so excited about Halloween. Novalee is now going to be a witch and Harley wants to be Tinkerbell again this year we told her she could be whatever she wanted but she loves Tinkerbell. Gunnar will be a bumblebee. Its way cute because when he walks his little stingers wags back and forth.
The other day the girls were watching TV and they saw some commercials for these new Tinkerbell fairy dolls. Disney is putting out new fairy movies about Tinkerbell and her friends I guess. So they have all these toys for them. Novalee of course said she wanted the dolls. Harley got all mad and started yelling that they are for little kids like her and not for big kids like Novalee. I was suprised she didn't say Tinkerbell was hers. She usually says that when Novalee wants somethingTinkerbell. I just thought that was funny because every time Harley doesn't want Novalee to have something she says its for little kids like her or if Harley has to do something she doesn't want to do she says it the big kids job to do it. One time I came in the house after getting McDonalds. I was trying to carry all of the food and drinks and I dropped a kid drink and Harley said "You dropped Novalees drink!". Novalee of course started crying even though I never said which drink was which. I got them the same drink. Yeah my life is fun. Don't be all jealous.

October 20, 2006

I am so happy its Friday. I think Jason might mow the lawn this weekend. I hate having to do it. I usually do it when I know Jason doesn't have time. I have to wait until the baby is asleep and use that time I usually clean to mow the lawn. The girls fight the whole time but they will be good as long as they don't wake up the baby. I know Gunnar is a year old (sad) but I can't clean while he is awake if I am in the kitchen he pulls out the tupperware and then moves onto the pans. If I am in the livingroom he pulls out the VTech or the DVDs or the videos. If I am in the bathroom he eats the toiletpaper or tries to play in the garbage or toilet. My room. He pulls out all the videos from the shelves. If I clean while he is asleep he doesn't do any of that while he is awake he will just play or want me to read to him. So cute. Anyways. Jason has nothing planned for this weekend so he will be doing the lawn.
I finally figured out why I can't put my Disneyland pictures up. Its because my computer sucks. We burned them all onto a disc and my wonderful computer won't read any disc's anymore. Jason can't put them up from his computer because he can't go to this website. Its a school computer and they have to block all blog websites and stuff because the kids get into those instead of doing their homework.
We are going to buy a new computer. This one is just over a year old and is already broken. Jason said he bought a warrenty but who knows and I can't find the receipt. I would rather buy a new bedroom set since my dresser is falling apart and has stickers on it from the girls.
I know everyone cares about all my interesting stuff. I better go wake up Novalee. Jason will sleep in until the last minute then he will be mad because he's running late. Its also my fault I didn't wake him up. He doesn't have to be at work until 9 so he figures 8:30 is a great time for him to wake up. He doesn't realize after 3 months that Novalee has to be at school at 8:30 so I have to be taking her to school and he has to watch the kids while I walk her to school I also don't have time to sit there and make sure he gets up because the morning time is the best time to clean. Don't get me wrong Jason is a wonderful husband. I love him. I just have to complain. He is the only one who would put up with my weirdness.

October 18, 2006



Ok if this post has pictures its of Bonny and Harley and my step mom and Novalee shooting aliens and Zurg in the Buzz Lightyear ride. That ride was ridiculously (?) stupid. The line was so long. We tried 3 times to get on that ride (too long, broke down, and the baby peed on me) it was so not worth it. Jason and I were not impressed. I still can't get other pictures on here for some reason (Gunnars cake) and Jason hasn't email me the pictures off his computer from Disneyland. I did try to post them from the hotel but our laptop wouldn't let me got to the dashboard something about cookies so then I would get mad and not use it. Plus I was exhausted by the time we got home.

October 17, 2006

I am having the hardest time posting pics from Disneyland! We had such a great time and now its time to get motivated and unpack. The girls had such an awesome experience. They got a personal tour from Mickey. Then they got to skip through toontown holding Minnies hand. We were so lucky on timing to get picked for both of those. It was awesome. I have the cutest pictures of Novalee skipping with Minnie. Its so sweet. I will try to post some pictures. We also did a princess dinner where they had 5 "princesses" come to your table for pictures and autographs. That was awesome. They weren't all exactly princesses but they were neat. We met Ariel, Mulan, Belle, Snow White and Mary Poppins. We also met a lot of villians at California adventure (They are having all of them out for Halloween.) They got to meet Woody, Cinderella, Alice and the Mad Hatter, Sorceror Mickey and just tons more characters. They had the park decorated for Halloween. The haunted mansion was done with Nightmare before Christmas. The girls loved it so much. Gunnar was so amazed at the characters and he loved winnie the pooh and the pooh ride. When we went on Star Tours Novalee thought that the robot was really making mistakes and was going to kill us. The pictures of her on splash mountain and space mountain was so cute. She was ducking down with a terrified look on her face. So many awesome stories and great memories for my kids. Such a big mess at my house but I am trying to get motivated to clean up.

October 10, 2006

The other day was Gunnars birthday. I was going to post a picture of the cake but my computer is really stupid. He had an awesome cake. It was a pirate ship. We are going to leave for California tomorrow and we will be in Disneyland for 3 days! I am so excited. I did however just find out that it will be rainingfor two of the days. I can deal with that its just a bummer for the kids. As long as my kids don't get sick its ok. Anyways I know since my life is interesting and all. Kimbo I haven't seen any pictures of your baby yet you should email some to me. I am really really offended.

October 3, 2006


Gunnar keeps trying to shut himself in the fridge. Its a great hiding spot.

Novalee and I doing out face mask. Gunnar didn't like it.

ok this is our family at the zoo this summer. The girls loved it . It was soo hot.