My kids are the best ever!

I love my kids!  And my family, and Martina McBride, and my comfy bed, and this big, cold glass of water that I am drinking right now.  I have the greatest life. 

Seriously, like the cutest babies ever right?  I can't believe they are almost four and six.  I need s'more of these.  But if not, these two are all I ever dreamed of.  Plus it's totally May and the weather has been beautiful.  So, my cup runneth over.

Good Things to Come

Good Things to Come

Continuation...

Some more general updates: my divorce was final last November.  Such a relief to be over that period, and now I get to have the adventure of parenting with my ex.  I am not going to say alot about that, but I could live without it.  Here are some pics of my cute kids, who make the entire last five years worth it.

He is a stinker, and such a boy.  He keeps saying "You're poopy" which makes me want to scream, and I don't know where he picked it up.  He has a favorite toy, which he calls a spaceship, but it is actually the top of an orange juicer. He is a punk, but still my favorite little cuddlebug ever. 

 Eve does a cheer that she learned from her Aunt Emily.  My other pics are fuzzy, but this is her ready, ok! pose.

Satchel loves IronMan! I have glued this toy together about sixteen times, because it is a cheapy from Burger King.  But he loves it! 

Eve is getting to be such a little lady.  She is sharp as a tack, and never lets me forget that she knows alot more than me.  She is also a huge helper to me.

 My kids dad got them sunglasses and they ate and slept in them for days.

 

I hate it when my kids fall asleep on the floor, but it sure is cute!

 

 Curlers are my favorite with this girl! 

 

He went through a stage where he put everything in his nose, but fortunately that kind of ended when he got the bead stuck up there.  I almost had a heart attack while I fished it out with tweezers, so I imagine it wasn't too pleasant for him either.

 

Holy Cow, I Haven't Posted in Fooooorever!

Sooo, I have been super busy, also, super lazy lately. Everytime I get online, I find myself mindlessly reading through my favorite bigfoot forum. Anyway, I will try to update everything from the last forever. Starting with Halloween last year. Eve was obviously a cheerleader, Satch was a ninja (I thought it fitting, since he beats up everything in front of him), and me and my sisters were the three witches. It was a great night. Bonnie and Dave got into the spirit and we all decked out the house with bats, webs, skeletons, and jack-o-lanterns.

Then came the holiday season.  Here a few pics of my Christmas spirit:

 

Great Christmas!  I love the season.  I didn't get great pics of my kids because my camera is turning stupid.  Next onto the new year, I started school!  I took a full schedule for spring semester and it was hard!  But everything worked out in the end, I got all A's.  I realized though that it is just time that I get a full-time job, get my own place, and cut back to part-time school.  My goal is to get into nursing school and part-time it will take me a couple years to get my pre-reqs done, then a couple years to get into a program, but by then my kids should be older and it will all be fabulous!  So I am hoping to get into my own home with my kids by the end of the summer, pray for us!  Here are several random pictures of what has been going on. 

Remember that really cold rainy spell earlier this year?  It took forever for our back yard to dry out, and events like this happened several times.  Once it happened twice in one day, and I admit that I yelled a lot that day.

Makin' cookies!

So in May I went to Huntington Beach with my aunt and it was so great!  You know when you are just going and going, and then you get a second to relax and it is only then that you realize you were exhausted?  The day after we got to Cali, I woke up in a beautiful hotel room, with a view of the beach, in a bed that I did not have to make, which was also extremely comfy, and I just laid there  breathing for a few minutes.  I then realized that I had been so stressed and overwhelmed, but it had just become an everyday feeling, so I just acclimated, or whatever.  Once I could put it all away, I felt like I could float right up to the ceiling.  It was so hard to go back to normal life, but here are a couple pics that showcase the best parts:

Best tub ever!  And Disneyland!

 

Seriously I loved that tub.  Also, on the dock, the fishers had these fish, I guess they were using them for bait, but I thought they were beautiful.

 

I saw dolphins and seals, and surfers, and the beach which I just love.  It was too cold to stay on the beach, so we hit Disneyland, it was such a great weekend.  (My aunt Annette was awesome company too!)

Happy Birthday Danya!

Hey Danya, this is the best picture ever.  Makes me think of Percy Jackson.  I am glad you are my sister!

Mom

I love this picture. That's my mom taking care of me when I had my Satchel.

So I was sitting at church today and some days the whole "I am getting divorced and my life is changing in such a dramatic way and I am overwhelmed with it all and just tired of the hard parts and feel guilty for not appreciating the great parts" thing kinda hits me, (got that?) and I just had such a longing to drive to my Mom's house and put my head in her lap and cry and not have to face all these adult problems. Once when Chris was away for a few months for Basic Training I was really feeling lonely for him, and I did just what I wanted to do earlier today. I cried it out into my mom's lap. And it all felt better afterwards. But I couldn't do that today. However, just thinking about it patched me up on the inside enough to finish the day. So I just wanted to let my mom know that when things are hard for me I know I can go to two people and they can buoy me up enough to get through it. Those two people are Jesus and my mom. Someday I hope I am that person for my own kids. I love you Mom!

Happy Birthday to My Baby!

My baby is two! And he has the attitude to match. But his birthday was so much fun. I made a Spiderman cake that actually turned out and we did presents. I am not really into big parties for my kids while they're little, so we just keep it to our own little family. Satchel is totally into cars and trucks so he got a couple toys along those lines. He loved it! The first pic is him playing the driving game with his Uncle Dave.

Blowing out the candles. He did it all by himself!

Such a sweet, smiley boy!

His Mac truck from Cars. He sleeps with it.

Spidey came out much better than I expected. Now I have to find a cake just as good for Eve's birthday this fall. I have set the precedent now for special cakes and she is already asking about a princess cake. Happy Birthday Satchel, I love you so much!