I'm So Excited To Get Married!

There's a new credit card commercial that ends up with the dad finding out that they're expecting triplets. Well, after seeing this, Mikayla turns to me, wide eyed, and asks "Why does she have three babies?!"
"Well, that's how many babies Heavenly Father gave her." I replied.
"I want three babies!" She said with the biggest smile.
"Well, when you're my age you can have babies...."
"Okay, mom"
"After highschool..."
"Okay, mom."
"and you have to get married first!"
Then she shrugged her shoulders in excitement and started doing a little dance. It looked almost as if she was running in place.
"I'm so excited to get married!!" she squeaked.
I couldn't help but laugh and then I told her to go tell that to her daddy!

On a completely unrelated note, today we went to the park. We didn't have time to eat breakfast, so I brought along the trusty granola bar. Well, when Hunter talks...if you can call it that because most of the time it's just a bunch of gibberish. BUT apparently he's been holding out on me because after I had opened the granola bar and tried to give it to him, he said as clear as day, "No. I don't want it." and shook his head.

Taco Festival

It's the little things that make life fun. Little things like Taco Festivals! Joel was working right down the street from where it was going to be, so he scored some free tickets. Then when we got there we tried tacos from 10 different places. Surprisingly, the fancy tacos were nasty. My favorite one was from Ticos. Alas, my all time favorite taco place Guedo's, was not there (so sad). They have the best chicken tacos...in my opinion.

Then we went right next door to the Scottsdale Fashion Square Mall. Went shopping, walked around, and then went to the best little kids corner I've ever seen. It's small, but not very busy with a big pirate ship, house, castle, and tree house complete with it's own little bathroom and drinking fountain and it's fenced in! No escapees!

It was such a nice weekend with the family. Can't wait to do something like that again.

Zombie Prom

This year for my birthday, I decided to have a zombie Prom! We played some old school tunes (reminded me of going to Junior High dances and Stake dances-the only difference is that there were kids at this one!).

The kids did a pretty good job of staying in the nursery at first...until they figured out what was going on down the hall...then they came to party! It was cute to see the little guys break dancing and jumping around, and cuter still to see all the daddy's dancing with their daughters. So fun!!

(My sister was taking the pics...soooooo, that explains why she's in all of them!!)

When is a negative a positive?

Hunter has had a trying couple of weeks. He's been waking up at 1, then I when I finally get him back to sleep, he wakes up again. I repeat the process for about an hour.

Then in addition to this, both of my children seem to be taking lessons out of the "101 Ways to Whine" book and they are driving me crazy. Well, last night we went through his new routine (I'm wondering if it's night terrors?) so this morning I was t.i.r.e.d. but I had an offer I couldn't refuse- the chance to go to Ikea with a friend (so fun, even if I was dragging myself through the store, it was worth it), but after a little while Hunter started crying, pulling hair, he wouldn't eat anything, and he would whine about everything. This of course just added to my energy crisis. Then when we were leaving my friend's house, Mikayla had a meltdown. I got Hunter to bed, gave Mikayla a bath, and tried to lay down. Just opening my eyes at this point seemed to take more energy than I had. Of course it didn't last long and when Hunter got up he was back to whining and Mikayla was pretending she didn't know what it meant when mommy said "No"...I was so incredibly frustrated at this point (I may or may not have thrown a toy doll, making her head fall off). I try to be patient and not yell or spank too often, but they make it so hard sometimes! So, I decided to try something new: I put her in a "cold" shower (it's pretty much impossible to get a cold shower in AZ right now), she hated it-effective. Well, Hunter saw, started crying, so I put him in. He loved it. He was laughing and having so much fun.

I don't know if you've been around Hunter when he laughs, but it is soo contagious! Soon we were all giggling. I took him out, dried them off and grabbed my camera. We laughed and played and posed for the camera. It ended up being a really fun, silly experience. Instead of getting upset, we were able to turn their energy (and my lack of energy) into something fun and lasting.

{I love this picture, he's actually making puppy noises...that sound like kitty cat noises. Too cute}