Crazy Monday

I was reminded as to why I don't want to teach aerobics a lot and be a mom. Monday I had a personal training session with a girl who is getting married June 11th. We have met before but now she has true motivation, to look good in her wedding dress! Then that evening I was asked to sub a cycle class which are my favorite! So I was upstairs working on my playlist and Ryan was running errands. I hadn't been upstairs long when Ali comes walking up the stairs with some kid scissors (they cut paper all the time and are learning quite well). This time though you guessed it! It wasn't paper they cut but hair. Ali is always saying she wants a boy haircut because her hair is always in her way. So today as her hair got in her way she just decided to cut it! Her hair she didn't cut so much, but she really hacked into Emi. Poor little Em. She has more layers on the left side of hair then I have seen. I really tried to blend it but it is going to be a long process. I must admit I thought I would skip this trial. I always cut Ryan's hair and we have a big discussion every time on who cuts hair...mom, dad, or a person at a special hair salon. But in the end I guess when your hair is in the way you don't care. There was hair all over our house, all over Emi and just everywhere.

So then we got the hair resolved (I actually didn't fix it until Wednesday, busy schedule). We ate dinner and off to the South Davis Rec Center for class. While I was in class Ryan was going to take the girls swimming for FHE. So I went one way and he went another. I guess shortly after they got in the pool someone pooped so they went into the lap pool for an hour while they cleaned it. Then again a couple hours later they again had to close the pool because someone pooped. That time it wasn't so bad because we needed to leave and this was an easy way to get the girls out.

As for me I taught my cycle class. We did mostly an endurance ride, but I must admit I am really out of shape for an instructor! I have just started working on my cardio health a few weeks ago. I didn't work out at the end of my pregnancy because I would be completely exhausted if I did. So we have this great 1 hour cycle class. Then as we are all cleaning up I keep waiting for the next instructor and she isn't there, isn't there and then one of our yoga instructors Karena comes in and says Jill, the regular instructor, has a son just a throwing up and can't get here to teach. Karena tells the class she can do it but it will be them helping her teach the class. I told her I could do it. It would be basic but I could do it. So I did I taught the step class that night too. I was dead half way through I was stepping on my bench as little as possible. I cooled them down early and did abs because I was dying. I was happy that I brought my big ol bag that had my step routines in it and cds even though they were old. I did have fun. The girls in the class were all very nice too. Needless to say I was dead that night! What a crazy day!

Emi's Birthday

Emi is now 3! What a horrible age. In my opinion I would take two 2's and move right into the 4's. But since that isn't really an option here we come horrendous 3's! Emi is already our little spit fire. She can be the sweetest little thing one minute and make you madder than mad the next.

Anyway, we had a great time celebrating her 3rd birthday. Ryan cooked up some yummy German pancakes for breakfast. He also make her 3 balloon flowers for a centerpiece. For lunch we all went out to Chick-fil-a on Riverdale which was a blast. We had lots of fun playing. The kids played for at least 2 hours. It was great to get out of the house. Then that evening Ryan took Emi on a date to Chuck-e-cheese where they shared a pizza and played lots of games.

It seems that everyone in our family has at least 3 parties. Emi next got to celebrate her birthday with her Jones aunts and grandparents and cousin Lucy. We celebrated on Jan. 1st. We all got together for lunch then opened presents for Lucy's birthday, Kevin's (Grandpa's) and Emi's. After we went to the movies where some of us went and saw the Princess and the Frog. Me and the girls loved it! I will definitely watch that one again! I loved the story in it. Emi's third party was at the Wachter house where we celebrated Emi's, her aunt Cathy's and cousin Padan's. The hardest part for Emi is sharing her new toys. Ali wants so badly to play with them but Emi doesn't want to share! That has made the last almost week difficult. One day I might know a little bit more about good parenting.

Christmas

What a happy time of year! I must admit at first I thought we were going to have a repeat of last year with a sick child. Bridger got his immunizations on the 23rd and on the 24th he had a fever. Luckily it didn't last long and with Tylenol he seemed to do just fine.

We were truly blessed this holiday season. We had lots of secret Santa's watching over us. In fact this was probably the biggest Christmas Ryan and I have had during our marriage. It started out before Thanksgiving with a knock on the door. When we opened the door their was a plate of cookies and an envelope. The envelope contained $50! What a blessing just in time to help us with some much needed bills. Next we got a phone call from our Bishop telling us he had a family that wanted to adopt us this Christmas. We filled out a questionnaire and promptly returned it to the Bishop. Then the week of Christmas we were blessed so much. We received checks from our grandparents and gift cards from cousins. We returned Sunday night from a family party to find 2 large presents and 2 small presents on our porch for our children. Then Monday night again a know on the door and this time a bowl filled with crumpled up bills totaling over $100. Then of course we had so many wonderful gifts delivered to us by our bishopric from our secret santa family. One other thing we got to do was to go to DI to pick out a few things we needed. I had no idea that at Christmas time the Bishops can send families in need to get any items that they need for free! It is amazing what they do. They have these kits to make doll houses that are amazing. They also have people take home various dolls and clean them up and package them so cutely! Next year I plan to give back and donate some of my talents and time to do the same for someone else.

So needless to say when our girls woke up Christmas morning the awoke to quite an array of wonderful Christmas gifts provided by the most special kinds of Santa's the true Santa's in this world.

Twas the night before Pre-school

Twas the night before pre-school and all through the house my kitchen was clean the living room too

It won't be long before 8 little kids will gather at the table to learn and be able

We will sing and learn letters eat food and color sweaters

Then after 2 1/2 hours we'll see if all is well

Okay so I am not a poet and we will do all but color sweaters. We will color though. I am hoping all goes well as I have an additional person to side track me. To think Bridger will be 4 1/2 months old. I will post pictures of all the fun we have!

The Pumpkin Patch

It is becoming a tradition for us to go to Cochran's and pick out our pumpkins. I think I will go back with the girls in their witch outfits and take some more pictures. We love this place! They have cute things to buy and great produce!

Bridgers Blessing

What a special day! It was so great having most of our family there to participate. I am very grateful for brothers and uncles and grandpa's and especially fathers who have set such a great example. To me there isn't a stronger power than the priesthood power these great men hold. We had a fun time trying to find a blessing outfit that would fit Bridger and that we liked. We finally started looking at suit options and found a suit for $30 bucks at Bliss in the Newgate mall. We got it home and tried the pants on him and his skinny legs drowned in them. So the day before we headed out with Diane to see what we could find. We tried Sassy babies in Bountiful and found tons of cute items and a cute suit but not one that fit. We then tried Brats and found an outfit and shoes that we all thought would work great. I will say it is more fun to shop for girls (sorry Bridge).

Girls Nights

We have had 2 really fun girl nights the last few weekends. We had one with the Wachters where we decorated witch hats and made tutu's . We then went to the General Relief Society meeting which I thought was amazing! It made me rethink my involvement in Relief Society, that it is not merely another meeting I go to but it is my weekly meeting for the Lord's club that I choose to be apart of. It makes me more excited to fulfill my responsibilities. After that we went to dinner at Mi Ranchito's.

Then during the priesthood session the Jones girls got together and we baked pizza's and made super cute beaded bracelets using safety pins.

Now I am getting ready for Super Saturday and Bridgers blessing which are both this weekend. Life is just crazy fun!