Head in the clouds

So Makenna says to me the other day,
"Mommy, we don't have space helmets."
I tell her, "We don't need space helmets, sweetheart."
She says, "Why?"
I say, "Because we're not going to space, babe."
Then she says, "When we die and go to heaven, will we have space helmets?"

Just typing this makes me smile. I love this kid!

Little Miss Chubs

Don't you just want to squeeze her?!!

Where did it go?

Time

Where did it all go?
Britlyn starts kindergarten in five days. Wow, five days.
I don't know if I am ready to "lose" her to the world.
I know that we will still have a huge influence on her,
but... she'll definately be influenced by others too.
She is just so so sweet and kindhearted; I don't want her
to lose any of that, or for others to take advantage of it.

Lately she's been real clingy. She really wants me to hold her
and rock her a lot. She tells me she doesn't want to grow up.
I remember doing that as a kid too. She's nervous to start kindergarten.
Well, that is until I bought her a bunch of new school clothes,
now she's excited. True girl!!

I wonder if I've stopped enough times to just play, listen, teach, read, comfort, enjoy. With all three so young, I always seem to be busy with at least one of them. Keeping up with it all is a challenge, but it's a challenge that I love. My girls are just the highlight of my life. They make me laugh, cry, sing, dance, lose my mind, and fill my heart. We really do have it good. I am so blessed with my family. I just want to bottle them up and keep them young forever. With Britlyn starting kindergarten it is the begining of a whole new phase in our lives. It's exciting, but I also like how it's been and don't really want things to change. I hope I can always keep the relationship I have with my girls open and safe. I never want them to even second guess telling me something. I'm their mommy and I'll love them unconditionally no matter what.

No pictures this time, I just wanted to let my feelings out. Thanks for listening.

Time for a change!

Okay, so my blog was in terrible need of a makeover. Nothing fancy, but a nice change. We are going out of town for a week starting tomorrow, so I will be MIA again for a little while. We are just taking a road trip to Northern California and maybe into Oregon. Nothing real planned, we're just going to see where it takes us. :) I just had to leave you with this though.

I laughed soooo hard when I saw this! She actually burned her finger on a plate at a restaurant and this is how she was showing me her burn. Her finger is fine, but the picture is priceless!!

What's that you say???

I just had my very first birthday!!!

Yep, it was Ellie's birthday on Thursday. So, my baby isn't a real baby anymore. :( I had bought this adorable party hat for her with all these grand visions of cute pictures, but she wasn't having it - at all! I would put the hat on and not 2 seconds later it was off. Then she started crying. I couldn't torture my baby on her birthday, so I had to quit. I did manage a couple shots, not the greatest, but good enough I suppose.



I baked her a cake, but realized all my cake decorating supplies have gone MIA since the move, so I improvised and used a ziploc bag. She wasn't real interested in the cake either, I so wanted her to attack it, but once again she really didn't care what I wanted. Oh well, I guess it was her birthday. We all went for a dip in the hot tub ( I should say warm tub) after. She started giving these open mouth wet kisses that night, I was sooo cute! Oh I love my little girls!! Here's a few more from her birthday.

I'm Baaaack

Wow, I've been gone from here forever it seems!! We moved into our new home 2 1/2 weeks ago and things are finally starting to settle down. I've got all the boxes unpacked and everything put in its place, now I've just got the whole hanging pictures & stuff to go. I was without internet access for over 2 weeks and I about went crazy! That's probably why I got the unpacking done so fast though! :) We are thoroughly enjoying our home! Jeremy has been giving Britlyn swimming lessons and she can now jump in the deep end of the pool and swim all the way to the shallow end by herself!! This is coming from a girl who would barely dare put her face in the water before. She's so proud of her self and it's so cool. It's so nice having a front yard where the girls can play too & I don't have to be out there with them all the time. One really great thing since we moved here is it took about 10 days to get satellite set up, so we didn't have tv for that time and the girls totally got out of the habit of watching it, so they rarely ever even watch tv now. I love it, they just play, really play, and it's great! I'm sorry to those of you who read my blog that I was gone for so long! The past while has been nuts! I'm going to be better now though, I promise!! Here's a few pics of the girls playing in the front yard.

I'm SOOOO Excited!!

Yeah!! Today we finally closed a deal for leasing out a new house! Ever since moving to L.A. we've been living in a small 1,400 square foot townhouse, and a few weeks ago Jeremy came home from work and found a naked guy hiding in our bushes. Scary. Apparently he lives right by us too. Jeremy made a police report about it and went to the office of our townhome and complained. They said they would evict the guy, but it hasn't happened yet. So, here we are trapped in our house because I can't let the girls go outside and play anymore without my constant supervision. The L.A. school district isn't the best either, so we decided last week to go look at some homes in a different school district, a better one. There aren't many homes for lease around here. We really only found 2 that were sort of what we were looking for. The first one was alright, but the second one was it. You know when you just feel right in a place, well, that's how this was. The owners were in Europe when we put in the offer and to make a long story short, they almost backed out of leasing it. They decided maybe it wasn't a good move financiall for them. I was about in tears, I want out of this place so badly. Well, today we met with them, got all the paperwork done, and handed over the $$$. They are supposed to be out by July 15 or sooner. I can't wait!! Yeah, we get a home! Here's a few pics of the place. I didn't take them, they just came off the website. Obviously the furnishing aren't ours, but soon it will be our home. I love that we'll have a place that is safe for our girls. Oh, it is in a guard-gated community, and to even get in you have to have the person's name and address that you are going to see. We are also up on a hill with no one else on it. It's very private, and had gorgeous views of the hills and canyon. We actually saw deer running up the hillside right by our house today. Anyway, thanks for letting me share my joy!!!