behind the scenes

well behind the scenes of such a cute family is the truth.

here is tyson who thinks he is so independent. he is actually one of my most independent children. race and trent are pretty good too. but tyson who was potty trained about 3 or 4 weeks ago thinks he doesnt have to tell me when he goes potty. he thinks he can wipe himself. here is him trying to go play outside after he went poop.

then here is averi who after a LONG day of errands is asleep in her high chair. poor girl.

today i actually let Kali stay home from school. I did have to talk her into staying home, she wanted to go to school. i wanted to take her shopping. she wears the same skirt every sunday. it drives me nuts. every time i bring home a new dress or skirt she doesnt like it. so i thought i will take her out and we can go find some together. we went to childrens place, old navy, gymboree, dillards, jc penny, pumpkin patch and gap. did kali find anything? nope! i found quite a few cute things. she actually did find something at pumpkin patch not on sale and it was $55.00. i was like uh, no. nice try. so tomorrow we will try target then i am done and turning the time over to ricky. i give up. she is so picky. she doesnt like anything. she actually reminds me of myself when i was young. i didnt like anything either.

today is day 2 this week of me running 2 miles. the first time 22 min. today 20. yeah. i like the 20. that is my goal. i want to perfect the 2 miles then up to 3 and so on. here comes my first tri. just kidding maybe next year because i have to get in a swim suit which means i wont until i am decent enough.

pumpkin carving and birthday bag

Yesterday, we went to gilbert to Ashtyns baptism. we had to leave our house at 7:15 in the morning dressed for church and we did it. we had to meet some guy at the shop before the baptism to give them some shirts ricky had printed the night before until midnight. the baptism was great. ashtyn is such a beautiful girl. then we went to rickys moms house for October birthday bag party and dessert. It was ashtyns, jeff, jersey and sadies birthday.

then we rushed home to go set up for the ward halloween/chili cook off. that was fun. i did all the games for the party and thanks to rickys sister summer it was easy. we also had a pinata and that was fun. then ricky and i went last night to see eagle eye. i have been dying to see it. i liked it. it was good.

so today is catch up on the house and get ready for the school week. i am in charge of the food for parent teacher conference which starts tomorrow. yeah for the last minute! i think when it comes to parties i am so much better at the last minute thing. with the kids no, i have to plan everything out. weird i know.

catch up

last saturday was a ward party at our house. it was just for young couples. the activities committee/ward missionaries asked us to host. so we did. it was really fun. there were about 13 couples. everyone brought a mexican dish to share and they were all yummy. Oh, we also got a new car. we got a honda odyssey. I LOVE IT. Did it really take us this long to have the BEST car for kids. what the heck? it is so luxurious for me and so convenient for the kids. it is incredible. we love it.

Sunday was our primary program at church. all the kids did great. race had a really long part but he had it memorized to a T. Kali and Trent had theirs memorized too and they all did great in the microhone. Race thinks he is such a good singer. He sings so seriously and loud. He does his voice like so deep and he really thinks he is good but i think he might have got my genes there which means WAY OFF TUNE! But hey! he likes it.
After church we went to my moms for a yummy dinner for my brother bobbys birthday. it was fun. i always like my moms food.  she is the bEST cook.

Monday I went to work with Ricky to take back his brother jeffs car. jeff and becky have been letting ricky drive one of their cars until we got another one. THANKS guys! you are the BEST! Then it was home for relaxing FHE.

Tuesday was a day at home working. that was so nice. i got laundry and done and put away. i ran some errands with mary which is fun. i love hanging with mary. we had enrichment also, it was fun. they did such a good job. we had our annual VT message from the presidency. it is always a good reminder of how important VT is.

wednesday kids get out at 2 and race had a pack meeting. he received his bobcat. he was so excited. he wants to just go right through the book and get them all done right now. i have to pace this boy. his scout leaders are so good. tonight theme was books. the scout master goes ALL out. he and his wife are the best. race has so much fun.

Thursday I went to work again to help organize and get ready for the next week. then i had a meeting at the stake center for all the primary presidencies and leaders. it was really good. they introduced the theme for 09 and gave us some really good tips.

Here is a pic of Averi. you can tell what she is doing but she is crawling outside in the sprinklers. she is so funny. every time the door opens she bolts and fast as she can outside. SHE LOVES the outside. when you bring her in she cries. she is going to be a playful little girl.

gift

For Races' baptism Rickys dad gave him such a cool gift. He made a shadow box type thing to hang on the wall. It has all the book of mormon story figurines in it. They are all labeled and on the side of the frame is a hook. On the hook are laminated cards of the stories of each of the men and where you can find that story. It is so cool. I will have to take more photos of it. Here is one.
My parents gave him his own set of scriptures with his name on it and Ricky and I gave him a journal with his name on it.

Yesterday was my HEAVEN!

yesterday Ricky baptized our first born Race. it was so neat. race was so excited, not nervous at all. my grandma also got baptized. she is 88 years old. it was so neat to have Race at 8 and my gma at 88. my grandma out of the blue, decided it was time for her to get baptized. she is living with my brother and sister in law mary. mary has been a huge influence on her. THANKS MARY! we started in the chapel. there were 9 people getting baptized that day. after each ward was sent to do the baptistry our group came back to the chapel because there were about 80 of us. we had a testimony meeting and my mom gave a little talk. race was confirmed by rickys dad. he did a great job. THANKS STEVE! sitting in that chapel feeling the spirit was a bit of my heaven. I had ALL my family there in one room, the chapel. just us. we were missing a few family members but all in all it was so neat. i had my in laws and my immediate family and my cousins. i really felt like this might be what heaven is like. it was so neat. thanks everyone for coming. you made the day so special for grandma and race. after the baptism we went to the back of the stake center parking lot and had Bid D's cater. Big D's is guy in our ward that makes food out of a trailer. We did hamburgers and hotdogs. He specializes in breakfast food but the hamburgers and hotdogs and french fries were really good too.

potty trained!

I forgot to post some good news! I finally got around to potty training Tyson. He has been doing so well. A few accidents here and there but really good. It has been about 2 1/2 weeks. Yeah.

Race had his baptism interview with the bishop on Tuesday. he did great. Races baptism is on Saturday. He is really excited. My grandma is getting baptized the same day. She just randomly decided on her own that it was time for her to get baptized. she is really excited. what a special day it is going to be.

October!

Wow fall is in the air. I LOVE fall. It might be my favorite season even though I love summer time too. The last few days in the car I have been rolling down my windows in the morning and night. I love the fresh air.

We have been so busy at work that I havent had anytime to post the little things. I love the little things. We have been doing the rat race of life lately. We are having our artist come in our shop so I have been trying to get his office ready. I think we are ready. I am also trying to make the second office at work fun for Tyson and Averi. As of now when I go to work Tyson likes to hang out with Jorge. he wont stay in the front office. We are trying to get it so he is comfortable in there.

Race and Trent both came home with Star Student for this week in art class. That means their behavior was excellent and they were working hard.

Tyson is obsessed with Nacho Libre lately. It is quite funny. What 2 year old doesnt want to watch Elmo? The other day Elmo was on and he asked to watch Nacho. He loves that movie. It is funny.

Oh! I forgot we got a bunny rabbit. It was free so we thought what the heck. he is pretty cute. He is so soft and so good so far at least. his/her name is jack or jackie. can you guess why, yes jack black. nachoooooo

Here are some pics of Averi in the bath, yes we still bathe her in the kitchen sink. so much easier. our sink is huge though.