It's Finally Friday...

Can I just say that I am so excited that tomorrow is Friday! I was thinking back through my week and well I think it really hasn't been a bad week. If you don't count Tuesday. For some reason, Tuesday was a day, I tell ya. That evening as I was relaying my day to my good husband, I was trying to think what had made it such a long, exhausting day. Than visions of myself chasing a naked 2 year old around the house came back to me (she keeps stripping her clothes off, I must of redressed her 20 times), the toilet clogged a few times ( I have a 5 year old who I am pretty sure has abnormal bowel movements) Okay they are probably normal but when he puts half the roll of toilet paper in the toilet while it is still connected to the rest of the roll. (Gross) One poop is one too many! Ha ha.

The other days were actually really great. Another reason this week may seem longer is that Kevin really didn't have any early nights this week. His early night was him coming home at 9pm.
I new he was coming home. So I let the kids stay up and he walked in the door and they jumped all over him. He is a rockstar in this house. They wrestled with him and tickled and laughed and played.
Sidenote: I read an interesting article about how healthy it is for kids to rough house with their Dad's.

These extra hours are not just hard on me. Sometimes I forget that. We were on the phone with Kevin Monday night and Cole says to him" Dad, I wish you had your old job back, I miss your old job"
As much as that broke my heart, I know it broke Kevin's. It is very hard for him too.
It really isn't that bad. Especially since I know it is for a short time. I am not sure how people do it on a regular basis. Wow. My heart goes out to them.

On the upside. His work is having a family, company party tomorrow. We are going tubing at Solider Hollow ski resort. We have never been to a work party, and tubing, how fun!

Sunny Day to Snow Day...

On February 1st it was such a nice sunny day. We stopped at the park. We actually only played for about 10 or 15 minutes because the sun was a little deceiving. The next morning we woke up to snow. Since we have not had a lot of snow this winter and the times we have had it, it seemed like we were all sick. I decided we better run out and play in it before it all melted away. Sure enough by the afternoon it was pretty much all gone. We had a good time while it lasted! Speaking of lasting Dailey wasn't out long. I ran in and got her to come get in a photo when our snowman was complete.

Birthdays...

My Sister's little boy had his First Birthday. Check out this Adorable party she threw. She is so talented! These pictures are with my phone and I didn't have the focus thing on. So they are terrible but the party was so cute. Happy 1st to my sweet little nephew. Also lot's of other birthdays!
We have lots of birthday's between both sides of our families. So Happy Birthday You All!

You think they aren't listening but they are...

This Morning I was heading to drop Cole off at preschool and he said "Mom remember those 3,000 soliders you were telling me about? I liked that." I said Oh yeah. The 2,000 Strippling Warriors,  I liked talking about them too.
Three thousand or two thousand, doesn't really matter to me! He listened, and remembered!
Today is Monday and that was last Monday's quick Family Home Evening Lesson.
 I have not done great with FHE. I decided I needed to be better at it. I want my children to know the scripture stories, and I want to know them better myself. (I miss primary, where I had to learn them to teach it to them) Also, this reason might be prideful, I know. But sometimes Cole will say a gospel principal, and say he learned it at church, and well darn it, I think wait a minute, I taught you that! Prideful? Sure.  However, I want him to learn it here at home first. So when he is learning it at church it isn't new, it's more like a review!
Guess I better get the blue folder out with the pictures and choose the story for tonight's FHE!
Really, FHE lasts all of 5 minutes and that does include opening and closing prayer, and the song!
Works for us!

Curls...

Just a few sunday's ago, I decided to curl Day's hair with a curling iron. She has really, fine hair. So it doesn't hold curl well. I have to use hairspray to keep the curl and than it only last for a short amount of time. So I went and bought some sponge curlers. We put them in her hair before church. She looked so cute, and quite frankly I was surprised she kept them in. When I took them out they were super tight curls. They loosened up, thankfully. ha. But I did have to run a curling iron over some of the kinks. Unfortunately, the 1:00 hour crept up on us and I forgot to get the after picture.

Favorites...

Amber threw together a birthday party for Lizzy's birthday lunch and called it "Favorites" everyone was suppose to come with a list of their favorite things. I compiled my list. When I heard of the idea. I automatically thought of back in the "Oprah" days when she would do her show and give the audience some of her favorite things. So here is my list in no particular order. Also if I had to do the list again tomorrow I am sure I would write down ten different things that day too
                           Amy’s Favorites:

1. My Favorite map app is WAZE. You type in the address and she tells you the route. It is almost as good as having siri. If you have music on she interrupts and tells you to turn at the upcoming light. It also can notify you of traffic, police. I also found that it was really helpful that it automatically tells you the direction you are heading. With the other map if I am holding it the wrong way, I get really lost and farther from my destination.

1. My Favorite kid toy right now is the Smartmax magnetic toys. My favorite game is perfection and Sorry. I love perfection because its like a puzzle and sorry has helped Cole with counting out the spaces on the board.

1. I love that I can go on to youku.com and get a few different workouts of   P90X.

1. I have two favorite dollar stores, the one on 7200 and redwood and the one on 126th and bangeter. 

1. I love that you can get heart shaped marshmallows. At first they taste like the dentist fluoride but now I really like them.

1. I am loving facetime more than I ever have before. Every night we face time with Kevin and the kids just love it. 

1. The ages of all my kids right now is my new favorite thing. I think they say the funniest things and so I love having a notebook by me so that I can write down key words to trigger my memory until later when I can sit down and either blog about it or write it in their little notebook that I titled “Did I tell you”.

1. I have really loved having an IKEA dresser. I want to go by one for my room someday. I love how the inside is lined, with cute paper, and how smooth the drawers pull out. 

1. I love getting my wash clothes at the dollar store. They are the super thin ones and I can wash them and reuse them and when they get old or smelly I can just throw them away. They are called spic and span, scented cleaning wipes.

10. I was introduced to Aveeno lotion. We have always used Vaseline lotion. Which I thought was a pretty decent lotion. But no matter how often we would lather it on Cole he would still have, way patchy spots, all over his body. We have now been using Aveeno, and his skin has improved!

Can't wait to hear all the other girls lists!

Valentine's Day Decor...

I found these little tin mailboxes at in the dollar section at Target. I thought we would use them to write little notes to each other for the month of February. I used vinyl to add our names to them. I think it will be a fun activity for the kids to go and put little notes in the mailbox and be able to stick up the flag.
Also, in my jars that sit on my table I put a vinyl XO on the outside. We filled the jars with some heart shaped marshmallows. I was going to put LUV since I have three jars but I put one jar away and decided to just use the two. This is just so I can remember this stuff come next February!