With a hint of sanity!

Saturday, March 17, 2012

Soccer Season agian...

Soccer season is back, and the weather decided it had to act like it is soccer and be freezing. Of course. No good weather for us sitting out on the sidelines cheering like maniacs.

Dillan had a game this morning, and we had to pick him up from Grandma's first. We went to breakfast, so the kids would be nice and fueled up for their games. We then headed to the field. Dillan's team was great, and he scored two of their five goals. They won, but we have to pretend we don't know because they do not keep score in recreation. We are going to try and do comp next year.

Then home for an hour, and back in the car.

Lexi's game was interesting. She was being so lazy, and not really playing all that well. But lucky for her, neither was anyone else. It was cold and windy, and the five year old girls would rather fix their hair and talk about where their green is then play. She played hard a couple of times and score two goals.

All in all, fun day! Hoping the weather warms up for the rest of the season though. Hauling blankets, chairs, snacks, etc. gets tiring. Off to take a nap.

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Good days

I feel like our family blog became more of a travel and birthday log then a blog about our life, feelings, etc. While I doubt that will change much, especially since I stay pretty busy, and those are the events I tend to deem worthy of blogging about, I thought as I sat here tonight and listened to my kids play together happily that it might be worth doing a bit of "journaling" about things that are more everyday around here. The good, the bad, and the...well see the above picture. lol

Yesterday was a hard day, tired kids, not enough to keep them occupied, a busy and under the weather mom. Thank goodness for Grandma and her willingness to watch the munchkins for half an hour so I could have a sanity break of comfort food and adult conversation.

Today was wonderful. Derrick and I played, read, talked, tickled, laughed, and ate cookies. I didn't worry too much about the dishes in the sink (which I did address later, and are now nice and clean), or the never ending to-do list. Instead I tried to remember why being a mom is great. I started with eating breakfast and taking a shower, and doing some of the things for me that when I neglect to do I get cranky about. Hence the photo, if I take the time to do my hair, it is photo worthy right? haha jk Then I decided to just not let myself worry today. It worked. It is 7:29 and I am blogging, not rushing the kids to bed because I have been counting down the seconds.

The kids did not eat the dinner I prepared tonight.

Lexi got off the bus looking like an orphan, with her hair wild, and a dirty shirt on (Not sure if she went to school in a dirty shirt, or got it dirty there).

Derrick has given me about a thousand kisses and loves today.

Dillan got out of school with a smile on his face.

We played Legos and puppies.

Lexi just said, "You have a smile on your face for once." Which I feel bad about.

I guess the point of this is to remind myself that good or bad days, I LOVE my silly little family, and the love and support from my extended family and friends. Two weeks ago today I had my surgery, and have had nothing but love and help and kindness from everyone since. I am feeling very blessed and grateful and wanted an outlet to express it.

Monday, January 30, 2012

Family Vacation 2012 Mexico

Several months ago we decided this year instead of a lot of toys for Christmas, we would take the kids on a trip. Because of Brett's work schedule in December, we opted to go in January. We booked a 7 day Mexican Riviera Cruise on Carnival.

We flew from SLC to LGB and had a few hours to kill before we could board the ship. We ate breakfast on the Queen Mary, which is a big ship/hotel/entertainment place in the harbor where our cruise ship was docked. After breakfast we took a bus to downtown to play. We found this great Dollar bookstore, full of used books, and while we were reading/browsing Derrick wet his pants. Ugh. All of our luggage was a bus ride away checked at the port, and we had planned to see a movie that was starting a few minutes later. So, we looked for a clothing store. There was NONE nearby. We tried gift shops, only T-shirts. Ugh. So, I did some quick thinking. I bribed Dillan to give Derrick his underwear (It cost me $4), and then I took off the tank top I had on under my shirt and put it on Derrick under his shirt. So, basically he had on a skirt. So cute. Of course, we could not find a bathroom to do this in, so we did the clothing swap in a photo booth! Haha We all had a good laugh. Then we sat outside the theater and played UNO until it opened. I took a nap in the dark theater, and the kids watched that new Alvin and the Chipmunks movie.

Then we went back and got on the ship! The kids were pretty excited the first night for dinner! Lexi, did not quite make it though, she konked out part way through!

She was cold so she used the napkin like a blanket and fell right to sleep!

We got all dressed up for the fancy nights! Well sort of. As dressed up as we tend to get.

Derrick loved having his Wendi along for the fun. At least he did the first few days.

Lexi mostly enjoyed just getting to spend time with her Daddy. She is such a daddy's girl!

We had more nights of sleeping on the dining room chairs.

The kids had a great time with the napkins. The various crew members made them all kinds of little animals, hats, etc. with the napkins. The kids loved it.

Along with a lot of fun in the dining room singing, swinging our napkins, and watching the wait staff do the dances, and what not. I personally just loved having everyone fed, and not having to cook or clean any of it myself! It was cute to see what the kids would order, and how different their orders were from what I expected.

We enjoyed a number of towel animals, and the kids thought they were pretty cool. Each day they would put in their requests for what towel animal they wanted to see that night. One night Dillan asked for Transformers, and Lexi for a Unicorn. haha so them. They got a polar bear eating a fish instead!

We had some great days on land. We went to Cabo and Puerto Vallarta. Our first day in Cabo we did a whale watching tour, a land tour, and played on the beach. We saw a pod of 3-4 whalaes, we weren't really sure. I will post video later. I got a couple pictures though. We saw sea lions, and birds. We enjoyed the beach a lot! So much that we opted to do that and shopping on our second day in Cabo. It was really fun. On that day, Lexi got her hair braided by a couple of women on the beach, and the boys played with this really playful dog. The pictures got all out of order so I will just caption them! Enjoy!

Fun drinks in Puerto Vallarta at the Zip Line place!

Chocolate night on board the ship! Yum.

Dillan got a frozen lemonade, it was the yummiest one!

It was Wendi's birthday while we were there, so we went Zip Lining and then had the wait staff sing to her at dinner. I think it was a pretty fun birthday!

Derrick basically sat on my lap for every meal

Derrick got sick a couple days in and was running a fever, he slept a lot for a couple days.

Zip line bandanas, unfortunately, after we got there and paid they told us Derrick couldn't go. So I stayed with Derrick and the other 4 went, while we ate, and just sat around. But we got the cool bandanas anyway.