SNOW!!!!

WOW! The other day when everyone was posting pictures of all the snow they received I, however, did not get any. =( Imagine my disappointment, well rather my kids' disappointment.

Today was the best day ever! We got so much snow. It started snowing around 9 this morning and has not stopped. When it first started it looked just like this....
...No snow that stuck on the ground. =( I had not been too sad about it because I've been freezing my butt off for the past couple days. It's not like me to be cold. I was still wearing flip-flops to get Natalie from school up until last week. Anyway, a couple hours later, around lunchtime or so, my car looked like this.......a little bit was sticking but not too much to build anything in. Plus it was all on top of my car and the gazebo in the backyard. The kids were so excited just to see something other than the normal sites we see every day. It started snowing a little harder and then the backyard looked like this....
...there was probably about a good 2-3 inches by this point. The kids were having a blast. They kept yelling through the door saying, "Mom, look how many footprints I made!" It was fun having them yell through the door saying things like that. Quite amusing. Of course this is not the most we got. These next pictures I took no more than an hour ago....There was so much snow all over the place. Even when we stepped in it our footprints would be covered up within minutes.
Look! We even have enough snow left over to build about 10 more snowmen! Too bad I live so far away. Vance could come play with us and build an army of snowmen.

So for playing all day in the snow I'd say the kids were pretty cold and very numb. All of their hands were red. So of course we do the best thing we could do for cold, numb hands. We made hot chocolate of course! =) We had very good and very warm hot chocolate. It even had the little marshmallows in it already!! We finally got our snow and now sitting very warm in the house by the fire drinking hot chocolate. Life is grand.

Usually Kenzi dances and sings along with Camp Rock. For some reason she wasn't cooperating with me.

This one Kenzi ran in my room and started singing this and I told her to hold on so I could get the camera.

Camp Rock is one of our favorites in my house. The girls, along with myself, know the entire movie by heart. This is how much we watch this movie. Now I never want to watch it again, but since I have the songs stuck in my head I HAVE to watch it to get them out of my head. Not sure how that works but it works for me.

Halloween Costumes...

Bailey was a Dragon Fairy, Natalie was a Popstar, Kylie was Cinderella, and Kenzi was a witch.
Kenzi's candy got too heavy for her to carry so she started dragging it. She wouldn't let anyone help her.
All of Natalie's candy. All of them got about the same amount. We had a good Halloween this year. The girls had a lot of fun and are ready for next year.

Cutest Thing...

This morning as I was on my way back from taking Natalie to school. Mackenzi wanted to stop a little ways from home, get out and run home. All my girls have gotten in the habit of wanting to do this. So cute. But this morning, Mackenzi didn't have shoes on. This is the conversation we had.

Mackenzi: "Mom, can I run home?"
Mom: "Kenz, you don't have shoes on."
Mackenzi: "I have pretend shoes on."
Mom: "Well, you still can't sweetie. Not this time."
Mackenzi: "But I have pretend shoes on."

I couldn't help but to laugh and tell her I love her. She's just so darn cute. When I got home I told Connie, my mother-in-law, about it and we both started laughing hysterically.

Another thing she does is when she asks to go to Grandma's house she always includes cousin Vance. This is a typical conversation about Grandma's house.

Mackenzi: "Mom, can we go to grandma's house please?"
Mom: "I don't know I'll have to call her first. Do you want to see Grandma?"
Mackenzi: "And cousin Vance. But not cousin Reed. Cousin Vance!"

She loves Grandma but seems she loves cousin Vance just a little more. =)

Kylie is the queen of hair accessories. She LOVES to put clips and headbands and anything you can think of she'll put it in her hair. I don't have a picture for some reaon but next time it happens I will be sure to get pictures.

All of my girls love to play video games. I think they mostly get that from their dad. Throughout the time they play these games, they are always saying, "Hey mom!! Look at me." "Watch me." They are getting very good at their games.

Well, that is all the cute things my kids do for right now. I'm sure something will happen tomorrow or even later today. =)

Unfortunate News....

So my mom text me this morning telling me my Uncle Herman had passed away. I felt sad, but the weird part is I haven't cried. For the past week or so I have been feeling emotional less. I don't really know how else to explain it but there have been several things that have been upsetting and there have been a few things I should have cried over but...I didn't. I feel the sadness about my Uncle's death but the emotion has shown. Just by looking at me or talking to me you would have never known anything bad had happened.

About an hour ago I picked Natalie up from school and when we got home she was upset at me and started crying and I knew what was wrong but being a mom I asked her anyway. "Natalie what's wrong?" No answer. So instead of getting upset or raising my voice a little bit cause she wouldn't talk to me like I have done in the past (horrible mistake) I just said very calmly, "Ok, go to your room then please." She went to her room and that was that. I was very surprised at myself for being so calm the last couple days. I like this new me because I haven't been losing my temper at all. Very much an improvement since last year. I just don't know about anything anymore. I just don't care about anything anymore. But somehow that just doesn't seem true because I still love my kids and my Matt. But other then that I just don't care. Something is wrong with me and I would like help to fix it. I'd rather not see a shrink though. Matt was messing around with me and said I was bipolar.

I'll figure it out someway. Hopefully Matt will take this more serious when I talk to him when he gets home tonight. Other than that things are going very well at the Price home.

We Work too Hard....

As you can see, we work way too hard during the day. =) Ok so maybe not but we just took time out to play the Wii for a while. =) Kenzi is bowling in this one and she is getting really good. She occasionally needs help but not as much anymore.
This is Kenzi playing the new game we just got. It's really fun. Matt and I are almost at the end of the game already. This is pretty much all the kids want to do. Luckily when they are bowling or playing any of the sports games they have to stand up and get some exercise. It's really fun for all of us. We very much enjoy our Wii. Thank you Jay!! =) You do so much for us and I appreciate it more than you will know. Thanks for being there for us.

Other than Wii Time, I usually get as much as I can done during the day before I need to pick Natalie up from school. It's been REALLY nice now that she is in school all day now. I don't need to rush to get things done. I'm enjoying her being in school than she is. haha Its been really fun though. She loves it. She's learning a lot.

Then there is Kylie and Kenzi who are playing the Wii or on the computer and just playing games all day. They are having fun too. =)

Matt is working hard at work. He's been having some neck and back problems which I can't seem to fix as a Massage Therapist. So I've been trying to get him to check on the insurance policy they have at work so he can go see a Chiropractor. He needs to see one really bad. If they say that massage every week for how ever long will help then it's massages for Matt every week. It's been tough on him but he's hanging in there. I'll keep you posted on him as soon as we find out what the deal is.

Nothing really new with me. Just getting music together for my mom. I can't seem to figure out what music Jared used to listen to. It's been way too long and I can't remember. But it's been fun for me to listen to music and just relax.

Bailey is doing really good too. She's doing fantastic in school. She recently had a progress report and she got straight A's. I'm so proud of her. School has been really good for her so far. She usually comes over here on the weekends which is no problem. We love having her here with us. I know that she is safe when she's here. I think thats why she comes over here so often is that she feels safe with us and there isn't any fighting or contension going on, unlike with her mother. She always ends up fighting with her mother and its so said because they get out of hand and Bailey ends up crying and calling me to see if I'll come get her. I'm glad that she knows that I'm here especially in these situations.

Anyway, that is the exciting life of The Price Family. Oh and one more thing.

I miss my best friend. =(

Tough Times...

I miss my best friend.

I love my hubby-to-be.

The End.

Exciting Times to be had...

Well, everything is going great with us. Except for one minor detail, but we'll get through it. She won't come around that often anyway. Well, Natalie starts school on Monday!! YAY!! I'm very excited. She's more excited. Plus her birthday is the same day she starts school. Which is fine for now but when she gets to be in 6th grade or so she'll hate it, just like I did. Kylie and Kenzi are just loving being able to play all the time. Not having to worry about school or chores...yet! hehe Nothing really major has been going on. Just that SHE has moved back to Vegas. If you don't know who SHE is then you are much better off but when I refer to SHE, I am referring to Matt's ex-wife. The biological mother of Natalie and Kylie. Notice I didn't say REAL mother. She is not a real mother. She is never around to be a real mother. They are MY kids, and never will be HERS. Sorry, I really don't like to speak ill of others but she's the worse kind of person you could imagine and then worse than that.

Anyway, enough about that. Here are some pictures from the recent weeks.

We had the cousins over for a weekend and they wanted to be cute and play in the pantry.

After it rained at my house we saw a rainbow and my kids insist I take a picture of it.

We went to my mom's to visit and Vance was just so cute. I think he was looking at his mom.

Update...

Well, my birthday has past which was a huge success. I had one of the best days of my life. It was fabulous. Although we did not do so much at all I think that's what made it fabulous. Matt got me a very awesome new camera, Connie gave me a lot of money to spend on myself. :D My family got me those awesome vampire books I've been wanting for a while. Heather got me Wii games. And of course Jay went a little overboard and got me a Wii!!! I think this covers Christmas and my next birthday. Possibly next Christmas too. :D I love Jay so much. He is such an awesome friend. I don't know what to get him for his birthday now. I've got a lot of time though.
This is Mike Gardner, Jay Dorrity, Heather, and Bailey. I was reading the girls a story and Matt is taking the picture. These guys made my birthday fabulous.

Bailey has started school and of course being a teenager doesn't like it but she's doing really good so far. She's been getting all her homework done and comes over here to do homework on the computer and such. On the weekends spends the night and spends time with the girls. It's always fun to have her around. She's growing fast too. I'm not sure how much taller she's going to get but she's getting pretty tall. She's a really good girl.

Natalie will be starting school on Sept. 15th, which is her birthday. Not fun but she's really excited to start school. We have all her school supplies and next week we will be going to get her some new clothes. She keeps growing way too much. She's eating like crazy too. She's got a hollow leg. Kind of like my sister Tifani. :D

Kylie is excited for Natalie to start school too because she gets Natalie's old backpack. Now she wants to play school all the time. Kylie is growing fast too. Not as fast as Natalie or Kenzi but she's getting there. We've been working with her a lot. She knows letters and sounds and is reading small words like, cat, dog, milk and stuff like that.

Kenzi is just being Kenzi. She's getting all her toys out and doesn't want to put them away. She's learning a lot of things from her sisters. Some are good things and some not so good but I'm trying to correct them to do what's right. Each of them do a lot better when the others aren't around. But I guess thats how it goes.

They are getting so big. It's crazy how fast they grow but you don't realize it until you look at pictures from only a couple months ago. It's a lot of fun having them though.
This was taken a couple weeks ago. I haven't gotten them all together for a while but they haven't changed much since this one.

Camping

This past weekend we made an effort to go camping. It took us a while to actually say. "Yes, we WILL go camping" but we packed everything up and went on our way. We were planning on leaving around 10am on Saturday morning but our dear friend Jason decided to go golfing instead of packing up to go with us. =) So we waited (which turned out to be the best thing we did) and we finally got on the road out to Cold Creek around 11:30am. Of course by this time the kids are SO starving, but of course the food is underneath everything and very hard to get out. Luckily, we had plenty of snacks to keep them occupied for a while. After driving for almost 2 hours we finally reach our campsite. We arrive around 1pm and it is hot! Fortunately for us there was a very nice breeze. Unfortunately, later that night that breeze turned into a gust of wind which would have blown us all away during the night except that we had huge rocks all all 4 corners of our tent. Once we had everything set up, we decided to go on a little hike. There was a really cool trail right next to our campsite. There was a rock that was right up on top of this trail. The girls made it the whole way with hardly falling down. After sitting on the rock for a while the girls decided they didn't want to be up there anymore. So while Matt, Jason, Bailey and I were still sitting on this rock, Natalie, Kylie and Kenzi started walking down the mountain. After they had gotten a little ways ahead we thought it would be best if we went down with them. Kylie had Kenzi's hand and they were falling more than anybody. Kenzi was crying out for me but instead of coming to me she went to Dad. Perfect for me. =D I can definately get down the mountain faster, but then Kylie kept falling and wanted to hold my hand. I slowed down for her and we went down together. Once we all got back into the campsite we had our PB&J sandwiches. The girls had forgotten they were hungry until we got back. By this time it was getting dark and we figured we should start cooking. We got our cool little grill out that Bailey's grandpa gave to us and started cooking hamburgers and hotdogs. I must say they were extremely good. That grill cooks them very nicely. By the time we had eaten dinner it was getting really dark. So of course Matt and Jason decide to build us a fire. When we got the fire going the girls wanted to cook marshmellows. Unfortunately, I forgot the cooking sticks to put the marshmellows on. So the girls went and found some sticks to cook them on. After a while of cooking them it got really late and all of us got really tired. I think the girls and I went to bed around 9:30 or 10pm. After we went to bed Jason and Matt made a HUGE bonfire. Not a good idea to leave 2 boys alone with fire at their disposal. haha. I'm just glad they didnt burn anything down or burn themselves. Very painful. Not fun. In the morning we had eggs and bacon and sausage cooked in the dutch oven. It was very good, but I didn't bring enough eggs. I'll know for next time. We also saw wild horses the next morning. The pictures I have of them aren't that great since my camera doesn't zoom in as much as I want it to. Of course the girls got extremely dirty, especially Kenzi. It almost seemed like right when Kenzi got out of the car she was covered in dirt from head to toe. That child can not seem to stay clean. It was the same way last year too. Natalie and Kylie are getting better about staying cleanish but still cant stop playing in the dirt. But I guess that's what camping is all about for little kids like mine. Getting dirty is just part of having fun. We had a great camping trip this year. I'm hoping we can do it again this year and not waiting a whole other year. Most pictures to come.

As Promised...

This is Natalie's teacher Mrs. Matty. Natalie loves her teacher a lot. She would always draw pictures and what not for her. It was really cute.
All of us. Kenzi was not too happy and Kylie usually gives some weird face in pictures. =)
Natalie with her "No days missed" award and her certificate of passing Kindergarten.
This is at Natalie's Graduation from Kindergarten. This is all of the kids from both AM and PM from both teachers.

Kindergarten days.

It was the morning of August 8, 2008, Natalie is so exciting to be graduating from Kindergarten that she wakes up at 6AM! I am so excited for her that I wake up at 6:30 a.m. Impossible for me right? HA! not that day. Her graduation turned out great. If only I had a video camera I would have taped the whole thing. Unfortunately, I don't. So pictures are going to have to do. Again, unfortunately the pictures are not on this computer i am using. So when I get to the computer that has my pictures I will load them up so all of you can see them. Not that anybody reads this anyway. =D

Pictures?

I am going to try and figure out this. I will put pictures up here. =D

Sweet. I did it. There are my girls. Kylie has the wide eyes. Kenzi is in the middle and Natalie in the brown shirt.These are all my girls. Kenzi, Kylie, Natalie and Bailey. Bailey took this picture. It turned out really good.

Fun and Exciting Times!

Today is Bailey's birthday. I'm not sure exactly whats going on today. But hopefully tomorrow she'll be able to come over and swim with us and what not. Her mother is ruining everything. She probably won't do anything else but come over here. Just so her mother can go out and party with her "boyfriend". Very sad really. But anyway, I would be perfectly fine with that. She's more than welcome to. We love having her over.

I'm just waiting for the day when none of them want to see her anymore. It will not be one bit surprising to me. Anyway, I don't want to talk about her.

All is well with everyone here. Matt is working at Southwest Gas. He loves what he does but wishes there was more to do.

I am doing alright. Trying to get in the habit of studying a little bit everyday. Trying to get going on my massage therapy career. If anyone wants a massage, I really need the practice. But besides studying, I've just been taking care of the kids when Connie isn't. She seems to want to take care of them. It's kind of frustrating for Matt and me. But that's for a different day. It's fun taking Natalie to and from school. I don't want to go back to work because of it, but I think it will be good for me to get back to work. It will be strange at first but I will get used to that.

Natalie is loving school still. After a whole year, she still loves it. She's getting a little lazy though. We had an incident where she didn't do her homework until about 10pm. It was quite frustrating for me. But she got it done. But it will not happen again. I guarantee it.

Kylie is just loving to play with Mackenzi all day long. Most of the time she gets along great with Mackenzi. Other times, not so much. But most of the time they just hang out with grandma, which is fine sometimes. But it makes me think they don't like me that much to hang out with me. It's ok though, when we move out it will be a whole different story.

Mackenzi actually is getting really good at playing on the computer. She's only 2 and she's playing the games that Natalie and Kylie do. Natalie and Kylie didn't start playing the computer until they were 3. Both Natalie and Kylie didn't have the eye/hand coordination to move the mouse to where they wanted it until they were 3. Mackenzi actually got it right away. It's amazing how much they learn from each other. Especially Mackenzi since she's the youngest.

Well, thats the life of the "Redd" family. Which reminds me I need to explain that. As all of you know, my last name is Walker and Matt's last name is Price, not Redd. We play this game called World of Warcraft and on that game we are known as "The Redd Family". All of our characters have "redd" in it. My main guy is Lilredd and Matt's is Bigredd. It just kind of stuck and now throughout the server we are known as the Redd family. It is quite fun. But that is the story behind that. =)

I finally gave in to temptation.

Well, I did it. I make a blog spot. You all should be proud.