It's official...

Well, time for a house update! We found one! We are now in the process of buying it. The gas will be turned on tomorrow and then I'm hoping to make an appointment for Thursday or Friday to get it inspected. After that I'm not sure what's next. I'm just focusing on getting the inspector down there as quick as possible.

It's just so weird to think that we are going to be in our own home. It's just so amazing and I'm so blessed to be able to be getting a house with my family. It's truly an amazing feeling. Well, I'll update again when we get the inspection.

Just so everyone knows....

JARED GETS HOME TONIGHT!!!!!

Hopefully he will understand that I am still house hunting and I won't be able to spend every waking second with him.

Speaking of house hunting. We have places a few bids on a couple houses up near Summerlin Pkwy and Buffalo. Hopefully we get that one. We really liked it. But I'm probably gonna go again today and look at houses. Most likely gonna keep looking until bids get accepted. Anyway, I'll get pictures up here once we get a house. Hopefully sometime soon.

Now back to daily chores around the house and being excited for Jared getting home. =D

PICTURES!!!!! finally...

Tifani was the first to get to Kenzi's party and this is what Kenzi wanted to do. They had a blast doing it at least.

Kenzi playing with her vacuum Aunt Tifani got her. This is by far her favorite toy! If you know my children at all, they LOVE to help clean.That look says, "This is SO not as cool as my vacuum!"

Kenzi with her cake.

Easter 2009

Besides dying the eggs. Blowing the bubbles into the pool was the favorite thing to do.

Washing off after playing with the bubbles. Or rather spilling the bubbles.

Dying Easter eggs. Many, many eggs.

Kenzi liked using her hands to get the eggs out instead of her spoon. A lesson she will forget for next year. =)Patiently waiting for Grandma to get changed to go swimming. Notice Vance's feet and hands. He likes to use his hands as well to get the eggs out.Swimming after dying Easter eggs.

I've had to learn my lesson a few times...always ALWAYS bring swim suits to Grandma's house. A lesson I will never again forget. We really don't want Natalie in a WHITE see through t-shirt when wet again. So, keep swimsuits in car. Got it. Lesson learned.

It's been a while...

Wow! It's been a while since I updated. There are a lot of pictures I need to post. Starting with Kenzi's birthday. I still haven't put those up. So the next post will be pictures of Kenzi's birthday, easter, and a few swimming pictures. =)

Exciting News....

Every week my brother Jared writes my mom and email. He gets way too many letters to respond to all of them. So he reads them and writes one big letter to my mom and she forwards it to everyone else. This week, he wrote that he'll be coming home no later than June 3rd!!! How exciting is that!!! I am so thrilled. Finally after 2 very long years without him he's coming home.
I know for me since I've got 3 crazy wild kids, those 2 years went by pretty quick. But after stopping for a while and thinking of how long its actually been since I've seen Jared, it really has been 2 very long years. Hopefully sometime soon he'll know more of when transfers will be.


Things will be really different for him when he's back.

This is Natalie, I think of May, 2007. We were taking family pictures right before Jared left.

Natalie was getting her teeth brushed before she went to bed. January 2009.

This was in September of 2007. Kylie of course being Kylie.

Kylie playing at the park January 2009.

This was August 2007. Just after Jared left.

Don't let that innocent smile fool you! She's planning something. This was just a few days ago on Matt's birthday. March 10, 2009.

My kids have grown so much. Natalie has lost more teeth, Kylie is still as skinny but much taller and Jared will hardly recognize Mackenzi.

This is Vance during Thanksgiving of 2007. Not quite walking yet.
This was beginning of March 2009. Carter was being blessed and the kids were playing outside burying each other in the "sandbox" my mom has in her backyard.

I put sandbox in quotes because its really just a dirt pile. It's not where it's suppose to be yet. Either procrastination or laziness has taken over. =D I love you mom!This is Carter after he was born January 15, 2009. Jared will definitely not know Carter.

This is Carter on his blessing day. He just got done with a feeding and being burped.

As for Kimberli's kids, he won't even know Carter. Vance will be so grown up he'll barely recognize him either.

This is little Tyson. Also known as Reed. He was just born on March 14, 2008.
This is at Christmas 2008. This is the last time I got to see Reed before they went back home to Washington D.C. He has grown a lot since this picture. I think he's almost walking now.

Tyson's son, Reed, Jared has never met either. It'll be interesting to see Jared's reaction to all of these new little people. It'll be really fun. I'm very excited to see Jared again. Anyway, I will dedicate a whole post just for pictures such as Mackenzi's birthday. =)

Updates....

Wow! A lot has happened since I last updated. Kenzi is now potty trained, for the most part. She has accidents every now and then but still is doing really well. She'll be able to go all by herself without me asking her in no time. She is so excited that she's 3! Since her birthday she's been telling everyone, "I'm 3, not 2 anymore." She of course, thanks to her sisters, has this little attitude look when she says it. She's so cute though. She's been fighting a lot more with Kylie when Natalie is at school. Which I figure is normal. I'm sure I did it with my sisters. Kenzi is growing very tall and looking more like me everyday. The only real difference is she has blondish redish hair. It does seem to be darkening. Don't worry, I'll post pictures.

Natalie had been sick for this last week of school but, of course like any other 7 year old, she wants to play outside and with all the toys and, her favorite, the Xbox. She not only wants to play Halo but also use the headset and have the microphone RIGHT next to her mouth. Why would she want to do this you ask? Well, to get her sick germs on everything so everyone else will be sick with her. She still is not sick enough to stay home from school. I know, I'm the meanest mom in the whole world. I've been making sure she's dressed warm and when she coughs, cough INTO her arm and not on everyone else. She's doing a lot better and getting toward the end. Hopefully we can get through this sickness without passing it to everyone.

Kylie is and always will be Kylie. She loves riding her bike and, now that we got a new tarp, jumping on the trampoline. She is, unfortunately, becoming more of a bully and pushing Kenzi over. We still have a lot to work on with her before she starts school this fall. That is a very scary thought. When I first met Kylie is was almost 10 months old. Yes, you heard me right. 10 MONTHS! And now, she's going to be 6 in October! How crazy and scary is that?!?! We've been trying to teach her to tie her own shoes. She almost has it. She should be ready to do it herself when she starts school.

More exciting news for Matt and me. We've been looking at getting a house this year! Hopefully if everything goes how it should we can put a down payment on a house we found. It's a foreclosure but really nice. Hopefully we can get down there soon and talk to the owners about it. We shall see what happens though. I'll keep everyone posted about it.

Everything otherwise is going great! I'm actually hoping to go see my cousin Julie to get my hair done. Matt is still working with Southwest Gas. He doesn't have much to do on most days. So lucky for me I get to talk to him over messenger. It's been good to talk to him during the day, especially if I need to talk to him about anything important. Well, time to look for pictures to put up here.

Too Cute...

I know I know...another blog so soon. =) But I must tell everyone what Mackenzi did today.

I heard Kenzi crying for me this morning so I went upstairs and got her. I wanted to take a shower before Natalie and Kylie got up. So Kenzi and I got in the shower. After we had gotten out I was getting dressed but my white bra wasn't in the drawer. Good thing I knew exactly where it was. As I was walking over to where it was, Kenzi asked what I was looking for. I told her I was looking for my bra. About that same time I had grabbed it off the floor and she says, "You found it!" As always she had a huge smile on her face. As I was putting it on she says, "I don't wear bras." And I tell her, " Nope, not yet but you will." Then she tells me. " I don't think I'm allowed to have boobs." I try to keep from laughing and tell her, " When you get older you'll get boobs because you're a girl." Then she tells me, " Yeah, like you." I tell her " Yeah, but not Dad cause he's a boy." Kenzi says, " Yeah, he's a boy and I'm a girl."

She is just too cute. But on another exciting note, Natalie and I went for a bike ride today! But of course every 15 minutes since we've been back she's asked to go on another bike ride.

Oh the random cute things my children do. Hopefully I'll have another update soon with Christmas and New Years pictures. I did post them up on Facebook though. =)