Goodbye Dark Ages

I am absolutely ecstatic!!! We are no longer living in the dark ages, we recently upgraded from dial-up to a much faster Internet connection. We were using dial-up because it was free from Brady's school and we just couldn't bring ourselves to pay $60 a month for high speed. Since we have lived in these apartments in Indy there has only been one company that offers high speed Internet here until recently. I won't name any company names but thank you, thank you, thank you to a certain phone company that now offers high speed (at our complex) for less than $60 a month. I will forever be grateful. Blogging will be such a better experience without all the waiting. Hooray for high speed!!!

Tagged

So I guess I really know I have been slacking when I have been tagged like 5 times and didn't even know it. Well here goes...
A. The rules of the game are posted at the beginning.
B. Each player answers the questions for themselves.
C. At the end of the post, the player then tags 5 people and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know that they have been tagged and asking them to read your blog.
10 Years Ago: I was in 9th grade and loving High School. I had met some new guys that I thought were just the cats meow and I thought life couldn't get much better.
5 Things On My To-Do List Today: 1. Go to the gym 2. Order stamps 3. Plan something fun for Brady's Birthday 4. Schedule a recertification at our apartment complex 5. Vacuum
Things I Would Do If I Were Suddenly Made A Billionaire: I would of course get out of debt and help any family and friends who needed it. I would pay someone to do research on dental practices and buy an amazing one in the place of our dreams. Build my parents a new house and pay for them to come visit way more often. donate to worthy causes, especially the church.
3 Of My Bad Habits: 1: Obsessive cleaning 2: Bags & Purses 3: Eating anything I want
5 Places I Have Lived: 1 Bear Lake 2: Rexburg 3: Seattle 4: Detroit 5: Indiana
5 Jobs I Have Had: 1. Mom 2. Office Assistant for Apex Alarm 3. Dental Assistant & Front office girl 4. Subway 5. Maid a resort at Bear Lake
Things Most People Don't Know About Me: 1. I love to workout 2. I am almost obsessive when it comes to cleaning 3. I love love love the biggest loser 4: I fall asleep during almost every movie I watch
I Tag: 1. Lindy 2. Joy 3. Elaine 4. Mallory 5. Kyrsten

Update

So I promised pictures and I vowed to do better with my blogging so here they are. We had a great Valentines Day. Holidays, even the little ones, are so much fun with my little tykes around. I am one of those people that struggled with growing up because the magic and excitement of each holiday seemed to diminish as I got older. When there were no little kids in our house as I was growing up and even after I got married but we hadn't had kids yet, each holiday was still fun in its own way, but the sheer joy and excitement was definitely not as evident. Now that I have my own kids it is back and maybe even more exciting than it was as a kid. As moms we can do so many things to highlight the excitement of the day. I am not always great at that but I try to do little things to make my kid's memories just as great as mine were. I try to make it fun for them and they definitely make it fun for me, we all win!!!

Things are going so much better for us. The little colds are still hanging on but all the big terrible stuff is over and we are loving feeling better. Brady got me some DDR pads so we have been dancing the nights away lately. I am such a weirdo but I love DDR! I am not so great at it but it is still totally fun. Brady's Birthday is coming up so I am looking forward to doing something fun for him. Does anyone have any ideas??? My parents are coming to Indy the night of his Birthday and they will spend almost 2 weeks with us...we are sooo excited. Caden hasn't stopped talking about it since I told him and we are planning to make a chain so he can stop asking me every 5 minutes if they are on their way yet. The day after his birthday Brady gets to go on a trip to Mexico with some students from his school to do dental work in areas of Mexico where there is a lot of poverty and the kids don't normally get the opportunity to get dental work done. He is really excited because he will get lots of experience working with kids. We are going to miss him but it is a great opportunity so we will make it work. I wish we were all going!!!

Caden is getting tired of being in the house. I hope springtime comes soon. He is a very active boy and being cooped up in our little apartment gets to him at times. My brain has to work overtime trying to come up with new fun places to go or things to do to keep him busy so he doesn't go crazy. He loves school though and he really enjoys working in his workbooks and making projects. He has been working really hard and has finally learned to write his name. It was and still is such a huge accomplishment every time he does it.

Kamrie loves playing with Caden and while they love each other, they have a hard time getting along all the time. We just signed her up for a mini movers class at the YMCA and I am excited for her to get started. She loves to play with other kids and I think she will have a great time. She just started nursery on Sunday and she had so much fun. I stepped in on her for a minute and she is quite the singer!!!

Brady is working hard at school and still managing to be a wonderful daddy and husband. He is glad to be working on patients and doing less book work and he is excited for his Mexico trip.

I am keeping busy with the kids, the housework, my YW girls, working out, and trying to make time for scrapbooking. I am getting really excited for spring and summer. It got really warm here the past couple of days and I realized just how much I miss pool season.

All in all we are keeping busy and looking forward to some fun stuff coming up in a few weeks (birthdays, grandparents visiting, and brady's trip). I am excited to be back to blogging and hope that I can keep up.


This is the ginormous mess we made on Valentines day!!! We frosted and decorated cupcakes and it was a ball. Kamrie was covered from head to toe!

Here is the finished product. They are pretty simple but we sure had fun making them and eating them.

Just call her Chocolate face. After cleaning up the mess I wasn't sure that she actually got any in her mouth. There was frosting and cake everywhere!!!

Caden was really excited about the decorations. We had rose petals sprinkled around, balloons, confetti, and some hanging decorations. The balloons were definitely a favorite because they doubled as toys.

LIFE

Wow!!! I really can't believe how time flies. It has been a month since I posted anything and no pictures since the new year! I am really failing in the blog department. Well, the last month has been a blur of sick kids, early morning workouts, doctor's appointments, ym/yw activities, pink eye, presidency meetings, sleepless nights, headaches, more doctor's appointments, song practices, tests, crazy rotations, er visits, the occasional baby shower, date night and girls night out, followed by sore throats, doctor ordered rest, coughing, more doctor's appointments, a little more pink eye, and a whole lot of friends that care a whole lot about us and are willing to help in anyway they can (thank you everyone for everything this past little while, even just the caring phone calls to check on us helped in ways you will never know). so in a nutshell...the past month has just been LIFE. We are excited that Valentines Day is tomorrow. What a great excuse to do cute little things for the ones you love!!! Caden is super excited about his ninja turtle valentines his dad bought for his school party and i can't wait for the traditional Valentine breakfast of pink heart pancakes and pink milk. there is just something fun about a meal where everything is pink that makes me smile. Hopefully I can get some pictures of the school party and the loveable day tomorrow so I post some pictures and get back to the world of blogging.