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.

More News

I have more news... and no I am not pregnant. It looks like from the comments on my last post a few of you are getting a little hasty with the baby news. We will wait for a bit on that one. But for now I just got called to be the Secretary in the Young Women's Presidency in our ward. I am really excited to work with the girls and the Presidency I will be working with is amazing. I really am lucky, however, I have this huge feeling of responsibility that is with me all the time(well for the last week anyway). Any of you that know me well know that I am very organized and I love lists, great attributes for a secretary to have but there are just so many things on that list already. Another interesting piece to the puzzle is that Brady is also in the Young Men's Presidency so we have to juggle mutual and Sunday's with the kids. I know it will prove to be a huge blessing for all of us and I can't wait to get to see just how wonderful the girls are. If any of you have any advice to share I want it...all of it. I know lots of you have served in callings similar to this or you just have good advice because you are awesome...please share! I can't wait to hear what you all have to say.

We're Back

It has been way too long! I thought that I would be able to keep up with the blog while we were away for Christmas but as always the trip home was way busy. We had so much fun, it was sad to leave, but being back home is always nice too. Our Christmas was absolutely wonderful and it was great to just be able to spend time with our families again.
We have some news...we have upgraded to the family minivan...something that I wasn't really fond of at first but the more I thought about the options and realized that vans really are great for small families I decided it wouldn't be so bad. Now that we have one, I love it! We have so much room and thanks to Grandpa Denning we were able to get a really nice one so it has everything we could possibly want. We are lucky to have such a great Grandpa who is willing to help us so much. We love him!!!
Anyway that is really all the big news we have for now but hopefully I can get back in the groove soon and do regular updates.
Also I love all the comments so keep leaving them. I haven't had time to reply to anyone but I want to talk to you all.

Let it SNOW!!!

Caden is in Heaven...it finally snowed at our house!!! He has been telling me for weeks that it doesn't snow at his house. I'm not sure why he thought that but he was convinced of it. However, Wednesday morning (one of my days to sleep in since I don't go to the gym that day) Brady stirred me awake before heading out the door to go to school. He was begging to wake Caden up so he could show him the snow that had fallen during the night. Brady was so excited I just had to let him share his excitment, although I must admit I wasn't completely ready to start my day. After a little coaxing Caden was awake and soooooo very excited, he just couldn't believe it. He wanted to go out and start playing right then and the sun wasn't even up yet. We wern't able to play in it right away because Kamrie had to go to the doctor and things must have been taking too long for Caden because as we walked out of the office he couldn't stand the suspense any longer and he just plopped down in a snowbank by the sidewalk and made a snowangel...it was so funny. When we got home they got all dressed in thier snow clothes and we played outside. We loved it!!! The cold...not my favorite, but they were having so much fun it made it berable. Brady was sad he missed all the fun so after dinner last night he took Caden out again to play. They made a little tiny snowman and threw snowballs at the window so Kamrie and I felt included. As soon as Caden got up this morning around 7:30, he got dressed in his snow clothes again only to find out he had to go to school. He was pretty bumed. On the way there after much contemplation he said, "mommy, I didn't think it can snow at my house but my daddy showed me." It is so fun to share in their excitment.

Kamrie after getting a snowball in the face, not too fun, but she was a real trooper

Caden making another snow angel, one of his favorite things.