It's what fun is

Lagoon!!!!  Yesterday we took the kids to Lagoon and had the BEST time.  We left Adison home with the neighbors so we could do all the grown up stuff with the kids now that they are all big enough to go on all of the rides!!!!  I was so excited to go on all the roller coasters with the girls and  just do it all.  We got to the park right after it had opened and it was the perfect day to be at the park.  We could walk onto almost every ride and if there was a line it was a very short one.  (like 10 minutes)  

 So our very fist ride we were going to get on was the old Roller coaster that is old and all made from wood.  There was no line so we were just walking right on when all of a sudden Alexis FREAKED out and started yelling and crying and grabbing onto everything she could to stop her from having to get onto the ride.  Everyone was staring at us and I felt so dumb.  The other girls were ready to go and very excited about the ride and Alexis was like a cat that we were trying to drown.  So we told her that she could just wait for us and then go on the next one.  But it was like this for every ride.  I have no clue what her problem was and I was really shocked it was my 10 year old I couldn't get to try a roller coaster...... so weird.  So I bribed her and told her I would give her what ever she wanted and that didn't even work. She watched all her cousins go on the wild mouse and so she thought that one didn't look so bad.  She did like it and tried a few others and then warmed up to most of them but the two coolest rides in the park.  The colasuss and
Wicked.  So Ryan and I grabbed her and took her on Colossus kicking and screaming and telling me that she hatted me and I was the worst mom in the world.  But after the ride was over she said.... "That wasn't so bad"  after going on that a few more times she worked up the courage to go on wicked and she LOVED it. 

I was really surprised my little Brytlee loved all these big rides and wasn't scared of any of them.  A few of them were so fast it was hard for her to hold her head up so I would hold it for her.   But after each ride she would give me a high five and say, "that was awesome".  We stayed the entire day and didn't leave until they closed down the park.  We got food on the way home and everyone was so tired they couldn't even eat it.   It was such a great day and we had tons of fun.  The girls all slept in till almost 11:00 this morning and I think I could have slept a little longer if Adison would have let me.... She wasn't as tired as the rest of us. 

Swimming

I took the girls to a swimming pool that has a great slide today and they had sooooooo much fun.  We have my niece Mya with us for a couple of days and they all play together so well.   I really wish I would have taken my camera to get a few shots of them on the slide but I was really busy just making sure all five girls were safe.  I was really nervous and thought I had lost my mind taking five kids to the pool by myself,  but they were all great!   Adison was the one that really surprised me.  She LOVED the slide also and was really good the whole time.  I was really tired of going up the stairs to the top of the slide about half way through so I put her down and she was happy as could be climbing them holding my hands.  (so that made it a little easier the rest of the time)  I bet Adison and I went down about twenty times or more and the girls were very close to 100 or more.  They didn't do anything but the slide the whole time and they ran up the stairs as fast as they could each time for over three hours.  I really hope they all sleep well tonight.... I know I will

Deep thoughts

So it has been over a year now and I still am struggling to get the baby weight off......  and I have been doing the gym thing about every day for the past year and have really cut back and been eating really healthy to try and make it work but not it is time for a new thing... the D word.  I really hate to go one a diet and I don't know if it is just me but when I am told (even if it is me telling myself) that I can not have something.... that is all I want.  My mind has been doing some crazy thinking about food.... even foods I really don't like I want to just pig out on.  Then I get on pintrest to see what is new and I see all the pictures of these yummy deserts and snacks and food that isn't so great for you....   not HELPING.  It has only been two weeks and I am doing pretty good at this but I REALLY want to cheat........  I go to bed at night thinking, "why am I doing this?" then when I wake up in the morning and see that I lost a pound I decide to stick to it another day.  I am not doing this trying to get any comments about it, I just think it is so weird how our minds work.  We want what we are told we can not have.  Even if it is something we didn't want in the first place.  For me right now.... it is just food that isn't good for me.....mmmmmmmmmm

round two

What a spoiled little girl..... she got TWO birthday parties.  On the day of her birthday we went to Logan and went shopping for a little while, and then met all of Ryan's family at the movie "the Lorax"  I couldn't tell you if it was good or not because I was out and going crazy with Adison.  But I think that everyone else said they thought it was cute and liked it.

Our second attempt to making the hello kitty cake.  This time we used chocolate instead of frosting and at least it didn't run.....

this is what I did during the movie.  I chased her around the theater and tried and tried to get her to fall asleep on my shoulder because she had skipped her nap and was so tired.   But she was not going to even try.  We even took her little baby car seat and put her in that for a while and she was just not going to fall asleep.  But when I finally took her to the car and started to drive she fell asleep in 10 seconds.  I really don't understand why none of our kids would ever just fall asleep on us.....

After the movie we went to Golden Corral for dinner.  All the kids really like it because they get to choose what they would like to eat and and I really love it because I don't' have to make it or clean it up!

Adison was loving feeding herself.  She had a spoon and got most of it in her mouth. 

this is the face she gave me when I said "cheese"  she is so funny and really LOVED the cotton candy

she dove right in again.... I love all the kids faces they couldn't believe it

Brytlee thought it was so cool she had to try

You can tell that Adison is saying "cheese" in this picture.  Such a cute little girl

Alexis is so lucky to have such wonderful family and friends in her life.  I am also so grateful for that.  I could not imagine life without all the love and support that our family gets from everyone. 
Alexis was so excited that she was able to go and have a sleep over at Grandma and Grandpa's house on her birthday.  I know that they let her do whatever she wanted, they probable stayed up really late and had a great time!!!!  It still doesn't really feel real to me that I have a ten year old.  I swear I just blinked and she grew up.  I love this little girl so much and I am so proud of her.  She has done so well in school and it really hasn't been super easy for her, but she works really hard until she gets it.  She is a great sister and such a great helper for me.  I love watching her in everything she does.......she really enjoys sports and has done very well with her first year of Violin.  I know that this girl really can do anything she wants to when she puts her all into it.  I feel so blessed to be the mom of this wonderful young pre tween!!!! I love you Alexis

Double digits

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Alexis is now a 10 year old.  I am really starting to fell like I am getting old....  Alexis really wanted to have a friend party this year and I still don't know how she talked me into do one...... I think it is because she is so cute.  (And because she helped clean the whole house and has been such a good little helper for me) 

 

The cake we made for her friend party..... I made the pink icing a little thin so it started to run

All her friends couldn't believe she just put her mouth on the cake and took a bite.... but she said..."it is tradition"

All of her friends that could make it.   We had them play at our house for a couple of hours and then when they got board we took them swimming at the gym.   They all had a really good time and it was funny because Lex and liz had to leave a little earlier than everyone else for softball practice so everyone kept asking "where did everyone go?"  

Alexis has really been making me happy the past week.  I am loving how helpful she has been and willing to do her chores.  The other morning when I came home from the gym she had waffles made for the girls and had them eating and had cut their food for them and she even cleaned up the mess when she was done.  I was in heaven.  Then the next morning when I came home she made Crepes!!!!!  I think she is going to start making me look bad.......

the best part about her making waffles is they are not a mix or a easy thing to do.  She made them from scratch and made them perfect!!!! 

Alexis and the girls did all the cleaning and decorating for the party and they did such a great job.  It was so cute to see them so excited and working together. 

I think they did a wonderful job and I may even think about doing it again!

time to catch up

It is so crazy how fast time fly's.  I feel like this school year and just they year in general has just gone by in a blink of an eye.  It still feels unreal to me that my baby is already a one year old.  She is so much fun and is just doing everything and learning to talk so well.  She has become a little tornado but it is always the exact same things that she gets into...   She really likes to get into this drawer of the girls hair accessories.... (and when I say get into.... you can see she really does get in it)

Alexis also had her crazy hair day at school and she also wanted to have her hair the same as Brytlee.  I thought it was so cute when she got home from school that she went rollerblading with her crazy hair down the street..... 

Adison Loves to be pushed around in the little baby doll stroller and she is very lucky to have three sisters that are willing to do it.

She looks like a little chunk in these pictures..... it could be because the stroller is for dolls.....

When I hold the camera up Adison has started to say "Cheese"  it is so funny how fast they catch on

Adison is obsessed with shoes.  She gets so excited when you put them on and will not walk around outside without them.  (that is just the opposite of my other girls)   She says "shoes" so cute and plays with them a lot of the time. 

she is getting really mad at the shoe because she can not get it to fit right.  And as you can see she pulled out all the table cloth things... that is another place she likes to get into.

Adison loves to play outside.  She is getting big enough to climb into the little play house all by herself and will go down the slide as long as someone is going to catch her or is holding her hand. 

She loves to play peekaboo and can say it very well and then she will also say, "there she is"  or "uh oh... where she go"

What a cute little girl.  All the girls just adore her and have so much fun with her.   We have 9 little kitty's right now and she LOVES them.  She stomps her little feet as fast as she can and points at them and say's "kitty" over and over again.  She says it so cute with a lisp almost and in a really high pitch.  She is funny with the cats also, she wants to look but not touch.   If they get to close she gets a little nervous. 

Adison put these on all by herself and thought they were funny.  She amazes me with how many things she can figure out on her own and how young she is to be doing a lot of things.  I tell Ryan a lot that I just think she is such a smart girl and he agrees.  (Baby's really are amazing)

Little sleeping beauty.  As you can tell she has been playing very hard and is very messy and just exhausted.    She has started to change her naps around and I hate it.  I can not figure out when to put her down and some days she really needs to go down at 10 but then I can not get her to take another one all day and she wants to go to bed at 6...... and is a grump for the rest of the night.  I hope that we get it figured out soon so we can get on a good schedule. 

 I love these girls.  They keep me on my toes and make my life so much fun.  They are always making me laugh and they are just so cute!  Some days they don't get along and fight and drive me crazy... but I like to forget those days and look back on these ones when they made me smile. 

Some of this and that

 

I have a lot of catching up to do.  The last week of school Elizabeth had her crazy hair day and pajama party on the same day.  I had heard about this party for months and she couldn't wait.  She wanted her hair just like Brytlee's and I think she looks very cute even with Troll hair.

 The girls caught these salamanders and have named them all..... I just remember one of them is George.....  They have been staying in our sprinkler boxes so the girls go and play with them every once and a while.....