Happy 35th Birthday Becky!

It is MY honor to have you as my friend!
You bring so much comfort to my life, and honestly I don't know what I would do without you. I think of you as part of my family, as my sister, as my rock. Thank you for being such a great auntie to my babies ( who ADORE you!! ) and for dealing with all of my continual up's and downs! I love you so much!

I'm so glad you had a nice lunch on Saturday - we loved being there to share it with you ( and I'm personally impressed with the fact that we pulled the surprise off! )

Becky & her sister's Mandy & Moriah

Nicole and Cheryl you were missed and thought of!

Pregnant girls!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yay!!!!

Becky's mom Sharon and her girls!

Me and Beck, how pretty does she look!?

Singing happy birthday to Becky!

Happy 35th Birthday my friend!!

XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOX

Play date at Auntie Cheryl's!

Saturday we went to Cheryl's house for a play date and to brain storm about Amber's baby shower plans. Nicole and the boys, Becky and Camy, my 3 kids, and of course Cheryl and Megan all had a great time! We have vowed to do this more often in 2009 and to try to do it w/out having to "make plans" to do it.... We are off to a good start!

Being BECKY, NICOLE and AMBER are ALL PREGNANT - pretty soon if all of us brought all of our kids to the same place at the same time there would be: 11 of them, 12 if you count Kyle who is 16! FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Congratulations girls!! I can't wait to hold all the new babies!!!

Here are some pictures of the fun at Auntie Cheryl's house!

Up and down, up and down.

My brain is tired, my body is tired, my heart is tired. I'm having one of those weeks / months of lots of UPS and lots of downs. I want to sleep for a week.
Kade is so extremely emotional and wears his heart on his sleeve. He's easily irritated, insulted, and aggravated.
Kyla is bossy, loud and jealous right now.
Jack is strong willed and dramatic, picky and independent ( at his convenience ) OH and extremely focused on letting Kyla and Kade know that HE is mommy's baby.
I love my kids, I want to hold and kiss my kids all day long - but I'm tired.

The highlight of my week:

Last night Kyla and I had a war of who loved each other more.
I told her I love her more than all the stars in the sky
She said she loved me more than the distance to God
I told her I loved her more than all the flowers in the world
She said she loved me more than her new dollhouse "which I really love mommy"
Add about 10 more things back and forth and she finally decided she was going to win by whispering (because I know she felt guilty about it )
"Mommy, I love you more than meme." She smiled big, winked and squeezed me.

That's HUGE.
She then sat up and said: "but I need you to know that I love meme the same way mom."

I called and told my mom that my daughter admitted that she actually does love me more than you! hahahaha. She joked that she's always known that but she sure tries hard! (o:

Oh to be a kid again!

Sharon gave us her 2 huge bean bags and the kids are going crazy with them! They are having so much fun jumping forward, backwards and twisting!

* Happy New Year 2009 *

We didn't have any plans for New Years Eve as mom and dad were going to the movies and dinner, and there was nothing kid-friendly planned. We were going to treat it like any other night and hope that Robert and I could make it until midnight!

Well that didn't happen for several reasons:

9:40 Robert fell asleep
10:15 I try to put the kids down
10:25 Kyla complains about the noise from the party 2 houses down. She said she wanted to go over there and ask them to please be quiet because they really should be in bed! hahahaha
10:30 I call my mom and ask if they want company (o:

I grabbed a ton of blankets and the kids and we went around the block and played games, ate snacks and ended up letting the kids stay up until midnight to make noise outside and say Happy New Year to the neighbors.

Kade was slightly delirious, but Jack and Kyla were troopers and loved every second of it!!

All 3 of them crashed at 12:15!

I thought it ended up being a great great great New Years Eve with my babies and my mom! ( my dad fell asleep at about 11:00 and heard nothing after that! MEN! What wimps! )
The night time fun!

Having our morning tea on New Years Day!

Jack wanted a straw so Kyla and Kade had to follow suit!

I think this one is funny because Kade looks like he's hungover or something!

After awhile we dropped off Jack with Robert and Mom and I took Kyla and Kade to Islands and to the movies! They were more interested in the fountain than anything else!

**** I hope everyone's 2009 is filled with love, happiness, friendship, healthy, success, and family ****