Random thoughts

• I need a Bosh.
• I love magazines, especially home decorating or crafting ones. I buy them all the time and only have a subscription to 1. I need to subscribe to more.
• I'm so excited for warm weather.
• I need to use up my scrapbooking stuff, I have so many supplies I need to get crackin'.
• Pets are expensive.
• Rock Band is fun, whom ever invented it is a genius.
• I like owls, I've seen a few random owl things lately and I'm loving them.
• I'm excited for The Happiest Girls Trip on Earth.
• Face Book is stealing all my blogging friends and it makes me sad:(
• I want to decorate my house and make it a home and not just a place we live.
• I need to win the lottery so I can decorate my house.
• 2 of my favorite people are going to be living way to far away. Nothing will change but it seems a bit strange.
• Book club is one of my favorite things.
• Mania and/or scrap nights are one of my favorite things.
• I love Harry Potter, I can read the books and watch the movies over and over and I am so excited for the next movie.
• I wish I would of done more with my art when I was younger and had more professional instruction.
• I want to take the oil painting class at Roberts craft.
• I want to paint Drew and Paiges room in Cars fashion, I know its a huge job so I need to prepare wisely.
• I love my friends/cousins/sister-in-laws/niece-in-laws and feel blessed that they are a part of my life. I am surrounded by great people.
• Sid the Science Kid is an awesome show.
• Potty training is lame.
• I have 1 acre of un-landscaped land and with the snow melted off it, it is looking like a huge project.
• My kids are growing up way to fast.
• Toddlers make the little things you do seem spectacular, "Did you potty on the toilet mom?" "Yes I did" "Good job Mom, give me a high five"
• I need a pedicure, anyone want to come?
• I have not had my hair done for........ I cant even remember when, and it looks horrible!
• I need to clean my couch and don't know how.
• I wish Paige would hold still so I could paint her nails.
• I'm in a slump, I need to start organizing/cleaning again.
• I wish there were more restaurants in the Spanish Fork/Salem area.
• I want to go to Europe.
• Vegas has gotten pretty gross in the last five or so years.
• Laundry for 6 stinks!
• I actually an excited to start going camping.
• I need to stop making so many lists and just do stuff.

Paige turns 2!

My cute baby is now 2 years old. We had a party for her on Sunday and I do not think she realized everyone was there for her until we set her down to unwrap her gifts.

I loved this picture with all the other kids around Paige, Oooooh! Fire! She attempted to blow out her candle and sort of did it on her own. I was surprised she knew what to do.

Thanks to everyone that came to celebrate our Paige's special day with us. She has loved all her toys, and I have loved all her clothes (so has she actually, shes a clothes girl). We enjoyed spending time with all you and appreciate your friendships. Happy Birthday sweet Paige, we love you!

Family Vegas Vacation

We took the kids on a little vacation to Las Vegas, we thought about San Diego but decided against driving toddlers that far and in Vegas we could also visit my Dad. So we found some of the very few family attractions that Vegas has to offer and ended up having a great time. This is Paige at the Circus Circus theme park. I took a picture of Drew with this scary clown the last time we were there and had to get one of Paige too.

Drew likes rides, he laughed and giggled on ride he went on. I don't think at 3 I was as brave as he is. He went on most things alone because he is the only one his size and had no problems. I loved watching him have a blast, I just wish I had a better camera to catch his expressions better.

This was the only kind of ride Paige was big enough to go on. She loved it though and we spent plenty of quarters on them. Maybe next time she'll be big enough to ride the big rides with Drew.

We went to the shark reef at Mandalay Bay. It was very cool, at the beginning of the exhibit you got a listening device and each tank had a number on it, so you'd type in the number and get all the info about what was in each tank, like a personal tour guide. Drew was really funny, I'd type in his numbers and he'd patiently listen then after say "Hey, Mom, Look its a ______" and tell me all about the fish or lizard or whatever. He's such a smart boy! The info he remembered was funny, it was fun to hear his perspective.

This is a jelly fish, I thought they were so cool so I decided to let you see it too!

Drew with his listening Device.

There was this big tank of Sting rays and a few other kinds of fish that you could pet, Drew and Paige were scared but the rest of us thought it was really cool. Some of them would actually play with you. There was a sting ray that would go swimming around the tank and when it would go by Morgan it would surface under her hand so she could pet him. Haylie wants to work there.

Then we went to this place called Bonnie Springs Ranch. Its an old ghost town that you ride on this little train to get there. Then they had some shops, a few goofy shows, and a petting zoo. The shows reminded me of Lagoons western shootouts, we were not able to watch to much because Paige is a turd but I was ok with it.

The kids loved the petting zoo. They had mainly farm animals and a few mountain animals, it was kind of a run down sort of place and I've never been happier to have a stuffed up nose.

My daughter, a saloon girl.

All my cute kids. It was a fun vacation the kids got to spend a lot of time with their dad and do somethings that they've never done before. Does any of my loyal readers have any Utah activity's for me to take my kids on during spring break?

Crazy cat lady!

This is Mim and Drew. Mim is the coolest cat ever and I know, I'm blogging about my cat, lame! Mim amazes me, its just the way it is. He knows when you feel crappy and he will not leave your side. I've not been feeling great and Mim has been near me for two days. When he first started hanging around more I was checking his food and water, seeing if he wanted to go out, but then I realized he's just watching over me. He has done this with all of my family at one time or another and I just think he's awesome. Even though hes a cat, it's great to know someone cares.

Hey Millissa, remember these?

I know, I'm hilarious? but, I have a coffee table I want to refinish. I thought of this day, and now I'm not so sure. But to get to more important things, you still have those tan lines!

NOT pregnant, but nesting

I absolutely hate cleaning my house. One reason of course is because its cleaning, another is that I have 2 toddlers that can mess it up faster than I can clean it, another is that my house is very plain (undecorated) so its not cute and fun when its clean its just bare. Lately though I have been in this get organized, go through things, throw stuff away phase, that is usually what I do when I'm pregnant. I don't know if it was the bee, a sign of spring, that has made me feel this way but it is so out of character. I'm not a slob, but if I had an unexpected visitor chances are they'd see a messy house. I've been doing projects that will help my house in the long run but not doing a great job on the everyday stuff. I at least feel I am getting things accomplished so that's good. So anyways, the point of my post (or at least what I've been wondering), my couch is microfiber and it is so so so filthy, what do I clean it with? Its something I want to tackle soon but am not sure what to use. Any suggestions? It is, or was a very nice couch but it looks so junky. The kids have been very hard on it and I refuse to get another until they have all grown a bit, but I hate it looking the way it does. Help.

Ketchup is good with anything!

Paige and Drew love corn dogs, its one item that I can actually get them both to eat. This day Morgan was having a corn dog with them and put ketchup on her plate. Paige saw Morgans ketchup, climbed on the table and tried to share. I don't usually give the little ones sauce because its messy and they do just fine without it, but she wanted it and Morgan was not to excited about sharing so I gave Paige some. Well the corn dog made a nice handle and the stick made a great spoon. Paige had zero bites of her corn dog (which she usually loves) and ate her ketchup instead.

After pictures and watching her eat ketchup for a bit I decided to dip her corn dog in the ketchup to try to get her to eat the corn dog. She didn't, she just licked it off the corn dog.

Ketchup for lunch? I guess it could be worse. Silly Paige, Ketchup is a condiment not a meal.