What a morning

So I woke up this morning to two very wound up kids. Leighton and Xia got up about an hour before me. The sweet thing was that they were quiet enough for me to sleep in however the down side was that Jake had just gone shopping the night before. He brough home ice cream cones and m&m ice cream sandwhiches, two dozen chocolate chip cookies (he had a sweet tooth). So in the short time that I got to sleep in Xia and Leighton had eatten 6 of the ice cream cones (three each) and about 7 of the chocolate chip cookies. Needless to say they were wired. Luckly they slowed down and helped to clean the house. For that I am thankful.

My kids called up Ema and Papa cause they wanted to sleep over and spend some time with them. Needless to say I was fine with it. Jake and I were going to go out to dinner but when I got home from dropping the kids off I found Jake alseep. I was fine with this becasue Jake has been working about 12 hours everyday lately. I hope that he is able to get the rest that he needs even though he will never cop to needing the sleep. Thanks Jake for all that you do.

I need this!

One of the ladies in my ward saw this and feels the same way I do about these stickers. Too much information out there is a bad thing. However I thought this one was funny and I would put it on my car. Sometimes I think its true!

Veggies!!!

I have successfully gotten Leighton to eat the following veggies carrots, coliflower, broc., corn, mushrooms, and cucumber.
How? You might ask. Well the food processor and I have become good friends. I mince all the veggies in that then add it to what ever I am cooking wether it is mashed potatoes (only the coliflower goes in there), or the meatloaf we had last night, spaghetti, what ever the main dish is. And the shocker is that he has eatten these last couple nights better then he has when I don't add the veggies go figure. Maybe now we can pack on those much needed pounds for him and get rid of some of Xia's because she fills up faster with all the veggies.

Fun with Wilson!!!

Tonight we had Wilson over while my sister went to her Enrichmentnight. My kids just love to have any one under the age of three over. I think that it is too funny to watch Leighton he is so good with the little kids and they all seem to love him so much. The two boys went out back and started to play in the water on the trampoline and I was able to get some really cute pictures of the two of them.

It started out with just the trampoline and spriinklers then Leighton added the big beach ball which Wilson loved.

After Wilson got tired of the trampoline Leighton pulled out the slide. When Wilson saw this his eyes went huge and he just kept on saying "side, side". I got some really cute ones of Wilson and Lieghton on the slide.
I love this one of Wilson playing Peek-a-Boo with Leighton. This is taken from under the slide.


The slide eventually became a water slide that Wilson thought was so much fun. The kid loves water!

First day of school

It was the first day of school yesterday for both my kids. This adds an extra 20 minutes onto our comute to and from school between the two drop offs and the extra pick up however it is all worth it.
Xia is now officially a kindergartener at Learning tree West with Mrs. Rebecca as her teacher. Xia absolutely loves her and is all that she can talk about when she gets home from school. Its so funny to watch her play school with her dolls. She insists on being Mrs.Rebecca and the dolls are the kids in her class. She is also loving the fact that she no longer naps. P.S. we are loving it as well because she now is asleep before 9.
Leighton started his first day of school on the same day. He is now in the fourth grade. His teacher is Ms. Thorpe. He is once again in the same class as his cousin Lincoln. I don't know if this a good thing or a bad. They did really well together last year however I was able to foreworn his teacher a head of time last year and this time I haven't been able to yet. He still likes going to school which is a plus.
And that was our first day. P.P.S don't they just look so happy:)

My boy is no longer a baby:(

Last week Leighton got invited to a birthday party for a girl in his class. It will be his first birthday party at night and to top it off he is only on of two boys that were invited the rest were girls. The theme for the party is "the drive in" so they will be starting at about 8 and going until about 10:30. This is what the invatation looks like.

All grown up. He just informed me that I don't need to walk him to the door he can do it all by himself.

He's too cute. And the only boy at the party with 12 other girls. I don't know wether to be scared or thrilled?

Yes!

So after all of the troubles with my Health final on Friday I thought I was through. So after giving up and rescheduling the final for Monday the 9 at 8p.m. I get a hold of all three of my advisors and they tell me it is fine to reschedule the test but that it has to be 48 hours later. So here I am thinking that I have a couple more days to study so I didn't do any studing on my break like I was going to. Well to make a long story short as I am driving home from work last night I get a call from my assessment advisor saying that I after going though everything I am scheduled to take the final at 8 and is that still okay. I kept on thinking do I really have a choice. Well I took it and ended up getting a 97% on the thing. I guess its true when they say don't second guess yourself and you do better.
I am now finished with 6 of my 13 credit hours and I've only been at this for a month. Yeah me!

Drive In

So after the kids helped me declutter the house I told them I would take them to the drive in to see a movie. We cleaned out the car and popped popcorn just like my grandpa always did before going to the drive in when I was little and put it in the brown paper bag. FIlled a cooler with cold drinks and we were off.
We ended up seeing Dispicable Me and Charlie St. Cloud. I knew that the kids would love the first one it was the second one I wasn't to sure about becasue I had not heard anything about it other then Zac Effron was in it. When I heard that name it I still had to ask who that was then after being told it was the guy from High School Musical I was still lost.
Dispicable Me was soo cute and it had a really good meaning behind it. I will be buying this one when it comes out. After that it ended I took the kids to the bathroom (because they were both told I wasn't making a trip during the movie) After that was finished I asked the kids if they wanted to leave or watch the next movie. Xia said she was ready to go home because she was tired and Lei informed me he wanted to stay and watch the next show. I said okay but that I thought the next show was going to be boring.
I got some cute pictures of the kids. Leighton made it about twenty minutes into the show before he fell asleep and Xia lasted about five.

This always happens during the second show.

I stayed to finish the show and by the end I was crying. The story line was so touching. However they could have chosen better actors for the main roles but what can you do.

UGHHH!

Somedays I just want to give up. Tonight has been one of those nights.

It all started with my final for health which needless to say I didn't take. First they tell you to log in the day before which you cannot do because your login info is not set up unitl 10 minutes before the test. Then when you do the key stroke ID if you it back space to correct or type it wrong you get locked out. THen to top it off when you go to talk to the advisor for the test all of them are out of the office or not anwering there phone. So as of now I am locked out of my final and can't get a hold of anyone to fix the problem.

Then after all of this happens I take a quiz for math. (I have mentioned before that I hate math right) and in the past I can at least get a 75% on them not tonight I got a wapping 23%.

I am now locking myself in the bathroom to have a nice relaxing soak with no interuptions thanks Jake for taking the kids to the park so I can. Your the best!

Its been a busy couple of weeks!

The past two weeks have been very busy so I have fallen behind in the blogging. Not bad considering I'm working full time, going to school full time taking CCR&R classes and being a mom. Wow when I look at all that no wonder I'm going gray and feel like I have no time to get anything done.

Tomorrow is my first final for Health and in the mean time I have started my math. I now remember why I didn't go further then I had to. I HATE (I know that is a strong word but it is true) math. I still don't know why I need to use half of the algabra equations and how to graph. If I can make it through this it will be a miricle.

I have also been taking CCR&R classes to get my next level that just adds to everything else because on Tuesdays and Thursdays my day starts at 7:00 am and I don't get home until around 9:30. Needless to say my house is a mess, I'm tired and grumpy so to those of you I have been grumpy with I'm sorry.