Better late than never.

So once again I forgot the camera for my child's baptism, luckily a friend had an iphone and was able to get some snap shots for me. I wish I could have taken my own but this is definitely better than nothing. It was a great day he was so happy.He had a few of his friends share memories of their baptism and that was really great to hear some of his role models share their testimonies specifically to Kaiden.
He had Veronica Holt (his good friends mom) give the talk on the Holy Ghost, she gave him a tin that had neat little things in it to represent the Holy Ghost. He looks through it almost every day and a few Mondays ago he gave the lesson at F.H.E. and he told each of us what the things in the tin represent.
It is very obvious that Kaiden's baptism was important to him and I am happy for him and the choice he has made.

A quick note.

So I had a great birthday week, it seemed like I was getting spoiled everyday! We are busy at the scrapbook store and between that and trying to get my house organized so it will be easy to clean I am crazy busy.

I love seeing my children grow a little each day and discover new things, Koen is so cute and he still has that baby feel so I am not missing the babies or anything. Keith is growing into quite the helper, he is really good at helping with chores in the morning but the later it gets in the day the less helpful he is. He also likes to "babysit" Koen for me.

Evelyn is very social and her and her friends are into BOYS! I can't believe it I thought I wouldn't have to deal with this until she was 11 at least! They are fun to listen to. Julianna is growing taller even though she is still very short! She is excited to turn 10 soon and tells me every chance she gets that she is almost old enough for young womens.

Kevin had been doing really well with his running he comes home after a run and has a huge smile because he made his goal time. Kaiden wants to start running again but I haven't had time to take him out, we are going to have to figure this out so he can get going.I am still working on losing 3o lbs from my pregnancy with Koen and my goal is to have them gone by April when I go to UT for a friends wedding. It would be nice to fit into one of my old dresses instead of having to buy something in this larger size. I have all the tools to do it I just need to buckle down.

I can't wait for the warmer weather to be here for good, we have been having really nice days followed by really nasty ones. Yesterday the kids were home for a snow day again, we now have to go to school through June first.Koen was really sick last week, poor baby. He had really really bad diarrhea, he also threw up three times. He never had a fever, but he wanted to be held constantly and you could tell he was miserable. He feels fine now and none of the other kids got sick so I am counting myself lucky with that. We did have to be super vigilant about fluids to make sure that he didn't become dehydrated.

It's My Last Day!

I have thought about turning 30 a lot over the years especially when my friends or family would turn the big 30, I always imagined that I would cry and be sad, that I would hate the idea of being older. So here it is the night before my big day and I am actually looking forward to it. I think I have felt "old enough" to be 30 for a while. now don't mistake me, I in no way feel old and I have no intention of being more "mature" but I feel like so much happened during my twenties I am kind of surprise I am not already 30! I am looking forward to spending the day with Kevin, he started a tradition the first year we were married and it has carried through every year since and I love it! He takes the whole day off on my birthday and we spend the day playing games watching movies and just having fun together as though we have no responsibilities, it's nice. We are also meeting up with some friend on Friday to go out to eat and then bowling, and a good friend and I are getting manicures on Sat. so all in all it is going to be a fantastic birthday week for me!

Everyone is healthy and school is in so we are doing great around here. Keith told me today he wished he was 5 and his birthday was to far away. We had a talk about being happy with what you have now and what age you are now because once he turns 5 he will never be 4 again. I think he understood what I was trying to say, a few minutes later he said "I do not get to be 4 for very long do I?" I think that says it all right there, when we are to busy wanting the next stage of our life to start we miss out on the stage we are in. Keith is a really sweet kid when he isn't destroying things, and he has a fun sense of humor. He and Kaiden are always playing pranks on me, they put a rubber spider under my pillow and I felt it under there when I picked up my pillow the only thing my brain registered was spider! They do this quite a bit and you would think I would catch on but it gets me every time.

K.E.I.T.H.

Keith is learning how to spell his name! He is always asking me "which one is this I can't remember?" It's cute but after about 100 times it is getting a little old. We are back in school this week and so far only one snow day has set us back! I thought of something I wanted to write about this morning but now that I am sitting down to do it I can't remember what it was!We made cinnamon rolls yesterday and I got to the sugar part and realized I didn't have any brown sugar so we sprinkled some orange jell-o on them instead, Julianna loved them the boys didn't care it was food and Evelyn said it was gross. I didn't have the courage to try them, I made a different batch the I put honey and cinnamon on and they were good other than the fact that I over cooked them just a little. I think next time I will just run and get the brown sugar.

I am feeling a little yucky this week, I have a sinus infection again! I think my sinus hate me! Koen stepped on my Kobo ereader that Kevin got me for our anniversary and broke the screen. I called Kobo and they said they would ship me a special box that I could mail it to them in and they would look at it and either fix or replace it if the warranty covered what was wrong. I have been stressed that they would say no way this is so not covered, but yesterday they sent me a new ereader without even having looked at mine. Instead of mailing the special box empty they mailed it with a Kobo in it!!! I am very happy to have a reader again there are so many books I have been wanting to read!

Not another one!!

So yet again Scott county is out of school! We are officially insanely afraid of a little snow here and it is eating away our summer vacation. The kids are so bored they want to go to school, they are sick of being cooped up in side and the worst part is the snow is not good snowman snow! It is also a little more stressful for me due to the fact that we are trying to get the last of the paper organized at the new scrapbook store before we open for business tomorrow. We are planning on heading to Lexmark to have lunch with Kevin today so that is at least one perk of the snow day we get to have a fun family outing! I hate the snow!

A little bit more every day.

So I really want to update this at least once a week and everyday would be the best son then I could just print these off and put them in my journal! We are loading and hauling all of the heavy item from the old Scrapbook store today to the new location. We are moving right along with the move and so far things have gone smoothly.

Yesterday I visited with a friend in the hospital that was nice I haven't really had time to catch up with her since we have moved back, I was sad that she was there but it was nice to be able to sit and chat like we used to.

The kids are loving the long weekend that the snow days allowed us, we are planning on cleaning up their rooms and getting the toys organized again. I feel like organizing and cleaning are all I do, once I get each area of the house done it's time to start over at the beginning.

We bought a car at an auction back in Oct or Nov. I think, we were worried that it would be a bad experience but so far the car has had no problems and I already feel as though we have gotten our monies worth out of it. It was a fun experience to bid on a car and the auctioneer was so fast!!

Violet. The Chihuahua

This is our super cute cutie, Violet. We got her in August and these pics were taken then so she is quite a bit bigger now but she still looks about the same. She loves the kids and always wants to be where ever they are. She crawls in bed with Kaiden at night and if any of the kids get out of bed she tattles on them. She is super fun we love her having a little dog is totally different than having a large one, we are still struggling with the house training part of things but she is getting better I feel like most of the problem is lack of diligence on my part. She ran out into the snow the other day and all you could see of her was her tail and head she loves the snow and when she can't handle the cold any longer she will come in and lay on the heat vent. The girls love dressing her up of course and even though she doesn't seem to like the outfits she tolerates it well.