Monday, June 27, 2011

Pool and the Park

 It has been so nice outside here lately the kids were driving me crazy so Dave and I decided we just needed to take the kids outside more. We have been going to the park and the other day I gave in and set up the pool. When I took the camera out Myla started doing her poses, but my favorite one was her hugging the tree :) Logan loved the swing! It took Dave a while to get a good picture because the swing was moving, so we had to stop the swing to get a good pic, but Logan didn't like that very much.

Savannah and Myla have started to play on the bigger swings rather than just wanting the baby swings. Logan wanted to get out of the swing and crawl around after a while, but the playground has gravel so he just had to get mad because I wouldn't put him down. We had fun at the park and the rest of the day was a lot less frustrating for Dave and I because the kids didn't have so much pent up energy.





 It has been getting into the 90's the last week and its supposed to get into the 100's this week. I finally gave in and pulled out the kids pool. We lost/broke the pump we got for the pool so I had to blow it up without it. It wasn't as bad as I thought and Logan loved being in the water. I was tired of being hot so I put on my suit and sat in the pool with the kids for a while. It surprised me how much better I felt after just sitting in some cold water. Myla and Savannah had a blast just throwing the toys in and out of the pool. It will probably start to be a regular thing playing in the pool now. I think I will need to get some more sunscreen though.
 I get to be pampered this week too and I'm so excited about that. I have a friend who is a student at LCC in the cosmotology and she is going to use me to do my nails. It has been a long time since I have had my nails done so it will be fun. Now I just have to think if I want anything fun done with my nails or just get the white tips. Either way it will be nice to have some time for me without the kids for a while. This is also the last week of Dave's summer school and he is very excited about that. He does great with the High School students, but he says that 5th graders are a lot harder on his patience than the high schoolers. It will be great to have the extra money from that though. So now all I have to do this week is figure out what we are going to do for Myla's birthday on Saturday. I know we are going
 to do at least cake and ice cream so now I just have to decide if we are going to do anything else special for it. I'm sure we will I just have to figure out the details. I just can't believe she is going to be 4.

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Nursing

Logan is 6 months old now. Besides the fact that I can't believe how fast that went I'm getting tired of not having my body to myself. I know nursing is the best for him and I enjoy the bonding, but I still feel like a cow ever now and then. I was also just called to be in the Young Women presidency in my ward. Don't get me wrong I am super excited about my new calling. Its a great opportuity. My confusion is when I'm at mutual on wednesday nights Dave will have to put Logan to bed, and that will make it easier for Dave if Logan is on a bottle. I posted on my facebook status about starting to wean Logan and his 6 month shots and its not the people who posted, they were incouraging me to keep nursing. So because I'm a woman it made me feel bad that I wanted to stop nursing. I didn't nurse Myla for very long (6 weeks) and Savannah I nursed until she was 9 months old. I guess when I posted my status on facebook I was looking for encouragement, but I didn't get it. I shouldn't let it bother me what other people think, but for some reason I can't let it go. It has been bugging me ever since. I want to wean Logan to make things easier for Dave and to make it so he can help me out more with Logan and the girls, but I don't like feeling that I'm a failure as a mother becasue I'm not nursing as long as some people think I should.

Okay I'm done venting. I know I need to do what is best for me and my family it just helps to know that I have friends and family supporting me no matter what I decide.

Saturday, June 18, 2011

Crazy Day!!


Mary and Tracy in the saches that Julia made.
 This morning I went to Tracy's Baby Shower. It was a blast and it was nice to get out by myself without the kids. Tracy is a good friend and her Mother in Law is a wonderful lady who has 'taken me under her wing' so to speak. This will be the first grand baby on that side of the family and they are both super excited. I feel blessed that they have wanted to call me a friend/ adopted me and my family into theirs.

When I got home from the babyshower it was great to be home with my family, but Logan was not happy. He was so tired and he was fighting going to sleep. Which had Dave frustrated like anyone would be with a half an hour of two kids crying. (Savannah was in trouble for not following directions) Its nice to know that my family wouldn't run the same without me or without Dave. I have to laugh out loud when I hear Myla cheering on Dave when he is playing Mario "Don't die, don't die,....you got hit....you did it daddy!"

Tomorrow is Fathers day and I feel so bad that we aren't doing anything special for dinner. We didn't plan in a special dinner into the menu, because I didn't realize it was fathers day. So tomorrow we may just have to be stuck with a hamburger helper or something like that. Well Dave seems to like his present so that will have to be enough. Thats okay because Dave has thanked me at least two times a day since he found the picture, and that is good enough.

Thursday, June 16, 2011

6 Months old

Logan is 6 months old today. I can't believe how fast that has gone by. Time runs in a different frame when you have kids. Things seem to change so much faster. I have to remind myself that they will only be this little for so long then this time in their life will be over. There are some days that I wish it could go faster, but most days I try really hard to just enjoy it. Before I know it they will be grown up and gone and that is when I will miss these days. I just hope that they don't look back on these days and only remember that I was frustrated most of the time. I try and not let the small things bother me, but when Myla and Savannah smile when they are in trouble it bothers me. I guess its still is and always will be a learning process. Logan is already crusing along the couch and trying so hard to walk. He is trying so hard to catch up to his sisters and I want him to stay little for a while longer, but I don't think I have a choice in that matter.

Well Fathers Day is on sunday and Dave found his present early. Thats okay because I was really excited to give it to him. Its a picture for his classroom at the High School of me with the kids. I'm just really glad that he likes the picture.

Logan's 6 month pic

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Lets try this again

I had a blog before but once we moved to Lamar I stopped blogging. Now that we have internet again I'm going to try this process again. I usually don't have much to say about our day to day lives, but I still like to write and post pictures of what is going on in our little family. With the other blog I don't feel too bad about forgeting the username and password because I only had two followers. I'm going to see if I can get more than that to follow this new one. So lets see what happens this go around. :)