Catching up on the last week.

We love May! No school, I am not doing tennis yet, the weather is not too hot not too cold, birds are chirping, life is good. I am really bad at keeping up to date so I am catching up on things before we leave on vacation.
Things we did this week:
*Jumped on the trampoline A LOT


I love TRAMPOLINE Hair!!
*Lauren chased the neighbors dog up and down the fence... more like she was being chased and she didn't like the he followed her every move.
* We found a bird's nest under the girls window ( I don't mind them and the girls get to wake up to the birds chirping out their window.)



* We made SILLY faces:
We have been busy having way too much fun... and while all this was going on I lost 4 and 1/2 pounds!! If you want to read more I have been keeping track of what I have been doing. If you look to were my blog list is and click on My Experiment, you can read all about it. Well we are off to California!

My running machines

So I have been really bad since I have gotten back from our trip... I think I have used the treadmill maybe five times in the last five weeks... ugh! I am going to really do it now that I have now excuse, I am going to use the dang thing and finally lose the pesky few (15) pounds of baby weight I am STILL carrying around. ( Lauren will be 3 in August how sad is that) I was running, and I mean hard core sweating and panting the whole bit and the girls were cheering me on. When I FELL off the treadmill. They hopped on. Cal has always been a runner and a pretty dang good one at that. And their uncle Dain does Triathlons... so I think it just might be in the blood. But it sure is not


coming from me. Lauren came down in her work out gear and walked at a fast pace of 1.5 mph not bad not bad. Regan came on with swimsuit on ( I see a future triathlete) She can run so fast you would not believe it. I only let her run at a 3 mph(not holding the bar), but she has gotten it up to 7 mph ( holding to the bar) They are crazy. After a few minutes they tend to get bored and the tredmill turns into a slide, it is cute the jump on and slide all the way into the wall and then do it all over again. I am promising myself that I will do it this time and not whimp out. Wish me luck.

SOME pictures from our fun cruise. These are a little late but who cares, We had the best time

Mmm... Chocolate cake... oh wait I don't like chocolate... but my girls do

My two little monkeys love to help me in the kitchen. We decided to make devils food cake. All they want to do is lick the batter. I think if I didn't even make the cake they would be happy just licking the bowl. I love my little girls.

I will get this eventually.

So... here I go. I think I might actually do this. Blogging is a lot more intensive then I thought I think I need a tutorial or something... if someone wants to help me figure this all out that would be great. I have all summer off so I feel like I really need to do this. I am such a bad mom. I am so bad at writing things down. So I am going to be dedicated to actually using the blog and remembering all the fun and silly things my children do. So please ignore my older posts as I really didn't know what I was doing and now... maybe I will figure it out.





I made the mistake of leaving a can of grape juice on the counter to thaw yesterday. We went outside and played and I had forgotten all about it. We came in the house and within two minutes Lolo comes to me with big purple hands and says " I'm juicy" I thought I was going to die. Luckily she only got it on the floor, counter, and hands. There was a little trail of purple dots across the tile and I got to her before she got to the carpet.

AHHHH.... Saturdays!

So we had the pleasure to attend TWO birthday parties today. Wow, you wouldn't think but it really takes it out of you. My little neice Bailey just turned one and it was really fun to see her get so excited about all of the people who came to show their love. My sister decided to have this party at a park, which normally at the end of April would be a fantastic idea. Not this year! (what is up with this weather?) IT WAS FREEZING!!! The wind was blowing everything over and I had to walk around with a blanket on. The girls did not mind they ran around and had a super fun time even with rosey cheaks and runny noeses. We had to leave that party early to hit the next stop on the party train. Our friends little girl Hailey just turned 2! We were invited to go to their party which was at the Kangaroo Zoo! Haven't heard of it? Neither had I! Where the heck is it? I still don't know. Ok actually it is in North Salt Lake. (the city, not just the northern part of Salt Lake, and don't confuse them or the people that work there will rip your head off... speaking from a little experience.) So anyway after an hour of trying to find the dang place, we finally got there. It is an inflatable wonderland. They have all of these fun and HUGE inflatable toys. We started with the little ones and well... that did not last too long. Regan saw the BIG slide and wanted it. So this slide was huge and super hard for my old fat butt to climb and then had like an 80 degree drop which I can honestly saw made me a little quisey at first. Regan loved it! Well she pretty much just did that same slide over and over and over again. I could barely pull her away for cake. Lauren on the other hand has been very vocal about what she doesn't like these days... we went down a medium sized slide and she said very firmly " I don't like that!" So yeah mommy and Lolo got to go on the awsome baby slides, it's cool, really I didn't like the big ones. When time to go came rolling along, I physically had to drag them out of their kicking and screaming. So I guess I would say it was a hit. Highly suggest it! But after a long day I am pooped and ready for bed, but oh wait... I have homework. :(

School, swimming, and the bathroom sink.

Is there anything in the world that is as stressful as finals? I do not know why but when I am confronted with stress, I kinda shut down. I find myself doing anything but studying. Hense... the blogging. I am glad that school is going to be over for a week before summer school starts...ah... I must be crazy. I have been having fun outside of school though. Regan is finishing her swimmig lesson today; that has been so much fun to watch. I used to think that Regan was the type that was a leader and kind of a trouble maker, but really she is passive and sits and waits her turn and lets all the other kids be crazy. Lauren on the other hand who I thought was my quite and sweet child has proven to be a lot less so. She is a beast. Do not let her near your toys or you won't be seeing them in one peice. She has a lot of spunk and gets into trouble where ever she can. Her favorite things is to go into the bathroom and turn on the sink... she flooded it last week and now we can barely open the drawers in the vanity. Just pray for warm weather so that we can go outside and I can save my house from the kids.