This Month

March 6th was My Birthday, I turned 24... It really is weird to be getting so old!

Here are Meika and Sienna who are getting so big!
Our ward had an easter egg Hunt/Potluck lunch which was pretty fun and so here are some cute pictures from that.
Meika showing off the eggs she found.
Meika and her friends trading candy. (Meika didn't really care about the candy... she just wanted the eggs)

Catherine & Brennan ( our friends & neighbor who we love!!)

Sienna

Seth's mom came to town, so we were able to spend a few days just playing. we went to the park and she went to the easter egg hunt with us, she was even nice enough to go to my wards relief society birthday dinner.

IRONING......UGH!

A few months ago I made some crazy deal with Seth that I would iron all his work clothes for him and have them ready for him each day. When I made the deal I had never really ironed a shirt before. So three months later I am feeling a little bad for not keeping my end of the deal. Really in the last three months I have only ironed maybe three shirts and three pairs of slacks. Which takes me seriously FOREVER! It probably takes me a good half an hour to do a shirt and fifteen minutes for slacks. So after feeling so bad and after every morning having to hear Seth say " When are you going to start ironing my clothes?" I have finally made an effort..... Of Course I went to Martha Stewart and here is what I learned...

1. Begin with a well-laundered, damp shirt. For best results, cotton and linen should be almost wet. Spray the shirt with water, roll it into a ball, and keep it wrapped in a towel for up to 24 hours. Try using spray sizing instead of starch -- you'll end up with a shirt that is neat but not stiff. Allow the sizing to be absorbed into the fibers for a couple of minutes before ironing.

2. Using a heavy iron on a high setting and an ironing board with a terry cover, begin ironing the inside of the cuffs and up the tabs of the sleeves.

3. Turning the tab side of the sleeve upward, iron up the inside of the sleeve. Repeat with the other sleeve.

4. Next, fit the shirt smoothly over the end of the board and iron the yoke.

5. Iron the inside-front panels. You can iron right over the buttons and the pocket from the backside of the fabric; the buttons will be protected from the heat, and the pocket will come out smooth.

6. Next, move on to the right-front panel, the back of the shirt, the side seams, and around to the left-front panel.

7. The final step is the collar. Spray first with a little sizing, stretch it taut, then iron over each side. Fold the collar neatly down, and press along the seam. Hang your perfectly pressed shirt on a hanger, buttoning the top button to hold it in place.

If anyone has any other good advice for ironing PLEASE let me know!!!!

Utah

We went to Utah a couple weeks ago because my brother from California was going up there to go skiing and who can turn down a trip to Utah! We really had so much fun, and the girls were pretty good. They were both sick with a cold so we ended up not joining the rest of the family up at the ski slopes... but it was still so fun!

This is Meika and her friend Audrey.. we love her and her family and were so glad to have a minute that we could stop by and visit them.

My Niece McKyna decided to spike Raegan's hair

Meika & Her cousin MacClane snuggling in the "fort" as they watch a movie.

All the kids were going to go swimming but I wasn't planning on swimming since it is so cold in Utah right now... but Meika really wanted to go so she borrowed her cousin Ty's swim gear.. (he is not even a year yet!) Tight Fit!

Here are my Nieces McCall & Brooke they were out for the night and I saw them snuggling and couldn't pass up a taking a picture. McCall is a snuggle bug!

This is Sienna on our way to Utah... She has her little foot resting on the door. I took this picture while driving... Yeah I am talented!

Meika was so glad to finally be to Nana & Papa's house!

My Grandpa was so nice to place beads with Meika.

We went up to Sundance and ate lunch while the kids went skiing. Here is Krew getting all his ski gear on.

My Grandpa is so cute and little, here he is at my mom's house watching a basketball game

Sienna's new bed, Kinda

For some crazy reason I decided that I was going to put Sienna's mattress on the ground so she could be in a big girl bed. So this is what happens during her first time trying to take a nap in her new bed.

I put Meika and Sienna in their room to take a nap and after about 45min I hear silence so I go in to see if they have finally fallen asleep and this is what I find.

~An Empty Bed~

A hudge mess with a child laying in the middle of it!
Today I put her crib back together and she fell asleep as soon as I layed her down for her nap.

Bedtime

The other night Seth was reading the girls a bedtime story and here is the event. They all started out so good laying on the ground listening!

Some how the girls end up on Seth's Back as he continues to read.

He realizes they probably aren't paying attention and wants to see how many push-ups he can do. (FYI...I can do more push-ups than Seth!)
Meika wanted to try doing push-ups with Sienna on her back. Sienna thought this was so funny!

Sienna's New Haircut

Monday night I decided that I should probably get rid of Sienna's little mullet. I round brushed it after to see how it looked and when Seth came home he said "oh what a cute little boy". A cute little Boy?!?
So here are some pictures of our cute little boy!

This is Sienna and her don't look or talk to me right now face! She is a very fierce little girl! She does this funny walk where she swings her arm a lot. I think she is practicing for the runway!

Swimsuit Seasons Coming!

Okay so, I have a question for anyone who cares to share their opinion. For many years I have gone back and forth about what I think is appropriate for swim wear... At one point in my life I HATED one pieces... they go up your butt, they are so ugly, you can never find any that fit right..blah blah blah ( I am sure everyone knows how that goes. I know a lot of women who wear one pieces around their kids but on vacation with out the little ones they wear a two piece). I lately feel better in something that covers me up a little more, But I have seen a lot of LDS women wearing two pieces. So I wanted to hear how people felt about swimsuits..
Am I totally a nerd?!? Yeah I am ....

ONE PIECE

OR TWO PIECE

Some Old Picture I never got around to posting

This is Sienna helping me make egg salad sandwhichs ehich we took up tot the park and ate! She is the cutest little thing Ever!


This is Meika & Sienna playing dress up, my parents were in town and Meika loves putting on a show for people!
Nana (My Mom) & Sienna. We had so much fun while my parents we here... we watched movies ate lots of food did some shopping... all the really fun stuff! We sure do love Nana and Papa!
This is Sienna last weds.... the girls painted a picture for daddy for Valentines and some how Sienna got painted as well!

Fun Fun Fun Weekend!

Our weekend excitement started off on thursday, Seth gave me this wonderful fruit boquet for Valentines and the girls were so excited to enjoy fresh fruit for breakfast. And the fact that some were in the shape of a flower made it even more fun! So here's that yummy fun....

Meika looks awesome with her I just woke up face!

And Sienna with her I have been up for three hours and dressed for most of that time face!

Then the girls and I headed to this AWESOME park to meet Meika's preschool friends for some play time... This park is seriously so cool! The kids exchanged Valentines and had a really great time!



After having a good time at the park we picked up some lunch from this little Italian deli by our house and took it to Seth's work so we could spend a little time with him on Valentines day. It was really nice to eat lunch with Daddy... Meika and Sienna are always so excited when ever they get to play with him.
Seth gave Meika this rose, which she was SOOOO excited about and when we got home I noticed that she had cut the stem off and put the rose in a cup of water and placed it on her dresser. I thought that was the cutest thing ever! She really LOVES him.


Sorry this post is getting so long... but all the real fun happened on saturday when we ran errands with Sethie... the girls helped him wash the cars... we all took a nap, and then we had a babysitter come and watch the girls while we headed out to do some shopping (Seth for valentines gave me money for shopping and promised to come with me and while with me to be Happy about shopping) and then we went and saw Jumper which was pretty good. We really had a blast this weekend... I am so grateful for Seth and all the time and hard work he is putting into his schooling and work. I know it is just as hard for him to be away from his girls as it is for us not seeing him that much. But we sure do love him!
Thanks Sethie!

My Recent Dates

So I have been on a few dates in the past few weeks.... and none of them with my husband! The first one was with Meika and Sienna, we ate dinner and then went to a late movie at the Sunset Station Theater. We saw Alvin and the Chipmunks which was pretty cute!
My second date was with Meika and my friend and her daughter (Laura & Hayden)... We went and saw Enchanted for the second time and LOVED IT! That movie is the cutest...
The third date was with Meika and another friend and her daughter (Leesha & Jaylee) for this date we went and saw the high school preforming Beauty & The Beast, which was so good! Meika got a little antsy but the kids in the musical did an awesome job and the girl who played Belle was in our old ward so that was fun to see her performing.
So I am hoping to get a date with my busy husband sometime soon, but in the meantime the girls and I are trying to enjoy ourselves!

Here is my attempt to take a picture of all of us

Second attempt

Meika & Me

Fuzzy Picture of the cast

Belle, Meika & me. We were all a little tired because the play didn't get over till ten or so.

A cool thing that will be up soon

My brother Brian is getting ready to start his online Nutrition and Fitness website. In about one or two weeks he will have up his FREE exercise video page.

This page will show videos of over 200 exercises, including:

- Weight lifting exercises

- Yoga exercises

- Pilates exercises

- Resistance band exercises

- Plyometrics

- BOSU exercises

- Disc pillow exercises

- Stability ball exercises

- Medicine ball exercises

- Thera band stretches and exercises

- Flexibility exercises (static stretching)

- Flexibility exercises (dynamic stretching)

You will be able to view and download all of the exercises to a DVD or to your ipod for FREE! (So next time you are at the gym and don't know what to do you can watch the short videos to assist you)

Check it out at www.freeexercisevideos.net or www.NutritionFirstFitness.com

Here is a sample video of an exercise that is a great glute (butt) exercise.

Super Bowl Sunday!

This is Seth and Meika so excited for the game to start and to start eating all the yummy food!Here is Meika eying all the snacks!
Sienna is bored and the game has not even started yet! Oh and by the way she got her ears pierce on friday and didn't even cry! I was so proud of her! Her favorite things lately are apples, so I gave her one before she had it done and after they did it she looked at them really confused and then kept eating her apple. So now she is wearing cute pink earings!
So by half time nobody was watching the game the girls had taken a bath and were now playing barbies.... oh and Sienna was telling me in her own language that Meika wouldn't give her the baby. The only thing I could really understand were "Mommie............blah...blah..... bebe" She has really been talking a lot lately!
Seth was in "His Office" Studying...
And I was busy making bows for my new blog that I started. Which if you have not seen yet it is Pink Little Ladies.
So all together we had a fun day with lots of junk food!

I love to see the temple!

I just wanted to take a second and say how much I love the temples! The las Vegas temple is not necessarily my "favorite" temple, but it it still a wonderful site! This was kinda of a random post, but I was able to go to the temple yesterday and just felt so blessed to have a temple so close... I had not been to this temple before because we are kinda of slackers and don't make it to the temple as often as we should, but I made that one of my goals for this year to go to the temple each month... so luckily I made in January (Barely)! I really have missed out on the blessings that come from attending the temple... Anyways sorry to bore you, I just wanted to share my excitement for the Las Vegas Temple! Oh and I am so glad that there are so many people willing to serve in the temple.. those old people really are sweet!

We Moved!

We are so glad to have MOVED! We had been hoping to move at the end of February but a couple weeks a go our neighbor told me that they had seen a man peeking in the girls window late that night and I seriously couldn't take it anymore so we headed to a hotel that night (Thanks to Molly) and didn't go back to the apartment till that weekend when Seth could be home and we packed the apartment up and moved out that Monday. We are really grateful for all those people who helped us in the moving process from watching our girls to letting us come over while Seth was not home to physically moving us. Thank you so MUCH!
We moved on Monday evening (some friends from our old ward actually did most the work while Seth was still at work-Thanks Guys!) And one of the first things Meika did when she got here was found her little tricycle and rode around the whole house... she didn't even know how to ride it before that night.
I had most of the home unpacked until yesterday Seth was home all day and brought all the remaing boxes in from the garage so he could park in there and so now I am back to square one.... lots of junk to go through! I told Seth just to throw the rest of the stuff away we didn't really need it... but he didn't go for it.
We went to the last hour of our new ward today (we thought it was at 1 but was actually at 11) and Meika loved it, she walked right into class and she said she had so much fun! It looks like there are a lot of young families in our ward which will be fun, but when I was sitting in relief society I was thinking how much I will miss our old ward. We really did love that ward! It was full of great people, so we hope to stay in touch with some of them!
I better go make dinner before the girls wake up from their nap... which by the way Meika put herslef down for a nap. Go Meika!
Okay see ya Later!
I will post a picture of our new home sometime! Sorry

Plans to Move

We are so excited that we have found a home to rent a in a really nice area and are scheduled to move in on Jan 18th! We have been living in a tiny two bedroom apartment for the last year and a half and have been totally smashed! Seth & I can hardly wait to move, even though we both hate the packing and unpacking it will so be so worth it! We hope that everyone is well!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY SETH!!

I wanted to wish Seth a Happy 28th Birthday! He has been so busy with school and work lately that that it was fun to see him have a day where he was able to relax and do whatever he wanted. The girls and I took him Cafe Rio for lunch on Thursday and surprised him with some Hello Kitty cupcakes that Meika picked out. He was really embarrassed because he didn't want anyone at work to know it was his birthday. But it was really fun to surprise him and work. Then Saturday we had a babysitter come watch the girls while we went to Dinner and a movie. That is Seth's favorite thing to do... DINNER AND A MOVIE!! It was nice to get out with out the girls! W e didn't really do anything today for his birthday... but I think he had a great Birthday weekend!
Anyways this is a picture of Seth with the Gifts we gave him... New Jeans, A family picture for his desk at work, a new tie, and some new pencils for school... His favorite gift was the family picture! (we had them taken last month and has been asking me everyday since then when I would get him a picture for his desk)My Grandma Ollech sent me some of her old wigs and this is Seth with one of them on... he was pretending he had some hair! Sienna was so scared, she wouldn't even go by him.

We love Sethie so much and really appreciate all the hard work he is doing at school and at work. He is a great Father and an awesome husband! We love ya!