Life

So I had this whole plan of doing "a day in the life of me" but I only got through a morning. Yikes! But my day is basically my morning repeated, with a few variations. We get  messes and things broken:


 

 We get upset children and tears bigger than life:

We do have a few calm moments and after Charlotte goes down for a nap, and we do "school":

We have a lot of frustrations and "poke my eyeballs out" moments, okay, maybe not poke my eyeballs out, but that's what came to mind when I saw this. She was majorly frustrated!

And yes, some days we do stay in our pajamas all day. I'll admit, I was one of those young gals that thought, "my kids will never be one of those dirty, messy hair, food on their face, pajama wearing kids", but I realize now, I was so unaware of my life to come. 

Yes, I know there are people who have the perfect children with bows in their girls hair and their boys faux hawk going on and super cute clothes and what not, but one thing I do have an am so grateful for is exactly what Charlotte's pajama's from the day before say: HAPPY kids! Love them! Messes, drama and all.

** In all fairness to Charlotte, I did have Bella stick her finger in her nose for effect. I know... but I had to set the picture up for effect. :)

Here's a video from the above frustration. Makes me laugh.

February- part 1

February is the worst month of the year in my opinion. Nothing to look forward too, fat gained from the hoildays that still needs to be lost, cold dreary weather, just blah! But this February hasn't been too bad. It started off great with my trip to Charleston that Brian gave me for Christmas. I'd be tracking the weather hoping for a good few sunny days and I was blessed with 3! It was such a fun trip too. Grandma and I had fun relaxing, eating out, doing the usual beach, market, California Dreamin', Bessingers outings and then just relaxing at night. Each morning I woke up and went for a walk. It was so nice to wake up when I wanted, throw on my shoes and walk out the door without bundling up 5 kids or looking for shoes or grabbing a diaper bag and food or any of that. Just really walking out the door and walking. It was sunny and calm and just ..... heaven! I love my kids, don't get me wrong, but this was like a break from reality heaven for my dreaming heaven. :)

The 2nd day there I went on a 2 hour walk. 2 hours! And I loved it. I realized how much I really love getting out and going for a walk. I have to do it more. Grandma was, of course, the perfect host and let me just sit and read or took me out to lunch or stayed up late watching a movie, or Romney's campaining trail, as she loves following that. It was great to spend some time with her and great to get a relaxing break from my everyday life. One night Grandma and I snuck out into a park to get this shot. We had flashlights and her pepper spray just in case. It's pretty freaky walking in the dark by a cliff that leads to water, but this shot was worth it!

Here are a few other shots that I took during that weekend. I'm thinking it needs to be a yearly thing! So.Much.Fun!!!

Elizabeth's Bday

So it's been almost a month since Elizabeth's bday and I am just now posting on the blog. There wasn't much that happened that day. It was a pretty normal day since she had school. She did take a treat to school. I tried to get her to take like an airhead for each kid or a ring pop 'cause we had all that at home already (reward system), but she said everyone brought doughnuts for their birthday and she didn't want to be different. I didn't want to spend like $25 on doughnuts so I asked her if she'd be okay with cupcakes. She said that was the second choice of things kids brought and after doing a survey of her classmates, it was approved, and half the cost! So..... cupcakes it was. She was not liking the idea of the attention it would bring taking them into the school, but she got over it and made it into her class with them.


After school we hung out and waited for daddy to get home. We had the missionaries over for dinner and had tacos, which was Elizabeth's request, along with "lime squeezy" as she's always called it. Just a lime drink with ice cream blended together. After that, Grandma, Granchud and Julia came over for cake (she wanted a soccer ice cream cake) and presents and the yearly birthday video.  It's been an adventurous year for this girl. Another new school, new friends and new experiences, but she's handled them all well and is growing up so quickly. Love this girl!