Career Day

Today was Career Day at Shelby's school.  The kids were supposed to dress as what they want to be when they grow up.  Shelby has a long list of things she wants to be: rock star, soccer player, teacher, mommy, etc., but she decided she wanted to dress as a rock star for school.  So, she channeled a little T-Swift and this is what we came up with:

 

You can't tell in the picture, but the shoes have the tiniest wedge heel.  Shelby looooves them and thinks she is so grown up wearing them.  I asked her how Career Day was and who came to speak to their class.  She told me a Vegetarian came.  I said, "Vegetarian?  That's not really a career.  What did they say they did?", to which Shelby replied, "They work with sick animals."

Happy, Happy, Happy

Despite the fact that she woke up every two hours last night (I think because she's teething), this little one was pretty happy today.  I just had to get a few (hundred) pictures.

Notice the fingers.  They are pretty much always in her mouth.

 

Hello, Goodbye

The past few weeks have been sooo busy!  Phil and Julie came into town last week and it was so good to see them.  We went to Taste of Addison last Saturday night with them.  It was the first time we've gone since we moved here, and it was great.  We will go back next year for sure.  The rest of the time they were here kind of stunk because Shelby got sick with a fever of 103 for 5 days, and Lucy had 5 vaccinations and had a fever for 2 days.  But it was great to see them and we can't wait til we can get together again.  (Not sure why these pictures are all weird and stretched- they are all from my phone.)

I ended up taking Shelby to the ER on Thursday (Jeremy was out of town, so I had all three girls with me) because she started complaining that her lower right abdomen was hurting.  Of course, with something like that you don't really want to mess around, so I had to take her in.  They couldn't explain the fever, but did do an ultrasound and told us that basically she needed to use the bathroom.  Awesome.  So glad we paid for a trip to the ER for that news.

Friday night we went to a welcome home party for a guy in our ward that had just returned from Afghanistan.  There was a great turnout and I hope Mike saw how much we all appreciate his service.

Then on Saturday morning I was able to attend the temple with two great YW from our ward.  They are sisters and are both serving missions- one in Alaska and one in Brazil.  It was so neat to be able to go to the temple with them at the same time.  Again, we had great ward representation and I hope these girls know how much we love and support them!  That night I went to Briana's farewell (she leaves first).  The girls' younger sister is our go-to babysitter, so she and I schemed and surprised Briana with a cake.  It was so fun spending some one-on-one time with Kendal and it to see how excited she was to share it with Briana. 

Today was another fun day.  We spent almost all day at the beach (not the beach beach, just at the lake) with a bunch of friends from church.  The girls had so much fun swimming, building sand castles, and digging holes.  Oh, and in case anyone is wondering, it IS possible to get sunburned even if you are sitting under a canopy and it is cloudy outside.  Yeah, I feel like a TERRIBLE mother.  Of course we put sunscreen on Shelby and Joey, but I didn't bother with Lucy because I was holding her under the canopy all day.  Right before we left I noticed her arm was pink and I asked Jeremy if he thought it was sunburned or if it was just from the way she'd been laying on me.  By the time we got home the sunburn had sunk in and her cute, chubby cheeks and arms are now pink.  Luckily it isn't bad, but I still feel bad. 



Whole Lotta...

When taking pictures today I realized I had a ton I needed to upload and post about. 

1) Juicy Lucy is 4 months old!

We love this little girl so much.  She is mostly happy (unless I wait too long to feed her or someone else tries to hold her, haha!).  She is reaching for toys and constantly has something in her mouth- toys, clothes, her fingers, etc.  She is soooo drooly.  She soaks her clothes as well as those of anyone who holds her.  She is rolling over front to back.  She sleeps pretty well at night.  She usually goes down around 9 and then might wake up around 3 or 4 to eat, and then will sleep again til around 8.  Most nights she might wake up but if I lay her next to me she will go right back to sleep without nursing.  She still isn't sleeping in her room, but that's mostly out of laziness on my part.  Whatever.  Sometimes you just do what you've got to do.  The girls are still constantly in her face, but Lucy mostly loves it.  It comes in handy when I am trying to finish cooking dinner and need someone to distract her. 

2) Ward Campout

It usually takes me a while to really love the ward we're in.  Mostly because I am not one to go out and introduce myself to people so it takes me a while to really find my place.  But now that we have been here for four years I love, love, love our ward.  This weekend we had a ward campout and had a great time.  There was a lot going on this weekend with building cleanings, Eagle Scout projects, etc., so not everyone came, but despite all that there was still a great turnout.  The girls had so much fun running around and having dirt fights with all the kids.  I had a great time sitting around playing cards with some ladies (and YW).  Everyone kept asking if I was planning on staying the night with Lucy.  I was planning on it.  I figured if I needed to leave with her we were only 5 minutes from home so I wasn't too worried about it.  Well wouldn't you know that it wasn't even Lucy that woke up crying?  Joey woke up at 2:30 am and after many failed attempts to get her to stop I finally brought her home at 3 am.  Again, not a big deal since we were so close to home, but I was so surprised because she never wakes up at night and she has slept in a tent before and done well.  Oh well.  Still a great time and we can't wait for the next one.

"He kinda had rapey eyes.  Is that a thing?"  Haha!

This picture makes me shudder.  She is COVERED in dirt and chocolate.

Emma and Lucy

Joey and Nicholas.  She's a cougar.

Permanent bags under my eyes

 

 

 

3)  Mother's Day

I had a fabulous Mother's Day today.  Shelby woke up early on her own and made me toast and a card.  Church was great and then I got to come home and take a much needed nap.  Then Jeremy cooked a great dinner- steaks, loaded potato casserole, salad, and corn on the cob, with cake for dessert.  It was all so good!  They gave me flowers and chocolates and cards (oh my!), and then we topped off the night with a good ol' dance party.  It was really great.  I am so lucky to be the mother of three smart, beautiful, funny girls, and lucky to have a wonderful husband to parent with.

Oh yeah- I finally got a haircut yesterday and the lady totally botched my side bangs.  You can see how choppy it is here.  Whatever, they'll grow out.  But annoying when you pay $$$ for a haircut and it gets botched!

 

Apparently this is his new favorite face for pictures.

 

Shenanigans

Last night we bathed the girls, put them to bed, and then Jeremy left to go play basketball at the church.  Shortly after he left, Joey came downstairs needing to go to the bathroom.  So I took her to the bathroom and sent her upstairs.  Normally the girls are VERY good about bedtime.  We read to them, tuck them in, say prayers, close the door, and then they go right to sleep.  Well, about 2 hours after Joey had gone to the bathroom and I sent her back up I heard a door close upstairs.  I just thought Joey must not have closed their door all the way and when the air came on it pulled it closed.  But then I heard it again, and then again.  So then I thought Joey must have woken up again.  So I went to the stairs, and sure enough, there she was.  I picked her up to carry her back to bed, but then I realized I heard talking, and it was getting louder as I got closer to their room.  I opened the door and what did I find?  Shelby watching cartoons on the iPad!!!  Joey had stolen it on her way back from the bathroom and they had been watching it for 2 hours!  Little hooligans!! 

I couldn't help but laugh as I thought about all the things my sisters and I would do at bedtime when we were their age.  Tag, Hide and Go Seek (I fell off the top bunk once, requiring stitches in my head), playing future husbands (I always chose either Mel Gibson or Patrick Swayze).  One time my dad told us we "better not get out of bed ONE MORE TIME", so my sister asked what we were supposed to do if we had to go to the bathroom and he sarcastically replied to use the garbage can.  So that's what she did.