Random facts about today

My head is killing me so I slept in until 10:30 this morning. thankfully my husband realized our kids couldn't take care of themselves and got up to help.

I missed something I was supposed to be to at 9 this morning because I couldn't get up

Ireland is singing at a baptism this afternoon. She has a cough, runny nose, raspy voice, dark circles, keeps yawning. finally got her temp down. Crossing my fingers for her.

We leave for our trip in 33 days!! We made Ireland a countdown chart where she puts stickers on each day so she can see how much time is left. I get equally if not more excited to put stickers on to see how much time we have left.

I am nesting. Bad. But only at night. So I tend to stay up until 3 am steaming, sterilizing, washing, organizing, etc. but during the day I am useless.

Leighton is still asleep. it's 11:24 am. This is not unusual for her (well she WAS up late last night) but normally I put her to bed 7:30-8pm and she will easily sleep in until 9-11am depending if sister wakes her up or not. Then she still sleeps 3-4 hour naps. She is fine when she is awake, very alert, active, talkative. She is just like me and loves her sleep.

Ireland on the other hand barely sleeps at all. Little stinker. I out her down same time as Lei, but Ireland won't fall asleep until as late as 10:30 and is still up between 730- 8:30. WHY?? sleep better kid!!

This was my chance to ramble, not get laundry done, and rest my aching back.

The end

:)

Let's do this! (day 24)

I am so finishing this Blog challenge! I will. I know I will.....I hope I will :)

ok here is the challenge I am referring to in case any one doesn't know. Click here for that.

ok I am on day 24. The challenge: A photo of something that means a lot to me.

This is my unborn child. My little Princess. My Ashlyn.

Besides all the obvious reasons why she means a lot to me; I am lucky I get her at all.

You see I have health problems and when I was pregnant with Ireland, I was told because my Ovarian cysts keep rupturing it causes scar tissue and is making all my organs adhere together so I should be lucky to be pregnant with her and if I got ANY more kids I was LUCKY. They kept saying lucky. Well then when Ireland was about 9 months old I had a surgery where they found out I had endometriosis. Treatment: either a hysterectomy, a shot to make me go through menopause, a permanent- non reversible birth control... or try to get pregnant. Well duh!! We were already trying. So after 3 months of trying I was pregnant with Leighton. My dr. was SHOCKED! Endometriosis usually causes infertility PLUS my other before mentioned health issues. Well She was SUPPOSED to be here!!

so then Dan and I wanted to try for #3. I KNEW there was a huge chance I wouldn't get pregnant at all. I KNEW it would be painful. (with endometriosis, as soon as you get pregnant, the pain and symptoms subside. Well for me they don't. At all) I knew IF we got pregnant it could take months of trying. We were aware and prepared for that. Well if you can believe it I got pregnant our very first time trying. Once again the Dr. was shocked. Sounds like God knows something the doctors don't ;)

anyway the point is this is yet again a miracle baby to me. She will probably be our last as my body gets worse and worse with each baby. I have more issues now internally then when I started and that breaks my heart but I need to be grateful I have 3 children. Be grateful they are happy, healthy and smart and developing as they should.

night!

no idea for a title :)

Well I am pretty sure I suck at blogging. I failed my challenge, haven't posted about a single thing I said I would. I stopped posting pictures for some reason. So sad. So now I will do a post of pictures to slowly get caught up. yes there are 20 pictures. Yes I will comment on most of them. Yes I have 16,000 pictures in my iphoto that need to be organized and what, not so these pictures are super random. sweet.

My 3 year old is funky, crazy, silly, and photogenic. She knows it. EVERY single time I try to take pictures, she goes off on these poses she invents. Sometimes she just asks me to take pictures of her. Sure... ok. I love to- I just stink at taking pictures and it's even harder when she is always moving! :)

So here is Ireland in action:

this one she said "mom, pretend I am a rock, ok?"

We have plenty of this chick posing herself!

98% of the time Leighton wanders over, stands next to Ireland and says "cheese." Half the time not even smiling. Just standing there. Oh don't mind in this one she has a Mister Potato head ARM in her ear! Notice in this and the next few she has that or a finger in her ear. Yeah ANOTHER infection in BOTH ears. ugh

Tea party! Check out the baby's earrings! We love dress ups, tea parties, dance parties, barbie parties, no clothes parties (they make these up. I swear) etc. We know how to have a good time. my sis threw this tea party for them

My camera memory card died so I only got one shot of Ireland sledding. Her first time ever and I couldn't capture it. She LOVED it! and would stick one arm up and wave to everyone. lol Of course I got none of Leighton sledding. She and I took a giant inflatable... dinosaur or rhino or something down several times and she loved it too!

Looks like sister has some competition!

(don't worry, I totally took those boots off after I saw these pics.)

this is just to show Lei is getting curls like sister! yes!!! Too bad Ireland is losing hers. :( SO bummed!

Bright eyes. Right after her nap. No glasses and she seems naked to me without them. Super adorable though :)

Every. Single. Day we play dress up here. It is a requirement when you have girls!!

lei sleeping on her new bunk bed! She does pretty well. Oh, we also have a safety gate/railing thing up on it now. Ps guess how mad I was on a scale of 1-10 when I saw the wallpaper ripped?? ha ha oh well. the funny thing is... it WASN'T the 1 year old. Know any 3 year olds who might have done that?! stinker.

tough little princess

I just came across a blog of a girl whose little baby girl ended up in primary's with RSV and Bronchiolotis (or is it the same thing??) anyway her story had me bawling. I felt so bad. The memories flooded over me. The story was almost IDENTICAL to ours for when we had our little Leighton there with the exact same thing when she was 10 months old. I kept most the details out but kept family updated through facebook as best as I could. I did a brief repeat on here and would like to tell the whole story again and have it saved here. I want to not remember the sad parts but see how tough our little monster was and is. What a fighter, a champ! She struggled but kept fighting and I want her to one day look back and read it and know how proud of her we were. I will go look through my pictures and old fb posts to get details and do this post soon. It is important to me and it helps open my eyes how precious and amazing and special these kids are. I believe they are here on borrowed time and in a blink they could be gone. I had moments where I was sure we were going to lose her; so to have her here sound asleep in her big girl bed makes me grateful and appreciate the time I still have with her. I sure love my daughters...... all 3 of them :)

Day 23

Let's play catch up yeah?

here is the challenge: 15 facts about me

Hmmm well seems how I have done the 20 random facts about me TWICE and struggled with those I really doubt I will come up with anything everyone hasn't already heard. I am a pretty open person and talk a lot so if you know all this already... sorry!

1. I am so loud. I HONESTLY have bad hearing and can NOT hear myself. I can't. I have been shooshed at church, quiet events like... um the temple!! (sorry!) family things, etc. I apologize to those who have had to keep me quiet :)

2. I can not be on time to anything for the life of me

3. I am a night owl. I love to stay up way late and enjoy my evenings.

4. open cupboards or open drawers drive me crazy.. even if it's just a tad open

5. Everyone knows this- I have at least one dr. pepper. EVERY SINGLE DAY. I have for years. SOOOOO bad for me. yes I know. yes I have tried to quit- yes I almost died.

6. I can not sing. At all. I am horrible. I sure do have fun singing anyway :)

7. I lost my voice in May 20 months ago... it has never fully returned. I sound sick often. I can not read or talk or sing for so long or I go hoarse and it makes me sore and exhausted trying to get sound out after that

8. I am a book nerd. I could read all stinkin day long if I magically had time. I will read almost anything and I am very fast so I sail right through them all

9. I am painfully shy. If I have to speak or even stand in front of people. I get beyond red, can't speak, I shake I get dizzy, I am forcing the tears not to come, it is so bad I can't sleep the night before if I have to. Yes even if it's just in front of the Primary kids at church. ugh. it's making me sick thinking about it

10. I am odd, random, not even close to funny but still love to laugh and have fun

11. I love to make bows for my girls. That is why I started my business. I have an obsession though. I have one (or 2 or 3 or..) for every outfit. We have so many bows that I need to hang and organize that I can not even count what we have

12. I have an obsession with buying things for my kids. I don't always give in but I am online looking every chance I get.

13. I am the messiest person I know. How I keep some type of organization is beyond me. I can not clean and organize bedrooms for the life of me. But I am a freak about my living room/kitchen. odd

14. I am a fitness/workout junkie. I have every single type of fitness equipment, video, bands, weights, you name it. The problem is I often lack motivation and it just sits there. I think about using them a lot and have a strong desire. It's just the initial... get off my butt and start. Then you can't pull me away once I get going

15. I realize after writing these how WEIRD I may sound

whatever. I am awesome

Proud mommy

Ireland was asked to sing at a baptism later this month! She is excited and I am sure proud of her. She LOVES to sing and STILL asks me each week if she can sing again at Church. She lives for this thing.

She is my beautiful angel :)

oh right

the blog challenge. gulp. I always forget. well I am not even going to do that now. For now I am going to update on my appt today then get housework done.

Saw my ob all looks good. My due date changed a tad so I am 20 weeks now. yay! I have gained 5 lbs total so far and baby looks and sounds wonderful (I had my dr scheduled ultrasound after Christmas and baby looks great. Lil stinker would NOT hold still!! She is a wiggly lil bugger... just like sister Ireland. Sigh. couldn't luck out and get a calm one like Lei? ha ha jk I love BOTH qualities about my girls. The crazy, spunky, outgoing, loud one. Then my SUPER shy, mellow, chill one. I love love love their personalities and love how diff they are I just hope this baby has SOME calm in her :) :)

I need to: update my blog challenge

make a pregnancy blog

do Leightons 18 month post

Do Ireland's long over due one

more pics

more updates

more catching up

more vacation pics

ha ha not now... laundry awaits!

Just rambling

I need to organize my thoughts here... don't mind me.

We have been planning a trip to Hawaii for so long. We were going to try for Oct. Then knowing last summer when we were going to try for baby #3 we decided I would be too sick still from morning sickness and wanted to get through the holidays. So we planned for March 2011. This has been a set plan for a while now. We decided to look into flights today and ended up deciding on a Hawaiian cruise instead! SO fun right?? We picked a cruise line... nothing for the kids to do. Same with every other cruise line. They needed 30 kids onboard to even HAVE activities.... even then Leighton would be left out... you had to be 3 years old for the "fun". The only cruises that had activities for kids was the ones you had to fly to Hawaii FIRST then take the cruise. um..... that's expensive!! PASS

So then we decide.... since this is all about the girls... let's do a DISNEY cruise!! yay!! we got Ireland watching videos of the ships, the characters, the fun! we got so excited. We were going to do Bahamas or Caribbean but decided on the Mexican Riviera. Wait.... you need to book HOW early?? Wait we don't get our tax returns (that's our $$ to go!) until NEXT MONTH. Not to mention the kids need passports??? yikes. I looked online. Kids passports: $105 EACH. oh it can take up to 3 months to arrive? um... I don't have that long. Oh yay we can expedite them... get them here in 2 weeks! no worries only $60 freaking dollars a piece extra do that. So all is sort of ok.... right? Sigh. nope. Disney cruise lines make you give your passport # 75 freaking days BEFORE . We don't even have 70 days until the cruise. The whole point was we wanted to do one big hoorah before I had baby. now what??

What to do that is so fun and so.... not sitting in Salt Lake... for all 4 of us.... including I will be 7+ months pregnant and in March-ish???? anyone? anyone? Eh I am stumped too :(

**update: I think I may have figured it out!! yay!! If only Dan didn't work until 1 AM I could run my ideas by him. ahhhh so excited. man I am brilliant.