First Year of Marriage

I know that my gift to my Husband isnt flashy and It didnt cost me any money.  
But here it is:

Open When you want to look forward to the future
Open when you need to remember how much I love you
Open when  you need to smile at a memory
Open when you need to remember why I love you
Open when you Miss me
Open when your faced with something difficult
Open when your a Grump Butt
Open when you forget and need to be reminded dont change
Open when things just arent going your way
Open when you cant sleep
Open when you need to hear the words: I love you
Open before bed

I wrote 12 letters to my husband one for each month until we celebrate our next Anniversary.  Now I did get the idea from someone off pinterest.  I only used some of her open when statements but most of them are my open me thoughts.  Plus whats inside are all my words to him.

My lovely gift from him is soo beautiful I love my new flowers!

I am so grateful for my loving Husband.  I have no idea what i'd do without him in my life, he takes care of me in so many ways and puts my needs first and I know how important I am to him.  I love the day we decided to be married on.  This day 3 years ago was the first time I saw him in years and now this day for the rest of our lives will always be spent with family.  I love my Prince Charming!

Rolling over babies!

I can officially say we have twins that roll over to there bellies!!  So proud and happy my girls have reached a milestone!

So here we are another holiday has creeped upon us.  And with that we tend to get to busy to blog or post status updates.  Lets see.  I picked up Ryu from school Friday, his teachers last day of school.  I worry who his new teacher will be for the rest of the year.  I am beyond upset that his teacher started out the year only to retire half way through.  So hopefully I will stay on top of doing a little worksheets of math and doing some reading while we are on Christmas break.  Here is my sweet Clara girl while we wait to get Ryu.

I also decided to try out making a fancy bow out of wrapping paper and here is the fancy work super easy!!  Its on a Apple Pie I made for my FIL dad.

The things they say...the things they do

I am trying to keep up with some of the cutest things my kids say to write in my blog at some point.  A couple weeks back Ryu and I were talking about some of the kids in his class.  I was then informed he had already had a girlfriend but they broke up.  She broke up with him because she would rather be friends.  And the way he told me was with a carefree attitude like thats ok because there is another girl I like haha.

Hailey told me today while I was doing laundry that Diesel doesnt know yet but there is a Santa and Diesel needs to learn so that he starts to be good before Santa gets here. --Hmmm I wonder if I need to get him a stocking from Santa now..

Clara  I am pretty sure we have a child that will love taking some type of dance class.  Anytime she hears music-tv, radio, even from our cell phones she starts to dance!

My twins.  Well lets see I now can tell you that since E claims Gemma to be my girl I have tried harder to give her attention.  Guess who started to be a cry baby...Skyler.  Ok well that may have been my fault.  Have you ever tried everything you could think of to calm your crying baby and feel like are a terrible mother because you cant seem to know why they are crying..well thats when you sit down and think of what it could be.  I think not wet diaper I dont think she is teething or sick and its only been 2 hours since she ate and they go 4...well DUH mama she is still hungry its time to up her formula by an ounce.  So now Skyler is back to being happy and now Gemma is less of a cry baby bc mama is giving her attention.  Skyler is happy to hear my voice.  Skyler is now an expert at grabbing things.  She grabs at whatever she see's, she holds on to my hands and holds tightly on to her bottle (she isnt coordinated enough to hold the bottle yet)  Gemma grabs at things too but she isnt as interested as Skyler.

Things to come

This coming week is the last week of school before the winter holidays!  I need to gear up and be ready for no school for my lil guy for 2 weeks!  I need to stay on top of doing some type of school work for the big kiddos.

This last weekend the Hubs went on a camping trip.  I wished I could have gone!  But we have 5 kids and the twins are just to much work to do with asking someone to watch the kiddos just for me to go too.  But I wanted to go.  I am a camp type gal.  I loved doing girls camp with the church.  That is one of my favorite memories growing up. But I know that we will have some camping trips to go on and I think Hailey and Ryu are at a good age to take them so it wouldnt be so hard on someone to keep 3 kiddos!  Something to think and plan on in the future. 

Something to think about.  I look forward to the start of the new and some goals to set for the year.  I shall write a blog on the first of the year of all my goals =)

So I have a lot of things that happen around this time of the year.  Well Christmas, Wedding Anniversary and then Hailey's Birthday!  So Christmas is done I have nothing left that needs to be done or worry about.  90% of the gifts are wrapped.  Just waiting on a few minor things that should be done today or tomorrow.  Then there is my first year Anniversary!  What to do what to do.  I havent thought about it and I need to start.  I LOVE PINTEREST.  Such an awesome site to help come up with crafts and ideas.  So I am lame and didnt really know about the first year gift is something paper.  So now I have something to work with!  I searched some more and found something else on pinterest that I am soo gonna do!  Now the idea is all from this girls blog on pinterest but whats gonna be inside will be all me!  I cant wait to start working on it.  Of course gals and guys I will definitely post the final product once I give them to him =)

Then there will be Hailey's 5th Birthday!  I cant believe she is going to be 5!  I cant wait to celebrate with everyone her birthday!  I need to start planning that after I finish up the Anniversary gift.  That way people can start planning to attend her party!

Just another day

Either I am getting old...or I have dryer skin here in Florida.  My mom told me to get some night of Olay.  I remember her using this when I was a little girl.  I loved the smell of it and always wanted to use it! Is it weird that im excited to start using this because I remember the smell growing up.

Here is a picture of my sweet lil guy during our nightly reads. Tonight he gets the privilege of reading a story off my kindle!

Yesterday we started to work on our craft skills for Ethan's families gifts.  Uh yeah I tried and its one of those you desperately want to do it but realize you just have no skill.  So yes this one is 99% Ethan making.  He is superior on this, but hey it was my idea and I did help paint the backing..lol will post pictures after it has been given!  But I am soo happy we started on it I love that Ethan and I do things together like this.

I forgot to mention in my last post about the twins!  They are sleeping through the night!  Well this is what I consider through the night.  Last feeding is at 10pm and the next is 6am.  I do have to get up a time or two to put a passy in there mouth or cover them.  But we have being sleeping through the night for a little over a week.  I swear I didnt think the girls would sleep through the night until much later since its difficult to entertain two at once.  Now to work on more tummy time.  I have been lacking on doing that with the "reflux" issue and time gets away from me so Im making a goal to try to do more.  I find it funny that when they were born I just automatically got closer to Skyler. The first time I saw her after having her (this was in NICU) when I spoke she opened her eyes and looked at me.  When I went to Gemma and spoke to her she cried.  But I guess that could have been a cry of love your finally here..lol  But I just couldnt help feel more from Skyler because of her responses.  The minute E looks and talks to Gemma she stops being quiet.  He has been able to get her to eat better and faster then I.  So I told E Gemma is his girl and Skyler is mine.  Boy has that changed.  Skyler looks so much more like Clara and so far seems to have a personality like Clara the happy smiles.  E now claims Skyler, why bc Gemma is our cry baby so she is now mine haha.  Aside from our cry baby I couldnt be happier to have a partner that loves our children. 

So far this month

One of the great things about having a tree is the twins love the lights!  Dad and I have decided that Skyler is going to be a lot like Clara.  Not just in looks but personality wise.  She is a happy baby.  My poor Gemma is a cry baby though.  Its harder to get a smile out of her.  Which my mom says I was just that as a baby.  But as of the last few days both girls are teething!  Can we say double YIKES!  The first tooth to pop are always the hardest on my babies.  I know it will be a few months before they get them.  But we are having a temp, diaper rash, and eating fist right now.

Some days more then others my sweet Clara is so loving.  She just wants to cuddle and be loved on.  I am grateful she is starting to listen and understand "No" when she gets into things that she shouldnt be. 

Well I decided this year that the big kids can get presents for each other.  This morning we took Hailey and she kept getting upset she couldnt buy herself something.  She just doesnt want to wait for Christmas.

I love Christmas time and I am just as excited for the rest of the gifts to come in the mail and I am like Hailey I want the kids to open them NOW!  But I also love the excitement for the kids to wake up Christmas morning to see what Santa and the Elves brought them. 

I love the Christmas traditions some new and old that we have started.  My mom, she would tell us to leave our shoes out for the Elves to leave chocolate golden coins.  With Ethan's family they have the pickle ordainment.  Then there is reading Christmas books Christmas Eve and going to look at the lights while drinking hot chocolate.  

Plus this year we are in a different house, a different state, and we will spend it with Ethan's family instead of mine.  (We hope that next year we will be spending it in Texas!)

December-Tis the season!

Tis the season!  So I have and try to resist the decorating and bringing the tree out until December 1st.  So we have our tree out.  However no decor on it yet.  I decided with Clara in a curious stage and the love to sticking things in her mouth that we would wait until about a week until Christmas to put up the decorations.  The hubs spent some time outside with our lovely decorations made by my brother in law.  We need to get more lights for him to hang on the house but its more then I have ever had on my own place.  The hubs repainted the fire place so its now time to get the kiddos stockings put out.  I still need to order Clara and the twin's stockings so they can be hung too.  We have a few cold days but none that I need my big puffy jacket scarf or gloves.  Some days are good enough to want some hot chocolate.  I cant wait until its the week of Christmas and getting to see the Christmas lights out and reading Christmas stories and snuggling up watching Christmas movies!  I love Christmas time.  I just hope that it turns out to feeling like the holidays since we are far from my family.