Gracey and the Hulahoop

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Gracey got this hulahoop for Easter and it only took her a few times doing it and she figured it out on her own. Jaren and I couldn't even do it to show her how. And now she has mastered the art.

Easter

The Easter Egg Hunt At Grandma & Grandpa Ramsdell's

Ever since I was a kid they always have had a Easter egg hunt for all the Grandkids at grandma and Grandpa's house. Now the hunt is for all the Grandkids' kids. It is always fun to get together and see everybody.

Just a quick note, notice how green the grass is. Montpelier is still a month away from having green grass like this. I always hate going to Logan or anywhere south of here this time of year because it is always green everywhere else but in Montpelier.

Brooklyn and Gracey both got a purse for their prizes. Isn't it funny how when you take pictures in that split second delay from the camera what your kids decide do with their hands.



The tradition that I have always had when I was little, was that the Easter bunny would hide our baskets and then we would have to go find them. So of course we have to carry on the tradition with my kids.

Brooklyn's was hid in the front coat closet and Gracey's was hidden in the dryer. They looked for them for a minute then mom had to help.

Brooklyn's Easter

Gracey's Easter

Coloring Easter Eggs

Brooklyn adding her personal touch to her easter eggs.

The Final Product (have a few stickers)

When we colored eggs this year we tried an experiment. We used food coloring instead of using those tablets you buy at the store. And also the eggs we were using were brown. Well the top eggs are eggs we colored with food coloring and the ones on the bottom are the eggs Gracey colored at school with the tablets. I think the tablets work better, we had to use a half a bottle of food coloring to get the eggs to color with that. And the color still didn't turn out very true to the color and I don't know if the brown eggs had anything to do with it, they didn't with the ones she colored at school. So probably next year we will buy the kind at the store.

What Cute Kids!!!

Update!

Our life is pretty boring, we do the same old thing everyday. But there are a few things. I finally went to the Doc on Monday, everything is good. I am 14 weeks and he gave me a due date of October 5, so I was a couple weeks off. But hopefully we still will be able to find out what we are having next month. But I sure do hate those first visits, I don't know whats worse the first or the end of the pregnancy. I am not a big fan of PAP tests. It was funny because Gracey wanted to go to the doctor with me and I kept telling her no she couldn't this time but maybe next. She wasn't quite understanding why, but I wasn't about to tell her so she asked me if I was going to go have the baby. Then she preceded to tell me that the feelings inside her were excited for the baby to come. She is so funny.

A week or so ago they had a health fair in town at the hospital. Jaren's parents went and later called us to ask us if we wanted our well water tested. Jaren almost told her no, just because we weren't worried about it. But he told her to go ahead and have it tested. All I can say is it's a good thing. Our water tested really high in nitrate. Which is not good, especially for little kids and pregnant women. I guess what it does, it kills off the red blood cells that carry oxygen to the lungs. That is what the water people told us, she also said that it could cause birth defects. So we thought that that is why Brooklyn's ear is not formed completely. So when I went to the doctor on Monday I asked him and he said that nitrates could cause brain damage. So now we are buying water to cook and drink with. They said it is ok to take a bath in. They came out today to do more tests to see exactly where it is coming from, we should know in a week what the results are. They tested the neighbors water and they are fine so it looks like something in our well. Which is weird because our well is only a few years old and it goes down 135 feet. So we don't know what the heck to think. So a word of the wise have your water checked.

I'm a FOOL!!!!

I feel like the biggest retard in the country. I was April fooled. If you read the first page of the newspaper today, April 1st, it says that the county of Bear Lake went bankrupt. So we, as in Jaren and I read the article and were really bothered by the whole thing. It said a whole bunch of things you'll have to go read it, but one of the things it said was that a county employee was upset because she didn't know what to do about her $750,000.00 mortgage, child support and even her cruise to the carribean. I thought who cares about that. It also said that if you needed to register your vehicle you needed to go to Soda Springs to do so. I was so bothered by the end of the article, it was believable to me with the whole economy. So because I was so bothered I told a few people about it. I told my mom about it and she was worried because the county owes us money for work we did on a truck for them and she thought that we need to go put a lein on the bankruptcy so we could get our money. So Jaren called Greg Skinner, because he is the one over the fixing vehicles for the county and asked him if it was true what we read in the paper and if we were going to get paid for the job we did and he told him that it was true, but he said that they were fine and that we would get paid. He also made a little comment about that it was April 1st,but Jaren didn't think anything of it, why would someone joke about this. I had to take vinyl to Hayden today and I told her about and then after I went to the school for Gracey's screening for Kindergarten and Mrs. Kamack came out and started talking to me and asking what Jaren was doing. And then I asked her if she read the paper yet and I told her what it said not thinking anything about it. Then when I got home Hayden called me and told me the whole thing was a joke. I couldn't believe it. In the paper on the right side of the continued part it said it was all a hoax. I thought it was a total different article because it wasn't right under it like it should be. Well they sure made a fool out of me.

We Are Pregnant!!!

We have actually known for a while and I was going to tell everyone when I finally went to the Doctor and made it official, but I finally called the Doctor today and they can't get me in for another month. So I decided I couldn't wait that long to post it. I asked a friend on how to figure the due date because she said her date was right when she went to the Doctor, so that's what we are going with September 22. We really didn't plan to have a baby this time of year because with Gracey I was pregnant through the whole summer and I HATED it. I swelled up like a balloon. But I guess whatever the Lord has instore is OK. And it was getting to where Brooklyn and this baby would be almost 3 years apart, not that that is a bad thing I just want them closer. So, I only get sick when I get hungry, so I just need to eat before I get sick. I really haven't had any cravings, just roast. I hate lasagna and spagetti now. And another thing I used to love Diet Dr. Pepper and after I found out i was pregnant pop was too sweet so I have quite drinking pop. I do drink some pop when we go out to restaurants if they don't have any good lemomade so I'll have root beer, it doesn't seem as sweet. So that's good pop was always my downfall. Gracey and Brooklyn are excited, they want a brother, we will see how that goes(huh Cassie?) I figure I am 12 weeks this week. So when I finally get to the doctor I will be 16 weeks. So then that means the next appointment after that I will have my ultrasound and then find out what it is. So I guess having the appointment later makes the time go by faster. We are very excited, crazy to think about having 3 kids and being a family of 5. But I am sure we will get past it, everyone else has.

All About Gracey

This post is all about Gracey! For preschool they do a star student every 2 weeks and this week was Gracey's turn. They sent home a couple of papers asking about her and asking for a few photos of her with friends and family. And posting about this is really good for me to help me remember some of the things she liked when she was 4 years old. So here are the questions and the answers that she gave me.

Favorite game to play: Dora video game

Favorite song: Honey, Honey (off of Mamma Mia)

Favorite TV show: Sid the Science Kid

Favorite Sport: Dancing! (I really need to put her in dancing)

Favorite Food: Crepes

I think I was named Gracey because it is my favorite and I love it.

I am in Snuggle Bunny Academy and my teachers are Miss Joey and Miss Laurie.

When I first started preschool, I felt really happy because I loved it.

Now I think preschool is fun because they have toys and I met new friends.

If I could have anything it would be a doll, a barbie and a new toothbrush(these are the things she told me and she has all three of them, a very simple kid, but Idon't think she quite understood the question)

The best day I remember was on Easter, when I got to go find my Easter bucket. It had new clothes and butterfly flip flops in it.

My favorite color is pink and purple.

My best friend is Kalisha and Whitney

My favorite animal is the giraffe that I sleep with.

When I grow up I want to be a fairy. (here again I don't think she understood the question, but that makes it all that more funny)

I want to always tell my mom and dad that I love them with all my heart. (she is our very loving child)

Finally Potty Trained!!

This is such a good thing to have done!! We have been potty training for about a month and a half now. I really thought she would be easier than Gracey. I was hoping that her seeing Gracey go would make her want to go, but it didn't quite work out that way. But she is doing really well. She won't quite go on her own yet, but she will tell us when she needs to go. I don't know if she could go on her own yet because even with a stool she can't quite pull herself up on the toilet yet, a little too short still. But I think for only being 2 years and 3 mos she is doing great! So now we can relax and enjoy our "sandwich"(notice the sandwich she's eating).

Tag!

~My 8 favorite TV shows:
1. Bachelor
2. American Idol
3. Grey's Anatomy
4. Private Practice
5. Dancing with Stars
6. Good Things Utah
7. That's about all the
8. T.V I watch except for cartoons


~8 things I did yesterday:
1. Woke up at 7a.m(very early for me)
2. Played with Jaren(just had to make you laugh)
3. Picked Gracey up from school
4. Went to the bank to set up our business checking, finally!
5. Laundry
6. Cleaned bathrooms(something that needed to be done for awhile)
7. Watched Bee Movie about 10 times
8. TAXES! I hate taxes


~8 things I am looking forward to:
1. SPRING!!!!
2. Brooklyn going to the bathroom on her own
3. Any spare time with Jaren (ALONE!)
4. To have a boy someday
5. Tax Return!!
6. A Successful Business!!
7. Pretty much I look forward
8. to anything GOOD in our lives!


~8 of my favorite restaurant's:
1. Texas Roadhouse
2. Chilis
3. Sizzler
4. Formosa Chinese Restaurant
5. Old Grist Mill
6. Fredrico's Pizza
7. Arctic Circle (Gracey's Favorite)
8. Any place that serves breakfast (Brooklyn's favorite)


~8 things on my wish list:
1. To be a better mother
2. Have more patience
3. To go on a really fun vacation with my husband and girls
4. My house paid off
5. Debt free!!!!!!!
6. To have a year's worth of food storage
7. To have the Holy Ghost talk in a loud and normal voice(I guess I am not spirtual enough, so this would help)
8. To be able to read the Book of Mormom with my family all the way through, not just through 1Nephi.


~8 people I am tagging:
1. Tara Rigby
2. Jayme Richards
3. Callie
4. Kamey
5. Kylynne
6. Criston Rigby
7. Mandi Jones
8. And anybody else that needs something new to post like me!

Thanks Cassie for aniciating this, I really needed something new to post. And we really have a lot in common because there were alot of answers I didn't change. Sorry, I am not very original.

Sledding in our backyard

This was our first time sledding this season and probably will be the last. I am not much of a cold wintry person, so because of me my kids don't get out much in the winter. But my mom came over and brought my little sister and my nephew so they could go sledding on a real hill, not just down a flight of backyard steps. Jk mom whatever works huh? But it is sad that it takes my mom coming over from Logan to get us outside sledding in my own backyard. But I guess whatever it takes.

Gracey found the sled that didn't go very fast. She is just like me, likes to stay at her comfort level at all times.

This is my mom going down with Brooklyn, getting her used to going down the hill.

Nice Shades, Girls!!!

Oh Brooklyn! Always falling asleep in the strangest places. We had only been outside for about 45min and she was already falling asleep. Later that day Gracey as well took a nap. So then I started thinking maybe I should take them outside more often so then they will go to sleep better.

Thanks mom for coming over and getting my kids out of the house!