Catching up some more: moving to az, visiting Oregon, Klesa's 1st bday!

I am the worst at doing blog posts in order. But I get looking through old photos and I can't "skip" good memories. So when we moved to Gilbert, AZ there was a blizzard in Rexburg, ID. We loaded the truck in snow and ice....when we got to az we were burning up! It was exciting to start our new adventure and Kev and I had been apart for so long. He had to go to az for 3 months of training but it was in Tucson which was 2 hrs away from where we would be permanently living. We were excited to have our family back together and enjoy some sun.

One perk of Kev being in training is he got a sweet rental car for training! He had Karter loved to go for a cruise. 

We went to Oregon to see my lil sister sell her cow at the Oregon State Fair. The kids loved the fair and all the animals. Kate did a great job and Wilma (her cow) was sold to a farm in Oregon for the highest price per lbs at the fair,a big deal! We also enjoyed picking blackberries and hanging out with Grandma, Grandpa, Uncle "taywer" and Aunt "cole"

Klesa turned one! Wow that feels so long ago! She loved her cake, I made it and was obsessed with getting the ruffles just right. I needed a princess cake for my sweet girl. She is super girly, all smiles and has the best attitude. She is always happy and puts up with her brother's teasing really well. She is pretty tough and loves to follow Karter around. I love that she lets me gets things done because she is ok being on her own,  I often find her reading her books by herself. For her actual bday we went to the mall and rode the train and the carousal  we also went to chuckee cheese after. On Sunday we had a party at our house with all our new az friends, Life wouldn't be the same without the sweetness she brings into our home. Love you keesie baby!

Halloween

Halloween was really fun this last year because Karter really got into the Halloween spirit and is still asking when we do "spooky" pumpkins again. For pumpkins we didn't carve, I couldn't handle the mess with 2 toddlers. We painted them with black paint and the kids loved it. Our ward party was super fun, it was outside (love az!) with dancing and a fun trunk or treat. Karter refused to wear any of his costumes....I say any because he had three options. A mater costume, a lightning mqueen costume and a spiderman costume! I don't know what his deal was but he wasn't having it. Klesa looked way cute in her tinkerbell costume and her dad was a trooper and dressed as Peter Pan. Our favorite thing on Halloween was actually handing out candy at the door. Karter would actually call to kids down the street "hey guys I have candy come here!" I kept worrying that someone would not see him and think I was crazy yelling at kids to come get candy lol. He manned the door almost the whole night and was too excited to sleep. Kev and I relieved the kids of some of their candy stash once they went to bed, it was a good Halloween : ) Oh and they day after Halloween and to this day I have to hide his spiderman costume because he wears it everyday!

Forgetting with good reason : )

Ok so I forgot about my blog, but I had good reason. In November I found out I am pregnant with baby number 3! For those who don't know my pregnancies come from where Satan lives. I have a condition called hyperemesis gravidarum, where I barf my guts up all day everyday for 9 months. With Karter and Klesa's pregnancies I ended up in the hospital throwing up blood, because I throw up so much and so hard I break veins in my stomach. So with this baby I have been in the hospital 3 times with ivs and have wanted to lay down and never get up many times. It is hard to explain to other because you don't just throw up, your body aches like you have the flu. I will try to get ready for church or just for the day and end up barfing in the shower and them I'm back in bed. I also get really depressed, because all my effort and energy goes to making a baby and taking care of the kids I do have. So my house suffers, I can't cook, or coupon or do laundry or dance, shop..pretty much anything. I miss being independent. My doctor actually told me for my health I needed to put my kids in daycare or hire help...ya that is so expensive and I didn't want to send my kiddos to daycare! So with lots of help from my in-laws, my parents, my husband and my wonderful church ward family we are making it. I am 25 weeks along and starting to improve. So I want to catch up on my blog and whats been going on with our family. I am going to start with today and just catch up on the last couple months as I go : ) Klesa and Karter have been sick, with colds, then coughs, then wheezing chest. I took them to the drs a total of 4 times this week. They developed sinus infections from viral colds which turned into them both having breathing problems. They had to go on albuterol which is a stimulant, so they have been acting wild! Well today kev and I woke up feeling sick, so we missed church and it was a long Sunday. All we wanted to do was rest and the kids being on albuterol all they wanted to do was jump off the walls.So for lunch we went to the duck pond where we saw tiny baby turtles and ducks. The kids had lots of fun. At home I made some homemade bathtub paint for the kids. They got some brushes and went to town during their bath. They had lots of fun, at one point Karter took the color he wanted out of Klesa's hand. She started to cry, he began to rub her arm and sing "its ok, its alright," over and over. Its a little sing songy thing I do when the kids get hurt, I rub their back and sing, it was super sweet to see him do it to Klesa. I love my kids and love that they are becoming best friends!

Don't cry over spilled milk.....or bugles

Today was day number 4 of potty training. Karter did good just 2 accidents...but he won't poop in the toilet! arghenblarg! Oh well we will keep on trooping, and I will keep bribing him with cookies, toys and bubble guppies. His new found love is bubble guppies he even ate peaches for me(which he doesn't like cus of the texture,) just to get to watch more bubble guppies. Klesa had a bad morning she is getting over an ear infection and taking nasty antibiotics. Kev was holding her in the kitchen while I made her take her medicine, she kicked out and her toe clashed with an open can : (. It was so sad! But my amazing mexican husband whipped out the super glue and fixed her right up. We even made it to dance class at the ymca. This is when Karter spilled his bugles out the door of the car and burst into tears..I had a hard time not laughing and he was upset I wouldn't pick the ones up from the parking lot and let him eat them. oh and another splash of fun was Karter peed in Walmart, I asked him if he needed to go and yup he did. Karter and Klesa sure keep my days interesting. : )

The good the bad and the...poopy

Yes that is right not the ugly the poopy. Karter has been doing great with his potty training but had one accident with poop...lets just say it was messy. The good was a great time with my family. Sundays are a slower day at our house because it is family day. We had a good time racing cars, wrestling and building "tunnels". When we visited Grandma and Grandpa in Oregon we went through a tunnel and Karter now asks for them, so since we don't have a tunnel we can drive through we improvise with blanket tunnels. This one was on Karter's crib, he thought it was great till Klesa decided to pull the blankets down. She was a real stinker knowing she was a big tease and running off with the blanket as fast as her chubby legs would take her. Karter can't say Klesa yet so he calls her baby. Every time she would do this he would yell "no baby noo!". It was pretty funny. The great was Klesa's new shoe love. She has a shoe fetish we have a cubby that holds our shoes and she is constantly pulling them out and taking them everywhere in the house. Today she found some sandals that I was saving for her to grow into, but she insisted on wearing them. They were rainbow straps with hearts. She put them on and then giggled at them as she clomped around. When one fell of she picked it up and hugged it with a big smile. She is my daughter for sure. We finished off the day with some crockpot chocolate cake : )

Welcome to my blog! This is going to be my scrap booking because I am sooo tired of missing out on writing down those sweet moments with my kids. Like when I am having a bad day and Karter comes rubs my back and says " you ok?" "your ok mommy." Karter is 2 1/2 and being potty trained. Today was the first day of hard core potty training. Karter had 3 accidents and went in the potty 8 times, I feel like it was a success! He loves the movie cars, playing with cars, balloons, bubbles, dinosaurs and has an amazing imagination. He makes his animals talk to each other, they are usually stuck and need help. Karter eats lots of mac and cheese, would drink ranch if I let him, and loves hot dogs. He is super athletic but dance class is his favorite. Klesa is 13 months and has been walking since 10 mo. She can run now and her favorite word is uh oh! She also says this this, when she wants something. She waves buh bye to her crib when she doesn't want to take a nap and eats more fruit then anyone I know. She can say buh bye, mom, dad, Karter, i need this, all done, more, juice, uh oh, and has a lot of spunk. Don't upset her or she will give you a diva face with big pouty lips. We just moved to Mesa, AZ and are loving it so far. It is super hot because it is summer, but its nice to always have a reason to go swimming. So welcome to our crazy fun life, and enjoy the funny stories : )