CONNECTION!!!!

I am so happy! I finally have a connection! Now I can finally join the blogging world once again.
So since my last post Kylie lost one of her front teeth, and turned 6. She had a little party of her own planning. We painted toenails, decorated flip-flops, made bracelets, and wacked the fetch out of a pinata. She is quite the party planner, and it turned out to be quite fun.
Toast turns 5 on Saturday, and keeps changing his mind about what kind of birthday he wants. It used to be Diego, but he really isnt into him anymore, and then he wanted it to be Starwars, but now he says he just wants muffins. No idea what that even means. Daniel has been telling him chewbacca stories at bedtime, and thats been stemming his growing interest in star wars, but the other day he pulled out the starwars dvds and asked if he could watch them. I told him they were a little too scary but he insisted he wouldnt get scared and that he would be brave. So I decided we would try it out. He LOVED it. Now he wants to watch all of them. I am surprised cuz this is the kid who is terrified of swiper the fox. Apparently Darth Vader is tame when compared to a sneaky fox who swipes your stuff. Go figure.
James is coming up on his 2nd b-day in two more weeks. A few weeks ago we finally bought him a crib-tent, which has been the best thing EVER! He was climbing out of his crib more than 30 times each night and it was seriously killing me off hauling him up the stairs that many times over. Now the little monkey cant escape. Happy day for me!
Ben is 6 months old now and he is solid as can be. He is huge! He has started crawling and he sits up -kinda- he leans on his arms so he's at a weird 45 degree angle. But he seems pretty happy about it-until he tries to move and flops over. He still is spitting up gallons. Tyler got quite the surprise a few weeks ago in the middle of sacrament meeting. he went to give Ben a hug and as his face was right under Bens, Ben spewed his entire bottles worth of puke right in Tys face. Tylers look of horrification was just just too good to be true. Oh how i wish I had a camera for that memory. It still is making me laugh.
So seeing as how the kids birthdays are just a few weeks within each others, we take them to go get their birthday pictures, and since we dont have a kiddie kandids in yuma, we go to san diego and make a little trip out of it. We headed there last Friday. Saturday, after pictures and lunch, we spent the day on the beach. I love watching Daniel play with the kids. It melts my heart. He is such a cute dad. Anyway it was a fun quick trip.
Now that I have this written I can hopefully spend the next few days/week catching up on 2 months worth of blogs. Hooray!

7 years

Yesterday was our 7 year wedding anniversary. We celebrated earlier on Friday night by heading to San Diego. Our friend Debbie watched the kids, and we are so so grateful she did that for us. It was so nice to get away and celebrate us. After checking into the hotel we went to Claim Jumper for dinner. Oh how I miss having one of those nearby. We then went for a moonlit stroll on the beach. We stopped walking and put our feet in the water for a minute and unfortunately a nice wave drenched my pants, so we had to find a store so I could get something dry as we were going to see a late night showing of Batman, but by the time we stopped and bought some new pants we were too late for the movie. In the morning we headed over to the temple. Sadly we haven’t been since we moved here, although we have tried a few times, but for one reason or another we haven’t been able to actually go. So we finally made it, and it was so wonderful to go back. My mind was flooded with so many thoughts and feelings. I just loved being there. We stopped at Veijas on the way back and that took a little longer than expected, so we missed a baptism we were planning on going to in our ward. Drats. But we had a great time.
I am just so grateful that I have Daniel. He is one in a million. When we got married we didn’t know each other extremely well. He could have turned out to be psycho. But as we have gotten to know each other, I am just amazed with how incredible he is. He has a heart of gold. He loves others so unconditionally. He is so supportive and kind, and giving. I am seriously so blessed!-(not in the blog named so way though!) I love being married to this man! He is the best!

Updates

We have been having some connection problems for the past two weeks and I am going crazy. I use the internet for a zillion things and to not be able to do such is totally throwing me off my groove. But the thing that has been bugging me the most-- blogging. Not being able to read up on blogs makes me feel really disconnected and homesick. Weird. And I really miss having “my place” to write my thoughts and certain events going on in our lives. Hopefully I can get this post to post and hopefully we can get this connection thing straightened out soon.
We have now been in Yuma for a year. In some ways it feels like we have been here forever, but in others its gone by so fast. Daniels job was a bigger project to organize than we initially thought , but he has learned volumes through it all. Overall it was a good decision for us, and we have met some of the most wonderful people here.
Kylie started 1st grade last week. She was so excited to go, but one week in and she is already bored with it. That’s probably because they are going over stuff she learned in preschool. I can understand the need to review and find out where the kids are, but shouldn’t they be reviewing kindergarten stuff? If the 1st graders don’t know where there head, shoulders, knees and toes are by now, then they shouldn’t be in the 1st grade. Her friends from church are in a different class, and I am feeling pretty bad about that now cuz on her first day she asked another girl in her class if she wanted to be friends, which is something hard for Kylie to do cuz she is very shy, especially in new situations. This girl told her flat out no, and so Kylie spent her first day without a friend. That just made me mad. What kind of kid tells another kid they don’t want to be friends? Come on. Thankfully by Wednesday she figured out where her friends from church play at recess, and has fun with them. She told me she wanted to go back to the school she was at last year, and I have been questioning my decision about that. If it wasn’t so expensive I probably would switch her back. But hopefully all will be well this week.
Tyler has a new found obsession. Star wars. I wont let him watch the movies cuz he gets scared just watching swiper swipe stuff. But he loves playing lego star wars on the playstation even if he doesn’t really know what hes doing, and loves his daddy telling him the stories. He use to pretend he was Diego, but now he thinks hes Chew-bacca. It’ll be sad to say adios to Diego as hes been part of the family for 2 years now, but maybe James and Ben will develop a bond for the animal rescuer some day too.
James has been missing his “sss-sa” (sister) during the day. He had been so attached to her the past 2 months, and without her around, he is so sad. His big brother doesn’t mother him like Kylie, and since Ben is out of the newborn stage he is awake most of the time, so he has to share my lap and attention and its just not what he wants. Two weeks ago he started climbing out of his crib whenever I put him down for naps or bedtime. I have to put him down 6-8 times each time before he stays. Its outta control. I need to find one of those crib tents to put over the top, but alas without a connection, I cant find/ order one.
Ben has been gnawing on his fist for the past 3 weeks and his gums are all swollen. His first tooth is ready to break through any day now. He is getting so big. Hopefully my arms will get some tonation with me carrying around those 15 pounds all day long. Yeah, I wish.

Motivation

This is a little over 3 minutes to watch, but the messages are pretty darn motivational.

Sweet blessings

One of my favorite quotes is by Jeffery R. Holland. He said, "Some blessings come soon, some come late, and some don't come until heaven. But for those who embrace the gospel of Jesus Christ, they come." Well I am happy to say one totally sweet blessing happened to find its way to me today. TOTALLY SWEET! Let me give you some background. Back in December I was asked to talk in church. I really really really dont like talking in front of any type of group of people- never have, never will. Anyway as bribery the 1st counselor in the bishopric said something about bringing by some ice-cream if I did it. That still didnt cause within myself a desire to give a talk, but I got it over with and now that its been 7 months since that time, I really havent thought back upon that unpleasant experience. Not until today. There was a knock upon the door this afternoon, and Daniel answered it. Into his hands were given 3 lovely little pints of totally sweet creamy delicious freezing cold ice-cream, with the explanation, "Kimmy will know what this is for." (Perhaps you want to look at that quote again--Yes some blessings come late, but they do come.) Looking at those lovely little blessings of heavenly deliciousness may just have made those few moments of my lunatical nervous ramblings several months ago worth it. And can I just say- our bishopric totally rocks! Yeah- they are THAT Cool! Sweet, sweet blessings.

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Genetics

We havent been up to much lately- just trying to survive this blasted heat, so we are doing workbooks, crafts, laundry, coloring books, fort-building, laundry, veggietales, playdough, laundry, bubbles, dancing, laundry, popsicles, puzzles, & laundry. Sounds like a never ending nursery class minus the never ending laundry. Fun, but I am counting the days 'til Halloween. Once that holiday hits, the temps go down and my kids can actually play outside without getting heatstroke! Right now their physical activity consists of jumping on the couches and dancing to the veggietales theme song. I know I shouldnt wish away these days, and I dont really mean to, but can we finish up with summer now? The last 2 weeks have felt like years.

For your randomness FYI-I have recently taken after my brothers and am going bald. As if I wasnt funny looking enough already, I discovered a huge bald spot on my head, but thanks to my skill in comb-overs its not too noticeable. But still, bald??? What the heck?!