Best friends and Summer!

Kyla and Emma are 3 weeks apart in age and are different in every way but they sure love eachother. They definately have had a love hate relationship over the past year but lately they have been so close and love to play with eachother. It's so cute when she asks to play with her or if she is coming to the park when we go. We have done quite a bit with them lately. It's so nice to have family up here and i'm so glad they are planning on staying 10 more years. I tell ya Fort Mcmurray is like crack, it's addicting! Except they get to build a house! While i'm stuck in my townhouse, which is cute i'm not complaining but we are outgrowing it....fast. I told her i'll just live through her while I help her make all the decisions on colors, flooring, decorating... everything I would give my life for to do! I will get my house someday, and in the meantime I guess it's a bonus I get to see what I do and don't want in our house when we build.
Anyways, we bought a pool for Jayci and Presley for their birthday so we set it up and Kyla loves it. I haven't even took the babies in it yet! I usually go out with Kyla while they nap, it's just easier that way so I don't have 3 drowing children!
So the other night I was just chillin around doing nothing, (i'm good it) and I walked into my kitchen and looked out my kitchen window and found the entire neighbourhood of kids playing in our pool! What the! I went out and kicked em out. A few hours later I hear voices coming from the backyard "So this is your friends house?".... "ya, it is" A few of the kids decided to return and bring some more friends and thought it be okay to play in the pool again, I wasn't so nice this time, I even made a kid cry! aha oops. I have a problem with the kids in our little community and I was not having it become a community pool.... UNLESS....I could charge... $5 per kid to swim for about 10 minutes! It's like working from home! But I don't have to do anything! Maybe I will get to build my house....
Anyways here are the pictures.




We have a weekly mom and tots group in the ward and this week was at the spray park, it was a great turn out!



Mostly everyone, some left a little earlier

Presley all worn out, and the only picture I got of either of them. I know bad mom. Next time.

The girls pictures!!!

I got Jayci and Presley's one year and Kyla's 3 year pictures done all at once and I am so glad I did. We did have to go twice because of weather but man it was worth it!! These are some of my favorites. I seriously could put all of them on here!! Trust me there were way more! Thank you so much Mackenzie!! I love you!


Presley


This picture is priceless, it reminds me of the olden days where they couldn't smile, it's awesome!





Jayci

My list

I couldn't come up with a clever title for this list. I have been thinking a lot about goals and things I want to do. I came across a friend of mine's blog who made a 101 in 1001 list. She wants to do 101 things in the next 1001 days. It was more intense things such as things on a bucket list. But for now I want to accomplish smaller things. I keep saying I want to do things but now I am going to do them. My timeline is to have all this done by next year. Some will take longer of course but I CAN DO IT!! So this is what I came up with. It was hard and it made me realize I need to have more goals in life. I challenge you to make one as well and keep us updated on how well you do. It's great motivation!
So here it goes

1. Take a dance class
2. Get a professional camera
3. Continue exercising daily and get an awesome bod
4. Read and STUDY the book of mormon with Dustin
5. Get a new vehicle
6. Get super busy with my business
7. Grow out my hair (past my boobs, that‘s my goal)
8. Buy a house
9. Take a course in school, maybe correspondence
10. Go on a real vacation
11. Pay off all our debt
12. Make bedding and quilts for all 3 girls
13. Make curtains or just get curtains
14. Get a bedroom furniture set and duvet cover
15. Take a baking/cooking class
16. Get quads
17. Become completely organized and have a spot for everything
18. Touch someone with teaching
19. Make a difference somehow
20. Get Dustin his truck
21. Get a wardrobe makeover
22. Own tons of shoes
23. Go see New moon (in the theatre)
24. Don’t get pregnant
25. Play a sport
26. Organize all our toys and throw half of them away
27. Go to Edmonton for a weekend without the kids (anyone wanna babysit??)
28. Make so many more friends
29. Do a lot more crafts
30. Have tons and tons of fun times with the Dustin and the girls!

now your turn!
ps: does anyone know how to center my picture? I am usually pretty computer smart but I can't figure it out.

Jayci's walking

So we finally caught it on video of her walking. Not the best but it works for now! She has been going everywhere, she takes about 7 steps really good. She also can stand up all by herself now which is awesome.
There is also another video that I just thought was cute. I was sitting on the couch and looked down and this is what I saw. Luckily I had the camera beside me. What a good big sister, she loves her baby sisters.

These videos took FOREVER to upload

Time for a comparison!

I was going through my really old posts from like 2007 and when I was pregnant with the twins and it was so crazy to think that was over a year ago. With all my belly pictures and all our trials that came with that pregnancy, I can't believe we got through it in one piece! If you want to read about it, just go click on the 2008 posts. Anyways I found this picture of Kyla in the tub with Emma and I thought it was a good way to see if they look like her. It's a good comparison one cuz her hair is wet and it looks like she doesn't have any. So tell me what ya think!

So this is Kyla eating her 1st bday cake, and she is making pretty much the same concentration face as the girls! Don't mind her hair she had a clip in the top of it and we took it out for cake. It depresses me how much hair she has compared to the girls! I WANT pigtails!! Maybe someday....
This is Presley
This is Jayci, not as good as Presley's face but close enough


This is Kyla and Emma

This is Jayci (left) and Presley (right)

Just for your information

I heard from someone, I think it was my sister, that you can print off your blog into a journal and I just so happened to be going through The Cutest Blog on the Block and on their own blog they were talking about it and they found this site that will do it for you, and it's pretty cute! You can preview it and go through it page by page to see what it'll look like before you order it to see if you like it. I just don't want to do it because i'm always adding to my blog! I guess you could do it in years, depending on how often you blog. I have like years on this thing! As most of you know my blog is more of a journal so I definately want to try this...eventually. Just thought you'd like to know!

Presley and Jayci are ONE!

On May 27th Presley and Jayci turned One! I can't believe it's been a year since they were born. We have had such an awesome, yet eventful year. We had a bit of a rough start but we made it through and now we have the best little one year olds keeping us on our toes all day. Yes it's busy and yes it can have it's stressful moments, but I rarely let it get to me because this is my life and I want to enjoy every chaotic minute of it! They are only babies once and what life would it be if it wasn't crazy with twins and a toddler! It also helps to have an amazing husband to help me. I've just learned to accept it from the day we found out that we were expecting twins. If you want to read about them being born go here!

They look like little old men here, so tiny.

They were 4 weeks old here, still so tiny.
Jill and I took this picture and there are no words for how awesome it is. So close already, it melts my heart.
So, I was trying to figure out how to do this post because I didn't want it to be super long but I want to share what the girls have been up to. So I loved the way Kelsey did her post on Norah, it was so much easier to read rather than paragraph after paragraph so I hope she doesn't mind that she was my inspiration here! So here is the babies latest and greatest accomplishments!

Eating
-They both love to feed themselves and don't like to be fed, which is messy and way funner of course! They LOVE bananas, and any other fruit
-Presley is my dainty eater and eats one things at a time, and Jayci will shove fist fulls at a time in her mouth. I can give Presley bigger things because she'll bite them whereas Jayci will shove the whole thing in and pretty much choke on it.
-They don't get any sugar, I was the same way with Kyla and will be with all my kids. I am very anal about what they get to eat and I follow the book when it comes to what they should and shouldn't have. Birthday cake was an acception of course.
-They love their sippy cups and drink out of them really well now, they are on homo milk all day for naptimes and bedtimes. We just need to work on at night when they wake up. They still wake every once in a while and the only thing that'll get them back to sleep is nursing, i'm ok with that for now. I think they'll grow out of it. Presley wouldn't even nurse last night, I pretty much had to try like 10 times before she would even latch, and she didn't want her milk and was freaking out, so really to calm her down I had to.
-Love snacks, the little gerber star snacks are their favorite and we go through those like we go through diapers! They also love mum mums, cherrios and muffins.

Sleeping
-They are having 2 naps a day, morning at around 9am, and afternoon at around 1:30. They go to bed at 7pm and usually sleep until 7ish, lately it's been more 6:30 thanks to Kyla waking up at that time. It's been fun.
-They go to bed really well, we just lay them in their beds with their milk and sometimes we hear them yelling and talking to eachother but eventually they die out.

Development
-They both are crusing along furniture or anything they can walk along. Jayci is standing all by herself and yesterday took two steps from me to Dustin! I think she'll be taking off anyday. Presley is always a week or two behind Jayci and I was told that is so common with twins.
-They love peek a boo and play with eachother all the time on anything they can, around the couches, toys, table and chairs, with blankets, in their cribs etc. I keep trying to catch it on video but everytime I do I miss it. They just laugh and laugh at eachother. It is the cutest thing.
-They both can wave hi and bye, clap hands, give kisses, go up stairs, not down yet. They can put their balls in the toys where they are supposed to go, they figured that out on their own.
-They are starting to copy things we do, it's taken them a little longer to do this. I remember Kyla at like 6 months copying us. It's hard not to compare but obviously I don't worry about it being premature AND twins.
-They both love when I play with them on the floor. I'll crawl back and forth across the room really fast and they'll chase me, they love it. As always they also love playing with Kyla and she loves playing with them.

Well i'm sure there is a lot more but I can't think right now. That's most of it anyways. I want to post about their birthday. We had it on Sunday with Jill and Travis and their kids. I didn't want it to be a big thing with tons of people. Most of our family doesn't live here anyways so we just had us and it was perfect. I wish it wasn't pouring because I really wanted to have fun in the backyard with the kids. Here are some pictures! (ok maybe a little more than some)

This doesn't have anything to do with the birthday but I had to put it on. We bought Kyla a new t-ball set and she is a natural. Dustin threw it to her and she hit it everytime! She doesn't even need the T, must take after her mom eh!
Big girls waiting to open presents. Jayci is in white, Presley in pink

awesome sun glasses anutie Jill bought them with the cutest outfits that will be saved for another photo shoot! Love them.
We're One!!

My cupcakes. I was going to make two little fondant cakes but I didn't want them to get sick from it and besides fondant doesn't taste the best plus it was too much work, so I made cupcakes and an angle food cake.Happy Birthday!! Jayci on left, Presley on right

Presley couldn't get enough of her cupcake, she ate every crumb!
Jayci, not so much! She didn't like it on her fingers and she cried when she touched the cake part of it. So she used one finger to pick of the icing and then she was done!
Kyla and Emma, best cousins for life!

Getting clean!HAPPY BIRTHDAY GIRLS!!

I'm a little biased

This is one of my latest names I made and I love it! I just had to share with you. This was for a good friend of mine and she is expecting their first baby girl. The nursery is hot pink, baby pink and lime green. So cute! I knew I was going to love making this one. Also the name is my ultimate favorite name that I have loved since I was little. We ironicly loved the same name. As you can tell, I like uncommon names. Presley's middle name is Taya. I didn't use it as a first name because I knew a relative on Dustin's side of the family who called their little girl Mataya and call her Taya for short and I didn't want to have the same first name in family, even though it wasn't really even the same name. Anyways i'm weird like that, and I make sense to me! ;) So ya here is her name! Congrats Teddi and Daniel i'm so excited for you!
(click on it to see it larger)

This is my life and I LOVE it!

note the house in the background....like for real, who lives here????

A breakthrough!

I have figured it out! The cure to the tantrums/not listening etc. Kyla has really figured out how to push my buttons lately and she gets really mad then I get mad, then she gets madder then I get madder...it's a lose-lose situation! I used to try and put her in a time out on the stairs, but she wouldn't stay ever, she would fall down them freaking out and I would put her back a million times and I even would sit there holding her (she is one strong little 3 year old by the way, or maybe i'm just really weak...) So if she didn't stay after all of this she got put in her room. Eventually I gave up putting her back and I just gave her 3 warnings to stay and then she would be put in her room, it was the best thing if she wanted to stay alive! I got the child proof handle so she couldn't get out and I would put her in there until she calmed down. She can be quite fiesty one and 3 minutes just doesn't do it sometimes! Anyways, she recently has figured out how to open the door! awesome. I was SO done, I was at the end of my rope and completely worn out. I didn't know what to do and I felt like I had lost the "control" and she was starting to make me feel bad because I would get so mad, then I would cry cuz I was so frustrated and confused as to what to do, then she would cry harder because I was crying and she hates it when I cry! Something needed to change, fast. I was talking to my mom and she said when my cousin was little she was the "stop drop and roll" kind of tantrums and my aunt and uncle would just walk around her as if she wasn't even there. So I thought, why not! Let's try ignoring her. So here is the lowdown on how Kyla gets into her tantrums. Most of the time it's because she doesn't listen and when I say no, and if she doesn't like that I either turn off her movie or whatever, or I take away what I said no to in the first place, or I do something she doesn't like in reaction to her not listening. Almost something to let her know she is in trouble. Of course this gets a huge reaction and the tantrum starts.
So I walked away into the kitchen and I said "Kyla go sit in your time out" really calmly. Of course she didn't, so I just walked around like nothing was happening and cleaned up, well she was freaking out on my leg pulling at me, no literally like hanging on me, so I said it again, "Kyla go sit in your time out" Well I kept on ignoring her like she wasn't even there and she did NOT like that. She was yelling, "mommy talk to me!!" over and over. So after her saying this like 10 times, and long enough for her to realize I wasn't paying attention to her tantrum. I said "Kyla, I'm not talking to you until you go sit on the stairs." and then this happened again, she cried, I ignored it and she freaked out "mommy talk to me!" I said it again, "not until you go sit on the stairs" What did she do, she ran and sat on the stairs!! NO way. I couldn't believe she went. So I let her sit there for about 30 seconds and then I went over and talked to her and ask her why she was in trouble etc. I had her appoligize to me and she gave me hugs and kisses, which is what I normally do after going up to her room. And we were good! So I was hoping this would be a new trend, the next day a tantrum came up and the exact same situation happened, the freaking out, the ignoring, the "go sit in time out." Except this time she ran to the stairs the second she figured out I was ignoring her. This has worked everyday since!! But now the second I say sit in a time out she runs and sits and says, "mommy come talk to me, I'm happy" Of course she is still upset and crying but whatever!! It's incredible! Why didn't I think of this before! Thank you mom!
Honestly it has helped ME to not even have to get mad, which is what I was so worried about. I didn't want to be the yelling mom. I didn't want the twins always watching me get mad, I wanted to be the laid back, happy mom. They say your kids will act how you act. I always wondered how people can stay so calm when their kids is pushing every last one of their buttons and now I know how. You ignore them! Now I am back in control!! I feel like the mom again! It's truly amazing. This may not work for everyone but it worked for me, so if you haven't tried this I recommend it.

Now to get her to poop in the potty.....
Any suggestions? I have tried EVERYTHING.

Here is two pictures for fun, Kyla was sitting rocking Jayci in the chair and she was just sitting there loving it. It was so cute. And me and the little girls at the park on the weekend.

I'm ready!

A few people have said oh your probably so busy, or don't worry if you don't have the time etc. But I want to be MORE busy!! I need to be busy!! I get bored really easily! I have amazingly happy girls and I still am able to keep up with my house and the kids and my calling as a Relief Society teacher. Somehow it's not enough. I have even thought of having another baby!! Yep I really want that boy! TOTALLY kidding!!! Ya right!! I still want my sleep! Maybe in a year we'll talk!! lol I love having this business because it's something for ME. Something I can be proud of that I have accomplished. It's more than just the money, which definately is a bonus, but that's not why I love it. I know being a mom is a huge accomplishment but you know what I mean. I love the feeling like i've accomplished something more than just my day to day mom routine. (Is there another word for accomplished because I have used it like 3 times??) I knew I wanted to work from home somehow and with something fun. I LOVE doing this. So as I said before, don't hesitate if you are wanting to make an order because I am so ready!! BRING IT ON!!! :)

This is one of my latest orders and also one of my favorites.
Oh I guess you need to go HERE to get to my business. Or just click on The Burnt Daisy link on the left.