Random Random!

Dust had the last 4 days off and it was so fun.
We didn't do much but we just have fun all the time. Something that never gets old, a stuffed animal fight. We we're both laughing so hard.... but really inside we are throwing them as hard as we can to take the other one out. You can be creative and use anything you'd like, just improvise, like pillows, shoes, utensils, toys, just be creative.
We love playing hide and go seek with the kids and Dustin is always jealous of all the spots I hide because he can't fit in them.

Or grocery shopping and arguing in the aisle about what cereal to buy because I want the healthy stuff for the kids. So Kyla goes, "I want Froot Loops!", I say, "no honey they are too expensive right now" (Really they weren't but i'm trying to keep all the junk cereal out of the house and we've been doing really good) and Dustin says, "no they're not, they are on sale."
what. an. idiot.
So I give him the "look of death" and he realizes his dumbness and goes "oh nevermind they aren't."
GOOD cover up hun! She'll NEVER clue in.
So by the time we get to the till we start to look like the crazy people who bring their kids grocery shopping with 2 carts! Both babies want held and are SO done with being there, so we let them out of the cart on the ground to just stand. Nope they want to be held. So they are both crying while we are quickly trying to unload the stuff onto to the till. So I pick up Jayci who is freaking out on my legs, and Dustin ran to get something else so he took Presley and Kyla picked out a special treat. I was unloading a cart, with a toddler on my hip (with our big winter coats on) and i'm sweating to death and she wants all the food in the cart. The guy infront of me starts helping me and says "you look like you need a hand". Yes, thank you. smile. (But not the "i'm hitting on you smile," don't get the wrong idea)
Meanwhile I am getting stares from every corner because of course it's supper time so EVERYONE is in the store. In my head I am saying, "don't stress, just laugh" I look up kind of laughing to myself and see people smirking at me and I know they are thinking "who the heck brings 3 little kids grocery shopping." or "glad it's her and not me." (These are things I would think if I saw that!)
Then I have to bag the food. Dustin is still unloading the other cart and i'm bagging and we both have kids hanging and crying on our legs. We exchanged looks and just laughed. What else do ya do? So we laughed the rest of the time until we were done.
We got through, I opened mini eggs and all was silent.
What a fun family outing.
NEVER. AGAIN.

So we watched a couple movies this weekend. Stay in which was nice. We are on a strict budget with Dustin starting school in APRIL! Yep he is going! Can't wait. So we'll be poor for a year until he is done all his schooling but it'll be worth it.

Dustin also came up with a daddy, mommy, Kyla night. So we let her get a special treat at the store and we rented 'UP' and as soon as the twins went to bed we sat on the couch and watched it together. She loved it. It was a cute movie and we'll definitely do it again. Good idea dad!

She is now passed out on the couch and has been for an hour and a half. We partied hard.

So life is good. Lots of fun stuff coming up this next month including a performance at our ward talent show with some girl-friends. Can't wait! We are gonna rock it!

Oh and I can forget what Jayci and Presley did all weekend.....what else...they COLORED! surprise surprise. Oh and watched Dora. of course.

We had to get in on the coloring, because they said so.

Movie night with Kyla!
Yes her hands and face are covered in chocolate, who let her pick the snack???

Coolest parents ever.

ps: Do you ever wonder what your life is like from an outsiders perspective?

Meh who cares. I'M HAPPY!!!!

Girly Stuff

I have been noticing a few things lately about the girls that I don't want to forget, since my memory is so good...
Well lets start with Jayci and Presley. First of all they color on EVERYTHING. My tv, walls, themselves, table, floor, cupboards, books etc etc. I know your thinking, "well then take away the Crayons Mindy!" But, this is what keeps me sane, since they love coloring I bought this huge coloring book that they love to color in and I always have paper and more books on the floor and they love it and it keeps them happy. It's always when i'm distracted or doing something they wander to other things, or they find a random crayon piece or climb on the counter and grab a pen I forget to put away. It's a win-lose situation, but whatever.
They are in love, no OBSSESED with Dora. My life would suck without Dora. When I am at my breaking point of 3 kids crying on my legs, I throw in Dora and all is well. If I need to do the dishes or do some laundry, I put in Dora and I can get it done with no whining or fighting. I say "do we want to watch Dora?" I hear "DORA! DORA!" and they freak out a bit.
Love. Dora.

I absolutely love when I put them into their beds, I go to walk out and I say "night night girls, love you" I hear two little voices echo "night night" over and over. It makes my heart melt.

They are starting to talk more which is great. They say a lot more words and are starting to copy more. They are hilarious. They laugh all the time and have a ton of fun just playing with each other. Other than that, they aren't up too much, well that I can think of right now anyways.

Then there is Kyla, she is one of a kind and I want to remember some of these things.
She is very into letters lately and knows all her letters and even how to spell some words, like mom, dad, stop, Kyla (she's known that for a while) and lots more, she can even write them on paper. Smart girl eh. Well now she makes letters with her body. Like she lays on the floor and arches her back and uses her arms and she'll yell, "mom what's this letter?" I say "umm a 'p'?" She'll go "Yup" and we play that game over and over, with lots of different letters. She also uses whatever she has to make letters, the other day it was a shoelace.
She loves to play eye spy and is super good at it.
Sometimes I get in a daze or i'll randomly look at her while i'm thinking of something, and she goes "Mom, why did you look at me like this?" and then she'll make the face I was making. Or "mom why did you do (she makes the face) to me?" I laugh everytime because her faces are hilarious, she does them exatly how I do them, which I don't even notice i'm doing. Like the little raised eyebrow, big eyes and smirk mouth and then she'll go back to a normal face instantly. Just so funny what she notices. She is always right beside me, everywhere I go, she is right there.
She is so into dancing lately and her moves are hilarious, she really concentrates now. I always blast music and dance with the girls on a daily basis and she tries to copy my moves and what I do. I know it's hard not too since i'm so good.
Jayci and Presley are even starting to do it too.

Well those are just a few things they have been up too. I haven't been up too much lately. I can't finish the dresses I wanted to because my machine isn't working well. I have had problems with it since I got it so who knows. I'll figure something out.
I also have been working on Kyla's birthday party which is on April 3rd. Her actual birthday is the 4th but it's a Sunday. We are going to have an Alice in Wonderland Tea party. A twist on a typical girly theme, I wanted to do something girly but fun, and I honestly came up with this before I knew when the movie was coming out. But good timing eh? More inspiration! Should be fun though. I'm excited about it, I LOVE planing things like this. When we have a house I will have a savings account just for parties and holidays/occasions. I just love it.

My little ladies

I love this picture of her. She finally let me change her earrings and she said it didn't hurt so now she wants lots of earrings. When did she get so big?

Dustin has the next 4 days off starting tomorrow so our weekend is full of stuff of course. Can't wait!

A first of many I think

It has been a long, long time since I actually have sewn anything. I made a few things for young women's projects in high school but nothing really since then. I knew I liked to sew and I have been wanting to attempt it for a while. I think I was just nervous to start, how or what do I start with. So I just went with it. I have been wanting to make a dress for Kyla from a shirt of Dustin's and I found this one he bought and has never worn it because the neck was too "femme" he said. It really was weird and looked funny on him. So I thought it would be perfect. I used one of her other dresses as a guide line and the rest, I just guessed! It only took me around an hour and I actually really like it.

Here it is before:

And after!

What do ya think? I am going to do some more in the next couple days. Talk about saving money eh! I want to do one with one of his button up shirts. Wish me luck!

Our Weekend!

Dustin and I finally got away! It was so fun and we did A LOT.
The first day we went shopping at Ikea, then just hung out at the hotel since we didn't get there until later and we were tired. The next day we went shopping for the most part at West Ed, got some great stuff and had fun. We saw the dirt biker, Carey Hart (he is married to PINK) and if you don't know him you're not cool. I of course knew exactly who he was and all his stats... well I did know who he was, but that's about it. He was signing autographs at West 49, and we could have been close to the front of the line but we didn't want to waste time waiting. Besides his booth stuck out into the mall so we got a picture of him.
After that we went on some rides in Galaxy land. I don't remember it being that boring there. Honestly, we were bored after about 4 rides. So we played some of their games and then shopped a bit more.
That night we got tickets to the comedy club in West Ed on Bourbon st. and Tim Meadows was there. He is the principal on Means Girls, and he's from SNL. It was so funny and so much fun. The next day we decided to go to a shooting range and shoot some guns. I've shot a .22 before and I loved it so I wanted to try a hand gun. Dustin did good.

I cried. Not joking. I did. What a baby, I know. I must have been having an emotional day or something. As soon as we got into the "dungeon" as I call it, where we were shooting, I literally had a heart attack listening to how loud the guns were! I was terrified of actually holding a gun trying to concentrate then someone shooting and it freaking the crap out of me and I jump and shoot someone! Seriously! Maybe i'm a little dramatic. But still I jumped EVERY time a shot went off. Scared. To. Death. We did have the ear things on but they didn't do anything. While i'm having a panic attack from every shot, the guy is trying to explain everything and I of course heard nothing but these death shots around me! I said to Dustin to go first since I was on the verge of tears and was convincing myself to toughen up and stop being such a wuss. Well I snatched a couple pics and took off. I stood in the waiting area with the windows so I could watch him, but I was a wreck! What the heck was wrong with me, I have no idea. Of course everyone is laughing at me, including Dustin. I was just ticked and wanted to leave, so I got my refund and Dustin finished the box of bullets we bought since we can't buy half a box and then we left. Well now I know. Of course I laughed later. What an idiot. Meh, oh well. At least I can admit it!

So that was that, then we went and had some lunch at Olive Garden which I love and headed home. We didn't take a ton of pictures and couldn't take any in the comedy club, I wish I would of taken a picture of us before we went because we looked pretty hot of course. But I didn't.

Dustin took this while he was waiting for me after we went on rides, at this point he was sick of shopping and wanted to leave. He said "Here's Mindy STILL shopping of course"

whatever. That's what you get for moving me to exile island up North! Where shopping sucks.

This is the only one we got of us two. I got this group of 4 teenagers to take it, they were taking photos of themselves and I offered to take one of all 4 of them, which they loved. So I asked if they would take ours! We were waiting in line for the big roller coaster.

Dustin shooting the guns in Galaxyland, my picture is retarded so i'm not putting it on.

Swing of the Century! My favorite ride when I was younger.

My handsome man.

So that was about it! We've just been chillin these past two days because he goes back to work tomorrow. Boo. But we had a lot of fun and it was so good to get away and worth every penny, even the ones we didn't need to spend...i'm sure he'll get over it. I already have!

Poor Presley

I hate the hospital.
If I didn't need to go there I definitely wouldn't. I hate it with a passion. There is at least a 3 hour wait every time you go and the waiting room is full of people who think they are sick, but they aren't. Or they are but they'll live and really don't need to be in Emergency. So enough about my annoyance with ER and to the point.

Earlier today around 4:00, I pulled out a bag full of random sewing stuff, fabric, thread, SCISSORS, ribbon etc. Played around for all of 5 minutes and decided now was not the time to do a craft with the girls around. In that 5 minutes I turned around and saw Jayci with the brand new pair of sewing scissors I just bought. Crap. So I grabbed them from her and stuck them in between my legs, while I was sitting on the floor. I packed up the bag of stuff and put it to the side and stood up and walked into the bathroom. Within seconds I heard hard crying and I knew something was up. I went into the living room and saw Jayci with the scissors that I, the smart mom, forgot on the floor and that they were in between my legs! I grabbed them from her and I think Kyla said something about Presley, so look over and she is covered in blood. What the! So I run over and her hand is by her mouth so her mouth is covered in blood and so is her hand. I checked quickly to see where she was bleeding and it was her hand, her thumb. It was cut bad, and gushing out blood. I thought, ok what do I do? I grabbed a towel and squoze it hard trying to stop the bleeding but it wouldn't stop. It was flowing out pretty good. I called Dust to let him know I might have to take her to the hospital, I couldn't get a hold of him so I left him a message. I called up Wendy (a relative who lives a couple blocks away, and used to be a nurse) and I told her what happened and I wasn't sure if I should take her in or not, so she came over right away and we held it for about 45 minutes and it was still pouring out blood every time we would take off the cloth. I found some gauze and we held it on there and decided that it probably was pretty deep, but we couldn't tell because it would bleed so fast and so much when we would try and look. So her son came over to watch the girls and we took her to the hospital.

The waiting room was full, there was a line at the desk, and I was holding Presley while squeezing her finger. Wendy was getting a parking ticket for the van. They noticed me struggling and one nurse came over too see what happened and she took us into an admitting room, checked her in, put on this massive gauze bandage and didn't tape it, and told me to have a seat. 2 hours, and one long nap by Presley on my lap later, they called us in. I had to squeeze her finger the whole time with this ginormous gauze that barely fit on her finger because it is so tiny. She didn't ever pull it off or not let me hold it, she just sat still the whole time. So we got into the room, another hour went by and they finally came in to do her finger. They wrapped her up in a blanket really tight so she couldn't squirm and had two nurses right by her ready to hold her down and the entire time she didn't move. At all. She even just sat there letting them wrap her up in this blanket and just smiled at them. When the doctor started to work she just laid there! It was amazing. They ended up just gluing it together, thank goodness. But it did stop bleeding after we were there for 2 1/2 hours. So it bled for over 3 hours all together. It finally stopped while she was napping. Took all of 2 minutes to fix and she was done. They couldn't believe how awesome she was. She actually didn't cry at all, ever. Only when it first got cut for about 2 minutes and that was it for the rest of the night. What a great little girl I have created. I know.

She is all bandaged up and should heal within a few days. I'm turning into one of those moms who has to go to the hospital with injured kids. I know it. You do see some interesting people in those waiting rooms though.

Oh and the other night, I should add. I gave Presley some tylenol around 6pm because she was very cranky and I think her tooth is coming in, so I drugged her. Why not eh, isn't that the answer to a crying kid??
So Jayci and Presley climbed up and grabbed the two tylenol bottles on the microwave and I have no idea what I was doing but I didn't notice. I actually think I was getting their pj's upstairs. Yes that's a good excuse to not sound like a bad mom.
So I came down and Presley had the tylenol bottle in her mouth just chugging away! I grabbed it and notice she drank half of it, and it was a brand new bottle. (Jayci's bottle was still closed.) So I called the poison center to see what amount is too much, so she figured out numbers and she was 5ml under over dosing. But the lower end of over dosing where it isn't even that bad. So they said she'll be fine just no tylenol for 24 hours and she's good.
I really hope this isn't a trend for us...well Presley I guess. This girl always gets the worse end of things. Poor thing.

What a happy girl for going through all that!

Teeny fingers, not much to see. Just a little bandaged thumb.

She's so cute. I love her to pieces!

Happy Love Day!

We got invited this last week to a kids Valentines party at the Fitzner's and it was too cute. The kids had a blast and she went all out with crafts, games, and food.

I love this chair the girls are on, I think I might steal it from her.

Oh and Presley's eye is from me beating her.
Actually it's from Kyla, who was whipping around a wand and accidentally hit her in the face, poor kid.

Running through the streamers

They had to dance and when the music stopped they had to sit on their heart.

They had to pick up all the hearts on the floor and put them in their bags

Presley thought this was more fun.

An attempt at a picture with all 3 girls, cute eh?

Picnic on the floor

Craft

The Kids, minus Cohen and Rilan

Since Dustin and I are doing Valentines Day this weekend we wanted to still make it special for the kids, so we plastered the floor with chocolates and got them each their own little gift. We set it all up for them to wake up too. They loved it.
Presley wasn't quite feeling it.

(Yes I know those are Easter Chick Kinder Eggs, but that's all they had left and like they'll know, right?)

Then like the good mom I am, I made them heart pancakes with whip cream and strawberries for breakfast.

And I had to make myself one of course, it is after all my favorite breakfast. Yes it's as big as the plate.....don't judge.

All dressed up for church. (Can you see the hair? Yep, it's coming in curly! And SO cute!!)

Happy Valentines Day, Love the Francis Fam!