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A new week, new bug! Poor Kylie, she's got the stomach bug. Not pretty.

It's just knocked her flat on her back today. We laid on the couch together and watched way more SpongeBob than I'd care to admit. (I'm bound to get it next but all she wanted to do was cuddle, so what was I going to do?! Poor girl, but she's a trooper. We took a picture of her about 10 times this evening and this was the best we could get)

So far these little love bugs are doing fine... (knock on wood)

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Matthew's Post is next about his new camera. Can you believe he didn't get a chance to check the blog all day to find out about it? He called me (nearly 6 hours after I posted it) on his way home from work... telling me how great his numbers are at work and how he deserved something extraordinary for his success. He had NO idea! Needless to say, he was shocked when he found out he was actually going to get something. (usually I tell him to go pick himself up a milkshake from McD on his way home)

New Camera in Action!

Here are some pictures taken by the new camera. This thing is awesome! Nicole is the best wife! Thank you dear for the purchase!

I love all the features and haven't even begun to scratch the surface with things you can do with this camera!

I had to try one with the plant option...it brings out the color like HD.

*the remaining flowers from the flower bouquet I gave Nicole (it was much bigger than this last week in my defense)

SURPRISE!

Matthew, sit down... heart problems run in your family (good to be cautious)

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I bought something today on a bit of a whim... didn't think you'd object :)

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thought you'd really like it :)

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ANYWAY!!!! Here it is:

it's a nikon d60 10.2 mp 2.5 lcd, 18-55 vr & 55-200 vr lens... came with a memory card too, which means all blah blah blah to me but i thought you'd be tickled. i'll leave it in the box for you to open it and play with it later :)

Sunday Afternoon Pictures

Missing a few in our picture, luckily Kadyn is not sick. It's me- a yucky head cold... even a temperature. My normal temperature is about 96- which is low I've just always been that way, so when I was getting readings of 102, I knew something was up.

I spent all day yesterday in bed... which was awesome. Matthew played Mommy, which included sole nighttime baby duty, again... awesome! I didn't realize how lousy I felt until that afternoon Matthew was giving the girls baths, and Kacey goes, "Oh no, I peed on the ground." And I still just couldn't move. I figured he could handle it or not handle it and the mess could just sit there, it wasn't worth me moving :)

I still feel quite bad today, luckily Kylie's got Yaya to take her to ballet... it's a 24 hour jammies day for the rest of us!

D*I*S*N*E*Y*L*A*N*D

***Warning picture overload! :) So many pictures, so hard to choose. It makes up for my blogging absence for the last little bit. And we just realized there's a fingerprint on the lens of our camera so some pictures came out smudgy... small little finger, wonder who that could be???

The Playhouse Disney Show, my girls loved it! We never miss an episode of Mickey Mouse Clubhouse!

Us dancing it up. Don't be too jealous, I've got years of dancing experience under my belt. :)

I really think Kadyn looks at all of us like we're all crazy :)
Kacey loves Goofy, but even more so (if at all possible) she loves Goofy's son Max. (Yeah, I know... he has a son, no wife, but a son). Anyway, we've never seen him, but randomly out of the blue, for the first time, we saw him at CA Adventure. I've never seen Matthew run so fast as to stop Max as I herded the girls over.

Kylie was chosen to go on stage as an "apprentice" for one of the shows, Matthew all but threw her 50 feet in the air for the guy to pick her out of the crowd. Afterwards, she got a signed sketch of Mickey Mouse to take home... really cool!

Too bad this picture was taken BEFORE the purchase of the Cars hat (for Matthew)- sense sarcasm... that my goofball of a husband actually wore the rest of the day around the park.

Goofy's Kitchen, definitely Kacey's highlight. She LOVES Goofy!

Grandpa and Goofy, a big kid at heart!

Kacey's ready to eat, can you tell?! :)

You know Kadyn's thinking, "Am I supposed to be in here?"

Just found this one, Kylie took it of herself.
That's her attempt at a wink.

Love that smile!

Kacey scared at something, I don't remember what.

So, every 20 minutes or so they do a little show in the center of Goofy's kitchen where all the kids get to go and play and have fun to the music. So we were ready and waiting. Kylie went running, ready to be front and center.


Kacey followed after her big sister, then realized she was scared and began running back... but Minnie came around the corner just at the right time, held her hand and played just with her! Kacey was in heaven.

Hugs goodbye, Kacey even gave Minnie a kiss. As they walked away from eachother, I saw Minnie stroke Kacey's head of curls. I thought it was sweet, as I do it all the time.

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Sunday Afternoon Pictures

Had to get a close up of Kylie's shoes. The night before, I was organizing the girls' shoes and rotating who could fit into what (this was after a MAJOR shoe shopping extravaganza so I felt like I needed to donate some old ones)... Anyway, amidst the organizing Kylie found these in her closet and loved them... needless to say, she insisted on wearing them the next day. She's got a shoe obsession. Not sure where that came from. Luckily they kinda matched their Sunday outfits.

Hilarious, Happy V-Day to the girls from Papa. They opened the heart shaped box of candy and totally dug in within seconds!

Headbands

So as a stay-at-home mom of 3 girls (none of which are in school yet), laundry that multiplies by the minute, seemingly endless ironing piles to do, meals that won't fix themselves, stacks of preschool homework with an anxious child holding a scissor, closets forever needing to be organized- ditto for the drawers, younger child running around asking for a scissor (after she's just finished coloring my wall) and never ending vacuuming and bathroom cleaning... obviously, (like all you other Moms out there) I find endless amounts of free-relaxing time during the day- NOT!!!

However to avoid the above dreary list, I've gotten a recent new priority: HEADBANDS!

My sweet little Kacey, she's got the most beautiful blond curls. I don't have to do anything to them, a little spritz of my very own concoction of fancy schmancy water and conditioner :) and I define her curls with my fingers... However, she doesn't have a whole lot of hair on the top or in the front of her head. Perfect solution: adorable headbands.

I've been accumulating my ribbon supply, buying headbands at the dollar store, matching cute color combos with button centers, and now has come the time to assemble. I guess my fingers just don't work with the small things like that, it's a good thing I'm not a surgeon. (I always thought I would've made a GREAT lawyer!- as I never apologize because I'm never wrong and I can talk my point until I'm blue in the face... I digress)

Maybe I don't have the patience to assemble, and maybe my mom just knows she'll do a better job..... SO my fabulously, wonderfully talented Mom did my slave labor and put all these together. I'm so excited, they are gorgeous... and we're (she's) still not done, I've got more ribbon and a few more headbeads to go. I love them, they came out super cute!!! I think I'm going to buy little suction hooks (you know, the kind that hang on shower tile) and put them on the huge mirror in the girls' bathroom, and hang the headbands on there.

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The outtakes of my precious -silly- middle child!

Can you tell she's trying to watch Goofy on the TV behind me?! But she's still smiling!

"Kacey look at me, EYES OPEN!" (Goofy apparently is still more interesting than me at this point)

Yeah, only took us 20 tries!

Lullaby and Goodnight

Once the big girls are settled into bed, Kadyn gets her one-on-one time. It makes me feel like I'm giving everyone enough attention in one given day... so nighttime is her time. And it works out good because the later she gets to bed, the longer she'll sleep through the night (mind you her bedtime is never later than 9:30 pm, but that's late in our house.... my how times have changed!!)

So here's little love bug in her crib ready for bed, bath hair and all! (I keep that blanket under her so when/if she spits up, I don't have to change the whole crib). I couldn't resist grabbing my camera tonight. She's been fussier than normal today, not sure if it's teething or just a runny nose/cold. But her smile's adorable. She's such a sweet little thing. I put on her music and she's got a little projection that does moons and stars on her ceiling, she loves it!!! Puts her right to sleep. And she always, always sleeps with those hands straight above her head. All night long, so funny!!!

Sunday Afternoon Pictures

I'm noticing in the pictures I have, Kadyn's almost always looking at Kylie. It's so funny, Kadyn's really in awe with her. I think when she sees Kacey it's more of a "Oh no please don't hurt me, Mommy you're close by, right?" Because Kacey's still at that age where she doesn't know she can't poke her in the eye. (when all she was doing was looking at her eyelashes- type of thing). But Kadyn knows that Kylie is great at meeting whatever need Kadyn has, and Kylie's always very happy to do so!

Anyway, Sunday afternoon pictures...

Kylie took this one, I love it... Kadyn's actually looking at the camera and smiling!

I think this is her first picture doing that!!!

This next one is funny. We've just gotten the girls into Mary Poppins, the girls really like it as you can see. They wanted to start the movie after lunch today- just before church, Matthew snuck up on them to get a picture.

Thankful Thursday

1. I won't do too much detail, most of you know... I found the best deal for sliced spiral ham... I was so excited. My garage freezer has about 20 9 pounders in there. ($.59 a pound!!!). I love me a good deal! So if I'm bringing dinner over to your house, chances are good it's gonna be ham!

2. Don't you just love it when someone helps you, without even asking if you need help or want it, they just do it! Don't you love it more when it's your child??!! I hate hate hate unloading the dishwasher. I don't know why, maybe because my mom never used the dishwasher so we never did it, so doing it now is just torture for me. But Kacey always helps. Never asks, she'll just hear me from her toy room and waltz over and start stacking the similar items on the counter... all the tupperware together, all her and her sisters plates and cups, all the big plates. I'll usually try to rescue the glass stuff first, but it's so sweet.

3. The smile Kadyn makes in the morning when I go get her. LOVE that little sparkly face! Like she's unsure if we're all still here, or maybe she hears us and is just thinking "I wonder if someone is going to ever come over to me." Her face could light up a room.

4. I was looking at Matthew's student program summary, I had no idea how close he was to being done! I guess we've always just thought that in the sometime distant future he'd be done with college and steadily he's working towards his degree... no way, we even have a date: Nov 16, 2009. I had no idea he was that close to being done, that was such an awesome surprise!!! (For those of you who don't know he went back to school after Kacey was born because the first time he went, he was confused in that his priority should have been his CLASSES and getting college credits not playing basketball)

5. I saw someone I hadn't seen in a while yesterday- she was in our other ward. She gave me such a wonderful comment. It made me feel so good :) I'll be relishing in it all week.

Sunday Afternoon Pictures

I had to grab my camera this morning while Kylie was in our bathroom getting ready. I heard her say, "Mom, I always color in the lines." So I looked up and lo and behold this is what I found.

Other children refer to coloring books, not my kid... she means her nails! :)

My favorite was when I told her to get her tights, I always help her get them on because she'd just yank them up with no tact whatsoever... and they'll rip. So I always help her do it. Well, her tights were on the floor so I told her to bring them over... she used her toes to grab them and walk, obviously because her nails are wet.

I just loved this one, Kacey's holding her lunchbag (treats for quiet sacrament time). Once I put goodies in the bag, she walks around with it all morning long... and heaven help anyone who tries to take it from her!!!

And finally, the family picture...

(Kylie blinked, Kacey kept running to see the picture after the beep, however that meant the picture was about to take so all our pictures are of her running toward the camera... so this was really the best we could do!)