Check Out My Bazillion Ab Muscles!

I am really starting to hate the 666 mile stretch of the 15 between me and my in-laws. Once we get there it's totally worth it, but it's a terrible drive.

I know that will inspire comments about moving to Utah, but I ♥ California!

Hailey has taken to saying, "I can't," instead of, "I don't want to." As if that is magically going to make us think that she really can't and we won't make her. That girl is too smart for our own good.

I haven't been getting enough sleep, my life has started to have the fuzzy pink boarder dream sequence feel.

I still have not named my car, it might be partly due to the fact that I let my brother borrow it for a month-ish and have not had a chance to test drive a name.

We still have not bought Hailey's birthday present. It's been 4 months.

When Matthew smiles I feel like the most important person in the world.

When I am famous I am going to make a music video of me dancing. The world will never before have beheld such awesomeness.

I love music so much, I wish I had as much time for it as I used to.

I have been reading the same young adult chapter book for 2 months now. Children take a lot of time.

Have you ever heard me rant about Twilight? I will never understand everyone's obsession, but this makes me laugh SO hard:

Out of the mouth of babes

Steven: "Hailey what did you do today?"
Hailey: "I... looked out the window and what did I see? Popcorn popping on the apricot tree."


Me: "Hailey how come you are screaming?"
Hailey (after immediately calming down): "Because we train our letters to make their sounds absolutely perfect every time."


Hailey: "This is Halloween, this is Halloween. Everyone’s waiting for the next surprise, popcorn popping right before my eyes."

Steven: "Hot dog, hot dog, hot scoobity scob!"
Hailey: "It's not scooby scob!"

You're My Best Friend!

When Steven and I were little we did everything together. I have pictures of him in a pink tutu to prove it. We were best friends. Now I have Owlex and he has Amanda BUT he's still one of my best friends, just don't tell him that. My hope was always that when I had kids someday they would like each other as much as Steven and I did.
A few nights ago I laid Matthew on the floor so I could make dinner. Of course that meant lots of screaming. "Mom, how could you!?! You're supposed to hold me ALL of the time." Just when I was starting to feel sorry for the tiny guy, in comes Hailey with a book. "Don't cry Mafew, I'll read to you."


It's moments like these that make up for a week without sleep.

Too Tired

At Matthew's four month check up the doctor said, "I rarely see babies this big, he's going to be a tall boy." He's in the 90 percentile for height but only 60 for weight.

I woke up early this morning to register Hailey and I for mommy and me swim lessons. I got there and there 15 mins early and there was already 200 people in line. People had even obviously camped out the night before. I thought there would be maybe 15 people ahead of me. It was crazy.

The woman behind me in said line was a little too friendly, she smacked my butt before the morning was over. She wasn't aiming at my butt, but it was still very strange.

Alex goes back to work in three weeks. :( I'll miss him.

Thursday was 50% humility and 102°. OH! MY! GOODNESS!

I've decided to apply for the Nauvoo pageant for next year. It would be a great experience for us.

Alex bought me the coolest shirt ever! Check it out!

After 3 weeks of traveling this week has been nice and relaxing.

My kids make me happy.

My husband is AWEsome.

I'm a lucky girl.

Three Weeks of Awesome!

We've been busy! I'll spare you the details, but here's some pictures of what we've been up to.

Part of Your World!

I haven't posted video of Hailey singing for a while. She is going through a phase where she hates the camera. Every time she sees the camera she lays on the floor and screams, "No! No! No!" If she doesn't see it, it means she's preoccupied with something else, and doesn't do nearly as good a job as when she is just singing. This video is actually about two months old but isn't nearly as clear as she normally sounds and I have to prompt her much more than usual, so I have held off on posting it. I now realize that until she gets past this phase I won't get a better video, so this is what you get.

It's Too Late!

I tried to post a video of Hailey singing earlier today but blogger video was down. :( So you get this instead. Alex and I both think it's pretty sweet, but we are slightly nerdy.