Prayer Mishaps

So our bedtime prayers went like this tonight.

Nico: Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for this bay (laughing)
Dear Heavenly Fath (laughing)
Dear Beavenly Father ( hysterical laughing)

Sydney: (laughing through her nose)

Mom: Nico just say the prayer the right way

Dad: (laughing silently)

Take #2:
Nico: Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for bis day, (but continued) Thank you for missionaries, prophet, mommy, daddy, syd, sophie and me.
Thanks for my toys, my clean clothes, my kid cuisine with fried chicken for dinner, for candy.

Sydney: (still laughing through her nose)

Mom: Nico Say is the right way again.

Nick: (shaking he is laughing so hard)

Take #3
Nico: Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for this day (finally!) thank you for daddy's stinky Bu....tt

Sydney:(almost peeing her pants laughing)

Mom: Ok that's it your done, in bed now young man. (i said it yelling and really said young man)

Nick: peeing his pants he's laughing so hard

At this point Nico is crying begging me to start over again. Too late I sent him to bed.

How do I teach my kids how to say heart felt prayers when their dad is laughing with them?

Halloween Dress - Up

Last night I took my kids over to my mother in laws house for a neighborhood Halloween party her development was having. She was watching my kids while Nick was out of town on a guys weekend and I was going out with a friend for a girls night. Laura and I headed over to Victoria Gardens did a little shopping, ate some dinner at The Cheesecake Factory did a little more shopping and met up with Kalli and relaxed in Laura's hottub and ate some yummy cheesecake for dessert. It was a good night.

My kids had a great time at grandma's house as well. Nico and Sophie tied for 3rd place in the costume contest. (way to go kids) And Sophie discovered the fun in lollipops.

My fighter pilot son. He loves this costume. I'm glad we got it.
Sydney the Good Witch of Chino. She looks so cute.
Sophie the littlest Witch of Chino.
My smiling gang of darlings.
Love, love, love my little babies.
More Halloween pics to come later this week.

Happy Birthday Babe!!!

Happy Birthday to my hot hubby! Today he turns..... I guess after 30 you don't really tell your age, that makes you feel old. I felt bad, he had to work today after a long weekend of DJing and taking care of a sick baby. So I at least made him what he wanted for dinner. And I took the kids to the $1 store and gave them each $5 to spend on whatever they wanted for Nick. Nico picked out Transformers dishes and a glass turtle among other things. Sydney picked out a fake moustache and glasses and a nerds rope plus a little more. Nick loves seeing what they pick out, it cracks him up.

Love you babe.

windyyyyyyyyyyyy

This wind is killing me. Last night the stinkin wind ripped off the gate on the side of our house and knocked over our basketball hoop onto Nick's car, giving it some nice little scrapes and dents. That poor car, it has seen more dings and knicks in it's short little life. Our dog escaped when the gate came tumling down and our nice neighbor caught her and put her in their yard. The wind makes my skin so dry and tight. And my baby girl is super sick with a cold and allergies. She has not slept in three days. So therefore Nick and I haven't slept. She has asthma so when she gets coughing she doesn't stop.

So back to the wind, last night i went outside and was almost knocked over the wind was so strong. I heard that the gust were up to 80 mph. What the heck? Isn't Halloween next week, I thought summer was over?

Transformers

All I have to say is that I love, love, love this movie. I loved it when I saw it in the theatre and I was so excited when it came out on Tuesday. So Nico and I watched it twice today, in a row. I was folding laundry and other little things but yes twice. And right now it's 8:30 and my kids are in bed and what is on the TV right now, that's right, Transformers for the third time. I love it. It is in my top five favorite of all time. Am I a nerd? That is definately a possibility.

DOES ANYONE SHARE MY LOVE OF 1980'S ACTION FIGURES TURNED MOVIES?

My Baby Girl

So on Saturday Sydney and Nico were outside playing in the front yard and Sophie wandered over to the door and starting watching them and then started yelling at them to come get her. It was pretty funny.

She turned around at me during a scream and flashed a smile. Can you say faker!
I just though this pic was too funny.
After the door she wandered over to my entry way table and started to climb up and grab my fall decor. So I caught these while she was sneaking around.

She successfully grabbed a pumpkin that I took away as she tried to bite into it.

Missing Family

Today my sister in law Marissa came into town with her cute little kiddies. She and her hubby Rick used to live here in Chino and were the reason we moved here. And last year they up and left me and moved to Eagle Mountain, Utah into a beautiful new house. Anyway, so she came over and just hung out for the afternoon. Like we used to do all the time. I can't tell you how much I miss her. It's days like today that I realize what I miss so much. She and I can just sit around and chat and do nothing while the kids play and have a blast. It's sad to have one of my bestest friends live so far away. Poor little me, i'm all alone in California with no family to love me. Do you sense my desperation? Are you pitying me yet? Anyway here are some pics from a recent visit. I didn't snap any today my camera ate my batteries.

Miss and I with our cute babies, Sophie and Jett. Don't you just want to bite them.

THE THREE AMIGOS: Drake, Nico and Cade. These boys crack me up. They are the wildest little beasts I've ever know. Love you boys!

BEST FRIENDS: These sweet girls miss each other so much. They are only three months apart and did everything together until last year. It's like they were siamese twins. And the boys are all about 10 months apart. Drake is 10 months older than Nico. and Nico is 9 months older than Cade. WE REALLY MISS OUR UTAH JACKMANS!

New

I suppose I should post something new on my post but my life has hit a stagnat point. I am enjoying the same things everyday. The only question I can post is how do I deal with a child that has aquired the attitude of a 15 year old? Sydney is making me crazy. And I don't know how to deal with her. Help.

a moment for my little Sydney

So last Saturday Sydney was playing in her room, just being a kid, doing what kids to best, making messes. And without notice she started screaming her head off and ran in to where i was and showed me her bleeding foot with a rather large hole in it. Once we got the blood under control and calmed her down she explained what happened. Somehow, and i still can't figure out how, she tripped and as she was tripping a blue colored pencil stabbed the top of her foot. She brought me the pencil and a very large portion of the pencil was broken off. Our first thought, it is in her foot. So my brave hubby dug around in her foot and said he couldn't find anything so we thought we were in the clear. I put cream and a bandaid on it and that was all.

Until yesterday at around 6:00pm when sydney came running in the house screaming yet again only this time it was about the fact that her stabbing wound was bright blue. I looked at her foot and the wound was huge and in fact AQUA blue. So I started sqweezing and sqweezing and Aqua Blue liquid began pouring out of her foot. So yes the pencil was in her foot and had been there festering for almost a week. And had melted. Yuck. So she's screaming that her foot is going to fall off and blue is oozing out, Nico has made the kitchen counter next to where Sydney is sitting his comand post for his lego megazords and is leading them into battle, and Sophie is cligning to my leg and screaming at me at the top of her lungs to pay attention to her and she's tired and ready for bed. So after I explain (ok, i didn't explain, i yelled) that Sydney's foot is not going to fall off, and Nico to move command central and Sophie to just be quiet then the puss starts to roll out of her foot. That stuff would not end, gross, gross, gross.

So I finally get some control, move Nico, put Sophie to bed and get Sydney as calm as i can and I call my mom and explain the situation (mama Jill is a nurse) and she tells me that it's probably infected and I should take her to the doctor first thing in the morning. And shame on me as a mom, this is what i told her. "mom, if I do that I can't go to the gym and I can't miss the gym, her foot can wait until after i'm done" (i know, i know) So she tells me to take her to urgent care right then. So I call nick, he begins to come home, and i arrange for someone to come sit with the kids till he gets home and syd and i head out the door. Mind you that she is screaming again because she thinks the dr is going to shoot up her foot and dig some more.

So we get there the dr looks at it for about 1 minute, tells us it is infected and gives us a prescription for the next 10 days.

We even got home before Nick, yeah for Kaiser. So my night went by in a blur, sydney's foot is still attached, and Nico finally moved his megazords(megazords are power ranger things he makes with legos) and Sophie slept through the night. I guess it makes a good story.

But I think we'll avoid good stories for a little while.

Moonlight

For all of you who are just as obsessed with Stephanie Meyer books as I am I found the next best thing. I am sitting on pins and needles waiting for the next book to come out but until then check out the show Moonlight on CBS. It is a show about a vampire that is a good guy and dang good looking too. I watched the premiere last week and am hooked now. He is a private eye who is trying to protect his way of life, protect the girl he saved and is falling for and he is the good guy who gets the bad guys. How can you go wrong. This will become my favorite show by far I already know. It's on Friday night @ 9:00pm on CBS. Check it out, you don't be disappointed.

Disneyland with Friends

On Friday night I gathered my kids and convinced my friend Laura to get her passes renewed and we headed to Disneyland with our six kids. We had a great time. It was insanely crowded, I have never been there when it has been that crazy. But we still had a great time. We watched a parade, and at the end of the night we got hot chocolate and a cookie. Good times!!!

Nico, Sydney, Kaitlin, and Kinsie. Nico and Kinsie were holding hands all night and now he's calling her Kins.
Sydney and Kaitlin on the Merry go Round
Me and the kids and Kinsie. She jumped into the picture at the last second.
Nico and the pumpkin king.
The girls and the king.