Japenese Tea Gardens

While we were there we took a trip to the Japenese Tea Gardens. They were beautiful. Very unique, had some really neat trees as well as fish in their ponds. Very peaceful feeling in there.

This bridge was so steep!!! Huge arch!

Todd trimming up the bushes.

Had this really neat bridge if that's what you call these stones going aross the water.

THe Park

My kids along with any other kids LOVE the park. Cindy has a park close by her house which is perfect to walk the kids to to go play. The girls had a good time...well that is after the wandering dog left.


Marlee's hair after going down the slide a few times. STATIC

She is just like Mya, she doesn't like the swing!!!

Playing with Aunt Brit

Climbing the ropes! That was a task in itself!

Trazer-Ray

This big guy is so BIG. My goodness I swear he is not 9 months. He weights almost 25lbs. I can't get over how thick he is. The girls had rolls that went forever but Trey, he is just a solid brick! EVERYWHERE I go I get asked or told how cute it is that I have twins (marlee and trey). They do look like it though, Trey is the same size, wears the same size clothes and diapers...they might as well be! I love this sweet sweet boy. He really melts my heart and those around him. He has such a sweet spirit about him. He's so chill and all he asks is he be in the room with all the action and he will sit and watch for hours. His sisters bug him to death but he tolerates it for now....in a year or 2 the girls better watch out, he will be ready for some serious payback. I love you sweet Trey, thank you for coming to me, even though I didn't think I needed you......thing is I couldn't have done it without you. Your my angel!

Only Marlee

Marlee was looking at a magazine today on the couch. Out of nowhere she starts screaming and yelling at the magazine and growling. I couldn't imagine what caused this sudden outburst so I look at the page and there was a bowl of cereal..Froot Loops to be exact on the page in which she was trying to pick off the page and eat but it just wouldn't come off. Wow I thought her digging through the garabage was bad and eating all the food that had dropped off plates after dinner under the table, but now my child who LOVES to eat is trying to pick picture off of magazines. What's next licking the TV during food advertisments!!! I love my sweet Marlee, she makes me laugh. Laugh a lot really.

BFF's AKA Mya and Taylnn

Playing in the dirt in which they can do for hours.
(don't mind Mya's outfit, she dresses herself these days)

They LOVE doing silly faces!

More Silly Faces!

AHHH AHHHH I love taylnns face in this!!

Mya has some really funny converations these days!

Were driving home from the babysitters one day listening to music.
Me: So what did you do at kendalls today?
Mya: played
Me: Fun.... you guys play DORA?
Mya: Yep
Me: good anything else fun that you did?
Mya: Mom will you please stop talking to me I'm trying to listen and learn this song!


Leaving church today
Me: Wow mya your skipping, that is so neat, where did you learn to skip?
Mya: No mom, I'm just horsy walking.


Mya: Mom I'm going to bring you the mail.
Me: Oh ok, you can't reach it though.
Mya runs outside and returns about 5 min later with one piece of mail.
Me: Oh thanks Mya
Mya continues to bring me mail one in at a time for the next 25 minutes.
I finally realized that wow thats a lot of mail. She was riding around on her bike, standing on the seat to reach the mailbox'S!
She had decieded to be a kind neighborhood and get the whole streets mail.
I had to walk up and down and return it all.
Guess I know what Mya will be when she grows up.

Bowling

Daddy trying to help Marlee

Mya LOVED bowling

Mya had so much fun I think she bowled one that didn't go into the gutter.

Another gutter ball!

Marlee eats like me. More gets on her face than in her mouth.

Kids getting Older!

My sweet Trey Trey

Marlee LOVES head bands! Even though she puts them on dorky!

Uncle Tyson came to play for a weekened. The girls loved playing out in the snow with him!

Marlee out of a bath, with some funky hair!

SNOWYYYYY DAYS

Marlee enjoying the snow

Mom trying to get Marlee to eat the snow. First thing Marlee has turned down.

Mya catching snowflakes.

Smile...(don't mind my look, I didn't get a shower that day).

Marlee playing dress-ups in more moms lingerie.

Snow Day

Mya and Marlee playin in the snow

Marlee before her ride

Marlee after the ride.....traumatized

Hanging out with CUSIONS!

Bestest of Best friends!

Hangin out with the girls

Cheese! Happy gang

Eating ice cream cones and cake! Ta Ta's B-day!

AMAIYA THE MAIL LADY

I have to write this down before I forget. She does the funniest stuff. She told me the other day she wanted to get the mail. She can't even reach the mailbox but I said oh ok hun go get it, thinking she couldn't reach it. Well she comes in a few minutes later with one piece of mail. I was like oh she found a way to get it cool. She continues to bring in one piece of mail for the next 15 20 minutes at a time. After about the 15th or so item of mail I got thinking wow, that 's a lot of mail. As I looked at the mail closer I realized she had been up and down the street riding her little bike, standing on the seat and gathering our whole streets mail! I tried to explain to her we can only get our mail not everybodies. I had to walk up and down the street returning all the mail she took from our neighbors. She was so upset at what I was doing. Guess I know what her occupation will be when she gets older....

Im alive

It's been awhile since I have blogged sorry about the absence. Life has been busy but when is it not? I've been thinking lately, deep thinking really, and this is more for my own personal thoughts to be recorded. I have had several students come to me recently and open up a bit and or I can see a change in them, good and bad. My heart breaks for these kids that are so.....lost is really what comes to mind. I am never shocked when I come to school and have an email that one of my students has been suspended for stealing, beating up someone or drugs. I know we have to be so careful as not to preach religion in schools these days...infact you can't bring it up at all really. And there in lies the problem. There is no religion, no God, no higher being that some of these kids know about and we are not allowed to tell them. We as a society ask ourselves what is wrong with children these days? Well lots of things but who's to take the blame? Media for the unrealistic pressures or parents who are never around nor show love to their child? Video games with such horrible violence, bullies (who really are insecure little souls who are trying to survive the only way they know how) who beat on some innocent, defenseless peer. Is it the teachers, or neighbors or friends of those who are crying out for help and no one hears them or chooses to not take the cry for help seriously.
Being a kid is hard, as far as I am concerned the hardest stage in life. Trying to be someone, and yet who is it they want to be? Trying to measure up to people, fit in, feel loved and accepted. Too many of our kids are left to wonder what it feels like to be loved, what it feels like to truly love someone, to many kids try yr after yr to fit in....somewhere with someone.
Why do humans do this to other humans? Is it our human nature to be and act so loathsome that we feel a right to treat others the way we do? No I don't think so, I truly think their is good in most people but the world we live in is so good at bringing out the bad tempered, the violence, the harshness in us all. I want to take my sweet children and hide them in a closet, where nothing can harm them, yes a bubble we shall say. Will I? Of course not, but what I see at the halls in school and out on the streets makes me cringe to think my kids will be in that world so very soon. I know I cannot control the environment they will always be in, but I can always make them feel loved. I pray it is enough to get them through what lies ahead for them, I pray they are strong and will be a positive influence to others. Hope and faith is all there is to hang onto at times, a hope for something better and faith that we can get there!

Mya's Sweet Conversations

Mya: "Mom look it mom, someone pooped on the mountains."
Me: "No honey that is snow on the mountains"
Mya: "No mom it's snow and poop."
Me: "Oh honey that dark stuff up there is dirt, tress, bushes ya know things like that."
Mya: "No mom that is poop on the mountains and they are in big trouble, they go to time out
mom, you not supposed to poop on the mountains, their big trouble."
Me: ....Speachless




Mya: "Mom where in the toliet paper in my bathroom?"
Me: I put it back on the wall hun where it supposed to go, it fell off yesterday remember?"
Mya: "Did you say you fixed it mom?"
Me: "Yes that is what I said I fixed it."
Mya: "ah ah no mom you break things dad fixes them!"