Warning...Graphic Pictures!!!

Soooo...the other day I was cleaning, cooking, and talking on the phone. When I looked at the clock I was surprised that the twins were still asleep. So I quickly ran upstairs and this is what i found.

Preslee had taken her diaper off, smeared it on the walls, blankets, crib, herself, and everything else that was in reach. I just stood frozen at the door of Preslee's room. I closed my eyes hoping that when I opened them that I would wake up from a nightmare. But I wasn't dreaming. I seriously stood there for a few seconds wondering how I was going to tackle the project. My first thought was, Grab the camera so I can have proof to show John what a horrible day I had had. After snapping a few quick shots and trying to keep Preslee from eating the chunks that she was picking off her legs (I know, soooo gross!!!) I picked her up and took her to the bathtub. I took her dress off and started dumping water on her. After a few minutes the tub was completely plugged and full of poop and I wasnt having much success of getting her clean. The only other thing I could think of was to throw her in the shower. I had to scrub under her fingernails and toenails, wash her mouth out, and scrub every inch of her body. Once I finally had her clean it was time to clean the shower, bath, and the stinky bedroom. This was by far the worst poop episode that I have ever had to deal with. I thought having them poop in the tub was absolutely the most disgusting thing in the world, but Preslee proved that it can get much worse than that. I just never new that having kids would bring such horrendous dirty jobs into my life. The joys of being a mom!!! (sorry for such a gross post, but had to share!!!)

Frontliner+Gateway=Busy Day

My friend Becca planned for us to meet them on the frontliner and spend the afternoon at Gateway. The girls loved going on the upperdeck and being on the "train." The fun didn't last very long because after about 5 minutes the famous question started. "Are we there yet?" My first thought was "Are you serious. I just spent $16.50 for you girls to have a nice long train ride and now you are wanting to be done with the train ride." But I refrained and instead said, "No we have about an hour and riding the train is supposed to be fun!!!" I love how you plan something that you think the kids are just absolutely are going to love and then they totally miss the point and are never satisfied. ANYWAY...Once we got to gateway we spent a little time in the Hansen Planitarium. Not as cool as I remember it being as a kid, but it was free so can't complain.

By that time the adults were all starving. We would have loved to have gone to a "restaurant" but none of us felt like wrestling 8 kids while trying to enjoy a nice meal so instead we compromised and headed to the food court. Brilynn and Maycie enjoyed their Sbarro pizza, I had a taco salad from Taco Time and John chose the worst thing possible, chinese food from Panda, his favorite. The one nice thing about a food court is everyone is able to get what they like.

As we were trying to decide what to do next, John and I spotted our favorite arcade game. Deal or No Deal. Have you ever played this addicting arcade game. It really is ridiculous how much we like to play it and definetly not worth the $2 but the kids get so excited when we do well and they win a ton of tickets. If anyone knows of a cheaper place to play this game...please let us know:) The girls benefited from our game playing and were able to use the tickets to get prizes. I am always amazed at the small cheap things that they love. They turned their tickets in for those small plastic candy holders that look like lipstick. Inside is a hard candy that is supposed to be the lipstick. If you don't know what I am talking about, I apologize but we loved them when we were kids and we would freeze water in them after eating the candy. Brilynn and Maycie loved these. They were the highlight of our trip. I could have brought one home from the store for them and they would have been just as happy not doing all the other fluff that we planned for the day. Crazy!!! I don't know how many times I have been asked since then if I would like some of their beautiful lipstick. You can barely see the lipstick in Maycie's hand in the next picture but maybe that will help you know what I am trying to describe and not doing a very good job

Time flew by and we had to leave earlier than Becca and her family to meet some of John's family for dinner that night. So we said our goodbyes and headed back to get on the frontrunner. We jumped aboard trax in hopes to quickly make it back to the frontliner in time. We weren't sure when the frontrunner left but we did know that on the weekends it only runs every hour. We were relieved to see that the frontrunner was still there when trax arrived. As we were juggling to get off of trax, I wanted to scream. The frontrunner was honking it's horn and pulling off. We were only about 20 yards from it. I was disappointed but John really was not thrilled. So there we were sitting at the Salt Lake train station with 4 kids and nothing to do for an hour. So here are some pics that we took during that long waiting period

The girls actually really enjoyed the ride home. It was a fun day and we loved spending time with the Johnson's We don't get to see them as often as we would like but we always have a great time with them no matter what we are doing. Thanks Becca for inviting us and planning a fun day.

Never Amazed...Just Makes Me Laugh

I am never really shocked when I get my camera and realize that Brilynn and Maycie have been taking pictures of each other. Today I went to take a few pictures of the twins and when I was reviewing the pics...this is what I found on my camera.

Don't ask me what is up with her undershirt...she has her arm strap around her neck??? She must have had her hair in braids and decided to take her hair out. Then Maycie must have taken the picture just in time to have her eyes look like they are going to POP out of her head. Like I said, Never Amazed...Just Makes Me Laugh

New Camera Lens

I just got me a new lens for my camera and took a few pix with it. I have been trying to learn all this photography mess and I never knew it was so complicated. I tried to sign up yesterday for one of the local photography classes. When the lady returned my phone call, she informed me that I am on the waiting list for the January of 2010 class. You have got to be kidding!!! She said that it is such a popular class that there are always waiting lists. Sooooo...I guess I will continue learning on my own until I can find another class to take. However John was so excited because he has been going to an institute class on the same night. When I told him the class was full he didn't believe me for a minute but was soon very excited. He didn't even act sad that I couldn't get into this class that I have been dying to take:) If I was smart I would have just told him that I felt bad that he wasn't going to be able to continue his class so I have decided to put mine off until next year. I'm always a little slow when it comes to things like that. If anyone knows of a good photography class let me know!!!

Big Sisters

I really thought that Brilynn and Maycie would get tired of having babies around. I was completely wrong. They play with them all the time and although they don't fight over who gets to hold the baby they do fight over who gets to hold who. Depending on the activity and who is fussy, they always seem to want to hold the same baby. Drives me crazy!!! The first thing Brilynn does when she comes home is say, "I'm home mom, are the babies up?????" I can't complain to much though because they are the best little babysitters!!!

Payge's Headstand

Payge is so funny when she crawls. John calls her "Mowgli" because instead of crawling on her knees, she likes to crawl on her hands and feet. I haven't been able to snag a picture of it yet (still working on it, she seems to stop everytime I grab the camera) but when she is done crawling, and is upset she puts her head on the floor and it looks like she is trying to do headstand. We laugh everytime she does it. I love watching the quirky things babies do.

Sweet Maycie

I love this picture of Maycie playing Webkinz on the computer. She is in such deep concentration, she didn't even flinch when I took the picture. She has been so bored since Brilynn has gone back on track and so I have really had to monitor the amount of time she spends on the computer. Dance, playgroup, and joy school just isn't enough to keep her entertained. She really misses Brilynn being at home and is always asking how much longer until "Bri" gets home. I'm just not as much fun and I can only play Littlest Pet Shop for so long. I am going to get my nephew this week since my sister just had her baby. Maycie is so excited to have Casen coming to stay with us so she will have someone to play with!!!

Great Harvest

We went to Great Harvest Bread Co. for a field trip for Mayice's preschool. They do such a good job with the kids and they give you a coupon for a cookie for the kids and a free loaf of bread on your next trip. Maybe that's why I love going there on fieldtrips. Anyway, when we got there, I was approached by a guy asking me if I was from the Preschool in Kaysville. After I told him what we were doing he explained that his wife had left him in charge of taking his daughter to her field trip but his daughter kept telling him that those girls weren't in her preschool. Poor guy. I explained that there are two Great Harvest's in Layton and that they were probably at the other store. Since he was already late, I invited them to just come with our group. So there are his two daughters in the pictures and I know nothing about them besides their mom gave their Dad a task to do and he was completely confused.

Preslee and Payge

Preslee is getting her two bottom teeth and has learned how to pull herself up to things. I am sure it won't be long until she is walking around like a mad woman. Church has become impossible with the twins since they are both wanting to crawl everywhere. Thank heavens I have such sweet friends who are always willing to help out whenever possible. Preslee just seems to do things about a month in before Payge does. Brilynn and Maycie are always saying, "We need to teach Payge how to do things like Preslee." Preslee can fold her arms, wave good-bye and quickly shakes her head "no" at us when we say "No, no Preslee." Payge just tries her best to stay as far away from Preslee as possible so that her toys don't get stolen. One of my favorite things to do is just sit back and watch how they interact. I never thought in a million years I would have twin girls. John and I feel so blessed to be able to have them in our family.

I've been tagged!!!!!!!!

So this isn't the first time I have been tagged and I apologize to any of my friends/family who have tagged me and I haven't done it;) Here it goes...

8 favorite TV shows...(not a big TV watcher but here are a few I watch when I get around to it. usually they are recorded and i watch them a few weeks later)
1. Surviver (have watched this since season 1 and can say I am a true FAN)
2. Amazing Race
3. Cold Case
4. Without a Trace
5. Any sport channel (not because I watch them but for some reason they are always on)
6. American Idol
7. 48 hours Mystery
8. Deal or no Deal

8 favorite Restaurants...
1. Los Hermonos (Mexican restaurant in Provo where we used to eat a lot during college, I still make it there once in a great while but I haven't found a mexican restraunt that compares)
2. Cafe Rio
3.El Matador
4. Applebees (don't like as much now that they don't have the fried pickles)
5. Red Robin
6. Brick Oven (Another college favorite)
7. Olive Garden (not my favorite but the kids love it!!!)
8. Really any place that I don't have to cook :)

8 Things I did Yesterday
1. Took Maycie to Joy School
2. Changed LOTSSSSSSS of DIAPERS!!!!
3. Took Maycie to Play group
4. Played the wii with the girls
5. Deep cleaned the whole house, top to bottom, all three levels...not the funnest thing but addicted to the smell and feel of a fresh totally clean house.
6. Made Cheese Tortellini soup for dinner (yes, I did cook)
7. Got new scrapbook shelves and organized all my scrapbooks.
8 Went shopping (after 8:00 p.m. without any kids) and made a fabulous find at old navy. They had an additional 50% off their clearance and then I had a $10.oo off of $50.00 coupon. Bought $208.00 worth of kids clothes for $42.00. I love stocking up on cute clothes for the kids for the next season. This made up for spending most of the day cleaning the house.

8 things I look forward to...
1. Spring, not a big fan of winter
2. Going to bed at night
3. Beach vacation in June
4. The funny things that Brilynn and Maycie say(they definetly take after their dad when it comes to humor. They have been quoting lines from Bedtime Stories ever since they saw it on Christmas day. I am always asking them where they heard that, or where did you get them from and recently the answer has been "from bedtime stories." Very cute show)
5. I total body massage from my dear husband (hint...hint)
6. In the next life being able to eat whatever I want whenever I want and not having on ounce of guilt
7. Seeing the movie Marley and Me
8. Having a night of hanging out with friends and no kids

8 things on my wishlist...
1. Being skinny and not having to work at it.
2. Going to Spain (this is really for John because he would love to take me to Spain but deep down I would much rather go to a warm all enclusive resort with nothing to do but RELAX but Spain would be fine as well)
3. That my girls can make it through their teenage years and not stray to far from the straight and narrow
4. To have my own Professional Chef to cook wonderful yummy healthy meals for my family...breakfast, lunch, and dinner
5. Be completely caught up on scrapbooking...so close yet so far away
6. Have twin boys (I really am done having kids but if I was 100% guaranteed twin boys I would do it in a heart beat. I can say that because I know it will never happen but this is my wishlist right???)
7. A day spa 1 hour massage everyday (ha...wouldn't that be nice)
8. A little more time in the day to do the things I need and want to do that I usually don't get to.

8 people I tag...
Okay, so I know a lot of people have already done this tag, so I Tag anyone on my blog who hasn't done this Tag!!!

Going to Boise...Never mind, Idaho Falls

We tried to go to Boise on Friday after Christmas to be with some of Johns family and have a Christmas get together. The rodes were so icey and after two hours in the car and finding out that the rodes were closed we had to turn around. Brilynn and Maycie were devestated and I felt like I had spent hours packing for nothing. It was a huge disappointment for all of us. John's sister and her family were going to Idaho Falls the following Monday to visit his other sister so we decided to go as well. Although it was a very quick trip, the girls enjoyed being able to play with their cousins and loved opening their gifts from their Grandparents.

Lovely Pedicures

Thanks to the gift from Grandma and Grandpa West, Brilynn and Maycie had a relaxing night doing their pedicures. They had been begging me all day to do the pedicures and so I used it to my advantage. Anytime they were being naughty or not listening I threatened them with the pedicure. Instantly they would stop fighting and start doing what I asked them to do. It was great. Overall they were very good girls so after putting the twins to bed we enjoyed a night of pedicures. They didn't think it was very relaxing though when I was trying to massage their feet, someday they will learn!!!

Payge is Crawling!!!

Once again Payge has caught up with her sister and is now crawling all over the place. She loves being mobile and being able to stay up with her sister. Although Preslee seems to meet all of her milestones first, Payge did beat her at something. She got her two bottom teeth and Preslee is still toothless. They are so much fun!!!

Sledding

Wade came and picked up the girls to take them sledding. Brilynn didn't want to go but later decided that she was missing out so John took her down to the park where they were going to be sledding. Brilynn has never liked the cold and I was shocked when she said that she wanted to go. The kids loved it!!! They can't wait to go again. Maybe Brilynn is starting to be a little more warm blooded.

Whahoooooooooo...It's Christmas(I'm just a little late posting)

Christmas Eve we let the girls open a few of their Christmas gifts in hopes that Christmas Day might not be so overwhelming to them. Sid and Jerry Stoker were so sweet to give the girls a Christmas gift (which was their favorite thing they opened on Christmas Eve) John and I were laughing so hard when Brilynn came into the Kitchen with her dazzling bright red lipstick on. Preslee and Payge had no idea what was going on but they loved crawling around and playing with the wrapping paper. Christmas day was very nice and quiet at our house. Since we don't have a lot of family close we had just our family together for Christmas. We usually go to my mom's on Christmas day but my parents were in Disneyland. Since we had no place to go we took our time opening gifts and just enjoying every minute of our Christmas day. It was very relaxing and the kids enjoyed playing with their new toys all day. In the afternoon, John took the girls to see Bedtime Stories and they absolutley loved it. We all really enjoyed a quite Christmas at home.