BABYSITTING!

A few weeks ago we watched my good friend nikki's little boys so they could go to the 311 and snoop dog concert, and we decided to take them to the park. they did really good, and i got to see what it would feel like if i had 4 kids under 6, wow scarey! they are gonna watch our girls soon so donnie and i can go to cedar point, I CANT WAIT! we went last year and it was soooo much fun. i even saw clay aiken there, my first celebrity spotting( i know not really something to be proud of)!

5 reasons why

I MISS ARIZONA:

1. My family
my mom is living in my house right now and i am not even there, that sucks.
my cousins that live there they are the best and i love hanging out with them!!
2. Food
i know that sounds kind of wierd, because there is food here....but i seriously miss Costa Vida, In an Out burgers, Tia Rosa's, and Cafe Rio. oh man what i would do right now for a fish taco!
3. My friends
i miss my girls nights out, and nights at sonic, playing rock band with the sanchez family!!!
4.being in my house
this is probably dumb, but being able to walk groceries into my house,(what most people take for granted). i have to put my 50 bags of groceries in 2 different red wagon flyers and pull them with my 2 children through a hot parking garage, into an elevator and up 6 floors.
being able to do my yard work
having nice neighbors,(the people here are pretty snooty)
5. having a schedule
i cant wait to get taylor back in school and be back on a schedule again. its been nice being out here and sleeping in everyday, but i really like schedules!

Taylors Mermaid Birthday Extravaganza!!

so lets start out by saying that its the night of the party and i am so tired i cant even see straight, my house is A DISASTER, and i am choosing to blog about this. the day was seriously PERFECT! i could not have asked for a better time, and taylor told me at dinner that this was the best day of her life, wow i did good!!i stayed up untill 2 a.m. finishing her decorations with my friend nikki. I had the two sweetest girls in the world volanteer to make taylors cake, which by the way turned out ADORABLE. they were so nice to do that. they brought it over late that night and stayed to help out for a little while. i seriously dont know what i would have done without them. when taylor woke up that morning she seriously freaked out! she was sooooo excited! we had some friends over for cake and some games, and of course presents. we made some mermaid juice and everyone loved it. there was also a treasure hunt where they kids got treasure chest full of treats at the end. after all the guys left for work we all went to the splash pad for like 4 hours. then of course we were starving so the girls and i went to olive garden to have her b-day dinner(minus donnie). all in all it was such a good day. like i said taylor had such a good day! i cant believe she is 6. when i went in to give her one last birthday kiss and say goodnight i got teary eyed of course. she is my baby, well not any more. she is such a beautiful sweet girl, who helps out all the time. we are so blessed to have her in our lives!

what a nice helper! the decorations that took me 4 days to make.(with some help from friends, love you guys)!!

taylor and her cake!

opening up presents. she got SO many good things. polly pockets, littelest petshops, jewlery from maw maw, dress up from grandma, a mermaid movie from mom and dad, and so much more!

jordan and heather holding easton

the kids standing in front of the backdrop

the pretty girls in there suits waiting for the party to start!

us with taylor

making the mermaid juice. that is blue coolaid with green coolaid ice cubes!

they were so excited for there party favors. pinnaple drinks with candy inside!

the start of the treasure hunt. i wont post every clue, ha ha

on to the next clue!

yay! they found the treasure in the oven!

they found there TREASURE!!!

all of the party goers! skylar,taylor,easton,cashe,and ryder!

daddy, tay, parker and brittney

skylars new love, Cashe. she seriously is so cute with him!

brit, anna,easton and taylor. they are so cute we love them!!!

All of the girls at the splash pad...nikki, anna,brit, and beth

this is taylor with her mermaid costume on from brittney and anna!

SO not artistic

well its 11:30 at night and i am getting a little stressed. Taylors birthday is thursday and i have made it my mission to make it a very big and special day for her. she pretty much got jipped last year because we were in detroit for the summer and she wasnt around all of her friends and cousins. so course were not home once again, so i vowed to make it as huge as i could. well she is very much OBSESSED with mermaids so she of course wants that to be her theme. you would think with all of the cute mermaid shows on t.v. for little girls there would be mermaid "themed" things in the stores, well there is not. so i decided to make a huge picture with crete paper on my wall of an ocean, a beach and a mermaid. what i have discovered is that i am SOOOOO not artistic. it took me 2 hours to make some waves and half of the mermaids body which by the way her hand looks "special". donnie told me to maker her hold a beach-ball or something to hide the hand. hopefully it will all come together as i have invisioned it in my head. i only have 2 more nights left to work on it. if any of anyone out there has any ideas that could help i would greatly appreciate it. oh, and by the way pictures will be up later for your ammusment....

BoATiNg!!!

Sunday we went to the lake and went boating with some friends seriously ALL day, i think we were out there for like 7 hours. It was so much fun. i havent done that in a really long time. they have a really nice boat and a new thing called skurfing. its when you litteraly surf right behind the boat. your feet are not strapped into anything, its crazy but really fun. they of course made me try it and i couldnt get up, but then after a few hours they made me try it again and i GOT UP! only for a few seconds but it was really fun while it lasted. Of course donnie got up right away and was really good at it! They also wakeboarded which i want to try next time. billy is friggen awesome on that thing, like wears a helmet and everything. even nikki did it, she make it look easy. Every now and again we would stop and let the kids jump in and swim. they had so much fun! i cant wait to go again!

4th of july

This 4th of july was one of the best we have had in awhile. living in arizona we dont really get the good firework shows for obvious reasons. we went to dinner at red robyn with just the fam, and then went to a park in a town called solon. it was seriously the BEST fireworks show ever! we got there a few hours earlyand just hung out. we did the sparklers and the pop its, the girls loved it. skylar burned herself on the sparkler, but she is fine. taylor was kinda scared of the big fireworks. i dont think she liked the loud noises. it was just great being able to hang out with my family. we dont see donnie that much these days and the girls were so excited the he got to get off work early for the 4th!

i love this time of year!

LOVING OHIO!

I never thought living here that i would be able to experience so many new and cool things. a few days ago a friend an i took our kids to go visit the amish, and by visit i mean drive around there community and sneak pictures of them without them knowing. i seriously wanted to stop and talk to all of them about what they do on a day to day basis. they seem like they lead the most simple, but interesting lives. we ate at Mary Yoders ahmish kitchen, and OH MY GOSH they can cook. we had a full on thanksgiving dinner and the girls shared homemade pumpkin pie. wow i was in heaven. i also bought a huge thing of strawberries from a cute little girl on the side of the rode for 2 dollars. i cant wait to take donnie back, he hasnt been able to do any of the fun things we have done yet.