Fingers and Toes

Thing 1 really likes having her toenails and fingernails painted. I bought some quick dry nail polish in her favorite color “pink”. I also do her hair occasionally even though she takes it out. I babysat Charlynn’s daughter “M” and we painted nails while Thing 2 was hanging out with Dad. It was fun to have some girl time, I only got a little fingernail polish on my pants (M can open finger nail polish).

Boise Trip

We went to Boise for the weekend. I took the day off work on Friday, we drove 4 hours and went to the zoo. We had a little picnic in the park by the zoo. The kids had a lot of fun stretching their legs. They saw a goose and Thing 1 wanted to “pet” it so we told her to go try. Thing 2 went with her and they held hands walking toward the goose, it was really cute and I didn’t have the camera out, dang.

Then we went to the zoo. Becky (Jake’s sister) and her husband Jeff and daughter “B” went with us. We had a lot of fun and it was good to see Jeff, he has been serving in Iraq and is home on leave for a couple weeks. Thing 1 wanted to pet every animal she saw, then she was really nervous with the goats and sheep. Thing 2 fed the animals with no problem at all. The kids also loved the slides.

Then we went to our hotel, it was the first hotel experience with the kids. They loved it. They drew with the pen on the tablet that were by the phone. They climbed on the chairs and ran in the hallway. We took them swimming but I don’t have pictures of that, Becky took some pictures, so hopefully we will see those soon. Thing 1 loved swimming, Thing 2 was “all done” before we started. “B” enjoyed it but it was a little cold.

We had pizza at the hotel with Jake’s parents, Becky, Jeff, and Bridgett. Phil came later after work. It was fun to chat with everyone and let the kids show off their tricks. Jake often uses the kids as entertainment. The kids also showed “B” how to walk and she just wanted to keep up with them.

Saturday, we spent the day helping get ready for “B’s” first birthday party and then attending the party. It was at a little park and the kids loved the swings and the slides. The cupcakes were adorable. Becky and Jeff had a ton of friends and family show up for “B’s” special day. I think it might be nice to live in a subdivision with lots of young couples to meet and become friends with. Then we drove home and it was a long drive home. It reminded me why we don’t go to Boise or Salt Lake very often.

Sorry for all the pictures, but we had a lot of fun and we wanted to share it with you.

My Funk

Do you ever feel like your opinion of yourself just keeps getting worse and worse?

I have felt that way this week. I’ve felt fat. I’ve felt stupid. I’ve felt unimportant. I’ve felt like I don’t have friends, or at least that I can’t make new friends. It just seems that every time I turn around this week I feel like a failure. I feel like a bad mom, I leave my kids three days a week to work and leave someone else to take care of them. I feel like a bad wife the majority of the time. I use to think I was a nice person and now I feel like I’m judgmental and rude.

How do you get out of a funk like this? How can I improve myself to overcome all this? I’m not saying that I don’t like my life, I love my kids and my husband. I like my house and love my family and Jake’s family. I’m glad I have a job to support my family. It’s just sometimes life gets you down.

Spring Flowers

I waited and waited for my tulips to bloom. I was really excited when they finally did and wanted Jake to take some pictures, he kept saying let’s wait until more bloom. So finally one day the kids were sniffing them and we got some cute pictures of the kids and my flowers. I love tulips, and I really enjoy Spring.

I have more flowers up around more trees and by the house, but these are the only pictures I took. Of course the majority are of the very cute kids we have around here.

Boys and Girls

We have an interesting situation having twins, one boy and one girl. Since the two bathe together they are learning anatomy that normally a child at 18 months wouldn’t know about. Or at least not know the other genders.

Thing 1 discovered Thing 2’s privates first and started looking for her own. I had to remind her not to touch Thing 2’s part more than once, and I still have to remind him not to touch himself during bath time. Because Thing 1 couldn’t find her own I had to explain that she has a different part. Both kids now know that Thing 2 and Dad have one part and Mom and Thing 1 have the other one. Both can say the name of each part and while having diaper changes or in the bath point them out. While I’m changing Thing 1 she says “p___, no ‘ina”.

Our new photos

We had some pictures taken about a month ago, I really like how they turned out. It is going to be hard to pick which ones to hang on the wall. What do you think?

Thing 1, all about smiling for the camera. She really wanted to sit in the blue chair, even though it didn’t match what she was wearing at all.

I asked Thing 2 to give me a few smiles then he could be done, but we didn’t get very many authentic smiles once I changed him into his Easter outfit.

We already chose one of them together, but I love the one where he is laughing and she is looking at him.

Photos by Misty with Mystic Memories : http://mysticmemories.blogspot.com/

SPRING

Our kids have really enjoyed the nice days. When we can actually spend a little bit of time outside. They both love the hammock swings we bought in Mexico. They also really like sidewalk chalk. They start drawing and say “A,A,A” because I wrote out the alphabet for them the firs time we played with the chalk. I love these two characters.

Goodbye’s

This month at work is a difficult one. We are saying goodbye to a technician and three interns. It is hard to lose these friends. Sometimes I feel like the only reason I keep going to work is for the friendships, it will be very hard not seeing these friends at work each day. Not to mention the fact that I dislike my job most of the time anyway.

Yesterday was a horrible day for me at work. I had an old man be extremely rude to me while I was trying to help him. He blamed me because his doctor didn’t call in his prescription, he knew it was called in at 9:30 and that it was definitely called in to my pharmacy, it couldn’t have been the doctor’s office fault. Turned out it wasn’t either of us he was just suppose to get a refill. So I refilled it in less that ten minutes but he still had to wait and complained to the store manager. WHAT!?!

I also had a bad experience with how lunches were taken so I was kind of bitter when I came home from work. It also doesn’t help that my baby girl cries when I leave for work. Jake brought them to have lunch yesterday and she cried when I got out of the car to go back to work. I feel so bad leaving her to do something that seems pointless. I know it’s money, but sometimes it doesn’t seem worthwhile.

Anyway, goodbye friends. All of you will be missed.