Weekend has come early!

So I babysat this week and this morning my phone rings at 3:30 am and its my dear friend Rita telling me she is sick so she will be staying home and I don't need to go over to watch the kids today. So hello dear weekend I missed you! So I went back to bed and slept until 7:30!! I got Four hours of extra sleep yay. So now I am waiting for my apple cinnamon muffins to be done. I found a good recipe and can't wait to taste it.

This weekend Kevin will be going camping again with the boy-scouts and I will be home with the girls but I am leaning towards going to visit Iris and Katie! My car isn't in the best shape so I don't know, but Kevin is gonna take a look at it and then give me the go ahead or the bad news. (cross your fingers)

Now what to do today with an whole extra day? Spend it in my pj's or take the kids to the park for a picnic, maybe hit the splash pad? Oh I don't know a whole day of possibilities!

Goal #1

So today I'm feeling slightly less than motivated but maybe if I write it down and someone else reads it I'll feel like I have to do it! My goal this month is to take more pictures or me with the kids! I'm always behind the camera and so i have almost no pictures of me with the kids or anything! It kind of makes me sad because I feel like later the girls will be like mom why were you never in any pictures?? Anyway thats my goal.

So also I am watching my neighbors kids this week like I said in my previous post, and this morning they woke up as I am passed out on the couch and they apparently just watched me sleep for a half hour! These kids are kinda weird lol. I was like why didn't you just wake me up? And since MyKenna is still with Jace I have to figure out how to keep the occupied. I'm trying to let Kevin and Sadie sleep in, but they don't have any desire to stay at their own house. Oh now I'm just complaining so I better just wrap this post up.

Early mornings v sleeping in??

So this entire week my alarm will be set to 3:45 am! Yes thats right I am going to wake up before 9:00 haha. I am babysitting for my next door neighbor who has to be at work 5 but with driving and all that she has to leave her house around 4, same for her husband!! They are nuts! So since i live next door and her kids are on spring break which means their nana has 6 + others kids to watch I'm back to babysitting. The girls are nice and very helpful but unfortunately they only have one volume extra loud. So anyway back to my question do you seem to have more energy if you get up late or when you wake up early? Today I feel like I have accomplished stuff! I cleaned the kitchen washed the dishes, made play dough, made french toast for breakfast, have Sadie down for a nap, sent Kevin to school, and I already planned out lunch and dinner, have the meat thawing out and it's not even 10:30 am. So I think if I get up early I do more, and I feel more active. When I get up at 9:00 I feel so tired and groggy and don't have much energy for playing and things like that. So for me I guess getting up early helps. Although I'm by no means going to start getting up at 4 am anytime soon but for this week maybe I'll do all that stuff I've been meaning to do!

Rainbow Cupcakes!

So with a little extra encouragement due to Katie's post about her cupcakes I decided to try out the rainbow cupcakes. I couldn't figure out how to post the pics on her blog so I'm posting them on mine! Here you go Katie Love!

I gave Sadie the the top of a cupcake!

She loved the frosting but then she turned it over and...

she loved the colorful surprise!

It was a lot of fun. MyKenna helped me fill the cupcakes and she picked the order that we filled them in we its a giant mess because as you can guess Kenna's tiny hands don't have the control that mine do :) It was fun and she loved it I didn't get any pictures of Kenna cuz she took so long eating lunch I was already putting Sadie down for a nap when she devoured hers. But they were a big hit and this might just be the winner for Kenna's birthday party next month!!

Color Crazy!

So since it is St. Patty's day I decided to do what my dad used to do for us! DYE the food Green!

Kevin was somewhat horrified by it but I love it! Sadie wasn't too sure about it at first but after a little she realized it was just normal :) I am sad that MyKenna wasn't here to enjoy but a friend of mine suggested I just do it when she gets back, since Jace isn't bringing her until around eight I think I will just have to come up with a fun evening snack that is green! Anyway here is a couple of pictures. Happy St. Patrick's Day to everyone!

Jewelry for sale

So Kim, Iris and myself are "crafty" we make beaded jewelry, chain jewelry, and Iris crochets the most beautiful head bands and purses. So we got up early and set up shop at the monthly festival at Bashas, well today is also the Ostrich Festival so foot traffic was lacking. I sold two pieces of jewelry and Iris sold one headband, Kim was ahead of the game and sold five items. The hot selling item of the day was the flower clips my niece and her friend put together. We didn't make much money but we sure had fun anyway!

Long week

This Kid, poor baby gets sick all the time it seems! She had an upper respiratory infection which has caused and ear infection. So every morning it seems I get her out of bed and have to wipe off her whole face to clear off the snot and tears caused from all this sickness. Poor thing and I know she is absolutely miserable because she is sitting right next to Kenna and won't even lift a hand to pull her hair! Thats her favorite thing to do it seems, she loves hearing Kenna yell it seems. :) Its funny. But its been a long week with poor Sadie and even worse our health insurance was canceled and is taking forever to get reinstated so we can't even take her to the Dr. to have her looked at and we are looking at some pricey antibiotics which we can't afford with out the insurance so the poor baby has to suffer because someone at the freaking office didn't tell me that i was missing paperwork until it was already canceled!!

Well tomorrow is the "fair" at Bashas' and Kim, Iris, and myself are going to try and sell some of the jewelry and other crafts we have been making. So tonight I will be having a sleepover at Kim's with Iris and all the kids!! Yea that makes six kids under the age of 4! Call us crazy but its always a huge mess and soo much fun. Except I'm gonna have to keep Sadie in quarantine from the other kids so she won't get them sick or heaven forbid sicker. Right now the sweet baby is asleep in my arms and I'm remembering how hard it is to type with 18 pounds resting on your forearms.

Kevin is starting his EMT refresher course this weekend so in a few weeks we hope he might be able to get on with an ambulance company or even dare I hope the fire department!!! He has already done all of the work and schooling to be a firefighter but with the lack of jobs in that area and extra skills he has are so important so we are bulking up his resume. Even if this means sacrificing our time together for a couple of weeks. But I do miss having him around the kids seem less out of control when he is home. Although the house is rather clean due to the fact that Kev feels bad about having to be gone so while I go to bed "early" he sneaks around the house cleaning to lighten the load a little on me which I appreciate so much! I love that man!