"JAYDA! WHAT THE. . . ."

So this is definitely one of those moments when you have two choices. . .cry, or laugh and take a picture. . . .


This is what Jayda did on Tuesday, I was getting some things done in the baby's room in preparation for his arrival and all of the sudden Jayda peeks her head around the corner looking like she does in the picture with a big grin on her face. I was shocked! Not even knowing what could possibly be on her face, I was like "Jayda! what is that?!" I didn't expect a reply I was just at a loss for words, but she spoke up saying "stick, stick" I then went downstairs with her, which is where she was, I was also watching her little friend, Tylie and those to are quite a pair, so I knew Tylie would have helped her out on this lovely art project, I knew Jayda, headed it up, getting the lipstick out of my bathroom drawer. So coming down the stairs to find Tylie and the lipstick I see my wall and was like "are you kidding me!" Jayda was quite proud of her creation, she kept on smiling and asking "whats wrong mom?" I would try to be stern with them telling them "no, no we don't do that" they would just look at me and smile then I would have to fight a smile, little buggers know how to work it.

So, as you can see Jayda was the worst off.

I was worried how I was going to get this off their faces and the wall seeing as lipstick is fairly greasy. I had to use make-up remover for their faces, luckily I had these pre-moistened face washing cloths that worked great! I also had this spray for the wall that happened to have a de-greaser in it and it came right off.

Unfortunately this is not the first time these two have done a lipstick massacre and they both are horrible about coloring on the walls around the house. We keep all the markers, crayons, pens, pencils, etc hidden for these events. I have resorted to just letting her color with her aqua doodle for now. I sure hope she grows out of this soon, I don't think my walls can take it.

St. Patricks Day

We enjoyed our St. Patricks Day, Nyah was talking about for a while before it happened. At her school they have a strict dress code, so they couldn't "wear" green clothes but they could do things to their hair, etc. We decided to color Ny's hair in front green with a shamrock on her face and she was so excited to go to school like this.We made sure we all wore green, the younger girls even got green Mac n' Cheese for lunch, which Keira was very leery of, but she did eat it, so I guess it wasn't to bad for her. Keira had seen Nyah and told me "mom, I don't want my hair colored", she then insisted on having an alligator on her face. An alligator Keira? Really? She even drew one herself on paper to show me how she wanted it. I must say no one can accuse this child of going with the "crowd" she definitely thinks outside the box.

Out of my kids mouths!!

Nyah:
So, in Nyah's class at school she has been talking about a boy that has been sick, which I am thinking colds, flu's, etc. Well, the other day she tells me that someone came to speak with her class about this kid and that he has a "brain something" she is talking about how sick he is and I am thinking what it is she is talking about so I ask, "do you mean a brain tumor?" and she is like "ya!" Then she goes on to tell me it makes him really tired and sick all the time, and that he won't be coming to school very often, then out of the blue she says "and mom. . .I think I have it, do you remember when I was so tired last night and I woke up feeling sick" I then had to explain to her that brain tumors were not contagious and that she in fact did not have one and that this is not common for kids to get. How do you explain to a 7 year old the difference between simply getting sick with colds, etc and chronic illness'?


Keira:
So the other day I was sitting with Keira and she was talking about how I was sick with a cough, etc, and I was saying how she had a cough and was sick as well, she looked at me and said "mom, did you swallow a bug?" and I said "I guess I did, did you swallow a bug?" she looks at me and says "no, I swallowed a spider!" to which Jared asks "did it wiggle and tickle inside you?" and she says "no, it's scratching my skeleton!" I LOVE this kid she CRACKS me up! She is definitely an out of the box type of thinker just the mere fact she says skeleton instead of saying bones like most other kids, is funny. You just never know what will come out of her mouth.

Christmas & New Years LOTS of pics!

This year we where busy during Christmas, but we had a lot of fun. . .

We got to see Santa

I love this picture of Keira and him

Jayda was not impressed, just enough to take the candy cane

We built snowmen. She did this all by herself complete with a string cheese nose!

Of course there was a Gingerbread House which ended with sugar highs for all of us. MMMMM frosting is good!

Here they are "helping" daddy

We got to go to Nyah school performance where they sang fun Christmas songs.

Decorating cookies is a must. Jayda really got into it this year, it was so cute

Nyah did her tumbling performance and she was in HEAVEN! She could not wait to perform on a stage in front of everyone. She definitely did NOT get that from me.

So notice the size difference, sad to say that they are wearing the same size outfit here. Kailee's is a little big, but poor Nyah is to skinny to wear her actual size they all drowned her. Who has that happen to them, seriously usually leotards and gymnastics outfits are always snug, but Nyah will probably be forever skinny.

We went to temple square a couple different times. Here is the time we went with some friends and it was a lot of fun and crazy trying to keep track of kids.

Of course there was Christmas dresses, we got off easy this year. Keira and Jayda are wearing hand me downs and Nyah's was on the clearance rack, lucky for me that was my first choice and they had her size.

We recreated the nativity, with apparently 2 Mary's, although she says she was Mary's "friend" It was quite funny to watch the kids do their part, it was especially funny when our two mules started having push-up contests with the girls on their backs!

Santa mad his visit to our house, of course. Notice the Christmas tree? It's new this year, I wanted a pre-lit tree and I went with my friend Becky again to the "Black Friday" shopping and ended up getting that tree for $60, it was normally $279 so that was an awesome deal! We got other good deals as well. It is so much fun to do, I never dared go before but I have these last two years and it is so much fun! Not to mention the good deals!

Here is Ny's reaction to seeing that Santa came.

Here starts the present frenzy

Jayda was actually into it this year and wanted to open presents so that was good. Notice the dragon to the left?

Yes, the dragon is Keira, she LOVES these ugly costumes and wears them all the time, not that we have any but she always wants them, so I found some for her after Halloween for about $2 each, talk about good deals. This is what she looked like all day on Christmas, it was so funny, notice the giant head stuffed animals she is holding? That was the other gift she has been asking for since like September, they are named "Lulu" and "Tolee" they are from this cartoon on Nickelodeon called Kai-Lan, she never asks for the girl on their Kai-Lan, just all the animals. They are so weird looking, but hey who am I to argue with what she wants.

Here is the girls pj's that they get every year.

NEW YEARS 2010!

It was a blast, hanging out with everyone, here is all the girls.

Kiki didn't make it to midnight, what was funny is that she slept through all the chaos, us screaming "Happy New Year", the kids with the noise makers, the loud talking and laughing, not only did she sleep through it she did even move. Both Nyah and Jayda did make to New Years though.

Ready to count down.

We of course had to do our Karaoke

We played this game where you have to stick a quarter in your butt cheeks walk across the room and drop it in a cup, it was so funny watching everyone attempting this.

We had a lot of fun throughout all of the Christmas festivities and New Years! It turned out to be a nice and relaxing Christmas, we especially enjoyed the week between Christmas and New Years, we got to sleep in and just relax and do nothing. The only mishap was sick kids they all came down with the stomach bug, Ny started by throwing up on the 22nd and the Jayda got it on Christmas eve and hers was the worst she was up every half hour throwing up and only wanted mom to hold her. She went through about 3 pairs of pj's and 3 blankets we finally tried to have towels handy. She finally settled at about midnight and on Christmas she was over it and happy thank heavens. Then Keira got the week between Christmas and New Years. So that wasn't so fun but they all got over it quickly and it didn't spread beyond them. Anyway I hope everyone had a lot of fun for Christmas, until next year. . .well I guess that would be this year ha ha.

It's A. . .

We had our ultrasound today and found out what we are having. It's a . . . .

Boy, in case you couldn't figure that out from his picture!

Poor Accident Prone Nyah

Notice the scrapes on her forehead and nose and of course the lip.
My poor accident prone Ny. So, this actually happened the week before Halloween, I get a call from the school saying that Nyah fell and hit her nose, it was bleeding and she was upset. Now, with Nyah, she has a Runia trait of getting bloody noses VERY easily. Her friend once hit her in the face with a stuffed animal and it caused a bloody nose. Now with this comes A LOT of blood all over it just gushes out. So anyway all I knew is there was a bloody nose and that was it. So, I go to the school to get her and take a look at the rest of her face (mostly her lip) and realize it's not just a bloody nose, which has stopped thank heavens but her coat has blood all over and she is still crying and upset. I then ask what happened cause she looked AWFUL and she said she tripped on the black top and fell hitting her face on the ground. I am thinking, "you didn't stop yourself with your hands?" Not to mention the black top has nothing to trip on. So basically she tripped on the flat ground and face planted without putting her hands out to stop herself. Her lip was so big she could barely talk, it was sad and that day we had to give her soft foods to eat seeing as her teeth were hurting as well. This poor uncoordinated child, I feel bad for her "accidents" which are frequent, she is VERY clumsy, hence the nickname Bella junior (any Twilight fans know exactly what I am referring to).

Witches Night and Halloween in Vegas with a Baptism

I got invited to this thing called "Witches Night Out" with some friends. This place called Gardner Village does it every year, where you come with friends all dressed as witches. It was so much fun, there was dancing and shopping and if you where not dressed up, you stood out. I actually got invited by two different friends, so I went both nights and had a blast. We decorated our hats and my friend, Rachel taught me how to do my skirt and I was happy about my costume, minus the fat pregnant belly, but you can't avoid that this year. This is the first night I went there was the 5 of us and we had way too much fun! I haven't laughed that hard in a while.
This is the 2nd night, I went with my friend Rachel and a bunch of her friends and it was a ton of fun as well.
Okay so, for Halloween this year we actually went to Las Vegas because my niece was getting baptized on Halloween, so we went trick-or-treating there. By the way AWESOME trick-or-treating weather, you don't have to find warm clothes for underneath the costumes ha ha. We also went to this amazing neighborhood, where every house was decked out. They made the decorations I have seen here look like dollar store specials. These people go ALL OUT! They where all hanging out on their drive-way's having get togethers, passing out candy, some people where handing out what they call "sliders" which basically a mini hamburger out to everyone. This other house had this haunted house through their backyard you could go through. It was so neat, we had a great time! My kids picked there costumes. . .

Nyah was a witch, but it had to be a pretty witch, I was under specific instructions not to make her ugly.

Keira was a pumpkin which is totally her. She didn't want ANY make-up on so we had to compromise a little.

Jayda, didn't pick cause we had a costume for her, she is a princess, but added her own flare. Nanny brought vampire teeth for all the kids with her and this one REFUSED to take it out of her mouth. So, I guess she is a vampire princess.
Nyah LOVED going trick-or-treating with her cousins, she was so excited.

Here is all of us, Jared was obviously "Clark Kent" and I wore my witch costume.

Here is everyone at the baptism earlier that day. Nothing like going from spiritual Baptism to Halloween in one day.

We stayed in Vegas for a few days and one day we went to this casino that had this big sporting goods store and a HUGE fish tank, this kids loved it. Apparently they also have mermaids (real people) in there on the weekends but we went on Monday so we didn't see the mermaids. Nyah was very disappointed about that.

Jayda was mesmerized

After the fish tank we did the sporting goods and seriously who taught my girls how to shoot guns, this is just scary if you ask me. Of course they are very girly, even for girls.

Nyah with her cousins, Aisia and Addy who then showed her how to actually hold a gun.

Jayda just flings the gun all over the place, while Keira didn't have much interest in the guns. Seriously who taught them how to hold a gun. . .

We had a great Halloween this year, now on to the next holiday.