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apparently i have run out of space on my blog. weird. i don't feel like i even have that many pictures on my blog but i guess i do. has this happened to anyone else? blogger says i have to purchase something to keep posting pictures. i even tried deleting a few posts on my blog to make more space but its a no go. wondering if i should just make a new blog or back off on the blogging all together. anyways, i was just wondering if this has happened to anyone else and what you have done if it has happened.

i am having this problem right now.

actually, i have had a hard time with sleep my entire life. but right now it seems worse. i worry way too much. lately i have even been waking up in the middle of the night or super early and can't go back to sleep. wish my brain had an on/off button. but the good that has come out of it is instead of just laying in bed going crazy i have been getting up and just getting stuff done. no matter the hour. my favorite is when i can make it to the gym and back before everyone wakes up. i love having my workouts out of the way.  i have even been doing dishes and laundry in the middle of the night. i feel like i am going crazy! anyways, i am hoping this is just a weird phase and i can get back to sleeping normal! i feel so much better when i get a good nights rest.

the other night rhett and i heard the girls get out of bed. when i finally made it up the stairs to check on them this is what i found.

tacey was 'trying' to cut bry's toenails. haha. bry kept saying "owe, that hurts." but she just kept letting tacey clip away. haha, i thought it was pretty cute.

(fyi: bry had no cuts on her, i checked(: )

i sure love these two stinkers. 

they make me so happy.

all these pictures were taken off my phone so they are kinda crappy.

this has been such a fun week for little bry. 

she started preschool!

she LOVES it. 

and on top of that tacey has been home all week for harvest break.

so she is one happy girl.

tacey has been loving the break too.

tacey thought it was so fun that she got to stay with me while bry went to school. (:

since i haven't felt as busy cause of harvest break i thought i would get a project checked off my list. i have been wanting to put the girls in their own room since school started. they love to just talk and laugh all night long. it didn't really bother me until school started. but these girls need their beauty rest.

this was their room before.

 and this was their playroom. it is an awful mess....ALWAYS! ugh, drives me nuts!

so i woke up yesterday morning and just thought, hey i am going to do this! i threw everything into the hall and went to work moving beds, mattresses, tvs, and toys around. it was A LOT of work. i think i may have even cried at one point cause i was so overwhelmed. 

but by 9:00pm i finally had it finished. 

hopefully i never let the girls toys get that unorganized again! that was the worst part of all.

i threw a ton of stuff away and also put all the baby toys away. it was just TOO MUCH STUFF!

tacey's room has hardly any toys at all in it. she has her table to color and do homework and her kitchen set. and also a book shelf.

bry has all the toys in her room now. haha. we will see how that goes!

i HATE having toys in their rooms! 

it really stresses me out.

my favorite part of a playroom was that i could just shut the door and ignore the mess. haha.

oh well. one day they will have their own rooms AND a playroom.

but until then, this will do(:

i let tacey choose which room she wanted and which bed. i find it very funny that she chose the smaller bed with the smaller room. haha. 

and i know their rooms look super sad and boring but rhett and i have spent a lot of time UNdecorating our house and patching up holes in hopes that the house will sell sometime. so until we have a new house the girls will have brown walls with nothing hanging on them(: seriously though, i think they could care less as long as they have their pink blankies. 

so glad that is finished! and so proud that i did it all in one day.

i do have a big HUGE horse and a stuffed bear larger than life taking up my entire living room right now. that is a bit annoying. any takers on the large bear?? 

one of you just might find it on your front step!

random thoughts from today

today was a good day. towards the end of the week we just get busier. i am soo tired and exhausted, but i am happy(:

rhett has been getting up at 4am to go to work and for some reason i can't ever go back to sleep after he wakes up. bummer.

brylee was able to go see her preschool class today! she LOVED it. she is actually in a toddler lab cause she missed the deadline for preschool. i got looking around at all the kids she is in class with and they are literally all babies! barely talking and wearing diapers. hmmm. not quite sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing. most of bry's friends are older than her so she is constantly saying 'hey, wait for me!' haha. so maybe this will be a good thing, cause she will get to take the role as the older one now. either way i don't think she really cares. they give her food, toys, and she gets to play outside. she is happy as can be. and as long as she is learning and progressing and not regressing than i am happy too.

after doing some grocery shopping and picking tazer up from school we were able to go pick my dad up for lunch! that was the best part of my day! my dad is in town for a couple days! wahoo!

i then went to a pto meeting where parents are welcome. i feel like such a newbie with having a kid in school now. (if only you knew some of the stupid things i have done the last couple weeks, like making tacey do extra homework that she didn't need to do. oops.) there are always things going on for the school and i want to be involved in at least a little bit of it. so i thought it would be a good idea for me to go and i figured other moms would go to. umm, nope! there were hardly any other moms there and the ones that were there knew what they were doing and what they were talking about. haha. i guess it was good for me to go and listen but if i could have a do over i probably would have gone home to take a quick nap(:

we then ran home had a quick snack, took tazer to dance, ran a few more errands, and then i FINALLY made it to the gym. i am used to going in the mornings but have been having to go in the afternoons lately. it's hard to stay motivated all day long but once i am there i swear i have better workouts in the afternoon. i have a lot more energy.

it is now 9:00 and i can't believe i am still awake. my house is a mess and poor rhett had an egg sandwich for dinner. ahh! i feel like such a mess! i like order and structure so hopefully i can get used to this all soon. i think i just need to be more organized. i really would like to be superwoman.


some pictures from today!

thank you whitney ricks for telling me about these pancakes! the girls think i am the best mom ever cause they get pancakes.

mmmmm.....good.

and apparently one of the girls was taking pictures today. haha. i had no idea.

and just to add to my post from yesterday, I ALSO NEED MY FRIENDS! i really am blessed with some great girlfriends. having good girlfriends really, really helps keep me sane! i love both my whitneys!!
umm.... whitney liz, text me back! haha. love you. i DO need you!

my mind has been running like crazy at night and i can't sleep! even though i am soooo exhausted. maybe now that i got all my random thoughts out of my head i can go right to sleep tonight.

this is all i need...

my cute little family.

these people make me so happy.

haha, btw this picture is one of my favorites.

it really shows my girls personalities. 

tacey is off in her own little world 

and bry is just being funny trying to make us laugh.

haha, i love it.

my favorite part about my little family is how safe i feel.

no matter what kind of crazy chaos is going on around us i feel like i can always go home and just feel secure and safe and most of all loved. 

i love that. i need that.

i can be having the worst day ever and feel like the whole world is against me and i feel like i am just going to crumble. but then all i have to do is go and snuggle up with my girls and hubby and i feel so much better. 

i hope i do the same for all of them. especially my girls. 

i hope they can always just come home and feel so loved and special. 

i feel so blessed to have rhett as my husband. he is my better half. i sure love him.

and seriously, how cute are these girls!!! 

i couldn't ask for a better life.

this is all i need.

some things we have been doing

i am so in love with this weather lately. it is perfect. bry and i on most days try and pick tacey up from school in the jogger or as tacey would say the "mcjagger." haha. tazer is always so excited when we show up with the jogger instead of the car. and i love it even more because it gives me a good 15 minutes to just listen to her. she tells me all about her day at school. i love it. it is probably my favorite part of our day.

today the weather is so nice. so we ate lunch outside. tacey loves doing picnics.

the other night rhett was wanted to take the family on a "walk." we had just given the girls a bath and we were starting to get ready for bed. so i thought sure, a nice walk might be relaxing. haha. it was the total opposite of relaxing. we hopped in the car and ended up at beaverdick park. there are paths and trails there, but rhett doesn't like to take those. he took us through a friggen jungle instead. (okay, i'm exaggerating) but it was some nasty stuff he took us through. we all came home scratched up and muddy. haha, so much for the girls taking a bath. it really was fun, just not what i was expecting for our sunday night stroll.

in these pictures we were walking on the trail. but just before that we were way off to the right in all that mess.

seriously, oh cute are my girls??!! 

i love how rhett and the girls lined up their muddy boots. so cute.

and just a random picture here is bry and makray going for a ride. how cute are they!! 

random pictures and thoughts

here are a few things that have been going on in the last couple weeks. we have been busy.

i was able to go to logan and do a mud run with Whitney and a few other girls. it was so much fun! i had a blast!

rhett went to island park to hunt that weekend and i was able to stay with my mom and sisters. luckily they were able to come with me while i ran and watch my girls for me. they are life savers. 

later that day my mom took us out to lunch. briky isn't in the picture cause she is behind the camera dangit.

Renee and Coop were able to come up while my dad was out of town. they came and watched Bry's very first dance class!

look at her she is already a pro!! she does so well in dance class. i was worried about sticking her in dance when she isn't even 3 yet, but seriously she does amazing. 

Coop came over later and played for awhile. 

these two are TROUBLE together! haha.

they have so much fun with each other.

they got their hair cut earlier this week!

for the longest time tacey has been saying that she wants to grow her hair out like repunzals, so i thought for sure we were just going in for a trim. but then we got there and tacey said 'cut it off!' i was really uneasy about it but she told me to chill and that it is just hair and that it will grow back. now i am so glad we cut it. it looks so much better. and she LOVES it!

we went on a family walk in at beaverdick park this sunday.

this was todays dance class. bry did amazing again. and it was even more fun cause her best friend Braiz is in her class now! bry would run over and give her random hugs during the class. it was so cute.

so i have to be honest. since i was little i have dreamed about being a 'soccer mom.' for the last 5 years my life has been pretty easy going (besides that year i went to massage therapy school, that was tough for me). we get up when we want, we have done whatever we want, and never really had any place to be. and then all of a sudden life got crazy! there is always some place we have got to be between school, dance, gymnastics, and trying to fit my workouts in somewhere in there. it has been a bit of an adjustment but i seriously love it. some days i am feeling a little stretched thin, but it is good for me. i do way better when i am busy and not idle. life is so good, and being a  mom so awesome.

having some tazer bug time. i took her out on a mommy/daughter date the other day. we both really needed it. it was so much fun.

tace has had a few mondays off from school and bry gets soo excited on the days that they get to be home together. 

here they are watching early morning cartoons together(:

we dressed up to go shopping one day. i love having girls(: