sentimental

whenever i have a minute to myself i like to sit down at the computer and go through our old pictures and fix the red eye. our old camera was horrible and basically every single picture we own has really bad red eye. 

so every time i sit down to do this i swear i get a little teary eyed.

going through all our old pictures has made me so dang sentimental. i just feel like my life is going by way too quickly. 

being pregnant is just awful for me. i have honestly never been so sick and unhealthy in my entire life. for nine months all i try and do is survive, and it seems like the longest time of my life. 

and then the baby is born and i am happier then ever and time flies by like crazy. i hate it! why can't it be the opposite.

i honestly can not remember a happier time in my life then when tacey was born. she was the best baby ever. she made my transition into motherhood so easy.

it seems like yesterday she was just born.

how the heck to she go from this(4 days old).........

 .....to this(4 years old) in a blink of an eye? 

i can hardly stand it.

 and what makes things even harder, is that the baby in our house is no longer a baby.

and i don't realize that until i see pictures like this where she is so dang tiny. 

where has the time gone?

i can't even describe how sad it is to say goodbye to this part of motherhood. 

yes it is nice that i get to sleep all night now,

and i no longer have to get up and make bottles or breastfeed,

and that i get to sit through relief society all by myself.

but seriously,

that went by way too fast.

all i can do right now is try and enjoy every single second i can!

these girls are AMAZING and i don't want to miss a thing.

Valentine Sweethearts

My girls got to do this fun Valentines photo shoot. 

I am seriously in love with these pictures. I can not get over how dang cute these are! 

Seriously Whitney has some skills with that camera of hers. 

LOVE THESE PICTURES!!

check out Whitney's photo blog.

A Little Behind...

Oh my goodness I am a little behind on blogging. We have seriously been so busy in the last couple months. Even though I have had some major cabin fever/winter blues I really can't complain at all cause I seriously have the BEST husband and girls in the world that are constantly keeping me entertained! We have also had tons of visitors stay with us in the last few weeks and it has been soo much fun. Thanks Kayla, Sacia, Jaxyn, and Kiyoshi for staying with us. We LOVE you!

Onto the Pictures!! This is just Tacey bein an adorable goof. Right now she is saying "Mom, this is how I smile with my cheeks!" Haha.

Tacey is also quite the photographer. She took these next two pictures, she also put my camer in black and white mode all by herself. Very Impressive if you ask me.

Tacey kept herself entertained for days with this laundry basket.

Rhett and I finally made it to the temple last month! Wahoo! It felt soo good to go. This is us just getting ready to leave(:

Jaxyn and Kiyoshi came and stayed with us during their spring break. I felt so bad cause it rained and snowed the entire week they were here. Luckily they really didn't seem to mind too much. We had so much fun with them.

Tacey has been a bit of a trouble maker this last month. I swear it's just cause we have been stuck in the house to much cause of the crappy weather. I am almost too embarrassed to even share these pictures and stories with everyone, but they are too good not to document.

So the other morning I am laying in bed and I hear Tacey get up. She does her usual little run to the potty in the morning and I roll over and wait for her to come get me so we can go start breakfast. I must have dozed off again cause the next thing I know I open my eyes to Tacey standing right infront of me with a bandaide and her lip just bleeding like crazy. She hands me the bandaide and says calm as can be "mommy, I'm bleeding." She goes on to tell me that she was trying to shave like daddy but messed up and cut herself. I was in so much shock I didn't get a before picture, but here is the after with a princess bandaide on her lip.

Just a week before the shaving incident Tacey also cut her hair. AHHH! This is one thing that I did not handle very well. We had just gotten done talking about how she wanted to grow her hair out like Repunzal! Seriously Tacey! When Sacia was here we got the haircutting scissors out and left them on the bathroom counter. BIG MISTAKE! She had pigtails in and she chopped the right one completely off AFTER I had put her to bed! Her bangs are seriously cut to the scalp. Luckily, with a little (okay a LOT) of hairspray I have learned how to hide it pretty well. I can almost laugh about it now....ALMOST.

And then there was the flour incident. If you have ever been to our house you know our entire bottom floor is all hardwood, no carpet. Anyways, I went upstairs to put Brylee down for bed and got distracted until I realized it was soo quiet downstairs. I came down to find Tacey "making cookies." We bought flour in bulk and have it in a huge bucket in our pantry. Since she had already made the mess I just let her play for awhile. After Rhett and I cleaned it up we swept up about 2 pounds of flour. It was THE BIGGEST mess I have ever cleaned up. Because of our hardwood floors it easily got dragged right into the living room. It was everywhere! We swept and mopped, swept and mopped, and swept and mopped. I am still finding flour. haha, it was such a mess, but Tacey had a blast!

Springtime here in Rexburg is soo dang windy! So if we can catch a day where it is not snowing, blowing, or raining we are outside playing! I love those days!! I am very nice and patient this winter BUT now I am ready for summer!

This is Brylee folding her arms. She is always ready and willin to pray. So dang cute!

Our girls absolutely LOVE to color. This is what they do seriously all day long.

And now I will end this post with my two little luvbugs cuddling. They are soo sweet. I am the luckiest most blessed mom in the entire world. I am so happy to have these girls, they brighten up my life, messes and all!

I also have lots of cute projects I want to post and of course Easter. So hopefully I get to that before the week ends. Hope everyone had a wonderful Easter!

Look at this adorable little girl and then look at the super cute chair she is sitting on!

 Grandma Warren was going to get rid of it! But instead she gave it to the girls(: I love it! Tacey and I have been talking about painting it. She said either pink or white(:

Since we moved in to our new house I seriously have not framed one single picutre! So today Tacey and I sat down and chose a few pictures to put in frames.

So when you live in the North Pole (actually Rexburg) you have to get creative. These past couple weeks it has been in the negatives with a wind chill on top of that. But we still have fun!

Here are some of our daily activities!!

DRESS UP

(btw, Brylee is in my dress from when I was little(: haha)

LOTS OF LEGOS

DANCE CLASS

RIDING BIKES IN THE HOUSE(:

MORE LEGOS

And one day I got a little crazy and decided to move beds and toys around. So now the girls are sleeping in a different room and this is their new playroom! I love not having toys in their room. Anytime this room gets a little messy I just shut the door, haha.

I just wanted to say how much I love my baby girls. I feel so blessed to have them. Every morning I wake up with a smile on my face and everynight I go to bed smiling. They honestly make me so happy. They are both so cute and so funny. I always have a few good stories to tell Rhett when he gets home from work. Sometimes after the girls have fallen alseep I go in there room and lay by Tacey in her bed and then quietly pick Brylee up and go rock her. I love those moments! So peaceful. Everyday they bring so much joy into my life.

Love You Girlies

Update on the Girlies

BRYLEE GENE

Brylee is growing up so darn fast, it is crazy! She just turned 8 months, which is so fun and exciting, but it also makes me kinda sick to my stomach cause time is just flyin by. Just wanted to do a little BryBry update while I still remember these things.

-got her 2 bottom teeth a couple weeks ago

-started crawling last week

-if she has a long distance to go though she scoots, scooting is still much faster right now

-still the most smiley baby I have ever met, she has been given the name "Smiley Brylee" (love it)

-I remember by this time Tacey was totally into watching her Baby Einstein videos but I don't think Brylee has watched one minute of television, kind of a bummer, that's how I used to get ready or clean.

-sleeps through the night now, but still has one feeding in the early morning.

-Loves being outside

-is so super observant, she's a total people watcher

-such a little chunk, I just love squeezing her cute chubby cheeks and legs. Seriously, they are the cutest things I have ever seen

TACEY LYNNE

Tacey is 3 now and so adorably cute and funny. I just love her to death. She is such an amazing little girl. These are some of the things that Tace has been up to lately.

-She LOVES riding her bike. It was kind of hard for her at first but she practised and practised and now she is a champ on it. When we go on walks I push Brylee in the stroller and Tacey will ride her bike along side of me, except for that I can not always keep up with her.

-She puts herself to bed!! A lot of nights she will just go upstairs, put her jammies on, brush her teeth, and just put herself to bed.

-Very, very independent and easy going.

-goes through at the very least 5 outfits a day. Ugh..really not a fan of that. I'm seriously tempted to hire someone to come catch me up on all my laundry.

-Tacey is always making me laugh, she goes out of her way to make me laugh. Tace can flip my frown upside down quicker than anybody.

-still loves to cook. I swear if it weren't for her we wouldn't have as many nice meals as we do. she really motivates me to get things going in the kitchen.

I love, love, love my girls. They are my pride and joy. I am so blessed to have them, and they are so blessed to have eachother. Love you Girlies.

(Mama Warren took these pics of the girls when she came up to visit, aren't they adorable(: )

Lovin Summer

This summer has been soo much fun for us. Rhett is just about to get real busy with work(and hunting), so I have a feeling I am really going to miss summer and all the fun things we have been able to do together. Here are A TON of pics from the last couple weeks.

Jaxyn and Kiyoshi (my brother and sister) were able to come spend a week with us and we had sooo much fun. We did lots and lots of playing outside and cooking. I miss them so much now that they are gone. But I do have to say that the moment they left Tacey, Brylee, and I all crashed and pretty much slept the day away. Having four kids in the house certainly kept me on my toes...and I loved it.

This is the kids swimming in a monsterous tote. So cute.

Here is Tacey lounging in her kiddie pool.

Brylee is so funny. For some reason she LOVES swimming pools or lakes but the second I stick her in the bath tub she just flips out.

This last wee we were able to go to Burley for the fair. I absolutely love my hometown fair. I look forward to it every summer! We also manage to do a little shopping while we are there.

This is Tacey in the Buckle. She tried on probably 10 different outfits, accessories and all. I kept waiting for the people at the Buckle to get mad, but they all thought she was so funny and cute.

The girls in the back of grandpa's jeep. It is always such a treat for them when they get to ride in grandpa's jeep.

Tacey grew out of her naps quite a few months ago, but we have been on the go so much she just randomly crashes sometimes.

She is hanging half off the couch in all these pics. Wish I could just fall asleep like that.

We were also able to go to Logan and visit my mom and sisters. We had so much fun with them, they have the best pool there! But I didn't get a single picture of that entire trip so hopefully one of my sisters or mom did.

I am loving our new house. It feels so good to have some extra space. Tacey is so proud, anytime the house gets mentions she says "you want to come see my new house!" She is mostly loving all the little kids that live by us, she has made lots of new friends. Still don't have pics though cause guess what, I haven't completely finished unpacking yet. Horrible I know, but I swear I have great excuses.