Science Experiment

so if you know me you know that i am a bit if a germ freak, even more when it comes to my kids. i try and keep them in a bubble so they arent constantly exposed to all the nasty crap going around. no worries, they still hang out with friends and go to church. but i did learn the hard way with tacey. she got very sick very young and had a rough couple years, so i vowed to become more careful and i feel like i really have done a good job at keeping my kids healthy. anways, onto my experiment. over the weekend while at a friends house our entire family got expsed to the stomach bug....my worst nightmirror. so i did my research and read and read and read up on how you could prevent it. turns out grape juice is the magic answer. something to do with the acidity...you can read about it at grammysuesnews.blogspot.com . so my family just started guzzling grape juice like crazy...everone except for brylee, she only likes milk. well, brybry woke up yesterday morning throwing up. the rest of us are still drinking the juice and just fine, i guess we will find out within the next couple days if this really is the magic juice. pray for us, i hate, hate, hate the flu. and i have the most queasy stomach ever when it comes to vomit. luckily brylee has been amazing. she prefers using the toilet to throw up in and gets excited to clean up and soap up afterwards. what an awesome one year old i have. well, i will keep ya updated on how the little experiment goes. wouldn't that be soo cool if it really worked!!
ps: i wrote this post on my droid, so it is a little sloppier than normal(:

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!

My Favorites

I remember clear back when (before kids) my house used to be soo clean, I was so OCD about everything! Haha, that is not how things are anymore! I feel like I am seriously having the hardest time keeping my house clean and straightened. Does this happen to anyone else, or is it just me? Even little Brylee is such A MESS. haha.
Seems like every now and then my house gets to the point that I am so overwhelmed I don't even know where to start. And then I get super discouraged. So, one of my BIGGEST New Years goals was to always keep my house manageable. It doesn't have to be perfect all the time, but so I don't ever get overwhelmed like that again, that is the Worst Feeling Ever! I have to say that for the most part I have been doing pretty good. I am a bit more of a nag now though, haha. 
I do have a few favorite cleaning tools though. I have bought all these within the last year and they make cleaning so much easier and not as painful!



 My swiffer sweep-vac. Our house is all hardwood on the bottom floor, so this is soo nice to have. It doesn't pick up any big things, but it is still one of the best inventions ever.

I seriously dislike cleaning the toilet, so these are A-MAZ-ING. I love anything that you can clean with and then dispose of.

This is my FAVORITE! Rhett and I got this Shark Steam Mop on black friday. It was totally worth the 3 hour wait in line. I honestly use this baby every single day. LOVE IT!

I don't know if I am just like a freak or what, but I have to wash the dishes with gloves on. I get made fun of all the time, but seriously that is the only way my dishes get done. I have a really hard time washing off soggy food with my bare hands for some reason. But with gloves on I don't even bat an eye. But I used to go through a new pair of gloves every week because they would tear! It would make me soo mad. But then I found these puppies. They are just a little bit padded and haven't ripped yet!

Anyone else have some easy cleaning tips!?!

My New Laundry Room

I have the most amazing husband EVER! A few weeks ago Rhett redid my whole laundry room! I had been saying for months that I wanted risers for my washer and dryer so finally Rhett made a trip to Home Depot to get the supplies. But right before he got to building I changed my mind and decided that I wanted a folding table instead. I am soo glad I decided on the table instead! I LOVE IT! I no longer have laundry piled up on our bedroom floor, or socks stuck behind the washer and dryer. (: YAY!

And then he also built all these nice shelves! I need to organize them better though, it looks a bit messy.

I am soo blessed to have such a handy husband. He is so amazing! He has also been building shelves in all our storage closets and in our master closet. I feel like our house is getting more and more organized, it feels wonderful! What a talented man I have.

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.

5 Years Baby!!

That's right, Rhett and I have been married for 5 Years!!! Our anniversary was actually on the 4th. It was so nice. Cody and Laura took the girls overnight for us. It was the first time I had ever really been away from Brylee and probably only like the second or third time from Tacey. Luckily I knew they were in great hands! Rhett and I hardly ever get to go out just the two of us so it was amazing. We went to Olive Garden, a movie, stayed up late talking, and then slept in. I loved it!
We have been through so much these last 5 years. 11 moves, 2 rough pregnancies, being apart for almost a year, graduating. But I can honestly say it has been the most amazing, best five years of my life. Rhett makes me so happy. I love how honest we can be with eachother. I love how he is the one person in the world that can always make me feel better. He makes me feel so confident and beautiful, I love it(: Rhett makes me always want to be a better person, he is such an amazing example. I love how he teaches by example and is never pushy (I am so dang stubburn), he is seriously my PERFECT match. I don't know what I would do without him. I go to bed so thankful every night, I am soo greatful to have such an awesome man.
Love You Rhett

Brylee's Party

Brylee's Birthday was so much fun. We had lots of family drive such a long ways to come and visit, it was so fun to see everyone. Thanks to everyone who came! Brylee loved all the attention and was so spoiled.

On another note, Brylee had her 12 month check up this week. It really was not a very fun appointment, she had 5 shots, I swear it is as painful for me as it is for her, ugh. But it's always fun to see how much she has grown. Her new stats are:

HT: 27.5" 10th percentile

WT: 19 lbs 10 oz 20th percentile

Haha, I was starting to think that she looked tall, but it looks like she is a bit of a shorty.

While we were out of town everyone around us seemed to be sick, so when the girls came down with a cold I wasn't too surprised. Except for that after their colds went away they had this rash all of a sudden show up. So at Bry's check up I showed the DR. Turns out they had a strain of strep not colds, which turned to into scarlet fever(which is where the rash came from). So crazy, I didn't even know people got that anymore. And they weren't even that sick, it was the weirdest thing. 

Well, here are some pics from Brylee's party!!