Yes, I know I'm a slacker!

So I realized a few days ago that it was May. This means that I missed an entire month of blogging! I don't know how this happened . . . or maybe I do. First of all Ben had all these crazy bazillion page papers due for all of his finals in his classes and I was pretty much banned from the computer. Second my life is just plain busy and the time always go by way to super fast. Between being a mom, a teacher, and a Young Women's leader I don't get much time for anything else, so I am quickly learning to love a hectic life. If I don't love it I don't know how I could possibly make it through it (but that is why I love Ben, he is always so light-hearted and makes my laugh and smile at every situation we run into).
Sometime soon I will post of all the pictures that I have been taking, and update all y'all on what else has been going on with us besides lots of busy-ness. For now the following will have to do.

One night for dinner I handed Kiya and Jaynie their food on their brightly colored plates. One plate was a dark blue, the other was a light blue that night. Kiya turned to me and asked what color the plates were. So I told her they were both blue, but could see that she wasn't satisfied with my response. She pondered the answer for a moment and then told me they were different blues. I was surprised that her two year old brain could figure something like this out. So I explained that one was a light blue plate and the other dark blue. Then a few nights later I was dishing up dinner again and asked Kiya what color plate she wanted for dinner, this was her response: " The lightly blue one." Oh how I love the things she says like this.

And Jaynie is also talking amazingly well and learning more words than I can keep track of, she has an incredible vocabulary for only being almost 18 months old (only 15 more days until she is old enough to do to Nursury:). Lately every time I tell her that I love her she just looks and me and says, "Daddy loves and Jesus." I don't know if that means in addition to, or instead of me. Either way I am glad that she knows that she is loved.

Surprises!

We love surprises and we sure have had lots lately.
On Friday Ben and I had just got done running when we recieved a phone call from his parents. This is about how it went, " Hi, we are in Brigham City on our way down to see you, so pick somewhere to go eat. Bye." Very short and sweet and to the point. No options, just this is what you are now going to be doing tonight. It was quite a shock to the both of us but we loved it. We had a great time, Kiya loves getting to see Grandma and Grandpa White and Madi so she had a blast. Thanks Brad and Teri for the visit, it was a nice evening with you since we don't see you very often.
Last night we were at Costco getting some shopping done when we got surprised once again. I had forgotten something so I ran back to get it while Ben stood in line and when I came back I could see that Kiya and Jaynie were waving at someone, but I couldn't quite figure out who they would be waving at. When I got close enough I could see that it was my Grandma Cheney, so I walked up behind her and surprised her with a hug. Then we saw Grandpa eating a salad so we decided to get some dinner at Costco also and eat with them. We had an enjoyable time visiting with them and eating our dinner. We talked lots about our up coming trip to Bryce Canyon so now we are even more anxious to go on a little vacation.
So now you all know that I love surprises and am up for them all the time. Who knows maybe someday I'll surprise you :)

Chastised by a 2-year Old

Last night Ben and I were downstairs watching the Biggest Loser while I was working on some school work. Every once in a while I would get a little nudge in the back from Ben while I was working, and this would cause me to mess up on what I was writing. This drives me absolutely nuts when I draw something on my paper that I don't want like an extra line, scribble, etc. or when my paper gets krinkled or it is in anyway not perfect I have to get a new paper. I know it's a little OCD, but it really bugs me. So after a few more nudges I just casually started writing on Ben's leg when he bumped me instead of on the paper.
Then this morning at school I got a phone call from Kiya telling me, "Mommy you don't write on Daddy's leg. Don't do that again. We don't color on us." I quickly apologized to her and said that I wouldn't color on Daddy's leg anymore. We have had this conversation with her a few times before about her coloring on her own arm and Jaynie's so I'm glad that it is finally sinking in.

The Joys of Teaching Jr. High

Last week in one of my geometry classes we talked about the Ice Cream Cone Theorem. And somehome I got talked into bringing the students ice cream to honor the Ice Cream Cone Theorem, as long as they brought the money and paid for it. So they brought in 50 cents to a dollar each and I went to buy them ice cream. I had Tiffany with me so we perused the ice cream and decided on the best option for the money that we had and made our way to the self chekc-out line to pay. The only thing was I had about $10.oo in ones and $10.00 in change; which is why we went to the self check-out line, we didn't want to count all of the change ourselves. Needless to say the whole point of the story is that I spent at least 7 minutes in Wal-Mart putting change into the machine (several students brought me a dollar in pennies), and made a huge line behind us and laughed and laughed about it.

A Trip to the Treehouse

Friday I decided to take a day off work because it had been a long week.  Wednesday was parent teacher conferences so I was at school from 7:30 in the morning to 7:30 at night.  But Monday and Tuesday I was also at school late because I had a lot of late work to correct before the parent teacher conferences.  It was a much needed break from school.  

Ben was also off of work and school so we spent the morning cleaning, and then decided to take the girls to the Children's Treehouse Museum for the afternoon.  Kiya and Jaynie had a blast.  They ran around all over playing with everything for a few seconds before moving onto the next thing.  It is so fun to see them growing up and playing with each other.  I hope that they will always be good friends.

Jaynie makes this deer-in-the-headlights-face all the time, we all laugh at her when she makes it so she keeps pulling this face. We have tried many times to capture a picture of it, and finally we timed it just right.

Tiffany is Home!

After many months of waiting Tiffany is finally home. She has been home since Feb. 20th, but I have been slow posting things lately. Her plane got in just after midnight Friday night. We had plenty of time to wait for her and at midnight there is not a whole lot of things going on at the airport. While we were waiting I noticed a pizza vending machine, and Jared told me they were really cool because the pizza comes out hot ready to eat. I didn't believe him, so he decided to buy a pizza to prove to me that they came out nice and hot.

Of course he was right, but much to our dismay we had just paid $3.50 for a pizza that was maybe 4" x 3".  But Grandma Cheney quickly pointed out that we should not be disappointed with our pizza, it was a deep dish pizza and it definitely came in a 'deep dish'.  Needless to say it was a pretty tasty pizza and gave us some entertainment while we waited.

Jared also taught us all about elevators while waited, and I was surprised at how much he knew about elevators it was quite fascinating.  Mom had made some faces of Tiffany for us to wave at her when she came down so we played with those for a while too.  We compared our paper faces to those of the people coming down the escalator to make sure we didn't miss her, because maybe we had forgotten what she looked like :)

Then the moment we had been waiting for finally arrived, (after all the other passengers and even the pilots) Tiffany finally came down the escalator and we all just kind of stood there not knowing what to do, Mom just cried so finally Dad went and gave her a hug, then we are were crying and hugging and it was so nice to see Tiff's smile and hear her laugh.  We are all so glad that she has finally come back home.

"I'm riding a pig!"

We were over at my parents house tonight visiting with Tiffany and everyone else and having an enjoyable time, while my girls were playing with Aubrey downstairs.  While we were all sitting in the livingroom Aubrey came up the stairs carrying Kiya on her back and we asked Kiya what she was doing.  She very quickly stated "I'm riding a pig!"  We all instantly burst into laughter.  Aubrey then informed us all that she had asked Kiya if she wanted to go for a piggy back ride up the stairs.  Then it all made sense to us.  Kids just say the funniest things sometimes, and thats why we love them.