Run in with the Police

I had to take Hannah to the doctor this morning. She has a really bad rash that is spreading everywhere and it got bad enough to take her in. It turns out that it is a bad case of eczema that can be cleared up with lots of lotions twice a day. At our doctor's office the kids get a token after the appointment for this candy looking machine, but it has little toys in it. Hannah and Katy both got some cute little bracelets and Ruby wanted a sticker mustache. Yes a mustache, but she is making choices so that is what she wanted. Well before we could get out of the office, Ruby was already screaming about how she wanted a bracelet. She made a choice and we were sticking with that dumb mustache. She got a pop in the car since she would not stop screaming. I get in the car and drive just a few blocks down the road and sure enough she keeps screaming and throwing a fit. I pull over in a parking lot and pull her out of the car and let her throw her fit in the parking lot. I usually only let her stay out there for a minute or two and not more than that. Before those few minutes go by low and behold a police officer shows up. I get out of the car and start talking to Ruby again, before her time is up, but I could not stay in the car with the po-po there!! She still won't be quiet and Lord knows that there is no reasoning with Ruby once she has made her mind up. Eventually the cop comes over to talk to me and wants to know what is going on. So I give him the story of my 3 year old throwing a temper tantrum and hope that he doesn't want to keep talking. Ruby is still screaming but by this time it is I don't want to go with the police, mommy i love you!!! but of course after he takes off it is back to the dumb bracelet!!! She eventually calmed down with the treat of the po-po coming back. I swear Ruby puts me in the strangest situations with her little fits.

Alabama Trip

Our trip last week started out when we got to the airport. Of course the cheap tickets were for the red eye flight out of Salt Lake into Atlanta, so off we went with all of our carry-ons and the car seats. The flight was super full so we didn't win on the maybe there will be an extra seat for Katy. The kids did okay and finally fell asleep. Atlanta was a mess and super stressful since we had to wake up Ruby (who is a bear when she has to be woken up) and travel to other terminals. Thank goodness that our plane was right there when we got off the train. Our flight into Birmingham was fine but seems like they forgot everyone's luggage into Birmingham. We all got to enjoy the airport for another 2 hours for our stuff to get to us!!

We finally got our stuff and were on our way! We went first over to Steve's Mom's school. The girls were super cute and quite the hit for not having slept very long on the planes. After that we were on our way to Jacksonville!

Jacksonville was so much fun and it was interesting to see how much things had changed in the years that we haven't been there. It was so much fun to show all the girls where mom and dad had lived for awhile. We headed up to Kitty Stone and of course Hannah was asleep by this time so she didn't see much of the school. We did meet Mrs. Jessup so we are keeping our fingers crossed that she is Hannah's teacher next year. The houses that we looked at were great but a little small for our crew. The old house that we really liked went under contract so that was out too. Back to square one for looking at houses.

***gotta get the kids ready for the day so i will be back to finish this long blog post. until then you can look at our pictures!***

Steve got tired....

Here is what happens when Steve gets over tired. Just hang in there and watch!! I don't even have to have a single drink in him!!

Home......

We all made it home last night from Alabama. The week was so much fun and went a little fast. The girls were glad to get home and slept great last night. The flights home were awesome also and Ruby slept almost all the way from Detroit into Salt Lake which was a huge blessing.

I sure do miss the warmth of the south. What did we come home to?? Rain and snow all day so far. This is why I don't like Utah this time of year.

I am going to get lunch for the kids and we are already tuned into the race today. It's the BIG race day today for Hannah!

I will get the camera out soon and get pictures up from our week in Alabama. I need lunch and a nap first.

Happy Birthday Ruby

Wow! My baby Ruby is already 3. I am still trying to figure out where those 3 years have gone. With the whole fire/power line thing so early this morning it really feels like today has been going on forever, but that is how Ruby likes it. She is an amazing little person who loves to talk and has an opinion about everything. I am really learning to love the fact that she has a front tooth missing. It fits her personality perfectly. She challenges me the most out of the girls and that is why I love her. I am always getting new challenges from her. Yes many are not pleasant but I learn to deal or ignore the temper tantrums that follow. My life would not be the same without my middle girl.

Ruby was so happy that I came to her class today to talk about her in the spotlight moment. She got to pick one of the songs that they sang in class today and got to hold the flag for the pledge of allegiance today too! She was so happy and so proud to be 3 this morning. I love that she is so matter of fact all the time especially when she is sitting there and I am talking about her. She did say she wanted a real zebra for her birthday, so I am wondering if I should be worried about that. She also wants a brown cake for her special day and I can do that at least.

Tonight we are going to celebrate at Chuck E. Cheese and that will be fun! Although I am opting for eating before we go so that we can just play, but we will see what the birthday girl wants to do!

Happy Birthday Ruby! You are my special baby that has taught me all about Hope. I love you with all my heart my little Ru-Ru.

Snow...are you kidding me??

So last night I went to bed knowing that it would snow during the night. I really hate the snow this time of year but what am I going to do right?? So after work and catching up on this week's episode of 24 and LOST, I headed to bed just after 11 and it was not snowing. I then get awakened to a knocking on my front door! Who ever it was kept it up so I made Steve go get the door. Must be pretty important right since it seemed like it was early morning at best. I then hear words like "Fire" "Tree" "Power lines" and I was awake. I guess our neighbor was awake across the road and noticed that the power lines were sparking right on our tree and some of it was on fire!
I went into total mom mode and got all the kids up and ready to go just in case we needed to leave our house. I did notice that it was 2 am, so I told Ruby Happy Birthday and said we need to go. We got everyone in the back room since the tree on fire was in our front yard. The firemen got to our house after what seemed like an eternity. Oh yeah I failed to mention that there was about a foot of snow on the ground and it was still snowing. It took them a little bit to get to our house since they were checking on other houses on the way to ours. There were about 10 houses up and down our street that all had sparking power lines since they were all weighed down with ice and snow.
Steve finally got to talk to the firemen who told us we should be okay since the tree had a ton of snow and ice on it. Needless to say it wasn't going to burn down. So after we got the okay, I put the girls back to bed in their room and went back out to help Steve get our driveway shoveled. That took an hour and was the really heavy snow! It was almost so heavy that I couldn't even shovel it without help or only taking a little at a time.
We got that all done together and our nice firemen stayed in their truck until the power people decided what they wanted to do. We came in and went back to bed. We did hear a huge crack, followed by another, and followed by another. There go our trees. We lost so really big branches last night with that foot of snow that decided to show up!!
So all of us are safe and sound. The tree is a little crisp where the sparks kept flying, but other than that we are good. Who would have thought that it would snow as much as it did last night!! Totally crazy!!! I just feel so bad for my poor daffodils. I swear I can't grow anything and now they are probably all frozen and won't bloom. I am so sad....

Ears Pierced Again...

On a whim today walking back to the car, I asked Ruby if she wanted to get her ears pierced today. Her quick reply was sure! So into the store we went. She chatted it up with the lady getting ready to do it and the other lady that came to do a double ear pierce. She was so cute and didn't even cry!!! Holy Cow it was so Awesome!! So here is Ruby being so proud of her earrings!

First Day of Spring Break

All of my pictures downloaded backwards, but that is alright. The whole day was so much fun. Hannah said it well with: Mom This is the best spring break ever!

The day started off with all of us deciding that it was the day to go to the Children's Museum up in SLC. We headed off early this morning and made it to SLC in great time. We found an awesome parking spot and headed in. The girls had so much fun with all the things that they could play with. They played with a beehive, a mini town that included a construction site, house, store, water system, and even a farm. Upstairs was a whole new world with a TV stage, Life flight helicopter, magnets, things to build with, and even a place to make a mini movie.

After a full morning of fun we headed off to Temple Square. The girls loved riding TRAX even if it was for only one stop. We ate lunch at JB's and they chowed down mac n' cheese, chicken fingers, fruit and fries. I haven't seen them eat that much in a long time.

After getting our tummys full we walked over to the Church History Museum. We always go through there really fast, but that is how my little legs go. Ruby made me laugh when we got to this huge Angel Moroni statue. She goes...Hello Mr. Moroni!

Hannah wanted to walk over to Temple Square so off we went. We went in to see the North Visitor's Center first. We stopped to look at all the pictures of Christ. We got to the Crucifixion and Ruby busts out with "Jesus is in his underwear. Hope he doesn't go pee on him." Oh the sweet things that my children say. It does get better. We went up to the Christis statue. The girls ran up and said "Hi Jesus. We love you." and ran back down stairs. I did have Katy in my arms and asked her where Jesus was. She gives me this look like I don't see him mom and that thing over there is not him. I could see her processing all of that in that little moment. Needless to say after that she wanted down to catch her sisters.

After that we took a few pictures and then Hannah wanted to go over to the tabernacle. She loves that place for some reason. I am not sure why but we had some fun for Hannah. The girls were ready to go after the demonstrations that they do in there.

We had to walk back to the car and enjoyed the rest of the afternoon. All in all it was a fun first day with no real fights from any of the girls. Today was one of those days that I had fun being a mom and enjoying all the time with them. Memories...that is what it is all about!!

I couldn't put all of the pictures up here so click on the word picture for the link over to my facebook page for the rest of them. ---> PICTURE <-----

Conference Weekend

The weekend was great with conference. Not that I listened all that much with the kids, so I am really glad that we get it all in the Ensign next month. So on Sunday morning we decided to see if we could get into conference. My mom was willing to watch the girls so we dropped them off and were on our way. Needless to say we didn't get in so we enjoyed temple square and took some pictures. There was even a nice lady that took a few pictures for us. It was so nice out and we even watched a few talks in the Joseph Smith Memorial Building before heading back to get the girls. They were all asleep when we got back, so that was nice. Nothing like a Grandma to get all the girls to get a nap!!