Because he loves me

I had a friend in middle school. She seemed to have everything. Her dad owned a big company and she had an enormous house. She had the best clothes, the nicest cars, and to a 12 year old, I thought she had everything. Well, for a while there we were pretty close and hung out quite a bit. I remember her being at my house, a nice house, but not huge. We didn't have the nicest cars, in fact, at that point they were pretty crappy cars! We weren't poor by any means and never had to go without anything, but we didn't have what she had. I wondered what she would think about my house and my life.

I learned once that she would have traded me in a heart beat. Her dad, who bought her everything she could possibly want, had never told her he loved her.

Now anyone who knows anything about my family knows that we are quite different. My dad grew up telling us twice a day that he loved us. He still tends to get choked up when we are all together! He is a "softy!" Sure, he can be a grump. Things have to be his way, he NEEDS his sleep and dinner must be met before 7:00, but I wouldn't change a thing about him. We have a relationship that many kids would kill for and I am very lucky to have him!

The reason I am writing about my dad is because this week he has been pretty good to us! He has had a few days off and just can't sit still. He has weeded my flowerbeds. Cleaned up some of the huge mess in the basement, painted a bunch of the trim, and just helped out in any way that he can. We sure appreciate him. The best part about my dad is that he did all this without expecting anything in return. It is just his way of showing that he loves us. (Either that, or he can't stand to look at the weeds anymore!) But I will stick to thinking that he did it cause he loves me! My mom doesn't suck either, but I'll save her for another post!

All of the sudden she's excited?

As I have blogged much about lately, Adyson is starting pre-school soon. Yes, I know, it's just pre-school, but for a mom I think it is a huge deal. I feel like my little girl is just not so little anymore! Anyways-if I have brought up school in any way at all, she would cry. Well yesterday that just stopped. She decided she was excited for school. She even used the sentence "I can't wait!" HOLY CRAP! I don't know where it came from but I'll take it!

Tonight we went to her pre-school open house and let her meet her teacher and look around her new classroom. She loved the toys, loved the treats, but was a little shy around the other kids. But she is still excited! I can't tell you the relief I have that we aren't breaking down in tears constantly right now! What a kid! She picks a mood and sticks with it! She starts on Tuesday so the battle isn't won yet, but it is looking much better.

Someone stop her from growing, please!!!

Finished Work!

Things at the Kidman house are going pretty great right now! After weeks and weeks of Travis, Cody, and my dad busting their butts in the basement, the finish work is finally-finished. And it looks great! I wish I could say that the basement was now finished, but the list of things to do is still long. This week will consist of cleaning up all of the saw-dust and scrap pieces, and beginning the priming. Hopefully over the next week we can really start to paint and it should look great. Then we have to rock the fireplace and get our bookshelves installed, and then it is just carpet. After that we have some serious plans to sit on our butts and watch a movie in our new basement! Sounds good right? A few people have e-mailed me and gotten upset that I haven't posted some pics-so here you go!

The first pic is our play room, the brown stuff is some thick beadboard-and there are shelves right next to the window, I'm super excited about this room!

The second pic is cabinents right next to the fireplace, hopefully this week we will get bookshelves installed above them and the mantle should be installed too.

The third pic is our fireplace, eventually it will be rocked, with a mantle and the TV fits into the cubby above it.

The fourth pic is my doors, I know its just a door, but I think they are too stinkin cute.

and the fifth pic is shadowboxing. It goes along the whole family room and when it is painted it will look like a whole wooden extension of the wall. It should look terriffic! I didn't post any pics of the office, but it is just a room off to the side of the family room and we left it open.

Some other great news is that Adyson played at a neighbors house yesterday without me! I know for some kids this isn't a big deal, but for us it is the biggest! The neighbor invited us over to play and after a while Sienna was much to tired, so I told Adyson it was time to go, and she just said "no, I think I will stay!" I ran out of their as fast as I could before she changed her mind! She starts pre-school soon, and I'm hoping she will do okay.

Sienna is talking up a storm and I can't believe all the words she says. She is starting to reapeat everything! I love watching her learn, right now we are working on stairs-hopefully she will understand how to carefully go down them by the time the basement is finished. This is her new face. We call it her glare and she can stare us down better than most! She can hold "the glare" for about a minute, and then it is all smiles!

Other than that, we are just doing the same old-same old! I have to say that I am so impressed with how much Travis has learned and how seriously he has taken the finish work. It looks like a pro did it and I am so proud of him! I have to ask myself-"Is there anything this man can't do?"

I've Been Tagged & I'm so lucky!

Thanks a lot Heather, I will get you back.

4 jobs I've had
1)R&G's waitress
2)Ear Piercer at the Silver Shoppe
3)ICON (where I met my hubby)
4)Hair Stylist

4 movies I could watch over and over
1)Moulin Rouge
2)How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
3)Harry Potter movies
4)The notebook

4 Places I've lived
1)Smithfield, UT
2)Logan, UT
3)Smithfield, UT
4)thats all for me, pathetic huh?

4 Favorite TV Shows
1)The Office
2)Scrubs
3)Lost
4)Food Network me

4 Places I've been on Holiday
1)Carribean Cruise
2)Yellowstone
3)Disneyland
4)Vegas

4 Favorite Dishes
1)Pasta
2)I love good Mexican
3)Seafood -- especially shrimp!
4)I love a good salad-yes seriously

4 websites I visit
1)blogs
2)Old Navy and Gap.com
3)pinkisthenewblog
4)recipezaar.com


4 Places I'd like to be
1)In Boise with Heather
2)shopping with the girls!
3)On a cruise
4)Anywhere Alone!

Consider yourself tagged folks

I haven't been updating very often because life has been much too busy the last couple of weeks. Heathers kids were here and Adyson and Sienna have been playing with them an awful lot. Life is finally getting back to normal and as much as I miss them, I welcome my kids getting their sleeping patterns back. I also welcome eating healthy again, cleaning my house again and routine! I have become a creature of routine since I've had kids!

Apparently at some point in the night last night I woke up and told Travis I was cold and he got up and got me my favorite blanket. I woke up this morning wondering where it came from and he laughed when I asked him about it because I seriously don't remember saying a thing. I know it sounds silly but I thought-how lucky am I that my husband is so kind that even though he has to be to church by 6 in the morning he still drags his butt out of bed to warm me up in the middle of the night. I guess it's those little things I need to remember when he keeps me up snoring the night away! Anyways-I love him and he's pretty good to me!

I wish I had some great pics or something to report here, but I just plain don't. Hopefully your weeks have been fun and happy and more eventful than mine.

Camping

Thursday we packed up and went camping up Logan Canyon. I was a little nervous to have Sienna there for the weekend-I didn't think that she would sleep a wink, but she did okay. Her and Simon had so much fun exploring the camp site, and getting dirty, very, very-dirty! Adyson and Kutter just ran around together, and he made her a little more daring than usual. She touched worms, found an inch worm and played with it and also held a lady-bug. It was nice to see her play and not think about how "scary" things are. We ate delicious food all week and played some great card games at night. It was so much fun to stay up late with my brother and sister and their spouses and realize how much we all get along. They both married the perfect people for our family and it always just feels like we are hanging out with great friends. We also went to Bear Lake, and I am sad to say that my camera ran out of batteries and I don't have any bathing beauty pics, but they had so much fun. Ady searched for sea shells all day and Sienna pretty much ran away from me to the water all day. She is my water kid! We are all exhausted from our week of fun, and ready to get back to life!

Some other thoughts for the week:

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was worth the wait and I enjoyed reading it too much, I am just so sad it is over!

It was my birthday today-and the highlight of my day was when Adyson told me that her Birthday wish for me was that we could be "the very best best best friends." If she only knew how much I wish the same things for my girls.

Brielle is the most beautiful and the most well behaved baby ever born. She didn't make a peep all weekend and her smile is very cute!

Okay-camping pics to follow!

Girls slumber party

Wednesday we took the day to get some great pictures of the cousins at Kiddie Kandids, I wish I could post them here. They all look so cute and I have to say Grandma Linda is very pleased to have some new bragging material. That night Breje slept over at our house and her and Adyson had a "girl slumber party" as Ady would call it. It was so much fun for all of us really. They started to help me make smores to take camping and we realized that we didn't have the chocolate chips. So we made a late night run to the store, Ady in her jammies and slippers-and she was so excited to have Breezy here. Breje is now 10 and you would think she would get bored of Adyson, but instead she just loves her and plays with her and helps me out an awful lot. She has grown up to be a little angel I think. Anyways, here are some cute pics of the slumber party!

Dinosaur Park

After Lagoon we slept in a hotel and in the morning went to the Dinosaur Park at Thanksgiving point. I have to say that I wasn't sure how much fun this would be for the younger kids, but Adyson and Sienna both had a blast. Adysons eyes were huge looking at all the scale dino's she saw, and they had a lot for them to do. They let you do a pretend dino bone dig-and we also watched a 3d movie which was really fun. All the kids had a great time there. I have never been to Thanksgiving point before and it seemed like you could spend the whole day there doing all sorts of activities. Maybe next year we will try some of the other things they have to offer. Here are some cute dinosaur park pics.

Lagoon

This last week we took some time off to do some playing! It was well deserved and much needed, and how lucky were we that everyone in my family was able to spend this time together? On Monday we went to Lagoon-and that was actually a blast! Despite the heat-we all managed to go on some good rides and even spent some time at the water park. Adyson was a little too scared for the rides but she loves the carousel and so did Sienna. Sienna pretty much laughed through the whole ride. Adyson had a lot of fun eating the treats and spending the whole day outside though. Heathers kids really enjoyed the rides this year and Trayson was a little dare devil! That kid loved the rides and I don't think he was scared at all. Travis dragged me on the new ride wicked, and I give it 2 thumbs up but I was scared to death-and also managed to lose my new sunglasses on that ride! Here are some great pics of the kids enjoying day 1 of our mini-vacation.

In order-Brielle, Simon, Adyson, Sienna, Breje, Trayson and Kutter. Aren't they the cutest cousins!

Hair Woes!

Our usual nightime routine of bath, jammies, tooth brushing, and hair combing was all done for the night, and I was so excited to get the kids to bed, but I guess Adyson had other plans. She loves to comb her hiar and apparently had taken the comb from me after I had combed her hair. I was just cleaning up the house when she walked into the room with the comb wound all the way to her scalp like a curler would be, and she said "Look mom, I'm a fancy girl." She thought she looked so cute and so dressed up-but I thought differently. Instantly I went into panic mode. This was a lot of hair and it was wound around the comb about a million times. So I went to work, and just tugged and pulled and tugged and pulled. I got it to move a few inches away from the scalp, but no where near out of her hair. Travis was over at Cody's house helping him with their yard, so I called my mom. She came over and we put about a gallon of condtioner in her hair and tried some more. We made a little more headway before Travis got home. When he came home he had the brilliant idea to try and cut the comb, and so we tried that. After I'd say about 2 hours of hair pulling, comb cutting, conditioner wasting and Adyson getting awfully bored, we got it out! I told her today that she is not aloud to use combs in her hair anymore! Here are some pictures of our little adventure! I thought for sure we were going to have to chop her beautiful hair off.

A new calling and a Breakdown

On Sunday we got a new bishop in the ward-and Travis was called to be the Ward Clerk. I didn't think assistant librarian would last for too long! I think he is excited to have a calling that gets him a little more involved in the ward. I once again realized that I married someone who is way better than me, and I think that this service will just prepare him for many more to come. Once again we learned that Adyson listens more than me think in church because when they called his name she said as loud as she could-"Hey dad, Thats your name huh!" I think the whole ward heard her a got a good chuckle.

Speaking of Adyson, HELP ME! She is just wearing me out. Adyson still gets very nervous when she isn't around Trav or I, and it is getting old. She has taken some great steps forward that I am very proud of, like playing with her friends in the back yard or in their yards, but she still wont go inside their houses for some reason. She freaks out if I leave the nursery room, and I am going crazy. I signed her up for Swimming lessons at the Aquatic center and Monday was the first day. I was terrified and just waiting for the breakdown, and she did just fine. She went with her teacher and played the whole time and Travis and I couldn't have been prouder! I literally teared up a bit because it was a huge step! But today was a different story. She just screamed and screamed and cried so hard she almost threw up! I drug her out of there and just sobbed along with her the whole way home. I feel like she is missing out on so much, and I am so dreading pre-school in September. I love this little girl and she has always mentally been so far ahead of her age, she is so smart, but there is something inside her that makes her so scared of EVERYTHING! I want others to see her for who she is and I am sick of worrying about all of this! So if you have some advice, Please help me-I beg you!

That is all for now, I will keep you posted on the drama!