Pinewood Derby and Our Garden

So for our faithful from the beginning blog readers you will remember that our ward does a "ward pinewood derby". It is the best activity I go to each year. The only bad part is when your husband somehow runs out of time to actually make the car and I end up having to start making it about 3 hours before the activity. Last year jared made a skateboard with a gorilla on top. We actually won a few races and won the award for most creative. This year was a total bust. We lost every race we were in by a long shot and we didn't win anything for the car itself. I thought it was pretty creative making a "Simpson's" car. I did the entire thing with a dremmel. Everyone that heard that laughed pretty hard but I am not sure what else I really could have used. I printed the characters and then ran them through my laminator so they would look like they were sitting up. My brother dustin should really appreciate this car since he is a huge "Simpson's" fan. My kids came up to me during the races and informed me that our car sucked because it kept losing. Besides that we all had a good time. They had an auction of baked goods and babysitting from the young women to raise money for camp. My dad has deeper pockets than I do and won a few things that we decided to enjoy right then. Homemade Tres Leches cake and popcorn balls. The cake was delicious and was completely gone in about 10 mins. I think we will start working on the car a little sooner for next year.

The kids just hoping we might win at least one.
Ethan and his "friend" Hannah
My parents and the kids. Landon is actually looking at the camera and kind of smiling.

We decided this year to plant from tomatoes, zucchini, and strawberries. The kids are very excited about this. Hopefully they will leave the plants alone so that they can actually produce some food. We under estimated the size that the zucchini plants would get. We are going to have to split them up. We were all very excited when we found some strawberries on the plant the other day.

Beckham and Owen

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So finally I have some pictures of the twins. My mom took these the other night at the hospital. I still have yet to be able to see them other than in pictures. Here is a list of who is in the pictures
1. Lindsay and Owen
2. Beckham
3.Beckham
4. Mom and Beckham
5. Lindsay and Owen
6. Mom and Beckham
7. Kathy (marc's mom) and Beckham, Mom and Owen

Pictures Finally!!!

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So here are my pictures from the last month or so. So I just updated the pics and added the ones my mom had of Presley. They are from her blessing, and I got a cute on of her and Mackenzie when Kristal came to visit just recently. We have been busy the last month and most of the activities took place over spring break. We went on a couple of outings with some friends from the ward. Going to the zoo with everyone was fun but it seemed like we had a hundred kids with us. The kids loved it though. The last two pictures of the kids were a day we were just going to be going to my mom's house so I just told them to get dressed. Mackenzie thought she was hot stuff after she picked her outfit out and put on her glasses. Good thing we weren't really going out in public anywhere. Enjoy!

Update

So here is my update........
I am so done with being pregnant. I can't wait to start taking Laurie Ray's herb recipe so I can have this baby that I think must weigh like 9 lbs now. I know taking the herbs helps me have my kids early which is a good thing since they seem to always be big.

I am just plain tired. Tired of cleaning my house only to have it messed up again, never ending laundry that never gets folded and put away much to my mother's dismay, no new shows on TV, my children not listening to me, and mostly of being pregnant ( I know I already said that)

My children causing bodily harm to themselves and those around them. Landon dented one of the rounded corners of our walls (the rounded part is a piece of metal) with his head, Ethan swinging a golf club in the backyard and smacking one of my piano students on the corner of her eye (hopefully she won't need too many stitches), Landon throwing one of our brand new phones at Ethan knocking one of his baby teeth loose and splitting his lip open.

I am very very very glad spring break is over

I am mad at the NICU rules at the hospital my sister's twins are at. I have yet to see my two new nephews in person. This will be the only time I ever admitt that some things (NICU's) are better in Texas.

I will post pictures which I do have a ton of including pictures of my brother Matt's little girl Presley, Easter, Spring break activities, and other random stuff tomorrow. I am tired and going to bed. It is only 8 pm and it feels like midnight.

Almost 32 Weeks!!!

Well last night was exciting for our family. My sister ended up having her twins at almost 32 weeks along. We spent most of the evening just kind of waiting to see if they could get the labor to stop. Around 10:30 we all decided to just go home since it looked like they were going to do whatever it took to stop them and it would be probably Sun before they would do a C-Section. At 3 this morning I get a call saying they are getting her ready to go in and have them. So my mom and I went over to the hospital. Beckham was born at 4:09 was 4 lbs 6 oz and 16 inches long. Owen was born at 4:10 and was 3 lbs 13 oz. and 15 1/2 inches long. Mom and babies are doing well. They babies were in the NICU but weren't having any troubles so far. Lindsay is doing good just trying to catch up on sleep she missed last night and missed the last few weeks when she really started to get big. Sorry no pics since they are all on Lindsay's camera. Hopefully I will be able to post some in the next few days. Now I am going back to bed, after I take Ethan to school!

POOP, PEE, and TOOTHPASTE

If I have to clean up one of these three things one more time I will most likely lose my mind. Mackenzie has done nothing but make a mess of these three things for the past 2 days. Mind you she has been potty trained for almost a year now she has decided that when we are home she will use my carpet or couch as her personal toilet. Thank heavens for leather. I have no idea what is wrong with her. IF I had already had the baby I might be able to use that as an excuse but we are still quite a few weeks away from that. If we are out does she have an accident? No of course not. I am at a loss with her. Also the girl is obsessed with toothpaste. I mean I know it just might be in her genes but somehow she ends up covering the entire bathroom with it whenever she gets a hold of it. She will suck it right out of the tube if I don't catch her in time. I guess toothpaste is better than the estrogen cream we caught her trying to brush her teeth with one time. A 2 year old with some serious hormones could be worse!

Disneyland 2008

So last week we headed down to Disneyland for two fun filled days before our season passes are up. We made reservations at one of the disney hotels called paradise pier which was really close to the park and was a nice place to stay. Before we went down Ethan didn't seem to be himself, you know bouncing off the walls can't sit still and all the usual boy stuff but, by that night he seemed to be better so Tues. morning we got up early and went down for our stay. We didn't really wait longer than 10 min. in line for anything and it was 80+ degrees and sunny so it was a perfect day. By lunch Ethan was not feeling good again. He was saying his eyes were burning (my first thought was pink eye) but after closing his eyes and laying in the stroller he seemed okay. Then he just went downhill from there. He didn't want to ride anything all he wanted to do was go back to the hotel. So me being the horrible parent put him in the stroller and tried to make him stick it out a few more hours until the park closed at 8. We watched the parade and ethan was done. We went back to the hotel all of us exhausted and said we would see how he felt in the morning. By morning he was worse and so instead of staying we packed up and went home to take him to the doctor. We sat in lovely LA traffic for what seemed like forever and finally made it to Valencia around lunch time. Everyone but Ethan was hungry but he did want something to drink so we decided to go into Chili's and eat. Once we ordered Ethan said he was feeling hungry and wanted to eat something. We get our food and about 2 min. later Ethan starts throwing up in the restaruant. All I can think of is the people around me trying to eat and Jared and I are scrambling to get all of us out of there. We make it home about and hour later and take ethan to the doctor. They do the flu test and of course he has influenza A and might have given a few people at Disneyland one extra souveniour they weren't looking for. For some reason Ethan was the only one in our family not to get a flu shot and I still have no idea why he didnt' get one. Needless to say we are hoping our next trip to the happiest place on earth involves mom not pregnant, ethan not sick, and alot more fun.