Sunday, August 19, 2012

Time Flies

Wow...8 months have gone by since posting to this blog. Whoops! :) It's funny that I enjoy reading others blogs so much yet I am terrible at posting at mine. 

Life is good at the Bemis household. Busy as usual, but that is our life. We have finally settled into our new home.
We are starting to add decorations here and there which makes it feel a little more put together. We are even more excited for all the room that we have. The kids have plenty of room to play, inside and out. Our street is FULL of kids and Aubrey and Peyton LOVE going outside and playing in the evenings. The fenced in backyard is a big plus. I love being able to let them go out and eat their popsicles or play in the sandbox and not have to have a constant eye on them. I think they like that part too.

Aubrey has started 3rd grade. She is growing up so fast, that I sit and stare are her every once and a while and wonder where the time has gone. She loves to read and is an amazing girl. She impresses me daily with her knowledge and her motherly instincts. She is definitely a little woman. She loves do do art projects and study the titanic. She is just one of those "good kids". I am so proud of her.



 Peyton is going to be 2 and that truly makes me wonder where time is going! She is such a lively little kid. She has absolutely no fear and is willing to try anything. She is obsessed with Halloween and ghosts. She is like her sister, a sponge for learning. Peyton makes me laugh every single day. She has continued the Munson tradition of having ice-cream with Grandpa and she gets so excited to go! Also whenever we go to visit their house she has to pick a flower with Grandpa and then Grandma gives her a vase to put it in and carry around. I love these traditions the girls have with family!



The girls are adorable and such good friends. I am still in awe of how well they get along, especially with their age difference. But these two have a bond that is out of this world. I adore them both.



So now we have the new one coming! In a month!!! I sit and wonder what I have gotten myself into. :) 3 kids may seem like nothing to most people, but to me I am not prepared for the shift of man on man defense to zone defense. I am just figuring out a good schedule with being a mom to 2 kids, church callings, personal life (still working on this one), being a wife and working full time. And I still don't have it completely figured out and now it will all change in a month's time. I can say though we are excited to be adding this little boy to our family. We are anxious to see him and to have him here with us. (especially as I sit here and he is rolling around making me sooo uncomfortable) He is truly a blessing from above, like all of my children. We are anxious to see his personality and see him with his sisters.

Derek and I are still busy at work. Auctori is doing well and we are staying busy with it. There is never a dull moment at work or changes needed with the product. We are both coming up on our 5 year anniversary working at Unidev. Once again...time flies. Derek has recently taken up paintball as a hobby and is really enjoying it. He also is on a sand volleyball team for the 2nd time with some friends. He still somehow finds time to play basketball once a week also. As for me, I am enjoying spending time with friends and for the most part am being mom and preparing for a baby. :) I have been very tired with this pregnancy so I am pretty boring right now. But I am sure that will all change. Derek and I are enjoying being parents to our wonderful kids and are so happy with how our lives are together.


Well that is enough reading for 8 months of missed blogging...right? To summarize, we are all alive and doing well. Busy as bees and loving it all!

Monday, November 28, 2011

Back to my hobbies...

Saying my life has been chaotic and nutty and unpredictable in the past 5 years is quite the understatement. I have learned some new things about myself which has been fun! But I also realized that during all of these changes, I have forgotten about some things I really like to do. One of them is creating crafts.

Two things entered my life this past weekend that are changing my life! I bought a cricuit and I got involved with pinterest! TWO MAJOR life changes for me. :) I made my first craft that I found on pinterest. It is a quick way to see your week in a glance. I took collage of picture frames that we received and never really knew what to do with it. Then I put in holiday scrapbooking paper into the areas where pictures go. I used my cricuit to cut out the letters for the days of the week and added some ornament stickers and tada...we have a dry erase board. :-) It will be easy to swap out the papers and the stickers to match the season. It was fun to make!

Friday, June 17, 2011

Family

I spent the morning with my girls and this afternoon I was reading blog updates from my family. I just have to say I LOVE MY FAMILY!
I love Aubrey's crazy phrases she comes up with at the most random times...
I love how Peyton makes this weird noise when she is trying to go to sleep...
I love how my husband loves me so much he pushes through my "bubble" to "force" me to hug him when I am in one of my moods...
I love how my older brother has no fear and I can live through is adventures...
I love how my sister in law is so organized with her kids and family...
I love how my little brother loves my kids and how you can see his eyes change when he looks at them...
I love how my sister in law has the biggest heart I have ever seen a person have...
I love how my mom is always there it help me no matter what the situation and she somehow always seems prepared for them...
I love how my dad is my hero and is exactly what every girls hopes for her father to be...

Is my family perfect...no
Do we have perfect lives...no
Do we always see eye to eye...no
Are we great at keeping in touch...not always
Would we do anything for each other...YEP!

When talking about my family...the saying rings true..."We may not have it all together, but together we have it all"

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Gingerbread Houses 2010

We have had a lot of fun this year making gingerbread houses with our friends. Of course we have to turn it into a friendly competition though. :-) So here you go...cast your votes! You can vote for your first, second and third choice.


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Friday, November 19, 2010

Monday...

Monday I return to work. This is bittersweet for me. I do enjoy my job, most days, and look forward to getting back to managing Auctori and continue the work that we started 3 years ago. There is a sweet satisfaction of being on the team that created this product and being the manager that continues to bring it to clients and progress it further. But that means I have to leave my new baby. She will be in great hands so I am grateful that I don't have that to worry about. But I am wrestling with those emotions of wanting to be home with my girls. I am fearing what is waiting for me at the office when I return and what has changed in the past 8 weeks. What will I need to catch up on, how will it be getting up in the morning and going to work after not getting much sleep the night before? Will I be able to get into a good routine? There a million things floating around in my head.

But for today...I will hold my baby and not think about Monday until Monday. :-)

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Blessing Day


I have always enjoyed baby blessings. They have always been a big deal to me even before I had children. I feel it is so special because is a time when our Heavenly Father is able to vocalize special blessings to our children and they are given their official name. It is a beautiful thing. We had the wonderful opportunity to bless Peyton in church on Sunday. I am very grateful to my father for being able to bless her. It was a beautiful and I of course sat and cried. Peyton was quiet and just laid there in every one's hands all wide eyed. There was so much love in that circle for her. I would imagine she could feel that.

My brother and his family came in from California. It meant a lot to me to have my whole family there on this special day. Both of my brothers and their wives mean so much to me in their own unique way. I feel like I am constantly looking for their validation and it felt wonderful to have them all there supporting me. I was so very grateful to the friends that supported us also. I appreciate the ones that stood in the circle to bless Peyton and I appreciate the friends that came to see Peyton blessed that do not have the same faith as me. That meant a lot to me because they were there to support me even though they didn't believe the same as me. What true friends those are! How blessed Derek and I are!

I am so blessed to have the two girls that I have and to have an amazing husband to raise them with. My life is so complete right now and I am so overwhelmed with happiness. Thank you to my family and to my friends for their patience, love and support. Thank you to my Father in Heaven for his outpouring of blessings and for these two amazing girls that he has Derek and I to care for here on this earth.

Sunday, November 7, 2010

Thanks Kim!

Kim doesn't know it yet but she saved Aubrey from dying from boredom this evening! :-) Kim posted on her blog a month or so ago a recipe for play dough. So Aubrey and I tried it out. It was VERY easy and a lot of fun. We did 4 colors: blue, green, black and orange. Aubrey used our Halloween cookie cutters and her imagination and made this "scene". (as she calls it) She is such a creative kid! The weather was PERFECT today so Aubrey even got to enjoy playing with her play dough outside so Derek didn't have a stroke about any of it possibly getting on the carpet. :-)

Aubrey was so excited to have me put these pictures on the blog.


Here is the recipe in case you want to try it out!

1 c. flour
1 c. water
2 Tbsp. salt
1 Tbsp. oil
1 Tbsp. cream of tartar or albumin

Cook and stir until it turns into a ball. Knead until smooth. (warning its HOT) Add food coloring. Keep in a Ziploc bag. I doubled this and it worked just fine.