Count your blessings

I am not going to lie I have had a really rough week. I do not do well when I am tired. Almost all day Tuesday and Wednesday Emily cried all day. She slept in bed with us and she is a very wiggly monkey. She loved pulling my hair, tried to share her pacifier with me and ended up crashing with her lil bum in my face. All this sound cute and sweet but in the middle of the nite when you are tired its not so much. Then Thursday Rodney cried all day. He doesn't want to take naps and at around 5 he is so tired and cranky. Well all the boogies and crying for days does ware on a mom until you have a break down.

Anyway I was browsing through some blogs and found two blogs that broke my heart ( I am still crying about them) babycrouch.blogspot.com and ethanandkimberly.blogspot.com. These 2 mothers lost there babys and my heart is so sad for them. I cant even begin to express how sad I am for them. Then I started to feel so horrible for crying from lack of sleep, no time with my hubby, tons of boogies, a lil bum in my face, the kids fighting, ect. Not to say that I didn't have the right to have a moment of weakness because being a mom is the hardest job in the world but it is also the most rewarding.

My prayers are with those mothers. I am so grateful that I belong to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and that I believe that families can be together forever. I am so grateful that I have 3 beautiful and healthy children.

Someone told Matt and I the other day to focus on The Prize not The Price. I really want this to be our family motto. I want to focus on the things that I have that are good in my life and count my blessing and not focus on the things that are hard. I want to be a lot more positive. So I know having this blog will be a blessing for me so that I can look back at the fun memories with my children and focus on the fun and not the hard days.

Chuckagrandma

Well Friday started out great we had our friends the Daltons come down for a visit. We packed all 7 kids and went to the swimming pool. We stayed for a couple of hours and then headed back home. It was so nice to see them we hadn't seen them since we moved and Karlee sure missed her friend Tenaya.

Matt ended up getting off of work early and we decided to take the kids to dinner. Matt asked us how does Chuckarama sound? In which Karlee replied, "what is chuckagrandma?" We laughed so hard until Rodney really did upchuck in the car and i mean all over the place. We had to pull over and take off all of his clothes, thank goodness we had a towel in the car and we were able to put it down so he didnt have to sit in the wet car seat. We had to come home and Matt went and got the car cleaned. So no chuckagrandma for us :)

Babies sleep in the craziest positions

I went to check on Emily and found her sleeping with her hand hanging outside of her crib. It looked so uncomfortable and since she is our 3rd kid I was surprised to see her sleeping like this because I have never seen the other 2 sleep like that. She sure loves to sleep on her tummy!

Mom my clothes are shrinking

I heard Karlee getting upset and asked her what was wrong she said that her p.j shirt had shrunk. I started to laugh so hard this was actually emilys p.j top not hers. They had matching p.j's from Christmas. The whole thing even shocked Rodney.

The Hogle Zoo Fashion Show

On Saturday Karlee was in The Hogle Zoo Fashion Show.She had a ton of fun. We got to the zoo at 10:30 and by 12:20 she was done. We stayed and looked at the animals until 3:30. It was so much fun. I can't believe how fast the kids are growing. They are such a huge blessing to Matt and I.

We also rode the train and when it was time to get off Rodney kept crying and saying "more train." We had such a fun time. Thank you Kirsten for spending the day with us.