Vacivity!

I just adopted the word vacivity! (not to be confused with vivacity! Totally different, and actually kind of the opposite.)

The Oxford English Dictionary is trying to save a whole bunch of words that aren't commonly used anymore. You too can save a word! There are still so many awesome words, like tortiloquy!

My kids sometimes drive me completely insane, but without them my life would be full of vacivity.

party and halloween and some deer

so yeah, all that happened. here's the evidence:



Zombie Ballerina


I made it look like it snowed! It most definitely did not. But it looks pretty.

Birthday Girl!

I don't know how it happened, but I have a five year old!

Happy Birthday to the cutest little five year old we know! We love her so much!

Old McDonald's

Today after I got back from school, Ane, the girls and I went to the farm.

These first two pictures crack me up.
Katie is obviously having fun, but Aimee...
Same here!Here's Katie fulfilling her dream to "ride a white horsey"

And to show that Aimee did have some fun too.

Then we had a minor tragedy- we went to feed the goats, and they swarmed Aimee and Katie, and for a few minutes we had screaming kids, goats butting and licking, and I accidentally hit one right in the head with my camera. It was very traumatic for Aimee especially. I really wish I could have gotten a picture of her surrounded by goats, but I think that would have been too mean. We had to literally shove one of them back in when we were leaving.

Ane offered to buy the girls happy meals at McDonald's and they were excited. Aimee really wanted to go to "Old McDonald's" and she even started singing the song. She was disappointed when we got there!

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So I started school again, so the posting will probably be sporadic again. I feel bad, but I really love school, so I guess not that bad!

It's been a while!

So this is going to be kind of a long catch up post. I hope you're all okay with that!

So first up is this awesome little video that Jon made for our anniversary. (Seven years!) I had class that night, and he made it all while I was gone!

I realized while watching it that my kids apparently don't know the numbers after 11 :)

School is over now! It's been done for two weeks now, but I've been busy taking the kids to do things I didn't have time for when I was in school. So we've been going to the park, OMSI, and stuff like that. The girls love it!

We had Jon's little brother's wedding reception last week, and the girls got to wear their cute white dresses. (Everyone's looking! I had to switch out some heads from other pictures. There weren't any of Aimee really smiling)

Then they all jumped on Uncle Tyler!

And I got to take a few pictures of this adorable guy:I could hold him all day!


We went to the beach one day:
And at OMSI they got their faces paintedThis isn't the best picture, but it's the only one where you can even kind of see Aimee's caterpillar.

And they had fun with the bendy mirror.

Aimee's being potty trained now. Grandma got her some princess pull-ups and she's been doing okay with them. I'm hoping she'll be completely day trained by the end of the week! I may have just jinxed myself though.

Oh! And we have a new (to us) car! My parents left to go on a mission for our church for 18 months to Tahiti, and they sold us their car! Since our car totally died a few weeks ago, it was good timing. We're all very sad that they're gone for so long, but happy to have their car. Aimee is still not convinced it's ours though!

Okay, I believe I'm all caught up. I'm feeling like a little kid again, excited for summer break! I have about a month off before classes start again, so I'm going to enjoy it.

Look what I found!

I took was looking through old pictures on my camera and I found this gem:
More pictures coming soon, but this one was too funny not to share. It's amazing how it shows their personalities.

This is my last week of school, then a long break!

So I got on here yesterday to post, but then I got distracted by the new designs blogger has. I saw the books, and I had to have them. Then I had to fix all the colors, and by the time I was done with that I ran out of time for blogging. But it's okay, because it's so cute!
This is catch up for June, so it's going to be kind of a mammoth post. Sorry! I'll try to spread it out a bit more this month!

So the other day my friend Leah invited us to OMSI with her, and the girls had tons of fun.

Flubber kept them entertained for a long while:

Then they played in the water:

And the sand pit. Of course my kids are the ones inside the tub in the middle.

We went to see a move at the huge IMAX screen. The last time I went I was just a little kid, and I threw up. Luckily this time was not as bad for me. The girls hated the first 10 min of it, and I had to give Aimee her pacifier and Katie a tootsie pop before they calmed down enough to watch. But it was awesome! It was all about the Hubble Telescope, and we saw amazing stuff like this:(This is the jellyfish nebula)

Then I saw a photo booth, and I am a total sucker for those. And it let you use a debit card! So we got these:Aimee kept getting distracted before the picture.

Then yesterday I was checking our bank account, and there was a charge from Foto Fantasy Inc. I thought for sure someone had gotten my card number and was buying dirty stuff. Then I remembered the photo booth. Really, legitimate businesses should not have the word "fantasy" in them.

Just some other of the kids' shenanigans:

An Aimee Photo Essay

May:

It started like this.(The "Mommy Accidentally Takes a Nap and Wakes Up to a Huge Mess" Incident #37)

Aimee loved sleeping on the floor.
She doesn't get to any more. Why? We had to throw away her rug.

(The "Mommy Accidentally Takes a Nap and Wakes Up to a Huge Mess" Incident #38)

This is the only photographic evidence of the mess. This one involved painting the walls with poop, and I really would like to clear that from my memory forever.
I had to do about four loads of laundry to wash everything that was in her room, including the babies. When I threw them in the washer I had to take a picture because it looked so creepy.

Aimee found a headband, and put it on like this.
Adorable. She wore it for two days straight.

The girls ran up to me one day and told me they were ready to go. This is what they looked like:
Also Adorable.

And finally, I was straightening my hair, and Aimee came and asked me what I was doing. So I straightened her hair too.
My real life troll doll.

She is a pain, and makes messes, and hits me when she's mad, but she's also the goofiest, cutest, silliest two year old, and I love her so much. I wouldn't change her at all.
(Okay, maybe an aversion to poop would be nice.)

Aimee-isms

pooky = spooky (as in pooky monsters)
spider-wib = spider
What's happening? = every time she hears a noise
It's not my favorite = when she doesn't want something
My eye is mean! = she got something in her eye
That's not fair! = always used in a way that doesn't make any sense
I'm a kitty = roughly 100x per day

Happy Mother's Day!

This is what Aimee gave me: