Something New!!!

So My Husband has been Spoiling Me Rotten! He went and got me the Cricut Jukebox and the Design Software. I haven't got the Cricut Jukebox in the mail yet but I have the Design Software and a new Cartridge. Here's the best part! He only spent like $200 dollars for the 3 things! Now for those of you that don't know how much this stuff cost the Cartridge alone usually goes for $89.99. So that's a WOW! I decided to sit down tonight and start figuring out the Cricut Design Software. I was getting SOOO Frustrated!!! Then My wonderful Husband stepped in and helped me figure it out!! He's the BEST! If you look in the picture below you can see what he helped me figure out. The Welding Technique. The "FUN IN THE SPRING" on the page below was combined and cut out all as one piece. YAY!! I was SOOO excited I had to share!!!!

Facebook and Moving

I have been having serious issues with my milk supply again. I went on my Circle of Moms applications on Face book. In that application their is a Nursing Mothers Group. I went in there asked for some help because I've done everything that I can think of. This lady recommended Momma's Milk Tea; here's the web page www.bulkherbstore.com. This weekend I am going to order some and give it a try! It sounds interesting but I am going to try it! I'm really hoping it helps. :)
Now for Moving! I am getting so excited! Mitchell has everything all set up! The Movers inspection is on the 3rd of February. TMO( The Moving people) are set to pack everything up on the 24Th of February and then pick it up on the 25Th! We'll spend a day cleaning the house and then hoping to be on the road to Colorado the 27Th. We're hoping to be in California the last week of March.
We also have Doctors appointments scheduled for the 23rd. Alayna will be having her 6 months check up and Hannah her 2 year check up. Well that's really all there is to update on for the moment! God Bless!

First Cereal!

Alanya had her first taste of her Rice cereal last night! I can't believe how big she is getting! However she was not very fond of it... as you can see below. She would be mad at Mitchell if he didn't give it to her fast enough and then he'd give it to her and she'd mad at him...poor Dad no win situation lol. It was funny to watch and once again SOOO Happy to have my camera back!

Blankets

I realized its been awhile since I've updated my crafts and A LOT of that hasto do with the fact weturned inour camera to get fixed and got it back yesterday. YAY!! Can't tell you how nice it is to have our camera back! So here are some pictures of the crafts I've been tackling between all the cleaning and getting ready for our move.Not sure if you recognize this blanket or not but the last time I posted about my crafts I wasn't very far along in it...so heres the update on that one.

Here are the materials that I am using for my next project. Just a random pattern we picked out of that book. My husband chose the blanket...I am just knitting it :)
Heres the blanket :) Well started

Heres a project I haven't accomplisahed yet. These are those fleece blanket pieces that your suppose to just cut and tie knots...but I always sew them together in case of a destructive stinker like mine that likes to untie them all. Well got to go run andpick my oldest from school!!!

Back

Just for an update...my back is slowly but surely doing better. Mitchell has been having me take shower when he gets home..he massages it... helps with the kids so I don't have to lift them as much and yesterday he got me heating pads to keep on it. With all that effort my back is showing improvements. He has to work today so I do what I usually do when he works to pass the time...clean. I don't know what it is about cleaning that just makes time pass and is so therapeutic butit helps me. However this morning I've been workingon the laundry thinking that wouldn't bother my back...which brought the thought "you really don't know how much you use something till you either don't have it or can't use it." Its a thought I think we all have had at one point in time but it seems to be on mymind a lot lately. Well I'm going to try and edit some pictures so I can get themprinted at Costco. Hope everyone enjoys their Saturday!

Stairs

As parents we constantly worry about our children and stairs. We worry about them falling down stairs...well I fell down the stairs yesterday morning. I was headed downstairs to go wake up the girls to get them dressed and ready to get KalieAnn to school. I have fallen down this particular set of stairs a couple times and I have to say this is the hardest hit I have taken from them. My feet slipped off one of the steps and found myself landing lower back first near the bottom. Needless to say KalieAnn was late but only by like five minutes to school. I've been taking Tylenol since and I woke up this morning with my whole Torso hurting but every time I bend it feels like shooting pains in my lower back. If I keep my back straight up I am fine but bending or even picking anything up hurts. So I've finally given in and called the doctors office. I'm waiting for an on call doctor to call me back. I made the decision when I realized this effects me taking care of Alayna. It hurts to bend down and pick her up...or put her down...if I'm holding her and my back is straight I'm fine. So we'll see...just thought I'd put the update on.

Anniversary & Moving!

This Year is going to be another busy Year! As usual we start off every year celebrating our Wedding Anniversary. This year we celebrated our 6th Wedding Anniversary. Our neighbor was kind of enough to take a family picture for us before we went out to dinner.

The little stuffed Animals you see tucked nicely in their jackets were Christmas Presents from my Mom. She made each of them a backpack with little outfits crocheted to fit each animal. The Girls love them!!! The Animals were even kind enough to join us for our anniversary dinner. They wanted them tucked in the jacket just like I do with Alayna when we go somewhere. The day before we went to walk the Mall of America. I put on Alayna's backpack..then my jacket so I can keep her tucked in my jacket all nice and cozy warm. So the girls wanted to do that with their animals.

I got my hair cut and I'm lovingit. Its such an easy style for me to do. Take a shower before..wake up pin it back..and whola I feel pretty...oh so pretty! She took three and a half inches off and layered it so it wouldn't be so full that it would just drag everything down with it. My hair tends to not only be thick but theres a whole lot of it. So when I let it grow out it weighs down and if its not layered right its curls and fraysout like a triangle. So I really like the job this lady did!

Now for last but not in the least not new news...We are moving!!! We're going to be stationed at Camp Pendleton, CA. Mitchell is trying to get TMO set up for the last week of February so we can be out of here on the 1st of March. We're looking at going to Colorado for a couple weeks before wehead out to California toget moved in and visit with Family. I am sooo excited but I have been sooo busy trying to go through things and start getting rid of things we don't need anymore or don't want to take with us. Its one of the good things about moving every couple years. It makes it easier to get rid of those things that sit in the back of your closet that you tend to forget about. Well I'm off to go hopefully get some work done around the house.

Rolling Over!

I'm pretty sure the title for this update pretty much speaks for itself. Our little Alayna is now rolling from her back to her tummy. She hasn't quite gotten the tummy to back perfected just yet. She rolls onto her stomach and just tries to go. She wants to be able to just get up and go. I keep trying to tell her she needs to take her time...but she isn't..she's determined to get this figured out.

I LOVE this shot of her!!! Her beautiful smile perfected with drool about to come off her chin.
Our typical Alayna :)

New Year!!!!

This year was the first New Year that we were success full in staying awake for. We usually just go straight to bed...then roll over give whom ever woke up first a kiss on the forehead and say "Happy New Year Sweetheart." We tried to get KalieAnn and Hannah to stay up with us but they were tired, acting it and went to bed around 10:30pm. So we figured we'd watch a movie then head to bed before we knew it Mitchell got text messages from the guys saying Happy New Year! We paused the movie...he got up checked his phone...looked at the time on the oven.."Oh Guess its the New Year"..came back and we finished watching the movie. As you can tell New Years is similar to the change time for us...oh look at that its time for it. If you know us you know we're not real big drinkers. But here are some cute pictures of our little stinkers on New Years or the day after...not totally sure the exact date.

Christmas!!

Christmas Eve we have started our usual tradition. We make sugar cookies or a Gingerbread House. This year we made sugar cookies...and it will probably stick with us for as long as the kids want to do it. We told the girls that "We need to make the sugar cookies so that we have cookies to put out for Santa!" It got KalieAnn all kinds of excited! Except this year we waited to do it after our traditional Christmas Eve dinner, Open Faced Hamburgers. very Yummy! So We were up late with the girls getting the cookies made and decorated. Alayna was the first one to bed...Mitchell and I being the last...even our Dog, Dodger was in bed before us.

We put Alayna in her bouncy on our dinning room table so she could be a part of it. I even picked her up and let her cut out a cookie or two before we put her to bed.
KalieAnn and Hannah next to the cookies and milk they set out for Santa.
We let KalieAnn and Hannah open one gift before they went to bed on Christmas Eve but because Alayna was already in bed we decided she got to open the first gift! She was just like any other cute little three month old...more interested in eating the present than opening it.

Then a picture of each of the girls and one of the presents they unwrapped. After Halloween last year we went Kohls and got the girls some costumes since they enjoy playing dress up.

Long Over Due Post

There are going to be more than one post since I am soo awful at keeping this updated these days. There's just so much to update that I am going to do pots by subject rather than just try to fit it all in one. This One will be about our wonderful trip.
Mitchell and Mataya with their nothing short of Proud Mom after Pinning Mataya. I still can't believe she's a 2nd LT. in the Marines...well I can believe cause one of the many traits they share as siblings one defiantly is stubbornness and once they put their minds to it they'll accomplish it...So I think the better way to phrase it is...weird lol. But She truly does look great! It was a lot of fun being able to go out and see her.

Mitchell was able to give her, her first salute.

That was a very busy week. We flew in Wednesday..her family day was Thursday...Graduation and Commissioning Friday...Washington DC Saturday...we even got to see some friends/old neighbors of ours from Okinawa...then Sunday....we went and walked the Marine Corps History Museum....I"m probably going to being missing a lot of details here because my mind is currently drawing a blank...but Monday we had lunch with a couple that we knew from Camp Pendleton back when we got married...their wedding was the day before ourss..It was awesome to see them again too...then Tuesday we went to Arlington Cemetery before we went to to the airport to come back here. The wonderful freezing cold. :) Our trip was a blast!