this is what I've been up to..

So, we have been getting our house ready to move into this weekend.. sorry haven't even posted photo's from vacation.. will do maybe from our new house.. Hope everyone is well, this is what we've been doing..and this is only the down stairs but I am happy to say we don't have one white room in the house!! except for closets and laundry rm... the house was all white and nasty smelly carpet..(the people who lived there before had 6 kids under the age of 9 and 4 dogs, all of which were not taken care of...) whew, it's been alot of work!! i'm glad it's almost over and soon we can get settled into our new house and have a party!! yay!! can't wait to have you guys over!
the paint looks better dry.. i love it!!
Rachel painting...

claeaning the tops of the cupboards, ugh, that was gross..
They took out the yucky carpet down stairs and put in wood flooring..yay!! love it!
> Miss the days of dancing in the vineyards in Nappa Valley...... more of those later, gotta pack some boxes.... Love and miss you all!

hahaha! one more funny story...

So Bella has had a lot of "gas" today. She has just been toot'n' all over the place.. so i said "wow your really gassy today!" then I thought it was a perfect opportunity to teach her some science.. So I said: "do you know what that means when your gassy?
Bella:"what does it mean??"
Me:" it means that you have air in your belly and when you toot you let that air out"
In total disregard of my science lesson she replies: " yeah there are people in my belly walking around putting gas in me!! I'm their car and they think I'm thirsty so they are putting gas in me!!"
hahahaha!
Meanwhile Nadya is walking around pretty upset saying: " that doesn't smell good mommy! It doesn't smell good in here!!"
Bella starts laughing and says "it's just me Nadya!"
Ahhh! The joys of children! They crack me up every day!

April showers..

I know, I know, it's been WAY to long since my last post..But after much convincing from a beautiful young woman whose name will remain anonymous, I decided to buckle down and post a blog. Sooo let's catch you up here.
#1. We are going on vacation!!! YAY!! Next weekend we will be driving to North Carolina and dropping the girls off at my in laws and then Si and I are flying to San Francisco!!!! WHEW HOOOO!!! We will be in CA for 5days!! This is the longest we've ever been with out the girls and the longest time Si and I have had our very own vacation!! It'll be interesting leaving the girls! I'm excited, sad, nervous and ready for it all at the same time!! There will definitely be some fun postings after that!
#2. We are moving into a house!!! YAY!! When we get back from our fun filled vacation the family and I will be moving into a house! We are still going to be renting, which is good, we get to try the house out for size and if we love it we'll buy it, or if we hate it there is no attachment to it. I'm just really excited to be in a house and have a separate area for all the girls toys and "stuff" and have another place that we can relax, and not always be in the same room as them cause right now if you are in the living room, kitchen, dinning or computer room your still in just one big room. Now I know the girls stuff will make it's way from the loft to the the living room but at least I know where it goes..It is a 3 bed room 2 1/2 bath has a loft and garage... yay!!
#3. Nadya had an ENT Dr.s appointment today and we have found that she NEEDS her tonsils and adenoids taken out and may need tubes put in her ears to maybe improve her hearing, I say maybe because they did a hearing test on her and they couldn't tell if it was her just being scared and shy or if she couldn't if in deed she has lost some hearing (which was a concern of mine because it's been a obvious loss of hearing that I have noticed , but know it's because of her adenoids... they did a few tests and we're going to do a retest in a few weeks.. so I'll let you know more on that, when i do, her surgery will be in the end of June beginning of July.. that is a scary and stressful thing, please pray for her and us as we go through that with her...
I think that's it as far as major events that have happened to us in the last couple weeks.. So here are some photo's of Bella playing dress up.. she's gone from the princess thing to dogs, which led into angry teenager and the hippie child.. hahahahah! there you go Hillary! I told you I would post one!!! (love you) May a storm of blessings fall on all of you! We love you!!








I just threw this one in for the "aww" factor.. I love it! so peaceful!

Easter!

My friend Rachel decided that she wanted to have a little photo shoot with the girls in their easter dresses, I must say i have the prettiest little girls in the world (I'm not bias at all! hahaha) so here are some photo's of rachel taking photo's! hahaha!

how prescious is that!! oh man i"m so blessed/cursed! hahaha! cursed meaning when they are older and they have all theese boys calling for them! wow! I can' twait to see what kind of dad Simon will be then! hahaha!

a photo of the photo shoot, she did a great job!! we even got little Tommy in on a few!! those will show up again soon I'm sure!

The Girls"BIG" Birthday Party

hey all ! The girls had a blast at their birthday party!! Thanks to everyone who came, we all loved having you there! and for those that couldn't we missed you! The girls especially missed having their cousins Eva, Alastor, and Owen there (miss you soo much) Gonna have a bunch of photo's and explain if needed. It was held at The Little Gym. Enjoy!!

Gage got started right away!
These 4 are trouble!! JK, those were my regular boys that I watched but now Josh (beside Bella) is in school and Kingston (beside Nadya) just had a baby sister (Hayden) so he's staying home with Mommy. Miss those boys.
going around saying their names and ages
walking around in a circle to some song, as you can see it turned into running around pretty quickly!
rolling around

Camden even got into it! Ata boy Cam! way to follow directions!
pause for a photo with papa
ball time!!!
look Gage even got a ball among all the "big kids"
this is where they were knocking down the "big cheese wedge". The kids would (one at a time) stand on the green dot then run and knock over this huge foam wedge over. The kids really liked that!

Cam's turn! Go get it!
Birthday cake
waiting for some cake
Papa and his big Girls
Family shot.


getting ready to open gifts.
THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR ALL THE GIFTS! THEY LOVED ALL OF THEM!!
when we got home of course all the kids got all the new toys out.
the girls IMMEDIATELY got into their princess outfits, they looked so cute and beautiful, they wear them everyday, all day.
after being princesses the wanted to put on some of their new African outfits that Koko Mwasi (Si's mom) brought back from Africa

we got some African dresses to!! that Gilda, my sis-in-law, Bo's wife.
us in our African outfits.

It was an awesome day!@ people stayed over and more came to house had some snacks and just hung out and celebrated our girls, the whole weekend was fun (I'm still trying to recover! haha) Thank you all again for everything! have a great Easter!!

My new 3yr old!

Nadya turned 3!! March 12th was her third birthday and she's been asking about her birthday since Bella had hers, and to my dismay it came sooner than later! She is sooo precious! I love my baby girl! she is sooo funny, sweet, loving, and entertaining.. It's soo funny cause we had her all wrong! You see when she was younger she was VERY aggressive, so we just knew that she was going to be our tom boy... NOT!! (hahaha! yes i just said not! , and yes i crack myself up!) She is the girliest girl ever! She loves pink, and sparkles and all that girlie stuff! When we would ask her what she wanted for her birthday she would say " umm.... a sparkly,shirt, sparkly dress, sparkly pants, and a sparkly hat , I already have sparkly shoes so I don't need sparkly shoes!!" hahahha! She still likes to play rough,pick her nose (and crack up cause she knows its supposed to be yucky), antagonize her sister,and best of all her cackle of a laugh when she thinks she is soo funny ( she usually is), but through all that she just wants pink sparkly "stuff". so here she is our beautiful 3 year old! Love you Nadi!

We woke her up super early (ok , it was 7, but si had to get to work!!) and gave her her Barbie Mariposa out fit. for those of you not fluent in spanish mariposa means butterfly, i learned that from Dora the Explorer.

still has no idea whats going on, although when we asked her if she knew how old she was she did hold up 3 fingers!

Ahhh! she's more awake and just blew out her candle.

she doesn't lie about her age.

Happy birthday sis!

P.s I cut my hair, here is the jist of it not that it looks much different when it's "done" . Have a great week can't wait to see alot of you this weekend!