One of those days

So maybe if I write about my day last week in the future I can read this and laugh about it. Friday I had decided to have my friend and her sister over for lunch. On thursday I got the house all cleaned up so all I had to do was make lunch. So before I even took the kids to school a whole bowl of cereal landed all over the table and the CLEAN floor. I got started on lunch before I took the kids to school and for somre reason it took me the whole morning to get it all ready.
I didn't even get a shower before my friend came at about 20 minutes till when she was going to be here I ran and put some clothes on but on my way stopped in the living room to pick a couple things off the floor. There was a newspaper on the floor and I picked it up and it smelled like paint so I wondered for a second if Steve had used it when he was painting the day before. As I picked it up I noticed a whole bottle of fingernail polish spilled on the chair and the carpet. My nephew had somehow gotten the polish open and had it all over him and the carpet and chair. I ran to get dressed and finish lunch and just kept the kids out of that room cause I didn't know how to get it out of the carpet at the moment anyways.
So my lunch guests arrive and my nephew was just being awnry through the whole meal and so my friends little boy and Kaden got down and went downstairs to play. After a little bit they had been quiet so my friend goes to see what is going on and finds that they have gotten Sierra's body powder and Kaden had sprinkled it all over Carson's room. So we are cleaning up lunch and the boys are still playing and then Paityn starts screaming come to find that Kaden is being mean to her too and him and Paityn have chocolate all over their faces so I took him to my room for a time out. I then was finishing visiting with my friend and just before they are leaving the little boy was saying that Kaden had put shampoo in the toilet but I checked the upstairs and didn't see anything so I didn't think any more of it. After my friend left I started with the fingernail polish and worked on it for a little bit and then had to let some stuff sit on it so I headed downstairs to clean up the mess down there. I found that Sierra's room had been all messed up and her chocolate had been strewn all over the room and half eaten. Then I went to turn the light off in the bathroom and found the toilet full of toothbrushes, floss, and little hotel shampoos, conditioners body washes and lotions all dumped out and the bottles in the toilet. I have a picture on my phone but don't know how to get it from there to the computer and didn't get one with the camera before I had it cleaned up. The fingernail polish is lighter but not gone from the carpet. Needless to say I was kind of glad for the break at 5 to go to Las Vegas to pick up our exchange student from the airport cause we left Sierra and the two little ones with a babysitter!!! Just one of those days when you wonder if anything else could go wrong. On a good note lunch with Rebecca and Robyn was great and the food was good!! I guess it was one of Kaden's terrible two moments he is almost three though so hopefully those will be the terrific three's!

Fun Weekend

On friday after work Steve, Briana, Carson and I headed to Las Vegas to pick up our exchange student Amelie from the airport. We thought she would have blonde hair cause the picture we had of her was blonde but she told us later that the picture was actually a couple years old. We waited for her by the baggage claim and were looking for her and there were some people that had signs with people's names on them and we started thinking maybe we should have brought a sign but we hadn't. We didn't need one in the end though when she saw us she knew who we were and came up and gave us a hug and said HI. I snapped a couple pictures while we were waiting for her bag and then we headed home. It was a long day for her she left Belgium in the morning and we didn't arrive at our house until midnight our time so it was like a 24 hour trip for her. She has been a little tired but she has played with the kids for the last three days very graciously and the kids have loved having her around. We took her to church with us on Sunday and she said the kids were very nice and she was excited to know some of the kids she will go to school with. We had the day off of school today so we played games and played outside the kids went on a bike ride and just had lots of fun so I took a few pictures of the kids playing outside too, the weather was in the high 50's so it was beautiful and a nice change as well.

Cheese!!

So Sierra has been really wanting to have some of those pretzels like you can get at the mall and I bought some a while back and she has been wanting them as an after school snack. I have been putting her off because I didn't have any cheese to dip them in so I finally got some cheese and gave in. We all had one and some liked them some didn't but most of all when everyone was done Paityn was wanting the bowl of cheese and I just couldn't resist!! She thoroughly enjoyee it and I even lucked out and had to run an errand just as Steve got home and he got to clean her up.

New Year

So we went to the neighbors house and had a get together for New Year's Eve. We played games and ate lots of junk!! About 11:30 we headed home to get the kids ready for bed and we watched the ball drop on the T.V. and went to bed. Everyone but Paityn and Kaden stayed awake. We asked Kaden if he wanted to come watch the ball but he said he was too tired so he was probably only 5 minutes from midnight when he fell asleep. The kids always think it is so great to stay up that late. I on the other hand have differing opinions it takes me too many days to catch up afterwards.
We now have church at 11:00 a.m., Steve couldn't be more thrilled. I guess he doesn't think he has enough time to get them all ready himself on the days I have meetings!! The kids seemed to do ok yesterday but I think it is still going to be an adjustment for the two little ones.
This year my two resolutions are to be better budget concious and to exercise more this year than last!!!
I think they should both be pretty attainable.
The newest excitement at our house is in the next week or so we are going to get an exchange student!! She is from Belgium and we are super excited for her to come and stay with us. Sierra can't wait to have an older sister!! See you soon Amelie!!