Secret Santa

I received a pleasant surprise today i opened my front door and there were some presents for our family there it was so nice there were some dolls for paizley a board game for josh and some brownie mix and lemon bar mix as well as popcorn for Trent and i and the card read hope your holidays are merry and bright love you secret Santa i don't know who this was from but
THANK YOU! I have been so blessed and this has put this holiday season over the top wonderful surprise!!.
THANK YOU SECRET SANTA!!!

CAKE'S

I started making cake's what do you think ?

I am loving this and finding that i have a talent for it is so awesome i have been trying to find some sort of talent.

Denver

November 5-7Th i was able to have a girls weekend we flew to Denver to see mama MIA and it was so fun!! we went shopping and i bought some very cute boots and a cute shirt and of course i bought some cloths for the kids!! and we went out to eat and it was great we stayed at Tiffany's mom's house and her house is BEAUTIFUL!!! it look just like a model home everything is so wonderfully decorated her name is Shawn and she said the next time she comes to Utah she was going to help me put the finishing touches on my house i am excited
mama MIA was wonderful and i cant wait to go see it again it is coming to salt lake in June so i am starting to save up my money so that i can go!!! and while i was there i got my ears Periced my sister Andrea took me to do that and well it HURT like crazy but i think i will really end up liking them cant wait to get some really cute earring's to wear!!! lots of fun and i cant wait until my next trip.
Trenton was so nice to stay at home with the kids what would i do with out him!!

Catching Up!!

well time just went way to fast.

here are just some of the highlights of what has been going on since the last time i posted

in August we had Paizleys first birthday!!!

she was SO cute and she just loved that cake she had family and friends come and oh boy did she get spoiled!! but why not she is SO cute!! my best friend Alisha and her kids came over to spend the day with us and Cruz and Paizley got to play all day together!! i cant believe she is already one the time just went so fast

even Grandma Betty came!! we Love grandma Betty!!

Happy Birthday Paizley we love you!!

And in September Joshua started preschool!!

and did he care or was he scared because i was not staying oh no he ran in and said "mom you go home i will call you when i am done"!! what a handsome little dude!!

He loves it. and he is learning a lot he love to paint and he is always talking about snack time!! lol
he loves having his friends in class with him and gets to walk to school with some of them he gets to go every other day for 2 1/2 hours so i get to come home and play with Paizley for a little while it is fun but Paizley always looks for her brother when we get home it is so cute we love you josh and cant believe that you are getting so big.

and at the end of the month Trent and i was able to go to lake mead with Richard Ajer he took us out on his boat it was so much fun the kids stayed home with grandma Bateman and aunt Andrea which was wonderful of them to do that the first day we played on the lake it was so fun rope tow and tubing so fun and then we boated in to our camp site which was fun but i am not a camping person!!but it was fun because we were able to have some time alone and then the next day we were able to go stay at mesquite in a hotel it was so fun we went and saw "You Again" very funny and then we were able to go out to dinner so yummy!! and then on the way back we were able to stop in st George and see Melanie and Chris and there cute kids koen and Morgan it was so fun i love those kiddos and i wish i could see them more so there are just a few highlights of what we have been up to.

more to come......

July went by to fast!!

Wow i can't believe that it is already august.
July went by way to fast.
well in the month of July we had so much fun I was able to go up o Idaho with my parents and my kids while Trent stayed home and put in our tile floor and i was able to go through pictures and letters with my grandparents while i was in Idaho it was so much fun to learn more about them. old pictures always have a story to tell i love the hair do's and the cars and the cloths but i must admit i am glad that i did not grow up in that fashion because i just don't think i could pull it off. we put together some family history books and my grandpa peck told me all these stories about him when he was growing up what he did in school etc.
It was nice to come home to our tile floor being done to Trenton did a great job!!
and then we were able to go to Idaho again this time Trent came with me and he moved there washer and dryer from the basement to the upstairs because they are having a hard time getting up and down the stairs lately. oh Trenton the man of all trades he is so nice to do all this and he knew how to do it all. all the electrical and all the pluming he is awesome.
In the month of July Trent and I celebrated our 6 year wedding anniversary it was so much fun the kids stayed at grandma James house for the weekend and our other family the Dover's gave us a condo in park city for our present they are awesome people i love those guys and then two days later Trent celebrated his 26Th birthday!! so it was a fun and full weekend.
And so far so good on our goal we have decided that we need to make it to the temple at least once a month and we have been able to stick to this so far it really has been a neat experience to be able to do that i love the time that we get to spend together there it is wonderful
so that was our month of July now on to august paizley is going to be turning one ( I can't believe it , it has gone by so fast) and Joshua is starting preschool so i will be back on to post pictures of all that will be going on later OK august bring it on.

June 30th...

I enterd into a drawing to win a free photo session and yes i won Yahoo!!

so these are just a few of the pictures that we got from it. I love them all paizley is such a cutie and she was so great for the camera.

So this month has been busy we have played alot already we have been driving up to andreas house alot because well it is fun to hang out with my sister and josh loves his cousins they have a yellow lab named jack and josh loves to play with him and pretend that he is the dog lol it is funny.!!

Joshua is staying in primary now all by him self wich is so wonderfull and we have been going on walks everyday just to try to get some of the energy out of him.

Paizley is doing wonderfull as always she has four teeth coming in all at once poor little thing but she is being such a brave girl and does not complain about it to much. She took her FIRST STEP yesterday all by her self yes she is a go geter only 10 months old and already trying to walk she is so much fun.

We ( and by we i mean Trenton lol ) have now started tileing the main floor of our house i am super excited about this because i have been saving for months to buy all this tile and i finally saved up enough so i am excited because it will be done in time for paizleys one year birthday party time goes by way to fast. so we have just been playing around having fun and i cant belive june is already gone!!

Cycling

Well on Monday I went o cycling class and Trent wanted to come with me so luckily we were able to find a babysitter so that we both could go. It was great but oh man was that a work out Trent and i were dying half way into the class it was crazy but it was nice to know that we had a great workout and it was allot of fun to be able to go with Trent i am really enjoying all of these classes it is nice to go and workout and know that you did it the right way i could never just go to the gym to work out because i would not know if i was working out the right way this weekend is the weekend i go and clean houses so that will be my work out for the weekend and then next week starts again with cycling and Zumba i just hope this all pays off soon LOL!!!

Zumba!!

well Saturday morning i was able to go to the Zumba class over here at the west valley rec center it was a blast i was able to go with my friend it was great to have someone else come with me it was a great workout even though i looked like a dork doing it ha ha i could hardly do the dance moves that the instructor was doing and the class was 75 min it was awesome though she turned up the music really loud and then you just start moving i found out that you burn about 1,000 calories each class and man is that ever true it is constant moving it was awesome it felt really good to get out and exercise that way i have been walking every day but a really good workout can make you feel wonderful i am now only five pounds away from my goal weight yahoo!!
and you know when it was a great workout when you are sore the next day and i am my legs are so sore just goes to show i still have a lot of work to do ha ha.

later on in the day i was able to go out with my best friend Alisha she is so awesome i love this girl and we went out shopping and to a movie and then to dinner it was her 25Th birthday !!! it was so much fun i always have the best time when we hang out we have been friends now for 10 years ya that makes me feel old ha ha she has three kids and her youngest in only a month younger than Paizley and he is one handsome kid i love having such a great friend. we went and saw the movie letters to Juliet it was a GREAT movie i loved it.

what a great Saturday!!!

Fabric Flowers

OK so i have gone a little crazy for these fabric flowers and head bands this is just one that i have made more to come!!. It is such a fun craft to do and paisley and i are going to have plenty of flowers to wear but you need one for every outfit right?

thank you Michelle for making these with me!!

more picture to come.

Unstoppable

song of the week i love how songs tell exactly how i am feeling sometimes it is like that is what i was wanting to say but just did not know how to!!

(just make sure to push pause on the music on the bottom of the Blog before listing to it)

I just love rascal flatts!!!

For the love of....

OK i know i talk about cleaning all the time but i love to clean i love to see the difference of before i clean and after i clean. so i have found my new favorite show it is called" How clean is your house?" it is so much fun to watch it is a show about two women who go to peoples houses (of course those who sign up for the show!) and clean them
some of these homes are crazy dirty how can people live like that is beyond me. So they make them DE-clutter and clean. they take swabs off of sinks and vacuum up and send it to a lab to see what they are living in ewe they had ecoli and mold and all other stuff that they were living in so they clean the whole house and then they show the before and after pictures crazy i love this show!!!
there is another show that i love as well it is called "Clean House" this is the show that would be my dream job!! they go in and basically clear everything out have a huge yard sale and everything that they don't sell at the yard sale goes right on to the charity truck and then they go in and clean and organize everything. I would love that job you know i know that it is hard to keep up with house work my own house has been not up to my own standard's lately but that is because i am cleaning 4 other houses on top of mine so really i don't understand how houses can get that messy crazy when i watch these shows it makes me want to clean i am addicted to these shows!!
being in a clean house is all i could ever ask for I love to clean!!!

A great weekend!!

This last Friday i was able to get together with my cousins and there wife's. it was so much fun!!
It was my cousin Luke and his wife Nancy and Logan and his wife Erica and Trent and I
we wanted our cousin Chelsey to come but she lives in Arizona and could not make it.
we went out to dinner at Pats BBQ yummy!!!! the best food ever and then we all came back to my house to play games where we were able to talk and remember all the fun things we did while we were growing up. we played Michigan rummy a great game that we would always play with our wonderful grandparents when we stayed at there house it was such a blast i love family!!! i have the greatest cousins and i cant wait to hang out with them again it will be a while as to the fact that Luke lives in Idaho and Logan is moving to California i was just glad that we were all able to get together before they move.

Saturday we went over to my parents house to take out some trees and Trent was able to play on the tractor to rip some of the trees out he is such a great guy to go over and help my parents he is always willing to help others no one matches up to Trent he is the greatest husband and my parents love him!! they always say what a great son he is. he was there all day but they got all the trees out!!

Sunday we celebrated my moms birthday today we had my family come out to my house and Trent cooked us all dinner he makes the best dutch oven chicken it is so wonderful it was so much fun to be with my family and to be able to give my mom her presents she is such a wonderful person and so grateful for everything i can never say it enough of how much i love and look up to my mom.
love you mom and i hope you had a great birthday!!

Midway Weekend!!

Every year in April we go to midway up to the Bateman condo.

It was fun we were able to go swimming and shopping and just hang around eating really good food and watched some movies.

we walked over to the other resort that is across the street and they had a carousel we thought josh would love this!! we were wrong we bought him two tokens and could only convince him to go on it once. they have this German pastry shop that is there it has wonderful treats were i bought an eclair so yummy!!

Then we were able to go shopping at this cute little place called "All that stuff in the barn"

were i was able to buy the star for my dinning room and i got it for a very good deal i love that place i could spend hours in there just looking at all the decorations SO cute!!

Trenton was able to go four Wheeling a couple of times he loves doing that but when they went the first time they got all the way up to the top of the trail and Trenton four wheeler ran out of gas so his dad had to tow him down with the other four wheeler and Trenton got mud all over him from it spraying up at him lol.

we were also able to take josh to some parks and then we went to go take him to the Heber rail road to let him see the trains sadly it was closed but we took him to this place called dairy keen that had a train in front and a little train that went around the whole restaurant and then there was a cute little train station with trains that he could play with he loved it he sat there forever we had to peel him away from it!! he is getting so big and so good because when we did finally have to go he just said "OK" and came we did not have to fight him at all that was great!!

It was a great weekend it was so nice to be able to spend time with Trenton and the kids away from work and everything and i am looking forward to next year!!

Feeding time

Paizley has recently started baby food she is still not to impressed by it she does not eat to much of it but i still try to give it to her.
I tried sweet carrots and she ate the whole thing she loved it i hope she keeps up the love of vegetables!! she is growing so fast and she is doing something new every day i love it she is my little angel!!

Hard work!! but I love it

This last weekend was my working weekend i clean houses i started my own business it is great because i love to clean to me it is like getting paid to work out my frustrations and get a good work out i have a few houses that i clean every other weekend and one house that i clean every Thursday i love all of these people they are so great and i love that when ever i go to the kingsfords they always tell me thank you and tell me what a great job that i do that is what makes it so easy to clean is knowing that someone is so appreciative of what you do they are wonderfull people and i really look forward to going to there house.

the other house has a dog that scares me half to death when i go over there it is this little dog but i will be cleaning the tub and so my back will be to the door and when i turn around the dog is just standing there staring at me i should be use to it by now but i am not!! but it is also so fun to clean that house when i go over there everyone leaves so i just turn on my music and crank it up and just sing away while i scrub away

the house that i clean every Thursdays is a blast it is my friends house and i love it because she is so cute and so fun to be around and we get to chat while i clean and i get to see her two cute little kids and she is so nice she always has my favorite drink on hand chocolate milk ummm

sometimes when i get tired i just think about the people i get to go see and remember the fact that all this hard work is worth it because everything i have i know i worked for and nothing was handed to me which makes me appreciate everything that i have and i hope that i am setting a good example for my kids about how to work hard and to not really on others my husband is a grate example of a hard worker he has is own business as well that he runs with his dad

i love having what i do because i needed something that was not tied to anyone else to know that this is something that i did all on my own it feels great to do that. all though all of my cleaning skills came from my mother she is the greatest example of a hard worker and how things should be cleaned. so to her i owe her everything!!

thank you mom you are the best and no one will ever match up to you!!

My little lady bug!!

Paizley

Look who's sitting up all by her self she is doing so well. she is growing up so fast i can't believe it!!!

she is starting to get her own personality yesterday while we were playing Joshua took something from her and she looked and him and started grunting like she was yelling at him she is so cute!!

she loves to play and she loves music. paizley has a dance that she does but she will only dance with her daddy and when they both dance together they look like a couple of bobble heads!! it is so much fun to watch her grow.

she is so close to crawling to.

Right now she just scoots back wards and turns herself around until she get were she wants to go pretty clever i think!! we just love our little girl Paizley!!

wisdom teeth

Wisdom teeth i think the reason that we don't get them until later in life is so that we remember how painful growing teeth is so that we can have sympathy for our babies when they start to teething

This morning had a dentist appointment And i thought i was just getting an ex-ray done well sure enough i got the ex-ray and the dentist said that we needed to get my wisdom teeth taken out well i knew that because they have been killing me so much pain and so he asked me when i would like them taken out and i said "as soon as possible" thinking that it would not be until next week well nope he said how about right now so i said OK i mean i had a babysitter for the kids already why not just get it done well this dentist had no gas so he just use some numbing gel and a numbing shot and there ya go he pulled out all three of my wisdom teeth he had to numb the left side three times before it would go numb!! he said that that tooth was already broken and has a huge cavity in it that is why i was having so much pain! so an hour later i was driving with my swollen face and numb mouth going to get my kids josh looked at me like mom what happened to you. and i was still shaking so bad from that experience (i don't do well at the dentist)

so my dad was nice enough to keep josh while i went home to take care of Paizley because she was upset and wanted a nap. and of course when i put her down my house was a mess so i had to clean it!!

then my sister was nice enough to come down and get josh to bring him to me and stay for a little while and now them numbing stuff has worn off and i am starving and cant eat anything what a day!!!!

Primary

Joshua stayed in primary again yesterday that was so nice i was able to teach and Trent was able to go to his class. It did take some convincing to make him stay of course but everyone in our ward was helpful we even had a few people come up to josh and give him candy to stay in primary LOL but that did not even work finally the primary president had to take josh out to the hall and talked with him that did the trick. so lets hope that he can do this again next week!!

I love when josh stays in primary because when we get home and for the rest of the day he walks around the house singing primary songs it is so cute yesterday he broke out in song singing "FOLLOW THE PROPHETS" it was so cute he is my little singer he loves to sing
so now we wait until next Sunday and while we do we pray and cross our fingers that he will go to primary again...

rusted sun Pizza

last night my wonderful husband took me out to dinner we went to Rusted Sun Pizzeria
if you have not been there you have been missing out it is wonderful it is this small restaurant off of state street right next to the O C Tanner bldg. they have the most wonderful Calizones ever.

well the exciting news is that i finally have a dentist apt for Monday i cant wait my wisdom teeth have been driving me crazy i cant so we will see how this all goes....

thursday march 18th

well not much went on today i gave some hair cuts my husband and father in-law came over.
Trenton and his dad own there own construction company and it is going well right now i guess i am the hair dresser or Kay-Lyn construction lol!!! it is fun and nice that i can do that for them.
paizley is growing so fast i put her in this lady bug outfit just to see if it would fit and it did it is size 12 months and she is only six months old!! she is so cute i just love playing dress up with her she is smiling all the time and now she does a little head bob dance which she will not do with anyone else but her daddy it is so cute!!!.
Joshua has so much energy and just runs and runs and runs and all he can talk about now is going to school he is all registered and ready to go it starts in august crazy that he is old enough to go
well that is it for now.

Well this should be fun!!

I have been told by many of my friends to start a blog so here i am.
this should be fun to write down all the things that are going on and all the things that my little kids do. i have been meaning to keep a journal so hopefully i can keep this up.
today was st Patrick's day and we went to our friends house and made green cupcakes and decorated them it was a fun day especially watching Josh try to shove the whole cupcake in his mouth!! it was a great day lets see what adventures wait for us tomorrow!!