Should I Worry?

Macy just smashed her thumb in her doll stroller. While shes crying from the pain shes wimpering, in her baby voice, "I wanna eat, I wanna eat."
Is she using food for comfort already?

McDonalds Little Terror.

Would you defend your child if you heard some stranger yelling at them? Or at least find out what was going on? I'm getting ahead of myself. Here's the story: The other night I met my sister-in-law at McDonalds so that the kids could play and eat dinner and we could sit and chat. Anyways, Macy and her cousin Cooper (who's the same age as Macy) had discovered that they could climb up the tubes and go down the slides all by themselves! Way to go kids! They were so proud of themselves and having the time of their lives. About half way through our playdate Macy starts screaming in the very top of the tubes, one of those-I'm in real trouble screams. I had to climb up the tubes myself to find a girl, I'd say she was 6 or 7 years old, yanking on both of Macys arms while Macy was in hysterics. She didn't even stop when she saw me! I was so mad and told her to let go of her and that she couldn't touch Macy again while they were playing. The girl didn't care and went on her way down the slide while I dealt with my crying baby.
After calming Macy down I let her go play again and within 2 minutes the same thing happened, I climbed up the tube again, rescued Macy from the evil girl, got mad again this time yelling at her. I bring Macy down, and she runs off to only have it happen a third time! I was up in the tubes three times! I didn't let Macy leave me again the rest of the night.
In the mean time, Cooper is still happily playing until he starts screaming, and crying. It was so loud that I honestly thought that he had broken a leg up there. So my sister-in-law Kristie sprints up the tubes and the next thing I hear is Kristies voice echoing through the playland. She is yelling, at the top of her lungs at this little girl.

Kristie comes down tubes with Cooper still crying, his nose is bleeding, shes got blood all over her shirt, she's literally shaking with fury, and she goes straight to this girls mom and lets her have it. Kristie yelled something along the lines of "You better get ahold of your freaking child!! I'm so sick of this! She in there being mean to our kids and I'm not going to deal with it anymore! Get your girl out of there and talk to her right now!"
Then the mom says, acting completely uninterested, "Did she do that?" looking at Coopers bloody face. Kristie said yes, and the mom, while still sitting back and drinking her coke, says "huh." and does and says nothing else. Her little terror still running wild in the playland. Unbelievable.
By this point Raegan is scared to death and is crying to go home. We get our coats and leave frustrated and still mad as can be. The entire way home Raegan cried and is saying to me, "Sometimes Moms get mad at little girls." (talking about Kristie yelling), and I say yes, but only when their hurting someone. Raegan says "That girl was being so mean and sometimes Moms have to yell at her." shes still crying. My poor Raegan was terrified after hearing and being apart of that fight.
I came home and was telling Kurt the story and he couldn't believe the mom didn't do or say anything. He said "If that happened to me I would have flipped her drink on her and said 'how do you like to be picked on? That's what your kid is doing to mine!"
I know that I should have said something to the mom after the second time the girl was picking on Macy, but the mom saw the whole thing and didn't care and I'm not one to cause contention. I was shocked that she sat back and didn't bat an eye that her daughter not only made a baby bleed but was also getting yelled at by a stranger! No wonder her child is completely out of control!

Can we Jam all the Holidays into One Week Please!.....

Wow! What a busy week, this past week we celebrated: Macy's birthday, St. Patricks Day, our 6th wedding anniversary, and Easter! I'm exhausted and don't even really feel like posting all of it, that would mean I have to think of cute things to say about each event and my brain doesn't want to. But since this is now my family journal I have to write something.

(Can someone please edit me out of this picture)

We actually celebrated Macy's birthday at my parents house on Easter since all the family was getting together then anyway. She sang "Happy Birthday" to herself that entire day and was more then excited to open presents and blow out her candles. She was pretty dang cute if I do say so myself.

The Easter bunny did visit our house, hid eggs, and filled the girls Easter baskets with all sorts of fun goodies. The girls were pros at finding the eggs. I was so into watching my girls enjoy their Easter egg hunt that I completely forgot to take pictures until the excitement was over. I was feeling so bad about it, and sorry for my poor scrapbook, that I tried have the girls re-enact finding eggs but their faces just weren't as excited when they were pretending to find eggs all for the sake of some pictures. Oh well.I also bombed on finding cute, matching Easter dresses this year. I searched and searched for the perfect dresses, or any decent matching dresses that weren't going to break the bank and came up empty handed. They didn't match on Sunday. Kurt had to remind me that it wasn't the end of the world if they didn't have matching dresses. I need to learn not to be too picky. But when it comes to that kind of stuff I'm kind of a perfectionist. I'm really bothered at myself for stressing over something that isn't of importance.

When we jumped into the car to go to church I remembered that I needed to take pictures of my girls in their non-matching dresses. So I ran back in the house, grabbed the camera, and pulled them out of the car to snap a few quick pics. We were already late so I didn't fuss with getting a good shot. I know, I know, 1:00 church is late and I should have had plenty of time. But I didn't.

Our anniversary was pretty boring this year. Kurt and I usually go out of town for a couple nights to celebrate but this year since he had just taken time off earlier in the month we decided to just do dinner at Benihanas. Boring. But that's alright with me. We promised to not do presents for each other this year either. But while we were at dinner Kurt told me he had a present for me anyways. I was thinking: How cute is that! ...Then he showed me the present... it was a pack of flashlights from Costco. wow, you really out did yourself honey. He said that he thought I would appreciate it since I am into emergency preparedness lately. Pretty romantic. Nothing says "I love you" like a pack of flashlights. That's what I always say. Bet your hubbys can't beat that!

To his defense, we did agree to not buy presents, since we have spent plenty of money on fun things this month. And just weeks before he bought me a rug that I had been wanting for months . It's not like I got him anything, so it's all good. I still love him. I guess.

After this week of festivities I'm ready for a normal, non-holiday week. I feel like I need to regather myself and find some organization in my life. If anyone would like to fold a mountain of laundry your welcome to come over to my house.

Macy...

...adds so much to our family.

...mimics everything and anything that Raegan says and does.

...won't eat bread, or anything with a bready consistency.

...watches "Dora and Boots".

...calls Raegan "Gaygan".

...is a great dancer.

...hates milk.

...is a hair-pulling fanatic.

...pretends she's sleeping every time I get her out of her car seat.

...can count to 11, minus the numbers: 5,6,and 7.

...loves to go to co-op.

...knows the letter A says "aaa,aaa,aaa".

...sings "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" at the top of her lungs.

...will tell you to "shew" if you get in her way.

...is such a tease! She pretends every morning that she's going to give Kurt a kiss goodbye then laughs hysterically when he comes close and runs away. But she gets upset if he leaves and doesn't chase her down for a real kiss and hug goodbye.

...JUST TURNED 2!!

My baby, is not so baby anymore! Macy had her 2nd birthday on March 17th. I can hardly believe that already 2 years have passed, it makes me realize that my children are going to be grown up before I know it. I am constantly reminding myself what a precious time this is to have my little ones at home with me and I love them so much! Happy birthday baby girl! And stop pulling hair would ya!

Raegans Wishes...

...Oh I mean Princess Wishes. Kurt was such a good dad and surprised Reagan on Valentines day with Disney on Ice tickets. It was perfect since the show is Princess Wishes and as everyone knows that princesses are Raegans obsession right now.

Of course this was a mommy, daughter date, and I have to admit that I was probably just as excited about going as Raegan was, only because I knew that she was going to love it. As soon as we parked to walk to the show Raegan was skipping and could hardly contain her excitement. We got to our seats, which were on the third row! Good job Kurt! The announcer came on over the speaker and announced that the show would start in 5 minutes, of course the voice was loud and Raegan's eyes were bugging out of her head, she turned to me and said "Mom, was that the big giant talking?"

When the show actually started, the light went down, the music came on and there were flashing lights I was frantically trying to grab my camera because Raegans expression was so priceless. She literally gasped every time a new princess would come out on the ice. All the adults around us would turn to watch Raegan when anything new started because they knew that she would react and be loving it. Raegan told me during the show that she wanted to skate like that. Her reaction to the show and how much she loved it was worth every penny, even the blasted $10 bag of cotton candy. Disney knows how to please and rip people off.

Since we've been home she's done nothing but talk about Princess Wishes and how she really wishes that Macy could go see it. What a good sister, wanting Macy to be able to have as much fun as she did.

This was Raegans expression throughout the show

Down by the ice before the show started.

If you ask Raegan what her favorite part was she'll tell you it was when Cinderella danced with the prince.

Kate Marie Gardner

I've been wanting to post this for awhile, but haven't gotten copies of the pictures until now. Maybe it's better that I couldn't do it until now so that I can blog about it without tears running down my face.

As some of you know, my sister-in-law Kristie Gardner was pregnant with her second child, a baby girl, that was diagnosed with Trisomy 18. Trisomy 18 is a fatal condition, causing cysts on the babies brain and holes in their hearts, as well as physical deformities. Most babies with Trisomy are miscarried or still born. Kristie carried Kate full term.

She was born alive, on January 25, 2008. Kurt and I received a phone call, on a night that our kids were at co-op and told that Kate was born and we were invited to meet her. We hurried to the hospital and as we pulled into the parking lot we found out that Kate had passed away moments before.

We still headed up to the room to see her. I can't even begin to describe the spirit that filled that room. It actually ended up being such a sweet experience and Kristie, although she was heart broken, was so strong and she knew that there was another plan for Kate. Kate was a perfect spirit that needed a body.

Her funeral was on the same day as President Hinckleys. It was a sweet service and all the cousins, including Raegan sang "I Am a Child of God". I wasn't able to keep my composer through that. How grateful I am for the gospel and the plan of salvation. I really don't know how anyone without the knowledge that families are forever can deal with the death of a loved one. I know that we will see Kate again. Kristie and her husband Clint have been such a great example to me and it's so wonderful to know that they can be at peace knowing they will be with Kate again.

Click on this link: 99 Balloons and try not to cry. I watched it and was mad that no one gave me any warning. I went to church with puffy eyes.

Big brother Cooper kissing his baby sister.

All the cousins singing"I Am a Child of God" Raegan is in the dark coat.

You Call This a Vacation?

Pantry organized and cleaned............ done

Refrigerator scrubbed........................done

Windows encased...............................done

Office reorganized and cleaned...........done

French Doors repainted......................done

Touch up paint around house..............done

Fix bed that's been broken for a year...done

Fix all those broken drawers...............done

This is a list of just a few things that Kurt and I did on our "vacation" this past week. Kurt had to take a few days off of work before March 17th when his vacation days expire. So we talked about going to Vegas or to St. George, even just up to Park City for a couple nights and at the last minute decided to vacation at home and get those projects done around the house that really needed it. So, we dropped the kids off at my moms and went to it! We worked really hard but still had time to go out for lunches and dinners and one night even saw a 10:30p.m. movie. I felt as if I were doing something crazy by leaving our house at 10:00 at night. I know, it's a little pathetic.

We had a great time together, alone, as a couple working on projects. I didn't mind not getting up early in the morning, getting sippy cups and cereal first thing and having a little freedom, but by the end of the three days I was ready to see my cute kids. It was a great vacation.

Here are a few pictures of our vacation and the finished products!I was cracking myself up because I would set the timer on the camera to take our picture and hurry and then run and pretend I was working. Kurt wasn't as amused.

This bed had been held up by books for the past year, I'm excited to finally have it fixed!