The Simple Life

our not so quick trip...

i had planned a "quick" trip to civilization...meaning we left early and we were going to be back by 3pm. did all my errands and then we had lunch at panda express...a bit chaotic and several tantrums from jeremy. he spilled a lot of rice on the floor.

 

and then went to our final destination: hobby lobby. and in the first 5 minutes we were there, this happened...

let me back it up.

before we even got there, i was already annoyed in my head that hobby lobby has the smallest shopping carts ever. they might as well be toddler sized. this is the only thing i dislike about their store...otherwise i love hobby lobby! so yes...me thinking, great...anthony will barely fit in the basket, and i can't have him running around the store breaking things. so i let him take his little fire truck in, because he promised me he would stay by my side. WRONG. well i tried.

so i grab a cart, buckle jeremy in. specifically told isabella and anthony that they can't ride on this cart because it was too small and it will tip over. then went straight for the bead aisle for cherrie. jeremy weasled his way out of the tight buckle, and stood up. i unbuckle him just so i can get him to sit down, then re-buckled him up. i can't make it any tighter or his face would turn blue. i then proceed to grab a couple items on the list, tell anthony and isabella to stay OFF the cart. so anthony starts to run down the aisle racing his fire truck on the ground. isabella is being loud and rambunctous as usual. i tell both of them to quiet down. jeremy got out of the buckle again for a second time and i scolded him, and unbuckled...re-buckled... then i got my phone out to text cherrie and before i knew it jeremy got out for a third time...and just as he stood up, isa and anthony hopped on the cart, he went flying head first for the floor! took out two glass shelves with his head and before i could pick him up it was a murder scene on aisle seven. blood and shattered glass every where... i didn't have wipes, he was screaming. i think mostly because he was freaked out that blood was gushing down his face and into his eyes. literally crying blood tears. that and isa and anthony were freaking out that they "cracked jeremy's head and he was dying!" they made the scene much worse. poor kid! a few swear words and no one to stop and help i was feeling annoyed. yes customers passed by the aisle and never stopped! finally an employee noticed and quickly ran for some paper towels. we made it to the classroom to use their craft sink and i got jeremy all wiped up and calmed down. had to fill out an incident report...then went to the nearest hospital...to just make sure he didn't need stitches.

so we went through the side entrance of the hospital, and a nurse that was just leaving suggested to just go "next door" to the clinic. which i didn't see when i pulled in the parking lot. so we got back in the durango...drove around the building to the clinic just for a snotty receptionist to tell me that if i didn't have a doctor here to just go to the instacare. grrrrrrr. jeremy was asleep when we finally got there. then we had to wait a good 45 minutes. as i signed in, i snapped a picture of this:

by this time i was clearly frustrated and was ready to go back to hobby lobby for some super glue! no joke! long wait...errand to run! ha ha!! yes.

so when we finally get called, the nurse cleaned up his head more...crusted over blood. and his cut was only a centimeter. i can tell you it was much bigger before. must have been those angels stitching him up already! geeez. obviously with head wounds...they bleed soo much! but i really just wanted to double check and make sure there wasn't any glass stuck. because there were shards every where. my poor little jeremy. what a day. 

sunday happenings...

happily going to church on sunday.

 

the primary room had the cutest little kid size pews. so i had to get a picture after church was over. i envisioned a cute photo with all four sitting in order. well...you know that's nearly impossible. 

 

so this is what we got. 

gulianna...always ready.

isabella covering her face with her paper. (she wanted it in the picture.)

anthony ready to leave. (he's getting hangry)

jeremy just wanted to be set free and make a run for it.

then of course isa starts pouting and getting dramatic. levi intervenes. and this is what i get. typical photo.

after church we had lunch and then the kids played outside for the rest of the afternoon. jeremy took a nap, levi and i snuck away to urban renewal just to look. then later we had a dutch oven dinner at lana's uncle's house. it was super good! chicken and potatoes. that's all i need. 

jett also got the legos out. anthony was in heaven!

then all of a sudden he was playing with this little truck and i asked him who built it. "i did, it was me, mom!" he even had a little chain for towing. that's our boy! he was so proud.

gulianna begs all the time for a teeter totter! i thought this was pretty smart to put the lounge chair underneath. i almost got down and sat in it. didn't want to put my back out though. they had a blast playing with alea.

so there was a fence next to the slide that alea would climb up, and gulianna tried but couldn't quite get up, and then isabella jumped in and said "i can do it gulianna, WATCH AND LEARN!" and of course she just climbed right up. little stinker.

 

 

emry showed me their fort that they built in the backyard. it was pretty cool. i loved to build forts! they did a good job with the floor too, i was impressed!

we went swimming as soon as we got to st george, with aros and lana. actually...first rock climbing. because that's all that matters when we are in st george. being outside and rock climbing. 

{this was in the parking lot}

later that night, after we put jeremy to bed, and the kids were somewhat settled in their cousins awesome teepee...we snuck out to get some ice cream at cold stone! i can't believe jett is old enough to babysit now. 

so i guess you can count that as a date night? no kids right?

on the road again...

and we're off! instead of going to utah county today, we went south...st george bound! #minivacationherewecome

for the love...

another round of valentine's this year!

what the february!

gulianna was excited to go thru all her valentine's. she weeded out all the sugar crap and just kept the chocolate. levi got home this evening from his trip.

 

 

 

 

 

these girls love to pick up jeremy like this into some cheerleader pose, it's so funny!

 

later we made oatmeal cookie bars for our family and a few neighbors. the girls came with me and brenda to go visiting teaching. well actually we secretly dropped off a plate her awesome sugar cookies. the second house was isabella's turn to ring the doorbell. but then she pouted and started crying because she wanted to say hi! we quickly tried to shut her up, so they wouldn't know we were hiding!

then after we went again to do the same thing but with our little family. when we went to jeremy's house, isa was laughing so hard when we were running back to the durango and then i realized it was because her boot was stuck somewhere in the mud! so i had to go back and look for it.

this was at rebecca's house. we left her a dictionary garland too. she wasn't home, and then i remembered that there was a valentine's dance as we passed the church. oops! 

 they had fun! we had planned to do it as a family, but anthony fell asleep waiting for me to go visiting teaching. and levi was tired. so it was just us girls. gulianna said "let's do this for every holiday!" so we just might.

writing valentine's...

isabella writing her name on the back of her valentine's. she did hers right before school, because i kind of forgot the day before. 

gulianna came home and worked on her valentine's after school. when she left in the morning, she said "mom you better have everything ready!" i wanted to have them work on them on monday but i forgot to get them printed. then anthony felt left out because i didn't really print anything for him. dang it. next time bro.

♥ ♥ ♥

dinner time...

since levi is gone...i had to make dinner. (*key word had) obviously not my favorite thing to do. but while i was cleaning up my scrapbook room i put on rachel ray's show on hulu, just so i had something to listen to. she was making a shepherd's pie. so i thought, why not, i have a few ingredients. mine was more basic. i looked up in a cook book that we had to see what they used for their shepherd's pie, and they mix in a can of tomato sauce...which sounded weird to me, and i couldn't imagine if it would actually taste good. so i just seasoned my ground beef with seasoned salt, and taco seasoning. when in doubt, i always just use taco seasoning! and if i have to make anything it's mostly just meat and potatoes. that's all i like! after i threw the casserole in the oven, i went out to get some wood. jeremy likes to escape and go straight for the mini waterfall that is dripping off the roof.

back inside 5 minutes later and he's messing with the lights. 

huh? that looks different!

homemade shepherd's pie in my polka dot casserole! #livingapolkadotlife

gulianna, just eating without a fight. she's a good girl and always listens.

these two on the other hand, are like little parasites that feed off each other. always into mischief. and isabella always has an eye on me, to make sure i know what she's up too! she purposely plans all her drama.

see that look? she snuck anthony some of her play teaspoons under the table, as if i wasn't watching. "here bro, drink your water with this, it tastes much better." she "whispers." 

she doesn't know how to whisper. she was two levels of loud. loud and louder.

 

here's me telling anthony every ten seconds to eat his food. he just wants cereal. no i don't give in. so he either goes to bed hungry. or he'll come back and eat his food.

jeremy...standing on his high chair. 

he has no boundaries and risks every thing. 

the high chair can be 2 feet away from the table and he somehow stretches that little body of his and barely makes it to the table every time. 

and he's back on the table messing with the light fixture again...

is it bedtime yet? i don't like bedtime.

 

my kind of love...

a nice big stack of wood! yes that's right. my kind of love. acts of service. i don't need gifts or mushy cards. just help on stuff we all have to do. levi is always so good at helping with everything. he really is the best, he helps me, and then offers more. he left last night with jeremy for a quick trip to las vegas for work. so he hurried and stacked a bunch of wood for me, plus filled the wheelbarrow too. now that's love! sure i get a load of wood during the day, but it's always nice when i don't have too. we heat our place with the wood stove. no central air. so stacking wood is a daily chore for us. heat is a necessity. now if i can only get him to help me with cleaning up my mess in my scrapbook room...ha ha! that's my main focus today. it's been a disaster these past few weeks. just when i think i have time to clean up between orders, i get slammed with more. which is good! i love being busy. and hear that etsy app cha.ching on my iphone :)

daily life...

got my house back in order after letting it go last week. it was all i could do to keep up with orders. i enjoy having a clean house. i understand that it may not be a priority for others to keep on top of cleaning, and i don't have a problem with that. but for me...it gets to me. it makes me behind! makes me feel mad, and some say the dishes can wait. but when there aren't any more clean dishes to eat off of, you have a problem. therefore i choose to just have everything clean! i am in control of my happiness. and my happiness is a clean house, therefore i clean.

made some raspberry muffins for my little rascals and went back to work in my scrapbook room. getting ready for another local boutique this weekend...