She is 4!!!

My little sweetheart turned 4 on friday and I cannot believe how fast the time has gone by!!!  On her birthday I was looking at pictures of her when she was born and during her stay in the hospital and almost started crying.  She was only in the hospital for two months, but those two months seemed like years as we were waiting for her to get better so she could come home.  Now she is all grown up and already tells me what to do.  Just a little bit about our Kaydence right now.....
*She LOVES Adallyn!  She even pretends to be her mommy sometimes.  She is very protective of her, if anybody is even a little bit mean (that could even mean just looks at Adallyn the wrong way) Kaydence is right there saying, "That's my sister and you better be nice to her!" or "Don't be mean to my sister!"  Which is usually followed by Kaydence saying, "Come on Adallyn!" walking away with her arm protectively around her.  I love it so much!!!


*She LOVES baby Cameron! She has to tell everybody we meet that "Mommy has a baby in her tummy and his name is baby Cameron."  Whenever she even gets close to my stomach she will say, "I am sorry baby Cameron!"  In the morning she has to hug my belly and tell him how much she loves him.  I have a feeling that she will be just as protective with Cameron as she is with Adallyn and he will have nothing to worry about when he comes!!!


*She LOVES dancing and singing!  Her favorite song right now is, We are Young by FUN.  It is so cute to hear her sing along to the song or when she sings it without any music (which is what happens most of the time)  She will sing and dance ANYWHERE!!! It doesn't even matter where or who is watching she will just sing her heart out! 


*She LOVES princess' and dressing up in her princess dress ups!  There is not a day that goes by that she is asking me to put one of her princess dresses on.  She would wear it wherever she went if I let her.  For her Birthday she, of course wanted a princess tea party!!!  Her favorite princess right now is Rapunzel.  Usually when she has that dress on Flynn Rider is a name I hear often as she pretends he is saving her!


*She LOVES her friends.  Everyday she is wanting to play with someone, asking if I will call or text their mommy to see if we can come over.  Usually when when do go and play it is a battle just to get her to leave because she doesn't want to leave her friends, even if we have been there all day!


*She LOVES being dramatic.  She is already a little actress!  On her birthday she wanted to go to Arctic Circle and there was a little boy that was a couple years older than her following her around and you could tell that she knew.  She always has to make her actions and facial expressions very dramatic!  Especially when she is dancing and singing.  I hope I can get it on video before she grows out of it. 


*She LOVES being stubborn!  She does NOT like to go to bed and will fight it no matter how tired she is!!!  She will NOT wear pants because she says she is scared of them..... she will wear leggings though.  If there is not a clean dress in the house there is a half hour battle to get her to wear jeans. 


*She LOVES her daddy!  She doesn't like when he is gone from work for that long or when he has to work on the weekends.  He is usually the fun one who will play games with her before bed and cuddle with her!  (Daddy fell in love with her the day she was born)  She especially loves daddy/daughter dates!


*She LOVES to cuddle!  I love when she comes and sits on my lap and just lets me hold her!  I know that she won't always want me and I just enjoy the time that I get with her!


So there is just a couple things about my strong willed very loving little girl! Now on to the pictures from her birthday (or more like her birthday weekend) 

I had to start out with a few pictures of when she was in the hospital!!  It is no wonder that she recovered so quickly she is a strong willed little girl!  We love her so much!

Adallyn would get a present and give to Kaydence to open.  It was so cute!!

Kaydence was pretty adament that she make these funny faces when I took the picture!

For her birthday not only did she want dresses but she wanted a pink pig.  I had no idea what she was talking about but daddy came to the rescue and got her a piggy bank with some change.  She LOVED it and I am pretty sure that was her favorite gift!

(She also got two dresses from me and a new princess dress up... CINDERELLA)

She wanted a princess cake for her birthday but I really didn't want to spend 30 dollars on a princess cake so I made this one instead that she ended up loving just as much!

My cute little Adallyn loved the cake too of course!

Thanks to Grammy this whole birthday came together really great!!! It included peanut butter and jelly and ham and cheese sandwiches, salad on a stick, fruit on a stick and LOTS of treats!

All of her friends that came...Holynd, Alexia, Chloe and Adi.

 

Her wonderful birthday cake that grammy spent hours making!  You can't tell from this picture but it was pretty much amazing.  So amazing that Kadence didn't even want to eat it!

Kaydence being the leader that she is wanted everybody to put their hands in and do a little cheer. Don't know where she got that from!

Cute hats that they decorated with flowers!

And of course they had to dance!

All the princess' beating up on daddy!

Blowing bubbles!!!!

It was a pretty busy weekend and wore me right out but it was definitely worth it! On her birthday she went to preschool, arctic circle, and swimming! She was definitely spoiled by all her friends and grammy who gave her 5 new dresses so that mommy doesn't have to do laundry everyday to keep up with all the days she wants a dress. Thank.You.Grammy!  Kaydence, we love you and we can't believe how big you are getting everyday!!!  We couldn't imagine life without you, you definitely make it more complete! Thank you for choosing to come to our family!

Family pics

I know, I know this is my third post tonight but I have to hurry and do it while I have the internet handy. Plus, Vinny has been wondering why I haven't put our AMAZINGLY AWESOME family pictures on the blog so here you go.....

 I personally LOVE them and I think I have the cutest kids EVER!!!(but I may be a little biased) 

BIG SISTER'S!

So ovbiously it's not the best picture but it's the only one we had with them wearing both of their shirts.  We were so excited to finally be telling people that we are having a third! (well at least I was since I am getting more and more sick. ugh.)  I loved that it took people a little bit of time to figure out instead of announcing it. It was so fun and a great Christmas present for everybody. It makes me nervous that by this time next year I will have three to take care of but at the same time I can't help but feel so blessed. I love both of my little girls so much and I do not know what I would do without them in my life.  I can't wait to see this little one and welcome them into our crazy little family! 

CHRISTmas!!!!

Christmas. was. busy.  We had so much fun visiting with family but it was definitely crazy running from one place to the next.  Sometimes it didn't seem like it was Christmas. We got through it though and the girls still got to play with their toys. (Even if it was 9 at night)  

 Our Christmas Tree with all the presents!

 The kitchen that Santa brought for Kaydence

 They are so excited!

 My awesome new coat Vinny got for me! Just one of the many items of clothing he got for me!!! He loves me!

 Trying to get Vincen to wear something other than t-shirts all the time! (although he did get 5 of those for Christmas)

 The Quiet Book for church that we waited way too long to get.

 Overwhelmed and a little bored.

 Ovbiously a gift from Daddy!

 Adallyn's big present! (Belle doll and dress. Which I think Kaydence loves more than Adallyn)

 My surprise (literally) present.  I could not believe that I got a laptop.  Hopefully we will get the internet soon so I can blog a lot more.

Kaydence was pretty hilarious opening presents.  Every time she would open one she would say .... "OH. MY. GOSH!" as if she just couldn't believe that what she was getting.  She even did that with the clothes.  SO CUTE!!! We will miss Kaydence telling everybody that she wants a kitchen from santa. I loved how she said it. Hopefully she won't want anything too crazy next year.  This year I asked Vincen to get me a shirt and that he should make it a tradition. He refused at first but then he gave in and ended up buying me seven. I was in Heaven!  He also got me a wheat grinder that attaches to my Kitchen Aid that I am so excited about!  I think I had more presents than the girls! SPOILED!!! All in all it was a very good Christmas.
Also, I was so excited that Christmas was on a sunday this year.  It definitely made it more of a crazy day trying to plan church into the mix but I felt like that was the most important place for us to be on the day that the Savior was born.  I feel so grateful that He was willing to come to earth knowing he would have to die to save us all.  I can't help but feel loved and very blessed to be a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints!

I Love...

* Dancing in the living room with my two little girls.
* Watching my Husband make pies with Kaydence. (so cute)
* That Adallyn LOVES climbing on EVERYTHING.  I mean I know I complain about it but when I really think about it, it is really super cute!
* Cleaning my house, because of the sense of accomplishment I feel and the sweet spirit that is there when I am done.
* That Heavenly Father is in charge of the decision making in my life. That he knows that if I would have waited 2 years after I graduated to get married (like I wanted) that I wouldn't have my amazing husband who I love so much. And if I would have waited two years after being married to have kids (like I wanted)I wouldn't be the happiest luckiest mommy in the world.(I have been humbled more than a couple times!)
* How Adallyn and Kaydence have to give each other a hug every time one of them wake up. It is seriously my favorite part of the day.
* That Kaydence is a little mommy and helps me all the time. Even if most of the time it is not really helping me it is making a bigger mess.
* That my husband works so hard to provide for our family.
* Going to church. I love the spirit that I feel there. I love the amazing people I get to meet. I love the spiritual upliftment that I get when I am there. I know that the church is true.
* Answers to prayers.


All of these things are not only what I love but what brings me joy.  It makes me happy to be a mommy. I love my two beautiful little girls so much and I am so grateful that I have a husband that works so hard for our family so that I can stay home and witness all the cute things that they do.  I am just truly and honestly blessed! And I feel like life couldn't get any better. 

Experiences

I shared my testimony for the first time in a year on sunday.  It is so crazy how clearly the Holy Ghost lets me know when I should bear my testimony.  I start getting nervous with goosebumps all over and a pit in my stomach that no matter how hard I try to get my mind on something else it will not go away until I go up there.  It is definitely so nerve racking for me because I really am not an outgoing person.  I don't like being up in front of people and having all the spotlight on me ... I just really don't like everybody looking at me and I am not an elinquint speaker so I feel like I can't get my words across the way that I want to ... I am just a mess and I don't like it! ... but when the Holy Ghost prompts me to go up I have to obey.   I felt like I needed to share an experience that happened this last week that left me in awe of how powerful satan is and how much I let him affect my life.  I decided if I felt inspired to share this with people I barely even knew I should probably write it down in my journal so I could remember it always and share it with my children.  So here it goes .... (hopefully I won't be judged too much :))
So I want to start out by saying that Thursday is my "show night"  there are a  couple of my favorite shows that I get so excited to watch and that I really don't like missing!  Well this day we had a playdate with a friend planned, at the last minute my mom was coming by and I had agreed to pick up my sister in law (who was on bed rest) from a baby shower and take her home.  (Which I did not have a problem with at all!!!)  I also managed to make friendship bread, put dinner in the crockpot,  and pay the rent ... by 5:30 when I was driving home from paying the rent I was feeling pretty good about myself and how I had things so under control.  (mistake #1)  Then I get a call from vincen telling me that since I was already on the freeway he needed me to pick him up in sandy in 45 minutes because he was going to drop a car off to a customer.  By this time it was 6:00, the girls were tired of being in the car and hungry and all I could think about is the taco soup I made at home and my shows that were going to start in less than an hour, but I agreed to do it.   I got to the park and ride in sandy around 6:15 and took the girls out of their carseats so they could have a break from sitting in them and then waited and instead of being the wife who is so happy to be helping their husband that works so hard to provide for them, I was sitting there getting more and more mad and annoyed!!! ( I did TRY to talk myself out of being annoyed and mad and being that wife I just mentioned, after all this customer just spent 7,000 on his BMW, the least I could do is be happy that he brought his car to Vincen and helped us get food on the table!!! )  He showed up around 7 and then didn't get to the car until around 7:20 .... Yeah trying to be the happy wife went right out of the window! I had HAD IT!  I had been sitting there for an hour, the girls were getting into EVERYTHING, I already missed one of my favorite shows, and we were all starving!!!! As soon as he got in the car I jumped right in and started telling him everything he did wrong up until this point which only made him more angry that I was upset, so began the argument ..... Me not feeling important, Him trying hard to provide for the family and owning his own business, and on and on ....  At this point I am already driving and we didn't communicate very well about wiether or not I was going to be taking him back to get his car from work that night (which would have been the easiest thing to do) or waking up early and taking him.  so the next thing I know I am on the freeway heading towards home. By this time it is 7:45 and I am not about to turn around and take him back now. Which just started yet another argument about how I didn't communicate very well and how he didn't listen very well.... and on and on.  All of a sudden I realize something (in the middle of us arguing) and I just start crying and say, "Satan wanted this to happen!"  You see, we had just talked about on sunday how we needed to go to the temple more since we haven't been in awhile.  I told him that he could go at least once a week since the south jordan temple was on his way to work.  We decided that he would start going every friday morning .... so he had planned on going the next morning and now it probably wasn't going to happen since I would be the one taking him to work.  I was crying because I felt like I had fallen right into satan's trap.  I didn't resist temptation and become better instead I embraced it and just kept being annoyed.  I realize it sounds stupid but I was very, very dissapointed in myself.  I know that no one is perfect but I DO have power to withstand temptation, I AM stronger than satan and instead of showing those qualities I showed how weak I really was and  again I felt totally dissapointed in myself.  Immediately we stopped arguing and started apalogizing, realizing the things that we were annoyed about  really were STUPID. (no surprise ... usually how it goes)  I decided then that I was going to repent!  I was going to get up at 5 in the morning and take vincen to his car so he could make it to the temple.  I wanted Heavenly Father ... and Satan to know how important the temple is to me and how sorry I was.  So that is what I did!  Now before you start thinking I was a bad mother for taking my girls from their bed that early in the morning and putting them in a freezing cold car, I realized that 5 in the morning was better because they would just sleep the whole time instead of 7:30 when they would be awake and  unhappy that they were in their car seat for that long period of time.  It all worked out for the best!  I feel like Heavenly Father wanted me to have this experience so I could learn and grow from it.   Instead of getting mad at satan for temting me, which is what he is going to be doing my whole life, I need to look at myself and ask, why I am giving into temptation when I am more powerful and stronger than satan?  I am very grateful to Heavenly Father who is forgiving and very merciful.  That he always has faith in me and knows what I am capable of.  I AM grateful for a husband that loves our family so much that he takes his job as provider seriously and works so hard to provide for us!  THANK YOU  and I LOVE YOU! Learn from this expericnce girls!!! :)