.may madness.catch up.

.another month has flown by.

.and yet again, i am behind on blogging.

.i have a feeling that im going to be behind on blogging for the rest of the summer.

.it just hit me that we have a special visitor coming to see us in 4 weeks.

.and we leave for our washingon/ idaho/ utah trip in 5.

.5 weeks!.

.SO much to do, and so little time.

.and with our special visitor getting here in 4 weeks. . . we wont be doing anything but FUN that week....so a lot to do in FOUR WEEKS!

.and with the weather being so awesome lately, its hard to get things done inside.

.our month has been a lot of playing inside, being lazy, going swimming, getting together with b's very best friend ella, lunch dates, scout campouts, trying to get order back in the house, and so forth.

so i figure i will just upload our pictures, and tell about them, since there is nothing too exciting to report this month.

We had the missionaries for dinner. I was in NO mood to cook, so I texted them, and gave them a few different options for dinner. They picked IHOP. 

 .Andrew sent me this picture from work. He knows he is NOT to touch my dr.pepper.

 .b fell asleep coloring...this is what we found when we went to tuck her in.

 .it was mothers day....my kids were SO grumpy by the end of the day, so no pictures with them...ops...but here is my pretty mama and me. i CANNOT wait to see her!

 .We went swimming one day....the water was FREEZING but it was hot...so b sat and drew.

 .and parker ate....surprise, surprise.

 .this girl is such a DIVA.

 .since buying her sunglasses...she wears them EVERYWHERE.

 .ward party.

 .we got to go meet our friends, the mccann's little baby. jake. he is adorable as ever and the kids could not get enough of him.

 .parker cried and cried when we took the baby away from him for someone else to take a turn.

 .andrew worked from home one day, i made him fruit and yogurt crapes. they were delicious.

 .this kid grabbed his blanket, laid on the couch and went right to sleep one morning.

 .b kept wanting to touch him while he was sleeping and would say, "but he is so cute."

 .b built this and said, "its grandma westensee's house"....crazy enough it does look alike like her house.

 .this kid.

 .daddy got the kids dressed...b is as bad...but parker...oh my goodness. 

 .kids alseep on our way to IHOP to meet the missionaries for dinner.

 .parkers new favorite thing. scares the crap out of me.

 .can you spot him.

 .andrew weeding the front flower bed....we plan to use the extra rock from the backyard to build up a small flower bed.

 .parker was NOT listening one sunday, so andrew tied a "leash" to him.

 .i dont remember what b was doing to andrew, but she was laughing SO hard.

.lived in san antonio for 1.5 years and first time i got this alert.

 .one night i had to send this to my kirby family. i had NEVER heard of apples and peanut butter until i started nannying for them...and now i cannot get enough. my FAVORITE late night snack.

 .same cheesy grin.

 .when i look at this picture, i see why i get asked whenever we are out if they are twins.

 .we went with our good friends kailee, ella, and treyden to the temple. we walked around and let the kids feel it....than we finished off with a visit to great harvest bread...yum!

 .best friends forever.

 .this kid wants to get potty trained SO bad. but he still poos in his diaper. not ready just yet (and im not ready either)....but he was in the tub and got out and said "pa-pa" (potty) and climbed on the toilet and went.

 .b built another tower, and she wanted to take a picture of it.

 .prepping parkers room for some paint. FINALLY.

 .worn out after 3 hours at the pool.

.b taking advantage of brother being asleep and drinking our watermelon with nerds candy slushee.

.b is THREE.

.i can't believe I have a three year old. 

.three going on sixteen that is. 

.b is sassy. Smart. Funny. Naturing. Loves to sing. Loves to give check ups. And much more.

.a typical day with b goes like this:

--a bowl of cereal for breakfast- if she had her choice it would be lucky charms.

--she watches a show or two, and usually eats a snack while doing so.

--she plays with her brother for hours and hours up in the gameroom. She is usually bossing him around, but he is pretty content overall.

--lunch-her choice pbj and an apple. Easy enough.

--quiet time- usually watching a movie on her iPod or reading books, or coloring.

--another snack-

--more playing with her brother

--emptying the dishwasher, while I make dinner. Yes, she does this completely on her own. 

--dinner 

--clean up game room

--play with her dad

--bath, brush teeth

--prayer, read a few books

--bedtime

.we absolutely love out little b girl. 

.of course, we had to have a doc mcstuffins birthday party. Her actual birthday was on a Sunday, so we invited people over to have cupcakes and ice cream after church/dinner. I just did a cupcake caterpillar cake and ice cream. Simple.

.i blew up balloons and put them all throughout her room for when she woke up.

.and streamers.

.andrew making sure her dollhouse is set up just right. 

.my mil did my nieces hair like this. Adorable. I copied her--but credit goes to her.

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.her doc mcstuffins birthday party was lots of fun. The food was all the themed around doc and her clinic. We had lunch- let the kids play-all kids brought their own stuffed animal to give a check up on- and than we played operation. Than b opened her presents, we sang and served cake and ice cream- than changed and headed to the pool. I am so grateful for our friends who made this day special for b. As we were driving to the pool b said. " mom, my birthday was so fun. I had such a good birthday party"

THE FOOD-

I forgot to take pictures of everything-- so a few are from Pinterest, but we did the exact thing. 

(Stolen picture- but we served apples)

(Stolen picture-We did turkey/ham crassiant sandwiches.)

(Stolen picture- we served chocolate/ poppyseed muffins)

(Stolen- but we did pb m&m's for their daily vitamins)

POOL TIME: my kids stayed for 3 hours and cried when we had to leave. 

.our love story-part1.

.there was always that boy in my ward who was SUCH a geek. 

.oh my.

.he was almost ALWAYS had the color red on him.

.his high stop nikes with the red swoosh. (i think he eventually got new ones...high tops with a blue nike swoosh sign, instead of red)

.this jacket that was white, blue and red.

.his red nike sweatshirt.

.thank goodness i hated the color red.

.i usually talked to him when i wanted some new music burned to a CD. or a spanish video made. anything techie. otherwise....there is no way i would talk to him. 

.we all knew he had a MAJOR crush on two girls. amy and jenny. my gosh, it was obvious. 

.and then there was 2-3 other girls who liked him SO much. drama. the boy and his geeky self was drama when it came to the girls. they all liked him. what was it about him that all the girls practically threw themselves at him it felt like. 

.sure he was cute, but he was SO geeky, always made these ridiculous jokes, and skinny--like thin as a rail, it looked like this boy NEVER ate....but i know he did because his mom packed his lunches and it they were SO big. it seemed like 3 lunches in one. 

 
(andrew in high school)

 (THE RED JACKET- the girls would FIGHT over this)

(the blue nikes.)

.who was i. 

.i was a typical high school girl. who was madly in love with her boyfriend, and i swore we were going to get married one day. we had dated on and off for 3 years. he played basketball, i played basketball. my best friend's boyfriend was his best friend. it was perfect. oh, life couldnt of been better.

.prom was just around the corner. i was so excited. i had gotten a pink dress and was having all the final details worked out. my boyfriend was going to rent a tux and wear a pink tie to match my dress. it was the week of prom. i believe a Tuesday or Wednesday, i received a text/letter (i honest dont remember) from my boyfriend.

.and than it happened. he broke up with me. i was devastated. my world crumbled around my little sophomore self. everything was going to end....or so my little-high-school-drama-self thought at the time.

.i  was done with boys for a while. sophomore year ended, my junior year started. i had gotten over my boyfriend, attended basketball camps over the summer, visited utah with my family, and went to idaho with my best friend for the first time alone, and it was a blast. we went on a double date while we were there. first "official date" for both of us. i was set up with dallas. he was cute, and a ton of fun, and we just had a really good time together. 

.junior year started up, i started my new year with the normal. playing soccer. i loved the sport, but not as much as basketball. but it kept me in shape for basketball tryouts at the end of the season, and i got such a great tan being outside practicing all the time. 

 .soccer.

 (me in high school)

(me in high school)

.one night...i was doing my homework on the computer late at night. when a chat message popped up...

.from awestensee.

."hey, whats up?"