Tagged!!

Okay, so I was tagged by my good friend Cori. It's taken me a couple of days, but I think I can sit down and do it, so here it goes!!!


5 Random Things Tag

5 Things on my list to do this week

1. Laundry
2. Visiting Teaching
3. mop floor
4. work out
5. take kids to library


5 snacks I enjoy

(being diabetic I do not get to enjoy them as much as I would like)

1. ice cream
2. cheesecake
3. fruit snacks
4. m&m's
5. chips

5 things I would do if I became a billionaire

1. buy a bigger house
2. buy more reliable vehicles
3. build a huge playhouse for my girls
4. take a great family trip
5.food storage


5 Places I have lived:

1. Utah
2. Arizona
3. Louisiana
4. Florida
5. Uruguay

5 Jobs I have had:

1. Taco Bell
2. Covergys
3. Weisfield Jewelers
4. State Farm Insurance
5. Mom

5 favorite Musicians/bands

1. Rascal Flatts
2. Nora Jones
3. Alison Krause
4. Aerosmith
5. Michael Buble

5 Things People may not know about me:

I went on a mission to Uruguay, I secretly dream about being skinny. NOT toothpick then, just back to my weight when I came home from my mission. I have this huge fear of having my car fall into water and trying to save all three of my children. I envy people who are organized. I try to be but it sometimes doesn't work out. I love playing barbies and dress ups with my girls.

Alright, I tag Jana, Heather,Tisha,Denielle and Stacie. Good luck!

Some Birthday Pics

Adam and I have started making this cute little knitted hats. They are really easy and so cute. I do not think of myself as a "craftsey" person, but these are so easy. They are done on what looks like a loom with little pegs on it. They come in all sizes. I tried one that I made for toddlers on Cecely. She is quite the little gerber model.
This is one of the girls friends. Hannah is six but she loves to come over for play dates with the girls. She is really good to them and was in the same school. She is also in Primary with the girls. She was invited to the Birthday parties.
Cecely's first taste of cake. She loved it. She isn't picky or shy when it comes to eating. She ate everything. She was saying "mmmmm" the whole time. She was such a mess!!!
Here she was opening presents. She of course loved the wrapping paper and bows more than the actual present. I love that age!!!
Here is how happy she was with all of her gifts. If she could say Hallelujah I think she would. The girls had a great time. I have more pics to post. It was such a good birthday party for them. We decided to do a theme birthday every even year and a family birthday on the odd years. Themed birthday parties are expensive, but fun. Family birthday's are fun and great for the girls. It is really hot here but we are surviving. We are enjoying being so close to family. It's so nice. Adam had a great Father's Day. I made him a special breakfast and dinner. It is really hard because our church is over at 4:30. He got to sleep in and the girls each made him a card and I wrote on it why daddies are special. Bailey drew a picture of a ghost and a daddy. She said Daddies are special because they chase away the ghosts. Aislynn drew a picture of a rocket and space and said that Daddies are special because her daddy always shows her the starts at night. Cecely, well I guessed for her. She pretty much loves her daddy for anything he does.

The Accident

Yes, this is blood. For all of you that are a little squeamish, this may not be the greatest post for you. Bailey and Aislynn decided that they were going to play grandma and grand daughter. Grand daughter, who was Aislynn decided that she wanted a snack. So, Grandma being Bailey decided to get her one. They both decided to cut an apple together. This was on a Saturday and Adam was in the garage cleaning out the van. They had previously been playing outside with Adam in the garage. I was upstairs sorting through winter clothes and putting them away. I told Adam that if the girls decided to come in, he needed to tell me because I cannot hear them when I am upstairs. Well, the girls decided to come in, Adam told them to go upstairs and tell Mom that you are playing inside now. They decided to bypass that order and decided to go right for the fun stuff. All of a sudden I hear Bailey screaming. I run downstairs to find my entire kitchen covered in blood. Now, when I say my entire kitchen I mean my entire kitchen. This is only a portion of my tile in my kitchen. Imagine every single tile covered like this. I had it on the walls, the appliances, cabinets, table and chairs everywhere. When I walked downstairs into the kitchen it looked like a scene from CSI. Bailey was screaming that Aislynn had cut her. I had no clue where she was cut. She was covered in blood. I run and get Adam and we both start to access the damages. Aislynn was screaming her head off as well. She was also covered in blood. I think she thought she was hurt because of all the blood on her dress and skin.

I took Aislynn into the living room and started washing her off and Adam was trying to find where Bailey had been cut. It turns out it was her pointer finger on her left hand right below the first digit. I had no clue fingers could bleed that much. When she got cut she started swinging her hand around trying to get the blood off of her and ended up slinging it everywhere. I am still finding blood spots to this day. We cleaned up her finger, I thought it needed stitches, Adam decided that no it did not so we just bandaged it up ourselves. We decided that since this happened in the evening we would look at it in the morning and reassess everything. We called a friend of ours in the ward and he came over and helped Adam give her a blessing. Then next morning came and we took the bandage off, and yes she needed stitches. So Adam took her to the ER and I stayed home with the other girls. Bailey was a trooper. Such a brave girl. They gave her two stitches and let her choose a toy from the toy closet.
This is what it looked like when she came home with her stitches in. She was very proud of her war wounds.
Here is another picture. She told me everything they did to her in the Hospital. She knew she had been very brave.
She loved her fishy band aid they had her wear.
Aislynn missed Bailey so much when she was gone getting her stitches. She just moped around the house and kept asking for her. She was so nice to her sissy when she came home. This is about an hour later. Aislynn didn't want to let Bailey out of her sight. She had the stitches in for nine days. Everything went fine. She had a nice scar now on that finger. She will never play with knives again that is for sure. Every time she sees me cutting something she has to remind me that I need to be very careful. It was an event that I really don't ever want to have to repeat. You always know as a mother there will be something that will happen like that someday. I am done with mine. NO MORE!!

We are doing well and staying busy. The girls are done with Preschool now. It was very sad because their teacher is moving so they won't be doing Preschool with her now. I need to find another alternative. I loved both of their teachers so much. I have been called to the Young Women's. I am the Beehive Advisor. I am still technically teaching Sunbeams until they find a replacement. I love it though!! It is so different to be in YW. I have been in Primary for so long. I will miss my Primary kids though. I love Primary. Adam is still working very hard at work and church. He is in the Activities Committee. He loves hanging out with his girls. I have lots of pics to post. Aislynn and Cecely's birthdays were great. I still can't believe how big they are getting. We love and miss friends and family. Thank you to everyone who reads our blog. I am sorry it's taken me so long to post. I get in those moods sometimes where I put in on the back burner for a little bit. More posts and pics to come I promise!!!!

Happy Birthday Aislynn!!!

Aislynn, I cannot believe that it has been four years since you came to our family. You have blessed our lives so much and I cannot believe how my heart feels about you my precious child. From the day you were born you have been such a happy girl. Always smiling, always laughing. You constantly try to make everyone happy and that makes you happy. You are so good to your sisters. You are such a good little example, even at your young age. I remember the day we found out we were getting you. Your birth mother Julie had chosen us out of so many couples that were so deserving of a miracle like you. From that day our lives have changed and been so blessed. I cannot picture life without you my little princess. You have such a special place in my heart. I cannot wait to see what lies ahead for you. These years have passed so quickly. I know that they will continue to do so. I love you my sweet angel. You have given your whole family such joy. We are so thankful for your birth mother. Not a day goes by that I do not think about her. Such a selfless sacrifice. So much love in her heart for a family she didn't even know. We love you Julie. Where ever you may be. The gift you have given us is the most unselfish gift of love. Thank you for our sweet Aislynn. I am so grateful for prayers, for a loving Heavenly Father who answers them, and for open hearts that hear his answers no matter how hard or how much sacrifice the answer may be or take. We love you Aislynn!!!

Just Hanging Around..

This was taken about two months ago. Cecely is no longer on the floor. She loves to try and walk. She cruises around furniture and will occasionally let go. She loves to be around her sisters. Sometimes this can annoy them, she loves to give loves in the style of pulling hair, slobbery kisses, trying to eat your hands and feet and slapping you really hard while saying "soft, soft".
This is my mom with our little chunky monkey. She loves her grandma. My mom smothers her with loves and kisses. She can't get enough of her. She is at such a fun age. Everything is funny to her and she thinks she can talk. She will come up to you and talk to you in the language that sounds like Swedish and then look at you like "didn't you understand me"?.
Here is my happy girl again. She is always smiling. She is such a great baby. Such a huge blessing in our lives. She loves everyone and loves to be the center of attention. She has quite the comedic timing too. She greets you with a great be "hiiiiiiiiiiii" she strings it out forever. If she hears her sisters coming down the stairs, she crawls really fast to go wait for them at the bottom.
This is her with her sisters. At least she isn't pulling any hair. It will take her about two minutes and then I hear Aislynn and Bailey yell "mom can you come get Cecely". She loves her sissies. She likes to try and steal their sippy cups. When they take them back she gets this look on her face like, "how dare you take that away, who do you think you are?"
This was taken on Easter. They just woke up, can you tell? My sweet girls. They are getting so big. I can't believe Aislynn will be four on the fifth of May and Cecely will be one on the ninth of May. Where does the time go? I love my girls!!!

Our Newest Edition

Okay, so this our new dog Max. He is a sweetheart of a dog. He is 1 1/2 years old. SO he still has a little puppy in him. He is very laid back for the most part. He loves to snuggle and be pet. He is a lover dog. He is fully house trained which was so nice for us. He is great with the girls and loves Cecely. She is his favorite. He loves to lick her and follow her around the house.
Can you tell how laid back he is? This is a relaxing night after spending the day playing with the girls. We got Max from a Schnauzer Shelter. We knew we wanted a Schnauzer because my parents have one and they have had her for about 4 years. She has always been really good with the girls. Plus they are hypo-allergenic so Adam does not have to worry about his allergies. The couple he was with before was an older couple. They did not want to have to deal with a dog anymore and wanted to travel pet free. They kept him outside all of the time. They really didn't do anything with him. He wasn't trained on a leash and had no clue what a bone even was. He was pretty shy and timid when we got him. OHHH how that has all changed. He is the sweetest dog ever!! Such a great addition to our family.
Here is our wet rat of a dog. He looks pretty pathetic here. He is really pretty. I mean handsome because he is a boy. The shelter we adopted him from is amazing. They paid for his annual shots and rabies shot. They are also paying for a tooth to be extracted. They really believe in what they do. I am so glad we were able to adopt Max.
This is my parent's dog Shotzy. They have had her for four years. She is so great. She has attitude let me tell you. She lets you know she runs that house. Her and Max get along great. She tried to show Max that she is boss however he doesn't let her think that for too long.
This is how timid he was when we first got him. It was so sad. After some serious TLC and good food and lots of reassurance our Max is a fun loving dog!! We love you Max!!!!

More Wedding

So, at the reception the girls got to dance with a lot of their aunts and uncles. It was so much fun for them. This is Aislynn dancing with her Aunt Heather. She was having a great time. Can't you tell from the look on her face. She enjoyed being tossed around and getting down to some tunes.
This is Bailey playing with her cousin Marin. They were supposed to be eating but you know how that goes. It's so much more fun to just play and laugh and giggle. Ahh to be a young again.
This is Cecely with her cousin Aleigha. Aleigha is about 3 months older than Cecely. They had a lot of fun crawling after each other and stealing each others toys. Aleigha is a sweetheart and has such a great sense of humor at her little age.
This is Cecely and Aleigha with Uncle Sean and cousin Rian. They had so much fun being held and snuggled and loved. Of course Cecely would rather be crawling and trying to walk. I have to force her to give me loves now. I miss the newborn stage when they were just little limp noodles that had no other choice but to snuggle and cuddle.
This is Aunt Tiffany(the bride) and her sister Aunt Melanie. I couldn't find any pictures of Rob(the groom). So I will have to get some and post them. All in all it was a wonderful time. We don't get to get together that often with everyone and so when we do it is very special. It's so nice that my girls have so many wonderful cousins and Aunt's and Uncle's to play with. Congrats to Tiff and Rob. We love you!!!

Let's start from the beginning...

Alright, first things first. At the beginning of March we went to New Mexico because Adam's sister Tiffany had her reception. It was great, lots of fun dancing, food and just an all around great time. I have lots of pics of everyone so there will be many posts on this reception. Adam decided to dance with Cecely. She loved it. She will shake her little head and move her bootie. If you say "dancing dancing" she will start to move and shake. Tiffany's wedding colors were Seafoam green and Peach. What a silly daddy we have.
Here is our beautiful Aislynn at the reception. She was more than willing to pose and smile. She thought she was a princess, and we let her know that she is. She had a great time and got to dance with lots of Aunt's and Uncle's. Plus she got to eat tons of M&M's.
Here is our beautiful Bailey sneaking some of those M&M's. She thought she was being pretty sneaky. This is her "I've been caught" face.
Here is me with Cecely. She chowed down on pretzels and everything else. I didn't know that pretzels could be so messy until she ate one and got most of it on her dress. Oh well, it's not like baby clothes come in plastic right?
Here is Aislynn eating a variety of M&M's, strawberries with chocolate and pretzels. I caught her right as she was taking a big bite!! My kids are just so beautiful. They had so much fun that day. It was so nice to be with all of the family. More pics to come. I will even post pics of the bride and groom!!!!

Whirlwind of things!

Well, yes we are alive. Sorry it's taken so long for me to blog. I have gotten many emails on the subject and I am so sorry. It seems like it has been one of those months or two. So, here is the update. We went to New Mexico for my sis in laws wedding reception. That was at the beginning of March. It was beautiful and so great to see everyone. I will have to post pics. For now this is just a word update. We saw all of our family minus Clint's wife Jenna. We missed her very much. It was so great for the girls to get to play with their cousins. Grandma and Grandpa Bingham have a great play room in their basement and the girls spent hours down there. It was a very fast trip and one that leaves you wanting to spend more time with everyone. During the month of March we were battling sickness in our house. Cecely got sick with two double ear infections, croup and had to be on a nebulizer until her chest got better. She was such a happy baby though. She always is a happy little camper. The stomach flu also hit our family with full force. Bailey and I got hit the worst. We were both throwing up and everything else. I was so sick. I was throwing up every 45 minutes . That took a while to get out of our house.

Aislynn caught a cold from somewhere and was sick for a little bit. We also got a dog. I will post pics of him and his story. The girls love him and he fits right in with our family. He is a mini Schnauzer. My parents have one and she is the greatest. I have also been catching up with old high school and church friends. It has been so great spending time with them and their wonderful families. Since I grew up here, I have so many wonderful memories and people that I love and get to hang out with again.

Adam is working very hard. He has been working 12 hour days. He is doing well sampling for a well that they are building in Sahuarita. He loves it, but comes home exhausted. He is still on the activities committee for church. I am still in the Primary. I love it and love teaching my little Sunbeams. They make me laugh and also humble me a great deal. We love our home and love our neighborhood. There are so many great people around us and lots of great parks. We feel very blessed to live here and be so close to family.

We visit my parents pretty often. They are about 45 minutes away. They love seeing the girls. Grandma spoils them rotten and I am so grateful for my parents. The kiddos are growing like weeds. They are so smart and beautiful. Bailey is proving to be my independent back talker. She has an opinion on everything and she lets you know it. She is such a great friend to everyone and loves to play and has so much energy. Aislynn is my loving helper. She loves to clean and help with anything. She is smart and loves puzzles and can put them together in no time flat. She hums whenever she does anything and loves to give loves and kisses. Cecely is getting so big and is beautiful. She is into everything and smiles and laughs and loves to eat. She thinks she is big enough to walk and lets go of things and tries. She is the sweetest thing and we love her so much.

I will post pics soon I promise. I have so many to post it's almost overwhelming. Thank you to everyone who reads our blog!!! We love and miss you!

Random things

Our family decided to take a Sunday drive to the mountains. We really don't live that far away from them. It is actually very beautiful. I missed the mountains so much when we lived in Florida. This is the road going up to Mt. Lemmon. As a young woman we had our girls camp up here. I have very fond memories of this mountain. When Adam and I were newly married we would go up to the little mountain town called Summerhaven. They have wonderful shops and great little restaurants. In the summer it's a great retreat from the heat.
We have had quite a bit of water this year. This is quite the rare sight. It was beautiful though to see all of this beautiful landscape and all of the wonderful water.
Here is another view.
On another note, Cecely has decided that she needs to follow her sister's around everywhere. Especially if they have food. If anyone has food she will be over to you in a second begging for food. The girls are very patient with her. If she is not trying to get food, she is trying to get a toy or hair or something else they may have.

This is often her cute little face begging for food or whatever it is that she wants. If she doesn't think that face is working she will start grabbing and grunting and then it turns into straight out yelling. Oh yes, she knows how to get what she wants. It's survival of the fittest. My girls are so dang cute though. How lucky I am to see them grow. The girls got haircuts so I will post some pics of those later. Hope everyone enjoys their day!!!

Valentine's Day

Welcome to Valentine's Day at the Bingham's. This is a picture of all the loot that the girls got at their preschool party. I made snickerdoodles for the party and also we did Valentine cards for each child in their preschool and kindergarten classes. The girls received the cutest cards. Most of the kids in their school are in our ward so of course we all know each other. The girls got cards from the boys that said, "you are so pretty valentine". Of course I know their moms had something to do with it. They were spoiled. Their teachers gave them these cute hearts with yummy chocolate inside.
Here is more of the loot. I cannot believe how much candy they had. They were so excited and had such a great day. Daddy got them some yummy sugar cookies with pink frosting on top and red heart gumdrops. He didn't forget about his girls on this special day.
These are the beautiful flowers my hubby gave to me. I am not a huge rose fan. I do think they are beautiful, however I love flowers with a little more diversity. These are gorgeous. He did an amazing job picking them out. What a great hubby I have. He then came home and cleaned for me. You know ladies what I am talking about. It is usually up to us to get dinner going and kids fed and then dinner dishes done and whatever damage has been done in the house from the kids. Then it's off to do laundry and fold it too. Well he did the kitchen and vacuumed. Such a huge relief for me. What a great guy!! I love my hubby so much and can't believe we have been married for almost nine years.
After an exhausting day of school and eating candy, oh and we also had a playmate over to play, the girls were tired. They were having some quite time watching one of their favorite shows Max and Ruby!!
We can't forget our little Cecely. She got Zwieback toast for Valentine's Day. Here she is going to town on it. This is one of her favorite treats. Plus it helps with cutting those teeth. She really didn't know what was going on but she loved her treat. She can be mama and daddy's valentine. I have Adam a box of dark chocolates for his treat. I told him how much we loved him and what a great daddy he is. We had a great day!!

Snow Days!!

It was a snow day at our house today. That is a major thing for Tucson. We rarely get snow. Growing up here I could count on one had the number of times it snowed. We live closer to the mountains and lo and behold it started snowing. It was absolutely beautiful. There is something magical about snow in the desert.
Aislynn and Bailey were so thrilled with the snow. They looked at it through the window for a while but that just wasn't good enough. Even mama wanted to get outside and feel it on my arms and face.
Adam had my van today so I opened the garage and let the girls play for just a little while. It was really cold, and they weren't really dressed for it. The were letting it fall in their eyes and on their feel and hands. Then they started opening their mouths and laughing as the snow fell on their tongues. I was having so much fun just watching them dance around and sing a made up song about snow.
They would get snow on their mouths and then try to kiss each other with the snow on their mouths and laugh and laugh. Bailey kept saying that Jesus loved the snow too and that he loved to play in the snow. You have to realize my girls have never really seen snow. We lived in Utah for a short time after they were born but they were basically babies when we moved to Florida. Then of course we moved here. So for them its a magical thing. They are to the age where they understand what it is and enjoy it so much.
What a great little break in the day. We had a wonderful time. It was also nice to sit in my nice warm home and look at it through the windows. My favorite moment of all though was watching my children enjoy the snow and play in the little flakes that were falling and then take the time to realize that it is a beautiful gift that was given to us by our Heavenly Father. Tender mercies, tiny miracles. What a great day.

Tagged!!!

A. The rules of this game are posted at the beginning.

B. Each player answers the question about themselves.

C. At the end of the post, the player then tags 5 people and posts their names, and then leaves a comment on their blog letting them know they have been tagged and asking them to read your blog to get the directions.

Questions:


10 years ago: I was getting ready to come home from my mission. Very sad to be leaving the people I had come to love so much. Excited to see my family. Of course as a returned missionary you think you are going to set the world on fire when you get home. I was also in the best shape of my life after walking about 18 miles a day for almost two years. I was also trying to remember the English language.


5 Things on my list of things to do today: Fold laundry, sweep and mop floor, vacuum upstairs, call Dr. for my little baby who is sick. Take care of sick kids and sick hubby. Do breakfast dishes, play with kids and love and kiss them lots and lots!! Oh yeah I need to take a shower somewhere in there.

3 of my bad habits: not working out like I should, not finding time to enjoy things like smelling roses, or looking at stars, need more patience

Places I have lived: Arizona, Louisiana, Utah, Florida and Uruguay

Jobs I have had: Taco bell, babysitting, Covergys, Kay's Jewelers, Weisfields Jewelers, State Farm Insurance, Mom

Things most people don't know about me: I can speak Spanish, I love Greek and Indian food, I am incredibly emotional when it comes to certain movies, I can sing



I tag Heather and Ethan, Devynn, Laura S, Melanie W

Our house

Okay, for those of you that have been wanting to see our new house, here it is. The garage is actually on the back of the house. I haven't taken pictures of that yet. I will take more, don't worry. It was actually raining on this day, so it kind of looks dark and dreary. We will have landscaping in the front yard. We actually have some plants, but the builders put in the landscaping and then we had a freeze and it all died. So they will come again in April and put new landscaping in. We love our house. It's very cute.
Come on in. We would love to have you. This is our front door. We have been expecting you.
This is the bathroom down stairs. We usually have towels up and toilet paper in the toilet paper holder, but the girls like to hide these things and have each other look for them. The only problem is, when you go to use the bathroom good luck trying to find the toilet paper. I love this bathroom. Adam did the lovely floral arrangement in the alcove.
Here is our kitchen. Very cute. I love it. Sorry I took these really fast and this was before I cleaned. Can you tell we have kids? Notice the lovely artwork on the fridge and the bibs hanging from the stove.

This is our dining area. The china cabinet was given to us by my grandma. It looks really good with our cherry wood cabinets. I didn't take any pics of the living room or upstairs. Downstairs we have of course our kitchen and bathroom, dining room and laundry room that leads our to our garage. Upstairs we have three bedrooms and two bathrooms. We have a little landing on the top of the stairs and that is where we have the computer. We have gorgeous mountain views and a gorgeous neighborhood. We frequently see coyotes, javelina, quail, a mountain lion you name it we see it. We have gorgeous walk areas and parks. We feel very blessed to live here. I will post more pics of the upstairs and living room when I take them. Hopefully this will hold you off for now!! Remember we would love for you to come visit. Our door is always open!!!