Mt. Laundry

Normally I am really good at keeping caught up on the laundry, but this month it has just been pushed to the back burner. We had such a busy month and traveled a bunch so I hardly get around to putting clothes away before they have to be worn or packed. Now that our busy month is over with no big plans for a while I should be able to get caught up again. I never bother sorting the dirty laundry into whites, towels, rocawear jeans, etc. I just throw it all in together on cold. I found I didn't hate doing laundry as much when I cut out that step. I also don't fold any of the boys clothes since it just gets unfolded the first time they go to find something to wear. I think I have 4 loads I need to put away and a couple to wash to get caught up, then if I do a load a day I can usually stay on top of it.

Things

A few days ago I was down in our storage room just kind of checking out what we have there. I wanted to see how much baby gear and diapers and stuff we still have in there. I'm going to be getting the high chairs out soon, once I finish some new covers I want to make for them. I also need to get out the other exersaucer since the boys are getting big enough to use them. Then I have a ton of boxes of diapers in our stockpile still and a big bag of baby cereal that a neighbor gave us. We have shelves full of toys we took from the boys toy room cuz they can't keep it clean. And we have a big race track set we got Jason for Christmas a few years ago that I wish we used more. No rc trucks electric stuff but just tons of their toys that don't get used because they can't take care of them. Hopefully as they get older they will learn to take better care of their things. Oh, I have a baby calling for attention, better go take care of him. :)

Maybe just a little vain

I've always been very self-conscious about my looks. Part of it stems from the fact that I've had psoriasis for as long as I can remember. I've always worried about what people think of my skin when I have flare-ups. Another thing that makes me self-conscious is that after each of my children my chest has gotten flatter and flatter while my butt and thighs have gotten bigger. I used to be a dancer in high school and nicely fit, so seeing my spreading rear end really annoys me. Luckily I have a wonderful Hubby that thinks I look great, even if I'll never wear sexy garterbelts.

But strangely having the twins has helped my body image. Probably because I expected the babies to really destroy what figure I had left. All of the twin moms I talked to said they were left with "twin skin", the big floppy stretchy bulge of belly fat that never goes away. Amazingly I didn't get too many more stretch marks than I already had and surprisingly my baby belly went down very quickly after they were born. I was in my regular pants in less than two weeks. So, I may not be back to my pre-baby figure, but considering I had twins just 5.5 months ago, I'm pretty proud of how I look. (Oh, and ignore my crappy editing in the bottom left, I had to crop out my bra hanging on the door lol. Oops!)

No time

It's amazing how quickly time goes. I keep waiting for things to slow down so I can catch up on things but it never happens. We are on vacation in Bear Lake and I thought I'd have time to update more here, but vacation with 5 little boys doesn't really leave extra time for anything lol. I go so long without posting here that I forget what I have posted.

Visiting

Nate's little sister graduated from high school on Wednesday so we decided to come see her and spend the rest of the week/weekend in Idaho. It's been 6 months since we have been able to come see his family so we've been driving all over the place the last few days to visit family and friends. It's been fun, but my kids are definitely getting sick of the van lol. I'm getting a nice little workout lugging the babies around in their seats though, no need for the best creatine supplements. The babies and Nathan have gotten their naps all messed up too, so they've been kind of fussy. But now we've visited most of the people we wanted to see so we can relax for a few days before we head home Monday. Now I better go change a stinky bum and help Hubby with tired babies.

Not ready

So I'm running a 5k in 2 weeks and am not at all ready. With the yucky Utah Spring weather and then getting sick, I hardly ever get a chance to go running. The race I'm running took me 37 minutes the last time I did it 2 years ago (there is a huge hill to go up) and my goal this time was to do it in 35 minutes or less, but I really do not think I will be able to. I wish I could just take a workout supplement, but then I read stuff like nitrix reviews and realize that good old exercise is better for me lol. It would be much easier if I had a treadmill to run on at home. I'm going to have to really get my butt moving these next 2 weeks now that I'm feeling better.

More projects

These are a few of my recent projects. I made them for my cutie nephew for his second birthday. The first is a Superman cape with his initial. My boys love capes so I hope he enjoys it.

The other gift is a mini car roll. It was fun and easy and he really liked it. It's the perfect size to keep in the diaper bag for trips and church.


My boys have all requested car rolls lol. And I plan to make some, as soon as I get some time. This last week has been hard with a nice little cold passing through the family. The babies have been all stuffy and fussy, and sleeping worse than normal. So I don't have a lot of free time during the day and not a lot of time after Hubby gets home since then we need to work on housework and yardwork and stuff. We finally got the garden planted and Hubby gets to mow the lawn regularly (he loves yard work. If we had a bigger yard a great gift would be one of those riding toro mowers). So hobby stuff has been pushed aside for a bit. Hopefully now that the boys are out of school, and once everyone is well again, I can get those made.

Graduate

Jakey graduated from preschool today. It was really cute. They sang some songs and then got their little certificate and they all were given a Build-a-Bear. Jakey is so excited to be starting Kindergarten in a few months. He is such a small kid it's hard to think of him actually going to real school soon. I'm glad they love school so far though. It would be nice if they always loved it, but I'm guessing they'll start to get tired of it like most kids do at some point. I don't know when I started hating school but I know I definitely do not like it now. I recently registered for my classes for next semester and am not really looking forward to it. At least I didn't decide to go to medical assistant school or legal school or something. Don't think my tired mommy brain could handle stuff like that. I'm just hoping to do well in my classes so that I don't have to retake any and take longer.

Screen time

We have really been enjoying Netflix. We don't go to movies at the theater very often so we always have to wait for them to come out on DVD to watch them, and with Netflix we can get to see all those movies we've been waiting for. Right now we are watching Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 1. So we get to see all these newer movies that we've been waiting for and decide if it's something we'd like to own. Plus the boys love finding stuff to watch using our Wii. They've discovered Sesame Street and Nathan loves it. I was hoping they had Mr. Rogers Neighborhood on there but they don't. I started watching Lost, but stopped in the middle of Season 4 cuz I just don't have a lot of time for TV. I need to finish watching before I forget everything. And now back to Harry Potter. :)

Soccer

I can't remember if I posted a picture of my little soccer players? Don't they look ready to go run around scoring goals? Unfortunately most of the games are spent with us yelling for them to look at the ball, run after the ball, kick the ball, pay attention, etc. They don't really seem to care about actually playing. Jakey especially. He just wanders around or sits on the field or comes and sits with us. Hubby gets so frustrated with him not even trying, he'd end up with stress acne and need accutane if soccer went on much longer, but luckily they only have one game left. Hopefully when they are older they will want to play more. Or they could just take after me and have no sports skills whatsoever lol.

Jason's First Field Trip

Jason had his very first school field trip last week. They went to the zoo. Hubby took the day off so he could go with them, since I can't with all the other little kids. He was excited to get to ride the school bus and even though it was a cold day they had a good time. I think the last time I went to the zoo was when I was pregnant with Nathan. I remember it was quite the workout, no need for usp labs pink magic weightloss, pushing a stroller while pg around a zoo for hours is tiring. So I was kind of happy not to go and push a double stroller around in the cold, but I should plan to take the kids their sometime this summer.

Be Jealous

Yep, these adorable cuties are all mine! Seriously, could they be any cuter?! Isaac has recently started grabbing Caleb's hand whenever they are laying by each other and it's just so sweet. He always looks happy when he finds that hand to hold as well. Caleb doesn't seem to care either way lol, but Isaac loves holding hands. I wish we still had a photo printer so I could print out pictures like this to put around the house. I can't even do full color printing on our printer cuz we only have black ink lol. That reminds me, I need to update the SD card for our digital picture frame, hasn't been done since Nathan was a baby.

Catching up

I really need to get caught up on some pictures. Time is going way too fast and I just always forget to put up the new pictures. Can you believe the babies are already 4 months old?! How did that happen?!?! And Jakey had preschool graduation today and Jason is almost done with Kindergarten. Before I know it they are all going to be moving out and starting their own lives lol. I keep waiting for time to slow down so I can catch up on life, but it just gets faster. That's why I like Facebook, I can post a quick note, see what everyone is up to, and share pics directly from my phone. But the blog is nice because I can write more and look back at it easier.

Alright, just finished uploading the latest camera pics so let's see what we have!

To file or not to file

The other day we had to go through a bunch of EOBs and hospital bills from when we had the twins to see why we were being billed for something that should have already been paid and I was surprised at how many thre were! Seriously, having 2 babies makes lots of bills lol. And I never know whether it's ok to throw out stuff like that or not. I know my insurance has our claims online so those would be ok to throw out I guess, but how long should you keep hospital and doctor bills that are already taken care of? I wish I had one of those document management system things that has a scanner that copies important papers and saves them to your computer so you can shred them and get rid of all the clutter. We do have a scanner but it is soooo slow. Typically my filing goes like this: sort mail, put important stuff on counter, when the pile is overwhelming sort again and put stuff to keep in mail holder on desk, when that gets too full sort again and take the remaining stuff down to the office where it sits until the pile gets overwhelming and Hubby shreds or files stuff. Not very efficient.

So my brain is really tired and it's taken me a while to post this and I completely forgot if I was actually going anywhere with this post so I'm going to end it before it gets incoherent lol. Need sleep!

The Bi-yearly Clothing Switch

Now that the weather has warmed up I guess it's time to start switching out the boys' winter clothes for summer stuff. It's a good thing I sorted out some of the clothes a few months ago into bins, but I never got to the bigger sizes so I will have to do that while I'm switching stuff around. It would be nice if everything had a barcode and I could just take a barcode scanner to it that uploads all the info on how many shirts, pants, shorts, etc I have in each size. I'm pretty sure they have plenty of shorts since they wear through the knees on pants so fast and I just turn them into shorts. And I think Jakey and Nathan will have enough shirts, I just never know if Jason will since we don't have a lot of hand-downs for him lol. I also need to finish moving the 3T stuff from Jakey to Nathan and getting out the rest of the 4T for Jakey (yes, he is almost 5 and still in 4T, my kids are small lol). But not today, I'm tired. :)