Elephant baths, Scrapbooking, and Friends...

So at the beginning of the summer my mom, sister and I had such great plans to do so much before I move. We were going to finish projects, read books, scrapbook, get pedicures, go here, go there you get the picture. Well suddenly it's the middle of July, the summer is half gone, and have we haven't even done half of those things. So we sat down and planned out the rest of the summer weeks we have together. It's going by so fast. Anyway.
For all of you scrapbookers out there how do you do it with kids. I have been at it for 2 days now and do you want to know how many pages I've finished-3. Yep that is a 3. It's so hard to get anything done when you have one that is fighting with her cousin over toys or they are both hungry, then once you think you've got them down for naps you remember that you have the baby that likes to take little cat naps and then she just wants to be held all the time. Sigh!! I'm going to give it another go tomorrow so we'll see how that goes.
And last but not least, I've tried to see friends as much as possible this summer since I'll be gone for a while, but that isn't always easy. Some friends have to go and have their baby's two weeks early(j/k Tiffany- he's so cute), and you just can't all seem to get on the same page. But I guess we are trying and that's what counts and thank goodness for the blogging world. I'd lose track of everyone if it weren't for that. So thanks to all you wonderful bloggers and for pretty much insisting that I make a blog. It's been fun so far.

We did make it to the Zoo the other day which was a lot of fun. It's so rewarding and fun to see your kids faces when the see the animals and how the move and how big they are. We were fortunate enough to see the elephants get a bath. It was so much fun. There were 3 elephants. One was 48 yrs old and an elephants life expectancy is 42 mind you, one that was in it's 30's and the other was like 28. The 28 yr old was also pregnant and let me tell you what ladies, we thought we had it bad being prego for 9 months, well I'm thinkin that sounds pretty good compared to the elephants who are pregnant for like 22 months. OMG!!! I can't/don't even want to imagine.. She was so fun to watch because she loved the water. She came right over and ran straight for the stream coming from a fire hose. She would open her mouth and turn from side to side, fan out her ears to get behind them, and then she even got down on all fours to sit and enjoy. It was so fun to see. Kaylee was captivated by it. She squealed and giggle and just stood on my lap watching this whole thing. It was so great.

How the nights can be long...

So I really think that I have learned to live off a very few hours of sleep. It's hard to have two kids to take care of in the middle of the night let alone having to share a room with them both. Kids are so noisy when they sleep. Last night Kaylee was rolling all around in her crib and she'd hit the sides, and at one point she was a wake for a while and turned her music on. I woke up to what sounded like very loud lullabye's in the silence of the night. I didn't want to turn it off for fear of upsetting her. We had a rough day yesterday. Kaylee woke up with a fever of 100.1 and I was sure it was strep since we had been around family that came down with it. I watched her as the day went on and decided to take her in last night to the doctors. When we got there she was up to 103.4 and just roasting. She was more calm and quiet than I've ever seen her and she was just clinging to me wanting to sit on my lap and just be right next to me. So after nearly gagging her from having to have her throat swabbed the test came back negative. That is so frustrating when logic says she should have it. So none the less we had a longer night because she was still running a fever. But as the new dawn approached so did a fever less morning and a much happier girl.

Oh, how the time does fly...

So it's been 5 weeks since I last sat down to write something. I know I say this every time, but I'm going to get better at this blogging thing. Anyway, Justis has been at basic for 4 of those 5 weeks. We finally received a couple of letters. It's always so comforting to hear from him. I have talked to him a handful of times on the phone, but the last two times have been for like 2 min. each. It's hard to have a conversation in 2 min. But we do the best we can with what we are given.

I think that Justis has been enjoying basic for the most part. If I had to choose one thing that he had a problem with it would be the lack of food. He is very grateful now for finikey eaters because he is able to fill up on the food they aren't interested in. He of course has done well at the physical training part of basic. He is known as "Captain America" to his group. They have asked him how to get better at funning faster and becoming stronger. He always tells the to just do their best. He is learning how to do all sorts of new things. Things like shooting big machine guns, throwing grenades, and putting IV's in someone. He's also been able to brush up on his cleaning skills. He's written home a couple of times about cleaning bathrooms and midnight, and mopping floors at 1 am. I will have to put those skills to the test when we get reunited and have our own place again.

The girls and I have just been hanging out here at G & G Jacobson's and having fun. Poor Kaylee has been told "NO" more times in this past month than any little 18 mo. old should have to be told. There is just so much house here that she has been exploring and re-exploring every room, nook and crany. She is very good though at making sure the pets get fed. She loves fill Toby's food and water dishes and is good to remember exactly which cubbard his treats are in and loves to ask to give him one. She gets right down there by his mouth and hand feeds him his treats. She just loves the animals. Makenzie on the other hand is just getting so big. She has at least 3 elastics around each wrist/arm and even more on her little legs. (Not really, but that's how chubby she is) We love the chub. She has been smiling so sweetly too, and justs loves to be held. What baby doesn't though. So it's comforting to know she is normal. She doesn't like to sleep at night though. Her mommy sure doesn't like that. She has discovered though that when mom is so tired at 3 am she can worm her way into bed with her. That seems to make her sleep better. We had to take that option for the last 2-3 nights, and I'm putting a stop to it now. Who knew such habbits could form at such a young age. Sheesh!

Well, that pretty much sums us up for the last month. We will get better at posting more regularly. Just you wait!!

And we're off!!!

Well we have made it through another move. It sure is a lot harder to move with two little girls that with one husband. I'm so glad that we started packing two weeks before the move day. We never would have made it if we hadn't. Justis was home for those two weeks, and was a great help in the packing. In fact, I'd dare say that he did the majority of it. He's a great packer. Thanks UPS.

It got a little scary there for a while when Justis and the guys were packing the trailer. I thought I was doing so good to get rid of a lot of things that we don't need anymore-boy was I wrong. The trailer just kept getting higher and higher. I was sure they were going to lose everything on the freeway. But all went well, and after I stayed to finish cleaning the apartment with the help of some great sisters from my ward, I met up with the guys at the storage unit and was truly amazed. They still had everything and they had actually fit it all in the unit. It was an amazing sight to see. Way to go guys!!

I just dropped Justis off tonight. He ships out in the morning to basic training. It's not easy to say good bye, but at least it was only for 9 weeks in stead of 2 years. Phew!! I've done that before, 9 weeks is nothing.

Now we are at my parents home. Me and the girls. It's going to be a great 9 weeks. We are definitely going to miss Dad/Justis, but we are going to make the best out of it. We are going to have a great summer playing outside as much as possible for Kaylee Bug who loves to be outside. In fact that is usually the second thing she asks for in the morning...the first is food.

Well, I've got a baby in bed, and one asleep on my lap and I haven't watched American Idol yet. I've got to get it in before bed. But don't worry, we'll be back with more later. :)

So much to do...

Well, I started this thing and haven't been too on top of it, but I'm going to do my best. We have been in the middle of a crazy month. After the birth of Makenzie we had to get school and finals finished for Justis and then there was graduation which was so exciting. Four years of straight school. No summer breaks and it's all been worth a piece of paper. No j/k. It has been worth it. It was a great night to see Justis walk through that line with his cap and gown. So now that he has graduated it's on to bigger and better. We have been enjoying this last week just all being home together as a family. Justis has been kind of a bum. He finished his last day of work before graduation so now that he is done with school and work, he's been home with us girls. He's been so great to give Kaylee her outside time and to keep her happy since I am a little busy with Makenzie.

We have also been starting to pack this week. Our little box that we live in has become even smaller since we started to fill it with lots of other boxes. Packing sure is crazy hard with two little ones. I'm sure glad that we started two weeks before the moving day. I don't think we would have made it if we hadn't.

On top of all the new baby, graduating, moving and everything else we are gearing up to send dad off to basic training. It's going to be a tough 9 weeks with out dad, but thank goodness for family. We will be so close to Grandmas and Grandpas it will be great. We look forward to some time with them this summer. But can't wait to meet up with dad in August.