what a week!

OK, I know everyone has their challenging lives, so I really have no room to complain, but this has been a tough week. Quinn started a new semester of teaching, which is two classes. 1-MWF 7-8am, 2-T-TH 7-8:15am. Then he dashes to work to be there by 9am. So although his day starts an hour later than it used to, it continues 2 hours longer. Making everyday a 12 hour day. Plus he is taking a class Th. nights from 5:30-8:30pm. It is an advanced level class so he can hopefully have more teaching opportunity when the dean of Weber retires next year.
We are in the process of getting out of the "one car" bubble, but when quinn's pressing schedule haven't got one yet. So me and the kids have been carless ALL WEEK. On top of it all Kaipo got sick tuesday and has had a rough week. So the picture is a good dipiction (sp?) of how I have been feeling. Luckily my kids give me lots of loves to help me through these longs days.
Quinn is wonderful for all he does. I admire him greatly!

100 things you may or may not know........

Quinn posted the list for me-thanks honey. He just forgot a title or intro.
Many have already done this. I was hesitant just cuz I thought it would be a real challenge to come up with 100 things about myself. But I did it.

1. I LOVE to cook, bake and try new recipes.

2. I am always looking for ways to make food “low-fat” & healthy, but still taste yummy.

3. I have a major “sweet tooth” and love chocolate desserts.

4. I really like to bargain shop and am soo proud when I find a good deal.

5. I feel major stress when my life and everything associated with it is not organized.

6. I hate being late or when other people are late (unfortunately my husband doesn’t have the same conviction).

7. I need to slow down and spend more time just thinking.

8. As a good friend shared with me, I don’t want to blink and life be over.

9. I have learned a lot about myself from being a wife and a mother, but still have soo much more to learn.

10. I definitely need to develop more patience.

11. I don’t take criticism well, even when it is from someone who loves me (I am working on it though, honey).

12. I hate to inconvenience anyone & never want someone to feel I am taking advantage of them.

13. I NEED to have close relationships and am sad when I feel like I have been forgotten.

14. I often feel very alone and left out.

15. I am an emotional personal & cry easily, I think I definitely inherited that from my mom.

16. I love being pregnant (most of the time), delivery and the whole process.

17. I think baby feet are soo precious.

18. I hope I always keep a close relationship with my children.

19. I hope my kids are best friends, now and throughout their lives.

20. Watching my children having fun and laughing makes me feel happy.

21. I wish I was more artistic.

22. I tend to be too serious and need to learn to laugh more.

23. I really wish I would have continued playing the piano, so I could teach my kids.

24. I soo wish I could sing. Hopefully my kids will inherit that gift from their dad.

25. I love to watch those cheesy dance movies, i.e. Save the last Dance, Honey, etc. mostly because I love dancing & wish I would have pursued that skill. It would be so fun to teach it.

26. I want my children to have so much more talent than I do.

27. I get jealous so easily of others abilities and talents.

28. I am often too scared and too self-conscious to explore my talents or try something new.

29. I love hearing songs from the past that bring back memories.

30. I wish I was more outgoing. I think I used to be, in my younger days.

31. I love to exercise. It helps me feel good about myself and relieve stress.

32. I got a new elliptical machine for Christmas. Its great!

33. I wish I did more things outdoors.

34. I feel lazy a lot.

35. I wish I was as passionate about something as my husband is.

36. A clean house makes me feel soo good (even though it doesn’t last long).

37. I played the flute for 7 years, and what is to show for it now? Blame it on mom and dad they sold my flute. I’m sure I’d still be playing it if I had it.

38. I hope I have a child who inherits my blue eyes.

39. I would love to live in Hawaii again and have my children grow up rich in culture.

40. I love to put on my PJ’s. It makes me feel soo relaxed.

41. There is nothing like the feeling after both of my kids have just gone to bed. AAHHH

42. I hate the spider veins on my legs. They seem to get worse with every pregnancy.

43. I envy my family members who have a natural tan year around.

44. I love the summer and find laying in the sun so relaxing.

45. There is nothing better in the summer than homemade ice cream

46. The snow is beautiful from inside, but I don’t really love it too much otherwise.

47. I think rain storms are beautiful. The smell after one is just so distinct.

48. I miss being able to walk across the street to the beach with my daughter.

49. I wish the world was filled with the Spirit of Aloha

50. I love Palm Trees and all that they remind me of.

51. My religion is the foundation for who I am, it guides me and I cherish it.

52. I love breakfast food for any meal.

53. There is nothing better than my mom’s homemade food.

54. I appreciate ethnic food and like trying new things.

55. I hate to be cold, especially my feet.

56. My favorite color use to be blue, now it is red.

57. I love and appreciate that my daughter has become such a good helper.

58. I am fascinated and amazed at how much my children learn, grow and change everyday.

59. I miss my 6^th grade class from last year.

60. Some days I think it is easier to go to work than stay home.
61. I am VERY appreciative my husband works 3 jobs, so I can stay home with our children.

62. I admire my husband’s ambition.

63. I wish I didn’t just accept being average, but that I had the drive to be outstanding at more things in my life.

64. I love to people-watch. It is soo fascinating.

65. I appreciate a good nights’ sleep. They won’t last much longer.

66. I really like to do crafts, even though I am not very good at it or creative.

67. I wish life could just slow down and not be so fast pace. That is one thing I really miss about living in Hawaii.

68. It’s disappointing to me that I have lost contact with people that I was once close to.

69. I am sad my mission has become such a distant memory.

70. I hope my husband and I can serve a mission someday together.

71. I would love to be able to visit other countries and cultures.

72. Although I’ve moved a lot, I’m grateful for the places I’ve been, the people I’ve met and what I’ve learned from them. I would never want to change what we have done.

73. I look forward to living somewhere for more than a year.

74. I don’t take one very often, but there’s nothing like jumping in bed for a nap.

75. I really dislike cleaning the bathtub/shower.

76. I love the feeling of a clean car, inside and out!

77. I appreciate more & more everyday the upbringing I was fortunate to have.

78. I don’t like the color pink for myself, but do for my daughter.

79. I am thinner now than when I was in high school.

80. I wish I was still a natural blonde.

81. I have never broken a bone.

82. I am very impatient once I have an idea in my mind.

83. I love wearing hats, it’s so much easier.

84. I think it is fun to get really dressed up, I wish there was more occasion to do so.

85. I definitely prefer slippers/flip flops over shoes and socks.

86. I would rather be hot than cold.

87. I hope to be as successful as my parents.

88. My fear is that my husband or kids die first.

89. I love the beauty and gesture of a flower lei.

90. I pop my knuckles and have done it since I can remember. I wish I could stop!

91. I love summer nights-warm, long and peaceful.

92. A professional massage is the best thing in the world-thanks to my sister-in-law.

93. I’ve never had a pedicure.

94. Sometimes I wish I wasn’t soo cheap.

95. I love to eat out, but not so much with kids.

96. I never went on a real honeymoon.

97. Ever since I have been married we have been a one car family.

98. I love when my kids wake up in the morning and just want to cuddle.

99. I’m striving to be more loving and affectionate, in word and action.

100. I feel eternally blessed for my family.

OH Kaipo!

It feels like a lot of our blogs lately have been about our little boy, who continues to keep us busy! Well here is another story to just prove how much FUN he really is.

As I mentioned previously we spent the night in Provo, Saturday. We stayed at Quinn's mom's house. Of course the kids went to bed late after being wound up from having lots of fun AND on a sugar high. I thought that would be maybe mean they would sleep in a little, but Kaipo's 6:00 bell rang and he jumped out of the porta-crib to find the early morning party (as usual). We had decided we wanted to go to our old ward in Orem, which come to find out didn't start until 1:00pm. Not the greatest time for early risers. So after an extra LONG morning of chasing Kaipo around grandma's house, trying to keep him out of the sinks, stopping him from completely dumping out all of the salt and pepper shakers, and just everything else possible a little 2 year old can get into-we headed to church and fortunately had a nice meeting (while Kaipo slept) & had fun visiting with old friends. But, needless to say we were all tired and still had another party to attend- Jimmy's(our nephew and cousin) one year birthday. Everyone was just sitting around eating, talking and the kids were all just playing, BUT I eventually realized there was no sign of Kaipo. I went searching and saw the bathroom light on, the door shut and heard the water running. NOT a good sign! I opened the door and there he was sitting on the counter, lathering up his hands with soap, soaking wet and the sink was filled TO THE RIM with water. Another minute or so and we would have had a much bigger mess to clean up.

At times the thought crosses my mind: I sure hope our next little guy is really mellow and layed back, but then the poor boy would just get run over by his two older siblings. Now that isn't really a fair wish for him, is it!?

Some family fun

We spent Saturday night down in Provo. Quinn's step mom had a birthday, so the whole family went out to eat some yummy mexican food. Kaipo of course had to try on the birthday hat and had a screaming fit when we had to leave without it.

Sad Snowman............

Well we had another BIG storm and it dumped quite a bit of snow in one day, so of course the kids begged to go play in it. After a few minutes of watching them, I felt bad and decided I should join them. So I packed on the warm clothes and headed outside. We made a mini "something" I guess you could call a snowman. When we asked daddy to bring out somethings for his face, well we did get a carrot nose and then a bowl of candy. So this snowman had eyes made of tootsie pops.
I was glad I made the extra effort to join the kids. We had fun and I even got a picture WITH them!