Happy Easter!

Daddy with Sienna (L) & kaelsy, Kaelsy & her cheesy face, Sienna on bottom 2, watching spongebob!

Well, I did it. I made it to 33! haha. I never in a million years pictured myself being this old :-) I can't believe how time flies. I feel like I'm 18 most days and I'm not really a mother of 5 kids, including an almost 14 yr old! Wow. Life is crazy! Anyways, my bday weekend was good last week. James and I were going to go out of town for the weekend but decided at the last minute to grab the Hilton in mesa and just camp out for 3 days. Thank you to katie for having lexie and to our wonderful mother's helper Marvella, who took the twins. Speaking of her...she is absolutely the best thing we have ever had! She came to help a few months ago and has been heaven sent ever since. It's our good friend Branden's mom. Shes a mother of 5 herself and has so much love for our kids I can't believe it. It has been so wonderful to finally have some help and relief with all the stress that comes along with having 5 kids and twins! They need a nanny for each of them they're so busy! Anyways, that's a nutshell about Marvella...

Victoria is here! She's staying until Sun. I am soooooooo happy to see my baby girl. it's been 4 months since she left to go to her dads in minnesota. One of the hardest things to do in my life...send her to her dads. But it all worked out for the best. Shes glad to be here and has grown soooo much! I'll take some pics of the kids this week and post them. They are all looking so grown up it makes me want to cry! 

The twins learned how to shake hands when I say nice to meet you. It's adorable. They are so fascinating to me. They are so intelligent and so far beyond they're age of 2. They don't talk much, but they really don't need to. They understand everything you say and have their own language with each other. It sounds a lot like the flintstones...you know...yabba dabba do type of thing? lol it's so cute. They also talk to each other without saying a word. It's like they can almost read each others minds. One will look at the other and kind of nod, the other will go grab something and bring it back to her and she will look at he and nod again, like to say, yup, that's what I needed, thank you! I see them do that alot. It's kind of freaky! Freaky but neat. They are such a joy to have in our lives. They definately keep it interesting and hoppin!

Lexie is enjoying learning to read and spell. She's come a long way this year. She's so grown up for being 6 years old. I guess that comes with having 2 older siblings. She has several kids in the neighborhood that she plays with every single day, so we don't see a whole lot of her after school! I'm so glad, this is the first neighborhood that has had any kids her age.

Blake just got back from minnesota on Easter. I think he's glad to be home but a little disappointed that his xbox was with katie! ;-) He's getting so tall, hes almost as tall as me and I"m 5'9! His dad is 6'4 so I know he will be a tall one. So will Tori. His voice is changing and hes starting to look older now. It's so weird that I'm a mother to a teenager. I"m not qualified to do this!!!! 

Anyways, off for now. Here's a recent pic of the twins with daddy. Sienna is on the left, Kaelsy right. I had done their hair in pigtails and took the pic really quick before they ripped them out. They finally have hair to put in a pony tail! yay!!!