I survived

I am finally back to blogging for a little while now that school is out. I survive the semester and although it was stressful at times it wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it would be. I finished my dental assisting class at the ATC back in September and I'm now just waiting to start my externship. I hope that I start soon so I don't forget everything that I learned. School at Weber was great. My worst class was public speaking because I hate speaking in front of people but thanks to my mom who listened to my speeches over and over while I practice I ended up with an acceptable grade. All of my other classes were alright except some of them were really boring but I didn't care as long as I got a good grade. Next semester I'm taking math and I'm a little nervous because I haven't done the school type of math for about 5 years. Hopefully I will have some time to blog a couple more times before school starts again.

Christmas Eve Shirts

We did another project that I found on Pinterest. You use the kids foot and hands to make a reindeer they turned out super cute. Zoey's has a bit of character because she did not want to open her hand. I don't know if anyone has ever tried to get a 2 month old to lay their hand down flat but it's not easy. My mom, Robyn and me were all trying to pry her hand open and we still couldn't keep it open. Don't mind that the kids don't have clothes on we were using paint and didn't want to get it on their clothes. Addisyn was so patient when we made her wait to finish her shirt while we finished the younger kids shirts. I don't have a picture of the final product yet because we were waiting for them to dry but I will definitely post a picture when I see the girls in their shirts on Christmas Eve.
We decided to have them sit on the counter so that we didn't have to work on the floor.
It definitely got a little crazy when we got the paint on Zoey's hand she was very upset which upset Oakley who thought that we were hurting her sister and they both ended up crying.
Oakley was very insistent that I sit on the counter with her.I was so glad that my mom was about to come help because it took all three of us to get this project done without making a giant mess.

On a side note I have to say that Oakley is really cute and always makes me feel so good about myself when I see her. She can be quite the handful sometimes because she is very busy but I sure do love her. The other day I was watching Zoey while Robyn and my mom took the girls on a field trip for preschool to see Santa and Oakley wanted to go with me so bad that she climbed into the back seat of my car.

Family Pictures

It was decided that we would take individual family pictures for my grandma's birthday since she needed updated pictures. This is one of the few good pictures that we got. I learned that I don't know how to hold my head up straight in picture. I guess I will have to work on keeping my head straight before we get family pictures taken since Robyn and Brittany are ruining the family.
This is Adam trying to make me smile for the picture like I'm a little kid.
This is me trying to act scared. What can I say I'm not a very good actress. Adam was less than impressed with my performance.

My Creation

I am totally addicted to pinterest. I think that it's pretty much the best thing ever invented. I saw an idea on there to make a cheeseball into a snowman so when I needed to bring something to our family Christmas party I knew what I needed to bring. Robyn will try to tell you that she made it but we all know that's not true. It turned out super cute and I look forward to making many more things that I find from pinterest.

Graduation

Brittany and Andy graduated from Weber this month so of course we all went to graduation. The speak was boring so I was glad to take Oakley out in the hall to run around. Robyn brought her girls and they were good throughout the whole three hour graduation. Brittany was nice enough to let Dayton graduate with her. When we got to graduation we realized that a lot of people that we knew were graduating so it was fun to try to find them in the crowd. The best part of graduation was going to Olive Garden after. I'm sure Bryce would agree.


I love that when I told them to pose for a picture Addisyn thought that she needed to help Oakley smile.

wardrobe malfunction

Aquarium

Back in November I took a week off and since Robyn is off on maternity leave we decided to go to the aquarium. I had never been to the aquarium before and it was definitely something I would do again especially since they're getting otters January. We kind of got a late start to the day because with three kids it takes Robyn forever to get ready but it turned out OK because we left so late my mom was able to come with us. The first thing we did when we got there was go watch the peguins eat. The penguins that they have are the fastest species of penguin so it was very interesting to watch them zip around in the tank. When they were being fed it was very interesting watch them because they lined up and waited patiently for their turn to get a fish.
Doesn't this look like it would be such a delicious dinner.
We were trying to hide from my mom. It was a tight squeeze.
They had a display where you could touch different sea creatures I was a little nervous at first but none of them were slimy. It was my first time touching string ray and they were very interesting. There was one string ray that kept swimming up the side of the tank and that freaked me out everytime.

This display shocked you when you touched it and my mom refused to touch it. It was so hilarious to watch her try to get the courage to touch it. I tried to convince her by telling her that she didn't want to be shown up by a two year old because Oakley was touching it and smiling. That didn't seem to convince her and she never touched it.