What's Up Wednesday

Today, I’m linking up with Shay, Shaefer and Mel for What’s Up Wednesday!

What we're eating: 

Spencer is doing the Keto Diet (and rocking it!) and I am boycotting ever going on a diet again. Our meals are pretty simple and I am on an avocado toast kick with Trader Joe's Everything But the Bagel seasoning!!! It's so good!

What I'm reminiscing about:
My little David boy! He turned FOUR today! Birthday post ------> here
 
 
 
 


And I wasn't born when this picture of my dad was taken so I'm not reminiscing but I think it's a great throwback! My mom posted it on my dad's birthday!
 
What I'm loving:  
Arizona winters! I hope I never take 70 degree winters for granted ever again!
 

And chubby padded baby feet!!! 

 
What we've been up to:

• More zoo!

• Tennis and pickle ball with friends! We caged our babies and had a great time! :)

• Playing with the neighbors adorable puppies! (But miraculously Jack and David still say that they are on "Team Turtle" for a pet! haha)

• Trying out Karate at Lifetime Fitness (they offer free classes but Jack and David have always been too nervous to try Karate but they ended up really liking it!)

What I'm working on:
I think I've written this for that past 6 WOW posts but I'm still working on fixing all of the pictures on my blog from 2013-2015 after photobucket held my pictures for ransom. I only have 2015 left so I'm hoping to be done in the next couple of months and then I'm going to print out my entire blog just in case the internet quits!!! ;)

What I'm dreading:
Nothing at the moment
What I'm excited about:
Is it too early to get excited about our summer vacation we booked this month?
What I'm watching:

THIS IS US!!!!!!

What I'm reading:
I still haven't sat down to read since having Kate but I listened to the audio of The Glass Castle and it was so fascinating! It is a memoir of a girl who grew up in a disfunctional home living in poverty and it was honestly hard to believe that the story was actually true. It was heartbreaking, inspiring, and I couldn't stop listening to it! 
We started reading more chapter books with Jack and David these last few months. They love Junie B. Jones but we tried a few others this month and their favorites were Lulu and the Brontosaurous (so dang cute!) and Captain Underpants.


What I've been listening to:
The Greatest Showman is on repeat in our car!!! Jack and David haven't seen it yet (mainly because I don't want to pay $40 to wrestle a crawling baby only to maybe have the boys pay attention the entire time but they are begging to see the movie because they love the music so much. We are waiting for the dollar theater!)

I'm also loving Hamilton! It's free to listen on Amazon Prime!

What I'm wearing: 
My new rings, and roller blades!!! ;)


What I'm doing this weekend: 
Celebrating David's birthday!
What I'm looking forward to next month:
Visitors!!

David is 4!

David turned FOUR today!

David's Four-Year-Old Interview

1. What is your favorite color? green and blue
2. What is your favorite toy? transformer toys
3. What is your favorite thing to eat? chicken nuggets
4. What is your favorite TV show? Dino Dan
5. What is your favorite outfit to wear?  exercise shorts
6. Where do we live? Arizona
7. What are your favorite animals? lions and tigers
8. Where does Dad work? at a hospital
9. Where does Mom work? Lifetime Fitness
10. What is your favorite book? Captain Underpants
11. What is your favorite thing to do outside? playing tag
12. Who is your best friend? Preston and Tanner
13. What do you want to be when you grow up? a rock star 
14. What's your favorite game to play? hide and go seek
15. What do you like to take to bed with you? Sparkles (his pink turtle :)
    
16. What's your favorite thing to do with Mom? hug and kiss
    
17. What's your favorite thing to do with Dad? listen to him a lot
18. What's your favorite thing to do with Jack? play with him on the ipad
19. What's your favorite thing to do with Kate? play a lot with her
20. What's your favorite treat? cupcakes and ice cream
21. What is your favorite movie? Lion Guard
22. If you could go anywhere, where would you want to go? swimming
23. What makes you happy? mom
24. What makes you sad? when nobody will play with me
25. What makes you scared? getting lost
26. What is your favorite sport? soccer
27. What is your favorite flavor of ice cream? chocolate

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Things I want to remember about David at four:

• When people ask how old David is, he says, "shree-and-shree quarters," and nobody can understand him! (I think mostly because they don't expect kids to count their age by the quarter!) haha It will be nice that he will be a solid "four" now ;)
• We can't believe that he is not four already!!! (We couldn't believe he wasn't already two when he turned two, and three when he turned three either!) David has always seemed bigger than he really is and gets along well with the big kids! He is in a preschool with three, four, and five-year-olds and he gets along best with all the boys starting kindergarten next year. He is obsessed with Jack's friends and knows all of Jack's friend's names from school, church, and basketball. He will call out boys by name from Jack's basketball and they stare at David like, "Who the heck are you?!"
• After a long "shree-and-shree quarter" years, he FINALLY started sleeping through the night in his own bed! Though he still often wakes up screaming with sore legs and insists that Spencer massage his legs until he falls asleep.
• He is a bottomless pit and never stops eating! He is asking for and wanting food CONSTANTLY.
• He loves preschool, swimming lessons, riding his bike and scooter, standing on his hands, dance parties, singing along to The Greatest Showman, jumping on the tramp, and playing outside. He prefers playing outside and role playing over playing with toys. 
• He is such a stereotypical boy but has a soft spot for "Sparkles" his pink turtle and playing "family" with his neighbor friend, Saige.
• After he brushes his teeth, he smiles and asks, "Shiny clean?!??"
• He will often confidently tell us some fact or statement followed by, "Right, mom?!...Right, Jack?!....Right, dad?!" If he loves a suggestion, he enthusiastically says, "THAT'S A GREAT IDEA!!!"
• He has lost his right toenail twice this year from two different injuries! (And just recently mangled his toenail-less toe on the treadmill!)
• He doesn't quite understand Jack's passion for rocks and fossils, but he listens to Jack go on about rocks more than anyone else in the family ;) Jack and David have completely different personalities but they get along so great, are the bestest friends, and brag about each other often ;) 
• When he's frustrated he shouts, "OH, COME ON!!!" or if he's REALLY mad he growls/screams in the most frightening way! On the flip side, he will randomly say, "Hey mom! I love you," in the sweetest way possible.
• He loves to make Kate laugh. He makes Kate cry more than half of his attempts to make her laugh though because he still loves her a little too hard ;)
• He has such a passionate, enthusiastic, stubborn, demanding, dynamic, energetic, loving and big personality. It makes for high highs and low lows and a whole lot of laughs. (Basically, I don't think this threenager is going away just because he's four now!) We love him! 

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Three-year-old birthday post

Two-year-old birthday post here ....  and here

One-year-old birthday post

David's birth

Life lately

This weekend, my friend Alicia got married! She was my friend from high school and my roommate at Utah State my freshman year. Since moving back to Arizona, I have gone running with her once a week and there's no one else I would rather hang out with at 5 am!!! ;) Last week was our last run together because she is moving to north east Mesa (too far to drive to for a weekday morning run!) I will miss our morning runs together! Our friend Julie came to town from Kansas for the wedding and joined us!

I went to Alicia's bachelorette party and it was the naughtiest bachelorette party I've ever been to. hahaha

Her sealing and reception was the next day and it was all so beautiful. I missed most of my Arizona friend's weddings when I lived in Utah and Alabama so I'm glad Alicia waited so long to get married so that I could finally make it to one ;)

 
I have some pretty awesome high school friends. The older we get, the more I love them :)


 After the reception, a few of my friends and their spouses were still hanging around so we ended up having a spur-of-the-moment after party at our house.

 A new Soda Rush location opened up in Gilbert and all of their cookies, drinks, ice cream, and cotton candy were a dollar for their grand opening. We bought ALL OF THE COOKIE FLAVORS! Spencer didn't come because he is on a diet and also because he was putting together my NEW-TO-ME TREADMILL!

 The treadmill I really want is about $2,000 but I settled for a used one that is not even close to that price :) I couldn't pass up the deal and it will be nice to use when it's too dark to run in the morning during the winter and when it is too hot to run in the later morning during the summer. The boys have had fun on it too.

I didn't know that Jack took these pictures of Kate until I saw them on my phone and I love them. She's on my hip all day long but I never get to see her cute face when I'm carrying her.

Kate is nine months now and so close to walking, the crazy girl! Her favorite activities are squatting, eating scraps off the ground, and downward dog ;) My favorite thing to do is watch her crawl around in a dress at church. I didn't realize how impractical dresses are for baby girls, but those dresses really trip her up and she ends up doing a gorilla crawl or just quits and rests in downward dog! haha During church, Jack saw Kate smiling and laughing and said, "Mom, I think she's really feeling Jesus!" Man, I love that boy! haha

Shay Shull, one of my favorite bloggers at Mix and Match Mama recently said, "For those of you mamas out there with little bitty babies…and you think your life is always going to be feeding/changing/burping/spit up/never getting out of your sweats/always tired…please kiss those babies right now BECAUSE THEY DON’T KEEP!"

I chaperoned a field trip for David's preschool at the Phoenix Children's Museum - museums are really not my favorite, especially when I'm in charge of multiple kids and an infant, but David (and Kate!) had a great time!

The baby zones were awesome!

Our trampoline is the best thing that ever happened to ME! Our backyard is pretty tiny but with our trampoline outside now, Jack and David play outside for hours! I love Arizona winters!

We've had a trail at every place we have ever lived and each one has a special place in my heart. I'm already loving our "Arizona" trail. :)