My babies are growing up...

Right before my eyes my little girls are getting bigger and bigger. Kynndra starts second grade, Adi turned two and is talking up a storm and getting quite the little personality. Her new favorite thing to say is "I'm funny!!!" (along with everything that everyone else says, and I mean EVERYTHING) I'm enjoying watching them grow and become they're own little people but it also makes me sad that they are growing up so quickly. Kynndra loves to play the Wii and read, and be everywhere that everyone else is! She is a very good big sister!! I couldn't ask for better children. They have made my life so wonderful and I couldn't imagine my life without them! I wish they could stay little forever but that won't happen so I wish that they cherish and love our moments together as much as I do!!

Much needed Vacation

Well I just got back from a two week long, much needed vacation. I went all kinds of places and see a ton of things. It was amazing. Not to mention I spent it with one of the most amazing people in the whole world!! I'm glad to be home though cause I missed the kids! Next year we are all going to go!

And so we move on....

I have come to realize that there are just some things you can't change. It's inevitable, and fate has to just take it's course and run. Nothing you do to fight it can stop what's suppose to happen. Sometimes it's good and other times not so much. It also seems that for every great thing that happens something horrible has to happen right along with it, to keep the universe aligned in some happy medium of good and evil. Why does it have to be like that? Why can't everything just be good? With bliss must come devastation. Always the fight between good and evil will exist, Yin and Yang. But why?

I don't think you can handle it....

A couple of weeks ago my "besty" (as Taylor calls him) Kynndra, and myself were sitting at the island in my kitchen just hanging out and chatting. Darrin had just gotten off work and was not liking the idea that he had to go back the next day. He told Kynndra that she should go to work for him so that he didn't have to. She just kind of looked at him and said okay. Kind of smiling she then told him well I don't know because then you would have to go to school for me. Darrin told her ok he could do that. Kynndra then told him, well it's really hard because I'm in the first grade and you have to do math and I just don't think you can handle it. I better just go for myself. The look on our faces was priceless. My jaw dropped and I just couldn't stop laughing. The way kids think sometimes just amazes me!!

Christmas joy

Well we are ready for Christmas!! All presents wrapped, stockings stuffed. and milk and cookies left for Santa! YAY!!! It was interesting getting to this point. Yesterday, my mom's birthday, started with a call to poison control. EXCELLENT!! Adriana somehow got ahold of and opened a brand new bottle of Concentrated Motrin drops. Awesome! Might I add that it was in the 5 minutes I was in using the bathroom. That was a great start. But she was fine, wound tighter than an eight day clock, but fine. Got through that day fine after that. Then got up this morning, made a gingerbread house with Maria. That was fun! Two babies, Kynndra, Maria, and Me. It's like the special bus rejected us and dumped us all in the same spot!! But it turned out nice. Then went to Mom's, "What? You don't remember me telling you about dinner at Aunt Annie's" Well it was in an hour! Nice job Shannon!! Okay through that. Got back to Gramma's and she gives the girls what? Fart putty!! Thank you so much!! The rest of the evening was filled with, not christmas songs, no, fart noises and giggles!! "It wasn't me, it was the putty!!" Then home, set up for Santa, Mom called and told me about NORAD. We can track Sabta! Kynndra thought this was So cool. She kept an eye on it while I got Adi in bed. When I got back she asked me how Santa could move if he didn't have a sleigh? I told her that was just a picture not the real Santa. She was ok with that. Got the girls in bed, blah, blah, blah. Yay, I get to chow down! I got to the bottom of the milk, OH MY GOD!! What is in the bottom of the glass!?! A brown, blob! I gagged!! Almost lost it, then relized Adriana had added her special touch before going to bed, A piece of chocolate!! Guess it was choclate milk for santa!! GROSS!! Ok so now put stuff together. I did mention I fell off the special bus right??? Why does using tools make me seem so retarded? I know how to do this stuff, why does it take so long, and fight me so bad? WTF?? Anyway, so now it's done and we're just waiting on Santa to drop off presents!! WOW Christmas is hard!!

Quality time

I spent last weekend in Boise and then came home and my girls had to go to Arizona for a wedding, so I didn't get to see my girls for a while. I have to say that I missed them like crazy. Now that they are finally home and I am not on night shifts I have appreciated our time more than ever before. I have cherished every moment. It's almost like it means more now. Missing them that much makes it worth so much more to be with them. We have done so much the last two days together. We went out to dinner, we have colored, read stories, watched movies, cooked meals together, everything is so perfect. I absolutely LOVE my life, my girls, and just everything right now. I couldn't be any happier than I am right now.

Just me

So I had to spend my very first holiday without my kids this week. It was tough. Thanks to my work schedule they went to Arizona and I had to stay here. It hasn't been easy. I have moped around, watched the same movie like four times, pretty much have had a shity time. I want them back. I want them here. I can hear kids going down the road and laughing and see them with their families as I drive by, and it SUCKS!! I want my girls. I want them now. I don't want to be here and have them there. Even if they were here I would be working at night but atleast I wouldn't feel so far away from them. I could spend some time with them.