Treasure Hunters

This morning the girls found James' Touch again :) He said the girls should be treasure hunters and I just laughed.

They are only good treasure hunters because they are great treasure hiders!!!!

Hands

I think my overused phrase to Julie is, "GET YOUR HANDS OUT OF YOUR MOUTH!!!!" For some reason she loves to put things in her mouth. She loves to chew on blankets, shirts, her dresses, her stuffed animals and her hands!
I don't know what in the world is going on! It's the worse when she cries or is throwing a fit. She loves to put her hands in her mouth then. And it is not just one hand, but both hands as far as possible. Then she pulls them out completely swimming in spit and saliva and either rubs her face to dry the tears or comes at me with those hands. It is disgusting and I just don't know what to do about it.
She is way beyond the oral fixation stage and I am about to be way beyond the patient and understanding stage with it! When ever she does it I just want to yell at her to get her hands out of her mouth, which I know doesn't help any situation because she starts crying louder and its over nothing!!! ARGH!!!!
Please grow out of this quickly!!!

Mother's Day

Mother's Day started off with this

French toast, hashbrowns, eggs, and heart shaped blueberry muffins. YUM YUM!!

My hubby also got me a flower lei to wear to church.

I was only able to get a picture with Emjae and I was even lucky for that. Neither one of the girls really wanted to take a pic with their mom :(

I did however get a handprint flower from Julie.

The poem says "A piece of me I give to you. I painted this flower to say "I love you." The heart is you the hand is me. To show we are friends-the best there can be. I hope you will save it and look back someday at the flower we shared on your special day."

I think Emjae didn't want to do it because the paint they used look red like blood. She has gotten some cuts and bled and now thinks red liquid is that and she is somewhat scared of it.

My Scare

I am catching up on a few posts that I planned on doing last week. Monday, Emjae's birthday, I was feeling pretty good and got up made her breakfast and put in the title of Emjae is 3 on my blog and that was about as far as I got. I was pretty tired and the girls were down for their nap at the same time, so I took advantage of that!!!! I woke up not feeling well, I had flu like symptoms. Later in the afternoon my arms started to go numb and then my right leg went numb after which my face and mouth went numb. And when I say numb it was that my foot fell asleep tingling feeling over my whole body except my left leg. I could not find my phone but the computer was up and open to facebook. I was able to get somewhat of a message out on the internet that I needed help! And to my rescue came Kate, her sister Shelby and they were followed by brother Millette. Soon after they got her, the numbness was coming and going, but my body started to twitch and I could not stop. Kate and Shelby called their step dad Gary and he got here right after Nate Bartholomew. I knew I needed a priesthood blessing!!!! I knew that if I got that then I would be okay. We couldn't wait for James to get here so they gave me a blessing. I knew I would be okay, and I truly knew it! They called the ambulance and the fire department got here first and when they checked my vitals everything was normal, they could not find one thing wrong. They even took my blood sugar level. We ended up going to the E.R. and we got in pretty fast, but it took forever before we got anything done. They did a CT scan to make sure I hadn't had a stroke or heart attack or anything else. That can back negative for anything. They next did some blood work and urinary work. The only thing that seemed to show was a small urinary infection. They still had no clue as to what caused my symptoms. We still do not know, but when we get some insurance we will be going and getting some more work done, just to be on the safe side.

How grateful I am for the priesthood though. I wish everyone knew how important it is to be worthy to hold the priesthood power and how important it is to believe and have faith in Jesus Christ! I know I will be okay, and I know that I will be whole!! Thank you to all worthy men who honor their priesthood!!!!! Thank you!

Emjae's Party

http://fromtwotofourandcounting.blogspot.com/2011/05/emjaes-3rd-birthday.html

Click on this link and it will take you to my Sister-in-law's page were she took pictures for us for Emjae's party. It was a Toy Story 3 theme, since she was turning 3 and since she has been watching it a lot lately.

Emjae is 3!!!

Emjae turned 3 May 2nd. She is growing up to be such a good big sister! She loves all her disney movies and any candy she can get. She is starting to read the Book of Mormon with her family and loves singing. If she sees anyone in a dress she thinks they are a princess :)

The other day I

walked down the stairs in a dress to go to church

and she saw me

and said you're a princess mom. James and I like to

play around with her and tell her she's a bad guy, her

reply is always "No, I not bad guy, I Ems mae." She doesn't have her name down yet, but its the cutest thing ever.

We love Emjae so much and are so proud of who she is becoming. As she continues to grow our hope and prayer is that she will continue with faith and become one of God's great Daughters worthy of all that her Heavenly Father has.

Easter Weekend

Easter is one of those holidays were the true meaning can get lost in all of the Bunnies, Eggs, and Candy. I didn't do what I wanted to this year with a Easter Egg Hunt and having things that represent Christ and the Resurrection in some of the eggs so we could talk about it, but maybe next year. The girls will be older by then and hopefully they will listen and participate a little more.

I did however make them cute Easter dresses. I was foolish and did them on Saturday instead of trying to start earlier. But I only bought the fabric on Friday and that night is our Pizza night and we went out to New York Pizza and Pasta for dinner. (which is always AMAZING) So I didn't get to start it then.

The owners of New York Pizza and Pasta are from New York! It is literally a very friendly welcoming atmosphere. You walk in the door and the owner is sitting down at a table with some of the patrons and chatting it up. He of course makes it a goal to say hi to everyone that comes through the doors. You also have all the New York accents from everyone that works there. We started off with the garlic knots, which are to die for, and their tomato marinara sauce which is just heavenly, so much rich flavor and wonderful texture. For our main course we got their pizza rolls. The bread is probably the size of a medium pizza rolled up with tons of ooey gooey mozzarella cheese and what ever else you want. I like the Chicken parmigana roll and James gets the Pepperoni roll, the girls had cheeseburgers and oh those were thick and juicy too. Any ways, you can never finish a whole roll by yourself, which I think is a good thing because you have lunch the next day. Half of a roll takes up half of a to go box.

Where we were sitting you could tell that this spot is not hurting for customers. The customers they have are very loyal and almost everyone around us new the owner and you could tell this was a weekly ritual for most of them.

Saturday however I needed to get things done. We had to run a few errands in the morning and then I had to stop over at my Uncle Henry and Aunt Geneals house to pick up a mini muffin pan to make cute easter basket cookies for the Young Women.

I got home and started the dresses around 3 and finished them both around 11. It wouldn't have taken me so long except I had lining for the whole dress on both dresses. So It was like making 4 dresses. But it was worth it, I think ;)

For dinner we went back over to my aunt and uncles and had food over there. We brought ham, rice (of course), and oatmeal rolls. There was already pasta salad, potatoes, green salad, jello, and lamb that my uncle grilled and tasted amazing. We did not leave hungry :)