Yes, I know it has been a while.

Oh boy, I am so far behind, I do not know were to start. The summer has come and gone. I can not believe it. I feel like I have been pretty busy but at the same time have no big accomplishments to show for it. We have spent a lot of time at the pool. My kids are little fishies! It has been so nice this year because they can go into the pool on their own and don't need me an arms length away. Ethan is quite the swimmer and can swim without his life jacket the whole length of the pool. He amazes me every day! We took the kids to seven peaks this year with Grandma & Nate & his family. My kids were in heaven!! We have gone to the Zoo and the Children's Discovery museum. I guess you could say we have had a great "stay-cation".

So without further ado...here is an update on us:

Emilee

Oh Emilee, how she reminds me of me. Every day I feel the need to call my mom and apologize for her having to put up with me. You know how parents say that they hope their kids grow up to have kids just like them...well I did. She is still so drama. Instead of being more and more independent she has reverted back to I can't do it, you do it for me. You ask her to clean her room, she cries " I can't do it" you ask her to pick up her toys that she had no trouble getting out, she cries "I can't do it". It is really annoying. If you tell her no or even look at her wrong, she has a melt down. Yep that was me growing up, I truly am sorry mom and dad!!

On the other side she is so loving, maybe too loving. She kisses everyone. I get scared to let her go to McDonalds and play on the climber because I am afraid of who she will kiss. She loves to snuggle and watch movies, be all over your lap. At night she needs to kiss everyone, even Ethan who tries to get up in his bed before Em can grab him, a few times she has pulled him off the ladder just to get her kiss in. She makes me laugh, I just hope she doesn't grow up to be a stalker.

She loves playing with toys and she can play by herself for hours, coloring or playing with her barbies or playing house. She is talking about when she grows up to be a mommy now, It just makes me so happy. She will make a good mommy some day, way,way,way, down the road.

Ethan

My little man is not so little anymore. He is going into the first grade next week. I am more scared of him going to first grade than I was when he was going to kindergarten. He has to be even more responsible, getting his own lunch and actually eating it. 6 hours away from me instead of 3. Learning more and more stuff, more and more friends, I don't know if I can handle it. I never understood why my mom said she couldn't wait for school to start, but now I do. Ethan's favorite pass time is bugging his sister. He is all over her case all of the time, Emilee do this, Emilee don't do that. Stealing toys and just basically pushing her buttons. I definitely need them to have their space.

As I mentioned before he spends every minute he can in the pool. Every day he gets up and puts his swim suit on even if we are not going. He drives me crazy sometimes. He is a great helper around the house he has had chores to do every day this summer and he is great at them. He is reading very well and loves adding different numbers. He is obsessed with money and counting it to see how much he has. He loves to walk down the street and get a snow cone. He feels really big that he can count out the 75cents and go pay for his own snow cone. He is a good boy and I am really proud of him.

Aaron

Where do I start with my man? It has been a rough 9 months. We still have not found anything permanent for him yet. We actually thought we had and then just today it fell through. He is teaching part time at The Art Institute of SLC teaching animation and web design classes. He is really liking it. I think that he would be a great teacher because he is so patient. He has little side jobs that he is working on that bring in money here and there but would really like to find that stable job. It has been hard on him. He gets down on himself a lot I wish there was more I could do for him. He is a great father and helps me out around the house which is nice but I know that he would rather be out there working.

Then there is me

Well besides being an emotional basket case, I am doing pretty well. I have my days that I would like to just stay in bed but the kids are always there pulling me out. Most of you may know that we will be getting a fantastic Christmas present this year in the form of a little baby. I am starting to get excited about it. I am mostly excited because this will be the last time through. I get to clean out and organize either boy stuff or girl stuff, you don't know how happy that makes me! I am not as sick anymore. I feel like I can eat what I want and have it satisfy me. I am still tired but I am able to cope. We find out Wednesday what we are having so I will keep you posted.

Lately I have been getting the bug to move. It is completely ridiculous because well, we have no income so unless it is to my van I do not know where we will go. I just feel like we are all on top of each other here and I just want to grow up out of condo living. I know most of you that read this blog feel that way. I just need something different, I guess it is not necessarily the house, I am just ready for a change, maybe it's the job for Aaron, maybe this baby will do it, maybe even the end of summer will do it, I just don't know, I am just really tired of the rut I am in right now. I just really hope that we learn what we are supposed to so we can move on.

We really have been so blessed and I am so grateful that we still have our house and our cars and food on our table. We have great friends and family that care for us and I know that are watching out for us, I just wish we could start helping others instead of being on the other end.

I hope you all are doing well and that you have had a good summer. I really hope to be able to keep posting this time. I have forgotten how much I have missed it.

Until the next post....