chicken pox

'goldie locks has chicken pox from head to toe with pocko-dots...' I'm pretty sure alana has chicken pox. good bye world for at least 7days

getting house

we are trying to buy a house...wow. isn't that nuts? i think it is. its the only thing i think about, the only thing i have been doing for over a week. its crazy to think that i'm old enough to be even talking about becoming a home owner. The crazier part- cameron isn't done with school...he is not in the career he wants to be in forever...So, this is the thought process- why rent when we can spend about the same amount on a house a month? granted this limits what we can actually buy, but right now there are some real options. i mean, and even if we move in a year or two we can definately rent or sell it...because we are only going to buy something we feel is a deal. anyway...everyday i come upon a house that i MUST have and everyday i find out that not only did someone else MUST have it they GOT it...someday i'm hoping i'll be that someone....the one that GOT it. i really dont feel like i'm old enough to be making these kinds of decisions...but i am 25, i do have two kids... sometimes my life hits me and i cant really believe that its mine. i go about my day to day activities without a thought...introspection doesn't happen every moment, but when it does- wow. i still feel about 18. Granted when i'm around anyone younger than 21 i cant help but think 'oh babies...' *shrug* its not that i'm more mature than a sixteen year old, i'm just in such a different stage of life. the things that i worry about are so different than they were when i was 18 or 21 and single. anyway, so we're looking for a house. and this means that i haven't cleaned or cooked in over a week, the laundry has piled and piled. today is the first day that i've worn make-up...lets all pray that i can calm down here and get some other things done. has anyone ever noticed that i'm wound up tight? here all this time i thought i was a free spirited, relaxed hippie type person-- not so my friends, not so. instead i am...tightly wound...i'm like my parents- wound up, focused, type A...a blazing RED...a Hera...yeah. we get things done right? so, i'm rambling--the point is....pray we find the perfect house and soon so that my children will no longer look homeless and my husband wont lose 10 pounds. i'm off to make chocolate cookies- thank you tina for the margrine.

Easter

well, we had a great easter, does anyone say anything else? wouldn't it be funny if someone was like man easter sucks!!! ok ok i'm back on track. well, on saturday cameron called me on his way to school to tell me that the park was hosting a big easter egg hunt for kids in about 20mins....i rushed, i got the kids ready, i ran around the house and i got out into the stroller in the freezing wind. as i locked the house i heard from the park's direction a loud voice...we missed it...they had started without us...no egg hunting...we still braved the weather to go to the store and get eggs to dye and candy to add to my hips. the easter bunny came saturday night and left a great little basket for jj and one for cameron even. wow. jade had candy, movies, sunglasses, and a fake cell phone in her basket. what an easter bunny i'd say. target must have been having a sale...and the disney store...we went to the mall on saturday and it was so fun and not good all at once...never go into the dinsey store with a girl that has huge eyes to look up at you. There were these gold belle slippers that light up when walked on...they are platforms, lets be honest for 7 dollars how could be refuse? Jade calls them her 'princess shoes' she kind of likes them...a lot! on sunday we dyed eggs on the kitchen floor, it was very fun. i made sugar cookies and...failed, miserably. i turned up the oven too high, which burnt the first batch then none of my pans were cleaned...i gave up. Jade did like cutting out the cookies. but we did not eat any that were cooked up. after conference on sunday cameron hid a bunch of eggs out on the lawn/dirt patch. Jade loved it. we had fun. lets be honest alana couldn't care less about the duck i got her, and i didn't get her any candy. yeah, she doesn't need more sugar. on the thursday before this weekend i decided to make jade an easter dress....hours later i got a dress out and although it may have looked ok on it did not work--too much vision not enough functionality. we had jesse and sarah come over for dinner on sunday which was great. we played 'ticket to ride' and of course i won!!! wahahahahaaaaaa! it felt great, although i really shouldn't gloat because they hadn't played before so eh- next time they will kill me. anyway it was great to spend time with them, i love my family.
conference was great- unfortunately i slept a lot...i'm a little tired. but really the main message i heard was about being a good parent. how important it is to be there for your kids, to be a good example and to love them unconditionally. i'm now trying to get to the gym at 5am so that i'm up and happy by the time they wake up. i did it for the first time today and so far its working, we'll see how long i can do this.... pictures!!

our amazing snychornized swimming

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=396927977496

i hope this works...this is from our talent show...its not the best quality but you get the picture. i'll take some pics of our caps...just imagine some really fabulous blue eyeshadow and jewels on our faces. it was SO fun

exercise works dang it

well i have to write this down because it may never happen again in my whole life. yesterday i bought a skirt that was a size--6! ok that may not seem like a big deal to those who have been blessed to be little but let me tell you from my neck of the skeletal structure woods this is major. the best part is, all i'm really doing is exercising, and not even a crazy amount. i mean that is big! anyway, its exciting to see that all those weights and all that time on the tred mill is actually doing something...wow.

the real life of a brady housewife

those are pics of Jade getting into the flour, getting into my make up, finding pads and making an art project....alana getting into everything. our house is a mess for a reason, kids...and i hate cleaning up after them every moment of my life. thought you would all enjoy seeing the normal days in our house.

updates

wow. since i got my new phone that has the internet on it i dont even come by the comp anymore....so i haven't posted for a while. lets see...the girls are great. Jade is learning more phrases everyday her new one lately is 'come help me out'. i think its darling. she found a jar of nail polish brought it over to me and stuck out her hands and feet, 'mommy, help me out.' She loves everything with wheels. Thank heavens for cameron. She loves when the car goes fast even. Everytime our neighbors come out with something with wheels- tricycle, car, bike- she MUST get on it. so we went to toys r us and got her trike...we got her a princess one that she rode all over the store, she loved it. granted not as much as the battery operated Jeep that costs $300 ... We get the bike home, she is jumping with glee, she is riding it all over the house. we take it outside and....no intrest. seriously none. She loves to pick out her own clothes, so if she see her wearing something really funny that may have been a day when she was insistant on her clothing choices- either that or her daddy dressed her. kidding cameron. She is super fiesty though. i honestly feel like i'm raising a teenage that has the vocab of a two year old. when we talk to her, if she doesn't want to hear you then she will just stand there, maybe even turn around, staring...the eyes may glance sideways at you, but otherwise you do no exsist. when she does something wrong either she goes as fast as she can to keep being naughty or she breaks down into an emotional mess. sometimes i want to give her away. never seriously but sometimes...
Alana, alana, alana. my keep baby. she is so much more brave than Jade is. i mean when we put her in the bath her sticks her face right in the water! over and over! she climbs onto everything. she is already climbing up the stairs- she cant walk. she loves to be with her sister. even when jade is mean to her- which is often. about two weeks ago i was in the bathroom putting things away. alana was standing up holding onto the toilet and jade was standing on top of the toilet. suddenly a scream, i turn around and scoop up alana- thinking that jade kicked her or something, i dont even look at alana, just start talking to jade...alana wont stop crying. i turn around and blood is pouring down her face. obviously i start freaking out. and that is the moment that jade wants all my attention. anyway lots of tears later and three dentist visits- Alana fractured the bone that encased her tooth. thankfully she didn't damage the actually tooth at all which is a miracle. The doctor set the tooth no pain killers, nothing, he set it and held it as i held my screaming child) the next two times that alana saw that doctor she starting crying immediately, poor thing. anyway there was only a 10% chance this was going to work- if it didn't the tooth would have to be pulled. Cameron gave her two blessings and her tooth is fine! i mean really! it is sticking out a little so she looks a little like that shark in finding nemo. we are so happy! Yesterday for the first time she let go while of me while standing up and just stood unassisted for a while! she will walk before summer! that is really all i need, because then her knees and hands wont be disgusting. she is kind of a momma girl, which is a good balance with jade who doesn't like me.
so the kids are good, growing and good.
cam and i have started a new exercise program in the mornings, it is great. the only problem is that we want to go running and only have a single jogging stroller. so if you have a single jogging stroller or even a double jogging stroller you would like to part with, please let me know. we have new plans about what cam is going to do for the next couple of years in his life but i wont divulge in case we once more change them as that seems to be our favorite past time. cameron will graduate in aug. amazing. then maybe i can go back to school and finish, wouldn't tha be amazing. anyway i would continue in the updates but alana is crying now.