Holy Smokes I am Exhausted!!!

So, just a little blog about all that has transpired. Cali's birthday was Wednesday, Bella's birthday was Thursday, Nasa was Friday, Schlitterbahn was Saturday. I got home after midnight after that whole day and still had to bake two birthday cakes for our family birthday gathering today after church. I think I started the baking at one am this morning. I took that time to also revise the last minute details for my talk today. I got to bed at two am with a projected sleep time of six and a half hours. I woke up well before my alarm with much on my mind and I can't sleep these days anyway so up and at em Sunday. I gave a talk during Sacrament today, then taught my lesson during Sunday school then after church ran home to get the cupcakes and cake, changed our clothes then went to Shannon's for the gathering. We ate good food, had good dessert and then shortly after I took my good friend to the airport. Tonight, I am totally and completely exhausted. I think it's been non stop like this for over a week and a half. Crazy life! But.... it's all good!

Schlitterbahn

We had the most amazing day trip to Schlitterbahn Galveston Island on Saturday. I went with my friends Nick, Eric and Maddi. If only I could fit their personalities and ego's on a blog (Nick and Eric, Maddi's great). It's impossible though! No one can ever be bored hanging out with them. It was about an hour and a half drive down South. The park was so fun! My favorite was the lazy river that had rapids and waves and went all around the park. It was a very fun, fun day. We had a blast. After a day in the hot sun we came back and got freshened up and went to dinner with a big group from the guys' work. It was a great day! I am thankful for such good friends here.

Our Trip to Nasa

This was our family lunch at Panchos before Nasa. Brennan, Rylan, Aaron, Braelyn waiting for our tickets to go into Nasa

Cali and Annie

Our toothless wonders!
Kamryn and Grandma

Partial Crew waiting in line for crazy fun ride

Jordan and the bungee tower! Let me tell you what, this tower was quite a workout. I went up and down about three times trying to make sure the kids got to the top who wanted to. It went from the ground to the ceiling I think. It has may layers of bungee belts and I was SWEATEEE when I came out. Wow! So fun though. We had a great time playing together.

So, this is one of the exhibits where we went into a mock shuttle. It was an amazing place! It's hard to believe Nasa has things about astronauts since we pretty much spent most of our time in the children's play area! Below is a video, this was no ordinary play place!

The worker told me that this was a great jump and I had nice form ;) A perfect 10 I think.
Our family who came to town for a visit went and did the grown up side of Nasa. They actually learned some cool stuff! We did this for hours which was good with me ;) We did get to see an Imax show which was amazing and we did a few other exhibits. All in all, a fabulous day at Nasa!!!

Isabella & Calissa

I am so thankful for these two beautiful ladies in my life, as well as their sisters. I have reflected on their birth this week and how quickly time goes by and how much change comes with time. Happy Birthday to Bella and Cali!

Cali and Bella's Birthday!

Calissa turned 7 yesterday, June 4th, and Isabella turned 5 today, June 5th. They are wonderful little people who have so much love to give! We have had a good couple days celebrating them! These pictures are from the past two days. This weekend they are going to Chuck E. Cheese to celebrate and we are having a big birthday bash with family on Sunday.

Girls Night

Mine and Shannon's good friend, Angel, flew down this past weekend from Dallas to visit. We decided to have a 'Girls Night'. Shannon brought her five girls and added to my house of five girls and Angel to total 12!!!! It was so much fun! There was not one dull moment.Dinner

We started off the fun with pizza and soda and a near er trip when the baby dropped her juice cup on Shannon's toe. We still think it's broken.

Cakes getting into cleaner. I guess my house is not baby proofed any moreJordi looking all glam.

After dinner we scarfed down ice cream and eventually watched a movie. After the movie the small girls went to bed and the adults watched Lost (again for me, it was the best ever). What we didn't know as we were watching Lost was that there were two men outside leaving us a surprise to find in the morning...
This is what we woke up to. I thought it was so fun and it was interesting narrowing down who the culprits could be. It was between Jordan's friends or mine. We figured out who did it pretty quickly and decided that paybacks are a witch. (my friends)

Clean up was... creative, and we wanted to leave no semblance of evidence (toilet paper) in order that I could work my strategy for confession from the suspects later that night. This picture (above) was me on the top of my Trailblazer and Shannon on the bumper. Angel is tall enough to reach that tree. Darn the paper in the very top!!! (notice the tp stuck to the bottom of my pj's, very attractive)Thankfully we had quite a clean up crew!Kamryn on the top of her mom's shoulders and Taylor handing her the broomTaylor got on top of Shannon's shoulders next to get that last piece of paper down.

Nick and Eric, the suspects, were coming over later that night and I figured if I left nothing out there they would be driven to say something about it because it would kill them inside that we weren't acknowledging their hard work. We were happy the tp on the top of my roof blew down. We were scratching our heads as to how we were going to get on my roof. We would have though, make no doubt about it. Where there's a will...This was the last of it. This video captures the excitement. Sorry you have to turn your head.

To end off our fun time we had a delicious breakfast of french toast with whipped cream and fruit and watched Far Away with my dream guy, Tom Cruise (haha, he used to be before he got all crazy). We had a good time filled with wonderful memories. I am thankful for the women in my life. We did solve the mystery of the tp capers. To see them in person just see the post underneath this one. Hopefully they are sleeping with one eye open.

Jam Session With The Guys... one day they'll be famous!

My friends, Nick and Eric, wanted to do a "Jam Session". Nick plays the guitar and Eric plays the drums. We borrowed the Hair's drum set (thank you) and Nick brought his guitar and they rocked out on Saturday night. It was so fun. Hopefully my neighbors still love me! This song, Beverly Hills, is originally by Weezer but now is all Nick and Eric (Bellnutz)! Just excuse Braelyn yelling at Ken for the first 15 seconds ;) BTW, we had about 7 more videos of them with different songs but the camera didn't do too well and the sound is horrible so we can't use them. I am so sad but at least we have one awesome video. (Hey Ang, notice the "Texas Accent" when Braelyn yells at Kensington... "Move-Ah!!")

A tad bit LOUD

Nick

Eric

These guys are so amazingly talented and we were all really impressed. They are adorable too and we had lots of fun! Our friends, Dave and Danielle came and I had a fun video with them dancing to 'That Thing You Do' but the sound is bad.