Happy Mother's Day

For some reason, it comes as a complete shock to my children every night that they need to put on pajamas, brush teeth, and get into bed.

For some reason, it is new information to my children that they are to eat their vegetables and at least try the food that I serve them.

For some reason, I have to ask my children 17 times to put their jackets in their room or their underwear in the hamper before they do it.

For some reason, my children cry when I announce that they actually need to shampoo and conditioner their lovely, curly locks.

For some reason, my floor needs to be vacuumed daily even though we all take our shoes off in the house.

For some reason, my children act as if they cannot hear me utnil I am nearly yelling.

For some reason, I still got beautiful flowers, cards proclaiming never-ending love, and a brand-new fabulous vacuum for Mother's Day.

For some reason, I have an awesome husband who doted on me today and made all 3 meals and made me feel fabulously special. I have 3 children who love and adore me and smothered me with hugs and kisses and cute cards proclaiming that I weigh 60 lbs. and my favorite food is waffles.

I love my children and I do love being their mom.

Big Changes Are a Brewin...

So.... where to start....


I have many mixed emotions.


FIRST, the good news...
Trent got a job! YAY!! He is a full-time RN at Biggs-Gridley Memorial Hospital in Gridley and loves it. He first got hired on per diem and was working a few days a week with the understanding that if he does well and they like him, that after a few months he could be hired on full-time.

Well, it wasn't even 2 days later that they were offering him a full-time position! Yes, that's how awesome my husband is.


Okay, brag time over. He's working full-time, doing well, and loving it.

Soooo.....

here comes the bad news....
We're moving to Gridley. I am having a hard time with this. We've lived here over 7 years now and in 2 different wards in the same stake at church. We have great friends, great schools, and a great gym which provides me with a great job. I go to the gym every day. I either take classes, teach classes, swim with the kids, take Mikayla to swim team practices, or do my own cardio workout in the gym. It is such a big part of my life that I get a huge lump in my throat when I think about leaving.

I have had to place all my faith and trust in my Heavenly Father to know that this is the right decision for our family. We are so happy that Trent has a job and it's selfish of me to have these feelings. I know that as long as our family is together, all will be well. I will make new friends, I will find great schools, I will find a new gym. I know that.


But why am I crying while typing this...


We have placed an offer on a house this week and will see what happens there. All this big, exciting adult stuff is happening all at once and I am trying hard to be happy about it.

Trent works 5 days a week and until the end of June, he goes Monday through Friday and stays the night with my parents and comes home on the weekend. So, I am here with the kids all week long and I'm stressed and tired and wishing that I could enjoy my job as Mom more than I am right now.


So... mixed emotions I tell ya. I just hope and pray that we will grow to love Gridley and the small-town life and will find enough there to keep us happy. The other day we were explaining all the new changes to the girls and we said we'd have to find a new school, and a new church and Mikayla said, "Oh. I hope it's LDS." We assured her that we only meant a new church building and new ward, not a whole new religion! It was cute nonetheless.

But yes, this is the big news for our family.

I keep telling myself that people move all the time and we will be fine.

Sacramento, I will miss you....

Our Trip to Utah! Part 3

Megan feeding Bailey again.

Bryson and Kendra are 2 wks apart in age and had fun playing together and giggling with Magaw.

Papa holding Bailey.

sweet sleeping baby. She's amazingly quiet, content, and pleasant for a 3 month old and we just loved meeting little Bailey.

Megan even learned to change baby diapers.

We went to an indoor children's amusement park. Only in Utah can two 1 yr. olds ride a jeep around a track with a thin canvas strap on their laps and no adults in sight! They loved it! I couldn't stop laughing about how that could never happen in CA!

They had an amazingly fast roller coaster that went around in circle and then stopped and spun around backwards. Kendra and the girls loved that too!

Look, I did go on the trip!

Does this picture say Magaw and Papa have their hands full or what?! We were only missing Bridget from the fun, crazy bunch of grandkids.

Kendra enjoyed eating the food straight off the table at Golden Corral and mashed her cupcake into the table before cramming it all in her mouth. What are you gonna do?!

Mikayla and Megan loved slamming into Mom on the bumper cars.

These girls love spinning--the faster, the better!

Another crazy pic just after Bailey spit up all over Papa's shoulder and cheek and just before Megan fell and cut up her arm and we had to deal with the blood. Never a dull moment here!

We had a great trip and it was so fun to spend time with family for Spring Break. I'm glad the girls have cousins on both sides of the family to play with, I just wish we could play together more often!

Our Trip to Utah! part 2...

We went to the Treehouse Kid's Museum where we were able to milk a cow...

ride horses,

have a tea party,

take care of sick babies (I asked Megan what was wrong with my sick baby and after listening to her heart and lungs told me that she is eating too much junk food!)

they checked their ears,

and learned to read x-rays,

played lots of music,

made a mess with glue, tissue paper, and pom poms,

painted lots of pictures,

put on plays and puppet shows,

drove fire engines,

built bridges, and had TONS of fun!!

The next day we went to an indoor water park. Only in Utah do they allow 1 yr olds to go down large waterslides! Kendra loved it!

The water was nice and warm, what a great way to spend a day!

Papa took Megan down the slide too.

Kendra enjoyed discovering all the sprinklers and water features.

Here's Mikayla on the big slide, though she's hard to see! We had so much fun in the lazy river, playing on the jungle gym and going down the big slide over and over again.

Our Trip to Utah!

We took a tip to Utah with Grandma and Grandpa to see Uncle tim, Aunt Michelle, and the kids. We stopped in SLC at Temple Square and took the kids to the visitor's center.

I love this picture!

There is a new display downstairs(since we've last been there). There are life-size figurines of Moses, Joseph Smith, Peter the Apostle, and tells the story of how the scriptures came to be and ends with a giant display with a copy of the scriptures in every language. I'm embarrassed to say they had copies in languages I have never heard of!

I love to see the temple...

The girls and I outside the Salt Lake Temple.

Then we drove to Brigham City and got to meet our new little niece, Bailey! Such a cutie, the girls just loved holding her!Megan loved any chance she could get to feed her a bottle. She did a great job too!

Megan's a Runner!

Megan's preschool had a jog-a-thon and man, is she ever fast! She lapped a few kids and ran more laps than anyone. Trent and I were both shocked! She told us she would and we as the loving parents we are snickered and said, "oh, okay Megan." Well, holy moly, she was right.

The morning of, she was looking a little tired and Mikayla said, "Oh Megan. You should've had a 5 hr energy for breakfast." How does she know what that is?! haha.

She loved running and was so happy that she beat her teachers!
Cooling off with popsicles.

Lovin' the frizzy, sweaty hair!

And yes folks, she is rockin' a full ponytail! Jelly sandals, miniskirts, and sunglasses, summer is almost here!

And our sincere condolences to our Canadian friends and family. We heard you just got more snow 2 days ago. We are very, truly, sorry. (chuckle, chuckle...okay, lol)