Happy Birthday Momma Mia!

This is my Momma Mia... isn't she beautiful? Everyone says I look just like her, and to me that is a huge compliment. This beauty just turned the big 50 on Wednesday... can you believe that? She doesn't look a day over 30. I love my Momma Mia more then anything. She truly is my best friend. She is such a doting mother and grandmother. You can always feel her genuine love when she gives you her famous hugs. She has taught me so much in my life time and I can only hope to be as good as a mom as her. She cares deeply, enjoys life, is always serving other, has a strong testimony, always knows just what you need, is sensitive to others, and is the best Apple Jul around. Thanks you Mom for always been there for me and always reminding me what is important in life.  Happy Birthday to my best friend.. I love you so much and am proud to call you my Mom.
Love your favorite Daughter... :)

Happy, Happy Birthday Spence Dear!!

Monday was my wonderful Hot Stuffs Birthday. He is 32 years young and keeps getting hotter everyday. I sure do love this man of mine. I can't believe that I have been with him for 10 of his birthday's. I do have to say, it's kinda fun growing old with this one. He is the world's best Daddy to our trio of kiddos. He is always thinking of me and what he can do to help or make my day a little bit sweeter. For example - he knew that I have a new fascination with TOMS. He drove all the way to Chandler to buy me some Red Toms (it's not easy finding shoes for a girl with size 11 foot) What for do you ask... just because he loves me!! He is always helping around the house, getting me my diet cokes from sonic, rubs by back (almost every night), calls me several times a day just to say "hi" and see how the day is going.  He is a strong member of our Church, loves others, and is VERY sensitive to others and My needs. My list could go on. I am so proud to call him my eternal companion. We have been through so much together, and seem to overcome it all together. As time goes on and we face more highs and lows, we seem to become stronger in our relationship and love for one another. Happy Birthday Spencer..... I love you with all of my heart! me

All Aboard the Choo Choo Light Rail

 Today I was itching to do something different and fun with the kiddos. We have been very preoccupied with our move and have not spent much quality time with our clan of five. So an adventure was much over due. We decided to ride the Light Rail.. (yes I did say Light Rail) to Tempe. It was so much fun, and the kiddos loved it! We did experience all walks of life, and yes at times I worried about what strange person would sit next to me, or heaven forbid touch me or one of my children... but we turned out just fine. We got off at Mill ave. which only took about 10mins (plenty of time) and then we walked down to Five Guys for dinner.

 Love , love , love Five Guys!! I'm not crazy about their fries, but the fact that you can get a cheeseburger with EVERYTHING and it does not cost you extra is FAB  in my world.

 Scotty has a new love, French Fries!

This sweet little face of Scotty's is called his HULK face. He does it all the time and keeps all of us in stitches! We hit up a sweet candy shop on the way home, road the Light Rail back (which is more interesting after dark), couldn't wait to give them baths and get the public transportation off of them, and played "down by the banks" before family prayer. The Perfect Night with my clan of Five! Life is good once again..

Christmas, New Year, and more! (picture blog)

We went to Disneyland for a quick impromptu trip pre Christmas gift from my parents.

It RAINED the entire time!! My parents were spontaneous too and meet us there.

Princess Tessa got to go to the Bippity Boppity Boutique. So Cute, and So worth the money

Tessa had her Program with Miss Jenee. She  stole the entire show... Literally!

Christmas was amazing and we all got extremely spoiled. Every year we tell our selves that we are going to scale way back... and what happens... More gifts then we can even handle. It sure is fun to spoil though!

Seth has a new love lately... Lego's. Even if it take an entire Sunday afternoon with Mom and Dad to put them together. 

 Grandpa Tom's annual Christmas Dinner. We all got matchy matchy shirt dedicated to the Wright Stores.

Seth getting ready to host his very first New Year's Eve Party and spend the night with cousins. He got all the goodies out all by himself and he even blew up 25 balloons. We had fireworks (thanks to Ya- Ya and Papa) treats, we watch movies, the ball drop in time square, and then they all went to sleep. It was the perfect New Year's Eve.

Tess got a sassy new do.

and...... we are moving.

THE END

Santa Baby

I just love the look on Tessa's face in this picture. Who knows what she is asking Santa for THIS time. The girls list just get longer as the days go by . She can't wait for Christmas to come, she has memorized all the Christmas songs this year. Her favorites are " Mr. Grinch, and I want a Hippopotamus for Christmas". I swear she knows every word. She is trying her hardest to be on her best behavior for our secret Elf on a shelf and she loves to help Mommy in the kitchen baking all yummy goodies for Christmas. Also she has taken a liking to Mary, baby Jesus and Joseph Smith. She also enjoys dressing up as Mary on a daily bases to make sure that we feel the true meaning of Christmas in our home. She has been as sweet and Nice as they come.

 Seth is taking this Christmas thing very seriously this year. We have two sweet families that our doing the 12 days of Christmas to us and he makes sure he has that entire thing under control. Every morning that first thing that he does is look for our secret Elf on a shelf and opens the gift from the 12 days of Christmas. He is quite the routine boy!  He loves wrapping gifts, delivering goodies and Christmas card, and being extra helpful with Scotty when Mommy just has a little to much to do. At first he wanted an electric scooter for Christmas but Santa told him he had to be at least 8 to have one of those and that he thought a bike would be a little safer.  He has been extra Nice and helpful this year and deserves the very best.

See you real soon Santa.. The countdown is on! 6 day to go

Seth-isms

We went to the Temple last night for FHE to see my Fabulous niece sing in honor choir, to look at the Temple lights and see the different nativities from around the world. As we where entering the visiting center to see the nativities my SIL Jill was telling kiddos what we where going to see.

Jill- We are going to go in the room to see the nativities and to see baby Jesus

Seth - Alright, I have always wanted to see Baby Jesus in real life, I have only seen statues of him.

 How innocent and cute is that!! He really thought he was going to see Jesus!!

Today...

Seth- Tessa you really hurt my feelings and you are not being very nice to me right now, I think you need to repent!!

Spence and I about DIED!!

Catching up is fun to do

 So much to blog about.. Where do I start. Well for Thanksgiving we went to Cali City for our annual every other year trip to the desert for Thanksgiving with my family. I grew up doing this every year and for about every holiday my Dad could talk my mom into going for. I had forgotten how much fun it really was. My parents where gracious enough to rent us a trailer for our little family and when we arrived that Wednesday night my parents had pretty much stocked the trailer with all of the goodie essentials that camping needs. Junk Food!!

Scotty trying to stay warm while waiting for some yummy Thanksgiving eats. It was so cold there!! Seth pulled Scotty like this all weekend. Scotty loved it. He thinks he is such a big boy.

 Seth and Scotty sitting down for Thanksgiving Turkey. My parents deep fried our turkey this year and can I just say this... Deep Fried is the only way to go People!!

 Chillin in Ransburg waiting for lunch. Is is a tradition that we started long ago to meet the riders in a very GHOST like town for lunch one afternoon. I used to ride myself there but now a days I ride in a truck with my babies. I have to say... I kinda like the truck route.. clean, warm, and then I don't have to deal with helmet hair.

 One of my best friends Brenda came to visit us while we where there. It was so fun to visit with her and catch up on life. She is an amazing dirt bike rider. We use to ride when we where younger and our families would camp together as well. She was ALWAYS better at riding then I was. A lot of times you wouldn't know that she was a girl until to took off her helmet. She is amazing and still has it. I hadn't talk to Brenda in about 5 years and we didn't miss a beat with each other. We just picked up where we left off.. Thanks Brenda for coming all the way out to hang. It was so much fun!!

 Family ride in the desert.. Don't worry, Scotty was just in the picture for the photo opp.

 My mister loves his quad. I don't blame him, I always felt safer on four wheels then two. We tried to get him to ride a two wheeler and almost had a near life threatening experience with him. It was pretty scary. To say the least, the throttle on a quad and a two wheeler are a lot different and I am glad he hit the quad and not Papa's truck. Scary!! He was OK though... just a little swollen finger and a little shooken up.

 When we got home the kiddos wanted to see Tangled SO badly. Especially Tess Bear because of course she had to show off her new Tangled outfit. Yes... I let her wear this fabulous get- up to the movies.Thanks Apple Jul, She was in heaven

 And we meet some family there too

 We decorated for Christmas...

 Took some Family Pictures

 Seth had his last day of Karate at his school. He took a 12 week program through our school and loved it until the end. He was ready to be done. But he finished and didn't quit... well mom wouldn't let him (aren't i mean)

Oh and I still think I am doing laundry from camping... I think I had to wash everything that we every owned twice... (really it just felt like that) Scotty really doesn't like to be left out, he wants to be right in eye sight to make sure you are paying attention to him. Good thing he is SO dang cute.
Whew Done and caught up!

Happy Anniversary

Holy Cow... Spencer and I have been married for 9 wonderful years!!! I can't believe that is has already been that long. We have accomplished a lot in those 9 beautiful years.... We have three AMAZING children, we bought our first house, Spencer has finished school, accomplish and overcome many trails, enjoyed several different callings, traveled , and most importantly.... We love each other even more NOW then we ever have before. Here's to another exciting and amazing year babe, Happy Anniversary!!!!!

Just a bad week

I'm sorry if I had anyone worried.. I am really doing OK. Yesterday i spent the entire day outside and that seemed to help quite a bit. It's amazing how a little sunshine can help. I woke up, made the kiddos whatever they wanted for breakfast, took them to the park, worked in the yard with the kiddos, went to stake conference, and then came home to my hubby who I hadn't seen all day. The other night I guess I just needed to get my feelings off my chest and it felt good to do so. I slept really well because of it. So to everyone, I'm sorry if I made you feel worried or concerned. Just a bad day in the world of a stay at home mother of three.  Like my good friend says " I'm just living the dream". Some days it feels like a dream, others I make a blog post about my feelings and make everyone concerned about my well being. Thanks for the thought and comments, they really helped!

Haven't Cared..

Lately I haven't cared much.
I haven't cared about the laundry
haven't cared about eating right
haven't cared about exercising
haven't cared to lose the baby weight
haven't cared about the ring around toilet
haven't cared about making my bed with my cute bedding
haven't cared about organizing my kiddos toys
haven't cared about the up coming holidays that I need to plan for
haven't cared about what outfit Tess or Seth choose to wear that day
haven't cared about the fact that as soon as I wake up in the morning all  I can think about is how and when I can get a nap in
haven't cared about MONEY, I'm sick and tired of caring about it
haven't cared that I haven't wrote one stinkin thing in Scotty's baby book
haven't cared that I have not done a plaster mold of Scotty's hand... which I have done with my other kiddos
haven't cared about cleaning out the dang hamster's cage.. which is starting to make my son's room stink
haven't cared if Tess is getting to the Halloween candy... again!
haven't cared to volunteer in Seth class much this year
haven't cared to take my kiddos to get flu shots
haven't cared much about my calling in church
To say the least... I think I'm in a little funk..... This is not me. I am usually running circles around my life, on top of everything. I want to care about the little things again. I'm just so tired, always tired. I want to care, how to I get there????

My Cup Runneth Over

 I am so in love with the way these pictures turned out. I just can't get enough of them. This very talented lady is the master mind behind these amazing photos, well I guess Spencer and I had a little to do with it too!

                                        My Beautiful Daughter! Seriously, could she be any prettier?

 My Sweet Adorable Baby Boy.... MMMMMMMMMmmmmmmm he makes me melt!!

 GQ is been knocking down our door. He is getting so big, I can hardly stand it. Handsome, handsome boy!!

Seth loves being a big brother, and Scotty just adores Seth. I can't wait to see these two grow up together. I sure love my kiddos....

Halloween Happenings!

 I just love Halloween. For me it means the dreaded heat of the AZ sun is coming to an end. Also I love experiencing holidays as a child once again. I love to see the looks on my kiddos faces as we start our own traditions as a family and enjoy one anothers company. Isn't that what holidays are for? Well the other night I got the experience of carving pumpkins BY MYSELF with three of the cutest kids on the block. I don't think I will be doing that again. Poor Daddy was working late and their wasn't really any other time to do it. So being the crazy mom that I am I decided to tackle this fun project by myself. Much to my surprise both of my kiddos who are anti-germ, and don't like to touch gross stuff , dug right in to the pumpkins. I was soooo proud.

 Scotty even got in on the fun. We picked this pumpkin for him because we thought it kinda looked like him with his bald head.

 The next day we decided to take a trip to the ASU football game with Daddy. The kids LOVED IT. Throughout the years the kids have tried to go to these games but haven't lasted past the loud fireworks in the beginning of the game. This time they got into the Devil's spirit and were proud to call them self ASU's smallest #1 fans with face painting and full on ASU gear. Tess checking out the game.

 My cute little Devil fan. He had a blast and even knew to shake Daddy's keys in the air during a kick pff.

 Spencer was in heaven with his ASU family in tow. It was a great day to go. ASU beat the Washington State Cougars 42 to zip, the weather was so nice, and it wasn't very crowded. I might even consider going to another game, even though I never know what is going on in football games.

Then it was off to the ward party with little Mario and big brother Luigi

                                                   
and the beautiful Butterfly. (who was suppose to be the little mermaid but decided to be a butterfly instead) even though Daddy surprised her one day with an expensive Disney store costume. Dang Independence!

 Little Mario found his button on his costume and sucked on it until he feel asleep

 I love these kids!

 Butterfly had a very hard time driving to and from the different festivities.
We even got to trick or treat with Thing 1 and Thing 2!! Thing 1 and little Miss Butterfly have a relationship. She calls him her Boyfriend. poor kid. Happy Halloween!!