sWiMmInG!!!

 Kooper Kash or in Addi's words,  Tooper Tash!

 Basically anytime we go out into the blissful sunshine he gets mad/and or closes his eyes!  Hates that sun he does! haha

 Addi with homeless child looking hair!  She takes out all hair things these days!  Blasted child!

 Breck has not braved the no floaty alot yet this summer....I think the water is still a little cold and he needs to remember that swimming without it is TOTALLY awesome!  He'll get there I'm Not worried!

 Look at this Fine backside!!  His calves are delicious!  I know your totally Jealous!

Garrett took Kooper in and he HATED it!  Like FREAKED out!!  Totally hilarious and a little sad at the same time!  I think he will be like his mom.  Please note its already in the 90s here and has been for a while and I don't get into the pool until like July.  I like my pool to be like bath water!  What can I say I'm a wimp!

I got my hair Did!

Don't judge my belly i'm struggling to get off those last few dang lbs.  So I really wanted to do something really different with my hair...Unfortunately I haven't found a stylist I really trust with my hair.  I have only had one horrid hair cut ever in my entire life so when I decided to get this done, garrett suggested I should probably go somewhere other than supercuts, which is where I usually go because they are cheap and I usually just go in for a trim or something easy....NOT chopping all way hairs off!  Here is the Long detailed version of my hair did story so pull up a chair and grab some popcorn..... Its sort of a horror/comedy....is that possible????

So I texted some friends and being the impatient person I am I started looking at places before any of them responded. ....So I go in to this place and it looked alright....and the lady was like sure I'll get you right in. I say alright. I come back, the lady takes me into a room....

Who has a ROOM??? Weird... Then this little Indian girl comes in with her sister who is deaf. The girl hardly says anything to me. She washes my hair and I show her the picture of what I want. I am literally freaking out already about it... She says yeah that she could do it and she'll be right back. I should of left then but didn't. I was tense thee entire time, and she asked to see the picture about 20 times. She just kept cutting and cutting and cutting. The sides were really short and the back was LONG weird long. The part was weird and it LOOKED NOTHING like the picture. She used ZERO product in my hair. Then halfway through styling she leaves and her deaf sister starts straightening my hair. UMMMMM. By this time I seriously want to RUNNNN away and cry. I asked her twice if she could fix the back because it looked funny and she didn't do anything. After her SISTER finished straightening my hair she sprayed AQUA NET on my hair) I was like seriously! (im not a snob at all about hair products but if im paying $30 for a cut you better put something besides aqua net in my hair) I practically ran to the front to pay and I still had the wrap on that they put on you while they cut your hair. SO then I get up to the front to pay and hand them my card. It says right there that they take card (who doesn't these days anyways) and anyway the machine is shut off. They were like do you have cash? I said no I don't it says right here that you take a card. They said it was the owners and they are independent contractors..... I was like well I only have card. They were like can you come back on tuesday? I was like you want me to drive 8 miles to pay you money because you can't take my card. They were like we can drive to your house. I was like ummm I don't think so. So I ended up getting the horrible haircut for free. They told me to come back on tuesday...I'm not going back is that horrible??? (The other lady that I went to see said if someone absolutely butchered your hair and you hated it, she wouldn't of made them pay so I guess I feel a little less guilty about it)


Okay Last chapter of this novel. So my friend texts me right when i'm leaving of her stylist.  So we run to chipotle and I can't even eat because I was so upset about my hair, the only thing garrett could say was I'm sorry, i'm sorry. We'll find someone to fix it...i'm soo soo sorry babe. So basically he hated it!! as much as I did. So we drive over to the salon because no one is answering the phone. I run up there about in tears, and say is there ANY way you can fix my hair this Indian girl cut it at a different salon and its horrible. She looked up and literally was like oh my gosh she totally butchered your hair, yes yes I can do it. After she got me in the chair she was like that girl seriously had no idea what she was doing. This stylist was soooo amazing. My hair is alot shorter than I wanted but i actually like it and i am not so embarrassed that I couldn't go to church the next day. She was so sweet. Now I wish I would of taken a picture of the nasty cut. The other girl didn't texture it at all. Like literally I could of cut it better. It was like a chop chop mess. Anyways if you made it through this whole novel congratulations! And NOW I have a girl I LOVE to go to!

bRoThErS!

 Kooper Destroying a robot!

 Breck rebuilding Kooper's Robot!

Kooper trying out his Robot!  I think he think it tastes good!

 after Brecken got barfed on by Kooper....for the second time today.  He's never been spit up on today and Kooper is just spreading the love today!  Such a nice brother. This time Breck said mom take him! take him take him!  HAHA

This was this morning and breck said mom take our picture.  Love these boys right as I'm taking the picture Kooper let out this HUGE burp, so I quickly put the camera down....I knew Kooper would spit up on him...and it totally happened.  I was so worried that Breck would just throw him off just out of pure reaction but he didn't.  so no picture.  He just laid the stinker down!  Such a good brother.  I can't say enough how sweet Brecken is with him.  When he gets up from a nap or for the day and Breck always asks him if he had a good nap or sleep and then gives him LOTS of luvs!  If he is crying he'll say what's wrong buddy and try and make him happy! And Don't forget about the robots!!!  Brecken will teach him how to build a robot when he gets older for sure, but for now Kooper will just taste them!:)

Addi and her Shoes!

Garrett and I went out on a last minute date.  We just went to Panda and ROSS!!  I NEED some new shirts sooooo bad.  Anyways wouldn't ya know the kids all got stuff! haha.  After I dropped off the babysitter I wanted to make sure her shoes fit.  I put them on her and she LOVES them.  I told her I would put them downstairs and she could wear them to church if she wanted.  She said "No I wear them."  I said to bed?? Addi:   YEAHHHHH!  So off to sleep she went.  She slept with them all the whole night.  When we took her to the bathroom before we went to bed I asked her if she wanted them off and she said no, she wanted to wear them.  She came into our room in the morning and sure enough her pretty red shoes still on!  Cutest lil tornado I ever saw!

President and Sister Gelwix

We had a ward Fireside recently with president and sister Gelwix.. You don't know who they are you say.....Have you seen the movie Forever Strong?  He is the coach that that movie is about!  I have to tell you him and his wife are simply amazing.  He is the Mission President of the Fresno mission here.  His wife is so funny and so cute.  The whole fireside was about communicating.  In one way or another. (it was nice to be spiritually uplifted and get something out of church without three kids with us and I wish I would of taken notes, this was a few weeks ago)  Sister Gelwix talked about three different things to communicate.
1.51/49 This was really funny.  In a business there is always someone who owns a little bit more I guess you would say.  So someone has 51% and a 49%.  There is the CEO and the CFO.  Who is your 51 and who is your 49.  I have to say garrett is probably our CEO but i definitely run the show the CFO!;) So afterwards we were talking with friends to see who was the 51 and 49. 
2. Hold a Family Meeting.  Whether its just you and your spouse if you have little kids who can't really participate, or you don't have kids.  If you have older kids than have those also participate.  Make it a specific time each week.  Not when you driving in the car or on your way to bed.  But a specific time.  Talk about schedules, things that are going on with kids, concerns for one another, or the children and ways to deal with them.  Budgets, goals to work on and how you did on goals for the weeks before.
3. Spiritual Bank.  She made an excellent point, we are always taking out withdrawals on our spiritual bank and asking for things.  She said to make sure you are always always always depositing.  I feel like I withdrawal alot from this....  I think some people are just better at this than I am.  I sometimes struggle doing spiritual things.  In a sense having three kids is harder.  You just have a lot more laundry, another mouth to feed, Breck to get to school and its hard to get in my scripture reading and morning prayers.  If we get family prayer, fhe and the food blessed I honestly call it a week of success!  I'm trying to be better.  I have conference downloaded onto my ipod so when I fold laundry or do the dishes I have one ear bud in and listen while the chaos ensues.  But i do get stuff out of it and its nice!

She was so so cute!  Love her!

President Gelwix took a little different approach.  His whole approach was "THE LONG VIEW" He was saying to regards to where do we want to end up.....  In the celestial kingdom with all of our family. 

He said something that I will never forget....  He looked at Garrett and I and asked... How old is your little boy?  We said 4 months.  He went onto say....Lets be on the safe side and say just 13 short  months ago, Kooper was an adult spirit.  Before he left to come to earth he was an adult spirit.  who made "adult" decisions because children don't make adult decisions.  He was surrounded by his bestest friends.  What do you think were the LAST words he spoke to them? What do you think he said to them before he came down to this earth life?
When I think of having a baby I never really thought about it like that before.  It was really interesting and good food for thought.

The whole talk that President Gelwix was saying was we had all these steps that would get us from where we are to where we need to be.  He said we just have to get that person to that step that is right there in front of them.  Just focus on that.  He said some people will fly up the stairs and others you may have to crawl, but just focus on the step in front of you.  He said we all have people who have fallen away from the church or who have not yet joined.  He said just continue to pray for them....remember "THE LONG VIEW" we all want to be there together in the end but focus on that step right there in front of you. 

These are just a few points that stuck out to me.  You can tell from his Demeanor he is an amazing man who is truly called by God to be a Mission President.  I am so grateful that they took time out of their busy schedules to come and speak to us.  Sorry if this is jumbled.  It hopefully makes some sort of sense but really I guess the whole feeling there you could really feel the spirit.  I don't get much out of church these days.  Sacrament you can forget it.  Just trying to keep three kids quiet and occupied I consider a success.  Sunday School I spend half the time trying to Get Breck to go into Primary and then Kooper's meal/naptime is during Relief Society.  So needless to say I know everyone says at some point  but What is the point. and President and Sister Gelwix made it clear what the point is.  I wanted to write this down so we would remember how great this Fireside truly was.  It was a good pick me up!