I DID IT! plus "WINTER" wonderland FUN

I did it! I did it! I finally tackled my closet.  Phew!  Feels so good to walk in there and not have 2 huge boxes with hangers and clothes i never wear draping all over the boxes lol.  Also cleaned the bathroom tub and counters, sink, etc.  Found a spider in the process of putting clothes away.  Those that know me, know i HATE spiders with a passion.  It boarders on arachnophobia but not quite so bad.  Since Aubrey was napping in her crib and Ella was napping in her room, which is on the other side of my closet wall, i had to be quiet.  And i was :)  I calmly walked my shirt over to the tub where i turned on the faucet and rinsed it down the drain.  Which of course i then closed to make sure it didnt crawl back out! lol  The spiders here have different markings than the spiders im used to back home, so they creep me out a little more than usual.  Anyways...mission accomplished!!  Closet and bathroom FINALLY organized.  Now its time for a ton of laundry.  Bleh.

Last saturday we attended the winter wonderland thing that Intel put on at one of the farms out here.  It was a lot of fun!  We spent 3 hours there and that was plenty! lol  Free food, but of course all the food lines were always crazy long, and since this is Arizona, it was hot standing in the sun.  Good thing we got there when it opened, and lunch was the first we got.  Barely had to wait in line for that and most of the stuff the kids went on were short lines too.  As we walked around and more people showed up, the lines were ridiculous!  The whole 'eat as much as you want thing' went out the window because there was no way either of us was going to go through a line like that more than once with 4 kids.  

After lunch the first thing the girls wanted to do, was ride a pony.  No problem, short line and it was right next to the lunch area.  SWEET! :) 

Then off we went to see and do everything there was to offer.  There was a few little kid rides like you would find at a fair.  Julia willingly went on these, but did NOT like how high they went.  Madie of course, loved it!  They got to control if it went up or down, and madie is smiling and making it go up.  And we see Julia, with huge eyes and yelling at madie that they are high enough and to make it go down!  We couldnt help but laugh.  These are rides are for 5 and under!  But she got to go on anyways lol.  

Then we spot the roller coaster.  I was sure Julia did not want to ride that!  It reminded me of the one at Oaks Park in Portland, but this shorter in height and was made of metal.  Thank goodness, that wooden one scares me! lol  Jeremy convinces the girls to sit in front, i did not think this was such a good idea, knowing how Julia feels about rides and heights and everything.  So of course after the roller coaster goes up, it must go down.  It starts it decent and i hear Julia screaming, not from excitement or joy, but from pure horror.  Then i see her face as they go around and she is balling her eyes out and her face is all red and i feel awful!  I should have told them not to sit in the front.  At this point i realize she has to go around two more times.  Here comes round two, she screams again and is kinda crying this time when i see them go around.  Im almost in tears now knowing she has to go around again.  She doesnt seem as bad as they start the 3rd go around.  Still, I hear her scream as they start to decent but this time no tears and actually as smile on her face as it comes to a stop.  She said she had fun, so i guess i can feel a little bit better about her being scared to death for the first half of it lol.  She points to the swings that a fair would have, and says i am NOT riding those.  Too bad, the swings were always one of my favorite rides!  Oh well.  As for Madie and the roller coaster... she was stoked to get on, she was happy riding it, and would definitely do it again.  Thats my girl! :)

Thumbs UP!  We did it!

Next was a petting zoo, some huge ground pillows to jump on, watched some pig races, got a tiny scoop of ice cream, but passed on the corn maze.  We were going to ride the train but the line was long, as well as the line for the hayride.  I didnt want to leave the stroller, and by this time we had already been there over 2.5 hours and it was getting pretty warm out.  

Had a baby chicken using this pig as a pillow lol

They started head butting after i took this

Started to relieve its massive bladder while i was taking this picture..haha

These things were awesome!

I wanted to go on it too!

The pig race was adorable! :)

Before we headed home, we had to make sure and stop at the pumpkin patch!!  They tried to make it like you were walking around where the pumpkins grew, but there were no vines attached to them and the small field was a little to perfect to have grown pumpkins in it.  No biggie, still had some pumpkins and the girls liked walking around and picking them up.   At least we didnt have to worry about tripping over a vine or stepping on a rotting pumpkin!  Although i do still love the Oregon pumpkin patches better :) 

Madisen

pretty empty pumpkin patch

Julia 

One more stop before it was time to leave.  The big tube slides!  The girls walked the mini hike to get up to these things while we waited at the bottom to take pictures and stay with the stroller full of sleeping kids lol

Yay for free Intel activities!  The girls had a blast!!!  

The girls loved the pumpkin ice cream! :)

The train we never rode but wanted to!

Until next time...

Kinda random lol

My view every morning...

Of course its my view every morning!  Because at least one of my kids has woken me BEFORE the sun comes up lol. But i think i've complained about that enough lately.  We all know im up earlier than i want to be! I just try to tell myself that someday when they are all older..i may in fact miss it.  Maybe....

My youngest, now 10 weeks old, is sleeping 8 hours a night!  Her night starts earlier than mine, so its not a full 8 hours for me, but still, i'll take it!  She is such a good baby and i couldnt say that enough, she really is!  Which i am sooooo grateful for!  Those that dont know, she was conceived with an IUD in place, so shes my little miracle baby :)  I did not want another one yet, or so close to my 19 month old.   I knew i did not want them that close because from experience of being a nanny and having their kids and mine all with 10-13 months from the next one.  4 kids under 4 ... CRAZY!!  So when i learned i was pregnant again so soon, it was hard to come to terms with it.  I also felt awful because here i was trying to PREVENT it, and i had 2 friends who were trying to get pregnant.  I went back and forth on when the right time was to tell them.  I wasnt sure how they would take it but when i did tell them, they seemed fine :)  My last 2 are close in age, but i think they will be best friends too!  All my girls are wonderful sisters.  They fight sometimes, but they genuinely care for each other.  Even Ella, my 19th month old, is a great big sister!  Always wants to give the baby a kiss and her face just lights up when we let her "hold" her little sister Aubrey.  Makes it all worth it! :)  Hey, how did i get so distracted on my kids again?? LOL 

Madisen, Aubrey and Ella

Madisen

Aubrey- 10 weeks old

Julia

 Still hoping to make it to the pumpkin patch this weekend.  We were supposed to go last thursday BUUUUUT the kids lost the chance to go that day because they continued to be naughty.  We did end up getting a few pumpkins from the store so i could decorate the front porch with them.  I still want to go to the pumpkin patch though for the experience.  Although there are very few patches here that still keep the pumpkins on the vines.  And those patches are further than i want to drive.  So we will be going to one that already has them picked from the field.  Oh well.  Another thing that kinda sucks about the pumpkin patches here, is that you have to pay to get in, then everything is included, except pumpkins.  With 4 kids all different aged, i dont want to pay for all the activities, i may not WANT to do all of them.  Let me pick which ones we want to pay for by how much time we have to do them.  So its like $8-10 a person!  Some have parents only paying $3, but then kids over 12 months pay.  Some have it $8 a person and 2 and under are free.  Either way..its going to cost us $32-36 for the pumpkin patch.  I miss being able to just go and wonder around and pick a few pumpkins, go on a hay ride, play on the hay stacks that are FREE, and go home.  Well, at least i know, no matter what, we wont have to bring our rain gear to go pick pumpkins! lol  It was actually pretty nice this morning when i went out back to take that picture of the sun coming up.  A coolness to the air instead of being punched in the face with heat no matter what time of night it was.  According to AccuWeather.com the nights are supposed to drop in the 50's and even 40's pretty soon.  So we may in fact need a little zip up jacket when walking Julia to school.  A nice change especially since by the afternoon it will be into the 80's :) 

A car, a car, a car!  I wish i had a car!! lol  I dont think my days would be so long if i could load the kids up and go somewhere in the car sometimes.  We try to make it to the park, that is easily with in walking distance, but sometimes with all that is going on here, we dont even end up doing that.  When Ella takes a nap today, i think we will go front and the big girls can draw with chalk, ride bikes or scooters and enjoy the weather.  WITH OUT me having to chase busy bee around.  We are going to have to get my husband some type of motorcycle or something to get him to work by next summer, probably by spring here.  There is NO way im walking Julia and Madie back and forth to school when it gets to be 120* outside.  And by that time, Madisen will be starting kindergarten, which i think is half day here.  So while the exercise of walking to and from the school multiple times a day would be nice..the weather will kill us.  Problem is, coming up with the $$ to get one.  Gonna have to find a way to budget that in, and save whatever bonus's he gets between then and now.  

Ok, well half my kids are dressed and its almost time to start making lunch.  It would be so nice to have someone deliver fresh made healthy food for me and the kids, but who also stuck around to do the dishes afterwards hahaha...

Thanks for stopping by....until next time... :)