the truth hurts

**DISCLAIMER** I am in the middle of a 3 month dejunking process and getting ready for a garage sale and I totally could have waited 2 weeks and shown you my beautiful clean home, but I'm going to be a good girl and doing this fun tag now (cause I'm a procrastinator and hardly ever get around to doing tags) and maybe again in a couple weeks when the chaos is all done and gone I'll do it again! I guess they'll be just like before and after pics, but I'm totally embarrassed to actually post these which is why I haven't posted anything like them yet! So here goes the super fun tag from alisa...

The rules are you have to take ten pictures of the following things. And you have to do it right away. No straightening, cleaning or wiping your child's nose. Then you tag five others

1. The Kitchen sink- it's looked better and honestly worse... nuf said

2. The toilet- I love my husband, I love my husband, I love my husband... ha ha

3. The laundry room- one of the rooms I haven't "dejunked" yet

4. Inside the fridge- it's a good thing i just went shopping cause now you can't see the dirty shelves!

5. What is are your kids/spouse doing right now- ty's workin' hard for the money and Micah and Hallie are sleeping thank goodness! So this is all you get cause I ain't takin' the risk of waking them up with the flash!
6. Favorite shoes- does this count, it's so hard to pick just one! boots- cause i can hike in them, my fav dress shoes, nikes cause i love to run in them, crocs cause they're the coolest (unless your my sisters and you think they are the ugliest thing ever!), my fav cute shoes, and my brown flip flops standing in for my NF black flip flops cause i think they're lost in a suitcase! :(7. Favorite room- Well right now i really like the babies room cause I'm decorating it finally, but i really like what happens in the dungeon, i mean the den- it just looks like a dungeon right now with all the junk!

8. Your closet!- I got rid of 4 bags of clothes today! aren't you proud of me?! but I still haven't organized it. like my location for food storage??? any tips on better places to store all this would be greatly appreciated, unfortunately our garage isn't insulated so it can't go out there :(
9. Dream vacation- a trip around the world! does that about sum it up? Actually there's so many places and things I want to see, but if I could go with my family, shop, sleep, eat, explore, swim, hike, and be outside that would be about perfect.

10. Self-portrait- eating while checking up on blogs, my favorite activity :)

I tag... Kristen, mandy, lis, meagan, and a do-it-later-if-you-want-to-tag for tania since you do have tiny twins! (i have a feeling you all will be a source of inspiration for me now let's see em!)

ps... the house already looks way better, we tag teamed it this morning and WOW it's amazing what you can get done with 2 people!

10 months squared

Hallie and Micah are 10 months old today! seriously only 2 months until they'll be a year... unfortunately a lot of the last 10 months is a complete blur, but what a great 10 months it has been! They are both so fun and it's so fun to watch their personalities continue to bloom.

They've both learned new tricks- like holding your own bottles (SCREAM YAY FOR FREEDOM), well they learned that awhile ago, cause now they're "one-handing" it, they both love to be outside, but would rather crawl on cement then the grass, and they both absolutely love to swim and take baths.

Hallie has 1 1/4 teeth now, she loves to play peek-a-bo covering her face with her silky and pulling it down with a big grin. she is a total cheeseball, squinting her eyes and giving goofy grins. she loves it when micah "chases her" even though he could care less half the time. she attacks micah frequently giving him kisses (we hope they're kisses and not bites!) pats him on the head and knocks him over. she loves to do back flips off mommy and daddy's laps and is so fun!

Micah has huge feet, is so sweet, and loves his momma. He learned peek-a-boo today, covering his eyes with his hands and arms. He loves to talk and does so with his hands, he talks constantly opening and closing his hands. He's not so impressed with his sister, he tolerates her, but cries pretty much anytime she touches him (she's kinda a bully!) He loves to "get people" in the crook of the neck like daddy does to him. He's so much fun!

It's a wonder we go anywhere with twins

Seriously, do you know how much it takes to pack up all of us for a week to live out of someones house, a hotel, and camping??? You all should be astonished by my amazing pack job, let me fill you in...

• clothes for me
• clothes for babies
• camping clothes for us all
  baby goods (this in it's self could be a page long list!) several cans of formula, bottles, liners, cereal, food, Cheerios (cheerios has it's own individual category on top of food), sippy cups, monitors, white noise machine, 2 pack and plays, towels, wash cloths, bibs, blankets, toys, wipes, diapers, etc.
• the jogger
  2 backpack carriers
• camping supplies- tent, stove, propane, chair, eating utensils, sleeping bags, air mattress, etc.
• big kid (adult) toys- computer, tracball (which is the best game ever!), bocce ball, skip-bo, magazines, books
• cooler
• box of food
• 2 portable booster seats
• plus ty had clothes for 3 weeks- all of his military clothing, plus "civilian clothes"

are you absolutely amazed yet??? if not i probably forgot a few things so just imagine those and then you can be amazed! :) Like I said, it's a wonder we go anywhere with twins!

our getaway gone bad

Good, fun, and relaxing weekend...

We had a blast last weekend at George and Mandy's and thanks to them we were able to go on a little date to the wedding of one of my good friends from high school. It was on a boat on Lake Couer d'Alene which was beautiful . We had a blast catching up and celebrating their marriage- they are such a cute couple.

Not so good, fun, and relaxing week...

My elaborate plans for shopping, catching up with friends, and being outdoors were totally spoiled by colds and pukes!

First- I got my mom's (or sisters) cold,

note to self: lack of sleep + stress = catching the bug- bad!!

Even with the attempted addition of airborne and mega vitamins i still got it- that NEVER happens for me! it started Sunday and it's been going strong since!

Second- On top of the world's nastiest cold, we unfortunately caught a stomach bug along with the poteet family. We pretty much got worked over a few times by the whole thing, but my poor babies got the worst of it... they're still not quite over the back end explosions. despite how much work sick babies can be they were so sweet, all they wanted to do was be held.

so... needless to say our camping trip was out of the question. so despite really wanting to go AND my amazing packing job, we came home instead :( but we did get a good hike in last on the one night we weren't all completely out of it...

Hallie fell asleep in her backpack carrier while we were on our hike, she is such a sweetie!

Olympics...

Is anyone else totally digging the Olympics? I am!!! I love them, I've been totally glued to the TV, staying up WAY too late, crying WAY too many times, getting WAY too nervous for the competitors. It's GREAT! I even sat at home this evening holding the antenna between my fingers for a clearer picture, I've been spoiled with cable at the hotel this last week! Enjoy them while they last!!!

zzzzz...

one more post just in case i can't get to a computer for a little while here's a couple pics... we've slept in a lot of places over the last couple weeks and plenty more are waiting...

ps we're going to attempt camping with the twinos, we'll let you know if we survive!!!

parental advisory! may contain pesimistic material :(

i have totally been avoiding the blogging world for the last few weeks because i haven't had anything uplifting or positive to say. that is until i glanced at lis' 10 on Tuesday and saw #5 . totally hilarious if you ask me, you'll have to check it out for yourself cause i'm not going to explain it. sorry. i just don't feel like it.

so normally i'm a "see the cup half full type of person," but i just haven't been able to do that lately- i'm in a rut and it's kicking my butt...

anyway if you haven't checked out #5 , do it now so you may understand why i decided to write this post. it's my life and my journal. it totally helps me reflect and realize life ain't so bad after all. and heck, we all know life isn't perfect all the time right!?!

i know so many of you have your own struggles and go through them so gracefully and honestly most of the time i can too, but like i said i'm just not feeling it lately! tyson has been working LONG hours, my #2 wing man, my mom, has been gone on her cruise, i've felt depressed, lethargic, and ultra-irritable- just ask ty he'll probably give you an earful, he's been such a saint in putting up with my 'tude!

then to top this all off, i left this weekend and seriously within 30 minutes of returning home and unloading the car (by myself because ty is in spokane for awhile) i received a phone call from my parent's neighbor. my dad had been stuck outside for over 5 hours in the heat, which for a person with MS is extremely dangerous. he was incoherent and extremely dehydrated. so i threw everything back in the car, including the babies and rushed to prosser. by the time i got there he was feeling better, but because of the heat pretty much couldn't move on his own. we had a rough night, but made it. in the morning he looked like he was on the upside, that was until the afternoon when he got a fever (104!) and became incoherent again. i called some family friends and they were wonderful to help with the babies and getting my dad to the hospital. i stayed with him until my mom finally got home from her trip at 3:30am. he came home today and is feeling better after being treated for dehydration and a uti.

needless to say, i have had an extremely emotionally and physically draining week, plus operating on a few restless hours of sleep each night. (i'm starting to remember what i felt like 10 months ago!!) the babies (and me!) were so ready to get home! we have a busy few weeks ahead of us and very little time to prepare!

so hopefully the drama is over for me, i could use some good times and maybe a little more sleep to see my glass half full again. wish me luck and hopefully i can get back on track for my "perfect life" :)

i managed to snap a few shots over the weekend so enjoy...