it's been awhile.

wow so i haven't blogged in a really long time!!! our lives have been so incredibly crazy. we moved out of our apartment on the 2nd of july and then i cleaned it (with my amazing mother, couldn't have done it without her!) until the 9th of july when we checked out. they are so picky! i had to wipe down the window tracks and light fixtures AGAIN because they had a day or two worth of dust on them! ugh... then i don't even know how much we are getting from our deposit yet. but we won't even get it back because we broke our contract so we will owe them money... i just don't know how much until we know what our deposit is. haha. does that even make sense? so then we moved into my parents house, which still isn't unpacked all the way and is driving me crazy cuz i have no time to do it. then on thursday we went to oregon to help oak's aunt move back to utah, we left friday afternoon, stayed in boise overnight, then woke up to find out our trailer lights weren't working so oakley spent like 4 hours or more trying to fix them! he never got them fully working but we had some lights, so that was good. so we stopped in tremonton to change the girls diapers, stretch, and eat, and i was texting my sister (my phone was broken) so i ran in to get food and when i came back out it looked like it was gonna rain so we jumped in the truck and took off. well... i had left oak's phone on the side of the truck bed!!! oh he was so mad. so the next day, sunday, we drove clear back up there to look around the parking lot we had been in and the road leading up to the freeway. never could find it so we had to fork out the cash for a new phone. blah! so anyways this week oakley is helping another family move, actually he is doing that tonight. man i love him so much he is so good. but i know he is stressed, i am stressed, my parents are stressed. it doesn't make for a good combination. so anyways that is what has been going on with me the past few weeks. i really hope life settles down soon, but with school and work and my mom working and my dad doing what he is with work... i just don't know. but i will cross my fingers that it does!!!

school

so tonight oakley had to be to work early so he dropped the girls off at school to me. i wasn't sure if i wanted them there or not. because, well maylee is a 2 year old, enough said. but my instructor and the other students assured me it was ok. so they came to school with me for an hour or so and we were doing glitter toes and nails and my instructor said she would do maylee's if that was ok. well maylee was so excited so she got her toes done. it was sooo cute! i think she did pretty well. it was sooo cute to see her watching and she kept saying pretty toes! and showing them off to everyone. then she wanted her nails done and that is when it got interesting. she didn't want to hold still anymore and for some reason didn't want her thumbs done haha. she rubbed her face and now has purple glitter all over her face, and in her hair and everywhere haha. it is ok though cuz it was worth it to watch her get so excited over it. i love it that she is into all the girly stuff! my instructor was really good about it too. she was so cute with my girls! thanks for being patient! and cleaning up the messes haha.

packing, packing, packing.

so this is my kitchen right now lol. it is filled with boxes and i cannot stand it anymore! i only have 2 more boxes left so i need to call a grocery store or my dad to get some more. i just thought i would share what i am living in right now. my sister marissa has been staying with me and entertaining my girls while i get things done. she has also been helping me pack. i don't know what i would do without my family. they are so so good to me. also i love my visiting teachers! they came over today and helped me finish packing my kitchen and packed while i took everything out from under my stairs. wow. so nice and i am so grateful! i feel like i am getting somewhere and then i find more stuff to fill another box with. why is that? haha. but i am definitely getting somewhere now. i am just excited to get done and moved and organized so i won't be living in the midst of all these boxes!

my brother

so my brother is on a mission down in Hermosillo Mexico. We get emails from him every monday and he is doing so amazing. it really makes me wish i had as strong a testimony as him. i really do think my testimony is growing and getting so strong but he is such an example to me and i love learning from him. my whole family is such a great example. my mom is so amazing and never questions or doubts, she just does what she knows she needs to and is so blessed because of it. i love her so much. my younger sister marissa is such a good teenager. i know i am who i am because of my past but sometimes i wish i could have went down a different path and enjoyed life more like she does. she has so much fun and is never super serious with anyone. i look up to all my younger siblings. they are amazing and i hope the world for them. i know they can do whatever they set their minds to. i just really wanted to share how i felt about my family publicly and just share that i have a testimony and it is growing stronger every day. i am so grateful for my husband and my daughters. i love them so much. i appreciate all my friends who are there for me and push me so i can become a better stronger person. thankyou to everyone in my life!

driving me crazy!

ok so i changed my background and i am happy with it but the color around my text is still pink! i don't know how to get rid of this. ugh. i feel like i have tried everything! any suggestions? i just am getting really frustrated haha. ok so i just realized today that we are moving in a week. wow! i feel like i have so much to get done but at the same time i can't get much done because we are still using so much of our stuff so how am i supposed to pack it in boxes? hmm.... i really need to clean again today. why is it that i can spend all day cleaning and that night or the next morning i realize it looks the same? i think i could vacuum every day and it would never look like i did lol. anyways, back to my original question, any help would be absolutely wonderful with my blog problem!

moving....

so it has been a very long time since i have posted anything on here. i forget! haha. i think it has to do with the fact that i am still rather new at blogging and i don't know what i am doing with my layout and it drives me crazy every time i get on here haha. anyways, we are moving in with my parents. blah! hopefully it will only be like till december or so. that is what we are trying for. i have learned so many lessons though by having to make this decision. don't ever rely on overtime as a source of income! we are now going to put any OT into savings! don't stretch all your income into payments either. ugh wow you would think i would be smarter but it is like oh we have room for that payment. well then OT gets cut and what happens? you have to move in with your parents for 6 months haha. Oakley is taking it harder than me. i think it is because he is the provider and the stress lays on him to provide for us. so life has been hard, but i am actually relieved to be moving in to a certain degree. no more financial stress for a little while. i think it will help me be a better mom too because my mom is the most organized and clean person i know and i think i can learn a lot from her and get into some good habits. also there will be a big yard for maylee to play in. she is gonna love it so much! i know it will be stressful in other ways but i can handle them i think. we are moving in on the 2nd or 3rd. not quite sure now because we need to figure out what days oakley has off for sure. i am actually looking forward to that because right now we are half packed and living in boxes and a mess and i might rip my hair out haha. other than that not much has happened. school is going great. maylee is getting 4 molars though and is struggling! i have to work very hard to be patient with her. her nap times are also disappearing but in some ways it is good because she goes to bed about 7:30 right now and wakes up about 7-7:30 so she is sleeping 12 hours! wow. today i am watching my two cousins. one is 6 months older than maylee and one is 3 months older than faith. both girls. haha i will have 4 girls today! i now i will know what it would be like to have 2 sets of twins haha. we will see how it goes but i think maylee and maddie will play awesome together. they are so good and get along great. faith and lizzie just stare at eachother, grab faces, and try to figure out what they are haha. so wish me luck. i gotta get back to cleaning now! yay!