Continued updating and I even include picitures this time

Honestly I cant wait until Ive caught up with updating. Tired of talking about the past. 

However, yesterday in Sunday school our lesson was on keeping a journal. Made me feel better I started the bloggy up again. At least for the kids sake.

 Typing is more practical for me instead of pen and paper. 

Finally updates to March. Here in our condo. Not huge. Cozy. Making it my own. One step at a time. March hasn't busy. AT ALL! With the unpacking and cleaning Ive hardly had time to decorate. Its taking me for longer than I had anticipated.

Note to self: Walmart sucks at matching and mixing  paint. NEVER go there again. Our once envisioned dark grey walls now look like "an old blueberry threw up on here"says the mister. Id post pictures of the bedroom, but you dont wanna see it. The room at the end where no one goes into and everything gets shoved in there. Yup thats ours. For now!

I will show you my kitchen though!

See? Also seee the craft mess on the table. Ignore that. But I love it. Its where I spend most of my time. 

Ready for picture over load? Really thats all anyone REALLY cares about right?

Xander, sis, and me. After our swim in the pool. Oh how they love to make mom take pics with them

Xander and my cute 7 month old nephew Joseph. Xander is my little hear of gold kid. Whiny, but man this kids heart is bigger than most peoples.

 

Little stinker of a kid Zac. I really do have a major hot head on my hands. Worst temper and has magic hands. How?  Into everything and magically things disappear when he's around. Anyone wanna babysit him now?

 This month my sister came to visit me for the weekend. She brought her month old baby Xavier with her. And I ate it up. I {heart} this little boy...

 Xander, Zac, and Alex (Paulas little girl) Spring is finally here! And feeding the ducks was sooo much fun!

More pics to come....

Continued...

Long post. So if you are going to check my grammar and all that..STOP READING. When I write- I don't care. I just type. 

Oct/November: Our close friends ended up getting a condo in another town right before she had her cute baby. When we went over there Alan fell in love with the clubhouse which includes a pool, hot tub, work out room, etc. And it's sooo much of a step up from the little basement apartment we were living in. Its not a huge place (the condo) but boy did we wanna jump on it. After all, there was no way we'd be committing to a regular house while Alan is going to school and us not knowing where we will be in 5 years. Long story short, we ended up settling on this condo. Smelly, pet urine infested carpet. Worst smell ever. Its only cosmetic...right? AND it was right below our friends!!! We kept our purchase on the D.L. really not wanting to cry wolf just in case nothing worked out, but 2 days before Christmas we got the word that it was all ours. Oh I couldn't get out of that basement soon enough!!!!! (Oh I almost forgot, there are pictures of the condo from when we looked at it on my FB if you haven't seen it yet-viewers beware)



December: Blah blah blah. Waiting. Packing. Cleaning. Christmas. Half Christmas? Barely felt like one. A. This year the snow was at an all time low. I HATE, no seriously....H-A-T-E snow, however doesn't everyone dream of a white Christmas? Honestly, I'm suprised the tree even made it up. Our little stinker Zac tore down most of the ornaments anyway, so the poor thing looked hopeless (the tree, not the child). B. Our abode being half packed was awful. If you've moved. You feel me.Oh and I had a birthday. Turned 25. Not so old. Totally forget how old I am ALL THE TIME. Never thought that would happen.

January: Had to be out of the basement apartment by the end of January so we got to go move in with my in laws for a few weeks. Dreaded it. Ended up not being so bad. Actually kind of nice.....oh she helped me soo much with the kids. Makes me second guess the whole "sister wife" thing hmmmmm....

February: And we get word to move the weekend before Valentines. I'll spare you boring moving and cleaning pee carpet details. Needless to say it is end of March now and we are STILL working on that.


More to come. Again. Keep reading. Oh how I love to keep you hanging. Oh shoot I forgot to add pictures to this one. Makes for an awesome post later.

Another one of those cliche posts about catching up

Seems like the start of my last couple blogs have been all about "catching up on my little family" While I seriously think it'd be dumb to do yet another one of those, it is a must. While I'm committed to blogging once a week again. First thing I should really do is update our picture up there. Way outdated.
Last I wrote was October. Soooo much has happened and I got caught up in "life" so to speak. I left blogging world for a while to live the life I write of.
October 18th: Sissy's birthday. Her 5th. Arrow to my heart strings. Baby girl is growing up. Her party wasnt a big one, but her princess cake made it for her. How I wish I would have blogged about it when it happened so that I could write down memories from it and what she got. All I remember is the cake. Little lady was beyond pleased.

October 22:  I recall this date with bittersweet feelings. Woke up that morning thinking my lucky number is 22. Not sure why I remember that. By this time I was around 8 weeks pregnant. Could be more excited. I hadn't really told anyone but a few friends and family. I usually shout it to the whole world but something inside of me kept it mostly to myself. Later that day I was feeling weird and my back and stomach hurt. You see, I have had miscarriages before so I am very paranoid. I called my midwife for some reassurance and she has suggested that if I feel I need to I should go to the ER just to make sure. While I really didn't wanna cry wolf- something inside me said go. So I called Alan and made him come home from work and off we went to Payson. After getting some tests done and given morphine through my Iv ( best stuff ever by the way!) the Xray/ Ultrasound guy came in to get me. Lo and behold it was the same man who wheeled me in not less than 2 years earlier when I found out the bittersweet news that we had lost a baby I didn't know I had but we still had a strong heartbeat from another. Drugged I lightly made a joke of him being cursed. He made a joke I cant even remember. Something like he hopes he has good news. I was confident, after-all, last time we left with something....right? After getting an external US he said he couldn't see anything but that maybe it was too early to so an internal Ultrasound was needed. Yahoo. Glad I was drugged. Again the screen was blank. Nothing. An empty uterus. Long story short, tears were cried (drugs never help any as it is) and slowly we went home. Confused. Lost. Hurt. I don't even know. The 3rd miscarriage. I have come a long way since then. After all it has been months. 5 months exactly actually in a few days. Still no success on making another little one. The "fertile Leah" is now.... feeling very infertile. This makes 7 months of trying to have a baby but zero luck. I, however, am feeling extremely blessed. I can say I actually have children. 3 to be exact. 3 little blessings.  Some can't even have kids. I am beyond blessed with family and friends. I have come to realize that things happen when they are supposed to. The LORD is really in control.

MORE TO COME! KEEP READING!!!!

Zahariah's 1st birthday

I looked back on my posts a realized that I never even posted about Zac's first birthday. So here goes. Mostly pictures. Few facts.
Words by 1st birthday: mamma, dadda, hi
Has been walking since 11 months old
Has the worlds cheesiest smile but do not be decieved. He will destroy everything in his path.
Weighed: 29 lbs

Halflife Crisis

You always hear about one having a mid life crisis. Say you live until you are 80. Um that makes your crisis at age 40. Maybe it's me but does someone really only go through a "mid life crisis" once in their lifetime? Seriously? Kudos to that individual.

As a PROUD "Mormon Mommy" I find myself having one of those crisis moments today. I'm only 24 years old ( almost 25) ugh writing that makes me realize how young I really am... and I have 3 beautiful babies. Oh and I've been married for 3 1/2 years. Putting it down on paper makes me realize how I prob shouldn't complain because really for 1. I'm still young. and  2. I still have a lot going for me. Reading my old posts about looking for a house sent me into a mode. Quarter life. crisis. mommy. mode.

Finding myself worrying about loans and money and the future and making a life for myself and while wining the race would be great, right now I'd just like to be a contender! I know what youre thinking- "what is she talking about?? making a life for herself?? I know I'm stirring up someone. Ok. Let me explain. I'm a stay at home mom 24/7. While I ABSOLUTELY love my "job" and my kids I couldn't really ask for more. doting husband who works hard to make sure I can stay  as well. However don't you every find yourself wondering what else??

Living an Auto pilot. I wanna spice up my life a little. Is it too much to ask? I would love to be known as someone else besides "mommy" i love being called mommy most days with their sweet little voices however...One of my biggest dreams since as long as I can remember was to be a photographer. I finally have a decent camera and I am getting better. Now while I could never make it a living given as there are so many more talented ladies out there and let's face it where I love you have photographers everywhere you look.All those mommy's who realized their dream a long time ago. Now it's a dog eat dog carreer. 

I would also LOVE a house. My own home. Where I can paint and decorate. Until then I will settle for this basement apartment house hole that we love in. It does us good. Family members live upstairs so there is always someone there for ya. Bittersweet topic it is for me since we were on that mortgage path once a blue moon ago but ended suddenly when no name got cold feet and decided to change careers. So now we start over. And the wait begins again. It's not keeping up with the Jones's by any means. 

MORE RANT TO COME.... tune in again.
Bring on the criticism. 

New Life

Last Monday I got to experience another incredible blessing Heavenly Father decided to give. Not my personal blessing but my brother's. 

On Monday morning I got a text from my brother to come up and help them. I text them and he asked if I could help time contractions. Um you dont have to ask me twice! Sure enough it didn't take me a few contractions to advise them to go to the hospital. Not going to lie, I was a little disappointed that the baby chose this day to come. The first day Alan has school and Monday s at work for him are always a drag. Jake and Stef headed to the hospital while I tried to figure out what the heck to do with my kids. A while later i got a text from Jake saying she went from up 2 cent in 2 hours. By that time I'm panicking because I was going to be in the waiting him waiting for the baby. So what to do with those babies???....Mother in law was at work so I got the help of my dear friend to watch my kids for a few hours. Bless her 7 month pregnant heart. (My MIL was to pick them up on her way home)
Thinking we had limited time I headed to the hospital as fast as I could. Stef's parents and sister were supposed to be in town but because baby decided to come a week early no one was prepared. They were also on their way here from California. When the time came and Stef's mom wasn't there she asked if I could be in the delivery room with them. Um of course!  Baby Joesph ended up not making his debut until almost 8 that evening. I prob wouldn't have bailed to the hospital so early but hindsight is 20/20. And babies pretty much have their own  schedule.
By the time he got here poor stef was exhausted. Pushing for an hour and a half. Lots of waiting. Lots of blood pressure scares. In the end it was an emotional amazing experience. We all shed tears. Tears of joys and will forever remember this.

Joseph Alejandro Rosenbaum 7 lb. 2 oz. 19 in.  7:47 p.m.

Being there makes me so grateful for all of our blessings. It also made me quite baby hungry. Having them live upstairs has helped me suppress those feelings by being able to hold him whenever I feel the need to have baby Joesph time.

Much needed update on our family and picture overload!

 Up until the other day I was completely oblivious that I had pretty much abandoned my little family blog. That was until my cute friend said that she hadn't blogged for a while 2 months! um...my last post was January 2011 and it was lacking....

Reader's Digest version of the past...oh what? 8 months? geez....One child at a time.

Baby Zachariah turned a year old this July. Really? Cannot believe my baby is already old! He's been more advanced than Xander was (I blame it on Xander's tubes). Zac crawled at about 4 1/2 months and walked at eleven. He's still getting the hang of it, but is getting better. He's our little sweetheart baby. Only cries when he's hungry...which by the looks of him you'd think he'd had enough to eat. 30 lbs at 9 months old, the Doctor told me i need to cut back on the bottles for the poor guy. Apparently he was off the charts. How could you say No to that sweet face when he wants his food? Luckily he lost a pound at his 1 year appointment and things are looking up! Gotta love those chunky babies!!

Xander turned 2 in May and has finally started talking. I was beginning to think his ear infections had done permanent damage, but alas he has! He's still talking gibberish too but for the most part he can communicate finally! Xander is one tough little guy. Surprisingly he hasn't tried to escape his crib so he still remains in his crib jail and will until we trust him enough to have a big boy bed. guessing some of you moms are shaking your head thinking I'm crazy lol, eh, to each his own...

My Drama Queen Kymber. She's almost 5 and let me tell you, it has not been a walk in the park. Combine her age with her going back and forth from her real dad's house and ours and you get a nightmare. Learning two different sets of rules would be hard and coming back to our house with two other kids when  you just got used to being the center of attention would be hard to swallow I'm sure. We are slowly dealing with it one day at a time and hope that it'll calm down. Other than that she's a sweet heart. Kymber starts official pre school in September and she is beyond excited for it. Mom may be too. It's bittersweet. Zachariah and Kymber now share a bedroom which was iffy at first but now we are in the swing of things and it's nice not to have him cry in the mornings because he has kymber to entertain him until I get up. (the entertainment doesn't last long, but just long enough that I can take my time most mornings...)

I know you are mostly interested in my chit lens, but here is an update on me and the Mister.

I have not really done much at all other than doing my mommy and wifey things and keeping up with the \housework and meals. raising kids, you know, piece of cake.  I have been working on my dream since high school with is photography. Now, while I'm not great at it, everyone has to start somewhere! Slowly, but surely,  I'll be amazing.

Alan. Alan is going back to school for nursing at the end of this month. He's doing great and is pumped for it! After having some medical scares he has recently lost about 32 lbs so far by dieting hardcore. I have had to change my whole way of cooking. Mostly I have had to just cook two meals or have him cook his own meal. Im soo proud of him!

Picture is before majority of the weight loss....he's looking great!

As of now I vow to keep up with our blog...

Xman

Typical X-man. Legs crossed and everything. Haircut compliments of mommy.

Nesting

For some reason I'm feeling like I'm nesting, you know, except for whole being pregnant and all part. I'm constantly organizing and cleaning and I CANNOT STOP! My husband thinks Im crazy, I find it therapeutic. Yes, I'm STILL painting our place. You know, my "UPLIFT" post way back in October? Sad right? Well Im at it again only this time it's Kymber's bedroom. Im obsessed. Come Springtime it will become both the kids rooms and I have been driving myself crazy trying to figure how to make it both gender friendly. Picture to come. I found the perfect theme. Stay tuned...if you're even interested. Im no Genevieve Gorder (my favorite HGTV star), however I do what I can and do what I love.

Mi Twentyforf

 Even though I woke up to this...

This year's birthday was by far the best I have had in a long time. 

Alan's parents are usually the ones who watch our kids when we go out, but this year we decided to just take the kids. Have a FAMILY birthday dinner. Not be selfish parents like we had originally planned. I chose Texas Roadhouse. Now if you haven't been there, you must go! AMAZING! I won't go into the boring details on what we ate but here are a few pics....

And then we looked outside...BLIZZARD!!!

Took us FOREVER to get home from Orem. By the end of it, the kids were all fussing. Alan dropped me and the kids off at home and then left to go get me some cake and icecream...My brother Jake and his wife Estef came down and sang and ate with us.

 And no...That's not it.

The next day. Yes, I did celebrate my birthday 2 days in a row.But this day was reserved for my friends who wanted to go to dinner and shopping with me. So I said Adios to Alan and said "I don't know when I'll be home." 7 wonderful words.To me. Not him.We decided on Chili and had a blast!

Madlyn and Niki has to leave early so they missed the picture. Left to right is Vanessa, Tesha, yours truely, and Harmony ( She's having a cute baby in about 10 weeks!!!) She thinks she's huge, we think she's not and just gorgeous!

I's not sure what a couple of 24-25 year (Ok Im the only 24 year old in the group and I'm the baby) old mom's are doing at the mall taking picture with mannequins, but we got yelled at by some girl that worked there that told us we couldn't take pictures int he store. What a buzz kill!

BEST BIRTHDAY EVER!