My Friends

" When you drop your soda on the floor in the middle of the mall, a friend will not only help you clean it up but will offer to share hers or get you another one.
When you say or do something stupid, a friend will say it wasn't as dumb as some of the things he's said or done himself...whether its true or not.
When you trip and fall, friend wont judge you or remark about how you should watch where you step. She'll just help you back to your feet, no questions asked."
-Martha Bolton
The "official" friends Book

So I was glancing through this little book and loved all these little quotes. I really liked this one cause it reminds me of all the wonderful friends I have had in my life and the friend I would like to be. Some I have lost contact with but it doesn't mean I don't still appreciate the time we had. I really only remember mainly 2 BFF's while growing up. We had a blast playing dolls and dress up and anything else we could think of (clubs). I had awesome friends through out high school who seriously are the only reason I like to think back to those years. I love that i was able to take a couple of them with me in my next chapter of life... living on my own in Utah! Again, fun times and memories. My short single life in Cali after Utah made me a friends that I still have now. She and I had so much in common it was crazy... we were saying I love you after the first date and didn't even care what people thought! Then I met my bestest friend ever. He gets enough praise so I will move on. He did bring some new friends (family) that really make me feel like I am cared for. Then came Utah again. Man we had a lot of amazing friends. We started out with one couple and didn't see any reason to hangout with anyone else. They are awesome people and we could always count on them. I loved that I could be my crazy self and still be invited to the next Sunday dinner. We then learned that having one best friend couple didn't mean we couldn't have more. We had some friends that had a little boy the same age as our girl and decided why not bring a new friendship for ourselves and our daughter. We made great friends right away and felt as if we had been friends forever. We even got a set of wonderful Utah grandparents for Kylee. Amazing families in Utah. Then we did a hard thing and had to leave those awesome friends in Utah to start a life in Arizona. I was nervous I would be alone in my apartment never knowing anyone but I was wrong. We made better friends with past friends. They got us through our transition to Arizona. They showed us the ropes which I am extremely grateful for. Don't know if we would have fallen in love with AZ as soon as we did if it wasn't for them. Then we moved to our house and got in a amazing ward with so many possibilities of friends. Our family already has made friends with a family that we pray we will never lose. I love friends I can admire and learn from but they don't know I do... might creep them out :) Mike has introduced us to old mission friends and were not only able to get employment but a whole group of friends. The WHOLE family is awesome (there is a lot of them). I love having friends from my childhood just 45 min away. They are my family away from family! Speaking of family, how blessed am I to have 4 best friends and a daddy always there from beginning to end. Well, the point of this post was just to thank the person that has given me all these wonderful people in my life. To the friends that read my blog, a big thank you to you for putting up with me as a spastic child and now with my whole crazy family. You guys have excepted me for who I am ... little messy, unorganized, indecisive, a dork... you know! I love you all. If you ever need me please call me anytime. til then ...adios!

F to the H to the E

This last Monday Mike had a day off so we decided to have a fun Family Home Evening with the Orvin Bunch! As always tons-o-fun. We had a added bonus ... Paigee (my sister) was here to enjoy the night. So we started the night with Mike's Philly Cheese Steak Sandwiches. One word AMAZING... no better than that... PHENOMENAL... better than that ... I cant even think of a word. If you have had the Philly's at Italian Place in Utah then you know what a good Philly taste like... well Mike's is better than that. Ask the Orvin's if you think I am bias. Anyways, we then went to the water and ice for some shave ice and ice cream. Yummy! Next we headed to the Mesa Visitors Center to see the Reflections of Christ exhibit ( http://www.reflectionsofchrist.org/ ) It was a beautiful display. Can't wait until they are for sale. We then went on the temple grounds and attempted to take some pictures. These are the ones that turned out semi normal.

The Family

Our Super Bad Priesthood Holders

The group ... minus Paige who was taking the picture.

My baby is 6 Months!

So Payton is 6 months now and getting more and more fun each day. I am horrible and forgot to post her rolling over milestone but she started doing that around the end of Feb. She got real good around the middle of March. Now she is sitting up .... pretty good but not perfect. She has great posture. Her Doctors appointment isn't until the 2nd of May so we wont know until then how big she is. She loves food. She always wants whatever you are putting in your mouth. She is very handsy so you cant let her get too close or she will snatch it right up. She loves to talk lately and our favorite (not really) is her new high, really high, pitch scream. She loves to hear herself. Her are some cute pics of her sitting up... excuse the runny nose.

Here is Payton watching Baby Einstein. She loved it for about 20 mins.

Feeding the Ducks

So we went to the park with the Orvin's to go feed the ducks and we had tons of fun. There were like 15 ducklings. So so cute! We also got to see the boy ducks trying to show off to the ladies and wrestle in the water. Kennedy was looking oh so cute with her sun glasses so Payton had to try them on. Here are pics of the cute girls and the mommies and their kiddlings...

Then of course there is the bestest friends of all of us... Grant and Kylee! Kylee always has fun with her boy that is a friend.

Shabby Apple

I am hosting a Shabby Apple party at my house on May 1st at 7:00pm. This is a clothing line that makes modest dresses. All are invited! I know most people that read my blog are not in Arizona but if you are let me know. For those of you that aren't feel free to check out http://www.shabbyapple.com/ and place an order at the party cause I think that will get you free shipping. I will let you know on that. If you are in AZ and plan on coming check out the site and let me know if there is a specific style and size you want at the party and I will request it, but do so by April 19th. I know they are a bit pricey but for a modest dress that doesn't require a undershirt... I think they are totally worth it. Email me if you have questions... hdipadova@msn.com.

Update: You get free shipping through my party!!

Big Girl in a Highchair

So I finally got the highchair out. It so funny cause with Kylee I got the chair the first thought of feeding her but with Payton I waited til I was killing my back leaning over the bouncer trying to feed her. It is so true about how you are anxious to do things with your first and then your second, third, forth, so on you just wait til it i convenient for you. poor neglected kids! Well, here are some pics of Payton in her chair. She is so funny cause she will usually take a bite of food and then either lean to the front or side and bite the chair then come back to you for more food. She is such a fun girl. We are happy to have her!

What's Poppin.. or not!

SO Kylee fell out of bed on Monday morning, March 31st, and hurt her arm. I noticed she favored it for the next couple days but thought it might go away. Wed Mike and I took her to the Dr.s and they said it looked like her elbow was dislocated which is very common for her age group. The Dr. tried to pop it back into place but couldn't which was not common. He sent her home with a sling and said he was going to submit her xrays to radiology to see if they could see a fracture that he couldn't. He called us later that day and said there is no fracture and to bring her in the next day so he could try to pop it back again. Well we went and still no pop. He said just to watch it and see how it goes cause it could be a sprain and that will just get better with time. Here we are day 12 and she is a lot better but still can bend it or straighten it all the way. I am going to get through this weekend and them if she still cant have full range I will have to take her to an Orthopedic Dr. We shall see!

A Weekend in the Closet!!

So this last weekend I got a migraine and thought I was seriously going to have a brain aneurysm. It was pretty bad and the thing is if you haven't had a migraine then you probably are just thinking back to what your last headache felt like and calling me a huge wuss. Well that isn't so... I promise. Here is how the weekend went. Day 1: I woke up Friday morning with it and grabbed the quilt and pillow and went into the closet where the least amount of light is. Mike needed to go to work so he took care of the girls as long as he could. I think I lasted like 30 minutes before calling Mike crying. A co-workers wife, Julie, came over and watched the girls for me the WHOLE day. Huge help... huge thank you to her! So I was able to come out when it got dark and felt well just long enough to get the girls bathed and in bed and for some other friends, Quinton and Kara, to come by so Mike and Quinton could give me a blessing. Thank you to them as well! I lasted about 20 minutes before having to go back to bed. The migraine came back and I thought I was dying again. Day 2: Oh yeah, so I was supposed to drive to Cali today with Jessica and Nicki Christensen to go to Disneyland. Got my phone and had some missed calls, voicemail, and texts from their family letting me Mac wanted to go too. I was so sad cause it would have been so fun and now I had to ruin it. SO I called Barbara, mom Christensen, to let her know what was going on and that i couldnt go. Being the wonderful woman she is she helped me to realize I needed to find a Dr. and I needed help that day so Mike could take me to the Dr's and go to work. She and Mike (her Mike) came down from Glendale and she took over the girls so Mike could take care of me. My Mike asked if I wanted to go to a Dr and I said I just wanted to be put to sleep. So we went to the urgent care and they gave me a shot in the butt of dopamine and anti nausea meds and then told us if it doesn't go away I need to go to the ER for a CT. On we went with two bottles of meds. We got home and Mike went to work and Barb and her Mike continued to take care of the girls wonderfully. I hardly ever heard them and was able to sleep. My Mike got home and took over and the Christensen's were able to go home to and empty house cause their kids went to Disneyland without us! Thanks to Mike and Barb for their help. Dont know what we would have done without them. Day 3: Mike took care of EVERYTHING! He cleaned the house, fed the girls, took amazing care of me... seriously I couldn't ask for more which means a lot cause when ever I get sick I want my mom. Mike took care of me as good as my mom.... hopefully he knows what a huge complement that is. So I ended Sunday feeling better. By Monday I was able to function. I got lightheaded a lot but I could take care of my girls.

Moral of this huge long story... Friends are important, Families (Christensen's) are life savers, and an amazing husband is hard to come by so if you got one keep him!! I will always look back at what Mike did for me this weekend and know how much he really loves me. I am so dang lucky!

Crazy Flower

So our friends little boy Carter was playing outside the other day and he came in with this cool flower. It is from a vine that is hanging over the wall into our backyard. I went out that day and didn't see anymore so just thought that was it. I went out again a couple days later and there were a bunch. The longer I looked at them the creepier they looked to me. If a kid goes missing in my backyard I am blaming it on these flowers. They are really cool cause the petals alternate purple and white and then they have these dark purple spiky centers. The very middle is what creeps me out. Anyways... here are some pics!

Hoppy Late Easter

I know I am late getting this out but at least it doesn't take a couple of months like some bloggers I know... there are a lot of you! We had a great Easter this year. Kylee loved looking for eggs and she got to do it 3 times. Here is our family picture taken with the timer on the camera. I run fast!!

Kylee loves her sister and Payton loves her more... she has a funny way of showing it though!
So Kylee gets to pick out her pajammies cause I pick out her regular clothes. Of course she has to pick out the Christmas ones!!
Payton watching Kylee at the Easter egg hunt at the park!
Sisters Playing on the floor while Daddy took some pics!
I love my girls and there dad. Mike is the best dad ever and he adores them as much as they do him!!
I am the luckiest girl I know.

Hope you all had a wonderful day!

Cute Crazy Cousins

Grandma got these three cousins matching dresses for them to wear to church while they were here in Arizona. Kylee loved being matching with Haley and Claire bear. They had the same bows and shoes too. Kylee had a lot of fun playing with them despite the fact she was getting a double ear infection and she is almost three and horrible. Hopefully Hales and Crair had enough fun in AZ and with Kylee that they can try to convince their mom to move here!! :) Here are a couple more cute pics of them before church being silly.

Haley and Kylee being monkey's!

Cute Claire giving sissy kisses.

Grandpa & Grandma

This weekend we had some of my family here visiting. Payton had a lot of fun with Grandma and Grandpa. She liked watching TV with Papa and when he would lift her in the air. Grandma would talk to her and give her kisses and she would just smile. Here are a few cute pictures with them

Family Pics

As you can see from the new family pic at the top of my page we took some pics. So apparently as kids get older they get less photogenic. We had a wonderful photographer, Tiffany, and she will attest to the fact that Kylee was not haven it. She was in no mood to take any pics. We took what we could get though. Here are a few of my favorites... mostly kind of candid. Big huge thank you to Tiff for taking them!!

Payton's Eating Cereal!

Annoying Commercials

So you know the lame commercial people that always get stuck in your head... Examples: Carrot Top, Totally Awesome Computer Guy, any attorney commercial, and my favorite "it will hurt if I swallow, it will hurt if I swallow, It will hurt if I... MOMMY" little girl. Well apparently Kylee was listening to Paigee, Jess and Nicki Christensen when they were over and saying she should be in commercials cause this morning she was auditioning in my bathroom mirror saying " IT'S MY MONEY AND I NEED IT NOW!" Seriously, of all things to pick up on in all of the many commercials. Crazy kid! Here is her audition still shot....

Lawn Body Surfing

We went to our good friends the Orvin's yesterday for a little photo shoot. Payton didn't like the feel of the grass on her skin so she would keep her arms and legs up like she is swimming. Payton is a very serious baby so it was nearly impossible to get a good smiley picture but Tiffany did a good job getting some cute pics anyways. Here are a few more of Payton and one of her cute friend Kennedy...

Thanks to Tiffany, Grant, and Kennedy for a fun time... as always!