Team Phil

Everywhere I go I see T-shirts, jewelry, and pretty much everything else asking me if I am Team Jacob, or Team Edward. Although I have ready the Twilight series and it was ok (very embarrassed to admit that on my blog) I didn't consider myself team anyone.

Then, I watched a show called Modern Family. I now consider myself part of Team Phil. He is the funniest character on TV right now-even beating out Michael Scott in my opinion.

I don't watch many TV shows but this one is truly funny! I am just posting this today to let you all know that you should give it a try. It's the season premier tonight so don't miss it!

Silly Madi

I just have to write tonight about Madi. She is so much fun. She came in dressed like this for school on Friday....

Too excited to wait for Halloween to wear her new cowgirl hat. She stood in the mirror for a few minutes, played with her hair, and said over and over again how cute she looked! How can I argue with her? She really IS cute! (I didn't really let her wear it to school).

*Madi wrote this in her journal*

This picture has a story. A funny story. In the moment, however, it was not funny at all.

I was sitting at the computer desk in our office with the blinds open. All of the sudden I look up and there is a strange man looking around in my garden. I am looking at this guy, trying to figure out if I know him or not. After a few seconds, I am sure that I do not know him. Madi is in the backyard playing so I tell Saige to go tell her to get inside RIGHT NOW. I am at the front door trying to see if this guy has a car. He does-a red jeep parked in my driveway. I am trying to get the license plate number while listening to Madi tell Saige (in a very sassy voice), "I don't have to come inside, your not the boss of me" and on and on and on.

Well, the guy is now pulling away and I am yelling at Madi and explaining the situation to her. Then I immediately call Brett to tell him about what is happening. He says, "Oh, ya. Forgot to tell you about that".

Apparently, it was our friend's dad who was coming by to pick up some stuff that Brett had borrowed from him. Brett thought I would have already left to take the girls to violin lessons so he didn't worry about telling me.

I'm so glad that it was someone who was supposed to be here. Madi's words make me laugh out loud every time I read them!

Two Weeks Down

We made it through the first two weeks of school and it wasn't easy!

Friday was the first day that Saige didn't cry when I dropped her off. At least we are making progress, right?! I think part of the reason was that they got to swim on Friday. Can you imagine trying to keep track of 90 kindergarteners in a swimming pool-all at once? Stresses me out just thinking about it. I am so glad they are both good swimmers.

I already hate that they are in school, learning things from other kids. These are the funny things and problems that we have had already:

*We had to talk to the teacher already because a boy in Saige's class was kissing Madi in the swimming pool (on the cheek-thank heavens). Seriously. Already? They are in Kindergarten for Heaven's sake! The problem is that this is the same boy that has been SO good to Saige. He is so cute with her-especially when she is sad when I drop her off in the mornings.

*We were a bit worried that Madi wouldn't stick up for her sister and possible ignore her on the playground and lunch. Well, I heard them talking the other day and this was the conversation:

S "I got in trouble in class today"

M "What did you do?"

S "Nothing! I didn't do anything wrong and my teacher still got mad at me!"

M "Are you mad at her?"

S "No. Not really."

M "WELL I AM"!!!

I guess we don't have to worry.

*Madi really wanted to each school lunch on pizza day. So, I put some money on her account so that she could do so. She told me a few days later that she really liked eating school lunch. When I asked why, she said, "I like it because my mom wasn't there telling me what I had to eat"! OUCH

*Madi said, "Mom, Drew in my class says that Justin BEAVER is boring!" I asked her who she thought Justin Bieber was. She said, "I think he is a rock star or something"

I am truly proud that she doesn't know for sure!

Best Sister Ever

I was just cleaning out my purse and found this note. A few weeks ago, we got a motel room in Provo and my mom, Stef, Mia, Madi, Saige, and I all went shopping. We had SO much fun. When we were packing up I found this note in the motel room (hence the Marriott paper!) and had to save it.
It has been so hard on all of us to have to split them up for school because they really are best friends. However, seeing how well Saige is doing (sarcasm intended) just proves to me that we are doing the right thing. Having twins sure makes things complicated sometimes but we wouldn't change it for the world. We love them so much!

Who knew?

Why didn't anyone tell me that day two would be worse?

I couldn't get Saige to stop crying today when I dropped them off at school. And last night she broke my heart when I asked her why she was scared and her response was, "YOU JUST LEFT US THERE"!

Well, today when I 'just left them there' Saige wasn't the only one crying. After doing so well yesterday, I can't stop crying today.

Any advice on what I can do to help her? She is SO sad and I feel like the most horrible mother in all the world.

Sad day for me :( First day of kindergarten

Where has the time gone? Seriously.

I hate it.

Today was so hard, but I did not cry (yet). It was heartbreaking. Saige looked like she was going to throw up when I left the classroom but neither of them cried. There was one boy in Saige's class that was FREAKING out! I felt so bad for his mom (and his teacher)!

I feel like an empty nester:(

HAWAII

WARNING: LOTS OF PICTURES

Hawaii was AMAZING! Having the girls there made it SO much fun. They were excited about everything. We went snorkeling and they did pretty well-all of those lessons in the pool (that they did not love) really paid off! We had a very lazy vacation-laid by the beach and pool a lot. The girls' favorite thing that we did was the Luau. We were all very sad to have to come home.

On the airplane-I bet Madi asked a million questions. "What is this button for? How much longer? Can you turn my light on? When do they bring us snacks?" On the way back I couldn't get her to go to sleep because she was afraid she was going to miss the snack! She is her mother's daughter!!

Mia did NOT love her first encounter with the sand

Then she decided to taste it!

Which made her turn into a mermaid!...


Just like her mom :)

Mia just kept saying, "No No No No No No"

She didn't like Grandma's snorkel mask!

Lunch at "California Pizza Chicken" (inside joke) in Kailua

Luau Fun

Madi and Saige with "The Chief"

Grandpa wearing Grandma's pool hat. Good thing he doesn't ever look at this blog-he would kill me for putting this on here!!

Pali Lookout

Matsumoto's

We LOVE Matsumoto's. My favorite is Melona with Ice Cream, of course!

Laie Temple

One of the only requests for the trip that my girls had was that they wanted to drink coconut milk! It was nasty but they said they liked it and drank the whole thing.

Swinging with Grandpa at the Hotel

Ready for Church. We ended up in a ward where they spoke Samoan. We didn't understand a thing they said but it was fun.

A turtle (or a Sumo wrestler?)

Crab

I had to get on my dad's shoulders to take these pictures. They made it SO big!

My favorite picture from the whole trip.