May is so crazy for us!

So May is upon us and we are nuts! Ray is finishing up with his teaching, Alex is ending Preschool, Ariana turns 4 on Sunday (Mothers Day) and I am just nuts. lol.

Re-cap of what's gone on lately. Yesterday I got up at 5:30 to get Alex registered for Kindergarten. Yes, 5:30 and the office didn't open until 8 am. Why so early? See, to get morning Kindergarten you have to get there *early*. I was there at 6:15 and the 11th person in line (aka I get not only morning but got to ask for a specific teacher and have a good chance of getting her because I was the *first* one with completed paperwork!) I had fun waiting, met a nice gentleman who was registering his little girl and we laughed the whole time. It's so nice to be an adult now and not be as shy as I was as a kid, I can talk to complete strangers! We were both enrolling our kids in the same class (hopefully... we both wanted the same teacher I mean). He's only a few years away from retiring from the police force... no worries! ;)

Anyways, after that we took the kids to Disneyland for Ariana's birthday! We had a total blast but the kids ended up having to walk all over (we only brought one stroller). Big mistake, yikes! I am *so* sore today from carrying/piggy backing them all over the park. Ouch! It was fun, hot but not so many people there and we got to do everything she wanted to.

Alex is doing good, not potty trained still but it's bowel movements that are holding him back (I know, TMI). We're going to work hard on that this summer and his IEP meeting is the end of this month so we can let the school know this may not be done by Fall. (His Preschool teacher can't get him to do it, she was so determined and she can't either so I at least have that! lol).

Ariana is 4 on Sunday, a Mother's Day baby, and is angry that she won't be 5. She's taller than Alex and has matured a lot lately, she thinks she needs to be 5 also. Sorry sweetie, maybe next year. lol. She's doing great, I'll post another post about her soon for her birthday.

Camden is so stinking tall by the way. He's 20 months and just enormously tall. He is so allergic to things (poor guy, it's making him miserable with all the flowers) but he doesn't complain. What a sweetie. Smart as can be and such a love bug.

Ray is done with teaching for the year soon and is safe in his job, thank goodness. He's working hard on Master Classes at Cal State and enjoys that, those big Math classes go over my head but he's definitely enjoying them. Thank goodness! lol.

I am doing, well, doing. lol. I am designing like crazy but I think that's to give me a break from my kids, I don't seem to get away from them enough anymore. Not that I don't want to be around them but when *weeks* pass by and I haven't had two seconds away from them it gets really challenging.

I am dealing with some issues with that and have to learn how to ask for, and more importantly *accept* help from others.

In other news my baby brother Daniel is going to Chile on his mission. This is such wonderful news! We go to the temple with him soon and I can't wait... I've waited for this for years. All of us will get to be in the temple *TOGETHER* This is a huge blessing to see all of my siblings in the temple together with my parents, definitely will need a box of tissues for this one! lol. Michael is going on up to BYU Utah as a Junior to work on his schooling (he wants to do Medical). Catherine is living with my parents now and is going to go back to school for nursing, definitely a smart choice for her and she loves it. (She works as a massage therapist at the moment, something to get her by but not something she can keep up with... being on call all the time is rough!)

So that's what is going on with them... my parents are good too if anyone wondered. lol. (Mom reads my blog).

We love you all and hope you are doing well.