Nap Time Blues

Lately every day I look forward to nap time, but then once it arrives, I have to go through this argument in my head. I would like to take a nap because since we've been home Brenna hasn't been sleeping great and I am still feeding Mason in the night as well. So anyway, I often plan on taking a nap... until it rolls around.

As soon as the kids are down I start thinking of all the things that I should be doing instead of napping along with them. I should be cleaning, folding laundry, doing dishes, reading scriptures, starting my new quilt project, reading my book, making meal plans and grocery lists, organizing pictures, developing my talents, finding ways to make/save money.... the list could go on and on, but the main problem is, of coarse, that it never ends or gets done!

Then I try and convince myself that I need to rest and I can do the other stuff later and I won't sleep any better the next night, nor will I get to bed early in all likeliness...

So in conclusion, the days that I take a nap, those things generally don't ever get done, and the days that I skip the nap and do the other things, I am more tired and more excited for nap time the next day! It's a vicious cycle... I assume it's just a mom thing though! I keep thinking that in 10 years or something all my kids will be in school and I'll have all this time on my hands to do all this stuff, but I'm guessing that life then will have it's own challenges and distractions as well!

Torrential Downpour

Ok, so the storm started all of like 10 or 15 minutes ago, and it's amazing!!! Brenna and I just went out in the backyard for a few minutes to enjoy the storm and we are soaked! And she loved it!!! She keeps trying to get back out there, but it's raining so hard now and the wind is so strong, we are just watching gratefully from the window. This is the best part of Arizona in my opinion! And talk about a flash flood, I just opened our front door and the road in front of our house is already just a huge puddle! Pour baby pour!!! We love it!

Random Pictures

These are some fancy pajamas that my Aunt Marilyn got for Brenna. They're very pretty, and she loves them. She just twirls and twirls like a princess.

And this is how I found her sleeping the first night she wore them. Silly girl.

This is Brenna in undies for the first time. Back when we were all excited about potty training. Oh how times have changed.. haha She's actually doing better today, so here to hoping things get better!

This is Brenna playing with Mason this morning. She has a bandaid because she has a mosquito bite that she keeps scratching the scab off of... this is the only thing that will let it heal. That was the only bad part of visiting Canada... the mosquitoes were SOOOO bad this year!!

Here's Mason on the receiving end... mostly just getting his toys stolen.

My two little angels!

Royal Tyrell Dinosaur Museum

Today we went to the Dinosaur Museum. We had lots of fun!!

Then and Now

Here is something that I just caught Brenna doing the other day and it reminded me of a picture of my brother and I doing something sort of similar. I love it when poses match, although this one is a little bit of a stretch.