goodbye weekend

you came and went so fast.. yet we conquered so much this weekend and i am happy to say the house is clean, the laundry is done, the jeep is spick and span, the girls are in bed & the candles are goin..

yeaahhh...... this is my favorite.. we took a trip to the aquatic center this weekend and i must say i can be a kid... going down the water slide with kambria gives me almost as much joy as she has... she runs up those stairs so fast yelling "C'mon mom, hurry up!!" cause she cant wait to take another ride and after awhile, i cant wait either. we took lake(who is my step brother) along with us, had milkshakes at sonic afterwards, rented movies and came home and had our usual family night... we try to have family night once a week.. its one of kambrias favorites nights.. we order pizza, make beds on the living room floor, stay up late and watch movies all together :) i cant think of anything better to do.. sure i love to be around other people but being with them is when i am most happy..
then we headed to church today, went over to my moms house for tacos and swimming and came home and went to work! 8pm and i must say i am ready for monday to roll around and ready to conquer it as well..so bring it!!
I am starting my new job tomorrow and i am very excited about it..
i also filled out a volunteer form at the church to work in the nursery and do some photography ..yeahh i am not a professional but it is something i have grown to love so i thought i could get more practice that way too.. we shall see what happens..

Im not perfect..nor do i live a fancy life, drive an expensive car, have a wardrobe full of clothes and go on expensive vacations BUT perfection will never be done, a fancy life is mainly for show, cars are just a mean of transportation, clothes are just something to put on in the morning, and non-expensive vacations can be just as loving, family building, and glorious even from your living room floor...


i wouldnt trade my life for anything else.... 
i like it just the way it is; scratches and all :)

life

Life is happening right here, right now.... Life is also happening everywhere, right now.

sometimes i just sit down and think to myself "how the heck do they do it?" how do moms get ready when their 7 month old baby decides to give them 4 hours of sleep MAX at night, right before a full day of work... then gets up right when its time to shower and get ready...AND doesnt want her to shower OR get ready.. imagine that? :) haha... then get all supplies for girls' and yourself off and out the door in time?...AND have clean clothes, clean house...clean cars, whatever.... I DONT UNDERSTAND!! and i am determined to do it all and to accomplish it all... to go to bed at night with a clean house and fresh laundry sounds simply amazing to me... to go to work looking like i am prepared and ready for the day also sounds simply amazing to me.. to spend time with my girls and love on them as much as possible sounds simply amazing... to get more than 4 hours of sleep also sounds simply amazing to me.. but its all apart of LIFE and i am learning to roll with the punches and take what i can get.. ;) so here i am.'taking it all in' as i sit on my couch in our new house :) which is lovely and i cant really complain right now..

SOOOO much has been going on, i havent posted in a trillion years....and last i checked i wasnt grey yet, so dont get to thinkin that! :) i am not even sure where to begin...thats why i started out with life.. cause i am just living my life and of course having a very busy life!

Kambria is LOVING kindergarten now... we were at walmart the other day, getting supplies to paint with and she saw some erasers that she wanted to get her teacher because the ones her teacher had were broken... so of course i said okay, she got home, wrapped them up and put her name on it..'kambria' NOT Mrs.Witt and took it to school the next day.. she is so loving and always thinking of others! that A girl!!

My JOB search has come to an END... finally i found a job and i believe its going to be a perfect fit! i will be working for a place called PAC here in farmington, its a staffing agency and i will be doing admin work, which i am pumped for... although it breaks my heart leaving berlyn right now... BUT we need to feed our family and it isnt in our budget for me to be a stay at home mommy anymore.. :( i have enjoyed every moment of the last 6.5 months i had with berlyn (and kambria before kindergarten) at home and those memories will never fade away...

I have something to work for ... i will go to work everyday knowing i am helping make a better life for my girls and that gets me pumped.. 

so with that sad, berlyn started at the same academy kambria goes to.. Emmanuel Baptist...

we had a rough couple days with her but i think after meetings there and some more tweaks worked out we are on our path to.......happiness! :) Oh happy day!! I start my new job on monday and have been subbing this week at one of the highschool's here.... and thats all im gonna say about that..

me and me being a sub for HS students...dont mix... :)

every chance we have gotten off together we have made the most of it... kambria has been learning about indians in school and is so interested in them and loves learning about them, so we went out to the aztec ruins, which is bascially old pueblo buildings and lots of neat stuff to walk around and look at...

Kambria became a Jr Forest Ranger by doing some stuff around the park while we were there and completing a worksheet at the end plus watching a video... she has a badge and a certificate to prove it and is so proud of herself...i love seeing her excel in so much and i love seeing her have a strong interest in learning... we are wanting to go to mesa verde next, which is a bigger place ( like the one above ) with more stuff to look at.... i think were ready! PLUS kambria can do more forest ranger stuff there...which she loves.

she also loves to be the lunch prayer at school ( so darn cute )

 we also had a family project..

we thought we all..and by we all i mean kambria, berlyn, josh and i... and yes kambria and berlyn got to paint and color and do whatever they wanted... we made a family canvas that hangs in our living room and i cannot get enough of it..

 

no matter how anal i am sometimes about the house being clean, having things hung in the rights spot and trying to coordinate colors... this is an exception... and is now my favorite thing in our living room ( besides the couches, they are very useful after a long day..although sometimes my butt falls asleep ) anyways.. THERE IT IS!! <3

and i will leave it at that for tonight..

Family is God's greatest masterpiece...

now go paint yours :)

Kindergarten

Did i really just type that up there?.....Kindergarten. 
Wow, it still is amazing to me that my first born BABY girl is in kindergarten. When I say the word, type the word, hear the word....it brings tears to my eyes. I was uploading pictures of her first few days at school onto facebook and tears were just rolling down my face and wouldnt stop. Ive had the pure joy of having Kambria home with me for the past 7 months and even then before that she barely went to daycare and every chance I got I would take her RIGHT before I had to go to work and even leave work early to go pick her up..I had that freedom of getting her whenever cause it wasnt technically 'school'.
 Her first day of kindergarten was Monday August 16h. Oh were there SO many times last week i wanted to just go scoop her up and pick her up early.... ditch day is what i like to call it. My mom let us have those days starting in about 7th grade so maybe ill start it in kindergarten.... KIDDING people.... hold onto your panties. My kid will stay in school and will learn it all :) start to finish.
For about a year now i have been thinking about kambria going into kindergarten, weve talked about it so many times and i THOUGHT i had myself all ready for her to go.....nnooopppeee.....

The night before her first day, josh & i blew up balloons, set out her flowers, got her card and made her a little goodie bag, along with her packed lunch with an awesome heart shaped peanut butter and jelly sandwich. That sleepy face is so dang cute, who couldnt get happy when they see that?

 We had her clothes all laid out for her first day, she picked her blue dress. :)

and i must say, kambria rocks her uniforms... she looks better than a fresh baked apple pie with a scoop of homemade vanilla icecream on it, drizzled with caramel sauce.. mmmm and doesnt that sound tasty??
kambria looks tassttyyy in those uniforms, i could squeeze her and gobble her up.

 so back to us having talks about her going to kindergarten and being a big girl... she knows kindergarten means the start of her life, growing up, learning so much more, getting new friends, having homework, being responsible and dont get me wrong she is so pumped to grow up and do all of that, she is also sad she has to leave me all day...which both break my heart... #1 that she is growing up so quickly right before my eyes and i cant stop her and #2 that she just wants to hang with me all day...
although i make it very apparent to kambria that i am the mother she is also my best buddy... i didnt sugarcoat anything to her about being sad and i never will... i want her to know feelings are okay, not to hide them, to always express herself. and if expressing myself means on the first day, heck even the first week of her going to kindergarten i cry like a baby, then so be it. this is a journey we will get through together.

i explained to her why i was sad, that she was growing up and how different she is now than how she was when she was a little baby, who sat in my lap while i rocked her to sleep, patted her back while i waited for her to burp, crawled into my arms and pinched my face like crazy,  held hands with while she took her first steps...
and now she takes her first steps into her new big girl life

when i saw her walking up those steps my heart melted...she was miss independent. 5 and a half years ago this baby made her first appearance into the world...she melted my heart then and she melts my heart now.

i didnt start crying until i walked her over to her cubbie, where her lunchbox and backpack sat with her name on top... i lost it. i couldnt even talk or realize what was going on around me, it was such a blurr...i forgot what we were there for... i thought to myself "pull it together bristol, pull it together.." because kambria didnt even know i was crying, until her big watery eyes looked up at me.. we both felt that rush of sadness at the same time. eventually i did pull it together, we pulled it together. :)

I dont care if josh, berlyn and i were the only ones in that class that werent the teachers or the students..lemme say, we fit in perfectly now.

and by the 3rd day there were happy faces all around..

after berlyn and i dropped kambria off and hung out for a little bit, she wanted us to come back for p.e and to spend more time with her at school... do you think i said no?... noo way!!
above is berlyn and i waiting in the car for big sissy to come to p.e!!

i love my kindergartner, whether she is 1 years old or 5 or 50, she will always be my baby and her little wrinkled butt will still fit right into my lap :)

BUSY!!

I haven't had ANY time to do anything.... and when I mean ANY time, i quickly hurried to the nail salon today, with sweet potatos and carrots all over my shorts, paint and blue on my shirt and some spit up on my sweater.... yeahh.... life is that good :)
 havent had a break to do anything but im loving every minute of it!!
this is a post, to let you know a great big fat post will soon follow...


in the mean time, ill leave you with some pictures...
we've been  having TOO much fun.

our days have been filled with;
trips to the ice cream shop, library, wedding receptions, big bounce, park bbq's and house gathering :)

the last week before school started was awesome....



more to come ;)