Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Will I survive?

I pray for many things each day, but the following three things come up every morning...
1. That no one will be seriously injured due to the fact that I am simply out numbered and can never be holding all three at once
2. That I will be patient.
3. That I will have time to teach each one of them the things they need to learn to be successful!
With that being said, here are a few stories from this week!
On Thursday's we go to the park with our friends! Every week something happens that makes me think I should never go to the park again. A few weeks ago, Camden and Emma were swinging together like normal, when all of sudden Emma did not want to be near Camden anymore. In a moment of anger, she attacked her sister like a wild animal! When Camden came to me, I thought she had smeared strawberries on her cheek, but it was actually blood. Her sister left the Mark of Zorro in her cheek, a giant Z! On this same day at the park, Camden tried to walk down the slide. She made it half way down, before gravity took over and she flipped off the side of the slide and landed on her back on the ground. Meanwhile, her sister Emma fell threw the crack between the bridge and the railing. It was not a good moment. I was torn, who do I run to first, Emma seemed ok, so I ran to Camden to check her limbs for a break. She didn't even cry, jumped up and ran to go down the slide again, frustrated that I am holding her back to check her! I then freed Emma from where she was pinned, only to send her on her way up the stairs again! I left the park completely exhausted, emotionally and physically!


Not two hours later...I had everyone in their cribs for a nap! I was finally going to eat lunch and relax! When all of a sudden I can hear Camden screaming upstairs. Now normally I would let her scream herself to sleep, but something about her scream made me want to check on her. When I come into their room I looked to her crib, only to realize that I need to look up. Camden was standing on top of the crib rails, one foot on her crib and one foot on Emma's crib, holding onto the wall like a rock climber. She was scared to death! Thank heavens! She has not tried this since. Good thing I checked on her, who knows how long she would stand their before deciding to jump.



This week, Camden climbed over the side rails into Emma's crib. I could hear giggling from their room so I didn't go in for awhile, when I finally decided to get them up, they were both smiling at me from Emma's crib. The most interesting part of Camden's climbing is that she never climbs to get out of her room and the crib, she is just trying to get to Emma. She climbed into Emma's crib again the next day, and Emma bit her, so I finally separated the cribs!



A few days later, I went upstairs to put Sophie in her crib for a nap. When I came back downstairs Camden and Emma were both on top of the kitchen table throwing Easter basket confetti on the ground.



Sophie eating food for the first time! Oh bananas!

Just a sampling of my life lately...will I survive this?

San Francisco Trip

My parents decided to take a trip to Monterrey and San Francisco, CA for Spring Break, and at the last minute we decided to go! It was quite the adventure, traveling with three babies, on a plane, to CA! We had some fun moments, and then a lot of not so fun moments. I will not be in a hurry to ride on an airplane with three babies again anytime soon! We visited the Monterrey Bay Aquarium, Muir Woods, San Francisco Fisherman's Wharf, took a ferry out around the bay, Union Square, and Ghiradelli Square. We ate lots of food, and made lots of funny memories!
Some funny moments include:
- Riding on the trolley car with two strollers
- Emma throwing up in the airport right before we board the plane
-Sleeping with Camden for two nights
- trying to entertain the twins in the airport when our flight was delayed an hour
-fitting three car seats in the back of a rental car! (Good job Rob!)
-Swimming at the hotel
-Rob pushing the handicap door bell on my parents hotel room, the button getting stuck and making a loud noise for an hour! He door bell ditched so nobody knew he rang the door! (Of course not telling anyone about it until breakfast the next morning!)
-China town swindling! I got two cute little Chinese baby dresses for the twins for an unbeatable price!
-the beautiful, peaceful, car rides when all three girls were sleeping!
Here a few of the many pictures from the trip!
Little Sophie!
Me, Camden, and Shelly, sitting on the ferry boat! Camden was running everywhere! That was probably the only time I smiled while on the boat!

Grandma and Grandpa Gough with the twins
Emma
We drove from Monterrey, CA to San Francisco, along the coast! We stopped and took pictures by this beautiful lighthouse! Camden and Sophie are sleeping in the car!
The girls exploring at the Aquarium
Emma trying to be patient for her dinner!
The whole family at the Monterrey Bay Aquarium!

Sophie and Amanda- Ghiradelli Square

On the plane to Monterrey! So happy to finally be going! Camden would not sit still!

Easter 2009

Emma! So sweet!
We were all posing for a cute family picture together, when the camera snapped I am the only one looking! Typical!

Camden counting her eggs!(right after she stole some of Emma's)



We had a very calm and beautiful Easter! The girls decorated Easter eggs on Saturday in preparation for a big egg hunt on Sunday after lunch. They started in the house with plastic eggs and then moved onto the real dyed eggs outside! I could not believe how much they enjoyed looking for eggs! The joy on their faces when they found a new egg was worth the pain of washing the dye off their hands from Saturday's festivities. They were darling in their Easter outfits and were almost good in church. My mom prepared a beautiful meal and we all had a great day!

Amanda & Rob Finlinson

Amanda & Rob Finlinson

Our Story...

Rob and I met in November of 2002 in the financial services office at BYU. After a very akward introduction, which involved me introducing myself in the third person, Rob called and asked me out. After a pretty amazing first date (its a long story-some other time), I confidently told Rob "that once he dated me he would never want to date anyone else." I really had no idea at that point that it was going to work out so well. We dated for the next five months and then one beautiful night on a bridge at Sundance resort, Rob and I got engaged. We were married four months later on August 16, 2003 in the Las Vegas, NV temple. And we have been living happily ever after since...