anniversary, birthday, mothers day=BEACH!

april and may are pretty busy months for us...i dont know why this is, it just seems like there are a lot of things that go on....jared and i celebrated our 8th wedding anniversary (it feels like 100, but whatever)haha...my birthday and mothers day were all clumped together...so what better way to spend it than at the BEACH! my favorite! jared has this idea every time we go to the beach that we need to leave at the buttcrack of dawn (like 4:30AM)...i am not ok with this. it always ends up being more like 6:30 which i agree to because its the beach! we go there about 8:30 to this:

AMAZING! the weather was perfect! no jellyfish...which is always a plus...since it was my birthday we decided to grill hamburgers and hot dogs...and i told you my mother in law goes all out...something i call mobley style...chips, dip, watermelon, strawberries and pound cake and whipped cream...here is a picture of the spread...

 

it was a really great day and an amazing way to spend my birthday...i will leave you with some other pictures....

gavin and jack

peyton and ky

henry (he loves his auntie nicole)

jack

jared and peyton (i love this picture)

little miss peyton

elly

 ky

 peyton and jack ~ he looks thrilled to take a picture with her!

gavin skim boarding

kylee ~ this picture cracks me up...that has got to be the tiniest tube...

elly

ky

the group...minus jack and henry...and gavins face.

thats trouble.

kids can be so mean...

i will start by saying this...it is no easy task to raise children...for me it seems even harder to raise twins...the guilt and pressure i feel sometimes to make sure that everything is the same for them and at the same time let them know they are different people and it is ok if they like different things is overwhelming...they are two completely different little humans...one is louder(i wont say which one), one is more sensitive, one is clumsier, one holds grudges longer...haha...i do my very best to try and keep things equal...i have struggled with the decision to put them in separate classes, and i know it is for the best, but it is hard...in kindergarten elly would always get one number higher on their fluency test...she was #1 ar whatever in her class...and ky was #2...dont get me wrong, i am not a bragger...i have never thought my kids were better than any other children, and i dont think one is better than the other...i am simply saying it has been hard for me to figure out what is best...so i split them up this year, and they are doing amazing without competing with one another...they get almost the exact same scores on their tests, and they each are excellent readers, and good at school in general...but last friday elly was not feeling well so i sent ky to school...i even packed her lunch so that she would be happy! everything was fine all day, and then she came home...she said to me (with tears in her eyes) that none of the other kids would play with her at PE because elly wasnt there....this broke my heart. i absolutely hate it that children at school, or even here for that matter will pick one to be nice to and leave the other out...or leave one out because the other one is missing....it has become a rule that if someone isnt nice to one of them then they cant play with that person for a while...this is my rule. i cant stand to see one of them so sad to be left out...now i know there is nothing i can do to make the kids at school treat them exactly the same...so i will just be here for them to cry to or complain to...maybe with enough love at home, it wont matter so much when a bratty little kid says i like you but not your sister...at least they have each other...

like i have said i like pictures...here are some pictures of the girls...another struggle...i always have to take 3 similar pictures...one of each of them and then one together...haha..

kylee

elly

some of the two of them.

i dont know why i cant get that to flip.

EASTER PICTURE FUN!!!

over the weekend, we colored eggs...had 2 egg hunts...went to church....ate an amazing lunch...had the best coconut cake ever...all in all a good weekend...here are some of the pictures from coloring eggs...dont mind the ratty hair and children who look like ragamuffins...sometimes this cant be helped...haha

fun times!

notice the intensity in which they are coloring eggs with...

YIKES!

all the eggs colored.

i was pretty proud of myself for getting everyone ready for church early enough so that i was able to take some pictures of the little people...(my goal was a picture of all of us, but i 100% failed at that one...i blame it on jared.) anyway, the little people were pretty excited, so i am happy with some of the pictures i was able to get....
jack is 100% a payne (note the disappearing eyes).

minus the beastie...im not sure why jacks chin is up so high...

they really do love eachother!

kylee and elly.

all the girls.

the pistolita...as jared calls her.

now on to the egg hunt...if you know my mother in law, you know that she goes all out for everything...egg hunts are no different....and i must say that living with/next to her for 8 years has resulted in me being the same way...so we had A TON of eggs for our egg hunt at the house...not 12 or 24...its get as many as you can fit in your bucket...now thats fun...here are all the little people who hunted... oh yea and peyton in her swimsuit that the easter bunny brought...because thats what you should hunt eggs in...a swimsuit...haha
haha, she loves it...and its one of the first times in a long time that she didnt have to wear a tutu.

all the little people ready to hunt.

abby and jack.

gavin...see all the eggs?!?!...thats how we do.

henry.

 elly and kylee...i dont know why she was wearing her hat in the incorrect fashion...haha.

esther. 

and peyton.

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let the craziness begin...

i like to read things that have pictures involved...so i am going to try and have pictures with my stories ~when appropriate~ haha...anyway this has been a pretty busy week...a trip to the atl to visit the temple~with all little people in tow~fun but exhausting. i do wish i had taken a picture of all of us in front of it, but like my previous post said...we are not taking too many complete family pictures together...but here is a picture of the temple minus the mobleys in front of it.

the next really fun thing this week....drum roll.....POTTY TRAINING PEYTON! which looks all fun in caps, but it would be much better if she didnt think she was losing part of her body when she went numero dos in the toilet...needless to say she successfully pees in the toilet every time, but after the first traumatic experience with number 2 (literally screaming like she was hurt) she has yet to make another attempt at that....(this is where my "pictures when appropriate" comment comes in...haha

 next is Easter...we know, and i think we have taught our children rather well that Easter is not about candy and prizes and the Easter bunny and all that, but it is about the Savior and His resurrection and the atonement, and all the things that are part of that...with that said and in mind...it is really fun for me to do the whole Easter bunny thing...i love it...and i love egg hunts...the first graders had one on thursday and it was fun...HOT, but fun...and poor Rome sacrificed herself and dressed up in the Easter bunny suit~not the most fun~the things we do for our kids!

and the last thing i will share with you is pure love. my dad sends my family the best chocolate ever at Christmas and Easter....

but really with the packaging?!?!...he has a paper shredder, and apparently they are fun...

 here is the real love.
...Geepaw loves his grandchildren...i love to tease my brother and say i am the favorite, but lets be honest~its because i have kids...and i might be biased, but i think they are pretty cute...and polite for the most part...when they are not being sarcastic...haha....anyway...i hope everyone has a Happy Easter, and if you live here, try not to die in the heat...its gonna be a hot one...

What have I gotten myslef into?!

So...way before this mystery baby decided it would join our family, i was thinking how little miss peyton just turned 2 and sadly there was only 1 picture of her in my living room (and in the picture she couldn't even hold her head up...so that should tell you how old it is)...now don't get me wrong...Monique has taken some really cute pictures of her and jack for that matter, but for some reason i never printed them out bigger than a 4x6 and those cute pictures reside on my refrigerator...i want pictures of them where they all match...or the background matches at least...
 Anyway i decided a while ago that we would get a family picture(not an easy thing by any means)...i will be up at 5 to curl hair and make sure everyone looks just right...i am quite picky when it comes to these things...but no matter what i do to them...it is really up to them whether they cooperate or not(i fear peyton will be the least cooperative)...but i thought this would be good...we actually have not one family picture with jared and i in it...sad i know...so yay...my guilt will be eased and peyton will join the rest of the little yahoos on the wall...(i really am going somewhere with this)...looking back at the picture that is on my wall now of the three:

i have realized that this was around the time...or not long before i was pregnant with peyton.....so we are getting our pictures taken tomorrow, and it may just be the last time...because i am almost positive that scheduling to get them taken resulted in me going to have puppies(as jack would say)...and im getting old...im not sure i can do this anymore! my warning to all the families that want pictures taken...YOU MIGHT END UP WITH PUPPIES! haha.

on a side note...here is the lasted addition to the mobleys:

Sidney Abraham Mobley! Congrats to Micah and Trelaina!