A tender loving Father to be

You sweet readers are going to get awfully sick of my posts I have a feeling:) Luckily you get to choose to read this mushy love stuff! Let this be your warning. I just have to share the tender things this sweet husband of mine says. You all remember the quote I posted on facebook when he said, "if you wake up in the middle of the night and I'm not next to you, it means I'm in the kitchen staring at the ultrasound pictures on the fridge" Today he has been at the station for two days and he hates being away from us, so he always tells me to "tell my babies I love them!" or "thank you for taking such good care of my babies" Today he text me and says " I just want them to hurry up and get here already! I have never met them, but I already miss them like crazy!!!" Is it even possible? Yes because I feel the exact same way. I'm in no hurry however, grow babies grow! But I cant wait to meet them and to stare at them for hours on end and to watch them smile and learn and laugh. I cant even wait to hear them cry. Now thats weird, who wants a crying baby? Me. I do. I want to study it and learn each different cry. I cant wait to know who they are and to see their personalities and if they get their daddy's curly hair. We already love them more than I thought I ever could, and it only gets better from here folks! Cant wait cant wait cant wait..........I dont know how many more times I can say it.

A Summer promise to my Home...

My poor neglected Home. We moved in January of 2011 and immediately had decor and furniture in all the main rooms, bedrooms living room, kitchen..... But when spring came and we got to really see our yard for the first time I was sure frightened. I have done a pretty good job of keeping the inside looking nice and bringing a feeling of peace when we are home. Stephen has done what he can to make the outside presentable (which it is not by the way) by mowing and spraying weed killer. That is it my friends. I think once he sprayed off the back patio last year. Yes I'm embarrassed to admit all that but what do you do. THIS year however, since summer will not be my busiest time of year I will get to spoil that yucky lil yard of mine. Of course I will hire someone to do the heavy lifting and most of the landscaping work that needs done, but yesterday I got out the hose with our new attachment for power washing and went to town! I sprayed the whole house. I wasnt even afraid to spray down the EIGHT wasp nests I encountered. Stephen is good about getting the lawn mowed weekly but thats about all he can do with how busy he is with roofing. I'm glad I have time to help out now. It feels so great to be getting my energy back. I still have days where the migraines are bad or I feel nauseous, the main thing right now is low blood pressure. But I'm watching it and making sure to eat and drink enough so that it wont dip too low. But with my days numbered working at the salon there are so many things and projects I am looking forward to completing. The hard part is prioritizing! Things for home things for baby things for my sisters wedding things for me... and to still get enough rest each day and drink 4-6 liters of water and eat every two hours. I'm just preparing for motherhood, and all the chaos that will come with my sweet lil twinners. I can wait for all that, I'm looking forward to having TIME to do things that I enjoy and that uplift me. I'm so grateful for a Hubby that works so dang hard that I can stop working this week and focus on taking care and getting ready for the babies. My first real summer in 5 years. Lets not let it go to waste!

They told us to MULTIPLY and replenish...

My babies. What a beautiful moment when the doctor said "and here's your other baby..." I will admit we had a feeling, I thought at the time maybe just a hope, that there were two. Stephens mom called it from the beginning. So when the ultrasound came up and I saw one baby, I was so happy! But a tiny bit sad it was just one. So when we got to see the other baby, I felt so thankful. It felt right. It felt like they should both be there. We streamed tears of the purest joy trying to listen to the doc rattle off stats while never taking our eyes off those two sweet wiggly little bodies. I could have watched them all day! Now that I've had time to digest and really think about what it will mean to have two babies at the same time, it hits me differently every day. Like Sunday I watched mothers chase toddlers, and take out a crying baby. And I thought about how in the world I will manage two by myself when Stephen is at the station! I ran several options in my head from staying home (obviously not an option) to having my mom come help me. Then I just realized that I will be fine. I'm going to figure it out. The lord wouldn't give me these sweet children in a package deal if he thought I couldn't handle it. I may look white trash sometimes and they won't always behave when I need them to but I will do the best I can and at the end of the day I have faith it will be enough. I am so blessed to have such great examples of mothers, especially mothers of multiples, right in our family. This will make the 5th set of multiple births for Stephens side. I know I know, crazy. We figured out its in my mother in laws cookies. Saturday she was making cookies and she cracked an egg that had a double yoke!!! Hahaha. I know that I will be well prepared! Today I am 12 and a half weeks. It feels like such a milestone! I'm happy to report the nausea has subsided for the most part, I can put my ginger away. But it left a hole that was quickly filled by migraine headaches. Uhg! Tylonol doesn't touch it. I have been seeing the chiropractor 3 times a week and that seems to help most. And sleeping from 8p-8a. I'm so glad these twins are first. Also I am so lucky to be able to quit my job soon and stay home. 2 more weeks to be exact! I knew the chemicals of a nail salon weren't great but doctors orders just make it so much more official. It makes me feel better about leaving knowing that its whats best for the 3 of us. Stephen is so supportive. I love when he comes home from the station, after being away from us for 2 days, and he tells me all the things he thought about. Like what he might say when he goes to bless the babies or what he thinks the nursery should look like or how they came to choose us for their family or how we should get them the "Thing 1 and Thing 2" costumes since they will most likely come around Halloween. He is such a sweet dad already. Last night my mom took me out for my first baby shopping. I was so overwhelmed. That doesn't even describe it. There are far too many options! I was happy to learn that most stores give a twin discount! If you buy two of the same thing the second item is 25% off. Every little bit helps:) I'm looking forward to spending lots of time in thrift stores like kid to kid, kids again, other mothers... I think there are 3 or 4 close by that have some great stuff. One great piece of advice I got was not to rush out and buy two of everything. Let them learn to share and figure out what they like. Some twins have to be touching when they sleep, others do better apart. Some babies like bouncers some like swings...it all just depends. I'm excited to figure it all out. Each kid comes with and different set of instructions I think and its mom and dads job to master the hand book! I know that I have no idea what I'm in for but I think thats a blessing in some ways. Save the stress for when they get here and I'm figuring it out rather than worry that I wont figure it out. I know I will. I'm grateful to have such an amazing guy by my side! And such supportive mothers and family members close by. I trust my divinely inspired and created body to be able to carry these babies and raise them. I trust I will be blessed with mothers intuition and most importantly I trust that I am doing exactly what I should be doing exactly when I'm supposed to do it. I'm so lucky to be where I am today and I'm so grateful for this incredibly spiritual, emotional and physically exhausting experience. Ready or not, here we go! Find Joy in the Journey right? Oh and keep calm and carry on.

Things that make me happy.

I could list superficial things in the world that make me happy--
chocolate covered almonds, shoes, a six pack.....

Really, all the things that make me happy can be lead back to one thing....

A GOOD, HONEST MAN.

And boy is he good. He is resilient. He is all that I need.

This week was especially tough, who knows why. Thursday night was my breaking point. I have a sweet husband to make me feel so much better. I probably lean on him too much sometimes.

Friday, I'm at work. Doin my thing. Babe texts and wants to go to lunch. I'm sadly booked and dont get to go. Next thing I know my sweet man walks through the door with this...



And the man says to me
"I brought you this just because its Friday, which means NOTHING
And because I love you, which means EVERYTHING."

All other things vanish and all I see is the man I get to be with FOREVER!

THAT means everything to me. I am the luckiest girl in the world.

Lovin on sibs

Last weekend was a quick one. We both worked Saturday then drove to Rexburg for baby Vyla's blessing. Such a darling little face.

We also celebrated our two and a half year anniversary and my sisters bday.

It is always a wonderful feeling to be with all my siblings and my parents. It makes me think about the day when we will all be able to be in the temple together as an eternal family! How amazing that will be! Here are a few pictures from the weekend, all impromptu and super fun. I love these people.




FAMILIES ARE FOREVER.

March has been such a great month already. Some things we are looking forward to...

-THE HUNGER GAMES, we sadly and literally watch the movie trailer ever other night.

-THE TRIPLETS FIRST BIRTHDAY!! They are coming to visit along with all the Murray grandchildren for a birthday week/Easter extravaganza!

-CONFERENCE

-SIDNEE'S 23RD BDAY

-MALLORY'S ENDOWMENT SESSION

-STEPHEN'S 28TH BDAY

And a whole bunch of little things in between. We are grateful for spring, and for the opportunities we have been given. We have so much to look forward to and so much more to look forward to everyday. Spring Love is in the air. As Stephen has been saying for the last week every day....

"Its a great day to be in Love"

I love him.

Sping ahead

I cannot tell you how trilled I am that this joyous day finally came, I love the late light! Fall back is my enemy. It has been the best day ever. Last night we hung out with some great friends, playing great games. This morning we got to sleep in, have a wonderful breakfast of spinach omelets (courtesy of the worlds best husband), attend church at 11, gave away the monstrosity of a play set in our backyard to a very deserving family. He left a note on our door thanking us again and saying how much his 5 year old daughter is going to love it. Made our day. And I cant tell you how much I love that eye sore being GONE! Then we made BOMB guacamole,then head over to my favorite in-laws for dinner. I ate fish. I, Sidnee Murray, having a strict no seafood no weird stuff diet ate fish STEELHEAD even and I didn't even hate it. Had myself a whole helping. I'm a big kid now. I've tried fishy stuff before like shrimp, crab, lobster, Alaskan halibut, salmon... but I always almost threw it up. Couldn't even stand the smell. If hubbs ate fish, he was cutt off from kisses the rest of the night. I finally told myself I want to eat salmon because its healthy, mind over matter. As simple as that. Stephen was staring at me the whole time I ate it judging each expression anxiously. It was hilarious. I'm feeling pretty proud of myself:) So naturally I called to tell my parents and they were shocked, momma bear even said it brought a tear to her eye? Haha. Anyway, we finished the night off with pina coladas (courtesy of the worlds best Mother in Law) and the game monopoly deal which is completely our new favorite game. Ended with a clean, quiet house and snuggles.

Sound Like a perfect Sunday to me. Hope you all had a great spring ahead day as well!

Time flys when you're having THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE!

Hawaii! We're HERE!!


DISCLAIMER: If you want to read way too much and look at more pictures of me and hubby than you probably care to….proceed. Also, lets come up with a better way to upload photos mmmk?:)

I think this trip was so much fun because the entire thing was so spontaneous! I mean sure, we were planning to take a cool vaca to Can Cun but we had never been to Hawaii! There was so much to do and explore! The first few days we were there, we basically drove up to the north and down to the south exploring and stopping like every 5 minutes to check out the sights or jump in to snorkel. We were lucky enough to be staying with my parents in their time share condo which was the east side right in the middle of the island, so we spent plenty of time in the Northern rainy hiking side and plenty in the Southern sunny snorkeling side. On Halloween we took a catamaran ride along the Na’pali Coast line which is the west side of the Island which is incredibly mountainous, so you cant drive it. The only way to see it is to take a boat, hike the 11 miles, or helicopter. Heli was out of the question seeing as while we were there one crashed killing 4 passengers and the pilot but also, 2 people died on the hike which we still did. It’s a dangerous Island! No I’m kidding, but you do have to be very cautious. They have the most deadly beach in the U.S. and very high swells this time of year and very slick trails. I swear I came out with more bumps and bruises than I’ve had in my whole life. Worth every single one! Ok back to the boat ride. This was mine and Stephens favorite day. They took us snorkeling and toured us around the Island, viewing it from the water was completely mesmerizing…I couldn’t stop saying, “WOW” and the crew made it super fun too. They played cheesy Hawaiian music which us tourists ate up! We loved it. We had dolphins swim along side us, and sea turtles and flying fish. I kept saying, “this is the life I was meant to live” I did not want to ever leave that catamaran! Its amazing how many movies were filmed there, Jarasic Park is a big one and just go with it and soul surfer….these are recent ones because they are the ones I recognized but they named like 20 movies filmed there. After that we drove up the canyon to the look out and it was cold up there! But very cool. It was like a lush grand canyon. The next day was our Hike of the Na’pali coast, called the kalalau trail or as I lovingly refer to it the kill me nowa trail. First half of the hike, I loved. It was gorgeous. Challenging of course, it rained but all in all I just couldn’t believe we were there doing this. It was spectacular. As I said before the hike is 11 miles, 2 miles to secret beach, 4 to secret waterfalls, 6 to a camp site then 11 to the Kalalau Valley. We chose, at first, to go as far as the waterfall. But as we were hiking in talking with people, we realized the beach would be all the further we could get. You have to cross a stream and it was too high apparently. And it poured rain 5 or 6 different times on us, it was still warm and fun, the rain just made it more slippery. Its not mud its like a clay and it is SLICK! Plus I swear its like an old river bed, its so rocky and steep. Dad fell straight on his tailbone and I fell on my hip/knee/ankle. It was brutal but nothing fatal we still finished the hike fine and I’m so glad my mom didn’t fall. The hike out seemed never ending, but was still great. You knew you were almost done when you saw people wearing clean shoes! We were ready for a nap after that one. 4 miles in about 4 hours…. Yeah! Not easy. Then we bummed around because of the rain, did a few small hikes and chased down a few waterfalls, ate at great restaurants and sat in the hot tub! Surfing is next! Holy moly I think I backed out 6 times but I knew I couldn’t come home saying I didn’t try surfing. I didn’t even think I would stand up, I was just going to go paddle around on the board. But the instructor grabbed my board and gave me a good shove and said “POP UP!” and I did and guess what? I rode that sucker all the way to the beach. OH YEAH! I was so proud, but I think my dad was prouder The lesson was an hour and a half, and I did great a long as he would shove me and tell me what to do, but then there was free time for an hour and I had to do it solo and that’s when I failed. I’m not so great on timing. I got up a few times but mainly just got rolled and thrown into the beach. Stephen and dad did great though, and mom had fun taking pictures and hangin on the beach. Our last and final day, we did a Zip and dip tour! They took us on a hike where we zip lined, and kayaked and swam in a waterfall. Another solid day of fun in Hawaii!! Stephen was totally impressed by my kayaking skills. Dad and I got super silly on the zip line, and it was a total blast. After that we had a delightful dinner and jumped on a plane to LAS VEGAS (to be continued….)
We had a most excellent time. We were bummed that our spanglish practice was wasted, but we picked up hawaiian lingo pretty quick, ya? haha mom and Stephen were amazed at how alike my dad and I really are, I guess I am too sometimes. I sure love that guy. I was so glad to be able to share this with my mom and dad and my sweet amazing Husband!! To many more adventures to come, Love. We are so blessed to have these fun trips and to work hard for them. I'm so grateful for a hard working husband. I love my family!

Enjoy the slide show!

Its Luau time!!

Mom with her nickname sign Momi. We all had nicknames, Dad was Kunu Stephen was Pipiopi and I was Kalua

Dad picked this plant for me, it kept me entertained for the entire day. Those around me in the car didnt so much appreciate this plant "tickling" them but I sure had fun!















All smiles BEFORE the hike:)



I told him to "bring sexy back" haha

Tunnels beach <3











Like Father....

Like Daughter..... excuse the crotch shot!





Dadio ridin the wave. He went on his knees for a few series, that was hilarious. T

And she surfs! Surfing was so much fun and so much pain all wrapped up. I was getting pounded by the waves



If you're a bird...I'm a bird, but I'm plugging my nose!