Our Vows

were getting settled with a movie so I dont have time to really write so I thought I would just blog a copy of the vows we took. nathan wanted to do our own, I didn't so we compromised on these =)

From this day on I choose you, my beloved Krystal to be my wife,

 to live with you and to laugh with you;

to stand by your side and sleep in your arms,

To be joy to your heart and food to your soul;

to seek to bring out the best in you; and for you,  to be the most I can be.

to laugh with you in the good times; To struggle with you in the bad;

to solace you when you are downhearted, to wipe your tears with my hand;

to comfort you with my body; to mirror you with my soul;

to share with you all my riches and honors; to play with you as much as I can

until we grow old always loving each other sweetly and gladly.

then we had our ring ceremony

Dearest Krystal my love,

            this ring is the symbol of my love and of the hopes and all the joy

 I most dearly behold in you. You are my guiding light, my love, my soul's most mirroring shadow, and my closest friend. 

This ring is a symbol of my love and that I am choosing

to share my life’s journey with you, and I know that in marrying you

I shall become much more than I am. I marry you with this ring,

with the wings of my love  with all that I have  and all that I am

We took video and pictures but I dont have time to post right now so I will leave you with this =)

My wedding dress in the making!!

 I went in for my first dress fitting after the first time alterations. They took it in from a size 12 to a size 6 and I’m very happy with the results. The bottom of it still needs to be done, as you can see it isn't laying just right. But it doesn't help that its extremely wrinkled and I didn't think to poof out the bottom before I had nathan take the picture, its still all twisted because I had just turned around.

 

 There was a Hideous flower on the side that has the "pick up" (my left your right) that I had her remove. I will be leaving the whole dress plain for the wedding.

 However for the reception Im having a bit of beading added to the bust area and i will also be having the lady take the sweetheart neckline a lot deeper with more of a "V" shape in the middle. I will also be making a huge Crystal broach with feathers to put in the place where the flower used to be I may add flowers on another part of the dress... we'll see!

This is the type of broach I will be using (95% sure)

and I will be surrounding it with white feathers like this. I will probably surround it with more feathers then the one in this pic and I also want to add some ostrich feathers to it to round it out more. it will be placed with the feathers facing up on the side where the "pick up" is below my hip. 

I wont be wearing a traditional veil but instead a "birdcage" Veil that will go in the front/side. It will cover my eyes and nose and stop right before my lips. I'm making it myself so I will be adding some Crystals and feathers. The pic below is similar to what I will be doing.

I wish I would have fixed the bottom of the dress it looks like crap in the pictures!!!! 

Nathan's Attempt At Blogging

I decided to give blogging a shot even though it is far from my comfort zone.  Now give me a puzzle or a math problem and I’ll be in heaven.  Proof of that is in this blog considering it took me over an hour just to write this one.  Don’t ask where the time went because I don’t even know. 

I was really excited to get into school and pursue my engineering degree but I overlooked the fact that I would be dealing with kids that have just graduated high school who don’t even know how to spell the word “Maturity.”  Even though I am only 7 years older than most, it astounds me to realize the cultural and timely differences between us. 

            A blatant example of this was in my intro to engineering class that I took my first semester.  During our first day of class, the teacher wanted to make a point that the structure of the class was very hands on and project oriented instead of a dull, note-taking lecture.  Here is the video she showed: 

            I hope most of you can recognize what movie this is from and realize that it is a classic.  Or at least I thought because when the teacher asked the class how many knew what movie that was from, less than half the class actually could give an answer….. Man I felt old!  I haven’t even hit my thirties and I’m already feeling the generational gap.  Next thing I know, someone will say “Who’s The Brady Bunch.”

           

            

"where do babies come from mommy"?

The twins have a children's encyclopedia that they are OBSESSED with! it has a section about reproduction and the kids came and asked about the pictures that included the man and women's reproductive organs, sperm, eggs, fetus and a picture that explains sexual intercourse.We have always been very open with the kids. seeing the birth process of Ridge and Olivia has allowed them to understand more then some kids twice their age. TheY know where babies come out of and the whole birthing and breast-feeding process but they had never asked how the baby gets in the tummy till now!  So as they asked questions i answered them (thats our rule. if their old enough to ask then their old enough to know) one question led to another, i let them lead the convo and used all technical terms and am happy with the out come! now they can explain the whole process of reproduction with all scientific terms lol. im actually really proud of how much info they retained because the next day they went to nathan with the book and  explained the whole process from intercourse to delivery (vaginal and csections). Nathan pointed to some of the pictures and asked "well whats that" one of the pictures was a women's egg surrounded by approaching sperm. when asked "whats that" their answer went something like this ....


Jayvin- thats the mommies egg. (pointing to the egg) and thats the daddies sperm (pointing to the sperm
Jazzy- and only the strongest and fastest sperm who make it to the egg can turn into a fetus that turns into a baby!!!!
Jaynin- (with excitement) AND JAZLYNN AND ME WOOOON!!!!!


 he was very impressed.


Nathan went through more pictures letting them lead and came upon the picture of the naked women with a baby in her belly, obviously towards the end of her term since the baby was head down. Nathan asked "whats this" Jazlynn and jayvins answer....


Jazzy- Thats the baby getting ready to come out of the mommies vagina....
Jayvin- well jazzy the babies can get cut out of the mommies tummy too remember. like me and you did.
Nathan- why did you have to come out of mommies belly and not mommas vagina?
Jazzy- because i was baby B and he was baby A and A come before B but he was Birtched (breech) so they couldn't get us out of her vagina!
Jayvin- (in a defensive voice) well I was only like that cause i wanted to give jazzy kisses (pointing at the picture) because see my head was up here and hers was down there and that way i could reach her!!


To bad it doesn't work like that kiddo but it was so cute i let him think it!


I love how open we are with our kids, after all the human body is nothing to be ashamed of. so far they only understand that sexual intercourse is the process to make a baby and that it is something that is not suitable for kids. I left the feelings and sexuality out of it and will leave that for when they are a bit older to grasp those loving intimate feelings. 


  oh and jayvin says " a boy is called a man or male and a girl is called a female or wiseman" lol how funny i corrected him i said "were called wise women"

Kids Say The Funniest Things!!!

jazzy- how do you spell C? nathan- S-E-A or S-E-E Jazzy- (confused) how do you spell B- nathan- B-E-E Jazzy- (really confused) well what about W Nathan- D-O-U-B-L-E Y-O-U Jazzy- ok...well what about F? nathan- E-F or maybe E-P-H Jazzy- UGH!!! I ONT GET IT!!!!!!

poor child! just when she thinks she has this whole english thing down nathan bursts her bubble!!!

Things kids Say

every now an then i post funny things that the kids have said on my facebook. I'm going to start posting them here that way i can remember.

so last night we were having music class here at home. we do this thing "I do, you do" where i make a beat and then i go down the line to each kid and have them do the same beat with whatever instrument they have. at the end of class they are rewarded with "free play"

5/24/11
it started off with Jazlynn, Jayvin and Ridge
me- "as soon as we are done with our beats you all can have free play, daddy do you want to get an instrument and sit with them"
daddy- "sure"
Jazzy- "well now its Fooooouuurrrr play"
we all start laughing
daddy- "no sweetie mommy isnt saying three play shes saying FREE play"
Jazzy- "oh, well that makes sense too"

they crack us up!!!

Grandpa Marvin

Grandpa Marvin (Nathans dad) often comes over to spend time with the kids and usually brings them some sort of gift. last time he brought them a HUGE horse they can sit on. Jazlynn named the horse Muna. the horse is a big hit! this time he brought Ridge a Tricycle. he LOVES it!

We spent about 1 1/2 hours out side playing. Nathan, Grandpa and Jayvin got into a game of base ball. we knew he had a great arm but we were surprised to see him bat. he would hit it almost over the fence across the parking lot. were now looking into putting him into baseball.

Grandpa was a great pitcher but he did better as a catcher. he also gave Jayvin some pointers.

Jayvin hit this one across the parking lot. good thing its a foam ball cause he hit several cars lol

He also hit this one. you can tell how good of a batter he is. he has great form!!

we love when Grandpa comes over. he has a lot of fun with the kids. I'm glad that this time i remembered the camera!