What's in my Diaper Bag?

Hello my wonderful readers! It has been about a year I think or so since I have done a What's in my Diaper Bag. Right now I am using the Ju-Ju-Be Super Be in Black Widow. I just love the black and white with the pops of red and the red lining is so pretty. I also use a messenger strap from my Magic Merlot Ju-Ju-Be BFF bag because I love having that option when needing to be hands free. This is packed for my 3 kids for a full day out.

 I have my daughter's kindle to start she will probably watch a movie on the ride to grandmas (a play pack was thrown in at the last minute also for her), I have a small Ju-Ju-Be set piece with stroller straps, pacifier straps and sippy cup straps, Mommy Hook, 3 bibs, my daughter and mine sunglasses, my daughter's water bottle, Huggies clutch and clean full of wipes, in a Ju-Ju-Be be quick I have baby powder, 2 disposable change pads, diaper cream, lotion, and 8 size 3 diapers.

 In a medium Ju-Ju-Be set piece I have some small toys for the twins and then some other toys that I shoved into a pocket inside the bag easy to get to, I have hats for all 3, a reusable bag, a wet bag, my little rose gold bag with my wallet and mommy stuff in it, 3 burp cloths, a Ju-Ju-Be be quick with an extra outfit for all 3 kids and an extra pull up for my 3 year old.

 2 pacifiers with clips on them, a Ju-Ju-Be be quick with a reusable snack bag full of goldfish and two snack cups with cheerios for my twins, **Added later two sippy cups for my twins**, 2 receiving blankets, a changing pad from my Ju-Ju-Be Be prepared, and a large Ju-Ju-Be set piece with tissues, glasses wipes, 2 pens, a small notebook, first aid kit, plastic bag, sunblock stick, some change, teething necklace, handkerchief, hand sanitizer.

Here it is all packed up, it fits so much I just love this bag! 

Hope this helps someone see how much fits in this bag and also what I carry for a full day out with my 3 year old and twins 1 year olds. Lots of love.

January Monthly Favorites

Hello my wonderful readers! I thought I would start a new series hopefully I can keep up with of monthly favorites. So here is January's monthly favorites:

1. Target travel mug - $1.50 from Target clearance rack after Christmas I am using it to try to drink more water, that is one of my new year goal.

2. Kindle Fire/ Library Card - I got myself a library card for the first time in like 15 years and have borrowed books onto my Kindle which is awesome! Part of my new year goal is to read more so I have been trying to do just that. 

3. Peppermint Mocha Creamer - I absolutely love this creamer I have it every morning in my mama coffee.

4. Planner - I love anything planner related, I love to plan ahead and make lists so much for everything. I have The Happy Planner Faith Edition right now and love it!

5. LuLaRoe Leggings -  I live in these, I have way to many to admit! I love that I can be comfy and cute and get up and down off the floor with the kids all day without showing my behind. I just got some solid black ones so I am for sure wearing them ALL THE TIME! haha.

6. Organizing/Simplifying - January always brings me into the spirit of cleaning things out and organizing so I have been getting rid of a lot of stuff and just keeping what I need or what I for sure wear.

Hope you have lots of love in your life! 

Cleaning Schedule

Hello my wonderful readers! I just thought I would share something I'm not sure I have shared before. I am a stay at home mom, but with 5 people living in one home together cleaning has to be done, ALWAYS! Otherwise things will be worse at the end of week. So I thought I would share my cleaning schedule with you. Now to start I am going to say that some days not everything gets done due to one thing or another so I do have a couple catch up days in there if that happens. You just have to give yourself grace because life happens and not everything will get done always, especially with 3 little ones tearing the place apart all day haha. 

Monday

1.Kitchen cleaned up good- I don't normally do a lot of dishes on the weekends so I can spend more time with my hubby and kids when my hubby is home.

2. Laundry - All clothes laundry, adult and child.

Tuesday

1. Diapers - We cloth diaper if you don't know so we wash every other day usually for our 2 in cloth.

2. Vacuum - Usually this is done in two parts, I do the hallway, and bedrooms in the day time and Aaron does the dining and living room after dinner in the evening.

3. This is a catch up day because we have MOMs group in the morning every other week so the afternoon the kids crash so I can get stuff caught up.

Wednesday

1. Laundry - Child laundry only, by this time their basket is full and I can do a full load.

2. Hall Bathroom - I wipe everything down and take out anything still hanging to dry in there from Monday's laundry day.

Thursday 

1. Diapers - Diaper day again.

2. Master Bathroom - wipe everything down and set everything up for bath time in the evening for the kids.

3. Towels - I go around the whole house and change out all the towels and wash everything.

Friday

1. Laundry - All laundry adult and child because if we go anywhere on Sunday then everything is clean to choose from.

2. Grocery Pickup/Clean out fridge - I know this isn't fully cleaning but usually every other Friday I clean the fridge out good and put in an order for grocery pickup so hubby can get it on his way home.

Saturday

1. Diapers - Diaper day again.

2. Window Seals - We have really bad single pain windows in our place that cause mildew in the winter so I wipe them down with bleach once a week to clean them up and keep them as clean as I can, also we keep a towel in our bedroom window and the kids window to help with draft so I wash those as well.

3. Sheets - This is every other week I will strip beds and wash everything, unless of course a child has an accident then they will get there theirs stripped immediately of course.

4. This is also a catch up day for anything that wasn't done during the week and also anything to prepare for the week ahead.

Sunday

1. Church or Family Outing or Both - I do no housework or any laundry because we just spend time as a family because it is my hubby's only day off for the week.

Hope this wasn't too boring haha. Lots of love to you and yours. 

School Time

Hello my wonderful readers! I'm going to share with you what Penelope calls "school time" we do during the week at home. We are starting to discuss school options public vs homeschool. So until we decide that we do school time at home. Since Aaron works on Saturdays we don't really go anywhere, so its just like another weekday normally. We do school days on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. We only do it for about 15-20 minutes a day because that's all that she can really sit for at one time. On Monday's she has Pioneer girls, Tuesday's we go to Moms group, Wednesday's we review the week before's letter and number and do some flashcards with shapes and colors, Thursday's we do the new letter of the week and go over the take home part of the Pioneer girls lesson from Monday, Friday's we go over the number of the week and continue the lesson from Pioneer girls and then on Saturday's we do her Leap pad book with letters, numbers, daily routines and seasons. Also everyday we change our chart that has the month, day of the week, season and weather outside. She can say her alphabet in full and numbers 1-10. She knows most basic shapes and colors. I think she is doing really well for a 3 year old. We also color a lot of the time, which she could do for a long time and be happy. I hope you enjoy this little share of our "school time."

Bucket List for 2018

Hello my wonderful readers! Happy New Year!!! This year I decided I am not going to make resolutions but more of a bucket list for 2018 because does anyone ever really keep their resolutions? If you do, your amazing! But I never do and always have the same ones every year and never keep them. My bucket list is going to include things I really want to do for myself and things I want to do with my husband and kids.
I'm going to start by recapping some of the good things about 2017:
1. Watching the babies grow up their first year was amazing.
2. My brother and sister in law got married!
3. Aaron and I celebrated our 4th anniversary, crazy what we have done in 4 years of marriage.
4. Penelope started Pioneer girls which she loves!
5. Just our first year as a family of 5 was a highlight.

Now onto my 2018 goals:

1. Get on track with our finances.
2. Feel better physically for me and to be a good example to our kids
3. Get on track spiritually, read, pray and attend church more for the right reason
4. Be a better mom in general all around.
5. Be a better wife, have more patience
6. Be on my phone less.
7. Take the kids outside of the house more
8. Take the kids out somewhere once a month for the day
9. Read 4 books this year

Maybe around March I will do an update on how these are going.
I want to wish all of you a Happy New Year 2018!!! All the Love to you and yours!

Twins Birthday Party part 2

Hello my wonderful readers! I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas. I just wanted to finally share some of the pictures taken of everyone at the twins birthday. We had such a wonderful time and I still can't believe they are 1 it just blows my mind! We really only invited family and a couple friends, we knew that some people wouldn't be able to make it due to it being close the holidays and other commitments people have which is totally ok we get that.

 Juliet is more of the person that will go to people without throwing a fit, Andrew is the crier of the two haha. Here is Juliet with my mom and dad.

 Andrew with his mommy, and when either Aaron or I put him down this is what happened haha.

 Andrew and daddy.

 They were starting to get good at ripping all the bows and cards off the gifts. 

 Juliet: Who is this from? 

Andrew: I don't know but this looks like a good gift!

 Daddy with his twinnies <3!

 My mom and her twin my aunt Jill.

 They both loved the cake. They did much better at it than Penelope did at her first birthday haha.

 Juliet trying on her new hat and checking out her new cups.

 My brother and dad. Aaron's mom with Juliet.

 Sister wanted to help blow the candles out.

And just like that they are 1! So crazy how the first year with them seemed so much faster than with their sister. They are just adorable and we love them so very much! Lots of Love! 

Merry Christmas!

Hello my wonderful readers! I just want to wish all of you that read a very Merry Christmas!! May the Lord bless your families a million times over! 

Love always,

Aaron, Kristina, Penelope, Andrew and Juliet