Nations Capital

April 15th-17th {disclaimer: I did not edit any of these photos and I now weight 25 lbs less the I do in these photos and Jared weighs about 40 lbs lighter}
Before we moved away from the east coast we wanted to take a trip to Washington D.C. so we packed up a few things,including our children and headed out for the weekend.

This is what Addi looks like most of the time on long trips.
First we headed to New Jersey to stay the night with Jared's sister and then they joined us for the rest of our adventure.
First stop the D.C. temple. The kids were glad to get out of the car.
Not sure what's going on, but I think its cute.
Finally made to the city and got some food.
By the time we got to D.C.checked into our hotel and got the kids some food it was dark but we decided to head out and check out some of the monuments. This is the white house in case you couldn't tell.
Washington Monument.
Lincoln memorial
Kids were super excited to be up late can't you tell. Let me just tell you how unprepared I was for this trip. Normally I am overly prepared and have everything planned out but this time I didn't plan anything. We were under dressed for the cold and then rainy weather we experienced. I hadn't planned what we were going to do before hand and thus we missed out on a lot of tours because of it. I was super stressed about everything this night and was determined to have a fun family adventure. Once I got over it and just went we the flow the kids had a little more fun.
Jared's uncle died in Vietnam so we were able to find his name on the memorial wall.

The next day was rainy and cold, but we spent the day going to all the musuems.
The kids enjoyed this much more then the day before.
The best part is that they are all free and it is a great mix of history and fun for the kids.
Luckily Aidan was able to nap in the stroller. We kept trying to cover him up from the rain and he just kept getting mad so we stopped trying to keep him dry and he he fell asleep with rain dripping on his face.
Had to checkout Julia Child's kitchen.


More monuments in the day light.
Our last day in D.C. the weather was much better and we were able to she more of the city.
We waited in line to see the Declaration of Independent.

My favorite part of the trip was the botanical gardens at the capital buliding.
They had kids area where Addi got to water the plants.
Bubs enjoyed eating the plants.
I enjoyed taking pictures of flowers.
Jared enjoyed having his hair pulled.
The capital looked beautiful with all the cherry blossoms.
We took pictures of sleeping Aidan at different land marks then we can show him that he had been there even if he doesn't remember.
Overall a great trip. I would love to go back when the kids are older. As long as I don't have to spend 10 hours on the New Jersey turnpike.

I'm 3

March 27, 2011
Addi turned 3 and is very proud. She tells everyone "I'm 3!" She has been into Dora lately, so we threw her a Dora birthday party.

Everyone was given either a Dora backpack or a diego rescue pack. I sewed 20 backpacks the week before her birthday and filled them with party favors and things they would need on their adventure. All the kids were told that swiper swiped our pinata and we needed to get it back.

First Map told us we needed to go through rainbow tunnel. We also had to keep our eyes open for explorer stars [star stickers] so to help us get through the tunnel and find the explorer stars we check backpack for something to help us. Each child and a small key chain flash light in their backpack.

Once we made it through rainbow tunnel, Map told us to go through balloon forest, but told us to watch out for wild balloon animals. In order to scare away the balloon animals each child had a noise maker in their backpack.
Lastly the kids had to climb cupcake mountain where they found the pinata that Swiper had swiped.

It was a ribbon pull pinata, because although I might be crazy enough to throw a birthday party for over 20 3 year olds I am not crazy enough to give them a bat.

Everyone had fun collecting their prizes.

Even boots made it to the party.

I made Addi a Dora cake and although it didn't look perfect it was really really good.

And we made cupcakes for everyone at the party.

Addi was spoiled and even though we said guest didn't need to bring presents she received lots of them.
She was one happy three year old.

Going private-boo

I hate when blog go private it adds an extra step to view and when are blog was private at first many of our older readers couldn't figure out how to view it. However, Jared has never liked the idea of our blog being public and then he had a dream about a crazy patient knowing way too much about us and asked me again to make the blog private so I am. Anyways if you would like an invite let me know and I will add you to the list. If you would like to be added to the email list as well let me know that (you would get our blog posts emailed to you). You can leave your email in the comments I wont publish them.

What's going with the Sorensen's?

I know I haven't blogged in almost 3 months. I have never gone that long with out blogging. So whats going on? Besides being busy I just haven't felt like blogging. I don't know why I just haven't. IT is not from lack of things to blog about. There was Addi's 3rd birthday and Dora party, a trip to Washington D.C., a trip to California with my mom and then to Phoenix to find a house (did I mention that we are moving to phoenix area in less then a month?). We just got back from NYC and there was lots of living in between all those trips. I have been going through all of our stuff because we decided it wasn't worth the money to move all of our stuff so I have to sell most of what we own and decide what makes the cut and gets to come with us (that it hard I am somewhat of a hoarder). Jared and I started the Dukan Diet and so I know have to cook 3 meals a day so that we stay on our diet since we can only eat certain food. And now in case I didn't have enough to do between cleaning packing cooking and trying to keep up with my 2 kids Aidan might have asthma and I have to give him breathing treatments every 4 hours until we go back to the doctor on Monday. Sometimes it is kind of nice being busy, but sometimes I really just want to sleep. Sometimes as I go about my busy day I think I have ADD. I skip around a lot from one thing to another never really finishing what I was doing. This makes for a half messy disorganized house. For example I will be cleaning the living room and then take something into the kitchen then I will start cleaning the kitchen instead of finishing what I was doing and then I will start making dinner since I am in the kitchen. Then I will go back to what I was doing but instead decide to organize and pack the closet and start pulling things out then the baby wakes up and so I set out to clean up our disaster of a living room but ended up with a clean kitchen, dinner and and even messier living area. So if you come to my house please don't judge me by the way my house or my children look because yes my daughter is covered in permanent blue maker and my baby still has evidence of his lunch on his face and why yes that is a whole package of crackers smooshed into my carpet and Addi's clothes thrown about the whole house. The good news is that it will all be over in about 3 weeks and then when we move we will have very little stuff and can start out our next chapter of our lives super organized with a place for everything (which I never achieved here). I am super excited about the whole idea. If you have a hoarding or organizing problem then just move across the country and don't take your stuff with you it is so liberating and exciting. I was going to include some picture for you all but since my computer is not reading my card that's not going to happen. I am thinking that my computer needs to be left behind as well so I can get a new one. So maybe someday I will post about the exciting things happening around here, but it may not be for a couple of weeks when my husband has finished up everything with his residency and my MIL comes to save me and I can have a few minutes with out kids climbing on me, because usually after they go to bed I have no desire to do anything but sit on my fat (soon to be not so fat) but and mindlessly watch T.V. until I get motivation to try and pick up the pieces from our day just to leave it half done and go to bed which is exactly what I am going to do now. Yes my house is half clean if there is such a thing.

Bubblicious

No this post is not about bubble gum, but about our very own Bubs (if you haven't noticed we call Aidan bubs or bubbers around here). We love our smiley Bubs and could be happier (unless of course he would sleep all night I think then yes indeed I would be happier)

He turned 6 months old on Christmas. He weighed just over 19 lbs and 28.5 inches. He was bigger than Addi was at a year. He now has 6 teeth and does a lot more then just crawling. He pulls himself up on everything and gets into everything. If your not watching he will climb up the stairs and he is fast so we must keep our eyes on him at all times or cage him in the living room.

He eats like a big boy and he loves food. He much prefers grown-up food to baby food and can eat more at one sitting then his sister does, especially if we are having mac n' cheese. Yes I know we put a pink bib on our boy but you grab what you can find and he doesn't mind as long as he gets food.

His favorite things to play with are things that he shouldn't such as the broom or the dog food. He does however love balls and I think that he even says ball. He may just be babbling but he has said ball ball a few times when picking up or throwing a ball.

He loves to be goofy with his sister and doing most things she wants. Their favorite lately is playing crocodiles. I don't think Aidan knows whats going on but he loves to crawl around with his sister and it kept them both busy for over an hour last week.

I {heart} Valentines

I love Valentines. I know many people feel that it is a commercial holiday, but I love having a special day to show those you love how much you love them in a extra special way and I love feeling loved myself.
Addi made 2 special valentines for the boys at Joy School.

She wrote her own special note on top of mine and I helped her write her name.

I made each of the kids something special to wear for the special day.

I crocheted Addi this cute little headband and bow.

I made Aidan a bow-tie and I love it. I think I will be making more bow-ties for my little man.
I learned how to crochet this puffy heart and turned it into a necklace for Addi to wear.
Both grandmas send love packages that had stickers in them. Sunday while mommy was napping the kids had a little sticker fun with daddy.
I don't think Aidan notices anymore when he has stickers on his head because his sister has put so many stickers on him.
Addi and I made chocolate covered marshmellow to eat.
And for dinner we had the missonaries over and we made heart shaped pizza.
Jared and I have had heart shaped pizza on Valentines together since we were dating. It is officially a tradition.
Aidan got new valentines pjs and I went a little crazy taking pictures of him one morning because I thought he was so cute.
What you say?
Being a ham for the camera
Another crazy face. I just love these ones they make me laugh.
My sweet little Bubs I love you so.

I also receive a wonderful valentine of chocolates and live tulips from my husband. Hope everyone had a wonderful day full of love. And yes I even loved valentines day when I was single.