Spring 2010

Mother's Day Tea with Nate <3



Fallbrooke <3
Shen, Annabel, and Nate





Nate's Graduation (I swear he looks EXACTLY like his father)

Oh Man How Time FLIES!!!

LOL, I was looking at my FB profile for the um-tenth time this evening BORED out of my ever loving mind and realized ah...duh...I have a blog and I haven't even looked at it in MONTHS!!

I'm NOT writing EVERYTHING that's happened the last however many months but I'll quickly recap and try (being the operative word)to be more diligent in my writing.

Wow, School's out for summer! I'm...egh...about 25 percent excited about this! Summer means fun, sun, swimming, lazy mornings, camp, vacations and everything else summer brings. But at my house, and I'm pretty sure most other places SUMMER brings whiny children, long HOT afternoons (with no AC), No money, and I also LOSE a large part of my mind in the process!

Ya know it's funny people always ask me: "how are you doing" and I ALWAYS respond (those people who know me can attest to this) "CRAZY!!!"

Shanendowa just finished her orientation for college! YAY! Graduated 6th in her class and is genuinely the best teenager I know!

Annabel just finished up the 1st grade! With much appreciation to her amazing teacher...she passed :)

Nathan has made the MOST changes in this short period of time! Pre-k graduation (sniffle) and he's riding a two-wheeler bicycle now! My baby is no longer a baby and I'm having moments where it saddens me BUT I remind myself he will always love me no matter how big he gets!

Jeff and I are still working hard, maintaining our careers (mines still revolves around raising my family, mostly, but it's hard work!) raising the kids and trying to find our way takes constant effort.

I have put applications in everywhere! Unfortunately, in this day and age teaching positions are few and far between...I often feel like it doesn't matter how GOOD you are it's about the people you know; and being a girl with virtually no connections I fear I'll be looking for a job for the rest of my life...but I KNOW without a SHADOW OF A DOUBT I'm suppose to teach!! Hopefully somebody will realize how incredible I am in the classroom! I can even prove it...given the opportunity!!! So please keep your fingers crossed for me!

Oh...last but not least...my high school ten year reunion is this Saturday! I honestly have no stinkin' idea how and where the time went! Hopefully it'll be fun!

I've got a few pics...

Peeved about Playdough!

So earlier in the week I was talking to a bunch of moms at Bug's school and we were talking about playdough. Most of the mom's use it and it's monitored and whatever. So me feeling like the bad mom for not letting playdough in my house was doing some DEEP cleaning and came across a old "new" package of playdough (dust and everything)! Well I decided maybe playdough isn't that bad and let my kids play with it...AND THIS IS WHAT I GET!!





You know I tried to monitor...I said it only could be played with at the table...playdough time is over. Next thing I know I'm cooking dinner and playdough smushed up all over my house, in the carpet, on a tablecloth, on my couch! Yeah well guess what?!?!? EVERY ounce I could scrap out of my carpet is NOW IN THE GARBAGE! I will NEVER allow playdough in here again!

Bowling Bananza :)

So Nathan had a field trip to the bowling ally today! I love watching little kids bowl, it's a combination of humor, caution, and patience!!


Kids are sooo funny, and more than once did a ball get stuck in the lane because they bowl soooo slowly, LOL!! Yay for BUMPERS!!

Nate's Action Shots!




The FINAL SCORES! Nate won!


LOL, Check out the MPH at the bottom of the screen! Painfully slow sometimes :)

My Newest Nephew <3

So Friday night I got to have over night the newest addition to my family, my little 7 week old nephew! He is sooo cute and looks exactly like my sister! Thanks to Holly I have a picture of him, well several in fact!



His name is Levi but anyone who know's me know's I'm into the nicknames...I call him Frankie cause he looks like a lil' turtle!



Frankie with Aunt Daisy <3



I think I'm lucky it's only drool!

What!?

So it isn't even 10 in the morning and this day has been incredibly bizzare!

First, I got up this morning and started a load of laundry! I know CRAZY! Then I was talking to Holly on FaceBook and got disconnected! I realized I needed to get bug to school and couldn't FIND my keys ANYWHERE!! UGH!!!

Took me forever then I get in the van and the the dang van was stuck on the ice wouldn't move forward or backwards!!! I had to get out and throw some snow under HOPING I could move a little. At this point Nate's late and I figured a prayer couldn't hurt! So thank you Heavenly Father my van got out!

Got Nate to school, got home and realized the text I sent to Holly never sent and because of that I didn't recieve her SIX texts! I've never had problems with my texts not sending.

So, now if that wasn't wierd enough my phone rings! It's my mom :) so I answer it and much to my surprise SHE DIDN'T call me! She has a land line so it's not like her pocket called. The phone was laying on the table and she saw it blinking red and picked it up and I was there!

Creepy huh!?!?!

I hope the rest of the day isn't as wierd as this morning has been!

Thought of the day:

"The promise is made to everyone. There is no discrimination, no favored few, but the Lord has not promised to crash the door. He stands and knocks. If we do not listen, he will not sup with us nor give answer to our prayers. We must learn how to listen, grasp, interpret, understand. The Lord stands knocking. He never retreats. But he will never force himself upon us. If our distance from him increases, it is we who have moved not the Lord." (Pres. Spencer W. Kimball)

I'm keeping up with my 40 day challenge and I read this and LOVED it! It spoke volumes when I read it and it reminds me that I need some down time to ponder and to listen. I hope it touches you as it has me!