Hey Holly, you have been tagged!
Rules:
Link to the person who tagged you; Share 7 random facts about yourself; Tag 7 other blog friends & leave a comment on their blog with the rules.
Have fun!
Thanks Michelle for tagging me! Not sure how interesting it will be let's see:
1. I need things to be orderly and planned - but sometimes too lazy to do it
2. I want to learn (more) French & Italian - one day Chinese
3. I play the flute and want to play in an orchestra when I grow up
4. I like old war movies (new ones are too bloody) & foreign films
5. I'm starting to get many gray hairs and not liking it
6. I love international travel - not so keen on driving domestic
7. I love purses although I keep them in the closet at home
So here's who I tag - although you may have been already! Have a great day!
Jenny
Melinda
Lauralee
Auntie Nu
Laura
Stephanie
Rachel
Wednesday, October 31
Monday, October 29
Trunk or Treat
We had a busy Saturday - Soccer & Football - the boys are so athletic it's fun to watch them play.
Our Stake did a giant Trunk or Treat - it was really nice, but way bigger than in any of the years past - it was so big - they had 6 carnival games, picture taking, cake walk & food - that it was overcrowded - they did everything in the gym - except the cake walk - they probably should have used a few more rooms in the building, but c'est la vie. My kids only played one game.
We stayed most of the time outside - the weather was perfect because I'm always cold but not this year. We got to hit the trunks early since we were outside for so long. Very fun. I had 2 extras - we brought a buddy for Tyler and picked up Chandler's buddy at the church - we then went to another friend's right after for their annual Halloween bash - we had fun - in the garage they had set up a foosball table, air hockey and PS3 - Air Guitar....it was hard! I don't know how kids are so coordinated.
Then me & the 6 kids came home - camped out in the family room and passed out by 11:45. Good thing we have late church this year!
Here we are - Mario, Dorothy, Tyrone (Backyardigans), Mr. Rhino & mom serving the kegs....
Our Stake did a giant Trunk or Treat - it was really nice, but way bigger than in any of the years past - it was so big - they had 6 carnival games, picture taking, cake walk & food - that it was overcrowded - they did everything in the gym - except the cake walk - they probably should have used a few more rooms in the building, but c'est la vie. My kids only played one game.
We stayed most of the time outside - the weather was perfect because I'm always cold but not this year. We got to hit the trunks early since we were outside for so long. Very fun. I had 2 extras - we brought a buddy for Tyler and picked up Chandler's buddy at the church - we then went to another friend's right after for their annual Halloween bash - we had fun - in the garage they had set up a foosball table, air hockey and PS3 - Air Guitar....it was hard! I don't know how kids are so coordinated.
Then me & the 6 kids came home - camped out in the family room and passed out by 11:45. Good thing we have late church this year!
Here we are - Mario, Dorothy, Tyrone (Backyardigans), Mr. Rhino & mom serving the kegs....
Friday, October 26
Ahh it's Friday
It's been a pretty nice week, but it is always nice to get to a Friday. Last night we had our meal prep group - kinda like Dream Dinners - where we make meals to freeze - it's fun - but my freezer is over full - I don't have a garage freezer, just a regular fridge out there with a regular freezer so I had also made a Costco run - note to self - DONT' go to Costco on Meal Prep Night!!! Plus Linda went to D-land and the ladies didn't know but her meals were there - so I had to shove hers into my tiny freezer too - ha ha - we'll have to rent space soon. But I'm happy because I'm all stocked up for when the In-laws arrive.... I'm not quite in the travel-mode just yet but I have a few days before I have to start packing!
I was feeling a little blue yesterday - funny how things set you off - and I'm not pms-ing or anything like that and I know it's irrational thought - but we've lived in this ward for 8 years - and before the new HFPE groups - there was a "book group" and I'm friends with all those ladies - but whenever they have a vacancy I get passed over - so I always feel slighted - it's not like I actually have time to be in a book group, but I always end up reading most of the same groups - it's funny that it bothers me so. I'm sure they have no clue that I would have really liked to have been included. One of my friends said last night she was just invited to join, she's lived here 4 years. I've always just kinda mentioned in passing like, 'oh that would be fun, I'd like to join you sometime', but not all out - 'I want to be in your group'. I don't know - I am in different groups like Bunco, but I suppose the difference is that they aren't church groups .....don't get me wrong I have lots of non-member friends that make me feel more welcome than church girls - actually aside from Linda & her friends (which sometimes I also feel like I'm crashing - because they aren't really MY friends even though I'd like them to be, in reality they are hers and I'm just the tagalong - which I love how her friends call up and want to do things) I really only have a small group of LDS friends I actually do things with- does that make sense? I'm just in a low emotional period I guess in my month - it's probably not as bad as I made it sound - as you probably have noted I don't generally bring things like this up but guess that's what's nice about the blog...ha ha because I don't have any friends in the ward that like to blog -
I have GS after school then my friend Christy and I are going to La Boheme - they opened a new big theater in the next town over - should be fun.
I was feeling a little blue yesterday - funny how things set you off - and I'm not pms-ing or anything like that and I know it's irrational thought - but we've lived in this ward for 8 years - and before the new HFPE groups - there was a "book group" and I'm friends with all those ladies - but whenever they have a vacancy I get passed over - so I always feel slighted - it's not like I actually have time to be in a book group, but I always end up reading most of the same groups - it's funny that it bothers me so. I'm sure they have no clue that I would have really liked to have been included. One of my friends said last night she was just invited to join, she's lived here 4 years. I've always just kinda mentioned in passing like, 'oh that would be fun, I'd like to join you sometime', but not all out - 'I want to be in your group'. I don't know - I am in different groups like Bunco, but I suppose the difference is that they aren't church groups .....don't get me wrong I have lots of non-member friends that make me feel more welcome than church girls - actually aside from Linda & her friends (which sometimes I also feel like I'm crashing - because they aren't really MY friends even though I'd like them to be, in reality they are hers and I'm just the tagalong - which I love how her friends call up and want to do things) I really only have a small group of LDS friends I actually do things with- does that make sense? I'm just in a low emotional period I guess in my month - it's probably not as bad as I made it sound - as you probably have noted I don't generally bring things like this up but guess that's what's nice about the blog...ha ha because I don't have any friends in the ward that like to blog -
I have GS after school then my friend Christy and I are going to La Boheme - they opened a new big theater in the next town over - should be fun.
Tuesday, October 23
Happy Birthday Ian!!!!
My little Ian is 7 today - he is our lucky Dragon Baby born in the year 2000. Ian is the happiest guy around and he brings so much joy into our house.
We are going to Super Franks for his birthday party with a few of his close friends.
Here are 7 things I love about Ian
1. He is funny and loves to laugh
2. He is happy all of the time - when he isn't something really bad must have happened because things roll off him!
3. He is helpful (most of the time) he's always willing to lend a hand
4. He is kind and thoughtful - always offers things to others first
5. He is a good friend and brother - how can you not be with these traits!
6. He is smart - our joke around the house is that Ian was born with a book in his hand
7. He loves to learn which is refreshing because he is usually open to trying something new
I think it would be hard to be #3 of 4 but Ian is great - this is the poor kid that I have to drag to allergy shots and give asthma medicine to - and keep away from nuts - but he definitely has the temperament for it! I love you Ian!
Just me & mom
Happy Easter!
Barefoot in Monterey
Ian & Judson on the HouseboatFriday, October 19
Pumpkin Patch
Well sort of - I got to work in Lucas' preschool class today - it was actually very nice - there were only 8 kids today (normally there are only 9 for 3 year olds) so it's all very tame. It's very cute - they don't take the 3's TO the pumpkin patch for a field trip - they bring the pumpkins to the kids - it's so cute because we basically threw down a bunch of pumpkins and gourds and indian corn, and they get to pick one. No fuss - takes all of 5 minutes then pictures. You can't beat that!
Ms. Lyn cut open a pumpkin for the kids too - notice Lucas' hands strategically placed behind his back so they won't get dirty - hmmm, wonder where he gets that from????
So that was my day - we then continued our special day and had - don't tell Mike - McDonald's - my insides are already screaming. Then came home and watched Backyardigans...."super spy!!!" you have to sing it, not say it.
The boys came home did homework, then football, Tyler had dance - it was actually a very easy afternoon for once. Only small bits of crying and wailing - just kidding - it was very pleasant and calm surprisingly.
Tomorrow a couple of Dr's appointments - the kids all had their physicals this week - 5 trips to the doctors by the end of the week - why don't they let you take all the kids together?? Well, I can see why not for the girl/boy thing but oh well....
My chore chart/reward system is working really well - and I have a register for the points/allowance portion - so I don't actually have to shell out the cash right away - good thing too! Yea Me! But the next thing to work on is the tattle-telling, picking on purpose type stuff... one thing at a time!
Ms. Lyn cut open a pumpkin for the kids too - notice Lucas' hands strategically placed behind his back so they won't get dirty - hmmm, wonder where he gets that from????
So that was my day - we then continued our special day and had - don't tell Mike - McDonald's - my insides are already screaming. Then came home and watched Backyardigans...."super spy!!!" you have to sing it, not say it.
The boys came home did homework, then football, Tyler had dance - it was actually a very easy afternoon for once. Only small bits of crying and wailing - just kidding - it was very pleasant and calm surprisingly.
Tomorrow a couple of Dr's appointments - the kids all had their physicals this week - 5 trips to the doctors by the end of the week - why don't they let you take all the kids together?? Well, I can see why not for the girl/boy thing but oh well....
My chore chart/reward system is working really well - and I have a register for the points/allowance portion - so I don't actually have to shell out the cash right away - good thing too! Yea Me! But the next thing to work on is the tattle-telling, picking on purpose type stuff... one thing at a time!
Wednesday, October 17
Good News
Well first I have to start with bittersweet news - my mom left for home yesterday - the kids were very sad - but I'm sure my mom was happy to get home to my dad and her own house. She was here more than 2 weeks or was it 3? I've lost count. When my mom comes here we eat lots of Chinese food - then we have a hiatus and then I crave it again..... I'm happy to report she did the drive back to Vegas in good time and safely! Yahoo! Good job mom!
My in-laws are coming back again in a couple weeks too - yes, I do have a revolving hotel here - I keep a candy dish in the guest room for tips - but the good news is that they are coming by request to watch the kids - Mike is meeting me down under!
Humm, I keep having problems posting pictures is anyone else having problems or is it my fabulous new mac????? I have a cute picture of Australia I was supposed to post right there...I had problems all yesterday too - tell me if you are too. But yes, I'm going to Australia because Mike has to work - he's been there twice before so I'm so excited to be able to go - I leave on the 1st - I couldn't possibly miss Halloween!
I also Graduated from Physical Therapy yesterday - I brought the therapists yummy gingerbread cupcakes! My therapist is really cute - she is 24 and just so cute, she reminds me of one those Madame Alexander dolls - just perfect skin and cute curly brown hair - I always think of when I was just out of college and not married and in my career, ah seems like centuries ago!
Well it is raining here today - and it is nice - except poor Chandler was supposed to go on a field trip today - yikes! Glad I'm not driving wet 3rd grader feet today!
My in-laws are coming back again in a couple weeks too - yes, I do have a revolving hotel here - I keep a candy dish in the guest room for tips - but the good news is that they are coming by request to watch the kids - Mike is meeting me down under!
Humm, I keep having problems posting pictures is anyone else having problems or is it my fabulous new mac????? I have a cute picture of Australia I was supposed to post right there...I had problems all yesterday too - tell me if you are too. But yes, I'm going to Australia because Mike has to work - he's been there twice before so I'm so excited to be able to go - I leave on the 1st - I couldn't possibly miss Halloween!
I also Graduated from Physical Therapy yesterday - I brought the therapists yummy gingerbread cupcakes! My therapist is really cute - she is 24 and just so cute, she reminds me of one those Madame Alexander dolls - just perfect skin and cute curly brown hair - I always think of when I was just out of college and not married and in my career, ah seems like centuries ago!
Well it is raining here today - and it is nice - except poor Chandler was supposed to go on a field trip today - yikes! Glad I'm not driving wet 3rd grader feet today!
Sunday, October 14
Crafty Weekend
Well it has been a very crafty weekend. I'm going to work backward...
Today crashed Linda's ward's Super Saturday - and if you've been following her blog you'll know she's away at a girls weekend with her family! But I've made lots of friends over there since the new RS program so it was fun for me.... Here are a few of the great projects they had - I didn't even have time to do them all because there were so many! But I have a few of my Christmas presents done now so I feel very accomplished! We're doing a mini craft night in our ward - with my accident I couldn't possibly put together a Super Sat - so we're opting to just do a few crafts for the sisters - we aren't doing it until Nov so I have some time...
Friday night we had girl scouts - I'm a Junior Leader and I had 19 of my 21 girls resign - which is pretty amazing since they are all now in 6th grade.... We made these cute gourd candles so it was pretty fun. The girls are working on their Bronze Award which we should finish by this year - quite a few of them want to continue but Tyler will be going to YW in January - I don't think I have the energy to do it anymore. Plus with the boys coming up to Cubs it's a bit too much. It is sad to me the church doesn't support Girl Scouts like they do Boys - but don't get me started :)
Tomorrow is busy too - Mike has an early church meeting, then I have choir, I'm also playing a flute solo in Sacrament - the bad part is they asked me just last week, the good part(s) are - it won't be too hard and since I don't have an accompaniment, if I mess up, no one will know - ha ha! I also started practice for the Stake Bell Choir - it is fun but every Sunday night until Christmas is tough.
Now I'm making pumpkin bread (I made Christina's pumpkin chocolate chip cookies earlier in the week - yum yum!!!) for RS tomorrow. We're having our VT Conference so all of us in the presidency are making bread for the sisters - should be yummy. Well I'm off to tell kids to get ready for bed! Have a great day!
Today crashed Linda's ward's Super Saturday - and if you've been following her blog you'll know she's away at a girls weekend with her family! But I've made lots of friends over there since the new RS program so it was fun for me.... Here are a few of the great projects they had - I didn't even have time to do them all because there were so many! But I have a few of my Christmas presents done now so I feel very accomplished! We're doing a mini craft night in our ward - with my accident I couldn't possibly put together a Super Sat - so we're opting to just do a few crafts for the sisters - we aren't doing it until Nov so I have some time...
Friday night we had girl scouts - I'm a Junior Leader and I had 19 of my 21 girls resign - which is pretty amazing since they are all now in 6th grade.... We made these cute gourd candles so it was pretty fun. The girls are working on their Bronze Award which we should finish by this year - quite a few of them want to continue but Tyler will be going to YW in January - I don't think I have the energy to do it anymore. Plus with the boys coming up to Cubs it's a bit too much. It is sad to me the church doesn't support Girl Scouts like they do Boys - but don't get me started :)
Tomorrow is busy too - Mike has an early church meeting, then I have choir, I'm also playing a flute solo in Sacrament - the bad part is they asked me just last week, the good part(s) are - it won't be too hard and since I don't have an accompaniment, if I mess up, no one will know - ha ha! I also started practice for the Stake Bell Choir - it is fun but every Sunday night until Christmas is tough.
Now I'm making pumpkin bread (I made Christina's pumpkin chocolate chip cookies earlier in the week - yum yum!!!) for RS tomorrow. We're having our VT Conference so all of us in the presidency are making bread for the sisters - should be yummy. Well I'm off to tell kids to get ready for bed! Have a great day!
Thursday, October 11
Happy 100!
Wow - this is my 100th post - I wouldn't have thought it back in March when I started-
I've been in a busy cycle lately
Just to start - I must say Middle school is very trying...Tyler is doing a great job - but it is very hard. She wants to get straight A's but - and this is very cute - she'll come home saying, I did great, I only missed one or two answers - but hello - if there are only 5 or 10 questions on a quiz or test - you aren't going to get straight A's honey....
Secondly - my mom is here - mostly to help my grandma but she stays with us - my grandma by the way is home from the hospital which I'm grateful for - she did lose 3 toes however - but she sure is spunky. My mom is a good help with the kids but you know when you aren't on your own it's just a little more to do in your day. (meaning - I can't pass out on the couch on the middle of the day when I want to!)
Third - Mike is still working about 70-80 hours a week - I'm so tired of every night him coming home just to go into the office for a conference call in Asia. So I do all the homework and food and baths and carpooling and.... and...and
Then lastly I'm just crazy with my regular stuff - still 2 days of speech therapy for Lucas, church calling, 2 days of preschool, 2 days of physical therapy (hooray I graduate next Tuesday!) but I did keep my ceramics class - when they fire the last batch I'll bring them home and take pictures and post them. I got to throw on a wheel last week and made a cup! I love it!
Last week is a blur now - I know I had a mall trip, lunch with Linda, bunco, a visit to my grandma and lots and lots of driving of children around - soccer, football, dance, dance, dance.... I must sound like a broken record - but sometimes I feel like writing it out makes it slightly more sane! I hope everyone else is doing well with all their activities!
Friday, October 5
Thursday, October 4
Darn
So I had Bunco at my house last night and got out my cute Halloween decorations and had my camera out and totally forgot to take pictures! Oh well.... we also decided to have a spur of the moment Couples Bunco night on Friday night so we'll see if I can remember to take pictures to post that night.
Today was a good day - my mom & I along with Lucas went to visit my grandma in the hospital - she lost 3 of her toes (instead of 5) and she is doing so well! She is even walking with a walker already - I just hope she continues her good rehabilitation and that her toes heal without infection. She is 85 and is doing really well. Lucas was really good - I brought along those color wonder books and he was thoroughly entertained for almost an hour.
Tonight I got to go to a Stamp Technique class (I sell Stampin' Up! but only to my close friends - just kidding) it was fun - I'm more of a hobbiest and for the last couple years have sold cards in sets for Christmas gifts - so I went to my upline's house for a class tonight - it is always nice to have a night away - except my poor mom was the one that had to watch the kids because Mike just walked in the door at 10pm....
Today is my brother's birthday - My brothers are a bit younger than I am - they don't have kids yet, but Gavin is married - it was hard growing up because I was always the odd man out because I was older and there were two of them - always hard with 3. When my brother first got married they lived in the town just over and it was so fun because he had afternoons off and we could go eat or he'd come see the kids sports on the weekends - but now they live 45 mins away and they work all the time so we never see them. We miss him - like tonight for his birthday the kids would have loved to go out and visit him but oh well...
The chores chart is working out well now into day 3 - they almost fight to do the bigger point chores - like taking out the trash and putting dirty dishes into the sink - it's pretty funny. We'll have to see how it goes...hope all is well!
Today was a good day - my mom & I along with Lucas went to visit my grandma in the hospital - she lost 3 of her toes (instead of 5) and she is doing so well! She is even walking with a walker already - I just hope she continues her good rehabilitation and that her toes heal without infection. She is 85 and is doing really well. Lucas was really good - I brought along those color wonder books and he was thoroughly entertained for almost an hour.
Tonight I got to go to a Stamp Technique class (I sell Stampin' Up! but only to my close friends - just kidding) it was fun - I'm more of a hobbiest and for the last couple years have sold cards in sets for Christmas gifts - so I went to my upline's house for a class tonight - it is always nice to have a night away - except my poor mom was the one that had to watch the kids because Mike just walked in the door at 10pm....
Today is my brother's birthday - My brothers are a bit younger than I am - they don't have kids yet, but Gavin is married - it was hard growing up because I was always the odd man out because I was older and there were two of them - always hard with 3. When my brother first got married they lived in the town just over and it was so fun because he had afternoons off and we could go eat or he'd come see the kids sports on the weekends - but now they live 45 mins away and they work all the time so we never see them. We miss him - like tonight for his birthday the kids would have loved to go out and visit him but oh well...
The chores chart is working out well now into day 3 - they almost fight to do the bigger point chores - like taking out the trash and putting dirty dishes into the sink - it's pretty funny. We'll have to see how it goes...hope all is well!
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