For mothers day, my kids...
1. Nearly got in the fist fight during sacrament meeting at church and almost spilled the sacrament tray. It wasn't the little kids either.
2. Cried and stormed out of the room more than once.
3. Lost their church shoes.
4. Tattled
5. Fought with each other.
6. Ate all the chocolate they gave me.
7. Then promptly threw their trash from that chocolate on the ground.
8. Left a crayon on my seat in the car which melted in the 90 degree heat and left a yummy black pool of goo on my seat.
Aaah, another day in the life. Good thing I love those kids.
Sunday, May 08, 2011
Wednesday, February 09, 2011
Random fun stuff
We played kick the can for FHE activity this week. It was so stinking fun.
Cyrus bought me 26 cadbury cream eggs. The kids and I ate them all. Gross.
I love Facebook. I have vowed to stop letting it usurp this blog but it has been so fun to catch up with so much of my family. Two of my cousins are heroes and I never would have known but for facebook. One cousin is a medic in the army and he saved an afghan family who had acid thrown on them. The other is an inner city principal who has started a program to make sure kids in his school aren't hungry over the weekends and he has made huge strides in academics in his school. He was a national principal of the year. Plus also, my family is hilarious. Living in Texas has been a really lonely endeavor for me, but every day someone in my family makes me laugh on Facebook.
Sam rides his bike with no training wheels. He learned in about November. He loves it and we ride all over town.
My friend came over to make bread the other day and we yakked the entire day away. It was fun.
The other week at church I spied a deacon checking Carolyn out when he walked by. I almost put my foot out to trip him.
The end.
Cyrus bought me 26 cadbury cream eggs. The kids and I ate them all. Gross.
I love Facebook. I have vowed to stop letting it usurp this blog but it has been so fun to catch up with so much of my family. Two of my cousins are heroes and I never would have known but for facebook. One cousin is a medic in the army and he saved an afghan family who had acid thrown on them. The other is an inner city principal who has started a program to make sure kids in his school aren't hungry over the weekends and he has made huge strides in academics in his school. He was a national principal of the year. Plus also, my family is hilarious. Living in Texas has been a really lonely endeavor for me, but every day someone in my family makes me laugh on Facebook.
Sam rides his bike with no training wheels. He learned in about November. He loves it and we ride all over town.
My friend came over to make bread the other day and we yakked the entire day away. It was fun.
The other week at church I spied a deacon checking Carolyn out when he walked by. I almost put my foot out to trip him.
The end.
Jr high
So, I took Carolyn to Jr high for the first time last night. Really it was an elective information night but for me it was a shock to my system. Crazy things about last night:
1. There are almost as many children in seventh and eighth Grade at this school as there were people in my entire town growing up.
2. The kids who do sports have to go to school at 6:30 in the morning then school doesn't get out until about 3:45. That is a long day!!!!
3. I am way too young to have a kid in Jr high
4. Texas has an early graduation plan. If Carolyn does it she will go to college in 5 years.
5. Carolyn was literally the prettiest girl I saw at that school. Cyrus thinks we should home school.
6. Half way through the night, Carolyn ditched me to go hang out with her friends but then ten minutes later she was worriedly hunting for me. At least she still kinda likes me.
My girl is growing up. I love it and I love to watch her grow into a beautiful, confident girl but a big part of me wants to push pause because all of a sudden the days of listening to her pretend are being taken over by days of neighborhood boys showing up at the door to see if she wants to play football with them. I prefer the former but am warming up to the realities of the latter.
So, ready or not Jr. High here we come.
1. There are almost as many children in seventh and eighth Grade at this school as there were people in my entire town growing up.
2. The kids who do sports have to go to school at 6:30 in the morning then school doesn't get out until about 3:45. That is a long day!!!!
3. I am way too young to have a kid in Jr high
4. Texas has an early graduation plan. If Carolyn does it she will go to college in 5 years.
5. Carolyn was literally the prettiest girl I saw at that school. Cyrus thinks we should home school.
6. Half way through the night, Carolyn ditched me to go hang out with her friends but then ten minutes later she was worriedly hunting for me. At least she still kinda likes me.
My girl is growing up. I love it and I love to watch her grow into a beautiful, confident girl but a big part of me wants to push pause because all of a sudden the days of listening to her pretend are being taken over by days of neighborhood boys showing up at the door to see if she wants to play football with them. I prefer the former but am warming up to the realities of the latter.
So, ready or not Jr. High here we come.
Thursday, February 03, 2011
I already wrote this one facebook but just in case you still read this blog..... ok there probably isn't anyone who still reads this blog so this is more for my memory but...
We live by this neighborhood full of mansions. I mean literally. The houses are like 10,000 sq feet and a new one is going up. We drove by and Katie says. "Mom, are they building Hogwarts or something?"
Ha ha ha ha ha ha...
Here is an example of the houses in the neighborhood. The new one has a lot of turrets and towers though.
Sunday, January 23, 2011
This weekend, Sam and Cyrus went skiing in Colorado while the girls and I had a fun all-girl weekend here. Sam had a blast skiing and Cyrus let him eat so much junk food that he puked. It was boy heaven.
The girls all got their hair cut (pictures to come) and we went to see Tangled and ate out for dinner. We also hit the mall... they had so much fun!
Cyrus and Sam are back and we are happy to be together again!
The girls all got their hair cut (pictures to come) and we went to see Tangled and ate out for dinner. We also hit the mall... they had so much fun!
Cyrus and Sam are back and we are happy to be together again!
Monday, January 17, 2011
New Years
One of my New Years resolutions was to keep up with this blog better...
FAIL.
I will improve starting today.
The kids and I got sick for the first two weeks of 2011. They were thrilled to be home from school. Probably the biggest difference between TX and OR is my children's reaction to school. There they cried the last day of school. Here they beg me to home school them after every vacation. Alas.
We are still Harry Potter crazy around here. And still happy with daddy working for himself. We've still been playing and reading like crazy. And we've taken up Wii. Man that thing is fun.
Cyrus gave me back my camera finally. He "borrowed" it for about a year when we opened the first practice.
Here are some pictures... the pup is our dog Lucy. She is the best dog in the world. The kids are on the beach in Destin FL.
FAIL.
I will improve starting today.
The kids and I got sick for the first two weeks of 2011. They were thrilled to be home from school. Probably the biggest difference between TX and OR is my children's reaction to school. There they cried the last day of school. Here they beg me to home school them after every vacation. Alas.
We are still Harry Potter crazy around here. And still happy with daddy working for himself. We've still been playing and reading like crazy. And we've taken up Wii. Man that thing is fun.
Cyrus gave me back my camera finally. He "borrowed" it for about a year when we opened the first practice.
Here are some pictures... the pup is our dog Lucy. She is the best dog in the world. The kids are on the beach in Destin FL.
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