Lonely lookin' night

Do you know what song that is?

Since I am leaving for Women's Conference tonight, Mike has had to pile up work. Yesterday he worked from 5am and got home at 10:30pm.

I don't do well by myself that long.

I cut my bangs even shorter than the trim I had done the week before, and I picked my face.

Today is not a good face day.

The headstone

While we are at it

This is a grave Jeffrey made for a dead mouse he had found.
Katie, Savannah and Parley dressed up. (I think P's outfit is for a girl)
Handsome boys I get to be around, and cute puppies.
It is in the genes.

He is such a stud! Looking off our back deck.

Savannah was being quite the turkey for these so there were a couple of times she was giggling and we realized it was because she had crazy faces in the picture.

Here they are!

I just realized that there isn't one of Katie and Michael, so we will have to get that at her baptism. Also, I really wish I had chosen a different shirt. There were a couple that it looked like I was pregnant because of the way the wind billowed it, not okay when I am not preggers.

Family Pictures

Update

Last week was a good week.

I asked Mike what I could do for him for the week and he said "Get rid of the puppies" So I added something and decided to not complain about football. Monday we spent 40 minutes at Walmart and got rid of the puppies (I was sad) and I did great not complaining about football. Me not complaining always makes for a good week.

Friday night Dad and Rosa came to visit, they got in late. We woke up Sat and went GS for a while then we had family pictures. My friend was nice enough to come do it for us. I wanted to do something a little more formal this year and have them taken at the temple. (Can't compete with the temple grounds). Afterwards dad took us to lunch then they headed home. It was a short visit, but nice. Our first overnight guests!

Mike had a game last night so we left here about 3:30 and got home about 9pm. It was long and started out as a beautiful day, ended as bitter cold wind.

Now today we have talks in church, so this means I wrote 4 talks throughout the week, and Mike wrote his this morning...unfair.

I think the kids will do great, they have theirs memorized. Mike will do great...he can give a talk out of his head, never looking at paper, have it be a great talk, and long. I have a huge zit on my chin from stress about this. I am prepared, but who knows how long I will speak for. I guarenteed (okay, can't spell that) Mike 10 min between the kids and I.

I'm gonna wash that soap right out of my mouth...

The other day we were driving and Katie started singing...normal. The song she was singing I had heard before, but one of the words she was saying definatly was not the word I heard on the radio. The song went....The party .... connected to the stayin' out all night long. I thought I heard her wrong, so I asked her to repeat herself, and she did. Then I repeated it too see if what I was hearing was what she was saying...sure enough.

"The party bong's connected to the stayin' out all night long....

I laughed and told her what the word really was.

A couple days later we were again in the van driving a long and Jeffrey made Katie mad so she said "Jeffrey you F word"

Mike and my mouths dropped. I asked her what the F word was and she said "Freak". Mike and I told her never to say that again.

Today I told Jeffrey it was time to do a chore and he said "What the hell" Yep, he said it! I know that he has never heard it at this house. Luckily Mike was right there again and we explained never to say that...and he got soap.

Tonight I was singing "Old MacDonald" to Parley and said "Here a moo, there a moo, everywhere a moo moo" And Savannah said "Mom there isn't a moo moo everywhere." I thought I was singing it wrong or something so I asked her what she meant and she said "Well, there's not a moo moo in the road or in our house."

What is up with these kids?

I remember twice getting soap in my mouth. Once I don't remember why but I think I was about three because we lived in NY. But I do remember having it in my mouth, and teeth marks.

The next time I was 7 or 8 and all of us girls were in the bathroom brushing our teeth and Julie was practicing whistling and I couldn't handle the noise and yelled "SHUT UP" Yep, got soap. Other than that, I honestly don't think I said even stupid, shut up..or anything.

Then I got married..

Okay, I really don't say bad words now, but stupid is in my vocabulary, and freaking. And this past volley ball season a very naughty word that started with sh and ended with it slipped out. The bad thing was, someone heard me and laughed because she knows I don't say things like that.

Why do my little angels have such potty mouths?

Lessons

I feel like I have been the receiving end of many learning opprotunities lately. I am going to be able to go to Women's Conference at BYU in two weeks...it just happens to be the one week Mike doesn't have a football game so he can be the daddy day care.

I got a phone call today that I am being sponsored for a Breastfeeding conference in Australia..luckily they are trying to go green and it will be online conference.So I get to attend that in May..for FREE! It is 180.00 a ticket.

I get to learn the ropes and everything about Achievement Days for girls since I am the new AD leader in our ward. I haven't done anything with that since I was 11.

I am now 31 1/2 (I think...yeah) and still learning and growing. I never want it to stop. I think Heavenly Father knows when I have a little spare time that I can spend formally learning. I am so grateful for these opprotunities.

Trials

I have felt so much love from my Father in Heaven lately. Lots of Little tender mercies. General Conference was the spiritual boost I needed to go forward for another 6 months. I also really enjoyed sitting and doing nothing besides listening to it.

I have also seen how Heavenly Father gives us trials and hard times to help us and to strengthen us.

Why is it so hard to remember His plan and that he loves us more than we can understand in hard times?

Last week friends of our had their fourth baby. He was born with Downs Syndrome. They didn't know before he was born, so they are struggling with the new turn their life has taken.

My sister is having health problems, and has been for a long time. They finally found what it is, but it still means that she will be having symptoms for a while. She is so young.

I visited with a girl around my age who was married to a man for 8 years then the morning of their anniversary he died of a heart attack at the age of 34 leaving her to care for three children.

I try not to dwell on the trials in life, but this week I heard of a lot that people were going through. But I also got to learn a little lesson in faith.

I have this fear of my children falling out the second story windows in our house. So I have been only opening the windows if I am in the room. We had this tote that was in front of our window that Parley would stand on and watch the dog and her puppies. So one day I opened it and did things in my room, we were getting ready to go somewhere. When I was walking out the front door I remembered the window, and I felt the spirit say it was okay to go and leave it open.

Parley fell asleep int he car and I brought him upstairs sleeping and laid him on our bed. When he woke up, I came upstairs and he was on our bed, and I realized the window was still opened. My heart skipped a beat and I was a little mad and thought "I thought the spirit prompted me that it was okay" I then distinctly heard "It was okay, and if it wasn't going to be okay, I would have prompted you to close the window" Wow, that was a lesson in faith and listening to and trusting in what we are prompted. I thought I knew better than the spirit..oops.

I know that our Father in Heaven knows us individually and loves us more than we can comprehend. I know I love my children more then they can comprehend. Katie always tells me " I love you more than you love me" I tell her that that isn't possible.

He loves us, I KNOW he does.

Butterscotch Disks

Last night Mr. Mike and I had one of those rare opprotunities to go out on a date. He asked me and had it all planned, I just had to get the sitter. After our date we had to go to Wally World to get a shirt for him to wear to his first football game of the season. We looked at some Polo shirts, but they had pockets and looked exactly like the ones my Grandpa wears. We finally found one. Then we mosied on over to the candy section. I picked some out, and Mike debated about the Butterscotch disks...really does anyone eat those besides people who are over 80? I know he love old people and has his bi-monthly date with Virginia Houston (yes, her name is really two places) but to buy a bag of Butterscotch, that is too much. Especially after looking at Grandpa shirts. He had told me that he only had orange juice to drink that day before he came home, I think that is an old person thing too. We got to the cash register and as the nice little boy, yes, he was little, he told the couple in front of us that he only works a couple hours a week because he is still in High school. Mike was paying so I was standing a little back off, and as the little boy scanned the candy and said to ME...Do you want the candy left out? Why would he not ask Mike? Don't old men like candy besides Butterscotch Disks? So I nicely told him....No, put it in the bag, I can sniff it out int he car.

video

I think I got the video working so anyone can view it now. Hopefully I won't have any freaks stalking us.

Freckles

Today Savannah pointed to my freckles and said : "I am getting some dots like that on my face"

What can I say...I produce little Irish babies.

Can't wait

Mike was telling us about Priesthood session and how Pres. Eyring went to a funeral of a 14 year old girl, and Katie Said: "She didn't even get to date, how sad"

Yep

It's Official!

It is official, I am now a La Leche League leader!!

All the time and hard work has paid off, and I can now start helping moms.

La Leche League of Vernal

435-789-6108

Email: lllofvernal@gmail.com

Thankyouverymuch!

Otter Creek Homestead

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGKIwakoNnM

This is a link to the video tour I made of the house. It is about 10 min long, and if you are feeling queasy, don't watch it, it will make you feel worse.

Intentions

Hi

I had intentions of getting up early this morning and updating my blog.

Jeffrey heard me get up and reading my scriptures, so we read then visited instead. Then we went and woke up the girls. They wanted stories this morning.

They got stories of losing Beverly, Julie's tree story, and the Wizard of OZ.

So, no blog update.

Four nights spent in our new home.