A year of bloggin fun!

Happy ONE year blogging! It's been a good year, I have loved sharing and recording our life happenings and trying and learning new things. Hopefully this upcoming year will be fun and exciting...but not too exciting!☻

Thanks for reading!

Swine Flu

So it's official...Wesley has the PIGGY flu! Our family will be on voluntary quarantine for 7 days (unless someone else comes down with it...then it will be longer) Poor kid is just feeling AWFUL! He woke up with a fever of 102.1 with a nice cough and congestion. I asked him if he felt like eating breakfast and he nodded so he got up and walked into the kitchen. He almost got to the table when he started to scream/cry..."I NEED TO LAY DOWN!" Then he stood there crying ...so I laid him back down and asked him what else hurt and he told me his tummy and his chin hurt.. When I asked him if anything was hurting he said "I don't want to tell you!" When it was time to get into the car to go to the doctors...he started whimpering and telling me he didn't want to move, so I carried him from his bed out to the car, from the car to the doctors and onto the doctors bed...which is where I took the picture. The doctor said his whimpering was breaking her heart and asked if I had giving him any Motrin yet...which I hadn't so she left right then to get him some. She came back, gave him the medicine and then finished the exam...with his history of Asthma she wants to get him on Tamiflu...which is basically liquid gold! Although she said...good luck finding any! So all of our summer fun family plans have been put on hold for a while. Well I'd better get my preschool/craft stuff all out and organized so that we don't get totally bored out of our minds!

Sounds fantastic, doesn't' it?

My TREE!

Sometime between last night and 6am this morning....someone decided to cut down our tree! I'm so glad that I moved out of the Ghetto...because this NEVER happened when I lived there! ☻How ironic!

Well believe it or not, I'm not too sad about it. I've always wanted to plant my favorite tree at my house, and there was no place to put it before...do you think it will look odd that the two tree's in the parking stip are different kinds?

Mily and Maggie

This is an old picture...I just found it on my phone when I was downloading all the other pictures.

My Mily Rose who has been terrified of dogs especially since one bite her a while back...is WALKING a dog. It happens to be a very good doggie of a very good friend who helped her feel so proud of herself....although that is the only dog she likes, she's still afraid of all the rest of them.

The new house wants...

I wish I could go on a HUGE shopping trip and buy everything I need and want all in one trip. But I can't afford to buy a camera, microwave, oven, dishwasher, fridge, washer, dryer, fence, window well cover, patio set and a new bedroom and formal living room set all at once.

My camera is dead...it's been a horrible camera anyway. Don't ever buy a cannon powershoot a630. It started breaking only a few months after we bought it and now it only works occasionally. Of course never when I NEED it to work.

The house we bought has a microwave built in....but it's broken. So we've been using our counter top...we would really like to have a working microwave where we are suppose to have one.

Since our fridge is black, the microwave we are going to buy will probably be black so we will need to replace the rest of the appliances. Our stove top is white, it works great....but the oven really sucks. It could have something to do with the big crack on the inside window

The dishwasher, besides the fact that it's white, doesn't dry the dishes...it's workable but annoying. When we get a chance to replace it we'll probably take it downstairs so the downstairs kitchen will finally have a dishwasher instead of a hole.

There's also another big hole downstairs where a small fridge is suppose to go, it would be great to have access to another fridge/freezer.

Our clothes washer stinks....no literally. We think water has leaked just outside the drum and has started to mildew and mold. But it doesn't seem to affect the actual washing of the clothes besides that it can't fit very many clothes in at once.

The heating element on the dryer seems like it's not as great anymore...after the full drying time, towels and blankets are a little damp, they use to be dry as a bone.

We use our outside toy box and the van wedged in as tight as possible to make a pretend fence/gate to keep the kids from going in the front yard. Although it's not fool proof they do escape every once in a while. Thankfully Rusty will walk around to the front door and knock instead of run into the street.

We have a death hole next to the house. As you walk around the corner of the house there is a window well with a good drop...it's where the black widow set up camp. I've seen Rusty running around outside and come way too close to that hole.

Our bedroom furniture is fine, it's just that we don't have enough drawers for Shawn to keep any of his stuff in them. We had to give his dresser to Mily since she now has her own room. Poor Shawn, the sacrifice he makes for his family.

And because this is a much bigger house than we use to have, we don't have enough furniture to fill it up. The formal living room and the entry way is empty besides the piano (with no piano bench).

Of course there are more absolute 'wants' on our list as well. For example, we just got a new BBQ but we have no place to sit to if we wanted to eat outside. We'd also love to have new light fixtures that actually let out a decent amount of light and window coverings for all the windows...I still can't believe they took all the curtains. It would be great if we knew how to get the swamp cooler up and running, the upstairs gets really hot even with the AC on and the basement becomes a freezer. The list goes on and on...can you imagine what the price tag would look like if I went on one big shopping trip...almost makes me sick just thinking about it.

Of course we are happy with what we do have and we will need to set some priorities as well as financial ability for the rest of that stuff...we need to get the death hole covered before we buy a seldom used living room set...but it would sure be nice to have it all!

Yes!

Tuesday was the anniversary of the day I said yes...when Shawn asked me to marry him. He had taken me up the canyon to my favorite picnic spot and every year on that same day we have made an effort to go back to the exact same spot and enjoy the day. Once we had kids it became a family fun day...it's ironic, we celebrate this day better than our actual anniversary! ...probably because we don't have to find a baby sitter! ☻ This year we started the day by going to the temple open house. It was a beautiful morning and it was so neat to be able to be in the temple with our whole family, especially our kids. We stayed behind in the sealing room and let the kids look into the giant mirrors that go on forever. I teared up a little walking through the bridal room with Emily....the room is fit for a queen! Then we spent some time in the Celestial room and let the kids look around. We talked about being back in that room for each of the kids for missions and weddings...Josh still hopes they call him to TEXAS on his mission!??? Anyway, it was amazing...I would highly recommend going to the temple open house. Click here for reservations, or here for more information about LDS temples.

We had planned to go up the canyon for the traditional picnic dinner that night, but the weather didn't cooperate with us. (big surprise!) So we came back down and went to Sears and bought Shawn his Father's day present instead! About 6 years ago Shawn got a BBQ for father's day from his mom and we certainly used and abused that thing and if finally died earlier this spring. We decided it was only fitting to wait and buy one for Father's day again!
Sorry the pictures has a finger print in the middle...I guess one of the kids had been playing with the camera.

Then finally on Friday night we got the chance to go have our canyon fun...gotta love traditions!

Now that the weather is starting to cooperate we can make a summer fun list again. Do you have any suggestions for us this year?

Proud of my boy

So last Friday was Josh's last day of school and his last day at Robert Frost. He came home with a stack of awards and achievements. I am so proud of this boy here is a list of some of his recognitions:

Spring Poem Award (burger king)

On time every day in 3rd trimester

On time every day for the school year

Outstanding performance, student of the month for September

Perfect attendance for the school year (fazoli's)

Perfect attendance for the 3rd trimester

Receiving academic excellence in math (apple bees)

Super reader award (marie callenders)

And there was one more, but for the life of me I can’t find it! Ooops, that’s what happens when you don’t have everything unpacked from moving yet!

It also pays to be smart...literally! He got 4 'free kids meals' certificates...heck yeah!

He was so worried about moving to a new house because he didn't want to be late or miss school! I'm so proud of you Joshie. Good job, you deserve it!

Style

I love finding things that look like crabs or has pictures of crabs on them. I especially love it when other people find things with crabs on them and buy them for me. I've had several people do this and I just think it is the neatest thing.

Isn't this such a cute shirt! It was bought in Oklahoma a few weeks ago...Gotta love friends who know you so well! Thanks.

I love my new neighbors...

Except not this one!

I wasn't about to get any closer so I could get a good picture of the hour glass on her belly. But we did get to watch her kill her mate the night before! Even though I was watching on the other side of the glass, it was still disturbing.

So I called a great guy his name is Chris and he comes out and kills them. If anyone is looking for a great pest control company I highly recommend his company. Black Widow Pest Control 801-638-4556. He was really professional and he does everything, not just nasty spiders.

She was pretty fascinating but I'm glad she's gone. Hopefully her whole family will stay away!

That was cRaZy!

Sheesh! Everyone says that moving is stressful, but holy cow...that was cRaZy!
First we started by just getting everything all boxed up. The boys had to take a game boy break with dad. Just living out of boxes for three days is crazy but pretty typical if you're moving... a big thanks to a few people who really came through with a ton of great boxes for us!
So moving day came and we had several amazing people from the ward show up to help us get the truck packed and within a few hours it was completely packed with only a few things that wouldn't fit. We spent the rest of the night cleaning the house. The kids spent the night over at our AMAZING friends and Rusty, Shawn and I camped out in our empty house. The next day we finished cleaning the house and packing the cars and then headed over to the new house. We were suppose to be out by Friday but the new owners of our old house were giving us until Friday night, Saturday morning. We were told the occupants of our new house would have moved out the day before (thursday) and that our loan would fund and record Friday at noon. So we were there about a half an hour before noon kind of hoping we could start unloading things into the garage or driveway. But to our surprise and dismay...there was a huge moving truck parked in the driveway. We were a little shocked...they had told us they would be out, so we didn't see this coming. We called our realtor and asked what the deal was and she found out that their house that they were moveing into wasn't ready for them yet so they weren't able to move out. That would have been good to know...also she told us that someone had dropped the ball and had not faxed in our closing paperwork in time to get the loan funded by noon. -- And that's when our piano mover called....he would be at our old house to pick up our piano in about 20 minutes. So we went and knocked on the door of our new house and they were very nice, they said that they had other arrangements and they assured us that they were "almost" done packing....they still needed to move the kitchen table, stools, chairs, couches, furniture, take apart the beds, TVs and on and on it went...but they were "almost" done! They also informed us that they would move everything into the garage and hopefully be able to come get it by Sunday night. Oh and we were informed the house was not going to be cleaned. When we told them we had a piano guy coming they told us we could go ahead and put it in the front room...oh and would we mind seeing if they would take their piano as well...so yes, I arranged to have their piano moved....and then I drove off to meet the piano guys at our old house. A few minutes later I get a text from Shawn saying that he was helping them move their furniture into the garage. We finally got word that the loan was officially recorded and stuff at about 2 or 3pm. By that time Shawn had helped them clean out a few rooms in the house and then started to unload our truck (which was still parked clear out by the street). Anyway long story...they finally got their stuff out of the house and into the garage by 6 or 7 that night. Our house was a disaster...we had originally planned to move our stuff into the garage and then take the boxes to the correct rooms from there. Every thing we owned was in one of three rooms...it's was crazy!And of course we weren't able to get the truck unloaded very fast so we ended up having to call and extend the truck an extra day (grrr). It was quite the stressful day. Emotionally and physically draining. By that night we had some beds put together and others just had mattresses on the floor and we just went to bed.

Now contrast that with today...a whole week later. WOW...A much better day. The house is mostly organized and put together. It feels so nice. I had a few great friends come help and an amazing mom stay for three days. Thanks so much! We love our new house and we are very excited to start getting to know the neighborhood a little better! It's amazing how quickly such a horrible bad day can all the sudden be a whole week in the past. Love how life changes fast sometimes.

Well we are certainly up for visitors, so come on over and check out our cute new house!