Growing up Moments....

R's Mom told us a couple of years ago that these are the years that we make lasting friendships. It wasn't until this last weekend when we found out that our ward was being split that I realized just how true that statement is. Some of the closest friends that I have made out here are now in 2 different wards (they split our ward into 3 wards, kinda complicated to explain for those of you not in the area).

I have to admit I was really sad at first. It reminded me of when I was in Young Woman's and they split the ward that I was in. I had been going to Church by myself for almost 2 years (my family was inactive), and my friend's family let me sit with them during sacrament meeting. I remember thinking that I wouldn't have them to sit with and I wouldn't see all my friends on Sunday anymore it was unbelievable. I remember sitting in the car with my friend's family and crying the entire way back from stake conference. So the same feelings came over me a bit when I found out that our ward was going to be split.

I then realized that just as I had gone to a new ward in the past, with out knowing anyone, and having to sit by myself during sacrament, I could do it again. Only this time it would be easier, I have my own little family to sit with now. Although its rough at times with "Little Man" and "little Momma" I get to sit with them and R every Sunday. And there are some of my friends from Church moving into this new ward with us. Important to mention as well, is the fact that I have made friendships that I hope will last a life time, and longer. I will still go running with K, I will still have opportunities to go to park day (when we get a new car, or I feel up to waking up to drive R to work), we can still go to the FHE group once and a while, and I'll still get together with my friends to hang out and let our kids have play dates.

So all in all. I guess that I had a growing up moment, or saw just how grown up I am getting. Amazing.

things that I love in life

So as I was looking through the pics on my camera (and deleting a ton I have already uploaded) I realized I keep thinking I want to do a post that just has some pics of things that I love in life. So here they are, just some of the things I love.

I love my wonderful little children, and our weekly trip to the park as a family.

I love my wonderful husband for going to get food for a
spur of the moment picnic, While on a said trip to park.

I Love when my Wonderful Husband Surprises me with flowers!

I love this cute little face "little man" makes when
he says he is "cold" (in the 90+ degree weather)

I love "little mamma's" face when she knows that I know
she is up to something and hopes I don't figure out
just what it is she is up to.

I love this new recipe I found for a Black Bean Burger,
also signifies that I Love cooking.

Well there you have it, some of my loves, there will undoubtedly be more in the future that I post, but that's it for now.

C.A.A.D.D.

This was posted by a dear sister in my ward, I just had to put it up for those family members who I know will totally understand! So you sisters in the ward, please forgive the fact that you will have seen this already.


Recently, I was diagnosed with C. A. A. D. D.--
Child Activated Attention Deficit Disorder.

This is how it manifests itself:

I decide to do the laundry.
As I start toward the laundry room,
I notice that there are cheerios all over the floor
and my car keys are in the cereal bowl.

I decide to pick up the cheerios before I do the laundry.
I lay my car keys down on the counter,
put the cheerios in the trash can under the counter,
and notice that the trash can is full.

So, I decide to take out the trash.
But then I think,
since I'm going to be near the mailbox
when I take out the trash
I may as well pay the bills first.

I take my checkbook off the table,
and see that there is only one check left,
my extra checks are in my desk in the office/playroom,
so I go to my desk where I find a sippy cup full of juice.

I'm going to look for my checks,
but first I decide I should put sippy cup in the refrigerator to keep it cold.
As I head toward the kitchen with the sippy cup,
a vase of flowers on the counter catches my eye--
they need to be watered.

I set the sippy cup on the counter,
and I discover baby wipes that I've been searching for all morning.
I decide I better put them back in the bathroom,
but first I'm going to water the flowers.

I set the wipes back down,
fill a container with water and suddenly I spot the TV remote,
one of the kids left it on the kitchen table.
I realize that after school when they go to watch TV,
I will be looking for the remote as they fight over who lost it,
but I won't remember that it's on the kitchen table,
so I decide to put it back in the den where belongs,
but first I'll water the flowers.

I splash some water on the flowers,
but most of it spills on the floor.
So, I set the remote back down,
get some paper towels and wipe up the spill.

Then I head down the hall trying to remember what I was planning to do.
At the end of the day:
the laundry isn't washed,
the bills aren't paid,
there is a warm cup of juice sitting on the counter,
the flowers aren't watered,
there is still only one check in my checkbook,
I can't find the remote,
I can't find the wipes,
and I don' t remember what I did with the car keys.

Then when I try to figure out why nothing got done today,
I'm really baffled because I know I was busy all day long,
and I'm really tired.

I realize this is a serious problem,
and I'll try to get some help for it,
but first I'll check my e-mail.
Don't laugh --
if this isn't you yet, your day is coming.

A's quilt

I have been going over to R's Grandma's house for quilting lessons. This is a talent that I have wanted to learn for quite a while, and one day I decided I would ask Grandma if she would be willing to help me learn. Grandma is an awesome quilter, she made a beautiful quilt for us when we got married and she has made some beautiful quilts for the kids when they were born too. I knew that if I were to learn from anybody, she would be the one to ask. Not to mention that it would give me time to get to know her better.

I have been enjoying spending time with Grandma learning a talent, a skill, that she loves so much. I think that it is helping us both out, in many ways, and we are having alot of fun as we do it.

After a couple of lessons on basic cutting, and trying out a couple of small blocks, we decided to jump right in and start working on a quilt. So I decided to make a quilt for A since we are going to be moving her into a twin sized bed (hopefully) soon.

Here are some pics of what the pattern looks like and what I have been working on so far. The pattern is in some really bright colors, I am doing it in some more pastel colors to match A's room.

Easter 2010

We started celebrating a couple of days early with an Easter Egg hunt at the park with a bunch of friends from church. It was the first egg hunt that either of them had been on so they didn't quite understand and ended up with no eggs. Thankfully some of their friends were kind enough to share some of their eggs with A and G.



Here are some pictures of our Easter of 2010.

G loved his chocolate candy. Here's something funny that happened when we were doing our own little egg hunt. G was looking around for eggs (now that he understood what to do) and he would open the eggs when he would find one. He kept finding ones with chocolate candies in wrappers. When he finally found one with jelly beans in it, he refused to get up and look for more until he had eaten every single jelly bean in the egg. He was stuffing them in his mouth by 3's and 4's. Guess he didn't want to miss getting any candy this time.
A had to take a pic with daddy. Isn't she so cute. Love the handsome guy in back of her too!

The Cake that I made (not as good as I was hoping for, but still cute).

We had an awesome day watching General Conference and listening to the Prophet and Apostles talks. We had a great brunch with some friends and then later in the day M made a great dinner of ham, deviled eggs, sweet potatoes and lots of other great food. We finished off the day with a slice of yummy cake.

I am so grateful for the reason why we celebrate this day. I know that Christ, my friend, my elder brother, and my Savior lives. I know that he loves us and knows us each individually and how to help us when we are going through the trials of life. I love him so much, and I am so grateful to know of his love as well.

What a Week

And its only Wednesday!

Monday I spent most of the day over at R's Grandma F's house. She is teaching me how to quilt, as I have wanted to learn how to for a couple of years. Grandma made us a beautiful quilt for our wedding and she has made cute little quilts for the kids when they are born. I am so glad to have such a talented woman teaching me this skill. I am making a quilt for A's room (we are getting ready to put her in a twin bed, and I needed some more bedding, so perfect excuse to work on one), it is going to be light pink with sparkles in it, with squares of fabric that look like ribbons spinning on it (in 3 shades of green). Thankfully I have Grandma helping me anytime that I get stuck on something or I do something wrong. I hope to be able to go over again sometime soon and work on it some more. I also hope that I will remember to bring the camera so that I can take pictures and post them. So far most of the squares are sewn together and I have completed 2 blocks of 9 squares sewn together. That is quite a bit considering how many of the squares are 2 different colors, and they are pretty small compared to some quilts that I have seen.

I went running, and did 8 or 9 laps, I did a total of 3 running, and the rest walking. It is so nice to get out there and get stuff done though! There are also some more sisters from church joining our group so I get to make more friends, I love that!

I have also started reading the Book of Mormon with the other sisters in our ward. We are going to read it all in 40 days. So I was up until 11:30 reading to complete the first 10 chapters of Nephi.... long night compared to my usual evenings!

Tuesday.... oh where do I begin??? its Not that I did much, for me at least, But poor G is sick. I think that its because someone... namely A let him into the bathroom and they were playing in the toilet water together (this was on Monday while I was at Grandma's house) Yuck! So I got a early morning wake up call to the poor boy barfing up the last nights dinner. I was following him around the house all day cleaning up after him. Not fun! Little stinker would not stay on the couch like I kept telling him to. That is what I get for trying to reason with a 1 year old I guess. By later on in the evening he had it coming from the other end. That I can deal with a bit easier since most of the time it stays in the diaper, but he was still sick. He doesn't have a fever and he is very active as though he doesn't feel sick so I honestly think that it is the toilet water.

I did manage to fit in reading the BOM again, and a shower! Its hard to do that on a normal day, I am so glad that he was good enough to let me get one in.

After R got home and let me sleep for a while, I went out and pulled some weeds. The neighbors have been out there quite a bit the last couple of weeks pulling theirs and it is making our yard look even worse, so while they were out there yet again, I figured that I should go out there and work on ours. I made sure to take some allergy medicine first and I am glad I did since I started getting all itchy while I was doing it. R took A with him to scouts so all I had to deal with was G (and that is why I adore R so much!), so G and I spent a lazy night eating delivered pizza and watching The Biggest Looser (I love that show, but I did feel a bit guilty eating pizza while watching it).

So far today, there have been 2 loads of laundry, but no more than that, from a sick G. He looks like he may be on the mend finally! I am happy about that. We spent a lazy morning watching the Goonies and Cars, one for me and one for them.

I do need to go read the BOM but I figured that I would update all my wonderful followers (not that there are many) with our (or mainly mine) week. I hope that I can go running again tonight, R is in training for work today, and that means that he should hopefully be getting home in time, but he also wants to go work on his web series too. I guess it all depends on when he gets home, and how G is feeling.

So I guess that is our week so far in a nut shell. Look for more posts on the quilt. I am having lots of fun making it, and hope it turns out well.

Running

I never thought that I would say something like this, but I am really beginning to enjoy running. Since the pain isn't as bad, and I now have an inhaler.

Last Friday, I was able to make it 7 1/2 laps around the loop. I ran 3 of them with out stopping, and I ran another 1/2. That makes only 4 laps walking of the whole time that I was there.

I tried doing it again the other day, I am sure that I could have done it, but trying to be a good friend I stayed with my friend who was having troubles instead. We did run a full 2 1/2 laps though.

I am so thankful to you wonderful friends, and you know who you are, who started this group and keep me motivated when I feel as though I will drop. I am finding that I am a lot stronger physically than I thought I was. I just need to keep strengthening the areas that aren't strong enough yet, And boy do I know that I have to work on different areas. It seems like every time I go, I am feeling pain in a new place, and the previous spot/s lessen.

SO needless to say, I am surprised that I am enjoying it so much.... I hope that I can make this a habit for the rest of my life. Here is to a new healthier, and hopefully skinny me.