PARTY! PARTY! PARTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


So today was the second day of school and we are all alive to tell about it! Things went rather smooth if I do say so myself.
Yesterday the boys all seemed eager and ready to get back to school. Dallin was up and showered and ready to head of to-----------High School. I cant believe it. It is so freaky to me. I remember like it was yesterday taking him to kindergarten and now he is thrown to the sharks. So far he is liking it. Poor guy heads to seminary at 6:30 in the morning and doesnt get home until 5:30 every day. He has football practice after school and he is drudging through like a real trooper.

Bowen headed off to Middle School. He loves to tell me about his day. He is so funny. he doesnt just sit and tell it all to me at one sitting. It is little blurbs here and there all throughout the day at random times. Cute kid!

Landon and Judson had good days also. Although I have to admit I was going to stangle my "sweet stubborn" child this morning. He insisted on wearing a sweatshirt today! UH! Hello ! It is freakin 105 here for the last 3 days! He said he wanted one just in case he got "cold" . I won the battle today, but I will lose many other ones let me tell you!

Yesterday after getting the kiddies off to school and dropping Hayden off at a play center, our lunch crew was back in action. We went to Tomatinas. This ones for you Christina----SO GRUB!!! Seriously. Such yummy food. It stunk though, becasue we had to sit ouside ont he patio becasue a larger party had already reserved the inside section. Did I mention that it is 105 lately!! Even the steady flow of the beloved "juice" did not help.

Today was just a layed back day. I watched Lucas while Holly was in rehab( sounds so funny). She brought back Chilis take out -yum! Other thent he usual taxi cab service it was a pretty chill day. Tonight we had night one of back to School night. At our elementary school they split them up. Gee thanks! Ilove to spend all of my nights listening to the teachers drone on and on about what to expect. I have been doing this for eons so if I seem bitter, it is just that I get bored going. I do like to meet their new teachers though. Well I am off to watch the Hills and Dog the Bounty Hunter--good times! Have a great night!


First day of school token photos. It is too hard getting them to all look cute in one picture. I need to take them seperately. Oh well Live and learn .
Mr Lawson getting into my plug in air freshener. Darn him!

Hallejulah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Hallejulah!!!!!

Can I say that I am one happy woman today???? In church today we got a new bishopric. Our bishop moved and today the bishopric was released and we got a new bishopric today. In other words, my hubby will now be joining me deep in the pits of psycholand during sacrament every Sunday!
After all of the hububb was taken care of they asked the old counselors to bear their testimonies. My sweet man bore his and asked the stake pres for permission to join his family in the pews. Isnt that sweet? It was wonderful. I think I actually was able to listen to the testimonies without having to kill anyone. Well almost. I had to hold my 7 year old in my lap all during church. I had to tell him that if he was going to act like a baby, I had to hold him in my lap. Was that mean??? It worked for the most part. We will see if I actually have to do that again next week. After church we had dinner, and then Chris took Dallin to the Seminary meeting tonight. I stayed home and entertaind the rest of the troops. We watched Ella Enchanted. It was the first time I have watched it before. It was pretty cute.

Friday, we went to Chucksters. My kids had accumulated well over 5,000 points over the summer. It was a true proud parent moment! LOL They came home with a bubblegum machine 5 cotton candy bags, a HUGE ball and a couple other things. Crazy. They had a good time.

Saturday, was a crazy day. Bo had his Jamboree and then we had a BBQ for the team. That doesnt sound like that much, but it was go go go all day long.
Well, I am off to go pick up and chill out for a while. We put the kids to bed already. They are not too excited for the earlier time, but they will just have to DEAL WITH IT! It gives me more time to relax. HEHE! I am evil. Hope you all have a great night.

Oh and 1 day until school starts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ok! So all of you make it from scratch, every day, all day kind of girls need to turn their heads for this post. I am about to plug a boxed meal. I have made this meal several times and it is pretty dang good! All you have to do is add the chicken. I comes with the pasta, sauce and a bread crumb topping.

I was wishing I had this to make tonight as I was trying to figure out something fast to cook in between picking up and dropping off kids all day. Crazy! Anyway enough of that. Try it. If you can believe it, this box a veggie and bread feed all of my brood.

So I am typing this while my kids are heading to bed and I am ready to wring their necks. DEEP BREATHS LINDA DEEP BREATHS!!!!

Today we hung out with freinds for our last little summer fling. Tomorrow I am heading to CHUCKS tomorrow with Holly and some other freinds. I have a huge stack in my diaper bag of chuck e cheese ticket paper things to turn in for prizes. My kids have been saving them all summer. Oh boy! I can hardly wait to see the boat load of crap they want to get. Last year we came home with 3 or 4 bubblegum machines and all sorts of other things. I guess it is better then, a little plastic toy here and there, that breaks or finds its way into my trash can when they are not looking. I know, I am a rotten mother.

Well I am off to watch Big Brother. It looks like a real rip snootin episode tonight! If you can believe it, my hubby is keeping it paused for me. He said that blogging was not a good enough excuse to keep it paused. HHHMMMM! I think he is a closet Big Brother lover! Have a great night.

YIIIIIIIIPPPPPPPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Do you feel my excitement with that word???????? I have officailly 1 week left till school starts. I have said this before and I will say it again, I totally have mixed feelings about it. I am totally dreading getting up and getting them out the door. So WRONG that school has to start so stinkin early!! LOL I am not a morning person, especially with Lawson not sleeping great still.
I do finally have them all registered. Yeah! I have 5 kids going to 4 different schools counting Hayden and preschool (if he gets that dang poop thing down!) Crazy.

Now on to our great weekend! Friday, of course, was High School Musical. We had the Woodwells and the Fishers over. Christine was putting together a Primary scrapbook for our Bishop who is moving and she needed help finishing it. It looks so great. We had yummy snacks and the kids all had a blast together. Of course towards the end or so the kids all ended up trickling out to wrestle or play on the computer. There is a picture here of all of the kids ganging up on the hubbys. I must say our men held up pretty well against all those kids. No broken bones or anything!

Saturday we just did some house stuff and Chris and some of the boys went to the SF Giants/Raiders game. They had a great time, but were a little scared for their lives at points. There are some HARD CORE game fans out there. I will go as far as calling them Nutjobs! Glad it was them out there freezing their butts off and not me. Landon, Hayden, Lawson and I stayed home for a little R&R--rest and retail! We went to Walmart and Kohls. Kohls was having some great sales. I didnt get a whole lot, but things for the boys.

Sunday, Hayden woke up with a runny nose and cough. Me being the giving and selfless person that I am, stayed home with him. HEE HEE! I guess you could say I was glad to stay home. I know that sounds horrible, but i just was not in the mood to wrangle the herd, for and hour and 10 minutes all by myself again. I will soon have my man sitting with me during Sacrament meeting. YEAH! Like I said earlier, my Bishop is moving and we are getting all new Bishopric. It has been both a blessing and nightmare to have him in the Bishopric this past couple years. Of course the nightmare is being alone with the kids trying to entertain the little ones and keep from wanting to strangle my "strong personality" child! I have a feeling that my days are numbered for me and my kush librabry job. Bummer for me!

Today we had a great time playing with our friends at the Gollmers gorgeous pool. She always has a yummy spread for us all too. She had CPK BBQ salad and pizza. I am busting out of my pants I ate too much! I hope everyone has a great day!


Wrestle mania.





Bea Jacqueline and Lawson for HS Musical







Boys taking over the hood


Pretty much one of the most cutest babies ever!!

So today has been a LLLOOOOONNNNNGGGGG day! It all started in the middle of the night. I am pretty tired. I feel like I am looking like the biggest hag in the world. I tried to take a picture of myself, but I am pretty disgusted by what I see so needless to say---No picture. My little man is waking up every three hours. Pretty much like clockwork. I did the Babywise thing from day one and he was a good sleeper until about a month or so ago. I feel like I am going on a one way trip to the looney bin if it keeps going on. I need sleep BAD!
It doesnt help that I go to bed late every night, but I cant help that. I have always been a night owl. I consider it my time to chill and not have the kids fighting, Nick jr yacking all day long on the tv, kids crying etccccc..... I am just thinking on feeding him whenever instead of every three hours and see if that works. I am pretty sure his chubby little cheeks are use to being fed every three hours. My bad!

On to the next gripe. The potty training saga. It is going pretty good actually. He is killing me. He is so independant! That is not a bad thing, but when you are learning to pee and poo in the potty you need mamas help occasionally. Yesterday we were at ------oh do I really need to type it? You know where I was--Chucksters. Hayden came up to me and said that he went pee pee in the potty and needed help zipping his pants up. When I was helping him I noticed that his pullup was MIA!! I kept thinking oh hell it is probably up in the tubes or on a ride or something. I asked him where it was and he showed me. I guess when he was going to the bathroom it ripped on one side so he just threw it to the ground. Pretty funny. I bought him a size to small and so they are hard to get up and down. My husband asked me if they were the "Europeon Style" pullups. Such a comedian!

Last night I went in to the bathroom and found that Mr Independant had tried to go poo all by himself. I kid you not, there was poop on my door and on my rug (threw that sucker away)and some on a big stack of wet wipes on the floor. MMMMM! Delish! My nice hubby cleaned and scoured that up while I threw him in the bath. Surprisingly there was no poo on him. Weird.

Well ok, enough of the potty talk. I need to go referee 2 kids that are fighting, hold a screaming baby and see if Dallin needs help making french toast for dinner. Love that he likes to cook! My husband is "working late" tonight. Yah! that is if you call golfing working late. I dont, do you? What is wrong with that picture? I know a certain girl who is going to organize another GNO baby!!!
Hope everyone has agreat night. SYTYCD finale and Big Brother is tonight. So excited.

At about 2 am I was laying in bed trying to get back to sleep after getting up with boy #6, I was reminissing about my carefree college days. Where did they go?????

I went to BYU and had a great time. I was only there for a few semesters (I took a break and ended up meeting my sweetie and never went back). I was thinking off all of the fun things I did and great freinds I made. I though I would just jaunt some things down before my old lady brain takes over and I forget all of my fun memories. This might bore some of you non-cougar lovers out there, or it might spark some of your fun college memories....

1. DT first semester. Good times, bad food!
2. Freshman 15 oh yah! With Little Caesars crazy bread down the street and Albertsons hot cookies (freind Trish Hibler had a car) I definitly packed on the poundage!
3. Hated walking to class! I had an early morning class Socioligy class that was all the way freakin across campus. It was sooooo hard to stay awake for that class. My teacher was Spencer J. condie who is now a GA.
4. Loved going to the Wilkinson Center and hang out. I loved people watching ( especially hot guys)
5. La Dolce Vita- yum. is it still there I wonder?
6. Ivy towers and all of the other "hot" dance spots.
7. Loved spying on my roomate Michelle who would ALWAYS talk on the phone to her boyfriend, now husband while on his mission. Can you believe it?? He would send her flowers and everything.
8. Fall. It was so beautiful. It would have been better if I had a hot guy to snuggle with.
9. Training table fries with cheese and their guacamole bacon cheeseburger. Yum.
10. walking across campus in the snow and ice barefoot, so I wouldnt slip and break my neck. I was too vain to have any kind of snow gear at all, so I just took off my shoes and looked like a nutball instead.
11. walking up "rape hill" Is that really what it was really called? I would try so hard to walk up it and not look like I was dying when I reached the top. It was quite comical. I honestly felt like I was going to die when I reached the top. Pretty sad.
12. Nu Skin. I didnt work there, but it seemed like everyone and their dog did.
13. 366E 600 N. That was my first off campus housing. It was called Richmond Court and it looked like a motel, not apartments.
14. Hated how everything closed so stinkin early. Being from Vegas, everything is open all night.
15. Loved how I could just hop on the freeway and be to Vegas in 5 hours.
16. Hated being pulled over near Nephi several times. Speed trap I tell you.
17. That scary Academy building. I think it is something else now, but that building gave us the creeps at night!


Well I could go on and on. I am sure this is a bunch of mindless hooey to some, but good times for others. Oh yah and I did go to classes and learn stuff too! LOL


What are your fun college memories? Where did you go to college?

Yeah!! I was tagged by my new blogging friend Wendi. This looks like a fun one so here it goes. .....

1. Who is your man? I have lots of men!!! LOL But my main man is my hubby Chris, or Hottie, Babe (which he hates).
2. How long have you been together? 16 fabulous years! I can honestly say that too!
3. How long dated? 2 weeks (yes, you read that right.) Engaged? 3 months (again, not a typo).
4. How old is your man? 33333333888888! I had a hard time typing that one. I am not too far behind!
5. Who eats more? I think he does, but I would definitly win out in the crap eating department.
6. Who said "I love you" first. I would have to say both of us.
7. Who is taller? He is at 6'3 and I am almost 6'.
8. Who sings better? Well if it were a Singstar competition, that would be me!
9. Who is smarter? He is. I did go to college, but to get a man. LOL
10. Who's temper is worse? Mine!! After being home with 6 kids all day, the patience is very thin!!
11. Who does the laundry? Me. But I get lots of help from the bpys. I have them bring me all the dirty clothes and they have to help put them away and sometimes fold. I have great helpers.
12..Who does the dishes? That would be me for the most part. Occasionally Chris or Dallin.
13. Who sleeps on the right side of the bed? Me
14. Who pays the bills? I did for the first 12 or so years and then Chris took over. Yeah haw!!
15. Who has bigger feet? He does
16. Who has longer hair? me
17. Who is better with the computer? He is. That is what he gets paid to do, but I can figure out alot on my own.
18. Who mows the lawn? Bowen and dad trims it.
19. Who cooks dinner? Me, but tonight Chris :)
20. Who drives when you are together? He does. He says I have a lead foot. I guess I do.
21. Who pays when you go out? It all comes out of the same account, but usually he does.
22. Who is most stubborn? Me. I get something in my head and there is no stopping me.
23. Who is the first to admit when they are wrong? Me. I am a peace maker what can I say?
24. Whose parents do you see the most? Probably mine.
25. Who kissed who first? He did. He asked me if he could kiss me. Isnt that sweet??
26. Who asked who out? He did.
27. Who proposed? He did.
28. Who is more sensitive? Me. Sometimes a little too sensative.
29. Who has more friends? Me. I am more of a social butterfly, then he is.
30. Who has more siblings? He does-6. Me-4
31. Who wears the pants in the family. I think we like to share the pants. :)

I had a great time answering doing this. I tag all of my freinds that just joined the blogging world. You know who your girls are!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I didnt realize that it had been so long since my last post. My sister told me she was tired of looking at the last post and said to hurry and change it. WHATEVER chicky!! When you get off your keester and make a blog of your own, then you can be boss!

So not much going on here. I think that is why I havent posted in a bit. I have nothing too exciting to post. That is unless you count yelling at your kids and wanting to go manson on them a few times exciting! No they have been pretty good. I can definitly tell that they are in need of getting back into their routine. They probably wouldnt admit to it, but I do!! The school countdown is on! 15 days 6 hours and 2 min. I am a little excited but thena gain I am not. I have had it pretty good. I usually get to sleep in. I wouldnt call it uninterupted sleeping, but I get to sleep in. That is the beauty of having some older children. They get to help out with the babysitting.

When school starts, then all Hell will break loose because I am NOT a morning person. Never have and I dont plan to ever be! This year I will have a seminary student--EEEK ! That is really early. Good thing I have already designated that one to my sweet hubby. Lucky man!

Well I had a pretty enjoyable weekend I must say. I was in need of a GNO and I got it. Friday a bunch of families got together at a park to hang out and have dinner together. Then the girls that were int he party mood went to the movies. We went and saw No reservations. It was a cute movie. It was the kind of movie that didnt require using any brain cells. I like those.!!!
We( as in me) pigged out on popcorn and candy and of course Diet Coke. Good times.
On our way home Christine and I saw a huge light in the sky. It kind of looked like fireworks, or a falling star. We couldnt figure it out. It turned out to be a Meteor shower. Pretty cool.

Saturday I went to Hollys stamp camp and made some cute crafts and just kind of hung out. My kids and some of the kids in the hood are in to Airsoft guns. So about 15 kids are all running around shooting each other. No coloring or playing dollies here- no way.! We get gun battles and wars and all of that fun stuff :(

Sunday we just went to church. It was actually not too bad. My kids for the most part resembled well behaved children for most of the time. I was able to chill out in the Library- best calling in the church in my opinion. After church a couple of families got together for some Karaoke battles. I should say SLAUGHTER, since that is what I did to all that dared to go up against me. You know who you are girls!!!!! I do have a heart and lost a couple of battles on purpose. I dont want anyone to think that I am to competative or anything! LOL

Well I will end this mish mash of a post. I was trying to download some pics, but for some reason it is not letting me download. I will have to make my computer boy help me. I do take care of his kids and clean his house for him, that is the least he could do for me right????? Have a great night!!

HOUSTON WE HAVE MADE CONTACT!!!!

Well at least Hayden has and it is with the potty!!! Yeah haaaawwwwww! He did it. I was beginning to think that I was going to be keeping him home from preschool this year, but now the future is looking bright!!!!! PARTY ON!
I have been pretty much keeping him naked all day and that seems to be doing the trick. Yesterday he kept escaping out the door alot running around the hood naked. It was a sight. He had his shirt on at least...oh and his boots of course. I am sure the neighbors think that I am a total whackjob, but oh well!

Oh and I am totally excited that they have a new PS2 Singstar out now. I think it came out a couple months ago, but new to me. It is Singstar Pop. I am zooming out to get it for sure today. So excited. I just wish they would make the 80s version one for the Us instead of just Europe. That would be the best. I am pretty sure I would outsing anyone who dares to go up against me. LOL

Well I just had a few things to get off my chest and now it is back to the old bump and grind. Have a great daY!!!!

YEAH!!! Psycho queen has come out of her funk!! I am a ton better now. Thanks for all your sweet words of encouragment. You guys are awesome. I was just downloading some of my recent pictures of my peeps and I ran across some of these cuties. How can you be in a fowl mood when you have these sweet things around you all day! Even though I am yelling at them half the time or cleaning up puddles of wizz all day pottytraining, it is aaaaaaaaaallllllllllllllll good!

I snapped this one of my babalicious man lounging with Lawson. When all of the other kids are in bed it is fun to just be able to hang out with Lawson. I snap the cutest pictures of them together at night.













Chris brought these boots home for Hayden hand he has them on 24/7!!! We are far from being cowboys, but I think they are the cutest things.



Mr personality. He is always making these goofy faces. Pretty hot looking ensamble eh???








Well I ahd better get back to my inlaws. Chris and my FIL took the older 4 boys to an A's game and my MIL and I took the other 2 shopping. I dont have a very good knack of decorating. It is just not my thing. I have a few pieces that I am looking for and so we went shopping around some stores, it was a lot of fun, but everyone is pooped!! Hope you all survive your Sunday. I should be good with some extra hands to help me. Goodnight!

HHHHEEEEELLLLLPPPP!!!!

Imagine a woman pulling her hair out, nerves shot, and on the verge of a nervous breakdown and you have a picture of me!!!!
I am sure it is PMSing, because I am not a depressed kind of person, but I have been having a bad few days. I feel like I am losing my marbles. Nothing in particular is setting me off, it is just a bunch of everything at one time.
I am trying to pottytrain and that is not working. He is "watering" all over the house and outside except for the toilet!! Driving me nuts. There is no way that that kid is NOT going to preschool this year so he is going to be pottytrained come hell or high water!!!
My inlaws are coming in tonight, so I have been trying to clean up and get stuff ready for them. My kids have been helping alot today, but they are kids and it is hard to keep them from making more messes.
Bowen started football and practices are 4 times a week, right at dinner time, so I have to be Chauffer Joe taking him back and forth to that, plus trying to keep the other kids happy and entertained.
Ok! I am starting to bore myself with all of this hum drum nonsense but it feels great to let it out!
On a good note I got my nasty hair cut today. She took an inch off and gave me bangs. I am excited to see how they work. I have not had bangs in eons, but I was starting to feel like my hair looked like Olive Oyls hair all slicked down with no personality.
Well I am off to rescue my baby who has been screaming in his swing for the past 40 minutes. He is so tired, but is too worked up to sleep. Hope everyone is having a great day! I am sure you all are after reading my depressing post! LOL

GOOD MAIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Can I tell you how excited I am that I got my first Good mail. Sweet Donna sent it to me. She is the best!
I actually got it the other day, but my camera battery ran out. It has been so hard to keep from opening this yummy candy for this long, but I wanted to get a picture of it before it ended up on my right butt cheek!!! I also got some great smelling lip balm. It is Pecan flavored and it feels so great on. Thank you soooooo much Donna for thinking of me. It truly made my day!!!!! Sorry for the cruddy picture. I realized that the picture I had taken had her address showing, so I had to crop it out! DUH!