Monday, March 31, 2008

I'M ALIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Barely. I survived Spring Break. I never thought I would, but I did. I have missed blogging and I am very behind. Chris' sister Dana and her 5 kids came to visit us for the week. That is alot of kids in my house! They all get along great, but it was a little nutty at times. Dana and I managed to get away without kids a few times. We went shopping at a few places and then to the mall a couple of times. Very fun.


For some reason, they would not go outside and play. Drove us crazy. It was a beautiful week, but no, they would hover around the computer, play Guitar Hero or just run around like a screaming bunch of Banshees, oh wait, that was us. No we had a fun time, really. My MIL and FIL came on Thursday and Danas husband Richard came to join the fun on Friday. So in case you lost count, that is 17 people in my house!!! '


Saturday, we all took the kids to the movies. SOme of us went to see 10,000 BC and the rest of us went to see Horton Hears a Who. Very cute movie. I would have rather of seen The Other Bolyn Sister, but I dont think that I would be eligible for Mother Of the Year if I took the kids to see that movie, now would I?

Later that night all of the adults went to dinner. It was fun to get out and spend time together without a bunch of cute snot nose kiddies in our faces.


Today I pretty much have been doing laundry up and out the Wazoo and cleaning up. I also went to Target. I was having some withdrawals from that place. I think they missed me also! It was very nice sending the kiddies out the door this morning. It was NOT nice getting up so dangh early though! After a week of sweet slumber, it was very rough rolling my rump out of bed. I for sure was not Miss Merry Sunshine this morning. Very crusty indeed.


Well I need to get going on dinner. I am going all out today. We are having some nasty dinner in a box for sure! I have not gotten my cooking wings back! Have a great night.


Monday, March 24, 2008






I was tired of seeing my last post and even though nothing too exciting is going on right now, I will post anyway. So grab that big old gallon of caffeine, because after this you will need it!


This weekend was actually pretty fun. Chris and I had 2 date nights this weekend. Friday we went out to eat and then to the mall---I Know-shocking! Not Chris' most favorite place to be. He always says that he would rather get an enema in public then to go shopping. Whatever.

He went willingly this time since Saturday he was making us go to his work party. Usually I am up for a party, but I was dreading this one. I am a jeans girl and other then church attire, I dont really have a fancy event wardrobe. I was able to pick out a dress, cute necklace and some HOT red 4inch heels to wear. They were so cute, but I felt like a total dork, walking in them!! Here is this 6 ft chick walking around in 4 inch heels and RED also. Oh well. I am glad that I have a tall husband so I could get away with it.


Saturday we just did outside stuff, got my nails done ( hate that) and then to the party. I felt bad leaving the kids 2 nights in a row, but they did great. Saturday Chris and I didnt even get home until midnight. Dallin had then all in bed by the time we got home. It is great having built in bbsitters.


Sunday was a great day. The kids got up and found their treats that the Easter Bunny left and we had dinner at Hollys. I hate posting this, but we didnt even go to church today. I felt horrible all day. We NEVER just miss church for no reason, but today we did. We just couldnt get up and going. We will probably all rot in you-know-where.


Today is the first real day of Spring Break. Can I just tell you that if today says anything, it is going to be a LLLLOOOOONNNNNNGGGGGGGGG week for me. I hope I am alive at the end of the week to tell about it. This is just a taste of what my summer is going to be like.


We were going to go to Vegas this week, but decided not to. Chris' sister Dana and her kiddies will come for a few days and then his parents will come this weekend, so that will be fun. A house full of 11 kids! What could be better?
Well I hope every one had a great holiday.

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME TODAY??????!!

My food intake today:

Slimfast shake
whopper with cheese and fries, Diet Coke
HUGE handful of M&Ms
Large taco salad (hey, at least it is a salad)
1 more LARGE handful of M&Ms
Diet rootbeer

Which one of these is not like the other????? LOL

If it is true the you are what you eat, then I am a 6 ft tall pile of crap.

I am sure it because I have had a stressful and sad day today. I feel mentally and physically drained. Today I attended the funeral of a couple in our wards baby daughter. She had been in the hospital her whole 2 months of life. She was a sick little girl who couldnt overcome her illnesses. It was a beautiful service. They had a musical number of the song "Walk tall your a daughter" I guess it was the song that her mommy sang to her all the time in the hospital. I lost it! I was almost to the "ugly cry" I had to pinch myself so I wouldnt make a spectical of myself.
Really beautiful. Brooke, you guys did a great job if your reading.
Anyway, it made me want to run home and kiss my sweet babies and just sit and love them a little more today.

Well ok I need to get out of my fog and get something done today. I have my washer guy coming tomorrow. Oh goody, I get to sit home and twiddle my thumbs from between the hours of 8-12! Wish me luck!!

Tuesday, March 18, 2008


I HAVE A NEW NIECE!!
My brother Ken and his wife had a new baby last week. Her name is Abigail Artha. Isnt she cute?? I wanted to post earlier about her, but since nobody knows how to email or send me pictures, I had to steal this one off of my sisters blog.
Wow! Pink. That is a color that I never get to have at my house :(

Monday, March 17, 2008

Your Leprechaun Name Is:
Tweedle Potfiller
I saw this on Crazymamas blog and thought it was too funny. I must say that the name is quite fitting, since the pot that I am always filling is my belly! :)

Saturday, March 15, 2008

BROKEN WASHERS, AWARDS, AND SICKNESS...................OH MY!!!


So can I tell you how Manson my week has been?????? It has taken every ounce of self control for me to not hop back on an airplane for another girls week away. I have been talking to my sisters this week and we have all been saying..."a week ago today we were this or last week at this time we were here" etc...... but I instead am being a taxi driver, nurse, maid, chef and all of that fun other stuff. Hold on a minute while I find a HUGE container for all of my joy!! Just kidding. I wouldnt have it any other way. I was thinking this week to way back when (in the time of the dinosaurs) to when I was in 5th grade. I had a teacher who asked each of us what we wanted to be when we grew up. I told him "a model or a mom". Well since I didnt get the butt or face of a super modle like Giselle. I was blessed to be a mom. Ok, back to what I was going to originally post about. I swear I think I have blogger ADD. :)


Yesterday I went to the younger boys school for an assembly. Landon and other kids were awarded for showing Honesty at some point of time this month. It was cute. They had a slideshow and a speech from the principle and that was it. Loved it that it was short and sweet!



He looks thrilled


I have also had the pleasure of making 2 trips to the Drs office and 2 equally exciting trips to Walmart for prescriptions. Hayden has strep throat and Dallin has a sinus infection. Hopefully this will be the end of all the nasty cooties at my house! I snapped the picture of Hayden at Walmart while we were waiting for our drugs. I still had my camera in my bag and I am sure I looked like a total dork taking the picture, but who cares.
Hayden taking care of his "feminine needs"
This week my lovely Kenmore front loader (Sears bites the big one!) decided to take a little vacation on me. I called Sears to come out and fix it and of course they cant come until next Thursday!! Of course they cant!! They are too dang busy fixing all of their CRAPPY appliances! Ok, I got that rant out of the way! I am sure it will cost me an arm and a leg. I told Chris that if it is going to be costly, I want a new one!! I have only had it a couple of years, and it wasnt cheap, but I have not liked it one bit! We will see what happens. Well I am off to get clothes and stuff ready for church tomorrow. Ours starts at 9:30, and me not being a very gracious early riser, needs to get as much as I can done the night before.. I just got off the phone with my sister and they are coming out for a visit with my mom in April. Yeah! I am excited. Well have a great night.














Monday, March 10, 2008


I have spent way too much time trying to get these pictures in the right place in my last post, but I cant get it. GGRRRRRRR! Her are some of the pictures from the weekend O fun!
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Swap Meet Fozen bananas



Back to Life, back to reality........................

Gotta love the 80s for providing a song for every moment of life! LOL


We had so much fun this past weekend, but I am EXHAUSTED!!!!!!!! We went non stop! Good times though. This is my 8th or 9th year going and I am so lucky to have Chris here to take the days off and take over my duties! They had a great time also. They told me that they had a "multicultural" weekend, pizza one night, Indian another, Vietnamese on Saturday and yesterday they made tacos. I dont think I was missed one bit.

I will try and briefly recap all of the shopping festivities. First of all the girls that go on our yearly trip are: Julie and Laura (my sisters) Kathleen and Liz (twin sisters) and Debbie.

Kathleen keeps us in stitches the whole weekend. I think she is the funniest person in the world. This girl needs her own reality show or talk show. I have known her since I was 11 or 12 years old. She use to tell me and my sister Laura that when Aunt Flo finally came to visit us, she was going to throw us a "coming out party" We were mortified. When that day finally came, we made my mom swear that she would not tell ANYONE! We really thought she would throw a big party. Pretty funny when you look back at it.


Thursday we ate dinner at Outback, I know it is nothing fancy, but it is our tradition and then we headed to a mall. I cant remember the name of it. We went back to the hotel and hung out and visited with each other.

Friday we headed to LA to the Garment or Fashion District. I think it is also called Santee Alley. It is basically a swap meet with stores. Pretty scary really, but some of the girls picked up some fun purses and bargains. We then headed to our favorite place, Fashion Island and ate at the Cheesecake Factory, we wanted Pf Changs, but the wait was 3 hours. I dont think so. We then went to South Coast Plaza Mall for more shopping. See what I mean by go go go????


Saturday we headed to the OC Swap meet for a couple of hours. It is another one of our yearly traditions. We love to go there and eat the Frozen chocolate Bananas. So yummy. We then headed to Fashion Island and had PF Changs. We were thinking about a movie, but were way to dang tired!

Sunday was the day we were all dreading! It is always so depressing thinking that we have to go another year before our next trip. It does go by fast, but still sad. We are not allowed to remind each other about how may more days or hours we have left before we have to go home, but you cantbut help think about it.


So one of the most important things for me to do on this trip besides find me some good booty jeans was to go to Sprinkles. I was tired of hearing about how wonderful this place was so we went. We were so shocked to see how many freakin people were standing in line for these things! The line was out the door and then some! I am sorry to report, that they are not all that! They kind of tasted like normal cupcakes. I did like the Red Velvet with Creme cheese frosting. It was pretty good. I am glad that I can say I did it and got that out of my system.


Well today I stayed home and did a buttload of laundry and got right back into my motherly duties. Oh the joy!! It is good to be home and I am excited to catch up on al the blog action. have a great night!










Wednesday, March 05, 2008




I'm Outta here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!






Well almost! In about 24 hours I will be leaving on a jet plane. Party! After a crazy morning like todays, I am more then ready! My body and mind need this vacation. Oh, I am sure you are asking yourselves "what is fun about going away on a girls long weekend"?! Surely it cant be the 3 lovely nights of uninterrupted sleep, or the quiet lunches and dinners without a bucket o toys and snacks in your purse to entertain your perma-lunch buddy. Or it most difinitely cant be the shopping without a honkin double stroller!---naaaaa! Dont get me wrong. I have a great life. I love my family to peices. (most of the time) LOL I am sure I will miss them and will be ready to come home by the end of it, but dang, tomorrow cant come any faster.




I have been busy doing laundry, making sure there is adequate food, diapers, and all of the necessities here so Chris wont have to worry about all of that. I am so blessed that I have such a great hubby. Each year he takes the time off of work to to be home with the kids so I can go. I am a lucky girl!

Not much else going on here. This past weekend Chris had a Klondike Derby campout with the scouts. They had a good time, it was Butt cold, but they all survived! So did I. :)


Sunday my friend Josie and her cute family came to visit. Josie is the sister to Ali (on my sidebar). Ali use to Bbsit for me way back when. Now they are both moms, and we are all good friends. Since I am not quite old enough to be thier mom, they have always been nice enough to say that I am like thier "big sister".


Well I am off to clean up after the morning hurricane. Good times, good times!