Well "girls weekend" is officially over. We had a great time. After I got my boys off on their way on Friday, it was clean, clean, clean for me. I was a cleaning fool! It felt so good to have my house spotless, (which is rare). I was exhausted. My sister in law Dana came in late Friday night. She was the first to arrive. We chit chatted for a bit then off to bed. Saturday we got up and dressed and headed to pick up the group from the airport. We first had to make a pit stop at the car rental place to pick up our "Babe magnet" 12 passenger van. We were looking so sexy in the thing. HAHA. It was actually kind of fun to drive, I must say. It was pretty funny when we pulled up at the airport. Dana and I had made a big sign to hang from the van that said OPPORTUNITY VILLAGE TRANSPORT. Anyone who is from Vegas would think that was pretty comical. After getting on the road back to my house we stopped at a sandwich shop to get some food. Were were hungry, but didnt want to get too full because we wanted to go out to dinner later. ( the first of many food feasts) Can I just say that we ate SO much this weekend. I feel like my fat rolls have multiplied! We were lucky enough to have Tyler (Hollys daughter) come and babysit Brennah and Addison while we went out to eat. She did a great job.

Sunday we were very naughty and decided to go to San Francisco for the day. I know, I know very bad. We did feel guilty, but we had a fun time. We went to Fishermans Warf (along with about a million other people in the world) and that is about it for Sunday. Oh yah, we did come home and make some goodies. We dipped strawberries and made Magic Bars.

Monday we headed to the mall and shopped for a bit. Keep in mind there was 7 women and 4 kids at my house getting dressed every morning, so it always took forever to get out the door.
We shopped for awhile and then later went out to dinner.

Tuesday, we headed to San Jose to the Valley Fair Mall. It is a huge mall. We had a great time, but we were all exhausted after. We were not able to fully enjoy the mall because we needed to be back on the road home to beat the afternoon commute. It is brutal and we wanted to avoid it. Came home and again enjoyed way too many sweets. Later that day my family came back home from camping. They were excited to see all 0f their visitors and they so kindly dumped all of their smoky, dirty laundry at my feet. Lucky me! We later left the kids home and went out to eat. Chris was lucky enough to eat with all of us girls.

Today, I got my kids off to school ( we all woke up late of course) and then we went to run a few last minute errands, a yummy lunch, and then it was off to take my family to the airport. It went by so fast, but we had a great time. I am thankful that I have such a great husband to take the most of my kids with him for the 4 days and he didnt even lose any of them and they all survived! Now I am back to realityville by doing laundry and dishes and all that fun stuff. I will try to get some pictures on this blog. Well I am off to bed. Morning comes WAY too fast. Goodnight!

Just breathe...........................................
I am running around like a psycho lady. I am trying to get my house in order for my house full of guests and get my husband a 5 kids packed and out the door to go camping. Yes you heard me..my 5 kids. My sweet husband is taking the older 5 with him this weekend. He usually has a "no diaper" policy when he goes camping without me, but he changed it so that I would just have the baby to deal with on my girls weekend. I havent had the energy to get Hayden potty trained yet. He is getting there,but darn it, it is so easy to just change his diaper then to potty train him. It will get done for sure by this summer, because I will not miss my opportunity to have him go to his firste year of Pre school this Fall. NO WAY!! 5 down 1 to go. Heeeheee. Just kidding. I will miss the little bugger when he is at school. He is quite entertaining.

I am scouring bathrooms, vaccuuming. and all sorts of decluttering stuff. you know, the stuff that really only gets done when you have people coming. It took awhile to get Chris and the boys going. After they FINALLY got on the road Chris called and needed me to bring the tire jack to him because the camper tire was flat. Poor guy. I think they are finally on the road.

Tonight I am bringing my friend Brooke dinner, she had her baby on Monday. It is her 3rd girl and I am sure she is too cute.

Well, I need to get cracking. If I stop, it will be way to hard to get going again. I am enjoying this peace and quiet. My family doesnt come in until tomorrow early afternoon, but I really want to get it done tonight. I will take plenty of pictures of all of us. It will be too funny all of us piling in to our big 12 passenger rental van to go places. Chris keeps telling me that it is my next car, so enjoy it. I dont think so!!! I did my time with a van. Dont get me wrong. I loved my van, but I enjoy my car now. Well I am off.......enjoy the weekend..

Happy Birthday Bowen!

It is Bowens birthday today. He is 11 years old today. So hard to believe. Bowen is such a sweet boy. He is so caring and loving. He is full of spunk and always likes to be the center of attention (in a good way). I always say that he should be an actor. Bowen is so lucky,he is also getting his Arrow of Light tomorrow. Such an exciting day for him. He was such a cute baby and such a tanker. You can see by some of my pictures that he is not your average 11 year old. He is so tall for his age. When he was a baby I could never put shoes on his feet or button his shirts because of his "paws" as I affectionately called his hands and feet. He never really crawled, but did the GI Joe crawl. So cute. I could go on and on about him. We are so blessed to have him in our family. Love ya !!BO BO!!

I needed to take a few minutes to vent out some of my feelings today. I sent my poor Judson off to school today mad at him. I hate doing that. I have always "tried" to send them off every day happy. I think that it makes a huge difference in your day when you start it off without your mean mother yelling at you over a sweatshirt. Yes, this is my little guy who tries my patience on a daily, sometimes hourly basis. He is SO strong willed. He gets it from me I am sure. Chris and I were talking about it last night as Judson was trying to eek out more time for reading when he was supposet to be in bed and we decided that we neeed to choose our battles with Judson and try to let some things slide. I guess between last night and this morning I forgot that as I got mad at him over something sillly. They were running late this morning and the other boys were outside ready to walk to school and he decides that he needs his sweatshirt. He is a sweatshirt addict! Of course neither one of us knows where it is and didnt have time to scout the house looking for it so I yelled at him for waiting to the last minute to do this. I have been so mad about it all morning. I guess the only thing you can do is try harder to be more patient with him.

Sorry about going on and on about that, but I feel so much better getting it off my chest. Today I am doing more laundry and cleaning. It really is never ending. I am trying to get things clean for my company this weekend. My husband is taking the boys on our annual camping trip with friends from our old ward. I decided not to go this year because Lawson is still little and it really wouldnt be fun to go with a little baby. My mom, 2 sisters, and sister in law are coming this weekend for a girls weekend. There will be a total of 8 people coming ( they are bringing their girls with them too). I of course will be the only one supplying the boys. We need to have some testosterone among all of the hormones. I am excited about it. We will probably be shopping and eating the whole time. We even are renting a 12 passenger van so we can all ride together wherever we go. That will be a sight.! Well I need to keep moving while Lawson is having a nap. I hope everyone has a great day!

I cant believe it has been so long since I have blogged. This week has seriously flown by. I havent done anything too exciting except clean, clean, clean and my house still looks like I have sat on my rump all week instead of clean. Oh well. It has been a really busy week also. We had 2 open houses to go to for the kids schools and Chris has had meetings and BAM it is the weekend again. Last night I had a girls night out. It was so fun. My friend Brooke is moving back to where else---Utah! Come on people, what is it about Utah???? I think that about hald of my ward has jumped ship and moved back to Utah. What do they have that we dont have here? Could it be that you can buy a house for half of what you can here??? HHHMMMM! I guess that is a plus. We will miss her. THis was kind of a going away party/surprise baby shower. She is having her third girl in about a week. We had dinner at an Italian restaurant and then some of us night owls went to a movie. We went to see Disturbia. Crazy freaky movie!! I liked it alot, but if you are a chicken and things scare you easily, then this movie is not for you. All in all we had a fun night.

Today we have spent most of the morning cleaning the garage. It was a mess! It will probably stay clean for about 5 whole minutes. That is the way it is at my house. Things do not stay nice and tidy for very long.

A few minutes ago chris took Bowen and some of his friends to Great America theme park for his Bday. My baby is going to be 11 on tuesday. I cant believe it! We moved here to California when he was 5 weeks old. Time has really flown by. This picture is of Chris and the boys(Bowen is in the green) on their way out.. They were so excited. I think Bowen is kind of excited to go without his brothers. Usually the older boys end up having the younger ones tagging along with them wherever they go. That is the way it is in big families, but today it is all about him and his friends. I hope they have fun.

Well I need to go take care of the rest of the 5 that I have home with me. I tild them that if they hurry up and do their chores we can go get a Slurpee or something. They think that is cool. Well I am off to the "ZOO" If only you could hear what my house is sounding like right now. Crying baby and 3 year old!! I think I am going to run away! Have a good weekend!!!

I really do know how to spell. I always hurry and post and never proof read. Sorry!

Today I am home cleaning my house. Something that I neglected big time last week. Too much Target/Walmart/mall, so today I am home. I have gotten quite a bit done today. I have cleaned my kitchen and scoured my downstairs bathroom top to bottom! Now I am going to hit my spare/crap room. Chris informed me yesterday that a couple of his cousins from Utah are going to be stopping through for a day or 2, so I need to bust my hump and clean that room!!

I had a great weekend. Friday I did the girls dinner at Cheesecake Factory, Walmart, kids to bed and just chilled the rest of the night. I survived the night without my big strong man next to me. I HATE it when he is gone. I get a little freaked out. The boys came home around 11 from the Fathers and Sons house and left a huge pile of smoky smelly dirty clothes. Lucky me!as if I didnt have a ton of laundry to do anyway. They had a great time. Saturday was a typical day of cleaning up around the house and yardwork. Saturday night I went with Holly and her inlaws into SanFrancisco to see the play Jersey Boys. It was a play about Frankie Valli adn the Four Seasons. It was fun and the music was great! When I got home everyone was asleep. Chris was soo tired that he just zonked out on the couch. I didnt want to wake him, so I grabbed the baby out of the swing and put him in bed and headed up to bed myself. It was close to midnight and I was tired.

Sunday Lawson woke up around 7 and Chris took him so I could go back to bed. So sweet. He didnt have any morning meetings which was so nice! The boys all made me breakfast of French Toast and Cheese Danish, and I opened all of thier sweet gifts. Church was awesome and then for dinner we went to Hollys house and had Tri tip, smashed potatoes, grilled veggies, salad, rolls and I made a Chooclate Truffle Cheescake. Such a great meal. I ate so much that you culd have rolled me home.

I had a great Mothers Day and am so thankful that I have been so blessed to be a wife and mother! I love my life and my family. Well back to cleaning. I did just say I love my life right???? Well maybe not the cleaning part LOL Have a great day!!

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!!

So I am sitting here all alone, enjoying the peace and quiet! It is our stake Father and Sons campout tonight so Chris took the older 4 boys with him and I have my 2 little men with me, and they are tucked away in nighty night land. YEE HAAA! I was actually very productive and folded and put away my usual mound of clothes. It serioulsy never ends and I guess I just have to deal with it. Tonight I met some friends at Cheesecake Factory. I can say for the first time in a long time that my salad was NASTY! I got the Santa Fe salad and it was not good at all. Such a bummer. We had a good time though. It was really cut because the girls I went with have daughters (Kindergarten age) and they were to cute. They were giggling and doing all sorts of little girly things, that I dont get to experience. My boys would have been playing with their food or something boyish I am sure. I will post pictures of our factory experience later).

After the boys left I sat and looked at all of the sweet little Mothers Day gifts that my kids made for me at school. They are wrapped so cute and they have been so excited for me to see them. I cant wait to open them Sunday. They really are sweet boys. I took some pictures of some of my early Mothers Day gifts. First of all I bought a really cute clock at Tuesday Mornings. I love it. I saw it there last Saturday and it was on hold. A clerk told me that it would be on hold until Sunday so if I wanted it I could call. I waited and called on Monday morning and luckily the lady never picked it up, so I hurry up and went and bought it. It goes really well in my family room. Yesterday I also got a nice surprise on my doorstep. My sweet man had surprised me by sending me flowers. I told him I didnt need anything because I have been buying some things for the house and stuff like that but he always goes ahead and gets me something anyway. I am so lucky!

I took these pictures myself........I know, I am sure you are all jealous of my photography skills! LOL Well I guess I had better go turn in. I bought a boatload of Tabloids to read tonight. Lyndsey Lohan and Brad Pit will keep me company tonight!! Goodnight!

It has been a couple of days of "Firsts" here in the Smith houshold. Today was a busy day. I feel like I didnt sit down for more than a minute and my feet are killing me. A LONG day in wedge sandals dont go together! Trying to be a hip and chic wannabe with 6 kids does not go hand in hand. Today started off really nice. I just took my time getting going thinking that it was going to be my fun Wed. lunch day. At around noon I hooked up with my friend Christine and we went to lunch. I had Hayden with us so we wanted to go "kid friendly" so we ate at Applebees. I really like their Chineese Chicken Salad. We then went to Old Navy to check and see if they had any good bargains. I LOVE a good bargain!. Of course there was none. My husband called me and said that I should probably call a DR to take Bowen in to see about his arm. I will back up to yesterday for a second so bear with me. I told you I am not a good story teller so I hope you can still follow me! LOL Being warm and summerlike weather, my kids have discovered their bikes again and have had a blast riding around the neighborhood for the past couple of days. I was reading some blogs ( of course) and the kids came running in saying that Bowen biffed it on his bike and he needs help. I guess he was trying to do some"sweet jumps" off of the curb and had a date with the sidewalk instead. His knee was all banged up and his hand was hurting so I doctored him up the best I could and that was that for the rest of the night. Chris having had many dates with crutches and casts in his lifetime had a feeling that we should take him to the Drs. I got him in today afterschool ( I will spare you the wacko details of having to shuffle 4 kids around in 15 minutes to be able to make it to the appointment on time)but we did it and long story not so short he is sporting a florescent(sp) green cast on his arm. That being the first of the firsts. Having 6 very boyish boys and this being the first broken bone ever is quite an accomplishment I think!

As for my next first, Lawson had his first taste of REAL food. I am not sure if baby slop really qualifies as REAL food but needless to say he hated it! You would have thought that I was poisoning him. It was pretty comical. I decided to put off the torture of my sweet baby a few more days. What a nice mommy I am.

My next first is that last night was "Hair trim" night. Lately all of my kids except for Hayden have been caught up in the long hair trend. It drives my husband and I NUTS. I am all for letting them grow it out sort of long as long as it is kept up neat and not nasty looking. I miss the days that we buzzed their hair and spike up the top. They looked sooo cute. Oh well. We usually take them to a salon type place, but that takes forever and it is like fighting a losing battle so we just trimmed up Landon ,Dallin and Haydens hair last night. Nothing major, but it will do until we have an afternoon to take or should I say DRAG them get a REAL haircut.

Well I know this was a long old post but I love that I am able to journal things down before I get old and senile and cant remember anything!! Well I am off to go read and hit the hay. I am setting aside the tabloids tonight to read my Ensign. It came yesterday and thanks to Stephanie she reminded us of all the wonderful Conference talks in there to read. Thanks Stephanie! Have a great night!

Not ready for Summer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am not ready for summer for a variety of reasons. First of all it is hot!! We are getting a good dose of what is soon in store for us this week. I think that today it is close to 90. !! I already have my air cranked. The heat and me hate each other. We do not get along. I am mean and nasty when I am hot, and I grew up in Las Vegas!! Go figure... I am also not looking forward to the summertime because that means that school is out. Dont get me wrong, I love my kids and do enjoy them for the most part (LOL) but I also like getting a little break from some of them during the day. I think we all appreciate each other a little more. Alright, enough complaining. See I told you I am a witch when I am hot...

It was a great weekend. We accomplished ALOT around the house. It feels great. Friday, my hubby and I did get a little time away together. That is together with our littlest appendage Lawson. He is our welcomed third wheel. We wanted to go to our favorite Indian Resaurant, but it was gone. Not there at all. So weird. We were just there a couple months ago and BAM it is gine. Now I have to find another place that has my favorite Butter chicken. So good. We ended up going to CPK and I got the BBQ Chicken Salad. It is very good! We hit a coule stores in the mall before it closed and back home it was.

Saturday we had a couple of ball games for the boys and then I came home and cleaned out some of the kids closets. I was on a declutter mission. I cleaned out 2 garbage sacks of clothes to go to the DI truck. It felt so good to have room in their drawers again. I pulled out about 20 shirts CRAMMED in one of Landons drawers. Chris and the boys did yardwork and put up a new gate in our backyard and that was pretty much our day.

Sunday I didnt make it to church. Landon had a little stomache bug, so I kept him home. It started Saturday and he was feeling better by Sunday, but I didnt want to take the chance of him passing it on. We got together with some friends from our ward for a little Sies De mayo celebration. It was sooo good. Since it was Fast Sunday yesterday everyone was STARVING so we pigged out. Everything was very good. Once again i missed a good photo op. I need to work on just keeping my camera with me 24/7. Well I am off to go fold a huge mound of clothes. Too bad it wont even make a dent in my laundry pile. Oh the life of a mother of 6! Good times! Have a great day!

I havent gotten too much accomplished today. The day is still young right????? Today was Costco day. I was tired of the kids saying "theres nothing to eat" WHATEVER! Then what is the pantry full of???? I remember saying that to my mom growing up. She would get so mad at us when we said that/ She would try to point out what there was and we would stick our noses up at everything. Poor mom. We were punks! Everytime she would ask us what we wanted her to buy we would say "food" and we she would say "what kind of food?" and we would say"good food" etcc. You get the idea- PUNKS. I am not sure I got enough "good food" for them, but $215 later! I am so scared for when they all become teenagers!! I love going to Costco. Not only do I eat a huge hotdog, but I manage to pig out on all of the taster tables as well. As Christina would say -SO GRUB! They were having all sorts of Cinco De Mayo samples. I would grab 2 of each thinking that Hayden would want some, but he wouldnt eat them and so his momma would eat them for him. The things we mothers do for our children. LOL

Today is Friday no cook day. I am not sure what that means today, since I have no plans. I am hoping that my sweetie will take me somewhere. He is not a very good date planner. It is usually me that has to initiate it, but that is ok. My kids are literally spread out all over the neighborhood att he moment. Dallin-golfing, of course, Landon at a friends house , Hayden is asleep on the couch(trouble for me later) Lawson is being Roller Bob on the floor and the rest are outside playing. So nice! Well I better go act like I have been more productive today then I really have been. I did d 2 loads of laundry, does that count??? Have a great weekend!!

I am sitting here enjoying some peace and quiet. I love the end of the school year!! The weather is great, it stays lighter outside for the kids to play and the kids dont seem to have so much homework. My kids are outside playing, Lawson is napping and my hubby and Dallin are at YM. So nice and peaceful.

Today I met some friends at Chuck E Cheese. Not very glamorous, but we had fun. I seriously think they have one of the yummiest salad bars. They also had Vanilla Coke, an extra bonus for me. It is so good mixed with Diet Coke. I pigged out on salad and wasnt very hungry for dinner. I thought "great, I could skip dinner and that would cut some calories" Yah right! Dallin made cookies after school and what do you think I have been munching on????? Not carrots, thats for sure. Oh well! Live a little right??

Well this is a short little post. I wanted to write a little before chaos and mahem begin!! I think I will sit outside and enjoy the cool breeze. That is a nice thing about the Bay Area. You pay out the WAZOO for houses, but you get great weather! Have a great night? I wonder who will get the boot tonight??? Any guesses??? I hope not Blake-awesome song last night!

Its good to be home!!!!!!!!!!!
I had a great trip(as great as it could be under the circumstances). I didnt get home until midnight last night. UUUGGG! One more reason why I hate Southwest Airlines> My glight was suppose to leave last night from Vegas at 6:55. My SIL took me to the airport and we were very late. I was nervous that I wasnt going to make my flight, and I probably wouldnt have but luckily it was and hour late. They then announced that the 7:55 flight was going to be CANCELLED, but we all could get on the 8:55 flight. Keep in mind that I am travelling with my little buddy Lawson. We boarded the plane for the 8:55 flight and all is well. I got Lawson to sleep we took off and was in the air, I was settled in for a quiet flight home-----NOT. We had an announcement form the captain that we had to turn around because of something not going up or down on the flight-whatever. I was soo mad at this point. Lawson was asleep and I was freaking out that he would wake up and ruin my "perfect " flight plan. When we landed back at Vegas there were -no kidding 10 fire trucks and 5 or so ambulance cars flashing their lights. It was kind of freaky, but I guess they do that for all emergency landing flights. Luckily there was a plane on the runway ready to go for us, so they loaded us up back on the other plane and we were off and running about 30 minutes later. I didnt get home until after midnight. My sweet little man stayed asleep the WHOLE time until we landed. I had some serious prayers answered!!!

Now I am back at home to reality land. Laundry, dishes etc. My trip was great other then both of the flights (my plane was an hour late leaving Friday also) Love you Southwest!! It was great to visit with family, I was able to get some shopping in Saturday.
Saturday we went and cleaned out my Grandmas room at her home. It was so sad. I teared up right when I walked into her room. I am grateful that we were able to spend some time with her a couple weeks ago. She was an interesting woman.

Her funeral was great. My sisters MIL was there and she was so nice to take Lawson for me so I could listen to the talks. I am so happy she did that. I was able to listen to the stories and musical numbers. Well I know I rattled off. I am not the greatest story teller, but I figure that if I get all the facts down, I am good. I am looking forward to catching up on all of your blogs. I probably missed a ton! Well I am off to finish my dishes before I am off to pick up the kiddies.

So here it is thursday night already. Doing my usual picking up, washing bottles and getting laundry done for my trip. We decided that it would be easier if I just went ahead and flew with Lawson to the funeral. It is an8-9 hour drive to Vegas from here and we just were all there a couple weeks ago. I also want my kids to remember my Grandma the way she was when we saw her last.
I am totally dreading the plane ride! I am serioulsy freaking out. I am not a big fan of flying as it is. Not because I am afraid of crashing or anything like that, I just HATE sitting still for an hour and 20 minutes on the plane! Especially with a baby. He is a good baby, but flying on Southwest Airlines is like being hearded with cattle. It is nuts. I am just afraid that he might start crying and I wont be able to quiet him and people will shoot me daggar looks the whole time. Scary!
I am going to leave tomorrow evening and will come home Monday night. My poor husband we be running the show while I am gone. Hopefully he wont lose any of the kids!LOL He is awesome and I am sure all will be well. We have ballgames, a ward dinner and church . I am curious to see what he does with the crazy kids during Sacrament Meeting. !!??
Well I am off to continue my nightly chores. Hope everyone has a great weekend. Hopefully I will be able to still blog while I am gone. I hate missing all of the action!

I cant believe that it is already Wed !! Time just flies by. That just means that I am getting older, kids will be out of school soon and the heat is coming. So depressing. I do like it when the kids are out of school for the most part. It takes me some time to get use to them being home ALL day. I love the little boogers , but it is nice to get a few hours break from them a day. I dont EVER get a break from all of them, but that is ok. I think that when the day comes that all of them are in school full time, I will be mighty lonely!!

Today was my lunch day. We did it a little differen today. Instead of meeting somewhere for lunch we did Cheescake Factory takeout and came back to my house to hang out. It was so fun. The kids played and the moms visited. We have such fun together. I look forward to it every week. After picking up the kids from school, I put the baby to sleep and took advantage of him napping a got a ton of laundry folded and put away. It is such a great feeling! Usually Lawson is Catnapper Bob, but he was a great baby and slept for a couple hours. Tonight we have Court of Honor. It is scout week I guess. Last night we had Pack Meeting and now this. The joys od having boys.

Well I just got off the phone with my sister with some sad news. My Grandma passed away this afternoon. She was in her 90s. She was totally with it mentally but just really deaf. Growing up she lived in Hawaii , so we didnt get to see her that often. For the past 6 years, she has lived in Las Vegas in an assisted living place. This past week she developed Pnumonia(sp)? and went downhill from there. I am really happy that we decided to go to Vegas for Spring Break. We were able to hang out with her and visit with her. I am grateful for that. So I guess it is back in the car for us to Vegas-I wish it wasnt so stinkin far! I toy with the idea of just me going, but this could be a great opportunity for the kids to see realatives that we havent seen for a long time and probably wont see again!

Well it is off to get ready for Court of Honor. Hope everyone has a grat night and enjoys AI. No pressure tonight since Sanjaya is Bybya!!

Today has been a good day so far. I was able to sleep in and that always starts my day off great! I headed to Target today. Landon has been saving his money for a Nintendo Ds and I ran and got it for him today. He loves it. I am still recoving from my day at church yesterday. I felt like I wanted to become inactive after my Sacrament meeting from you know where!
My kids were horrid! All of them! I felt like the ward freak show. Lawson is getting to the age where he doesnt want to sit in his car seat like a good little boy. He wants to be where the action is. Hayden was all over the place or he wanted to sit on my lap. I only have so much lap to share! Lawson had pooped and I needed to take him out to change his diaper. I hate having to get up during Sacrament meeting in the first place because that means that I have to leave all of the other hooligans all by themselves. Not a good idea. When I left the other kids went wacko. I guess Judson was punching Bowen and Landon was chugging out of Haydens sippy cup and Bowen and Dallin were doing something. It was crazy. I felt like I wanted to go crawl in a hole. It kills me that my husband is up on the stand oblivious to what is going on. Dont get me wrong. I am so thankful that I do have a husband that is worthy and able to serve in the Bishopric, but it is so hard sometimes for me. I know that I am not the only one out in the world who has to do this every week on her own, but MAN , it is HARD!! Ok enough complaining. I am lucky though to have a lot of friends in the ward who feel my pain and try to help.
Tonight for family night we are going to be finishing up the boys rockets for pack meeting tomorrow and maybe go to Costco. It is fun to go together as a family, even though we get alot of stares from people and I end up spending a ton more when my husband goes! Well I hope you all have a great night!

I thought I would take advantage of this RARE moment to myself to write. It has been a crazy couple of days. Yesterday I stayed home and did some cleaning. I am so proud of myself for what I accomplished. I was getting ready for Landons Bday party. We went lowkey this year and I let him invite about 5 friends over to have pizza and then we took them to a movie. It was wackoville over here! At one point of the afternoon, I had my six kids, plus the 5 for the parry, Lucas (Holly went to run a couple of errands) and Dallins freind Steven. Helllooooo! By myself!! Chris was suppose to be home by 5 to help out, but didnt m,ake and appearance until almost 6. He said he was caught up at work, but i think that translates to "I am really golfing but dont want to get busted" Whatever. Needless to say I was not a happy camper. I still need to get that "story" . We ate pizza and then we all headed to the movies . Luckily Holly was able to watch Hayden and Lawson, so I could go . Thanks Holly!! We went and saw "Are We There Yet?" I thought it was pretty funny. We managed not to lose any of the 9 kids that were with us. Yeah us!! After taking some of the kids home, I headed to Hollys to get the kiddies. You should have seen the look on her face, when she opened the door. SoOO funny! She looked tired. She had the baby in a sling and said"I forgot that you dont get alot done around the house with a baby" UH! Yah!! Welcome to my world!!! It was pretty comical. It was nice to come home to a "quiet" house after the party. Today is just a day of house chores and ball games. Nothing too exciting. I think that I have a little bit of Trishitus today! Thanks Trish! I think your blog jinxed me!
I hope everyone has a great weekend and Sunday. I feel inactive. I havent been to church in a couple weeks, between conference and traveling. It will be nice to go again.!

MY TOES.........................

Let us all have a moment of silence in memory of Sanjaya.......... Ok thats enough! I am glad that the American population is not as dumb as I was thinking we were for keeping him on as long as we did. The funny thing is that he will probably get a recording deal and make a trillion dollars like William Hung (She Bangs. She Bangs) . Crazy!
I feel like I have not had a moment to myself to do my blogging. My little man has been cutting his first teeth and has been demanding more of my time. How dare him!! For the past couple of nights he has taken some of my much needed beauty sleep from me. I cant complain. He has been sleeping through the night pretty much since day one, I guess I have gotten spoiled. He has been spitting up on me and everything around him. UGGGG! Who doesnt love the smell of baby barf!!
Yesterday I had my weekly lunch with my friends at you guessed it ...PF CHANGS. What a shock. It was fun. It was going to be a 40 minute wait so we decided to sit outside and eat on the patio. Can we say COLD! It has been a little chilly here the past few days but we braved it. They put on the patio heaters and that totally helped, but I wasnt able to fully appreciate my Diet Cokes because it was too dang chilly. It didnt stop me from shoving a ton of food in my mouth though. LOL
Yesterday was a pretty laid back day. We had Bowens game to go freeze at and I had to take Dallin to YM. That is about it. Today I plan to just kick back and clean up my house a bit. It is sooooo hard to keep it CLEAN with a zillion kids. I always try to keep it picked up. It bugs me when there is STUFF on the floor, but to really keep it deep down clean is hard. I try and that is what is important.
I am sitting here looking at my toes. If anyone knows me they know that I have buttugly feet. I found these glue on toenails that look totally real! All you do is glue them on your toes and it looks like you just had a french manicure. They are awesome. I get my nails done and I dont want to sit for another hour getting my toes done to, so these totally work. I even turned my SIL on to them. She even added a decal to them-so cute.
Well I feel like the Seinfeld of blogging---a blog about nothing. Lol
Have a great day!

Today is my Landons 9th birthday!! I cant believe how fast the time has gone. It seems like yesterday when he was in such a hurry to get here that he made his momma have him with NO epidural. If anybody knows me, I am PRO EPIDURAL all the way. I went into labor in the middle of the night (as with the rest of them) and about 35 minutes after getting to the hospital he was here. As painful as it was, he was worth every contraction.... He is the sweetest boy. He is such a great helper. I can ask him anything and he does it without any complaining. He is so smart and has a fun personality. When I asked him what he wanted to do for his Bday he informed me very seriously that he wanted his party on his bday and then the following Saturday he "wants to go to Hawaii". Yah! that will happen. He also informed us one day that he was tired of his name and wants to be called "SlipperyBob". I am so lucky to have this sweet little boy in our family. Happy Birthday Lanard Bananard.!

I cant figure out how to write words next to the pictures either-Can you say DUMMY??? In the pictures from top to bottom are

All of the older kids on the family go-cart
Addisyn and Hayden
My mom and Lawson and Ella (she is my niece and is 6 weeks OLDER then my moose boy)
Camille and Lawson (such a good babysitter)
Hayden and Ethan

I couldnt figure out how to get the pictures with the post. I still have a ton to learn about posting things!

We made it!! We managed to make it back home with 6 kids and 2 adults still alive and kicking! We had a great time surprisingly. We stayed at the inlaws house with 11 kids and 5 adults. All of the kids got along great and had a fun time hanging out with cousins for a week. We stayed pretty busy. I will spare everyone the day by day playback and just list things that we did. My sweet husband took all 7 of the older kids go carting in the desert by himself a couple of times. They had a great time . We went to the Discovery Museum, Laser tag, bowling, movies, golfing and swimming at my brothers house.
I was also able to visit with my Aunt Wini who was in town visiting. It was great to see her again. The last time I saw her was 7 years ago at my Grandmas funeral. We all went shopping and all of the adults went to PF Changs for dinner on Friday night. It was a great vacation and I loved going to Vegas in the spring instead of the summer where we all bake and sweat like pigs. It actually got a little nippy and very windy a couple of days. We might just make it a regular vacation for us. Well I had better get back to reality land. I have to make dinner and despite the mega laundry I did at my in laws, I still have a TON to do here at home. I also need to catch up on everyones blog. I am sure I missed alot of action! LOL

We are off like a hurd of turtles!!!! We were trying to get out by at least 9. Yah right! We didnt roll out of bed until then. It is now 9:40 and we are just tying up loose ends . I will be checking in. I dont think I can go a week without blogging or my email. I am going to document the drive. I will take a before, middle and end trip picture. We will see if there are fewer children (or parents) at the end!!LOL. I hope everyone has a great Easter!

Ok! So I have few minutes of quiet to post. I need to vent out my frustrations somewhere! I seriously have about 20 kids in my front yard! The baby is sleeping and they keep ringing my doorbell and driving me nuts! I dont know why my house is always the "party"house. I am not one of those sweet neighborhood moms thet make koolaid or whatever but they love to be over here. As if I dont have enough at my house!! Ok I feel a little better. I am glad my kids have friends to play with and I am glad they like to be at my house, I guess I wish that they would just stay outside for a bit a run off some of their energy! Such a silly rant, but I feel better. I think I am PMSing!! LOL So today I ran back to Costco to get a couple more Camis. They are so cute and long! Being tall, it has always been hard to find shirts that fit my Amazon body. So I think I grabbed one of every color. I have dinner in the crockpot and a load of laundry going so I am good. I am tring to get stuff ready for our trip this weekend. I am not looking forward to it anymore. I love Chris family, dont get me wrong, but we are planning on staying with his parents this trip. We usually stay with my mom and dad, but my aunt will be in town and I dont think my mom wants 6 kids running around her house while she "visits". That is another story. Hi mom and dad!! Anyway, we just found out that his sister is going to be staying at his parents house also. She has 5 kids. Helloooooo! That is ALOT of kids in one house!! I love his sister, and we have fun together, but it will be a little too much togetherness! Chris isnt too thrilled. He is so easy going and has a "whatever" attitude that I love, but it is funny to hear him sort of gripe about his sister being there. Maybe he is PMSing too!! So who knows what will happen.

I was thinking earlier about grwing up and the easter traditions that I had growing upa dn the ones I have carried on. It is kind of sad that I havent really carried on that many! I have no Easter Decorations out!! What kid of mom am I? I grew up with my mom totally dekking out our house with decorations for all holidays. She still does. I just really dont think about getting them out. I really need to change. Sometimes I think that it is ok, because then they can really focus on the real reason for this season. I would love to hear about any of your family traditions that you have. It is always fun to hear how people celebrate the holidays! Sorry to sound like "Debbie Downer" I really am a happy person! Have a good day.

Today started off crazy!!! Today was late day Wed. The kids dont have to be to school until 9:15, so we get to sleep in! My favorite thing! At around 8:45 our power went out. I asked a couple of neighbors they said that it was a maintanance check and the whole neighborhood was going to be out for 4 hours!!! I guess I should read some of those annoying papers on my door once in awhile! LOL . I was so bummed. How could I live for 4 hours without my computer, tv and phone??? Well I lived to tell about it. My hair is dirty, (no blowdryer) Clothes wrinkled and makeup on funky, but it made me appreciate those pioneers even more. As I was walking out the door to Chuck E Cheese to celebrate hayden and Lucas Bday the power came on. Go figure. We had a good time at Chucksters. The kids played and moms chit chatted. Love those days! I just did some laundry that didnt even put a dent in my pile. Good thing there are some good shows on tonight(hopefully bye bye for Sonjaya) to keep me entertained while i fold my huge pile of clothes. Well I am off to the ballfield for Bowens ball game. I love weekday games because they always fall right at dinner time so we end up eating there. No cooking for me tonight!!!!! Yeah! Just good old greasy hot dogs. Nothings too good for my boys! LOL

Today is Haydens birthday!! This is the 3rd time I have typed this blog, it is getting shorter each time I retype it!! He is such a sweet boy. He drove me crazy the first couple of years as he has a TON of energy and his momma does not! He is my first boy so far to have ever clibed out of his crib. He started that at about 16 months and since then, naptime was history! He has been a budding artist on almost every wall in the house including my leather couches. I have had to boobytrap all of my doors so that my poor neighbors dont have to bring him back to me after escaping my "kungfoo grip" I really do watch my children. All that being said, he is so much fun. He loves to sing, play cars, watch his favorite shows over and over and over, and loves his "brudders" .

Great weekend! Saturday was the typical day of games and chores around the house. Chris and I made the decision today to give our dog Lila away. I know that sounds horrible, but we are just not ready for the dog commitment yet. She has been a good dog, but our backyard looks like the ghetto. When we first moved in there were pretty flowers around the pool and grass area, but since we had her she has chewed them up and she digs holes everywhere. We havent been able to utilize our backyard that much and with little kids we need to. Hopefully we will find her a good home.

Chris and Dallin went to Priesthood broadcast and I cleaned and washed up the Exersaucer for the baby. I am sure there are nicer ones out on the market now but this one will do. I think he will be the 4th kid that has used it. He looks so cute in it.

Sunday we watched conference. It was so great. I look forward to getting the Ensign edition comes out so I can read it again. The kids were pretty good. We played Conference Bingo popped popcorn and afterward we made Cinamon Rolls. So good! I might as well have strapped them right on to my thighs because that is where they will end up I am sure. Well I need to go and get my house picked up a bit, so I can relax. I have a busy week ahead. We are going to Vegas on Saturday and that means I have to get clothes ready for them to pack up. I hate getting ready for trips, but one we are there it is fun. Trisha and Andrea, I am waiting to hear if you want to party in Vegas...............

I feel like I have rattled off a bunch of whooha here but one last thing... I am going to try and post a picture of the "accident" we had here at the house. Hayden has this little toy Porche car that he rides in and he parked it on the street curb like a real car. My friend christine was over and when she was leaving ran it over. She felt so bad, but I dont think Hayden has realized that it was smashed to smithereens yet!! So funny! Enjoy the rest of the night!

Today was a great day. After I got the kiddies off to school and the baby back to sleep, I laid down on the couch to have a little cat nap. That is all it was, because Lawson didnt take his usual 2-3 hour morning nap. I love the time that I get to spend alone with Hayden in the mornings. He is so fun. He can be a little stinker sometimes, but the older he gets he is so cute. It is hard to believe that he is turning 3 next week. Time has flown. I cant even believe that Lawson is almost 4 months. It is time for another one. LOL I think my husband would kill me. Dont get me wrong, we LOVE Lawson soo much, but he was willing to stop after #5. When I first found out I was pregnant with Lawson I couldnt tell him for a few days. I had dreams that he drove me off a cliff!!!!!! So funny. he is an awesome dad, I am lucky to have him. I probably would have only had 1 kid if he wasnt such a great help. Anyway, back to my day. We had our girls lunch today instead of Wed. We went to Pf changs. We were going to go to Cheesecake, but it was a 50 minute wait-I dont think so! We always have a great time chit chatting and having fun. Tonight I was able to go to the Temple with Holly. It was her ward temple night. It was great to go. It will be awhile before CHris and I can go together, since the baby is so small, so we have to go in shifts I guess until he gets older. After the temple we went to Cheesecake factory. We were bound to get that in today! it was about 9:30 when we got there and it was packed!! Crazy loons out eating that late. Now here I am blogging. I should be in bed, but this is the only time I can type without interuption. Well we have a busy day tomorrow. Games and General Conference!! Hope everyone enjoys their weekend.

Ok , So I just remembered one reason why I dont like the baseball season- SUNFLOWER SEEDS!!! I think that when people eat them and spit the seeds out is soooo disgusting. Last year, a lady in front of me was eating them and spit the seed out and it landed right on my arm!! Gross. I am probably the only person in the world who has such harsh feelings about a seed, but I do. I think it is as gross as when people spit out chewing tobacco! Ok, I think I can go on now that I got that off my chest.
Today I had to run to the mall. I needed to get something on my watch fixed, so that is what I did. My house is a pig sty, but at least I can tell time correctly.
So what did everyone think about AI last night.? I woke up with a headache this morning from pounding my head against my fist last night. Mind boggling! Poor curly had to go and there sits Sanjaya with his smug little face. Ok and did anyone else think that Lost was a little---Lost! What was up with that random couple? The thought of them being burried alive was freaky.

So we are palnning on heading to Vegas for Spring break. This will be a first for us since we have lived here in California. We usually go during the summer and around Christmas. We decided to go early this year so we wouldnt melt. There is not a whole lot of action that goes on when we go to vegas. This is how a typical conversation goes between my sisters and I trying to plan something to do. "What do you want to do today??" "I dont know, what do you want to do ?" Next day "What do you want to do today?" "I dont know what do you want to do"? You get the picture. We are all very indecisive. It is nice to see everyone though and we do end up having fun. I am lucky because most of chris family is in Vegas and mine is too, so we get it all done in one visit. Well I need to get going on dinner. We are having Taco Salad. It sounds really yummy right now, enen though I had a salad from Baja Fresh today. I hope everyone enjoys their Thursday. TGIF tomorrow!!!!!!

You cant really tell by my lousy picture, but it has been a little stormy here today. I love this weather. Some people think that it is gloomy and depressing. I think it is great. This has always been my favorite season of the year. Growing up in Vegas, it was either hotter than snot or butt cold, so the few days that it felt like Spring I loved. It was such a shock when we moved out her almost 11 years ago. People were actually playing at parks or taking walks, just enjoying the outside! That never happened in Las Vegas. You stayed indoors so you wouldnt melt! I am getting ready to head to pack meeting. UUUGGG! I know I should enjoy going to these, but they are kind of unorganized so it goes on and on and on! I should complain because I am just glad that it isnt me in charge. Today I had my VT interview. I feel like such a slacker. I have not been VTing since I had the baby. I know I should and I need to get on the ball and go. After that I went to ----No not Costco surprisingly, but to Old Navy. They are having 2 for 20 jeans for boys. You really cant beat that. My kids go through jeans like they were tissue paper. What is up with that?? Drives me nuts!! Well that is about it here. Nothing too exciting. We are gobbling up our dinner and out the door to Pack Meeting-FUN FUN FUN!

I survived my slump from the other day!!!!!!!!!Yeah! Luckily it didnt last too long. My husband and I didnt end up having a date night, but we went out for dinner anyway. All of us! Actually we were one short. Dallin was golfing with his buddy. The weather has been so nice lately, we are letting him take advantage of it. We went to a place called Tomatinas. It is really good. I get their Piadine. It is this HUGE pizza type crust that is brick oven cooked and I get it topped with caesar salad. So good. It is funny when we take all of the kids with us place. We look like a freak show. People stare at us with such funny looks. It cracks me up. I then went to the store to stock up on my tabloids-(Fridays are when the new ones come out.) That was pretty much it.
Saturday we had ball games and just did stuff around the house. Pretty laidback. I love those days. Sunday was Fast and testimony meeting. I am sure it was all around due to conference next week. I actually got to hear some of testimonies. My kids were pretty good. I dont know what it is going to be like when Lawson is more disruptive, but we will cross that bridge when we get there. Right now he just sits in his car seat. I have to rock it back and forth to get him to sleep in it. I probably look like a nutty lady rocking it back and forth for an hour but whatever works! I think that one of these Sundays if the kids are bad I am going to send them up with dad. He looks too comfortable up there on the stand!
Today I went to costco-AGAIN! I wanted to check out a clock that they had there. It wasnt what I was looking for, but I ended up leaving with a ton of stuff anyway. I was just there Friday hello! Tonight was FHE. A group of us in our ward get together twice a month and have FHE together. It is alot of fun. The kids have a blast. We origanally started it for a family in our ward. Her husband is off in Iraq for a year and a half. I dont know how she does it. I would go nuts. She is awesome. She has a 13 year old daughter and 8 year old son. It is a fun group of families. Next time I will post a picture. I dont know why I dont think about all of these great photo ops, I truly am getting better at taking picutes. Blogging has helped me to journal more and to take more pictures. Well I need to get my hoodlums off to bed. I hear the thumping of bodies on the floor. I think wrestle mania has begun again. Goodnight!

I have a few minutes to myself so I had better type no while I have the chance. Today has been pretty uneventful. I am washing bedding(long overdue) and cleaning my stove. Yesterday was mine and Hollys turn for our food group. So I cooked and chopped 5 pounds of chicken and 8 packages of pasta. If I never see another chicken breast or pasta shell again I will be ok with that. It went well though and all of us in the group went home with several meals to put in our freezers. Yeah!! While I was ccoking the chicken there was a boil over and it made a mess of my stove so I had to really clean that puppy good. It is kind of a blue day for me today. I am not sure why. It feels like I am PMSing, but I dont think it is that time yet. I have tried chocolate AND Diet Coke and nothing. I am in a funk. It is probably because I didnt go anywhere today really. I love to get out and do something every day, whether it be Costco, Target anything. I told my husband he needs to take me out tonight. We will see. Dallin is golfing and my husband wanted to go and make sure his swings were right. WHATEVER!! I think it is just an excuse to golf. I really do have 7 boys not 6. Well I fell like I just rattled on a bunch of nothing, but it helped to just sit here a type. I hope I didnt put anybody to sleep.

Tomorrow is another typical Saturday. Ballgames, tournaments and Scouts. Busy busy. Well my "Times up buzzer" is going off. The litle man is awake and letting me know it. Have a good weekend!!

What is going on with the world today!!!!! Why is Sonjaya STILL ON AI??????? Am I the only one in the world that thinks he STINKS???? I swear if he makes it all the way through to the end, I am through with that show forever!! Crazy.
So today was a pretty good day! I dont think the yelling machine went off at all today, I managed to keep my cool all day long-yeah for me! it must have had something to do with it being my Wed. lunch day. We went to PF Changs and we had a nice 2 hour lunch. It was so nice. Then it was off to pick up the kids. Today was a nice stay at home day. No practices to run kids to or anything. Landon had a friend Jake over to play and the rest of the kids played in the neighborhood. I even made a dinner tonight that didnt come from a box! We had pork tenderloin, baked potatoes and green beans. I am usually the queen of overcooking meat, but the pork turned out pretty good. I then sat outside for a bit with Hayden and Lawson
while Chris parcticed pitching with Bowen.
Last night we had our Enrichment Bday party. It was really nice. The theme was hats and the many different hats that women have to wear-so true. It was a great turnout and alot of fun. Well I am off to get my little man off to bed. He didnt get up until 8 this morning!! Such a good sleeper. I am so lucky. My babies usually are up all night long!!! Not good for a chick who loooovvvvves her sleep. Good night!

Here are some pictures of our St Pattys Day partying and a picture of the Disco blessing outfit.

I was shoving Snickerdoodle cookies in my mouth and decided to do something more productive!! They are so yummy that I cant stop eating them. Sunday was a great day. There wasnt too much mornign yelling going on before church.. Ours starts at 1 PM I am going to totally go nuts when it goes back to 9:30 in September. Chris has his early Bishopric meeting and then is home by 9:30 to help out. It works out great. Not too much drama went on during sacrament meeting. I was actually able to listen to the speakers. They had great messages. I especially enjoyed RS. It was on forgiveness. After church we got together with the Holly and the clan for our annual St Pattys Day dinner. We had the usual corn beef, potatoes, carrots etc. So good. We did our karaoke Singstar. It is hard to let go of the mic, it is so addicting. Especially the 80s songs. Then it was clean up and go to bed. Yee ha! To bad there wasnt much on the tube. Good thing tonight makes up for it. Today, we all woke up late. It is totally my fault. I got up with the baby and had a little time before I had to get the kids up so I decided to "lay down" for a couple minutes. Yah right!! I woke up to MOM ITS 8:00!! Okay, school starts at 8:15. What a loser I am. I cant do that. I dont know why I do. I learned my lesson though. My kids made it if you can believe it. Poor guys.
After that I headed to Target, the cleaners and then to get the kiddies. I needed to go to Fremont today for dentist appointments. I really need to get one around here. It is hard lugging all of the kids to Fremont. It is about a 20- 25 minute drive. I really like our dentist though. They are from our old ward and the kids love them all. I did a Little Caesars hot and ready pizzas and called it dinner. I didnt get home early enough to make dinner, but it worked out. I am taking a few minutes to relax here. My kids push me to the edge sometimes to where I yell. I hate it!! If they would just listen to me the first thousnad times I tell them to do something then I wouldnt have to yell. I am sure it is my fault. They realy are good kids, but sometimes......UUUUHHHHHH! They drive me the looney farm. Well I am off to watch my shows. It is a night full of my shows. 24 ,Prison Break(Gotta love that Wentworth guy!!) The Hills etc.. Hope everyone has a great night.

OK!! I totally know that I take the worst pictures ever. I also cant figure out how to pick which ones to download. I will figure it out someday.

Can we say CRAZY days?? Yesterday I headed to Costco to stock us back up on the basics. We were out of alot of stuff. I usually stay up on all that stuff so we never fully run out of things, like milk, bread, paper goods etc, but I slacked. After I went back home and unloaded everything, I headed to Walmart. I needed to pick up a prescription and a couple things and then it was home to get the kids. I dropped off Dallin to the golf course to hit a few balls then it was home for awhile. After I got my "babysitter" back from the Golf course and my man came home from work, we headed to CPKitchen again. I was craving that BBQ Chicken salad again. It is seriously sooo good. We shopped around the mall for a little while and then it was home to the kiddies. Today was totally wacko. We had about a million things going on at the same time today. Chris was in a Golf Tournament thingy today and Dallin had a scouts activity and a golf tournament and I had 2 ball games to go to. It was in and out of the car and all over town. I am wiped out! On top of all that it was sign ups at the high school for Dallin. I cant believe that my baby is going to be in high school next year. I am too young for that arent I???? LOL I got my house cleaned up, laundry folded and dinner done and now I am getting clothes ready for church. We are alos watching Hollys 4 kids for a few hours today. They were dropped off at 4:30 and will be here until around 11. All 10 kids are alive and accounted for!! Hee Hee They are in watching Open Season. I think I will sneek a picture of them and post it. Well I hope everyone has a great night!!

Sorry for the cruddy picture. I was trying to post a picture of the little man to spice up my Blog and it posted the wrong picture. I am still learning this picture downloading thing>>

Today was a fun day. I went to the mall. Nordstroms was having a Fit For A Cure event. They have people there to fit you for the right size bra and since I needed a new one I thought this was a good time. Proceeds of the bra I bought went to the Susan G Koman foundation. I then went to the CPKitchen with Holly and had the yummy BBQ Chicken salad. So yummy. Stopped off at the Gap, Baby Gap, Abercrombie, Bare Minerals store and of course Sees candy and that topped off my day at the mall. Hayden and lawson were great. I have trained Hayden well. He stays in the stroller and hardly peeps. He is such a good shopper boy. I then picked up kids from school and did the baseball practice thing and that was my afternoon. Tonight we had French toast for dinner. I know it sounds like we eat that kind of stuff for dinner all the time. We really dont. It is just that kind of week where quick and easy dinners rule, plus I dont have to listen to "what is this in here" or "what is the green stuff" "what is that smell"??? Drives me bonkers. Just eat it!!!!!Oh well. Chris had a Bishopric meeting tonight, so it was me doing the bed time thing. I dont always have patience for it so he usually puts them to bed. We all lived LOL Tomorrow I need to hit Costco. We are out of lunch items, milk all that good stuff. Plus my iron is on the fritz. I need a new one. Any good suggstions??? Well have a great night!! I am off to watch the tube even though there is NOTHING really good on tonight.

It has been a few days since I have written. I have had PMS and I think that has given me a writers block. LOL Just the usual craziness going on here. Today was my Tuesday wacko day. I went to Walmart this morning to get a few things and then came home and did a ton of laundry and picked up a bit. Before I knew it it was time for kids to be home. It is then off to scouts, baseball practices, and picking up Dallin from school. For dinner tonight we eggs and blueberry muffins. I know you are all jealous of my culinary abilities. NOT. Last night I did actually make Risotto. That is a time consuming dinner, but it was yummy in the end. Tonight we had a parents meeting at the middle school for parents who have incoming 6th graders. I cant believe it is that time already. Bowen was 5 weeks old when we moved out here from Vegas. Now he is almost 11 and going to 6th grade. Time flies. I enjoyed eveyones pictures of their landmarks. I wanted to post one, but my scanner wasnt cooperating. I will try tomorrow. Well it is late and the morning hour comes fast. Goodnight

What a day! It has been Super busy. Today was the start of baseball season. Yipeeee! Three LONNNNNNNNNGGGG months of games. Cant wait. We had 2 Jamborees and Dallin had a golf tournament all at the same time. Crazy. My husband took the baseball kids one way and I tookt he golfer the other way. We hooked up a little while later. My body is killing me. I had Lawson in a Baby Bjorn for almost 3 hours standing up. Try hanging a 15 pound kid on your shoulders for 3 hours!! He was a good boy though. My husband and kids washed cars, mowed lawns and I got my nails done. I actually hate to get my nails done. I dont enjoy sitting there for an hour. I get ants in my pants. They do look nice in the end though. Today I got what I call "Good Mail" I ordered PS2 Singstar off Ebay and it camed today!! I love that game! We have American Idol Karaoke, but the kids like Singstar better. It has more modern songs. We played it at my brothers house on New Years and had a blast. Well, I had better go hunt down some dinner. My man and I went to dinner last night, so I guess it is back to the kitchen for me tonight. Bummer. Have a great night! I am going to be hating life in the morning. We lose an hour of my much needed sleep.

So today has been a nice day so far. Today my kids had minimun day so I wanted to get my errands done before they got home. I ran to Target, love that store with my freind Holly then I headed to Chuck E cheeses and met my friend Christine there. She picked up my kids and we rendevoued(sp) at the Chucksters. I actually enjoy that place. They have a great salad bar and all you can drink Diet Coke. My kids play and have a great time and I get to sit and visit. So fun.. The only thing missing is chocolate. I really only had 4 out of six kids there. Bowen is still at his 5th grade camp. I miss him. He will be home tomorrow, and Dallin got out at regular time. Even though he is a teenager, he still enjoys Chuck E Cheese. I am sure it wont last too much longer though. Tonight we are having a gourmet dinner-NOT. Ever since I had the baby, I just dont go all out on the dinners like I usually try to. It is something quick and easy. Tonight we are having some food storage item. It is the Mountain House Chicken and noodles. It is ok. Then I made some corn bread. Dallin is making chocolate chip cookies. Yum! Just what my body needs. Haha. Well I am off the finish putting together my delicious dinner. I am sure my husband will be so excited when he sees what it is. LOL The night is still young, so I might be back to vent!

Ok Guys, it is time to dust off all those old pictures of way back when!! I ran across this photo of my sisters and I and had the biggest laugh. This picture is was taken when I was a junior or senior in high school. So funny. I had the best time growing up besides all the usual teenage girl hangups. I had great freinds and great church leaders. Life was so carefree. I remember going to movies or dances with friends, cruising the strip, going to Macayos after the dances and driving by boys houses. I had a good trip down memory lane. I would love to see and hear about your stories of way back when. I bet that nobody could top the big hair we had. My younger sister Laura and I were called twin towers. We had to get up at the crack of dawn to get our hair just so before early morning seminary. Took ALOT of Aquanet. I think we are the cause of the hole in the ozone.

Today was pretty mellow. No driving kids around too much. I had lunch with a friend and that is about all of the excitement. I just got done cleaning up the kitchen and folding and putting away TONS of laundry. Now it is time for some kids to go to bed and me to chill in front of the tube. Hope you all have a great night!

Today was a crazy day. Tuesdays are my worst days as far as being busy. It is pick up and drop offto school, scouts. baseball x2 , driving range and on and on it goes. I did take the easy route and had my husband pick up some pizza for dinner. You gotta love Little Caesars hot and ready. It is not the best pizza, but it is good in a pinch. I need to run to Walmart and get a disposable camera for Bowen. He has a 3 day feild trip tomorrow. I am going to miss him. He is really excited though. He is such a sweetie. I am loving all of your self portraits. Your stories behind them are so inspiring and touching. You are truly gorgeous. Inside and out. Even though I dont know you all very well, I can tell that you all are so caring and great mothers, wives and daughters of our Heavenly Father. He loves us no matter what freckles, zits cellulite and saggy body parts. I am gratefull that I have a wonderful husband and kids who loves me flaws and all. Growing up and even now, I have struggles with self image. I ALWAYS feel fat or even hate having my pictures taken. When I do see a photo of me I think DANG, is that what I really look like? Such a waste of time thinking like that. Sometimes I am glad that I dont have any girls. I fear that I would pass that self image thing down to her. I am still a very happy person and have a great life silly struggles and all. I am missing my camera charger, so my battery is dead or I would have joined in on the mirror picture. As I have been downloading pictures onto my computer, I have discovered about 4 pictures with me in them. That is about it in all of the years. Sad. I am always gladly in the back behind everyone or I run from the camera . I just need to get over that or my kids will forget what I looked like after I am gone. Well sorry to drone on. Thanks for all of your great stories today. I am posting one of the few pictures I have of me. This is a big step for me. I hope you all have a great night. I am going to enjoy American Idol and Lastnights Heroes. I hear something exciting happend last night on it. We will see.

Ok! I needed to come in and be alone for a few minutes. I hate this time of the night sometimes. It is so close to bedtime and the kids are having wrestle mania going on in one room, music in the other and a certain six year old crying upstairs. This is a Calgon moment!! I feel bad that I look so forward to bedtime. Today has been pretty uneventful. My big adventure for the day was to McDonalds for a Diet Coke and some fries. So healthy. I must be PMSing because I dont think that my mouth has been closed in a long time. It seems like I am always shoving food in it. I am like a crazy woman! I am tackling my Crap room tonight. It feels good to weed out the closet and rearrange some stuff. Well it is back to the zoo. I a glad i was able to vent! Have a good night!

I am in a group through my freind Hollys ward that gets together once a month and makes freezer meals. It is like Dream Dinners or one of those places that you go and make dinners to put in your freezer. Anyway, it is our turn again and we are running out of meal ideas. Does anyone have a good easyish recipe that freezes well? You guys all sound like great cooks out there! I would appreciate any ideas you have. I am not sure what I am going to do today. I should stay home a clean! UGGG! Who wants to do that? I have a spare bedroom downstairs that Icall my crap room. It is just full of everything you can imagine. the only thing that gets me motivated to weed it out is when family come to visit. Well the boss is calling me. He wants to eat. He is just barely 3 months and is almost 15 pounds. He does not miss a meal!!

Well it has been a pretty good weekend. Saturday my friend Christine and I headed in to San Jose to the Valley Fair Mall. What an awesome mall. They have the best stores. We first ate at Cheesecake Factory. I got the Santa Fe Chicken Salad. It was HUGE. I ate the whole thing. It was to die for. we then shopped around for a few hours. I think the best time we had at the mall was when we got us some Sees candy and sat and people watched. It was so fun. At about 6 or so we headed to Santana Row and met my friend Holly for dinner and then headed for a movie. We saw Wild Hogs. It was kind of funny, but a little hokey. What a great day. I did miss my family, but they survived without me. I even came home to a clean house! Today we blessed Lawson . He looked so cute. I will post a picture when I charge my camera up(cant find the charger). All of the boys in my family have been blessed in this little white tuxedo. It is the funniest thing. First of all it is way cute, but it looks alittle like a prom tux from the 80s. My oldest sister bought it when she first got married in case she ever had a boy(only had 2 girls) so it is about 22 years old but so cute. My husband gave a beautiful blessing. What a blessing it is to have the priesthood in our home. So it was a great ending to a great weekend.

Well today was a pretty good day. I ended running to Costco...always fun and then my husband surprised me and came home early today. When I got home from puicking up the kids my dishes were done and house picked up. What a great guy. Tonight we ended up taking the kids to a new place here called Super Franks. It is kind of like Chuck E Cheeses but a little more grown up. It has indoor golf a Starbucks(Whooppee) and pretty good salad and pizza. My kids seemed to have fun. We went with some good freinds of ours in our ward, so that made it more fun. That is about it for the day. Tomorrow is my shopping day. I cant wait. It will be really weird not pushing a stroller around everywhere, but I will survive I am sure. LOL Well I am going to head off and read my tabloids. I love Fridays because the new mags come out. My one guilty pleasure, well 2 if you count my love for Diet Coke. Good night!

I was looking at my the picture of my boys that I posted and realized that my poor Christmas tree was the background. I was 9 months pregnant and didnt even want to deal with putting up decorations so my kids did it all. They had fun, but I think the tree had everysingle ornament on it that they could find. Plus Hayden was trying to take a Thomas train ornament off the tree and pulled the WHOLE tree down. Luckily it didnt land on him! I pulled it back up and pretty much just left it the way it was. So funny. We call it the Ghetto tree. I am grateful that I started blogging so I could write this little memory down before I forget it. So yesterday I survived! I made it through the day without getting too sad. My sister sent me a couple funny pictures on her camera phone and we text back and forth during Survivor. It helped alot. So today I am off to Costco for milk and who knows what else. I swear that my kids drink soo much milk. I think that I just need to buy a cow. I am not sure what is going on tonight. I dont cook on fridays. I adopted that tradition from my mom and I love it! I joked around to my husband that he should plan something fun for us on Friday to keep my mind off of my trip. We will see if it happens. I feel like I keep harping on about this trip, but it truly is something that we all look forward to all year. Well I need to go blowdry my hair before it frizzed out!

Well so far today is starting off ok. After I got the kids off to school and the baby back to sleep, I was able to take a little snooze on the couch. It felt so good to do that. Maybe I will just sleep away the next couple of days so I dont get too sad about missing my girls trip. LOL Today I am 0ff to the mall for a bit. I have a couple of things to return and I wanted to check the sales out. The mall is always fun. I might just treat myself to some Sees candy. My all time favorite chocolate. Well this is short, I hear my little man waking up from his nap!