Egg-xtra Excitement!

Tis Time for a Post!!!

The ever changing Utah Spring weather has brought a bit of sickness to our home. :( We have had runny noses, allergies, sinus infections and more but all is well. We have been trying to enjoy the sunny weather by playing outside, and with picnics at the park.

We are in the 6th week of clubs at school which in turn means my job will shortly come to an end. This will be the first summer that I will not work with 4-H. I am excited, scared, happy and sad all at the same time.  Sad to not being able to work with my students doing the job I love. Scared for the lack of cash and a tighter budget we will have to live on. Happy to be home spending time with my family. I don't have to go anywhere if I don't want to. And excited to do some house and crafty projects that I just don't have time to do!  AND  This summer comes some fun adventures! Girls Camp, Lehi Round Up, Jims Scout Camp, Lava Hot Springs, Lake Mead, Youth Conference and The Trasmundi Reuion in San Diego!!! 

If I stick to my couponing and shopping at Buy Low Market for my produce things will be ok! I know if we pay our tithing and limit our extras we will be fine. 

LOOK at all this awesome produce I got for only $36.00!!!

 Speaking of Excitement!

After being at UVU for almost 8 years Jim finally got his own office. It is very VERY small but he is still very VERY grateful to have a place of his own. Yeah for feeling special!

More EGG-citement!!!

One of the classes I took at LEADERMETE, the very fun work conference I went to in Brigham City, was egg dying. I got to die eggs with onion skins, tape, rubber bands, oil, & wash cloths! 

We have been trying to do FHE everyweek.  We are following the new nursery manuel and adapting it to our family. It is working great! 

A few weeks ago we talked about how we have a spirit and a body and how here on earth they are together. We made spoon puppets with a spoon being the spirit and then we added the clothes or body. JO had a BLAST playing with these! She even played with them the next day.

The other night we had a messy house. We decided to clean the house! Later that night Jo reminded us that we didn't have a "good" Family Night we "needed to talk." SO Jim  being as AWESOME as he is then related our cleaning the house to the gospel. He did an excellent job! We talked about how we want our houses to be clean like temples and churched and how everyone is more happy when their houses are clean. I CAN't ARGUE WITH THAT! We then told her that we want our house to be ready for Jesus to come at anytime.. that got her excited! 

Then we had to have an activity, JO said we had to. We got out the doodle pros and had

Drawing time! It was a fun event. We drew pictures of all sorts anywhere from the Characters on the CARS movie (of course) to Jo's masterpiece of our little eternal family. 

NOTICE the girls are wearing crowns and check out that LONG hair! 

 

!!!COOTIES!!! A new game for the kids we have been saving for a rainy day came to life this last week!  JO and Ryker have been enjoying playing with their "bugs." Jim built a stage for them and they put on a show tonight it was cute!

St. Pattys Day 2009

WE  had a good St. Pattys Day and hope you all did too.

Reasons why I like St. Patricks Day, in no particular order.

1- It's not OVER commercialized yet?

2- I am a March baby so it's in my blood.

3- I like to wear the color green.

4- I don't have to worry about buying presents for... anyone

5- I work for 4-H and that is our color and logo and I LOVE MY JOB!!!!

6- You can get really really creative with this holiday, green food, hair dying, green tutus

7- I Love Rainbows, GOLD, one of my favorite cereal is Lucky charms.

SO today started off with a healthy breakfast of Cheesy Eggs and Lucky Charms... :) NO green eggs and ham for us, as JO had them at school on Mar 2nd and wouldn't touch them.

We all decked out in green. JO was green from head to toe and she did it all by herself. Ryker didn't want to. He wanted to wear a RED monkey shirt and did but after a milk spilling accident and wanting to match JO he budged.

JO and I made some sugar cookies with my 4 Leaf Clover cookie cutter from 4-H. Then after school she and Jim frosted them and had fu! They turned out cute, see for yourself. Thanks to Gma Innes' recipes.

Well that about wraps it up.

Today JO said something so funny though. This conversation was about her not wanting to go to school because she was tired. I told her...

 "well then maybe you should go to bed at a decent hour." She said "when  I am big and have my own kids, they aren't going to school." I said "what about when they grow up?" She said.. "they won't they will stay zero" I laughed. Then later when I told her that we all have birthdays and we have to get older she said "okay they can be 4 and that is it!"

Silly girl!

An Embarrassing Moment

Today I did a silly thing...

Setting: The Chapel @ Church, and My home

Time 2-3:30 PM NAPTIME!!

After taking tired lil Ryker out of the chapel during the sacrament and then trying NOT to let him have too much fun being in the foyer I was done. He was just soo uncontrollable either place sooo I decided to leave church  because I didn't have to teach. 

Not minutes before  I had left my friend Kari had also left home with her girl to get something.

So I came home with a crying Ryker. He was crying "I want to go to church, I want to play with kids.." soo cute.. but I was not giving in.  At home I immediately tossed him in his bed and with secs he was out. Poor Lil Guy :)

Then it dawned on me. I hadn't told Jim I was going home. (I wasn't thinking about it after Ryker had kicked me in the nose while throwing a fit.)  HE can BE such A Crazy Monster when he is tired.

So I decided maybe Kari was still home and tried her by phone. Well no answer so I thought oh well Jim will figure it out.

Minutes later my phone rang. It was Kari. I said "Are you going back to church?" She said "I am at church." Surprised I said..."Oh no you take your cell/home phone too church I am sooo sorry." Apparently she hadn't silenced it and I am sure it went off in the chapel and I most likely embarrassed her in sacrament."  I felt soo bad and just couldn't apologize more. She was sooo sweet though and was just wondering if I was ok. :) I have some great friends in this ward. 

Thanks Kari  for not being mad and for getting JIM the message and sorry again!

Ryker and Joisms.

Ryker is growin up here is some things I want to remember about him.

Ryker is in to saying lately.. "_insert name here_, you are in twouble, you go to time out NOooooooooW!"  or "go back to bed now" or he told his dad to go back to work now today SAT. :)

He is getting quite fiesty. He also today was looking at Target ad and was saying this to the boy in the add who had his cars and "wouldn't give em back" now how do you explain to a 2.5 year old that the boy in the picture is just that picture...:)

He also says "good job" when you do something cute and it is soo cute

He is growing up so fast. He will be 3 in May. He wears size 5 and is so smart. I am just latching on and suck all this in right now as he is my baby. HE does cute things like after he gets out of the tub, he wants "UP" and then he wants to sleep on my shoulder or have me lay with him on his bed for a second.. Ahhh so sweet! Definitely helps with my baby hunger lately. That sounds wierd like I want to eat a baby Why do we say that then? Ewww...

Yesterday I asked him for a kiss and he said "yes" and proceeded to give me a kiss. Then I gave Jim a kiss and big hug and Ryker said "MOm I want a hug, a big hug I wuv it!" It was to die for. That is his new phrase as of last night. WE were at the store and he would say I want this.. we would say no not today and he would say "but I WUv it"

JO today said something sad but understandable

This morning she said "Mom I have decided I don't want to be a mom anymore when I grow up." My heart about hit the floor. Then I asked why and she said "Because I don't want to work. I won't be able to play with Izzi and Ali and Shelby." We then had a talk about how I like to work and how not all moms have to work and how I still have friends and get together with them too.. It was kind of a bittersweet moment. Here I thought she missed me while I was at work but NO it was just because she didn't think she would have time to play with friends.

Funny story about JO

The other day we had a first FHE! It went well. We are using the Behold Your Little One Nursery Manuel and just adapting it. It works great! We colored all about me books. Jo did great. Ryker made us color about 20 cars on the page of his likes.. go figure. We made a file folder with family members and talked about how everyone is a child of god even people who make bad choices.

So we were talking about Moses.  Jim was telling the story of the his people and the 7 ? curses, because he is so good at telling the stories. He talked about how Moses said if you don't let my people go ..._insert curses here... then of course it happened and JO would say "yes" like Napolean Dynomite sp? With the hand fist gesture and everything. We tried to explain to her that it was really sad but couldn't help but laughing at her pleasure in knowing the people were going to be punished.  Awful I know but you are laughing as you picture this right?

Birthdays are for the birds or are they?

Thanks to my awesome family and friends turning 27 wasn't bad at all. I had a fabulous birthday. It was great! To me... my birthday is just another day but to my hubby tis not soo. I always get really spoiled and I am so grateful for him and the rest of my family.

His bday most of the time gets put off,  and/or combined with JOs and the Superbowl. One of these years I am gonna knock him off his feet with the best birthday ever. He definitely deserves it!!!

So it all started with my lil JO telling me happy birthday in the morning and rushing to make a cute card.

Then Jim brought me some CAFE RIO for lunch and a Granny B's pink cookies.. calories don't count on your birthday right? 

AND I my mom stopped by on her lunch break to say hi! She let a gift and balloons upstairs quietly. It was fun to see what she got me as I went upstairs to head off to work. I got an awesome waffle maker that has a timer and you flip it over! I have been wanting one since they first started putting them in hotels. Jim also showered me with a night out, and some gift cards to Bath and Body works and Old Navy. Yeah for more smelly stuff and new clothes!

Then I logged on to see Jim has posted that sweet birthday wish post for me and all my friends wishes on facebook WOW!!! What a day! I feel so loved!

After work, which went well b/c I didn't have to deal with the rowdy boys in the soccer club, I cam home. The YW presidency made a quick visit with a darling homemade card and some treats. Then off to Lehi... 

On the way.. JO says "I want to be a cowgirl, doctor and  a mom when I grow up" that was cute and original don't you think.

The kids went to Gma and Gpa Innes' for the night. While we went out.

Feeling a little sick to my tummy, and full from lunch I wanted a light meal. We went to JCW's in AF.. SOOO GooD!  I got a kids meal..hehehe! It was great. Then we went to the movie "PUSH" which was good too. I asked if I could finish the night off  right with a $1 Hot Fudge Sundae at McDs and that we did.

When we arrived to get the kids. They were so excited to see me. Jo and Aunt Angela and Baby Ali had made sugar cookies for my birthday. They were delicious and such a sweet thing to do. Jo loves to be with Auntie Ang and Uncle Ross and then add Baby Ali to it and life is really good.

So funny story about these cookies...

" AS we were leaving Lehi we pulled out of moms culdesac and heard a big thump. I said what was that... Jim was like.. "UH OH I put something on the roof because I was trying to get Ryker in the car." Well Ang... your hard work down the drain or road I could say.  We found lots of pieces some off the roof, some off the road and some in the dirt. WE picked up all we could, checked em out, made sure there were edible and then scarfed them all down!" Hee Hee. 10 sec rule right? well probably 30 sec when we found them all.

Thanks for a great birthday everyone! It was awesome! I love you!

Happy Birthday Leslie!!

I just wanted to give my wonderful a wife a big Happy Birthday today!!! She is an amazing woman and such a huge blessing in my life. I am grateful for her love, influence, strength, and support. Here's to many more wonderful birthdays together my Leslie Jo :) Love ya!

Sunday Funday!

SuNdaYs are such Crazy Days for us, but usually always worth the craziness! 

They are suppose to be a day of rest but to us they are usually just Go Go Go. We have church meetings, lessons to plan, actual church, dinner with family in Lehi, card or board games, great food and more! 

Now the day may not be so crazy if church didn't start at 2pm but we all have to take our turn at late church. :)  I like late church, being able to sleep in, not having to wake up kids, having the chance to actually do JOs hair up cute and even getting a bite of real food in is nice. 

However getting out at 5PM and having to come home hurry and change, get to Lehi for dinner and then 3-4 hours later coming home again makes 2PM a time I don't like for church. Lots of parents in the ward are on the same page with me as it's usually nap time, the kids are tired and onory which make the parents tired and onory. Add in a fast and that is even harder!

Sundays are funny days in our house. Sometimes I wonder why we even bother going to sacrament as I feel like I am entertaining and reprimanding kids at all times.. BUT I go because it's important to set a good example for my kids and I am commanded to. 

I loved church today! Besides the minor fact that I felt like my head was going to explode. The kids were pretty good. The testimonies born of the Savior, the reality of living and not living the gospel, ones that professed great gratitude for the BIG family that we as church members can be a part of... these were all very inspiring to me. In Young Womens we talked about the divine roles of women and I was touched.

Today I woke up with a massive sinus infection and a little later than normal. I had a great day yesterday with my friends in the ward at an all day Sit n Chat and Finish that. We talked and worked on projects from about 2 till 11. It was sooo fun! Because of the late hour that I arrived home I just left all my crap by the front door. BIG NO NO

Nothing make me more irritated and onory, short with my kids and Jim, and stressed is when the house is a mess. I started feeling like I hate Sundays,  I want a bigger house, I even didn't want to go to church.

Soon I realized that I needed to just calm down. As I did things started to fall in place. We didn't have to fight Ryker or Jo over what to wear, hair got done, my outfit went good together, we got to eat, and all of us were ready for church in time to get a bench. 

Now getting a bench is important to me because I have bad hearing and the loudness is in the back where the overflow goes into a gym with wood floors so there is an echo too make it harder to hear and kids love to test it. :) (even mine)  PLUS today my head felt like it was going to explode so I wanted to be close. If we get a bench then it sort of traps Ryker in and he can play on the ground, or lay down,... if he wants. He is still a bit loud but my kids are just loud, like me. Jim and I sat and the kids were really good, they colored, played with toys, ate some fruit snacks and for the most part were really good. I actually got something out of the meeting for once and it was pleasant!!!

My one friend calls this stage the hall stage, because often you are out in the hall walking or disciplining kids when you are at church. We didn't have to do the hall or foyer thing today and it was great!

I don't know why I blogged about this? Maybe it will help some moms know that they are not alone if they too are in the hall stage. Maybe to make me realize a clean house won't get me to heaven, but keeping the commandments and being a good example to my kids can, or just maybe to remind me when I am having a hard time to take it easy and know that "this too shall come to pass,"and to "come what may and love it." 

Have a GREAT week!