Happy Birthday Kyra!!!!!!

Well 7 years ago - yesterday I became a Mother! now look at her. As you can see she lost a tooth how cool to loose a tooth on your birthday...

life is good - cold - but good.

Merry Christmas Everyone!!!!

This is Fall!

Well as I said Fall is here, an example of that would be this is only part of the leaves of one of the trees we have. I still have one very full tree and the other 3/4 of the other trees. I am not even counting my neighbors trees and all the bushes and shrubs and underappreciated trees in my yard. But good news the tree in the back is naked and the back yard leaves are all done so long as the wind doesn't blow any more leaves back there. But fall is here with a vengence and yes despite the snow we got last week - our last week of soccer was bearable and hopefully the rest of this week will be like yesterday and nice.

Fall is Over!!!

Yes, some of you may be thinking how can fall be over it just started well - when you wake up and the temp outside is a mere 42 degrees that is not fall - when the forecast calls for rain showers and it not rain but not snow that means snow is coming. My leaves haven't even fallen off all the way thus i will have wet mush to deal with not leaves and all i can say is Ugggggghhhhhh. But in reality i just need one more weekend well two if possible of the weather we had last week - 75 degrees and gorgeous. i just need Halloween to be nice and our final soccer game to be nice. please let there be sunshine.

on a side note while i was doing this my daughter Kadence just made her and her brother baegel sandwhiches -so stinkin' cute.

WOW

Well this morning I was awakened by the phone ringing at 8:04 am and not surprising we could not find the phone fast enough. So we go find it and there is a message for Ky and I to be to church 20 minutes early? ANd I think to myself why is the Bishopric member over Primary needing to talk to me - just talked in church in August, I've only been in the Primary Presidency since Feb. and we have the program coming up soon- so i thought what did i do wrong.

SO we go to church and very much to my surprise I was being asked to be the 1st counselor in the YW's - I am very excited to do it but on the other hand i was really starting to find my niche in primary. I am suppose to be there though so i will move on now. Look for furture posts where i actually include a picture.

Life is in full Swing

Well we are almost through our second week of school and I am just thankful that school does not start at 7:45 like it did last year. For instance when Kyra came into my room this morning and said Mom it is 7:29 and so I said Crap - but thankfully we still had 30 minutes to get her to school before it was too late. Yeah us. We have also started soccer practice too. and well than there is Carter who is just a bundle of constant energy. He does make us laugh though.

We went camping last week it rained alot but we were able to enjoy the outdoors a little bit and here is proof:

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Life is good

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Well as you can see Kyra had eye surgery last week and things seem to be going well - though i am not sure how things should be going. We checked in at 9 am and were able to come home at 4 pm - Grandma and Uncle Ben were able to come up so that was nice. Kadence is not in any pics because she wanted to stay home with Uncle Ben so as not to miss her friend Hailey's birthday party. Life is good. Grandpa Brent and Uncle Zac and Uncle Kemp and Aunt Kara and their kids just came up for a very short weekend - we had soooooo much fun. and on a completely unrelated topic Carter went in his toilet 2 times today - if he can run around with no pants he does great it is as soon as we add pants to that equation than things seem to go awry.

i plan on putting pictures on more because i just learned today that my computer has a slot for my memory card. man life is good.

Look At Me

See what I learned how to do!!!!!!

referring to the video above

It has been a month since my last post..........

Well - let me see we went to Grand junction for a family reunion - tres fun. Came home and got ready for Cub ScouT Day Camp not tres fun. But Ben and Hillary and their Kids came - tres fun. ANd then off o Fort Collins for the 4th - where i tried to meet up with my long lost brother Nathan and his wife Christy and maybe even their dogs (which Carter would've loved) but to no avail - we were not able make our paths meet. But ce la vie they remain in my memories still with hopes of creating new ones. ANd then Brent and Uncle Zac got to come stay with us for a few days - well Zac did anyhow - Brent basically just came slept and showered and than left - it was out of control. The time with Zac was well worth it. we had a ton of fun - mini golfing, bowling and a lot of wii tournaments where i would cream Zac. Ha Ha Ha, we even were able to persuade Grandpa Brent to play a few games and he has proved to be quite the natural Wii player - man he gots talent. (yes weston i am aware that that is not grammatically correct!)

well Now i must go to battle in hopes to upload some pics.

A week in the life of a stay-at-home Mom!!!!!

the kids and I returned on saturday from a quick trip to good ol' Grand Junction, my very dear friend's Dad had passed away and so we went to the funeral and selfishly to see Hillbill. It was happy and sad, we laughed but we also remembered how great of a man her dad was.

And so we got back on Friday - Saturday was spent getting Ky ready for Aaron's camp which is basically girls camp for boys and Saturday night the fun begins. Carter awoke and puked all over so into the washer the sheets go and fresh ones on and Carter climbs into to bed with me and yes much to my dismay he soils my pillow and clothes so at 3 in the morning we take a shower, and yes third time is the charm only on towels this time so to begin my wonderful Sunday i must pull out the shampooer and get to cleaning before I die of puke smell. - Ky and Carter stayed home - since I had sharing time - Carter was a happy baby we all go to bed and once again Carter awakes and puke everywhere so once again the washer gets to work and once again he climbs into bed with us. We see Ky off for the week and yes monday and tuesday and wednesday all bring similar happenings in the wee morning hours with Carter awaking and puking. Ky came home Wednesday night for class and on Tuesday Kyra and Kadence also joined the puking club - and so literally my house had puke in every room UGGGGGGGHHHHHH. I found myself sleeping on the couch because my mattress had been wounded seriously luckily i was able to get medical attention to it soon after and thus it is on its way to a sound recovery. so then Carter on Thursday hit the 24 hour mark of puke free and Kadence was fine and so i decide it is time to saddle up the horses and leave our jail cell - and we Gallopped on over to the local costco. and much to my disbelief Kyra pukes in the trash can in the freezer section which had been virtually empty until the puking started so we got out of there asap and came home and not at long last they are all sleeping soundly in their beds and i have a very sterilized house. What a week- we were going to party but instead we stayed in locked up

C'est la vie.

For those of you who may be familiar with the books Twilight, New Moon and Eclipse that is what our family did last night for FHE - we drove to Denver and went and met with Stephanie Meyers (which by the way is Ky's cousin)- she has a new book out now called THe Host and we went backstage and had her sign our book. It was fun - we met up with Rikki and Derrick, Nana and Grandpa and Uncle Zac, and we took Ky's cousin Paula with us - it was all very fun.

Coppelia

While Kyra is loving school and busy being a tough girl - Kadence is busy being a ballerina

and for the record it snowed today - a lot it was a white out for a while anyhow

Spring has arrrived

Well at long last I think Spring has finally arrived here in the beautiful Colorado Springs (well we are not actually counting that as tomorrow's forecast calls for a good chance of snow).

Anyhow as spring arrives our first kindergardener is nearing the end of school well actually she is 2 days shy of it being over - thus this morning was spent at "Track Day!"

There was shoe kicking, and 100m dash (which Kyra won - like mother like daughter) and there was buddy boards and relays, and tennis ball throwing , long jumping, the running long jump and jump roping and last of all we had the "RACE OF CHAMPIONS!!!!!" the kids were split up according to class and boys and girls and Kyra won and even passed boys that had started before her !!!!!!! Yeah Kyra, and all the while - while Kyra was busy being awesome we had Carter being a well as one boy put it a crybaby. but it was fun and my first Kindergardner is now a 1st grader wow they do grow fast. Pics will follow soon.

Finally!!!!!

Here it is my debut blog. and as you can see it is just pics. of the kids. That is way more fun anyhow.

This is the kids on Friday before Easter - as you can see Carter loves it.

By the time we were done his arms - yes i said his arms were both a greenish brown color all the way up to his elbow. While he was throwing - literally throwing his eggs into the colors the girls were being very thoughtful and creative making sure that their eggs were beautiful and just they wanted them to be.

well there you are my first true official blog.

First Blog Ever

Well under the advisement of a dear friend I have decided to enter the world of blogging. That is my big news for the day.