Dear Mom and Dad,
Thanks for building a cabin.
I love to go to the mountains and just do.... NOTHING. Yesterday I read a book. All. Day.
Oh I did pause to go to the bathroom and prepare a meal or two for the fan damily. But that's about it. I curled up on the couch and did not a thing. I just read.
Some people might call that lazy. Others would have taken the opportunity to go outside and build a fun snowman with the kids or take a freezing cold walk to enjoy nature... but no. After I did NOTHING all day. We went out for ice cream. In the 25 degree weather. WE ate ice cream cones.
Reminded me of my friend Jess when in the middle of winter were at the DQ getting our favorite blizzard or chocolate dipped vanilla cone and staying up at all hours of the night (on a school night) before cell phones were invented (was there ever such a time) and my mom couldn't get a hold of me. But it was fun. All those nights. All those talks. All those calories. Without all those pounds :).
Well anyway. Thanks mom and dad for letting me enjoy the fruits of your labors. It was awesome.
Love,
Me
PS thanks honey for tending the kids while I did NOTHING :)
Sunday, January 16, 2011
Friday, January 14, 2011
Exhausted
So today I make 9 quarts of applesauce. Yes. That would seem like not very much.
And it is true. It wasn't very much. But it took me ALL. DAY. And like 30 pounds of apples. EEK!!
AND I had the two twins. AND I had my nephew. It was a ball.
And then I passed out on the couch at 830p until 11p.... and now I can't sleep. SO I am blogging.
Monday, January 10, 2011
Mother of the Year
So a few days ago I won Mother of the Year Award.
It was awesome.
It was awesome.
Mikenna came home from school IN TEARS. She was so upset she didn't even come to me. She went to her dad.
She said (crying uncontrollably), "I had to eat peanut butter and jelly because I didn't have any money in my account."
Yes. I win.
Yes. I win.
Saturday, January 8, 2011
Pictures say a thousand words
Mikenna is now is first grade. I should have put up more of a fight for her to be in second grade but when she entered kindergarten, it was the year that Daxton died and I just didn't have the fight in me... so she is the OLDEST member of her class.
Hopefully this will behoove her in later years as she is smarter better faster and more together than her classmates. It is also going to torture her AND I when she is here ONE YEAR longer at home.... and I am going to LOVE every minute of it :).
Anyhow, the other day she came home and was so excited that she had a library book.... And this is what she showed me:
NICE....
I had her read it in her head. I didn't want her to wonder why I was laughing hysterically at her.
Oh and I got a new look. I think it is more of a midlife crisis or something. It is something I can control in a world of uncontrollable things. I didn't do it for the "new year." In fact, I did it a few days after Thanksgiving. And I had given it A LOT of thought before that day. Almost a year in fact. I haven't been my "natural" color for 15 years... so I don't really know what it is anymore. I suppose "natural" is what I have been. What works for me. But whatever.
The night before I called my hair dresser and said, "I think I want to go dark. Dark OR short." She said, "I am not going to chop off your hair." And so... we ended up with this:
You like?
My family looked at me weird for a few days and Doug said, "It looks like I have a new wife... is that bad?" I think he liked it... or maybe he just wanted a new wife without REALLY getting a new wife :).
Sunday, January 2, 2011
New Years Resolution Time
OK. This year I am going to set a few goals. Because I have been seriously LACKING in the setting of goals department.
1. Read my scriptures every day (at least 10 pages) with a summary of what I learned
2. Say my prayers every AM and PM
3. Be on time for church EVERY single week with girls hair done cute
4. Don't yell at my kids on Sundays trying to be on time for church
5. Family home evening every week equipped with lesson, activity, treat, and something FUNNER
6. Run 6 miles every day 5 AM at a 6:50 pace
7. Ride bike 15 miles every day after running in 45 minutes
8. Swim 800 M every day after running and riding my bike
9. Enter my first Tri
10. Complete an Olympic Tri
11. Complete Iron Man
12. Run 4 Half marathons (13.1 miles) in one month
13. Run 2 Marathons (26.2 miles)
14. Visit 4 states and take my family. So that they can see the world
15. Get my passport to prepare for my visits to London, Lisbon Portugal, and Italy
16. Visit 2 countries outside the US
17. Spend 1 hour quality time with each child each day playing barbies, doing stickers, projects
18. Read 1 hour to my children before they go to bed from a book of their choice
19. Don't Yell. Be more patient
20. Teach Savannah how to more efficiently ride a bike
21. Teach Mikenna how to ride a 2-wheeler
22. Teach Isabella how to ride a trike
23. Work with Isabella on her letters, numbers, and start teaching her how to spell her name
24. Always keep a tidy home/ wipe down bathrooms every night
25. Clean my house deeply one day a week- baseboards, fans, shelving
26. Organize one room/closet/cupboard each week: deep clean, declutter, reorganize, DI
27. Prepare meals one week in advance and go shopping on Mondays
28. Prepare said meals and freeze them to have on hand
29. Can 86 lbs of chicken
30. Can 92 lbs of hamburger
31. Freeze 53 jars of jam
32. Complete 96 hour kits
33. Visit Daxton's grave once a month and take flowers and toys
34. Don't yell at my kids
35. Don't tell at my husband
36. Give up sugar... all sugar, candy, baked goods, jams, jellies, crackers
37. Give up soda... including diet, fresca, sprite
38. Lose 10 pounds
39. Lose 10 more pounds
40. Give up white flour
41. Complete my visiting teaching every month before the 5th
42. Call my friends once a week to check up on them
43. Log in to facebook to see how said friends are doing
44. Clean my car once a week (wash outside, vacuum, pick up garbage)
45. Blog daily and spotlight my girls weekly on my blog
46. Update and upkeep my fitness blog
47. Shower every day
48. Wear make up every day
49. Get dressed every day
50. Don't yell at my kids
51. Don't yell at my husband
52. Have a presidency meeting with my beehives weekly
53. Include my said beehives in planning activities
54. Heart attack all the young women weekly
55. Spotlight all the young women
56. Limit television watching to 1 hour a week
57. Give up Grey's anatomy
58. Give up Private Practice
59. Give up my Tivo (oh wait... I already did that)
60. Go on a date with my husband every week: dinner movie dessert more dessert :)
61. Go out with each of my girls once a month: dinner movies
62. Plan a daddy/daughter date each month for the girls
63. Take a fun family vacation to disneyland, san diego, texas
64. Take another fun family vacation
65. Stop wiping my boogers on other peoples car seats
66. Stop peeing in the shower
67. Wash dry and fold laundry all in one day
68. Teach my girls how to do their own laundry
69. Re-paint all my walls in my house
70. Add floor to ceiling bookshelves in my living room
71. Get the foot prints off my tub/shower
72. Eat more Fruits and veggies
73. Don't yell at my kids
74. Don't tell at my husband
75. Spend more time playing and less time fussing
Well I suppose that's it for now. Hopefully I can think of some more tomorrow, but I am seriously tired after my 8 hours of sleep last night and my 2 hour nap just wasn't enough today. I am parched.
Nighty night!
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