Wednesday, March 11, 2009

At 3:30a.m. I wake with a start and am prompted to move. I jump from my bed and quickly move toward the kids. As I leave my room, I hear an all to familiar sound of running water. I sail across the floor the remainder of the distance to the kids bathroom. And what do I find? My most recent specimen standing at the sink. I do what any mother would do at a moment such as this, and send him to bed. I feel things are going pretty well, since the water is only covering the larger portion of the counter and not the floor, only one towel is sopping wet, only half the rubber bands have been washed down the drain, only one book is dripping with water, and only five bows have drowned. I clean up, and all the while Jack is wailing and crying "Momma" in his bed. I kneel down at his bedside and he wraps his little arms around my neck and squeezes with all his might...and won't let go. Then says "I sauwee" What more can I say, this little guy pulls on my heart strings.

Friday, March 6, 2009

Peach Blossoms

I can't believe it is only the beginning of March and already the peach tree is in full bloom. It was so fun to see the girls go out each day and carefully inspect the tree to see how it had progressed from buds to blossoms and now leaves. Hopefully I can add peaches to that list. We are not to hopeful since it has only been in the ground one year. But we will keep our fingers crossed!Notice all the dirt? We are in the process of building a raised garden/flower bed. The soil here is clay. We are hoping that this year things will grow a little better with improved soil. And praying that it is not my thumb.This is my raspberry vine. Look at all those raspberries. I can taste them now-or not. Because the dog ate them-ALL. I wanted to strangle her. But I didn't, I just put her in her kennel. So, there was not a berry left, not even the slightest bud of a raspberry. I guess there won't be too many raspberries this year.
Can you tell I was a little mad?
This is the sweet little Garden Fairy!
Doesn't she have such an angelic smile!

Saturday, February 28, 2009

80's Flashback

Our ward had an Awesome 80's Party and I think I enjoyed myself a little too much! We got all decked out with miss match shoes, gold chains, blue eye shadow, big hair and bandanna's. Superman even joined us for the evening. There was Karaoke for the brave. Katie got up and sang Surfin' USA. She did a great job singing the words that she knew. Olivia got stage fright at the last minute and stood in the background. And when we left she had a melt down because she didn't get to sing. I felt really bad-maybe at the next party. But Kate really enjoyed sharing the spotlight with Elyse!Jackson and Daddy-O getting their groove on!!Dude!Amber (aka Punky Brewster) and Roegan.Stephanie the mastermind of the Party!
Karen, Heather, Jen, Sheryl
Monica and Jocelyn
There was some really awesome 80's gear tonight. I have to say I don't exactly love the 80's look, but I really do still like the music!

When we got home Olivia asked me "what is that blue stuff on your eyes? Does it come off?" Thankfully, yes!

Kate just might be an 80's style child-she told me I looked really cute and she liked my hair. "It's cute Mom, it's cute!" Or, she didn't want to hurt my feelings!

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Where are we headed?

I fear this is what our great nation is headed towards.

Norman Thomas
Socialist Party presidential candidate in 1940, 1944 and 1948.

“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But under the name of Liberalism, they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program until one day America will be a socialist nation without knowing how it happened.”