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I've been a bad girl and have been playing on the computer all day. Its for a pretty good cause though, I made an awesome slideshow of pictures of Mark and I from the time we started dating till now. He dosen't know about it yet. I can't decided if I should save it for his birthday or what. I really should save it till our anniversary but that is WAY to long to wait. I'll probably just blow it and show him tonight when he gets home. It turned out awesome. I can't get it hosted because it is too long (I didn't realize we had so many pics of us in 13 years!) so I can't post it. I tried putting it on youtube even but I can't do that either. Oh well. Anyway, take my word for it, its cool and he will like it. I guess it was worth the 4-5 hours I spent scanning and transferring. :D

On Saturday we went to the pool at the gym for the first time. It was great. The kids had fun and let me relax, and a couple of their friends showed up which is always nice.




Last night for FHE we got to go to the Rogers and play their Wii. It was so spiritual, I can't even tell you! LOL I'm just kidding, we had a great time and the kids had a ball too. Now of course we have to get a Wii. Its so fun to have the kids doing something together and having fun. Anything that promotes family togetherness has to be a good thing. Thanks Rogers!!!




Upcoming projects:

1.Teacher appreciation week at school next week. I have to decorate Coopers class door on Friday and come up with good gifts, and I'm feeling the pressure. I think I have my fantastic ideas together, but as usual its the execution of these great ideas that worries me.

2.Sadie's 10th birthday party luau.
It looks like it will fall the night of our father/sons campout, so thats a big bonus. I can't believe its time to get this put together, that means school is almost done!

3. Dinner tonight: I grilled some chicken and I'm going to chop it up and put it with some pasta, alfredo sauce (diluted a bit with milk) and chopped broccoli. I've never made this for the family before so i'm hoping it turns out. Actually some sundried tomatoes are sounding like a pretty good addition, I may have to run and get some.

wondering

How can it be that I am SO bored when there is so much I should be doing? I just dont want to do any of the things I am supposed to be doing I guess. And nothing exciting is going on. Hopefully I'll have something fun to blog about in the next couple of weeks.

TV post

No big surprise on AI last night. Everyone knows its not always the ones with the very best voice that wins, its a personality contest too. Carly just never really showed any personal side of herself that much. She always had such pretty eye makeup though. :D The final finale of Rock of Love was this week. Yes I watch that trash. Choosing Amber was a no-brainer. I give it a year. Once they realize that one of them would have to cut back their travelling career to be together, they'll end up just friends. I'm also watching I Know my Kid's a Star,which could also be titled "I know my moms a psycho". And Danny Bonaduce is the one and only judge?? Ummmm, OK. I am also getting into Step it up and Dance on Bravo. I'm not sure about Jesse, I mean Elizabeth Berkely as the host, she seems really wierd and dosen't really do much for the show but whatever I have really been likin it. Mabye because one of the best ones is named Janelle, I might be a little biased. LOL Just kidding. These shows I just catch during the week on replays during the day. I DVR them and watch at random. LOVE DVR. Dancing with the stars I am only partly watching, I have no idea whay I can't be in love with that show. I watch the performance night, then I just find out who gets kicked off and fast forward through the scoring. That way I know sort of what is going on but don't devote tooo much time to it.

And on to the REAL shows.....I LOVE Thursday night. We have a new Office, 30 Rock (I'm a huge Kenneth fan) Survivor (only partly watching it, especially now that Ozzy is off) and of COURSE...LOST is back tonight. I couldn't resist going online to see the spoiler clips. Whooooooo it looks so good. Love love love it.

Weekend Revisited

It was one of those weekends that was great, but I'm glad its over. I've been working up to it since tuesday, since there is no way possible for one person to get everything in line in 2 days. And it dosen't help that I have this crazy idea that no family event can take place without my laundry completely caught up and my closet totally organized. I mean, what if someone goes in there and sees a mess?? Stupid, I know. And I always start prep early, because you never know what will get thrown at you unexpectedly, which was of course the case this time, with a 5 hour babysitting adventure and a couple of desperate color clients. Its all good, thats why I start early, to fit all the last minute stuff in. Here are the highlights:

Saturday I got up super early and got the dinner made for after the baptism. Lucky for me Cooper picked Chili (thank you, crockpots!) and cornbread, and the classic famiy favorite, Jello cake. All yummy and easiy made ahead of time, simultaneously. Then off to take womens conference, which was delightful and ended almost an hour earlier than expected, bonus for me! Got home, had about 1 hour to get the car packed up, the kids dressed, and re-do the things the kids un-did while I was gone for 3 1/2 hours on a saturday. Got to the Stake center 30 minutes early, and we rocked and rolled a great baptism. Cooper is such a sweetheart! I'm so proud of him and he really has an understanding of what it means. My MIL and little sister did a great job on their talks and the whole thing was short and sweet. One other sweet moment was when Cade realized that he will only be 15 when Dayton turns 8 and he won't be able to be the one to baptize him. He was pretty bummed out. How adorable is that?? He suggested we wait for him to turn 16, but I don't think that will happen. Its a nice idea though.





So we get home, the fam came over for some grub and then I went with my mom and baby sister Em to look at prom dresses. I was exhausted, but I wanted to get out and relax with some girl time. I even hit the Bath and Body outlet store for some treats for me. Prom dress got purchased, shoes, etc and then I headed home to officially crash. Well, I watched some UFC before I crashed. I do find it mildly entertaining. I was pretty tired an don't remember much of it. I even skipped choir this morning, I was just too wiped out. I haven't really eaten or slept good since about tuesday, so I was (and still am) a little hammered. Luckily primary was really low key today. It was all worth it. I loved every minute of it.

And I think I'll schedule a 1 hour massage for tuesday.

G.N.O.

In case you're not up on your Hannah Montana lingo that stands for Girls Night Out! All of us on our street and a few other primary gals went to Abuelo's to Celebrate Jill's baby coming Thursday. Seriously, everybody except 2 people in this picture live on my street. And we were missing Vanessa. I can't even explain how awesome it is. It was so fun! I was so happy that we had such a big group for a totally spur of the moment thing. It just shows how much everybody loves Jill! :D We ate and laughed ourselves silly. I'm so excited for little baby Roanan to get here. I love these guys!!!

Weekend update

It was a weekend full of stuff. Its hard because Mark just works his butt off and I hardly see him 5 or 6 days of the week. But I guess I'd rather be married to a workaholic than a lazyrump. And we're grateful for the overtime.

I was so proud of my kids at the primary talent show! Cade and Cooper played violin, Sadie danced and sang with her friends to Fabulous from HSM2, Wyatt drew a scorpion and displayed it and Dayton did the crabwalk. It just cracks me up, he came up with his talent all on his own. He must've learned that at school. So cute. I was really proud of Cooper because he didn't want to do it, but I'm glad I made him. Same with Cade. They are such good violin players. I'm so lucky I have my dad to teach them. Sadie and the girls were so cute all "fabulous" with their shades and flipflops.

Then stright off to a baby shower, then straight home where I crashed. WHY am I so tired all the time?? I got a 30 minute power nap and then did a prom up-do. Then Sadie and I got to go hear my sister Emily sing at Gammage in the All-State choir. It was excellent. They sang some cool songs, incuding the always awesome Shenandoah, it was really teriffic. Then home to get ready for Sunday and primary. I was a naughty girl and got the stuff to make cinnamon rolls again. Then even worse, I made them before church today. WITH the cream cheese frosting. So now Ive eaten myself sick with cinnamon rolls and I feel terrible. I already have a booty that looks like 2 cinnamon rolls, I certainly don't need to add to the damage.


This week is full of places to be and things to do, It should be interesting. My favorite of the plans, is this:




Thanks Kate for doing these ADORABLE invites!


Since this is our 3rd baptism, I'm am all too aware of what it takes to pull this off.. It seems so innocently easy. HA. Its not helping that I have our awesome Womens conference with Chieko Okasaki that morning so all my prep has to be done (for food afterward, etc.) beforehand. All the planning is set, its just the execution of it all I'm nervous about. I'll just let my control freak side take over and we'll be just fine.

shows shows shows!

YAY my shows are back! But first, did I freak myself out with my VERY close to right call on AI?? I just got the "fluke" person wrong. I knew it would be someone that nobody expected, Darn I was so close. I actually didn't see it (we already had 2 things recording, but I did get the details including rudey-rudiger Ryan's way of telling Michael that he was voted off.... JERK!!) ANYWAY.....

But I did see the OFFICE!! Oh holy moley that show is diabolically funny. If you are not watching it you are really missing out. One of my favorite parts of the show is the looks that Jim and Pam give each other and the camera. Michael and Jan, oh dear. The show is pure genius. I just have one quote...."You can always buy new stuff, you can't buy a new party" ROTFLMAO!! Did anyone else used to watch Arrested Development?? That was same kind of show, it was nararated and didn't have a laugh track, but that show was equally genius. I wished more people jumped on the bandwagon with that, because it is one of the all time best shows ever. I need the box set of that. Plus I'm a huge Jason Bateman fan.

So today, getting caught up on cleaning, I've managed to get through almost my entire mountain of laundry. The worst is when I start washing sheets and blankets and changing all the beds. It turns into literal mountains of laundry. Sadie is hosting a practice with some girls for the primary talent show tonight so I gotta have things put together. Cooper is home sick, he had some stomach thing last night and this morning he didn't look so good so I let him stay home. Mark is trying to sleep but keeps getting tons of phone calls so I had to confiscate his phone. Other than that, just ready to roll into the weekend.

Idol Recap:

I didn't really watch all of Idol Gives Back.....But I DID see the FIRST 10 MINUTES!!!!! WOOO HOOOOO!! I LOVED IT! I had my back turned doing something and was just listening, I glance over and I'm like "Is that BENJI and LACEY??? And TRAVIS?? And DONYELLE??" YAY! It was the best 3 minutes of tv I've seen since the SYTYCD finale last year! LOL I am so excited for it to start in May. Awesome. I thought Teri Hatcher did really good! That was funny. I LOVED that song Carrie Underwood sang, that is one of my all time favorite George Michael song. Yes, I have a favorite George Micheal album from the 90's, before he got all......ya know. I hope she releases that, I loved it. I even liked Annie Lennox. That was mainly all I saw. I was doing a weave and some eyebrow waxes so I didn't really get to see it all, I'll have to rewatch while I fold clothes today. Who's going home, you ask?? I'm predicting bottom 3 to be Sayesha (aw), Carly, and, um, Mabye David Cook, as a fluke. I REALLY like him after the last few weeks, he totally rocks. I think Kristy Lee Cook has picked up momentum, she'll have the same following/votes as Carrie Underwood did. Or she could go home, what the heck do I know. But I think it might be Sayesha.

Nuttin'

Well I have nothing new to post. But I hate it when people take too long between posts, so I'm posting to say that I have nothing new to say. I'm super busy, blah blah blah. I would love to be on a cruise somewhere tropical right about now. And come home to my house magically perfecty spotless. Too bad life dosen't work like that. Darn.

Follow up post

A few updates:

April fools...I kinda ran out of steam on that. What I WAS going to do was right after picking up the kids from school, tell them that we were going to move to a new house,(they know we are just renting and will eventually move...totally believable) and then pull up to an old burned out or really run down place. I actually had a couple places in mind to go to, but they have recently been cleared because of all the road construction going on, and I didn't feel like driving around forever to find a good yucky old house. I could have gone on and on about how we were just going to do some remodeling and we could make it work for a year or 2, blah blah blah and they would have totally fell for it. Hee hee it would have been funny. Oh well. I'll just keep that little idea in my pocket for later......

I managed to get a picture of the kids on Sunday. Cuties. I really need to get new family pics done. Its been a year and a half!





Cooper's birthday party was today right after school. I have had THE busiest week, and haven't recovered from my all nighter tuesday night (I got a little carried away organizing the office...I looked up and it was almost 6 am! DOH!) and have never caught up. And on top of it the last 3 days have been INSANE. I've done a ton of hair, school stuff, I've been going like a madwoman. So by the time friday came around I was beat, yet had to get my yard mowed (you can't have a sports party in your backyard with grass up to your ankles!) did a gramma perm, and started getting ready for the party about 1 pm today. Ya, the party was supposed to start at 3 right after school. By some miracle I got it all done. Whew! It was pretty much the lamest party ever, but as long as he liked it, hey. All his friends had fun too. All they want to do is jump on the trampoline anyway, so thats what they did. And they played HORSE. Luckily, I made it a short one, 3-4:30. It was just perfect. Now I can start thinking about planning the baptism, AFTER I take this weekend off and chill. Chill chill chill. Except I'm babysitting my neice all weekend and doing a little hair tomorrow. But other than that...I'm CHILLAXIN!!!

B-day for the C-dog

Today is my sweetboy Coopers birthday. He is 8 years old, I just can't believe it!! He gets baptized in a week and a half. He is having his big friend b-day party on friday and then the family party will be after his baptism, of course. He is such a great kid, he is the one that gets his homework done, gets ready for school with lightning speed, and does his chores the best. He is also the one that looks most like me, which is so fun.




He is SO smart, he is actually bored at his school, which most kids find the pace of it's curriculum challenging. I am so glad I get to be Coopers mom!!! His favorite song ever is by greenday, so lets give a shout ot to Cooper. Happy birthday awesome kid!!