Just for Jeff........(love you honey:)

We have been having this ongoing discussion for some time now and he finally told me today, "you need to change our profile on our blog because it's not true."

Now the story........We have had season tickets to the professional soccer team in Salt lake for 2 years now which I mentioned how much we enjoy going to the games as a family, which of course we do, but also remember this was written about half way through the season.

Now that it is the end of the season and I'm completely burned out on the games, the drive back and forth, plus having church at 8:30 in the morning we usually miss sacrament so we can sleep a little longer, oh and lets not forget that we don't have to purchase a ticket for Beckham so I get to enjoy the game with a child on my lap and whatever else he wants on there with us. So, I mention to Jeff, "why don't we pick 4 games that we really want to go to during the season and purchase tickets for only those games, that way we aren't gone every single Saturday from April to August and it will save us TONS of money (since we don't have it anyhow).

I feel as though it has taken the fun out of going, "because we have to" and because the kids don't get to enjoy their summers at home playing.

Of course Jeff was very unhappy with this request and thinks that I need to remove my comment from our profile. Now, I'm sure that might seem kind of Naggy and unappreciative of me that we get to go do that together but please remember there are about 18 home games and we go to all but a few. So that's about 15 times to Salt lake and back in a 6 month time span. Can anyone else understand what I am saying? I'm sure if you're a mother you can understand completely.

GO REAL!!!!

I apologize Michelle..............lol

It wasn't until today that I decided to take a look at different blogs when I noticed I had the same layout as you. :) I thought it was pretty funny because it was just Thursday that you showed it to me and I was thinking how cute it was but didn't even notice when I was picking a new one. Thought I would apologize incase you thought I was a little bit nuts. I mean, more than I actually am.

2nd grade party....

Like I mentioned before in another blog, I was informed on back to school night that I was Mikaiah's room mother for second grade. I have no idea how my name was picked since I really try to avoid that kind of stuff and never signed up to be it since wearing myself out with it early on with the two older girls. I did however happily agree to it because I owe it to kia. That was before finding out the expectations of this teacher. She goes all out with her parties and goes to extremes with every little detail. She gave me a nice big "room mother's handbook" and a list of instructions for the Halloween party

1. homemade rootbeer with dry ice
2. halloween napkins, plates and cups and table cloths
3. buffet style with meats, cheeses, crackers, fruits and veggie tray
4. individual bags full of candy to put in the pinata
5. sugar cookies with toppings for the kids to decorate

I look at this, take a deep breath and keep telling myself I can do it. I called a few other moms to help me out including Mikaiah's stepmom. We pulled it all together and ended up having a great time. Even Jeff and Beckham came and partied with us, they were actually only helping me get things there and decided to stay for the whole thing. I was so busy getting everything ready that morning, Beckham went with us still in his pajamas (buzz lightyear) and his hair standing straight up. Luckily it was halloween and nobody thought anything about it

(I even made a veggie tray into a pumpkin face)

Halloween 2008

We had a really nice night and were able to have all the kids here for this Halloween which usually doesn't happen. We went trick or treating around the neighborhood and ended up at the house of some people in our ward (Campbell's) where we sat around and talked,then after that went to Jeff's aunt and uncles house to visit his grandma Palmer and a bunch of cousins. I think all the kids had a really good time. They all looked so cute in their costumes, Morgan was on her 3rd of 4th one that night. Katie decided not to dress up but looked beautiful because she had just got done with a dance at her school.

I love........

Having all our kids here lately. They have added so much fun and excitement to our home. There is never a dull moment and all of them have been having such a good time together. I'm sitting here in the office and can hear every single one of them playing together downstairs. They are playing "The Suite Life of Kia and Lacey." their own version of "The Suite Life of Zack and Cody." They even have the older girls playing along with them, doing their hair and dressing them up. Listening to the things they are saying and acting out would surely get them an Oscar. It is so nice to have them get along and be able to play together so good without any problems at all. (Candy thief caught on camera) There is always so much entertainment when they all get together that it completely wears out Beckham by the time the weekend is finished. We went in and found him sleeping on his "Cars" rug after Katie, Ashley and Lacey had gone home. He loves having all the girls here.

I did it!!!

HELLLLPPPP!!! I feel like I'm dying and my big toe is going to fall off. It is officially known as the Fred Flintstone toe. It is really swollen and chubby looking. Today was the day of the race and it went pretty good. We beat our time from last week by 17 minutes so I'm pretty happy about that. I was so excited to post some pictures on here as proof for everyone to see so I got new batteries in my camera, put it in the car and completely forgot about it. There were people taking pictures all along the way though so i will try to take them off the site when they post them and put on here. We had a really good time doing it and feel such great accomplishment from it. Plus I need to apologize to Jeff for my little remark in the last blog because about 9 miles into it him and the kids drove by cheering us on out the windows. It felt so good to see all of them and have them yelling for me telling me, "you can do it Mommy." That was the biggest energy boost for me and was so happy he did that. They went by about 3 different times and I love all of them for that.