Friday, May 17, 2013
McKay's Piano recital and Camping
Today McKay performed at his I thin 3 rd piano recital. He performed Mission Impossible and Battle Hymn of the Republic. He did a great job, as usual. Kory and McKay left right afterwards to go to the father's and sons camp out up by Idaho City. I was left with the rest of the kids but they were good as we quickly ran to Walmart, picked up dinner for me at Quadoba and then got ice cream at U-Swirl. I am happy it is Saturday tomorrow. Hopefully the kids sleep in.
Thursday, May 16, 2013
Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Lots of Things Going On
Scouts: Tonight McKay earned his Bear in cub scouts. He worked hard along with his scout leaders and we got it early before his birthday in June. We had a fun time at pack meeting with the family and other ward members. They had a tent set up and Kory and other dad hid inside. When they awarded the advancement awards the boys had to go into the tent and fight a bear or wolf (whichever award they were getting). The boys would scream and you could hear bear sounds and growling then a shoe would fly out the door and then a scarf and then the boys would come hurtling out. Kory said they would tickle the boys. McKay hit the wall getting out of the tent giggling and laughing, so funny.
Ward Split: We got an announcement that our ward and two others in our stake are going to be realigned and a new fourth ward will be created. We do have a large ward with new construction and lots of homes going up in a section of our ward bounderies. I hear though that our ward is not the largest. It is a sad feeling knowing that many of our new friends will be going to another ward and possibly to a new building and we may not see them hardly at all. I am not liking this but there is nothing I can do about it. Our ward was last split about 3 years ago and I felt the same way until we went to the realignment meeting and the spirit was so strong that I knew that what was happening was direction from the Lord and I easily accepted it and we ended up with wonderful new members in our ward. I do miss the old ones though and do not see them hardly at all anymore. The same thing will happen in this case I am afraid. We were warned by our Stake President that this was coming many months ago during our Ward Conference. I feel bad for all the bishoprics that have to find new callings to fill in the gaps. I have a feeling there will be a lot of big ones to fill in our ward. We will see what happens this Sunday.
Tires: We have been spending our tax rebate like crazy with things like new tires, boring. Kory's car and my van. Very expensive and it has taken a lot of time. Kory spent days researching and pricing and driving around looking for the best deal for good tires. He got his car's from Toyota and the van from Costco. I was given the assignment of getting them aligned and the oil changed before our California trip coming up in two weeks. I got them aligned today afternoon at Goodyear with 3 of my kids with me. Luckily they had a Burger King right next door so we were able to eat lunch and have the kids play for over an hour while they were getting it done. When the hour was up I was watching out the window and saw them pulling our van out of the shop and I thought "oh good, there done" and started getting the kids together to go but then noticed the worker driving off with our van! I started to panic a little but then realized that they probably needed to test it. I however kept looking out the window watching for them to come back, hoping they would. They did and everything turned out fine and we got a great deal!!! The guy at the desk when I paid for it asked if the kids could have a sucker. I said yes they would love that. He came back with the suckers for them and a carnation flower for me! So sweet. They really want our buisness in the future I gathered, buttering us up for next time. Next week, oil change at Honda. I wish they had a McDonald's next door to them.
The cutest thing happened today. Kory came home from work and Ashley crawled right up to him and started tugging on his pant leg. He picked her up and she started kissing him on the cheek over and over. She would put her face up to his cheek and then back off and smile then do it again and again. It was soooooo cute. I have never seen her do that before. I told Kory she never did that with me. He then handed her to me and she just looked up at him and did not give me a kiss. I am not sure where she learned it from, maybe watching me kiss Kory on the cheek when I have held her. So fun. She is getting so big. Love her to pieces!
Ward Split: We got an announcement that our ward and two others in our stake are going to be realigned and a new fourth ward will be created. We do have a large ward with new construction and lots of homes going up in a section of our ward bounderies. I hear though that our ward is not the largest. It is a sad feeling knowing that many of our new friends will be going to another ward and possibly to a new building and we may not see them hardly at all. I am not liking this but there is nothing I can do about it. Our ward was last split about 3 years ago and I felt the same way until we went to the realignment meeting and the spirit was so strong that I knew that what was happening was direction from the Lord and I easily accepted it and we ended up with wonderful new members in our ward. I do miss the old ones though and do not see them hardly at all anymore. The same thing will happen in this case I am afraid. We were warned by our Stake President that this was coming many months ago during our Ward Conference. I feel bad for all the bishoprics that have to find new callings to fill in the gaps. I have a feeling there will be a lot of big ones to fill in our ward. We will see what happens this Sunday.
Tires: We have been spending our tax rebate like crazy with things like new tires, boring. Kory's car and my van. Very expensive and it has taken a lot of time. Kory spent days researching and pricing and driving around looking for the best deal for good tires. He got his car's from Toyota and the van from Costco. I was given the assignment of getting them aligned and the oil changed before our California trip coming up in two weeks. I got them aligned today afternoon at Goodyear with 3 of my kids with me. Luckily they had a Burger King right next door so we were able to eat lunch and have the kids play for over an hour while they were getting it done. When the hour was up I was watching out the window and saw them pulling our van out of the shop and I thought "oh good, there done" and started getting the kids together to go but then noticed the worker driving off with our van! I started to panic a little but then realized that they probably needed to test it. I however kept looking out the window watching for them to come back, hoping they would. They did and everything turned out fine and we got a great deal!!! The guy at the desk when I paid for it asked if the kids could have a sucker. I said yes they would love that. He came back with the suckers for them and a carnation flower for me! So sweet. They really want our buisness in the future I gathered, buttering us up for next time. Next week, oil change at Honda. I wish they had a McDonald's next door to them.
The cutest thing happened today. Kory came home from work and Ashley crawled right up to him and started tugging on his pant leg. He picked her up and she started kissing him on the cheek over and over. She would put her face up to his cheek and then back off and smile then do it again and again. It was soooooo cute. I have never seen her do that before. I told Kory she never did that with me. He then handed her to me and she just looked up at him and did not give me a kiss. I am not sure where she learned it from, maybe watching me kiss Kory on the cheek when I have held her. So fun. She is getting so big. Love her to pieces!
Friday, March 29, 2013
Starting Again
I think I am going to start up the blog again, just without pictures, unless I can put some on through my I-Pad?? I was looking through my old posts and reminiscing a bit. I love looking through and remembering things and thought, "I can't quit now and lose all of those memories." So I will try again. Some things that have happened lately are we got new kitchen appliances. In a way it was a blessing because as our old dishwasher was flooding our kitchen floor one day (glad we have tile floors, no water damage) we pulled it out and found that a mouse was living underneath our kitchen cabinets!!! After Kory sealed up all the holes we thought we could see we thought everything was fine and no mice, but then one night I came into the kitchen to put an ice pack into the freezer and turned on the light and found a mouse on top of our kitchen counters eating crumbs from the toaster. It ran behind our oven/stove and I ran upstairs and woke up Kory and said the mouse was still there. So gross. I scrubbed the counters late that night and sealed off our pantry with towels, cleaned all crumbs from the toaster and moved everthing to the island and kept the light on in the kitchen all night. The next day Kory got a trap and the following night we trapped our little mouse. Since then we have seen no mouse poop, and we kept another trap out just in case for a week or more. I think when Kory sealed up the hole it trapped the mouse into our house. Lukily it seems it was just one mouse in our house. We ended up getting a new dishwasher because the other one was toast, a new microwave because our old one was making a clanking/clicking sound for years and I was nervous using it, thinking we were getting radiation in us, and since our old appliances were white and our new ones were stainless steel we took advantage of a President's Day sale and bought an oven/range to match. We just sold our old white one on Craig's list for $200 (yeah!!!).
Another thing that has happened since my last post was an injury I sustained just before Christmas. I started working out on our treadmill a bit too vigorously, running and inclining and having a great time getting into shape, but my body was not ready for such fierce exercising after having Ashley and I got this pain in my groin area and right leg that got worse and worse to the point where I could hardly walk. It would not go away and I was chugging ibuprofen and limping and barely able to walk for weeks. After the holidays I went to the doctor and he sent me to physical therapy. Five weeks of exercises and two times a week visits to a physical therapist I finally got better. On top of that, because I was limping so much my body got all out of wack and I developed a terrible back pain to go along with it. The hardest thing was finding people in the ward who would watch all three of my kids, including the baby (and my appointments were during her nap time). I had wonderful people watch them and they were truly a lifesaver for me. Winter was hard this year because of my leg. I was limping all the time and we kept getting snow and ice and I was frequently slipping and tweaking my leg again and again and reinjuring it. I think I would have healed faster if I didn't have to walk on such terrible roads and sidewalks. Also I was carrying Ashley around all the time and that was hurting my back and leg as well. But now it is spring and I am all better. The pain is completely gone and I am so grateful. I now only walk on the treadmill and no inclining. I learned my lesson.
Now onto the kids: McKay finished up his 2nd year of basketball and did a little better this year. He really enjoyed it even though he was not the greatest player. He was a good defender though and it was fun to go to his games and cheer him on.
Kason started a preschool with three other kids with us mom's teaching. The home preschool thing did not work out so well and we needed a more structured enviornment for both of us. It has been going well and he really likes going.
Erica is doing well in Kindergarten. She has really taken to reading lately. At first she did not like to read anything out loud to anyone but now that she is getting it down she is starting to pick up books here and there and trying to read them to me or Kason. I have really seen her improve when we read scriputures as a family. We each read one verse at a time and would have to help Erica quite a bit, but now she can almost get every word in her verse. It has been awesome to see her grow. She is also writing books. She draws pictures and makes up stories and puts words to them and is becoming very creative. She has quite the imagination. She fills up notebooks and composition books full of her stories. It is quite amazing.
Ashley is so fun. She got sick a week ago and she was not quite so much fun during that time when she was waking up 3-4 times a night. She is all better now though and fun again and sleeping better (only wakes up 1-2 times a night). She is crawling all over the place (on her tummy) and loves to go everywhere. She is quick too. We have had to really watch what is on the floor because she can find the tiniest little thing and it ends up in her mouth. The most common thing I find in her mouth is carpet fibers. She either picks them out herself between the carpet and tile or her crawling pulls them out and she finds them. Luckily she just chews on all the paper and carpet and other things she finds and hardly swallows them. We seem to get them out before then. We find her dancing to music and kicking her legs to the beat, smiling all the time, only likes to eat food with her hands in her highchair and does not like us to spoon feed her anymore (I still do it though because I bought tons of baby food and I don't want to waste it and she needs her veggies), and LOVES to drink from sippy cups. She is such a joy in our home.
Another thing that has happened since my last post was an injury I sustained just before Christmas. I started working out on our treadmill a bit too vigorously, running and inclining and having a great time getting into shape, but my body was not ready for such fierce exercising after having Ashley and I got this pain in my groin area and right leg that got worse and worse to the point where I could hardly walk. It would not go away and I was chugging ibuprofen and limping and barely able to walk for weeks. After the holidays I went to the doctor and he sent me to physical therapy. Five weeks of exercises and two times a week visits to a physical therapist I finally got better. On top of that, because I was limping so much my body got all out of wack and I developed a terrible back pain to go along with it. The hardest thing was finding people in the ward who would watch all three of my kids, including the baby (and my appointments were during her nap time). I had wonderful people watch them and they were truly a lifesaver for me. Winter was hard this year because of my leg. I was limping all the time and we kept getting snow and ice and I was frequently slipping and tweaking my leg again and again and reinjuring it. I think I would have healed faster if I didn't have to walk on such terrible roads and sidewalks. Also I was carrying Ashley around all the time and that was hurting my back and leg as well. But now it is spring and I am all better. The pain is completely gone and I am so grateful. I now only walk on the treadmill and no inclining. I learned my lesson.
Now onto the kids: McKay finished up his 2nd year of basketball and did a little better this year. He really enjoyed it even though he was not the greatest player. He was a good defender though and it was fun to go to his games and cheer him on.
Kason started a preschool with three other kids with us mom's teaching. The home preschool thing did not work out so well and we needed a more structured enviornment for both of us. It has been going well and he really likes going.
Erica is doing well in Kindergarten. She has really taken to reading lately. At first she did not like to read anything out loud to anyone but now that she is getting it down she is starting to pick up books here and there and trying to read them to me or Kason. I have really seen her improve when we read scriputures as a family. We each read one verse at a time and would have to help Erica quite a bit, but now she can almost get every word in her verse. It has been awesome to see her grow. She is also writing books. She draws pictures and makes up stories and puts words to them and is becoming very creative. She has quite the imagination. She fills up notebooks and composition books full of her stories. It is quite amazing.
Ashley is so fun. She got sick a week ago and she was not quite so much fun during that time when she was waking up 3-4 times a night. She is all better now though and fun again and sleeping better (only wakes up 1-2 times a night). She is crawling all over the place (on her tummy) and loves to go everywhere. She is quick too. We have had to really watch what is on the floor because she can find the tiniest little thing and it ends up in her mouth. The most common thing I find in her mouth is carpet fibers. She either picks them out herself between the carpet and tile or her crawling pulls them out and she finds them. Luckily she just chews on all the paper and carpet and other things she finds and hardly swallows them. We seem to get them out before then. We find her dancing to music and kicking her legs to the beat, smiling all the time, only likes to eat food with her hands in her highchair and does not like us to spoon feed her anymore (I still do it though because I bought tons of baby food and I don't want to waste it and she needs her veggies), and LOVES to drink from sippy cups. She is such a joy in our home.
Sunday, February 03, 2013
No more blog
I think I am going to end the blog thing. I have not been updating it because it takes forever to upload pictures. I tried to do one today and it was taking up to 5 minutes and then the computer would freeze up. Our computer stinks. I have struggled with this for a long time and usually have to devote many hours to doing the blog because of the pictures, and I frankly don't have time for that. So until we get a new computer or I don't want to share any pictures then I think the blog thing is just not going to work. So goodbye for now. Maybe in the future I will start up again.
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