Dino Day! January 29,2010

My goodness these are sure out of order! You may want to scroll down to the bottom first. Sorry! But hey I did a post with pictures, by myself and it didn't get erased! Yahoo!Nathan's face when we walked into the foyer of the museum. He had fallen asleep in the van on the way down so he wasn't quite awake. All he could say is wow! This is awesome!

Digging for fossils was one of the highlights of the museum for Nathan mostly because he got to take off his shoes. The people in line before us were the examples of that. There was no convincing him to "just leave them on!"

No Kindergartner in the past 20 years in Grantsville could say his school year wasn't complete without Dinosafari Day. Nathan was so excited about the big day, starting more than a week away every morning he would wake up and the first thing out of his mouth was only...more days until dino day! He couldn't wait. The night before he almost couldn't fall asleep! When I heard that they were a few volunteers short I asked my principal if I could get someone to watch my class and go into help. After a few days he said that it just wasn't going to work out so I said "okay, that's fine I'm taking a personal day, find me a sub and I will be taking off the whole day not just a few hours!" I was a bit ticked off because it really would have only been 1.5 hours and all of the other 3rd grade teachers said they would take a few kids-that's just what we do when one of us needs to be a mom or dad! Grr! So since I was already making sub plans I decided to check Maddie out and we were going to make a day of it! A family day...at the dinosaur museum at Thanksgiving Point! We had a blast!!! I can honestly say that this is one of my most recent favorite memories of being together we've had in a long time. Thanks for the fun guys! I sure love my kiddos!

Maddie and Nathan standing next to just the front foot of a dino skeleton. WOW! They were HUGE Creatures!!!!

Pounding open a dinosaur egg is always the highlight for every kindergarten boy!

Nathan heading down the slide (above) and checking out his loot from the big day. (below)

Let's try this again!

Well, if you read the post below you will know that this is the 2nd attempt at this here Christmas blog post. I had titled it "December in 30 minutes or less." I even had pictures and for those who really follow me know that that is quite rare! I even put them on myself!!! Could someone please be proud of me because this patting myself on the back is kinda hurting my arm!!! :) Any way, here goes the 2nd attempt....husband is clear, ready, set, go!

Well...humm what did I post....December was a little odd this year because we didn't start the month off with the annual 3rd grade nutcracker at school, (because of the fire, etc.) we got out of school a whole week before Christmas, we didn't have a birthday party with friends or family for Madalyn this year, and we had our first ever "at our own house" Christmas Eve and we didn't even do a gift exchange with Adam's side of the family this year as a matter of fact we hardly even spent any time with our extended family at all. Over all we had a very low key, very quiet, very relaxed holiday season---It's a wonder we didn't all kill each other from being cooped up in the house so much!

We did take the kids to see the lights at temple square on the 23rd and it wasn't even really that crowded. We went to see the "Mo-tab Choir" with Natalie Cole with my Dad and Shawna. We took the kids sledding at the "old powerhouse" where Adam and I both used to sled as kids. To top off an almost perfect Christmas break the kids and I took a quick trip to St. George to visit friends and get out of the cold and muck.

Well, there you have it folks! The run down quick version of the cuter post that got erased! Oh well it's better than nothing, right? January highlights coming soon.

Not giving up!

Okay, so I promised a post this weekend. I want you to know that I did do one- a good one all about Christmas and December. My dear helpful husband was trying to help me and accidently deleted the whole post! GRRR! I will re-post it tomorrow. Sorry!

I'm so dumb!!!

I just wasted about 1.5 hours blog stalking everyone else's blogs and then it hit me! DUH! If I would have spent some of that time catching up my own blog I could have checked that off of my long list of to do's!!! Why does it take me so long to have a great thought come to me! Oh my! Tomorrow my friends, tomorrow! It's already Friday tomorrow! Wow that week went fast! Helped that we only had 2.5 days of school :) I have lots of blogging to catch up on (of my own this time) so I'd better get to sleep so that I can stay up late tomorrow night.

Christmas is COMING!

Wow! How did December go that fast! I am so glad to be off of school and home to get stuff ready for the holiday. I just hope we don't all kill each other. We are ALL home this week which hardly ever happens except on Saturday. Pray for work! I wish he had some.
So Nathan just came down to me and said "mom, what should I wear today?" I said "It doesn't matter wear whatever you want out of your drawer, we are just getting things done at home today." He said, "I can wear anything, even if it doesn't match? Yes!" He is quite the crack up lately. I really should document more of his silly things because I know I won't remember them. I guess I should focus on his cuteness and stop getting after his naughty behavior so much.
Here's to a great, PRODUCTIVE, happy day for us and anyone else who needs my good luck! My dad has always told me "Lis, if you didn't have BAD luck you wouldn't have ANY luck." So take that for what it's worth! Have a great day anyway, even if it's not what you want it to be! :)

What are you thankful for?

This past weekend, like most of you, we celebrated Thanksgiving. I didn't take any pictures but I have taken a few minutes to think about some of the things I am thankful for, sure there are the regulars: family, friends, food, home but I thought of some others. I am thankful for a washer and dryer in my house! We have been without for almost 3 weeks because we are finishing a bathroom and tiling our "new" laundry room. I am thankful for a husband who can do these projects around the house even though he drives me ALMOST OVER THE EDGE when he does them because HE TAKES SO LONG! I am thankful for a job. Even if it drives me crazy to be so responsible for the future of children sometimes. I am thankful that I CAN work to help out my family. I am thankful for cute children. I am so thankful that I have a GIRL and a BOY. Sure I would like to have more than one of each but I need to remember how lucky I am to have 2 healthy children. I have truly been blessed. Most of the time I feel undeserving of 95% of my wonderful blessings. I am also thankful for blogging and facebook. That sounds weird, I know but it is truly right up my alley to check up on people whether they know or I am stalking them. I think blogging was made for people just like me. In my life I don't always get to spend time with my friends or even ever see them but I get to read their blogs-late, late at night in my pjs with tears streaming down my face sometimes. I want you all to know that I have really appreciated reading your blogs. I know that we mostly all blog about happy things but I know everything in life isn't all happy but you have made me remember to always remember the good parts of my life. How was that for a run-on sentence? I really don't know why I am being so sentimental tonight----One last thing that I came to realize I need to be thankful for is LIFE! You know this weekend when I was thinking I thought-- we are all here striving for the same thing, we all want the same thing in life, we are all aiming for the same goal. I don't think anyone ever wakes up in the morning and says to themselves "Man, how can I make someone else's life HELL today." We are all just trying to get to the end of the day, doing our darn best to be happy and although we all have a "little junk in the trunk" by darn we all have so much to be thankful for. It is so easy to think you are the only one having problems or the only one fighting inside to be happy or hiding something major, everyone has problems!!! If not--- your turn will come so be careful how to treat others and by darn like I always tell my kids "JUST BE NICE." We never know what people are going through. I hope you all understand what I am trying to say in this post, I have never been so good with words. I want you all to know that I truly believe everything I have said. Heavenly Father loves us and knows what we are going through! Love you all! Good night! Take Care- know I love you, Lis

late, late Saturday night

Any given late, late Saturday night or very early Sunday morning you'll find me in this same situation. DOING LAUNDRY!!!! I don't know if I resent this weekly task or enjoy my late nights alone. My house is fairly quiet except for Adam snoring loudly in the background and usually CSI playing in the background for noise mostly. I have decided that I have something seriously wrong with me. I am obsessed with clean clothes! I am finally admiting that I may have a serious problem when it comes to nicely ironed clothes. I have to iron EVERYTHING! I have gotten away from most t-shirts and I am not crazy enough to iron underwear or socks but I admit I have seriously had to stop myself from ironing a sheet or pillowcase once in a while! Okay, now that I admit it shouldn't that help people understand why I ALWAYS have a mountain of ironing on my couch in the family room, there really is a very comfortable couch under there, I think. It's been so long I can't remember really what color it is. Okay, I think I remember it is black. Someone please help me I am lost under the HUGE mountain of never ending laundry/ironing and I want to get out. I have tried to not pay attention to whether or not EVERYTHING EVERYONE in my house is wearing is ironed but I can't. I have even tried that wrinkle spray they make. It doesn't cut it for me. Is it really a sickness? Is there medicine for it? My mom has the pharmacy, I could get the prescription tonight. I need some justification for this obsession. It is taking over my life. I really don't hate ironing but I mean come on 50-75 items every Saturday night? That's not including my time during the week. I bet I do about 50 items during the week too. Someone please help! Is there anyone else out there like me? Please tell me I'm not the only ironing obsessed lady.