Just Life!

Well, I stink at this blog thing you all know! I check it almost everyday to see if anyone has even visited and left a comment. Then I check all of yours-almost everyday, I swear, and I have decided that the best blogs are the everyday blogs. You know the kind where people write about all the little things their kids do and say and all the little things we do each day. I am going to try this week to change the way I blog. Try to catch up from the crazy busy spring we had and blog about the lazy summer days we have been having the last week. I don't really feel like it is summer yet because of the 50 degree weather we have been having----COME ON mother nature! Summer is for suntans and swimming pools, bike rides and BBQ's not sweaters and blankets! This cold weather has gotten me a bit down. We have a wild week ahead of us here at the Geldmacher house but I will try my bestest to get on this here computer and blog!!! (Going to Lagoon tomorrow and Nathan's getting tonsils out on Wednesday) Should be interesting-eh? Later gator!

Where have I been?

Where, oh where has Lisa the blooger been you say? AT THE BALLGAME, of course! I love spring ballgames. Everything in moderation though here folks! I have been at the ballpark (one of the other) every night for the last month I swear. So if you want to see me or see what we have been up to just visit the ballpark. I'm usually the mom STANDing (because I am to nervous to sit and enjoy in the stands) right behind the team bench. I wish I could say that I have taken all of these marvelous pictures for you but sorry, no such luck. I will promise to take some within the next week or so. These past two games last night and tonight were WAY too bad weather. Last night the wind would have blown my camera away and tonight I couldn't get out of my blanket long enough to shoot any pictures. See ya at the ballpark!

anyone else?

does anyone else out there just get BUGGED when others don't update their blogs forever? I have serveral friends that got me hooked on blogging and now don't ever update their's. Does that just BUG anyone else? I really like to find out what everyone else is doing and heaven forbid I pick up the phone and make a good old fashioned phone call. Don't stop blogging! More on Valentine's Day later.

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.