Brecken played on the Commet soccer team this year. They did great! They won all but their last game! He received a trophy for his efforts!
7 years ago
Thursday, June 12, 2008
The Comets!
Brecken played on the Commet soccer team this year. They did great! They won all but their last game! He received a trophy for his efforts!
The Scorpians
Todd coached Tyson and Justin's soccer team. They did great. They won all but one of their games!
Grandma's Special Day!
We enjoyed visiting Grandma Skinner for her special day. Thanks to Dad and Aunt Valerie for making it so nice!
Last Chance Dance
Jessi got invited to the Last Chance Dance. The theme was DI but she got her outfit out of Todd's closet! The dance was on May 16. I am a little late getting it posted. :)
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Tagged
I was tagged by Lezlie in April. I didn't understand it and then forgot. So I am answering now. Here you go, Lezlie.
Ten Years Ago . . .
Ten years ago I had a 7 year old, 5 year old, 3 year old, and a newborn. We had just sold our house. We never anticipated on selling our house in just two weeks so we were moving in with Mom and Dad. We started building our house next door.
The Places I Have Lived . . .
I lived in Layton, Ut. until I was 14, then Okinawa, Japan, for 3 and 1/2 years, then Logan, Ut for 10 years now Mendon Ut.
Five Things on My To do List . . .
1. Finish my quilt blocks. I have only had since November to do them. I have to have 17 done. I started yesterday. I have 24 hours left!
2. Work in my yard. I actually love working in the yard but I aways put things I want to do off while I do things I have to do.
3. Finish Gemma's and Talan's quilts and start Olivia's quilt. Ok I am a procrastinator. Can you tell?
4. Wreaths! I have just a few more to do and then done for the summer! Yeah!
5. Clean my house. It is in bad need. The deep cleaning kind!
That is my to do list for just for today. That is as far ahead as I can think.
Things I enjoy . . .
I enjoy quilting, gardening, talking to my kids, spending time with Todd, scrapbooking, reading, helping others and artwork.
Three Bad Habits . . .
1. Overeating. I really have no self control at all!
2. Procrastinating. I put everything off. I don't mean to, but it seems I always something more pressing to do first.
3. Getting involved in to many things. I have my plate totally full! I need to say no! I just don't know what to say no to.
Five things you might not know about me
1. I spent time in jail. Ok I wasn't booked but I was there a while anyway. Some of us skipped school and went off base. Everyone in my car got drunk. I was the designated driver. We picked Kim up at school. She was totally innocent. She was mad for quite some time. One of my friends mooned an officer's wife at the post office when we were taking him home. So we were all taken down to the jail and put in seperate rooms. We were all required to go to classes at Social Actions for underage drinking. Kim and I only went once and then they told us we didn't have to go back.
2. I got to watch an SR-71 refuel in the air over Korea. That was one of the coolest things I have done. I will remember it forever.
3. I don't like to craft. I used to, but now it seems like I never have time and it just isn't fun.
4. I want to learn to dance. In high school I loved to dance then one time someone made fun of me and I never wanted to dance again. Now watching my kids social dance I love it. I want to learn. It is another one of those someday things.
5. I am totally unorganized but everything about me screems the need to be organized. These two things about me fight constantly. I can't stand unorganization but I never quite get orgainzed.
Jobs I have had . . .
Baby sitter, Gardener, Switchboard Operator, Cook at a restaurant, Jelly Bean and Popcorn lady all before I graduated from high school. Telephone solicitor for 1 day, Exercise equipment tester for 1/2 day. (I thought they were going to kill me) Cook and delivery for a sandwich shop, bookkeeper. Then I had kids. Since then I have been paid to babysit, computer program, retouch photos, refinance houses, sew, make wreaths, quilt, hand paint needle work canvas, reupholstery, making drapes etc., bookkeeper, t-shirt printer . . . I have done more at home jobs then this. I am the queen of at home jobs. I just can't remember what they all are. Can any one else help me? I have also had one other real job since I had kids. I was a night staff for a delinquent girls home.
So now I tag Amy and Sherrie (hurry and make a blog)
Ten Years Ago . . .
Ten years ago I had a 7 year old, 5 year old, 3 year old, and a newborn. We had just sold our house. We never anticipated on selling our house in just two weeks so we were moving in with Mom and Dad. We started building our house next door.
The Places I Have Lived . . .
I lived in Layton, Ut. until I was 14, then Okinawa, Japan, for 3 and 1/2 years, then Logan, Ut for 10 years now Mendon Ut.
Five Things on My To do List . . .
1. Finish my quilt blocks. I have only had since November to do them. I have to have 17 done. I started yesterday. I have 24 hours left!
2. Work in my yard. I actually love working in the yard but I aways put things I want to do off while I do things I have to do.
3. Finish Gemma's and Talan's quilts and start Olivia's quilt. Ok I am a procrastinator. Can you tell?
4. Wreaths! I have just a few more to do and then done for the summer! Yeah!
5. Clean my house. It is in bad need. The deep cleaning kind!
That is my to do list for just for today. That is as far ahead as I can think.
Things I enjoy . . .
I enjoy quilting, gardening, talking to my kids, spending time with Todd, scrapbooking, reading, helping others and artwork.
Three Bad Habits . . .
1. Overeating. I really have no self control at all!
2. Procrastinating. I put everything off. I don't mean to, but it seems I always something more pressing to do first.
3. Getting involved in to many things. I have my plate totally full! I need to say no! I just don't know what to say no to.
Five things you might not know about me
1. I spent time in jail. Ok I wasn't booked but I was there a while anyway. Some of us skipped school and went off base. Everyone in my car got drunk. I was the designated driver. We picked Kim up at school. She was totally innocent. She was mad for quite some time. One of my friends mooned an officer's wife at the post office when we were taking him home. So we were all taken down to the jail and put in seperate rooms. We were all required to go to classes at Social Actions for underage drinking. Kim and I only went once and then they told us we didn't have to go back.
2. I got to watch an SR-71 refuel in the air over Korea. That was one of the coolest things I have done. I will remember it forever.
3. I don't like to craft. I used to, but now it seems like I never have time and it just isn't fun.
4. I want to learn to dance. In high school I loved to dance then one time someone made fun of me and I never wanted to dance again. Now watching my kids social dance I love it. I want to learn. It is another one of those someday things.
5. I am totally unorganized but everything about me screems the need to be organized. These two things about me fight constantly. I can't stand unorganization but I never quite get orgainzed.
Jobs I have had . . .
Baby sitter, Gardener, Switchboard Operator, Cook at a restaurant, Jelly Bean and Popcorn lady all before I graduated from high school. Telephone solicitor for 1 day, Exercise equipment tester for 1/2 day. (I thought they were going to kill me) Cook and delivery for a sandwich shop, bookkeeper. Then I had kids. Since then I have been paid to babysit, computer program, retouch photos, refinance houses, sew, make wreaths, quilt, hand paint needle work canvas, reupholstery, making drapes etc., bookkeeper, t-shirt printer . . . I have done more at home jobs then this. I am the queen of at home jobs. I just can't remember what they all are. Can any one else help me? I have also had one other real job since I had kids. I was a night staff for a delinquent girls home.
So now I tag Amy and Sherrie (hurry and make a blog)
Tagged Again!
Ok Amy tagged me so here it is. To play this game of tag, post the rules on your blog. List 3 joys, 3 fears, 3 goals, 3 current obsessions/collections, and 3 random surprising facts about yourself. Tag 5 people at the end of your post by leaving their names. Let them know they've been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.
Joys
1. Watching my kids do the right thing. Nothing brings me more joy then seeing that all the hard work has paid off and they are growing up to be good people.
2. Spending time with Todd. Alone time. Time where we can actually carry on a whole conversation with complete sentences. I live for those times.
3. One on one conversations I have with my kids. During one of those conversations Jessi told me that I was her best friend. It made me cry. She talks more to me then any of the other kids right now but I am working on them.
Fears
1. Having a child kidnapped or hurt by someone else. When I had Justin I started having nightmares that someone was trying to take my kids and since I only had two hands and three kids I could never protect them all. I also started having nightmares of bad things happening to Jessi after she could drive and was out alone at night.
2. Loosing Todd. What more could one fear then the loss of their best friend, lover, confidante, the other half of my life.
3. Having my children fall from the church. Since I believe in Eternity and Eternal families. I want them to be with me forever.
Goals
Are we talking long term or short term?
Short term
1. Get dressed before 8:00
2. Organize my house. . . again.
3. Have a ball with my kids this summer instead of focus on all the things I need to do.
Long term
1. Illustrate one of Todd's poems and have it published.
2. Start painting again. I inherited some paintings from my dear friends Pat and Alice. It has inspired me. Some day I will have time for that.
3. Get caught up on all of my scrapbooks. Problem is I want to go back and change all of the scrapbooks I have done up to this point. I want it all digital now, so it will take me forever. I got caught up just before Brecken was born and haven't done anything since. Nesting does have its perks! Maybe I need to have another baby. Not!
Current Obsessions/Collections
1. Chocolate, Chocolate, Chocolate. Some days I really need it. Not crave. Need. I have gone through all my kids drawers etc. trying to finds some. But to no avail. I actually get shaky. I wonder if they have a rehab for this. Mandy has a sign in her apartment. That says "There is a skinny girl inside of me screaming to get out, but I can usually shut her up with Chocolate." This is my life.
2. Quilt magazines. I love to look at them and plan what I am going to do when I grow up and have time. I have tons of magizines but have never made something from them.
3. A clean house. I can't be happy (nice) when it is a mess. I am not overboard. I don't need everything cleaned with a toothbrush, but I would like the socks picked up off the middle of the floor etc.
Random surprising facts
1. Like Amy, I am not patient. I, as well as my family, am always surprise that people accuse me of this. Patience is not something that is in my vocabulary. If I ask you to do something, I want it done now! If I want to do something, I want to do it now! No questions asked!
2. I like hip hop music. Ok not all of it. Some of it is really obnoxious. Especially when they say the same thing over and over again. But there are some good ones like Temperature by Sean Paul, Yeah by Usher, and Low by Flo-rida. I know some of them are naughty but I don't listen to the words. :)(most of the time you can't understand them anyway)
3. I have the worst possible combination of personality traits. Jessi gave me a test one day. My family answered the questions for me. I think it is biased though, because they don't know me like I know me. They were wrong. But anyway, I am a blue and red. According to Bro. Richards in the Mountain Crest Seminary, that is the worst personality combination. Jessi described it as this. "I am right 50 percent of the time but that is ok because I know if you just did what I said, I would be right 100 percent of the time." Well thats true isn't it?
I tag Kim, Monica, Lezlie,(I know you were tagged once, but this one is different) Sherrie (I have to help her make a blog first). Sorry I don't know anyone else to tag.
Joys
1. Watching my kids do the right thing. Nothing brings me more joy then seeing that all the hard work has paid off and they are growing up to be good people.
2. Spending time with Todd. Alone time. Time where we can actually carry on a whole conversation with complete sentences. I live for those times.
3. One on one conversations I have with my kids. During one of those conversations Jessi told me that I was her best friend. It made me cry. She talks more to me then any of the other kids right now but I am working on them.
Fears
1. Having a child kidnapped or hurt by someone else. When I had Justin I started having nightmares that someone was trying to take my kids and since I only had two hands and three kids I could never protect them all. I also started having nightmares of bad things happening to Jessi after she could drive and was out alone at night.
2. Loosing Todd. What more could one fear then the loss of their best friend, lover, confidante, the other half of my life.
3. Having my children fall from the church. Since I believe in Eternity and Eternal families. I want them to be with me forever.
Goals
Are we talking long term or short term?
Short term
1. Get dressed before 8:00
2. Organize my house. . . again.
3. Have a ball with my kids this summer instead of focus on all the things I need to do.
Long term
1. Illustrate one of Todd's poems and have it published.
2. Start painting again. I inherited some paintings from my dear friends Pat and Alice. It has inspired me. Some day I will have time for that.
3. Get caught up on all of my scrapbooks. Problem is I want to go back and change all of the scrapbooks I have done up to this point. I want it all digital now, so it will take me forever. I got caught up just before Brecken was born and haven't done anything since. Nesting does have its perks! Maybe I need to have another baby. Not!
Current Obsessions/Collections
1. Chocolate, Chocolate, Chocolate. Some days I really need it. Not crave. Need. I have gone through all my kids drawers etc. trying to finds some. But to no avail. I actually get shaky. I wonder if they have a rehab for this. Mandy has a sign in her apartment. That says "There is a skinny girl inside of me screaming to get out, but I can usually shut her up with Chocolate." This is my life.
2. Quilt magazines. I love to look at them and plan what I am going to do when I grow up and have time. I have tons of magizines but have never made something from them.
3. A clean house. I can't be happy (nice) when it is a mess. I am not overboard. I don't need everything cleaned with a toothbrush, but I would like the socks picked up off the middle of the floor etc.
Random surprising facts
1. Like Amy, I am not patient. I, as well as my family, am always surprise that people accuse me of this. Patience is not something that is in my vocabulary. If I ask you to do something, I want it done now! If I want to do something, I want to do it now! No questions asked!
2. I like hip hop music. Ok not all of it. Some of it is really obnoxious. Especially when they say the same thing over and over again. But there are some good ones like Temperature by Sean Paul, Yeah by Usher, and Low by Flo-rida. I know some of them are naughty but I don't listen to the words. :)(most of the time you can't understand them anyway)
3. I have the worst possible combination of personality traits. Jessi gave me a test one day. My family answered the questions for me. I think it is biased though, because they don't know me like I know me. They were wrong. But anyway, I am a blue and red. According to Bro. Richards in the Mountain Crest Seminary, that is the worst personality combination. Jessi described it as this. "I am right 50 percent of the time but that is ok because I know if you just did what I said, I would be right 100 percent of the time." Well thats true isn't it?
I tag Kim, Monica, Lezlie,(I know you were tagged once, but this one is different) Sherrie (I have to help her make a blog first). Sorry I don't know anyone else to tag.
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Jessi Poem
Jessi texted me a poem today to put in a letter for my Grandma's Special Day. I thought that it was beautiful so I decided to post it. She didn't tell me a title for the poem yet though. Here it is.
When trudging along the dusty song
The monotony of right and wrong
Wears down your senses,
Death and decay
On your mind begin to play
Ringing clanging tall and bounding
Everywhere the alarm is sounding
Quick it is over
The Requiem dead
The dull sad drone of sin has fled
Then whistles now a Cheery tune
By the light of the Silver Moon
“Now ring the bells more loud and deep
God is not dead nor doth he sleep”
God is near and Kolobs nigh,
Do not miss your chance to fly
When trudging along the dusty song
The monotony of right and wrong
Wears down your senses,
Death and decay
On your mind begin to play
Ringing clanging tall and bounding
Everywhere the alarm is sounding
Quick it is over
The Requiem dead
The dull sad drone of sin has fled
Then whistles now a Cheery tune
By the light of the Silver Moon
“Now ring the bells more loud and deep
God is not dead nor doth he sleep”
God is near and Kolobs nigh,
Do not miss your chance to fly
Friday, May 16, 2008
Shonee's Opera
Shonee's class has spent the last few months writing the story and music for an opera. They even createdt he costumes and the scenery. They performed it last night. It was really fun to watch. Shonee was a "Wise Old Owl"
Thursday, May 15, 2008
All Caught Up!
Ok I think I am all caught up now. I am going to try and do better but I can't even try to promise myself that it will happen. If you are just reading these scroll down to see if you got them all. I am anal and wanted to get them all in chronological order. I as having a hard time though so some are and some aren't. Oh well I guess that is better reason to keep current!
Last Chance Dance!
Jessi was asked to the Last Chance Dance this morning. She went out to her car and it was full of balloons, candy, a rose, and an energy drink.
Wellsville Mile
Shonee ran the Wellsville Mile this week. We are proud of her. She did a great job and ran it in 10 min 17 sec. Good Job Shonee!
Mother's Day!
Mother's Day? We had a nice. The kids made me breakfast. It was realy good. We had strawberries and whip cream. So you can make your own conclusions with the pictures. We enjoyed dinner with Mom and everyone later.
Shonee's Birthday
We had fun for Shonee's birthday. We went to Arby's and ate. Thanks Grandpa! Then we went Aunt Lezlie and Uncle Nate's for cake and icecream. Thanks Everyone!
Videos?
Ok so I am having problems with the videos. They are all way to fast. I think it is the process of getting them from the camera to the computer. I am going to have to figure it out. Sorry
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