Father Day and Pictures

I was fooling around taking some self timed pictures...these are 3 of the results that I liked the best.





Tanner got his shirt today! Matt and I will both be there cheering him on. We are all very excited!

Coming out of the pool after the Biathlon today

Our little fish out of water

I'm sure it was a little colder than anticipated so he's a little more cautious.



Our 'Fancy' Father's day BBQ....steak and potatoes

Tanner attempted to help Matt...all of for 5 seconds

The man of the day. He loves to BBQ and we love eating what he makes.

Such a typical thing.

Tanner searching for 'Cars 2' on the IMDB website on my iPod touch.



Death by Chocolate. Our little town merc doesn't carry Skor so I used Crispy Crunch instead. It was equally delicious.



My little cowboy! Isn't he so cute??? He totally looks like he belongs here in a small little cow poke town.

We made these at enrichment last year. The letter 'O' was originally a vase but I loved the look of this old camera of my Dad's as the 'O'.








Overall, we've had a good weekend. It's a good thing I am not a hand model because I cut my hand up something good this weekend. Twice on thread...yes, it can cut your skin, and then once on a very sharp knife I forgot was in the sink.





We had a multi family garage sale this weekend. It was really good. I sold quite a bit and took the rest to The Salvation Army. The kid consignment store I tried to take the rest of my stuff to said they were full and I didn't know of any other kids consignment store. I was NOT taking the stuff back home so I donated it. Good-bye stroller, bouncy chair, boy clothes, shoes, and car seat cover (and more) that I loved but don't need. There's a small joke going around that now I'm going to get pregnant that I gave/sold 90% of my baby stuff that I had left. I just giggle inside at the thought/rumor/joke. I will not be one of those people...as if I could be so lucky and it could've been that easy.





The Bachelorette tricked us!!! There was no Bentley last night. Now I have to wait until next week! Ahhhh!!! Mean, cruel producers.





My Wen stuff came today!!!! I am going to use it either tonight or tomorrow morning and see if I can tell a difference.





I am hooked on Pinterest. Such a convenient way to find what you're looking for, weather it's something you NEED or you're just wasting time looking for ideas.





Tanner got a haircut yesterday and it took 3 of us 10 minutes to convince him to sit in the chair to attempt to have his hair washed. We got his hair washed but as soon as they told him they were going to wash it, he lept out of the chair and said he was ready for his hair to just be cut! It's like we were torturing him or something. He's never had his hair washed in those sinks. We even showed him how it turns on and everything but he didn't want any part of it. I adore how funny he is. He is very much a boy that needs to have new things he's unsure of explained to him. He is NOT adventurous that way. He needs to know exactly what's going to happen and what to expect. I know that's partly my fault because anytime he's gone to the dr's or is about to have surgery, I always explain everything I possibly can to him so he's not afraid and stressed out. It's a way to get him more relaxed but it doesn't always work...like yesterday. Anyways, he was really good for his haircut and so afterwards I got him a 10 pack of Tim bits (okay, I admit, this was basically his supper because it was 5pm by the time we got there but this is most certainly NOT a sometimes thing. I may give him cereal or pancakes for dinner but I NEVER let him eat junk food for dinner).





Matt is done with having to stay late and he was even rewarded unexpectedly from the Principal by taking him and the other custodian to lunch last week. This job has been such a great blessing and Matt loves working there. I really think it gives him a sense of self worth because he really does work hard and people actually notice and tell him.


That's about all for now. Have a great week!

10 for Wednesday

I ADORE random posts. They are to my eyes what stand up comedy is to my ears. J'adore them! So I will follow suit and post a random post for right now.

1. I really dislike when people have double standards. Like if you don't want your kids to drink pop or won't let them drink it (this is JUST an example so I don't need any comments about on weather or not I give Tanner pop...I do) then don't drink pop yourself.

2. Time Out for me was like a vacation away from my real life.

3. What is up with Quinn Fabray??? She is like so mean and Rachel has actually turned into a nice person. I totally loved the big yellow dress, though.

4. I'm not really sure what I'm going to do on Monday's from 2-3. That's when my dance class was and now that it's over...well, I'm kinda sad about it.

5. Friday nights at Susanne's resumes this week!!!! YAY YAY and YAY!! I got a new cookbook at the TOFW and we are going to try some of the recipes.

6. We are garden sharing this year as we won't be able to have a garden in the new house until next year. I have already started appreciating more deeply the blessings of having a garden in your own backyard.

7. The toughest question I've had to answer in the past week is "How did Aunty Caryolyn's spirit get to heaven? and Does she sleep up there?" Tanner has an unspoken understanding of what has happened and he has been really good.

8. Tanner is doing great in his coach pitch! He hit the ball 5 times in a row (albeit they were foul balls, but the other kids struggled with hitting the ball). His catching needs some work (the other kids were pretty good at catching) but he's having fun and seems to be enjoying himself.

9. Would you rather be famous or a Royal??? I'd rather be famous because if you're a Royal, you are famous until you die. When you're famous, you can stop being famous if you stop working. And I've never heard of a famous person dying (or murdered) from the paparazzi chasing them.

10. I am hunting and on the look out for a free standing porch swing. I want a good quality one but don't want to pay more than $300 for it. Maybe that's unrealistic, but I'm hoping.

11. I need some good dance type music. Music that makes a person want to dance. Any suggestions??? I just downloaded Britney's till the world ends but I can't listen to that all day otherwise I might get bored of it real quick.

12. What are your favorite dates? I'm always interested in knowing what other people do for their dates. We've been trying to do some different things this year. Normally we love the movies but we've been bowling and going to dinner and other things where you actually have to communicate. A lot of our "dates" recently have been going into Lethbridge and getting stuff for out house or picking stuff out etc. But now that we are moving into our house soon, what will we do instead????

By the way...

It's been a while. I honestly haven't felt like blogging for a while. It's been a really busy and long 2 weeks. For those of you who don't already know, my Aunt passed away last Thursday. She had been sick for about 5 years and so we knew it was coming. What a blessing it is to have the gospel and know that we will someday be together again. She will be missed dearly.

Our house is coming along nicely. I have yet to me motivated enough to post pictures. I was very nearly there last night but then decided to go to bed. But just to update you...

The outside of the house is finished. They are pouring the driveway and walk way today or tomorrow. The painting is complete. The flooring went in yesterday...it's beautiful by the way! The cupboards and counters are supposed to be here today or tomorrow. The plumbers and electrician will be here tomorrow or Thursday to finish and the stairs to the back deck and front veranda should be being built before the end of the week. Possession is supposed to be Friday so move in will begin Saturday!

I was able to attend Time Out For Women in Calgary this past weekend and what a wonderful experience it was. It was so uplifting and such a great boost to the past 2 weeks.

Anyway, that's about all the update that I have for now.

update on stuff

First off I took Tanner to the Doctor...because I felt guilty enough even though in my gut I knew he was fine...but he IS actually fine and just has to let the bug run it's course.

We went over to the house and shop vac'd the whole upstairs and part of the downstairs. So now there's not so much dust all over. We also put the scrap wood in a pile by the door so we could take it out when it gets less mucky (we had snow and we couldn't just throw it out the door, otherwise it would have been too muddy to pick up and take to the BIG scrap wood pile.

There was a mix up on the cupboards so we had to go with another company...which is fine. We had to go into Lethbridge to meet with the guy and finalize everything so that the cupboards will be here at the beginning of May. It would be awesome if they were here by the time my Mom and sister came down! But, we'll see.

We have a fairly busy weekend. Tanner has a party and we're also supposed to be having our family fun day. And groccery shopping. Maybe we'll just go to a movie for our family fun day. We were supposed to go swimming but since Tanner is fighting a bug, he always gets sick after we go swimming. We all love to swim but then I remember that he gets a cold EVERY time and then I feel bad for him. The Doctor told me yesterday that since he had RSV when he was 12.5 months that his immune system can present asthma like qualaties until he his 10 years old. So we have a few more years until, hopefull, he stops getting colds so much. PLUS I know there's mold in the walls of our place and maybe worse so it will be interesting to see what happens when we get into the new house. I'm a semi-bad Mom and haven't been good at giving Tanner vitamins so I have started doing that every day now. I don't know if it will help, but it's worth trying right? I got him the Flintstone ones. We had those as kids and they were the best. I tried the Maleluca ones and he didn't like them very much so it was a struggle to get him to take them. I was also told to get a liquid vitamin for him so we'll try that too.

Anywho, that's what's going on in our part of the world.

Day 10:Fear!

Something you're afraid of

a fear of anything has a root and my root fear is being alone. i am also very afraid of the dark. and if it comes with bad weather, you can count on me not sleeping. when we had a few blackouts early this year, i was very nearly (really and honestly) in tears. i was alone and i was terrified. it was very, realistically, scary for me.

Day 9 iPod shuffle

Day 9- Put your iPod on shuffle, first 10 songs

1-Santa Claus is Coming to Town: Maraih Carey

2. Lost in the supermarket: over the hedge soundtrack

3. Lucky Star: Madonna

4. Winter Light: Tim Finn from Chronicles of Narnia

5. On this day, the earth shall ring: A traditional Christmas

6. Midnight Train to Georgia: Gladys Knight

7. Mine: Taylor Swift

8. Ours: Taylor Swift

9. Dirty Diana: MJ

10.Speak Now: Taylor Swift

hmmm....my shuffle likes Taylor : ) So do I!

Day 8

A place you've traveled to

So when I actually sat down to think about this, I realized I've been to a lot of places. Much more than I actually thought I had. Each has a special memory or story

-hamilton
this was my first solo trip after being married. i went to see my best friend, trish.

-san diego
san diego was my very first solo trip ever! i went to see my cousin who was in the navy and based there. i saved up for it and booked my flight and motel. it was a really awesome trip.

-tijuana
i went there while in san diego. it was dirty and i don't know that i would go there again.

-Idaho Falls
we just went there this summer and i can't believe i hadn't been there before...at least not specifically in idaho falls

-Salt Lake
on of my aunts live there and we've been there many times but this summer was one of my top 3 times we've been there (we've been there about 10 different times)

-shushwap
a family friend has a family cabin there and i went out and stayed with them for a week. it was cold but i had a good time

-edmonton
my other aunt use to live there and we use to go up there every summer for a week for a holiday with her. it was one of my favorite childhood memories.

-swan hills
my mom's best friend lived there and we went fishing up there while visiting and my sister that caught the fish refused to eat the fish she caught...lol

-canal flats
the family i first ever nannied for had a cabin there and i lived with them in the summer to nanny

-banff
i've been there numerous times with different people. my cousin and i use to go out there every year until the year after tanner was born. our schedules just didn't allow for it. my other favorite was when i went up with trish and 2 guy friends (NOT boyfriends) and we had a blast.

-eufaula, alabama
this was part of matt's mission and he grew close to a family there and we went a year after we were married to visit them. it was a little scary because the culture is so different...lots of people carry guns etc but we had a great visit.

-broomfield, colorado
my aunt and uncle lived there and we've been there twice.

-drumheller
drumheller was my second home when i was a child. i have really good memories...although there were some not so good times, the good outweigh the bad. remember the time the van got stuck because it rained so much and we had to walk, in the rain, down the hill to get a ride to church while in our church clothes???

-new mexico
when my dad was in scouting, we were invited to attend a camp called little philimont. it was the longest trip of my life but it was lots of fun.

-victoria (i was really young and i don't really remember it)
i don't remember much...only what i see in pictures.

Day 7:Favorite Movies

Favorite Movies

The Lion King was my first favorite Disney...although I think my sisters would argue it was Bambi...but I don't remember that. I use to come home every day after school in Jr.High and watch it for weeks on end. I loved it that much.





High School Musical. The family I nannied for before we moved here got me hooked on this series of movies. Honestly, at first, I thought the first one was a little pathetic...I thought the acting was so silly. But somehow I have become hooked and I just adore these movies.




Ahhh..Penelope! I love that this movie has such a good message.





What's not to love about this movie??? Seriously! It's so good and clean and just a really feel good movie about 2 villains...now who can honestly do that???




Aunty Carolyn introduced us to this particular movie when we were just kids. We use to go up to see her in Edmonton for a week in the summer and one summer she showed us the BBC version of this. When I heard it was coming out a few years ago, I wondered how much better they would be able to make it...I know, lame ...because the BBC version (after watching it after the newer one) is really bad! bad acting, the animatronics for Aslan was horrible! But that's the one we grew up with. Anyways, I love these movies.





Prince Caspian was a great one too. I love that Lucy got to use her knife and was actually included in some of the fighting in this one...unlike the previous one she didn't get much.





Voyage of the Dawn treader is my fave! I can't say enough about this movie. Not as dark as Prince Caspian. Although it does have the sea serpent they fight and that's pretty ugly (I mean the serpent itself is ugly). But I just loved the clear messages in it.






Dirty Dancing...this was a movie my Mom did not like us to watch and although when we were children and watched it at our neighbors (thanks Kara) and didn't think our Mom knew, I'm sure she knew because we would quote it and talk about it. We ALWAYS watched the part when Patrick jumps off the stage in reverse because to our childish mind, it was HILARIOUS to watch him "jump back on the stage in reverse motion". Good times, good times.

Day 5

Day 5- Something that makes you happy







Love




Family




Friends


Being alive

Day 4- Something you're looking forward to

-i know it's 11 months off, but i'm actually looking forward to tanner being baptized

-routine (it kind of goes along with my goals)

-continuing to move forward and growing



AND



-10 GLORIOUS days off starting on the 25!

Jumpin' on!

So, as Malauney has said, I'm jumping on the bandwagon! I thought this might be fun to do and who doesn't like to get to know a little more about another person right???


Day 1-Self portrait picture, and 15 interesting facts

What makes ME interesting??? I'm not really sure, but hopefully you find the following interesting.



here i am at 9:30 on a wednesday...seriously ready for bed...but taking a self picture of myself. i totally could have done this when i look nice, but what's the point in that? everyone knows what i look like all dressed up...let's see the "real" me...lol.



-i have a birthmark that covers my upper left leg. sometimes i feel like i have leparcy...i don't but some days it feels like that

-i have nannied for a female couple

-i have a pen fetish. i love them

-i love the smell of coffee. i have only once tried coffee (he who is without sin let him cast the first stone) and it was utterly gross! and i am NOT a tea drinker. i just recently found a tea that i enjoy on a rare occasion so that's kind of big for me.

-i don't just work at the chiropractic office here in town. i clean people's houses

-i've never swam in the ocean

-i am pre-diabetic (which means that my body doesn't use it's natural insulin properly)

-i played in a piano recital in the middle of sunridge mall when i was 8/9

-i love brittany spears (some of you already knew that and i hope that doesn't compromise my friendship with you, jamie :0 )

-i have a love/hate relationship with shoes and socks. most of the time i hate wearing them but there are the odd times where i love wearing socks (like to bed). I have walked home from church in bare feet because i was annoyed with my shoes

-i took french in college

-i hate when matt drives the car. i perfer to drive

-i use to work at the saddledome and i've seen some pretty awesome concerts being an usher

-i have been to the nutcracker ballet twice. it is a divine experience.

-when i was in grade 7 i played the trumpet and one day while walking home i fell and tripped on my trumpet case and pulled my groin. it was the first time i had to use crutches.

A bunch of random stuff

So I felt like doing a random post about random things...a little bit of this and that, so enjoy...or not...whatever...lol

Not just a dust pan but....

a lego shovel (I know, I'm so smart)

And because I just LOVE this boy and LOVE this picture!



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These are the cupcake I made for Tanner's birthday party at the movie theatre.

You'll need these ingredients

Then mix it up following the package directions. Yes, this is not the mixing bowl that comes with the mixer. I used it for something else so I had to use my trusty tupperware.

Seperate the batter into 3-4 bowls and mix in food coloring gel. Pour each color seperatley.

Here is the yellow on top of the blue.

This is what they looked like after I took them out of the oven.






And then I iced them

Hi out there

It's been a while and I have been intending to blog for some time now. Today is a total random post because I can't quite make all my thoughts flow together to it'll just be point form:

-you know you have a true friend when you don't worry about her coming into your messy home and being judged

-my mom came for a visit and it was GLORIOUS! I was so excited and she got to even go to Tanner's school and see his teacher

-having my awesome neighbor for an impromptu supper was the BEST!

-going to Susanne's for pizza, movie and conversation was MUCH overdue

-dance class was super hard for me last week...i was almost in tears but this week it was 100% better and i had so much fun. i feel like i'm finally getting the steps.

-i love my clogging shoes.

-i'm really trying to soak in all of tanner and come up with an amazing post for his birthday in less than a month

-i've been eating lots of chocolate...more than i should and i am really starting to regret it. i just shouldn't have it in my house.

-tanner plays so well with his friend on a daily basis. we love having him over.

-tanner has been to 2 birthday parties in the last 2 weeks and it's been really fun to see him get excited and pick out the presents without even asking for something for himself.

-recently i was mentioning that halloween is such a weird "holiday"...if you can even call it that. i was explaining my feeling and then proceeded to say that it's like christmas. it's kind of a fake holiday. i absolutely LOVE christmas but i don't really agree with all the commercialism of it.

i don't DIScourage tanner from the whole santa thing but we certainly do not ENcourage it. we don't talk about it or get him 'excited' for santa to come. we're kind of neutral with him when it comes to that. if he wants to believe, far be it for us to tell him to not believe. but if he doesn't want to believe then that's fine too.

we really encourage the true meaning of christmas and we talk every year about how the real birthday of the savior was in april but we celebrate with the rest of the world. we also talk about how the "idea" of santa came to be.

anyways...so as i expressed this i was asked if i read him fairytales and i said i did. then the opinion was expressed that the 2 are the same thing. it has really got me thinking and wondering if it really is. i'm leaning more toward the side that it's different because they don't commercialize cartoons/fairytales and make you believe in the fact that animals talk in them.

i think they are the same in that they are both stories but i don't like that santa is made out to look like he's a real person. disney land is the land for fairytales where imaginative things become real but there's no "santaland". there's no place for understanding that it's just a story. i hope that makes sense. i really really hope that makes sense to those reading this.

anyways, i think that there's a difference in the two. i'm not suggesting that santa isn't something fun as a kid to believe in but matt and i have personally made the choice not to make that the reason for christmas. anyways, that's my hot topic for today, i guess.

-i made this really yummy salsa chicken for dinner last night. i'll put up the recipe later.

-what the heck is up with cristina (from grey's anatomy)???? where is her spunk? shes becoming a bit of a softie.

-matt and i went out for a really fun date on saturday. we went to tony romas and then bowling and then to DQ for dessert. i am so in love with the mini blizzard. a perfect size for me.

-i already have christmas apps on my iPod touch.

-have you heard the song from bruno mars called just the way you are???? it's my new favorite song. if you haven't heard it, get it on youtube. it's the loveliest song.

-speaking of music, taylor swift's new cd is very good as well.

-we had the great opportunity to go with my mom over to my aunt's last night and watch her band practice. tanner got to even play the spoons...which he was very good at.

-we had our family pictures done 10 days ago. i'm excited to see how they turn out.

-relief society was a cry fest on sunday. we were talking about faith to heal. it was a super good lesson and really touched a lot of people

-i want to make something really yummy with apples but i'm not sure what. any ideas????

-i feel a lot more personally peaceful. i am letting a lot of stuff go that i thought i had let go of, but hadn't. it's a great feeling.

-i'm grateful for the opportunity that having just one child has brought me. i feel like i can be a better friend/mother/wife/person because i can really focus on all those things easier than if i had to divide my time between more than 1 child. i hope that doesn't sound like i don't want more children because i do. but my "season" right now is just to have tanner and i'm okay with that. i do have moments of wanting more but not aching like i use to.

well, i think that's it. sorry there's no pictures. maybe next time ; )

Can I just say..

...that I love the option of scheduling my posts at a later time. I actually did all my holiday posts in 2 days but scheduled them to post on a later day. I LOVE BLOGGER!

This weekend, I made 3 new recipes. I have decided that each week (in addition to my 5 for Friday and My life in photos) I will feature a new recipe each week. This Friday will be my first regular 5 for Friday and I will do the weekly recipe on Wednesday or Thursday.

We've had a terrific weekend. We swam, played, ate popcorn, watched movies and hung out.

Happy Monday everyone!

My life in music

I saw this on Bobbi's blog...she was tagged by Tiffany. I thought it would be fun to do something random today. Here are the guidelines

1. Open your music library.

2. Put it on shuffle.

3. Press play.

4. For the first question, type the song that’s playing.

5. When you go to a new question, press the Next button.

6. Tag other people to do it too







1. Opening Credits: Hoedown Throwdown (Miley Cyrus)

2. Waking Up: Not ready to make nice (Dixie Chicks) SOOO true today!

3. First Day at School: Identified (Vanessa Hudgens)

4. Falling in Love: Walking on Broken Glass (Annie Lennox)

5. Losing Virginity: Suddenly (Ashley Tisdale)

6. Fight Song: The Chronicles of Narnia Main Theme

7. Breaking Up:Fifteen (Taylor Swift)

8. Prom: Invisible (Ashlee Simpson)

9. Life: It's not unusual (Tom Jones)

10. Mental Breakdown: Sealion (Feist)

11. Driving: Days like that (Sugar Jones)

12. Flashback: Barbecue Stain (Tim Mcgraw)

13. Getting Back Together: Aint that a shame (Fats Domino)

14. Wedding Night : Now or Never (High School Musical) LOL!!!

15. Birth of Child: Right to be Wrong (Joss Stone)

16. Final Battle: All I want to do is be with you (High School Musical)

17. Death Scene: New World (Toby Mac)

18. Funeral Song: Battle of New Orleans (Johnny Horton)

There's a lot of them that are so true and I could see my life being shown to that particular song.

I tag Marni and Jenn E

CAN ANYONE HELP THEM?

There's a family in the states that needs some immediate help and I hope that by posting this someone, somewhere can help them. She babysat us when we were kids and his Mom is in our ward.

You can read their story/situation here

We had a really fun start to the weekend. Matt and I went to our Celebrity party on Friday night and it was SO much fun! I think I would have had more fun if I hadn't been feeling crummy. I had a bit of a head cold and so I was suffering, mildly. Then on Saturday morning Matt and I had plans to go to the Temple and when I woke up, I could barely open my eyes because the light hurt my head so badly. So I went back to bed and Matt went without me...which was fine. We're going again in 2 weeks. We are going on our first date this Friday. We're going to dinner. I don't know where, but I'm excited. We have made it a goal this year to go on a date every month. It's hard when life gets busy and you have other commitments to add that to your plate but I know that it's important and so we are making time for what's important...dating! Last year our goal was to go to the Temple every month and we did it and it was surprisingly easier that I thought it would be. We just marked down the day every month that we were going to go and that's when we went. This year we marked down in the calendar our date night every month, plus our temple day. Even though going to the temple is a wonderful thing, it's not the same as a date. We may go on 2 dates this month because I still haven't seen Avatar and I really want to.

I'm usually really against and I strongly resist going to movies that are so hyped up because they usually end up disappointing me...plus they're mostly boring for me (ie Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter) so I just don't go. But my sister said that I would really like it and so I am putting my trust in her and hoping it will be what I expect it to be.

January really flew by and I know that this month will too because it's a short month. That means we're closer to spring...my favorite time of year. Spring always brings newness and it reminds me so much of the Resurrection of the Savior. I always look forward to Spring.

Kristi wrote on her blog recently that she is "head over heels in love with her life" and I thought to myself, what a wonderful thing it is to be so happy and in love with your life. I only wish more people were like that. I believe that being happy is a choice and that happy people exemplify Christ like characteristics. I heard recently that being healthy affects how a person is happy and I think that is true. Some may disagree with that, but for me I think it's true. Even though we are all given challenges and tried and tested, we can choose for ourselves how we're going to let those things affect us. We can choose to let those trials make us stronger and happier or we can allow them to tear us down and make us miserable and unhappy. I hope that we will all try better to choose happiness because there really isn't anything like being truly happy.

Now I know why...

Erica, you always forward some really great stuff. This is one of the best yet : )

Glancing through the hymnal last Sunday I noted that as sisters in
Zion, we who are called to serve are all enlisted to go marching,
marching forward because the world has need of willing men to all
press on scattering sunshine. We wonder if we have done any good in the world today because we have been given much and want to do what is right, keep the commandments, press forward with the Saints, choose the right, and put our shoulders to the wheel going where He wants us to go. However, as the morning breaks high on the mountain top, truth reflects upon our senses, and while we still believe that sweet is the work, we also realize that we have work enough to do ere the sun goes down.
And thus we ask Thee ere we part, where can we turn for peace?

Baby it's warm in here

I think I'm getting baby fever. There have been a number of babies born to women around me or announcing of babies coming. I'm itchy. Itchy all over. Itchy for a baby...let's hope it happens soon.

On another note, we have to get new tires put on our car tomorrow. We got a flat tire this weekend coming home from Calgary and it was repaired but it didn't last so we are getting new tires. Such is life.

Matt got a aerating job. Hopefully he'll get some good business this summer from people. Especially if we are going to have a baby

This month is so busy! I can't believe that it's almost half over. Time is so precious. There's none to waste.

Well, I'm off to find some books for T-Dog (Tanner's new nickname...apparently). I'm not sure I like it but Matt does so whatever. At least it's not the horrid nickname my sister's friends use to call her in jr.high.

I am so super excited about the Grey's finale this week.

More later.

How long is too long

I know it's been a while and I feel bad about that. I just haven't had much time to write or do much. I think because I am really busy with really reading and studying my scriptures and preparing my weekly lessons. I am reading 3 of the 4 standard works. I'm not reading the New Testament this year. I have found that with reading and studying the other 3, I don't have a lot of time. Plus now that we are down to one vehicle and walking, we have to plan ahead. And things are more time consuming. Taking Tanner to play group or picking him up from school and getting home before we have to go back to the school for play group is very time consuming. And then on Thursdays he has, in addition to play group, music class which is on the other side of town. Luckily I have arranged for someone to pick him up and drop him off for that. They are in our ward and 2 of her kids are in the class with Tanner. I am enjoying the exercise and the blessing of getting out in the fresh air daily. But when Friday comes, I am ready to just hang out and not go anywhere.

A week ago I had something happen to me that was really an eye opener and now I am feeling better about my parenting abilities and being able to stay more calm than before. I have really been able to tell the difference in how I talk to Tanner and Matt and how I deal with my own irritations and annoyances.

So, other than that, not much is too new.

My favorite things right now are reading, doing dishes, laundry, hanging out with Tanner and enjoying the sun when it shines.

The things I wish I could be enjoying are longer days, swimming, bike riding, feeling better about myself and finding sleep...I am totally suffering insomnia and it sucks

Things that excite me right now are preparing my lessons for Primary and thinking about how to teach the things I need to teach in the best possible way and be fun for the kids, my 30th birthday in 3 1/2 months, and the non side effect of my pre-diabetic medication.

So that's a little for now.

Correction

I just wanted to make it clear that I do appreciate what the soldiers have done and continue to do. I highly respect them and are grateful every day for what they do. The point I was trying to make is exactly what Sharon had said in that I don't understand why all the hoopla around people who have chosen that path and all the people who have died. I also found a great quote from I believe Boyd K. Packer about how not all our lives will be celebrated in grandeur like Moroni or the great heroes of the Book of Mormon. Most of us will live our lives in quiet splendor without all the fanfare but that doesn't make us any less serviceable to God. So I'm okay with it...the war and if that what people choose to report on and glorify then that's up to them.

I've just had my ears unplugged and it feels great. They've been plugged up for a couple days now and it was really painful last night and this morning but then I went to the doctor and they're all better.

We had a non eventful new year. We rented a bunch of movies and watched them. Matt went to bed at 11:30 and Tanner fell asleep at 11. So it was just me at 12 to kiss no one : (

We did, however, have an eventful weekend. Matt's truck (well, it actually his Dad's that he loaned to Matt) had the wheel lock up on it. Not a huge deal except that the truck was parked behind our car in the driveway and so we didn't have access to our car. So thankfully, with a prayer and the help of Susanne's husband, Chris, they got the truck out and the car is now accessible. So Tanner and I are back to walking everywhere. I don't think he really gets that yet, but I'm sure he will when I go to pick him up at school in a little while.

Matt also starts at dunlop ford tomorrow. We are all very excited about that and the changes it will bring. He'll stay on at the feedlot on the weekends because it's not a full days work on the weekend. That way, he'll be able to bring in a little more money and he'll still get time with his family.

Our Primary Class went well. I am actually very excited about it this year. I'm looking forward to teaching and learning all the things I can. I am looking forward to the class participation.

So, happy new year!