Confessions

Sometimes being a mom is hard. I know I know, nothing is ever supposed to be easy but sometimes I wish it could be. Like when you have to do sharing time with the Stake Primary visiting and your three year old son wants nothing to do with his Sunbeam teacher, so you end up holding him the entire time. Or like when his hair has gotten way past the "I need a hair cut" stage because he hates getting it cut so you let it grow out and now you can't stand it. Or the fact that he is past three and wanted nothing to do with wearing big boy underwear. So what is a mom left to do when you have tried every thing in the book. You BRIBE him. Let me just say I was skeptical at first but I tell you that it has made ALL the difference in the world.

He got his haircut and was given this helicopter. I have since had to trim up by his ears and he was excited to hop up on the counter for it.

For staying in his class with his teacher for the whole class, he received these dinosaurs. it came with a game and book also. He loves them and plays with them all the time. He knows if he doesn't stay with his class he will get them taken away and he will not let that happen.

I can now officially say that he is potty trained and its all thanks to the little Robbin Egg candies. I know it's a horrible thing to do but for him it has worked magic. I know he knows what he is doing and he knows he will get a prize of some sort but for now this is what I am left to do and NO it will not keep happening. But we have gotten through these big things and he truly is happier.

Girls Weekend

We have wanted to go on a girls weekend for a while now we just never set it down on paper. Well girls we finally did it. We really missed Amber but we had a lot of fun. We headed out of town on Friday and came home Sunday evening. We ate and shopped till our hearts content. I had so much fun with these ladies I am glad to call them family.

Lynette, Stefanie, me, and Kenna (the mom) after a long day of shopping in park city we had to try the melting pot and it was delicious.

A look at our first course. Sad to say I don't know why I stopped taking pictures of the rest of our meal. Probably because I was to busy eating good food. After the cheese fondue we had salads, meat, and then chocolate fondue. So good.

Sunday morning we went to The Spoken Word. Beautiful music and fun to sit and listen to.  The last time I went to this was when I was in Young Women's (a long time a go).

After they finished we were looking around and Kenna saw this cute couple. Sean and Lauren her nephew and his wife. It was fun to see them for a few minutes. After we walked over to the Church Museum and walked around for a couple of hours. It was a nice get a way for a couple of days and so much fun. 

Happy St. Patrick's Day to you!

From our house to yours we hope you had a fun St.Patrick's  Day. Hope you were all wearing green and you ate lots of green things. Today we are having a traditional Irish dinner of Corned Beef and Cabbage and Carmel pull aparts for desert (pull aparts not really Irish just really good).  The dinner has been cooking in the crockpot all day, the house has been cleaned, all of the laundry in my house has been done and folded (can you believe it), and we are all happy.  Hope you enjoy your day.  

Wacky Wednesday

After taking birthday treats to Makenzie's class we came home and got ready for Kaitlyn's preschool. They had a Wacky Wednesday party and got to wear whatever they wanted to and do their hair crazy and all kinds of wacky things. Kaitlyn also got to bring treats for her class and she chose to take dirt and worms...chocolate pudding with crushed oreos and gummy worms on top.

This is her wacky outfit.  Pajamas, boots, a tutu, and ribbon all over her hair.  I tried to get her to tuck one pant leg into her boot but she said I don't want to look to wacky.  Silly girl.

This hair was totally her idea all i did was tie the ribbon in.  Isn't it so pretty.

Watch out she's ten

I seriously can not believe this girl is ten. I don't feel like she should be ten yet but I guess there is nothing I can do to stop her from getting older so I may as well enjoy her now. Makenzie really wanted a party this year and wanted to go roller skating or swimming. When it came right down to what she wanted she chose to go swimming. I told her she could only invite four friends and she happily agreed. After swimming for a couple of hours we came back to the house and had cake and ice cream.

The day of her birthday she wanted doughnuts for her class treat with Juice.

These are a couple of her friends after we were done swimming.  Left to right is Hallie, Callie, Makenzie, and Calin.  She also invited another girl Kellie but she had to leave early.

Silly girl waiting to open presents. 

For her birthday cake this year she chose a Turtle cake.  Chocolate layer, then caramel layer, another chocolate layer, topped with chocolate coconut frosting. 

This girl is so fun most of the time and a big helper most of the time but she is also getting some serious attitude. Not that she didn't have attitude before but she is very vocal about things now. I can't say I didn't know it was coming because that is exactly how I was with my parents. My mom once told me after one of our many arguments that she hoped when I was a mom I would get a girl just like me and all I can say is I am sorry...Sorry to my mom and sorry to Josh because we have three that are only getting older. Makenzie's favorites this year are swimming, her friends, music(all kinds), and her pillow pets. This girl certainly keeps me on my toes and always wants to be doing something different, fun, or creative. We love you Makenzie and love the person you are becoming.

Dorodango...aka really hard mud ball

For one of Josh's classes he had to make a dorodango for his final project. He thought he would get a head start on it because he heard they take a while to dry. For the last week we have had dirt everywhere at my house. I can't say I have enjoyed that but it was interesting to watch Josh make these. Basically you make a big mud ball and it dries into these pretty hard as a rock looking things.  Lets just say he finished his project early.

First he started with this dirt.

Made his mud ball into this. 

And then shine them into these.

The end project.  It took each one about two days to make.  A darker brown one, a green one, and a red one.

Guess who came to town

That's right Governor Butch Otter came to our little town and the fourth grade classes got to welcome him by singing a couple of songs. I am sorry that my little camera is not very good and takes the worst pictures. If you look close enough he is the man on the left in all that blurry mess.

Makenzie (in the striped shirt) singing with her class.