I suppose

Haven't had a post since the end of Feburary! That's just pathetic!
There are good things coming I hope... I have a garden and that is the funnest thing to blog about.

I feel like I'm so far behind I'll never catch up. But I suppose I ought to try...

I'll consider it.

Facebook updates

I promised myself that I would stop doing so many silly facebook updates and put more of that energy into my blog! I mean really, who wants to know stuff about me? Like…

~made potato sausage and cheese soup in bread bowls for dinner.
~didn’t get a stitch of painting done yesterday, but we got five doors, frames and all, removed and then put up three new doors!
~taking care of sick kids and a sick husband… :(
~really don’t want to go to work tomorrow! I wish I could stay home and clean and paint!
~I’m tired!!!
~loving my book and the Book of Mormon right now!

Then I could update for Scott too…
~went flying on Thursday for the first time in 3 MONTHS!
~hope I’m not sick during the week, I must go to work!
~golly, hanging those doors was a pain in the neck, but it made Billie happy.
~I have so many projects, will I ever get done??

How about Kendahl?
~I love singing and dancing.
~have “tech week” this week for our upcoming show, Heaven Can Wait.
~dang, I’m too busy! I’m sure glad I go to Riverside Prep so I don’t have
homework!
~I hope I get discovered soon!

Carter too!
~I think I broke my wrist but my mom won’t take me to the doctor.
~maybe my mom will finally take me to the doctor tomorrow.
~I like my iPod touch!
~I need to buy more video games.
~why can’t I go to Target to buy video games?
~dang, my wrist sure hurts.

Here’s Baillie’s
~I’m silly and cute.
~I’m fun.
~hard stuff is hard
~I like piano… but not when it’s hard.
~I’m so glad I have a bedroom door again, my mom and dad are the coolest!
~did I say I’m cute? Everyone should love me!

And can’t forget Brodric…
~JUMP
~JUMP ON FURNITURE
~CARTWHEELS
~JUMP UP AND DOWN
~oh wait… I don’t feel so well.
~mom, I don’t feel so good.
~my temperature is 98.1, I think I’m getting a fever again.
~I don’t like being sick.
~jump
~try cartwheels…

How was that? If we could just update facebook all day, such fun we would have!! It’s strange that it isn’t strange anymore to let people and strangers know what we’re up to play by play! Technology these days is just weird!

I have to go potty now, c’ya later.

TGIF

Appropriate picture since I feel like I have been racing through my week!

I never really got that saying, "Thank goodness it's Friday". But today I got it. I worked this week nearly 8 hours a day. Heavens knows I don't like it! I certainly don't want to work, but sometimes it's just what you have to do. Sometimes I just have to do it too!

Things at ServiceMaster are changing quickly it seems. This week Tracy (our bookkeeper) let me know she is going to be done. She's moving to Tennessee soon and I knew was coming, but just didn't know when. I guess I can be glad she didn't leave me during Christmas or New Years! So now I am trying to learn all the little things I don't know so I can take over for her for a while. I will eventually hire another person, but I'll do it for a while. (But only as long as I can stand it!)

We are growing our company all the time and with growth comes lots of different kinds of growing pains. I'm feeling them! Money crunches, employee training, hiring, law suits, and all other kinds of fun stuff! I really shouldn't complain because I am just happy to have a business that is growing and able to help people in need and help families have jobs to count on! It really is a blessing to a lot of people! I'm gonna post that on my mirror this month as I try to drag my butt to work every day and be happy and help others around me be happy too!!

Oh, I'm glad I wrote this blog tonight!!! I am grateful and I am going to take that from this blog! Not to be tired and complaining about the last week, but being grateful for the jobs we have and can provide!!! It's really, really a blessing!

Ok, happy happy weekend everyone! Have a good one and get ready for Monday!! :-)

Brodg

Scott took this cute picture, don't zoom in cause there's green everywhere, candy leftovers. He's just being silly here, but the missing teeth are great!

Oh, It's about time I told you a few awesome things about this kid! He is truly the best! Just when I think he can't get any cuter he goes and does something that just cracks us up, or makes us swell with pride!

No, Brodge isn't the real name, but it came about when his cousin Chloe started calling him that one day! Melanie loved it and it stuck. When you say his name fast it sounds like "Bro-jr-ik" (that's kind of how it is phonetically, as if I even knew how to spell anything phonetically...) So from that I guess in her little mind she just shortened the Broj sound. I think it's super cute.

So, great story #1: Tonight Scott and the kids and I were watching the Olympics. Brodg can't stay still when exciting things are happening around him. He has to dance or do cartwheels or hand stands, or throw himself on the couch or something else just exploding with energy! And when we first started watching tonight he wanted to move more so he said, "mom, can't we just watch So You Think You Can Dance?" I guess he wanted to dance, dang it! I had to tell him it just couldn't be done. So he started getting into the Olympics. He loved it of course. Every time they mentioned that one of the athletes had a background in gymnastics he would make sure we heard it, "Hey mom! He did gymnastics!"

Well, everyone loved the mogul skiing. It was pretty cool and hey, they do flips! I guess the Americans were doing well at first and Brodric was all about being An American! Soon the top Americans lost some... something, and they both made pretty huge mistakes to throw them pretty much out of the running for any big medals. Bricky said, "I don't think I want to be on the America team anymore. I think I want to be on the Canada team!"

I laughed and laughed, those dang Americans just weren't cutting it any more! Brodric has a standard you know! If you're going to be on his team, you can only be the best! What a cool example of him.

This week Brodric was asked to give the scripture and prayer in Primary. I had to coax him a little bit because he is pretty reserved when it comes to that kinda think. He will only rarely give prayers in our family prayers. He does great when he's in his own bed, but ask him to say it in front of everyone else and it's a different story! So anyway, he said he would!

Today during Sacrament Meeting I gave him the scripture, John 3:16, For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. That awesome boy spent the entire meeting memorizing that scripture! He read it over and over again. When he went to give the scripture, he looked as if he was reading it off the paper, but he shot it out like it was his own name! It was great. He had the whole thing down pat! Then in a loud, clear voice, he gave s really good prayer, with a couple of different things added just so we could tell it came from his heart. I was so proud of him!

Right now he has 4 missing teeth. Three on top and one on the bottom. It is SO cute to see him smile! I keep trying to get him to loosen the fourth top one so he can have them all out out at once, but it isn't happening. I think he would look so funny with an even larger gaping hole in his mouth! Very cute!!!

I really want to tell you all the cool things about him like, he is a really good sweeper, he is SOO smart and reads wonderfully like his siblings all did, he is so good at video games that it's tough for the 14 year olds to keep up with him. He loves music and is SO excited to be in piano again. He picks up a violin that we have pretty often and likes messing around with that too. He loves, loves, loves sugar. He gets it as often and as much as he can! Cookies, cupcakes, candy, candy, candy... He's not a good eater, very picky with his food. Nearly every night we have a fight about every meal and we still negotiate the amount of bites he has to finish. I had him in gymnastics a couple of times in his little life, but only for short times, but he continues to love it and begs me for the next time he can sigh up for gymnastics!!! Maybe someday, we'll see...

It makes me pretty sad that he is growing up so fast. He used to NEEED to hug me several times a day, and those have slowed WAY down. He used to love on me so much and now that he's 6 and a half it's fading fast. It always does with kids this age, and that's the worst part of them growing up! I wish they stayed Young forever!!

Until I think of more things or he does something funny again, that's about it. But I'm telling you I feel so proud to be Brodrics mom! How lucky am I?

Last week at Disneyland, right before he lost that last tooth.


This was me and Bricky on California Screamin. He loved it! I was video taping the ride.

So blessed!

My favorite show lately is "Life in the ER". I'ts not reinactments, it's the real deal and the real blood and gore of the ER, and I love it! Tonight I watched one with an 87 year old lady who had a stroke. I just want to say -- "I LOVE old people!" I really do and I would be a good care taker for the old! Maybe someday that will be my calling.

As Scott and I were rummaging through the DVR I stopped on a 20/20 from last week a few days after the Haiti quake. I was heart broken over the children of Haiti. From what I understood there was a horrible problem with orphans before the quake, and now, oh my goodness, can you imagine? During the viewing of the mess in Haiti and watching the children who are devistated, my 6 year old son called me into his room. He said, "could you sing me the angel song?" I hope he couldn't hear the TV, but he was feeling something, so I sang the angel song. Looking around the boys room and seeing everything we are blessed with made me want to burst! I wanted to fill the room with beds with little hatian children in them! I thought to Baillie's room and how there is only one bed in there. There could be a couple of bunk beds giving children a warm, soft place to feel loved. I might be crazy, but just to feed curosity, I am going to look at the web sites and see what's up with adopting those children. NO, I'm not going to run off and adopt, but looking can't hurt, right?

We are really SOOOOOOOOOOO blessed to live in America! With all the messed up things our country is dealing with, we are still SO lucky! I want to share this feeling with my children and help them to know their blessings.

God is good, and I know he loves those people in Haiti and I know he will comfort their pain.

S.O.S.

Oh, I hate to write on here stuff that might not be so positive, but here I go... (that was a little warning, so don't blame me if you aren't uplifted at all!) I have lived the past year with more positive thoughts and wonderful outlooks than ever before. The sun shines in my heart 90% of the time. But when it happens now, the same 'ol sutff can still get me down. When it happens I think I can smile it away or pray it away or something, but it seems to find a way to rear it's ugly head...

Today we went to the Temple as a partnership, including Taft and Nikki. It's an hour drive, the rain was pouring down, I was really tired, and while I really wanted to go, a part of me totally didn't want to go. I think several of us may have been feeling the same way, but we went anyway! And as you all know, it was worth it in the end. While in the Temple I feel peaceful, calm, and ok, and that's how it's supposed to be. But soon after leaving the Temple grounds it all came back. I'ts not horrible or anything. I can still put on a pretend smile and go about my day, but hanging just out of sight is this looming thing, bigger than I am... I know it's not too big for God. I leanred that on Veggie Tales, :) but it's bigger than me and apparently my faith isn't kicking in like it needs to.

So that's my story and it's not going to end with, "it was all better in the end", this time. Because I continue to fight my deamons and I continue to struggle here and there. Someday I'll overcome the challenges that linger in my mind. Tomorrow I hope to wake with a different outlook. But tonight I am going to bed early.

Get to work!

Oh golly, I should so be asleep!!! But i just wanted to get on for a second and just mention what we did today. We cleaned... Nothing new! We worked in the garage to try to get some sense of organization about it. After several hours it was nice to see some progress. Scott and I work really well together and after we had a little blow up, we spent the rest of the time happy and helping each other. I have a good husband.

I want to get organized more so that I can focus on the things that make me really happy. I really want a garden this year! I missed my garden last year. I actually want a bigger garden than I had last time. So, it's going to take a lot of work. We still have left overs (junk) around from the remodel! (Does anyone know where I can take old appliances to get rid of them?) I'm going to try to spend more time working on "stuff"...

I just wanted to say that.

new year, new goals and friendship

I'm all about the new year goal stuff! I am excited for a new year to begin and all the things we have to look forward to. In FHE tonight we set goals and one that Scott brought up was to have fun together! I loved that! I hope to have a lot of fun with our family this year and to find ways to celebrate just being a family. I wish I had a good picture to post, I'll work on that! (My computer screen has died, so I can't see anything on it. Otherwise I would put up some family photos we took.)

I am planning on useing this blog more, to keep a record of our family. In 2008 I blogged a lot and as 2009 whizzed past me my posts have gotten fewer and fewer! So for 2010 I plan on keeping up better, not only for those who will be looking to see what we're up to, but also for my own benefit. My family record as well as thoughts and feelings.

Tonight I am wanting to share my grattitude for friends in my life who love me inspite of myself. People who are examples of selflessness, who forgive freely and love unconditionally! My heart is expanding because of you! Friendship is rare and precious and yours is not going wasted.