I really do LOVE my kids?!?!?!

Why didn't anyone ever tell me that raising kids is not all it is cracked up to be...I think that I have had one of the most challenging weeks yet. I love my kids to death don't get me wrong but I really wanted to just run away from life this last week. All of you that don't have kids in school you just wait... trying to deal with the different personalities of the teachers and their teaching styles is enuf to drive me to drink....I don't think it would be so bad if I just had one in school to break me in but with the both of them I just want to scream!!! My Mom has been such a support to me with all the encouragement that everything will all work out. I got a call tonight from a really good friend that well just made me feel LOVED. Even though I didn't get to talk to her, I just got to listen the message she left and let me say that I just started to cry. Even now several hours later every time I think about what she said I still am tearing up.
Here is my challenge to anyone that my find themselves reading this...If you ever get that feeling that you should check on someone, don't delay you just never know what a difference it can make in someones day!!!

10 Years Ago???

What I was doing 10 years ago?

I had just moved home from Maryland and was living with my parents. I had a job waiting for me at a restaurant that I had worked at before I had moved to Maryland 2 years earlier. Later that year I moved to Vancouver, WA to attend school and to get away from my frustrating life with boys. When I moved I had no intentions on dating. I was determined to focus on school. Well the first weekend after I move to WA I met Adam. We met at a dive of a dance club in Portland. We were all standing outside waiting in line to get in when I saw him. He had a T-shirt on for the NCAA Final four basketball tournament. The first thing I thought was WoW he must play awesome Basketball. Well we all made it into the club and my roommates and I were all just dancing and having a good time when he came up to me and asked me to dance. Why not right??? The song ended and I said well we are leaving and he piped up and said "This is a bad neighborhood, would you let my roommates and I walk you to your car." He asked me for my number and believe it or not he called me that night. We talked all night long and right then I knew he was the one. So I finished school as we dated and I told him that I really liked him but I am moving to Utah for a new job. He moved to SLC about 6 months later and we were married in September of 1998. That's right our 10 year anniversary is this year...hint...hint....Adam. 1998 was a good year for me.

5 things on my "to-do" list today...
1. Get up and get the kids to school. Oh ya and remember to feed them.
2. Put the laundry away...Ya that never happened...
3. Start my Taxes...I mean fix last years Taxes to get more money back :)
4. Go to the grocery store...That didn't happen either...
5. Take a nap with Mason. Well he got the nap not me...

6 Snacks that I enjoy…
1. Carmel Apples. Rocky mountain Chocolate factory has the best!!!
2. Mom's Carmel popcorn. I could make myself sick.
3. Gooey Chex cereal mix with coconut, almonds, Golden Grahams, and Corn Chex. I can only make this during the holidays because I would eat it all!!!
4. Any kind of Ice cream
5. Dr. Pepper Love the burn but right now I am on a hiatus from soda
6. Apples and Dip. Thanks Michelle for the recipe

3 Bad habits...
1. I can't for the life of me keep the island in my kitchen cleaned off. Adam tries to help but his way is to shove it all in a box and put it in a closet
2. This one is gross but I am a scab picker and zit popper...
3. Never dusting until I see the kids have written their name on the TV or the entry way table.

If I were suddenly a billionaire I would...
1. travel, travel, travel but I would buy a ticket so I wouldn't have to worry if I'm going to get
on the plane.
2. Hire a maid to clean my mansion and fold the laundry.
3. Put plumbing in our family cabin so that I don't have to trapes through the snow to the outhouse to sit on a frozen seat in the middle of the night and so my Mom would enjoy going to the cabin.
4. Buy a house closer to family since I wouldn't have to work anymore.
5. Buy my husband a rusted out broke down 1967 Mustang so he can tinker around and fix it up like new.

Places I've lived…
1. St. Anthony, ID
2. Philadelphia, PA
3. Salisbury, MD
4. Vancouver, WA
5. Rose Park, UT
6. West Valley, UT
7. West Jordan, UT
8. Kearns, UT
9.South Weber, UT

5 Jobs I've had…
1. Snack bar worker at the Golf Course
2. Produce and Bakery worker at a couple grocery stores
3. Dishwasher, Prep Cook, Hostess, Server at a restaurant
4. Nanny
5. Reservation Rep for Airline

5 Things people don't know about me...
I already gave these in a previous post so I won't bore you again.

I'm gonna get it!!!

Mason is really starting to roll all over the place. Adam told me yesterday while I was at work that he was starting to get his knees under him and trying to scoot. I will be so mad if I miss when he starts to crawl. He will be 7 months old on the 6th of March. I can't believe how fast time flies.

We went to Carson's birthday party last Saturday. The boy had a blast. We went to a play place in West Jordan on Redwood Road and about 80th south. They had a bunch of the blow up toys that they went crazy on. The twin's have their Bday coming up and I honestly can't believe they are going to be 7 years old. It seem like yesterday they were Mason's age.

Mason even got in on the action...

Kegan love to be the life of the party. He sure knows how to make his friends laugh!!!

I love the Mountains too...

One of my friends had asked "Do you ever get used to just seeing the mountains and the amazing sunsets here in Utah. All I have to say to that is ABSOLUTELY NOT!!!! I grew up in Idaho and every morning I got up and went into the living room this is what I saw....

I will never forget one morning, I looked out the big picture windows and the sun was right behind the middle peak and it looked like there was a light bulb in the top of it. Everytime I go home as soon as we get close I am always looking for the Tetons. Believe it or not but they look completly different from the Wyoming side.

Ok! Ok! I think that I will have to try reading it again!!!

I have been hearing so much about this book Twilight and all the follow up books to it. I think this is the same book that Stacy told me to read. I got about 3 chapter in and I just got to busy to continue. I might just have to see if I can find them on tape and just listen to it while I am at work.



On my previous post Erin you asked why I had a metal fork in my purse. Well at my office they have decided to replace the old spoon and fork with sporks and I can't stand them. I can understand that it is saving money for the company but I can't stand trying to eat a salad with a spork. So that is why I have a fork in my purse. I found this family tree on the spork and thought it was funny...

I have to really thank Aleesha for the tip on The Skinny Cow icecream. Since I have really started watching what I am eating the icecream has been one of the hardest to give up. I found the icecream sandwiches at Sam's Club the other day and fell in love. They also had the fudge bars too.

My so called Purse...

I got Purse tagged and I am quite embarrassed to show everyone what is in the black hole I call by purse. Most of the time I just take my wallet out of my bag and put it in the diaper bag but I do take my bag to work with me why I don't know because usually the only thing I take out is my headphones when I gets really slow at work I just watch TV on the internet to stay awake.

Wallet, Cell Phone, Tums, Fork, 2 Bottles of Lotion Clorox Wipes, Bills, Broken Sunglasses, Proten Bar, Receipts, Calender, Headphones, Pen, Glue Dots, and a Book that I have had in there for months that I have only read the first 5 pages in. I always have good intentions to read at work but I just can't seem to keep my eyes open so I have to start the paragraph over again. That's where the headphones come in handy.

Tell Me Where To Find Some Fun Activities

As I have been reading around the blogs tonight I got an idea. I know that I am not the most exciting person in the world and most of the time Adam and I just stay home instead of going out finding fun things to do with the kids. So, I need some ideas. Where are some of your favorite places to take your kids.
Erin mention ed that they went to Crystal Hotsprings and that sounded like a lot of fun.
I have to admit that in the 10 years that we have lived here I still feel like I don't know where anything is except for the basics.