Family Journal

There are so many reasons why I love blogging. But last night I discovered the #1 reason I do it, A Family Journal. I have seen a few of my friends blogs printed into a book and I love it. So I found a website yesterday with quite inexpensive prices and I got to work on the first year of my blog. Okay it was only three months worth, but hey that still took up 26 pages. I am so excited to get it, and the big bonus is Dave is totally on board with me doing it. I was up til 1:30 this morning getting it just right. I was completely into it and could have kept going if my girls hadn't woken up with all sorts of ailments (Cora needed a breathing treatment and Cait had a serious bloody nose). So today while I am home from church with sick kids I am going to work on 2008. I can't wait. LOVE IT!!!!! (the pic is the cover of my book)

Not much...

I feel guilty about not posting for 18 days. But really there hasn't been much going on in our house. With the warmer weather the kids have been outside a lot which has given me some free time, which I probably should be using to clean or pack, but I usually take a nap or play on the computer shopping for things I can't buy. I have also been watching the Olympics 24/7 either on TV or the computer. I LOVE the Olympics.

We are looking into purchasing carpet. Our hope is that someone that doesn't like hardwood floors will come through and like the carpet look instead and snatch it right up so we can get on with our lives. We are in total limbo right now, just waiting, it is very frustrating.

David got a promotion at work. He is now a QA supervisor. Exciting yes, but he is going to be working 8 pm to 4 am which is not very exciting. But having the title will help in the long run and he won't have to work that shift forever. I suppose I will get used to it.

Valentines Day was great. We celebrated on Monday. Dave made me a great breakfast and then let me go back to bed until after 11 a.m. We then just hung out at home and then went to Bountiful to go swimming and go out to dinner. It was great to go on a date, that hasn't happened for a really long time.

So that is our life as of late. Not very exciting but it's life, right? Hope your lives are just as not exciting but fulfilling.

PEE

I have had it with PEE! That's right my house, my laundry, my kids, EVERYTHING smells like PEE. Cora pees her pants daily, Dawson misses the toilet three or fours times a day, the dog pees, mostly outside, but sometimes in. I am cleaning up PEE a gazillion times a day and I am sick of it. SERIOUSLY! The only ones not making a mess with their PEE is Dave, Cait and I. Why can't the others learn? I could scream!!!!

We WERE planning on getting new carpet throughout the house in a couple of weeks, but what is the point? Might as well not ruin good carpet, might as well just let the old carpet get ruined, and then when everyone is finally potty trained properly then we'll get new carpet. AAAAAH!

Poor Blabby

Cora has been walking around the house, or just laying on the floor wondering where her Blabby went (aka Labby). She was laying on the floor and said "mommy I crying. I can't find my Blabby." She was doing it all day. So I told David when he got home, and she pretended to cry again. David asked her "where did Labby go?" She looked up, saw the bird and said, "Popcorn ate my Blabby." We were laughing so hard, we about cried with her.

And the winner is.....(insert drum roll)

My Cait! She entered the Science Fair this year and she won a first place ribbon in her division. Yea for Cait.

Why? Poor Thing

Have you ever had to strip your baby down on the freeway to their birthday suits so that they could go pee? I hadn't until today. Yeah that's right. Poor Miss Belle was stripped to nothing at all at 20 degrees outside, on the freeway, just so she could not pee in her car seat and jammies. Not my idea of a great time, but it was a little amusing. The poor thing was covered in goose bumps and shivering by the time she finished, but the job was done and the car was so warm she recovered quickly. Oh the life of a mother, you never know what will happen next.

A few of my Favorite things

In reverse order by day:

Thursday we got a new puppy. Her name is Zoey (at least for the time being Dave keeps wanting to change it). We love her already. The sad part to this story is, our dog of five years, Labby (the beagle), is going to a new home. We had to make the choice being that we are moving and it's unlikely we will have a fully fenced yard and trust me Labby needs it, and she will go to a home with a companion dog and can be inside all the time. I cry alot about it but it's for the best I think.
Monday: I rearranged bedrooms because of some sleeping or should I say lack of sleeping issues, so Caitlin got her princess bed back. And let me tell you she feels like a princess, she even dressed the part so I had to take a picture.

Christmas Day: We have another new pet, her name is Popcorn and we love her too. She is so fun to watch. She was abused so we adopted her, thanks to my pet loving sister. The cage in the picture is the one she came in but now she has a super awesome cage. I haven't taken a pic yet so if you want to see it you have to come over.

The remaining pictures are my children Christmas morning with their new Fave toys. Cait with her doll Kaitlyn, Dawson with Maxus Dragonoid and Cora with her piggy (same pig from the book "If You Give A Pig a Pancake".