I needed a break!

I had to have a break this week. My weekend is loaded and I had to have a clean house before the weekend "just in case" someone came to check out the house. What is a girl to do? I mean if I didn't get a break I was going to break and run over anyone in my way. Well round about 10 this morning my mom called and was joking that I needed to make a 2 hour drive to her house just so that her other grand children had someone to play with since they were all spending the night at her house. I realized she was joking but I really didn't care, I made a deal with my husband that I would clean the whole house, besides the kitchen, and then I could leave to my moms, stay for 24 hours and drive the two hours home just in time to make it to Cait's dance completion in Taylorsville. What was I thinking? Well after I was given the okay to go, I was much happier, got the house clean in less than an hour and then drove two hours just to sit and watch kids play. A break is a break I say, even if it is two hours away. And I also did my husband a favor by making the deal, less than an hour after I left the Realtor called and said someone was coming between 5 and 6. Great everything is clean minus the kitchen and that is just enough for Dave to do. Life is so much better right now than it was 4 hours ago.

What a day!

So, my time as a bishopric's wife has come to an end! How do I feel about it? Not sure? When we were informed Dave was being released I was extremely happy, the next day not so much. It felt weird and a feeling of what's next keeps running through my head. I was almost 25 when Dave was called, I haven't known anything else for 5 1/2 years. It is going to take me a while to get used to him being home on Sunday's and not sitting alone during sacrament meeting and having him during Sunday school and all the other niceties that come with having my husband back. I know he will miss serving our great ward, and having an affect on the lives of the people he presided over. He was a great counselor, and did what he could to serve everyone. I am grateful for his service and I know there were many lives touched by his spirit. Life will resume I know but it is going to be quite the change. My condolences.. I mean congrats go out to the new bishopric and their wife's.

Changing the subject, Cora is a handful. One minute I hear her say, "I need to potty," the next I hear pee. And what do I see, Cora peeing in the family room into her Easter Bucket. Luckily it was empty of all candy or other things, but still what was she thinking?

Easter!

I am just going to post some pics of our Easter Sunday basket hunt and retrieval. The kids hunted forever. The Easter Bunny hid them well this year.We colored eggs on Saturday night. I actually almost forgot that we needed to do that little tradition. And then the color packet I bought didn't have the color in it so we had to use food coloring which I actually loved and will do from now on.

I was sick!

Okay this post was started on the 29th and I am just now getting to it (April 6, 2010). Forgive me please.

I had strep throat. The most miserable two days of my life. Holy cow. My poor kiddo's. I had no idea strep was that bad. I couldn't move, talk, swallow, nothing. I felt so bad for David because he needed to sleep but I couldn't get up to keep the kids quiet. It was truly awful. Plus I missed out on my families Easter Party and my cousin's homecoming. But because I finally gave in and went to the insta-care we were able to go to Dave's family Easter Party. Which was super fun and a nice break from the couch.

Compare and Share!

Run, Run as fast as you can, you can't catch me I'm the candy snatcher! (That in no way was meant to ryhm. So don't laugh).

I decided to have BBQ today for dinner. Well while I was trying to start the BBQ it kindof blew up in my face. I wasn't sure if anything was damaged until I smelled the awful smell of burning hair. Okay it wasn't burning but my bangs and eyebrows were singed pretty bad. I say oh well, I still have my face.

And Cait started soccer again today. She loves it. I wanted her not to like it. I didn't want another activity to have to run around to, but I can't help what the girl loves.

Another First!

For the first time ever in nearly 9 years of marriage, I am sleeping alone. Dave started his new schedule this week. He left last night at 8:30 p.m. and got home this morning at 5:30 a.m. Surprisingly I slept just fine. There are a few good things about him working this shift. 1: He gets to be home in the morning when the kids go to school, 2: He gets paid more :), 3: He does homework while we are all sleeping, 4: He gets to put the kids to bed before he leaves. The bad things, 1: I sleep alone, 2: He drives early in the morning and I am worried about him, 3: Weekends are going to be rough, 4: Trying to be quiet during the day. I think we will be okay, it's about 6's. I need to find some curtains for the bedroom so that it is dark. Today he slept with a bandanna over his eyes, but so far so good we haven't woken him up.

And today I ordered my second blog book. I wanted to get it done today because I would save myself 7 bucks. I am really excited, but I didn't notice that in the cover picture I am missing a leg, ooops. Oh well we can't all be perfect.

I'm Old!

I turned 30 two days ago. I am okay with it, it was turning 29 that threw me for a loop. I had a good day, filled with very lazy moments and very frustrating ones too. It's a good thing the frustrating moment was just because it took me about a half hour to figure out how I could set up WIRELESS Internet without having to plug it in. Yeah I'm an idiot. All I needed was my router plugged into an outlet that wasn't in the way of the carpenters. It's those old brain cells that weren't working so great. But once I figured it out it was a great lazy day. There was much green involved with my day. It started with green eggs and ham with green orange juice. Then a box of somoa's holding my green iPod my family got for me, I also had my green and gold candy basket from sweet Lizzies, and Bugs brought me green wrapped Reese's Buttercups. And my bestest friend Liz brought me purple tulips (they are mostly green), and a big cupcake (it was pink though). Sister Dawn gave me a much needed gift card to Kohls, and my mom gave me a cute little basket with cross stitching on it for my kitchen (which is also not green). So all in all it was a fabulous day.

Leprechaun Trap!

We made a generic Leprechaun Trap this year. Dave and I were busy getting the house ready for carpet so I just quickly made the trap. It's a sorry excuse for a trap, but it's the thought that counts and Cait was happy with it so does it really matter what it looked like?

And the aftermath of trying to catch a Leprechaun. Don't mess with Leprechauns they can get nasty. Last year one wrote all over the kids heads with a green pen, telling them "NO, NO" for trying to catch him. He also toilet papered Cait's room where the kids were sleeping, but they rolled all over it so the pic was lame.