(P.S. I was washing dishes when this took place)Saturday, January 31, 2009
Friday, January 30, 2009
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Some ups and downs
So for about a week now I have had some pain in my upper abdomen, and sharp pain around my right sholder blade. It was ESPECIALLY bad at night. I finally sucked it up and went to the doctor, who after an exam suggested that it was one of these 3 things: an ulcer, something wrong with my pancreas, or my gall bladder. She ordered an ultrasound and bloodwork. The only thing that popped up is that the walls of my gall bladder are much thicker than they should be, which can be caused by various things. So the next step is that I will go to St. Joseph's, where they will give me a pill to swallow, which I think releases some type of chemical or dye into my system. I leave, and come back 4 hours later and they do a CT scan and it will show how well the gallbladder is functioning, along with double checking the pancreas and liver. In the meantime the doctor gave me some medication, that seems to really be helping. So I'm relived that it sounds like it just the gallbladder, which is an outpatient surgery, and you can go about your normal routine the next day (just can lift anything heavier than 30 lbs for a while). But overall I'm feeling much better....poor Karl has been putting up with a lot this last week.
To add insult to injury, this morning I woke up early to shower, and get ready to go, becasuse I had to drop Kyra off at preschool at 9, be VT at 9:15, Kyles Mover's Shakers class by 10, drop off library books after class, and then pick Kyra back up by 11:30. Well I get myself and the kiddos all ready, and load everything up in the van, and the van wouldn't start! Grrrr....So I call Karl, he isn't at his desk. Try his pager, and he is some top secret area where the pager doesn't work or something like that. So we are stuck. Finally get ahold of Karl about an hour later, he comes home, takes the battery out, and goes down to AutoZone. Its still under warrenty, so they have to charge it for an hour, and if it holds charge, then we get our old battery back. If it doesn't hold charge they give us a new one for free. So Karl, rather than waiting goes back to work which is about a 45 min. drive. So he ended up missing most of the morning of work. The kiddos and I were able to stay home all day, and actually went through Kyles room, and sorted out all of his small clothes, and baby toys, and made it much more of a toddler room, with his trucks and trains more accessable and organized. As soon as Karl got home we get in his car. Run over to auto zone. The battery held charge, so we just got our old one back. We pop it back into the van and it starts!!! So although a long day, in the end we got some stuff accomplished, the car is fixed without any cost, and we have at least a little information about why I wasn't feeling well. :)
To add insult to injury, this morning I woke up early to shower, and get ready to go, becasuse I had to drop Kyra off at preschool at 9, be VT at 9:15, Kyles Mover's Shakers class by 10, drop off library books after class, and then pick Kyra back up by 11:30. Well I get myself and the kiddos all ready, and load everything up in the van, and the van wouldn't start! Grrrr....So I call Karl, he isn't at his desk. Try his pager, and he is some top secret area where the pager doesn't work or something like that. So we are stuck. Finally get ahold of Karl about an hour later, he comes home, takes the battery out, and goes down to AutoZone. Its still under warrenty, so they have to charge it for an hour, and if it holds charge, then we get our old battery back. If it doesn't hold charge they give us a new one for free. So Karl, rather than waiting goes back to work which is about a 45 min. drive. So he ended up missing most of the morning of work. The kiddos and I were able to stay home all day, and actually went through Kyles room, and sorted out all of his small clothes, and baby toys, and made it much more of a toddler room, with his trucks and trains more accessable and organized. As soon as Karl got home we get in his car. Run over to auto zone. The battery held charge, so we just got our old one back. We pop it back into the van and it starts!!! So although a long day, in the end we got some stuff accomplished, the car is fixed without any cost, and we have at least a little information about why I wasn't feeling well. :)
Kyle's big boy bed!
We found a great deal on a race car bed off of Craigs list. Here is Kyle in his big boy bed. Eventually we will paint it red, and using vinyl and the Cricut put a lightening bolt and such on it, so it looks like Lightening McQueen. 
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
FHE and Bird Cookies
For FHE yesterday, we just did a quick reveiw of what the kiddos talked about in nursery/sunbeams on Sunday, which was prayer. We had errands to run that night as well, and I wanted the kiddos in bed on time, so we kind of combined most of FHE with dinner. During dinner, we each took turns picking one of these pictures out of a box.
Then we talked about each picture and how we can both say thank you and "Please bless.." in our prayers. Then we thought the kiddos might like to make prayer rocks. You know, where you paint a rock, and then in the morning you put it under your pillow, and you will feel it when you lay down for bed, and remember to say your prayers. Then you put it next to your bed on the floor, at night, and when you wake up in the morning you will always see it and remember to say your morning prayers. Here the kiddos are painting their rocks. 
Okay, I SWEAR I do brush Kyra's hair! Most of the pictures I take are at night, and her hair has a mind of its own, and usually after her nap, it decides to do whatever it wants to do. 
Here are the finished products. Kyra was totally into it and kept checking to make sure it was under her pillow all day. Kyle's rock is up on his shelf, due to the amount of chewing on it, that was taking place. 
Bird Cookies:
Today, Karl had to work late, and then was home for about 20 minutes before he had to run to a church meeting, so it was just me and the kiddos tonight. So I thought "Lets do an art project". Now art projects have two sides. First, the kiddos LOVE them, and they are both old enough to really get into it, and follow direction etc. But, it is also one of the most STRESSFUL activities, for me, and tests my patience to the millionth degree. The reason is that, although I'm usually right there with them, doing the project, somehow Kyle finds a way to decopage his hair to his head, or pour paint inside his diaper, or eat his weight in bird seed. But we threw caution to the wind, and gave it a whirl. We decided to make "Bird Cookies". I bought a bag of bird seed for about a $1.50 at Walmart. Then we got a piece of bread, and cut shapes out of it. Kyra chose a doggy bone, and Kyle a star. Then I threw them in the toaster for a just a second, so they were a little stiffer to handle.
Then we covered them in peanut butter, and then in bird seed. Bird seed isn't dangerous to humans, right??? Because Kyle did eat a little....okay maybe a lot....
Then we just poked a hole through the middle, and tied on a ribbon. 
Our finished masterpieces. 
Then hung them on our tree! Hopefully we will have a couple birds feasting on them tomorrow.
I'm a little nervous, because last time I hung up a bird feeder, the birds almost ate us out of house and home, and then whenever the feeder became empty they started pecking at the window! So lets hope these birds are a little calmer!
Then we talked about each picture and how we can both say thank you and "Please bless.." in our prayers. Then we thought the kiddos might like to make prayer rocks. You know, where you paint a rock, and then in the morning you put it under your pillow, and you will feel it when you lay down for bed, and remember to say your prayers. Then you put it next to your bed on the floor, at night, and when you wake up in the morning you will always see it and remember to say your morning prayers. Here the kiddos are painting their rocks. Okay, I SWEAR I do brush Kyra's hair! Most of the pictures I take are at night, and her hair has a mind of its own, and usually after her nap, it decides to do whatever it wants to do. Here are the finished products. Kyra was totally into it and kept checking to make sure it was under her pillow all day. Kyle's rock is up on his shelf, due to the amount of chewing on it, that was taking place. Bird Cookies:
Today, Karl had to work late, and then was home for about 20 minutes before he had to run to a church meeting, so it was just me and the kiddos tonight. So I thought "Lets do an art project". Now art projects have two sides. First, the kiddos LOVE them, and they are both old enough to really get into it, and follow direction etc. But, it is also one of the most STRESSFUL activities, for me, and tests my patience to the millionth degree. The reason is that, although I'm usually right there with them, doing the project, somehow Kyle finds a way to decopage his hair to his head, or pour paint inside his diaper, or eat his weight in bird seed. But we threw caution to the wind, and gave it a whirl. We decided to make "Bird Cookies". I bought a bag of bird seed for about a $1.50 at Walmart. Then we got a piece of bread, and cut shapes out of it. Kyra chose a doggy bone, and Kyle a star. Then I threw them in the toaster for a just a second, so they were a little stiffer to handle.
Then we covered them in peanut butter, and then in bird seed. Bird seed isn't dangerous to humans, right??? Because Kyle did eat a little....okay maybe a lot....Then we just poked a hole through the middle, and tied on a ribbon. Our finished masterpieces. Then hung them on our tree! Hopefully we will have a couple birds feasting on them tomorrow.
I'm a little nervous, because last time I hung up a bird feeder, the birds almost ate us out of house and home, and then whenever the feeder became empty they started pecking at the window! So lets hope these birds are a little calmer!
Sunday, January 25, 2009
The Happenings of the Week
This week has been pretty good. This is what I accomplished off my list. First, Family Home Evening went great, the kids LOVED it. Kyra had the scripture in Primary this week, Genesis 1:23 (I think) and so I thought we would do FHE, about the meaning of her scripture. We talked about how God created the earth. Then I printed off little pictures of the 7 days of creation, and glued them to popscicle sticks. Then when I read what happened on each day, they had to decide which picture represented that day. Kyra INSISTED that she wanted to memorize her scripture as well, so I made this little picture story to help her. That girl has an unreal memory, and had the scripture memorized the next day. 
She did EXCELLENT, saying her scripture in primary. It was so cute. Here she is after church, telling me her scripture.
Other things accomplished this week..reading to the kids each day, updating the blog, taking stuff to DI, and #42 we won't talk about, we will just cry about. I was able to keep the front room clean, tried a new recipe (learned how to make mexican rice from scratch!), cleaned out the garage, and we watched one of our movies that was still shrink wrapped (Stranger than Fiction...a great movie, NOTHING like a typical Will Ferrel movie.) I was also able to complete about 35 of the birthday cards for RS. Here are my 4 favorite designsso far. I have about 40 left.
I was also able to do really well with my food storage supply the last couple weeks. By using coupons and hitting the sales, I was able to get everything in this picture for $1 and item. 
Everythign in this picture for FREE! Does anyone need mustard???
Then in this picture I was able to get the juice, the shampoo, deoderant, the lotion, and the hand soap for free. Then Fry's was having a great sale on the rest. So it was all together about $200 worth of groceries, but after coupons, and such it was just over $60. Coupon clipping is finally getting to be fun!
Lastly we were able to go to the Desert Museum yesterday. It was so much fun!!! We had a coupon, from the Tucson discount book thing, so it cost our entire family about $13 for admission. Last time we went, it was early summer, Kyra was only about 6 months old, and it was not so great. But the weather was BEAUTIFUL, about 70, and they really have so many things for the kiddos to do. It was great. Here are the kiddos in front of the butterfly flowers. 
They had one section, with huge rocks, in which they dug tunnels through, and then placed glass just on the other side of the tunnel. So you could see the different animals as they made the way through the tunnels. They had this cute little tunnel for the kids to climb through, and they could pretend to be animals. 
They also had an abandoned mine, with a rock pit outside the door, where the kids could dig through and find treasure (different colored minerals). Kyle LOVED this section. 
Our favorite animal exhibts were the hummingbirds, and the mountin lion.
Grandpa treated everyone to some soft serve ice cream! Yummy. Here is grandpa and Kyra about to dig in. 
And Kyle in heaven. We had to call and tease Aunt Renna, that we were eating ice cream, in short sleeves, in the shade, because the 70 degree weather was a little warm. (Aunt Renna lives in Wyoming, where it was 9 degrees and was snowing yesterday. I'm sure she will be calling us, and teasing us in August. 
One of the coolest things they had for the kiddos was mineral collection. They gave each kid an egg carton, and a map, which showed where different stations were, where they could go and collect a mineral. At each station the kids got a rock, learned about the rock and then were able to do some activity. For instance for 2 of the rocks (I can't remember which ones) they ground the mineral, and mixed it with water, and it created different colored paint, which the kids could then use to paint a picture. At another station, where one of the minerals formed in certain geometri crystal looking shapes, they had pieces of paper with the geometic shapes of the minerals drawn on them, the kids could then color them, cut them out and tape them together into the shape of the mineral. Another exhibit, had the mineral magnetite. And the kids got to use a magnet, and see which one of the minerals stuck to the magnet, and was thus magnitite. Here is Kyle's finished mineral collection. 
She did EXCELLENT, saying her scripture in primary. It was so cute. Here she is after church, telling me her scripture. 
Other things accomplished this week..reading to the kids each day, updating the blog, taking stuff to DI, and #42 we won't talk about, we will just cry about. I was able to keep the front room clean, tried a new recipe (learned how to make mexican rice from scratch!), cleaned out the garage, and we watched one of our movies that was still shrink wrapped (Stranger than Fiction...a great movie, NOTHING like a typical Will Ferrel movie.) I was also able to complete about 35 of the birthday cards for RS. Here are my 4 favorite designsso far. I have about 40 left.
I was also able to do really well with my food storage supply the last couple weeks. By using coupons and hitting the sales, I was able to get everything in this picture for $1 and item. Everythign in this picture for FREE! Does anyone need mustard???Then in this picture I was able to get the juice, the shampoo, deoderant, the lotion, and the hand soap for free. Then Fry's was having a great sale on the rest. So it was all together about $200 worth of groceries, but after coupons, and such it was just over $60. Coupon clipping is finally getting to be fun!Lastly we were able to go to the Desert Museum yesterday. It was so much fun!!! We had a coupon, from the Tucson discount book thing, so it cost our entire family about $13 for admission. Last time we went, it was early summer, Kyra was only about 6 months old, and it was not so great. But the weather was BEAUTIFUL, about 70, and they really have so many things for the kiddos to do. It was great. Here are the kiddos in front of the butterfly flowers. They had one section, with huge rocks, in which they dug tunnels through, and then placed glass just on the other side of the tunnel. So you could see the different animals as they made the way through the tunnels. They had this cute little tunnel for the kids to climb through, and they could pretend to be animals. They also had an abandoned mine, with a rock pit outside the door, where the kids could dig through and find treasure (different colored minerals). Kyle LOVED this section. Our favorite animal exhibts were the hummingbirds, and the mountin lion.
Kyra was also brave, and petted a snake!
And Kyle in heaven. We had to call and tease Aunt Renna, that we were eating ice cream, in short sleeves, in the shade, because the 70 degree weather was a little warm. (Aunt Renna lives in Wyoming, where it was 9 degrees and was snowing yesterday. I'm sure she will be calling us, and teasing us in August. We really had a great time! I would strongly suggest the Desert Museum, if your kiddos aren't babies any more, and if it isn't summer, because everything it outside, and there is some hiking.
It was a good week! I feel accomplished, and I think it really helped to have my goals visible to me on a daily basis, so I could keep track of the stuff I wanted to get done. This week I really want to organize my photos on my computer. I have a million files, with alot of duplicates, and some are labeled by date, some by theme. Does anyone have any suggestions? Do I seperate them by kid, date, activity? What do you do?
P.S for those who are familar with our ward. Bishop Clark got released today, and Corey Smith was called as the new bishop, with Bro. Allen first counselor, and Bro. Omer, second counseler.
Sunday, January 18, 2009
New Year Resolution
Now I do realize that New Years was 18 days ago, but better late than never. A friend has a list on her blog entitled "101 Things to do in 1001 days". I loved the idea, but that was essentially 3 years, and I'm a more of the short term goal type gal. So I thought I would change it to "101 things to do in the next 101 days" Starting today, and going until April 28th, and seeing how many things on my list I could get done. Now some are silly, and easy, other are "Are you kidding me" type goals. IT WAS REALLY HARD THINKING OF 101 THINGS! So I posted as many as I can think of for now. Well here goes nothing!
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Christmas '08 Part 1
We had a lot of fun this year. Both kids were old enough to "get it". They loved everything about it...all of the christmas movies, the decorations, the presents, every single thing. Karl had 17 days off, which was fantastic! First my sister came down from Wyoming with her husband and kiddos. Calvin and Kyle were.....wild! Luckly they burned alot of energy on each other. Here they are sucking juice off the table and thinking it is just the funniest thing ever.
Here they are trying to kill themselves jumping off the couch.
The kiddos got new PJ's Christmas Eve. They were a big hit. Kyra just kept saying "I'm so happy" every 5 seconds.
This is our attempt at getting all the kiddos together in their new PJ's.
And of course, cookies for Santa! 
Christmas Gifts
So the brillant plan for the Christmas was that I was going to make quite a few of the gifts, to make them more personal, and special. Well, for a craft person this would of been a fabulous plan! In the end it turned out okay, but there were a couple tears shed along the way. I made a calander for Grandma Adams, and Greatgrandma Wagoner of the kids and grandkids. I used digital scrapbook paper to create the backdrops. I know that walmart has a thing where you can just upload a couple photos and they will make the calander for you , but I wanted to be able to add however many photos I wanted. So here is January. 
Feburary, with cousin Ethan.
March was Kyle.
April was our family. 
May was a page just for the girls. 
June just for the boys. 
July was a messy baby page.
August was for the Leavitt Family (Karl's sister)
September was for Kyra. 
October was for Halloween pictures. (There was a Trick or Treak sign across the top, I'm not sure why its not on this image...ummm.)
November was just a cute baby page. 
And obviously Decmber was Christmas pictures.
It was a fun project, but I'm don't think I'm a digital scrapbooker.
Feburary, with cousin Ethan.March was Kyle.April was our family. May was a page just for the girls. June just for the boys. July was a messy baby page.August was for the Leavitt Family (Karl's sister)September was for Kyra. October was for Halloween pictures. (There was a Trick or Treak sign across the top, I'm not sure why its not on this image...ummm.)November was just a cute baby page. 
And obviously Decmber was Christmas pictures.
It was a fun project, but I'm don't think I'm a digital scrapbooker. I also made little aprons for each one of the cousins and my kiddos. Kyra was the only one willing to model it.
Kyra got Tinkerbell, Kyle and Calvin got Cars, and Ethan got Batman.
Kyra got Tinkerbell, Kyle and Calvin got Cars, and Ethan got Batman. I also made marble magnets with pics of the grandkids, and Etched a couple Pyrex pans with last names.
Although at this exact moment, I will say I won't be making anything homemade next year, but I think making homemade christmas gifts is like childbirth, you forget the pain, sweat and tears that went into it the first time, until it is too late.
Although at this exact moment, I will say I won't be making anything homemade next year, but I think making homemade christmas gifts is like childbirth, you forget the pain, sweat and tears that went into it the first time, until it is too late.
Having fun in the leaves!
We went down to Grandma and Grandpa's house just before Christmas, and enjoyed some of the beautiful weather we have been having. 
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