Well, this will be our last Halloween at the "village" apartments. We have had 5 Halloween's here. Weird to think about. I wonder how many we will have at our next place???
I had to put a couple of pics on of my kids.
Jonah was Sonic the Hedgehog. Gavin was a pirate. Breck was a flower for about 5 minutes. She hated wearing the costume so I took a couple of pictures and took it off.
I'm so excited for the NBA season to begin! I hope my Lakers do well this year but I believe they will. "D Fish" has been traded to the Utah Jazz. (He hasn't been with the Lakers for a while either but I love him.) I can't believe this! Poor Jazz. They are still trying to win a ring. Hahahahahaha! Sorry, not this year guys!
Ok. It's been a while since I have blogged. We went to California and had so much fun. It was a good trip and the baby did really well on the road. She is 3 1/2 months old and has been sleeping through the night for a month or so. I'm so lucky.
My brother told me about a website where you can download songs for 8 cents per song. It's awesome. It is free to register too. www.musicmp3.ru
It is from Russia I guess but all in English. I have gotten some nice tunes from it. I'm glad because I was getting tired of my same music. 
We finally got a picture of our whole family. A guy from our ward called last night as the kids were getting into bed and wanted to come take our picture for an updated directory so...........I posted it. It isn't the best but it works.
I visited our townhome on Saturday and they were mudding the walls. It's getting closer to being done. I'm excited to move into it.
We are driving down to California this week. I am so excited. My husband is having a tooth issue and my brother is a dentist, so we are heading down for free dental work. Hooray!!!(not hooray for pain that Jake is going through)
I love coming home! This is the only reason it is good to live out of state, because I love to come back. Ha.
These are my favorite trees. I have a palm tree sticker on my car too. I love how tall they get and how a sunset looks through them.
This is so cute! She had been asleep on my shoulder for no more than 60 seconds when she just started laughing and laughing in her sleep. She started and then Jake grabbed our camera in hopes she would do it some more, and she totally did. I couldn't believe it! I have only been able to make her laugh two or three times so far. She is two and a half months old. I wonder what was so funny???
What a cutie pie!
It was pretty dark in the room. It is more visible on my camera than on this site.
Dang it!
It is definitely worth a listen though.
Two days ago it was 90 degrees and I was sweating from carrying my kids and my groceries into the house. Today it is supposed to be 56 degrees as the high temperature. Crazy!!! It snowed last night and this morning here. It has melted of course but it still snowed! I had to turn my heater on this morning. I am now realizing that we all need new winter clothes. My boys have pants that I have saved from last winter and thought that they could still use them. I guess they have grown up because they are all too short in the legs. Hahaha. Duhhhh Dana!
I wish I knew where I could find baby coverall's. I like those better than shirt and pants when they are still infant's. Any suggestions? I don't want my baby to freeze.
She seems too small for sweatshirts and jackets so........who knows?
Jonah's birthday is on Monday. He will be SEVEN! I'm old! I'm almost 32. That's weird.
We are getting Jonah a bike for his birthday because we gave his old one to Gavin for his birthday back in July.
Jonah is enjoying first grade. His teacher is a little fruity but oh well. We will be switching schools soon when we move.
...you know, what to talk about? I sometimes sit here at the computer and think about what I should post about. I really don't know this time. Haha. I would like to talk about that. Do you ever talk to a neighbor or someone in your ward that you just never know what to talk about? I do. Every now and then there is a person who I have absolutely nothing in common with or for some reason, can't find anything to talk about with them. It ends up being a very random or short conversation and I end up making up a reason to walk away from it. I hate this! Why can't I just ramble on about nothing like I am right now?
What about when you go to pay at a store and the cashier doesn't look at you or say, "Hi, how's it going?" It bugs me so I usually look at their name tag and call them by name and make them talk to me. It is their job you know.
Also, isn't it funny that almost everything that happens in life can be related to a "Seinfeld" episode. I think about that sometimes.
I also want to say that I really like this "Blue Bunny" brand ice cream called "Chocolate Fudge Brownie". Yummy.
Ok. That was my very super terrific happy random post for today.
Goodbye now.
PS- I miss Dad.
Ok. We blessed our baby girl this last Sunday. It was so nice. My mother-in-law made the blessing dress. Isn't it cute? There are little white flowers around the bottom of it. I love it!
This is my husband with her. Why I didn't get a photo of the both of us with Breck.......? Who knows? I never remember these things.
Ok. Here is where our townhome is at. A lot of wood. You can see some finished buildings in the background. Our's will be darker colored not the off-white color. The hard part of buying brand new is that we have to wait for the park to be put in. Also the trees, grass, plants, etc.... Bummer! I don't think I would let my boys play outside for a while because of construction that will still be happening around us for a while. Oh well. We will have to drive to the community park around the corner or something.
It is September 1st today and it was cool outside when I took Jonah to the bus stop. I enjoy Fall time. I like it when the leaves start to change and I like it when I can wear jeans and sweaters. I will miss my Rainbows but they will come out every now and then when it's snowy. I sometimes wear them to the bus stop in the winter time.
Jonah started Soccer last night and Gavin will start next week. It is an indoor league. I love outdoor Soccer because I love it when it rains on a game. I love the smell of wet grass. It reminds me of back when I played Soccer at the Laguna Niguel field out on Crown Valley Pkwy. It would be night time and foggy and cold. I loved it! Ahhh....memories.
I have decided that I like Fall and Spring here in Utah. I enjoy the beginning of summer but not the 103 degree days. Yuck! When Fall comes, everyone is dying from the heat and ready for the cooler temperatures. When Spring comes, everyone is dying from the freezing temps and ready for nice warm days to play outside. I like those feelings when those seasons come. Can anyone relate with me?
If I lived in California it would be a different story though. I would want June/July weather all year so I could live at the beach and let my kids play all day in the sand and water. I hate a dirty car but if it is sand from the beach.........that's ok. Haha.
We are blessing Breck girl this Sunday. I can't believe she is two months already! She grows too fast. She is so smiley and fun. I wish all family and friends could be here for the blessing!
Well, my life can sometimes be filled with drama. Two days ago I was shopping in Old Navy and I left my phone in the cart when I left. About 10 minutes later I realized and turned my car around to go get it. It was nowhere to be found. I was a little emotional about it as I walked through the store asking people if there was a phone in their cart. I even called it a few times from the store phone. I left and went to a Cingular store to see what I could do. They disabled my sim card and put my same phone number on a new card and put that into a loaner phone. As soon as they did this I received a text message from someone I didn’t recognize. When I got home the same number called me. When I answered there was a girl asking for LUPE. “Hmm..LUPE snatched my phone from Old Navy”, I thought. I told her that LUPE stole my phone and if she talked to him she needed to tell him to return my phone ASAP. She seemed awkward. DUH! I went on to the internet and logged onto my Cingular account. There I found a couple of numbers that LUPE had called as soon as he stole my phone. Dummy!!! I called them and talked to a couple of guys that knew LUPE. I told them the same thing I told the girl and that I was not going to stop calling until he returned it. I then gave the girls # to my husband Jake. Jake called her and she gave him the runaround. He went online and did a reverse phone look up and found that she lived in West Valley. He then sent her a text telling her that if she didn’t call him back within 20 min. he was going to call the West Valley police on her. (scare tactics) 5 min. later the phone rang but it was a woman upset about the police thing. Jake calmed her down and explained what was going on. She said it had been her niece using her phone to text this guy LUPE. She was mad and yelled at her niece and said that she would help get our phone back. She did not want to involve the police because she herself was on probation. After many hours of text messages from her to LUPE with threats of calling the police or giving out his other phone # to us………..we got our phone back. At 10:30pm our home phone rang and it was LUPE calling to tell us that he left it with the cashier at a certain 7-Eleven store. We called it and found that he was not lying. Jake went and picked it up. After wiping it down with some Lysol wipes, we embraced our dear cell phone. We are so glad to have it back in our lives. I honestly don’t know how people lived before without cell phones. LUPE is 13 years old.
My boys love their little sister. They are constantly sitting by her and calling her Breck-A-Boo. They think it is funny when she has the hiccups because of the full body jerking that goes on when she has them. Breck is smiling a lot more now and making all sorts of noises. She's pretty good at entertaining herself in her crib. I'm anxious to fit into my old clothes! I made my family drive with me all over Salt Lake Valley to different stores because I wanted to buy something cute. When I would try stuff on I would hate them. I would leave the store empty handed. What a waste of time!!!??? Jake and I are going to try Weight Watchers "core" diet again. Before I was pregnant I did W.W. and lost a total of 17 lbs. I'm ready to do that again except this time MORE!! I hope I can be strong. I like sugar! I'm dying to see a good movie. Any suggestions?
Breck is starting to coo more and even flashes a smile at us from time to time. If you listen closely you can hear Gavin crying in the background. Ha! Oops.
Well, this Friday is Jake's very last final ever!!!!(unless he goes for a Master's or something)
He will have finished his Accounting degree. Hooray for Jake! He already walked in May of this year but had one more class to finish. I will be so glad to have him home after work from now on. No more, "I'm going straight to school from work to class or to study, etc..." I know the boys will be so happy. They love to have him around. He is more fun to play with than me. I'm always busy trying to get the dishes, laundry, dinner, lunch, whatever done. I'm not the type of mom who can play and leave a dirty house. Is that bad?
I would think that playing is more important of course.
I'm trying to think of some things I can sell on Ebay to make some extra $$. I can find stuff out of my closet but those aren't always worth much.
I was thinking that someone in our family needs to buy a timeshare. (we can't afford it or we would) Then we could all use it and pay them for it. Sounds fun, huh?
I am probably going to miss out on Arrowhead trip this month. We need to be smart with our $$. We are trying to get out of debt and with the gas prices.........it won't help.
Ok. This was a boring post. I'll try harder next time. Bye!
So, everyday of my life is pretty much the same right now. I can't do much with the little one though. My two boys are starting to really tease and torture each other. They do a thing I call the "singing threats". Sometimes they are just plain comments or insults too. They aren't aware of me calling it this. Here is an example. They might be playing the Game Cube and one will be beating the other. If one is upset about losing he will sing in a calm voice, "You'd better let me win this level or else I'm going to punch you in the face." The other sings, "No you won't." "Yes I will." or "You aren't very good at this game.......I'm better than you..." and the other sings," No you're not......." And so on........ I really get annoyed because the singing doesn't stay calm for very long. They end up yelling at each other or I intervein(sp). I think it is funny that they sing it at first though.
I am reading an interesting book called "The Giver". It is by Lois Lowry and it won a Newbery Award. If you are looking to read a good book, go to the Library and pick it up. I have heard from many that it is excellent! I am only on chapter 4 and I'm into it. It is hard for me to get into many books. Anyway, I'm off.
Well, we have lived here in student housing for almost 5 years now. Let me share some of the joys I get to experience while living here. Most mornings I get to wake up with the sound of the 7 year old girl who lives above us roller skating up and down the hall. It is usually at around 7:30am. Sometimes when I wake up, it is because of the huge ride-on lawn mower passes my bedroom window. Back & forth, back & forth. Often I am woken up by a loud knock at my door like this morning. It is maintenance coming to fix a problem. I call the office to report a problem with my kitchen sink backing up but I never know when they will show up to fix it. I am lying in bed of course (in my underwear) when the knock happened. I jumped out in time to yell down the hall at him walking in the door. "Hang on!", I yelled. After throwing on whatever clothes I can find on the floor, I let him in. All of maintenance reak of cigarrette smoke too. My house still smells and he has been gone for 15 minutes. I do not understand smoking! Anyway, these are the perks of living here.
Oh, also, the other night I was walking down our hall in the dark(4 am) and I felt something under my heel. It felt like a small ball of something but was not sure what I had stepped on. I then had a strange thought. What if it was a ...................? I turned on the hall light and cringed. I had stepped on a big spider. Ew ew ew ew ew ew! It took me a while to fall back asleep because of the thought of what I had just stepped on.
Good Day!!
Gees Louise its hot here! I'm tired of the heat. When winter is here I want summer. When summer is here I want winter. Why can't the seasons be 2 months long and then switch? That would be perfect! We are going to a BBQ for my husbands work today. We won't stay too long because it's too hot!
Today is the Pioneer picnic in MV. I miss going to those. Remember we used to have all of the booths to go to? I remember when Patti C. was doing "Splatters" we could make t-shirts at the picnic. Remember the big buckle things that we would tuck our shirt into and we would pick a color that would match the splattered paint? Funny, huh?
I miss our old ward and all of the awesome families we were close with. (Miners, Clarks, Millers, etc...) I hope that whatever ward we end up in is as cool as ours was. Ok. I am reminising(sp?) a little. I miss being younger. It was so much fun! I am lucky to have grown up in such a great place. I hate it when people here in Utah talk about never wanting to live in CA. Whatever!!!!!!!!!!
