Oh well, I tried. I managed to almost catch up, just in the wrong order. Sydnies birthday was one month ago today, and Amelia's birthday was yesterday. Does anyone know how to fix that? I thought I had done that before, but now I can't figure it out.
That past two months have been absolutely crazy, and through most of it I kept my house clean, my yard looks great, but I completely dropped the blog. Thanks to all of you who have helped me get through the madness of it all.
First, Sara and my Mom who watched the kids several times so that I could prepare my talk for Stake conference, and to my MIL Pam for watching them while Jason and I spoke and for feeding us afterwards, there was no way we could eat before we were so nervous! To Laurie who I pawned off all my YW duties onto that week. Speaking in Public isn't something I do! So So SOOOO glad that event is over!
Thanks to all who watched my kids so that I could spend three days working with the youth at youth conference. As a stake we painted 2 houses, poured cement in 2 driveways and about a mile of sidewalks, installed a sprinkling system, yard work, yard work, yard work! Reroofed 3 homes, two of them even got new plywood, removed trees, laid sod, planted tons of flowers, cleaned & painted inside of homes, dug ditches and the list goes on! It was seriously a miracle that it all got done and that none of the youth died doing it! I'm grateful to those who helped watch my kids, including taking them to swimming lessons so that I could be a part of it, especially Jason who went to work at 2 am so that he could be home early to help out! NO Thanks to a certain bishopric member who put me on the program to speak in sacrament meeting about the whole experience without telling me about it!
We also added a member to the family... I guess. Today is the last day to take Daisy back to her owners if we decide she doesn't work for us... I'm probably going to take the entire day to decide. She is a great dog! She's little, cute, doesn't shed, doesn't yap, let's the kids torture her, she's potty trained and kennel trained. BUT she's a dog and that means more work no matter how you look at it. Grady is terrified of most all animals so we needed something to begin to break that fear, and all Amelia wanted for her birthday was a dog a new church dress and a bouncy ball. Even if she had to forget about the dress and the ball she would as long a she got a dog. There are still a few more hours for me to change my mind so I won't post any pictures of her till it is official.
Over the past 7 weeks we have had 4 parties, and there are no more on the calendar for now. We only have 1 reunion planned for July, could things actually be calming down?
I'll try to get back to blogging, but you all know I have never really been good at it! Thanks for still having faith in me and checking back every once in a while!
She lets me steal her posts so I can keep up to date. This is a bit more about the time we spent with them last weekend.
She lets me steal her posts so I can keep up to date. This is a bit more about the time we spent with them last weekend.
Syd never wants to get her ears wet, she uses the "I got tubes" excuse. She "got tubes" two and a half years ago... nice try!
Grady prefers dumping buckets of water on other people.
Ainsley likes the tub, but not the cold pool.
Dillon and Amelia kept running and jumping in the pool, I love this picture of their faces!
Here is a picture of a head first dive, only toes left!
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Here is Grady, learning to sit on the bubbles... he is a natural!
