MOTHER'S DAY
I had THE BEST Mother's Day this year!! Nate and the kids made me breakfast in bed- delicious egg whites (how does Nate make them taste so good?) and turkey bacon, surprisingly the turkey bacon fills the bacon void for me!- then showered me with gifts! They always walk in singing "Happy Mother's Day" to me :). Then one at a time, youngest to oldest, present their gift- it's pretty fun. Molly gave me a bottle of bubbles! Perfect cuz that's what we love to do together. Jack gave me a UV filter for my lens! Pretty awesome. He was cute when he came home from the store and said, "Mom, we got you a thing for you cwamwa!" Love that :). Erika gave me a gift certificate to a spa! That's going to be awesome. She also gave me a potted flower from school on Friday. Noah gave me a cute card and flower that he made at school with a sweet little book with all the things he loves about me in it :). I especially loved the specific "She taught me how to do a rubiks cube" page. I love that we did that together! It's our thing. Luke gave me a coupon book he made at school, along with a shrinky dink necklace- what am I going to do when I don't get cute home made jewelry for Mother's day?? That's going to be a sad day. He also gave me a cool new smoothie maker for my morning protein. It's very handy and so much easier to use than Nate's blender. I think Nate was happy about that too. Bradley gave me a new hair dryer!!!! YAY! Pretty happy about that one. I've had mine for at least nine years. Could have been longer, but I'm certain I got a new one either when we got to AK or when we got back... maybe. It's hard to remember. Anyway- he was super thoughtful and remembered me saying that I needed a new one. Kelly gave me a sweet card and also went all out and made me five little jars of sugar scrub! She found the recipes all by herself and put them together without any help at all!! Pretty awesome! She was bummed she hadn't been able to go to the store with everyone, but that was super resourceful!! And she also gave me a gift card to Bed Bath and Beyond. Charity gave me an Amazon gift card so that I can get a phone case! Pretty excited about that! Cool girl! It was a very fun morning. I noticed everyone wore my favorite clothes too- couldn't have been a coincidence :). I loved it!
Have I mentioned how much I love Mother's Day?? I think it's one of my favorite days. This year I did find myself feeling a little disappointed with myself and wanting to do better- always a feeling I have on Mother's day, just a little heavier this time. It's time to step it up. It wasn't a bad thing, just made me feel a little more unworthy of all their sweet words and thoughtfulness. But overall- it was such a fun day of being spoiled. I didn't cook a thing or even look at the clock for that matter! The entire afternoon and evening was filled with resting, laughing and talking and playing cards with my kids. They know what I like :). We topped the evening off with a nice walk around the ward. I just love this family I've been blessed with. I don't know what I would do without all of them. I hope I never find out. I also hope that I can someday be worthy of the love and friendship they each show me. They really are amazing kids. I don't know how I got so lucky. 5-14-17
DIFFERENT
I just had to document this change in our lives. When our older kids were little and started showing signs of sickness, life would just stop. Everything! I cancelled appointments, didn't run errands, we'd basically quarantine ourselves and stay locked up in the house for days. It usually involved a trip to the Pediatrician and therefore antibiotics, nebulizer, or some other crazy cure. We'd get all worked up over the slightest fever, double up on motrin and tylenol to keep that fever down, waking up all hours of the night to keep on top of it all. Our kids got sick a lot too... ear infections especially, like crazy! So this is what it's like now--- Saturday night Molly didn't sleep well. Nate got up with her a bunch in the night because I didn't hear her. Very odd for Molly, but carried on as usual with our Mother's Day morning. Sunday morning we noticed she was developing a bit of a fever. Her head was super warm. She seemed congested and a little sleepy/grumpy. So definitely something wrong. I rubbed some Breathe oil on her chest and feet and her sinuses started to drain quite a bit. She was coughing a little as well. We decided Nursery was out, but carried on with our plans to go to church. No meds, we just let the fever run it's course. It's been so fascinating to me to watch a fever run it's course. I'm so glad I finally figured out that the fever is the body's way of burning the bacteria (or whatever the problem is) out. It's doing it's job! Our bodies are not wimpy! They have a lot of built in equipment to take care of us! Within reason of course- I don't know that I would let a fever go too long- but for the past couple years- this is how we've dealt with things and it's been like night and day! Literally! Things don't last near as long as they used to! Coincidence? Nah. So we didn't give her a single drop of meds. Just the oils a couple more times. She took a few naps, and then on our little walk around the ward we think her fever broke! The air was just cool enough and such a fresh nice day, I think that really made a difference for her to get out of the house. When we got home she seemed almost like herself again! We got her ready for bed and decided some motrin might be nice to help her sleep. She fell right to sleep and in the morning was back to 100%!! She had crusted boogers everywhere, but really, she seems almost happier than usual! Pretty awesome! And we're not having to deal with DAYS of problems, worrying about wheezing, worrying about doctor appointments and prescriptions. This was barely a day! We still went to church (just not Nursery), still carried on all of our plans minus taking her germs up to Grandpa Russ and Grandma Ruthie's house. Pretty awesome. I wish I'd known about this 15 years ago! 5-14-17
SIXTEEN YEARS!!
Nate and I have been married for 16 years!! Holy Moly! It's funny for that to feel like a long time and not very long at the same time! I mean, I remember how long it took to get to my sixteen birthday and I couldn't even remember the first four or so. So that makes it seems long, but when I think about our dating and engagement and our wedding day- it really feels like yesterday!! So much has changed since then!! Kinda blows my mind to think about who we were when we got married and who we are now. I hope it was all for the better. It's fun to think about all that we've been through together as well. I don't think I would have survived any of it on my own. And most of it just made us stronger. For that I am grateful. I love Nate more now than I ever thought possible. And I feel like we've grown closer than we ever thought possible. It's fun to think that we might grow even more together. Bring on eternity! Nate came home with a huge bouquet of red and white roses and a really cool new picture of the Salt Lake temple for us to put in our room. It will match our room perfectly! We played out our Monday evening as usual, with all the carting around of Kelly and Charity and then FHE, and then got to go celebrate our day together. I had thought about doing it a different day, but our week is so full! If only I'd known how busy May would be, 16 years ago, I might have insisted on a different day. April 6th would have been a good one--- HA!! wink wink. I'm kidding. So we went out to Sushi Monster and filled ourselves to the brim with sushi :). It was awesome. That Pandora roll.... mmmmmmmm. And the Sweet Potato one was an interesting change! Very yummy. We came home and got kids in bed and finished the day off together. Happy Anniversary to us :). 5-15-17
FHE
Molly was the lesson, but a few minutes before FHE, Noah came to us and asked if he could teach the lesson in place of Molly. He had had a really great lesson learning about the Law of Consecration in his Primary class on Sunday, that he wanted to share with everyone. He did a great job, distributing pieces of torn up bread to provide everyone an even number of pieces. I especially loved in his testimony that he testified that the Law of Consecration demonstrates that Heavenly Father loves all of His children. Pretty cool- I don't know that I'd ever looked at it from that angle. Such a cool kid. We did two events of our family decathlon for Nate's activity- it was really my idea- we did curl ups and push ups. I did horrible, but everyone else did really good. It'll be interesting to score us out for the 10 events. We had popsicles for my treat- that was really Nate's idea. We missed Charity and Kelly who were at their second to last dress rehearsal for their Xanadu play. 5-15-17
BUDDY
A few weeks ago I had maxed out with Buddy. I was sick of his running out the front door, almost biting me when I try to grab him and pull him back in, the poop, the smells, the fact that he never gets to go on walks anymore....etc. I sat down with Charity and talked with her about how it might be time to find Buddy a new home. We are not providing him with all that he needs and he might be better off somewhere else. She surprisingly, but sadly, agreed. She seemed almost relieved that she wouldn't have to worry about him or feel guilty about him anymore. I was shocked, but kind of relived. Since she was on the same page- we could actually get rid of him! Which sounds horrible of course. But right as we had reached this conclusion, Nate came in and offered to take over with Buddy. He offered to be Buddy's new owner. I knew he was attached to Buddy and loved him a lot, but I didn't know how much until then. I couldn't make Nate give up the dog too! So we did it, we just changed ownership. Which is still even a little bit sad. He was Charity's dog. But I think she was mostly relieved. We'll see how this goes. 5-16-17
LUNCH WITH DAD
My Dad and I have always gone out for lunch for my birthday, but this year, he invited me to go the week after his birthday, so I decided to call it, going out for HIS birthday :). It's kind of tradition to go to the Cheesecake Factory. I think my dad likes traditions like that as much as I do. We both got the same thing we always get :). It was fun to sit and talk. I always feel like I talked about myself and my kids too much. But it was fun to hear a little about his trip to Bali. It was a nice afternoon. So glad I get to do this once in a while. 5-16-17
NO FOURTH GRADER
We got to help Jami with the 4th grade Mt. Man Rendezvous this week. I had shared all the details from last year with her and helped her get the big trough from Oak Hills Elementary, and Nate had wanted to come help gut the fish, along with Bradley being checked out- so we just kind of made it a family event :). It was weird to not really recognize many of the kids in the 4th grade, since we don't have a kid in that grade. Then we got yummy sour dough bread from Jami.... mmmmmm. Dang carbs. 5-16-17
SHOE
Jack had the misfortune of having his shoe fall off during his race this week! It was such a bummer! He was so excited and pumped up to run and win and then his shoe fell off! Dumb velcro. We hadn't even thought to prep him for something like this, so he just stopped and cried. I walked him to the finish line, but man, what a bummer! 5-16-17
PRESIDENCY MEETING
We had our usual Tuesday NIGHT meeting. This time Barbara had four place settings at her bar with VERY fancy dishes, napkins, and the nicest silver. Even our own little salt and pepper shakers! It was SO fancy!! We ate baked potatoes and I prayed the whole time that Heavenly Father would not let it effect my weigh in the next day. I needed a miracle with that baked potato. Although, I did go really easy on the toppings. It was a fun little time together. Then we headed downstairs in her cozy family room and made a LOT of BIG decisions! Kinda fun. 5-16-17
NO PLAY GROUP
There was no decision made about where playgroup should be this week, so Emily and I just met up at Chick-fil-a and had lunch together :). It was perfect! Emily's pretty much the main reason I go to playgroup so this was just as good. I could have done without Molly climbing up into the play thing so that I had to go get her, but it's been a while since I had to do that, so I shouldn't complain. Good times. 5-17-17
DISCOVERY MUSEUM
Sarah, Savannah, Nate, Jack, Molly and I all went to the Discovery Museum on Thursday! What a blast to the past that ended up being! It's so strange to think back to 7 years ago when we had a membership there. I was pregnant with Erika. We went there a lot just so that I could sit down and relax :). This was much like then- we had good odds- one adult per kid- so not too hard to keep them all entertained and supervised. They loved all the same things their older sibs enjoyed :). It was a lot of fun. I think Jack said his favorite parts were fixing the car and building towers :). I loved hanging out with Sarah as well. You can never do enough of that. Especially with them leaving soon. So much fun. 5-18-17
RUTH AND RUSS
We finally got up to Nate's parents' house this week. We went as soon as we had finished running all the kids' errands! Charity was trying out for the High School Musical that afternoon and needed a CD and a picture of herself, print off of her grades... lots of crazy stuff :). Bradley needed to get to school for his Math and Science Olympiad practice and then checked out and to the Maughan's to go to Lagoon for Dare Lagoon day! So it was a busy morning. But we made it up to Day Break- got Ruth to get her hair cut and some salad at Harmons while Nate, Jack and Molly entertained Grandpa Russ. Or maybe it was the other way around. He let Nate read some stories from his childhood he had typed up. Which I got to read when I got back and LOVED! How fun! I"m glad he's getting some things down for all of us to have once he's gone. The kids enjoyed hearing Nate's description of his stories later in the day. We were all fascinated by the fact that he had an out house growing up and that they didn't have running water! Also loved the samurai sword story! How crazy!! It was a fun morning with them- we need to do that more often. 5-19-17
DARE LAGOON DAY
Since we have passes we took full advantage of Brad's DARE Lagoon day! Nate, Noah, Erika, Jack, Molly and I all met up with him there after school got out. He was just starting to have fun :). He said it wasn't really fun until 1:00. After that he had a lot of fun though :). It was fun to see him with his friends and in that setting. I took off with the littles and Jack braved a bunch of the bigger kiddie rides- so that was exciting! We headed home for dinner, grabbed Luke who had been playing with Clint, dropped off the girls off for their play, left Noah home to get himself to Josh's party and went back for some more Lagoon :). SO much fun!! I got to go with the big kids this time while Nate took the two littles to Kiddie Land. We went on Spider, Wild Mouse, Sky Ride (all three of those broke down while we were in line, so we had to wait way longer than we should have- actually Sky Ride stopped WHILE we were on it! TOtally freaked me out!), the Air Race ride- that is insane! The Bat, Bombora, Tidal Wave, and Swings! I had to pass on the Tidal Wave and Swings- I was feeling really nauseous for some reason. But it was so much fun! We got home just in time for the girls to need rides home from their partying. Good stuff. 5-19-17
PARK CITY WHITE
Nate, Brad, Kelly and I got up at the bumb crack of dawn to go to Kelly's last Lacrosse game. We had to leave at 7:30 to get to Park City by 8:30 for her game at 9:00. It was a pretty fun game! Kind of a bummer because Park City girls always play dirty and make it somewhat less enjoyable that way, but it was cool to see our girls hold them at 9-2. Their lowest scoring game this season was 15, so we really put up a fight! Which says a LOT about our defense for which I think Kelly gets at least 60% of the credit! She is really amazing this year! It's been a lot of fun to watch her play this year. Her whole team- it was so fun to see them improve together and grow and develop as a team. So cool! I wish these seasons weren't so short! After the game we all went over to Kneaders for some breakfast. We got to meet a few of the parents and found out more about JV Lacrosse for next year. I think Kelly is going to keep going with it! That makes me happy :). 5-20-17
GARDEN SPOT
Nate spent a good part of the afternoon digging out our new spot for our garden. Hopefully this will take. We didn't get all the way done, but made some SERIOUS progress! I'm getting anxious to plant! 5-20-17
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