5-8-2011

Happy Happy Birthday Preston!! I now have four teenage boys at home. We had a little gathering of family tonight for his birthday. Preston has wanted a Mac Mini for a couple of years and today he finally got it. He was very happy!!

Preston is such a joy to have as a child. We are all very lucky to have him in our family.

Today was also Mother's Day. I was woke-up to breakfast in bed made by the Birthday Boy, Preston and Collin. It was so yummy. Collin fried the bacon perfectly. They also cleaned up the kitchen after making the breakfast which was pretty impressive (if you know my kids, you'd understand)

Josh got me a very nice "mom" necklace.

William got me a gift certificate for a pedicure, made me a picture and wrote me a note about why he loves me. Sooo cute.

Justin took Kaylee to get me some roses and she wrote me a note that said that I'm her favorite mom :)

Justin got me some chocolate covered strawberries and a card. More about this card in a bit!!

My Father-in-law sent me a card. I read it during sacrament meeting. The card was so perfect but it was the note that he included inside that was so touching. I cried for a long time after reading it. It was very very touching and really made my day.

While making dinner Justin brought me in his card. When he handed it to me I didn't think it was possible for anyone to top the card and note I had gotten from my father-in-law but I was wrong. It's a personal thing but I AM going to post what he wrote because I do not EVER want to lose what was said. Posting it online means it will always be here :)

"Mom,
This card is so true. I've always remembered you trying to help me feel better and boost up my mood. You could always tell when there was something bothering me and right away you would want to talk me through it. You have always been so supportive of me in anything and everything I've wanted to do. You are always trying to find ways of making me happy and pleasing others and never yourself. You have been such an inspiration in how I want to raise my own children and live my life. You will always be my best friend and I will always want to be around you. So thank you Mom, for everything you have done this past 18 years of my life for me. I will never forget it. Happy Mother's Day Mom! I love you more than anything in the world [even Noel :)] - Love Justin"

Yes - Justin did say he loved me more than he loved Noel. My closest friends and my husband know how worried I've been but this card relieved so much fear that I've had. Of course I shouldn't have been worried... but..I'm a baby :)

What a wonderful Mother's Day. This has been the best Mother's Day I've ever had. I think things improve as your kids get older!!! I feel so lucky to be a mommy.

4-29-2011

William had his Pinewood Derby tonight and he did great. He had four races and got first place twice, second place once and third place once. He didn't win the over all first, second or third but he was still very pleased and happy with his car. Kimball and William had lots of fun building the car.

4-24-2011

Happy Happy Easter!!!



With so many pictures to pick from this was so hard. Kaylee isn't in her beautiful Easter Dress in this picture but it is still my favorite because I love seeing how much love they have for each other. They melt my heart.

We had Easter Dinner and egg hut at my cousins house. Of course my kids have always known that there isn't an Easter Bunny because Easter is about the Resurrection but they sure do love the egg hunt. Kaylee found four of the five "golden" eggs which had money in them. She seems to always find the golden eggs at Easter. Way to go Kaylee.

4-19-2011

William is all smiles today now that the doctor was so easily able to diagnose what his problem has been for the last FOUR months.

I won't go into too much detail here except to say that I feel like a horrible mom for thinking he just needed more fiber. He would cry every single day about not wanting to go poo because it hurt him too bad. Well no wonder, the poor kid has Perianal Streptococcal Dermatitis which is strep in the rectal area.

I'm sure that he would KILL me if he knew I posted about this but he was just too smiley and happy that he will start feeling better in less than two days.

4-14-2011

William heard me complaining about the weather and how cold it was so he drew me a picture of "Spring" to help bring Spring into the house. I love my little William.

3-17-2011

It's St. Patrick's Day!!!!

A Leprechaun visited our house this morning.  He left lots of shamrocks throughout the house showing proof of where he left his "mess".   From Green Milk, Green Pancakes, Gold Coins, Gold Chocolate Nuggets and Green Toilet Water...we had a lot of fun this morning.  Kaylee loved it all.  She really hopes to catch the Leprechaun next year.  :)

I'm William's co-Room Mom so once he left for school I started working on his class room surprise.  Green Scrambled Eggs and Green Ham.  YUCK.  Once I got to the school the other room mom and myself went wild on the room while the kids were at computer lab.  Everything was turned upside down.  We turned all of Mr Goodman's puppets and stuffed animals around.  You name it, we probably did it.  What a blast.

Here is what the room looked like when we left.

When William came home he was all smiles and had to tell me all about what the leprechaun's had done to his class room.  He said it was the best school day ever.

Here is what William's teacher, Mr Goodman emailed me:
Oh, oh, oh, oh . . . WOW. The best we've ever had. Thank you so much for the sweet gift you left our classroom today. That was so much fun. The kids were in true belief mode! None of the kids said anything about it being you, so please keep it a secret. William said a few things about the pots at his house but it's all good, not too many kids heard or understood what he was saying. They were all too crazy to even stop and think about what he was saying. What a blast. I'm sure once you got started you couldn't stop. That was obvious. Holy cow. Was there anything you didn't touch? Ha, ha, ha. Seriously, thank you for making today such an adventure. All is well and back to normal.

It's so fun being part of creating memories for our kids. Love it!!

3-14-2011

After having it on our list of "To Do" Family Home Evenings, we finally put together our 72 hour kits. It feels good to have that done.

I was able to get up and shower again today. I fixed my hair and everything. I had a few more things to get for our 72 hour kits so I knew that I had to go to Wal-Mart. But I'm paying the price for it now...I pushed myself too far and I'm back in bed.

When I got up this morning I knew my house would be a mess and I had expected it, but what I saw was NOT expected in the least. There was oatmeal all over my hardwood floor. Down the hall, on the stairs, in the kitchen, on the counters, on the kitchen table, on the coffee table, on the end tables.......EVERYWHERE. Once I started to inspect things a little better I see that there is cupcake pieces stuck to the pictures hanging on the walls, on my ceiling fan, in the plants, on my couches and in every corner of my living room.

WHAT THE HECK!!!!!

So I find out that last night Justin told Josh, Preston and William that he would pay $10 to the person that got their cupcake to explode the best. Josh won. Preston thought it would be fun to throw an open packet of oatmeal into the fan to see what it would do. Justin had also said he would pay $80 to the person willing to throw a bag of flour into the fan...No one did that one thank goodness.

They insisted that they cleaned it up the best they could and didn't understand why I was so upset. I'm still trying to calm down over it. A few people, mostly family posted on Facebook that I would look back on this and laugh but I'm almost sure that I won't...EVER.

3-9-2011

I've been flat on my back all day because my back went out. Being that I can't get up and walk, I'm dependant on my family to feed me. This is what I ate all day today. Jelly Belly Jelly Beans. Got to love them but I can definitely say that I'm sick of them and I so need some real food. If I'm still flat on my back tomorrow, I'll have to call my friends to save me :)

Other interesting things that happened today - Kimball went to a meeting at Williams school and signed the last bit of paperwork to official withdraw him from Speech. He has tested above average in speech for children of his age and grade. I'm so proud of him because he has only been talking for the last three years. I love you Willabee!

Also, Cassidy responded to Josh's Prom request. She brought over four containers of Skittles. On a few of the Skittles were the letters to spell out "I would love to!" Way Way Cute and he actually did it in front of her because she was here visiting with me when he came home. She's so dang cute.