Growing Up is Hard

Sometimes I wish I was a little child and my mom and dad would tell me what to do. It wasn't hard to know what I should do. If I listened to my parents and did what I was told I was happy and had made the right choice.

Now I don't know what the right choice is. I am tired of making wrong choices and dealing with the consequences. I just need someone to tell me what to do. I don't want people's "advice." I want to know what is the right decision. I want the stress taken from me and put on someone else.

Can't I just be little again?

Simple Pleasures

I think my favorite thing lately is sitting in bed with Joe eating ice cream and doing a crossword.

Life

Life is crazy right now. I feel like I can't keep my head on straight. We moved into our new house a few weeks ago. Things are still a mess. There are lots of boxes to still unpack and even more things to clean. The list of projects keeps getting longer and longer.

The dishwasher leaked all over the kitchen and through the ceiling in the basement (it hadn't been hooked up). The dryer is not working well. The water softener leaked and we had to pull up carpet and need to replace some carpet pad. The tile finally got finished. The yard needs tons of work. We cannot find the shut off for the water to the fridge (even the plumber can't find it). We don't have internet at home so whenever I need to use the computer I have to do it while I'm at school or call my parents to look things up for me. It is getting a little old.

I have been very frustrated with Hayden's teacher at daycare. Monday it was the last straw and I decided to pull the boys out. Thankfully I found a lady right by school that does at home daycare. She had spots for both boys. I met her after school and the boys will be starting there on Monday. I hope it is a better situation.


There are only eight more weeks of school. It is nice to see the end in sight. I can't wait to be home with the boys again. I miss them so much. I do not feel like I have taught by class nearly enough. I hope they do okay on the CRT's in a few weeks.


Hopefully when school is done I can get my house in order and get back into the swing of things. Maybe by then we will have the internet and I will update my severely neglected blog. I am five months behind. But it probably won't happen. I'll end up finding more things that need to be taken care of first.

Como esta frijole, Pepsicola?

How you bean, pop?



Bean man was made with love by Allen

Brilea Designs

When my sister, Rebecca, and her husband, Lance, were sealed in the temple my brother-in-law wanted to buy a snow globe of the temple for Rebecca. Did you know that there were no snow globes of the temple until now? Lance decided since they weren't available he would design them. He wrote to the LDS church to get permission. After permission was granted he got to work. Months of waiting are now over. The snow globes arrived this week. They are beautiful. I can't wait to have one on display ion my new house. Go check out Brilea Designs. You will be glad you did.

The Pledge of Allegiance

2/06/2010

Hayden learned the Pledge of allegiance at school. I think he is so cute! I love how he tucks his hand in his arm pit instead of placing it on his heart.

New House

We put an offer on a new home yesterday. The bank accepted our offer this morning. The latest we will close is April 5. I am so ready to be getting into another house. It isn't my dream house but I so excited to make it a home we love.

The house is in West Jordan. It has 2525 square feet. The basement is fully finished. It sits on .23 acres.

Bye Bye Binkie

Yesterday I decided to put Parker down for his morning nap without his binkie. He did just fine so I even left it home when we went to the zoo for the afternoon. Second nap without he did great too. Bed time wasn't an issue either. So now it is official, the binkie is gone. Let's hope I don't regret it at church on Sunday.

Parker is Walking

12/15/09

Parker learned to walk the first part of December.

Jingle Bells

12/15/09

Hayden learned to sing Jingle Bells at school. We had a pop up book Jingle Bells book and Hayden would sit and read the book every day.