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A Ziggur-what?!!

Trevor and I seem to have some unspoken laws in our home. Some HE-does, SHE-does rules, that were never really talked about , but somehow have just become the norm. There are certain jobs around the house that are just "his" jobs, and some are just mine. We just know this but have never really officiall delegated this out, just happened over the years. Well, one of my jobs seems to be the kids homework. I always help them, he just finds something else to do when its home work time. But this quarter River has brought home some special projects that for some reason have really sparked an interest from Trevor. The first was an egg container that was meant to keep Rivers egg that was launched off the top of the rec center roof, from breaking. The next was an egg "home", for a special egg River had to keep with him at all times one week. This weeks project was a model Ziggurat, an Egyptian pyramid looking thing! River had decided he wanted to build his model out of chocolate bars. So I took him to the store and we purchased every size of Hershey's chocolate bars we could find. When we got home we proceeded to build the "Ziggurat". Trevor came in and saw what we were doing and his wheels started to turn. The next thing I knew my kitchen had turned into a work shop, with all sorts of tools and materials to build the model "Ziggurat". So this week the two of them have had a great time eating chocolate bars and building the "Hershey's chocolate Ziggurat". They had a great time and the project turned out great!! Good job guys!! (looks like Trevor might be getting the homework duties more often!!)

1st grade fire station field trip!!

Last week I was lucky enough to get to go with Ryker and the 1st graders on their field trip to the fire station!! It was so much fun, I'm so glad I went!! We walked across the street to the fire station, where the kids got a tour of the fire station and some fire safety tips. Roney was their "tour guide" and he did a great job with the kids, I was very impressed!! They even let the kids climb into the fire trucks and each child got to put all of the "fire man" equipment on. It was so cute!! After the fire station tour they went on a nature walk. Their teacher had a bag each child had colored and on the bag was a list of nature items they needed to find on our walk back to the school. It was a great little field trip and I know the kids learned a lot and had a great time!!

Tag #2

I was also tagged from Jeni and Tiffany. This one was harder for me but here it goes:

8 favorite restaurants:
1-PF Changs
2-Macaroni Grill
3-Mimi's
4-Olive Garden
5-Taggarts Grill
6-Bajios
7-Sizzler (kind of a family thing)
8-Warrens

8 favorite t.v. shows
1-Lost
2-So You Think You Can Dance
3-American Idol
4-Extreme Home Makeover
5-Oprah
6-Seinfeld(thank goodness for old re-runs, their awesome!!)
7-Friends(another oldie, but a favorite still)
8-Good Things Utah
(honestly, I very rarely see a whole show of anything, but these are some of the ones I try to catch)

8 things I did yesterday:
1-Got the kids ready for school, took Rylee to the bus stop, took Ridger to preschool
2-Vacuumed my house
3-shopped at Target and Sam's club
4-helped in Rykers class
5-played "Sorry" with Ridger
6-took Ryker to a birthday party(wrong location I must add)
7-helped Ryker with his reading and homework
8-had a candle and jewelry party at my house

8 things I'm looking forward to
1-NO Road construction on 475 E. (and Riverdale Road!)
2-"Thriller" to be over(its been great, but time to be done!!)
3-Christmas/Holiday season
4-New York trip at Christmas time
5-Ryker being able to read "well"
6-Twilight the movie
7-a long family vacation(nothing planned yet, but were do!)
8-SUMMER!! (no school, lots of sun!!)

8 wishes:
1-that my kids wouldn't fight
2-NO Laundry for at least a week(or a month,or a year, or never again!!)
3-a little girl/ another daughter
4-economy to be strong again
5-that Ryker would wear his glasses
6-lose weight/ time to workout more
7-that I could find a way to slow life down or just pause it for a minute and ENJOY!!
8-that my kids will always be happy and not have to deal with very many hardships in their life's!!

8 people I tag: Rylee, Stacy B., Jennifer M., AngelaB., Kim R., Ginger G., Angie P.,Shawna K.

Tag!! I guess I'm it!

Life has been ultra crazy the last little while, so I'm just catching up!! I guess I've been tagged a couple times! This one should be easy because I have lots of weird things about me. The hard part is narrowing it down to only 7! But here goes:

1-I'm extremely claustrophobic!! Really!! I can't have anything over my face at all. When we go snowmobiling I can't wear the face gear that goes on the helmets. Even the helmet drives me nuts sometimes. Once we went scuba diving in St. Thomas, I couldn't do it because of all the face gear that you have to wear. (I didn't realize it was going to be a problem for me until we paid and were in the water with the instructor!! Trevor was not very happy with me (: ) I also hate small confined spaces and have to be able to breath fresh air or I literally go CRAZY!!
2- I hate to sleep in socks!!! That drives me nuts!! Sometimes I will be cold before I go to bed and attempt to sleep with socks on. But it never fails, I end up ripping them off and throwing them in the middle of the night. I can't sleep with any kind of pants on my legs either. Too confining!! Maybe this has something to do with the claustrophobia??
3- I have nightmares all the time!! I can't watch or talk about anything disturbing right before bed or I have a nightmare about it. I am also a crazy sleeper. I cry, talk, yell, even sleepwalk in my sleep. I'm not a fun person to have over for a sleepover!!
4- I can't sleep in a moving car. I don't know if I'm worried the cars going to crash or feel I owe it to the person driving, but I feel like I have to stay awake if we're traveling far. Trevor is the total opposite. He can be in a car for ten minutes and he can't stay awake. So guess who ends up driving on our road trips while everybody else sleeps? I'm a good friend to go on a road trip with, just make me sleep in a different hotel room once we get there!!
5- OK This one isn't a surprise to very many people, but I'm a vacuum freak. BAD!! Ask my neighbor John Auger. (Have you seen my picture on his wall in his house? LOL) When Trevor and I were first married, we lived in a tiny basement apartment. When we moved out the lady upstairs (who we shared the central vacuum system with) said to me, "I have never seen any body vacuum so much in my life!!" And I think I've even got worse!! I vacuum almost everyday!! And I love to keep the lines, so you can tell its been vacuumed. It's weird how good it makes me feel to have my whole house vacuumed!!
6- I can't drive a car over a bridge with water under it. It scares me to death!! I honestly have to go so slow and just keep my eyes straight and think "mind over matter". I'm not afraid of heights, its just the car in the water thing that scares me. I could walk over the bridge, no problem, just not in a car!! (Maybe this also has something to do with the claustrophobia thing, I'm afraid of getting stuck in the car in the water and not being able to breath!!)
7- I can't shop with anyone. Not for groceries, clothes, furniture, anything!! I have a really hard time focusing on what I'm doing if I'm with anyone. I end up going home with wrong sizes, missing groceries, or just weird things I don't like. I like to do lunch before or after shopping with people, but I need to be by myself to do the shopping. This is definitely a problem if I have the kids with me. I also need to have a list, I can't shop without a list, I even make a list when I go clothes shopping or I end up with the wrong sizes for the kids or I forget what it is they need!! Maybe this has more to do with my focusing/concentration skills than it does with anything else. HMMMM.

Well, that's seven of the million weird/quirky things about me!! Thanks Stacy for making me think of how strange I really am!! Now I'm on to the next tag. The next one might be a little harder for me!!!
And I tag, Rylee, Stephanie M.,Carrie G., Becky A., Debbie A., John A.(HEE HEE), and Jenny L.

U.E.A.-F.U.N.

I can't believe that the UEA weekend has come and gone already. I had been anticipating the extra long weekend almost since the first week of school. And it not only is gone, it's long gone!! But we had so much fun all weekend!

Thursday the boys went four-wheeling with Trevor. They had a lot of fun, but the main two words I heard describing their day were "cold" and "muddy". And after seeing all their clothes they wore, it must have been muddy!!

Friday I took Ridger and Ryker to Frightmares. (Rylee and River went with their "band" to the movie and spent the money they had earned at South Weber Days.) We had so much fun at Frightmares! It was a beautiful day!! It was so crowded though. The boys had a great time riding the rides!!

Saturday we went to Weber States football game in the afternoon. They played Northern Colorado and won. It was a great game. That night we went to our neighbor's house and made homemade pizza's. The kids had so much fun choosing the toppings they wanted and "building" their pizzas. After we ate we did some singing in their band room. Then we watched Indiana Jones on the ceiling in their sports court. It was so much fun. Ryker and I were the only ones from our family that didn't fall asleep. What a fun night!

Sunday we went to my brother and sister in laws house for my niece's' birthdays. We decorated cupcakes and cookies. The kids had a lot of fun decorating their treats, and even more fun eating them!! Thanks Rod and Jodi!!

And now I'm back to counting down the days to the next long weekend!! Only 9 days left!! Yippee!!

What a "Thriller"!

After weeks of driving to Orem for practices, Odyssey Dance Theatre's "Thriller" finally opened. The show was in Ogden the weekend of October 9, 10 and 11, at the Val A. Browning Center. It started at Kingsbury Hall on October 15 and will continue until November 1. Rylee auditioned for a part in the show in September and has had to practice in Orem every weekend since. She has performed with Odyssey Dance Theatre in Thriller in the past and some of their other shows also. Trevor and I went and saw the Friday night performance in Ogden. It was so good. Then some of Rylee's friends and their moms and I went and saw it on Thursday at Kingsbury Hall. We went and ate dinner at "The Pie" before the show started, then we walked over to Kingsbury Hall and enjoyed the show. Both performances I saw were wonderful! Rylee enjoys doing the performances so much. She has met some neat people doing this and just really has so much fun!! Thriller is one of my favorite shows Odyssey does and it is just a fun thing to go do for Halloween!! My favorite dances are the Jason Jam, Frankenstein and the River of Blood Dance!!

Welcome Winter...NOT!!!

I usually love the change of a new season. I love that here in Utah we get to enjoy every season , to it's extreme. From so many beautiful flowers and trees in the spring; the hot, hot, hot dry summers; the beautiful fall colors; and even the beautiful, fun snow in the winter. But one thing I really dislike, is when we get jipped out of a season and have to quickly move to the next!! Well, I thought for about 36 hours this past weekend that we might be getting jipped.

I woke up Sunday morning to the most excited 7 year old ever. "Mom, you won't believe how much it snowed," he said. "Can we go play in it!". I'm thinking a skiff, sure, go play, it will be gone in an hour. Oh my!! I was so shocked when I got up and saw about 5-6 inches of snow all over! So my 4 boys, the oldest 40 year old included, went out before church and sled and had a great time in the snow!! I usually don't encourage playing before church, do to issues of not coming back in and being late for church, but I figured it would surely be gone by the time we got home from church that evening. Oh no, it not only wasn't gone, it had about another inch or two on top of it!! So, again the winter attire was layered on and out they all went for more winter fun!! I will admit for about an hour or two even I enjoyed it. I even had to really hold myself back from playing my Christmas music. But when I woke up Monday morning at five o'clock to get Rylee to cheer practice, and saw all that snow, still there and cold as ever, I was very annoyed and could feel the winter depression starting to come on!! I really am not ready for Autumn to be over yet!! I was really enjoying the warm beautiful fall days, but the crisp cool nights!! The leaves on my trees haven't even started to change colors yet! I will be very happy to have winter here in a month or two, but PLEASE , PLEASE, PLEASE Autumn come back!!!

Changes...Enjoy The Journey!!

This weekend was the semi-annual General Conference for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. I had a couple of talks that really touched me, but I think my favorite was the one in the Sunday morning session by President Thomas S. Monson. His talk was titled "Changes". He talked about how change is all around us, sometimes it's good change; sometimes not good change. But life is always going to change. He really specified about families/parents with small children. And that soon they will no longer be small. The fingerprints, the toys, the messes will all be gone tomorrow. He talked about how no matter what we do today, tomorrow will happen. What kind of memories do we want for tomorrow? What are we spending our today doing? What will our children remember about today? He said we need to enjoy the journey of life and not take anything for granted- no regrets.
He related a story of a war veteran (I don't remember what war) who had been a prisoner of war for two years. After two years of being held captive, he was finally allowed to write a letter home to his family. But he could only use 25 words or less. What would you say if you only had 25 words to express yourself to your family, after two years of not seeing them? We need to tell those around us how much we appreciate them and love them more. Sometimes in life it's so easy to go about the rush of life that it's hard to remember to enjoy the blessings we have!! Life is going to change-every second, every minute, every hour, every day. We need to enjoy the Journey!!