We got a wood stove!

It's like Christmas at our house today, although we are a month past Codey got just what he wanted. And after are gas bill last month I hope it will help with heating this big house. But I hope it doesn't cook me out. Now Codey just has to figure out how to hook it all up. So it might take a few days to get it going.

The ride to school today was much like yesterday, slick and snowy. I went down to Kirsten's today and got the meal that she did for this week it was chicken pot pie, yum! Then I went to Shannon's and got the one she made it is a pasta dish with ham and bacon I don't know if anyone will eat it, it is in my freezer we properly won't have it until next week since I have things for the rest of the week.

I didn't even get out to do my food shopping today since I didn't want to go back out into the snow. I better get it done tomorrow. I will be busy the rest of the week.

I got a lot done today, yesterday I worked on my craft room mostly just stacking the boxes and moving everything around to the walls. So that the main floor is clear so that I can vacuum. So today I worked on the storage room, and under the stairs I still had some boxes of books and then all the empty boxes under there so I went through the books and moved them to where they go.  Then I put all the Christmas stuff under the stairs. So tomorrow I need to clean the toy room and get things ready for girls craft night here.

SNOW!

Snow and a lot of it, it took an extra 45 min. This morning on the rout to the school and back it was crazy slow, I think the speed limit on St. street was about 25  and then the rest of the way through PG it was about 10 miles per hour.  The afternoon trip was not as bad but I still left early to make sure I would be there on time. At least the side walks were cleared so that when the kids walked down and around the corner to the car they didn't fall and get hurt.

I left all the shoveling to Codey since he loves it, he gets home from work and goes out to get on his 4 wheeler and goes around and does our house then does the church too. Today he even had time to give the kids a ride, which they love.

Dinner tonight didn't go over so well it was a casserole that she had done and given me it was a Dorrito chicken casserole but Codey said it was more like an onion casserole, but I liked it. The kids all had peanut butter sandwiches.

 

Good Stuff!

People are often unreasonable, irrational, and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some unfaithful friends and some genuine enemies. Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and sincere people may deceive you. Be honest and sincere anyway.
What you spend years creating, others could destroy overnight. Create anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, some may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, will often be forgotten. Do good anyway.
Give the best you have, and it will never be enough. Give your best anyway.
In the final analysis, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway.


Thank you Marie for sharing this.


Part of cultivating a good life is forgiving, being kind, honest, and sincere, doing good, and giving your best. Yes. Good stuff.

This was shared on a blog I follow, beckyhiggins.com and I liked it and thought I wanted to share.

Happy Tuesday!

Gretchen

Happy Birthday Lily

Miss Lily is four years old. Trenton and Jessyce have a cute little girl who's Birthday is today, we went over to there house for cake and ice cream tonight. Lily was very tired and not to happy, but put up with us all so she could have her cake and open her presents.

So Shannon and Kirsten started a dinner exchange just between them and mom and I so today I made 4 9x13 pans of chicken spaghetti, mom brought me two different casaroles a chicken and broccoli dish and a Dorito and chicken casaroles I haven't gotten the things from Shannon or Kirsten yet, but I'm sure they will bring there things up tomorrow.

Shannon's nephews funeral is tomorrow morning so I hope that all goes well, I would be going but I don't want to take my little kids so I think my mom and Kirstan are going to go. It will be sad day for Jeff and Jane and ther family but knowing that they are an Eternal Family and will be together again helps a little.

When you have someone you love in Heavan you have a little bitt of Heavan in your home.

Colton

Colton was put in the Deacons quorum Presidency today as the secretary. He is petty existed, they had a meeting after church today to plan out activities for the year. He said it was pretty fun and he said they planned some fun things.

Dinner at Cherri's today was really good we had chicken cordon blue cheesy potato's and cheesy broccoli, and salad and rolls. Crew ate the most I was amazed that he ate since I have been having a heard time getting him to eat well since being sick.

So I am thinking that this has turned into a daily journal entry. But I hope I just remember the little things we do. And the big moments in our lives. I want to be able to remember the things we do and the cute things the kids do and say.

Sharing time went a little better today, Jr. primary went a little better then Sr. I feel so rushed in Sr Primary music always goes over and I am always rushing through so that we end on time. I challenged the kids to make the choice now to choose the right 100% of the time instead of only half the time, it is heard to get across to the kids that the choices we make now will affect everything we do throughout our lives.

Mr. Clean

I wish that is just who I was. I did clean today but it would be nice to have a cleaning company come in a scrub. I still need to get a mop for my wood floors, but I am loving my new vacuum that I got for Christmas. The blue Orek and my kids love it to Laike loves it a lot he gets it out all the time and tells me the house needs to be cleaned.

We had Isaac up to play with Peyton tonight, they sat downstairs and watched a movie, Peyton came up and made popcorn and burned it, wow! The smell is  overpowering. I hope it doesn't linger into tomorrow.

I am ready for bed so I guess I will say goodnight a little early tonight.

Gone to soon!

Shannon's nephew Steven who has been battling Non Hodgkins Limphoma for two years passed away yesterday at the young age of 22 he had been in the hospital for about a week with hnemona on Monday his lungs started to bleed and after trying many new drugs and other things it was just to much. Love and prayers for a wonderful family who has gone through so much, and throught it all Steven had a sence of humor and lived the life he was given to the fullest.

Jazz read a thon at the school today, the kids have a contest  between all the classes to see who can read the most minutes in a months time. The kids love it they got to take a treat and wear free dress, Hailey and Peyton took blankets and books and were able to skip homework so they could get in all the reading they could. Colton had a field trip with the super Iexcel to Water Gardens to see Wreck it Ralfe. So all the kids had fun day.

I made oven tin foil dinners tonight it was really good, I think that is one of my favorite things although I do love it cooked in an open fire. Codey went to look a wood stoves today, he thinks it wood be best for us to have a wood stove downstairs to keep the gas bill down, which would be wonderful since I don't think we will be able to keep up if they continue to be over two hundred a month. He did get new thermostats to see if that will help and to keep both of the furnisses from coming on at the same time. So I hope it all helps.

It's Friday so it is movie night which we haven't done for awhile, so Codey went and got a movie we watched Diary of a Whimpy Kid Dog Days the movies are pretty dumb but the kids liked it and we also made milkshakes. So the kids had a fun night and the point of Friday night is to have our family together.

Primary Prep!

Getting ready for sharing time on Sunday. The theme for sharing time is I have Agentcy, so I am going to have two posters one with good choices and one for bad choices I hope the kids get what I am doing and choose to do what is write 100% of the time in stead of just sometimes.

I am thinking that in February I will just blog once a week, but then I wonder if I will forget to do it. I have a hard time thinking of anything to say each day and may be able to recap the week better. I may give it try and see how it goes.

This is all about a whole lot of nothing, I feel as if I am starting to ramble each day instead of really telling something that needs to be written down. Although I wish I could record the boys all day as they play, they are so funny, and cute, and loving and then they will turn around and start hitting each other it seems to come out of know where. If Laike gets in trouble he will through a fit about saying he is sorry, and Crew if has something to say sorry about he does it before he has to sit in time out.

Hailey is an amazing sister I say it all the time how she loves her little brothers but I have to say again she is awesome. She got the boys sitting at the table doing pre-school I had found some of the things I had got a few years ago. So anyway Laike said the ABC's every letter for the first time that I have heard, and she is teaching him shapes and colors and how to write his name, she is teaching him where we live, and it is pretty cute she had Crew matching shapes and he loved it and counting to five. She tells them what a good job they are doing and how cute they are. Hailey would love to be a teacher although there are a lot of things she wants to do and she would be good at any of them for sure. Man I love that girl.

I am trying to think about eating better mostly In the morning, I think if I always eat breakfast and drink a lot of water I can keep from getting bad headaches.  There are some days there is nothing I can do to keep them small or keep from getting a migraine but it is helping and I always feel better when I am drinking enough water. Now I really am rambling and just going on and on.

I sent an email not to long ago to all the girls asking what they fix for dinner and to send me some ideas. So they did and I got some good ideas I have tried a few new thinks and made some others that I haven't done for a long time. It has helped me to get a little out of the funk I was feeling that I was in. Shannon and Kirsten have started a dinner exchange they each make 4 meals on Monday and then keep two and give two to the other person so they have 4 meals done for the week. They would like to have four people doing it so that they are not the only ones and so that one person makes four of the same meal and then they exchange them. It sounds very nice to go home with four meals done for the week, but I thought it would be hard for me to do it and have them making meals for me as I have the most picky eaters ever and then there is the fact that five of our eight don't eat hamburger. And they use that a lot I there cooking. So we will see if I deside to do it.

Happy Birthday Mom!

Happy Birthday mom!
Mom was born on January 23rd 1938 in Roosevelt, Ut  to John and Cleo Mohlman the oldest child of three kids. Mom has a younger sister and brother, Cheryl lives in Pinesdale Mt. And Johnnie lives in Herriman, Ut mom met my dad at BYU in 1957 and they were married in 1959 a double weeding with my aunt Cheryl and uncle Lewis. Mom and dad had 10. Children and I am the ninth six boys and four girls I being the favorite of them all since I was the baby for five years befor Johnnie arrived.

I love having a big family, I love that my family is super close, we got together tonight to have cake at Kirsten's house she made Apple raisin cake for mom and then made brownies for everyone else. It is fun to get together with anyone who is around. There are now 50 grandchildren and with a little announcement  from Sarah tonight it might make that number change to 51 by the end of Septembere. We hope.

Mom,
Wow! There is a lot I could say about my mom and I could go on and on about how much she has done for our family and for countless others throughout my life and befor I came along. But I do want her to know that she has taught me a lot over the years in my life that I have paid attention to, since I haven't always. Sometimes I catch myself sounding just like her,  or thinking that is just what mom would do, or would have done. But a lot of the time I think what would my mom do?
I know that if I needed anything she would do all she could to help me. As she does so often, I am glad that we are closer now not only because she helps me so much, but so that I can go and sit and hang out at there house and just spend time with them.

I am blessed to have amazing parents that have given me everything I have ever needed and taught me so much. I hope that my own kids will want to be around me in my older years and come to celebrate my 75th Birthday with me.

Love you Mom!

Laugh out loud!

I wish I could remember every line of Eric's email today, but I can't. It was awesome and I needed a good laugh. It was a rhyme just like my dad does often on his emails to everyone. It reminds me how much I miss being around my sibling all the time to enjoy their sense of humors. I love any get together we have just so I can get all I can of they're whit.

So funny tonight Colton was going around with the young men to get donated items for the homeless shelter, so he went to the front door and rang the door bell Peyton let he and Sam in and Colton comes write in my room where I am ( sitting in bed ) with Sam asking for TP, or food. It was pretty funny I think when Sam realized that I was in bed he turned around and just let Colton talk to me, I don't think Colton even realized or thought to be inbearest since he is so used to the way we are. It made me laugh again.

Tonight I had Pres. Meeting and then I left early To go to pack meeting with Peyton, then when I got home Codey had scouts, so I had made dinner before I left (white chicken chili) I ate before I left and now am wondering if I should have, my stomache is still bugging me. I hope it ends soon.

Love that it is a short 4 day school week. So on to Wednesday.

Playing catch up!

Getting thing caught up today was not what the kids wanted to do on their day out of school but sometimes a dirty house trumps all the other stuff.

So after getting through 5 loads of laundry, three bathrooms, the kitchen and vacuuming the whole house, some of the kids were able to have a little fun. Hailey played with her friend Grace and Colton and Crew went with me to run a couple of errands then I went down to  Kirstens so that I could have Maddi draw a snake on a poster for primary for me. 

When I got home I made barbq chicken and agratin potato's and a ceser salad it was really good I didn't get much feed back from the kids except from Laike since he will eat most anything I cook, he said (why don't you make this just for me.) so I guess he must have liked it. 

On a side note, my sister inlaw Shannon's nephew is in the ICU and in unstable condition he has been battling hodgkins Linfoma for two years and about a month ago he was told he was in remission, but last week he got hnemona and now is bleeding from his lungs, if he does happen to pull through he will not live a full life it would be hard to just do normal everyday things but, it will be heartbreaking to their family to lose him after he has been through so much. Are prayers are with their family, we love them and know that it is in Gods hands and that family's are forever. 

I think for one day everyone had a pretty good day know one new is sick Crew was up happy and playing all day, and I feel tuns better. Codey is still not 100% but he's getting there. So happy day. 

School starts tomorrow and I have a lot to get done this week to prepare for sharing time on Sunday, Pres. Meeting and also pack meeting tomorrow. 

Thinking through the drops of awesome, do I really think or want to point out that I can do something awesome each day, or that telling it for all to see will make me feel better? Maybe I just want to do it so that I can see for myself that I can do something good each day. But does it have to be the spotlight of my day? No! I need to be awesome because I want to remember that I am better then I was yesterday, that I love my kids more, that I want to be that person my kids talk about someday that they want to be like not because they love me but because they want to be awesome too. 

So for today I just want to say that I am a little better today then I was yesterday, I accomplished more today and I sat and read to my kids. For that I am awesome. And tomorrow I will do even better, not because I want to have that drop of awesome but, because I can be better tomorrow then I am today. 

Never ending!

Wow! Will it never end? I think I have written that befor. The sicknesses just keep on coming, our vacation was know vacation, Crew continued to be sick over the weekend, and to add to it I got sick Friday night and Saturday it spred to Codey, which is all we need since his overtime is now done and  missing a day of work is more then we can do right now. As it is we are just scraping by. We got our gas bill and I just about passed out it was $218.00 what? That we can not do, it's pay the pills and go hungry or pay the pills and never leave the house again ever.

Today I am doing much better although Codey is still growning. Crew has been up most of the day, but now Cash has a fever, I hope it's only teeth and not what we have had. We got up and left the Hotel at 9:00 this morning Codey couldn't get home fast enough, so by the time we got home the kids were starving and had lunch just as soon as we got everything out of the car. Then I just made waffles for dinner.

As for my drop of awesome yesterday it wasn't. I made Codey go get lunch then last night for dinner he took the kids to Applebee's since he had a gift card from work and he left Crew and I in the room to be sick. He brought Crew back a baked potato, I tried to give him a bite and he just about gagged.

Then he and the kids went swimming he even took Cash and he loved it. Then when they got back and we all got in bed Codey got sick and I started throughing up, so one of us was in the bathroom almost all night long. I'm glad to be home. We stayed at the Marriatt Universaty Parknd Hotel it was pretty nice I guess, I didn't walk around a whole lot.

When we got home the kids found the scale in the bathroom and desided to weigh themselves so the stats are in, Cash was 20 pounds, Crew 30, Laike 50, Peyton 52, yes they are 3 years apart. Hailey 72, and Colton was 84 pounds. It is kind of fun to do that every once in a while to see how big my kids are getting.

We had been home for awhile today when Hailey pokes her head in my room and says with Crew and Laike standing behind her with a chef hat and aprons on, ( mom may I make cookies? ) so I had her make peanut butter bars, it was pretty cute to go I and see her showing the boys what to do. They got cooked a little to long but other than that she did a good job, Laike even washed the dishes.

I am sitting in my bed as Codey and Colton are watching football not what I would pick but they are watching the Ravens versus the Patriots to see who will be playing in the supper bowl with the 49ers who won there game today.

It is still cold and gray as we have been sitting in an aversion for a couple of weeks, it is warming a little bit as it hit 22 the other day. I feel like just sitting home all the time as I don't want to go out in the cold or take the kids out either. Hopefully we will start the week off with better health. The kids don't have school tomorrow so I hope to get the house clean and all the laundry done, so the kids can play for awhile.

I will just dream of  sunny beaches and warm days to help me get through the drirry days.

Awesome drop!
Will it count to say I just made it through the day!

Pool time!

So after an okay night of Colton and Laike on the floor.  Codey and Peyton in one bed and Hailey Cash and I in the other one and Cash thinking I am his pacifier we all woke up around 7:30 Codey went and got Einstein bagels for breakfast it was pretty good.

Then we just watched TV until about 11 and then Codey and the kids - Crew and Cash went swimming and just got back so now we have to think about lunch. Its hard since we can't all go, so Codey just goes and gets the food and brings it back to us. Crew and Cash just woke up from a nap they slept while everyone was gone and then got woken up when they all got back from swimming.

To night after dinner I hope to go down and get in the hot tub but I haven't felt good today either, that's all we need is me getting sick again too. The kids have also spent a lot of time looking out the window of our room because of all the deer, last night I think they saw eight deer or so, this morning we saw two 2 by 3s right below our window, that was pretty cool.

While sitting here I just watched Mary Poppins, now we are watching Lady and the Tramp all the movies I grew up watching all the time.

Drop of Awesome!
Going out to get lunch.

Vacation!

It was time to get away, sometimes I think it is more work to go somewhere then just stay home. And it is really, getting the house clean, getting the laundry done, packing, loading the car. Then you get to where you are going and you have 8 people sitting in this little hotel room, and it gets louder and louder, things start getting messy and I start getting stressed. So Codey took the kids swimming, I went down and watched for a little then came up since I have a whopper of a headache.

Codey went and got Wendy's for dinner and they messed up and didn't give us the baked potato's we ordered so Hailey and Cash didn't really have any thing to eat. Hopefully we will do better tomorrow, I didn't want to go out somewhere since Crew is still sick he was throughing up again this morning. I think the poor kid has lost 5 pounds since Christmas I wish I had lost some while I was sick too.

Drop of Awesome!
Got everyone ready and packed to go.

Ready for the weekend!

I am ready for this week to be over. Crew has been feeling a little better today but still is not really eating and lays around a lot. But the good news is no one else has gotten sick so far and I hope they don't since we are going to SLC tomorrow to stay in a hotel for the weekend.

Codey got a voucher for a weekend stay from the IBEW Credit Union for cheaper then normal so that is why we are going, we are going to go until Monday unless I can call tomorrow and cancel Sunday night since Codey works and we would have to come home on Sunday to get his car anyway and have dinner at Cherri and Lynn's house so I hope we can.

The kids are looking forward to the pool I'm sure they will spend a lot of time in it while we are there. I am looking forward to doing a lot of nothing I hope, I just want to sit around and watch the kids play and have fun.

So the big news in the news is about Lance Armstrong who has won the Tour de France 7 times and has now admitted that he was doping up the hole time and now is being striped of all the titles. Mmm, so sad, and yet I don't really care because it seems as if a lot of athletes lie a lot about how they win, so to bad for him.

I feel as if I didn't get anything done today since I just sat and held Crew or sat by him so that I could hold Cash who climbs up onto my lap and then decides to get down 30 seconds latter about 100 times a day. But we all need days like that, to just sit and hold and love our kids.

Last night Codey had a dinner for the Union that he went to in SLC then from there he went straight to the BYU basket ball game he went and picked up Allen to go with him since it was a late game starting at 9:00 pm so all the kids and I were already in bed.

Codey just got home from his bank meeting and will want to go to sleep so I guess I will quit, get
some sleep too and start all over tomorrow so goodnight.

Awesome drop!
Swept the floor.

Gratitude!

Today I have had a hard time thinking of anything to be greatful for. With sick kids, a house that needs to be cleaned, laundry keeps piling up, dinner has to be made, driving to and from to get the kids at school, home work, It just feels as if I don't ever think of the things staring me in the face, the things that really matter I have a hard time looking past all the things right in front of me and to be glad for the really good things I have.

A house
Food
Heat
A car
My mom and sister who are always willing to step in and help me.
A coat
My kids
Hot water
A microwave
Medicine
A phone
My bed
Codey
And the list goes on.

I need an often reminder that I am blessed with so much and need to remember that we have so much to be greatful for.

Tonight was RS the theme being to stretch ourselves is service. They are putting together small groups to get together and do an act of service and then come back in two months to the RS birthday in March and talk about what each group did in the past two months. So we were asked to think about  a service that we can do, the group leader had a list of things that she had thought about, I didn't think any of them were wonderful but I don't know what else to suggest that would be better for us to do. So I guess I will start to think about it.

Awesome drop!
Got Colton a guitar to use for school. We were able to barrow it from Johnnie so glad he had one and we didn't have to bye one!

Sick Again!

Well Crew has a bad bug again this time he is not keeping anything down, not even water. Although he was throughing up last time he was sick with the flu too. I hate to see that poor little boy sick his tiny little face is so sad and his eyes have sunk. When he gets sick it is horable I hate it.

I went to the school today to do the reenrolment stuff that they have you do. I taked to the secretary about Laike and Kindergarten next year I don't know if I will have him go to Lincoln as it is another hour I the car, and take all that fuel to get there. I am going to go talk to Northridge Elementry and see if they will let him come for Kindergarten and then I will move him to Lincoln for first grade. We'll have to see if Northridge will let him in since we are not in the school boundreys.

Colton started a new term and is taking guitar, so we went to Taget and got him a guitar for class but I think we will end up taking it back, I think we will go to a music store and see if we can find him a different one or well will just rent one from the school for the term. The one we got is not a very good one and the teacher said that the kind we got they have a hard time keeping them tuned and things so we will see what we will end up doing.

I took Colton, Hailey and Peyton to the library yesterday too and we all got library cards and then the kids each got a book Hailey was getting biographies for her book project this month so she got 3 books and read them all last night and now is trying to decide who she is going to talk about in class.

Codey had scouts tonight and the guy he does it with didn't come so he just did it by himself  the learned all about knots, in a couple of weeks they are going snow camping with the 12 year olds. I need to get both Codey and Colton some snow pants and warmer clothes, but I ,think they will have fun if they don't freeze to death.

I had Pres. Meting for primary tonight and we talked about the kids who don't come to primary, because of non member or part member family's or just because they don't want to like one little boy who's mom is in the RS Pres. It is hard to think of so many children in this ward that don't come, and how many inactive family's there are. I never had to think about it like I do now.

Well I better get to sleep and hope that my poor little Crew is able to sleep and is not up throughing up all night I have know idea how he could have anything in his little stomache after how sick he has been to day.

Drop of Awesome!
Cleaning up after a sick little angel. Love him lots!

Bitter Cold!

Wow! it was -4 this morning when I dropped the kids off at school today. It has been really cold for just over a week or so and it doesn't look like it will be much warmer anytime soon. the highs are only getting in the teens. The mountains got a lot of snow over the weekend and also north and south of us got up to two feet of snow, we got about 3" so we got the least of it for sure.

I heard Hailey crying last night about 12:00 and got up to see what was wrong, she said that she had a headache. That poor girl gets them like I did at that age mine have just continued through my life because they never found anything that they said was wrong. So I stood by her bed and rubbed her head for about 30 min. until she could relax enough to go back to sleep. when she got up this morning she said she still had it but that it was a lot better. I hope we can figure out what is wrong so she doesn't always have them like me.

Tonight we get to go clean the church, I told the kids this morning and they all growned, my little boys well love it they love to help clean.

Cash will be one next month I can't believe he is growing so fast, I love to sit and hold a new baby, watch them sleep, look at every little expression, sleep by them and most of all wake up next to that little warm body and get all those cuddles, and  to just know how much I love them. It all goes bye so fast, I know I can't slow it down, but really does it have to go so fast.

But I'm starting to think about a night of sleep without being woken up every hour by my baby wanting to eat, or be held, or just waking up and crying for an hour for no reason. When my babies get to be this age I look forward to weaning them and getting them to sleep all night. I love to sleep.

I love to be a mom, I love to have my kids want only me when they are hurt or sad, I love to sit and cuddle with them, I love to be the one they love.
I have a feeling the next stage in life is coming, my kids are starting to grow up, Colton is 12 years old he is getting so tall, he has lost that baby face, Hailey is so responsible, she is so loving to her little brothers. I don't think Codey will give in again to the not planning our life anymore, if we had planned our life I don't think I would have gotten 6 beautiful kids and I can't imagine my life without them. Yes life is unbelievably crazy, and I know I don't get everything done but, I love my kids I love the things they do, I love the pictures they draw or the notes left on my pillow, or the toys picked up because they want to watch a movie.

What would life be like without each one of them and all the spacial things they do. I love being a mom, not just a mom, but there mom, the mom of 6 unbelievably beautiful and amazing in their own way kids. I am the mom of Colton, Hailey, Peyton, Laike, Crew and Cash what could be better then that. I don't think anything.

Drop of Awesome!
I love my kids! every fit throwing, screaming, winning, cuddling, loving part of them.
I love them, to the moon and back + a hole lot more!!!

Sunday

I got through today! Yay!!! I had to do sharing time today and I got through it, it didn't quite go as planned but it is over and now I need to prepare for the next time I have to do it which  is in 2 weeks.

I hope I can get over the nervousness and do a better job at it next time. It is hard to find something that will keep the Jr. Primary engaged and then to have something for the Sr. Primary that does the same thing. And have the teachers like it too.

I have a huge mental list of all the things I need to get done this week, and yet I'm sure I will not get it all done, and if I make a list it will just overwhelm me and then I will feel as if I can never get it all done. Baby steps that is what I need to do. I should just start with a few things maybe 3 or 4 and then see if I can get those done along with all the normal weekly things that I need to do, then it may seem doable.

Well it is on to a new week as I am still playing catch up from last week as I didn't get anything done that I should have. After today I hope I can get through tomorrow, Crew is now in Sunbeams and today was the first time that he was there, well I just have to say it didn't go as I had planned Crew would not sit with his class he wanted to sit with me which was fine until the Sr. Primary went to class and he saw Hailey leaving for class and wanted to go with her instead of stay for sharing time. Then as they left for class Laike decided that he was going to be a stinker too and wouldn't sit with his class so the Primary Pres. Went and sat with him so that I only had Crew to deal with. I hope it will be better next time, but we keep messing up there routine since we will be gone next week, then the fallowing week I have to do sharing time again.

Well I guess I  will see how this week turns out, be a little better, do a little better, and you will become a lot better!  This is to a new week, to be better.

Awesome drop!
I went to choir practice today.

Double drops of Awesome!

Codey gets lots of Awesome today, starting out with he and Colton getting up at 6:00 to go to the Timp. Temple to do Baptizms for the dead. Then he came home and put up a coat rack so that the kids can hang up their coats now instead of putting all on the banister of the stairs. Then this afternoon he took us all to the movie Wreck it Ralph.

I didn't get a hole lot done today other then cooking three meals cooked, and the dish washer run. I also tried to take a hot bath because I had a head ache and there was know hot water so it was pretty cold. Then when I got out we put on a movie for the little boys and Codey, Colton and Hailey and I sat a played phase ten it was fun, we don't useally play games at home we do a lot of it at the cabin though.

Drop of Awesome!
Took the kids to a movie today.

Friday

Friday, I look forward to Fridays for some reason maybe because I don't have to get up Saturday morning until I want to, or because I feel like I can relax, but I do know it feels good that it is Friday.

I picked the kids up from school today and we went over to Codeys moms until I took Hailey over to her friends house for a little party she was having. And because Codey was going to be working on his car fixing the heater, the job he thought was going to take about 8 hours ended up only taking about 4 which was a lot nicer for him. He was replacing the heater core. And I guess it is hard to get to and is hard to do, so he watched a few videos on YouTube and desided it was doable.

So the kids and I just  sat and watched a couple of movies until Cherri got home and then we made dinner, by the time it was done Codey and Lynn were too, so we eat and cleaned up and got home by 8:00 I got kids in bed and I got in bed too, which feels good after a long day, and I'm sure it feels better for Codey after his long day.

Well goodnight I need some sleep.

Awesome drop for today!
Picked up the house, yep that's it!

Bragging!

Just so I remember for Haileys sake.

Hailey came in third in her class spelling bee she said she lost on the dumbest word, that should have been so easy.
I told her I loved her and we all mess up sometimes and In the long run it doesn't really matter. She just looked at me, got mad about something else and berried her head. I didn't know if I made her feel bad or she really was mad about something else. No matter what I love her the most she is my only little girl. I love the boys too just in a boy kind of way.

Can you say drop of Hailey Awesome!

Brownie points!

So for a little drop of Awesome I made brownies today. Which I don't ever do really, I don't like to bake and I'm not a fan of sweets, but Codey and the kids love them. So I thought I would show a little love and make them a treat. I hope they taste good I bought a large container of cocoanut oil and have been trying to use it more so I used it instead do vegetable oil, so we will see how fast they are eaten. I'm sure they will be fine.

I have been thinking a lot lately about Codey and the kids and showing them a little more how much I love them, and I need to show them more by the things that I do for them.
I feel a little (well a lot) overwhelmed by all I am supposed to do everyday, and really it isn't all that much when you make a list or see it on paper. Get up, get the kids to school, come home do laundry, do the dishes, clean up, make the bed and the kids, clean a bathroom, change some sheets, sweep the floor, think of something for dinner, go get the kids from school, help with homework, make something for dinner, hope everyone will eat what I made for dinner, clean it all up, go to a primary meeting or scout meeting or RS meeting or Codey has scouts or a bank meeting or a union meeting, get kids in bed and then have a minute to sit down and check email or do nothing while sitting in front of the TV. And yet it seems as if I don't get anything done, and that my days all run together, and so what do I really do?

Sit and hold Cash, tell the boys for the bazzilyenth time to stop fighting, don't bounce the ball in the house, keep the toys in the toy room, stop yelling, please find something quiet to do while Cash sleeps, listen to me, and the list goes on and on. Why do I find time for all of that and not the things I should be doing. Get all the above done and still sit and read to the boys have dinner ready at 6 have it all cleaned up and sit and talk to the kids about there day, see what they want to do sometime.



It all makes me tired to think about. Why can't I pay someone to clean the house so I have time to do something with the kids, why do I agonize over dinner just for everyone to come and say ( I hate that ) can I have a cook too, so everyone can get what they want? Then can we all go away for the weekend so I don't have to do anything but watch the kids play in the pool, and have someone else fix the food and make the bed. You say life would be so boring, but I don't think it would be, I think I might like it, a lot.

I have a friend who in my mind has it all, her kids are in sports and piano, they never eat out unless on vacation, her kids are always doing what they are told they don't yell at there mother, they live at the library, she reads to them for hours a day, she could take someone a meal with an hours notice and wouldn't even think about it being a hardship, no her house is not clean not even a little the beds aren't made, the car is full of books, she's on the PTA and helps out at her kids school 3 hours a week, they go camping and hiking, they go to the park every other day, and yet if I called and needed something she would drop whatever she is doing and help, even if I haven't seen her for months in between, because she is just that way.

Is this how I want to be , we'll I do like to have a clean house and I do have to have my bed made everyday, but if you asked my kids they have the most boring lives ever, we never do anything and they are alway bored, because I never do anything with them.
As I sit here Cash is sitting at my feet screaming the boys are yelling about something there are toys everywhere, the car needs the tires rotated, it needs an oil change, it needs to be washed, Codey has no heater in his car, who knows the last time any of those things were done on his car, and yet here I am if I ignor it all will it go away? I wish. But it won't it never does, tomorrow will be another day and I might get something done. Today I will just look at it all and say oh well, life goes on.

I made brownies and everyone's Tummies will be happy even if they don't sa thanks I know they love me for making them. And I do, I love them all a lot.

So after all that,  what can I say Codey is back to 40 hours a week we are going to a hotel for the weekend next week and I hope I will tell the kids every day how much I love them.

Remember when!

So on Facebook today I saw something that made me think of the everyday and the past so I want to answer some  questions that I saw.

1. What is something you remember about your grandma?
I new 2 of my grandmas both on my moms side, my moms mom and her mother grandma Cleo and grandma Allen had big parts in my life, grandma Cleo lived in Elco Nevada when I was little and I remember many trips to her house, when I was 9 years old she built a house next door to us in Orem, I loved living so close to her. One of the things I remember the most is lunch, I know pretty funny grandma always had the funnest lunches which were a sandwich cheese balls maybe some carrot sticks and a can of diet Pepsi oh and a cookie the oatmeal ones with icing, after making lunch we would go in the living room and sit in front of the TV and watch General Hospital, it was so fun, for one we got to eat in front of the TVand we got soda. Grandma Allen lived pretty close also, she lived in a cute little trailer on St Street. She always came over for Sunday dinner and she would always bring a chocolate cake and it was always frosted beautifully. My big brother Allen took care of her yard for her which was a match made in Heavan because they were both perfectionists as Allen would mow grandma would sweep which should have happened when he was all done but no, she swept after every round of the yard, she also had some lawn sizzles that she always had out and she would go behind Allen as he mowed and cut any grass that he missed. And we always left her house with a cookie the fudge stripe ones.

2. What is something you and your dad have in commen?
We look alike, every one always told me that when I was little, you look just like your dad they would say. I don't think I likes it, but I like the fact that I belong to him so if that means that I can look the part then okay.

3. What is your favorite day of the week and why?
I always looked forward to Saturday because Codey was home and it seemed that we were all more poor ductile and got a lot more done and then we did something fun. But then Codey started to work most Saturdays so it was just another day that we had together things done and Codey wasn't around if we were able to got and do something. But I really think I like Sundays because evenknow wego to church and maybe I have a lesson or something to get ready it is less stressful than other days, I also love the fact that I don't have to cook because we go to Codeys moms for dinner and I love her food, she is a grate cook. And the kids love to go over to hang out.

So after all that I haven't gone and gotten my shopping done so I geuss I will go and get the things done that need to be so that I can say I accomplished something today.

Drop of Awesome!
I put away the rest of the Christmas stuff hooray!

"What he said"

So Crew walks by Cash and knocks him down, I turn around and tell Crew to say sorry to Cash, so Crew says, " oh sorry babe, well your not my babe your moms babe well not her babe your her baby, so there." He cracks me up.

I wish I could bottle him up and save him, he says the cutest things and I love the age he is at.

Awesome drop!
I changed my sheets today.

Monday

A new week, a new day,
Got up, got the kids to school, worked on laundry, got all my clothes put away.
I took the kids down to Kirsten's and went out to Eagle Mountain to help Sarah clean her house and get things done at the house because they close on Thursday.
So I cleaned the kitchen and got the stove cleaned. I hope they got done with the things that they needed to today. There was a room that they were finishing Johnnie was painting it today and in the morning they are getting the carpet laid.

I am sitting here in bed watching the biggest loser, the new season, and think of all the things that I can do to be more healthy and have better things for my kids to eat and do.

 Got home from Sarah's today and new that I was getting a migraine, so I took some Tylonal and thought that it would kick in and start to work but it didn't it started getting worse and I started to see spots and get dizzy, then I new I was going to be sick, and I was. I haven't had a headache that bad for a lone time, so I came in and got in the bath I thought I might fall asleep it was so hot and it was so nice to lay there, I think I was in the tub for about 40 min. Then I took a hot shower by the time I got out I felt so much better. I was able to eat dinner and clean up and am now sitting here writing this. I have only had a couple of goods days this year so I hope to feel better and be more healthy.

I also hope to sleep tonight to Cash was up for about an hour last night crying, I hope he does better tonight and will sleep.

Good night

Drop of Awesome!
Cleaned Sarah's kitchen.

Goals

The first Sunday of the year, January, 6th 2013 and so I have some goals and I am writing it down so that it is in ink so that I can come back and look at it later so here it goes.

So I want to make a few goals for the year and through this blog I hope I can keep them.
1. Read the 4 gospels
2. Finish Jesus the Christ befor the end of the year.
3. Go to the Temple more.
4. Paint a room in my house and finish decorating it.
5. Do something I have never done befor.
6. Go camping more then once.
7. Have a girls weekend with Hailey.
8. Go on a zip line or the alpine slide.
9. Decorate my bedroom.
10. Tell my kids I love them every day.

So there they are in black and white no going back, I hope that I can do a lot more this year with my kids and have a great year.  I also hope to keep up with my scrapbook this year and also take the pictures so we have the memories that we want to look back on in the years to come.

Drop of Awesome for today,
Went to my in laws for dinner and enjoyed it.  Love that Codeys mom is a wonderful cook and that we get to go and eat her good food each week. Thank you Cherri

Moving

So today was the big day. Johnnie and Sarah moved to Orem.
They sold there house in Eagle Mountain and are moving into mom and dads basement apartment, they are planning on staying for about a year maybe a little less, befor they bye a home again, they are hoping to save for there down payment and get into a little better house closer to all of us. They would like to fine a house here in Orem so that Johnnie is closer to work, as he works for Orem PD.

So if all would work out I have a friend who lives in our stake here that was our back door neighbors in PG well they are thinking about moving to Sandy to be closer to work, so Luisa told me that she wanted to sell her house but wants to wate until school gets out. Johnnie and Sarah would have been at mom and dads for about 6 months but it may work out that they could bye there house.

So I had Laike and Crew sleep in with Codey last night and I slept in there bed, and when they got up this morning they looked my door. So all my clothes are still out on the couch and probably will for a few more days or until Codey takes all the traps out of my room.

I went to our stake Baptizm today as I am in the Primary Pres. It was for a little girl named Jennifer Haller, she was the only one from our ward and stake today. She got Baptised by our Bishop. I knew her mom Christy when I was in high school and a few others that were there it is always fun to see people you new so long ago. Or it may just make me feel old, which it does mostly and kind of out of touch. I haven't really keeled in touch with friends from high school and it maks me kind of sad.

I have some friends I really miss, mostly my best friend Christine, we both made a comment on face book last summer that we should get together and do something but it never hapend. Maybe this year?

So for my drop of Awesome today!
I vacuumed the family room down stairs

Good night!

Drop of Awesome

Well Codey gets some, okay a lot! Awesome drops he cleaned out our closet and got 2 mice out. Now it all becomes to waiting game to see if there are more or if they are gone for good.

About the drops of Awesome, well this year that is my word, I want to be awesome so in order to do that I have to fill my awesome bucket with drops. I know I put my self down sometimes and mostly I'm awesome a lot, but in order to put some things into perspective for this new year I just thought I would spell it out.

So yay for Codey he got a lot today, along with all my kids who helped him.

As for today, I got up, took a shower, got dressed, and then got the kids in the car and went and sat on Kirsten's couch for a long time befor going to pick up the kids from school. Big old Awesome drop for me. I did have my mom come and get the kids this morning and drive them to school though so that I wouldn't have to get the little boys up and out in the cold so early.

Well it is late and I hope after a couple of not so good nights of sleep I will do better tonight.
So good night.

Movie

Robots!
That's what it is,
Well since I have been in bed all week the kids and Codey have watched a lot of movies we got a lot for Christmas, and here w e are watching one we all ready had, oh well.


Mice! In my house, hate, despise, disgusting, the worst thing ever made on earth and that doesn't even some up who much I loath them, we lived in our PG house for 10 years and never had a mouse I said that if we did I would sell the house and move. So can I put my house up for sale?  I thought I herd them I my closet the past few nights wonderful rite. They, it, whatever, has been getting into the chocolate from Christmas we had in there so I had the kids clean it all out. Codey is coming home with some traps and I hope all will be well and never again will I have to do this. Because I hate it move than anything, on earth. You get the picture.


Drop of Awesome!
Did some laundry first time in almost a week yay me!

Just another day

So since my post was cut off yesterday I will finish it.

Peyton, 8 years old, scout in the Wolf pack, was Baptized, math whiz, reads well, loves to play with cousins, cuddler.

Laike, 5 years old, smile, starts Kindergarten this year, loves his big sister, loves to be read to, wants to help his dad with everything, eats a lot.

Crew, 3 years old, loves his mom but loves dad too, wants to have all the attention, loves oranges, loves to go places, loves to be outside,

Cash, 11 months on the 6, loves to be his moms baby, has 4 teeth and 2 more coming in, learned to walk on Dec. 13th, loves his Hailey, will be a year old next month but will always be my baby.

Here's to another day

Love ya.

Twenty thirteen

Wow! What a year so far. Most of us have spent it in bed with the flu, it all started with Laike last week two days after Christmas he didn't get off the couch then that Friday Crew was down, Saturday I got it. Fever, chills, head ache, every thing on my body ached I felt like I couldn't move and didn't want to either. So here we are Wednesday January 2nd and I don't see an end in sight. Here I am still in bed with Crew next to me sleeping he was up playing yesterday and now today he is out again, Laike has days like that too he will play all day then go to bed a 5 for the night. On the up side Codey had taken a week off of work between Christmas and New Years and he didn't get sick on the down side we were all sick so we weren't able to do anything fun in all the time he was home. He went back to work today and man am I missing him, Hailey has been awesome as only she can be which is most of the time. She has been willing to watch Cash and help her dad a lot, Peyton and Colton have gotten colds and have been coughing too, and now my poor baby sounds like a horse and had a fever all night. When will it end? School starts tomorrow although I don't know if I will send the kids this week I hate to have them get behind but I can hardly get to the bathroom let a lone drive them to school.

Codey, Colton and Hailey stayed up on New Years Eve they watched movies I think Spider man. Codey and Hailey had made pizza for dinner everything else we had planned to do well didn't happen. All the little boys were all asleep by 8 and I wasn't far behind then, I did wake up when they came in to turn on the TV to watch the ball drop.

So yesterday after spending New Years day in bed and today too we have not started the year off on a very good foot I hope tomorrow will be better.

Codey, dad, husband, electricians, love of my life, 11 year old scout leader, loves to hunt, fish, go
shooting and camping.

Gretchen, mom, wife, homemaker, first counselor in the Primary Pres. Cook, house cleaner, I love to sew, design quilts, read, camp and go to our family cabin and be mom to my 6 awesome kids.

Colton, 12 years old, in young men's, scouts, loves to read, play on his iPod, and not listen to his mother. And loves being in Jr. High.

Hailey, 10 years old,  4 th grade, top of her class in just about everything, reads 198 words a minute, going to be the best mom ever, loves to do anything outside, play with friends, and misses Sophia like crazy.

Peyton, 8 years old,