It's been a while

I noticed today that it's been a while since I posted. We've been very busy. For those of you that new her and have not been told Jason's Grandma E died last week. She hasn't been doing very well for a couple of months now, and after a stroke on Tuesday, she was pretty bad. She died in her sleep at about 4 o'clock Thursday morning. She was a sweet lady and well loved by her family, and I'm sure it was a happy reunion with her husband that died almost 40 years before her.

Shelbie had a great time with the orchestra last week as well. The teacher had planned a day camp for all the students to attend. They went every day and learned 3 new songs, went to the movie (shrek 3), on Thursday they went to the pool, and on Friday had a concert to show off what they had learned. She had a great time and her group was really good at the concert. We forgot to take our camera so just imagine her sitting there with 30 other students holding a violin.

As for the rest of us were just trying to make it through the summer alive;)

To whom it may concern

To whom it may concern;

Due to a lack of time, I the management have hereby deleted all other blog spots except this one.

Thanks for your interest

The management.

The Making of a disaster

It is officially summer here in Roosevelt. The schools are out. The kids are happy. All my flowers are blooming. Does this sound like a disaster in the making to you?

Well it wasn't really not until Sunday night when we were happily heading to Debbie's house for the night to spend Memorial Day with my family and leave some flowers for my mother. You see we have been having trouble with our old but well loved Suburban, at the ripe old age of 19 you would expect a little sagging around the speedometer. But on this occasion the sag turned into a grind and with smoke billowing out from under the car we start to worry. We were about half way to Heber at this moment and ready to ascend the mountains before Strawberry. So with a little deliberation and a top speed of 40 mph, we decided to head back (I wanted to keep going, who were we going to find to fix whatever was wrong with the car in the podunk town of Roosevelt). In the process of limping home Jason figured out that something was wrong with the transmission (oh the horror). We hoped it was just a hose or something cheap and easy to fix. But with it being 19 years old...
Needless to say its cheaper to put old faithful out of our misery then fix.

So the disaster begins.

I hate car shopping

Mothers Day

Mothers day has come and gone. It never seems to last long enough. Jason was wonderful he waited on me hand and foot. Anything I wanted he did for me. The kids of course showered me with hugs, kisses and pictures a plenty. But as with all good things this to had to come to an end. Today were back to mom picking up the messes and giving the kisses. I've always loved being the mom and that hasn't changed but it was nice to be the one taken care of.

Today its back to the real world of cleaning I don't know what happens over the week end but on Mondays my house is always a mess. I cant wait till schools out and the kids will be home to clean up there own messes.

I know I haven't posted in a long time. The reason is simple its much to nice outside to be stuck here inside. The flowers are bloming the birds are singing I just love spring. For the last 2 weeks I have been outside preparing and planting flower beds a plenty. Jason and I are experiencing planting our first garden (I just hope the seeds come up). He tilled the earth, added some sunshine (munure), and then tilled some more. I laid out the rows, laid the seeds, and then laid out soaker hose on the rows. We are very excited! The kids have been helping to but there is still so much work still to do. When were done hopefully I'll remember to post pictures. But until then I have work to do;)

update

Since my Internet seems to be behaving itself today I will update on whats been going on. If you are an avoid reader of my blog you already know that over spring break we emptied Kaitlyn's and Amanda's room, pulled down the wallpaper to prepare for texture, paint and pull up the carpet to refinish the wood floors. What you don't know is whats happened since that weekend?

It seems to me that when it comes to home improvement projects there is this pattern of hurry up then wait. Jason and I couldn't texture on the weekend of the 7th because of family obligations, we don't have time during the week because of work, school, and church obligations. So Amanda and Kaitlyn happily spent the week sleeping on an air mattress in there room while I went crazy because all there bedroom furniture was and still is in my living room. Luckily the weekend came, Jason riped off the trim, up the carpet and did the texture all in one Saturday afternoon. It was great, progress! It dried all day Sunday and the rest is up to me, I do all the painting and after scrubbing the floors today Kaitlyn and Amanda will be able to help move there furniture back in this afternoon. There rooms not finished by any means, there is still refinishing the floors, buying new trim and new windows but until Shelbie's room is this far that will have to wait.

Whats on the schedule for next week, Shelbie's room :(

Spring Break

Last week was the kids Spring Break. It was a wonderful time for me and the kids. We had lots of things planned (at least I had lots of things planned), and as is always the case in these instances only a small portion of them actually got finished. We were going to tear down the wallpaper in both Shelbie and Kaitlyn's rooms, all we got to was Kaitlyn's. We were going to pull up the carpet in Shelbies room, she hasn't even gotten the furniture out of her room yet. They did get to play with there cousin Rylee on Wed. and Thur. with a sleepover Thur. night. Shelbie, Kaitlyn and I went to the eye doctor and all three of us are sporting new specs. and then on sat. came the big BBQ at grampa's with lots of cousins, boats, and an Easter eggs hunt. They had so much fun at grampa's, and its such a long trip to see every body, that they were too tired to go to church on Sunday. But it was a great holiday anyway and I was very thankful for all the time I got to spend with my kids!

As for all those projects well theres always Saturday...