Happy Birthday to me!

I had the best birthday! I feel so loved. My husband started the day letting me sleep in while he and the kids straightened the house. When he had to go to work, I heard him tell Zach and Hannah to finish the family room and not to wake me up. Little did he know the battle that he had just created. Zach is my worker bee. He works until the job is done, sometimes even doing more than his fair share. I can bribe him with almost anything, and he does a good job most of the time. Hannah, on the other hand, is pretty much the opposite. She will do anything, and I mean anything to get out of work. She is too sick or too hurt or too tired, or just doesn't want to. And as far as bribes go, well I could offer her the world and she still wouldn't clean. I have to be right beside her every step of the way in order to get anything done. So, my birthday morning all I hear is, "Hannah, clean it up." followed by giggle giggle (hannah giggles to bug Zach). Then ,"Hannah, shhhhh don't wake up Mom." Louder giggles. "Hannah, stupid, just clean it up." "Jared, no clean!" Then I heard a few slaps, and some crying, footsteps on the stairs, followed by, "NOOOOO!" and a huge thump, which I later learned was Zach tackling Hannah to stop her from waking me up. Well, birthday sleep over, I went to survey the damages. And as soon as my sweet boy heard my voice he burst into tears, and lunged once again at Hannah. "Hannah you woke her up, you ruined everything!" After some calming down and explaining things we finnaly got it all figured out, and I did end up with a clean family room. Zach has such a sweet heart, but such a temper! I have a hard time teaching him to control it without losing mine sometimes. Were little sisters just put on Earth to bug older brothers? I think that if you ask my big brother he might say, "yes!"
So after the drama of the morning, I got to get together with a bunch of friends for a birthday brunch. It was fabulous! My friends are the greatest. Then I met my mom at Buffalo Wild Wings and kicked her butt at trivia (she probably let me win cuz it was my birthday), and then she took me shopping. Later that afternoon, Kerry came home with flowers and a cake and we opened presents. he got me a new camera which has not gotten here yet, but I'm sure it will be fabulous. Then my wonderful parents watched the kids while Kerry did as all wonderful husbands should do and took me to Chili's for dinner.
Thanks everyone who called, or told me happy birthday. I am so lucky to have such great friends and family.

Bye Kali

Okay so my song choice is a little dramatic, but I am way sad that my friend, Kali, has moved. To the-middle-of-nowhere, Nevada no less. I am sure she is doing well, I know that I will hear from her soon- when she gets internet.
But we did get to do some fun things before she left. Like go to the temple, and them deal with the total idiots at Bed, bath, and Beyond (shoulda got a picture of them).



Then a bunch of us got together to say goodbye, it was funny cuz Kali was sick and wasn't going to come to her own surprise goodbye party, but then she came so Tayton could play with Jared and SURPRISE!



Arrrrrrgghhh! One last pirate adventure. Jared keeps asking me if we can go pick up Tayton- but I think that middle-of-nowhere is a little far for a playdate!


I will miss my friend- you people are lucky to have her, and anytime you want to come melt in the heat, you know you are welcome (kali-not "you people")

Going on a bear hunt!

My fearless hunters were on the prowl. They heard that a bear was on the loose so they picked up their weapons:

I love that Zach's is a backwards fork!
Then they followed the scent

Then slowly approached the target

the take down!!

He's tougher than they thought! Notice Hannah's weapon is a spoon.

The trophy!

Not so tough are you now Mr bear! but still pretty cute.

Emma Belle Davies

I am so thankful that I was able to be there for the birth of my sisters baby. It is so different being on this end- and a lot less painful. April is such a trooper, she did so good. She ended up breaking her tailbone, though, and I know that it should not be funny, but I think that it is stinkin hilarious! but I do really feel for her. I mean, it is tough enough being a new mom and now (okay there are too many "pain in the butt" jokes to choose from here, so fill in your own).
but seriously, I am so glad that April and Roderick allowed me to share in this special time. they are going to be great parents and I am so jazzed to be an aunt again.

Hallelujah- and my happy place

SO Hallelujah is for me getting my computer back. I missed her so much- I know she's a girl because she is pink and I know that some guys can wear pink and pull it off, but my comp is all girl: pretty, quick, and sometimes moody.

Anyways, so having her back also means that I have all of my pictures back and that means that I have tons of things to post about. And what better way to avoid laundry than blogging. (although I probably will do loads in between-maybe)

So first, my happy place:



My super sweet hubby finally put my shelf reliance system together. It is fabulous!! There is a place for everything and I feel like I can really get my food storage in order now. If I need a break or things seem to be out of control at my house, I step in to this closet and I feel a lot better- seriously. It wasn't too hard to put together and they have them in lots of sizes, if you are interested look here
obviously I need to buy some food storage to fill up the shelfs, but now at lease I have somewhere to put it all. sigh- I am totally in love!

I'm still blushing!

So in the bank drivethru this morning, Jared asks to have his window down too. SO I roll it down and he looks at the guy in the bank window and shouts, "there's my Daddy." I was hoping that the microphone thing wasn't on but as I looked up I saw the bank guy staring back with a shocked look on his face. So yeah he heard. I smile at Jared and say, "no, where does your Daddy work?" He replies, "At the bank." I say (through gritted teeth) "no sweetie, where does Daddy work?" He thinks for a minute and then replies, "At the office." ( I breathe a sigh of relief) "At the office at the bank by the tire store, that's my Daddy." he says pointing again to the guy in the window. I look up in time to see the guy chuckling as he sends my receipt back and tells me to have a nice day! Now this really isn't as embarrassing now that I write it, but my problem is I am going to have to see this guy everyday now that i am doing the deposits for Dad. EVERYDAY! Maybe I will start going inside instead!
I'm still not sure why Jared thought the guy was Daddy. He looked nothing like him, the only thing that I can think is that he was wearing a blue shirt like one that Kerry wears a lot. Or he was just trying to be funny- his sense of humor is kind of like his dad's!

Yea for the blogger people

So I have been really frustrated with blogger the past couple of days. I wanted to change my background to a nice fall theme, because it is September after all! I know where I live it won't really feel like fall until it is almost winter, but I can live vicariously through my blog, right? Anyways, it would not work! When I looked at my change page elements page it was all great, but then when I would go to my actual blog it was as though I hadn't changed a thing. It was really annoying and frustrating! But then I emailed the blogger people and told them my problem, and then this afternoon I logged on and voila- the blog is fixed in all its fall cuteness! So today I love the blogger people. Hope you like it!