Food 4 Thought Friday

Food 4 Thought Friday

Breakfast

If you were given one extra hour everyday - how would you use that time?

I would say and hope that I would take that extra 1 hour and spend it with my family and letting them know how much I love them.

Lunch

What is your favorite season and why?

I love spring and fall. It would be hard to choose.. I love spring with all the flowers coming up and smells of spring. Finally warmer temperatures and more time outside. I love fall with all the leaves changing colors to the bright reds, orange and yellows. Exspecially out here where I live now it is so forresty there are sooo many trees and when all the leaves change its so georgous.. An autumn wonderland, and a relief from the hot blistery days of summer.

Dinner

Are you a tight squeezer, a delicate hugger, a back patter, a hand shaker, or a hands off completely person?

With my family and good friends I am a tight squeezer but with those I know and are just aquainted with a delicate hugger and for those I dont know or are new I'm a hand shaker or hands off depending on how the other person is.

Midnight Snack

Have you ever gone skinny dipping? If so where?

Well not purposely but when we were visiting my dad once he suggested me and steve going and sitting in his new hot tub while they watched the kids.. We declined because of not having any swimsuits with us and he said who needs suits so we ended up hot tubbing in our birthday suits.

Recipe for this Week (instead of your recipe for life - what is it for just this week?)

Set just 1 extra small goal that is seperate from the rest that is something you have been wanting to do or get done for some time but havn't had the time, and accomplish it.. We tend to have so many things we need to get done that our list keeps adding up that we never get to accomplish the other things. For example if you are like me and have at least 10 years worth of scrapbooking to do instead of trying to find a time to sit down and work for hours on it and get several done which isnt likely to happen now with 4 kids take the time to just get 1 page done. It can be managable if we break things up a little and look outside the box. hope that makes sense. I'm not the most eloquent with words.

Thanks Jodi for the Food 4 Thought friday!! If you wanna play go here!

Lions and Tigers and Bears Oh My!!

Our trip to the Philly zoo was a great time except for the fact that I was really tired and a little sore.. I think I way over did it on my work out friday and I didn't get much sleep that night so I was really wiped out Sat. With walking for 6 hrs in the heat it just about did me in.. By the end of the day my back was just killing me.. It was a fun time though. It was so fun seeing Natalie our cousin and baby Madeline. She is so cute we could have just ate her up.. All the kids wanted to do was mawl the baby... Well Ok me tooooo

I think the kids favorite parts were these

these

and of course these.

They had a really cool exhibit of diffrent kinds of bears too..

The kids had alot of fun going into the kids petting zoo and getting to brush the goats. We even made a couple trips in the paddle boats around the big pond they had. Im surprised we were able to get everything in in 1 day.. The kids were a little bummed because we didnt let them ride the camels and horses and go in the hot air balloon or go on the train, the lines were so long and we were trying to get everything in before it closed. We got a pass so we will have to go back again to do more of the rides.

Alas we made it back to our own zoo with our 4 wild monkeys all tuckered out..

Yeah It's Friday

Today was a killer.. I did my long run today along with my full body weight lifting and i think I darn near killed myself.. To read more about it check out my running blog here. Seems with all that going on the whole day was shot and I didnt do much of anything else.. We are going to the zoo in the morning so I wanted to get my weights and long run in today since I wouldnt be able to tomorrow... Tonight we had a cub scout fishing trip and barbeque for all the cub scouts and their familys. It was a great time.. Austin could hardly contain himself. It was all he could talk about all day... He caught 7 fish and dummy me I even brough my camera but do you think I took any pictures NOOOOOO I was to busy helping all the kids bait their hooks and cast their poles and get tangles and snags undone.. It was a fun time anyways.. I am so excited to go to the zoo tomorrow.. We are meeting One of Steve's cousins and her new baby there so it will be alot of fun.. Hopefully we will see alot of these

They seem to be my kids favorite thing to see. I definently will bring my camera and get pictures this time..

Food 4 Thought Friday

Breakfast

Are you a morning person or a night person?

Definently night... I come alive about 9:00 at night and dont usually go to bed until midnight and then I wonder why I cant get out of bed in the morning.

Lunch

Do you like to shop? If yes, for what? Alone or with others?

Depends on what its for.... I hate to grocery shop but i do love to go with friends and shop for anything else..

Dinner

What is something that really motivates you?

Hearing or seeing other people's storys.

Midnight Snack

What is one thing you look forward to each day?

Waking up and seeing my kids, and tucking them in and kissing them good night every night.. As much as they drive me crazy my life would be nothing without them...

Thanks Jodi for the Food 4 Thought...Go here if you want to play along...

Is it time to go back to school yet?

AAAGGGHHHH my kids are driving me crazy!!!!!!! I so cant wait for school to start... 2 more weeks yeah!!!! I swear its a fight fest from the moment they wake up until they go to bed.. I am so worn out.... Tonight as they were supposed to be saying their prayers and getting into bed I was talking to my hubby on the phone and bathing the dog in the kitchen sink and all I can hear is screaming and yelling and its usually Logan and Jessie and within seconds hear they all come running down the stairs to come tattle as they are crying and screaming as if I could bath the dog, talk to steve and hear them try and tell me their sides of the story through their screaming and crying all at the same time....


I guess Logan hit jessie with a pillow and tried to shut the door on her so jessie picked up her long stick horse and clubbed logan across the back with the stick part leaving some nice welts and marks across her shoulder and back. I have so had it with these two. They are like oil and water. They constantly find things to fight over.. Its like this morning Jessie says ha ha logan I got a pink vitamin and you didnt. Then the screaming starts.. It's like that all day long over the dumbest things.. I feel its constant screaming in this house. Our jessie is such a little fighter. They say the middle one has to fight for attention and things I guess its true.. Tonight Austin was teasing her over something and she comes swinging around with her fists ready to pop him one and I have to grab her and say for the umpteenth time today that we dont ever raise our fist to anyone or hit as I am just cracking up inside and trying not to laugh... Normally Im so mad I could just beat her but today it was so funny the look on her face her eyebrows creased in and this pout across her lips and this look like she is out for blood and if she gets a hold of him she is gonna kill him. And with both her arms up with tight fists it was hilarious.. I wish I could of had a picture.. She is so tough and I know she could probably kick her brothers butt too if I would let her.. She is one of those that she has such beautiful features and looks that I am sure we will have the boys lining up at the door but if they do anything to make her mad she wouldnt think twice about popping them one.. She is our tomboy there isnt anything she wouldnt do and she is not afraid of anything. She is going to be the one that keeps us up at night..


Anyways today we had this strange looking bird thing come into our yard and was driving our dog mad. I tried to sneak out and get a picture of it but didnt get any real good shots.. I am thinking it was either a wild turkey or a vulcher.. I am not sure.. Anyone have any ideas?? Its hard to tell from the picts but it had a blackish body and a red head but no little gobble red thing hanging from it.
















Hey I think I was right on both accounts I just found this pict on the net of a turkey vulcher.. I think this is what it might have been..




I found out why it was in our yard. A ground hog or rock chuck or something like that was hit on the road by our house and someone had thrown it up on our lawn so this big bird I think was planning on having it for lunch... I am so glad we found it though because I was going to go get on the riding lawn mower today and that would not have been a good thing to be cruising along and end up running over this varmit.. It's roughly the size of a small dog. Looks something like this...Maybe just a little bigger.







Well thats about all the excitement I have had today. I am glad the day is over..

Late Night

Wow can you believe it is 12:12 Am Sat morning and I am still up... I just got done doing my die cut orders.. Whew!!! I never thought I was going to finish... Steve gets home in a couple hours so I dont know if I am going to try and wait up or not.. His plane was delayed again. So now he gets home at 2:00 in the morning instead od 1:00 AM I swear he has the worst luck when it comes to traveling.. His planes are either cancelled or delayed more then they are on time... I guess it could be worse.... I better knock on wood. Well it was a typical friday.. Clean the house and get ready for steve to come home.. Poor kids we didnt do much of anything else.. We are hoping for a good day tomorrow to spend some good family time together... I am going to try and get my long run in tomorrow or I should say this morning if I can drag my sleep deprived butt out of bed..
Well No fun fill ins or feasts today...

Have a great weekend everyone!!!

Nose update..

Several of you have posted wondering about Jessie's nose.. Thank you for the concerns.. Sorry I havnt updated earlier. It's been a busy week... She actually woke up the following morning a whole lot better then we were expecting.. She didnt have the black eyes like the dr. said she would other then she was still a bit swollen and bruised a little and some slight purple bruising in the cornrer of the eyes.. I really should have taken a picture the next day or the day of to given you a better shot of what it looked like.. Today 4 days later its hard to see that anything had even happened.. You can see a little bruising in the under corner of her eye and just some slight bruising on the bridge of the nose but I think its safe to say its not broken... We had her sleep the night of the accident with an ice pack across her nose and I think that really helped alot. So other then some slight yellowish bruising now and some very little swelling it looks pretty good...

Today was the last movie day for the summer. We saw Surf's Up it is a cute show... We unfortunately did not win any prizes this time.. I think if we would have we would of got some mean looks from the audience thinking somehow we cheated since we won first prize the last 2 times we have went.. LOL The kids really enjoyed and looked forward to the movie day weds.

Now we are going to keep it going and watch a movie tonight so thats all folks...

Today our 2 youngest decided to wake everyone up at 6:00 I was so mad because Sat seems to be the only day we can really sleep in but there was no going back to sleep so I decided to take advantage of it and go run off my agression of being up so early. I had a great run and felt much better when I returned. We spent half of the day getting things done around the house that needed to be done like mowing the lawn and shaving our dog, doing some house cleaning, not exactly what we wanted to do on our 1 day together as a family but what else do you do?? We did have a great night though. We found out about a county fair near by so we took the kids down there and walked around for a while and let the kids go on a couple rides. Yep I forgot the camera again!!!! It was hot but we enjoyed it..Now we are just getting ready and preparing lessons for tomorrow. I get to teach primary tomorrow and Steve teaches sunday school to the 15 and 16 yr olds. It's been a long day and I am so ready for sleep but still need to go get my lesson done so this is it for today... Oh ya poor Jessie today.. I was just finishing up mowing our lawn and my son came out to talk to me and she was standing right behind him and he didnt know it and he went to turn and run and smaked right into her with his head right on her nose. It knocked her right flat on the ground and she was screaming like crazy and spitting blood everywhere. Her nose was just a gushing. Steve and Allie thought I had ran over her with the lawn mower. We rushed her into the bathroom and she immediatly was swelling up and both sides of her nose was just pouring blood. It was already turning blue and purple.. We are not sure but she may have a broken nose.. The Dr. said that they dont really do anything until 24 -48 hrs after so the swelling can go down before they ex-ray it to see if its broke and to just ice it off and on through the day and give her motrin.. It seems like every time we looked at it it was getting worse and worse with the bruising. Her eye has already started turning blue and purple. We will see how it looks tomorrow to determine whether its broken or not. It kinda looks cricked to me but its still to swollen to tell... Poor girl I swear everything happens to her.. She is the one I have had in the hospitals for broken arms twice, a swallowed penny, now her nose..

Summer Fun

Today was movie day again. We went to see shrek the third. They called out Allie to come draw the names out of the box for the prizes and unbelievably she drew her own name out for the 1st place prize again.. We must be lucky considering Logan won the 1st prize last time we went. Allie got everything logan did but instead of the operation game she got a shrek duffle bag. Then after the movie we went to the marina park and had a picnic with a couple other ladies and their sons so the kids had a blast, except Allie.. There was nobody there her age or any girls for that matter other then mine so she tried to be grown up and sat with us moms and listened to us talk most of the day. Jessie is more boy then she is girl so she has no problems fitting in and hanging with the boys. She could probably whip any of those boys even if they are 3 years older then her.. Logan she just played by herself up on the playground and was pretty content doing that.. The boys and jessie found a dead fish down in the water and spent the afternoon disecting it and punching holes through it and spreading its guts all over the dock. Doesn't that just sound like pure boy fun??? It was a fun day though. It really helps the day to go by faster when you do activitys like that..

Yesterday we went to the beach with Steve. He had to catch a plane at 3:00 so he promised he would take the kids and go before he left. We got up early and left and was there by 9:00 AM so we got a good 4 hrs in.. The weather was so much better then last time we went. Nice and sunny with no clouds and the water was alot calmer so the kids actually could go out and play in the waves. We even got Logan to finally come out and jump the waves with us as long as we both held her hands and would swing her up over the waves so they didnt splash up on her face. The water was still a bit on the nippy side but once you were in for a few minutes you got used to it. Of course I forgot the camera again.. But we had a great time other then the putrid smell that is out there.. It is so horrible it about makes you gag. It's like dead rotten fish smell in case you were wondering.. Yuck........

Anyways it was fun and it was hard after having such a fun morning to have steve leave again. This traveling all the time is about doing us both in... In the next 3 weeks i will only get to see him 2 1/2 days. Can you believe that. 2 DAYS out of 21.. Something is wrong with this picture....

Hopefully as of right now he only has 1 week of travel in Sept. so I'm just hoping Aug. goes by fast and that no more trips get added into the month.

An Award

Thank's courtney for the award!!!

Here are the rules:

1. The winner can put the logo on his/her blog.

2. Link to the person you recieved the award from.

3. Nominate at least 7 other blogs.

4. Put links to those blogs on your blog.

5. Leave a message on the blogs of the people you have nominated.

Now my turn to nominate 7 others for the award.

1. Jodi Wilding: Beacon of Hope

2. Jen Packer: Living the Life

3. Tracy Boyd: The Boyd Family

4. Jody Shelley: Doran & Jody

5. Jodi Gallagher: The Gallagher Family

6. Amanda Sherwood: The Sherwoods

7. Natalie: Me and Ma Vie

Thanks Jodi for the feast!!!

Appetizer

If you learned today you were going to die tomorrow, name three things you would do.

First I would have my husband get on the next plane home or either me and the kids jump on one to go to him.. He's in San Diego 6-7 hr plane trip.. Second I would have the best most memorable day that I could have with my family. Third I liked Jodi's idea I would write each one of my kids a (HUGE) letter letting them know how much I love them and all of lifes secrets I'v learned so far with all the advise I could think of to get them through the things they will face in life and with all the picts i could possibly get of us together to help them remember all the good times.

Soup

What is your very first memory?

Wow that was forever ago.. Probably when I was 3 0r 4 and I lived in a big home in Honeyville Utah. Nothing specific but just several memorys from that place.

Salad

Name one service you are willing to pay for and one you are not.

Wow I would pay for just about anything if it meant less stress or work for me...i have no problem spending money and it drives my hubby bonkers.. I probably wouldnt pay for my house to be cleaned either I'm one of those that spends the whole day before cleaning if I know someone is coming to my house.

Main Course

Do you make your bed every day?

Yes everyday!!

Dessert

Name the most significant thing you learned this week.

The most preciouse time spent is with my family... I will cherish these moments forever!!!

1. If I could travel back in time, I would go back to when I had my first child and do things much diffrent. Spend more time with my kids..
2. Give me chocolate or give me MORE chocolate! Couldnt agree more with this awnser Jodi
3. I am listening to the hum of the computer.
4. Somewhere, someone is thinking I wish i was home with my family (hopefully my hubby)
5. I'll always be a worry wart.
6. My idea of a good time includes My family, Friends, Food and good laughs!
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I’m looking forward to Finally getting this blog done, and watching a movie with my kids. Tomorrow my plans include: Cleaning my house and getting ready for my husband to come home finally!! And sunday I want to :Just relax and spend it with my family.