Happy Birthday

Today my baby is nine years old. She was our little bundle of surprise after being told that we would not be able to have any more children after the birth of her big brother but she showed all of those doctors. Born a mere 14 months and 25 days after her big brother she has been our stubborn little diva. She refused to turn around in-utero so she was our only c-section and even then it took the Dr. a lot of firm convincing to get her out. She was six pounds 11 ounces of pure fire.

Even now she knows what she wants and expects everyone to fall in line to get it for her. She loves to talk, loves horses and tries her best to convince both of her parents that she needs a horse desperately. She loves making friends and is rarely at home once summer hits as she and her friends all run around and play every day.

Happy birthday to my little fireball, you may be small but you are mighty. You are usually always the smallest in the class but you don't let that stop you from doing anything. You are so cute and smart and loving. You never let your dad go to work without a hug. It is hard to see you grow up because you are my last baby but it is so much fun to see you discover all of the cool things that you can do.

I look forward to seeing you continue to grow up. To get involved school, soccer and achivement days. I look forward to seeing you as a beautiful young woman, strong, sure of yourself, smart, kind and a wonderful person. Your family loves you including all your grandparents, your brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles. You are the sunshine in my life and I love each day I get to spend as you mom. Have a super day and many many more to come

Happy Birthday -

Love Mom

Tagged

I have never been tagged before, It seems rather silly

5 things I was doing ten years ago-

having our third baby, the only boy

Trying to sell our first house

baptising the oldest child

getting pregnant with 4th baby

taking a great trip to New York to see  my  younger sister who had moved there

5 things on my to-do list

clean my messy house

get ready for a birthday party for my youngest

plant flowers in the front yard before the neighbors boot us out of the neighborhood

find a cello to purchase

graduate my oldest child from high school

5 favorite snacks/foods

prime rib at the Timbermine (honestly to die for)

moolate at Dairy Queen

baby carrots

peas fresh out of the garden

reeses peanut butter cups

5 things I would do if I was a billionaire

buy a new car

pay off my house and build a bigger one

pay off my parents house

pay off my in-laws house (just to be nice)

travel the world especially egypt, china, japan, australia, new zealand, italy

5 bad habits

taking on too much

letting people take advantage of me

doing things myself instead of giving others opportunities to learn

not making my kids clean their rooms

being a pessimist instead of an optomist

I also don't spell so well

5 places I have lived

Hyrum Utah

St George

21st street Odgen

North Ogden

West Point

(also preston Id, Garden City, Logan Utah)

5 people I tagg

My Crazy Daughter

My Niece who blogged a couple of times (come on Amber, time to update that blog)

Big-D because I am tired of the weekend update too and if both Meemer and I tag him maybe he will change it.

Crazy Daniel from work who also bloggs

Teenage Girls

Is there anything more moody and hormonal than teenage girls? I have three girls, two of which are between the ages of 18 and 13. Usually they manage not to kill each other. Last night they fought, one took off to cool off. I came home to one gone, one upset knowing that she had made her sister take leave and then mom in a panic because we all know how scary this world is and to have a 14 year old girl wandering around in the dark is more than a little scary.

It all ended up okay. Mom had her heart attack added many many new grey hairs and today they are friends again (well almost).

I feel bad for the younger one. She is experiencing the nature of friends of that age than can be your best buddy one minute and hate you the next. It makes my heart hurt that she feels so left out and like nobody is her friend. She is such a loyal girl and tries so hard to be a good friend that I feel bad when others treat her wrong. 14 is such a tough age. I think the pressure from those last few days of school, friends, soccer, track and then a sister who wants nothing more than to sit and do nothing leaving the majority of the work to her she finally had had enough.

To my sweet girl boo - it will all get better, stay true to yourself. You are such a talented beautiful girl. We love you and will always support you and be there in your corner. You have great ambition and you will accomplish so many things and I treasure each day with you. You make me laugh, you make me angry at times, you make me marvel when you show such fierce loyalty to your younger brother and sister and when you show such gentleness with you little cousins.

To my other beautiful girl - remember that you are also a talented beautiful girl and we only push because we want the very best for you. You have such potential that we know what great things you can accomplish when you put your mind to it. Remember that your family will always be around to pick you up when you fall, to be your friend, mentor and shoulder to lean on. We will be with you to celebrate you accomplishments, and to help you through the tough times.

one of those days

Do you ever have one of those days that no matter what you do it all turns to crap? No matter who you talk to or what you try nothing works out well. I hate those days and seem to be having more of them than my share. Yesterday no matter what I did it was wrong. I posted the wrong paper to my class and had to re-do it, my shirt had a big spot on it that I did not notice until someone pointed it out. Patrons at the library were grumpy and we did not have the item in that they wanted. Kids were onery because they had to do homework. There was no food in the house because I have not had time to go grocery shopping so dinner was a find what you can affair. Traffic was horrible and I am already really tired of road construction. They have every possible road I can use to get home either torn up or are stringing wire along it or it is a detour for some other road all torn up.

I hate those kind of days

fifteen out of fifteen

I started back to school last fall to get my masters. It was not the program I really wanted but was the best option for all of us. I had to write a paper last week the biggest I have ever written. I stressed all week spent hours and hours and hours working on it. My kids were scared of me and my husband was ready to commit me. I finally got it done, posted it to my teacher and thought "oh well there goes my A average" We got the results tonight and to my surprise I got a perfect score. 

It goes to show what we can accomplish when we put our mind to things or in my case I think just pure dumb luck. 

I hope to graduate next March if all goes well. 

An object in motion stays in motion

Poor Bee

today at school someone was chasing her and she glanced back to see how close he was and missed the large pole in her way, when she turned back.......As Newton said an object in motion stays in motion until-

Poor girl

Ouch!!!!!!

Crazy Kids

Since the kids started this lovely blog but have left it I thought I would get involved and start posting to it. I hope to add things, of course I will have to ask them all how to post and what all the passwords are all the time because they are so much smarter than us parents, when it comes to all of these electronic gadgets.