Again and again

Sometimes no matter what you do you do it wrong. Then you try to fix it and everything gets worse. And no matter how hard you try to fix things it's just not good enough. The kid, the car, the clothes, just messed it all up. Try not to make him mad and mad is what I make him. Simply put, failed yet again. Bravo.

Sunday Afternoon

We spent our Sunday afternoon making a 'Sunday Game' as Victoria says. Though for a game to fit that description to her you just have to play the game on Sunday. So I thought it would be a good idea to have actual 'Sunday Games' or maybe more church oriented games. So Mom went and found a game in an old Friends magazine, while I worked on creating a game. So anyway we picked 24 primary songs that the kids might know, might listen to, and that are fun to do. And then we found a small picture to go with that was fun to look at so that they could pick songs from the pictures. I don't know if it will be a hit or not, but my kids aren't as fond of Primary Songs as I am and I was hoping that this might change their minds.

Mostly we just used the LDS clip art, though originally I was going to draw the pictures. Mom saved me a lot of time by thinking up the clip art. Though for a few there weren't any pictures so I googled some images. The few that are shown here are Popcorn Popping, Once There was a Snowman, Little Purple Pansies, The Golden Plates, The Wise Man and the Foolish Man, and Hinges. As you might have guessed we couldn't find a good hinge in the LDS clip art, but when I googled it I got Optamus, and Mom and I both thought it was pretty funny. :) We also figured that we could 'upgrade' or add songs as they got older, and their attention spans lengthened. Anywho it was a fun afternoon for Mom and I even if the kids didn't have fun.

Ode to my Hubby!

1. Where did you first meet? At our friend Tommy's house. Though at the time he was engaged to someone else who had a little girl named Becca. The only things that stuck that very first time I saw him were that he was holding a baby seat and he had a nice, kind smile.

2. How long did you date before you got married? 364 days. We would have gotten married a year later, but it was a Sunday so we did it the day before instead.

3. How long have you been married? 8 years, and still some days it feels like it just happened.

4. What does he do that surprises you? Besides loving me for me, he'll bring me flowers. Out of the blue for no reason other than to make me smile. He does it a lot, but it still surprises me.

5. What is your favorite feature about him? His smile, always his smile. *Alert* cheesy line coming. Though on the night we started going out I actually told him that 'He had beautiful eyes.' We were sitting outside at night and there was thunder and lightning everywhere around us and it was making the green of his eyes change, from emerald green, to a yellow green, to a darker forrest green.

6. What is your favorite quality about him? He is utterly generous. He always wants to help family out even when we really can't. Once he told me he wished he could buy my Mom and Dad an RV so that Dad could still go camping, once it became to hard on him to go.

7. Does he have a nickname for you? Gorgeous

8. What is his favorite color? I don't think he has a favorite. Though he likes this silvery blue satin color, hard to describe, but we tried to match it in the colors from our wedding.

9. What is his favorite food? Um to be honest I don't think my hubby is big on favorites, he likes too much of anything to have to choose. Um here are some... ham hock and beans, corned beef and cabbage, steak, fish, though not salmon unless it is sushi, shrimp, any of his Mom's recipes.

10. What is his favorite sport? Hunting, though maybe I should say that it is his current favorite hobby. He doesn't sport/trophy hunt, but hunting is usually considered a sport. To watch I would say football, I think.

11. Who said "I love You" first? I think I did. Actually I think it was the night of our first kiss. But I'm not 100% sure. But the important part is that he Loves me back!

12. When and where was your first kiss? As for when, I think it was within the first month that we started dating, as for where, we were target shooting out in the desert with friends. And I was leaning against Tommy's bronco and Scott came over and leaned against me and kissed me, and left me feeling a bit dazed with a goofy grin on my face.

13. What is your favorite thing to do together? Alone together is always good. :) But I really do enjoy just going to the movies with him. Or just taking a drive somewhere.

14. How old is he? 30

15. Do you have any kids? 3 great loveable monsters! Victoria, Sirus and Logan

16. What is a hidden talent he has? He is a dreamer. It may not be a hidden talent, but I can't do it. He'll come up with these ideas, dreams, schemes and develope them, look into what he'd have to do, how it would all work, everything. Often nothing comes of it, but it's there in his mind to pull out whenever he needs a pick me up, a this could happen sort of thing. Sometimes I get frustrated because they don't happen, but sometimes they do.

17. What is his favorite type of music? He likes lots of music and all different types.

18. What do you admire the most about him? I could point out his faults or rather the things that I have a hard time with because they would be easier to list than what I admire about him, but I won't. I will say that I admire him, utterly, entirely, and wholely him. His smile, his kindness, the way he loves me, the way he loves our kids. How sometimes he seems as though he himself is a kid. Him, just him.

19. Do you think he is going to read this? Only if I read it to him so maybe he'll see it.

I am getting to being tagged kinda late, but I have been meaning to do it, it has just been taking me a while to actually sit down and do it. And the only person I am tagging is Mom. I know you don't have a blog, but I would like to hear these things about Dad anyway, unless it makes you to sad.

Yay Me!

Okay so this is probably silly to most people, but I'm excited. The main reason I looked into doing a blog was so that I could share my knitted patterns with others. And keeping that in mind there is a site that I use for other patterns, that I love. It is called Knitting Pattern Central. Anyway the gal in charge of the site says she'll post free patterns on her site if you have them up on a site/blog with pictures to go with them. So I've been trying to get some stuff up to do just that. And this last week I was able to contact her and she agreed to put my stuff up. So at least 2 of my patterns are there and now there is a link to my blog from her site! So I say, "YAY ME!!!!"

Which Sports Car Are You?

I liked my description and car. That was fun thanks!!

I'm a Mazda Miata!

You like to soak up the sun, but your tastes are down to earth. Everyone thinks you're cute. Life is a winding road, and you like to take the curves in stride. Let other people compete in the rat race - you're just here to enjoy the ride.

Take the http://www.tomorrowland.us/sportscar">Which Sports Car Are You? quiz.

Repeat

It's not technically the first day of school (for the third time)but it feels like it. Victoria is still at Gateway and is still in the same room, but that is all that is the same. They switched her class to the half day schedule, so now she goes to school from 7:30am until 11:15am. But they are also given a new teacher, Mrs. Bisack, from Texas. I've met her and she is nice and is good with the kids. Victoria freaked out this morning about all the other kids on the playground, she didn't like them being there. She was playing hopscotch and when some kids got in line behind her she stopped playing and ran back to me. I know that this might be considered a moot point, but for the last 3 weeks it has only been her class on the playground, so like 12 kids instead of 50. She doesn't like playing with kids when she can't know all there names. She didn't want me to leave this morning, and to be honest I didn't want to leave her either. I'm not sure how she is going to do today, but I can guess what she'll say when I pick her up right after lunch. 'Momma I wanna go back, it's not over yet, it's not done!'
I'm tired of the changes not just for me, but for her. She has gotten used to things that aren't gonna stay, and it makes me sad that she won't see some of the people that she really likes anymore. For instance they had their own lunch lady that took them to recess and then to lunch, her name is Miss Chris. (She is also one of the volunteer crossing guards) But Victoria comes home talking about her every day, and how she did something to make the kids smile. Or even their teacher for the last 3 weeks, Mrs. Santiago, the kids Love her! Victoria does, she'll run around the house singing her name and talking about seeing her at school, and what she's going to tell her. It all just sucks!!! Ugh, sorry, a bit of venting, and I don't feel better.

Picture Tag

I've been tagged. So here is my picture.

I do believe that this was the first time Logan sat in the walker, about to get something messy to eat. Why Victoria doesn't have clothes I can't remember, though it is likely that she was getting herself dressed and we had yet to fix the situation.

Tagged

Your age:

Grandma's Name: Gwendolyn

Favorite Object: Words. I'd like to explain. I love the words that come together to form stories, poems and music. And the words I speak to my family to let them know I Love them.

The caption reads: If you really want to touch someone, send them a letter.

Where you live:

Doing right now:

Past Love:

Favorite Animal(s):

Favorite Place:

Want to go:

Bad Habit:College:

Favorite Color:

Where you were born:

Nickname: First Job:

Favorite Food:

Name:

A Ghost Town in Italy.
A Castle.


These cool gate things that I've always liked, my name too, who knew?!

And this whole cool valley!

This was very neat, thanks!!

Busy Busy Weekend

I just wanted to post an update on my house. Well, on the trench that I helped dig. Three days and it was all done but half of the front. It was kind of a lot of hard work, but I enjoyed myself. I wasn't very fast at it but it made me feel good that I could do something to help.

Also there was the forman in charge of the dig, just to make sure we were doing it right.