Going into this blogging thing I had great expectations for myself. I was going to be a regular daily blogger, I have some great blogs I read and have been extremely spoiled because they are updated daily. How hard could it be, right? Now I know what monumental effort that must take. First of all, my life just doesn't have the content to warrant daily updates. It's just the same stuff, different day really. So, I'm OK with it now to hit it every once in awhile. I do have to say thank you to the blogs that are updated daily, during the long winter months when I deal with SAD anyway, then you add my supersized life stress of late, sometimes reading my daily blogs were the one thing I looked forward to . And, I am grateful for SPRING and these!These have made me happy every day since I received them! You know you have a good friend when she knows the perfect thing to do for you!!!!!!

Utah has a new Frontrunner commuter train. It runs from North Ogden to Salt Lake. Last Saturday was the first day it went online and the public has been able to ride it free since that day through today Wednesday 4/30. We wanted to take our kids to ride it, and as life happens we were scrambling tonight to get our ride since regular fare starts tomorrow. We boarded at the Woods Cross station and rode north to Roy. We then had to get off and wait to get on a southbound train to return. At Farmington (the station is just west of Lagoon) they came on the intercom and said that due to unforseen circumstances the train would not be allowed to continue south and everyone would have to get off and the train was heading north again. We were told they were dispatching UTA busses to pick everyone up to transport them to the Woods Cross Station. We waited for about 20 minutes and so I called my dad to come and rescue us, while I was talking to him they said the trains were running again and we could go wait again for it. So we went back to the platform to wait another 25 minutes. Tonight was cold, the wind was blowing and Hunter and Noah were only wearing shorts with a sweatshirt and even though Cade was covered in clothes, he is so skinny (it's hard to imagine he's our kid)that he was freezing. Hunter, Cade and Noah were crying because they were so cold....you can imagine the fun WE were having! FINALLY the train came for us and took us to the station and we got in our warm car..after warm showers everyone went to bed. The Woods Cross station is RIGHT by several refineries and there was an explosion at one of them, all the roads were blocked off and that's what shut the train down. You know how you feel like whatever you do can't just be simple, something dramatic has to happen to make it even more memorable than just normal. Everything we do turns into a fiasco so I don't know why I'm ever surprised.
When you're in SLC you'll have to take it for a ride....it's pretty fun.

This morning Shawn joined !10,000! other people at the Deal or No Deal casting call in SLC. He was number 2720 in line and that was approximately 8:40 am. They were seeing all the people that got into line by 1:00pm. the line went !FOREVER! You had 20 seconds to say what you wanted them to hear. He didn't get "held up" for a second or third interview so he'll just chock it up to a fun experience!

So..... I got a new pair of shoes!

Really, you don't know what a big deal that is! Really!Big! Deal! I just don't buy shoes... hardly ever! I was thinking what shoes I bought last year, a pair of $12 wedge flip flops and a pair of slides (only because I met up with my good friend CLEARANCE SALE and they were $13... not that cute... just cheap!). So, I haven't had a pair of athletic shoes for like 3 years now. Right after I had Noah I went walking and came home with blisters on my toes (the foot growing thing with each pregnancy is true) and so I threw them away. Yes, I have walked since then, I just wore crocs. Not great for the feet I know... So now we have passes to our recreation center and my friend and I want to go use the track and exercise machines so that means I needed a decent pair of shoes. So, I rarely shop anymore! (GASP! ....I KNOW!!!) But last week Kohl's opened right by our house and so Shawn MADE me go buy a pair of shoes! They feel AMAZING!!!

Do any of you have a Zutter bind-it-all? Well, you should get yourself one!

I have made the cutest little mini books with these. I made all the YW a little quote book for their birthday gift, and I made a little mini book of President Hinckley's quotes for each of my Laurels shortly after he passed away. Really cute! So the other day Cade was asking me if I knew where this little tiny notebook of his was and of course it could be one of a million places. I told him I could make him a really cool book though. So with 3 sheets of copy paper cut 2x2.5 and some chipboard for the cover I made him a very cute, tiny (just how he wanted it) and may I just say better book than the one he was looking for. (he was impressed) It was for SPELLS you know! And that is his tomagotchi he has drawn on the cover. How cute is that!

He is so SIX! I love that kid!
I saw this quote on a plaque last night.
"Make time for the quite moments because God whispers and the world is loud."
So true!

April Fool's Fun

Who doesn't have cupcakes, fries and sushi for dinner. Geez! We threw the kids out of the kitchen while we prepared our little fool's dinner. Cade heard a little of me talking earlier about what I was planning so he spread the word we were having at least sushi. The kids weren't thrilled!



Just a little fun from Family Fun magazine. The cupcakes are meatloaf in a foil cupcake cup, with pink tinted mashed potatoes. The fries are little bread sticks with ketchup (strawberry jam) in stolen McDonalds ketchup cups. And the sushi is rice krispie treats with gummy worms rolled in the middle wrapped with fruit by the foot. (prominently displayed on my ALL TIME favorite plate that I protect with my life and would DIE if anything ever happened to it, I have and will always LOVE polka dots). Thanks Nicki!
The teenager gave me some crap about the dinner, however at YM activity he told a few friends what his "lame" mother served up for dinner. Hah, I knew he liked it. The next day Cade asked if we could have the same dinner we had last night! I knew it was worth the trouble! And it was good!

I'd like to thank my good friend Kayla who is my digital scrapbook hero for prodding me FOREVER to do this (and if you want to learn anything about digital scrapbooking she has phenomenal turorials you can link to from her blog). I'd also like to thank my college roomie, Cindy for beating me to the punch with a blog of her own and making me want to get out there too.

I have had the worst time getting started. (I have had this set up for months ) I am not the journaling type and I guess I just can't get comfortable with putting myself out there. Not that anyone will really read this anyway. I'm just a dork I guess.
Anyway, these are my boys....

they are my life and I'm still just trying to figure "it" out. Whatever "it" is.

So there you have it, my first post. And I promise not to delete it like I have like 10 times before. I told you I was a dork!
Now I must go fold the sock basket......7 people........2 socks each.......per day.....a couple weeks worth.......man I gotta fold a lotta socks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!