First Day Of School - 2011

I was in Florida with Rick so Brooke and Ryker went to Alicia's in the morning to get their hair done.

Can't Sleep

I didn't go to bed last night until 4:00 in the morning so you'd think I'd be tired and sawing logs by now but it's 2:30 and I have been catching up on the blogs I follow for several hours now. Don't really feel like doing my own catch up, I still have Russell's birthday to blog about but I'm saving that for another insomnia filled night.

My week in a nutshell:

Sunday: fasted for my cousins baby. :(

Had an Enrichment meeting at my house, slightly frustrated with my calling, (hoping no one from church reads my blog).

Monday-Rick left for St. George.

Gave Step Interval another shot, (on accident, thought I was going to yoga), actually enjoyed it this time.

Went to Lindon Nursery t0 drop off a long over due baby gift to my cousin.

Ended up buying myself a lot of work in the yard, in the form of an herb garden and some pretty plants.

Took Jade, Kenzie and Ryker to the mall.

Shared Chinese with Ryker. The noodles were gross!

Bought a lot of stuff I didn't need and some stuff I really wanted, ( yummy lip stuff from Bath and Body Works and a new Settlers game, because I can't find an expansion kit that goes with the old game).

Read The Book Thief in the bath. Worried the whole time that I'd drop my Kindle in the water. I didn't.

Tuesday: Cheer practice, (sigh), dealing with 20 pre-teen girls, (sigh), fielding a good 2 hours of cheer phone calls and e-mails, (siiiiiiiigh)!

Took the girls and their friends to the pool.

Went to lunch with my BFF, Olive Garden, (yummy entree, burnt bread sticks, and a REALLY chatty Waiter).

Took a trip to the doctors with Ryker who fell and somehow ended up cutting the top half of his thumb almost completely off. He was pretty scared to get stitches and asked if they could put him to sleep. :)

Got pizza.

Went to get a bandage from my bathroom after cutting MY finger, to find that Ryker had been in there after cutting HIS finger and had left what looked like a crime scene straight off of CSI for me to clean up.

Made earrings with Alicia, Kelsey, Addie, Brooke and her friend Sophinie.

Planted the plants I bought yesterday. Neglected to wear mosquito repellent while planting and came in looking like I had some flesh eating disease, (mosquito bite count...somewhere in the 30ish range).

Read the Book Thief in the bath again. Didn't worry so much about dropping it this time. Hope I'm not getting to cocky.

Wednesday-Took Russell and a friend to Jordan River to fish, (laughed when Ryker said, That's where Jesus was baptized).

Dropped off cheer skirts to be monogrammed.

Had a construction worker shake his finger at my violently in a, shame on you sort of way. Still not sure why I was being scolded and really don't care.

Registered Jade and Russ for school. Paid $230 to do so.

Cleaned my friends house for 9 1/2 hours straight.

Spent the next 4 hours helping her mom make sandals, (had fun, can't wait to teach my daughters).

Thursday-Cheer again. The girls did AWESOME with their show and go's!

Rick came home! Yeah!

Went to the gym and did a leg workout with him. Ouch!

Played the new Settlers game with the girls.

Wrestled with my baby.

Went to bed, where I couldn't sleep and this is how I ended up here documenting my week.

2:51...going to give sleep another shot. Have an extra cheer practice early in the morning, must be cheery for cheer practice so, good night.

Two Years

Sunday marked the two year anniversary of B.J.'s passing. Anniversary seems the wrong word to use. An anniversary should be a happy occasion and while we had balloons it was not a celebration. Our hearts are still sad and the void B.J. left is still very much felt.
 The launch Watching the balloons float up to B.J.


Jadey Bug with her balloon, she wouldn't hold the side with her note on it for the camera to see.

The family

Russell writing his note to B.J.

T.K. found Addie's shoes laying in the grass and couldn't resist. Well he's definitely his mother's son.

Big Buddah

Big Buddah came to Lehi High School to kick off the football season. I didn't make it mandatory for my Cheerios to go because we had to be there at 6:00 in the morning. I THOUGHT they would all want a chance to be on t.v...well they didn't. Besides my daughter, who I had to drag out of bed and who refused to do her hair or make-up, I only had one other cheerio show up. Oh-well it was fun anyway. The 8th and 9th grade squads made it mandatory so we had plenty of cheerleaders to go around. We did like 6 different segments; We buzzed Buddah, had a dance competition, Barbecued, (the chicken was YUM), face painting, (this is the segment that got me on t.v.), football drills and cheerleading, and last but not least a hot dog eating contest.
Me with the Pioneer mascot.