You Take The Good, You Take The Bad

You Take Them Both And There You Have: The Facts Of My Life.

We will start with the good:


See these three women? They are three of my very favorite. Rachel, Rachael and I headed out to the other side of town this week to have lunch with my very missed friend Bekah. I miss having her right down the street, but love having a friend that you can pick right off where you left off, no matter the distance.

Bekah, Rachael R., Rachel P., Me

My week has also been filled, with tons of wet baby pictures. Here are a few.

Oh and I can't forget to include one of my very favorite squinty smile pics of Sade.

Another bit of goodness, is that the pumpkin seed the kids have been growing under the trampoline is getting bigger and bigger. The bad news is that there seems to be no pumpkin in sight. Just a gigantic plant.

Megan has propped the bat against the plant to keep it from falling over. It is quite limp.

Now for a bit of good news, mixed with bad. The good: My kids are very imaginative and independent players. The bad: They choose my bedroom to do most of the playing in! Now they each have a room of their own, but for some reason (I am guessing the size) my room is the play room of choice. This baffles me, because after they drag everything in there, they have to drag it all back. It seems like much less work if they would just play in their own rooms.

Their most recent mess.

See this cute almost 5 year old? He is quite the athlete and finished playing another season of pee-wee soccer. The good news is that now that he is almost 5 he can move up into the big leagues, and play some actual games.

He loves to play, and is very good, but the bad news is that he had to miss his last practice. And now for the really bad news. After we were all buckled into the car, I discovered it would not start. It turns out someone tried to steal it, and in the process cut a wire that caused the car not to start.

They broke in through the driver's side door which left this gouge, along with a dent.

They then used a screwdriver or something to break into the ignition. Apparently when doing so they broke the wire, which kept them from driving away. However there is some good news attached to this. First, the car wasn't stolen. Second, my Macgyver type husband actually fixed it so the car is now starting with no problems. These must have been some pretty inexperienced car thieves. As we were driving down our street the other day we noticed a couple of other SUV's that had the same tell-tale gouge and dent in their driver's side doors. I wonder if the thieves were finally able to steal a car, or if they just gave up!

"Who was your favorite Facts Of Life character (mine was Blair, but I also really loved Mrs. Garrett)?
"Do your kids play in their rooms, or do they drag their toys throughout the house?
"Does our pumpkin plant look normal?

"Have you ever had your car stolen?"

12 X 12 July

I am not an early riser, but since church is at 9 am, I have to be one on Sunday. However this Sunday we all slept in, so we were a bit late. I had to go in and wake my little sleepy head Sadie so she didn't miss breakfast.

Eric almost always makes pancakes for breakfast on Sunday's, which the kids all enjoy, but I feel contributes to our lateness.

Doing Megan's hair. Notice Megan playing her DS. She hasn't put it down much since she got it for her birthday.

Every Sunday we walk out to get in the car and see our FOUR newspapers waiting for us in the driveway. I do love couponing, but I think I will be downgrading to one newspaper when my contract is up.

See this little woman? It was her first day of nursery. Eric tried to take her, but since she is such a Daddy's girl, and Eric is a softy she threw herself down on the floor and refused to go. So I took over and marched her in. I hung out with her for a few minutes and then snuck out. When it was time to pick her up she was sitting on a chair and would not come to us. I think she was a bit mad that we had left her there.

After church Jackson made this cool plastic cup tower. In my house plastic cups have made a very cheap and apparently very fun toy for the kids. They make towers with them, play bowling with them, and of course try and master the fast stack game.

Megan spent quite a bit of time playing with her new toy.

Eric and Jackson spent a few hours doing one of Jackson's favorite things: Building Tracks.

Here I am doing my second most hated chore (but one I do everyday), emptying the dishwasher. Laundry is my most hated.

After dinner I headed out to a Primary Training Meeting. As you can probably see from this picture, the temperature in my car read 116 degrees. Now it wasn't 116 degrees yesterday, but it was 110 degrees. 8 years ago I would have found this heat unbearable, but now I have really acclimatized. Regardless, it was hot!


I came home to wound up kids since Eric is such a good dad and plays and plays with them. It was a good day.

"Are you an early riser?

Have you acclimatized to the heat?
What is your most hated household chore?"

Megan Said

We were discussing a red slide at the Dinosaur park that was closed.

I said: "How did they close it?"
Megan said: "Well, they put a cone at the bottom, and a copulation sign at the top."
Me: "What kind of sign?"
Megan: "A copulation sign."
Me: "Do you mean a caution sign?"
Megan: "Oh yeah. A caution sign."

I'm grateful it wasn't a copulation sign.

Megan's 9th Birthday

The kids and I started off Megan's birthday with a trip to the Dinosaur Park. I was personally dreading this trip, due to the heat, but it turned out just fine. It was downright pleasant in the shade with a little breeze. And of course the kids were fine after playing in all of the water features. Our amazing parks, are definitely a benefit to Las Vegas living.

After Eric got home, Megan finally got to open her presents.

She received craft supplies, a Nintendo DS, a couple of DS games, flip-flops (which she was in desperate need of), money, and clothes. After we opened presents, Megan chose to go to Chuck E. Cheese.

Going on a weekday night was great. It wasn't busy at all, so you could pretty much play any game you wanted, whenever you wanted.

After we got home Megan blew out her 9 candles, and we got to have dessert. I think Megan had a great day.

Wordless Wednesday-Gone In 60 Seconds

At 9

My Meg is 9 today. Wow!

At 9

• She makes a friend wherever she goes.
• She has trouble remembering peoples names.
• She takes extremely good care of Sadie. Often getting her up in the mornings and changing her diaper.
• She is little, and continues to be the smallest kid in her class each year.
  

• She continues to be a messy eater.
• She has no problem being put in new situations.
• She fights with her brother.
• She has developed quite the sense of humor, and enjoys using sarcasm.
• She is a great imaginative player.
• She enjoys being in charge.
• She is very thoughtful and loves to make people gifts and cards.

• She is not much of a sleeper and can get by on fairly little sleep.
• She is pretty easygoing.
• She eats Apple Jacks everyday for breakfast. They are her very favorite.
• She is an outside type of gal.
• She wants to have very long hair.
  
• She wears a bracelet everyday.
• She is a self-proclaimed gangster complete with hand signals, and liberal use of the terms Yo, Yo, Yo and What Up? I am choosing not to worry.
  

• She is one of a kind, and very loved by her family.

Happy Birthday Megan!!!!!!!!!

4th Of July

We spent this year's 4th of July in St. George. Our day as told in pictures (well not entirely in pictures, I can't help myself but to include a few words).

It's almost Megan's birthday, so she was able to open an early birthday present from my Mom and Ken while we were there.

Hanging out at the park.

Seriously scary snow-cone pictures.

Waiting for the fireworks to start.

This is how my camera chose to take pictures of the fireworks. I am quite enjoying it. My kidllies were so super tired on the way home that they all fell asleep watching a movie which is highly unusual. Megan and Jackson are super night owls.