Well, no matter how hard I fought it, my baby turned two.  This was really an emotional birthday.  I secretly want Warren to stay my baby forever, but I know I don't get that wish!  So my wonderful little man turned two today.  He loved to tell the Comcast guy, "birthday, birthday! Elmo!"  The poor guy looked a little confused but I filled him in and he wished Warren a happy birthday.  We had Warrens party last Saturday.  It was a little early for my liking but it was the only time in the month that it would work.  He had a blast.  We kept it really small but it was still so much fun.  He is such a happy baby...er, I mean big boy.  I love having him in my life and couldn't imagine not living with out him.  I am so thankful that got to have him as our "caboose!"  He really completes are family.  Here is too many more birthdays Warren!

The last weekend of April Jake went to the Grand Canyon with some friends from Scouts.  (not the kids, but the leaders)  It really was something neat for him to do.  They did a 12 hours hike from the top to the bottom and then back out.   He loved it.  I was really proud of him.  I had no clue what all a hike like this takes.  He started days in advanced eating differently, even cutting his toe nails.  I sure did miss him, but  I knew he was having the time of his life.  He is hoping to go back in October with the same guys to do a different trail.  I hope it all works out for him to go. I couldn't pick which photos to post from his trip, so I put them all up.  I hope you enjoy.

I've been going through alot of photos from my mom's basement and found this treasure trove of pics from my childhood.  Mom and spent most of the night belly laughing over them and I thought that it would be great to post some of them so my brothers and sisters could get a whif of memory lane, and because it is nice to embarssas the crap out of all of us.  Enjoy!

I finally have my wonderful computer back!  We had our friend fix it.  Aparently it was a hassel and we are SOOOO thankful for it.  We owe them a night of babysitting.  It looks like it was the camera we installed that was making the computer crash!  Of all things!  But I have my wonderful, beautiful, perfect computer back and I am happy as a clam!  I have up loaded some much need photos.  Some of those date back to Feburary.  I also have Jake's Grand Canyon Photo's and his promotion to 1st LT photos that I am excited to get posted.  I am finally getting over this horriable flu that has attacked me.  I am still tired alot but I don't have a fever!  THat is the first time in almost four days!  YEEE HAWW, I am ready to get on with my life!  I had an appointment with my foot doctor.  He said my foot is healing well.  I have one spot that still needs a little time, So I have to go back in a month.  I can now not wear my boot in the house but still have to wear it when I go out places.  I will only have to do this for about five days and then I don't have to wear it at all.  In one month if the spot is still giving me problems then I will have to get injections in my foot.  I really don't want to have that happen. I am determind to keep stretching the foot and wearing supportive shoes.   That means good bye to flip flops.  But Crocs are ok.  Jake also bought me a really nice pair of New Balance tennis shoes.  He is also very concerned with keeping my feet strong.  He doesn't want me to have to go through the surgery like he did.  He is so cute.  He has done so well taking care of kids and me while I have been sick.  He told me that he was trying to keep the house as clean as I would. He did a fantastic job!  I was really impressed.  I guess I should get sick more often!   

Apple juice containers need to come with a warning on them.  I really think it should become mandated by congress or something else important.  I think every mother knows what kind of warning I mean.  One that should read something like this:  “Warning:  If the contents of this can spill on floor beware that no matter what short cuts you take you will have to mop.  Not swiffer, not wet wipes, not a wet rag.  A full blown, move the furniture, break out the bucket, back breaking mopping.” 

We had a cup of the stuff spill yesterday.  I would have to guess the culprit was Kimball because the cup was blue.  (I color code my kids so it is easier to catch the assassin.)  Because I have been sick, I didn’t catch it right away.  I found it this morning when I was being so sweet and wonderful and got up before my husband to make him pancakes.  I stepped right in it.  It glues you to the floor, you feel violated.  I though with only a couple of minutes to give the mess I got some wet wipes and gave it a good scrubbing.  I really had the optimism that this time it will work.  Wrong.

So, now, I am faced with a moral dilemma. Should I be a wonderful wife and just get it over with or should I make up some great excuse and have Jake do it when he gets home? This is tough.   I really don’t want to mop my floor.  It is a big pain!  Honestly, who wakes up in the morning excited to mop the floor?  I think I would rather go to the dentist. If, I get Jake to do the chore for me then I give him the opportunity to serve his wife.  Now, I wouldn’t want to take that opportunity away would I? 

All of this is making me thirst, I wonder if any apple juice it left.

Yesterday was a great treat.  Jakes brothers and there wives and kids surpised us with a visit.  It was so nice.  I had been telling Jake that I was missing them.  So we did a big dinner and played games and sat around and talked.  It was great.  I got to hold little baby Jordan all I wanted.  Oh it was theraputic.  I really missed having a tiny baby to hold.  IT was fun to see my kids interacting with there cousins.  Phoebe was so inthralled with the baby.  She brought him small stuffed animals and sang him and songs.  She loved getting to hold him.  She is a natural mommy.  She kept telling me that she wanted eight babies.  She melts my heart. 

I am still hobbling around.  I can tell that the pain is getting better in the arch of my foot.  I just have pain in my calf because I am walking so funny in my boot.  But I am happy to feel the terriable arch pain going away.  I hope this means that the foot is healing correctly and I wont have to have a cast.  Lets keep thinking possitive. 

Tomorrow Jakes pins on his next rank!  I am so excited.  We arn't really doing anything big, but I am having a friend take pictures, hopefully I will be able to post them online.  Our PC is still not working right, so I might have to get creative. 

I have been debating switching my blog over to blogspot.  Just about everyone I know is using blog spot or is in the porcesses of switching over.  So I was wondering if you guys would give me some feed back on things you like or don't like  about blog spot. 

Well, as many of you know about ten days ago I hurt my right foot.  I just woke up one morning and stood up like I always do.  But this time I heard a "pop" sound and felt immediate pain shoot through my foot.  Then the swelling started.  It became huge!  I was miserable.  I thought that will a little rest it would calm down and I could get on with life.  Right!  It just kept getting worse.  I finally went the doctor on Monday.  He told me that I had done something to the muscles and to come back in TEN days to get it checked again.  He then sent my on my way with nothing else.  The pain was getting so bad at night that the only way I could get anything resembling sleep was to take a percicet. That just made me want to go back to a different doctor.  I can't drive my car at this point because the position I put my foot in causes so much pain.  I am also walking with a very noticeable limp.  Wednesday I call and get another appointment, with another doctor, hoping to have better luck.  My wonderful friend drove me and the two boys to the clinic, she dropped me off and then took the boys to play group!  What an angel!!!  The doctor this time did x-rays just to make sure nothing is broken.  It isn't but I must say that I think x-rays are beautiful!  I love the starch white bones against the crisp black.  I just think it is so fascinating that it is MY body.  That is my foot.  Those are my bones.  So neat, but getting back on topic.  He did a very painful exam on my foot and felt that I need to get into a podiatrist right way.  He has his nurse make me the appointment right there!  Talk about serious.  He said he was concerned that there might be an infection in the joint and that can be pretty serious.  I was able to get the same podiatrist as Jake.  I really like that guy.  Jake loaded the kids and I up in the car this morning at eight and drove us to Ogden.  The nurses were so happy to see Jake doing so well and got a big kick that we decided to make this a family affair.  The doc came in and got a history and then did and ultrasound on my foot.  It hurt.  A lot.  But he was able to see what was happing in my foot. Come to find out I have ruptured the plantar facial tissue in three places in my right foot!  Oh boy!!  Jake had to have surgery on his plantar facial tissue last year.  He said that with Jake, he had a build up of scar tissue from it not being treated right away.  So far I don't have any of that scar tissue which makes it easier for me to heal without have surgery.  So the first step is to put me in a boot.  It looks like a big black cast.  But I can walk on this one.  I have to wear it for two weeks.  I can take it off to sleep and to shower.  If I am not feeling some relief from in by Monday I have to go get a cast put on it! Yikes.  That is the last thing I need.  I am really hoping that the boot works.  Right now it hurts because it is forcing my very sore foot into a position that it doesn't like.  I hope that with some good rest it will get to feeling a whole lot better.  They gave me some pain meds but I am kinda scared to take them.  At the pharmacy they told me that it is going to interact with my Prozac and I really don't like the symptoms they listed.  I am going to try just Motrin for now and suck up the pain.  We'll see how long it lasts.  I really am a wimp.  Jake as be so wonderful.  He took today off so he could take me to the doctor and help me with things around the house that need to get done.  He swept, mopped, vacuumed, went to the grocery store, did the dishes, just about everything I can think of he has taken care of for me.  He is such an amazing man.  He did leave me to go on a camp out this weekend.  But that is alright.  He has had this planned for a while and my mom is coming up.  So I really was only alone for two hours.  One of which all three kids were in bed for.  My plan is just to take it easy this weekend.  I won’t have to worry about the kids. They will be glued to my mom.  Jake will be home Sunday.  Monday I will just have to have learned how to hobble a long with this ten pound boot! 

Oh I had a wonderful mothers day!  Jake really went all out for me.  So did the kids.  I guess I should start with Friday.  It was Fathers and Sons camp out.  Jake was so excited that he finally gets to take his boys camping.  I got the van all packed up for them in the day and as soon as Jake walked in the door Kimball ran out to the van he was so excited!  It really melted my heart.  Jake quickly changed and a way they went.  Not to feel left out Phoebe and I had a great night.  We rented a movie, we went to the craft store to get supplies for a necklace for my mom for mothers day.  Phoebe even picked out some wooden beads and made Bella a homemade necklace herself.  SHe had a blast.  She learned how to make french toast and then my mom arrived and she got Bella all to herself.  We ran a couple of errans and then had to go pick up Warren.  He just didn't get the sleeping in a tent.  Kimball was having the time of his life.  Jake was on cloud nine.  Warren quickly went to bed and Phoebe and Bella told stories.  I watched my movie and then went to bed.  My mom let me sleep in on Saturday morning.  I was a much need treat, because my foot was killing me.  The guys came home and we got everything cleaned up and then Jake announced that he and the kids needed to go shopping!  Great, mom and I went to do some of our own.  We got home a little after Jake and the kids.  As I walk in the house Phoebe comes running out of my craft room with a HUGE smile on her face and says, "don't find it mommy!"  I promised her I wouldn't and she was laughing and teasing me that she knew what my surpise was.  She is soo cute.  My mom recieve two beautiful delieveries of flowers that day.  Sunday was great.   Jake got up and made me pancakes and then had to run out the door to choir practice.  Mom and I got the kids to church and Jake got called as the Ward Mission Leader.  He also sang in a quartet in Sacrament.  The song was called "A Mother's Love"  It was really beautiful.  I got to teach Young Women and that was a lot of fun.  I was able to open my gifts when I got home.  Jake brought out my sewing machine box.  I was a little confused.  But he told me open it.  From the weight I could tell that my machine was not in there.  When  I looked inside there was two cricut cartridges the the cricut computer software!  I was sooooooo surprised!!  I love it.  Phoebe picked out a Disney Princess Cartridge and Kimball picked out one I Really am not that fond of, so I think I will chang it out for one I want.  I just wont let him know.  After drooling over my gifts I asked Jake were my sewing machine was and he told me that it will be ready for pick up on the 15h!! He got it fixed for me!!!  Wow, did I feel loved!  Pheobe also made me a beaded braclet.  I fet like a queen.  Jake made dinner of cranberry chicken.  Yum!  What a great weekend.  I wish I could get treated like this once a month! 

For the past few days I have been working like a maniac at the gym, in the yard, and in the house.  I hurt all over.  But it is also the good kind of hurt, the kind where you know you got a fantastic work out. I have gotten back to thirty minutes at the gym.  I really love how it makes me feel  it gives me so much engergy and I feel so much better about myself.  My yard is looking fantastic!  I have spent about ten dollars and really done a change to the yard.  It makes me feel great to have acomplished something like this.  I really can't wait to get photos up.  I was able to get hanging  flower baskets at Big Lots for $4 a peice.  They are beautiful.  I love that store.  I still have plans for the yard.  I can't wait to make them all happen.  I have been cleaning the house and getting rid of things that just cause clutter.  I am also trying to get things in order to know how much more food storage we need.  I am really just staying busy.

As always when I find myself doing too much at once The Lord finds a way to tell me to slow down.  Today I was waking up and stood up really fast to take care of a very messy Kimball diaper. As I stood up I felt a pop in my right foot and man, it hurt!  IT started to swell and I couldn't  put my full weight on it.  I really have no clue as to what I did.  I think is muscule related. I really thought I had been stretching enough.  I guess not.  I am now stuck on the couch with my foot proped.  My clean house is not cluttered with train sets and puppy in my pockets in the living room.  THe couches have blankets, pillows, and stuffed animals all over them, the table still has lunch smeared all over it and I wont even go to the Kitchen.  It is just too sad. 

Poor Jake is now going to come home to crazy kids, a mess house, and oh, yeah, you have to make dinner.  I am sure it is not the welcome home he wants, but I know he will take care of us.  Of me. 

This foot thing really hurst.  I am so frusterated.  I wanted to be doing things!!!  I want to put the flower beds in the back, I want to transpant the plants that are in the wrong spot.  I want to lay fertilizer down, I want to go to the garden and make sure it is growing well.  I want to finish the dress for Phoebe.  I need to deliever the invitations for Jakes promotion.  My craft room is way messy and Ineed to get it cleaned out before my mom comes this weekend. 

I am trying to see some good to this injury.  This is what I have come up with.  I am getting a lot of snuggle time with the kids.  I get to blog, I get to read, I get to give my body a bit of rest.... I really can't think of much else.  I really hope it my foot heals fast.  I think a day or two of rest and some stretching might help.  I will take somoe muscle relaxer when Jake gets home.  I am so thankful he doesn't have anything schedualed for tonight.  It is the only night this week that he has "off". 

I will keep him updated on the foot!

I have jumped in to yard work with both feet!  I told Jake that this year I was going to take care of the front yard.  I have had plans for a while, but the problem is that my budget is just a few pennies.  I have really wanted to put a flower bed in around the base of our tree.  So today I gathered all the large rocks in our yard and made a circle around the tree.  I had one rock to spare!  It looks great and I was really suprised at the prettiness of some of the rocks I found.  I had some left over garden fabric from the garden, the kind you lay down and cover with dirt and weeds don't grow.  I layed that around the tree and held it in place with the rock boarder.  The base offers free mulch and top soil, so when Warren wakes up I am going to get some of that and make the flower bed with it.  I did buy some pretty pink and white flowers that I plan on planting around the tree.  I am really excited.  This is a project that is actually turning out how I pictured it in my head.  I really wish that my PC was working so I could download the pictures. I pulled all the weeds from the hedges and cleaned the area around it.  I layed some of the garden fabric down too.  I am gong to put some top soil there.  I hate pulling weeds and I think it will make it look cleaner.  Fresh dark dirt always looks great, and it is free!  I want to put down white rocks like I have around my roses, but alas that costs money.  I will have to wait on that one.  I amg going to put down fertilizer when Jake shows  me how.  Maybe I wont let him eat till he does!  That will motivate him.  I love being out in the sunshine.  The kids love it too.  The come in everynight exhausted and covered in dirt.  Today I caught them trying to roll down our hill in our wagon.  I had to put a stop to that one.  I could only imagine what would happen to them!  In the evening I have been teaching myself to sewing a pattern.  I have a great friend how is helping me.  I picked an easy to sew dress for Phoebe.  I found some great fabric for cheep at Wal-Mart and I have been working on it everynight.  I have completed the bodice and tonight I will be putting the skirt together.  I have shocked myself with being able to do it, granted there are mistakes and my seam ripper and I have become friends, but it hasn't been as hard as I thought it would be.  I havn't done the zipper yet, and that looks a little scarey but I know I can call Alyssa anytime!  No, my sewing machines aren't fixed yet, my wonderful neighbor is letting me borrow hers. Thanks Emily!  I promise to give it back soon!  I really can't wait to show pictures of it.  I would like Phoebe to wear it to Jakes promotion ceremony on the 20th.  I think I can have it done by then.  We'll see.   

I got my wonderful van back!  Yes, it is FINALLY fixed.  Last night we dropped it off at the dealer and they looked at it and ran a bunch of tests.  Come to find out there was nothing wrong with our alternater.  All they could find was a bad wire in the exhaust system.  That is it!  They said they had no clue why Sears was said it was our alternater.  Hmmmm.  I don't know what to think about that.  But none the less I have my wonderful van.  When I finally sat in my driver seat I just feel in love with the van.  I love the the smooshed golfish crackers and sticky raisins.  I love the aroma of stale water and a camp fire.  I love being one of every other van on the road.  I love the freedom of going where I need or want to go!  Yippee my van is back.  Because it was only a wire it ended up costing us less then half of what Sears said.  Even better!  Now where can I go tomorrow? 

This morning I was frantically running late to get Phoebe out the door to school.  Of course I find Warren playing in the humidfier water and is soaked and Kimball of course poops.  Oh I can tell it is going to be one of those days.  I finally get them all buckled in the car to find out that the car is DEAD!  At this point I just wanted to scream out loud, "What else do you have for me?!  Bring it on, I can take it!"  Like I really could.  But I get the confused kids out of the car and start a fast paced walk to school.  Warren is wet, Kimball wont part with his book, Phoebe is in her three inch too small Tinker Bell pajamas, because it is a PJ party at school, and I am in my clothes I slept in and a pony tail holding hair that I havn't had time to brush.  Oh what a great looking group we must be!  We did get Phoebe to school with about three and a half seconds to spare.  While there I tell Aylssa about my moring and she offers to jump my van.  I call Jake and tell him to meet us there.  We push the van out of the car port and try to use the Taurus to jump it.  Nothing.  At this point I start hearing some really loud classical music.  I find that very odd.  Where on earth would that be coming from?  I ask Alyssa if that was her car making that noses, and she says that she thought it was the Taurus.  We both look at her van and see  the shadow of a kid out of there car seat.  We leave everything that we are doing and run to the Van that is holding all four kids.  I am already yelling, "Kimball don't you touch a thing!"  We rip open the van door to BLASTING classical music, a screaming baby and WARREN sitting in the front seat smiling all big and cute!  That kid figured how to get out of his seat!  That child will give me my first  gray hairs, I am sure of it.  With Warren duct taped back in his seat we turn back to Jake who has been trying to get the van to start.  Still no avail.  But we do have a radio that works and the locks now work.  Those wouldn't even work before.  Jake then gets the idea to try using Alyssa's van.  We do a little car dance and try.  Nope, still not working.  We are about to give up and fall back on the "wait till Ty gets home" saying when Jake asks to try it one more time.  Always the optimist.  It worked!! The van started.  Jake then said that we should get it over to Sears while it is running and get a new battery.  Aylssa agree to follow me out there.  To add to my day, the guy that so warmly greated me at the door was in training so it took thirty minutes to get me logged into the computer.  The checked my battery and came and told me that the battery was fine.  I think felt that rock in my stomach.  You know that rock, the one that apears at time when you know you are going to have to spend way too much money for something.  Yes, that rock was now in my stomach.  I get the courage to ask what is wrong with the van and how much it is going to cost.  It is the alternater and it it will be a few hundred dollars.  When he said that I think the rock grew about two inches.  After a long time of waiting on this newbie to learn how to work the computer I am told the grand total fo $366.13.  Ugh!  Knowing I have to have the van I tell them to go ahead and start the work.  They gave me time frame of and hour and a half.  Not to bad. I can go with Alyssa on her errans and the get dropped at the van to get back to base to pick Phoebe on time.  So doing what Alyssa and I do best we go shopping.  NOthing like getting rid of that rock in your stomach then shopping.  Wal-Mart had a HUGE selection of fabric on sale for a $1.00 a yard.  What a deal.  I was able to get some darling fabric for doll dresses there.  I really can't wait to start!  While I was head first in a fabric bin my phone rings.  It was Sears calling to tell me that they can't fix my car.  Here comes that rock again.  I asked why not.  They said that my van has part of my A/C on top of my alternater and that no one there is certified to mess with A/C units.  They did have a guy coming in at five who was certified.  I asked if he could do it when he got there at five and they told me yes, but that the hour and a half time they promised me wouldn't work. I was a little short whenI said, "can you just have it done by tonight?"  I was told that they could and that they just thought I needed my van back as soon as possiable.  If I got it back as soon a possiable I couldn't be having my retail therpy now could I?  I told them I was in no hurry to get it back, just some time today.  Great.  So now I am stuck at home for the rest of they day trying to figure out a way to get the kids to the church so they can see the magician with no van or car seats. Oh the stress of it all!  I need to take a nap!

Friday was Kimballs appointment with his speech theripist.  It was so much fun.  It is set up like a preschool room.  Little chairs and tables.  Lots of toys.  They started out with having Kimball sit at the table and play with some toys.  The lady would write down what he said and if she interperted it wrong she would mark off some points.  She was amazed at how Kimball talked SO much.  She said usually she would have to brib kids to talk.  She then opened a book and pointed to pictures and asked Kimball to say them.  She would make a mark for the ones he didn't say well.  After that she asked him direct questions and wrote the responses down.  My favorite was, "Kimball, what is your favorite food?"  Kimball replied, " Yummy food my Mom makes, that makes me healthy."  The lady burst out laughing and said she has never heard any kid say that!  She told me the biggest responses are Man and Cheese and McDonalds.  After asking Kimball questions she then gave him little tasks to do, like "Kimball can you give me three blocks and can you hold two blocks.?"  "Kimball, can you get the book off the floor and bring it to me, then give the pencil to your mom?"  He had so much fun doing it.  He thought it all was games.  At the end of it all the came to me and told me that Kimball does not have a speech delay.  He is actually advanced!  He is about a year ahead of his peers.  The words that he is having trouble with are normal.  She said that he does have a habit starting out speeking clearly and then trailing off.  She showed me something to do to work with him on.  She also told me that he talks to fast and gets words jumbled up.  So we have to clap out sentances with him to show him to slow down. I felt so releieved!  We don't quailify for headstart so we were able to get him into a preschool right off base.  It isn't the one that Phoebe is going to.  They arn't doing one there next year, so I will have to find a way to do all the scheduals, but I am sure I can make it work!  I am just so excited he got into one. I feel like getting your kid into preschool is harder then getting into Harvard!  Warren is starting to show signs of wanting to be potty trained!  I really am shocked.  here , Kimball is almost four and has no desire and Warren is two months shy of Two and is starting to tell me when is going potty!  Maybe this will motivate Kimball.    

New photos to come once I get my camera back and get my PC working again.

Last night I did something that I can't even remember the las time I did it.  I went to bed at six thirty!  The kids were all ready for bed at six and I had been feeling so worn out all day.  I just crashed on the couch.  Jake was still home for a little bit before Scouts so if the kids got up he took care of them.  I guess he left for Scouts at the right time.  I couldn't tell you.  If the kids got up for any reason I was not aware of it.  Around nine thirty my bladder woke me up and I took care of it, and then crawled right into bed and didn't move till six thirty this morning.  WOW!  I needed that! I am usually one of those people that have a set schedual I do before bed.  I pick up the house.  I check the TV to make sure the channel is set to a kid friendly show.  I start the dishwasher,  I wipe down the counters and table.  I spray the house down with a clorox spray I check on the kids, I wash my face, brush my teeth.  Jake and read scriptures and say prayers and then we usally lay in bed talking about the day.  Nope not yesterday.  I found my clothes in a heep in the floor and my breath let me know I did not brush my teeth.  IT was just sleep.  I guess the body does have a way of taking over when you are so worn out.  It just shuts down!  I am really thankful that Jake was in tune enough to let me just sleep.  I love that man so much!  Today I am still feeling like my body wants me to take it easy but I do feel well rested!  Phoebe has been fighting allergies and for the past few days has not gone to school.  That really says something.  She is one of those kids that hates to miss school.  She begs to go even when she has been vomiting.  But the past few days she has been waking up and saying she just wants to go back to bed.  I havn't pushed her at all.  I might get her a doctors appointment to get some allergy meds.  I am feeling really over whelmed with Kimball.  He is really struggling with his speach and behavior.  We are having a lot harder time understanding him.  This results in him throughing HUGE fits.  He has started to hit and kick ands slap.  Usually me.  I am trying to hard to foucus right on him when he starts to talk, but as a mom other children it is not always possiable.  His playing with other children is getting wores too.  The kids can't understand him so he will hit them or scream at them.  That goes over like a lead balloon!  I really just don't know what to do.  He also throws these huge tantrums when he doesn't do something right the first time.  Yesterday we were practising writing letters.  Something he use to love to do.  Now if he doesn't write the letters perfectly the first time he screams and cries and doesn't want to try anymore.  I am trying so hard to work with him and encourage him to keep doing it and that the letters he is writting are great.  (They really are great letters for a three year old.)  Also, he isn't eating like he use to.  He is only eating a select few foods.  Yogart, soy milk, bread, oatmeal, pancakes, cheese, and mac and cheese.  Anything else becomes a battle.  He use to eat bannans and rice, and other meals that I would cook.  Wbge have a speech therapy appointment on the 25th of this month.  We have had his hearing checked.  That is fine.  I just want to be able to help him.  I hate having to wait for appointments. The 25th seems like forever away.  I will keep you all updated on him.  I know I need post the blog about his appointment but that is taking me a little longer than I thought to post.  It will be up soon

Ijust love General Conference!  It is such a spiritual lift to me.  I loved sustaining President Thomas S. Monson as our Prophet.  Phoebe and Kimball loved that they got to raise there hands too.  I was really touched by the change in Pres. Monson.  You really could tell that he has changed (for the better)  He has changed, because he has a different mantel now.  It was just a stronger witness to me that he is the living Prophet of God.  I loved his talks.  He is always such a great speaker.  I just feel so captivated by his stores and encouagment.  I also was really impressed with Elder Richard G. Scotts talk.  He is the one who talked about sexual abuse.  Boy, he didn't beat around the bush.  His words were filled with loved and you could tell that he was truly inspired to speak on that subject.  I really liked Elder Ballards talk about young Mothers.  I really need to hear that.  I loved all the praise he gave us but also the loving rebuke to not be so addicted to the TV, internet, and even things like scrapbooking!  They way he spoke didn't make you feel bad, it made you want to do better!  Try harder.  It really made me feel good when he said the joy of motherhood comes is special moments.  It isn't all the time.  I that me feel so good to know that the times when I say to myself, "If motherhood is suppost to be this great joy then way to I feel like screaming at the top of my lungs?"  isn't wrong. I don't always feel that way, but there are days when no matter what you do, it is just a hard day.  I think everyone feels that way at sometime.  I was really impressed with Elder Hollands talk about we are Chrsitens even though we have more then just the bible.  I really want to read that talk when it comes out in the Ensign next month.  All of the points and quotes he had was fantastic.  Did anyone else pick up on how much the family was talked about?  It seemed like a huge theme and it was fantastic!!  Also they talked a lot about the fundemintals of the gospel.  How the orginazations work, our core beliefs and values.  Oh, it was so wonderful.  I really have been debating on buying the talks on CD so I can start listening to them while I clean, works out or even craft.  I think it would get me away from watching crap on TV.  I will have to look in to that.  I really hope that my kids have a love for Conference weekend as they grow up.  I want to make it a special weekend for them.  Special family activities.  I am starting to plan for Octobers conference.  As I was dropping off one of my Young Women who watched Conference at my house we were driving past a few people working in there yards, and I felt so sad.  I had just listened to a Prophet and Apostles of God and these people didn't even know it.  Conference makes me want to be a better missionary.  I wish everyone could feel as wonderful as I do inside right now.  While we sung "We Thank Thee O God for A Prophet"  Pheobe and Kimball joined us and Phoebe told me that she felt happy inside.  I was able to take a moment and explain to her that she was feeling the sprirt.  What a great experience that was!  I love conference.  I love listening, learning and being uplifted by these wonderful Men and Women.  I am so thankful we have  a prophet today to guide us.  I know that Thomas S. Monson is a Prophet of God.  I know that Jesus is the Christ.  I know He died for us and suffored for us that we may live with Him one day.  I am know that families can be forever and that it is possiable by the revelations of temple work.  I am thankful that I have a forever family.  In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

HURRAY FOR ALL DAY KINDERGARDEN!!!!!!!  PHOEBE GOT IN!!!  That means she will be in school from 8:50am to 3:25pm every weekday!  Wow, what is that going to be like?  I think she is more excited about it then me.  I don't know, I am pretty excited.  Phoebe will be in all day Kindergarden, and Kimball will be in Preschool for half days.  What is life going to be like with one kid?  I really might not know what to do with myself! 

 

A blog about Kimballs appointment to follow....