Does anyone want to color?

I bought Mackenzie some colors and a coloring book yesterday. She was so excited. She didn't get much on her page, but she sure thought she was doing a good job. We had a good time. I then pulled her slide out and let her show me just how much she has grown. When we first got the slide she didn't even know how to slide, but now she climbs up by herself with no help and slides with no problem. I look at her and think how fast time has gone by and how much she has learned and it just seems unreal to think she is defiantly not a baby anymore, she is a "Toddler" now. It makes me sad and then again so excited to see her growing so much. I love watching her learn new things...She gets so excited when she figures it out. I am so glad she is in my life and I would trade it for anything in this world. I love my little stinky girl.

Already a USM fan.

We hope Southern Beats Boise States Butt :) We wish we could go to the game. My sister lives in Boise and Southern is playing there this week. Too bad we couldn't be there now...I would love to go to the game.

Tuesday's thoughts

Well just wanted to say congrats to Richard and Erica and baby Ruby Anne. We hope everyone is doing great and can't wait to see pictures. Well I have still been thinking about the whole job situation. If I would have taken the job, I would have not had a paid vacation, no paid maternity leave(no not pregnant), I would have had to buy all new clothes...business casual! I only do casual. I wear flip flops to work everyday. I love that part. I just know that Heavenly Father has a plan for my life and when I do my part I just need to let him do his. He knows what I need at this time in my life and I have to accept that. I think it sounds strange to most people, but I couldn't go against the Lord. Sometimes we don't know why Heavenly Father points us in the directions he does until much later and then we look back and say....oh, maybe that is why :) Like when I decided to drop out of Ricks and move home...the day after I got home, I met Jake. Eventhough at the time he was married and I was certainly not interested in a non member, married older man. Much less to date anyone. Well little did I know that on that day, that I hadn't showered or fixed my hair that I would be meeting my Eternal Companion. He later seperated from his wife and actually moved in with my sister and brother-n-law. We were reintraduced and went on our first date almost a year after that first meeting. I was still not interested after all that time to start "DATING". I didn't want to just date anymore....I knew that the next "boyfriend" I had would be the guy I intended on marrying. Well Jake joined the church in March of 2002. We started "DATING" the first of June 2002...and were married June 5, 2003. It hasn't always been easy and we have had very hard times in the past 4 years. We have become stronger and closer to our Heavenly Father through every struggle. I would not change the path my life has taken or the blessings Heavenly Father has given to me and my family. Okay, enough of that. I am completely excited for our trip out west. I can't wait to go. I am a little nervous about taking Kenzie though. I just worry she will be one of those babies that screams the entire flight. I hope not! She has become such a good traverler. She very well in the car and maybe this will not be too bad either. The longest stretch is about 3 hours at once on the plane and maybe she will sleep through most of it. I hope so. I am busy today getting ready for Inventory at work. All I can say is overtime, overtime, overtime. I will not be getting in before 11 p.m. after Thursday. I am working late, Thursday, Friday and I have to work until about 7 on Saturday and then some on Sunday. I am not ready I don't think. Jake will be on his own with Kenzie on Thursday and then his mama is coming to stay with us this weekend...thank goodness. Jake has to work all weekend so that stinks. She will have a good time with Kenzie I think. I just hope Kenzie will nap for her and go to bed at night for her like a good girl. I can do it Saturday night, but Friday is what I am worried about. I just hope she takes a nap for her on Saturday and Sunday...she didn't last time she stayed with her. But I am sure she will do fine. Well if you have a chance you need to check out my friends blog. She is selling hairbows and they are really cute. So check it out Two Little Ladybugs.

NO GO!

Well I hate to inform everyone...but I am not going to be changing jobs...After some prayer and a lot of thinking I just don't think it is a wise choice to make. I will be staying at my current job for now.

On our way to "School" she got a little silly. I had my camera and decided to take a picture of her actually smiling. Well I got some. Usually my camera misses her smiling somehow. I know it is my camera and not my picture taking ability. :) Well anyway...here are some recent pictures of my sweet baby.

So Exciting

Just wanted to say congratulations to my cousin Leslie, Clay, and of course Kennedy!!! They are going to be adding to their cute family. Les is about 5 weeks along. I am so excited for them. I Guess it is my turn now! HA! Well see :D I can't wait to meet her or him. I hope everything goes as smooth as it did with Kennedy! I love y'all and will see y'all this weekend.

It's over

Well I finally got some balls (sorry if someone found this offensive) and told my boss I "QUIT". Okay so I didn't shout it...I actually cried. I like where I work and I am hoping I am making the right decision by moving jobs. It is always scary to do for me. I like normal and I like change it is just hard at first. But that is what life is all about, right? She said I have done an excellent job and she hated to lose me, but that she completely understood. She wasn't mad, just a Little shocked I guess. But boy the relief I feel is enormous.

Well not much going on at home. Just another typical week for us...busy as usual. Kenzie was a ill pill yesterday by bath time. She screamed the whole time she took a bath, and the whole time she got dressed, and while she gave her daddy kisses nite nite....And then guess what, oh, your good!!! Cried when I laid her down too. But that didn't last too long and she was sound asleep until about an hour after she went to sleep we hear a loud scream and rush in her room. She must have just been dreaming because when I touched her she was still crying with her eye's closed like I wasn't even there. I picked her up and she never woke up, but did stop crying. After that we didn't hear a peep until about 7:05 when I had to wake her up to get dressed. Well other than that little drama...nothing new!

P.S. No this picture was not yesterday, but it is how most of her screaming starts out looking like! But her face gets much much worse.

Job

I am so silly, I didn't even tell you the most exciting news...I got a new job. I will be about 10 miles from home instead of 46 miles. I will work from 8-4:30 and off on Friday at 4. I will be the receptionist/bookkeeper for a CPA's office. I am so excited about it. I haven't told my boss yet. I am just kinda scared to. I don't want her to feel abandoned...but you know I have to do what is best for my family and myself. Right now, with my current job, I work from 8-5. I drop Mackenzie off at daycare at 7:15 and pick her up at 5:45...she is then in bed by 7. I don't get to spend a lot of time with her, and maybe that is why she is stuck to me like glue, when I am around. With my new job, I will be able to work and get to spend more time with her. I am really excited about it. Wish me luck tell my boss.

All's Well

What a crazy week I have had. Well my car is fixed. My Car is fixed. I am so excited and can't thank my bother enough for fixing my car. It was okay to drive Daddy's truck, but I missed my car. We had to replace the air compressor. That is okay though, now my air cools so much faster. I have some good news...Jake, Me and Mackenzie are finally going to get out west. I am so excited I can hardly stand it. I haven't been there in five years and Jake has never been there. We are going out in October. I wish we would have enough time to visit all the people I want to, but my sister's live so far apart that it makes it impossible. We will get into Salt Lake on Sunday afternoon and drive straight from there to Boise, ID to see one sister. Then leave her and drive to Shelley, ID to see my other sister...with hopes of while we are there to go to Rexburg, but I just don't know if it will happen or not. I want to go and visit so bad. Then after Shelley, we will head to Orem to see my sister and hopefully get to go to Temple Square. Then Jake is going to a BYU football game on Saturday..He is super excited about that. We may can get it to where we can see some of my old roommates, but I just don't see it happening. I am so sorry guys...I really want to see you I promise. I miss you guys. Maybe we will get another chance soon to come out and then we may have more time to visit and do the other things we will not get to this time. We have had an okay weekend. Jake worked all weekend, so we didn't get to spend a lot of time with him. We didn't do anything on Saturday. We just pittled around the house, cleaning and what not. Mackenzie did watch a good bit of Cinderella....I was excited to get to watch it. Then on Sunday, She went home with the Cronin's after church and I got to go home and get a nap. I went and picked her up and then went to Mama's. She had a good time up there. We just got to visit and hang out. The weather has been great all weekend, so we spent some time outside. It was really nice. We did ride the golf cart around some Saturday. We went over to Diane and Walt's house, and Mackenzie had fun playing with DiDi and Mr. Perkins (the dog). Phil even got to get out of the house this weekend, He went with us up to mama's to play with Mocha, Lucy, and Honey....I think he mainly likes to go so he can throw his weight around to the puppies. He has to make sure they now he is the boss, when he is there. Well work is calling my name!

Why did I get up this morning

This morning has been a weird one. First I get up and turn on the shower, put some laundry on, put the dog out...then jump in the shower. Things aren't going to bad. I remember to wash my hair and rinse out the conditioner. Then I get dressed and start running some bath water for Kenzie...because, I was lazy last night and she didn't get one. So I go in and my grouchy toddler is sitting there with snot all over her face. I put her in the tub and we sing Popcorn Popping while I wash her hair. She loves that song. Then we hurry and get out and I put a kinda faded outfit on her...it's just daycare....she comes home looking like she just wallered in the trash bin anyway. So I couldn't find her comb or brush so I just made do with my hand and put her a ponytail in and we head out the door. I did remember to get my lunch, but lost one of Kenzie's shoes in the garage as she was getting in the car. We rush to daycare and when I put her diapers in her locker I just happened to notice lots of camera equipment in her room...yep, you guessed it my homeless looking child has pictures today....that I of course forgot about. So I just said oh well we won't buy these and take her to the baby room with the other children. I leave and half way to the interstate remember..I didn't even button the back of her shirt. I bet they wondered about that. Well yesterday, I had a better time...I actually put my own underwear on backwards. As I was putting them on I thought, "Man my butt has gotten so big, my underwear doesn't even fit anymore" I just yanked them up and noticed they were on backwards about 10:30 when I went to the bathroom and saw the tag. So as you can see I started out at a good pace anyway. Then I get to work today and I hear a helicopter outside of my work...I say to myself, wonder what happened? Well I turn my car off and it quits...I think to myself...that wasn't my car was it. Yep, turn it back on and the helicopter starts back up. So at lunch I take it to a shop and they say, well your bearing, clutch, pulley...or something else is trying to go out and that is why it is burning the main belt to your car that can break at any minute and we can't get to you until Friday. UUUGGGGGG!!!!!!!! What a day. Thank goodness for brothers that love their sisters so much. My brother will be in Friday and he is a mechanic and he can fix it for me. But now, getting home! I work about 45 miles from home so thank goodness for nieces and nephews that have soccer games an Tuesday's. So a man I work with is going to follow me until I break down and then met my parents and go to the game. I know you are all jealous of the unknown of this afternoon! But don't think I wouldn't trade you one bit. I would, I am not a selfish person. I love sharing! So I will let you in on the Break Down of my car. You know in spite of it all, some people might be stressed or upset, but I think sometimes when you just laugh about it or make light of it, you actually feel better about the situation and can think clearer!

Random thoughts from the week

We haven't been doing anything great this week...just the usualy stuff. On Tuesday night we went to Kexton and Kolton's soccer game. They did really good, they won of course. Then last night we had Kameron's soccer game. If no one has ever been to watch 4 year olds play soccer it is quite entertaining. We had a really good time and I think they tied each other. The goaly for our side would keep picking up the ball and kicking it into his goal! They didn't count those points though. We had a great time. Kenzie especially enjoyed herself. She had a great idea while we were there...she wanted to play soccer too and went running onto the field numerous times with the big kids. She saw me running after her and that made her day. She then thought that was the most fun she could have. So we repeated this several times. I was the one wore out by they time we got home. Yesterday I was completely over come with road rage. This truck driver thought that he could push me around and run me off the road. I was none to happy so when I did finally get around him that I rolled my window down and gave him what for! I was so mad. I almost called the cops to pull him over. He was really rude. I tried to calm myself down, but was still furious about it. Well I couldn't wait for Mackenzie to start sleeping through the night right? Well now she is and I am not. In fact I find that I can't sleep at all anymore. If anyone has any suggestions I would love some. It is really wearing on me.

With her best friend

Her best friend is her baby. She was playing with a medicine dispenser that is like a bottle. I gave her some white grape juice in it and she had to give baby some too. I thought it was so cute.

Arrested!!

We were having a good day at work, when a woman pulls up in a Cadillac and then a cop behind her...next thing you know she is being handcuffed and she is crying and he put her in the back of the car and off to jail they went. If anyone knows me, they know I am nosey...It is killing me not to know why she got arrested. Better her and not me. So far that is the excitement at work.

Great Weekend

We have had a great weekend. It was a much needed one. Kenzie was actually in a wonderful mood and we had a good time with only minor upset. On Friday we tried to go to the football game, but in the first quarter they called the came for a while due to some really strange lightning. So Heidi and the kids and Diane and Walt came over to the house to wait it out. The kids were wild and they we cheer leading and playing keep away and were really crazy. Then Saturday we went to mine friend from high school's baby shower. Levi and his wife had a little boy. Me and Levi used to ride together after high school to institute every week for about 2 years. We had to drive 90 miles one way to get to institute, so we got to spend lots of time together. It was nice to see him and see his beautiful little boy.

Sunday comes and Mackenzie is in the best mood...going full speed from the time she got up, so we go to church, well my child decides that she makes all the rules and you have to follow her rules and not make them or enforce your own. By the 7th time I had to take her out, she had gotten in trouble and got a spanking. We went into the mother's room and the lady that keeps her sometimes comes and finds us and says it looks like you need a break...well I would love to have one and it would probably be best at this point, but by now I am mad and I have had it, so I wasn't giving in. I held her until she stopped crying...all the while trying to compromise with her to stop and we would go back in church. I even told her how much Jesus doesn't like it when she is ugly and that he doesn't like it when Mama has to spank her or get on to her. I don't know how much she understood of that, but I tried. UGGGG, The joy of motherhood and teaching a 17 month old to mind and not eat colors, or run up and down from our seats to the front of church where daddy is safely and calmly sitting on the stand, giving me the look of please do something with your child....hahaha...she is yours too ya know? I did get a break, they so graciously took her in Nursery after that and I had to help in Primary!!!!! OH, my gosh, I thought my child was rough! Those kids are devil children when they all get together. we have a new family and the children are hellions..When you pull up at church and you see the mother pulling switch's off the tree, is never a good sign. I thought I would string two up by their toes before it was all over with. I guess what did me in was when the 6 year old tried to bit me and then she hit me....I guess that put me sailing over the moon some. But some good did come out of it, Mackenzie went home with someone else after church and I did get a nice 4 hour nap. I needed one so bad.

Yesterday we had a great day....we didn't get out of PJ's until about 4:30 and Mackenzie actually left me alone and she played by her self really well while I deep cleaned the house. It was a wonderful day. She even took a 3 hour nap...see I told you a wonderful weekend. We went to my mama's and cooked out with my brother and his family. Wished my mama and daddy could have been there. They were missed.