I started to keep a record of my day, for a challenge on Lifetime Moments to do a page about a typical day in your life....Here's my "typical" day I had yesterday....
Kalel comes to room early in the morning to sleep on the floor.
Girls wake up to go to school at 7:00 am.
I stay in bed.
Get up at 8:00 am.
Get myself ready.
Get Kalel ready.
Get Zane ready.
Run to Walmart to pick up supplies.
Pick up 2 extra Valentine items that were on clearance.
A cute little heart shaped box to alter into a scrapbook album
And a little wire basket with hearts dangling from it.
Wish that I could go to Target and get more stuff…but go home.
Forget I was going to stop at the library and talk to the librarian.
Arrive at home.
Bring garbage bin back from street.
Unload groceries and boys.
Look up Mapquest for Ken….twice….
Read emails.
Have donuts and milk with boys.
Boys watch Land Before Time.
I go to 2peas and LM.
Write down cyber crop info.
All while wiping Kalels bum 5 times and Zane’s bum twice!
Turn on some music and journal.
Feed kids leftover mac and cheese…they won’t eat it…
Give them cereal instead.
Zane spills cereal….on purpose…
Boys throw the cushions off the couch…
And start jumping off the couch onto the “COOSHUNS”
Zane gets into sink…and gets wet.
I take off his shirt, so Kalel takes his off too.
I take the laundry downstairs.
Zane gets into my scrapbook stuff.
I’m tired and it’s only 1:00 pm.
So, I watch Lost on DVR.
While the boys keep jumping off the couch.
I unload the dishwasher
Load the dishwasher.
The girls get home at 2:30
Natasha vacuums, Vivian picks up, and Keilani puts bug down for a nap.
They all clean their rooms.
I start making luau cake for dinner tonight
Start making meatballs
2 hours later I am done.
Have girls deliver dinner to someones house who just had brain surgery.
It’s 5:30 now.
Check mail.
Check email.
We eat dinner without Ken, he is still at work.
The kids don’t like my luau cake.
How can you not like luau cake?
Ken doesn’t either…so reminder to self…
Don’t make them luau cake again!
Clean off table
Kids get into pj’s
Listen to music and dance around the room.
I collapse on the bed for 5 minutes.
Ken gets home an hour late…it’s 8:00 pm
grabs his food, and volleyball clothes
And he’s off with the kids.
They’re going to Nancy ‘s house for a late night.
This is NOT a normal thing.
Usually they will just hang out with me while Ken plays volleyball.
When I was working, Ken used to take them to the church with him
But today, Nancy offered to take them and how could I refuse that!
So, I’m going to scrapbook…
But I’m too tired.
So I watch Clean House on DVR.
Then come online, listen to music
and start updating my blog after 7 months of nothing.
So, I didn’t get done what I wanted to with my free time.
But, I’m pretty happy that I got something else done instead.
Ken come home LATE….
Brings the sleepy kids in…
They all stay asleep, YEAH!
We watch the end of House that we had recorded
And go to bed at 2AM!
And that's that! A typical day in the life of me! Okay, off to have some leftover luau cake..Ken just took the kids sledding and when he gets back we're going to do our taxes, YEAH!
Saturday, February 16, 2008
Friday, February 15, 2008
Finally all caught up...
And Valentines Day! Why am I kissing this little boy? Because he's about to take a nap, YEAH! Zane has turned into quite the little monster. If I leave him alone for 10seconds, I kid you not, he will have turned something upside down....ripped something, spilled something, who knows what! Good thing he's still so loveable!
First things first. Update on us. I worked at Archivers until Christmas Eve, and then I came home. Ken had started a new job in SLC and it made our schedules just not work out together. I'm glad to be home, but miss being a part of something different. This is the name tag I had made at work, which I changed from my name to a little pocket for our file folder which holds all our bills and stuff..Home Sweet Home, got that little stamp set from my Secret Santa on Lifetime Moments :)
So, Ken took a break from getting his Masters degree. His field is Health Education, and he does a little work here and there in that field, but hasn't found a job that pays well enough to go full time with a company...looking into where to head next...further in his field, or try something new...This pic here is a Valentine I have yet to give my mom...since here in Utah we were bombarded with a blizzard the day before Valentines, and she didn't get to come up here and visit as planned...Sunday dinner, there's always Sunday dinner where I can give it to her:
The kids are all back in public school, I couldn't cut the whole homeschooling thing. In a perfect world, that would work for our family, but since our family isn't perfect...that's what happens! They are all loving it though, so it was a good decision. What we will do next year when Keilani goes into junior high, who knows! Next are some random Valentine pics of stuff around the house I took on my 12 of 12 day. What may you ask is that? Well, some blogger posted a challenge to take 12 pictures on the 12th of each month. These are the ones I took a few days ago...some Love blocks I made in Enrichment. They look better IRL with the pp on the back that I added to them. Oh, pp, for those that don't scrapbook, is pattern paper. :) Then, just the kids getting ready to make their Valentine cards with candy in them....
and last but not least. My lesson in sugar cookie making......DON'T bake sugar cookies with Splenda! We had a church Valentines party where I was to bring 50 cookies. I tried 3 different recipes to see which one was better. Well, since we eat healthy around here, I couldn't find any regular sugar, just organic cane sugar and Splenda. For two of the batches I used splenda and those cookies were HORRIBLE. Just ended up dumping half of them out. The kids ate the other ones though...luckily no one at church had to though. So, the lesson is...why bother making them, just go buy some, or better yet, get those fun Pillsbury ones. Look how good these ones turned out...I'll do that next time, and skip the baking for hours part!
First things first. Update on us. I worked at Archivers until Christmas Eve, and then I came home. Ken had started a new job in SLC and it made our schedules just not work out together. I'm glad to be home, but miss being a part of something different. This is the name tag I had made at work, which I changed from my name to a little pocket for our file folder which holds all our bills and stuff..Home Sweet Home, got that little stamp set from my Secret Santa on Lifetime Moments :)
So, Ken took a break from getting his Masters degree. His field is Health Education, and he does a little work here and there in that field, but hasn't found a job that pays well enough to go full time with a company...looking into where to head next...further in his field, or try something new...This pic here is a Valentine I have yet to give my mom...since here in Utah we were bombarded with a blizzard the day before Valentines, and she didn't get to come up here and visit as planned...Sunday dinner, there's always Sunday dinner where I can give it to her:
The kids are all back in public school, I couldn't cut the whole homeschooling thing. In a perfect world, that would work for our family, but since our family isn't perfect...that's what happens! They are all loving it though, so it was a good decision. What we will do next year when Keilani goes into junior high, who knows! Next are some random Valentine pics of stuff around the house I took on my 12 of 12 day. What may you ask is that? Well, some blogger posted a challenge to take 12 pictures on the 12th of each month. These are the ones I took a few days ago...some Love blocks I made in Enrichment. They look better IRL with the pp on the back that I added to them. Oh, pp, for those that don't scrapbook, is pattern paper. :) Then, just the kids getting ready to make their Valentine cards with candy in them....
and last but not least. My lesson in sugar cookie making......DON'T bake sugar cookies with Splenda! We had a church Valentines party where I was to bring 50 cookies. I tried 3 different recipes to see which one was better. Well, since we eat healthy around here, I couldn't find any regular sugar, just organic cane sugar and Splenda. For two of the batches I used splenda and those cookies were HORRIBLE. Just ended up dumping half of them out. The kids ate the other ones though...luckily no one at church had to though. So, the lesson is...why bother making them, just go buy some, or better yet, get those fun Pillsbury ones. Look how good these ones turned out...I'll do that next time, and skip the baking for hours part!
How about Christmas
Next time, I promise to post something nice and Valentines, eh! But I still need to get caught up on last year! So, Christmas we went to Lake Tahoe and stayed at a cabin with Kens family......The drive was NOT worth it, I freaked out one too many times from the icy roads....I told Ken, next time we fly to Reno!
See Zane's face here, this is how I felt:
but the kids enjoyed it:
and the cabin was a block away from the beach, which was beautiful, but FREEZING!
I basically stayed inside the cabin the whole time!
But the kids had a blast going sledding ALL the time, and Christmas with the Applegates is always fun!
See Zane's face here, this is how I felt:
but the kids enjoyed it:
and the cabin was a block away from the beach, which was beautiful, but FREEZING!
I basically stayed inside the cabin the whole time!
But the kids had a blast going sledding ALL the time, and Christmas with the Applegates is always fun!
And onto other things....
like Thanksgiving and you know! The annual family Thanksgiving pic here: That's Scott(Teanu) and Marie there on the left, myself and my kids at my feet....my parents, Ken, then Nancy and Fidels family, and Anita and Chris' family, oh, and Blake there at the end!
Nancy was genius and made the girls little pilgrim hats out of a bedskirt...I think it was mine when we first got married, it sure looks like the one we had, LOL!
And here's the boys from last Thanksgiving, another year older and crazier too! Zane with his cousin Teva:
It's not Utah without a visit to the pumpkin patch in the fall either!
and I think Zane was hungry....
We usually go to Squaw Peak in the fall, but now that we live in Lehi, we went up the Alpine Loop, and yes, got lost, LOL! The snow was a fun surprise!
and Ken had to throw some snowballs too!
Nancy was genius and made the girls little pilgrim hats out of a bedskirt...I think it was mine when we first got married, it sure looks like the one we had, LOL!
And here's the boys from last Thanksgiving, another year older and crazier too! Zane with his cousin Teva:
It's not Utah without a visit to the pumpkin patch in the fall either!
and I think Zane was hungry....
We usually go to Squaw Peak in the fall, but now that we live in Lehi, we went up the Alpine Loop, and yes, got lost, LOL! The snow was a fun surprise!
and Ken had to throw some snowballs too!
Now let's go back...or forward to....
Halloween! Why, because I already had these pictures taken in my photobucket account :)
Zane really stole the show in his chicken costume!
Zane really stole the show in his chicken costume!
HMMMMMM HMMMMMM.....
So, I think for the new year one of my goals should be to pick up on all this technology around me. I can't believe that I haven't updated in FOREVER simply because I couldn't log in. So yesterday, Ken came online to try to solve that for me. We got a new password, and I came back to my blog to try to sign in. Little did I know the entire time all I had to do was click on the little google bar up top to manage my account, and BAM....there's my blogger account, WHEW!
So, now I'm REALLY back, right! Next step, I need to learn how to add links to the page, and all that fun stuff. So, I do have pictures to share! Let's go back a little bit.....
We went to San Francisco last summer for Kens brother Pauls wedding. He married his junior high school sweetheart Kim, whom he met years later in SF. Very beautiful wedding...and of course my girls were the flowergirls....
While there, our hotel was really close to the Palace of Fine Arts, and the beach, and here were some of my favorite pics from there:
and when we came home, we had family pictures taken at Utah Lake:
So, now I'm REALLY back, right! Next step, I need to learn how to add links to the page, and all that fun stuff. So, I do have pictures to share! Let's go back a little bit.....
We went to San Francisco last summer for Kens brother Pauls wedding. He married his junior high school sweetheart Kim, whom he met years later in SF. Very beautiful wedding...and of course my girls were the flowergirls....
While there, our hotel was really close to the Palace of Fine Arts, and the beach, and here were some of my favorite pics from there:
and when we came home, we had family pictures taken at Utah Lake:
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