Happy Birthday!

October is a crazy month for birthdays so I just want to wish a Happy Birthday to a few very special people.

On the 10th was our good friend Suzanne (no we didn't forget you). Marty and her have been best friends for a couple of centuries or something like that and we have always enjoyed hanging out with her and her husband and most recently her kids. Suzanne has always been there for Marty and I am so glad that he has always had someone as kind as her for a friend. We don't get to see them too much anymore due to us living up here in Logan and them in Clinton but we still think of them often. My best memories of hanging out with Suzanne was when Marty and I went over to her house in Deweyville EVERY Sunday. Never failed and they never got sick of us. Poor Karwin would have to choose between studying and hanging with us watching TV and I think we always won. Thanks for all you have done for my family and I. We miss you and hope you had a great birthday.

Next on the 15th it was my wonderful husbands birthday. I know most of you reading this are probably thinking you haven't heard wonderful and husband very much in the same sentence from me but I guess I am realizing that In Time- Love grows. I have always loved him but recently I have come to realize how much this guy really means to me. When we were dating I was drawn to Marty's sarcasm which is ironic that it is the one thing that bothers me the most but is also the one thing that has kept us going for 11 years (in Nov). I love Marty with all of my heart and appreciate all the little and big things he does for me. Happy Birthday and we love you.

On the 16th was my best friend Kelly's B-day. Where to start I don't even know. Kelly is the kind of friend that everyone wants but no one ever thinks they will find. I don't know how I got so lucky to have her but I will always be grateful for what she has brought into my life. She is the kind of person that never thinks about herself but is always thinking of everyone else. My favorite quality about Kelly is her ability to make a friend everywhere we go. One time we went to Fat Cats arcade and the games kept taking our money and we couldn't find anyone working so Kelly was upset and said she was going to find someone to talk to. Well ten minutes later I see her over talking to the manager who had ended up telling her about his week that had included his kids in the hospital or something like that. When she came back to me she was even more upset about his bad luck than about ours! I absolutely love that about her! Happy Birthday Kelly.

And today- the 20th is my cute little grandma's Birthday. She is such a fun and spunky lady and I am so glad that she is our matriarch. She is always up for something fun and exciting and she is like 75 or something (we don't ask anymore) My grandma hates to drive in traffic but you invite her to a demolition derby and she is all for it. She claps and hollers with the best of them. We are glad that she has moved back and although we don't see her too much she is never far from our thoughts. Happy Birthday. G-ma

Time goes by

I can't believe it has been that long since I posted. Here is a quick update.

Salt Lake was awesome. We went to the Reba-Kelly Clarkson concert and it was soooo good. They both sang each others songs so we got an awesome show. Barbara jean also made a surprise visit and did a comedy act so that was so neat as well. We stayed at the Shilo inn and just had a good time. We shopped and went to the movies and shopped and ate and shopped some more. I am so glad I took every ones advise and had a girls weekend. (guilt kicks my butt most of the time) but in doing these things I have come to realize how much better of a mom and wife I am.

These aren't the best but you can see Reba and Kelly singing their hearts out.

• Kenzie is a walking, talking, screaming monster. She is still so fun but the one thing I requested when I got pregnant was no screamers and guess what I have- a screamer. She has got some temper (must be marty!) She will try to get a toy once and if that doesn't work the right way watch out. The other day her and my friends boy carter were playing and carter obviously did something wrong and she wreaked havoc on him. Pour dude just sat there and took it. Then she breaks my heart when she gets in trouble.



• My beautiful sister in law tara just recently lost her mother. Please pray for her as this has been a hard time in her life.
• We finally got rid of all the pups. Harley is so happy. I know she loves her babies but after so long she starts looking at us like "help-please". She is very happy to be back in the house. (she has issues with peeing so when she is nursing she can't be in my house!) The pups all went to good homes with kids that will love them.
• School, work and life are all good right now. Hope this post finds you all good.

5 days to go!!!

If you are in a "Its the best thing in the world to be with home with my husband and my kids" mood, you might not want to read this post! That's right! Friday night I am off to Salt Lake with my two bestest friends to see Reba and Kelly in concert. Kelly and I thought it would be a good idea to go somewhere for our birthdays this year instead of just out to dinner. We also rented a room for the night so we can extend our girls night and do some shopping the next day. I just can't wait. I am so looking forward to my night without work, kids, homework, and loving hubby. He has told me about 5 times this last week that he just doesn't understand why I need to stay the night and do some shopping after the concert and I am hoping that he will understand when his wife comes home refreshed, after a good FULL nights sleep. I hate to tell him this but every mom needs a night or two out. I know I just went on a mini trip to Provo but hey we still had 3 fun, energetic 8 year old with us. Anyway I woke up this morning and realized that this was the week and had to share. Now I just need to make the rest of my week go by fast!

MMM Potatoes

The other day I was feeding Kenzie some potatoes and my phone rang (surprise). I needed to go look at something on the computer and I put the bowl on the table. When I got done and went and checked on Kenzie she had climbed the chair and helped herself to her potatoes. I guess she was really hungry. When I said "Kenzie Rae, what are you doing?" She put the bowl down and gave me a look that said "someone had to feed me" and went back to eating. It was just too funny not to post.

****I was Tagged by Suzanne****

The Rules:-Link the Person who Tagged you- Mention rules on your blog- Tell about 6 quirks of yours- Tag 6 fellow bloggers to do the same- Leave a comment to let them know.


1. I am a procrastinator. I have very good intentions of getting things done but somehow they just never end up that way.

2. I more often than not don't finish projects. It took me about 4 months to paint 2 walls in my bedroom white. I am not kidding. I love when projects are finished I just always start things and never finish them. My sister's wedding clock- hopefully it will be done before Christmas- of next year!!!

3. I always think I am right. Ask my husband. I am never wrong and when I am I have a hard time admitting it. We will see a show and he will say we have seen this before and I am adamant that we haven't and tell him he is losing it and then something will happen and I think to myself Oh well I guess we have seen this before but he doesn't need to know that.

4. I cannot budget money for the life of me. Many people make comments about Marty having a second account with all the money in it and although many times I complain about not having it at my disposal, this account is there for a reason. More than once he has had to bail me out and given me money when he has already given me the money for the bills. I am working on it though and am very open to suggestions.

5. I am always rearranging furniture. I cannot stand to have my house furniture in the same spot for more than a couple of months. I think Marty's family thinks I am more crazy than they did before because my living room has been changed about 5 times in the year and a half that we have lived here.

6. I love to thrift shop. Garage sales, thrift stores, you name it and I am there. I love other peoples junk. Recently I discovered KSL and visit the site daily. I don't buy a whole lot but I can look for hours.

Will moving ever get easier

With school starting again I always get a little home sick for Ogden. I thought this year wouldn't be too bad but I find myself missing Ogden so much right now. Kaylee has mentioned things about living in Ogden lately too so I think I am rubbing off on her. I just want to take a minute and tell somethings we loved about living in Ogden:

-We threw some awesome Halloween parties. For the last couple of years I let the kids invite whoever they wanted to a Halloween party at our house. Of course I invited whoever I wanted as well. We loved having these parties and although people thought I was crazy for having 30+ kids running around we will always remember these memories.

- We loved hanging out with all of our friends after school. The thing I miss probably the most is that I don't hang out at Kelly's, Andrea's, Malinda's, Ruth's, Brandy's or my house anymore once again with about 30 kids!

- walking into church and still being with all of my friends. It never felt like church because we were all still together and still doing crazy stuff. Once Melinda put on a concert to Jem and the Hollogram's in Primary. It was awesome.

-Most of all I miss having my best friends just up the street. I can't count how many times they have all been there for me. No matter what was going on for them they never hesitated to watch my kids, help me out, or just stop by to visit. I didn't have my family around so these friends became my family.

I just want to take a moment and thank all of you for always being there for me with loving arms. I will never find another circle of friends like the ones I have found in you. I love you from the bottom of my heart and you will forever remain there.

What am I thinking!!

So as you all know I have been in school for way too long now and am taking my last class that I need to fulfill my generals for a nursing program. Now I took the last year off thinking it is so important for me to be home with the baby. So August came around and I was so excited to get back to the swing of things. I have been studying and studying and studying as much as my time in between work-kids-and house allow. Well I wrote down all of my stuff on a calendar, when everything is due and such. Somehow I wrote down the wrong date of my test and while I was planning on taking the test today, I had feeling to double check dates and found at 5:30 last night that yesterday was the day. Now the class is online so the test is open until the testing center closes but I am taking this class through Weber and had to make it there by 8pm. So needless to say I panicked, threw the kids in the car, called my life saver Brandy to babysit and drove about 80 mph down to Ogden. I did ok on the test. Can't complain cause anything is better than a 0 but oh my am I EVER going to get it together!