My Little Man is Five!

C turned five this past weekend! He has wanted this bad for quite some time. I must have been promising him all kinds of things would happened once he was five because he has been talking about this forever.

I have to say his birthday fell on a very busy week for us. From Wednesday-Sunday we had Stake Temple Day, a 2 hour arm cast removal, three basketball practices, four visiting teaching visits, one chuck e. cheese birthday party (that may have put me over the edge!), three basketball games, home show at the expo center (k's good friend had a booth there and we helped sell kitchen cabinets), a Blue and Gold Banquet where we are proud parents when T was awarded his Webelos and his Compass Points awards but I'm also a leader so I had to plan skits, food, get boys to bring items for brag table and all kinds of things. K is the bishopric leader over scouts so he had other responsibilities too...so not exactly relaxing evening!, one ward conference and then lastly a lovely birthday dinner for 12 with family who live close by. Needless to say when I looked on the calendar I was excited for my sweet boy to reach his goal of five but I was dreading the actually caring out of all these activities because I knew they would be fun...but exhausting too. We survived and C definitely looks older now. I think he grew an inch last night!

I kept telling myself to stop wishing the weekend away and try and take in the moment and excitement for C. As we were sitting in church, he told me that sitting quietly in church was not a fun birthday activity, I quietly whispered in his ear "you have a birthday shout hurray..." He got a big smile on his face and quietly finished the song for me. I think it's those precious moments of taking them into your arms and letting them know how grateful you are to have them in your life that mean the most.

We love you big guy!! Happy 5th birthday C!

Hmm..and I thought I couldn't hate snow any more than I do!!

So last night as I was going to bed, K asked me if I had looked at our sky lights. I said no and went and saw that they were newly covered in snow. I must be living under a rock because I had no idea we were even in for some snow. I went to bed knowing I needed to check the tv reports to see if school was canceled or delayed in the morning. I got up about 6:30am and saw on tv that our county was a 2 hr delay. Since everyone was still asleep and K had been up most of the night hacking and coughing, I crawled back into bed.

We eventually got up and got going. We are having a water softener put in the house today (yea!!! there is hope for my skin and hair yet!) so we all wanted to be showered before the guy came and turned off our water. I figured it would be a day without water but it would only be me and the little ones here so no big deal. My husband was kind enough to take the kids to the bus stop. Then I get the phone call.

K: um..hun..you sure the kids have school?
Me: um..yea! I checked on two tv stations to make sure. They both said 2 hr delay.
K: um..there is no one at the bus stop. check again.
Me: WHAT??!! The roads are fine!! They are going to school!!
K: um..can you just check again?
Me: fine! (of course this is about the time the baby knocked over her cup of juice all over the kitchen floor and the doorbell rang because the water softener guy was here. UGH!!
K: um, you still there? Should we just come home?
Me: No! I will prove there is school..just give me a minute!
K: I will just come home....
Me: No! I'm watching the tv...checking the internet...

In walks my oldest son..."mom, there is no school!!" Yea!" About then, I see on the tv that our schools decided to close at the last minute.

REALLY??? REALLY???

Okay, I used to LOVE snow. I loved the magic of it. I loved the hot chocolate. I loved the sledding. Then last year hit. Way way way too much snow for me. I haven't even liked the thought of it since. Now we live in another county and if there is even the thought of snow, they cancel school. There hasn't even been that much snow this year. Nothing compared to last year and I'm pretty sure my kids have been out of school more this year than last.

me in last year's storm....so not what our snow fall looked like today.









I like having my kids around. We have a lot of fun. It's just when I have a day planned to the minute that it makes things considerably more complicated doubling the amount of bodies. I lose my temper way quicker and it's not good. Not good at all. Snow bad. School canceled bad. County all bad.

This grump should probably go take a long path to find her happy place again.....oh wait! That's right we have NO WATER!!! Yea..the guy said it would take maximum 3 hours and we are going on 6 hours. Hmm..maybe just go back to bed:)

oh yea welcome back baby!!!

Okay I have been HATING Wordpress!! It is way too business like for me. No cute backgrounds etc. Driving me nuts!! So I decided to see if I could try posting a picture here on blogger once again. We seem to have better internet connections lately so I thought I would give it a try. Guess what? Posting the above picture only took seconds compared to the never ending hours that it was taking before!! Yay!! Yay!!

I can't wait to start playing with my blog again!! Did I mention I hate Wordpress!!..or at least I never truly figured it out!

some quick pictures just cause I can :)