Happy New Year....

Well I have been a bad blogger lately! I feel like I have to fight everyone to get on MY computer, so we decided to get another computer. We will now have 3 computers, Yeah!! So the last 3-4 weeks have been crazy as usual. We did get to go home for Christmas for a few days and we had a great time as usual. The kids had fun and loved their gifts. I do have a story about that. Because we live in this wonderful valley we don't have very much shopping and so the internet is wonderful BUT stuff takes a little longer to get to us. So we decided to get the boys electric guitars, new skateboards, and shoes from "Santa". We got all of them off ebay because of the weather we could not get out of town to go shopping. So we get the guitars no problem. Seth's skate board made it as well about 2 weeks before Christmas. Well we couldn't find Ryan's skateboard as fast but we finally did on ebay and it was coming out of Utah so we figured it wouldn't take too long to get to us. Well to make a long story short we ordered Ryans skate board it shipped out on Dec.14 we did not recieve it until Dec.28 when we got back from Idaho. We didn't get his shoes either. Seth's shoes came on Christmas eve so we got everything for him but not Ryan. So we had to tell him they were from us and Santa brought him the guitar and the legos. So anyway it was very interesting! I felt so bad but he actually did better than I thought. He did say one time why did Seth get more presents then me? So that was fun! We did get through it and the roads were terrible when we traveled but we made it and had a good time. Now we are into the new year and I have made a few goals this year! Hopefully I will achieve them. I will tell you all that one of my goals is to learn something new. I kinda think I might want to learn how to knit or croche(not sure how to spell either of those words!), so we will see. If any of you know how to do either of those things maybe you could teach me??

As promised....

Here are a few of the pics I took at my brothers wedding in October. I am no photographer but I sure had fun pretending! As I sat for hours on end retouching and fixing I wished I would have done some different stuff but oh well. I think that they turned out pretty good. If you read this Stevie- I am working on an album for you and Kriste! Anyway let me know what you all think, I would love to hear your comments!

Where am I?

Well I honestly don't know. What I do know is that I have almost zero time to sit at my computer anymore. Between dance, scouts, work, and homework i have no time left for me! At the moment I am on my lunch break eating a salad and chicken nuggets from wendy's taking bites in between typing! Sad huh? I have so many pictures I need to post and share so hopefully I will get those on here soon. The saddest part of all this is usually I am done Christmas shopping in November and I am still not done yet and Christmas is 13 days away! Help!!! Anyway we have been doing great besides being busy. The kids are doing great in school. I help with Ryan's class every wednesday morning with reading groups for an hour. I really enjoy that. Natalia has a 3.76 gpa and hopefully next semester it will be a 4.0. She is a great student. Seth is doing very well he is very smart and loves to read. Ryan struggled for a while to read but is now doing better. Larry's business is doing very good he recently aquired a new product that he sells to the Safeway stores. He does the Nature's nuts and they have trail mixes and dried fruits as well. I am still working at Carpet One. The people I work for and with are very good people. I am lucky! It definately has been busy for me, probably the busiest I have ever been in my life. As I look back on the past 10 years I can see the many blessings that I have enjoyed and even took for granted. It really is amazing at how fast the time speeds by, I know I have said that a lot but I honestly can't believe it. Anyway off to work...I will post some pics I promise!

Busy Busy....

Its seems as though time has sped by and I am now playing catch up. We had a good Halloween. We all dressed up scary this year and had a great time. I love to dress up with the kids it is so fun. We love Halloween! Larry and I got to go to a costume party this year and had a great time. I didn't get any pictures sad I know but oh well. Larry was an angel and I was a devil-very fitting right!? Then this past weekend my parents came to stay and I was so excited. We spent most of the time just visiting which I love to do with my mom. Then I talked her into taking our pictures for me (I still want you to take ours next month Rachel!) so that I could take theirs as well. Only 1 picture of us turned out but that is ok. Ryan did not want to have his picture taken so he was being difficult but I am happy with them they are cute. The kids and I didn't want them to leave it was so nice to have them here. Anyway we have been really busy still and time moves too fast. I am still working on some wedding photos but will post them soon hopefully!

Utah trip....

Last weekend we got to go home and then we went to Salt Lake to my brother's wedding. We left friday at around 1:30 and made it to Poky around 8 their time. Then we woke up Saturday and got ready and stopped by Larry's grandma's and saw her for about 30 minutes then left for Salt Lake around 11. We stopped in Layton and ate lunch with my other Brother and his family then checked in to our hotel and went to the wedding in West Valley. Another lady and I got to take the pictures and I am so excited because some of them turned out so cute! I will post some when I get them fixed and ready to go! We had so much fun even though it was so short yet again. We did make a quick stop at the Gateway mall in Salt Lake wich is my all time favorite place to shop!! It is so fun and pretty. The kids got to climb the rock wall in Dick's Sporting Goods and Natalia made it to the top! Ryan did not want to do it. Anyway we had a great time but 3 states in 1 day is a lot of driving! I will post some of the wedding pictures hopefully later this week. What a busy time in my life but it is all good!

Another Accident...

Its Seth this time! The boys had gone with Larry to his warehouse with him because Larry had some work to do so the boys took their skateboards with them to ride around while Larry worked. Seth was going off a little jump they had made and landed on his face instead of the skateboard. So you can see in the pictures what damage was done. Poor guy! I for some reason have the 3 accident prone boys in my family, but at least he didn't need to go to the hospital or have stitches so that is good. Just swelling and scrapes. He seemed to be pretty good this morning so I took him to school but now am feeling bad that maybe I shouldn't have but I did tell him to call me if he needed to come home and I have not heard from him so I am sure he is fine!

Sports and Dance

So the boys are in flag football and Natalia is back in dance! She moved up to Jr Hip Hop as well as Intermediate Modern dance. We have been very busy with school, work, sports, and dance. Plus I am now the new Wolf leader in the Scout program. I know me of all people a scout leader!! I have not the first clue to the scout program nor am I scout material but I am willing to learn and hopefully it will be fun I will let you know in a few months how I am doing!! Anyway I cannot believe how time is speeding by and I feel like nothing has been accomplished. I never thought that I would be one of those people who run constantly because of all the activities, work, and church callings that so much occupy our time but SHEESH, I am now one of those people! I think that we have something everyday of the week besides Friday night and Sunday! I guess it is good to stay busy for me anyway...