Major Decisions

John and I have made a huge decision recently. Due to the rising cost of everything and well lets be honest folks, some not very smart decisions on our part, I will be returning to work. It kills me that I need to go back to work, but it will be good for the long run. We plan on paying down/off all of our debt with the additional salary so that I will be able to come back home full time after a year.

So I had an interview with Discover Card Services yesterday, I got there at 2pm and didn't leave that blasted building until 5:45pm! I got the job, I didn't really ever question it, but still 4 hours? I should have been paid for that! My wonderful friend watched the kids for me and now I get to find a babysitter for the kids every day for a few hours so I can go to training starting July 7th. Oh I am going to miss my babies! Anyone have a few thousand dollars laying around I could have?

Long Time No See?

Ok so I was informed that I don't blog enough. Ok I agree! Let me just tell you that I spent two hours of my life at the Drivers Licence Division of the DMV on Monday. It was a blast. After waiting in the "get a number" line for 20 minutes, I spent the next hour in the very comfortable chairs, they have lazyboys now. Didn't you know that? Anyway after freezing to death under the celing fan and air conditioner duct, I checked to make sure my number wasn't going to come up any time soon. It wasn't. I went out to my car and grabbed a notebook and a pen from my purse. I began to write a little prose about monsters, children and potty training. One day I will have to post that to the blog. It is pretty funny.

Oh yes, I just got my booth assignment of booths at westfest this year. It will be at the West Valley Rec Center the last weekend in June if you are going to be out and about, come by and say Hi. I will be tucked into the northwest corner of the booths this year.

I am also clearing out all the toys we own. I can't stand the way our family room looks after a long day of "toss the toy" that seems to be the favorite game. Emma stands at the toy boxes, yes there are boxes of toys, and tosses the toys across the room looking for her favorites. They don't understand that they need to clean up after themselves. I guess that is really my fault, because I have never instilled in them the joy of picking up. I have always done it. I take all the blame, but I just can't do it anymore. With three kids and laundry for the three kids and one husband it is a long day and I don't have the energy to clean up at night. Hey everyone, I am ready for the next kid! I have completely given up hope of ever getting on top of this housecleaning thing so why not just add one more excuse for it to be messy all the time?

Oh here is the kicker! I have to get a job. It kills me that I need one, but with the price of gas, groceries and everything else going up, we just don't have the money anymore to make it without a second income. I do get to work part time and at night once John is at home, but still I really enjoyed being a stay at home mom. If only my business would pick up and start making me some money!!!!! Anyone want to buy a bow? An embellished Tee? How about a chalk mat?

Just another day

It is just another day right? Thought I would add a bit to my blog about how the day has been. Saturday I was able to get a little sewing done, so excited! I finished up an outfit I was making (http://hyenacart.com/prod_details.php?id=95996&vid=2001) and then on Sunday I was able to get a few more things finished and listed on my website (http://www.embellishedbaby.com/) John was a great help on sunday. He was able to keep the kids entertained enough that I got three shirts appliqued and several bows finished.

I am busy getting my stock up for the craft fair season. I am planning on doing the craft fair at West Fest(http://www.westfest.org/) this year and I am thinking I might do some other small ones around town. I am going to be busy busy making stuff for this event and so I have my babysitter coming over after school to take the kids to the park a few times so that I have some time to get bows and tutu's made.

Back to the Potty!

Ok we are going to give this another try. I am sick of diapers and I am sick of Emma's rashes because she has sensitive skin and we are lazy! I know it is horrible, but I can't drop everything and change her diaper the second she poop's. Yesterday went pretty good. Just one or two accidents. We went to the store and bought her a Dora potty seat that sits on the regular toilet and that makes her happy. She still wants a princess one, but we couldn't find one.

We have no thoughts on potty training Rachel(but wouldn't it be nice if she could!).

I've been tagged!

I have been tagged by Amy. Not sure if I like this virtual game! Too much information!!

Rules are this, if you are tagged you take these questions and post them on your own blog with your own unique answers. Have fun getting to know your friends!

ABOUT ME
10 years ago:

Ok that was 1998 right? Well I believe I was in New Jersey being a nanny right about now. I just realized not too long ago that the children that I was a nanny for are now 21 and 16, 13 and 12, and then 20 and 16. Wow if that didn't make me feel old!

5 Things on my To-Do List:

1. Laundry or my husband will go to work in dirty clothes
2. Kill the dog for eating Logans lunch(again!)
3. Go upstairs and get Rachel from her nap. (she is screaming right now)
4. Head over to the bank
5. Make some hair clips and a shirt for my store.

5 Snacks I enjoy:

1. Chocolate
2. Chocolate covered pretzels
3. Chocolate covered peanuts
4. Chocolate covered cookies
and last but not least
5. Trail Mix (with chocolate of course)

5 foods that I love:

1. Chicken CordonBlu
2. Indian Food
3. Lasagna
4. Anything I didn't have to fix
5. A nice MLT, Where the Muttin is nice and lean and the tomatoes and nice and juicy

What would I do if I were suddenly a Billionaire?

First and formost I would feint. After I recovered from the shock I would have a blast fixing up my current house. I just can't stand it and would love to do all those "Do it yourself" kinds of things. I would then sell said house. Whether or not I made a profit.

I would then buy a nice 4000 sqft house in utah(don't want to be too ostentatious), an equally sized home in some other state of the union, one in europe somewhere and then of course we would have a house in Hondo.

Hire a nanny and staff to keep the house clean and then travel all over the place.

Set up a college fund for everyone of my family who wanted one(neices and nephews mostly) and then I would open a gas station. Every 9 days I would reduce the price of gas to 50 cents a gallon for 5 hours( the hours would be random so no one could anticipate it).


Places that I have lived:
1. Provo, UT
2. American Fork, UT
3. Ephriam, Ut
4. American Fork again
5. Stamford, CT
6. American fork again
7. Logan, UT
American fork again
8. York, England
American Fork
9. Provo, UT
10. Kinnelon, NJ
11. Millburn, NJ
american fork
12. Provo, UT
13. Orem, UT
14. Salt Lake City, UT
15. West Valley City, UT

Favorite Quote:

"Do or do not, there is no try." ~Yoda

By the way, I did stop and get Rachel so don't worry about that!

YOU HAVE BEEN TAGGED:

Kati and Nancy and Heather

Easter was Great!

We loved Easter this year. Church was on the early schedule for us so I talked to the Easter bunny and we agreed he would hold off on our house until after we were at church. Well we got the kids off to church and once we got home, he had been at the house! Logan had the biggest eyes when he saw what was left out for him! A huge basket full of candy and Marvel walkie-talkies.

Emma was super excited for the Mermaid Dora doll she got and has had endless hours of fun opening and then making me close all those little plastic eggs.

We went down to my brothers house for Easter dinner this year, and it was a huge success as always. Of course we now need to buy a playstation 2 and Spyro the Dragon game. Logan was talking about it all the way home! He has it in his head that Uncle Brian will trade us the PS2 for our Wii(if only for a week). I haven't mentioned it to Brian, but if Brooke is reading this, you now know.

Easter Egg hunt this year was so much fun. Emma and Logan both shot out of the door and b-lined it to the eggs. They had their baskets full in seconds! Emma was all about finding the eggs and well truth be told, Logan was off and I didn't see him untill his basket was full. He was so proud of his eggs!

Personal Triumph

I am now under 200 lbs! I haven't been that "light" since high school or shortly there after!

Yay for me.

Love my kids

So I have said that Emma is a hoot to have around. Well, right now she is in a pampered chef box singing the ABC's and playing with toys she has deposited in the box. I think she loves playing by herself because she has the best friend anywhere . . . herself!

Why my kids don't like baths

Ok so I just figured out why Logan doesn't like getting his hair washed. It is the method in which we wash his hair.

Do you think that washing them in the washing machine is wrong? Well it doesn't help that I also use the industrial hair dryer to get them dry either! :)

Did you notice Rachel in the dryer?

Emma is Cute

Hooray for Mommy! Ok I just love this picture really. I have to put down some of the fun things I catch Emma doing when she thinks I am now watching. Not too long ago, I was on my bed nursing/dozing and Emma came in and saw that I was "sleeping" and so she very quietly started to play and sing. She made it all the way through "Twinkle Twinkle" and started up "ABC's". Well half way through that one, she reverted back to Twinkle Twinkle and then back to ABC's and finished with a big "What you ARRRRREE"

I can't really blame her, those songs are identical melodies, and we sing them pretty much every day. She is also my go-to girl when I need a prayer said. She always wants to say prayer at bedtime, dinner, really anytime a prayer is called for. When I ask her how we start the prayer, however, she says in her little pixie voice, "Jesus wants me for a sunbeam!" Well, Not exactly Emma, but that is the first song that we sing at bedtime, since the kids get to sing with me on the first song. Now usually it is Me or John that guide the prayer for Emma, but one night I think it was saturday night, I started out helping Emma but Logan decided that it was his turn to help and he guided her the rest of the way. He made sure to bless the Missionaries that they can be "Thanksed" and Grandma and Grandpa and Uncle Scott and then the big finish, "have a good night sleep" which when Logan says the prayer by himself, is always the last thing he says.

I have to say, having kids is the greatest thing ever! When I was a child I thought having a million dollars would be the greatest thing, and really I woudn't turn it down if it was offered, but don't ever take away my kids! The give me a barrel full of laughs every day! See as I was writting, Logan tried to ride the dog! Now Casper is not a very large dog, and he really hates being ridden so Logan got dumped on his fanny. Laughs all the time! So now I end this particular blog in the same manner I began it but with one difference.

Hooray for Kids!