Double Tagged

Both Trisha and Dacia tagged me (thanks guys) so I'm going to do both on one blog.

The tag from Trisha is to share 3 of the following things:

3 joys:
I'm going to be cheesy and go with-
1. my family
2. time off from work -very rare these days
3. a long hot bath

3 fears:
1. something happening to my family
2. spiders
3. mice-but no one tell the ladies at work, they love to play practical jokes!

3 goals:
1. to go back to college and get a degree
2. buy a house
3. survive the upcoming teenage years times 4 girls-YIKES!

3 random surprising facts:
1. I love musicals!
2. I know all of the songs from both High School Musical movies and sing along while watching them.
3. I love to bake - The more complicated the recipe the better

3 current obsessions
1. American Idol- I've been a fan since the 1st season so I don't know if this really counts as a current obsession.
2. crossword puzzles-I do the one in the newspaper while I'm waiting for my kids to get out of school.
3. blogging- actually I do better at reading everyone else's blogs than updating mine.

I don't remember how many people I'm supposed to tag for this assignment, but since everything else is in 3's I'll go with 3- so Kellie, Wendy, and Michelle consider yourselves tagged!

The Tag from Dacia is:

1. On your post, link back to the person who tagged you - that would be me, in this case.
2. Post your assignment on your blog - seven weird or random facts.
3. Post these rules on your blog.
4. Post links to seven bloggers that you will be tagging.
5. Go to those blogs and give them a comment on their blog to let them know that you have tagged them.

So here it goes. 7 wierd or random facts about me:
1. -3. see above -is this cheating?
4. I often talk to myself
5. I sing in the shower
6. Jake and I suddenly start slow dancing in the living room, or kitchen, or almost anywhere, with or without music- he usually starts it however.
7. I love to read and often stay up until 1 or 2 in the morning reading.

I'm not sure if I can come up with 7 different people to tag so let's go with, Katie, Joshlyn, Brittney, Trisha, and the 3 above. (If you've already done this assignment I guess you lucked out!) Have fun!

Kellie's Wedding

I didn't necessarily want to blog both Olyvia's birthday and Kellie's wedding on the same blog so I figured I would just do two seperate blogs. Savannah took some really cute pictures at the reception that I really wanted to share.

Okay so I took this one outside of the temple. Here is the family after the wedding.
The rest of these pictures are the one's Savannah took. She did a great job with the pictures.


I thought this was a great picture of Britney. I have several others that are similar. Let me know if you want them Michele.

Here is the beautiful bride
and the handsome? groom!

This is how Scott looked after Kellie fed him the cake. He then proceeded to chase after Kellie and give her a great big kiss so Kellie could share the cake and frosting.

I'm not exactly sure what it is Randall is doing here. Again one of the many Savannah took of her cousins.

It was a great wedding and we had lots of fun, although it was a crazy weekend! Welcome to the family Scott!

Olyvia's Birthday

Olyvia had a "Princess Tea Party" for her 5th birthday. Her birthday was on the 20th which was a Sunday so we had her party on the 19th. We had a lot of fun- there were 8 girls there counting Olyvia and Juliana. My parents even came and brought Olyvia's cousin Natalya from Pocatello. We decorated these princess crowns, made necklaces and tried to turn a frog into a prince. I realized after the party was over that I did not take a single picture of the party-OOPS! Jake was at work and I was trying to run the show, so that is my excuse. This picture is from after the party. Natalya's birthday is the day after Olyvia's so she is opening her presents from my girls.

On Sunday we had the family over for cake and ice cream- that's my excuse for not blogging last week! This is Olyvia's princess cake. It looked a lot better in my head than it actually turned out. Olyvia was just excited to get the crown.

Olyvia loved her presents. Here are a few pictures of her opening her gifts.

A High School Musical shirt from Christena. My girls can hardly wait for the third movie to come out!
Olyvia asked me for a singing Sharpey doll. When I asked her what else she wanted if I couldn't get her that She told me a night light and a radio for her room. She was very excited to get her new lamp.
Olyvia also got some new clothes from Grandma and Grandpa Smith and Tonja and her kids. Savannah gave her a bubble set and Juliana gave her a new piggy bank because she broke Olyvia's. It was overall a good birthday.

No Time for Anything!

I have been meaning to blog for the past couple of weeks now, but never seem to have more than a couple minutes at a time to sit down. I should be working on my sewing right now, but can't seem to motivate myself to actually sit down and get it done.
Our house has been crazy lately. My time seems to be spent in the car more than at home lately. After I get my girls to school in the morning I have about an hour and a half until its time for me to go to my job at the elementary school. After I get home from the school I usually only have an hour until I have to pick kids up again. The girls started swimming lessons last week and so every Tuesday and Thursday afternoons we go to the pool. Luckily all their lessons are at the same time, but we don't get home until dinner time. By the time we finish with dinner and get the kitchen cleaned up it seems like it is already time for bed. Added into the normal everyday stuff we have achievement days every other week for Christena and parent teacher conferences this week. I'm hoping things will get less hectic when school gets out. One of the kids at the school was celebrating the fact we only have 2 more months-time sure flies when you are having- Fun?

Anyway we are finally almost healthy here now-We hope! The end of March Savannah ended up with an ear infection on top of her cough and cold. We passed the cough and cold around to all of us, but a few days after Easter- after her fever had finally broke, Juliana started complaining that her ear hurt. A quick trip to the doctor revealed a double ear infection and pnuemonia! She is finally feeling better! Jake gave her a blessing that she would be able to return to her energetic self. Kellie and Jake's mom just said, "Are you sure?" But I really am- even with all the energy she has and all the trouble she gets into I hated seeing her sick.

The Basketball theme of our blog is in honor to the NCAA tournament-which is now over, and the upcoming NBA finals. Jake complains if I make the blog to "girly".

A word on the NCAA- My bracket finally passed up Jake's on the final four-That's all I really hope for when I pick my bracket- unfortunately the two teams I picked for the finals lost- but then again, so did Jake's!

Hopefully next time I'll have a little more time so I can post some pictures! I'll try to make it a little sooner,