kids!

kids say the funniest things- and mine have been hilarious!

Christena has been into cooking lately and yesterday she was asking for a cookbook. Jake innocently asked her if she wanted to go to culinary school when she is older. Christena's reply- "No! I don't want to look at colons all day!"
Jake and I almost died laughing.

Then, since we were talking about school and where the kids wanted to go to college, Jake told Christena and Savannah that if they wanted to go to BYU they had to do good in school and get good grades. Savannah said she wanted to go to BYU- Idaho. Jake said why do you want to go there, the football team and basketball team are both at BYU Provo and that's where all the cute boys are- she quickly and emphatically answered, "Then I want to go to Provo!" I have to admit that left me a little worried, she is only almost 8!

My kids always amaze me and make me laugh everyday- They are great!

still here!

okay so we really are still alive, we haven't dropped off the face of the earth. I wish I had a great excuse to explain my 5 month absence, and while I have a few, I won't bother you with all of them. I will quickly give you our 5 month update. I added a few pictures but it didn't upload them in the order I wanted it to, so they are a little scrambled- I will do my best to explain them.
This picture is shortly after Christmas- we got a pretty big storm and the kids convinced Jake to help them build a snow sculpture. This is their snow turtle. My contribution was the green and yellow colored water for the shell. Isn't it cute!

In January my kids had crazy hair day at school- This was Savannah's crazy hair.

Christmas morning breakfast- we had cinnamon rolls, bacon and orange smiles!

I also got new dishes-finally after being married for 10 years I have enough matching plate for our whole family!

In september Christena got her hair cut. She looks so grown up with her short hair!

this was Olyvia's first day of Kindergarten, the other girls had been to school for a week already.
so that is a very quick rundown of our last 5 months- a couple of things that are going on right now. We are looking forward to Savannah's 8th birthday in a couple of weeks- and then her baptism. I can't believe she is almost 8. She is so excited about her baptism. she is getting so grown up and is such a big help at home. Christena entered a poem into the school's reflection contest and it moved on to the district level of judging where it received an excellence award and now it is at the state level of judging. She also tried out for a part in their school play- A Big Bad Musical and got the part of the fairy godmother. The play is a trial of the big bad wolf and the fairy godmother is the attorney for the good fairy tale characters. She has a bunch of lines she is learning and even has a couple of solo's and one song that is pretty much her with some backup singers. She is working really hard to learn it all and she is doing great! Olyvia is doing great in school and is reading really good, unfortunatly the work is not very challenging for her so she is often bored. On Saturday she is going to be taking a class for a special pull out program for next year. It would be a 1st and 2nd grade classroom. It is not at the school she is at right now so she has already told me she is not going to pass the test so she will be at her same school. She is smart enough she probably could figure out how not to pass the test too. Juliana is now a sunbeam and it is alot of fun having her in primary- although I usually feel like I've run a marathon by the time she heads to class. She is not getting the concept of sitting reverently with her teacher or even sitting with her teacher during primary. She tends to wander around the primary room, either sitting by me at the piano or with Christena or just making a break for the door. Of course it is usually during singing time when I am trying to play the piano that she tries to run! Jake has gone back to school and it slowly getting back into the rhythm of studying and doing homework. He is doing on-line classes through Utah State University to earn a Masters in Rehabilitation Counseling. I am still sewing my hats which takes most of my time and trying to balance childcare, housekeeping and all of the other usual jobs a mother gets to do, while maintaining some sanity. I don't know how well the sanity part is going though. We also are in the middle of house hunting. In January we thought we had a house in Sandy, but it fell through and then went under litigation so we had to move back to the looking stage. Our realtor is very patient with us and has been working hard to help us find something in our price range. Jake tells me I am too picky but for this amount of money I think I have a right to be.

Anyway that's what's been going on for the last few months in our busy corner of Utah- I will try to do better in keeping everything updated!