Swing Time

Well... It got up to about 60 degrees today, so we broke out the tree swing and let the kids play for a little bit. They had a BLAST!

Malty Salty???

So, I was making some orange juice from the frozen concentrate, when Jordan walks in and wanted a taste. I decided, SURE, Why not? I gave him a little taste and he says "mmmmmm... Malty Salty". I looked at him and said "What? Where did you learn that?" He told me that he learned it all by himself. What a strange little boy. But man... It was FUNNY! He is such a sweetheart. We love having him around.

Update on Our House!!!

Here's the update folks. We have had our house listed for less than a month and we have shown it only 3 times and each person that we have shown it to has made an offer. We SOLD our house. Can you believe it? We have had a few realtors tell us that it was going to be extremely hard to sell our house on our own. They told us that we needed more exposure, but they ALL said we have done an excellent job at displaying our home and they ALL loved it. That makes us feel good. We have put a lot of work into our home and with mixed emotions we are leaving it behind. We had one family come look at it that said they could really feel the spirit here and that they felt peaceful. You know... we are TRULY blessed. Heavenly Father will ALWAYS be there for us and it is pretty amazing. We give all credit to him. He says that if we obey his commandments we will be blessed, and we have!

So we will be closing on June 3rd. Both houses will close on that day! How miraculous is that? I am just in AWE at how this has worked out for us.

Digging to China

So... Jordan was outside digging by the apple tree (his favorite thing to do). I came outside to check on him and he said "Mom, I'm almost to China". I just chuckled. I asked him where he had heard that (cause it wasn't from us). He heard it from his friends Jake and Austin at daycare. What else does he hear from daycare? At least it wasn't something bad. It was just out of the blue. I remember when I was younger and thought that I could dig to China too, I even thought if I dug too far I would get to where the Devil lived. Ah... the joys of being young. I am looking forward to everything that my children are going to come up with.

Our first REAL days of Spring

Okay... I know Spring officially started on March 20th, but here in Idaho it has been darn cold. It has not felt like Spring yet until Saturday (April 12th). We finally got up into the high 50's low 60's and it was Heaven. We LOVED it! We spent all day outside on Saturday and Sunday. It was wonderful! I even got a little sunburn (YAY for some color!!!) Anyways... Jordan and Elly just loved not being cooped up inside. They were playing and having so much fun. We even got some yard work done.

We did it! We bought us a house

Well we bought a house yesterday! We were just driving around the neighborhood we want to live in and we found a house. Here is a link to see pics of the house.


http://tours.tourfactory.com/tours/tour.asp?t=411077

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I was inspired by Bethany to do this. I thought it was pretty fun!

We had to say good-bye!

Well on the last day of our visit, Andy and Yolanda came over to play with the kids for a little bit, then we went bowling. It was a nice way to end the visit. But... it was not completely over, we went as far as Las Vegas and there we stayed with Sam, Melissa, and Kayla. It was nice to visit with them. Elly is such a little Mommy. She was trying to feed and take care of Kayla while we were there. It was so sweet. We really love you all. We are going to miss you.

Birthdays at Chuck E Cheese

We got to celebrate Jordan and Ammon's birthday at Chuck E Cheese. Jordan turned 4 on March 25th and Ammon turned 2 on March 27th. It was so fun. Amber's kids had never been there and Jordan had only been once and loved it, so we decided to celebrate there. They really enjoyed it. We ate pizza, danced the chicken dance with the chicken at Chuck E Cheese and we played. What fun. After we were all played out, we went back to Grandma Wendy's house and had cake and ice-cream, and the kids opened presents. We had a good time!

Shooting Rockets at the park

We had the opportunity to go to California fro Easter and for Jordan's birthday. We had a lot of fun and we were so happy to see everyone. It was a BLAST! The cousins (Jordan, Elly, Landon, Ammon, and Emma) decorated easter eggs and then on Sunday they got to hunt them in Grandma Wendy's jungle (the front yard) They had so much fun. One of the days Grand-daddy Matt came over (he had gotten Jordan a rocket for his birthday) so we went up to the park to shoot them. The boys thought it was heaven (that includes the big boys like Ryan, Dylan, and Nick). The kids loved playing and running outside. It had been to cold in Idaho for my kids to do that, so they thought this was bliss.

Not Gonna Move Yet!

Well we made an offer on the house but unfortunately they didn't take the offer. That's okay though. We are going to keep looking and try to sell our house in the mean time. There are a lot of nice ones out there, that are newer too! If you know anyone who wants to buy a house up here, go ahead and refer them.

Sad day at school!

As I came into school today I had a teacher approach me with some extremely sad news. We have this boy in our class named Eric who has epilepsy and has seizures a lot. He has a lot on his plate and he is such a sweet boy. He has a 5 year old sister named Macy who happens to be his absolute BEST friend. They did everything together and Eric would talk about her all the time. She would come in with him sometimes and say hi. I just felt like I knew her from all the stories and from the times that I have met her. Well... this weekend Macy died. She was killed by a television falling on her. Eric was playing with her when it happened and saw the whole thing. My heart just aches for this sweet boy and their family. They have a hard life as it is, but to add this... Oh how sad. Myself, the principal, and another teacher will be going to their house today to see how their family is doing. I know Heavenly Father must have a purpose for her, but this family is not LDS and does not have the same beliefs as us. I hope they can understand that there is more after death. I know you all may not know them, but if you could pray for them and their comfort, would be much appreciated.

Well... It looks like we may be moving!

So... we have been looking at houses in Idaho Falls. We have been wanting a house with a little bit more land. Right now we have hardly anything. The reason we want more land is that Ryan REALLY wants to build a shop, so he can do some woodworking. Every time we look at a house that has some land, we go inside the house and think "What??? This house is awful". We compare everything to our own house because we really like it and nothing even compares to it. Well we found a house in the area of Idaho Falls that we have been looking in, it has 1/3 of an acre (room for Ryan to build a shop and have room to spare for the kids and our dog, Jess). It is pretty nice inside. It was built in 1987 which is 9 years newer than the one we are in now, but it has more square footage. When I first looked at it I saw a lot of wood. Wood molding, wood casing, and wood closet doors, but once we move in we are going to update it a bit, and it will look fabulous. Here is a link so that you can see some pictures. There will be pictures of the inside as well. It is 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, storage room, craft room, family room upstairs, and family room downstairs. I am really excited!

Copy and paste this link to see more pictures.


http://www.navica2.net/displays/?i=1086536&k=EroAUW&n=359&p=1

My Long Time Comin' Bag Tag

Allie bag tagged me like forever ago, and I thought I'd better get that done. I am sorry it has been awhile. I have been swamped with everything, but here it goes:

I have
a HUMONGOUS wallet
cell phone
personal keys
work keys with a whistle (so I can blow it at bad kids, at recess)
3 pens
scrapbooking razorblade
bluetooth
wad of reciepts
a box top
2 chapsticks
1 lip gloss
a halls fruit breezer
an anti diarrheal medicine (I know... GROSS)
2 packs of rolaids ( I have been having sour stomach/heartburn lately)
eye drops
eclipse gum
sucker (just in case we have a tantrum at the store)

Not pictured... a few stray m&m's that got lost in the bottom of the bag
a paperclip



Not very interesting, sorry!

Tagged again? Here it goes...

1. 10 years ago:
2. 5 things on my to-do list today:
3. Snacks I enjoy:
4. What I would do if I were suddenly made a billionaire:
5. 5 places I have lived:
6. 5 jobs that I have had:
7. 3 of my BAD habits
8. 5 Random Things people don't know about me:
9. 4 or 5 people I tag:

1. 10 years ago I was 17, in high school and thinking about what colleges I wanted to go to

2. clean my house, do laundry, make dinner, plan an activity for mutual tomorrow, and play with my kids including family prayer and scripure study.

3. Ice-cream, chips and homemade salsa, licorice, shoot... I just like to snack. I could have a HUGE list if I keep going.

4. I would buy a house, make sure my kids had a savings account, move mom up to Idaho, give to people who didn't have what they needed.

5. I haven't lived in too many places... Of course Cabazon, CA, Next was Rexburg, ID (a few apartments there), Idaho Falls Idaho (my first house after being married), and now Shelley, ID

6. Teacher, Substitute, Waitress at Johnny Carino's, lifeguard, worked at the mall at Timerland, Perry Ellis, and Quiksilver, waitress at Denny's.

7. I am a WITCH when I'm PMS'ing, (I have to think of any BAD habits) let me know if you can think of any of my bad habits

8. I want to get my pilots license, I want to travel, I want to dive with sharks, I love to have a reason to dress up fancy (although I haven't had a reason for a long time, since my wedding to be exact), I love playing games (any kind of game)

9. I am not going to tag anybody because I don't want anyone mad at me.

A Woman's Remote!

A lady from work sent this to me and I thought it was pretty funny.

Color is Good!

Just a thought for the day:

Yesterday I went to the doctor for my yearly physical.
My blood pressure was high, my cholesterol was high,
I'd gained some weight, and I didn't feel so hot.
My doctor said eating right doesn't have to be complicated and it would solve my physical problems. He said just think in colors...Fill your plate with bright colors... greens, yellows, reds, etc.

I went right home and ate an entire bowl of :

And sure enough, I felt better immediately.
I never knew eating right
could be so easy.

Am I in Trouble

I turned my back for one minute, and wouldn't you know it, Elly had taken out just about every tissue in the box. She tends to get into things, ALOT!I do have to give her credit though... When she saw I wasn't very happy, she started shoving them all back into the box. It was kinda funny.

Well we got Elly's ears pierced

We got Elly's ears pierced on Saturday. She looks soooooo cute with them in. She is my little doll.

Okay... there is a reason for me getting Elly's ears pierced. Here is the story:

Every time that we go somewhere I have someone tell me "Oh, you have two boys, how nice" or they will tell Jordan "You take care of your brother now". Jordan looks at me like "What??? She's my sister." I think she looks like a little girl, but I guess when I don't brush her hair others think she is a boy. I thought, "I've got to change that", so we got her ears pierced. If someone tells me that she is a boy, I am going to scream! She is a beauty though!