04/29/09

Today kids have been sick. Zach has a fever, cough, cold etc... and chloe decided to throw up today... so fun!  Sydney has allergies and Kyle is good, thank goodness.  We are busy trying to buy a minivan for our family as our Pilot lease is ending.  Daisy bit Mia on the eye  and totally jacked it up, it's so gross and I hope she will be okay and be able to see out of it.  There is a terrible swine flu going around the world and we are really trying to be careful to stay healthy (except for today) and hopefully they can get it under control.  Sydney took 2nd in the 2oo and 4x100 at her track meet yesterday, we are very proud of her.  She is a good girl and I'm just very nervous for high school and hope that she continues to make good choices and do whats right-high school is tough.  Life is good and busy and I love it.  Super proud of the kids and I love them so much!

04/20/09

We had a good weekend together as  a family.  Zach and Kyle had games on friday night they both won and then Chris took the boys to the Fulton Carnival and Sydney was at Megan Chapples Birthday party.  Saturday it was a soccer game for Sydney and Chris, Sydney tried to be goalie but didn't like it much so she went back to defense.    Julene Barth and I went shopping for the Silent Auction Basket for CNLL and then we were off to a Peleteros game. Zach pitched in this one and Chad and Randee and the kids came to watch , it was fun.  Chris and I then went to dinner with the Gardanier's and the Yocum's and then we went to the adult session of conference.  Sunday we went to Stake conference and they did it differently and had to broadcast to our church building so we didn't have to all cram into the stake center.  I love sunday afternoons when we can rest, take a nap, play games and enjoy each others company.  Kyle showed us his dancing side last night and did the macarena for us in his bedroom, he was very good apparently they do it at school alot!  I thought it was so cute.  Chloe has taken to the barbies and loves to play and make a huge mess with them!  This week Sydney is off to California with the band for the weekend, they get to go to disneyland (lucky).  I'm going to SLC for an Exfuze conference with Pat, I'm excited to see what they have to say and hopefully get her motivated and moving along in this business.  I'll write again soon.

04/07/09

We celebrated our 15th wedding anniversary this past week!  It was a normal day but it just felt special to me and I remembered our wedding all the events that went along with it.  That morning mom came for piano and she brought gifts, she likes to do that.  She brought a necklace for me from hayley, bed sheets, tie for Chris, book on cd for Chris, and she had our wedding video put on dvd which was so nice!  Mom and Hayley also did their dance for us again to the UB40 song and put it on you tube for us to watch, it was so sweet.  We had a game that night so on thursday the 2nd I got us a couple's massage and then we went to dinner at Hong Kong Bistro.  It was a nice anniversary I can't wait for the next 15.  Things are busy we had a super fun weekend.  Friday night Zach had a game and it was too cold for me to take Chloe so we just stayed home. Saturday we had Sydney's soccer game (they tied) then I had to go do taxes, then it was grocery shopping and home again.  Chris went to Priesthood that night (it was general conference weekend) and caught 2 guys looking into cars in the parking lot, I don't know what it is people always breaking into cars at our church's.  Then that night our neighborhood had their annual easter egg hunt, they were divided into age groups of course and they get their candy filled eggs to put in their baskets.  The fun part about it was that afterwards they showed a movie on a 16ft blow up movie screen.  They showed an easter show then the movie Bolt. It was so fun to get the pillows, blankets, sleeping bags etc... out for the kids and let them stay up watching the movie with their friends.  The Moore's and us had dinner on their front lawn and just talked, it was soooo fun!  I love our neighborhood and the great activities we do, it's a wonderful place to raise our children.  Today is tuesday and we have another one of Zach's games tonight I hope they win.  Kyle had one last night and they won by a long shot.  He loves to play.  Life is good, we are just taking things easy and being careful with our money as the economy is terrible right now and things are slow with Chris's job.  I'll write soon.  

15th Anniversary 04/01/09

Well we had our 15 year anniversary yesterday.  I woke up and made Chris breakfast in bed (omelette) and then mom came over for piano and she brought with her some gifts.  She told me to look on my email and there was something from Hayley, a you tube clip??  So it was  of them dancing to the UB40 song that they danced for us 15 years ago.  It was so sweet.  We got new bed sheets, I got a cute necklace from Hayley, Chris got a new tie and a book on CD and then mom put our wedding video, reception video, etc...on dvd.  It was so sweet.  We were grateful.  I can't believe I've been married for 15 years!  As i think back it's been a wonderful life.  We've definitely had our ups and downs and sorrows and happiness but we are so blessed and I wouldn't change any of it.  I'm very happy.  Kyle had baseball practice and Zach had a game (they came back and won 18-9)  We are actually celebrating today by going and getting  a couples massage-Yeah!! We could both use it.    I have an Exfuze meeting right after, hopefully it turns out well.  I went to the computer store to get an adapter for our old laptop so I could get the pictures off of it, it was so fun to look at them and see how much the kids have grown.  My goal is to get them all on disk and off the computer and put it on the mac.  

03/30/09 Con't

Today was quite busy I went and did taxes at John's today.  I've been doing taxes since January and it is helping me pay off my credit card-Yeah!  Then I went to the bank and then home to clean a bit and organize the toy closet.  It's always nice to clean and get rid of things.  Chloe loved helping me and she is so cute playing with her musical toys.  Then I took Sydney to the dentist as she has a gum infection and they had to do an extra good cleaning.  She needs to floss and rinse more as we all do.  I hope she feels better soon.  Zach is playing for the Peleteros team tonight and he's pitching so I hope that he does well!  

March 30, 2009

Well I've decided to start a journal blog so I can easily document our lives.  I feel I will do it easier on the computer rather than writing in a journal.    I feel like our lives our moving so fast and I dont' want to miss anymore moments with my kids.  I got up yesterday (Sunday) and started looking at the kids baby books and I haven't kept them up to date as much as I should have.  What a slacker I feel like sometimes.  The kids are doing great!  Sydney is in 8th grade at Santan Junior High, she plays soccer right now and Chris is the coach.  She's been very active this year and has gotten into working out and staying fit, I'm really proud of her.  She is in NJHS and has kept a great GPA this year, she's a hard worker at school.  Now if I can only get her to work harder at home.  She will do the stuff I ask but sometimes she forgets to clean up after herself and put things away, we'll work on it.  She was recently called as the Beehive President at Church I really think this will be a great opportunity for her to learn more compassion and how to deal with others.  Zach is 10 and in 4th grade at Fulton Elementary.  His teacher is Mr. Telford he's from England.  Zach is a good B student he most definitely could be an A student if he applied himself a bit more.  He is playing baseball on 2 teams this season.  I was a little upset at first because I knew of the time committment that would be involved but it's the way it is and he LOVES it so who am I to say anything?  He is a great first baseman and pitcher and he's always fun to watch.  Zach is also in scouts and we need to do more of that because baseball takes over most wednesday nights.  Kyle my sweet 7 year old is a player!  By that I mean he could play from sun up to sun down, friends are everything to him.  He would be out playing at 7am if I let him.  He is in 1st grade at Fulton Elementary and Mrs. Alaniz is his teatcher.  He is doing good and just enjoying the friends and P.E.  He is also playing baseball and loves it as well.  He got a great pop fly at his game on saturday.  I love to see my boys in their baseball uniforms.  Chloe is 3 and such a joy to have!  I can't believe I wanted to stop at 3 kids!  I'm so glad I decided to have one  more.  Chloe is so funny and independent, she loves to do things on her own.  She is very lovable and loves to hug and kiss me and follows me around telling me how much she loves me.  She likes to  play with friends as well her friends are Thea Moore and Mia Gibbs, they run around this neighborhood like the 3 musketeers playing and dressing up, it's so darn cute!  Chris is with Sagepoint Financial and the markets are crazy and stressful and I know he is stressed but we just take things one day at a time. We are in the 2nd or 3rd worst economic time right now in the history of life!    People are losing their jobs, losing their houses and money it's not good right now.  I joined this company called Exfuze and it's a network marketing company and I love it!  It has an incredible product Seven+ and the plan is unlike anything out there. I'm hoping to do really well.  I would love to be able to give Chris the financial freedom to do what he chooses with his job.  We are definitely doing it the slow way but it's my goal to get more people under me and make $ to help out with the finances.  

Today is monday and I'm going in to do taxes so I'll write later.