NKOTB....

Remember NKOTB?? Well I was never really into them but the Price girls were. (they were these 2 sisters that I used to babysit every week when I was in Jr High.) So I had to listen to them at least a little- well "orange peanut" has them on her play list on her blog - and I found myself singing along. So while I walked on the treadmill today I put her play list on and rocked out to NKOTB LOL it actually got me moving good cause it was quite funny. So next time you need good old music from Jr high days try some New Kids

We decided on a stove. I did not go with the one I really liked I could not justify it. So I got a white one which was about half the price. I still got the 5 burners which I know we will use the fifth one ( it has a grill attachment) and I got one with a warmer drawer. Once I saw the double ovens in real life I did not like them as much the 2nd oven is just really tiny and E did not think we would use it that much ( I live with Mr chief and he does not think we would use it but I d0) But he left the decision up to me and I decided that I did not want to get one that I did not have the money to pay cash for ( even though I knew in my head that in one weeks time we would be getting 3 different paychecks) But it will match the appliances we have and white is a whole heck of a lot cheaper than stainless and I do not really have a stainless feeling house mine is just more old country. At least it will be nice and clean and work right. Now we just have to order a tank full of propane.


california missions SUCK - we have been working on Claira's mission for 3 days straight now and it is no where near done. Now we could have taken the eay road and a cardboard model but NO we decided to do the walls out of this plastic stuff kinda like cross stich material. We are weaving it to make it look like bricks. Well that takes forever!!!!! So we are working away on it slowly - I will post some pics when we finish.

3 more days till Reno Worlds!

My stove took a dump on me today LOL

So a few weeks ago I walked by the stove and I swore I smelt propane... so I checked the burners to make sure they were actually off. Yep HUH must just be my imagination... then I smelt it again when I got up for work one morning so... I told E to check it out and see if he smelt anything ( by the time he actually woke up I am sure he forgot what I had even asked him to do). So today he calls me at work and says we need a new stove - He had smelt the propane and pulled it out - and there is a leak for sure. Now it might be able to be fixed by some stove dude like the Maytag guy but it has been giving us problems for a long time and the darn handle has fallen off so we figure it is just time to buy a new one. So now I need to choose a new stove.... There are so many options - it is quite overwhelming but since we are buying a new one I think we should get what we really want ( and I say we cause I hardly use the darn thing I am not the cook in this family) So I am thinking a double oven so when we have people over to eat ( which is like always) then one thing can be cooking at its temperature and another thing at its own temp. I found one I like - for only $2,000.00 that is not a lot right ( HAHAHA) - but I was thinking I know what dishwasher I want ( cause ours is on its last leg) so should i go with the same brand of dishwasher does all that really matter? or just stick to buying things in the same color? .... decisions decisions...

Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday Josh!! Are ya 30 yet????? Sorry I am not going to post some mushy thing about what a great brother in law I have - not that he is not great - just we don't talk about feelings in the Sorenson family LOL

True Lemon....

So who has heard of True Lemon ???? I first tried this product a few months ago and I really liked it. It is just actual real true lemons freeze dried into crystals. They come in a packet and each packet is like one lemon slice. All you need to do is add it to your glass of water. I do not like plain water all the time it gets a little boring. So I add the no calorie no carb no sweetener True Lemon to my water. Recently I saw a report on a news show ( not sure which one) and they did a study on the lemons they add in our waters at restaurants. They are not that clean!! So being the germ-a-phobe that I am, I have been once again looking to buy these True Lemon packets to keep in my purse. Because I will no longer be having restaurants add lemon to my water LOL - True Lemon will send you out a sample of their product to try ( and they actually do it not like some companies LOL ) If you click on the links in my post it will take you to their home page and you can sign up to get a free sample. Also for every free sample sign up they get they will also donate 10packets to the Troops (here is the link on that ) So go sign up and get some free for yourself and the troops!

Easter....

Can you say SPOILED.......

Why we spoil our little brats I will never know - Dallen got a DS game that E found in Reno last week - it was going to be saved for his birthday but he decided we should give it to him now. Claira got a 1GB memory card for her camera. And they both got tons and tons of candy- of course I sent a huge bag full of candy with E to work today but there is still tons of candy. They wrote a letter to the easter bunny and asked him to hide the eggs. I was not going to go out in the 20 degree weather and hide the eggs plus who knows what animals would get into them- dogs cats bunnies, cows, chickens snakes or coyotes. So we wrote back and told them to have mom and dad do it so the animals did not eat them. The chances of the animals getting them are slim but still i was not going out there in the middle of the night.

Sat the kids and I died eggs-

Can you tell which one Dallen made? Do you know what it is?

I think Claira knows the truth about the Easter Bunny but she wants me to tell her to know for sure cause she is totally manipulating everything about the eater bunny and she knows it is driving me nuts.

Mother- I am not droping off my kids you already have kids to watch this week.

Check this site out...

I found this blog from looking at someone elses blog ( who of course I do not know)

http://www.leeloublogs.blogspot.com/

she has a ton of different blog backgrounds available for you to upload for free - if you are a scrapper they are very scrappy like...

I often "stalk" blogs to find people that I knew way back when - recently Mindy and I have found a few interesting ones LOL it is a way to find all the gossip without them even knowing you are "stalking" them LOL -

so if you are "stalking" my blog say hi - that is how I recently reconnected with Stephanie - she was "stalking " me and finally decided to say HI and I am glad she did!

Ooops

Crap I forgot about wrestling practice today. With the kids not in school (and the thought of me having to work everyday next week on my mind) I forgot wrestling practice. And no it was not on purpose! Dallen really needs to go too he needs all the practice he can get. in 2 weeks from now he is going to Reno Worlds... it is a big tournament in Reno that people from all over the country fly in for. Wrestling for us right now is just for fun but some people ( ok some parents) take it really seriously even at Dallen's age. So he really needs to be in shape and focused on knowing what moves to do next. So I am really bummed I forgot.

The kids want to dye eggs but I think that will have to wait until tomorrow afternoon cause I am so not ready yet. I found a blog that had instructions on how this girl did her eggs and they turned out really bright and cute so I may use some of her tips. I am sure I will post pics once we actually dye the eggs- My kids asked for DS games in their Easter baskets they wrote a letter to the Easter bunny for them nice huh - isn't that kinda an expensive gift for an Easter basket? I never got anything like that...

Lucky me thought that I was going to start just working 2 days a week now but no my boss scheduled me for all 6 days next week nice huh and the kids are off all week starting today so I am sure it is going to be a long long week - cause as soon as I walk through the door E has to walk out for work so he will be tired all week from watching kids and working and so will I - that was so nice of my boss - He knows my kids are home all week cause so are his... oh well i made a list last night of days I will not be able to work for the next 3 months and there a quite a few so I guess it all works out.

I still have not uploaded my pics from the last wrestling tournament - the dang card reader on my putter is not reading again - this is the second time since I got this puter last year that I have to call and have them come out and replace the darn thing - ticks me off cause we paid extra money to have it installed and it only works half the time.

a good scrapping find

I found this blogger who makes word art - you could use them for digi stuff or print them out for paper stuff. She has some really good saying - here is the link http://elegantwordart2.blogspot.com/ i am going to add it on the side too .

No Phone, Snow & Wrestling

#1 If you have been trying to call me in the last 2 weeks or so good luck LOL The squirrels have chewed the phone lines a couple streets away and so our lines were down for a few days they are back up now but the static on the line is so horrible that we just use our cell phones and if you call and leave a message most likely I will not even be able to understand it so don't bother - So use our cells if you need us bad enough

#2 It is stinking snowing I am so ready for spring but i guess it is not quite time yet

#3 - Today was Dallen's Wrestling tournament in Burney. We woke up to snowy icy roads ( oh so nice at 5 in the morning) - We got to the school 2 min late ( at least by the clock in my car) and everyone had left already. So I called E and had him map quest it and tell me how to get there I figured with the way I drive I would catch up to them in no time but just in case I better figure out how to get there cause who knows if there will be cell service on the way there. So we head out towards redding and Bam straight ice so I keep going and finally catch up to a car ( first one i had seen going my direction ) and it was some friends of ours so I slowed down and followed them . It turned out to be a good thing cause a while later a big rig flashed us and so we figured there was something up ahead but we drove about 5 miles and nothing so as soon as I let my guard down Bam we turned a corner going downhill and there were 2 cars in my lane . I was on complete ice so I tried to slow down a little but that was not going to happen so I slid all over the road but I corrected it and got myself back to wear i needed to be ( i may be a fast driver but I am also a good defensive driver- and humble too) The kids had no idea what even happened! So then we got to burney and signed in - then went to eat at burney's main street cafe - if was a cute little cafe very simple mom and pop kind of place - it was good - but you know ed's is better LOL - i had half a plate of biscuits and gravy- ed's is WAY BETTER but it was not horrible - then back to the tournament- Dallen's age and weight they did a bracket type of placement and he won his first in like 20 seconds pinning the kid and then lost the second one getting pinned by the other kid in the 2nd round. So that moved him into 2nd place and he did not have to wrestle the other two kids in his bracket cause they were already below him. So we headed home cause by then it was already 3 and our other teammates still had at least 2 1/2 hours till they would be done. So home in the white out storm we went. I just love snow in the middle of march. I have not looked at the pics i got yet there may not be anything good i thought my spare battery was charged but it was not the case so i do not have many pics

Mindy - Mt Shasta is about 2 1/2 hours away from here - i got to the turn off to go there today and it was still 90 miles away from there ( which it took me an hour to get to that turn off ) - sorry it is kinda far huh

A Long Long Week...

This has been such a dang long week I am so ready for it to be over. We came home Monday ( and no way was i stopping to buy groceries in Reno with the possibility of any of us getting sick) Everyone was fine claira just felt a little sick but I think it was cause she would not eat ( I think she is going to have the same fear of the stomach flu as me ) Tuesday she decided she wanted to stay home from school - she could have gone i think but heck if she wants to stay home fine with me cause she likes school and does not want to just get out of going... Tuesday night Dallen gets sick - Eddie said " oh this one is bad!! ( meaning the strain of flu) I don't look forward to getting sick!" But honestly dallen was not near as sick as claira. So Dallen is fine now he is just home playing x box. So I have called in sick everyday this week to work I am sure the boss at the PO that i fill in at is not happy but what can ya do.

Shell - claira is so excited to come to Idaho this summer - Granny told her we would take the minivan - Dallen heard that and that made him excited LOL - I however am so not excited to be driving the mini van to Idaho!!! Dallen is sooo bummed that you are not having a Tyler he asked why does everyone always have to have baby girls why can't they have boys i want more boy cousins - I told him he has KK and TJ and he said " yeah and that is all!!"

Tomorrow is Claira's birthday she will be 10 - so you know what that makes me???? OLD -

I have been tagged...

My sister tagged me this week so here I go....

A- Attached or single: Attached
B- Best Friend: Ed
C-Cake or Pie: Both
D- Day of Choice: Currently they are all the same but that is about to change
E- Essential Item: Chapstick/Lip Gloss
F- Favorite Color: Red- Pink
G- Gummi Bears or Worms: Not really into the gummies
H- Hometown: Carmichael, CaI-
Indulgence(s): anything desserty i guess
J- January or July: July for sure!
K-Kids: 2
L-Life is incomplete without: My family
Marriage Date: June 7 1996
N- Number of Siblings: 2 sisters 3 brothers
O- Oranges or Apples: depends on my mood
P- Phobias or Fears: the stomach flu
Q- Quote(s): here is one i like it fits for some of my family members LOL - a cluttered life is a life you do not have control of ..... i am a clutter freak and a control freak LOL
R-Reason To Smile: I am cutting back my days at work soon
S- Season: summer
T- Tag Six: anyone who wants to do it
U- Unknown Fact About Me: Opps I forgot to change this one - thank shell - un known fact - hmm - i think everyone knows everything about me .... OK i will tell a story from my teen years- i just told this to my mom and dad last weekend - my mom had this thing that she NEVER let me drive with any other teens i was 15 1/2 by the time i finally got to and Mindy was the first one I was allowed to drive with - well that night she ran a red light totally by accident LOL but we both looked at each other and laughed and she said "don't tell your mom she will never let me drive you again" - then another time we were driving i think Sarah green may have been in the car with us i don't remember for sure but this older guy started following us we had no clue why but once Mindy realized it she started driving faster and taking all kinds of turns to make sure he really was following us - we started getting freaked out so faster she went and we ran a couple of stop signs over by the nords house on those back roads there ... finally we lost the dude but dang we were freaked -
V- Vegetarian or Oppressor of Animal: MEAT!!!!!!!!
W- Worst Habit:( I say naughty words like Stinker Butt to and in front of my children. Ooops!) that was my sisters answer and here is mine- I say naughty words around my kids like "If you don't knock it off i am going to spank your Ass"
X- X-Rays or Ultrasounds: Ultrasounds
Y- Your Favorite Food: Chinese
Z- Zodiac:Cancer


So right now we are in Sac Town we came down for my SIL's baby shower - and we came down a few days earlier so that we could celebrate Claira's birthday while we were here. SO Friday we got here and ate lunch at my brothers house then went shopping for a few hours and then headed to Cheesecake Factory for claira's birthday dinner. Then more shopping after dinner. Sat morning we all headed out to Costco - wow don't go there with 3 adults and 4 kids it is not a good idea - so we came home ate lunch and jen and I went back out to find me something to wear to the shower. Came home ate dinner watched a quick movie and then back out we went again to shop some more.... it has become a really expensive weekend. Then in the middle of the night i wake up to hear claira in the bathroom.... sick - Now I HATE the stomach flu it has always been a huge fear for me so usually ed is the one who really deals with the kids when they have the stomach flu but if he is not around I take care of them but it is not my fav thing to do. So I called my MIL this morning and told them i was not coming to the shower.... So i have been stuck in sac today with a sick kid and dang she is sick .... so hopefully she is well enough to travel tomorrow and that no one else gets sick. I really wanted to be home tonight cause ed goes back to work tomorrow and I have been kinda sick to my stomach about it all week but looks like it is a no go. so maybe we can be home before he gets home...