December 2010

     I have been wanting to update my blog for weeks.  There is just never any time for me to get "my" things accomplished.  So tonight I could not sleep, after laying there for an hour trying to fall asleep I decided that I might as well get up and accomplish something.
      My last post was the middle of December.  Really it was not a post at all, just a note saying to check out a contest.  Many contests have you post on your blog or on Facebook as to spread the word about the contests.  If you post on your blog about a contest you will often get an extra entry, so hey what can it hurt.

     I find it so much easier to read blogs that have pictures.  It just keeps my attention so much better :)  So lets see what pictures I have from December....

Well first pics I come across was the Janesville Wrestling Tournament.  Since there are no wrestling pictures of my own kid I will not share, but I did get some good shots.  Dallen had so much fun being back on the mat cheering on his old teammates as they wrestled.  Of course he was yelling at them telling them to sprawl and such  just as always.

     The next set of pictures is the Janesville Christmas Program.  The Jr High kids always do some type of dance at the performance rather than sing a song.  Thankfully my kid is short and was once again in one of the front rows.  As soon as the program was over I took Claira out of school for the day, all they were going to do was goof around and eat junk food.  So Claira and Jessica came home with me and had a party of their own.

                                                          Deanna Julie and Claira

Dancing Queen

     Then we have the pictures from the Soccer Team Christmas Party.  Of course it was inside in the evening  (never makes for good pictures), and the girls were always moving (also another picture nightmare).  There are a few that turned out OK.

Claira and Jessica

It was actually Holly's 12th birthday that day too.



















They had an ornament exchange and Sally and Jessica saw this ornament and knew it was a perfect one for Claira.  So they worked it so that Claira was able to win the ornament.







     At the end of the night we let the girls let off sparklers.... 

 

Jessica

     Then came Christmas but I do not have any of those pictures edited yet.  For some reason Christmas pictures are always hard for me.  I feel like it is pictures of the same things over and over again....this gift and that gift.  Plus I think it bothers me to have pictures of the Christmas mess. Kinda an OCD thing.

     After Christmas we went to Granny's to see my boys.  I had never actually celebrated KK's birthday with him ever.  The end of December is just a hard time to come down the mountain.  You never know when there is going to be snow until a day or so before hand and then you have to worry about if you can get back up the mountain when you need to get back home.  I was a nervous wreck this time coming home because I knew that it was supposed to snow.  And it did.  Snow does not bother me here but in the mountains where you have no cell service and cliffs to drive off of and trees to hit.  It has begun to freak me out ever since we spun off the road on our way home from Redding  on May 22nd.  It just took me looking down for one second and BAM  I must have hit the slick road just right and we were spinning off the road..... anyways here are some of my favorite pics from KK's 5th birthday. 

 Dallen Granny and KK

Birthday Boy

 Grampy building legos with Dallen and TJ

Claira and TJ

 Can you roll  your eyes as good as this kid?

 

Week 49- Opps

Wow week 49 last post was week 33 and I did not even post that full week  until today.  I figured now that I am home most days again  that I will start blogging again.  I changed my blogger template  I was tired of the plain boring template.  But when I did that many of my pictures did not fully show up  so I went back through my old posts and fixed all the pictures.  So I have gotten NOTHING done today.  That seems to be the way my days are going lately.   I also set up a new blog just for  pictures  so that when I enter contests and need to do blog post about photography things I can just post on that blog rather than linking my "family" blog up for all the world to access ( well easier access I guess).

So what happened in the last 16 weeks?   I was overly busy that is what! 
     Claira played competitive soccer and so we were gone every weekend from September to mid November.  We are currently on a "Holiday Break" from soccer  and practice will begin again after the Holidays. It was a lot of fun doing the whole soccer thing but I am so glad to be taking a little break.  Claira is also doing 4-H again.  I am still the sewing leader but we are calling it Quilting rather than sewing just because we are making quilts for fair. Claira really likes making the stuff this year and wants to do so many projects on her own but there is just not enough time.

     I was released from YW and put back in 2 minutes later.  I am now working with Amy Lott she is new in our ward and it seems to be going well so far. I am taking a break from the PO for a bit  well OK  I guess break is not the right word but I have had to cut my hours back dramatically  last week I only worked 2 hours the week before 3.  Yeah, big change from the 20 I was working.  Since I am not working so much I am trying to catch up on all the projects I have waiting to be finished.  I am not really making much progress on that though.

     Dallen is now doing Charter School.  I could no longer handle the stuff going on there so we pulled him out.  So far it is working out great  we were very lucky in that the teacher we were placed with is a special Education teacher and is helping him learn to "deal " with his crazy learning style,  she also happens to be a member of the church just in a ward in town.  She is giving him a lot of writing assignments to challenge him and get him to start learning how to get things that he knows down on paper.  If you are to ask him about a book that he just read, verbally he can tell you all about it but he can not seem to get it out on paper.  We picked up our assignments for the next 4 weeks ( but 2 of those weeks are Christmas Vacation so we do not have to do school work),   and in the assignment he has to write a fiction story.  The story has to have 9 paragraphs in it.  I am positive that this will be a big challenge for him  but with a whole month to complete the task  it should be doable.  Since he is not enrolled in Janesville school he is not allowed to wrestle with the team.  This was the hardest part about withdrawing him from school cause he loves to wrestle and is so good at it.  I did not want to take away the thing that he excels at the most  but school will just become harder  each year if he does not get the help he needs now.

So that is what has been going on here.  Let's see if I can keep up with my little blog at least for the rest of the year.

Week 33 August 8th thru August 14th

Sunday- We are back home and totally exhausted.  Getting up in time for church was really hard.  But Dallen was the one who was up and ready to go this week.  After church we swung by Carol's house to pick up our peaches.  They were nice and yummy! Eddie came home from work and made us some yummy venison stroganof for dinner.

Monday- I went to work in the morning.... no real new developments as to how much money the job is being offered for.  So until I even know how much per hour there is no way I am going to say either ya or nay about accepting the job.    Claira and Dallen both had soccer practice.  It is the perfect time for me to walk on the track for a half hour while both of them are still practicing in the same location.  Today though, I forgot my darn tennis shoes.  So, I ended up walking in my flip flops for a total of one mile.  After one mile I knew I was going to end up with blisters in-between my toes.   So that is as far as I went.  Hopefully this can be a routine for me.

Tuesday- The peaches were getting nice and soft, actually too soft.  So soft that actually canning them was not going to work out.  Claira and I pealed them and cut them into quarters and then froze about 10 pounds worth.  Then I started to make jam out of the other 10 pounds.  I did not have enough pectin though, so we froze a bit more and will have to pick up some more pectin soon.  Standing on my feet all day cooking is not for me!! It stresses me out big time.   I did get quite a bit of peach jam made up.  I am thinking I will us the peach jam instead of pineapple apricot for Russian Chicken, cause I really do not think we will go through that much peach jam in a years time.    In the evening we had a sewing meeting at the house.  Sandy was nice enough to spring for some Papa Murphy's Pizza.  It was a nice and easy dinner  and a good easy meeting to get the girls APRs updated and done.  Dallen and Eddie left today to go camping for a couple days up at Antelope Lake.  It is nice to have a little piece and quiet around here.