pics

I took my camera to the soccer game Monday night -

she plays in the U- 12 division when she really should have been u-10 but i figured that since she will be u-12 in the fall she might as well get used to playing with big kids- so the kids she is playing with and against are all 11 to 13 ( depending on how their birthdays fall ) there was not a lot of sunlight the dark clouds were overhead most of the time but i got a few shots











dallen's picture from wrestling came finally ( the one I paid 23 stinking bucks for) it is not that great at all I soooo could have done a better job but oh well we have it - I will scan it and upload hopefully tomorrow but I did find a good pic of the awards that the kids get ...


While uploading I also found this picture from Dallen's birthday last month - it is kinda creepy but so fits these boys ... I don't know if you can see on the blog but cody's eyes are red and steven's are just giving daggers to cody and dallen is just smilling away like a goober ...

the sun came out today for a bit I was excited for that LOL got a little of my favorite chore done .... weeding I HATE to weed!
just a tip if you are thinking about painting your house yellow just remember that all the cobwebs and dirt show up real good on yellow so unless you are good at washing down the house all the time it kinda looks junky - my house is nice and yellow and junky LOL
and if you live in a windy area do not use bark in your flower beds it just blows everywhere and creates a huge mess and def don't spend the extra money on the pretty died bark cause that is just a bigger waste of money LOL i have tons of the darn stuff in my grass...
I got to see pics of my newest niece today - her name is Ellaree - you can check them out on the photographers blog - here

global warming????

I for one want to know were the global warming is.... cause it sure a Heck is not in Susanville California!!!!!! It is stinking cold today it has been thunder and lightning for a while now with heavy rain and hail mixed in along with it. So were is the warming? I would like some sun please. We were going to do a little outside work today but no go on that ...
instead Claira and Dallen are cleaning out underneath Claira's bed. Claira is not like her mom she tends to keep every little paper she ever wrote on and many times it ends up hiding under her bed. Usually I go in and clean her room really good once every other month so it never gets too bad in her room. But today I asked her to do it.... and she whined a little and I told her that she is 10 now she does not need her mommy to clean her room. I went to check on her and the mess is now so huge - honestly how hard is it to get a garbage bag and put the crap in it rather than getting it out from under the bed and throwing all around the room ? it is just papers throw them away - it is not like they are journal entries or something just papers she has written things like her name on .... and grandma don't say to me " oh mother.... let her keep her papers they mean something to her" she has to learn not to be a pack rat now so it does not turn into a huge ordeal when she is in her adult years.

speaking of not turning into a pack rat .... because I have started mainly digi scrapping I am wanting to get rid of at least half of the scrapbook stuff I have that I have not used yet..... so if anyone wants anything let me know I will sell it off for a really cheap price to you. I have been thinking about putting it on ebay but I never seem to get around to it. I don't want to get rid of it all but the stuff that i barely used before and the stuff that I know i will not use in the future I want to get ride of - plus it will help pay for all the printing of my digi Layouts.

I need new church clothes.... I am sick of wearing the same darn things.... but I am picky for my area you can not bee too dressy they are very very laid back. the men come in jeans and cowboy boots and a button up top for heaven sakes so it is not like I need to wear some Jessica McClintock dress or anything but i just have such a hard time finding things. I don't like my skirts too short I rather have longer ones that cover my white legs ( since there is no "warming" here they are stark white) and I don't like my tops too tight - cause my boobs are too big - I think I would feel different about that if they were nice and perky big boobs LOL but they are not they are big "Mom" boobs LOL - and I have to have sleeves nothing with caps sleeves either they have to be short sleeves as to not show off my stark white arms LOL - i was looking at downeast and they have some cute stuff and most of what i like is decently priced so I may just break down and order a couple and if I don't like them i can always send them back right

morgs- yes Abby is David and Torrie's baby and Marley will be Michelle's little girls name-
and I called the exterminators and they will not cover mice and snakes out here - we live in a very rural area just like Michelle and there just really is not hope in killing off the mice and snakes completely - so what we have to do is find the hole and stop them from coming in.... we thought we had but guess not - so I am de-cluttering the kids rooms ( this serves multiple purposes for me LOL ) in hopes that we do not create many spots for them to "hide" in just in case they are already in the house - we have also put out poison for the mice - but obviously we have missed a "hole" in the house somewhere if the snake could get in ... so it is back to the drawing board LOL -

There's a snake in my boots...

well not literally - ( that is just the line woody used to say in buzz light year) today Dallen came running out of his room saying there was a snake in his room. I said well go tell your dad not me! E was in the shower and he heard all the commotion so he quickly got out to check out the snake. Luckily it was just a little one but still we don't like snakes outside let alone inside the house. So he has dallen get the bebe gun and he shoots the snake dead. Earlier this morning he was just telling me that he had a feeling that this was going to be a bad snake year so I was just going to have to suck it up and learn how to shoot a gun. Part of me wanted to laugh and part of me wanted to cry - what the heck how did this snake get in my house - oh probably the same way the darn mice are getting in.... yeah you read that right mice! we thought we had them taken care of we thought we plugged every nook and cranny in the house but I guess not cause this morning i found a "nest" in my closet which I swear was not there a few days ago - so I guess we did not get every hole - so it is back to being afraid to go in there alone i guess just when i was starting to think it was safe.... sometimes I HATE living in the country - but then I know E would be miserable in the city. So it just means he is going to have to fix the problem - and we are going to have to get a cat or 2 or 3 - Shell - I might just have to bring yours home with me next month!

We went to the children's fair today - that was so much fun - if you like having a billion people around you and random kids running a muck all about - but not too fun if you are an anal mom who does not let her kids go off by themselves or just with their friends and run a muck - then it is not too fun. They always have the people from Thumbs up at the children's fair doing fingerprints and photos of the kids in case they are ever kidnapped or missing. But they were not there this year (which was the whole reason I took the kids) as you can tell it is my favorite community activity here LOL

Today was NSD ( national scrapbook day) there were tons of free goodies online for digi/hybrid scrappers - so I downloaded a bunch no just need to find the time to scrap with them all - I have been working on a badge album for little Abby - it was going to be an ABC album but dang that is a whole lot of pages - so I am just doing an album with all the people in the "Sorenson" side of her family - and it is still taking a long time but I think I can use the pages again for Marley too once she is born - once the pages are done it will not be that hard to update the pics if we have new girl babies born in a few years ...

Mindy and Mom - no I did not get a pic I did not take my camera cause I don't like taking it out in the rain and snow... and because of the HIPA laws I do not know how the truck dude is they will not give any info out at the hospital