Wildlife Museum & Shopping Trip! 3/31/2009

Cooper and Ella have been wanting to play together FOREVER! Yesterday they finally had their chance! I first took them to lunch-I tried to talk them into pizza-then Ella said let's get a kids meal at McDonalds! YES! Cooper shouted "My mom never lets us go to McDonalds!" In my defense they get to go there once in a while! So I pull into the parking spot and Koda made my day by saying "Eeww Gross we are going to eat inside? It's so dirty!" Thank you Koda~I am very proud of you BUT sometimes your Momma can't always be so weird! So inside we went and had a nice dirty lunch of chicken nuggets and apple slices.
Then I took the kids to the Wildlife Museum and they LOVED it! They were SO silly together~Ella gave Cooper lectures on why he shouldn't be so shy around her at school! Cooper, in return, gave her a lecture on not sitting by him enough in class!

They wanted their picture taken with the bear tracks-and gave me the meanest bear face they could muster! I was scared to DEATH! ;-)
While at lunch I sent Cooper to take a load of trash to the trash can-Ella ran over to me and said "I have a secret that you can't tell anybody~I have a big crush on Cooper!" and ran back to her seat. Hmm, from the looks of the pictures I think Koda may have a bit of a crush on Miss Ella as well!

My shopping trip went VERY well today-here is the run down~ 1 gallon of Chocolate Milk, 3 packs of gum, 4 pack of boneless skinless chicken breasts, 6 pack of pork chops, 4 jars of salsa, 8 cans of refried beans, 2 bottles of BBQ sauce, 6 bags of Halls cough drops, 6 boxes of Capri-sun juice boxes, 2 packs of the 4 cup pudding, 2 bags of marshmallows, 8 boxes of taco shells, and 20 boxes of cereal!
Run to your nearest Albertsons to snag some AMAZING deals! The word about the great deal has spread (I saw some people with 80-100 boxes of cereal), so they are starting to run low on some things, but the manager told me that they are getting a truck of everything tomorrow morning!
My Total before sales and coupons $235.17 and after...$29.36 (I actually did a little happy dance in the checkout line!)

3rd Soccer game, Golf, and March Madness!

Bailia LOVES to draw anything and everything! So for the past few days A has been giving Sis "art classes". She is completely eating it up (even though her daddy claims he can't draw) it's the little things in life, like watching your daughter with her dad that totally make your day!
After church the kids and I headed over to Red Hills to see how the guys (Adam, Jed, John, and my dad) played. As soon as we pulled in the parking lot Jed and Adam drove right by us to the #1 tee box! What nice timing!
We watched as John hit, then Grandpa. Next came Jed-and he did what we are going to call the famous Rock Shot! Now it can only become famous when you are in the middle of a tournament, with a lot of people watching, and your ball hits a boulder and bounces RIGHT back to you! Then to top it of Big Lar RUNS (and almost falls) up the hill to trying to catch the ball while laughing hysterically, because between giggles he tells us that is the THIRD time Jed has hit a shot like that!
All four guys had a HORRIBLE game and by the time we got there it has become such a joke that they couldn't help but laugh at themselves!
The beauty that surrounds us is absolutly breathtaking! Everything about our city is SO beautiful~and being on the golf course (especially Red Hills) just brings the beauty out even more!
Bailia is SO excited for school tomorrow so she can show everyone the "awesome fossil" that she found while we were waiting at Red Hills!


Bailia is always fun to watch at her soccer games! She loves playing, and can't wait to score a goal. She scored one goal this game and the game ended in a tie 1-1! Thanks Grandpa Gary and Uncle Jed for coming to the game!
I can't believe how well Cooper is doing in our March Madness group! Every year for as long as I can remember we have put together a group and we all fill out our brackets. It is $10 an entry and we give out 1st, 2nd, and 3rd places. Last year I took first-this year it's not looking too good for me. Koda on the other hand is another story! He is doing GREAT so far! He is first in our group, and 99.3% in the COUNTRY! Now I know how quickly that can change so he may not win~but while he is on top he can live it up! When asked what he will do if he wins "I am getting a Swim to me Puppy FOR SURE!!"

Cinderella Boy & Shopping Trip 3/26/2009

The big kids ALWAYS complain that while they are in school Matt gets to do "ALL of the FUN stuff"! Well if they think doing chores and yard work is fun then they can stay home too! On second thought, they were just home for TEN days and they didn't think it was very much fun~nor did their Momma! So although Koda looks like he is having a lot of fun, he actually works pretty hard!
Cooper's main goal for working so hard this past week was to earn money. He has wanted a Swim to me Puppy for quite some time now. I told him if he worked really hard he might be able to save up enough money. I thought it would be somewhere between $10-20 bucks~boy was I wrong! The little puppy costs $30.00!! I told him that he didn't have enough money for it and he said "that's ok-I really want a buzz gun too and it is only $3.99"! I love that he is such an easy going kid and is just happy to be alive.


My Target Shopping trip went GREAT today! I bought 3 Gillette Body Washes, 2 Secret deodorants, 4 packages of applesauce 2 boxes of Crayola sidewalk chalk, 2 Schick Quattro razor with 2 cartridges each, and 4 Schick Intuition razors with 2 cartridges each. My grand total before sales and coupons was $74.53 and I paid...$9.81!! Since Koda has worked so hard this week he was rewarded with a Buzz Lightyear backyard patrol light up shooter! Thanks Koda Bear!

Larry Look-a-Like 3/22/2009

Adam had a two day golf tournament this past weekend. The first day was at Bloomington Country Club, and the following day it was at Sun Brook. After church the kids and I headed over to see how A had played. We were all standing in the proshop, and I see this guy walk by and thought to myself-I had no idea my dad came down for this tournament. I watched him for a second and thought that can't be him-why did he not stay with us if he came down?!? Watching him a minute longer I realized that this guy has the same expressions, uses the same words (like very dramatically saying "OH my GOSH!!), and stand the same way, yet it wasn't really my dad!
Now my dad has been my dad for 25+ years so you would think I would recognize the guy if I saw him! Well A thought it was a hoot and walked over to the guy and told him that he looked just like his father-in-law, and would he mind getting a picture with my wife. So to humor me he came over-looking at him closer they don't look just alike-if he would have been standing sideways in the picture you wouldn't have been able to tell if it were him or not-but even straight on you can see the resemblance! This guy is from Eagle Mountain and I can't remember his name, but there is another guy here in town that I mistake for my dad ALL the time! He must have one of those faces!

Tell me how you REALLY feel! 3/21/2009

As I may have mentioned before, this has been a VERY long spring break. The boys wouldn't stop fighting and Bailia was PMSing! Trust me this is not a good combination! So at more than one point during the week the kids were separated into three different rooms. They were each given books, coloring books and crayons, and were told they could do one of those two things, or clean the room they were in. One particular time Bailia's hormones were getting the best of her and she DID NOT agree with this method of keeping her momma sane! This is the note left for me from my dear sweet daughter.
Thank you Bailia-next time I will try to come up with a better solution that isn't so POOPY, DUM, and STOUPID! Cooper could not believe that his sister would write such bad "swore words"!
p.s Padre quit teaching my daughter how to spell!

Park Fun! March 20, 2009

After a LONG week of spring break fighting, whining, and boredom, it was time to get out of the house! I took the kids to Nan and Larry's to play at their HUGE park, right across the street from their house! Jen decided to bring Jaxon over too and we all had a GREAT time! We started out with a lunch of sandwiches, chips, root beer floats, and twinkies! Then we all headed over to the park to play. Jen and I decided to try a few thing out that we did when we were kids...we have decided we are not kids anymore! But we had a LOT of fun trying to be! Nan even got in on the fun playing a little bit of soccer with the kids!

Golf, Looking back, and Career Report! 3/18/2009

What BEAUTIFUL weather we have been having for our spring vacation! We are halfway through our break, which means the kids are sick of each other, they fight ALL day, and I am ready to get back into a routine! Bailia got to go swimming at her cousins birthday party, which put me down to two kids. Then A decided to take Jdog golfing out to Coral Canyon!! Which put me down to my usual sidekick! While the big kids were out having fun Koda and I ran to the store to get the things needed for J's book report. It is SO much easier to shop with one rather than the three I dragged to the grocery store earlier that day!


While cleaning out my picture drawers the other day I ran across my old pay stub from 1996. I worked at Southgate Golf Course-and on this pay stub I worked 92 hours in a two week period and brought home $439.21!! I think a few months after I got hired to be a full time employee which paid me double and added health insurance-thank goodness!
I also found this old picture of my BEST friend in the whole world!! I think we were even friends before we became sisters!! I LoVe you Jen!
Bailia has to do a career report for her 2nd grade class. She has to interview someone (she is interviewing Nikki-thanks again Nikki) who has a career and write about that, write on the career she would like to have (oddly she wants to become a golfer-I have NO idea how she would get that idea in her head-note the major sarcasm in my voice), and create a doll that goes along with what she wants to be. It make me laugh every time I look at it, but I love how it turned out!

Kindergarten Check up & Mole Play 3/17/2009

Koda Bear had his Kindergarten Check-up and did great! He had to get four shots and was quite a trooper-(the nurse wasn't very gentle and actually gave Koda a bruise!) So after the doctor I took the kids out for ice cream and bought Coop a package of spiderman stickers.
When we got home, Coop stripped down to his underoos and put his stickers ALL over himself-which miraculously turned him INTO spiderman! His legs that were "too sore to walk" suddenly could jump and fly off of the couch!
I honestly can't believe that my "BABY" will be in big kid school! He can't wait, I on the other hand do not know what I am going to do without my little sidekick! I love having him home with me and it will be a very bitter sweet time when I have to send him to school. But like the doctor said-he is SO ready for school! He kept asking Coop questions just to hear his answers-Koda talks with his hands a lot~ which adds SO much emotion to his responses and the doctor couldn't get enough of it!


The kids practiced ALL day long on a play for us! The used a book off of their book shelf called Moles in Love to act out plus added in the basketball 16 minutes scene in from High School Musical. They were all SO cute getting into their parts-Bailia was the narrator, and the boys were the characters in the book. They were so proud of themselves-and it gave us a little night time entertainment!

Grocery Savings 3/18/2009

Here is my shopping trip for today - 14 Boxes of Pop-tarts, 2 packages of cookies, 10 boxes of Rice Krispies treats, 3 packages of gum, and 14 boxes of cereal. Before sales and coupons the total was $119.44 and I paid $26.75! My kids have never even tasted a pop-tart but I figured even if they don't like them if times were tough a pop-tart would taste like the best thing on the planet!

Keelee's Soccer Game & Playing Football! 3/14/2009

Kimberly and family were down for Keelee's Soccer game so we headed over to watch. Bailia LOVED watching Keelee play-I think she was taking a few pointers on how the big girls play!
Keaton had his football there, so all of the boys started playing catch-which turned into hours of fun!

Moms & Muffins, Bubbles, and State Championship! 3/11-14/2009

Every year the kids' school has a Mom's & Muffins morning. You bring your mom and your favorite book to school before school, they serve you the enormous Costco muffins and milk or juice for breakfast, and you read while you eat.
Koda Bear LOVES taking bubble baths-this bath a a bit more bubbles than bath!
Cooper loves his Harley Girl SO much! They play together all day while the kids are at school. He makes her do a lot of things she probably doesn't want to-but she does it anyway!
Jaden had his final meet-the State Championship- yesterday in Lindon. It is always bitter-sweet when any of the kids sports seasons come to an end. I love watching them compete-but on the other hand, one less thing to run around doing the better! But Gymnastics Season will be replaced by Golf Season!
Jaden's coaches are SO great with the boys! I love how they encourage and coach the kids-making them work HARD but still making it fun so they love the sport.
Thanks to Kolby and Grandpa for coming down to the meet! We were there at 7:15 in the morning-thinking we would be there alone - then Kolby shows up at 8:00 and my dad came shortly after! Jaden got SO excited to see them both there and loves all of the support!