Run a go go, a no go.

I'm sure most of you noticed that I didn't meet my 100 mile goal, but I am not giving up. I haven't had time to really work out lately and my saggy butt is proof ;). I decided to start working out at home again, more of a stress relief than for toning, but something to get me back into a routine.

I discovered yoga today on someone else's blog (sorry, I can't remember who or I would link you) and decided to try it out yesterday. All of the lessons are free and they have new ones every day, amazing! It is a great stress reliever and a surprisingly good workout!! I plan on doing yoga several times a week, if not daily, from now on. I also hope to start running again soon, maybe when I'm back down to one job rather than two.

Oh and for some good news, I only have 7 workdays left with my second job :). I'm very excited to be home more and be off the phones, hehe. The job really isn't that bad, really, I just want to be home. So, July 7th will mark my days as a WAHM and not a WAHM/WOHM mom :) woot!

Cool!

Sitting on the couch the other day, I was sick and didn't do much other than that, and I heard a really loud noise. I looked out the back window and saw an airplane, really, really low to the ground and it was turning around, coming back our way. L came in and asked if she could take a pic, I said "sure, take a bunch in case some don't turn out." She did a pretty good job :)

And we all survived Stu being gone for four nights. Well, that's what I'm telling the authorities anyway, you haven't seen any photos of the kids recently have ya? ;) hahaha.

Unfit to be a single mom.

I don't know how those of you with dh's that travel a lot or those of you that are single moms do it. I have help and I am still exhausted! My husband is gone for 4 days and nights and I'm not looking forward to it :(.

I think I may have a brain meltdown before the week is over ;).

I'm hoping to take the kids to the "fun" park later this week, so I'll post some pictures of that soon. Pictures always make the blog more fun, lol.

Oh, and the exciting news I was going to share earlier was that we were going to buy a house but are waiting a few more months, so I still hope you stay tuned, it will just take a bit longer than planned ;)

Happy Anniversary!

Last friday, Stu and I celebrated our 11th wedding anniversary. Well, celebrated is the wrong word. He worked and then I worked so we only saw each other for about an hour that day, lol. But thats ok, thats why we went to Vegas in March :).

I love you, my silly...



sometimes hairy...



and always handsome...



husband. May we have many more wonderful years to share together.



p.s. I should have some really exciting news to share in the next week or so, stay tuned....

p.s.s. Just kidding, no new news yet. Just trying to get ya to stay tuned ;)

Almost Wordless Wednesday!

The ewww edition.



Our camera does not take really close up shots very well. I decided at this time that this is a good thing.



There are two spiders stuck in that pencil lid. TWO! ick.

New calling

I'm now the Assistant Cub Master. I will be a sucky one right off the bat though, lol. I will not be attending any pack meetings but I will help plan/prepare for them. So I guess I can't be too sucky ;) and yes, I will be keeping my Assistant Librarian calling too, because its a sunday only calling I guess they feel its ok to have two :). I don't mind too much though, its an easy gig and I can knit or do homework as the case may be.

A few photos just for you...(because I know how much more fun that makes the blog)





Pics of the kids at USU in the office where my sister and b-i-l work. They are wildlife biologists.

Littleman was not pleased to learn that he couldn't take his "new coat" home :P.

Ramble ramble, blah, blah. blah

Work is going well. I'm finally getting out of the boring stuff and into what I'll actually be doing. Yeah, it will be repetitious and could get boring, but talking to different people will be fun. Next week I'll be on the phones doing my real job :)

My house was so clean last week! But this week its a mess and I'm too tired to care. I am getting more and more busy as the days go on. Not sure that I enjoy that one too much.

I also got a new calling, I haven't been sustained yet so I can't announce what it is yet. Just one more thing to add to my long list of stuff to do. I guess thats part of life :)

And I interviewed for a 2nd job yesterday. This one will be working from home, which is nice with these gas prices we have to deal with now. Hopefully I get the job and can start working soon. It will take awhile to start making real money, but it can happen :)

I will be enrolling the kids in the public school online program. They will be at home still but will have a teacher they meet with weekly and the school district will make the lesson plans, which is what I need help with now. Plus they'll have all the state and federal testing, which will be nice to have if we do end up sending them back to public school. I have lots of paperwork to do for that and LittleMan has to get some immunizations, he doesn't know that yet though ;).

Stu likes his new job, much less stress, which makes me happy :). He posted about it on his blog if you want to learn more about it (shameless plug for my hunny's blog :) ). They may be hiring for at-home help fairly soon too, so I may go for that as well. We'll see, I think I'm getting ahead of myself a little bit ;)

I have begun looking at houses online and have fallen in love with a kitchen in a home thats just down the street from me. I may go through it in a week or so, if its still there then :).

Thats my long rambling and boring update for this week. Until next time.....

ETA: I walk about a mile a day, 1/2 to work and about 1/2 from work (I start walking while Stu comes to pick me up, I try to get farther from the office than the last time, but so far it hasn't happened, lol.) So my ticker is moving but not fast enough, I probably wont make the July 4th goal but thats ok. Its getting me moving again. If I start riding my bike home from work, I will make it for sure but for now I'll walk.

Look Mom!!

a dollar menu!

Said by M at Michaels craft store, in the dollar section. Think we go out for fast food too often? :)

First day of work.

Today is the day. I will be starting training at 3 pm. I'm a little nervous but mostly just tired, lol.

My in-laws will be watching the kids for 2 hours every day until I'm done with training and my schedule begins later, so dh can watch the kids. And one of my in-laws will be watching the kids at my house! So I have to go scrub every nook and cranny :P

I may not be blogging as much as I used to, we'll see how things work out. I may get into a great routine and be all organized, but I doubt it :). I still homeschool the kids, I still make as much of our food from scratch as I can, and I still love being online, tee hee. But I'm trying to substitute knitting for my online addiction because I can knit outside at the park or in the backyard or even in the kitchen while the kids play with playdough. I guess you'll just have to add me to your bloglines or googlenews or whatever the blog tracker sites are, that way you wont have to check back daily and see the same old post sitting there :)

A short update on the post below, about k-bull, they are apologizing, in person, this morning. I'm glad that they want to make Melinda feel better. I'm glad that the dj's are apologizing. I'm not sure that I'll listen to k-bull again for awhile, but this is a good step for them.

Have a great week!

Hypocrites suck!

A local radio station, one that I listen to regularly, boasts about their support of our Troops and their families. They have contests regularly for the families of deployed soldiers. I always thought it was wonderful that they did this because not many radio stations have contests for the families alone, its for anyone that wants to play.

I read a blog post yesterday, from Emily about a friend that "won" and how poorly she was treated. It really made me mad, how can a person treat another human being that way and go on to pretend that it never happened? I listened to KBULL quite a bit yesterday, while traveling to and from Logan, and several times they talked about supporting the troops and their families. Bologna!

Pass the message along and help show everyone KBULL's true side, that they are a bunch of liars that couldn't help one person out or even apologize for a simple mistake. Stupid.

Birthday Pics

Sorry for posting these so late, but life is.....crazy.

First up is the cake. Not too bad for a little sandwich baggie and "quick, make spidey's face so we can eat"



Next up is the "they are singing for me" picture.



Blowing out the candles.




And "eww, the smoke is stinky" lol.

Happy Birthday LittleMan!

My baby is 5 today, five! I can't tell you how old that makes me feel :P.

I will post a picture of him blowing out candles later tonight. He wants to make sure we sing "you growl like a tiger and you scratch like one too" rather than "you look like a monkey and you smell like one too" lol.

My LittleMan is definitely a mama's boy. He has a quick temper (the redhead temper stereotype is real for him, lol) but he has the cutest smile! And he is so smart and funny. I love his laugh and how proud he is to be a big boy.

"Mom, I want you to measure me to see how much I grew cause I'm 5 now. I'm 5!" Hehe, ok big guy, I will.

I love you, my LittleMan!

I don't want to ever talk, think, hear about

School vouchers ever again!

I have been working on this stupid paper for weeks, weeks! And if you know me at all, you know I'm a procrastinator. But this time I have tried really hard to work diligently on this stupid paper. I hate it, I hate everything about it. And no, I'm not done. When is it due? today!

I have 5 written pages done (need 12-18), the title page and abstract, summary,general info page, contents page and bibliography. I just need to finish the piece of crap paper! Gah!!

So my 12-18 page paper I was stressed about at the beginning of the paper? Its really 22-25 pages long and if I knew that at the beginning I probably would've had a heart attack :P.

Update!! I'm writing the conclusion page and then I'm done! Well, gotta review it and then I can send it off :)

Final update! I am done! and I'm about to send it off. So happy to be done.

Please let me pass so I don't have to write another 18 page paper, lol. Please :)

Its the little things....

As part of the interview process for my job, I was asked to take a personality test. This test consisted of true or false questions like "I get easily stressed in high pressure situations." or "I hate to sit for long periods of time." My favorite question was "I am easily amused."

I said "true" to the easily amused question and those of you that know me, I sit for long periods of time, daily.

What amuses me today? I'm currently sitting on my couch typing, online, on my computer! I know!! Technology is amazing. And I love. Love. My new wireless router :)

I'm officially.....

gainfully employed. I'm not going to say the name of the place but I will say that I'll be taking calls from people wanting to activate their American Express card. Jealous? Oh I bet!

I don't start until May 7th, so I can focus on finals and then get a little break before starting my job.

One step closer to purchasing a home! :)

He is growing up!

M is small for his age, but he is fast and smart and lots of fun :). He is also pretty determined and stubborn, which is a good thing most of the time.

On Saturday I decided to finally get new tubes for M's bike. He has been bugging me for a long time! When I came home from the store he said "I want you to take the training wheels off my bike too" I said "ok, sounds good." But I was a bit nervous because he hasn't really ridden his bike, even with the training wheels. But he is almost 7 (in August) and very coordinated, so lets give it a try.



sorry he is so far away, we took him to the Church parking lot to ride and this is all I got.

Now to get LittleMan riding so I can take them out while I run :)

Too late!

I was early to school last week, waiting for my fellow group members to show up so we could practice for our project. There are four people in my group and two were pretty late. "M" and I were chatting while we waited and we somehow got onto the subject of our parents age. I said that my mom was 52 and "M" looking very surprised said "I thought you were in your 40's!!! Not that you look like it, cause you don't. You look totally young. I just thought that you said you were in your 40's. But you really don't....."

Um...yeah, I'm 31. Thanks for that :P

I'll blame it on my allergies. My forehead trying to blow off my face from all the pressure has to be making me look older. Yeah, sounds good to me.

You know what time of year it is!

Thats right!



Rocket time! We had a ton of fun yesterday, launching rockets again. Littleman got the biggest workout, he had to run all the way across the field, his rocket almost went over the fence. But he is ok with that since his rocket went the highest ;)

Your attention please :)

I created another blog, one dedicated to my knitting (and other crafts). I have the link on the sidebar, here it is just in case http://queenmeadow.wordpress.com/

I will be adding my "old" knitting stuff from here over to there and then this one can stay more rambly and kid oriented ;)

100 miles in 3 months

I joined runagogo, a group of crafters (knitters, crochet, sewing, etc) trying to get out and get moving. I have been a slacker with my exercise lately and with the weather warming up, I thought that this would be a great time to start.

April 1st to July 4th will be the challenge to run, walk, bike, crawl ;), 100 miles. I plan on running but I'm sure there will be walking mixed in, hehe.

Feel free to join me or to yell at me if my mileage ticker, on the top of the page, doesn't move for several days, lol.