Family

A friend of mine passed the link to this beautiful song/video along to me and I wanted to share it here on my blog. Enjoy!

Fevers and sore throats

Oh joy! Three sick kidos. Joshua started running a fever during the night, and Makiya and Stacia both have nasty sore throats. Shayla is the only one going to school. As soon as she leaves I'm heading back to bed! I managed 4 hours of sleep last night. I'm SOOOO glad I decided to take today off rather than this past Wednesday. I've got to find someone that will pick up some Children's Motrin in town for me. I'm about out and no car to go myself :(

So much for cleaning good today. When Joshua is sick he just wants to snuggle . .which I don't pass up the chance to do that with him . ..they grow up too fast and then the snuggling is done.

Remembering 9/11

I'm sitting here with Fox New's online streaming video of the names being read of those that died during the attacks on 9/11. Yes, tears are streaming down my face. That was such an emotional day for me. My oldest had just been in kindergarten a couple of weeks and when I saw what was happening I wanted to go pick her up from school. I remember the overwhelming feelings I had within me.

Hahahahaha

Chuck and I got a good laugh tonight. I was sitting here working and Makiya had just gone to bed (1/2 hour later than she should have, but really, who can blame her, she's reading Twilight). Anyway, I hear water running in the kid's bathroom. I send Chuck to check and see if Makiya had decided to take a shower. Nope. . .wasn't Makiya. Stacia and Shayla were in there taking a shower. Okay, so that wouldn't really be all that funny, except, I'd put them to bed an hour earlier with the plans that they get up at 5:50 am to take a shower before school. Well, they claim their alarm went off and so they just got up and didn't really even bother to check the clock. I asked them if they were tired and they both said they'd felt like they'd slept the whole night. The clocks were all messed up because our power went out this evening and apparently they didn't get the alarm set right. m EDITED: This morning they still didn't get a shower. They still didn't get their alarm set right and when I got up at 6:20 and realized the house was too quiet, I went to get them up and their alarm had never gone off.

Speaking of the power being out . . .it went out about 4:30, just as I was getting our enchiladas ready to bake. I stuck them in the fridge with the hope that when we got home from the Bookmobile the power would be back on and I could cook them.

We got back home at 5:20 and still now power. I got creative tonight and made homemade gravy with beef chunks and brown rice and corn on the cob. Now, you ask . . ."how did you cook dinner with no power?" That is the joy of a gas stove. I lit it with a lighter and we had a marvelous dinner! The power did come back on just as I was putting the corn in the pot to boil, but by then dinner was ready, so the enchiladas are waiting to satisfy us tomorrow night.

Have any of you played Phase Ten Twist? I got this for Chuck for his birthday and we've had a blast playing it. We love PhaseTen, but it is such a long game, this version takes about 1/2 the amount of time to play, but we are satifying Chuck's need to play Phase Ten AND finish the game. I highly recommend the game.

My poor hubby is sick. He came home from the long week up North with the crud. I'm just praying I don't catch it and I'm being mean and won't let him kiss me on the lips!

My car is dead again. It's been having overheating problems and I'd have to add anti-freeze/coolant to the car every time I wanted to drive somewhere. Chuck pulled it apart today and too the radiator into be fixed. We should have it back by Wednesday. It is a real pain to want to go somewhere and not have a car here!

Well, that's all for tonight!

Museum of Natural History Layouts

Here's are the layouts I scrapped from the photos of the kids at the Museum on Monday. The kit I used is by Paula Phillips called Dino Roar and is available at GDWI (link on the side bar).

Layouts and Freebies

Wow lots to post today. First I have a several layouts from CT assignments to post here and then I have an overlay freebie at the end of the post.


These first 2 layouts were created using Crazy Beautiful by Toy Box Designs. This one of Makiya was taken this summer.

This picture of Shayla was taken a couple of years ago.

And finally these pictures from Joshua's Birthday are done using Little Fox by Danielle Engebretson Designs at Get Digi With It.

Here is the freebie.

Labor Day Fun

We had such a fun day yesterday. My family along with my parents and my brother and his family went to the Living Planet Aquarium in Salt Lake City. The kids had a great time. They saw "Nemo" and sea horses and those that wanted to were able to touch sting rays. After the Aquarium we headed up to the University of Utah and went through the Museum of Natural History. Joshua loves the movie Night at the Museum and had so much fun seeing the dinosaur skeletons and the mammoth skeleton (Manny from Ice Age). He kept wondering when they were going to come alive though. We bought him a little plastic dinosaur and he calls it Rexy and doesn't let it out of his sight! Here are a few photos from our excursion.

I couldn't get stacia to smile for a family picture.