Stabbing

I just got an email from my mom telling me that there was a stabbing just a block away from her home (where I grew up) behind my old elementary school. I was shocked. They live in a very nice upper middle class neighborhood in Kirkland, WA. It's about 1/2 hour away from Seattle. I guess there were two 17 year old boys who tried to stab a man to death so that they could have his iPod. Can you believe the disregard these two boys had for a human life? It's just terrible. If you want to check out the news footage, here's the link:
http://www.komotv.com/news/8810672.html

Anyway, check it out.

Busy Weekend and another scrapbook page

Let's see.. I think I'll start with Thursday night. Guy and I went to Jackson Hole, WY to go to Bar J Chuckawagon. It's a dinner theater where they begin with feeding you dinner and then put on a western comedy show. It was a lot of fun! The best part was being able to eat my dinner... warm and without interruption. It was so nice not having to cut anybody's meat or cleaning up spills! It was a great break from the kids (about 9 hours worth), but I was ready to see them when we got home. They had gone over to their cousin Lexi's house. They had a blast! They couldn't stop talking about all that they had done. Lexi had set up the little pool and sprinkler for them when they got there. They played all sorts of games - Kaylee was able to play Barbies with Lexi while the boys played with the GameCube. They did crafts ate popsicles and did all sorts of fun things. She was such a great babysitter!

Friday morning I got the kids ready and took off for Preston to visit with my grandparents and go to the Nelson reunion. It was a lot of fun and there were plenty of kids there for Jaden, Austin, and Kaylee to play with. Guy came down Saturday morning to pick up a dresser my Grandma was giving me and we played for a bit and then drove home.

A fun weekend with a lot of driving!!!

Oh yeah, here's my scrapbook page I did today.

I have some Good News and some Bad News

Let's start with the good news. I have officially been released as my ward's nursery teacher!!!! I have been in there for over a year and have been having a real hard time being happy about it. I was able to go to Sunday School as well as Relief Society... and let me tell you what a relief that was. It was so nice! I didn't come home screaming at my kids because of the frustrations with nursery. Before, I just never had a break from kids (my kids). For a while I had both Austin and Kaylee in nursery and now just Kaylee - but I never got a break and I was starting to wear thin. Anyway, it has been a very good day at church!

Now for the bad news.... I gave Jaden and Austin a haircut last night - that's not the bad news - their haircuts turned out great. Kaylee wanted one as well, but I told her she didn't need one, just the boys. Well, I guess she really thought she did need one because this morning she got hold of some scissors and decided to give herself one! I was so upset - it takes her hair a long time to grow. I will include a picture. It's not a lot of cutting, but it's in a very bad location and cut right to her scalp!

The good side....


And the bad....

Here's a couple more...

Here are two more pages that I made of when Grandma and Grandpa came up. We took a fun trip to Mesa Falls and Grandpa had to walk up and down all... those... stairs.

Camping Pages

Here are some pages from our camping trip over Memorial Day Weekend.

Rachel's New Baby

Rachel just had her baby not quite two days ago! I'm just so excited for her - she's now got her little girl she's been wanting. They named her Rozlyn (I think that's how they are spelling it, but don't quote me on that) and I think her middle name is Mary - once again don't quote me! Anyway, I went over to visit her today and that little girl is just SO adorable and tiny. I couldn't believe how tiny she is. She is just perfect and healthy and Rachel seems to be doing great. It sounds like it was an easy delivery (no pushing was involved!). I'm so jealous. Well, I guess that's about it. Kaylee just thought that Baby Rozlyn was so cute and now keeps talking about her - even though I would only let Kaylee look at her from a little bit of a distance. I'll have to take a picture of her and post it (if Rachel is okay with that.)

Fishing Disaster - or so the kids think

This evening was so wonderful and cool that Guy and I had the great idea to take the kids fishing at the local fishing pond. The kids were super excited. They've only been fishing twice before and both times they each caught a fish. They absolutely loved that! Well, today, they were not quite as lucky. There were no catches, not even a nibble or two. They went away very disappointed. Guy and I tried to convince them that fishing is still fun even if you don't catch anything and that we had just been very lucky the past couple of times. They wouldn't buy that and just complained that we hadn't done anything fun today. Aaaaaaaaagh! I don't know what to do with those kids sometimes. We have offered to take them back fishing tomorrow evening, but they didn't seem all that excited anymore. Hopefully, we'll catch something this next time!

Yard Sale and More Scrapbook Pages!!!

Let's see.... here are the other scrapbook pages that I have done - all today!


Well, it has been a very busy (and HOT!!!) weekend. We got together with a couple of friends and had a very successful yard sale. I couldn't believe how packed my yard was with all the stuff! It was great though, the kids went through all of their toys and picked out (with Guy's and my urging and guidance) several to sell. They really did do a great job! They were promised that if their toys sold, we would let them have the money to go and pick out a better one. So yesterday, after the garage sale was over, we took them to WalMart to pick out their toy. It felt like Christmas to them. Never before have they been able to just go and pick out a toy with very few restrictions. Jaden picked out a radar gun - so he could find out how fast he can ride his bike! - and a big coloring poster. Austin picked out - with much enthusiasm - a marble game and a little robot. Of course, we couldn't leave Kaylee out, so she got a snap 'n style doll. Unfortunately, it was late when we got home and Kaylee and Jaden had fallen asleep and weren't able to play with their new toys - they were disappointed. Austin's enthusiasm kept him awake and was able to get out his marbles to play for half of an hour. How could we say no to those adorable and excited eyes - we are such pushovers!

And yet another page....

Here's a page I just did of some OLD Halloween pictures. These were back from 2005!!!

Austin without his training wheels

Jaden without training wheels

Kaylee

I'm Back!!!!

We got a new computer recently so I thought I would go ahead and start posting again. Lately, I've been doing a lot of digital scrapbooking. I love it!!! No more sticky fingers! Anyway, I thought I would post a couple of my pages. Here they are: