Week 4..... Soph A Loph...

This week we had to say goodbye to Sophie....... She has been our dog for over 12 years..... she got sick in November with Cancer, by Christmas she had diabetes, and by January 23rd she was all the sudden completely blind.... She was scared and sick and we were sad and did not want to see her go!!! I took her into the vet on Monday and they told me my options.... on Thursday I finally had mustered up my bravery and took her in. The kids said good bye and were absolutely hysterical, which made it all the harder for me. I knew it would be hard, but honestly it is on my top 3 hardest days of my life.... I felt like I was killing her by choosing to put her to sleep. I held her and sobbed my eyes out (probably more hysterical then the kids). My cute mom came with me because I knew I could not go alone and Tom... well not the nicest when it comes to pets... I also felt if my mom thought it was time to let her go it would really be time... So thank you mom for coming with me... even though you cried when you promised you wouldn't! Soph a loph as Autumn nick named her was a very good dog, despite her always wanting to run away... she was just social! She was always so good with kids....
She was so very jealous of Olivia.... we got Sophie before Olivia and she did not like the idea of a new baby... she was never mean, she just would not look at Olivia she would turn her head away from her if Olivia came by her... it was pretty funny actually... This picture is of her with Olivia, whenever I would change Liv's diaper as a baby Sophie would come and lay down just like this, like... I'm your baby first! Below is her at Lake Powell, she always thought she was a lab... and would jump in the lake too right along with the rest of my families labs...
Hayden loved her more then anyone and is/was very very sad to say Goodbye! We love you Soph a loph and miss you like crazy. It has been 2 weeks and I still look for her every time I come home and our kids seem like they eat a little more like pigs leaving all sorts of stuff that they didn't seem to leave before!

Week 3.... January 17th thru the 23rd

This week was a little crazy to say the least.... on Tuesday afternoon the dance studio got run over by a car as put by Lexi.... Thank heavens no one was hurt, and buildings can be repaired. I actually was not even bothered by the whole thing..... I guess I should have been, but all I could think about as they told me the building was unsafe, was that I was going to have the night off! Yea for me! After making a ton of phone calls to cancel classes, Tom and I went to the movies....I never have time for that on a weekday! I was excited to have a few days off, but unfortunately I spent the entire day Wed making phone calls and explaining the whole thing a million times. Thursday I finally got costumes ordered and by that afternoon amazingly we were back in the studio with this make shift wall keeping us all safe.
I was grateful for how quickly they got things complete so we would not be out of business. I was also grateful that no one was hurt, and that I had at least a few hours off...

Week 2... Jan 9th thru the 16th..

Highlights from Week 2....
This week I had to take Maddie to the "girl" Dr.... she has been having a few issues, I know this is not something that should be memorable or a highlight, but it was one of the funniest experiences.... so I must share a little.... If you dare read on.....
Lets just say she was a little nervous, so she was in a wacky mood to say the least! We are sitting in the waiting area waiting for her turn, and she is looking all around checking the scene out like a 5 year old really. She then turns to me and says "this is just like the dentist office only for crotches!" Mind you she is not talking quietly, I start to laugh and she keeps going.. "they should be called crotchist don't you think".... Why yes that would be a great name I believe...
So then we go back into the room, let me actually back the story up 16 years to when I was pregnant with Maddie and Tom would come to my appointments with me, he would make wise cracks, sick jokes, play with the equipment, and we would laugh and laugh thinking we were just in a room by ourselves. Well the following year when I was pregnant with Hayden, Tom would stay home with Maddie so I would go alone, it was at that time that I realized the walls did not go up all the way to the ceiling they had a little opening and you could hear everything that was being said... I am sure some people sat there listening to Tom... Maddie must have soaked it all in.
so now here we are with Maddie acting the same almost worse! She see's a little model and says "it is the dentist only instead of a teeth mold they have vag's" and she is making little hand gestures with her hands like the teeth mold and then I don't know what kind of action she was doing for "Vag's" So then she see's the stirrups and says "what are these do you put your feet up in those"? Why yes you do, she freaks out, then she asks about the lamp and I move it towards her, she starts to freak out yelling "you have crotch hands" I tell her the Dr. wears gloves... duh, she then does this mime action of a Dr checking someone out then not being able to see well enough grabbing the light with no pause to take off gloves or what have you. I get a little sick thinking maybe she is right, and start rubbing my hands on my pants a little grossed out!.. When the Dr. came in he was quite smiley and I wonder how long they were listening to us. I hope they got as big of laugh out of her as I did. She thinks you must be some kind of perv to have that job by the way... It really was a funny day.
Other then that she had a Drill team competition that I spent my Saturday at It's a lot harder to sit through those things when you don't have any teams to get ready or running around to do.... I appreciate all my students parents all the more now.
Hayden had scouts 3 Saturday's in a row and is really headed towards his Eagle.
We also celebrated Zarley and Annie's birthday this week. I will need to get better at taking pictures.

Oh What a difference Ade makes!

Week one of 2011 Highlights.....
I know I totally look creepy in this picture, but hey it's ADE!!! I love him he is my favorite SYTYCD Star, I was totally star struck meeting him as well! We went to a dance convention this Weekend, it was amazing and Ade did not disappoint! His dance was the best too...


Here are all the girls getting ready to dance...
Another bad blurry picture... but hey it has Ade in it! I'll post better pictures when others send them to me. By the way if you think that giant hand in front of my face is the palm of Ade's hand no you're mistaken that is my freakishly enormous hand!
The gang with Kent he too is an amazing dancer but was not the nicest guy!
Dominic.... another great!

Another highlight of this week....
............... I ventured down stairs which I do not do often.... and this is why (however I think this tops the worst of all of Maddie's bad room days!) This is how I found Maddie's bedroom!
We found Christmas, clean clothes that should have been put away. Sleep over left overs...
a completely unmade bed....
The best part is that she herself could not stand her room so she has spread like a disease out into the family room area.... Notice her bedding on the couch,
Dishes, The bag of cereal I had wondered how the kids had eaten in one day.. her homework and her dance clothes!
Usually I would get extremely out of control mad at this situation, but I stood there and stared for a good 5 minutes soaking it all in walked over rode the bike (which is why I had gone down there in the first place) with tears running down my face... why.... because I have such a pig for a child,No, or because this was going to take the whole day to clean up No I cried because in just under 3 years I will no longer have this child in my home to make these messes to clean up after or to yell at to clean up, and it was 5 minutes ago I promise that she looked like this....(below) asking me to just give her a spanking because she would rather have that then have to clean her room!

Maddie 5 minutes ago..

All I ever wanted to be was a mom and it is just going by way too fast!
So In 2011 I am going to try and slow down and savor every little moment because these are the best years of my life with my children!

New Years Goals

I want to write down my resolutions so I am slightly more accountable to complete them.... I want to keep my list short because baby steps right!
#1 Be organized and stick to a schedule... This is the hugest goal for me ever anyway so....(and could encompass everything... from exercise to reading my scriptures or doing more with my kids)
#2 Be more Positive!!
#3 Do 52 posts in my blog... a weekly journal of our year!

Wish me luck!

Christmas 2010

Did Not disappoint!
Canyon got "Evil Dr. Pork Chop" which he has not stopped playing with...
Liv in her matching American girl doll Pj's She got Molly this is an old doll, she wanted to sleep Christmas Eve in her new pajamas with Lainey because she has green eyes and blond hair so of course they look just like twins right. She also go the cute little vanity set behind her and my dad made her her own vanity as well... I will have to take a picture he does a great job!
Hayden got his x-box... and the "whole family" (despite Hayden's wishes) got the kinnect.. that is a good time I tell ya...
Madz with her phone....and clothes she has dove head first into this whole teenager thing... I guess it was about time being that she is almost 16 but I kind of liked her holding back a bit!
Canyon got a "Toy Story" bike as well.
Doesn't Christmas morning just make you want to jump right out of your skin... or clothes or for joy I guess!! Later in the afternoon we went over to Tom's parents for a little while, then we met with my family, and my moms whole family for Christmas dinner... The kids had a good time with the Wii again... My mom was busy with her sisters and her dad.....
and Shawnatina had games for the rest of us to play... She takes her game playing very serious!
It was a minute to win it game and was quite funny watching everyone!


Then after my moms family left we exchanged gifts, we draw names in my family. The adults and the kids. We start with the kids and we watch each person open their gift.... Autumn made me the cutest quilt ever! She asked everyone to share memories and then she bought fabric to coincide with the memories... I cried of course reading what everyone wrote about me.... I love it!
Last but not least my parents finally open there gifts... Autumn made them this book this year ... My mom loves this country song called something like "Love like Crazy" or something with the word crazy in it, it starts out they are 17 and people say they are crazy... anyway my parents started out there life that young... so the book is pictures of them and us kids and their houses etc their life basically, with the words to the song as the story. It was so cute!!! I wish I had a copy for myself. It is a hard bound book and all. Autumn I hear by pronounce you queen gift giver for the Christmas 2010 year! She was super stressed out about the whole thing but I think it was all worth it. I absolutely loved ending the night opening these very thoughtful handmade gifts... it exemplifies the true spirit of Christmas!