Before...

Our floors are going in this weekend. I am so excited I can hardly stand it! It will be a long process until they are completely done so I am going to to excite you all with the before pictures; you'll just have to wait a bit for the after! I decided to go ahead and paint to make everything look great!




Bye Bye Gross disgusting blue carpet! No more scrubbing yogurt and syrup out of the dining room floor!

Bye, Bye bubble stains that I could never get out!

Bye, Bye vacuuming 5-6 times a day! I seriously have to! Funny thing...Adam has made our vacuum an honorary member of our family because I never put it a way. You wouldn't either if you were just gonna pull it out and vacuum again in an hour!


Hello beautiful new floors! I can't wait until we become fully acquainted!

Just call me a loser...

So...today...I spent the majority of the day posting old pictures on facebook. I really don't want to be that person who has nothing better to do than sit on her butt and relive her high school experience through pictures. But...today I was.. In my defense, I was challenged. And, I had to fulfill. I decided to share some of my favorites here. There is even one or two for you Adam...

My 16th birthday. My first birthday in Lehi . Here I am with Derek and Tristan. Two of my first best Lehi friends.
Yearbook signing my jr year. I had gone back to Provo High for yearbook signing this year. I felt caught between two worlds.
Jr. year again with my best Provo friends. Candice, Patty, Willow, Rachel and Aubry graduated this year. That just left Nicole, me and Capri. One small consolation for moving.

Flash forward to one of my Bridal Shower. These are MOST of my best Childhood friends. Ronalee and I had been friends since 4th grade. Sissy since 7th. Melissa was my next door neighbor and friend since 3rd. Me and The MB's, Candice, Capri, Patty and Nicole. We five girls had a blast and got in lots of trouble. Some of my fondest memories and deepest regrets are from times with these girls. We will always have a special bond.




Some of my friends from my Lehi ward, Julie and Amy. Since I went to church on my own, Amy's family pretty much adopted me and her mom was my escort at the temple. Love these guys. This is the night we received our Young Women's medallions.

Adam, me, Adam and Les. Adam S is seriously one of the funnest and funniest people I know. He was such a great friend. Les was my moral support and my best friend (next to my Adam of course) in high school. My best friend Jen had moved to Brigham City our Senior year. Les is who I ate lunch with everyday.
This is the same group plus Becca. Becca and I became friends after high school. Finally I had a girl friend who I could do girl things with. She was my maid of honor at my wedding with Jen being my matron of honor. Ironically, Becca is now my step-aunt. My dad married her sister.
Senior Year Prom. Couldn't have been happier.
Lehi pionettes. These girls were great friends and we had lots of fun dancing on the the Drill team.
One more of my pionette friends. This is the year after we graduated. We came to cheer the current drill team on.
Just a favorite of Les and Adam
I love this picture even though it makes me sad. This is the last day of school our jr. year when Jen is saying goodbye to everyone. Man I missed her! (and still do!)
This is Adam S. and me doing what we we did ALLLLL the time; watching soccer. I rarely missed a game and even drove to price by myself to support my little soccer player.

Another favorite. Steve, Jared, me, Becca and Dustin sending Adam off. This was a exciting day because I got to see him (after NOT seeing him for 3 weeks) but so sad because he was off to Oklahoma. This was in August 1994. We were married the following February. If you don't know the story and want to know...you'll have to ask.

Seriously I have many, many more like this. Many, many more friends who have touched my life in one way or another. Sometimes I really do miss these days. I have a lot of regrets for not maintaining better relationships with a lot of these people. I'm not going to let that happen anymore and I'm going to make sure to let those I care about know about it.

A day in the life (mindless ramblings about really stupid day)

Today my day began at 1:00 a.m. That was the first time Ian woke up. And then he woke up again around 2:00. and then again at 3:00. At 3:30 Millie woke up...throwing up. Owen had spent all of Sunday evening throwing up so it shouldn't have been a surprise. I finally made it back to sleep around4:30. My alarm sounded at 6:40 and I let out a big groan. I was really wishing I hadn't stayed up late to finish The diamond of darkhold. The day started off slow and the laundry was piled high from all the puke. Ian kicked and screamed until he finally climbed on the bus at 7:50. Mornings with him are always a nightmare with him but today it was especially bad because of his lack of sleep. After he left my daycare kids arrived and I sent Matthais off to school. Not long after that I was downstairs starting the laundry when Millie started screaming upstairs. I found her on the floor with her hair tightly wound around the axle on a remote control car. We got that untangled and I sent her off to the bath while I messed around on the computer. At 10:00 I loaded everyone up to head over to Dippidee's to buy a birthday treat for Kelly. At 10:30 I pulled into walmart for a few quick items. Boy was I in for a surprise! Can walmart ever really be quick? The kids were good and I found my items really fast and headed to the self checkout. However, the one I rang everything up on froze after I had used my debit card. Three associates and 44 MINUTES LATER I was finally out of there. They assured me my debit card had only been charged once. WRONG!!! It went through twice (that will be my adventure tomorrow!). Unfortunately my "quick trip" to walmart turned into a hour and half ordeal. So now I'm late picking up my carpool for kindergarten and I'm late meeting my daycare mom to drop off her kids. While I'm at walmart I get a call from Ian's teacher. They're pretty sure he just had a seizure. So, I make a really quick stop at Wendy's to grab some nuggets ( since when are they 1.19!) and head to the school. It's my day to do books so we make a quick stop in Ian's class (he's ok) hand off the daycare kids and head to the book room. Normally it takes me 15-20 minutes. Today 45. Owen had to potty 3 times. Ok, so now, not only am I tired. I'm ornery. We get home at 1:00 and get Owen asleep minutes before Ian comes screaming through the door at 1:30. I'm online warn Adam that I'm having a really bad day and he tells me to go lay down with Ian and have a nap. Great idea I think! So I grab him and throw him in my bed when I remember...he has speech at 2! So we get his shoes back on and head out the door to speech. When speech is over at 2:30 I pick him up and head straight over to pick up the kids from school. When we get home I start the washer again. The same load has been in all day and I've gotten three error codes. I decide to pull the washer apart and see why it's not draining. Inside the drain I find two of Owen's little socks stuck in it. No wonder it didn't want to drain! I put it back together and start it back up. Only...I didn't quite put it back together. Water started pouring all over the floor! Thank goodness Adam came home and I transferred that job onto him. Sigh.Adam came home with Jazz tickets but I just couldn't go. I was way too tired so he took Matthais. Now I am sitting here watching Barbie Nutcracker counting down to 7:30. That is when I'm putting the kids to bed and crashing myself. FHE will have to wait til tomorrow. And so will my next adventure!

Two weeks...

that is how long I have to wait until I get my NEW HARDWOOD FLOORS! Yippee! I needed some good news today!

Why do I even *TRY* to leave the house?

I took Ian with me to run a few errands today. As soon as we pulled up to pioneer party he started complaining that he wanted to go home; he needed to use the bathroom. He has this thing about only using ours. I asked if he could wait and he said yes so we went in. Again, inside, he says he needs to use the bathroom. Hmmm, I think to myself...this may not wait. I asked the clerk if we could use the potty and she hesitated. "Well," she finally says, "you can, there is just a leak in the ceiling so there is newspaper all over the floor" That's ok I say and take him back. 15 seconds later he pukes all over the floor, counter, toilet etc. UGH! I am sympathy puker so I was fighting back the urge with all my might as I cleaned up half digested hotdogs and pineapple. On the bright side, the floor was mostly covered with newspaper which made that part a snap to clean up but the rest was pretty nasty. And Hey...at least he ALMOST made it to the toilet! Coulda been worse! The biggest problem was afterward he started crying. He wanted his throw-up back. He cried when I shoved the puke filled bag into the garbage outside and asked for about an hour where his throw-up was! Ahhh, the joys of Autism! So now, it's hours later and he's still throwing up. I watching him closely, monitoring him for any seizure activity and pulling out my new carpet cleaner! lucky me!

Being paranoid?

So I've been noticing that several blogs I frequent have started going private. I've never really been worried about who see my blog figuring that if someone stumbled onto my blog accidentally there is nothing here to keep them coming back. I figured only family and friends read it. However, since I've started tracking with Feedjit I've noticed lots of people visiting. I'm just not sure who those people are since no one leaves comments. Am I being paranoid? Are my family and friends visiting and just not leaving comments or do I have lots of random people stopping by? Is it time to go private? If you frequent my blog would you comment on this post so I don't freak out about strangers reading these things? I promise, you don't have to comment again...

T.V. and my two-year old

According to the AAP, kids in the United States see 40,000 commercials each year. It's really sad when your two year old wakes you up in the morning by yelling "MOM! I wanna watch commercials" and hits you in the head with the remote. Hmmm, which commercial do you think he wants to watch?