Why cell phones are amazing

I'm sitting here on break at work and downloaded the BLOGGER app to my phone! How exciting! Now I can blog every day! Anytime! Post pictures and updates anywhere anytime! Awesome! Who knew 10 years ago cell phones would be so awesome!! I'm so excited! Well here's a picture of me so excited!

Diets, practices, sickness and stuff

Its the last day of February. We've flown through this month with minor ups and downs. The family is in full swing with the musical. The kids are loving it!! Katelin is going to be an orphan in Annie and the boys are orphans in Oliver. Kyle is playing in numerous parts. The Musical "Salute to Broadway" is showing at the Moses Lake High School Theatre March 15, 16, and 17th. You can buy your tickets at the Moses Lake Chamber of Commerce.

Kyle and I started our diets this month. Kyle is somwhere around -13 pounds and I am currently going to report -9. We are following the Dr.Atkins for life diet. At first it was quite challenging until I got creative and found recipes that included our favorite foods. And now that I'm opening the restaurant and leave the house at 5:30 in the morning Kyle has become very domesticated. Eating right is the easy part. It's finding time to excersise that is tough. With all that Kyle has going on it's quite difficult. For me I just grab the kids and go for a run. Cody and Weston love to run. Me not so much. But they keep me motivated.

We've had the flu it our house a couple of times this month. Although it's just bouncing between Katelin and Savannah. Maybe the stomach flu is just what I need to kick start another loss of poundage :-) but for now I'll have to stick to my crunchies and 2 miles run/walk/jog. We really are loving the Atkins though! It's not the old Atkins. There are tons of recipes and products that are sold at Walmart.

Auditions and other stuff

These are some pictures from December. Not exactly in order by date but from top to bottom: I did a wedding cake for a couple that got married on December 30th. She had a christmas color themed wedding that was so beautiful. I also did a cake for Toby and Rosalies joint birthday celebration. It was a "Dancing through the Decades" themed party so I did a disco ball on top and dancing silouettes on the base with matching music records. The next picture is all of us on Christmas Day at church. We just all happen to wear pink and black lol! I had to add a picture of the kids with Santa. Notice Cody is MIA. He's too old for Santa so he just got socks and underwear on Christmas day lol! And the last picture is a special one. Katelin was baptized on the 17th of December by her daddy. Don't they look good! It was a special day because she also got to get baptzied with her cousin Jaidyn on the same day!

Kyle started back to school. He has a class called...um yeah...I can't remember it's that hard to say lol! But he has class Monday's, Wednesdays and Thursday at 8 and homework everynight! Also this weekend kicks off auditons for the upcoming play "Salute to Broadway". Kyle is encouraging us ALL to audition being that he is the Vice President of the BASIN COMMUNITY THEATRE GROUP Soooo....we've all been trying to come up with a hymn or disney song to sing for the panel of judges. So the play will add another thing to our list of activities for the week. Because Katelin was baptized in December she is now able to be involved in Activity Days on Wednesday nights so Kyle, Cody, Weston and Katelin get to go to Scouts and Activity Days on Wednesday night leaving me and Savannah some free time to ourselves. Kyle has also been involved in his all men accapella group. He really enjoys it. They got to perform for the Quincy Ward Christmas Party and did an outstanding job! He loves getting together with the guys that share his own talent for singing. So it's going to be a busy winter!

New Year...New Beginning...2012

This was probably my post title from the beginning of last year but oh well...it's a good title to stick with. Ahhhhh! A new beginning. Don't you just love it? Every year we think of ways to imporove ourselves. Loose weight, become more organzied, more religious, or better people in some way. And then when the year comes to a close we get depressed because we didn't come even close if not farther away from the goals we set at the beginning of the year. So here's to another year!. Raise your glasses high to another year accomplished. I think we should just be proud of ourselves if the most important thing we did accomplish was to breath every day and stay alive on this earth then we are okay. But I ask myself, maybe this new year should start off with a resolution of some sort and what should that resolution be? Well, I can make it simple and practical like getting in shape and loosing weight. That's a good one. Or maybe a toughie like becoming more organized, ehhhh...boring. Well one particular one that comes to mind is being a better blogger although I don't know anyone that blogs anymore. Everyone just posts on facebook which is fine. That's what I do. But Blogging is more like a journal. We are counseled to keep records and journals and now its faster and easier than ever via the internet and computers and typing instead of writing. So This is my new year's resolution to get on here once a day and blog or journal the happenings of the day whether they are exciting or boring. Happy New Year everyone! 2012 is going to be exciting I can tell!

New Year

Month of May

Today is FRIDAY the 13th! EEEEEEkkkkkk! But, it's 5:13 pm and I feel I've had a pretty good day. Kyle sent me a text letting me know I was WAY behind on my blog. Thanks Hun! Now to get to work....

The last blog I posted talked about our new horses. Since then we've had Weston's birthday, our mini vaca to Seattle and Mother's Day.

Weston turned 10 on April 13th, but in our house we seem to have BIRTHDAY WEEKS, not BIRTHDAYS. We celebrated by going to Seattle and taking the kids to the common sites. The Science Center, Space Needle, The Aquarium, The Zoo, and of course THE CHEESE CAKE FACTORY. We went shopping and ate and ate and ate. The kids thought the space needle was a little lame. The Zoo was fun but we had to be speedy tourists because we had to still get to the Aquarium and Warf by the afternoon. Kyle's schedule was set on getting out of Seattle before 4 pm. It didn't happen. After the warf tour we went to find a place to eat. We wanted to eat at the Crab Shack and give the kids their first dose of clams, crab legs and oysters but we had to settle for Red Robin. The wait to get into both were an hour! With hungry kids you really have to try to AVOID that. But we had a good dinner and Weston got sang "Happy Birthday" to at Red Robin. We didn't leave Seattle until 8 pm. lol! But it was fun to get away as a family and "chill" or "bond". Later that week we had Kyle's Dad and Mary over for dinner to celebrate, my parents took us to PERKINS for a birthday dinner, he celebrated at scouts and of course I made him a RODEO birthday cake. So he turned 10 with a BANG!

Mother's Day was a beautiful celebration. I woke up early and made a cake (see picture below) Finished in time to make it to sacrament meeting to hear my kids sing to me. Afterwards we came home and had my family and my parents over for a MOTHER'S DAY BBQ. Thanks to the beautiful weather we had a beautiful Sunday. BUT my favorite part of the day was the night before when I came home to a late night run to Walmart to a new leather sectional! Kyle is so thoughtful! He knew company was coming the next day and took the time to move my old stinky couches out and the new sectional in before the big celebration the next day. He's so nice!

Well, other than work at the restaurant our life has been kind of slow and easy. Just the way we like it. Summer is just around the corner and I am crossing my fingers I can slow down at work and take time to have fun with the kids. We are getting ready to go on our annual Cattle Round up at the Ranch. We are leaving Wednesday and coming home Saturday. All the kids are going this year and all of our HORSES. lol. Maybe even the dog. Stay tuned! Oh! and this is a picture of a cake I made for my neice Madi for her 1st communion.

It's been a week already since we moved to Cali!

I can't believe it's been almost a week since April Fool's! I am sorry to all those who followed along and then got a BIG surprise that we didn't actually move to Cali (California) although with the weather the last few days it would have been a dream come true. So for your comfort I won't play an April Fool's joke next year....or will I (insert eyebrow lift, eyebrow lift) It's just so fun! Exhausting but fun! Lol! I still have my fake pregnancy test from 2010, ha! ha! THAT I promise to never do EVER again! Tell people you are pregnant...SHEESH! I was getting comments for a whole year on that one! So Kyle is dealing with his horse fetish again. Everynight I've come home to a new horse in the pasture. He says everyone in our family needs a horse. I look at him with my arms crossed and my eyebrows lifted. "Seriously" I say and He replies with "Yeah. Some families buy bikes or 4 wheelers, we buy horses for entertainment." Who can argue with that right? A man who is thinking of his family and spending time with them is so sweet. Well with almost 13 years together I know how to read his mind. I DO! Seriously! I knew what was next. It's kind of like the book "If you give a mouse a cookie". In the book a boy gives a mouse a cookie, then he needs milk, then a camera and so on and so forth...Well in our case if you give a man a horse he needs new bridles and saddles, and chaps, and blankets and soon (with in an hour) he said...wait for it..."Hun I need a new pickup so we can haul these horses to places." yep I read his mind alright. I just shook my head and said what any good wife would say "Whatever makes you happy Hun." and I meant it. Some men fish, some men watch sports, some men golf and drink beer, mine likes cows and horses. He lives for livestock! So I should be thankful his butt isn't planted infront of a 80 inch big screen watching men in tight pants fight over a pigskin. :-) So I decide to engage myself in his interest. I use to ride horses ALL of the time when I was younger. So on Sunday in between conference sessions I decided to get on Shasta, the big brown brother of Cola. He took me for a ride!! As soon as I got on him he took off like one big brown bolt of lighting. I couldn't get him to stop. He ran and ran until I guess he was thirsty because that's where he headed. And EEEEEEErch!! Right infront of the water troph. I hopped off and handed the reigns to Kyle. "How did I look?" I asked. He said "Scared out of your mind" I just laughed and went inside. For the last three days, even though I'm walking around like a 60 year old bull-legged cowboy I think I did pretty good! And that's my story and I'm sticking to it.