It's been a while!

So it's been a few months since I have been on! I got a little addicted to facebook, and man, life is just busy! Alayna turned 14 and started 9th grade. That's technically High School. Am I really old enough to have a child that old?
Jacob turned 12 and was ordained a Deacon. I didn't realize how unprepared for that I was. He also started 7th grade. Again, I knew that was coming but was very unprepared for that.
Emma is getting ready to turn 10. She has proven to be my ditzy child, by sticking her hand in the blender when her brothers dared her to do so. Aaarrggghhhh! Luckily she still has all her fingers accounted for. The blades did slice through one of her fingernails a few times.
Ammon turned 8 and was baptized on the 4th of July. It was a great day! We had a large family BBQ afterwards and it was so much fun.
And finally Jenna started Kindergarten. My last baby to start school, and yes I cried!
We also went camping this year, our first time in a while to go camping. It was a lot of fun, good family time. I will write more about that later. Over the next week I am going to spend time on memorable events in our family. We are getting ready to celebrate our 15 year anniversary in less than a week. I am going to try to get some pictures downloaded of our family through the year. I am so excited for this anniversary. It's a huge milestone for us.

On a side note on the weight loss, nothing new. Money has been tight, so the diet got put on the backburner. So I haven't lost anything, I think I have gained 3 lbs, but that's all. I'm going to be going back on my diet this week. So wish me luck!

Out of the mouth of Babes

Ok so my kids have been making me laugh over the years so I thought I would share some of the things they say.

On Marriage

Jenna: Mom, why won't you let me and Tristan get married now?

Mom: Because you are only 5 and Tristan is 6. You are too young.

Jenna: But we want to get married.

Mom: Well, where are you going to live?

Jenna: On Mondays and Tuesdays at Tristans and the rest of the week with you.

This is from when my 2 oldest was 4 and 2 on the difference between girls and boys

Alayna: Jacob, am I a girl or a boy?

Jacob: A girl!

Alayna: Very good!!

Jacob: What does that mean?

Alayna: (putting her arm around his shoulders) Well, that means I am always going to have to worry about you doing stupid stuff, just like Mom worries about Dad!

When Emma was about 5, I asked her to pick up the halls and stairs. Her response:"You treat me like I'm Cinderella!"

When Ammon was 3

Ammon: Mom, will you tickle(scratch) my back?

Mom: Of course

Ammon: Ahhhhhhhh! This is just like eating a burritto!

On what Faith is

Aunt Tansy: Who know's what Faith is?

Jacob:(raising his hand) I do! It's a tractor!

Aunt Tansy: A tractor?

Jacob: Yeah, you said Faith could move mountains so it has to be a tractor!

Random Thoughts

So, i joined facebook recently. I know I gave into peer pressure. And I have found a lot of friends from High School which is really cool. But I swear I think I was the only one that got out of High School, got married and started having kids. Or at least one of a very small handful of friends that did that. Most peoples oldest kids are around the age of my middle child which is 9. It makes me feel so old.
Otherwise I'm not sure what to think of the whole facebook thing. It has some games, which I have tried out, but don't much understand the point of them. Some quizzes, which are just plain silly. And you can update your status, which can be fun sometimes, but it makes me feel obligated to put something creative on there, and lets face it I am too sleep deprived to be creative most of the time. But it is something to occupy my time in the middle of the night while I try to stay awake.
I seem to have more friends that leave me little notes on facebook than on this blog so now I am trying to decide if any of this is worth it, or if I should get rid of it all and go back to my online journal that is just for little old me. I mean even my mother who tells people that I have a blog, doesn't read it. Instead she asks me what I have put on it lately and then says, good job. What's that about?
So that is where I am at. To blog or not to blog? That is the question.

Also on a side note, my weight loss total is 71 lbs. But it seems to have stopped so I need to figure out how to kick start it again. I have about 40-45 more lbs to lose.

Bragging Time

My oldest daughter is the most amazing artist. I am so jealous because I can barely draw a stick figure. Here is a picture she drew for me. She didn't trace it. To me, it's just absolutely amazing!!!

Things that irritate me

I love my children. Really I do. But I cannot stand it when they fight. It starts from the moment they walk into the door from school, and lasts sometimes past bedtime. It mainly comes from both of my sons. They both love to tease and torment their sisters. Could someone please explain to me what is so fun about making someone else cry???? And lately it seems like all they want to do is fight. AARRRRGGGHHH!!!

Weight Loss

I am not doing so good on losing weight lately. Well, I lost 1 lb in a 2 week period. But I guess the good news is I haven't gained anything. I am just maintaining right now. I haven't put forth a good effort into my diet lately. I have just had a million things going on between birthdays, weddings, programs, more sick kids and working a ton. So, while I am sad I haven't really lost anything, I haven't gained either and that makes me happy. It shows me that I can do this, and after I lose all the weight I want, I can keep it off during stressful times. I haven't fallen back to any bad habits such as betos, or raiding the vending machine at work during the middle of the night for chips and chocolate. I haven't had a Diet Coke since the end of January, and Diet Coke was by big time stress reliever. So, I have to say, I am proud of myself.
My total weight lost to date is 65 lbs.

Graduation

Well, we knew this day would come, but we didn't think it would come so soon. Our youngest has graduated...from preschool that is. It was a pretty traumatic day for her. Even though we got the calander marking the last day of preschool and we talked about it, she was totally unprepared for preschool to end. While the kids were outside, the teacher talked about how much she would miss the kids and started tearing up. She said normally she doesn't cry until after all the kids have left, but Faith started crying in class and that got her started. They were talking about how they would have new teachers and noticed tears streaming down Faith's cheeks. Faith said she didn't want new teachers, she wanted to stay with them. AWWWWWW! I said that's nothing, she has been crying everyday since you sent the calander home. I am happy to report she is crying less. She still mentions her teachers daily, but we are trying to get her more excited for kindergarten. Seems to be working.