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‘Cause you gotta have friends

August 24, 2007 / / 9 Comments

In browsing through some old photos that we’ve had scanned, I find that:

1- I do know how to have fun. Lots of it, if the photos are any indication.

2- I have the greatest girlfriends ever.

See for yourself.
These ladies have been my friends for over 30 years, some of them. That’s a collective friendship over over 100 years!

And let’s not forget these beauties,

who have also been friends since elementary and junior high school. These are the friends who shaped my life. So, if you think I’m a weirdo, it’s probably their fault. And we are STILL friends! Who does that? Who keeps in touch with friends from that long ago. Well, we do. We don’t see each other every day or anything, but we do still try.

I have had and still do have many wonderful friends. To my friends, I salute you and I thank you!

Alone again, Naturally

July 30, 2007 / / 7 Comments

Whew! We’ve had such a fun time with our guests here to constantly keep us busy. With friends and family visiting, you try to do as much fun stuff as you possibly can. Since they drove all this way (from Arizona) to visit, and this is their vacation, we don’t want them to be bored, so we do as much as we can to keep them (and us) going. Some of the things we’ve done in the last 3 weeks include: camping, the dino museum and the children’s garden at Thanksgiving point, a couple of family parties, a neighborhood party, swimming, waterslides, Boondocks, lots of perler beads and lots of legos, eating out, eating in, and lots more fun stuff. Robin and I even went to the mall and had a mini makeover! That’s Julene’s step son Elias working on my face (oh, and that’s my new haircut, by the way)

I’m a little exhausted.

(Here’s the kids at Harry Potter day at the library. Can you guess who Cole’s dressed up as?)

But now, everyone is gone, and we have a mere 3 weeks until school starts. And I think I’m done entertaining my kids. They can sit around and read, play with friends, and generally be bored if they chose to! They need that lazy summer time of just laying around the house with NOTHING to do for just a little while before the rush of back to school. And I need to get my house cleaned up again. So, if you need us, we’ll be here. (Well, not exactly all the time–we do have the Highland Fling this week, and Cole’s going camping, and John and Jenna are starting up a little craft class. So, maybe it won’t be quite so boring, but at least I won’t be trying so hard.)

A few things

July 26, 2007 / / 5 Comments

Just a few things for you today.

First, I had no idea we would get so many comments to enter the little contest.  If you came by just to sign up, I hope you’ll stop by again and see what we’re up to.  I will have to cut off comments at 8 am Friday morning, and then we’ll randomly draw for winners.

Second, I can’t wait until John is 4.  I’m hoping this 3 year old attitude problem will go away when he’s 4.  Today we had a screaming kicking fit that ended in him screaming “Go Away!” over and over and over again from his bed while I sat and calmly started reading the 7th Harry Potter book that was sitting on the floor until he gave up the fight to be grumpy and fell asleep for a MUCH needed nap.  And I’m not even sure what the whole fit was about.

Thirdly, I got my hair cut yesterday, and if I do say so myself, it looks so cute!  But then my beloved hairstylist, who has cut my hair for about 12 years now (off and on) told me that she’s getting out of the hair styling business.  Her husband is no longer a struggling teacher or a starving student, he’s a lawyer, and she doesn’t need to have a job anymore.  She’d rather spend more time with her kids.  I’m going to try to convince her that I only come 4 times a year, and if needed I’ll cut it back to twice a year if she’ll just please continue to do my highlights.  But if that doesn’t work, I’ll have to go out and find someone I trust to cut my hair.  Humph.

And lastly, Robin took her kids and two of my kids camping last night, and they had such fun.  They got to sleep in her newest Vanagan, and how much fun is that?  Cool!  Maybe the little kids can sleep out there tonight.

Summer’s screaming by, and there’s less than a month until the kids go back to school.  I hope I can think of enough fun things to do to fill that time, and that we all enjoy the last month of summer together.  (There’s also less than 5 months until Christmas, too!)

Can’t hardly type, I’m so tired

July 20, 2007 / / 1 Comment

Well, even amid our financial difficulties, the summer must go on.  Thursday I took the kids up to Payson lakes for day one of the Coleman family reunion.  It was fun and exciting.  If you call having a major wildfire in the next canyon exciting.  Ash was falling from the sky on us all afternoon even though that fire was a good 30 miles away.  And our ranger friend kept coming and telling us they might evacuate.  We swam, we ate, we did some crafts, and we roasted marshmallows.  The kids and I had a great time.  They wished to stay longer, but I was happy to be leaving when it was dark.  We drove down the canyon and met a police officer who was stopping people and warning them, if not totally turning them back so they couldn’t go up.  We got home about 10:30 dirty, tired, and smelling of ash.

Today was Ryan’s company party at Boondocks.  It was fun fun fun, but WAY TOO HOT!  We took Sarah and Jacob with us and fun was had by all.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to carry up a sleeping 3 year old and put him in bed, and I’m going to bed, too.

p.s.  Stay tuned for a contest announcement on Monday.

Check in time is at 3:00

July 16, 2007 / / 2 Comments

It’s not quite a hotel we’ve got here; it’s more of a bed and breakfast, lunch, snacks and dinner.

My brother’s family left on Saturday.  It was about 11:30 by the time they packed everything up and pulled out, and started on the long drive to Arizona.

Robin and her kids arrived at about 3:00.

NO, we didn’t get the whole house cleaned up, but I did manage to wash and change the sheets in the “guestroom” and get that whole room cleaned and vacuumed.  And we got all the dishes done and some of the other bedrooms cleaned up.  For some reason I had about 25 towels to wash, and they’ve now been washed, but are not folded.  But you get what you pay for here, people.

On the bright side, it’s kind of nice to be a vacation destination.  That way we get to see friends and family and we don’t have to do all that annoying driving to get there.  And I’d rather hang out at my house than hang out at their houses in Arizona, except maybe in the winter.

Today we’re doing a little parent swap.  Robin’s going to watch my kids and her kids, and I’m going to go and watch my sister’s kids.  My sister’s 8 kids.  I’ll let you know how that goes.

Dodged a bullet with that one

May 16, 2007 / / 1 Comment

John and I just got back from Thanksgiving Point, where we went with his little playgroup of 6 boys to the children’s garden.

It wasn’t my week for playgroup, but nobody can take 6 active little people to a place like that by themselves, so I pitched in. It was fun. They played in the water, ran into and out of the bear cave screaming, and climbed in the lighthouse. We stayed almost two hours, and when it was time to go home, loaded our little ones back into the cars. Three in my car, and three in my friend’s car.

As we were heading back, my friend changed lanes and rolled down the window. I rolled my window down, too. “Can you call Jeanna and tell her that Trevor’s throwing up in the back of my car?” she yelled. OH GROSS! The only thing worse than your kids throwing up in your car is someone else’s kid throwing up in your car. ICK! So, I called Jeanna, who quickly left the school where she was working with our 5th graders on a program they are getting ready for Friday, and hurried home to meet us. Ugh. I feel so bad for both friends. One who has someone else’s kid’s throw up in her car, and the other who now feels guilty because her kid threw up in her friend’s car.

And I’m oh so relieved. That he wasn’t in my car.

Favors for Neighbors

May 1, 2007 / / 3 Comments

My friend and neighbor called last night and asked if I could do her a HUGE favor. She was very apologetic and said if I couldn’t do it, that was ok, but she was in a bind, and had to go out of town unexpectedly next week and would it be possible if I watched two of her children for two days? Two of her children who two of my children LOVE and would have a great time with. Two of her well behaved children. A 6 year old and an 8 year old. Of course we’ll watch your kids! No problem. She was ever so grateful and promised to watch my kids if I ever needed it, and please please please let her make it up to us somehow, etc. etc.

Contrast that with the experience another friend is going through right now. A good friend of mine is watching her neighbor’s kids right now. She’s really one of the nicest people I know. She watches friends’ kids overnight every once in a while, so that’s nothing new to her, but I think she would appreciate being asked in advance. Instead, she got this (in her words that I stole from emails):

My neighbor (who I hardly speak to) called me and said “I’m going to Mexico for ten days and I have assigned my boys (3 of them ages 12, 10 and 7) out to the street. You have Monday and Tuesday night then they go to [another neighbor] for two nights, then…”

So much for, hey friend, can you help me out? The thing is, I know that she doesn’t have a lot of people she can lean on, so my Christian guilt made me say, “Uh, ok I guess”. That, and the fact that I am a little bit afraid of her. She actually said, “One of the children is having some anger issues and sometimes we literally have to tackle him to keep him from attacking one of his siblings – you should see the bite mark he left….”. Truly, truly. She actually said that. Who am I to say that this may not be the time for her to be taking a trip to Mexico?????

When she called me w/ my “assignment”, I pressed her about why she wasn’t having her BYU student come up and watch them (since school just got out) and she said, “No, that won’t work. I have it all planned and we will just go with it”. Who does that???? I ran into my other neighbor (the one who has the next few days as her “assignment”) and she said that she tried to explain that her oldest daughter just had a baby and she was going to be gone for that, but even that didn’t work.

I admire and respect this friend and I hope that her tending job goes well. I hope that my tending job goes well, too, although I kind of think mine will be more fun. Good luck!

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