Time Flies

Most of you probably are thinking that I just stayed in Utah. No we are home, and have been for a long time. I started writing last week but when I walked away the computer Zack attacked and started playing games and I lost the blog.
We had a blast in Utah, we hiked the Y, it has been a long time, and I forgot how steep it was. I was so worried about Zack having an asthma attack, it was dry and cold, optimal for an attack. I brought all the equipment, and medicine. But it was unnecessary. Quite the opposite in fact. He practically ran the whole way without a single cough!! On the other had, Anthony who never has any problems, coughed and wheezed most of the way up, not only that he walked slowly. So now I am thinking that when we do move, Zachary's asthma will be gone, but Anthony might develope it!! How funny. We also went to a dinosaur museum, there at Thanksgiving Point. It was awesome, I was totally impressed! I have never seen life size replicas of dinosaur, and it was cool. We visited friends, and Michael and I discovered IKEA!!!! We took two hours and we had to rush through the last 1/3 of the store! IT IS HUGE! They have childcare facilities, and a restaurant, it is like its own little city. Anyway Michael and I are planning on visiting family again in the fall before we leave for DisneyWorld, and we are bringing the truck. Okay so family is not the primary reason we are going to drive to Salt Lake, just so we can fly from there. So if you get a chance go visit IKEA.
We had a Easter egg hunt, since we had to be on the road on Easter, we hit two different hunts in the valley, one was giving away full size candy bars!! The boys had a blast.

And the best news of all is now my kids now what cousins are!!!! (Sad isn't it) we got to gramma's house and they have instant friends, and it was great!! Just what I remember when I was a kid.

Since Spring break it has been full speed ahead, school is winding down, but when I say that I mean that it is not slowing down but speeding up! I have never been so tired in my life!! Only 34 more days! I hate wishing away time like that but I have never wanted summer to come so quickly! Michael is taking 2 classes, after these two he will only have 2 classes left towards his Masters!! I never thought we would get this close. I don't know what it will be like when he does have that degree! Hopefully it will mean that we can make some changes. Michael wants to be a college professor, that would be good for him. He loves teaching, and is good at it. That is now the way we want to go.
The pics are of our vacation, the one of me is at the 4 corners, and then all the grandkids at Great Grandpa & Grandma Nielsen's home, They have a chair lift that takes them up and down their stairs, and we all took a trip on it. Michael and Zack being eaten by a megaladon. We also stopped and climbed the red rock, down by Moab, and stopped by the cars monument, in Amarillo. We had a blast. We really didn't want to come back to Texas.
I will try to be better at posting, once summer hits I will hopefully be better keeping up with the blog!

SPRING BREAK!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry it has been so long, I have had problems getting onto the blog for some reason, and then I have been so focused on getting through these last couple of weeks just to get to this day! YEAH IT IS OFFICIALLY SPRING BREAK!!! I can't believe how long it took to get here, now the trick is to catch up on 4 months of sleep. I won't be able to write for another week, we are going on vacation and I don't know if I will be able to get ontot he internet. We are in search of some snow. We are heading to Utah, we haven't been to see any family for the last 4 or more years. So we figured we better do it now, we don't know when we will have another chance, with us moving this summer. Any way I wish you all a great and safe spring break, and I will post something as soon as we get back!

Just some pics

This is my thing. I love Lladro. Michael surprised me for Christmas with this sculpture!! I love it, it is one of my favorites. The one I love the most is Cinderlla and he Coach, it is huge, and it only cost's about $30,000.

This was taken on Michael's birthday, they were "Captain Underpants" they were putting on a super-hero preformance for Daddy, along with a bunch of games and other contests.

Here is the fashion part of the party, we had to dress the animal, it is so silly but so much fun!!

Anthony wanted me to put a picture of the cat, this was the Friday before we had to put her down. Even though I don't like having pets I do miss her sitting on the window sill while I do dishes, meowing to please let her in.

It goes so fast!!

Whoops, missed a week. I can't believe how fast my weekends go. I am just trying to catch up on some sleep. Work is going, I am so glad we are going to be moving, I think just working part-time is what works for me. I know Michael likes me working, or rather the money with me working. I do too, last weekend I had a great sessions of retail therapy! Kohl's was having a great sale, and I bought shoes, which is my total weakness, and four or five new outfits for work. I felt so good, especially since that week had been so bad! Even though we did get our orders on Monday, we also had to put our cat down, Michael tested for Tech, and Michaels birthday, and I didn't even get Presidents Day off at school! So anyway I needed that trip to Kohl's, even though I spent most of my paycheck! This last week was better, I totally lost my voice, the kids at school were totally cute, when I told them I had lost my voice, they asked me where it was, and then Gwenyth told me she thought it was in my backyard! The best news of all is that Michael has decided to let the military move us!!!!!! HURRAY!!!!!! Finially he has come to his senses! Now I just have to figure out a way to persuade him that we should sell our van so we don't have to take two vehicles to South Dakota!

I also have to tell you what Michael did for me for Valentines day. He always outdoes what ever I do, so to be honest I don't even try anymore. Anyway he shows up at work with this balloon. And when you hit it, it plays 'Your still the one" All the teachers were just laughing, I have never seen anything like that before. Then we went out to dinner, not a lot since we had gone out the night before on his birthday. I am not a big holiday person. I just do enough to not be considered a scrooge. One day maybe I will organized my time better to where I have time to prepare for a holiday. Well three more weeks till spring break!! Not that I am counting or anything like that!

I pray for a quiet week, with no major surprises!

THE TIME HAS COME!!!!!!

Well I don't know if any of you will believe this, I am sure that I am still in unbelief. Michael actually got orders!! I am so excited, we are going to Ellsworth AFB, in Rapid City, South Dakota. Now before any of you start thinking that ewww is that a good thing, yes it is a great thing. We are so excited about moving. Although this now means that Michael will be deployed, which I am not looking forward to, it also means that we can move closer to family, and to the north!!!! Ellsworth has new homes on the base, and they are so much bigger than the ones here. We now actually have a good chance of having a white Christmas, that the boys have been dreaming about, for the last 5 years!!! Also no more yukky roaches, which the houses here are infesteed with! It is disgusting!
At school today all the teachers and staff were telling me to 'at least try to look sad'. It is bittersweet, I have loved it here, but it is time to move. Maybe it is just the air force bug in me, saying it is time to move. Though I hope that now with this move I will feel a little closer to home.
It has also been a sad day, our kitty who we have had since we have lived here had to be put to sleep today. Though I don't think that she would of lasted through today. It was so weird one day she was fine, and the next she couldn't walk, wouldn't eat, I don't know, I was talking to my dad and he seems to think that it might have been a stroke. Even though I am not a cat person, or a dog person, I did get attached, and so it was a hard day, I am so grateful for Michael, he got off work and took her in. I wouldn't have been able to hold it together. I was surprised how hard Zack took it. I thought Anthony would of been struggling with this. He was always petting her and she always slept on his bed. But he is already looking forward to getting another cat. I really don't know if that is going to happen. I will approach that topic when we get to Ellsworth.
We are going to finish the school year here, and move sometime in July or August. Maybe we will make it a even six years here, and move in August, but I doubt we will be here then!
So thanks for sharing in my news, I am thrilled! I will talk to ya'll in a week

In Rememberance

This week I have spent a lot of time in reflection, remembering our beloved prophet. Then yesterday while I was watching the funeral, several times during the eulogy people mentioned that everyone hs their own memory of the prophet. I guess I would like to add mine.

It was my second year at Ricks College (now BYUI) and Presdient Hinckley came to speak, I was with my dear friend Constance, who wasn't my roommate, but for some reason we ended up sitting next to each other. We got excellent seats they were to the left of the stage, on the side about 5 rows up. His talk, the B's. it was one of the first time he had introduced the B's. After the devotional, Constance and I waved at him, and he looked directly at us and waved back. We were so stunned that of the 15000 students in that auditorium, he would look our way and wave. It was small gesture but it has stuck with me for 10 years. I will never forget that moment. So that is my memory of him.

Michael was on the phone with his dad, who lives in Utah, last Sunday night, and while they were on the phone the news came on and his dad relayed the message to us as he was watching it. I also remember at the last conference his closing remarks, were something like, I have said what I need to say so he bore his testimony of Joseph Smith. I love this church and the working of it, how the succession works, and that it is inspired and not a popularity choice.

As for the rest of the week, work is work, it sure keeps me busy! Thankfully I have great coworkers who make work a lot of fun. Love to ya'll!

No More Time

This is just going to be a short blog!! I am so exhausted, my Sundays are no longer days that are made up of me taking naps, and relaxing!! Though I know I shouldn't now I am doing things that I didn't get done during the week. Wow!! And yesterday Michael and I got to go to Dallas and did a session at the temple! A Miracle!! It has been a looooonnnnggg time since we have done that! It was awesome! I have truely missed going to the temple!!! So nothing got done yesterday, but that is okay! It was totally worth it. So there is a lot to do today to get ready for this next week. I was so hoping that we would have a snow day on Friday, and although they were saying the worst, it didn't even get below freezing Thursday night! Bummer! I need to get out of Texas!! I would like to have some snow.

New Job

Well I went and did it I got a job! Full Time, the least of what I expected! I am working at the school now, as a kindergarten para! I am super excited, and very surprised. Mrs Darnell the principal, called me up today and said that even though I might be moving she wants someone who is qualified for the job, so there it just falls into my lap!, however this means that I will have to wake up even earlier! Oh my I don't know how that is going to go over! I am not to worried about me getting up, which is going to be hard, but I am worried about how boys are going to handle it! There are too much like me they love to sleep in, like today where I didn't get out of bed until 9am!

Sorry I didn't post yesterday, it was crazy, I had about 7 loads of laundry to fold before our hometeachers came at 2.30 and then we had friends coming over for dinner, along with the missionaries at 5.00 and then to add to the stress when I turned on the over to bake the lasagne our oven wouldn't turn on! How do you like that, how crazy to not have the oven turn on, when does that happen, luckily Mandi lives only a few houses down the street and she was doing a crock pot dinner, so I was able to bake there! Then we sat and visited till 10 pm! so there was just no time to even turn on the computer! Hopefully they can get it fixed soon, what a pain! I wanted to do some baking today, oh well maybe thats a good sign I don't need cinnamon rolls anyway!

So hopefully goes well with the job, I will do my best to keep up on the blog! I want to share this one picture, this is Zachary with his best bud Jesse who just moved to Kentucky, actually I now have the job that was his moms, so thanks Lisa I won't let you down!

Welcome Back

Well here we are again another Sunday!!! Why do the weekdays go so slow while the weekends go so fast! I am loooking at another full week of work! I am beginning to think that they are just going to string me along until the end of the school year. And if you are thinking they wouldn't do that, I will answer you "yes they would!" This school sometimes works in mysterious ways!! At least I do enjoy doing what I am doing! I love being able to work where my kids are, and have the same hours as they do.

Anthony had his school program this week, he was in the "Hakuna Matata" song, and he dressed up as a zebra. It took about 4 hours to get all the duct tape on the sweats, and he wore them for an hour, and then ripped off all the tape, oh the things that we do as moms!! He was so excited to have a part, unfortunately the picture we took during the song didn't turn out but we did get this one.

I am going to be playing for the choir next Sunday and doing a special musical number the Sunday after that, just when I thought that the coast was clear, I hadn't had to play in church since this summer, and there has been so many new people come in, I thought I wouldn't have to do that anymore. But there must be more that I need to learn, I still get terrified of being in front of the congregation, and playing, but one of these days it might get a little easier.

Well I hope ya'll have a great week, I will talk to you soon!!

Here We Go Again

Here are some fo the pics Michael took at the Airshow in Sept. They had such a great time! And I enjoyed that day so much, I hate airshows and so I stayed back and let them have a boys day out! They say I missed out on so many cool things, but I had the best day! Peace and quiet! That is all I need. Anyway these are some of the cuter ones, most of them are with the boys shooting the guns in the planes, so of course I like these ones the best.

Although it only has been two weeks, it feels like the boys have been out of

school for about 2 months!! Tomorrow it is back to the grindstone, alarm clocks,

and homework, and work!! I have been scheduled to work for the next two weeks. So hopefull after that I may have a day off! I just need to not answer the phone.

Also something is coming up that I am absolutely dreading! The SCIENCE PROJECT!! We were supposed to turn in our idea before the break, and of course I couldn't get any solid idea out of Anthony, so nothing has been done for that, we have approximately 3 more weeks, I am trying to put it in Michael's lap, I'll let you know how that goes. If any of you have any suggestions let me know. I have been dreading this for the last 3 years!!!!!

Right now I am in kind of a daze, I hadn't realized (since I am no longer in primary) that the kids start new classes today, and to my amazement Anthony is in Senior Primary now, I don't know why that has struck my so much, it is hard to imagine that I have a child now in Sr. primary. He loves his new class, even though it is the same kids as his last class he is so excited to be in the Valiants! I also think it has a lot to do with the teacher, Anthony does better when he has a guy for a teacher, and Bro Mcdowell is a great guy.