New Addition

Here's another FABULOUS layout from Sharon! She's AMAZING, don't you think. hehe. I'm glad that someone is scrappin' my photos, because I'm sure not - hehe :)

I'm kinda liking this 'no early morning' PT thing. The duty day now starts at 8:30am. So Captain Americahas been getting up at the same time as the rest of us, and gets to get ready and have breakfast with us :) Yippee! The soldiers now all have PT from 3:30-5pm.

Anyway, we all got up this morning together, had breakfast, and had the kids out the door by 7:30am. But not before some Orange Early Rise. Ever had that? They sell it at Walmart. It's a diet drink, and I like to make it with HOT water. So it's like Hot Tang. Remember Tang? hehe


I hung with Captain America until he left for work around 8:15am. Then I started making cookies. Because I had bananas that needed used. I still have MORE bananas that need used, too. Hmpf!

Anyway, I made my favorite Oatmeal Banana Chocolate Chunk Cookies. LOVE them!


12 Dozen cookies. Yeah, I wish I had a recipe that called for a TON of bananas but that didn't make 12 dozen cookies. LOL! I got 3 dozen all packaged up and ready to deliver to friends, and put the others in containers.

The ones that went on the plates got Chocolate Cream Cheese frosting on them. I meant to do the others, but I ran out of time. hehe.


So I got the kids all ready for school, and at 10:00am, I headed out for my therapy session. I left instructions with Jake on how to get Jimmy to the bus, and 2 plates of cookies for little Jacob's family and Elijah's family. And I brought one plate to my therapist. Because EVERYONE loves cookies, right? hehe.

Here's me, on the way to my appointment on the West Side.
And yeah, I was about 20 minutes early, so I went to Savers. Because it was only a few minutes away from the office. AND it was Monday, which was $0.99 one colored tag day. Yellow day, you know :)

I found a TON of shirts, but only 3 fit the way I liked. Some were WAY too big, and some were too small. There's not a standardization in sizes, you know... AND, I found 3 Formals. SO cool. ONE was lavendar and floor length, one was very light teal and floor length, and one was a black, cocktail length dress. And yeah, after trying them on, and then paying, I was late. I texted the Doctor, and told him that I was running a few minutes late. Yeah, I left the part out about Savers. ha!

I got there about 10 minutes late, but it was ok. It was a nice session, and we talked about how I've been feeling lately, and what I've been thinking about. You know, it's nice to talk to someone each week about stuff. I'd highly recommend it to anyone who has the chance :)

I hurried home after my session, and Captain America was home for lunch. He and Jake and I hung out until he went back to work at 1:00pm. Then Jake and I headed for the NEW Walmart on Montana. Because I love it over there. hehe. Sure, it takes 20 minutes to get there, but still, it's SO worth it.

Because I wanted a new laptop. Because my old one broke. And the one before that had issues too. And I was tired of legging it along. And I'd made enough money in my last paycheck to pay for it. Sa-weet! Thanks, girls :)

I wanted one that was a Dual Core, and one that had 4GB of ram (that's the right term, right?), and a 500 GB storage space. And a decent graphics card. And this one fit the bill! It's a Sony Vaio Series E. Jake and I looked around at all the different ones for quite a while, and even chatted with the Techy guy there that worked at Walmart about it.

AND, he told me how to hook up my HDMI cable between my computer and my big TV, and get the sound to work. I made sure that Jake listened real carefully, so that we could fix it when we got home. hehe.

Here's my new Laptop, in the cart. Woohoo!

We picked up a couple of things we needed (like sugar free cough drops, tooth paste, and a new yummy smelling candle (hey, that's essential in a house filled predominately with boys...), paid, and headed back home.

I went to the bus stop to pick up Jimmy, and we both headed back to the house. And I proceeded to install all my programs on the new laptop. And yeah, that's not the most enjoyable thing one can do with an afternoon..... It's very tedious, and time consuming. BUT, I made good headway before the kids got home from school.

And then, somehow, it was 4pm, and time to go to the pool. I got the kids all changed and flip flopped and toweled real fast, and out the door we went. Kari and kids and Karin and her daughter met us there. And we even stayed an extra 30 minutes, because the kids were having SO much fun.

Me and my Diet Dr Pepper. I only had 3 diet sodas today, and NO Circle K/Howdys. What is that, only 36 oz. hehe.

Check out the pile of flip flops and glasses they left on the bleachers. hehe.

Here's Karin and I

And little Joe, FREEZING to death. He doesn't have the body fat to keep him warm that some of the others do - hehe

Kari and I

Emeline and Josephine (Kari's daughter)

Sammi (Karin's daughter) and Jimmy

We hustled home, and Captain America was there! He'd just gotten off of work, and was eating dinner. I directed the kids to have one of 3 different kinds of sandwiches (or leftover rice from last night), and changed into my workout clothes. Captain America and I were gonna go to a Spin Class. Should be fun!

But first, we swung by Laurie's house to let Captain America help give her husband a blessing. He was feeling VERY sick, so Captain America and Mark Shoaf went over and performed the blessing. And Laurie showed me her car, where she'd ran into a pole. Ouch! It was crunched all down the drivers side. She'd driven it away, but it was gonna take some fixing to get it back to normal. Poor thing :(

And then we headed to spin. The kids were at home, doing homework and watching "Get Smart", after finishing their chores. SUCH good kids :)

Here's me, ready for Spin.

We got there about 10 minutes late, but still got a 47 minute Spin workout in. I was sweating like crazy! SUCH a good workout. And it was Captain America's 2nd workout today. He'd ran 4 miles at 3pm. Yeah, he's SO much more in shape than me - hehe. See how supportive he is, to come and do extra exercises with me :) Love ya, hon :)

We got home a little after 7pm, and joined the kids watching their movie. I'd never watched the whole Get Smart movie, and it was pretty funny. And I cooked dinner for myself, since I hadn't eaten before going to the gym.

And I finished transferring files over to the new laptop (thank GOODNESS for thumb drives), and even designed my WordArt for today on it! IT WORKS!!! It's now the newest addition to my family. hehe.

See, I love my new "baby"

And then, Captain America and I were teasing Jacob about how much FUN it's gonna be when he turns 14, and Captain America and I can chaperone the Stake Dances at church. Because I have some wicked crazy moves. And then I proceeded to show all the kids the moves. Captain America too, but he refused to be photographed. Me? Bring it on...


And then we put the kids to bed, and I finished up with my blogging, Captain America discussed for a while with Jacob, and here it is, 9:50pm. I think we may go to bed "early" tonight. I had a long day. BUT, I don't really feel sick. So that's a good thing. I think Tom is coming down with something, but hopefully it won't come to me, too...

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Warning: Sick

First off, I just wanted to show you a layout that Sharon made for me. OMHeavens! She does SUCH wonderful work with my pictures/wordarts. hehe. What do you girls think???

I woke up today at 8 something, and headed out for breakfast. Around 9:30am, I went back to bed for about an hour. hehe. Church at 1230 is kinda tricky. It seems like there's a lot of time in the mornings to do whatever, but it runs out quickly.

Anyway, we got ready, and headed to church. We were a few minutes late, but the bishopric was running a few minutes late too, so we actually made it on time and got our row. Good for us, right? hehe.

Sacrament meeting was nice, then we sent kids to their primary classes, Captain America and I went out to the truck for our afternoon snack, then back inside for sunday school and Relief Society/Priesthood meetings. All in all, it was a very nice, pleasant Sunday.

I was gonna wear this dress last Sunday, but forgot that I had it. hehe. It was a $0.99 Savers find. I put a black, long sleeved shirt (also $0.99 from Savers) with it, and some black knee high boots, and I thought it was pretty cute :)


We came back home, and at 5pm, started on dinner. A variation of haystacks. Diced onion and ground turkey, browned, then add cream of mushroom soup, a little bit of milk, some sour cream, and some shredded cheddar cheese. And I simmered that for a while.

I wasn't feeling too good. I think I'm catching cold. And my head was starting to hurt, so I took my favorite concoction of meds (hehe). I knew that I'd be feeling better in about an hour. But the sick part was making me a bit nervous. Tom had a sore throat too. I don't wanna get sick, or have a house full of sick people..... grrrr.

This is my "I'd better not be getting sick" face - hehe



But back to dinner... Serve over cooked rice, and chow mein noodles. The kids enjoyed it. And after dinner, we watched a movie together. The Hannah Montana Movie. ROFL! No one in the family had seen it before, so the older boys didn't complain too loudly. ha!

Captain America finished working on his truck, and then it was time for bed. It's now almost 8pm, and I'm finishing up my blog and designing. I designed another alphabet wordart pack during Hannah Montana. A Christmas themed one :)

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Bouncy Castle Fun

Hey girlies :) Welcome to the weekend! I'm definitely going to bed early-ish tonight :) No more 2am bedtime for me, or I'm gonna DIE next week. hehe.

So I woke up a little after 7am, ate my yogurt, then totally went back to bed. The kids were playing nicely and I was still sleepy.

Captain America woke up around 9am, ate breakfast, and went back to bed too. hehe. At 10:30am, I finally crawled out of bed, had a snack, and went jogging. It was only 20-30 minutes long, but it WAS exercise, right?

But by the time I got back and got organized, I'd ran out of time to take a shower before the b-day party we were going to. Crap. Oh well. I pulled my hair back in a ponytail, threw on some clothes, washed off the old makeup, and put on some new. I looked better - hehe.

And a little after noon, the whole family headed over to Terra's house. Her twins were having a b-day party! They're 2 :) She'd rented a giant slide and a bouncy castle, had a TON of food planned, and wanted us to come! And we SO wanted to come. hehe.

Captain America got to talk Civil War with her hubby, and my kids had a BLAST on the castle stuff. And I got to chat with the girls :)

It was an Olivia (the pig) party, so here's me sporting my Olivia Party Hat. hehe

Emeline standing by Laurie. Her daughter, Elise, is friends with Terra's oldest daughter.

Captain America talking to Rowan, Laurie's youngest son

And then I convinced Laurie that it would be fun to go on the slide. ROFL! She said she'd go if I went first. You're on! As long as she would take a picture of me. hehe. So here I went.

And yeah, it was SO much harder than the kids made it look. I kept slipping on those stairs. And the kids kept attacking me - ROFL!

I felt at the top, and here I am, foot in the air, trying to get off the slide - hehe

And then when I got to the bottom, they all dog piled on me. Yeah, someone had to pull me off because Jimmy wouldn't get off of me. ha! It was pretty funny.

And then it was Laurie's turn!

It was pretty fun. We ate some food, had a good time visiting, and left about an hour later than we'd planned because we were having so much fun. 12-3pm. It was a great time.

Tom on the Bouncy Slide

Here's me, wondering what possessed me to go on the bouncy slide. ha!
We came home, and we all started on our own projects. Captain America wanted to fix the seat in the suburban, I wanted to design for a while, and the kids wanted some electronics time. We had everyone do chores first, then got on with what we were wanting to do.

I designed a few WordArt packs, and around 5pm, we had dinner. I brought part of the GIANT sandwich home from Terra's house, so the kids had that for dinner. And I had a cheese sandwich and cucumbers, and Captain America had soup. And then we watched part of a movie, and then I went and took a HOT bath. A little too hot, because it wasn't as comfortable and relaxing as it should have been. hehehe.

And then I came back out, and started blogging. It's not 7:01pm, and I'm done on the computer. I'm feeling quite sleepy. Not sure what time I'm gonna go to bed, but I sure hope it's gonna be early.

And yeah, this is NOT a faithbooking WordArt. I'm sorry. I designed it, and then realized what I did. But yeah, I don't wanna design something else. hehe. So this is what you get :)

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