My so called true color

What's Your True Color?

My Result: Green

You're green, the color of growth and vigor. Good-hearted and giving, you have a knack for finding and bringing out the best in people. Green is the most down-to-earth color in the spectrum — reliable and trustworthy. People know they can count on you to be around in times of need, since your concern for people is genuine and sincere. You take pride in being a good friend. For you, success is measured in terms of personal achievement and growth, not by status or position. Rare as emeralds, greens are wonderful, natural people. It truly is your color!

What are you?
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Happy Birthday to Justin!!

Yesterday was Justin's 34th birthday! It was a fun day for him, I think, and especially the kids.

Justin had already opened his main presents a couple of weeks ago, the stinker. He decided after going to a train show at the Union Station that he wanted to start up doing model trains. He knew exactly the kind he wanted and the accessories. He put it on his on-line wish list at Amazon and told me where to find the tracks on eBay. I ordered it thinking that he wouldn't have known when it came. He didn't say anything for a while but started asking if any packages had came. I of course said no, even though they had. After a while he started saying things like, are you sure no packages have come. I asked if he had been tracking the stuff and he admitted he had. So no point in waiting until his birthday to let him have it, he already knew what it was and that it must have came. He was so excited to have it and whats even funnier is that Tucker probably loves it more than he does. Almost every day Tucker asks to have it out so that he can "watch trains".

We did take him balloons yesterday with a bag of some of his favorite snacks. That's always a hit with Justin to take him balloons when he's at work. I painted the windows of his car and our back sliding glass door. We put up streamers and a sign. I did get him a pair of shorts, something to open. We made him fajitas and baked him a cake. It was fun for the kids. They were probably more excited then him.

Anyway, Happy Birthday Justin! We love you!

Spring, Spring, Spring!!!

Finally, signs of spring! Today is such a beautiful day, 80 degrees. The kids and I have been outside watering tulips and playing on the swing set. I got a little picnic table/bench thing for Easter for the kids. It came with an umbrella. They have been outside on it a lot today. It's been a long winter inside. So nice to be outside and playing with the kids. I can't wait to start seeing everything in bloom. Some of the tulips have opened up and the daffodils are starting too. The ornamental cherry tree in the front is starting to have blossoms on it.

Sawyer didn't know what to do with being outside, he's never really experienced that yet. I think he will start to love it like the other two and not want to come back inside for naps and stuff.

I am rambling, but it's been a really nice day to just be outside.

Book Tag and Diaper Bag Tag?

Sorry I never did the diaper bag tag thing. If I would have listed all of the things that I have in my diaper bag, it seriously would have taken up the entire page. When I go places with my Mom and sisters, sometimes they will help carry things for me. They all can't believe how heavy my diaper bag is and the things that I have in it.

I am not reading any books currently. Although, I will be starting one this week hopefully.
Our Stake is starting challenge month again and the first week is no screen week. That's hard for me when I am at home and the kids are sleeping. So I want to get a good book to read. I have heard that the secret of bees is good? Does anyone know about that book. I love reading fiction. I love fantasy. I love church fiction mixed with real events, (Fire of the Covenant). I love dramatic fiction too. Anyway, when I start reading something on Sunday night I will then answer to the tag.

Baptisms and Singing

So this weekend we went to Morgan to see my nephew Myles get baptised and receive the Holy Ghost. It was fun. I played the piano for two of my sisters and my sister-in-law Julie played the flute with us. They sang an arrangment of Jesus came to John the Bapitist.
When it came time for Myles to go under the water Kendall was unusually interested. She has seen others get baptized but this affected her differently. My brother Jared held Myles under longer than anyone I had seen before. Making sure that he was completely submerged.
Kendall decided that she didn't like that and maybe she wouldn't get baptized after all.

Then today I sang with my two sisters, Beckie and Merribeth, for my Sacrament Meeting.
We sang, "How Shall I Live". Despite me having a very horse voice and sore throat we did really well. It's funny when I sing with my sisters (not very often because I am usually playing for them) people will come up to me and be so surprised that I can sing or as a lady put it today, "Sara I didn't know you had talent". So I guess when I play for them I don't really have any talent, only if I sing with them. Anyway, it was fun to share our testimonies through song.
Now the kids are taking a late nap and I think I just might join them. There has been a lot of sleepless nights in the house lately with me being sick, Tucker waking up often and Sawyer waking up often. Got to love being a parent though.

Coloring is fun to do, to do to do to do!

So tonight we colored Easter eggs with Kendall and Tucker. They thought it was great fun. Justin even got in on it. Kendall felt like a pro because she had colored eggs earlier in the week at preschool. She kept showing Tucker what to do and that it must be done a certain way.
She did a lot of pink. Tucker on the other hand wanted to just dip and take out, dip and take out.
He at one point decided that the egg dye looked yummy enough to eat. Much to his dismay it didn't taste very good. We put white vinegar in it to have the colors brighter and stick better.
Justin and and I put little dorky messages. It was good times with our little family!

More of the Green

When I went to pick up Kendall from preschool, she had so much to say. She had learned a lot about leprechauns. She kept saying that they were sneaky, and tricky and that we had to watch out for them. Every time I suggested going to find one she would freak out and get really scared. I think that they read some stories about them that made her very nervous.
I stopped at Lee's (the old Acres) and got some corned beef. I asked the meat manager if he had any Irish Bacon, he said, What? I then proceeded to give the history of why Irish Americans use corned beef instead of Irish Bacon and where the tradition came from. Also why they use cabbage. He was impressed. Justin would have been so proud. Any who, I made Corned Beef and sauteed cabbage (so yummy) and mashed potatoes and Soda bread (actually it wasn't really soda bread, I couldn't find any it was artisan bread)
Justin came home and was very excited to have such an ethnic meal. It was fun. Tucker wasn't very excited, the only thing he ate was the corn. Kendall ate everything. She is such a better eater now than she was. There is hope for Tucker. They had the left over green punch and cookies from Kendall's snack at preschool. It was fun.

Celebrating the Green!

Top of the Morning to ya! So today is St. Patrick's Day. Love the Holiday! I took Kendall to preschool this morning all decked out in her green. She had the snack bucket so we took loft house cookies that had green frosting and green Hawaiian Punch. She was very excited.
When we got to her school, her teacher had green footprints on the floor and told Kendall that a leprechaun had stopped by and left his green hat that was on the table. Kendall's eye's got big and she put her little hand to her mouth that was already wide open. She was so excited to see what was going to happen next. I had to leave because the kids were in the car. Fun for her though.

I am thinking I want to make Irish bacon, or corned beef and cabbage for dinner. Feeling very Irish today. Or I could make Shepherd's pie. Or, I could just fake it by making french toast and dying it green. Anyway, fun to think of ways to celebrate.
May Irish eyes smile upon ya and raise your glass's to all of you lad's and lass's.

President's Day, and Drains!

Justin and I, mostly me, decided on President's Day to take the kids and go down to the new IKEA store in south Salt Lake. It was fun for the most part. That store is HUGE! A lot of contemporary styles. All of the furniture, minus the sofas, you have to put together yourself. It's real wood and the same price as sauder furniture. So for that it's worth it. Justin was very impressed with the book cases, surprise there, and how affordable everything was. I wasn't real excited with the look of the sofas and such. I am more country in decorating, old looking things.
I did however like the wood furniture. They have a restaurant their. Very affordable and good looking food. We didn't wait in line to try it. We did, however, try the hot dogs, (50 cents each) and cinnamon rolls. We went through the entire store without buying anything, until the very end. After the check stands there is a little deli and Swedish goods store. Lots of yummy things to buy their.
After IKEA, we decided to take the kids to the gateway discovery place. It was fun, way overpriced (tree house museum much better and way cheaper) they had fun running around. I stayed pretty much in one place feeding the baby. That's alright.
Justin had never been to P. F. Chang's, so I suggested we go there and share some food. He ordered something and so did I and we shared it with the kids. They have yummy food their.
Fun Day until I decided to call home and check messages. Kelsey from downstairs had called and said that the shower drain was plugged and that water had gotten all over the carpet and was starting to smell. She said on the message that it had happened the night before. Duh, they didn't call until the next night. Would have been nice to know so that we could have cleaned it up.
We got home and had rescue rooter come over. The guy was a complete jerk. Oh my, was he a jerk. We soon discovered it wasn't just the shower drain but was the line under the basement floor that was clogged. He had me in tears thinking that we would have to dig up the floor and replace the entire line out to the sewer. Turns out he just wasn't really trying as hard as he could to get the line clear. He finally got through and after some rude comments from him about everything he went on his way.
The girls in the basement were so shocked about how he was treating me. Justin was mostly upstairs trying to get the kids bathed and to bed so he didn't get to hear the brunt of this jerk.
Anyway, last time we will call them. All is well now.

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Sweet Sawyer

I have more postings of my two other children, so I thought that I would add one little one for this guy. This is my baby boy, Maxwell Sawyer. He is such a sweet boy. He is by far my most cudliest and easy going baby. He loves to be loved. He will laugh and laugh for Justin and I. Kendall and especially Tucker can make him laugh too. The other day he decided to just roll over. He is 5 1/2 months old. He did this last week. He does what Kendall did. He rolls over from back to front. He hasn't learned how to do it the other way yet. He is just sweet.

We really are related, honest!

I took some pictues of the kids today for Valentines Day. I had Kendall and Tucker take turns holding Sawyer and then I had them all on the floor together. When I looked at them all together, I just had to chuckle. Because I really don't think they look like each other. I think that they might have some similarities, but they really are there own person. My brother told me a few weeks ago that Justin and I must have a really large gene pool to create kids from. Whomever they look like they are just darn cute and fun!

The New First Presidency

Can I just say that I love President Hinckley and I will miss him terribly. I also love the fact that everything has order in the Church. That we are not left alone and that there is a pattern.
I know that President Monson is called by our Heavenly Father to lead this Church. That his two new counselors, President Erying and President Uchdorf, are also called by inspiration from our Heavenly Father. How fortunate we are to have the blessing of revelation and to know that our Father in Heaven does indeed lead this Church.
I am excited that President Uchdorf has been called. I enjoyed listening to him from the start. He has such a way about him that really had touched me. Of course I have loved Elder Eyring from the time that he was called. I connect with the way that he presents his messages.
President Monson is a wonderful story teller and the way he presents his messages are like opening a new book. It's exciting to see. It will be interesting all of the things that will happen with this new First Presidency.
The Gospel is True!

Aloha??

So I was hanging up some summer clothes that I bought at the end of last summer. Kendall and Tucker came in and saw me and wanted to dress up in them. They wanted to go, "Aloha" as Kendall would put it. They pretended to surf and "hang loose". Fun kids.

Moose on the loose!

Who would have thought that we would have a moose roming our neighborhood, let alone our backyard?
About two weeks ago a neighbor boy came to our door asking if he could take a picture of the moose in our backyard. "What, I exclaimed, a moose in our backyard!" The kids and I ran to the back sliding door and sure enough there was a moose sitting down under our big pine tree. The neighbor boy spooked it coming into the yard to take a picture. I ran to get my camera and got some picutres of it running away into the other nieghbors yard. That neighbor and us share a little gate on the back fence. Interesting that the moose knew just were to go to get through.
We thought it was gone after that. But....
A few nights ago I was driving down my street to go home but the kids wanted to drive up "Antie Beth's" street which is just further down the road. It was dark but out of the corner of my eye I saw a moose running up the field towards our street and house.
I followed it and it went into the nieghbors back yard that we share the fence with. I ran to their door and she yelled for her kids and husband (they have been on the moose lookout ever since the last siting) to come and see. We looked out her back window which looks right into our backyard. I called Justin and he came out to look and he couldn't see it at first. He went around the side and came right to it. The moose jumped the side fence and off he went.
There have been several moose sitings since. The wildlife control people can't ever find him when we call because he wont' stay in one place long enough. Fun to have a "little pet" roming our neighborhood. Not really though I hope they catch him soon so the poor thing won't get hurt or starve to death.

Just horsing around

So Tucker and Kendall got a bouncing horse for Christmas this year. They both love to ride it. Tucker doesn't get a chance very often because Kendall is always on it. The other day they both were on it and Justin decided to take a picture. They have a lot of fun together.