Mother Daughter Relationships

That is what our lesson was on in Relief Society on today.  We started out by making lists of things we learned from our mothers.  Here are some of the things I had on my list that my mother taught me:
organization skills
how to cook
how to clean
how to sew
how to serve others
It was interesting to hear what other people learned from their mothers from funny things like how to make good brown gravy, to others learning from their mother's mistakes.  It was a very good lesson.  I don't have any daughters, but I feel like I have good relationships with my boys and hope I'm raising them to be good husbands.  I know they are good sons.  I love you mom and I love you my sons!

Isn't this a good picture of my parents?

Lisa's Baby Shower

We had Lisa's baby shower for McKynlee today.  First, I got up and did a few of my morning chores and then made lemon bars and got ready.  I then left the boys to do their regular Saturday chores and headed up with Diane and Haylee.   My job was the invitations, which I did a few weeks ago.  See above.  I thought they turned out cute! 

I was also supposed to bring some sort of treat for the dessert table.  They were already having crackers and dip, fruit and dip, vegetables and dip, peanut butter bars, chicken salad cream puffs, and little mini cupcakes.  So, I was trying to figure out what to make and Sean said, "Why don't you make those lemon bars you make that are really good."  The recipe I have for lemon bars I got when I was in high school in my Home Ec class I think.  I didn't even remember that I had ever made them for him.  So, I had everything for them and thought they would be good.  They were a hit.  Actually everything was really really yummy. I ate way too much at the baby shower.  I have lots of people that asked for the lemon bar recipe so I will have to type it up and get it posted.  Did anyone happen to take a picture of them?  I should probably put it in my recipe book since they were such a hit.  I took pictures of the cute little mini cupcakes, but didn't get one of the lemon bars.  Oh well!

The shower went great and she got lots of fun stuff.  Mostly pink stuff although Aunt Janet somehow missed that the invitation was pink and brought boy stuff.  We got a good laugh at that one.

When I got home after being gone from noon to 7pm, I ran to the store and got a few things and then grabbed some pizza's because I wasn't in the mood to make dinner.  The boys were excited since they had missed their regular pizza night since they went to Fathers and Sons. 

I went into my room to change and get ready for a speed scrap and witnessed a miracle!  Or at least something very thoughtful and nice.  On my bed were two batches of laundry washed, dried, folded and put on hangers.  Tyrel had done it while I was gone and I didn't even ask him to.  What a great kid!  Thanks Tyrel!

Fathers and Sons

So, I'm sitting home alone tonight while the boys are gone with Sean to Fathers and Sons.  I don't mind, but it would be nice to have someone to chat with.  I just finished a layout for my last Saturday's post and put it on my blog.  I really like how it turned out.  You can see it here if you would like.

I forgot yesterday to say thanks for my wonderful friend Janice who let me steal her internet access a couple of times so I could function without my modem.  You are awesome Janice!

The boys and I cleaned the scrapbook room yesterday.  Since I digital scrapbook now, that room seems to kind of just get junk thrown in it and left, so it was kinda cluttery but I think we finished it including baseboards and everything in like a 1/2 hour.  That was the last Thursday cleaning before the boys go back to school. We did everything except Trevin's downstairs bathroom so everything is pretty darn clean around here.  Thanks boys for helping do this project all summer.

Yesterday afternoon I went down with Travis and Tyrel for the high school open house.  I can't believe I have two in high school this year.  I really cannot be that old.  They are both excited to get back to school and as I thought, wished I wasn't with them so they could have stayed and socialized longer.  I'll have to remember to let them go on their own next year.  I guess I just don't want them to grow up that fast.

Today I worked on my part of a hunting kit and I like how it is looking.  I also made a new template set.  Those of you that don't digital scrapbook have no idea what I'm talking about do you?

Well, I'm going to get back to scrapbooking while the boys are away.  If anyone is bored and close by and wants to come hang out with me and digiscrap, come on over. 

A No Good, Very Bad Day

It started out good, we had scouts.  We took them swimming at the Moody's pool and passed off lots of stuff and had tons of fun.  I brought my 3 boys to help us herd and lifeguard all the boys and it worked out very well.

We came home and I found out that all of my underclothing was in the washer.  So I had to eat lunch and sit around for an hour in my wet swimsuit until it dried.

So the really bad part comes in because I am doing this designer contest.  I had requested all my teammates get me their stuff by noon today so that we had plenty of time to get the preview done, separate, zip, upload, post and link everything.  I wanted to get it done tonight so I didn't have to stress about it in the morning.  I had one teammate that didn't get me her stuff.  I was emailing her, messaging her in the forum, and no response.

So, while waiting, I started on dinner.  The boys wanted lasagne so I got it all assembled.  Just as I was about to stick it in the oven, our power went off.  Great! 

Sean came home shortly thereafter to find us all playing cards in the kitchen because that is the room with the most light.  He asked if we should order pizza and I said we should wait for a little bit to see if it came back on.  It was after 5 and I knew I needed to get dinner cooking or we wouldn't have time to eat before the evening activities.  I sent Travis down to tell Sean to order pizza and the power came back on.

Still nothing from my teammate.  So, we cooked dinner, ate dinner, sent Trevin to Scouts and all the sudden my Photoshop program quit working and so did my printer.  Not a good thing since I needed Photoshop to do the previews.  Not that I had all the stuff to do the preview yet so I headed off to my ward book club.  It was fun but not relaxing because I was stressed the power would go off again and that I wouldn't be able to get Photoshop working.

When I got home, it was working again and the power was still on, but still nothing from my teammate.  She finally sent everything over around 9:00.  So, once the previews were done, I had to zip and upload everthing to the server.  Post the previews in two forums and one gallery and link everything up for people to download.  Not as easy as it sounds.  I didn't finish until 1:23 a.m.  I hate procrastinators, that is why I wanted to have everything by noon so I would have plenty of time.  I guess I'm cranky because I didn't get very much sleep.

In the meantime, for the immunity challenge, one of the other teams figured out how to be able to vote multiple times and gained about 60 points in 5 minutes before someone figured it out and shut it down.  That put my  team down and we had been ahead all day.  Luckily, they also figured out how to take all those extra votes away and we ended up winning immunity!  Yay, I get another week of stress.  Really, I am excited to get to move on again.

So, I wake up this morning and come in to check the votes to see if we got immuity and I have no modem.  Good thing I uploaded everything last night because my team would have hated me.  We did win immunity but we would have been disqualified because I didn't get the stuff uploaded.  So glad I decided to stay up. 

So, I had a morning of no internet.  Sean got a new modem and installed it just a bit ago so we are back in business and hopefully today will finish off being a better day

Miracles do happen

So, I was working in my office this morning and the boys come in around 8:30 and ask if we can get going on the room we are cleaning today.  What??  We have been doing this like clockwork every Tuesday and Thursday all summer long and I usually have to drag them kicking and screaming to get the cleaning done.  Plus, if I forget, which I've only done once, they for sure aren't going to mention it.  So, needless to say, I was shocked that they were asking to get started.

They decided to do the "rest of the kitchen".  We had already done all the upper cabinets and blinds one day and all the lower cabinets and closets another day.  So, today we did the baseboards, the TV cabinet, all the crevices in the chairs and the refrigerator.  It was a good day to do it and good that we did it early so the garbage man could take all the rotten food and it didn't have to sit in the garbage cans all week.  My refrigerator and freeezer look like they could be in a television commercial.  All nice and clean and shiny and orderly.  It looks beautiful.  I caught myself going in to the kitchen a few times today and just opening the door and looking at how nice it looks.

After lunch we ran some errands and finished up Travis' school shopping and thenwe all went out for 60 cent cones at Artic Circle.

Combined FHE

We had our combined Family Home Evening last night.  Melisa was in charge but we had it at our house on our deck.  She gave an awesome lesson on prayer and then all the kids got to paint prayer rocks.  Even my big kids got into painting their rocks.  It was fun!  Thanks Melisa!

New Home Teachers and a funny

We got new home teachers today and they came!!  So exciting.  I think it is important for us to have dilligent home teachers, because it sets a good example for the boys.  I need to be more dilligent as a visiting teacher too.  Our new home teachers are Jeff and Porter Barnes.  We had a good visit, talked about the message on temples and they brought us yummy cookies which I'm sure are compliments of Sister Barnes!

We talked about Proverbs in Sunday school today and this was the closing scripture we read.

‎"It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house." Proverbs 20:9

Too Funny!!!