Sunday, November 23, 2008
Thanksgiving...
I LOVE Thanksgiving. I have decided it is my favorite holiday. Why? Turkey, cranberries, the smell of fresh, hot buttery rolls. Family, gratitude, glass is half full time. No one asks you to say all the things you wish you had. Time to snuggle up, eat pie, take a nap. Time to smell fall leaves, or watch snow fall, you never know, this is Utah. Not too much decorating, or cooking...(okay in 10 years I may have to eat those words, trust me I am grateful for whoever cooks each year, and this year it's me and the yams). No financial commitment. No extra debt. Apple pie with crumbs on top. Sweaters. The emphasis on getting together as a family, not too early or too late. Cheese balls. Olives and carrots. Cranberry orange sprite punch. Okay maybe I just love to eat all year and this is the only holiday that celebrates that. But really it is much more than that.
Monday, November 17, 2008
Yeah well....
I am obviously a total slow poke. I have been busy of course...but really that's no excuse. Actually it's a wonderfully good thing that I put those pics on here of our Yellowstone trip because my computer hard drive crashed soon after that and we lost everything. So, those ones are all I have. Disappointing, but not as much as that I also lost nearly all my photos from my trip to Hawaii. I have learned to get a seperate hard drive and back up everything, especially photos. I would cry if I lost all my kids' baby pictures. So, it's time to invest in a new hard drive.
Well, to catch up, WAY up, we moved at the beginning of September. So here is a picture of our house, complete with the construction paper decorations we made for Halloween in our window.
And then we went to Yellowstone, then after that I went to Hawaii. I need to go back on facebook to get the remaining photos, then I can post them here.
Right after I got back from Hawaii, we got a cat. Eventually we named him George, after Curious George. Our kitty is full grown and very silly and curious. Fully grown only in size, mostly he is still a kitten. A frisky stupid kitten. We love him. It took him weeks to come out from my box spring when the kids were home and awake. Once in a while he will get brave and let the kids check him out. Here is Rowen showing the cat his toy car. Rowen calls the cat "Dawah". You ask Rowen to say "cat" or "kitty" and he says "DAWAH"...who knows why, but the cat is named George and Dawah.
Here are a few pics of the cat.
Other interesting things that have happened lately are that William almost knocked out a couple more teeth. But the dentist said they can stay in. Woo hoo, Will can still eat corn on the cob and apples. At least for now.
I have begun the process of applying for school teaching jobs again. Just waiting for the right opportunity to open up, in November that can be hard. But at least by next fall, I should be all set, weekends and holidays off, summers too. That will be SO nice to have a routine with my boys.
I would like to say I will keep you posted on all that stuff, but who knows, it might take me two more months. :)
Well, to catch up, WAY up, we moved at the beginning of September. So here is a picture of our house, complete with the construction paper decorations we made for Halloween in our window.
And then we went to Yellowstone, then after that I went to Hawaii. I need to go back on facebook to get the remaining photos, then I can post them here.
Right after I got back from Hawaii, we got a cat. Eventually we named him George, after Curious George. Our kitty is full grown and very silly and curious. Fully grown only in size, mostly he is still a kitten. A frisky stupid kitten. We love him. It took him weeks to come out from my box spring when the kids were home and awake. Once in a while he will get brave and let the kids check him out. Here is Rowen showing the cat his toy car. Rowen calls the cat "Dawah". You ask Rowen to say "cat" or "kitty" and he says "DAWAH"...who knows why, but the cat is named George and Dawah.
Here are a few pics of the cat.
Other interesting things that have happened lately are that William almost knocked out a couple more teeth. But the dentist said they can stay in. Woo hoo, Will can still eat corn on the cob and apples. At least for now.
I have begun the process of applying for school teaching jobs again. Just waiting for the right opportunity to open up, in November that can be hard. But at least by next fall, I should be all set, weekends and holidays off, summers too. That will be SO nice to have a routine with my boys.
I would like to say I will keep you posted on all that stuff, but who knows, it might take me two more months. :)
Thursday, October 2, 2008
Our little trip...
So...the boys and I went to the Tetons and Yellowstone a couple weekends ago. I had four days off from work and the boys aren't in full time daycare yet (starts on monday), so we took advantage. Here is our trip in photos and captions...
It rained on and off the whole time, but here is the rainbow we saw the first evening on our way back to our little cabin from the grocery store.
Boys watching movies and posing for mom in their matching glow in the dark dinosaur jammas.
The weather did make for some interesting low clouds.
William being silly by a lake in the Tetons while we were hiking, String Lake, I think. We didn't see any bears, thank goodness. We had treats in our backpack...hmmm....didn't know that was a no-no, and no bear spray. We got lucky.
Pretty lichen on the rocks just below Leigh Lake. Nice name for a lake, eh?
Just in time, we met a little family with two girls, who snapped this photo for us.
The boys enjoyed their snack, thankfully no bears to share with.
Pretty red plants and the Tetons in the background. There were too many clouds we never saw the summit of Grand Teton the whole time. Oh well. It was beautiful anyway.
The boys at Granite Hot Springs, just south of Jackson.
Eating lunch waiting for Old Faithful to erupt, we just missed it and had to wait about an hour and a half. It was VERY cold at this point and we were freezing.
Me and boys waiting some more.
William smiling, while waiting.
Rowen playing with the buckle on his backpack. I swear get this kid some buckles and he'll be happy forever.
Will and his new friend. Will is a really outgoing kid, he draws people to him wherever we go. Within minutes he had a few friends at the Teton visitors center who kept showing me things, saying "Has William seen this yet?" This kid is electric.
And at long last, she blows.
William and his "scary hands"...Dad...where did this come from?
Thankfully the boys took a nap at the same time as each other every day. In the car though, so no naps for mommy, just a few quiet scenic drives, which are pretty fun too.
The boys and I at the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone and the lower falls of the Yellowstone River, gorgeous and dangerously steep. We mostly drove around in Yellowstone as opposed to walking around. William is too fast and too clumsy and doesn't listen well enough, I should have brought one of those leashes for kids that you see people using and you always think they are so controlling, well, yeah, those, I need one of those.
The falls again.
Don't approach the elk. Don't slow down to look at the elk or by any means take a photo of the elk, or the ranger might get p.o.'d at you, even if there are no cars behind you.
On the drive from Mammoth Hot Springs area it snowed on us for a minute and I thought of what a crazy young mom I am out in the middle of nowhere in the about to get dark hour in a snowstorm. But then it stopped and I got to feeling adventurous and fun again. And saw this beautiful sight.
We stayed in West Yellowstone the last night in a little hotel room. It was CCCCOLD there too. We woke up to ice all over the car. Then we tried to go out to get pancakes for breakfast and William's fingers got slammed in the door. He screamed for about two hours. We visited a little medical clinic in West Yellowstone, where some really nice nurses and docs listened to both kids screaming for a while and never did look at the bloody fingers. But they were nice and didn't charge me at all. Then we went to see this grizzly bear and a few others and a few wolves at the Grizzly Discovery Center. It was cool. We got a little set of toys of all the animals that we had seen in Yellowstone and then headed home.
William inside a bear trap.
Rowen inside a tee pee at the Grizzly place. He is such a cute kid.
And that's all she wrote. Tune in next fall for my...guaranteed never fail crazy mom needs to go on a road trip before she admits that winter is coming or she might go insane trip. Oh hell, she'll go insane anyway. But might as well go on a road trip first with the kids.
It rained on and off the whole time, but here is the rainbow we saw the first evening on our way back to our little cabin from the grocery store.
Boys watching movies and posing for mom in their matching glow in the dark dinosaur jammas.
The weather did make for some interesting low clouds.
William being silly by a lake in the Tetons while we were hiking, String Lake, I think. We didn't see any bears, thank goodness. We had treats in our backpack...hmmm....didn't know that was a no-no, and no bear spray. We got lucky.
Pretty lichen on the rocks just below Leigh Lake. Nice name for a lake, eh?
Just in time, we met a little family with two girls, who snapped this photo for us.
The boys enjoyed their snack, thankfully no bears to share with.
Pretty red plants and the Tetons in the background. There were too many clouds we never saw the summit of Grand Teton the whole time. Oh well. It was beautiful anyway.
The boys at Granite Hot Springs, just south of Jackson.
Eating lunch waiting for Old Faithful to erupt, we just missed it and had to wait about an hour and a half. It was VERY cold at this point and we were freezing.
Me and boys waiting some more.
William smiling, while waiting.
Rowen playing with the buckle on his backpack. I swear get this kid some buckles and he'll be happy forever.
Will and his new friend. Will is a really outgoing kid, he draws people to him wherever we go. Within minutes he had a few friends at the Teton visitors center who kept showing me things, saying "Has William seen this yet?" This kid is electric.
And at long last, she blows.
William and his "scary hands"...Dad...where did this come from?
Thankfully the boys took a nap at the same time as each other every day. In the car though, so no naps for mommy, just a few quiet scenic drives, which are pretty fun too.
The boys and I at the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone and the lower falls of the Yellowstone River, gorgeous and dangerously steep. We mostly drove around in Yellowstone as opposed to walking around. William is too fast and too clumsy and doesn't listen well enough, I should have brought one of those leashes for kids that you see people using and you always think they are so controlling, well, yeah, those, I need one of those.
The falls again.
Don't approach the elk. Don't slow down to look at the elk or by any means take a photo of the elk, or the ranger might get p.o.'d at you, even if there are no cars behind you.
On the drive from Mammoth Hot Springs area it snowed on us for a minute and I thought of what a crazy young mom I am out in the middle of nowhere in the about to get dark hour in a snowstorm. But then it stopped and I got to feeling adventurous and fun again. And saw this beautiful sight.
We stayed in West Yellowstone the last night in a little hotel room. It was CCCCOLD there too. We woke up to ice all over the car. Then we tried to go out to get pancakes for breakfast and William's fingers got slammed in the door. He screamed for about two hours. We visited a little medical clinic in West Yellowstone, where some really nice nurses and docs listened to both kids screaming for a while and never did look at the bloody fingers. But they were nice and didn't charge me at all. Then we went to see this grizzly bear and a few others and a few wolves at the Grizzly Discovery Center. It was cool. We got a little set of toys of all the animals that we had seen in Yellowstone and then headed home.
William inside a bear trap.
Rowen inside a tee pee at the Grizzly place. He is such a cute kid.
And that's all she wrote. Tune in next fall for my...guaranteed never fail crazy mom needs to go on a road trip before she admits that winter is coming or she might go insane trip. Oh hell, she'll go insane anyway. But might as well go on a road trip first with the kids.
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
We moved!
This is catch up blogging time! So, we moved. The first weekend in September. We love the new house and living closer to Jason. We hate not having a washer and dryer. I will post pictures of the house when I can get the camera to load them up...soon.
Other fun and not so fun news...
I got a new computer, the same week we moved. My old one died. New little white iBook, well, not NEW, but craigslist.
I am going to Maui! Yippeeee! October 4.
My dad had triple bypass surgery. Yikes! I am so SO glad you are ok Dad. Love you.
William turned 4....woah, I have a 4 year old.
The boys and I went on vacation to the Tetons and Yellowstone, just got back last night.
Rowen got rid of the binky! But not for good, I gave it back on the above mentioned vacation because he was so whiny in the car and wouldn't sleep well in strange places.
I really need to figure out why my pictures won't load into the new computer and fix the problem. And then catch up on blogging.
Other fun and not so fun news...
I got a new computer, the same week we moved. My old one died. New little white iBook, well, not NEW, but craigslist.
I am going to Maui! Yippeeee! October 4.
My dad had triple bypass surgery. Yikes! I am so SO glad you are ok Dad. Love you.
William turned 4....woah, I have a 4 year old.
The boys and I went on vacation to the Tetons and Yellowstone, just got back last night.
Rowen got rid of the binky! But not for good, I gave it back on the above mentioned vacation because he was so whiny in the car and wouldn't sleep well in strange places.
I really need to figure out why my pictures won't load into the new computer and fix the problem. And then catch up on blogging.
There may be even more hope...
So...we finally got a few answers. Well, let me back up. Back in June, Jason was out of town, my niece Amber was staying with me and watching my kids for about 2 weeks. William was being REALLY bad for Amber and REALLY bad for me. I was spanking him a ton and losing it. Amber was losing it, Will was losing it. So, I lost it to my friend who happens to be a social worker, who told me about The Children's Center, or www.tccslc.org. So, I called and made an appointment. Fast forward to September (it takes 3 months to get the actual appointment). William has Sensory Processing Disorder. Which for me is like lightbulbs going off. From when he was born, they describe him when they describe babies with SPD. Even at one, two, basically his whole life. There are sub types of SPD and he probably has 2 of them. Anyway....look up more info here: http://www.spdfoundation.net/aboutspd.html
So, it is nice to have some hope and have someone agree with me that William isn't like other kids and there is a reason for it. I am not crazy or a bad mother. This is one of those, "There is a God" moments... and one of those moments when you know people are in the right place for the right reason at the right time, like my friend Kathleen.
So, it is nice to have some hope and have someone agree with me that William isn't like other kids and there is a reason for it. I am not crazy or a bad mother. This is one of those, "There is a God" moments... and one of those moments when you know people are in the right place for the right reason at the right time, like my friend Kathleen.
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Sunday, August 10, 2008
Albion Basin
My sorta tradition is to go up to Albion Basin on my birthday, and this year, we did. Me and the boys cruised around and took some pics. It is one of the most beautiful places in the world. I love it! Will helped me hunt for columbines, creatures and bugs. By the way it still looks like this up there right now, so you should go!
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