New Job

Jason and I have decided that it is time to find him a new job. It has been a rough couple of years with respect to that but we have learned so much in the meantime. I feel that everything happens for a reason and that it is up to us to either, let the tough times bring you down or to learn from them: I choose to learn.

Anyway, it is always exciting to move forward and change paths and we have been getting a little gitty thinking about the prospects. We are not making any announcements right now, but we are willing to go wherever the Lord wants us to be. At this point it has just been fun to spend a couple hours together each afternoon searching for jobs while kids are napping.

Aubrey is in KINDERGARTEN!!

Our sweet, little, Aubrey has been so excited to start school and be able to ride the bus with her big brother and sister. So far, she is loving her class and her teacher and she has already made some new friends. It makes me so sad to have her gone but she was so ready!!

Here is her first trip home from school riding the bus. She had so much fun and felt so big. This was her first day, though I had to take her to school in the morning and get pictures, she would have been fine to ride the bus by herself. She did not even seem a little nervous.

(Please excuse these un-edited photos.

Our picture editing program is not working so I

could not crop any of these.)

3 in school and still a full house?

I can explain. The week Sadie and Porter started school, I started babysitting 3 other, little buddies. Two of them I have Mon-Thurs. and one I have on Tues. & Thurs. They are all really good kids and it is helping me to remember what it is like to have a bunch of toddlers again since the ages of the additional children are, 4, 3 and 17 months, not including my own, almost 2 year-old and 5 year old. I may sound like I am a bit crazy, and I might be, but it is working out quite well, and surprisingly, still gives me time to spend, one-on-one with my own kids. All I can say is that Heavenly Father works in mysterious ways, because this has been a real blessing for our family, for which I am grateful.

Girl Talk

I just have to say that I love moments that are not planned when bonding happens. Tonight, I got Sadie out of bed to come and look at some things I had seen on the computer that she might like. Well, we ended up coming to this blog and reading a bunch of the entries and of course had to laugh and giggle about the memories that came back ofter reading. It also gave me a mother's "teaching moment". She had just asked me about keeping a journal and she said she wasn't very good at it so, after laughing and crying about all the memories we read about, we promised each other that we would both be better at writing and recording so that we can keep a record of our lives like the prophets did for us.

Okay, so part of the incentive was for her to show me, and herself that if she can keep a journal for year, then I will let her record on her own, "private" blog. She thought i would be fun to add her own pics and thoughts to it. She's so good at sticking to what she says that I think she'll do great at this challenge.:D

First day of school 2009-2010

WOW! I am going to have three kids in school this year. It makes me a little sad to say but we had all had enough summer and were ready to start the new year.

SADIE'S in 4th PORTER'S in 2nd

Aubrey starts kindergarten this week and Kailey will be home with mom.

They started at a new school this year so we all got ready early and headed over there on the first day to check out the school. It made it nice for pics because everyone was ready.

PIRATES...Aarrggggg!!

Okay, so how bad am I that I actually forgot my blog address because it has been so long.:}



Tonight my kids and I finished PIRATES the Musical. It has been a crazy and busy ride but it urned out amazingly well. I am very pleased, although there are always things that I would do differently, it turned out great. The kids were so fun to watch and I actually was able to get Porter, my..."I never want to draw any kind of crazy attention to myself kid"...to be in it. I still don't know if he really likes it or not but I am glad he tried. I guess I can't have em all. Sadie, on the other hand, was one of the main pirates and did such a good job. She is so cute on stage and just shines. This was her 4th production and she really has gotten better every time. I still think she should have made it into Sound of Music with me, but there must have been a reason. Here are some of our pirate pics. I think we should all be pirates for Christmas this year since we have the shirts! How fun would that be?:D

Too bad we didn't get a pic with Kailey in her pirate garb.

That would have been cute.

Cute!

I was checking out the pictures on my camera and came across this little video. I know that "Father's interviews" should be private, but I couldn't resist. She is getting so big!!