Shout out to my mom

Well I am a day late (as I didn't want to get near my computer on the weekend). If you know me I am a medical transcriptionist so I make my living on my computer so my mother's day present to myself was not working on my computer. So I wanted to shout out to my mom a day late!!! If you know my mom a present to her is not putting a picture of her on here because she would not appreciate that...she hates seeing pictures of herself. I absolutely positively love my mom in every way possible. She is my best friend and has always been so. I can remember from the earliest memory I have telling my mom every detail of my life I have. If something happens in my life after telling my husband, of course, my mom if the first person I go to. It's almost like it doesn't happen if I don't tell her. I'm very blessed to be able to spend so much time with my mom and dad. They definitely are my "friends." On a Friday or Saturday night when we have nothing to do we always go hang out with them and they never get sick of us. It is not unusual to call my mom 5 times a day. She is such a good grandma too. My kids adore her. Thanks for being such a wonderful mom.

I also want to tell my mother-in-law that she a great mother and grandma as well. We appreciate all she does for us.

And to my wonderful children....thanks for letting me be the kind of mom I always wanted to be. I have such sweet children who are definitely my sweethearts. Garrett is so strong and independent and kind spirited. Connor is my sweetheart who has such a soft spot in my heart. He definitely marches to the beat of his own drum. Kylie is definitely my princess who is silly and playful. I hope I can be the kind of mother that my mom was.

The Last Song

Well I just finished The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks...I was a little hesitant to read this as I know the typical Nicholas Sparks books are pretty sad and I have heard from people that have seen the movie that it was sad so I didn't know if I wanted to read it or not but I was actually pretty suprised. I put myself on the waiting list at the library to get this book and they emailed me that it was in so I ran to pick it up. I read it in just a few days and I really liked this one. I went in knowing it was a Nicholas Sparks book (as having read most of his books) and it was a really good book. Having seen the previews for the movie I could clearly picture Miley Cyrus as the lead character and Greg Kinnear as her dad. Yes the book was a tear jerker but it ends on a happy note and the lead character (played by Miley Cyrus in the movie) really grows in the book and she ends up happy at the end which usually doesn't happen in his books. So without giving away what happens and spoiling the book, I just want to say that I really liked it and would recommend it. I want to see the movie now and see how it compares with the book. Now it is on to the next book. My sister-in-law gave me Pride and Prejudice but she is also getting me the Hunger Games which I have been dying to read and heard is really good so I will have to decide what is next....

Not the itsy-bitsy spider

So Kylie thought she saw a bug and sad to say she is becoming her mother when it comes to bugs....she hates them. She didn't want that bug to be in her house so instead of coming to me or her dad like she usually would, she went to her big brother Connor. She ordered her brother (because she is the boss around here) to get his shoes on and squash the bug and then ran and got his shoes for him. Well superhero Connor was brave and got his shoes and then proceeded to squash the bug for her. Well in Connor's defense he only did this because in reality there was no bug. It was just a product of a dirty floor that hadn't been swept. If it had been a real live bug I wonder if Connor would have been brave enough to capture the itsy bitsy spider for her. Kylie has superhero spider eyesight like her mother and can spot a spider from anywhere. It was the cutest thing to watch Connor try to be so brave for her and try to catch the invisible nonexistant bug. I told Connor he must really love her because if it had been my brother he would have picked up the piece of dirt and ran around pretending it was a bug and tried to scare me to death with it. They do have a love/hate relationship. They can be so cute and fight with the best of them.

Garrett's new school picture

Here is Garrett's new school picture. I can't believe he is going to be eight in two months. How did I get so old? We found out yesterday that his baptism is going to be on Saturday June 12th. He is such a good kid. He loves to play sports, mostly soccer, basketball and baseball. He really loves video games and I tell him all the time if they had a sport in video games he would get enough practice in it. He recently has found a new love of laser tag and borrowed some laser tag guns from his uncle Khayden and plays with his dad and loves that. He begs me all the time to go to Toad's so he can play laser tag. He is such a good older brother and although he fights enough with Connor, they are best friends and play great together and have the same interests (mainly Mario, Sonic, Pokemon, Avatar and sports). They really look out for each other. When he gets home from school every day Kylie runs to him and gives him a hug. It is so cute. He is such a great son, brother and friend.

Easter Fun

Well since Easter Sunday falls on General Conference we dressed the kids in their easter clothes (well really just Kylie is the only one who got new easter clothes) this last Sunday so I had to get a picture of it and put it on here. It is so fun on Easter to finally have a girl. Both Grandma's have got her some cute dresses the last couple of weeks and she has actually worn new dresses the last couple of Sundays but this one happened to be her "Easter" dress.



Kylie with her boys



On Monday Connor had an Easter party at the park with his preschool and me and Kylie went. They played at the playground and did an easter egg hunt so we snapped a few pictures of that.




Connor finally brave enough to go on this.



The first of a bajillion easter egg hunts



They let the siblings do the easter egg hunt too and Kylie loved that.

I'm such a loser (but I love it)

So a few posts back I wrote about my family doing a biggest loser competition. Well we are going month to month so each month we start over. The first month nothing happened. I just sat there week after week with nothing happening and this month....well..tada tada....this month I lost 9 pounds....that is a HUGE HUGE HUGE accomplishment for me and I officially am the biggest loser for this month. That means not only do I get to feel wonderful for losing 9 pounds this month...I also won like $100 dollars. I have to partly congratulate the new medication I'm on for my fibromyalgia because one of the side effects is weight loss (ya ya) and the fact that I haven't had any carbonation in two months (another side effect is that it makes carbonation taste disgusting)....so anyway I'm just glad that even though I've had a few moments of bad self esteem (like going to the temple and having my temple dress not fit and having to have the temple workers rent me a new dress and trying not to cry in the changing room and having my 5 year old son randomly tell me I'm fat while we are eating dinner---thank's Connor that's a motivation right there)....I'm still happy that I am a big loser and I hope that I continue to be a big loser for many more months to come because I know that I have many more pounds to go!!!

Books...books and more books

Okay so some of you know that recently I've become a reader. I've always wanted to become a reader and I've listened to all you readers talk about books you been reading but I've always said that I never had time to read...well recently I've found my time to read. I found that special hour right before bedtime that is my time to read. It has been something that I've really enjoyed to do and something that I can do that is for myself and I look forward to that hour (sometimes less) every night (and sometimes not everynight) that I get to escape in a book. So I've decided to list on my blog on the right hand side the current book that I am working on and then when I'm done with that book give a little rating of whether I liked it or not and whether I would recommend it. A few of the books that I have already read are: Twilight Saga (of course), Harry Potter series (of course), Percy Jackson Books 1-3 (currently on book 4), The Undaunted and a few little love story books my mom gave me but honestly couldn't tell you the name of the author now. My sister-in-law Alyssa has a whole list of books she is going to give me so I'm going to get reading. It works out great for Chelton because he can watch his sports or Modern Marvels show and I don't complain because I can read and not be bothered by it a bit.