Random cuteness!!!

First day of second grade 8-16-10

Little Abbie is in second grade. She is getting so big. This girl LOVES school and so does her mom, if it were up to her she would never have a day off. She is very smart and tries really hard. She made strait A's last year with very little help from her parents (cuz she didn't need it). I'm glad that she loves to excel and I hope she always wants to do her best. She really likes Ms. Begay, her new teacher, she really gets along with everybody. She is a sweet girl.

24th of July celebration

She was quite upset that she didn't get to ride on the float.

Random update

I see that I haven't updated my blog for a while, not that we haven't been doing a whole lot but I'm just not much of a blogger these days. We just got back from Silverton, CO yesterday after camping and watching the fireworks-it was fun, WAIT-it was camping. Camping is hard with four kids under the age of 7. But we took the pop-up and made the best of it. The kids had a blast of course cuz they love to 4-wheel and fish and all that. Sadly, I didn't take any pictures cuz I forgot my camera. We had a good time with the Warner fam though.

Went and saw Eclipse last week-loved it of course especially the part where he officially proposes to her, so cute. My sis-in-law Kym and I went and we ate at Blue Moon Diner first which I absolutely love. It was a fun kid-free night and Kym won't have many more of those nights. :)

Speaking of child rearing, there are a lot of people prego right now. Bella is at about the age my babies are when I think about having another one. I cringe at the thought. I think having the 4th kid has almost pushed me over the edge. So sadly, I am pretty sure we are done having kids. I love all of them but I think it's time to throw in the towel. Everyone else can go right ahead and I will love your babies and play with them and then I will hand them back to you with a smile.

In other news, my sweetie turned the big 3-0 on the 2nd. Happy Bday babe. I just love him. We have so many things in common it's scary. I might have to make a list of everything.

I would be fine with Wes turning 30 but it reminds me that in less than a month I will also be leaving my 20's. I am having a really hard time with this. 30 is old to me. I have lines under my eyes that weren't there before, I weigh a whole lot more than I used to......shall I go on??????? No, it's not a pretty picture. That reminds me, I have been doing the body combat and body pump classes at Defined Fitness-LOVE THEM!!! They are hard but so much fun.

Moving on, literally, we are trying really hard to close on our house soon-we've had a few barriers but things are looking up and hopefully we will be the proud owners of one of the houses in Harper Valley. It's an older house that needs lots of work but it has a huge backyard and we are so excited about it. So hopefully everything will go through.

Anyway that's what we are doing right now. Lots of randomness and no pictures, sorry.

8 years

May 28th was our 8 year anniversary, yes I am a blogger slacker. Time has really flown by. Wes is an amazing person and I just think he is so cute. Can't believe the time has gone by so fast and that we have a 7 year old already. I am truly blessed with the family that I have.

So for our anniversary we went to Red Lobster. I LOVE crab legs, but I'd never tried them until after Wes and I got married because I could never get used to the idea of breaking their legs. But I'm ok with that now-cuz they are good. Then we went and watched the new Robin Hood movie which was also pretty good. We had a very nice, kid free, date. Love u sweetie!!!!!!!

Fun in the orchard

Women's Conference

Audrie and I got to go to Women's Conference this year. It was too much fun. We left Wed. and came back Sat. We got to leave all kids at home and go shopping at the quilted bear, we got to eat at PF Changs and Olive Garden and oh yeah the classes were good too. It was so nice to get to sleep all night long without being woken up. We got to sit in the jacuzzi and relax. It was a nice break from reality.

The classes were really good, and Elder Oaks was the last speaker in the closing session. A common theme throughout the conference was that of service and the greatest service that a mother can provide is to her children. This takes priority over everything. I have been struggling to decide whether I should go to work or not, at the conference I just had a really positive feeling that my place is at home. I would be going to work to provide money for the extra things that we don't need. It is more important to me to stay with my kids and make sure that they get proper care and nutrition, and I would be devastated if I had to go to work and they were sick. I am so grateful for a hard working husband who provides for us so that I don't have to go to work, and who encourages me to stay home. Something else that was spoken a lot about was that the world puts motherhood on the back burner and other things have become priority. It has become "uncool" to stay at home and "just" be a mom. My reply to this is that motherhood is the hardest job I have ever had, harder than college or any job I have ever had. So world, yes I am "uncool." But I have the support of my Heavenly Father and I will never have the chance to raise my children again and I don't want to miss anything.