A Morning in My Life

8:00am - Up and at 'em this morning. I did get to sleep in a bit due to the cloudy, cold weather. Now, I'm showered, dressed, and getting the kids breakfast.

8:30am - Decide maybe I should eat something since breakfast is the most important part of the day.

8:40am - Sitting down to a nice breakfast of English muffins and eggs.

8:42am - Lillian joins me and blows on my hot eggs for me.

8:43am - Lillian seems to think that blowing on my breakfast has entitled her to help me eat my breakfast.

8:44am - Samuel has joined us and insists that he has toast as well. I get up to make them breakfast and remember at the last minute to grab my plate and juice, just as Samuel and Lillian are slowly making movements to snatch my food.

8:50am - have made toast for kids.

8:55am - get on Facebook to talk to my brother, kids decide to join me with sticky fingers and all. Samuel insists that I wash his thumb (yep, just his thumb).

9:05am - kids playing happily with toys in living room. I intentionally ignore the cereal, toys, and who-knows-what else that is undoubtedly spread throughout the house by now.

9:20am - Samuel wants to play outside. I tell him it's cold and he needs to get dressed first. He doesn't seem to understand why he can't wear his pajamas outside.

9:30am - I try to get both kids dressed. Samuel ends up wearing his winter coat and sandals.

9:32am - Lillian is walking around with a shirt on her head calling it a hat.

9:35am - Note to self: I really need to get fall/winter clothes for the kids. And Samuel has outgrown his pants.

9:36am - So has Lillian apparently (outgrown her pants).

9:40am - kids are dressed - YES! Samuel discovers it is raining.

9:41am - try to convince kids they really do not want to play outside in the rain.

9:42am - I hear a mysterious ticking noise coming from the computer.
9:42.15am - I lift speakers up to my ear and figure the noise is coming from them, that's when I discover the plastic burning smell.
9:42.20am - Desperately trying to figure out which cords to unplug all while murmuring "I told Carlin there was something wrong with the speakers."
9:42.45am - Finally have the speakers unplugged. Kids have decided to go outside without me.
9:44am - Lillian is wearing her cute pink polka-dotted raincoat Grandma H. bought her. Too bad I can't find my camera (I have a sinking feeling it may have been lost at the zoo...)

9:46am - Start on this post.

9:55am - Screaming and crying comes from the backyard. Open the door to find my kids wet and muddy.

9:57am - the kids have shoved their way into the kitchen and are now tracking mud throughout the house. I hysterically yell at them to remove their shoes.

10:00am - there is now mud from the kitchen to the bathroom. Apparently the mud had seeped through their shoes and onto their feet, removing the shoes was inconsequential.

10:10am - floors are clean. Kids are clean and dry (but not dressed, you can't have it ALL, you know).

10:12am - this is me signing out for the morning. Hope everyone has a good weekend.

Fall is in the AIR...

And I'm giddy. Finally a break from our triple-digit heat. (We are talking about 61 days of 100 or more this summer).

I have the sudden urge to cook dinner, decorate my house, and maybe even (gasp) get crafty.

I've had every intention of updating everyone with details of the wedding of my BIL (mentioned in previous post) which consumed most of our lives in August. I also wanted to mention other things like football (Go Pokes!), cute things the kids do (like Lillian singing "Twinkle, twinkle little star), and other random happenings.

But what I want to do most is sit outside and bask in this beautiful, perfect weather we are currently experiencing. Now all we need is rain (and now that I look outside that wish might be coming true sooner than I think...).

Instead, here are the family pics we took back in March (yep, finally found the CD, yay). Lillian pretty much looks the same, just taller and starting to thin out a bit.





That should y'all over for a bit.

Introducing...

The newest member of the Walser clan...



Isn't she lovely? The best part of it - she's like my long lost sister and we get along great. Oh and they moved barely ten minutes away. Yay for having family as your best friends!

Favorite

Not only is this my perhaps my favorite commercial of all time, but there are days I feel like yelling this at my kids (or something similar to it).



"Hey you dang woodchucks, quite chuckin' my wood!"

Every Intention

I have many intentions when I start my day. Mondays are usually chore days. Laundry, dishes, cleaning, bills... you get the point.

With my laundry going and my dishes in the dishwasher, I thought I would take some time to update my blog with our family pictures.

Mind you, they are the family pictures we took back in March, but better late than never. The only problem? I can't find the CD with all of our pictures.

It seems like that's my life lately. I have every intention to do XYZ and then things go awry. You will also be amused to find out that I (umm, or my Dad) finally hung up picture frames on the wall with the pictures of models the frames originally came with. Since I can't find my CD of family pictures, it looks like the strangers will be on my wall for a bit a longer.

I've decided to tell everyone that's Carlin and I in our younger, skinnier days.

Why My Kids Might Not Make It Till Their Next Birthdays...

Remeber how I made a goal this year to be more positive? Well, I'm trying. I'm trying really hard. And in some ways I can see the humor in the situation... sort of.

My day started out great. We bought a new car over the weekend and I got to sleep-in this morning because Carlin could take himself to work and still leave me with a car. Woohoo.


Then I found cantaloupe growing in my yard this morning while weeding and I thought yay!




I started putting together a food storage plan, took the kids to the splash pad, and got both of them down for naps at the same time. (First time this week!)

I could probably find more humor in it if I haven't been trying to get the house clean for the past week. It just seems I can never get the toys picked up, the stickiness off the floors, the food off the walls, and myself showered all at the same time. I spend all day trying to get the house to a low-level roar (I've abandoned all hope of having a spic-and-span clean house, I'm just hoping for a non-embarassing clean house) only to have the forces of nature (aka my kids) work against me.

I'll stop complaining and let the pictures do the talking. Remember this was done AFTER I had sorted, picked-up, and cleaned most of the house.


The cake incident was done during a short absence on my part in which Samuel got a hold of a cake I had bought for Relief Society (thank goodness that meeting was last night and this was the leftovers, although I feel inclined to mention that while leaving the store yesterday Samuel took the opportunity to throw the cake out of the cart and onto the floor. I still served it) - okay back to the story, Samuel put the cake on the table and when I walked back into the dining room both kids were up to their elbows in cake.

My Children

As my children throw toys across the house I've decided to ignore them and post embarrassing pictures instead.

First, we had a dance party the other day and of course had to dress in princess dresses:



Lillian gets very excited over Nutella...


I dropped Lillian off at my friend Laura's place, when I picked her up she had pigtails and toenail polish. If only I could hire Laura to come do my daughter's hair everyday.


I guess not all of these pictures were terribly embarrassing, but in my effort to ignore my kids they stopped throwing toys and started throwing blankets and pillows and have now resorted to chasing each other around the couch. I suppose that means my ignoring worked as they are now entertaining each other.