Novalee is in first grade!

Last week Novalee became an official first grader! I have been so busy though trying to figure out Harley's preschool that I have had little time to myself. I will post her picture from the first day of school lately since Jason took the camera to work. I am having a hard time with her in school since 1st grade is so different then kindergarten. She is there all day. Well, she has only been there until about 1 because of testing but this week she stays until 3:15! I actually have parked a few times and watched her play at recess because she plays with the whole school not just her class now. My baby is growing up!

Jason - I love you!!!

Well today is my hunny's birthday!! I won't say how old he is but he is getting ancient (haha) I love him and I hope he knows that! I hope he had a great day today!!!

YIKES!

Yeah I am normal according to my last post I know. Anyways I have just been feeling kind of down lately. There is this wonderful lady in my ward who was diagnosed with stage 4 ovarian cancer. She has a 4 year old girl and was over here for Harley's birthday party. She has sat in the back row with us for the last 3 years at church. This just makes me so sad. She had surgery on Wednesday and they found it has spread to her lungs and her colon. The doctor said they got it all out with the surgery and hopefully the chemo will take care of the rest. How hard would that be just thinking that your life is suddenly so close to being over. It has all happened within 2 weeks. For some reason all this has brought back memories of a really hard time for me after my accident. When I get stressed out I get in this zone that I can't think so that has been what I have been doing alot (suprisingly I don't do it 24/7). I call it my survival mode. Like you all wanted to know my weirdness in case you didn't. Have fun!

I know I know I am just weird!

Ok I know I have only been in school for one semester, but I am so glad to have just turned in my last final and now I will be school free for one week!!! Its not long but now I can breath. I have just been feeling overwhelmed the last few weeks. Like it all has gone by in a daze. You know that feeling when you wake up from an afternoon nap and you just are kind of out of it? I have felt that way lately and I am just tired and drained. Just thought you ought to know. Well, I plan on going to bed now!! Before 10 that is a record for me.

Just another day in a weird family

Well, swimming lessons are done. In a way I am so happy because it is so much work to get everyone there and home especially considering my 6 year old is acting like a 16 year old lately. I am also somewhat sad because the kids love it and I am sure a lot of you might know the great feeling of watching your child have fun and smile.
Also after tomorrow, I am school free!! For about a week and a half though. Still, I am looking forward to the nice break. My friend and I are planning on doing something with our kids everyday so they can get out of the house.
I am still waiting to hear about Harley's preschool. I keep telling her they might have too many kids that want to be in the preschool and we should let the kids whose mommy can't stay home with them and the kids who don't go do all the fun things she does go first and then she can go next. If I can't get her in then I will have to pay $60 dollars a month. Thats not too fun especially considering in September Novalee is going to start dance classes.
I wish my life was more fun but maybe tomorrow.

SHOCKING NEWS!!

Yeah well suprise, surprise I think I have another terrible mom confession. Tonight I was sitting on the floor rocking Gunnar to sleep when a spider crawled out from under Jason's huge toolchest and ran at us. I freaked out, yelled at it to leave Gunnar alone and dropped Gunnar and started screaming. Then I killed the spider but still, Sad huh! I feel so terrible. Good thing it wasn't anything terrible. I have to question myself on what would happen if I was in a situation where I had to protect my kids. I always thought I would but I apparently I didn't. I am so dissappointed in myself that I can't protect my son from a spider. It crawled right past him and he started to cry because I screamed. I so hope he isn't traumatized by this.

Not about Josh Groban

Ok I had to do this survey that Steve had.

Series One: YOU

• Birth time: I think around 3:30 pm
  
• Last place you traveled: Real travel was to Disneyland in Oct
• Eye Color: Blue
• Nail Color: worn off pink
• Height: 5'9
• Zodiac Sign: Taurus
• SERIES TWO - DESCRIBE
• Your heritage: I have a mom and dad
• The shoes you wore today: Pink and gray Raiders sandals
• Your hair: Medium brown shoulder length
• Your weakness: My kids
• Your fears: Dying we all have to do it though!
• Your perfect pizza: Pepperoni, pineapple and jalepenos
• One thing you'd like to achieve: Getting sealed in the temple to my lovely family
• SERIES THREE - WHAT IS..
• Your most overused phrase on messenger:I don't use messenger
• Your thoughts first waking up: Lets get Jason off to work and then go back to sleep.
• Your current worry: Hoping Harley gets into the preschool across the street
• Your plans tomorrow: Swimming lessons then feeding the ducks
• Your best physical feature: Ask my other husband J.G
• Your greatest accomplishment!My kids
• SERIES FOUR - YOU PREFER
• Sunrise or sunset: Sunset
• Gore or horror: horror
• Eastsiiiide or wessssside: Please
• Stripes or polka dots! Both at the same time
• Money or fame: Money
• Planes or trains: Planes
• Metal or hardcore: Yuck neither
• Boxers or briefs: I wear boxers with my swimming suit
• Your life is: Going good
• Pools or hot tubs: Pools
• SERIES FiVE - DO YOU
• Cuss: Never!
• Do you think you've been in love: Yes
• Want to get married: I am married!
• Like to take baths: Depends
• Get motion sickness: Yes
• Like talking on the phone: Yes
• Like thunderstorms: Absolutely
• Play an instrument: I used to play the piano
• Workout: I try
• Like reading: Yes, I love to read.
• SERIES SIX - FAVORITES
• Kind of fruit: Peaches
• Music to fall asleep to: No music
• Time of the day: Depends what I am doing that day
• Feature in the opposite sex: Eyes
• Car: One that works
• Number:3
• Thing to do right before bed: Make sure the house is clean
• Thing to say when you're mad: Flip
• Era: 1600's Bring back the witch trials!
• Horror movie: Van Helsing
• Colors: Purple and Pink
• SERIES SEVEN - FUTURE
• Age you hope to be married: 12?
• Numbers & Names of Children: 17
• How do you want to die: In my sleep Where you want to go to college:I am going to UVSC right nowWhat do you want to be when you grow up: A mommy
• What country would you most like to visit:Disneyland!

Attack of the Rarrs!!

Thanksgiving Point - Dinosaur Museum

While Daddy bought tickets the kids found an awesome miniature circus to look at.

First we went to the 3-D movie and were almost attacked by dinosaurs. Gunnar liked it. The girls were scared! Gunnar was going to protect us and growled at the dinosaurs.


We got to dress up as sea turtles. Novalee was having a hard time because first we had to travel through space. Total darkness!!

Next we found a cave that luckily did not have any dinosaurs in it. Our mom said she saw some monsters but we didn't!

We got to play in the sand. Novalee didn't like to get dirty but, Harley and Gunnar loved it!

Novalee and Harley got to ride on a dinosaur statue. Gunnar was following behind growling!

We saw a nice spot to take another picture! (We took tons luckily we are not going to put them all online. It would take hours) A shark almost got us twice!!! I think the flash scared it away. Don't parents learn??

We saw a Wooly Mammoth. It was being attacked! It was also attacked the people!! Luckily we were ok!

Yucky I hate hot summers!

I am so ready for fall. Its too darn hot. We are doing swimming lessons and luckily Luzmarina came and took pictures for me since I am swimming with Gunnar. I am trying to talk Jason into coming to watch or swim with Gunnar. The girls love swimming lessons. They keep yelling at me across the pool to watch them. They are learning so much and having so much fun too. All Gunnar wants to do is play with his shark, so we paid $30 to have Gunnar play with a shark for 2 weeks.

Today we went to the Bean Museum and Gunnar was in heaven!! He got to see all sorts of animals (preserved) and he got to pet a live snake and lizard. He was crying because he wanted to take the snake home!! Novalee started to cry when the snake was down and started to yell "She put the snake on the floor! My feet are on the floor!" The snake was far away from her but she was somehow offended at the fact. Harley got to take a picture with the wolves since she has a things for wolves since we "saw them" at the zoo. I put that in quotes since she said her favorite thing at the zoo last year was the wolves but she never saw them. It was too hot so they were somewhere else. I don't know why but she talks about it still all the time.

We are hoping to go to the dinosaur museum at Thanksgiving Point next week. We have to see how our schedule is. I want to take Gunnar really bad because he is our dinosaur boy!

Other then that; Jason is getting ready to finish construction. It was a really hot summer and he is so glad he doesn't do that all the time. Dixon is waiting for him to start again. He got his blue truck licensed so he has also been working on that. We are both enjoying our Temple Prep class and can't wait for things to get going faster. We are very anxious and are planning some fun things for our family this coming fall.

I have been taking the kids to swimming lessons everyday at 9 and this last week I finally got the closets all clean. My life sounds so fun doesn't it?? My back doesn't hurt anymore from the sunburn it just has been itching like crazy. I am almost done with my classes for the summer so I have a bit of work to do to get ready for the finals. I was telling Novalee ghost stories when she took the picture. Cute isn't it? I don't like pictures of me.

Novalee is so excited for school to start. She has her teacher assigned. She has had her backpack ready since May. She is going to be in 1st grade and get to eat lunch in school. Novalee has become my little helper. Last night she helped me clean the house and do laundry before we went to bed. She also has chores now! She earns an allowance and keeps reminding me that since she is 6 she can do what she wants.

Harley hopefully will be at the preschool at Farrer (Novalee's elementary school) its a district preschool and there are only so many spots per elementary school. I hope everyone around here wants Headstart and that will leave spots for Farrer. If not I plan on putting her into the playgroup that teaches basic things. She earned a new bike by letting her hair grow out long. She was so excited and picked out a princess bike we took it out the next day and Novalee ended up having problems on her bike so now we have to wait for Daddy to fix Novalee's bike so we can ride again.

Gunnar is Gunnar. He thinks he can do whatever he wants. He keeps telling me no! His big thing is juice. We constantly have to have something cold to drink for him or he throws himself on the floor having a fit. He is still growling at everyone and everything. I also have a hard time telling him no but he, like my other kids, is just too cute! He also is very controlling! Tonight our grandma down the street (a lady in our ward) came by and he ran and hugged her and wouldn't let Novalee hug her. He kept pushing her away.