Crazy Like That...

Saturday, March 27, 2010

Happy Mom

Today was a PHENOMENAL day! Not only was it beautiful, but it was very productive. I woke up and went for a morning run, went to supervise Young Women futsol, went to Diva's soccer game (she had 3 goals!) and then managed to clean out my car, install Baby Z's bigger car seat, clean out my fridge, kids were good and having fun in the sun, my lawn got mowed (kind of a perk of owning a lawn business) and then off to some friends for a dinner date. And now I am off to get groceries-my Saturday night ritual. AAAAHHHHHHH, there is nothing better than days that just.feel.good. I am a happy mom.

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Crazy driver

For Christmas Lolo got a Barbie Jeep-the kind I wanted as a kid, but never got. My sister, on the other hand, asks for one on Christmas Eve and BAM Santa brings it to her! Life is unfair sometimes. ANYWAY, Lolo is still not a great driver. I have taken her to the church parking lot to practice, but it's still not quite her forte. So here are some cell phone videos of her "driving" her jeep.

Forcing my sister to run...

Background: My younger sister was born with 12 toes; this is not an exaggeration. She literally had 4 big toes. So at about 6 months of age she had surgery to remove the extra toesies and my parents were told that she would need more surgery in the future.

Jump ahead 17 years to January of 2009-Lyndi is a senior in high school and has surgery on both her feet. She has to wear those not-quite protective "shoes" for months and then she is told she needs yet-another surgery. I think she got to wear normal shoes for a few weeks in the summer-I could be wrong, but it was not for a very long time.

ANYWAY, last August (I think) she had her surgery on 1 foot and wore a stinkin' booty til January or February ( I can't remember dates because I haven't lived in the same house with her since 1999). So when the weather started to get nice I started forcing her to come to my house and run with me. The first day we jogged for 5 minutes and walked the rest of the time. The next time I made her go 10 minutes, and then 10 minutes again the next time after that. Today, she was able to go 15 minutes. I asked her if she was ready to knock me out for "making" her do this andthis was her reply: while holding up her thumb and index finger about an inch apart she said, "Just a little bit!" NICE!
Moral of this story, it's fun to have a sister to do things with AND it's freakin' awesome to get out in this great weather to RUN! Plus, I have two races coming up in May and in June (including an 8 mile stint down from a ski resort!...if Carla still wants to trade) that are not going to be easy.

So if you see Lyndi, encourage her to keep going.

Monday, March 22, 2010

People that bring me joy!

I finally figured out how to load a video clip (thanks Heidi) so here are two clips of three of my greatest joys (and sometimes stressors) in life. Both were recorded with a cell phone, so the quality is not that great. Enjoy!

Sunday, March 21, 2010

THANKS HEIDI

I wanna give a shout out to my sister-in-law Heidi for helping me become not so blog-dumb! I think I have a much cuter look now...so THANKS!

Saturday, March 20, 2010

Help!

How in the world do people have DARLING blog backgrounds? I found some, but how the HECK do I make it work for me? I am welcome to anybody coming over and fixing this problem for me!!!! If you know me, then you know how to get a hold of me. HHHEEEEELLLP!! I just want a CUTE blog...sniff sniff.

Birthday!

Sporty's birthday was on March 14th. Now, this is one of those milestone birthdays, because he turned 8 years old. My baby boy is 8! He now has made the choice to be baptized (we are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints...aka Mormons) on March 28. His dad will be baptizing him and confirming him a member. As a young mother, I didn't really think this day would come so soon....but it did! We are so proud of Sporty and of the choices he has made in is VERY young life. I am so grateful for the Priesthood my husband holds and that he will be able to be the one to baptize Sporty. I thought it would be fitting to put a few pictures of Sporty showing how he has grown over the years. I am not really sure why the pictures scanned with lines....Enjoy!