Pictures

Kylee and Autumn had a church activity where they got pictures taken in our favorite picture taking park. Anna had a friend come and take these pictures. Anna took some too but I haven't seen all of hers yet but theones I have seen were really good too.

Kelsea is getting her senior pictures done on September 11th. We will see if that changes. We are going to get hers done downtown and we will see what else happens with those.

I am back to work tomorrow. Not excited at all. I am having memory issues remembering kids names I have usually known well. And the busy is starting to happen already. I still can't get Kylee and Autumn home long enough to get them ready for school. Oh well. So Maybe I will keep up with my blog, maybe not. I will try.

Summer's end

All good things come to an end. Our leisurely summer is rapidly wrapping up. I am glad that we had no activities or obligations to meet. That is surely picking up already and school hasn't officially started yet. The past two weeks have been getting kids "registered" they are already in classes. You just get to pay lots of fees. $76 total for the jr high girls and a whopping $107 for Kelsea and we still have to sign her up for an online class for $50 dollars. YUCK!!
So here are this years stats-Amber is a sophomore at BSU. She is in the Blue Thunder Marching Band. They have had band camp all week. She is excited. BSU was ranked #3 in Sports Illustrated for top football teams so it is a really cool year for Amber to get to be a part of that. Maybe we will actually go watch a BSU football game in person!
Kelsea is a senior. We are trying to get senior pictures lined out and her schedule is killer. We can't even get seminary in her schedule even with her zero hour class and online Econ. She wants to go to BSU. She might be doing color guard but at the moment she is sitting on the fence. She is captain this year and that will look really good going into college but like I said her class load is huge and even more so for her. Tough mom moment in what to do. I still don't know the best advice. She is working at the mall to make it even more of a challenge and determined to keep the job.
Kylee is in 8th grade. That means volleyball started this week. She was disappointed she made jv but then both her sisters did too in 8th grade. It has made this last week that was suppose to full of last hurrahs fall totally flat. You can't do much when practice is running from 1-3 everyday. She will be in band and hopes to do jazz band this year.
Autumn is in what will be the glorious 7th grade. She is excited and not at all nervous. Kylee is worried Autumn will embarrass her. Those two actually get along the best out of the girls so it's weird to see the beginning of strife. But we went through the same thing with Amber and Kelsea but Amber had good reason to be worried. Autumn will be able to play tennis in late September and she is going to be in band also playing flute. Autumn's schedule is just like Kylee's was last year with the same teachers. Autumn has been babysitting with Kylee this week and that has furthered my dliemma of a last week of fun. Getting their school stuff for them has been difficult as well. Geez, this kids with jobs and lives of their own!! :)
Hannah will be in the third grade this year. There has been a reall sassiness I noticed here lately that I usually don't see until a few years later on. I am not really sure what this year will bring with her. She is not offered anything extra-curricular at school yet which is helpful. This is the first time I will only have one kid in elementary school since Amber's first two years at school. That was a long time ago.
Lee Joe started his new job. The first week had us a little nervous. He went up to Montana and back and then they didn't have work for him the rest of Weds and Thurs when at first he was suppose to go back from the orgional plan. They gave him work on Friday and then the beginning of this week everything that was suppose to line up and keep everyone busy all hit at the same time so he is going to be working hard through Saturday this week with the Montana trips and then the job he was hired for starts Monday and we will see what kind of busy that brings. He will only have one day off a week. The job he has had with Simplot has had him gone just as much.
I didn't get as motivated as I hoped. I notice that I accomplish more when I am secure in how "life" is going. This summer has been better than the last but still challenging. When things look up I get motivated and either super clean things or finish unfinished things. I have almost finished the bathroom completely. All that is left is to put something in the border I put on the wall but it will be fine if I don't do it either so I pretty proud of that. It has taken years to finish it to where I had to completely repaint the upper half of the walls. But it's trimmed out and the trim is painted and above to shower has new beadboard that is also painted. I replaced the shower curtain so it's updated. I just need to get to the kitchen that might be working on 3 years unfinished and I have decided to paint the walls in there yellow now instead of the blue they have been.
It's late, I am rambling. I finally know where my husband is at midnight. Still about an hour away from coming home from work. He is such a hard worker and I love him for that. Thank goodness he has a job.

I wish I had something more to say, I think it's too late for me to find my sense of humor. I will find it again. I am sure once I start back at work and have some crazy drama I will find it again to share. Oh, my next blog will be the story of the mystery plant.

Crazy sleeper

This is a random post but it needs to be noted that.....Hannah is crazy and terrible sleeper. When she is sleeping with her mother who happens to be a very light and sensitive sleeper it makes for a really super bad night's sleep.
Hannah slept with me two nights ago. Lee Joe has been gone most of the week with work while Kylee Autumn and Kelsea are gone on a church trip. She moves all night long. She pulls the covers, almost scratches up my legs with her long toenails, and she sits up and looks at you like she's drunk and gives the goofiest smile you have ever seen in your life before she laid back down to sleep some more. Rough night. She seemed rested though.
Night two-last night. I tell Hannah she can't sleep in the bed with me. But she can bring in her princess air mattress thingy she has. That is the most noisey air mattress EVER!!! Every time she moved it squeaked and scrunched. THEN she was talking a lot in her sleep. There were only 3 of us at home last night. That meant Spot slept with me too. She was piece of cake compared to Hannah.
Thank goodness everyone is home tonight. I would rather fuss at Lee Joe to roll over because he is snoring than put up with another 2 nights like that.
I feel bad because I do just love that little girl so much. I have never really minded sleeping with my kids but this is kid is restless.

Lee Joe starts his new job- for real-- On Tuesday. YAY!!

This Summer so far....

Last summer was a really rough one. I can truthfully say we went nowhere. We stayed close to home. We lived off my paycheck which was sad and the kids went to the pool only a handful of times if that. The recession hit this house hard and it took a long time to get better. I can tell you I was seriously ready for this one. Even just going to the pool is good news. This summer is quite an adjustment with kids growing up. Everyone is coming a going at all hours of the day. We have one more member in our household-Justice Emilee. A lot going on always. While we work around Amber's summer school schedule and her college friends, Kelsea and Justice bonding and sometimes not and both girls are working at the mall, Kylee has a consistent babysitting job, Autumn is just getting started in babysitting, and Lee Joe's wacky schedule with his job-yes we are happy with the paycheck even if it comes with cow poop covered clothes and we never know what his schedule is until the day before-I am not farmer material by the way... This is what we have done-
*Went to Nevada for a several reunions at once
*Cut 10 inches off Autumn's hair and hi-lighted it. Now she looks like Melissa!

*Let Kylee hi-light her hair for the first time.

*visited 3 pools in Boise
*Gone to Roaring Springs with the 3 youngest.
*3 oldest went to Roaring Springs later
*tie dyed shirts
*Went to Cascade Lake on a day trip
*Went to Shaffers Butte for a shorter day trip
*Been to some cheap movies on Tuesdays
*Hannah and Autumn did the reading thing at the library and got a bunch of free stuff
*Amber, Justice, Kelsea and I all won gift certificates to sunglass hut. That is MY favorite hi-light of summer.
*Sewed and prepped 3 girls to go to Wyoming for their Faith Quest Trek. 3 days in pioneer clothes pulling handcarts and walking for miles. Remembering those who risked and lost their lives.
*Went on the paddle boats at Julia Davis park. I have wanted to do that for years and now it's out of my system.
*Took the 2 youngest to the zoo.
*Picture taking just for fun.
*Almost finished the bathroom. Not quite there yet.
*Learning or teaching self sufficientcy (made up word or just misspelled?) Mother fixed van-last blog and took apart and fixed the dishwasher.
*Teaching the girls how to love unconditionally. They do it easily. I am very proud of them all.

Especially when we tie-dyed. There was no fighting.

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This is what I still want to do but now time is getting short-
#catch up on photo albums that are more than 8 years behind now.
#Finish unfinished house projects. I am almost there!! I just need to finish it already.
#Use the free vouchers for Discovery center, ice skating, free meals out
#Spend some time at the mall because I like that place even if I don't buy anything.
#Clean the garage.
#have a yard sale.
#Go to Lagoon. Or just visit Utah again. But I don't know if this is happening this summer.
#Get all the kids pictures taken at JCPenney's
#Get haircuts. This one is the most ridiculous for me. It's not that hard to schedule a hair appointment is it? That's why my hair is always so long.

There is probably more. We have been waiting all summer for Lee Joe's new job to start. It's a better job with no cow poop involved, just moving hazardous material. More like contaminated dirt and they get to wear something over their clothes when they are near it. It was suppose to start June 1, then the end of June, then the beginning of July, then middle July, Now it's next week. But last notice he gave we found out on Friday that Monday was a no go. Contract work and hazardous material moving-lot of hang-ups. But Simplot still has kept him going they like him so if this doesn't work out they know he's good. Hoping for good news to pull through.