Shine like the top of the Chrysler Building!

I'm feeling like orphan Annie today. Why? Let me explain. The last two months have been crazy, frantic, knock your socks off busy. Now all of that is over. Woot! Woot! I'm finding myself with a little bit of time on my hands, and I'm faced with a decision of what to do with it. So as I was pondering this dilemma this morning I had a nice conversation with myself. It went something like this:

Me: "What should I do this week? I don't have any Scentsy parties until Saturday. I don't have to clean anyone else's houses this week. Chris is out of town. I don't have to do sharing time next Sunday. I should definitely do something productive with my time."

Me: "Well, it's time to get back in to running. You've given yourself two weeks off, you know."

Me: "I know. I will definitely run this week. But that's not going to take all of my time."

Me: "Soooo, what else ya gonna do?"

Me: "First the windows, then the floors. That way if I drip..."

So there you have it, folks. The exciting life of a mom/wife. I find myself in an exciting situation and I choose to clean. I will do some deep cleaning, some leaf raking, some running and some reading. Because, um yeah, I totally treated myself to a trip to the library. Easily pleased? I think so.

Family pictures, baby!

We had these pictures taken a couple of weeks ago by our friend Shara, and I think she did a great job! It was fun to capture some candid shots of the kids goofing off and showing their normal everyday turkey liver goof ball behavior. We were terrible subjects and if I had it to do over again I would definitely change some things like:

1. Making sure the kids don't have gum in their mouths

2. Making sure my boys don't wear the same color (I realized one of them had grabbed the wrong shirt when we were in the car on the way there!)

3. Making sure the kids don't have writing on their hands

4. Making sure the kids don't have stamps on their hands

5. Losing 10 pounds

6. Leaving my sweet little poochy woochy at home

Despite all of these mistakes we made, Shara managed to pull off some great pictures.

Amazing!

Thanks Shara!

Today's post is brought to you by the number 6, the number 13, the number 14 and the letter z.

6 days until my half marathon.
13 days until the last football game and the last soccer game
14 days until the Primary program is over

ZZZZ Is what I'm going to do after that.

Well, one can hope.

Summer Fling

Dear summer,
Where have you gone? You left in such a hurry. I thought we had something really special, butI guess I was wrong. You snuck out this morning before I woke up. I thought maybe you had gone out to get some donuts, but you still haven't returned. I should have known, what with your warm, beautiful sunsets and the way you made my garden grow. You were too good to be true. You were just a fling.
But we were so good together! The warmth, the brightness, the flip flops! Well, fine. I don't need you anyways. I've got jackets, you know. And blankets and hot cocoa. I even have a snuggy. That's right. A SNUGGY! Those are my true friends. They're always there for me.
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But if you ever decide to come back, I'll be here.

Touchdown Video

We've had some requests for this video, so here you go. Carson is #5 on the Cardinals (red) team.

Surprise!

I'm back already.

Don't get used to it.

I wouldn't want you to get spoiled.

I hate spoiled people.

Anyways..... Blogger is being stupid and not letting me position my pictures in the order I want so this is going to be all out of order.

I don't like things that are out of order. It makes me all...all...dumb feeling.

Anyways... (again) Carson had his football jamboree on Saturday. They played five mini games, and it was so fun! I think it was extra fun because Carson played running back about half the time and scored eight touchdowns! In this league they have a rule that kids over 90 pounds can't run with the ball so all the little squirts like Carson get to do it.

We did have to give him the talk tonight about humility. We reminded him that if it weren't for his teammates blocking all the other guys for him he wouldn't have been able to score at all or even gain any yards. In fact, he probably would have had a ride in his dad's ambulance if it weren't for his team. So hopefully that helps. We'll be watching closely. It probably doesn't help that his parents are so dang proud of him.

We gave ourselves the humility talk too.

Somehow this face isn't very intimidating, is it? You're looking at 68 pounds of....

my little bookie boo. (Someday he'll kill me for putting his nickname on here, but for now I think I'm safe. Please refer to the part where I tell you he's only 68 pounds.)

Also on Saturday we had Jantzen's first soccer game. She had a blast! It was kinda funny because I had to tell her she couldn't just go in the game whenever she wanted. The coach took her out for a couple of minutes and told her to rest. She took a drink and then said, "I'm ready to play some more." Then took off running onto the field! Too funny.
This is her celebration after her team scored.

Next up we have...(drumroll please) the first day of school!

**imagine me running in circles and screaming for joy**

I love school.

This is Jantzen and her friend Lilly in their kindergarten classroom. So cute! She loves school just as much as I do.

Keaton and Carson wouldn't let me take pictures of them in the classroom. Something about not being cool, blah blah blah.

So here's our token first-day-of-school-on-the-front-porch picture.

And I guess that's about it for now.

Ten-four good buddy.

Over and out.

Livin' it, not talkin' about it

That's right folks, I'm a terrible blogger and I've let you all down...again. But here's the deal. We're so busy living life that we (I) don't have time to talk about it. So this little journal of our life is...well...ummm...sucky.
Here's a quick rundown of the latest:
#1 School started. Yaaaaaaaaaaaahoooooooooooooooo!
#2 Did I mention school started?
#3 That's right....school started.
#4 Soccer started for Jantzen
#5 Football started for Carson
#6 Keaton is helping me keep everything together. He's becoming a great cook.
#7 I'm running....a lot. About 25 miles per week. Half marathon is in a month and a half.
#8 Primary is keeping me busy. Program coming up in a month and a half.
#9 Chris is now training for a half marathon coming up in a month and a half.
#10 Jantzen and I have birthdays coming up in a month and a half.
#11 I'm going to need some serious therapy in...a month and a half.
#12 Or maybe you should just shoot me in a month and a half.
#13 But there's hope because soccer ends in a month and a half.
#14 And football ends in a month and a half.
#15 Please don't expect very many posts for the next...............


MONTH AND A HALF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!