I am such a lazy bum!!!!

What have I been doing???  Being lazy at keeping up on remembering life?  Or just busy keeping up with life?  Well, both!  So, this is a little bit....

 My best friend's daughter left on her mission and I made her this to encourage awesomeness!

 Also encouraging friendship.  Haley and her sweet friend from school, they are so cute together.

 Sewing for other people.

 Helping William graduate from Cub Scouts.

 Sewing for me.

 Loving the snow!!!!

 Using up more of that fabric for a friend.

My beautiful Haley was baptized!

Life stays busy but so good.

First week of September

Monday: There was no school. So, it was almost so boring because of kid's homework...yet turned out terrific because we decided to go to Red Butte Gardens and it was FREE!!  Oh yes, I was happy. There were legos to look at, lots of pretty plants and it was nice to get out of the house.

Tuesday: School....Helped out at Heartland with the fundraiser also helped translate the school newsletter for Spanish. Soccer practice for William.

Wednesday: School. Soccer practice for Caleb.  Went to the AP European History meeting for kids who are interested in going to New York in March.  Sounds fun and expensive.

Thursday: Made lots of freezer meals.  Soccer practice for Peter.  Then I started to freak out after practice when Peter told me that sometimes his vision blacks out.  Only for a few seconds, like he is blinking, no fainting or anything, but it does black out!  WHAT!

Friday: Made lots more freezer meals.  Took Peter to the eye doctor after school.  Doctor pronounced that Peter has healthy eyes.  Not sure why his vision blacks out.  Could be dehydration, migraine, low blood sugar...but it is not his eyes.  That was terrific news!  It was seriously such an answer to fervent praying on my part all day long!  Now, on Tuesday, we go to the regular doctor to see if he has anything to say.

 Saturday: Rob headed to the cabin to get some painting done.  So, I was solo-mom at soccer.  Watching 3 games at the same time meant I hardly watched anyone but walked from field to field trying to watch.  After soccer we headed down to the Payson Temple.  While Caleb and Peter did baptisms...

William walked around with me and we took Haley's baptism pictures.  William is a little stud and so sweet to just chill while Haley and I walked around, and around, and around, getting the photos she wanted.  I think they will turn out great.

Aug 26-Sept 2

Always going. So, I will try to remember the important stuff.
Monday: School
Tuesday: School, soccer practice
Wednesday: Rolled my ankle before school!  You do not need to see the picture.  Suffice it to say, I immediately being icing it and being gentle, Friends of Scouting was that night and I had to be able to walk!  By 6pm my ankle seemed fine,  a small bump but I was able to run around just fine.  Yeah! Also on Wednesday, Peter is moving on up in scouts, whether he enjoys it all or not, he is getting there.  Caleb also received 2 more merit badges and his Silver Palm!

Thursday: Finished a terrific table runner after many hours of sewing. Phew! 2 soccer practices
Friday: School, Caleb came home so excited from work.  He was "promoted" from a sub at Heartland to a more permanent position!  He was very excited.  Plus - mowing lawns and some homework
Saturday: Soccer Saturday.  3 games for the boys- a win, a tie and a loss. Got our last snowie of the year and it was tasty! Then watched more soccer that night by Real.

Sunday: Taught Haley's primary class.  Family Home Evening for Haley's baptism countdown - 6 weeks to go and we talked about repentance.  She loved the activity of trying to clean the egg off (dirty egg representing our sins or mistakes making our spirit unclean, when we repent we are washing those sins away but we cannot do it all without Jesus Christ, then the clean egg represents us clean and prefect - ready for Heaven).

Back to School week

I think most of us were ready to the return.  But we were not ready for those early mornings, nor was Caleb ready for homework on the first day! 

Monday: So long ago, I cannot even remember.  It was busy I guess. Oh wait, I remember.  We took Peter to the doctor for a followup on the ole' golf ball to the head incident.  The doctor pronounced that Peter was, "Really lucky and unlucky all at the same time."  But looked good considering what happened.

Tuesday: Caleb's first full day.  First day taking the bus, homework right off the bat and work as usual. Peter had his 7th grade orientation which he came home saying it was really confusing and a lot of people.  While the two older kids were at school; Haley, William and I took a trip to the zoo.  I think that was our truck's last full day of cooperating, because wait for it....

Wednesday:

 Caleb woke up, "Dark and Early" for early morning seminary.  He really liked the class and will hopefully survive all these early mornings.

Haley, William and Peter all had first days at school, for the whole time.  No one came home complaining about school.  Peter just said his eye really hurt.  Miracle time!  I went to pick up Caleb from school.  Our truck had been giving us some grief the past few days.  The battery was telling us it was not charging.  Well, as I was nearing the pick-up spot for Caleb our truck just about gave up the ghost.  Sputtering, loosing speed.. all that.  Caleb hopped in the truck and we immediately began praying that our truck would make it home.  As we got closer and closer the truck's control panel went wonky.  Lights were coming on that should not, everything went down to zero!  Like we were driving, the engine was working, but it said we had 0 gas, were going 0 miles an hour, had 0 RPM!  Nothing, but the truck was still going.  We continued to pray, pulled into the driveway and said a prayer of thanks for helping us get home!  That was a miracle.

Well, if that was not enough action for one day; we had Friends of Scouting that night - where a lightening storm almost kept us at home but then things calmed down and we knocked on doors.  Then scouts and more scouts.  Long day.

Thursday: School, bus for Caleb and Rob tried to fix the truck up and fixed the washing machine, again.

Friday: Same ole, same ole.

Saturday: First day of soccer and William scored a goal!

Sunday: Church and 7 weeks till Haley is baptized.  We talked about Faith tonight.  Had a really good lesson, kept most people's attention for the whole time. Came across the cool idea to talk about Lehi's dream with legos.  And I came up with my own faith is like a seed image with Christ in the background being our ultimate goal after our faith and works.  Good times and now Rob is in Arizona for work and we are ready to start a new week.

Try this again....

So, we dropped off the face of the Earth for a while.  Summer got busy and fun and who has time to sit down and type all this out? :)  So, I will try to document life again here, for the sake of remembering good times and our little family.
Week of August 12-19:

 So, of course this picture is not from this week, but it does document what has been consuming many of our thoughts and prayers this week.  The Coal Hollow Fire!  Our poor canyon.  Fortunately, those amazing firefighters are tough and brave and the fire is now close to 44% contained!  Thank you!

 It was Wacky Week for our family, so we tried to do some fun things.  This was at the Museum of Natural Curiosity.  We were supposed to make some sort of paper tube structure to hold up all these books.  Peter and I successfully did it.

 While C, P and R were in the Mt. Timpanogos Temple, H, W and I went to explore a little park.  We found a black bunny and got very excited.

 Rob's phone takes much better pictures than mine. :)

 Since we could not be at the lake (so sad!) we stopped off at this little pond.  The kids enjoyed that very much!

Haley's 8 week countdown to baptism started yesterday!  I  made this shirt for her and we played baptism bingo, I think they all enjoyed it.

Not pictured but needs to be remembered.  We had our Wacky Wonky Dinner, super fun and lots of work.  My favorite mystery food names were: tiny globes of wonder (grapes), farm on a playground (chicken, bacon slider sandwiches) and sweet mud (chocolate milk). The kids found a birds nest in our tree and have enjoyed climbing up there to see the birds.  The Easter in August Wacky Week day was super fun with the egg hunt.  Finally, the miracle of the week but also the most scary.  We were at Rob's work party and walking along the perimeter of a golf course.  Out of no where, Peter got hit on the right side of his head (temple area) with a golf ball!  He was flattened to the ground immediately, crying in pain and an enormous goose egg had formed.  Prayers began and we got ice on his head.  By the time we got home the goose egg had gone down but we were still really worried that some internal damage could have been done.  Constant prayers, icing it and meds for him...he seems to be ok.  He has just suffered a black eye and a constant headache, but nothing worse.  So blessed and never want to experience that again.  Thankfully he has a hard head.

Mother's Day

Mother's Day was great!  These kids were sweethearts to me and each other all day!

 I received a fitness tracker, a really cool key chain (made in scouts) lots of sweet notes and cards and multiple hugs throughout the day.  My favorite was when all the kids were heading out to church (at different times, mind you) and each time before they shut the door they called out, "Happy Mother's Day, MOM!"  Such awesome kids!!

Nothing better than the simple kindness and sincerity of my kids to make me feel happy.

Where have we been??

Well, busy, that is where we have been...but to be more specific

 We have visited the temple a few times.

 Went to see the new red pandas, so fun!

 The brown bear listened to Caleb's coaxing and swam in the water!

 Haley had her puppy sleepover

 We have gone on walks, mainly to get Caleb and Peter ready for the temple walk.

 We took care of some friend's dogs for a day or so.

Peter was recognized as Student of the Month and Heartland!!

Caleb took the Spanish AP test!!! Man alive, the wait is going to kill us to find out the results!