this ones for you Natalie and Val

We just got pictures of Karson and Easton in the mail today. And quite some time ago we recieved some of Brianna. Thanks to both of you. I really love seeing them grow and how dang cute they are. And of course my girls are ecstatic when they get them. Above is the collection they have of them. It is kind of funny that I recieved the pics of Karson and Easton because I was just about to post a blog titled (one of these things is not like the other) with the picture of Kortni's room. So a big thanks to you Nat. And Val I am so sorry I haven't thanked you yet, I still have your card on my kitchen table to remind me to send you a thank you and I keep forgetting. So I guess this is your card. Sorry!!! But the real reason i am blogging is because Kambree just brought her pictures up to her room to put away and said, "how old was Brianna when we first got pictures of her?" and then she continued saying how cute she was. Then she says, "you know, when she gets older she is not going to have any problems finding a boyfriend because she is so cute." She said it was because she got her moms pretty face. Now I have to agree she is quite a doll. And Nat your boys are so stinkin cute I can't wait to see you guys. Love you....So here is you pic

Growing up

Why do our kids have to grow up sooooo fast. Jon is always saying "look, our little Kortni is growing up!" So today we went to a school play because Kortni was helping with the props and when we got there she was handing out programs and taking tickets also. As soon as Kam saw her she says "oh, our little Kortni is growing up!" She is such a mini Jon it is not even funny... Also we had a message on our answering machine yesterday from the library where she has been volunteering and they have a program that will pay her for working in the summer and they wanted her to apply. The lady that called said she kind of gets a say in who is hired and she really wanted Kortni and her friend to do it. I guess she really is growing up....

Happy Day

Both of my girls had excellent grades for third quarter. They both had one B and the rest were A's. I am so thankful that they are so smart because I have been out of school WAY too long and they are learning things I cannot help them with anymore. What a dummy.....

Look at this lovely little gem I found when I was going through Kams homework. Look at the second sentence about how she is so abused. It is kind of hard to read but it says " I was scrounging for food because my mom would refuse to go to the store.




When we were there for Christmas we were driving down the street and saw a man snowblowing the sidewalk. Kam looked up and said "that's funny he is mowing the snow." Obviously she has never seen a snowblower.

some more Kambree funnies

The other day I was writing a few things down that i needed to pick up at the store. Before I left I asked if i was missing anything and Kam says, "let me see" when she hands it back this is what i see. The cough drops were for Kort and the light bulbs were for me so I guess she felt a little left out????

A few years ago Kam made a rule in our house that who ever did not kneel for family prayer would have to say the prayer for that night. For some reason she hated to kneel so most nights she would end up saying it. So as usual we get ready to pray and she is not kneeling so I tell her she needs to say the prayer to which she replies "I'm kneeling in my heart." Kids pick up on everything, Jon is always saying he has a prayer in his heart or he has a song in his heart(because he refuses to sing in sacrament meeting.) So needless to say since Jon taught her he got to say the prayer.

IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII'm back!!!!!!!!!!!

Yesterday when Kambree got home from school she informed me she was sooooo tired but she still had a chapter and a half to still read in her book. She had to take a test on it today so she wanted to know if I would read it to her since I can read faster. So as we are laying in bed last night reading, she informs me she cannot keep her eyes open any longer and wants to know if I could go ahead and read it and then give her a summary on it in the morning. So apparently she does not know what cheating is!!!! So i explain to her that this would be cheating and she would have to listen to the entire thing. It always amazes me the things we just expect kids to know. I forget that we have to teach them everything!! So Chrissy i looked at your blog and I was not removed. Thanks for the love!!!

kortni got her first job

kortni just got a job volunteering at the library...she starts on saturday and will work from 12 to 3 every saturday...so there is no money involved but a great opportunity

i have the best girls ever

i'm back and posting...hehehe...well i went to parent teacher conferences and was very pleased...kortni had all a's and 1 b....but her teacher said she missed having an a by like 1 or 2 percent...and it was because she is so quiet(it was in drama)...every one of her teachers told me she was such a great student and a great example to the other students...some of them even said they would like to clone her so they could have the perfect class...so that is my first born and how wonderful is that???kam's teacher said the same thing about cloning her...she also had straight a's, got an award for being student of the quarter, and also got an award for having a 4.0....her teacher also said that she is the only student that gets to sit by her friend because she is so good...all of the other friends had to be split up...kam also gets to do extra things for her teacher because she loves her sooo much....since her school is so stupid, they decided that the 4th grade teachers don't need any help in the classrooms....her teacher was not very happy about that she said she loved having the help last year...but she did invite me to go on field trips with them when they go(she was only inviting the parents that she liked)....maybe i am a little weird but it was kind of sad to think that i was done volunteering since she is my baby...here is an example of the stupidity....for halloween only the kindergarten through 3rd grade was allowed to dress up...the 4th through 8th grade could not...the high school could...well i take her to school and all of the teachers were dressed up...how fair is that????the adults can dress up but my 9 year old cannot???they are sooooooooooooooooooo retarded!!!!!!!!!!

oh kam

on saturday jon was paying kam her allowance and i heard her say "thanks, it's a pleasure doing business with you" she is soooo funny...

kambree again

so last night kam said another funny...when Jon is home he is supposed to tuck her in at night...so last night he walked away and did not do it so she starts calling him "Jon......Jon.....Jon" so when he comes in he tries to be funny and just throws her blanket on her and she yells "you're fired!!!!" and of course jon is like "ok thanks" and then she points up above her bed and says "always kiss me goodnight, remember" this is the decorations above her bed

oh crap

well i'm sitting here trying to remember all of the things i wanted to blog about and after i publish i remember more...this is probably the last one for tonight though..when kam says the dinner prayer she always says "please bless the hands that blessed it" i try to tell her that it is bless the hands that prepared it but when she gets something on her mind there is no convincing her otherwise

i forgot about this

ok...along with the other post i just made this made me laugh also....kam was having a sleepover with her friend and after they went to bed and i went to turn off the lights this is what i found....a miniature animal hospital made out of a box of tissues and some tape...she is so creative and resourceful.....hahahaha

now look close at these next pics...they were super funny....they had little turbins on their heads and not only do they get blankets but they also get pillowsthen last.....she is such a crazy sleeper i feel bad for her friends that have to sleep in the same bed with her

i guess i am not alone anymore

kam is very funny about her things and to her what she plays with at the time is real...like when she plays with dolls they are not dolls they are real babies and likewise for her stuffed animals...so the other day when i get downstairs this is what i see

the purple hippo is "sweetheart" and she informed me that she did not like to be left alone upstairs all day and could i please watch her....she should be good for me because she gave her her favorite toy teddy bear, some keys to play with and her bottle....the bottom pic is her clothes that i needed to dress her in for the day...i love her imagination!!!!!!!she is so great and i always have stories to share....thanks kam(of course if she read this i would be in trouble because this is real to her not a funny story to share)oh well

our dumb schools

so kambree came home from school with her hand all wrapped up and told me she fell down and could not do gymnastics....well since i am so sympathetic i was like..............whatever you big wussy....because i am sure you are thinking the same thing i am that when you fall down and scuff up your hand it really is not that big of a deal....well she goes to the nurse who puts a band aid on it and of course it falls off because how often do bandaids stay on the palm of your sweaty hand....so then she wraps it all up...well kam said she fell down at 7:45 am and she did not get home till 3 pm so when she unwrapped it it was pretty gross...and since our school has such bright people that work there they didn't even clean it out and on top of that they put gauze under the wrapping with nothing else....so needless to say when she got home hours later and unwrapped it the gauze was all inter twined to the skin and we had to pull it all out which of coarse there were many tears and screaming...also the skin that had come up when she fell was stuck back down to her hand and filled with dirt....i LOVE that school!!!!!!!!j/k i really hate them they are always doing dumb things like this......so this really is kind of gross so if you don't want to look DON'T SCROLL DOWN....these looked way grosser in real life.....i guess this is what we get for having no grass......sucky......the bottom pic has neosporon on her hand so it looks bigger but it is the same thing......sorry if this is too graphic but like i said this has become my journal and i am putting down everything....i figure people do not have to read these if they do not want to...and i will put a warning on like above so you are not shocked......i also just remembered another cute thing kam said...she called her privates her pirates

boring

well....you may want to skip this but i have been thinking alot about this blogging thing and i really like it....the thing is......it seems like every sunday there is a mention about keeping a journal....well....i suck at it!!!so this blogging is now becoming my journal.....now every sunday i come home and think to myself....that is a grand idea but i just don't ever seem to have the time....i even think to myself that even if i could do it just once a week i would be doing good but i just can't seem to do it....i started to read about every one and i loved it....then the few posts i made and recieved comments on i loved also....it got to the point that i was getting on at least 3 times per week to check out what everyone was doing and to see if i had recieved any comments.....funny little side note....when i get comments it is like christmas i get so excited....but anyways i decided to blog about all of the random things i keep thinking that i should be journaling about....part of it was also that Kortni's seminary teacher wanted to know some funny things she did when she was little and Jon and I could not come up with anything....sad isn't it???????????but in our defense she was a really laid back kid that did her own thing....so we think and think and think and only came up with 2 that were probably not seminary appropriate so i could not share..............sooooo i will share on the blog..........when she had just learned how to talk we were up the mountains and she was standing in the front seat of the truck with her uncle Eric....and out of no where yells "where the HELL do you think you are going?" the other one was we went somewhere with one of jons very very very churchy friends (i was pregnant at the time) and she told this friend that she had a baby in her tummy too....well he says, "how did that happen" and she says "my daddy put it there" now she was only 4 so she had no idea how bad that sounded but his friend told him that he better hope she was not sharing that story with anyone else cause he may end up in trouble since we live in a sick and twisted world........then on to Kam...........we have story after story about that girl......right after we moved here she did a dance at the school and jon did not get there in time and he missed it.....well as soon as she walks in the door she walks over to the bottom of the stairs and yells up to jon "hey weeeeeeener!!!!! you MISSED my dance" so the rest of the night when jon talked to her she would say "ok weener" or "sure weener" everything she said she added weener to the end.....and then to top it all off jon didn't even notice......i asked him about it and he had no idea what i was talking about...............well that is all i can think of for now so sorry about the length...but i figure if it is toooo long you don't have to read it you can skip over it

poor kortni

so i was going through pics again and came across this one that made me giggle a little bit...check out poor little tiny kortni...i know she is short but it is when i come across pics like these that i remember how teeny tiny she really is

pool party

kortni's sunday school teacher had a pool party at his house and sent out this paper. the rules made me laugh. so i thought i would share. also when i dropped her off they had these 2 HUGE wolf spiders...this guy is hilarious...he is great with the kids..enlarge the spider to see just how big he is..that is as close as i could get with the camera

mom is incorrect

My mom left out part of that story. So after that, I asked what the secretary does, and she said that they did paperwork. Then I said that she was going to fail at that job more than she did at being the second counselor. Then she said, no I'm not, because your going to do it for me. That was my favorite part of the story.
~*Kortni*~

talent show

kambree did gymnastics for the ward talent show so here is a little video of it...she was kind of a little wiener and wouldn't do anything too hard without her coach but i did convince her to add a back walkover in with a bribe of 5 bucks...i really wanted her to do her back handspring but she refused to do it...she informed me she would do it for 50 bucks...but anyways she did make up the routine all by herself..so here you go...it is short and sweet...i love to watch her do her gymnastics...and just as a side note i had a little kid trying grab my camera so the video is not the greatest

so i do not have much but i thought this was funny........i was just released from second counselor in the young womens and put into the secretary in the young womens..so during sacrament meeting kort leans over and says "is secretary under the counselor?" i said yes and she says "why did they release you, did you suck?" nothing like a child to be so uplifting...but i will say i asked to be moved to secretary because then i do not have to teach..the kids are so disrespectful it is not even funny...here is an example...i was teaching a couple of weeks ago and one of the girls got up in the middle of my lesson and starting to run her fingers up and down the piano...now i don't know about you guys but when i was that age i don't care how bored i was i would have never even imagined doing that...KIDS THESE DAYS...mine would die if they even tried!!!!!!!!!!!!also kort was kidding...or she would be dead j/k