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Life 2012 | Friends

Beth is such a social butterfly. She loves playing with her friends. She is always asking for playdates and talking about her friends at school. I don’t arrange playdates very often because it always seems like such a hassle with how busy it gets, but I really should do it more often. Beth loves to be with her friends.

Beth finally got to have her friend, Natalia over for a little while. They had a picnic and played outside. I think they had a great time. The next week, Beth got to go to Natalia’s house and they had a tea party and made cupcakes.

Life 365 | Week 17

Monday, April 19, 2010
Late last night I discovered that Persnickety Prints was just up the street and I had an awesome email conversation with the owner. So I prepared several of my layouts to test drive their service and sent it over early this morning. Today’s photo was actually taken on Wednesday, when I picked the layouts up. They are so awesome! Its so exciting to see my work actually printed! I’ve made it a new goal to get a few more pages done each week. JJ and Beth have been getting after me to get more pages done because they love to look through the albums and see pictures of themselves!

Tuesday, April 20, 2010
I spent all morning and early afternoon in Riverton with JJ. We went to see a Rheumatologist about some weird bumps on JJ’s big toes. It turns out that everything is okay – they are actually callouses that JJ has developed by curling his toes when he is walking with his shoes on. We are going to have to see what to do about that – but everything is okay. When we finally got back to Orem, I dropped JJ off for the last couple hours of school and picked up Beth from Cody and Becki’s. Beth cried and sulked because she didn’t want to leave – she was having way too much fun with Uncle Cody and Aunt Becki. But I finally got her cheered up by letting her have a tea party on the kitchen table with some of her animal friends!

Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Beth was so excited because today was Daddy & Doughnuts Day. We curled Beth’s hair all pretty for her date with Dad. Joey spent the last half hour of school with Beth, visiting and eating doughnuts. Beth made her daddy a colored tie to wear too. They were so happy to spend some time together!

Thursday, April 22, 2010
Poor Bethie had to get shots today. We went in for her 5-year-old/getting ready for Kindergarten appointment. Beth was so sad and sore the rest of the day. She wouldn’t take a nap but she obviously wasn’t feeling well because she wouldn’t even move off of the couch and that is just not like my Bethie girl. For a few hours her legs stiffened up so bad that I had to carry her around, even to use the bathroom. But finally when her daddy came home – she was feeling pretty good.

Friday, April 23, 2010
Spring weather is so much fun! We even got out the popsicles today! The kids loved it and they were so cute sitting in the same chair and watching a movie together. Have I said how much I love it when they get along? We also made pumpkin chocolate chip cookies today!

Saturday, April 24, 2010
We had a Primary activity this morning at the church, so JJ, Beth and I went and learned about some of the prophets in the Bible, while Daddy went and helped Clark with his computer. After we returned home, we packed up a picnic and headed to Liberty Park in Salt Lake City for lunch and fun with the Mortensens! It was fun to relax and enjoy the spring weather – even though their were tons of people at the park today. We played some frisbee and football, played on the playground, and the kids enjoyed playing with Curtis and Anne’s kids and their new puppy. The kids played so hard that when we got home – we all took a long nap!

Sunday, April 25, 2010
I had procrastinated getting ready for my new calling – so I stayed up very late (like 4 in the morning) and finished up some fun things for the kids to hold while we had singing time. Thank goodness Joey helped me or I don’t think we would have gotten any sleep. But I think it was worth it. The Sunbeam singing time went great and I’m a lot less nervous about it now!

For our Family Movie Night tonight we watched Batteries not Included and made mini pizzas (our flying saucers) for dinner! The kids loved being able to put the toppings on themselves! Another movie night success!

And here is my weekly layout:
I used my The Story of Our Lives (Digitals NSD Challenge Kit Contribution) & Digital 365 to create this layout!

Life 365 | Week 13

Monday, March 22, 2010
Could it possibly be Spring? I think its getting there. It was warm enough today for Beth to have her lunch outside – picnic style! She loved it! She played with her dolls and just had a nice afternoon. JJ joined her outside when he got home from school and they just loved not being cooped up in the house.

Tuesday, March 23, 2010
A busy day. Beth and I went shopping and we stocked up on all of our groceries and things we needed. Then we came home, put most of it away, and we were off to JJ’s first pinewood derby! JJ was so excited! Every scout’s car got to race 6 times – once on each of the tracks and then they totaled the times within each den’s. We were so excited to find out that JJ’s car won the wolf den! He is so proud of his trophy! The most wonderful thing about it is that I know that JJ was so happy to just be able to race his car – winning was secondary to just having fun.

Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Having an old vehicle can be the pits sometimes. My dad has put a lot of hours into fixing it for us and when I went to get it licensed, I found out it didn’t pass Safety Inspection because I needed a side marker lense. After some research – I found out that certain part was discontinued – so I was calling Junk Yards and stuff with no luck. I finally found the part online – ordered it – and Lewis Cox put it on for me today. So I finally went back to Jiffy Lube and got my sticker for another year. Yay!

Thursday, March 25, 2010
We spent a lot of time this week on the road doing shopping and errands. I’ve never been more grateful to be a 2-vehicle family again. My van might be very old and everything – but I’m so grateful to have it. It’s nice to just be able to go out and do what I need to do without having to schedule time to take Joey to work and get the car. Beth was my little helper all week, taking care of the things that I have been putting off!

Friday, March 26, 2010
You know its Spring when you get to have Fruit Salad for lunch. Beth and I loved it!

Saturday, March 27, 2010
JJ had a coupon to Trafalga Family Fun Center as part of his prize for Student of the Week – months ago. It was expiring and so we finally took our family there. Its right across the street from our trailer park and we still have never gone there until today. Anyways, so the kids got to play arcade games, we went miniature golfing, and we got to have pizza, drinks, and dippin’ dots. The kids loved it.

Sunday, March 28, 2010
Beth had a rough night. I guess it was a little too chilly yesterday and I shouldn’t have let the kids be outside for so long. She coughed all night and she’s losing her voice and just having a hard time breathing. So we spent the day in front of this handy little vaporizer! JJ’s a bit stuffy as well, but Beth got the worst of it this time. Ugh, I want the sickness to all go away!

And here is my weekly layout:
I used my Practically Perfect & Digital 365 to create this layout!

Project 365 | Week 37

Monday, September 7, 2009
sep7 We celebrated Labor Day by just staying home and hanging out together as a family. We did have a picnic on our lawn too. The kids hung out with Dad while I did some designing.

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Our day consisted of school for JJ, chores, and playing (spinning/dancing) outside!

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

What a day! Our van’s head gasket blew last night and so we had to figure things out. Joey took the day off work and we got JJ on the bus. We were going to walk Beth to her FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL and then Joey was going to ride the bus/trax up to Salt Lake City to get Pete’s car. He generously offered to let us borrow it until we get the van fixed. We were on the phone a lot last night trying to figure out a way to get our van to my Dad (5 hours away) so he could fix it for us – as we are really short on money right now. So we were already stressed and then JJ’s school called and told us that we needed to come and get him because he was sick. And of course I needed to start walking to get Beth to school. So Beth and I walked to her school and Joey got a ride with a friend to go get JJ. I walked the mile to Beth’s school, dropped her off and then walked the mile back home and just beat JJ and Joey home by about 10 minutes. JJ was crying and stressed because he had to come home from school. He had a cough and was sniffly. Joey finally got on the bus to head up to get Pete’s car and JJ and I had to walk to go get Beth from school. Joey got the car and barely got back home before we had to get Uncle Aaron to come babysit for us so we could go on our date night that we had planned for a couple of weeks. So we got the kids settled and headed out to go back to Salt Lake City for dinner and movie (Nine) with Curtis and Anne, Jared and Bryn, and Pete and his date, Suzanne. We had a great night and I’m glad that the day ended well after all the stress!

Thursday, September 10, 2009

JJ stayed home from school and the kids played all day. I was very amused with their creativity. One of JJ’s favorite movies right now is BACK TO THE FUTURE and he was using Woody as his “Marty” and a shoe as his time machine! Love it!

JJ’s school has a new policy where even just a little cold has to be checked out before the student returns to school (mostly because of the swine flu scare) and since Beth was sick a bit too today, we got an appointment with the doctor. It was just colds for both of them.

Our stake is starting volleyball on Thursday nights so I was so excited to be able to do that. I went and played for 3 hours – and I’m so sore, but it was a lot of fun. With this once a week and walking 4 miles, three times a week – I think I’m actually going to get in shape!

Friday, September 11, 2009

JJ stayed home again and we had to walk Beth to school. On our return home, I found a box on my porch and inside was an amazing surprise. My dear friend, Georgia sent me a Fairy Bear. It was so cute and lifted my spirits immensely! Thank you, Georgia.

I continued my goal to make cookies on Fridays. This time, I made no-bake cookies, but unfortunately, I failed. I couldn’t get the cookies to set up – they tasted good, but it was pretty much like eating dough – got to figure that one out!

Saturday, September 12, 2009

I had the opportunity to spend the day at the ScrapbookUSA Expo. Even though I’m totally a Digital gal now – it was fun to walk around the booths and see all the fun scrapbooking supplies there are now. I met up with Sabrina and her cute daughter, Kalissa for awhile too and it was good to visit with her. I mostly sat at a table and tried to catch up with my Project 365 layouts. I’ve kept up with the photos and journaling on my blog but have really gotten behind on the weekly layouts. I was able to catch up on 4 weeks worth and though I was hoping for more – at least I got going on it. It was funny to sit at the tables and be one of the only ones with a laptop – I did see one other lady with a laptop, but not sure if she was scrapping. All around me was lots of traditional scrappers, but I did have one lady come up to me and watch for awhile. She had just gotten Photoshop Elements and was wanting to start digital scrapbooking – very cool!

Sunday, September 13, 2009

JJ has spread the cold to all of us now – Joey and I woke up with sore throats and the kids are still sniffly. So we stayed home from church today. The kids seem to be on the mend so I think I will send them to school tomorrow – but I thought we would give them one more day at home. JJ loves using Dad’s computer to watch his Spiderman and so he got to do that for a little while today, while Dad watched his football. The Colts had their first game of the season today – they won, BARELY – but we’ll take it!

And here is my layout for this week:
I used my Digital 365 Kits to create this layout!