Brandon took Weston out to Black Canyon Lake last night for the Father's and Sons outing. They didn't spend the night there...but the girls and I still had enough time to have a girls night! We rented "Hotel For Dog" (it was a cute movie...better than I thought it would be...), went to Dollar Tree and stocked up on candy, ate dinner at Pizza Hut, came home and rode bikes, got ready for bed then watched our movie and PIGGED OUT on candy and pop corn. It was fun....but I am having a junk food hang over this morning! I feel sick....but it was worth it! :)

Weston and Brandon had fun too. Weston threw rocks into the lake, and ran around with some of the "older" (3 year old) boys! He roasted a hot dog then dropped it in the dirt, threw pine cones and rocks and tripped on a log and got a fat lip and a skinned up chin. They got home around 10 p.m. and Weston was ZONKED! He smelt like camp fire, so I gave him a bath and he went straight to bed! That kid is SUCH a boy! He loves rocks, dirt, bugs, throwing things and spitting!

Hope you all have a good SATURDAY!!! :)

I have just been thinking. It's a funny thing having a blog as a journal. I know we've all gone back and read pages from our journal and felt SO silly for ever thinking "that" let alone writing it down...and we contemplate tearing the page out or maybe burning the journal all together...get rid of the evidence that we're not perfect...

...that's kindda how I feel about blogging...sometimes I go back and read something (like crying about a messed up mixer) and then I feel SO silly and just KNOW that people are thinking that I am crazy...and you know what...sometimes I wonder if I am. But, I know THIS...it's how I felt...and other people have cried over sillier things, I am sure, and maybe reading that I cry over silly things sometimes made them feel better. I don't know.

Well...the point of blogging about this isn't for me to try to convince you that I am not nuts...that's still to be debated...it's this: don't be afraid to let people see YOU. Same thing goes for me not feeling like I fit in here in Snowflake...I just gotta be me...even when I don't feel like it's enough.

Phew....

After a therapeutic phone call from Angela (thank you SO much for calling and talking to me...call me back if you wanna!) I decided to call Kitchen Aid.

I didn't want to tell the lady the "whole" story...but it turns out that she needed to hear what happened...and guess what? They're sending me a new attachment...FREE of charge! (it will take up to 6 weeks...but at least I'll have a wire whisk!) FYI...don't leave your mixer unattended while it's still plugged in and never store your mixer with an attachment on it. LESSON LEARNED! I just sometimes wish that I didn't have to figure out things "the hard way" so much! :)

Thanks for listening to me vent. Not like you had a choice... :)

I am feeling much better now that I have talked to Angie, read your comments and listened to the calm and soothing "hold" music...curtousy (sp?) of Kitchen Aid!

"There is no such thing as the perfect mother...We just do the best we can with the help of the Lord, and who knows, these children who are struggling to be free may someday rise up and call us blessed."~Marjorie Pay Hinckley

I am really just SO ticked off right now. My new Kitchen Aid has been ruined before I even got a chance to use it. Seriously?! AHHHH!!!! I am in tears because getting the Kitchen Aid was the ONLY good part of my Mother's Day...besides the nap I was able to sneak in. My Mother's Day sucked (pardon my language).......my kids fought, cried, and basically made me feel like the worst mother on the face of the earth...and now...THIS! So...this is how it happened. I got home from helping in Kaitlyn's class...Brandon was thankfully able to come home and watch the kids so that I could...he's SO busy at work, so that was a blessing. When he was leaving I asked him, "What am I supposed to do all day today?" I am sick of cleaning my house just to have it messed up again...and I have been to WalMart already...and you can only go to the park so many times! Honestly...I AM BORED! Someone once told me that if you're bored it means that you are a boring person...I beg to differ! I am bored because I LIVE IN SNOWFLAKE and I don't sew, knit, crochet, play a sport competitively enough, sing, dance, can my own food, bake bread, ride a horse or like poking cows with hot irons.......basically what it comes down to is this...I dont' fit in (but that's no new revelation) ...But anyways... back to what I was saying.........I was bored so I was going to have the kids bake cookies with me (it's not like I don't TRY to find things to do)....I plugged in the kitchen aid... then went to help Kaitlyn with something and I heard this terrible noise! I realized that Addie had turned on the mixer, so I unplugged it real quick. I looked inside and the other beaters that go with the mixer were in the bowl and the wire beater that was attached to the mixer was all mangled. I am sure it's replaceable..maybe even under warranty...I don't know...I am just so frustrated because now I have to go figure out how to fix it and it happened at a bad time because I was already feeling down about things.

Anyways...I just needed to vent....

Only 10 more DAYS of school until Kaitlyn's summer vacation starts!!!! YAY! :)

Here are a few pictures from the past little while!


Weston is now sleeping in a "big boy" bed! So far, so good! Right now he's looking at this picture with me and he's saying, "Baby!? Elmo!?" Oh...now he's wanting a paci since he saw one in the picture! He's trying to lift me off the chair to go get it for him! Too funny!
Kaitlyn's dance recital was this past Friday night. She wasn't too thrilled with the costume...but I think she looks super cute! She and her class danced to the "Bugle Boy Boogie Woogie!"

I just had to show you our china hutch! Such a steal of a deal! Thank you Magic Marker for helping me fill in the scratches!

Weston was walking around the house like this the other day and I thought it was too cute to not take a picture of...plus it'll be great for black mail when he is older!

This is me and my niece Marley when she was just two days old! Such a sweetie!

And this is my other new niece Mary Belle! I think she was about a week old here. I love those cheeks!

Well...it feels good to get some pictures on here! :)