Happy Father's Day!

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY....

We think you are the best!

We also think we have great Grandpas!

Finally!

Finally I can send Logan and Cassidy out to play and not have one of them yelling for Mom to come push them in the swing! They have learned to pump themselves! Oh happy day!!!

This is something I thought Cassidy may never be able to master but she has done it.

I Love My Kids!

I love my kids!Mothers Day 2010.

P.S. I may start blogging again.

Merry Christmas!!!

I am so stinking sick of seeing this same old blog post so I am going to post a Merry Christmas to all of you. I am sad that I didn't get my Christmas cards made this year. It is something that I so enjoy doing but just ran out of energy after I finished dealing with other things. But I want everyone to know how much I love and appreciate each and every one of you for your friendship and love. It has been a very, very hard year for us and we couldn't have made it through without the help of so many of you. Thank You from the bottom of our hearts!! It is interesting that when times are the hardest that is when you realize how much Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ love and take care of you. And you realize that they really do love us individually and want us, so much, to rely on them for everything. I am so thankful for this time of year. I love the sights, the smells and the feeling of love and hope in the air. I love the Christmas story and reflecting on the life of Christ and how he blesses our lives. I am so thankful for the Savior and for the love that he freely gives to me. I have felt his peace in times of hopelessness and despair. He has carried me and taken care of all of us. He has sent angels to our aid when we couldn't do it alone. Thanks again to you all. Merry Christmas!!!! Next year is going to be great!!

Seriously

I haven't done any new posts because my main computer is ill. Yep one of those things that I never thought would happen happened. Our computer has a nasty virus or some nasty ad ware or spy ware or whatever other words there are for it. So learn from us always keep your computer protection programs up to date!!!! The dang thing won't let me go to any websites without bringing up an error page. But the interesting thing is is that it will let me go to my bank page. Do they think I am stupid enough to type in my password? Dorks from Amsterdam!! (That is where it is generated from) They should use their talents to do good in the world. We just never updated our security so it was an old edition that didn't catch it and I think my kids may have inadvertently pushed some buttons they shouldn't have and turned some things off. My kids know that they push the x to turn things off but sometime the x actually does the opposite and I think that may be what happened. Cass was on the computer doing Playhouse Disney and when I went to make sure the computer was off it was freaking out and there was a bunch of pages on the screen. I don't know Lorin spent 3 hours trying to install a newer, but still outdated, program and it did install and catches the problem and stops it from running but it doesn't remove it so it still messes up the pages but it doesn't bring up all the bogus warnings. At first it was just bringing up fake warnings and a page wanting you to buy a virus protection program but it is totally fake. No matter what you did it would bring up the fake page. The more we tried to fix it the worse it got. So anyway I can't do anything on the Internet on my computer that I load pictures on. Hopefully we can get it fixed soon or maybe we should just zap the whole thing and start over I don't know. Seriously a pain in the neck and I feel computer violated. I will definitely be more careful especially when my kids are on the computer.

Happy Birthday Mom

Cassidy and Grandma on the Grotto Trail Hike. Family Reunion July 2009

Happy Birthday Mom!! Thanks for always being there for us and for your example of faith, hope and patience. We love you and hope you have a great day. We are so blessed to have you in our lives and couldn't ask for a greater Mom and Grandmother!!

It Only Takes Five Minutes

Cassidy and Logan were busy and content coloring at the kitchen table so I went downstairs to do some laundry. I was maybe down there five minutes when Cassidy comes down with her chin bleeding. I thought for sure she had fallen down but when asked what happened she says "I was shaving". What? Shaving? But you were coloring at the kitchen table not five minutes ago! I go upstairs and what do I find? Logan with his chin bleeding and a panicked look on his face. You would think a 7 and 4 (almost 5) year old could stay out of trouble that long. Not my kids. They had gotten Lorin's razors and thought they would try them out. What makes a child go from coloring to shaving in such a short time? It was Logan's idea and I never got a straight answer as to why. Cassidy did the best job actually taking of chunks of skin. Logan just has two straight lines across his chin. I don't think they will play with razors ever again.

Here they are trying to stop the bleeding. Cassidy's took forever to stop bleeding. So I finally just stuck bandaids on and sent them on their way.