Korie this is for you...

I tried to read your blog, and I was sad..............whaaaa. I was crying. your blogs are the highlights of my day. Who is John? I am mad at him boooo,....help!!!!!!!

Life

I have not posted a blog in a long time. It's funny how quickly life passes by. Robb's Grandfather passed away and he and Drew have been in Michigan all week. I miss my family. I appreciate things so much more when they are gone. Life is too short. I can't wait to have my son and my Husband back. I have appreciated the time that I have gotten to spend with Ethan. He is such a big kid. He is so mature, and such a good kid. This year he started taking advanced learning classes at school. So for math and english he is in a gifted program studying at a 5th grade level. I am so proud of him. And my little Drewbie is potty trained. Yeah!!! I am so happy. That is awesome. Today I talked to him, and he kept telling me he was playing with 'Uncle Bob". Well Robb does not have an uncle Bob, so I was kinda confused. When I asked Robb's Mom who Uncle Bob was--Uncle Bob is really Aunt Barb....lol. He is so cute. Drew just turned 3 and Ethan will be 9 next week. I love my boys so much. I need to do my best to be the best Mom and wife that I can be. I am thankful for my life. Every once in a while it is nice to stop and take time to smell the roses. My sister Melissa got married in July and iy was the best wedding ever! So beautiful and perfect all the way around fabulousness!! The beautiful bride wanted a picture with all her nephews, and this is the picture that she came up with.

Wicked was fun....

I stole the collage from Shawndel. Last night Shawndel, Lauren, Meagan, and I went to Gammage to see the Broadway play Wicked. It was such a great show. I loved it. I loved girls night out and I love spending time together.
I had afun. Looking over these pictures also made me realize a few things about myself. I need to regain control of my body. I need to be conscience of what goes into my mouth. This weight gain has got to stop today@!! TODAY is a new day. I deserve to be happy and healthy. I can have the self control to eat healthy and live a long life for my kids. So consider the pictures my "before" pictures. I will havd "after" pictures. Just give me some time my friends, I did not get this big overnight, so I cannot lose it overnight. Don't cha wish I could? That would be awessome. Go to bed fat and wake up skinny. That would be awesome. Oh well. Once I lose weight, I will not be so depressed. I mean for the most part I am not depressed, until I see pictures. Just kidding. I do have a good life. I have 2 AWESOME kids, a Husband that loves me, a good job. A house. I need to focus on the good things in my life.

I love to travel. I wish that I had the money and the means to travel abroad. I have been lucky to have some really good vacations in the past few years. I was sitting here tonight watching the movie Surf's Up with Ethan, and it got me thinking of Hawaii. In a week I am going to Vegas, and my kids are going to Michigan. Then a few weeks later we are all heading to San Diego. My kids have been to Disneyland quite a few times...but we have never been to Lego Land. We will be going w/ my Mother in Law in July. I can't wait. A new adventure. New memories. I posted a few pictures from our last trip to California. It was Drew, Shawndel, Cody and myself. It was nice.

Fun times Friday!!

So Friday night started out with a nap. I was really tired and asked my kids to wake me up at 6:00, so I could get ready to go to my ward activity, which was game night. The ward divided us up to go to different hosts house. Well, first of all, I did not get up the 1st or even 2nd time Ethan woke me up. At 6:50 I was woken up again. I stumbled out the door. I ran to the local market and bought some snacks. I showed up at 7:04. Not too bad. (I looked a little haggardly, but at least I had food, and was not the last one there.) I had brought my cell phone and told Robb that I would be around the block and to call if he needed me. Well I am not one to have my phone bucked to me at all times, and I also have the ringer on vibrate 99% of the time. So as we were going around the room telling about ourselves, I think I see Robb's car pulling up....weird I thought..because it was game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals. Was the game over and was Robb coming over to join me? Yippee. He was let in the front door. I asked him if he was going to stay. He said No, that I had to leave immediately to take Drew to the Hospital. By the way if you do not know my Husband, he is very non chalant about a lot of things most people would be panicing over. I left and went home. Drew was crying when I got home. He had fallen off of his wagon in the back yard and hit his head on the patio. He had a gaping hole/cut on the back of his head. Yep, he would definately need stiches. So I took the advice of 2 neighbors and went to a little hospital that is a little farther away, but I heard that they were very quick. To say they are quick is an understatement. I parked, and walked in I was admitted, had a room, met my nurse, met my DR. in less than 10 minutes. The doctor said he will get him stapled up. Ummmm staples, ok. I trust the DR. I had 2 options, I could have the Doctor give him 2 shots to numb it, and then do the staples, or just do the staples anyways. Either way it will hurt him, either the shots, or the staples. So I said let's just skip the shots and do the staples. So I laid on top of Drew to hold him down. Before I knew it, the doctor said we were done. Drew was a trooper. He now has 4 staples in his head that I am expected to remove next Saturday at home. I was even given a handy dandy remover. Thanks Doc!!

My beloved Grandpa

I wanted to post these pictures of My Grandpa Ferguson. These are from when I went to California last May.

Ethan worked for a day!!!

It has been a while since I posted a Blog. Yesterday my work participated in "Bring your child to work day". Over the years working at Compass Bank I have not been able to participate due to Ethan not being old enough, and my department has always opted out of participating. Well, this year I got the go ahead to bring him. It was such a special day! Ethan and I had such a great time. He helped by tying names, and hitting my phone to answer calls as they came in. I got him involved in looking at our goals for the day. Ethan has been really moody and this really helped our relationship. I think it was awesome for us to have the one on one time. It was a very special day.

Also, my Mom and I had the oppertunity to take a wonderful vacation a few weeks ago and go to San Francisco. We had so much fun. It was a fabulous vacation! We did all the tourist things. Alcatraz, Haight Ashbury, Fishermans Warf, Pier 33, Lombard st, ect...We rode cable cars and trains. We also went to a Broadway production of Grease! Taylor Hicks from American Idol was Teen Angel. It was so cool. I am blessed to have a wonderful family!