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!

Update...

Gibble the hamster died last night. He crawled under his little plastic thing, and went to sleep and never woke up. I am glad that Ethan had a chance to prepare himself for this last night. He handled the news very well today.

Last weekend I had the oppertunity to take a road trip w/ my friend Robin. We went to Disneyland w/ my Grandma and Grandpa. It was a nice time.

New Blog...

Ok...so I have not posted a blog in forever. Ethan has become a boy scout, and I am so happy for him. Today him and Robb started working on his pinewood derby car. It is so cute to see my Husbands excitement. I love that he is nostalgic about his scout days. We had his first Pack Meeting where Ethan got his Bobcat award. It was so cool..Robb held him upside down and I pinned his award on him. He cannot turn it right side up until he does an act of service. Tonight Ethan brought me his dwarf hamster and said he was sick. His eyes were closed, and he was twittering. Robb called Petsmart and was told their life expectency is 1-3 years. He is 1 year old. We also looked and his food is expired. So it's off to get new food tomorrow. Drew is getting so big. But he refuses to potty train. He is ready, but doesn't want to. He will tell me once he goes, but not before. Oh well...in due time. I got a calling at church. I teach the Sunbeams. I love it. They are so cute. So here's to hoping the hamster lives on....Until next time.