Mothers Day

So many other note worthy things have happened in the past few weeks, and I should write about them, but today...today is Mothers Day.
For those that love Mothers Day, I say, "READ NO FURTHER!!!"
Here we go...
Mother's Day is a socialistic ploy to get us to spend money we don't have to make OURSELVES feel better for ignoring our mothers all year long! Every day should be mothers day! Now if you are someone who gives attention to your mother without society telling you to, on a regular time frame, then I have no problem with you telling your mother once again, how wonderful she is. I usually don't even go to church on Mother's Day because it is a weepy "ode" to the best mom in the world, and once again, I have failed! (Please don't get me wrong, this Sunday I heard about a wonderful woman that I love and adore and I think the world of and I love that her husband can share how wonderful she is to all of us...and I am so lucky to be able to call her my friend!)
If I was not nursery leader, I would not have gone today.
I appreciate the men taking over for me, but I don't appreciate the men thinking that I can't let go...OH, I can let go! (I am headed into a rant here so if you want to go take a potty break and come back after...this is a good time...)
I have 13 precious little ones in the nursery. Several of them really need structure. Several of them are "Klingons" that will not let go of mom unless one of us ladies hug them for a minute and let them know that everything is OK and we get them into the nursery routine and then they are fine. Now, to have well intentional, wonderful men tell me that they will physically pull me out if they have to just makes me boil. I know that they can do the job, that is not my worry. But these men do not spend every Sunday with these kids and don't know who needs a little extra TLC for a minute so that their mothers CAN leave to go to class. I had every intention of leaving and letting the men take over class, I was happy to have them there..I love having them in EVERY Sunday, but don't tell me when to go!!!! Let me take care of the children so that next week I will not have to do damage controll!
I am feeling better.
(You can come back in now..)
Today was cold and a bit windy...
(AND yes, I get my feelings for Mother's Day from MY MOM! LOVE THAT WOMAN!)

Rain!

Guess what I got to wear today? MY NEW RAINBOOTS! I was so excited! It rained HARD, but left great puddles!
A few months ago some little friends of mine told me that they had their puddle jumpers and I needed to get mine so I could puddle jump with them. I finally got mine and waited for the rain, thinking that maybe rain season was over, BUT NO! Today was the day! I was not able to go jump with my friends, but it was fun to get my boots wet. I look forward to our next rainy day when hopefully I can go puddle jump with my little friends!

SWEET! (Now I need to find a Rain Coat to match!)

I'm Back!

Wow, it has been awhile since I have been here, and so much has happened!
First, my computer crashed! The hard drive went to the big drive in the sky! Lucky for me, I have some incredible computer geeks that were able to save all my pictures and music. Now I just have to back everything up so I don't have this scare again....
How to tell everything that has happened in the past few weeks will take till June!!!! So I will just break it down into small bits and pieces...

This is Jeff's shirt. Jeff is learning to be a pilot. He had his first solo flight on March 16. It is a tradition at the hanger that on your first solo they cut the back of your shirt (Lost your shirt on first solo on...) and sign it and put it up in the shop. Very big deal. There is so much to learn to be a pilot! He could be a weather man now with all he knows about conditions for flying. He will never look at a plane coming in for a landing the same again. It is fun when he comes home and shares all his adventures of the day. He had a big flight the other day where he had to plot stops and air speed and fuel...big time stuff. He is also able to work on the planes to learn them inside out. Best ever!
Next...
I have had fun being a chaperon for Klaira's Drama and Choir the past month.
The first adventure was the drama kids took a train from Fresno to Bakersfield, in Bakersfield we took a bus to Los Angeles and then we got on another train to Anaheim where we got on a VERY small bus (packed to the max!) to get to the hotel.

Most of these kids have never been on a train. It was so fun! (Well, except for lugging all our stuff up and down the stairs to get on and off...that was difficult..)
Our hotel was just within walking distance to Disney Land.

The kids were GREAT! They had a workshop at Disney Land that was a great opportunity. All I will say about it is that even if the kids never pursue drama, everything they learned there they can use in daily life. Way cool!

I had a fun group of girls that I was over! It was really hard to go back to work on Monday and not see them all day.

Then two weeks later....Klaira's choir went to San Diego! (Lucky for me, we got on a bus and stayed on the bus all the way down. )

We started out trip at Mission Beach. I found my happy place!

Again, I had a great group of girls! So much fun!

Later that night we went on a dinner cruise. I know that I had never been on one and none of the kids had ever been on one. It was kind of funny to see how the girls dressed. You would have thought they were going to the prom.

The next morning the kids got up early to go to their competition. After the competition we went to Sea World. That was a fun day.

The next day we packed up and headed home, but on the way....stopped at Six Flags! YES WE DID!

The sad story to this day is that I had one of my girls get the stomach toss and we spent the day in the first aid station. Klaira was such a trooper to sit with me all day in the first aid station, both girls never complaining! Very impressed with these girls! I am so happy to be home!

Look What I Made!

This weekend was our youth/ward auction. What a great time to come together as a ward to support our youth for all the activities that they have planned, to be able to fund them. I am so impressed with all the talent that we have in our ward. With that being said, it makes me stretch to see what I can come up with that will be even a smidgen close to the talent that I know will be shown. THIS WAS TOTALLY FUN! The dinner is free but you pay for the desserts. Then tons of stuff was donated for auction! I made these "Flowers" that are totally edible, except for the sticks. The main part of the flower is a brownie, the peddles are gum paste and there is a raspberry candy holding the peddles on the stick with a dollop of melted chocolate to hold the brownie on. All of them were sold very quickly!

How am I going to top this next year?

What your car color says about you?

Today was a very important day for my truck. In April, I will have owned my truck for 5 years. When I drove to work today, I found that my odomoter said....

Yikes! But I do a bit of driving!

Then I thought, what does my vehicle color say about me? Well of course I googled it and I found this article. It is a bit long, but fun to read. How close is it to you and your color?

What the Color of your Vehicle Says About You (Or the Character in Your Book)March 23, 2008 — Pat Bertram
In my green article for St. Patrick’s Day, I wrote, “Owning a dark green vehicle supposedly means that you are traditional, trusty, and well balanced, but what it really means is that you are thrifty. Who makes dark green cars anymore? If you own one, it’s probably been a while since you bought a new vehicle.”
So for all you smug people who don’t own a green vehicle, I thought I’d tell you what the color of your car says about you.
Yes, your fiery orange-red sports car says exactly what you think it does: you’re sexy, speedy, high-energy, dynamic. Before you preen, go out and look at your red car. Most red cars on the road are more of a kidney bean color. Is yours? If so, it means you are dynamic and energetic but are losing your fire. You really want to be have that orange-red sports car personality, but you just can’t quite make it. You’re too busy, too old, or too tired. For all the good your red car does you, it might as well be brown.
A silver car supposedly says that you are cool and elegant. The only problem is that since silver was the most popular car color for several years, almost everyone owns one, like your neighbors who don’t mow their lawns and don’t put their garbage cans away after the garbage has been picked up. Real cool. Very elegant.
White supposedly means you are fastidious, but what it really means is that you wanted that fiery orange-red sports car, but you drive like a bat out of hell or like batman in his batmobile, (depending on your age group) and you were afraid that you’d get too many tickets so you chose the less conspicuous white. Good thinking. On average, while drivers in red cars do not get more tickets than anyone else, orange-red sports car drivers do, and let’s face it, they deserve them. Who drives the speed limit in a car like that?
A light blue vehicle supposedly means that you’re calm and quiet, but what it really means is that you went to the showroom to buy a sunshine yellow car to show how joyful and young-at-heart you are, but they only had marine blue, and since you really are a calm, quiet person who doesn’t like to make waves, you bought it.
A purple vehicle means you are creative, individualistic, original, and perhaps it does. It could also mean you’re too old to care what anyone thinks of you.
A black vehicle says you are empowered, not easily manipulated, love elegance, and you appreciate the classics. It’s also says that you are mysterious or that you have two sides to your personality; it’s the favored car of both clergy and gangsters.
A dark blue vehicle says you are credible, confident, dependable. And you drive too much because you always get stuck with the carpool.
A gray vehicle says you are sober, corporate, practical. Boring. But if that gray car is charcoal with sparkles, you still have flashes of brilliance and charisma.
An orange vehicle says you are fun loving, talkative, fickle, trendy. A yellow-green one says you are trendy, whimsical, lively. And you know it’s true. Only fun and whimsical cars come in these colors: Volkswagen bugs and little sportscars.
A tan vehicle means that you’re timeless, basic, simple, but it also means you have something to hide. Maybe bad driving habits? Or that you never wash your car?
A gold vehicle says is that you love comfort and will pay for it; it also says that you’re intelligent, and you must be — you were smart enough to come read my article!
And a brown vehicle supposedly means you’re down-to-earth but who are you trying to kid? If you really cared about the earth, you wouldn’t have bought that big old gas-guzzler.
So what color of car do I drive? I’m sorry, but I don’t know you well enough to answer such a personal question.

Valentines Day

I don't have any pictures of today, but what a fun day.
LuvLump and another young lady from our ward sang in church today. Their voices blend so nice together and both of them are in choir at school and have been taught well! (Not to mention the proud mommy moment!) We had a really nice Sacrament meeting and then....
Off to the Nursery! Today was my day for lesson and activity! I had the day planned. (As I was waiting for Sacrament Meeting to start, I was informed that two of my helpers were not going to be there today...Need to have a talk with those two! Don't they know that Nursery comes first? With a brief moment of panic, two of our most incredible brethren said that they would be happy to help in nursery today! I LOVE THESE MEN!) The first part was our usually playing with toys, getting the wiggles out after sitting in Sacrament Meeting for an hour. It was warm and sunny outside, so we let the kids go outside in the little play area with slides and other toys. It felt so good to stand in the sun and soak up the warm! Then we had snack time! I had made strawberry cupcakes, with coolwhip/frosting/strawberries dip, and apples. I am finding out which kids have very picky tastebuds, which ones are into dipping and which ones will not try new things. We have lesson time during snack time since they are really happy to hold still and eat. They do a good job of talking too! Then Sister Bitton came in for song time. Can I tell you how much I love Sister Bitton and song time? I LOVE SISTER BITTON AND SONG TIME TO THE MOON AND BACK! She is so fun with the kids and the little ones really seem to love song time. We do have a few movers and groovers, but for the most part, the kids are really good about staying on their chairs and do the hand actions and sing what parts of the songs they know. Then we had our activity. I had printed out pages with hearts all over it and we had chocolate and vanilla pudding to finger paint with. Again, you find out the kids that are into getting their hands in and having fun, the others that do not like to be messy and the ones that are there just to eat. The little containers that I had put the pudding was just big enough for hands but it was really challenging for one little one who really thought he could lick the pudding at the bottom of the container. (His tongue was just that much too short!) The brethren were perfect helpers. When we were playing, they played with the kids. When it was lesson time, they listened and made comments, when it was song time...you just have to see very tall Brother Boyer as we are singing and doing the actions to "Once there was a snowman"...priceless! How wonderful to have support from loving adults that will get in and be interactive with the kids and I don't have to direct them on what to do! This makes my calling that much more the best calling ever! (And I can not do this calling without Deanne! I would not even try!)
Then I can home to a steak dinner that my Sweetheart had cooked for me. He knows the way to my heart! Then a three hour nap! Yep! Today is a wonderful day!

Uncle Milo

When I was a kid, I had a Uncle Milo that would talk backwards. He was so fun to sit and listen to. I found this skit, that was posted on another friends blog that she found on youtube, that is one of the stories that Uncle Milo use to tell, done by some other faces that the older generation will remember...I miss my Uncle Milo. (Remember to go turn the music off on my page before watching the clip.) ( I moved the clip to the side bar! Go see it!)