Nails!

If you know anything about me, it is that I BITE my nails. Well, it has been nearly 4 weeks since I stopped biting my nails! YAY ME! After 30+ years of biting them it sure is WEIRD to have nails. I have to get used to them. For instance, one night I was fixing dinner and cut my nail off with the knife. WHOA! I have never done that before. The next day I was at Costco and ran my hands through my hair and one of my nails snagged in my hair. I looked and my nail had gotten broken somehow.

You can see in this picture (taken almost week ago) the weird way the nail broke. If you can't tell, it is the left ring-finger nail. Ok, I am finished about my nails. It is just something cool I had to blog about because I have never had nails this long before. Thanks for reading.

CRASH!

I wrecked Steve's baby last week! OH MAN! Well, at least it wasn't my fault. :) A lady slid on the slushy road through the stop sign and I couldn't do anything BUT hit her. Everyone involved is ok and his baby will get fixed soon enough! The top picture doesn't show the full extent of the damage. The parking light in the bottom picture is hanging on by just 1 screw now.

Transfering A Blog

I just visited my Y!360 site after some several months of inactivity, due to slow dial-up (which is also the reason of the lack of posts here). I read that they are getting rid of Y!360. I don't know when or any other details, but thought I would try to preserve my blogs and comments here. I don't know of any way to accomplish this task, except to copy paste. There is talk over on Y!360 of people "backing up" their blogs, but I haven't checked into the "how-to's". So I will do what I "know-how"!

Edit:
I figured out that I can create a post today and make it like I had posted it before today. How awesome it that? So that is what I will do! Yay Me!

I DID IT!

I have an actual Blog spot! Well, it isn't my first blog, but that's ok. I have a myspace, yahoo 360, and a couple other things I have messed with. But, since this is linked to my gmail account, I thought I would think about getting serious with it! Now, to figure out how to do stuff with Blogger. Like add pictures, insert links, you know all the stuff that makes blogging cool!



I tend to start things and then pretty quickly they get set aside! Yeah, it took me 2 years (maybe) to get s picture on myspace. And I haven't updated the post I started on my 360 for Steven's first day of Kindergarten. Today he finished day NINE of First Grade. How Sad!



But we will see what happens with this one.



Thanks for reading!

PS I figured out how to add links. SO here is a good one to get you started!

Carnival!

(I will add a picture soon!)
Saturday we went to the Art City Days Carnival in Springville. It was a lot of fun, although carnivals have certainly gotten expensive! I went on the Yo-Yo with Delsa. Afterwards Steve told me that because of the trees the ride was not up to it's full running speed! Thank Goodness for that, it was all I could do to get on it! And my Step-Mom wants me to ride the Colossus when we go to Lagoon next month :) Delsa, Stevie and Rachelle went on the little Roller Coaster, rode the ride that looked like Flying Saucers, drove some cars around in circles, and a little fun house type of ride, without the scaryness! Just walking back and forth to the top and then sliding down to the bottom.

After the carnival we went to Steve's boss' house and had a steak salad (salad with cooked steak and black beans mixed in, with a ranch and BBQ sauce dressing), with garlic bread(french bread with butter, minced garlic, light sprinkle of italian seasoning and season salt), and S'mores made with Cadburry Dark chocolate and rootbeer floats for dessert. Then we watched the fireworks. It was a lot of fun.

Blogs

I have been wanting to post more blogs, but with my computer and internet I can't be on like I would like. Also, LIFE seems to cut into my plans. I have over 100 flower pictures that I want to share, that I have taken at varying stages of the season. Then there is Stevie's last day of school program, Delsa's 6th Grade Celebration, Terrilyn at work, and other pictures that I want to share :( So little time, so much to do!

Well, I will get off here now to get dinner made and get the kids ready for bed. Now that Summer is here I will be trying to get the littlest ones to sleep in their OWN bed, ALL night! Stevie will not crawl into bed with us IF he sleeps on the couch. Rachelle will no matter where she is sleeping. When they come to bed with us we just don't sleep well as the kids are all over the place. And we are awakened with their elbows, knees, hands, and feet in our face, neck, legs, back, you name it we have had it poked by the little ones! :)

Have a God Blessed Weekend in case I cannot return!

Mowing the Lawn

Yesterday I mowed the lawns. We don't have a very big yard, just about .16 of an acre, and of course the house takes up a little bit of the land. But the yard is bigger than A LOT of the homes now a days. Or is it just that our home is smaller than a lot of homes? LOL However it goes, I did it! Usually Steve makes the girls do it, or he just mows it himself. Last week I read somewhere that mowing the lawn for 1/2 hour burns 200 calories. That's pretty good in my book as I don't get a whole lot of exercise. I know, 'You are a mom of 4 kids, 2 of which happen to be under 5, how can you NOT get a lof of exercise?!?' LOL well, it is easy if you are like me and HATE to do anything!

Any how, I mowed the lawn yesterday(first time in about 2 or 3 years)! It took me about an hour to an hour and a half to do it all, pick up the dog poo, mow and clean up the sidewalks after (so if i do it over 2 days each week, there I only have to exercise 2 or 3 more times each week, right?). It felt pretty good, too. After it was all said and done I realized I had 2 blisters on my hand. Of course, after not mowing the lawn or doing any real labor with my hands (I rarely even weed my flower beds!), I should have some blisters, right? LOL Well, it isn't the fact that I got some blisters, the funny part is WHERE I got some blisters! On the BACK of my fingers. Yep! Little blisters popped up on the first knuckle of both my tall and ring fingers of my left hand! I couldn't figure it out... How did I get them on the BACK of my hand? Well, then I figured that it must have been because I was making a fist while holding onto the handle of the mower and my thumb rubbed the backs of my fingers. LOL

Ok, Just wanted to fill in a blog entry and this was all I could think to say! So now I will say goodnight!

God Bless!

Blood Work

On Wednesday the 26th I went in the Dr and had some blood drawn. Just a routine checkup for cholesterol and diabetes. I had gone in on Monday the 24th and visited with the Dr, but didn't fast, so I had to go back another day for the blood work. I got the results back. The diabetes test came back normal. That is good because diabetes runs in my family. The cholesterol wasn't so good. The overrall count was 188. The nurse said it should be below 200. The good cholesterol was a little low at 38 and the bad was 139. I can't remember what the ranges are suppoed to be, except that the good should be over 40. The Dr recommends a low fat, low cholesterol diet. Ok, I can do that, I think!

Well, as I have been grocery shopping I have been looking at the lables. I don't do that very often, obviously! Because now I KNOW we don't eat very well! But how come is it that all the bad for you food has no cholesterol? I mean sure 8 grams of fat per serving isn't too hot, but no cholesterol in the cookies REALLY makes it EASY to say YES! LOL And the hamburger is pretty high in both areas. I buy ground turkey because it is cheaper and I thought it was better for you. Well, surprise, surprise, it is just about as bad! I looked at the Boca Burgers (vegetarian burgers) and they were WAY LOW in both fat and Cholesterol. And even pretty high in protien. Maybe I will start buying those! LOL

God Bless!

Allergies STINK!

Ok, I just wanted to let you all know that I think allergies are a PAIN! LOL As if you all didn't know it! My allergies have been acting up the last couple of weeks. UGH! This year they are the worst. I have a runny nose, stuff in my throat and watery, itchy eyes. Steve, Terrilyn and Delsa keep telling me I don't have to cry all the time! Like I can help it.:)

Ok there is my rant for today.

God Bless!

This is the first flower of the season in my garden. A Crocus.

I got a Kodak Z740. I really like it! Terrilyn got a Mustek 7-in-one 5.0 and I thought about getting that one, but after hers came I looked at it and I am glad I went with the Kodak. The Mustek is good, but not what I wanted for me. I will post some pictures soon. :) But the camera is too big for my purse and all the purses I looked at are too small unless you go for one of those suitcase purses.... And I don't think so! So I just got a nice bag for the camera and I don't carry it with me where ever I go. Although, I would like to! Whenever I see a good picture I never have my camera with me.

I haven't uploaded any pictures because it takes forever with this dialup to upload them! UGH! And since we got satellite the connection seems WORSE! Go figure? So now I don't know what I will do. I can't get Comcast internet anymore because we left them because they charged us a charge we thought was unfair and when I called them they told us they couldn't take it off. Yet when I called to disconnect my service they said they could take it off. Sorry guys, too late! So I will call the Satellite company and see what they charge for internet.

What Happens When You Get New Toys?

We (well, actually I am) are going to get a new camera with our tax return as the one I have now I can't even take only but 1 or 2 pictures before the battery is showing dead. And they are brand new! HELLO! I told Steve the other day that since I am getting a new camera I need a new purse as the one I have is barely big enough for the camera I have now and the new camera will be bigger. He said that's like since he is getting new tires for the truck the rims will look junky so he needs new rims. Then the paint job will look bad, so he will need a new one. Then since the paint is new he will need new interior covers... LOL

Catching Up!

I had really wanted to make entries to my blog on a reular basis. Ok, so I am getting pretty regular here, reularly NOT posting an entry.

The kids are back in school and that is a GOOD thing! When Stevie is home Rachelle picks on him something awful! She has gotten to where she hugs him around the neck and then pulls him down on the floor or the couch, or where ever they happen to be, and then she sits on his head. I thought the boys were the mean ones? She has a good teacher though. Stevie can dish it out just as good. Rachelle also likes to take things away from Stevie. An all around torturer.

Terrilyn has been working at Harmon's (a local grocery store) as a bagger. She thinks it is ok. Expecially when the checks are deposited into her savings account. She can't touch the money in it, but I pull out money for tithes and spending each pay period, and she leaves some in for saving up. Currently she wants to save up for a VW Bug Bus. (I can't spell what they are called!) But she wants an Orange one. Her current favorite color. Her grades for Term 2 are not all very good. She has 4 Fs and a D+ and a B or 2 and the rest are C's. Her current GPA is a 1.1. End of term is this Friday I think. I have told her that whatever classes she has a F in will be taken again next year. During the same term she gets the F in. SO these Fs will be made up 2nd term of 11th grade. She really wants to go to Preference. A school dance and hang out with about 19 of her friends. But it is a dressy dance and she needs to buy a prom type dress. We shall see what happens. For English this term her teacher had the class enter a poetry contest. There are 5 different age divisions and each one has 10 winners who get a $50 savings bond and a free copy of the book the poems will be published in. Terrilyn received a letter stating that they wanted to publish her poem. There are about 82 kids, I think, in her school who received such a letter. How cool! The book is called A Celebration of Young Poets We are pretty proud of her! Can't wait for the book to come out!

Delsa hates school. She says it is boring. And she especially hates Math. Although she has straight As. Way to Go! Delsa is growing. She is nearly as tall as me. Also, she is a great help with the kids. She reads to Stevie and plays with him on the computer. Delsa LOVES to crochet. They have an after school program on Mondays where she gets to make a lot of different projects. And she is taking an afterschool class Tuesday through Friday to learn Ballroom Dancing.

Stevie still loves school! He has a 1/2 birthday celebration in class on Thurday as his actual birthday is in July. I can't decide if we will have a party for his school friends now, or wait until July. But I don't know where a lot of his friends live to invite them later. Also, on Thurday, since they are learning about 'Pets' this week they will be going on field trip to a Pet Store. Since school started they have gone to a grocery store, fire department and a dentist office.

Rachelle is nearly as big as Stevie. She has a nasty temper, too. When something doesn't go her way she throws herself back, no matter what is behind her. She likes to help do things also. I think she will potty train soon. Every time someone has to go to the bathroom she needs to go, too. She doesn't actually 'do' anything, but it is good to let her go in as it will encourage her for when she DOES!

Well, I will end this entry and post Terrilyn's poem in the next one.

Have a God Blessed Week!