Monday, August 25, 2008

Back to School

We've had a REALLY fun summer, beach days on tuesdays, swim days on mondays/wednesdays and fridays-carls jr from gpa on fridays--bbq's, movies lots of good times!

Here is a photo of my cuz jason playing the drums on the girls (he use to be in a band and is a REALLY fun guy-always the life of EVERY party!)


i had some of my cousins that live nearby for a bbq--so fun! i love family!!!

It has been fun getting "new" things for the girls for school (THANKS gma!)they each had their "first day of school" outfits-shopping with girls is SO FUN! so far still very modest and no skimpy sketchy stuff! WHEW!

On Sunday I put together our family schedule-no need to read just for my documentation purposes:
730 wake
800 school/mom@gym
900 Albertsons
300 homework/chore
530 make dinner
600 eat/dishwasher/pick up rooms/read scriptures as family w/Hiss Forth books
730 prepare for sleep/showers/brush teeth/jammies
800 color/read
830 lights out
900 stretching

CHORES for girls after homework:

Mon: bathrooms
Tue: stairs
We : wipe back door
Thu: clean own rooms
Fri: take out trash

Sat morning chores:
office-Becca
TV room-Anna
piano room-Rachel
dining room-Sarah
Sweep floor-Sarah
Mop floor – Rachel

FHE:
1st mom
2nd dad
3rd rachel
4th sarah
5th PLAY DAY!

We use a marble jar reward/punishment system that works GREAT for us--thanks to gma for giving FUN stuff to the treasure box!

We had a family meeting sunday night to go over all of this, it was followed up with jon giving each of the four girls a fathers blessing for school..they were so precious and placed a pillow at the foot of his wheelchair and laid their head on his knees so he could reach them with his hands..so tender & sweet. He told them he was grateful that this was something that HE could do for THEM.

The girls had a GREAT 1st day of school--



this is how becca spent the day today after an hour at the water park with a friend!


The girls were treated with homemade warm chocolate chip cookies when they got back

(its a family tradition we do with them).

After homework/chores-they went swimming:


At the dinner table we go around and everyone says what made them mad or sad or frustrated that day, then we go around and ask what made them happy that day-its a great way to hear how their day REALLY went! It was fun to hear how school REALLY went today for them--

Today I started back at the gym-SO FUN! im SHOCKED that i ate VERY POORLY (like mcdonalds for breakfast, carls jr for lunch followed by del taco for dinner- I KNOW in one day ive done that! and on SEVERAL occassions)so i thought FOR SURE i had gained 10 lbs or more--but MUCH TO MY SURPRISE i only gained 2lbs..hmmm crazy..but its good to be back at the gym doing my circuit training/protein shake drinking.
Im THRILLED that i can still fit into these bad girl jeans!

Im working on a no sugar no white flour no soda gig..im committed..tonight i had a turkey burger with mushrooms, onions, tomatoes with lettuce wrapped around it! SO GRUB!

On my food runs I do to Albertsons, I used french bread, pizza sauce, cut up tomatoes, mushrooms & peppers & we made french bread pizza- SO GRUBILICIOUS too!!









Monday, August 11, 2008

Beach, Beach & MORE Beach

We sure have had lots of beach time! We went on Wednesday to the beach house that Jons Gma rents every year the last week of July right on the sand on 17th street.

Jon got to go with this time..Tim his cousin LUGGED him ALL the way out to the water in his wheelchair SO NICE of him-the girls REALLY wanted to Jon to see them ride all the waves..he was surprised at how far they went out and all the mad skills they had! The girls LOVEDDD having dad there!! Rachels almost caught on to doing a 360--
We went again on Friday as well! I was trying to leave on Friday from the beach, but Rachel stayed in the waves for 45 minutes nonstop to get some last minute riding in--that girl is crazy!
Sunday I was incharge of the ENTIRE 2 hours of Primary.

The 1st Sunday of the month I get the whole time to do singing time. So I made footprints, one said Baptism & had little footprints with things like honesty, tithing, loving family, prayer etc that led to the other footprint labeled baptism. With each little footprint was a primary song they had to figure out what the footprint clue was-it was fun and SO fun to sing OTHER songs besides the ONE song we are stuck learning that entire month. As fun as it was...after 2 hours of nonstop I was ready to go home and NAP FOREVER!!
Tuesday again more beach time with our friends the Blackmuns back at CDM my fav spot-followed by dinner at the Hales. I made my homemade chicken pot pie & everyone loved it--i fed 16 people i think!?!?
Thursday was volleyball--

always a good time however I think Im ready for some city league play at this place
come October..

Saturday my sister Heidi came over with her 2 little ones one of them who ended up in the ER!?!? HELLO! Sarah tossed a water balloon at his head which resulted in him getting a gash in his head from hitting the corner of the spa spillover..OOPS! Never a dull moment in Heidi's life for sure---
Sunday we headed to OC to celebrate Bdays for the month of August--which they had this AWESOME costco chocolate cake..

man..still thinking about it GRUBILICIOUS!!!
Its now monday...I MADE ALL my kids do the house cleaning, being at the beach all the time, the house kind of gets out of control-we are good to pick up and put stuff into a basket, but once the baskets start PILING UP its time to get in gear!! So i DUMPED all the baskets into the living room & made them sort out toys, trash, clothes & blankets-then they all had to put it all away, then i made them dust ALL the downstairs (they each had their own room)& i had to "pass them off"--THEN i had the older 2 sweep & mop the wood floors...can you say FABULOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now its the end of Monday, Ive paid my bills online, taken out the trash, got dinner going & working on FHE my day is successful. Oh DANGT! i JUST now remembered to give jon his medicine that was SUPPOSE to be given at 3pm...its now 5pm..so I am humbled & not as successful as I thought I was!?!?! rhghhghg it never ends huh!!