Just me and my 'Ohana: July 2008

Thursday, July 31, 2008

Dad watched Little House on the Prairie...

...and cried!

He is such a softie. He always cries during movies. Not the fight 'em and kill 'em type but the sweet kind. Especially during the endings and especially if it is a father/daughter movie. I remember years ago watching a movie with dad about a father and a daughter who were both lawyers arguing a case against each other. Dad cried at the end. I think that was the first time I saw him cry in a movie. Now, it happens all the time. He cries every time he watches Enchanted. (and he watches it a lot!) He cried during 50 First Dates and What a Girl Wants. I can't remember the many others, but there are others. I guess he's just a big teddy bear! Awwwww.

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Mikaela is going to girls' camp!!!

I know this probably isn't a big deal to you professional mothers out there, but today as I read through the list of stuff to bring to camp, I realized she was going away. It hit me and made me sad. I am happy for her but, I am sad to see her growing up so fast. I had flashbacks to my girls' camp days and thought of all the great fun she is going to have and hopefully the spiritual moments too. Campfire testimony meetings were awesome! Girls' camp is the best and I am so glad she gets to participate. Now, how do I get past the emptiness that mommy feels? How do I hide it? I've done this kind of stuff before, but today more than ever, I don't wanna let go...

P.S. Dalton's birthday post is coming. Having picture troubles.

Saturday, July 26, 2008

I feel as if I didn't get to say goodbye...

Sorry about your eyes being closed Pam, but this picture shows Paula's infectious laugh!

Paula on the Hawaii cruise. It was so fun to vacation with her!

Paula Noorda passed away just after midnight today. To read about it, click here. It had only been six weeks since we all found out this terrible disease was going to take a great person, someone we love, so quickly and at such a young age. I will miss seeing her smile every Sunday. I will miss her being so kind, thoughtful and having so much concern regarding me and my children. I will miss her advice and her memories. I will miss racing to stand by her in choir so she could sing next to me and help me through the songs. I will miss her laughter and her sense of humor. I will miss being one of her blog buddies and I will miss her uplifting comments!

One thing this has taught me is that life is short! We never know how much time we have left and we need to treat each day as a gift. Share it with our loved ones and let them know how we feel. We need to take the time today. Don't put it off. So, to all my family, friends, neighbors, ward members - old and new, I love you!!!

I have already expressed some of my feelings in my June 18, 2008 post so I will stop now.

So many of us are still very, very sad!!!

To read two of the talks from her funeral click here and here and here!

Saturday, July 12, 2008

Rock climbing at Momentum!!!

Summer took us all to Momentum for rock climbing. The kids had a lot of fun. It was a lot harder than I thought. My arms and legs were like jelly afterwards. It makes me a little nervous to try it on real rocks! And, I have a touch of acrophobia to overcome.

Dalton played and climbed on the fun wall. None of the real stuff for him, yet.

Friday, July 11, 2008

Today...

was an exhausting, hard, awful, intense, very difficult day! One of the worst days of my life! I am glad it is over for now and I made it through. I just want some peace! You know those moments that you wish you didn't have to live? Those moments that you want to escape and avoid with every fiber of your being? I had too many of those moments for one day. It was overwhelming beyond anything I am prepared to handle. But somehow, I made it through the day. Now, if I can make it through the rest of my life, it will truly be a miracle! I just wanna know, why is life so hard? I just wanna be a mom and raise my children to be responsible functioning adults in society without all the extra crap! Is that really too much to ask? Hasn't life taught me enough already? What am I not learning? What am I missing? What do you do when you have no strength left? What did I do to deserve this? Peace, I just want some!
Okay, I'm done for now...

Monday, July 7, 2008

Happy 4th of July!!!

I sure hope you all had a nice 4th of July. This is one of my favorite holidays. We started the day with the city family fun run (2.2 miles). Hudson and I ran it and Mikaela pushed Dalton in the jogger stroller. Hudson took off super fast and totally kicked my trash! (I know, I know, it's not hard to do!) Mikaela came in a little later, but she did really well considering she didn't train and she pushed a 6 year old! Next year, Dalton's running it too. Then we met Derrek and dad for the chuck wagon breakfast. It was actually very good food. After perusing the park booths, I came home and tried to fight the heat. I didn't have the kids with me so I just did whatever needed to be done. I did paint my toenails! Needless to say, it was a boring day. No BBQ or anything exciting like that. In fact, I didn't even eat dinner! I made a fruit pizza in the shape of a cookie sheet and I only used blueberries and strawberries to decorate it, but it was delish nonetheless. The kids met me at the park and we watched the fireworks with the Marchants. It was a great show! That city just keeps getting better and better.

Race Results:

Hudson 19th place overall with a time of 20:26.05

Larissa 25th overall with a time of 22:30.11

Dalton 51st overall with a time of 31:56.22

Mikaela 52nd overall with a time of 32:21.29

Tuesday, July 1, 2008

I like to do my part!

I'm going green! This is my attempt at saving the world, one grocery bag at a time. I have used these bags twice. Once at Albertson's and once at Costco. Both times the person behind me in line has asked me where I got these bags. The bags I use are from Target, but every grocery store had them for a moment. Now, no one seems to have them in stock. I keep hearing that they will get them in again, but I have yet to see it. I was searching and searching for these bags until my dad finally said to me, "I have some downstairs that I got a while ago." Ugh! Are you kidding me?

I really like using them so far. You should try it if you haven't already. One other "green" thing I have tried is turning off my idling car while waiting for kids to come out of school, piano, friends, etc. I know, I know, what would be huge for the environment as well as really huge for the pocket book is a smaller, more economical car. I'm working on it. Baby steps!

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8/7/11: We were visiting my cousin's ranch for a big family dinner and Dalton saw two dogs in the "mating kennel." He kept asking everyone what they were doing. Summer told him they were playing "leap frog" and I said it was actually "leap dog" but he said he didn't believe it. Then, he just kept asking and told us to watch and then even demonstrated. Jake told him the one was giving the other a back massage. Finally, I told him it was a mating kennel and he said, "oh!" I asked him if he knew what it meant and he said, "like a boyfriend and girlfriend?" I said, "well, they're supposed to be husband and wife but dogs don't have weddings. We'll talk more about this later."

6/11: I walked into the house after saying goodbye to my boyfriend and Dalton said to me, "mom, I saw you guys through the window." I said, "oh ya, what did you see?" and he replied, "well, first there was talking...and then there was romance!"

6/28/10: Dalton asked me if I knew grandpa was trying to make a movie. I said yes and he said, "I can't wait to see it cuz grandpa has an imagination."

4/23/10: I overheard Dalton telling Hudson, "I am a 7 year old! There's no way I can have a bunch of upgrades that I can keep track of!" (You know upgrades on the DS..trust me, it was funny.)

2-27-10: Suzanne's wedding photographer was Summer's ex boyfriend Mike. He was in one of the rooms uploading photos to his laptop and Dalton sat down beside him and said, "so, are you having a good time at work?"

2-26-10: Grandpa offered me something to eat and we both knew it had meat in it. I asked him if it had meat in it and he said yes and I said, "um...no thank you!" Then Dalton said, "she's not a fan of meat."

2-26-10: We were trying Dalton's tux on him for Suzanne's wedding. It was too big so we were trying to figure out what we were going to do to fix it. Dalton said, "I don't know why adults get so obsessed with nice clothes. They're all like, oh it doesn't fit, it's too big."

12-30-09: Hudson was making Mii's on the Wii and asked how tall grandpa was. Dani said he was 6 foot and is the tallest in our family and Hudson replied..."not for long!" (He was told by a Dr. when he was 2 that he might be 6' 1" and he is holding on to that one!)

12-19-09: I asked all the kids if they liked the movie "The Princess and the Frog" that they had seen the night before with grandpa and the cousins and they all liked it except Dalton. I asked if he liked the movie and he said, "I didn't really like it." I said, "Why?" and he said, "because it was too lovey."

12-7-09: We were making gingerbread houses with the cousins and I overhear Hudson tell Dalton who just sat on his lap, "dude, that probably hurt your nuts." Dalton said, "it didn't hurt my nuts." So I said, "Dalton do you know what nuts are?" and he said, "balls" and then I said, "do you know what balls are?" and he pointed down towards his lap with a smile. And this whole time I still thought my baby was innocent. {sniff, sniff}

8-20-09: Cham asked Dalton how school was going so far. He said, "ok" and she asked how his teacher was and he said, "she's ok...she's kinda strict." Cham asked, "isn't it easy for you because you're such a rule follower?" Dalton said, "No, I've had a lot of hard stuff in my life!" (So, I'm wondering what he's going to say, right?) He continues, "Like laps...I have to run laps without stopping and it's really hard!"

7-10-09: We were getting in my car and Hudson says to me, "how's your tire pressure, mom?" I asked him how he knows about tire pressure and he said, "scouts." I love my little man.

5-20-09: Dalton made some comment about two people making out. I asked him if he knew what making out meant. He said, "isn't it just kissing a lot?" I said, "well, yes but you can't do that till you're like 45!" Dalton said, "45! My dad's not even 45...you mean dad hasn't made out?!?"

5-11-09: Hudson was having a coughing fit and Dalton says, "Hudson, you've gotta lay off the hot sauce!"

5-4-09: Dalton said, "Mom, I know that no one likes a back seat driver...but the speed limit is 40!"

1-20-09: Dalton said, "I don't know why but Mikaela wears bras! Not to be rude but...she's only 12!"

1-17-09: The kids were eating lunch and Dalton was the last one to finish. We were in a hurry so I said, "Dalton, hurry up. We need to go. Eat faster." He replied, "I'm enjoying my food...that's what I do!"

12-20-08: We went to Hudson's basketball game and when we got to the car he was goofing off and I said "get in...hurry...I'm freezing! And, you should be cold too since you're in shorts!" Hudson replies, "I can handle it cause I'm a man and you're not!"

12-18-08: We went to Ari's first dance recital. She used Mikaela's curly hairpiece to fit over her bun and give her a ponytail of curls. So, cute. Afterwards we took pictures and Cham says to Dalton "you didn't have your picture taken with Ari. She is the star tonight, you know?" Dalton says, "well I don't know about that, but she has the biggest hair!"

12-8-08: We have one humidifier that we are all trying to share right now. I had it in Mikaela's room and was planning to move it to the boys room when I went to bed that night. I didn't move it and in the morning Hudson came in my room and said, "mom, you forgot to put the fumigator in our room!" Fumigator is right! Two boys in one room. Maybe he's onto something...

12-5-08: Everyone was getting haircuts and it was Dalton's turn. He's talking to the lady and she's laughing at him. She says, "you're cute!" He says, "yep!" She later says, "you're funny!" He says, "yep!" Then she says, "How old are you?" He says, "six!" She says, "Are you sure you're not 16?" He replies, "nope...not even six and a half!" She replies, "you're just so well-spoken."

11-30-08: Dalton needed to go to the bathroom and we were at a public place so I made him go in the womens bathroom with me. (I worry about him going into a public bathroom alone and without Hudson!) So, we head in and Dalton says "mom, when it's just you and me and we go to the girls' bathroom...it's kinda embarassing!" Poor kid...what to do?

11-13-08: Dalton was eating Total cereal and he said "this cereal doesn't have any taste. It's kinda boring to eat."

Dalton came out of the bathroom and told Summer..."I wouldn't go in there for like 2 days!"

Hudson and I were making ziploc omelets which he learned how to do in scouts. It was taking a while and D-rock jokingly says "eggs take 10 years to cook." Hudson jokingly responds "no they don't because I've had eggs and I'm nine." He's such a smart alec but he put D-rock in his place.

I had reminded Dalton that this was his last day of kindegarten and he would never be a kindegartner again. I went to pick him up from school and he comes out saying "mom, it's my last day of kindegarten and I still can't read!" I guess he assumed it would all pop into his head suddenly on the last day!

We were at the pool and Dalton said something about needing to do something for our aunt Alicia. Mikaela said "Dalton, you know she's not our real aunt, don't you?" Dalton exclaimed "Why didn't anyone tell me that my whole life!"

Mikaela was telling about a situation with a "mean girl" at school and she was going on and on about the nastiness of it all and Hudson said "too bad you're not a boy, Mikaela, we don't have that stuff!" How true!

Summer asked Dalton to stop growing up and he said "Not gonna happen!" Then, she later said it again and he replied "I can't, it's impossible!"

We were trying to find something for Dalton to take to "show and tell" and he was turning everything down. Finally he says "show and tell is just disappointing." So, we quit and he went to school without anything.

Dalton was telling us that he thought this girl in his class named Kylee was cute. Later that evening, as we were eating dinner, someone said to Dalton "Dalton, you're cute!" Then he replies "so's Kylee."

Dalton made a craft project. He said, "I can't wait for Hudson to come home, he'll just criticize it." Looks like I need to educate Hudsy bear so he's not so critical. He comes by it genetically, this won't be easy.

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Just me and my 'Ohana

Thursday, July 31, 2008

Dad watched Little House on the Prairie...

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Mikaela is going to girls' camp!!!

Saturday, July 26, 2008

I feel as if I didn't get to say goodbye...

Saturday, July 12, 2008

Rock climbing at Momentum!!!

Friday, July 11, 2008

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Monday, July 7, 2008

Happy 4th of July!!!

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