Thank you Coleen and Alysha for the input on the colors for my kitchen, especially the cabinets. I like a dark cherry wood look too. How can I get that when I don't have wood cabinets? They are some kind of particle board garbage. I also like the idea for cranberry and maybe a beige.
Well, again I have spent the entire morning not doing what I was supposed to be doing. I did important things (like pay bills), but I need to be doing my shopping for the Primary Quarterly Activity today. We are leaving this afternoon for our ward campout and the activity will be at the camp. We are going to Willard Bay. I hate it there. I wanted to go to Deer Lake, where we went last year, but no, we have to go to yucky Willard Bay. The bugs are horrible, it's ugly, and the freeway is right there. It's like camping on the side of the road. If I'm going camping (and you all know what a camper I am!), I at least want to go somewhere where it is pretty and in the mountains. I offered to just stay home and let Lincoln take the kids, but he didn't like that idea.
Well, enough procrastinating. I have to go do errands and shopping. Wish me luck at yucky camp!
Friday, July 11, 2008
Thursday, July 10, 2008
I'm still getting the hang of this! Anyway, here are some pictures from our day at the museum.
Our big project today is to move Faha and Pasi into the same bedroom. They decided they want to share a room. I'm all for it because whenever we change bedrooms around, they get a thorough cleaning. The boys will share the room at the end of the hall upstairs. I would like to use Faha's old room as my storage room (again!) so I can get the garage set up as another play area. I have spent so much time trying to add my pictures that the morning is almost gone. I need to get busy before Anita leaves to go with her friends to Raging Waters. I need her help!
Our big project today is to move Faha and Pasi into the same bedroom. They decided they want to share a room. I'm all for it because whenever we change bedrooms around, they get a thorough cleaning. The boys will share the room at the end of the hall upstairs. I would like to use Faha's old room as my storage room (again!) so I can get the garage set up as another play area. I have spent so much time trying to add my pictures that the morning is almost gone. I need to get busy before Anita leaves to go with her friends to Raging Waters. I need her help!
I am getting more and more tech savvy! I'm so excited because I was able to take pictures with my cell phone (my digital camera died) and email them to my email and save them and now I shall post them here! It doesn't take much to make me happy!
Monday we went to the Utah Museum of Natural History. It was fun and educational. I wasn't able to take as many pictures as I wanted because the kids kept taking off to explore on their own and I couldn't find them! We went with my friend Kari and her kids (same ones we watched fireworks on the 4th). I felt like such a good mommy. Cody didn't go with us because he wanted to go to his friend's house. We also took one of Faha's friends with us. I only had one daycare child to take so it was a piece of cake. He was so good in his stroller the whole time.
Saturday, July 5, 2008
We had a nice quiet 4th. The guys got home about 5:00. I made homemade pizza and then we went to Murray Park to watch fireworks with some friends. We had a little problem finding where they were, mainly because my cell phone died, but we eventually found them right as the fireworks were starting. It was fun especially for Pasi and Siu because our friends have kids their ages. We stayed and visited with them until almost midnight! We dragged ourselves home and went to bed!
Today we got up early and went to a baptism and after that the parents of the little girl who was baptized took everyone at the baptism out to eat. It was nice. We came home and did errands and now I HAVE to get busy and type up the children's parts, 70 parts, for the Primary sacrament meeting program. I need to hand them out tomorrow. After that I need to make the Primary bulletin board. I'm also doing sharing time tomorrow, so I have a lot of Primary stuff to get done. (I am the Primary president, by the way. A little stressful!) So I better stop playing and get busy!
Today we got up early and went to a baptism and after that the parents of the little girl who was baptized took everyone at the baptism out to eat. It was nice. We came home and did errands and now I HAVE to get busy and type up the children's parts, 70 parts, for the Primary sacrament meeting program. I need to hand them out tomorrow. After that I need to make the Primary bulletin board. I'm also doing sharing time tomorrow, so I have a lot of Primary stuff to get done. (I am the Primary president, by the way. A little stressful!) So I better stop playing and get busy!
Friday, July 4, 2008
Time for an Update
I've been looking at Coleen's, Alysha's, and Brooke's blogs and it inspired me to update mine. I've been trying to post for over a week, but I've been having problems with our computer. Hopefully it's fixed. Anyway...................
Happy 4th of July! I love Independence Day! We're not really doing anything exciting. Lincoln, Cody and Faha will be coming back later today from Scout camp at Bear Lake. We'll probably get some fireworks to do here at home and then we usually go up on our sundeck to watch the big fireworks shows. We usually have a pretty good view of them. I'm mostly looking forward to a day without day care kids and piano lessons!
Well, in the spirit of Brooke's blog I'll give you a view into a day in my life. I get up between 5:30 and 6:15 depending on which day care kids are coming. Tuesdays and Wednesdays are usually my early days. I get ready, make our bed, and eat a little something. (If I don't eat when I get up, I get sick. It must be from all those pregnancies.) My friend, Kayla, and I go walking at 7:00. We walk around the neighborhood until 7:30. We come home and wait for two more day care kids to arrive, then we leave and walk until around 8:00. I come home and make breakfast. We usually have omelets, french toast, pancakes, oatmeal or other hot cereal, or scrambled eggs. I try to make a hot breakfast most mornings. We have not been having much cold cereal lately, only once in a while. So we eat, clean up and we do house cleaning from 9:00 until about 10:00. Then the kids have free time and I usually fold clothes, feed babies, or something else that I can do sitting down and rest a little. Then I usually take the kids outside and they play until around 11:30. I start making lunch at 11:30 and we try to sit down to eat by 12:00. Two kids get picked up at 12:30. I eat lunch and clean up. By then it's usually 1:00. I read to the kids and put them down for naps. I rest, work on Primary stuff, and tidy up. The kids usually wake up from their naps around 3:00 and we have a snack. I try to start making dinner then because piano lessons start at 4:00. I usually give piano lessons from 4:00-8:00. All the day care kids are picked up by 5:30. Sometimes the family eats without me, sometimes they wait and we eat together at 8:00. The kids clean up the kitchen. I usually get to bed about 11:00.
Some things I want to improve on as I read this are:
more structure to our day
scheduling time for doing schoolwork, art projects, and music practice
more routine to our evening and bedtime
I usually have a project I'm working on and my current project is the garage. I'm hoping to have the garage all cleaned out and set up to use as another room for my daycare for the summer. I'd like it to use it for messy play and also to give the kids more room to spread out a little because I'm not using my basement anymore for the daycare. During the winter we can use the garage to park the cars in (imagine that!).
After I finish the garage I want to change some things in the kitchen. I have finally had enough of apples. My plan is to paint the cabinets black and get rid of the country look. I am trying to decide on an accent color. I'm taking ideas and input. Let me know what I should use as my accent color. I'd like to paint one wall the accent color and the other walls will be a very light beige.
The family room is next. I want it to be brown and aqua. I need ideas for decorations for the walls. I'm also thinking of painting one wall aqua.
Well, it's time to go make lunch. I hope everyone has a happy 4th! We are so blessed to live in a free country with all the blessings we enjoy and the freedoms we have. I feel very blessed to have the family and friends that I do. I hope all of us can get together to celebrate Dad's birthday and Jenelle's wedding in the fall. I'm looking forward to seeing as many of you as possible. Love you all!
Happy 4th of July! I love Independence Day! We're not really doing anything exciting. Lincoln, Cody and Faha will be coming back later today from Scout camp at Bear Lake. We'll probably get some fireworks to do here at home and then we usually go up on our sundeck to watch the big fireworks shows. We usually have a pretty good view of them. I'm mostly looking forward to a day without day care kids and piano lessons!
Well, in the spirit of Brooke's blog I'll give you a view into a day in my life. I get up between 5:30 and 6:15 depending on which day care kids are coming. Tuesdays and Wednesdays are usually my early days. I get ready, make our bed, and eat a little something. (If I don't eat when I get up, I get sick. It must be from all those pregnancies.) My friend, Kayla, and I go walking at 7:00. We walk around the neighborhood until 7:30. We come home and wait for two more day care kids to arrive, then we leave and walk until around 8:00. I come home and make breakfast. We usually have omelets, french toast, pancakes, oatmeal or other hot cereal, or scrambled eggs. I try to make a hot breakfast most mornings. We have not been having much cold cereal lately, only once in a while. So we eat, clean up and we do house cleaning from 9:00 until about 10:00. Then the kids have free time and I usually fold clothes, feed babies, or something else that I can do sitting down and rest a little. Then I usually take the kids outside and they play until around 11:30. I start making lunch at 11:30 and we try to sit down to eat by 12:00. Two kids get picked up at 12:30. I eat lunch and clean up. By then it's usually 1:00. I read to the kids and put them down for naps. I rest, work on Primary stuff, and tidy up. The kids usually wake up from their naps around 3:00 and we have a snack. I try to start making dinner then because piano lessons start at 4:00. I usually give piano lessons from 4:00-8:00. All the day care kids are picked up by 5:30. Sometimes the family eats without me, sometimes they wait and we eat together at 8:00. The kids clean up the kitchen. I usually get to bed about 11:00.
Some things I want to improve on as I read this are:
more structure to our day
scheduling time for doing schoolwork, art projects, and music practice
more routine to our evening and bedtime
I usually have a project I'm working on and my current project is the garage. I'm hoping to have the garage all cleaned out and set up to use as another room for my daycare for the summer. I'd like it to use it for messy play and also to give the kids more room to spread out a little because I'm not using my basement anymore for the daycare. During the winter we can use the garage to park the cars in (imagine that!).
After I finish the garage I want to change some things in the kitchen. I have finally had enough of apples. My plan is to paint the cabinets black and get rid of the country look. I am trying to decide on an accent color. I'm taking ideas and input. Let me know what I should use as my accent color. I'd like to paint one wall the accent color and the other walls will be a very light beige.
The family room is next. I want it to be brown and aqua. I need ideas for decorations for the walls. I'm also thinking of painting one wall aqua.
Well, it's time to go make lunch. I hope everyone has a happy 4th! We are so blessed to live in a free country with all the blessings we enjoy and the freedoms we have. I feel very blessed to have the family and friends that I do. I hope all of us can get together to celebrate Dad's birthday and Jenelle's wedding in the fall. I'm looking forward to seeing as many of you as possible. Love you all!
Sunday, July 8, 2007
Hello to everyone! Well, in case you haven't heard, our plans for me to go back to school have changed. I'm back to providing daycare and giving piano lessons as my life's work. Things just didn't work out, but it's okay.
We had a nice couple of weeks. The last week of June Anita went to our neighborhood stake's girls camp. She had a good time and certified for her 3rd year. While she was gone, we went to our ward campout at Deer Creek. It was fun. Anyone who knows me, knows I am NOT a camper, but I actually enjoyed it. It was a nice break in the usual routine. Siu was in the water from sunup to sundown. She's a little fish. The boys played cards and swam too.
We had a pretty relaxing 4th. We went to see Spiderman 3 and then we went out to dinner. We came home and took a nap and then did our little fireworks in the front yard. It was fun.
Last week was pretty uneventful. Tomorrow, Anita, is leaving to go with our (Tongan) stake to girls camp. This will be her last camp this summer (thank goodness!). I sure do miss her when she's gone.
We're getting ready to participate in the Pioneer Day Childrens Parade on July 21st. Faha and Pasi will march in the parade.
Well, gotta go and take Anita's camp stuff to be loaded up. Have a nice week everyone!
Love,
Michele
We had a nice couple of weeks. The last week of June Anita went to our neighborhood stake's girls camp. She had a good time and certified for her 3rd year. While she was gone, we went to our ward campout at Deer Creek. It was fun. Anyone who knows me, knows I am NOT a camper, but I actually enjoyed it. It was a nice break in the usual routine. Siu was in the water from sunup to sundown. She's a little fish. The boys played cards and swam too.
We had a pretty relaxing 4th. We went to see Spiderman 3 and then we went out to dinner. We came home and took a nap and then did our little fireworks in the front yard. It was fun.
Last week was pretty uneventful. Tomorrow, Anita, is leaving to go with our (Tongan) stake to girls camp. This will be her last camp this summer (thank goodness!). I sure do miss her when she's gone.
We're getting ready to participate in the Pioneer Day Childrens Parade on July 21st. Faha and Pasi will march in the parade.
Well, gotta go and take Anita's camp stuff to be loaded up. Have a nice week everyone!
Love,
Michele
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
This is just a quick update. Cody had an awesome time at Disneyland. I'll have him post some of his pictures. Anita and Cody did very well in their theater workshop this month. They both were teacher's assistants and had a great time. The teacher appreciated them so much that we only had to pay one fee for the workshop. Also, Cody didn't try out for the Shakespeare team, but the teacher put him on it because he impressed her so much! He and Anita are natural actors. They are both really excited for the competition which will be in October in Cedar City.
Anita is now at her second camp of the year. She went to Oakcrest two weeks ago. It's an LDS girls' camp for 7th and 8th graders. Now she is with our Palangi (English) ward at their rough camp. In two weeks she will go with our stake to their rough camp. After that I think she'll be home the rest of the summer, thank goodness! She was gone every weekday from 9:00am-3:30pm for 2 weeks this month and Oakcrest was a week long camp. I've missed her!
We are getting ready to go to our ward campout tonight. We're hoping to leave about 6:00pm. Lincoln is working today and I'm babysitting and giving two piano lessons before we go. I'm hoping to get at least one blanket finished with all my free time at the camp! We'll be back Saturday.
Not much else happening with us. I just try to keep up with the kids and the house and that keeps me pretty busy. Well, gotta go get ready for my morning walk.
Anita is now at her second camp of the year. She went to Oakcrest two weeks ago. It's an LDS girls' camp for 7th and 8th graders. Now she is with our Palangi (English) ward at their rough camp. In two weeks she will go with our stake to their rough camp. After that I think she'll be home the rest of the summer, thank goodness! She was gone every weekday from 9:00am-3:30pm for 2 weeks this month and Oakcrest was a week long camp. I've missed her!
We are getting ready to go to our ward campout tonight. We're hoping to leave about 6:00pm. Lincoln is working today and I'm babysitting and giving two piano lessons before we go. I'm hoping to get at least one blanket finished with all my free time at the camp! We'll be back Saturday.
Not much else happening with us. I just try to keep up with the kids and the house and that keeps me pretty busy. Well, gotta go get ready for my morning walk.
Thursday, June 7, 2007
Yea! I finally was able to post Siu's picture. I will try to get photos of the other kids posted soon. It seems to take me forever to post, so I usually don't have time. Well, I better go get ready for the day. I've spent an hour trying to get my scanner and computer to work together! The daycare kids will be arriving soon! Wish me luck today!
Wednesday, June 6, 2007
I had hoped to be able to post every day, but with up to 13 kids in the house at times, that is very difficult! I think I may be in a little over my head this summer. And to make things worse, it rained today so we were all stuck inside. Actually, the kids were okay. I relaxed my rules for video games due to the circumstances and things weren't too bad.
Cody calls me a couple of times a day. He's having a great time at Disneyland. He said he has had fun on the rides. He said the scariest ride was the Tower of Terror. They will leave tomorrow night and be home sometime around noon on Friday.
I've been trying to scan some more pictures to post, but my scanner is not cooperating! It's making me mad. I have an adorable picture of Siu from dance. She's wearing an Alice in Wonderland costume because one of her dances was to "A Very Merry UnBirthday". She looks like a doll.
This evening was rather nice. None of my piano students showed up! I haven't had a free Wednesday evening in months. It was strange. Could it be because their monthly payments are due this week????
Well, it's time for bed, you know how I know? Perry Mason is about to come on!
Good Night!
Cody calls me a couple of times a day. He's having a great time at Disneyland. He said he has had fun on the rides. He said the scariest ride was the Tower of Terror. They will leave tomorrow night and be home sometime around noon on Friday.
I've been trying to scan some more pictures to post, but my scanner is not cooperating! It's making me mad. I have an adorable picture of Siu from dance. She's wearing an Alice in Wonderland costume because one of her dances was to "A Very Merry UnBirthday". She looks like a doll.
This evening was rather nice. None of my piano students showed up! I haven't had a free Wednesday evening in months. It was strange. Could it be because their monthly payments are due this week????
Well, it's time for bed, you know how I know? Perry Mason is about to come on!
Good Night!
Saturday, June 2, 2007
June 2, 2007 The first day of our blog!
Hi to everyone! I've been trying to get this set up for awhile, but haven't really taken the time to finish it. We had a busy day. It was Faha's last soccer game today and we got his soccer pictures. I'm going to try to put them in. Cody and Pasi don't have their pictures yet because their last game was two weeks ago and they had a "by" this week. After the soccer game, we came home and I got a cleaning bug and put everyone to work getting this house clean! It looks pretty good, just don't look in the garage!
Siu's last day of school was May 23rd, Cody's was May 31st and Anita, Faha, and Pasi had their last day yesterday. There are some happy children at this house! Cody is busy getting ready for his trip to Disneyland with the school orchestra. They leave Monday night and will get back Friday afternoon. He's pretty excited.
Well, enough writing. I want to try to get some pictures posted. Love to all!
Siu's last day of school was May 23rd, Cody's was May 31st and Anita, Faha, and Pasi had their last day yesterday. There are some happy children at this house! Cody is busy getting ready for his trip to Disneyland with the school orchestra. They leave Monday night and will get back Friday afternoon. He's pretty excited.
Well, enough writing. I want to try to get some pictures posted. Love to all!
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
