Bedtimes

Devin pushing Tara out of the nest..., but Tara left her two baby birds.

Did my own children require this much energy? I have been watching my grandbabies this weekend and I have forgotten how much work little ones can be. Was I younger, more energy, skinnier, and had more energy... yes I said that twice!!! It can be challenging when you have your grandchildren and still one child of your own at home(under the legal age of 18). One minute you have your mom hat on and then you have to change into your grandma hat. Grandma hat is much easier to wear. Basically you say yes to everything. Why? Because it our privilege and it is NOT my job to make sure vegetable are eaten or bedtime obeyed. That is for their parents, but that is where it gets tricky. I have to make sure Parker eats his veggies and goes to bed on time. Oh well its summer and I give up on everyone's bedtime!!

Graduating

Getting that Diploma!!
My proud graduate

I can hardly believe that my little baby, Devin graduated high school last weekend. She also graduated seminary. Where has the time gone? Devin has never been a "I love school" girl, but I really feel like a blinked between Allison's graduating and now Devin. I can't hardly believe that all my girls have graduated high school. I'm so nervous about Devin being an "adult". It's hard to let my little baby go..........

Happy Birthday My Sweet Baby!

This saturday is Brodie's 2nd birthday! Were has the time gone since I was holding that sweet little boy in the ICU nusery? Brodie is such a sweet spirit and developing such a personality. We are so blessed for this boy to be in our family. Even though his favorite word is no and doesn't like us kiss him unless he deceides he wants to, but when he does kiss his grandma with those little fish lips it is the best kiss ever. We love this boy!

Stone Mountain

Christmas is very stressful to me. I have alot of baggage concerning some very bad memories of Christmas and I always put alot stress on myself concerning gifts and gift giving. I know that I shouldn't, but knowing and doing are two different things. Anyway John and I decided to give Jeremy and Tara family annual passes to Stone Mountain. After looking at Candi Welch blog and all the fun the had there I thought it would be a good gift for them. Something they can use all year long. We went up this weekend and John, Parker, and myself stayed at the Marriott at Stone Mountain. It is a very nice place and we look forward to staying there again!! They had a pool inside and outside. Parker didn't care for the inside pool, but the pool was outside was heated and the rain stopped long enough for Parker to swim a bit. We really enjoyed our stay!

Teaching in Sunday School

Well I have been called to be the 6/7 teacher in primary. I had managed to not have a calling for over a year so I knew it was coming. This actually the first time being a teacher in primary. I have always been in the primary presidency. My class is small and we are learning each other ways and I think coming together nicely. These children do not realize they are my test students. I will trying out my teaching strategies out on them. Why do they act different in primary?? I'm not sure. I'm learning things about myself and things I need to work on. The lord is always teaching us!!

Where does the time go??

I feel like days and weeks are just whizzing by at a record pace. Does this happen when you get older? I remember when I was younger thinking will this week ever end. Now I can't seem to get enough hours in. This week was very busy with a two finals, a research paper and various other projects and if you know me at all I of course was burning the midnight oil trying to get it all done. Promising myself that I WILL STOP PROCRASTINATING!!!! I hate how it makes me feel. This week is busy also, but there is nothing I could do earlier so I will take it one day at a time. In vow to not be such a procrastinator I have already done some of my assignments for my new class. *pat on back* Reese's party is this weekend so we have to get everything ready!! Where has that time gone?? My little reese cup is going to be 4!!!! I'm going to take a nice sunday nap aka meditate and figure out where is all this time going.

Trying to be better...

ok, so my camera has been busted for a while and I don't like to post without pics so I haven't posted. My daughter aka my personal assistant changed my background and suggested I post. I am obedient most of the time so here it is. Let's face it, it is nice to look at everyone else's and look at all their cool post. Mine is not cool at all. In fact I would say boring! I have no cute crafts, no organizing tips, and no recipes to share. I am ordinary sometimes even boring. The one thing about this blogging thing is that you can vent your opinion or get things off your chest. Perhaps that's what I need to do instead of worrying about pictures. Some of my favorite blogs are about how people feel. That everyone is NOT perfect!! We all struggle in some way. I guess it makes us all feel good to realize that we are not the only ones who are struggling. There still will be the "perfect" ones that blog about how everything is great, but I am definitely not going to give you that illusion. I am far from perfect in fact I should be cooking dinner now and doing homework......