How many is too many?

We have decided that Friday nights are friend nights. We order pizza, they all start here and eat around 6pm and then spread out or stay here. We know who they are with, enjoy visiting with them, and it makes for a fun night.

This weekend I have good friends who traveled to run a marathon (go Diana and Richard!) and left their 3 beautiful girls in our care. We are loving it. Here is a quick rundown in numbers from our last night fun.

4 pizzas plus
3 2liters of pop plus
2 packages of oreos plus
1 gallon of milk
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10 happy kids.

I LOVE a house full of kids.

Twilight Night...LOVED IT!

So I went to hang out with my peeps for the Twilight premiere. Yes, I went at midnight, yes I was giddy, and yes, I still taught my first graders the next morning bright and early. My expectations of the movie were not so high knowing the budget and all. I loved it!! It was fun seeing something that wasn't even in production when I read it come to the big screen. I had plenty of time to work through the casting. I am so glad I have read the books to know the depth of the storyline and characters but really had a great time. My cheeks hurt the next day because I had a permagrin on for an hour straight, at least. Anyone else go? What did you think? Thanks for the pictures Angela!







Thanks ladies! We had a blast!

How would you live?

I have a friend currently helping her mother through her last weeks of life. This experience has caused me to reflect on some of the things she is going through. One of her journal entries asked the question, "How do you live each day knowing that it might be your last?"

Isn't that how we should be living? Shouldn't we love more, give more, share more, care more, thank more?

This is my thank you to you....all of my friends and family who care. I am so blessed.

We really are here! With no help from AT&T

OK...so the family has moved...and we attempted to switch cable networks. DIDN'T WORK! After weeks, we are here again. Our move lasted a couple of weeks and we are nicely settled in our home as of Oct. 15th. We moved in the first weekend in October and trickled in all the junk after that. WE LOVE IT! This is truly a blessing to us and we are often overwhelmed. It is just across the main road from our old address so the ward and schools are the same. Email me and I will send you our new address.

Thanks for your patience and for still checking on the lame blogger that is me, Shelley.

Love you all!

Ode to Shalyce

This is my niece. Her name is Shalyce.



She had a birthday and ate lots of geese. Note the stomach.

LOVE YOU SHALYCE!!! HERE IS THE UPDATE YOU REQUESTED. I am now hopping on to yours to check out your latest. Hope it's a tummy pic like I requested! :)

Is that what I think it is?

So today we had 5 classes of first graders out at recess. All of the sudden, a skunk comes running around the corner from the front of the school, along the edge of the playground and behind a portable, which had some of our kids on the other side. What would a first grader do if a skunk came racing toward them?


I have a possible idea.




I also know that it is a hilarious site to see 5 teachers running the other way trying to round up 100+ kids in a matter of seconds.

Oh, the joys of teaching.

This was more fun than the bull snake that came up out of the sand on the kindergarten playground in Arizona.

-10%

For those of you who may not have read my earlier post, I am in a somewhat competitive group of losers, weight loss that is. We all have 12 weeks to loose 10% of our weight. If we are able to do this and maintain the loss as of October 6, we get part of the pot. (It's not gambling when it is for a good cause, right? :)) Today was the wonderful day that the scale screamed back at me that I reached that goal!!!!!! YEA!!

I still have some Brody weight left but feel so much better. Thanks for the boost Mama Cass! Couldn't have done it without ya!