I'm Tired

I had four wonderful days off, worked Monday and then had these three days off where someone put this wild hair up my butt to clean the house. Remember I did this about 6 months ago. This time I added a new highlight.


In my family we call it Bisselling, since that is the name of the machine, but it is just carpet cleaning. We have been here almost two years so I thought that it was probably time. And it was. I guess it is a good thing that we have brown carpet because I really wouldn't have wanted to see all that dirt. I probably would have done this sooner if I did know it was so dirty. Anyways, three days of laboriously cleaning this house from top to bottom, I am tired and I have to work the next two days. Maybe that will give me a break! I know of some moms at work like to go to work because it is a break for them. I really don't know what else to talk about. I really haven't done much this week besides clean and sleep.

Last night was mutual, I am in charge of the Mia Maids. I usually just teach on Sundays and go to the Mid Week activity whenever I am not working. We have had a few activities here, a slumber party, BBQ, and I taught them about Digital Scrapbooking. One of the leaders told me last night that she went out and bought a program and did a page. I was so excited! I love converting people! If you have any questions Michelle just ask. Anyways back to last night's mutual. It was a combined activity (Young Men and Young Women) and they have this activity yearly called Standards Night. It is a way for the leaders to help the youth be motivated to keep the standards of the church like dating, friends, gospel principles, and keeping the word of wisdom. It was really an awesome night. I think that the youth and the leaders all learned from each other and had a fun and spiritual night. I am so glad that I went, I was so close not to going, I was late because I was going back and forth about going or not. The speakers really did do an awesome job and I hope that they know that all their time and effort they put into last night was worth it. It made me see how strong the youth in the church have to be to keep the commandments and follow what Heavenly Father wants them to do and be. I just worry about how the world will be when my kids are teens. It isn't going to be any better that's for sure. I hope that you all have a wonderful weekend and I will type at you all later.

Anna

P.S. LO's of the Week
Jesse in our backyard


Jonah's Blessing in Claremont

FOBTY

I thought I could spell but it is the little I or E, or 1 m or 2 m's that get me. Try it see what you get.

Your Common Spelling Mistake Score: 65% Correct

Your spelling is decent, but you do make quite a few mistakes. Let's just say you won't be winning a spelling bee anytime soon!

Do You Make Common Spelling Mistakes?

I will be back later with a real post.

Anna

What ever

Sometimes the hardest part of blogging is coming up with a dag gum title. It is easy when I know what I want to talk about. I guess I will just go through the weekly round up. Monday I was home from work and chilled around the house mainly. I did get a little worried at one moment when the dogs started barking hysterically and I had no clue what was going on. It was the pest guy who comes monthly that they were excited to see (he had arms that could be used to throw their ball). He did throw the ball and it landed in a fresh pile of poo and Bruno didn't care, he picked it up and brought it over to Josh wanting him to throw it again. So, they started barking when he wasn't throwing it because Josh was cleaning up Bruno's muzzle. Gross!

I worked the next two days. I had three babies two of which were twins. When twins get big and aren't needing too much assistance, like IV's we try to co-bed them. So, these two little girls were staying in the same isolette. It was so incredibly CUTE! Whenever I would go in to change their diapers I had to take a moment to OOh and AAh at them. We have them really close in the isollette where they are always touching (and getting tangled there are more arms and legs than anything). They were about 3.5lbs each, with a full head of hair. Changing the diapers was hilarious as when you went to lift the legs more often than not you would get one leg of each of the girls, then you would have to find the leg that you actually wanted. At the end of my shift I put them facing each other and one had her hand under the sisters cheek. It was sssoooo cute, I really could just eat them up!

Yesterday, I had to go into the car dealership because our Sub was stinking!! I took it in a month or so ago for a check up/ oil change and a week or so after that it started stinking like Diesel. It was DISGUSTING. I was hoping that whatever it was might just burn off, no such luck. So, I reluctantly took it in yesterday at 7am I had a book so I was prepared to stay at least until they would check it out and see what the problem was. At 8:30, he said they were all done and it was the Oil Filter and they also noticed a nail in one of the tires and so both things were fixed and they washed the car. Woo Hoo! I was gone by 9 and was able to make it to a meeting at work. Did some shopping in town then came home. It was a really nice day.

Today is yard day. I spent two hours this morning weeding and pruning rose bushes. tonight Ben will mow and edge. Well, I need to work on my lesson my lesson for Sunday so I will type at you all later and leave you with the LO of the week.

Erin, here's what I did with the template you have too.



This is Ben and Mike last July 4th, our resident Pyros! Credits Here
Anna

FOBTY

This weeks quiz was about who you were in High school. I didn't take AP classes, but I got my first C in college so I guess this is somewhat true.

You Were the Brainy Kid

In high school, you were acing AP classes or hanging out in the computer lab. You may have been a bit of a geek back then, but now you're a total success!

Who Were You In High School?

Randomness

I have been waking up earlier on my days weekdays off so that I can get more done while Ben is at work. Have you ever noticed how much more you can get done when your spouse is away? If I had a list of things to do maybe one thing would get done on that list, but I could get the whole thing done if he was at work. I am reading my scriptures, reading from a pleasure book, having breakfast and then going on a walk/run with the dogs. Cocoa is so easy to walk with, he is always right next to you (unless there is a cat, then I almost get draged away by them). Bruno is horrible, he is always stretching his leash and pulling me everywhere, then he all of a sudden stops right in front of me where I nearly fall over him. I don't know why I do this with them, it would be so much easier if I went alone (this is probably kid training). We all need some exercise so we go. I noticed a few weeks ago that Cocoa's bum is the cutest thing when he is walking, you would think he was a girl the way he sways those hips. It's a roit, Ben thinks I am nuts. The other thing that Cocoa does is sleep on his back. That is definitley a riot. I have to get a pic of that one day. Whenever I notice it he notices me and gets up, it's their super sonic hearing.

Last night I had a Baby Dream. I was due any day but NOTHING was happening, I was doing everything to try and induce labor but it wasn't happening. Then all of a sudden I was in horrendous pain and had a baby coming out. There were some friends from work at my house they helped me deliver (Ben was probably passed out in the back) called the ambulance and I went to the hospital. Thinking about it now, if that happened in real life I might have stayed home. If you have already delivered, why do you need to go to the hospital? Maybe for some records issue, and SSN stuff. What do you guys think? Am I crazy for not wanting to go? Oh well, it was just a dream.

In other baby related stuff have you ever done this before? It is the Chinese necklace pendulum gender predictor. It is supposed to tell how many children you will concieve, so it counts miscarrages. It predicted two girls and a boy for me, the only bad thing about it is it doesn't say WHEN.



Hope everyone has a great Friday. I have to get some things ready for tomorrow. I am ecxited to actually be devoted to scrapping, and I wont have the rig connected to the internet so I can't surf, I can only scrap, that really does help. If I have the internet I will spend so much more time surfing than actually getting anything done. Anyways, I will talk to you all later.

Anna

Oh, I almost forgot! Here's my LO of the week.


Credits Here Ben and Jesse wathing the Fireworks last 4th of July.

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This week is: What American accent do you have?

What American accent do you have? Your Result: North Central   "North Central" is what professional linguists call the Minnesota accent. If you saw "Fargo" you probably didn't think the characters sounded very out of the ordinary. Outsiders probably mistake you for a Canadian a lot.
The Midland
The West
Boston
Philadelphia
The South
The Inland North
The Northeast
What American accent do you have? Quiz Created on GoToQuiz

I have heard people ask me before if I have lived in California my whole life (which I have), so maybe that is why it says North Central.

I'll be back later!
Anna

Stuff

I hope that everyone knows that we don't have tv reception. On that note I am always glad that we don't there are very rare moments when I wish that we did have tv. One of those moments would be now. I really do love the Olympics. They are so much fun to watch but I just make do with what I hear around work and the internet. I do know that I can probably catch allot of the games on the internet but I will make do.

The past two days at work have been very uneventful, so much so that I finished the book that I started on Sat. I have wondered if I would be considered a fast reader and I think that after reading this book so quickly I think I am It was 500+ pages and not too easy but I really cannot believe that I am done. Do any of you have any suggestions for some good, clean(er), books? Any ideas would be welcome.

Saturday I am hosting a crop at my house. Four or five of us are going to get together and scrapbook. I am going to haul my rig to the kitchen table and it start at about 10 and goes till we are done. I hope everything goes ok. I am sure it will.

I better get going the next shift is going to be coming soon.

Anna

Summer Book Club

I never realize how much I like reading until the summer. This year it has taken off more than ever. I read the Harry Potter Series last summer and that was it and moved on. This summer I have brodened my horizons. It all started with the Twilight series as we have all heard too much about. (I have finished the fourth book and have mixed feelings about it. It could have been so much better, but I will probably read the series again.) Then with our Jane Austen addiction lately, I read Northanger Abby, (short, won't read again). We borrowed two copies of that movie from the library, the newer one we watched and it was alright, I won't buy it, the older one was HORRID!! We couldn't even watch twenty min of it before we turned it off, badly done.

I also read two Nicholas Sparks books, the Guardian and Nights in Roadanthe. The second one is turning into a movie in September. He also wrote The Notebook and Message in a Bottle. I like to read Nicholas Sparks books but I never read them again so the library it a great thing, I can read it and turn it back in, and since his books are so easy to read it is a nice break. The County lib has a great thing where I can find the book I want to read on the internet, request it through their site and wait for it to be delivered to my lib. As long as it isn't something that I want NOW, it works great. I haven't had anything that I wanted that badley. I can also have a wish list of books so that I don't have to remember all the books I want to get and then they won't all be ready at the same time. Libraries are great.

I just finished Mansfield Park by Jane Austen, I liked it, might read again. The movies will be here next week then I'll rate those for ya. Now I am starting The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger I have only read 10 pages so we shall se how it goes. This will be a movie releasing Christmas Day. For the moment I am liking books that become movies, since if they are becoming a movie then it should be a half way decent book, and usually the book is better than the movie.

Enough with the books already what else have I been up to? .... That is about it. Well, not exactly but it is the gist of it all. We have had the freezer for about a week and I haven't filled it yet but I am working really hard to do it. I went to Rich's outlet bakery and picked up some Pizza crust and rolls, I know you are all wondering why I didn't get the cinnamon rolls too, well I didn't need 100 rolls staring me down.

The trip to Nelder Grove Today was relaxing. We went on a mile hike and I took a few pics and we had a couple take a pic of us and then my battery died. Yeah, I am lame I really should have checked that out.

Last week while I was checking out my scrapbooking sites there was a link to the Disney Outlet store and I found this


This is for Lily, for Halloween. Becca was a Tinkerbell for years for Halloween and so I thought this would be great for Lily. Becca got it Friday and loves it. Well I have to get going, but of course I will leave with my layout of the week, I really hope to be on here before next Sat.


I love this LO. Hope you do too Sarah. It is Jesse last Memorial Day.
Type at you all later.

Anna

FOBTY

This weeks challenge was to take a "Grease" Test. I haven't seen "Grease" in years and got 7/15.
If you want to take it, here is the link.

I will be back later with a full post we are heading out to Nelder Grove. I'll take some pics and let you know how it was.

Type at you all soon.
Anna