Traveling

Sunday 30th
9am church alone
back to abbi's a few more picts with her and her kids
say goodbye:(
to airport
meet russ and kim
12:30 fly out to SLC
lunch in airport
starbucks peppermint hot chocolate
fly to Austin, read and finish my book, scriptures, little magazine, russ comes to chat with my while kim studies (i had an empty seat next to me on both flights)
9 michael gets me at the airport
drive home


Saturday March 29th
to columbia river temple in Richland
wedding picts
ticket while following family to reception hall
mad then cry a bit
pull myself together for the luncheon
fred meyer 1 hour photos
to kims cousins house
reception
picts
i'm a rockstar:)
head back to yakima on a late night drive and sing with kim so i don't fall asleep
10:30 drop kim and russ off, to abbi's
up late chatting

Friday 28th
loung around, take pictures
12:05 pick up russ and kim
bring 'em back to abbi's
take 'em to kim's grandparents
hang for a bit
shop/lunch with abbi
4 meet russ and kim to drive to tri cities
Aikele family pictures
late night Pasco airport for Gavin
Reception Hall
bed and breakfast, share room with kim
death by chocolate cookies
YUM

Thursday 27th
lounge around, shop around town
out to lunch
get ready for girls night out
6 to Zesta Cuchina with Abbi's friends
home to watch Enchanted with friends
up late chatting with lil Abner


Wednesday 26th
5:30am rise and shine
6 michael drives me to the airport
7 roam around reading magazines
8 board the plane and fly to utah, 2:45, meet rebecca, a professor at UT who is flying to a conference...lady on the plane is having pregnancy pains and the paramedics get her off when we land in SLC
breakfast in SLC, croissandwich...not as good as i remember as a child
call emily s. to break into my email to get abbi's phone number for me: get chastised b/c it is so full (of emails i need to delete)
fly from SLC to Yakima
read The Wednesday Letters
12:05pm arrive in Yakima...the smallest airport I've ever been in....Abbi picks me up in her white land rover with her 2 cutie kids in the back
to Albertsons
to her home, eat lunch, chat, i fall asleep on the floor
when i wake up we walk to Chinese Buffet where her son eats clams
up late talking

Tuesday
get ready for my trip
hang at michele's, black jammie pants to her
pick up janet at the airport with michael
get ready to fly outta town--matthew sad and cried

Monday
Matthew bee school at Xander's
alyssa and i here, i pack/organize/clean
Lunch with Jessica Brough at Jason's Deli
chat and kids eat lots of free ice cream:)

Easter Sunday

Sunday
Alyssa's pretty lavender butterfly Easter dress
church
home
Russ and Kim come over (2:30)
prepare ham/strawberry cake/deviled eggs
5 Molina's over
enjoy dinner/chatting
7 everyone leaves
scriptures with russ and kim
they head home

Saturday
8 am Senior Photography Session
9:40 home and scramble
9:55 Primary activity: Easter Egg Hunt
Michael carrot javelin throw
Stacy help with egg on a spoon
egg hunt/take pictures
linger and chat
home: michael bike ride
i edit picts while the kids jump
garage open all day to let nice air in
5 shaw kids come over
kids play, i edit on computer
8 shaw kids go home, our kids bath and bed


Friday
Good Friday--Tyler off of school
park--Gattiland
WalMart
M home early
trampoline
family walk to HEB snow cone stand
5 Shaws
M & I Johnny Carino's date
Marie Antoinette

Thursday
go to the gym
Tylers' school for lunch
he begs us to stay for recess
we do...i "biff it" on the playground in tight workout pants (more embarresing)
he's sad when i say he can't go home with us
dilemma with teacher, she tells me to go
i feel bad
home...phone with linda
cancelled lunch, but Mindy didn't get the memo
chat with her for a bit
she goes
3 get tyler at school
5 Michael home...dinner
7 dress Rehearsal He is the Christ

Wednesday
Tyler to school
9 Easter Bee School party here
girls mean to Alyssa gets my blood boiling
sassy sassy girls
12 pick up time
12:30 head out to Sams, Wal Mart for food storage stuff
2:30 get tyler early from school, drop off kids at Stacy's pick up Michele
massage/pedicure
fun, laughing, relaxing
6 home
7 take kids to amy m.'s baby shower
stay just a few minutes
edit photos

Tuesday
photo shoot with the 3 girls from Houston
holding off the rainstorm...overcast
12 they head out
3 get tyler in thunderstorm rain
steed kids come over to play
5:30 domino's pizza--feed the two families
j and michele stay to chat
7 they head out, get kids ready for bed

St Patricks Day

Last week was Spring Break and I documented nearly every move, so check the Many Joyous Occasions blog for a play by play there.

Surprised the kids with clover necklaces, tatoos, stickers, and gold coins this morning...finished off the Lucky Charms.
I taught Bee School today and we had a St. Patty's Day party! I got a green clover tablecloth, fun cookies, clover cups, clover green necklaces...fun times.
Kids liked jumping on the trampoline.
After bee school I took Michele some clover cookies and we invited Jackson to come over. Instead Matthew stayed to play and she came over to do some Maternity pictures
Took her back home, got matthew
we got tyler at school
Is Michele in labor? Maybe not...
Kaitlin and friends here to take pictures...over to the greenbelt
tyler lost....looking for him for 20 minutes
Kaitlin and Alyssa found him at home
prayers answered
he got in a little trouble
Green pancakes for dinner made by michael
I'm a little sad, so he does FHE and gets the kids ready for bed
kids to bed, girls out shopping
michael to walmart
quiet time for me to edit michele's picts and the girls

It's been about a week

Saturday
6:30 up and get ready to go
7:02 am we leave to drive to S.A. to go to the temple
excellent timing, kids doing great
arrive for kimmie to babysit at 8:45am
9am head out to temple...wrong way...get right way
9:40 inside
10am session begins
see 2 families from our ward there for marriage
run into book store at temple/across the street
1 head back to kimmies
Major Traffic
what should have been 20 minutes took an hour and a half
2:30 pile everyone in the car, Jason's Deli for lunch
our treat to say thank you to kimmie
take her home
3:30 depart S.A. a little traffic
in Ausitn, TRAFFIC! auto accident:(
I guess we aren't going to the first wedding reception..it was from 3-5 and we got home at 6
home to change, kids want to go to party with cake, we left michael at home
7 arrive in pfluger chapel for wilding reception
kids have fun roaming around, i chat with strangers and friends
8:30 head home
drop kids off while i head out to grocery for pull ups and meal for tomorrow b/c guests are coming
notified of daylight saving, change clocks
10 michael to bed, i stay up to work on pictures

Friday
watch candida's kids
liz come over with her kids
1 tylers school for the 1st grade Hoedown
check him out early
3 michael home
stacy over to take julia's 1 year picts, k.m. brings me my backdrops
take j picts
4 head to church to set up with emily while michael watches her kids
building open house, set up primary room
5 back home, get ready
5:45 head back, stop at jackinthebox for texas cheeseburger
6-8 at church for open house, meet nice people, stand around a lot:)
8:30 home, michael and I watch King of California
11 head to bed

Thursday
5:30 am michael and i hear crazy noise outside, figure it is thunder
6:30 we wake to lights flashing outside our window
i peek over the fence and see 4 cop cars, a tow truck with a smashed car, and amublance and the whole road blocked off
all day wondered what happened
9:30am meeting for primary at emily's
11home for a few
run errands to bank and rr donuts
to micheles to try to take pictures
xander, matthew, jackson play
chrissta comes back from dentist
chat
it rains and is cold
head to smoothie cafe for my favorite yummy chicken caesar sandwich on focchia bread
alyssa falls asleep and i put her on chairs
it is a pouring monsoon outside
gotta go get the kids at school in the rain
3:25 finally pick up freezing cold tyler
home to relax and watch tv b/c that is what is cozy when it rains
i check my email and find out that dan barely missed being hit by that car this morning, it hit the trees...he was jogging...WOW
5 michael home early
heat up leftover lasagna
6:20 head out to enrichment night
potatos and salad
play game
chat with peeps
8:40 head home

Wednesday
7:30 tyler to school
go jogging with matthew and alyssa...could barely keep up with m.a.d. push him just 5 minutes of the 30 we jogged
change
take him to bee school at temples
alyssa and I run errands to walmart (easter candy) hannah d's (sunglasses) payless (white flats) wolf camara (try to check out lenses, but they have none)
11 home, unload groceries, cook sausage for lasagana later
12 pick up matthew and ethan
12:15 take ethan home and stay to chat for a bit so the kids can play for a bit
1 head home
1:30 zane comes over to play with kids while i computerize...they play soccer in the back yard, build a fort inside, have fun
3 go get tyler and drop off zane on street near his home
3:15 make 2 big lasagna's 1 for us and 1 for a girl i vt who had a baby
4 quick to park for just 30 minutes: meet stacy and kids
chat with sonja on phone while we deliver
Dinner to Audrey and family
6 home, our fam eats lasagna
family fun time
7 ready for bed, michael heads to a meeting
7:30 a little quiet time for me
kids didn't watch tv ALL day! wow!

Tuesday
9:10 kickboxing
10:30 head home
11 shower...already tired
go on a walk with matthew and alyssa to greenbelt trail and roam around for a while playing "transformers" and playing on the "big stairs" which matthew loves
entice them to go home and get a snack
2 chill
2:40 head out early to go get tyler at school so I can read my BOM in the car (reading in 97 days for pres hinckley)
3 hi tyler!

4:20 clair over to watch my kids
4:30 senior portrait session
6 home to michael and leftovers

Monday
7:30 tyler to school
cartoons/computer
9 matthew to bee school
alyssa and I run errands, but I can't remember where
12 get matthew
michele drop off a treat and matthew
run to HEB with alyssa
back to michele's for just a bit before getting tyler at school
3 get tyler
go to lights for cake and play time for just an hour
potatoes in the oven
chilly day, make baked potato soup
michael loves it, kids not so much
6 family home evening: Kindness..."Kindness begins with me"
scriptures/prayer (I don't always write this b/c it seems second nature every night)
kids to bed
a little tv, but quiet time reading both of us our BOM

days

Sunday
8:40 dad drives into town
8:45 leave after helping him adjust his pants that are too big for him and borrowing one of michaels ties
8:55 arrive at church
Lights confirmation day--hold Julia and nathan joins while they are confirmed
Michael confirms
Primary, etc
after church: michael meetings
dad home and playing games with me and kids
2:20 michael home from meeting
hang, games
3:30 michael makes crepes since we missed pancake jamboree yesterday
4:30 lights come over
dad chats, we talk about the confirmation, Priesthood responsibilities, PEF, etc
6:30 they head out, dad falls asleep
7:15 michele drops off a treat to me, chat
7:30 michael juggles things for kids, kids to bed
8 michael and i both off and on the phone: emily m., candida, my mom...him: elders stuff


Saturday
7 michael leaves to go to leadership meeting
7:30 kids and I up
9 michael home
10 our fam goes to stake baptism...its tyler in november:)
11 I head out to Kily's baby shower at Chuys, michael takes kids home
eat and chat with friends, happy for Kily, sit by Trish, help emily take care of Jacob and he kinda latched onto me
12:45 head home
1 take tyler to nadia's birthday party while matthew and michael work in the backyard
nadia's party had a mad scientist magic show
stay for a bit b/c tyler was timid (didn't want to breath the dry ice air) alyssa played with girly toys
2 home for a bit
3 get tyler with kids while michael goes with adam to help move a fridge
3:30 home with kids...play in backyard and in front yard...waiting for michael, he endedup being 3 hours:) precious saturday time serving. I was surprisingly ok. chatted with brad, clair and violet, boys threw frisbee across the street to each other
returned my monster lens with UPS...didn't get insurance, i hope its okay...
6 michael home
leftovers for dinner
bath the bearded lady and the boys
pack in the car to go check out trampolines at sams and academy
8:30 kids to bed
m and I lounge

Friday
8:30 try to go to gym, but it is closed for babysitting:(
workout a little at home
get gas at HEB
9:15 brother Hyatt called to say he found my credit card on the ground at HEB when he got gas...what a miracle! I didn't even know it was lost....
10:30 to the park lots of ladies from church there...stacy came, chat with erin ch. my new visiting teachee...little tiff with little boys
end with michele, she came over for a bit after park for lunch
2:45 michael home from work, michele leaves to go get her kids, michael gets tyler:)
4 michael and kids want to go to the pool (in february) I brought the super lens and took pictures and read my magazine
home with chilly kids
dinner
kids to bed
Michael and I watch No Reservations--cute movie:)