Ok I know it has been a while since my last post. Here is the update. So we finally got the swingset built... Jeff pretty much said you all should stick it. hahaha Anyways so it is really neat and I helped with most of it. Yes Yes we even went and bought me a drill so I could help put it together. We still need to stain it which is a sore topic since usually you stain before you build but Jeff didn't want to do it the normal way. He had to be different so I will have to stain it carefully. So it did rain the whole time we built it which the box says 5-10 hours oh please that must be based on santa's helpers building it. We started Saturday and we did not get done until Tuesday night. We still aren't done since I have to stain it and we are adding some toys to it. It really was a great experience... I never would tell Jeff that, what have him know he was right hmmmph never :)
So we didn't have anyone come help us because we wanted to do it ourselves since our families always help. It was our grueling task and I didn't want anyone to have to suffer. Sonia and David only suffered because they just came over without asking. Sonia heard the sickness in my voice and she told me to call her later and then was at my house 30 minutes later. She is a sweetheart. I met her at my work. She is from Mexico City and lived there for a while and then moved to Utah. Her family speaks mainly Spanish but they do know a lot of English. I have been trying to learn Spanish so that I can talk with them because they are so nice and just welcome you right in as if you are family. Well back to the swing set...
So Jeff and David were getting the base put up and I was inside cleaning the house. Jeff comes in laughing and tells me to get the digital camera. So I do and walk outside looking for what is so funny. Didn't see it at first until Jeff said look at the ladder. So I did and wow these geniuses had put one of the boards right through the ladder so the ladder was attached to the main part of the swing set which sounds simple to undo the board and move the ladder. Well if they had noticed it when it had just been done it would have been but when you have continued on it wasn't such an easy task. Well they got it fixed and went on their merry way. That was probably the only set back we had other then the rain. So I will load the pictures of it once I can find my cable for my camera. Well that is about all. I will keep u updated. Love you all.

Wow what a day... So as you read in my previous post Jeff and I were going to build the swing set for the kids rather then buy one... So let me start with how I was feeling Friday, which was horribly sick. I took Friday off so that I could do some things around the house but I ended up staying in bed because I was completely sick. This always happens when I work to much and it seems a little worse since I have became obsessed with working out thanks to you skinny sisters with little waists after having kids. heheeh But anyways back to the task at hand. So I am completely sick and when I wake up on Saturday I still do not feel good. I look outside and see that mother nature doesn't feel so hot herself. So as I walk downstairs I am greeted with 2 smiling kids with Tamagotchi that either have pooped or grown into another monster and those kids soon turn into fighting kids because they both want me to clean up their toys poop or watch it dance... Don't ask... hehehe I have one also so don't make fun. But back to my story......

So Jeff and I are outside in the freezing cold with a measuring tape and stakes trying to decide where to start. So as we measure, I hold where the stake needs to be and Cade hammers our hands I mean the stakes. I know not a good idea but hey he wanted to help. So this goes on for about an hour. Did I mention I was sick??? So finally we get all that done and Jeff starts to rope off where we are going to set up the swing set. Next our task is to level and weed where the swing set will be. We are using those pads that look like puzzle pieces and are bright colors.. So we start to weed, me using the as seen on TV "The Claw" and Jeff pulling each weed by hand, which seems to be taking hours and we have only completed a little corner... Soon my mouth starts and I sarcastically say how much better his idea of hand weeding was compared to my idea of tilling. Then I just fade out because his idea really was better just a lot harder. After an hour or so of running noses and red sore hands Jeff light bulb goes off... He remembers he bought a tool for the lawn mower that does this same thing other then faster. So Jeff gets the mower working and soon the roped area is done.... Did I mention I am sick and it is raining? Where did Cade go??? At this time my friends Sonia and David show up ready to help out... What great friends they are. So we start to lay the "No Weeds" fabric and it is windy and cold and I think by now we have all lost our minds. Jeff starts to hammer nails into the fabric hoping that it will stay put long enough for us to put the pads on and Sonia and I are trying to figure out the puzzle pieces... Hey it is a lot harder then we had thought. You have to have the outer parts perfect or else you are introuble. So we get one part connected and I laugh because we connected on the outside of the roped area since Jeff and David are laying that fabric down. So Jeff, David, Sonia and I all have to pick up the long piece of puzzle pad and carry it over to the area hoping that it doesn't all fall a part... It doesn't YEAH! So one row down and 100 more pads to add on... Well we run out of pads and we are all cold muddy and just plain tired... Wait we haven't even started to build the swing set. At this point I have to go buy some more pads and Jeff and David are going to finish laying down the fabric. Did I mention I am about to die from being so sick.
Well I go and return with the needed pads. At this point Sonia and David have left and I am needing a nap with my kids.... Hours tick by and I wake up and look outside and Jeff and Cade are putting down the rest of the puzzle pieces... And it is finally finished... The place where the swing set will be that is. We still have to stain the wood and build the damn swing set... Ughhh I am starting to think the Costco swingset is looking pretty darn good.... Well I guess my story is to be continued since it is 10:30 at night and all we have done is the pads which are covered with mud and water.... Oh what a day tomorrow will be. Does anyone know if it is supposed to rain.........

Well as you can see I tried out the Where I am from template. I hope you enjoy it. It was very hard to do... I am not so creative and you guys(my sisters) took all the good ones. hehehe

Tomorrow is going to be a hard working day. Jeff and I decided that we are going to build the kids swing set rather then buy the one at costco. Well I guess Jeff is the main thinker behind this task. We went to Lowes and bought a trailer full of wood and will start the staining of it tomorrow and hopefully have this project completed by Sunday. I hope that is. The kids have really no where to play and I don't like them in the front yard because people drive way to fast and my kids are awfully cute so someone might want to take them home. So I thought if we had a swing set in the back yard it would help us get the kids out of the TV room and into the sun and fresh air. We will see how this fun task goes.

I will let you know when it is done and how it went hopefully on Sunday. Well enjoy the poem.

WHERE I'M FROM

I am from Green Bean casserole, from 7-11 Slurpees and homemade pudding pops.

I am from a house with the lights always on, sharing a room with bunkbeds and music heard throughout the house.

I am from cherry trees and the raspberry bushes in the backyard

I am from fresh popcorn on a Sunday night and uncontrollable laughing, from the Mayne's The Watson's and The Libby's.

I am from the protective bond and a families unconditional love .

From your eyes will get stuck that way and We love you no matter what.

I am from a religion I might not always understand, a belief in baptism's for the dead, and that families will be together forever, I am from the Church of Jesus Christ.

I'm from Salt Lake City, Utah and Homemade ice cream with peach cobbler from the Dutch oven and playing kick the can in the dark.

From the coolwhip container with the finger mark and the line of five little girls, the bond between sisters and sucking on gum in the back of a station wagon.

I am from a table full of framed pictures, a wall of memories and a basement full of amazing adventures never to be forgotten.

Ok well I haven't had much time to get on here and for a while I felt sad because my sisters who convinced me to get on here actually hadn't even visited my blogs. So now that I have worked almost 20 hours OT and it is Thursday I decided that I needed to write and this seemed like a good place to do it. Well I will start with why I have so much OT. Well where I work you have clients that you run things for and what you run is very important, If messed up it will affect the employees at the company and lets just say it wouldn't be pretty. So the client I run just so happens to have a very complex system that I have to maintain and update. Well since May 6th all of the info being sent has been wrong and we did not find this out until Monday. So pretty much I had to reprocesses almost 2 weeks worth of 8 hour processing into this week. So that would be why I have sleep deprivation and have not seen my little angels since ummm Monday. This was just the start... So we have been saving for a couple of years so we could put new grass in our huge backyard.. we have to have a big one so the pony has room. We also wanted to get the kids a swingset from Costco so we save and save and finally it looks like we have enough... BAM our swamp cooler starts leaking leaving a lot of drywall soaked.. There goes the grass and the swingset. With this all happening and my husband not liking me at this moment I feel like I am being kicked in the stomach over and over again... Is there really light at the end of the tunnel? I cant see it... Maybe it just needs new batteries...

Well today something pretty darn funny happened to me but let me tell you the events that led up to it first. So my little Reisee has been sick and so I have had to take off work the last couple of days. I guess that isn't so important to the story so I will just go on. Well today at work I wanted to get a drink from the pop machine. I reached into my purse got my wallet and pulled out what I thought was a dollar bill.... Well to my surprise it ended up being a fake dollar that my precious sick Reise stuck in my wallet. Well I looked to see if all my money was gone and sure enough I was loaded with fake dollars, fives even one hundreds. Where is the real money you might ask... I asked my cute little bug where it was and she said "mom remember I was sick so I can't remember." This is said with a grin and a you will never find it because I really don't remember where it is and probably never will. It is the little actions like this that make me remember how cute my kids can be....

Ok So I am trying to figure out this blogging setup and I find my self getting distracted by my puppy who is the size of a pony biting my toe or the flash of color that I see out of the corner of my eye. I have a friend who tells me that I get distracted by shiny objects. I can be in the middle of a conversation and bam I get distracted. I think back and I can't remember ever being this way before. I am coming to the conclusion that children really do make you lose your mind... not in a bad way of course but in a way that you start to think like them. The weirdest things amuse me now. What before i would have thought was lame somehow is amazing and funny. Who would have thought that finding these little toys called littlest pets would make me so happy.. It feels like it was only yesterday that buying a new outfit made me so happy. Now it is getting the collection of littlest pets which is a very hard thing to do. I have found that my kids have brought the child back in me and it still is confusing and scary... Am i alone... Does anyone else feel like they are going backwards? Are my priorities really that of a child? Well one day I am sure I will discover this mystery. I think they call it parenthood.