1. First to start you off, my camera broke : ( not sure how, it has been put away, no child has touched it, I went to get it out to use it.....and the camera lens won't open. I was so sad, and am still so sad, but we will try to see if we can take it to someone and get it fixed. So if you haven't already realized what that means yet....Not only do you have this blog to read.....but there are no pictures to accompany any events from my crazy life.
2. Our computer crashed! I swear we do know how to take care of electronics, our house must have something against them though. That is the main reason that I haven't blogged any more. (at least that was my excuse for the first 3 weeks since it happened) We have had a new computer now for a while, but with homeschool, and my camera, I just havent' thought about it.
3. The next thing that happened, is my mom moved back from Mexico and moved in with Brad and I for a bit. We are so excited to have her here for a while, and so are the kids. and as Brad put is, now we get a free babysitter, and date nights once a week! whoot whoot for Grandmas!!
4. Skye turned 2! I can't believe that my baby is already 2! It is so exciting and sad when your last child has a birthday, because you know that you will never have a child turn 1, 2, 3 etc. again. : ( We had a little party for her, and Mike and Dee Dee came down, it was so much fun, and she sure enjoyed it. And is there a rule that states as soon as a child hits 2 they are aloud to turn to monsters? I swear that principle is part of Heavenly Fathers sense of humor coming out, because my sweet little baby girl, who can still be sweet, is now only sweet when SHE wants to be. ( and that is not very often)
5. We decided to homeschool Shelbi and Savanna! This is probably our biggest news that we have, There are a LOT of reasons that went into this decision, personal and spiritual, but Brad and I both felt it was the right decision as least for now. We are going to take it one year at a time, and just see how it goes. I didn't want to fully homeschool them completely on my own, and have to plan my own lessons etc. So we enrolled them in an independant study charter school. They give me all the books, and assignments etc. and then we do the work at home and turn it in to a teacher once a week. They also have enrichment classes every tuesday and thursday from 9-12 so the kids can get interaction with other kids, and they work on fun projects and reading games etc. We have only been doing it for 3 weeks now, but I really really like it. It is nice having my kids home more, and I wasn't sure if I was going to enjoy doing the teaching part, but I have really enjoyed it.
6. Brad and I got free invitations to go to the Frank Sinatra golf tournament auction on Friday night. To say we had a blast is an understatement! We had the best time EVER! We sat with the most amazing family in the whole world, and I haven't laughed that hard in so long, my stomach hurt. We saw and met so many celebrities, and dick van dyke performed with the vantastix and his new wife. It was the best show ever!
7. Ok this will be my last story, and some of you who know my Shelbi personally might laugh, ans think, "Sounds like Shelbi" and for those who don't know her on a personal level, just know that I love this little girl more than life, but boy she was put on this earth to give me patience! and unfortunately, 2 days ago, my anger won out on me, and I did not have any patience. So let me paint you the picture of what happened two days ago.
It started off as a pretty good day, We had friends from victorville visiting the last few days so we all got up in the morning and ate breakfast, and we were all getting ready to head up to Yucca Valley for Hyrums birthday party. As we were walking out the door, my mom notices a picture with a heart and underneath the heart it said Bich.....So my mom shows me, and we immediatly start wondering which child wrote this down. We go to the car, and Shelbi admits that she is the one to write it, we asked what she was trying to spell, and she lets us know she was trying to spell bitch. we ask if she knew it was a bad word, and she responds, yes. So we have a talk about swear words and how we don't write them down, or say them, and because she told the whole truth she didn't get in big trouble, but she was crying and embarassed none the less. So we get driving down the road, in two cars because both families did not fit in one car. we are about half way to Yucca Valley when Shelbis friend yells , " UM SHELBI JUST BROKE THE WINDOW!" What???? I look out my mirror and sure enough the little tiny window in the back of the van that only pops out a few inches, is not swinging wide open in the wind only attached by one side ( and not the side with the lock) I pull over, and am yelling because she gets told DAILY not to play with the window!! My friend is behind me and I tell her that shelbi just broke the lock off the window, and my friends says ," i know, the peice flew off and hit my windshield and cracked it" oh yes it did, so we can't drive because the whole window might blow off, so we try to find something to hold the window on with. we finally find the string from my moms hoodie in the backseat, and ties the string through the hole that used to hold the lock, and tied it to the back of the van SO GHETTO! lol So we had to replace a windshield, and a window lock.....Not the best week I have ever had. And i did later apologize to Shelbi after she got done crying for an hour because i was so mad.
So there you have it, the last month in a nutshell :)
Hopefully next time their will be pictures :)
When I was a little younger than Shelbi, my mom had a van that had ashtrays in the backseat with flip-up lids (yeah, it was the 80s lol). She was contantly telling me not to flip the little lid up and down because it would break. Sure enough, one day it did....I thought I was going to be killed hehe.
ReplyDeleteGlad you and the family are doing well! Miss you and love you bunches!!