Memories...

Here is fun game... leave a comment on my blog of a memory that you and I have had together. It doesn't matter if we haven't known each other for long, just anything you remember! Next, re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you. Its actually pretty funny. If you post I'll assume you're playing and come to your blog and leave a memory!! On your mark... get set.... blog your memories!!

My Wordle!

I took some quotes from Pride and Prejudice and put them in at Wordle! It was a lot of fun and you should all go and try it!!

Ahhhh. The Smell of Cardboard in the Morning!!

I woke up this morning to the lovely aroma of cardboard wafting through my home.... YUCK! Chris is lucky his allergies prevent him from smelling it. It was a bit odd getting up and maneuvering around boxes to get to the bathroom. For a moment I forgot where I was! 

The big truck is parked in front of our house, making it difficult for all of our neighbors to get down the street in their cars... Oh well, it won't be long now! I am again sitting here in my little corner of chaos surfing the internet and listening to the bantering music of Tom and Jerry at my feet as Jilli and Mi watch the classic cartoon. It is still so entertaining after all these years!

I am amazed at all the things I have seen and read on the internet. You can find anything and everything on here! I could never be bored again! It is quite uncomfortable sitting here today though. I'm missing my comfy computer chair! Perching on a bar stool does nothing for your back and booty...

We played the Wii Fit last night as a family... even Jilli!! It was so fun! Chris is the best at it... of course and he had a Wii Fit "age" that was actually younger than his true age!! Go Chris! The rest of us had ages well over our real age. Even Jilli! It was hilarious because she came up at age 14!! We had a good laugh over that! I guess she really needs to work on her fitness!

We went out to eat at our favorite restaurant one last time... We LOVE Logan's Roadhouse and the last time we were there Miah colored one of their coloring sheets and left it to be judged in the contest... Well, he WON!! He won a free kids meal! Yay! So, this time, Jess, Jilli and Miah colored like crazy on the contest sheets in hopes that they would win another free meal coupon! Luckily, they have a Logan's near our new home! The biggest reason we love this place is the peanuts - and you can throw the shells on the FLOOR! It's a big deal to my kids cause I'm such a clean freak! The food is great too though! They serve these really yummy rolls and butter... mmmmmmmmm. Ok. It must be getting close to lunch time, I'm getting hungry! Guess I'll go find some munchies!! I may be back later... 

Moving Day!

I'm sitting here watching my movers pack up all our belongings. Man, we have a lot of stuff! It's amazing to me how many things we accumulate as we go through this world. Most of it we could live without too. I have the essentials separated out so we can tow them in a Uhaul and that is pretty much all I really care about. I guess I care about my dear Hubby and the kids too. They're the most important. Moving really opens your eyes to what is REALLY important in your life. Although I don't recommend it!
Chris is chatting with them. He always talks with everyone. Jeremiah is a lot like him - easily making friends with just about anyone. It is so nice having him here to help out! We stayed up till 3 am finishing up stuff and playing our new Wii Fit!!! Yeah! We finally got one! We've been trying since May to find one. Every time we go to Walmart or Target, Chris walks straight to the electronics desk and asks if they have one. Yesterday, we ran to Walmart to grab a few things and he walked back to the electronics desk. I left him to go find the goods... I guess he asked a woman at the counter and she told him that she didn't think so... Then he saw the guy there that he usually asks and he said that they did!! (Dumb girl was probably saving it for herself - which may be contributing to the lack of them in the area...) He texted me a few minutes later saying that he had a Wii Fit! I didn't believe him (if you know my husband, you wouldn't either!!) but he came up behind me a few minutes later with a huge grin and a Wii Fit!!!! Yay!! We didn't get a chance to try it out until about 2 am... but it is awesome and I'm so excited to have my own little personal fitness helper! My man delivers! (He told me to say that...) It is amazing to me how hard it has been to find a stinkin' Wii Fit! Why can't they just fill the stores with them? Instead, they are being sold on Ebay for twice what you can pick them up for in the store. It's not like Nintendo is seeing the profits from those sales... Pretty lame. Oh well. At least we finally got one!! yee hee!!
The movers come in tomorrow to load up the truck and then we'll be here in this empty house for a few days before we head on down to our new home. I am hopeful that we will like our new digs and that we will have good neighbors. I know the kids are excited to make some new friends and start school there. I hate leaving all my dear friends here who have helped me through so much... but I guess it's easier now that we live in a time with emails and cell phones! I may even send some snail mail out to them!! I love getting mail and sending mail is almost as fun - especially when I hand made the card!!
The kids are playing at our friends home today. They have a little kitty named Walt and Jilli calls him Wall-E (his other name). It is so cute to hear her say "Waaaaalllleeeee". She just cracks me up. Jeremiah and Jilli got to go and play at another friend's home yesterday and really enjoyed that. They are just so bored here and I won't let them touch anything.... so THANKS to those sweet friends who are willing to take my bored children in!!
I think I'm going to need a nap today. I don't think I've stayed up till 3am for about 15 years.... and it is not a very smart thing to do the night before a move starts.... wow. Bring on the caffeine!! I'll post as I can...

Link Me!!

I know a lot of  you have a link to this blog on your blogs! Yeah! I hope you know I have  a "Family" blog also and it has a lot more pictures of the fam and snippets from our daily grind... It may be a bit more interesting to most of you who are just looking for updates on our little family! If you'd like to link to that as well... the address is: www.helloluggage.blogspot.com!! Thanks!!

Getting Love in the Mail

I love to get things in the mail. I love emails full of news, wedding and birth announcements, but I especially love cards and packages!!! Today my kids came running to me with two packages from my dear sister-in-law, Angela. She had filled them to the brim with so many fun things! She put tons of travel games and books, little doodads and doomahickies that kids just LOVE, water balloons, pencils, water guns, and lots of candy!! She always sends us the most amazing stuff!! It was awesome to feel the love oozing from the packages.
My dear sister, Rebecca, sends me a card every month, no matter what is going on in her life. I always feel so loved when I go out to the mailbox and see her name in the upper left of a little envelope. She also sends us packages full of lovin' goodness on occasion. She is so crafty and usually includes a bunch of cute paper craft samples and ideas that she has tried out lately. I have used her ideas on more than one occasion and it makes me feel so much closer to her when I get little cute things from her.
I don't know if they know how much it means to get LOVE in the mail... but I'm going to make sure they know it!!

I dare you...

I dare you to go to this website and push the button... Hee heee heeeheheheheh....
I did and I couldn't stop!!!

Moving

We are moving. Moving. Moving. I don't want to move. Move. Move. It seems that there is a never-ending list of things to do to get ready to move and I just don't want to do them. I don't want to leave my friends and my home here. We have been here for three and a half years... We have made so many wonderful friends. My home is just so - with everything where I want it. I am just being a dork today and having a blah blah blah moment. I know there are many positives to our move... but it seems at the moment that there are far more negatives. Ugh. I will enjoy the clean slate that our new place will offer. I like to decorate our walls and arrange furniture and organize things... it's so fun for me. I will make new friends and keep all my old ones... but I will just miss the physical contact with my friends here - my sisters from other mothers! I will miss seeing them at church and at the store. I will miss eating out with them. I guess I could become a whole new woman there and no one would ever guess! I could talk with a british accent - just for fun! I could wear all black and sit in the corner and be mysterious or wear all pink and blow bubbles while chomping a huge wad of pink gum! Wouldn't that be fun!? Hee hee!! I know how to get around here. I will miss being able to drive somewhere without consulting a map! I have a lot of things shooting around in my brain today... I will miss stamping with my Club women and enjoying the food and company we shared. I couldn't have asked for a better group of women to hang out with! I have been soooo very blessed here. I hope that I will be blessed with good friends and fun in our new home.... Ahhhhhhhh. Moving.

Mission: Impossible....

I really enjoyed the article that I posted about below. She touched on some very valid points. I was totally unaware of the whole issue with Sister Beck's talk from last October's General Conference. I personally LOVED her talk. I thought is was great. I think that people were too easily offended by her comments about perfection. Obviously NONE of us will reach perfection in this life!!! It is "mission: IMPOSSIBLE" and we need tech support from our Savior to get through!!! 'Mothers who know', to me, means mothers who have a testimony of the gospel of Jesus Christ. If you have a testimony, you want to do all of the things she spoke about to the best of your abilities!! How can you be offended when a sister stands up and gives us a standard to strive for? It made me want to be "mother who knows"! I felt bad that it had upset some women in the church enough that they got together and put their signatures to a "revised" edition of her speech. I just think that is lame... sorry if you put your name on it! But, you totally read too much into her words if you did!! Bottom line... strive to be your BEST and be a good example of a Woman of God!! Best is totally relative too. What is a Best for one is not necessarily a Best for me and I know that our Father in Heaven knows when we are giving our all. I don't do my very best every day... some days I just don't and it's all good. I try again the next day! Trying counts I think.
I am such a big fan of Sheri Dew. I have heard her speak many times and have a lot of her books. She just has an awesome way with words and she just fills them with the Spirit. I was so happy to be linked to her latest talk. I love all the things she had to say. I love that she is so encouraging and so empowering. I felt so motivated to do and be better after reading it. I hope that all of you who read it felt that way too. I think that we should always strive to be better. Who in this world doesn't need to be striving to be better!!? I know I have a long way to go... and I hear that Mission: Impossible music playing as I go.... Hee hee!

An Awesome Post for You to Read!!

I just read the  most awesome post and I just had to link you all to it!! Go here and read it!! It will take you a while, but it's sooooo worth it! Awesome! Tell me what you think!! I'm still reading it and will post later with my thoughts on the topic... hee hee!

Visited!

I was visited by my Visiting Teachers today! They stayed and chatted with me for nearly an hour. They commented on how darling my kids were and shared the monthly message with me. It was a beautiful message about our divine heritage. It is always good to hear the sweet thoughts that are a part of that little message each time. My favorite quote that she shared was from President Gordon B. Hinckley, "Our bodies are sacred. They were created in the image of God. They are marvelous, the crowning creation of Deity. No camera has ever matched the wonder of the human eye. No pump was ever built that could run so long and carry such heavy duty as the human heart. The ear and the brain constitute a miracle. . . . These, with others of our parts and organs, represent the divine, omnipotent genius of God" ("Be Ye Clean," Ensign, May 1996, 48). I love that thought!! Our bodies truly are miraculous in every way! How blessed we are.

It always amazes me how hard it is to get out and do visiting teaching each month. I have been the Visiting Teaching Coordinator for a long while now and the numbers for our ward are just so very sad each month! It reminds me of that little Primary song:

It shouldn't be hard to sit very still And think about Jesus, his cross on the hill, And all that he suffered and did for me; It shouldn't be hard to sit quietly. It shouldn't be hard, even though I am small, To think about Jesus, not hard at all.

I think of the miles He walked in the dust, And children he helped to love and to trust; It shouldn't be hard to sit tall in my seat, To listen politely, to quiet my feet. It shouldn't be hard, even though I am small, To think about Jesus, not hard at all.

Why can't we find the time in our busy lives and schedules to get out and visit with the sisters on our lists? It is not very hard and I know it is one way that we can be Christ's hands here on this earth. We must do it!! I love doing it and I haven't missed much in the 3 and a half years we have lived here. Being in a military ward, we are constantly changing the assignments... it makes it really difficult, but I have somehow found a way. I'm not the perfect Visiting Teacher... but I at least try to get in contact with my sisters each month.

I haven't been regularly visited until recently and it is amazing what regular visits can do for me! I don't have many needs. My home is well kept, my children well behaved, my health is good. I just sincerely look forward to talking! Actually having a captive audience in my home once a month is GREAT! Of course, I'm a much better listener than a talker... but it still fills my cup. I really look forward to those visits. If you haven't done your visiting teaching for July... GET OUT THERE AND DO IT!!