You know its been a long time since you last blogged...when it takes you 3 times to type the word shenanignas...shenaniganas...
shenanigans...
correctly...so you can go to your long lost blog.
I figured since I seemed to be a better facebooker last year...than a blogger...I'd share my year in facebook status'...I know..what a cop-out--but I'm feeling guilty about my lack of journaling from 2010...
January 2010
*We partied up some good times last night--twice! First we celebrated New York's New Year at 10 for family that had to travel home early. Then we rang in that wild New Year again at midnight. Oh and Happy New Year to one and all!Good times.
*Hanging out with my hubby in AF at my daughters swim meet..Go Alta.
*Thanks for all the birthday wishes. I had a great day.
*Had good times today with my sissy with shopping at Taipan and lunch at Zupas...all of my faves.
*I hate it when I read a book with only ONE character that I even like--and that character dies in the end. Lame!
*Just finished reading Hunger Games and Catching Fire--man--what took me so long to get around to reading them? They were fabulous!
*There's nothing like fresh snow down the shirt...someone's gonna get it...
*Hanging out at Region Swim today--Go Jordyn! And Go Alta!!
February 2010
*Anyone have a good FHE idea on encouraging kids to be a peacemaker? I was considering beating the scoundrels--but then decided it wouldn't be a very peaceful thing to do...
*Last night's FHE was on being a peacemaker. I asked the question, "Do you know who likes the spirit of contention in our home?" Savannah answered, "Dad?" Yes, it was a loooong night.
*After listening to rave reviews from my teenager (and her friends)--I finally finished reading "The Last Song" last night. Even though I'm anti-Sparks--because he always has to much sadness in his books--it was pretty good. Can't wait for the movie to come out.
*Just watched my cute daughter swim the 100 Fly at state! Good job J!
*Austin: "Mom! I want Elvis (the cat) to have a baby." Me: "Ummm.. Elvis is a boy." Austin: "Well I want him to have a baby kitten that we could name Spot." Me: "Why don't you tell dad what you want." (I refuse to have THAT talk today).
*I HEART long weekends!
*My poor Austin is sooo sick--and on a vacation day even..harsh.
*Curses! My bored, sick (since Monday), 11 yr old decided it would be fun to make an imprint of our brand new remote control--with his silly putty--and boy is it imprinted. {Anyone know how to get silly putty off of remote control buttons?}
*Mmmm...I love comfort food...poppyseed chicken is the best.
*Curses...I have a headache. It's time like this that could drive a girl to drink (diet coke).
*RS Training over...hmm...the headache seems to be over too..correlation?
*Jordyn just dropped 10 seconds off of her 400 IM--and is 3 tenths of a second away from qualifying for state!
*Watching Jordyn swim at the last chance (to qualify for state) meet. Go J!
*Yay! Jordyn qualified for state (came in 10 seconds under the state time) in the 400 IM--yippee!
March 2010
*Watching Jordyn swim at the last chance (to qualify for state) meet. Go J!
*Had a diet coke tonight for the first time in a while...and I feel so...AWAKE!
*I love driving around with the sunroof open! Spring is here! (till it snows next week.)
*So fun watching Jordyn swim today at the State JO's...she dropped a second on her 100 Fly--and came in 11th overall in Utah. Yay!
*How could sitting at a swim meet for the past 2 days wear me out? It's not like I was doing the swimming. And, curse those chlorine fumes!
*Are crepes hard to make? Isn't it just like making pancakes? Anyone with a FOOLproof recipe? I'm need to make bunches of them for my daughters soirée on Friday.
*After making about 40 crepes, I think I'm almost a pro...mmm strawberries and cream....
April
*I'm so sick of winter--so for the past few days I've worn flip flops and capris--trying to channel a little spring with my tricky reverse psychology--unfortunately, all I've channeled is having to turn my heat up in the house cause I'm so cold.
May
*Brrrrrrrrr!
June
*So, when someone tells you that they love how "real" you are...is it a compliment? Cause I'm telling you right now the "real" me--is currently thinking about driving to McDonalds for a 99 cent diet coke and is yelling at her Cinderella mice to get to work.
*It's finally summer!? Or did I just jinx it?
*Heading down south today for the summer games. Go swimmers go!
*Round one of the Summer Games: Chicken fight between Austin and Savannah and two random kids at our cheesy retro motel pool. Auz and Vanni win! Go team!
*Such good times at the Summer Games! The kids did great--and even earned a few gold, silver and bronze medals! Yay!
*El Jefe (my hubs) was so impressed with his 12 place age group finish in the Summer Games 10K race. Then he found out there were only 13 men competing in his age group. Awkward!
*In my mom's ward today--we had a high councilman named Brother Church speaking and stake President Chapel was presiding on the stand--tell me that's not funny!
*Teaching a 15 year old how to drive is the scariest thing I've ever done...her questions are frightening but hilarious--"Which one is the gas pedal?"
*Our fence was vandalized last night around 10:30 by 3 teenagers...anyone see anything suspicious?
*Happy Father's Day!
*Ran three miles with my teenage daughter this morning...I was feeling pretty good about myself cause I kept up with her the whole time...until she said--let's sprint this last block. I didn't even come close...sheesh.
*Just finished reading Breaking Dawn (after quitting more times than I can count)...not the biggest fan of this one...but at least my teenager will stop nagging me to read it.
*Taking the teenager to get her Learner's Permit...hope the lines aren't long...and that she passes the 1st time.
*Jordyn failed her learner's permit test...due to trick questions such as...T/F You can use a hospital certificate as identification for proof of birth...
July
*Just got home from the longest, windiest swim meet ever...
*Chillin' (literally) on the parade route with my girlies.
*Brrrr!
*Go runners go! Jordyn (yelling to the runners): Hey your tshirts match! Katie: Aw cute! You must be married! Me: They are just wearing the free race tshirts--awkward!
*Good times with my fam yesterday! The parade, food, fun, & pyrotechnics were awesome! Rock on Snake Charmers!
*Saw "Eclipse" with my hubs last night (Knight & Day was sold out...stinking Cinemark). Hubs saw "Twilight" but missed "New Moon"--so there were bound to be many questions. Favorite comment during the movie was when he leaned over and asked, "Does Bella's dad know that Edward is a werewolf?"
*Saw a cute little fox looking quite suspicious on the draper canal trail this morning... I think it had just come out of the henhouse...Jordyn named her Vixen...
*Went to the lake with my kids & sis yesterday. Savannah informed me that my legs were "as white as a vampire".
*Good times running the Draper Days 5k this morning with my sis, daughter, and hubs!
*Last night's FHE was on being a peacemaker. Austin shared two ideas on how our family could do this. His first suggestion was: "We need to stop interacting so much with each other--and then everyone will get along." His second was: "I think we get along better when we are all watching TV."
*Just sent my cute daughter and her darling friends off to camp...it's going to be a quiet week around here.
*Going to Galoooon today...
*Am I a wimp or what? I told my kids and hubs that it was too early in the day for me to be attempting "Wicked"..and honestly, just watching them on it is making me a bit dizzy...maybe later tonight I'll get brave and go with them?
*Lagoon should seriously consider handing out free samples of deodorant...yikes!
*Parades, Picnics and Pyros--Oh My! I love the 24th celebrations!
*I love it when I send my Hubs to Costco...he comes home with stuff I usually don't buy...fruit & veggie trays, pre-cooked bacon, and the best chipotle marinade sauce I've ever had!
*Just finished bottling honey with some fun ladies...and at the end the cannery gave us each a bottle of honey for helping out...sweeeeet!
*Just discovered that I cannot be trusted with a loaf of fresh, warm french bread...so much for low-carbs today...
*I love it when RS visits turn into a long lunch at Kneaders...mmmm.
*Heading to a swim meet in Kearns at high noon....it's gonna be a hot one...
*If you think that I appreciate having a stinkin' Justin Bieber song stuck in my head...you're wrong.
*This morning, as I jogged into the wind, I couldn't wait for the moment I turned around and had the wind at my back. Of course, just as I turned around to head home...the wind changed...and I was running into it again. Seems like Confucius would have something to say about that...or am I thinking of Murphy?
August
*So excited to go to Saratoga Springs and see my cute nephew, Drew, get blessed today...
*Grrr! My cell phone is broken!
*Interesting things you find while weeding...a bird skull? Poor little birdie!
*Good times tonight with cute ladies!
*Just finished babysitting my darling two-year-old and two-month-old nephews' (Franky and Drew). This was not a one woman job...it took me and both of my girls to keep them entertained and happy. How does my cute sis-in-law do it every day? P.S. Now, we are all lazing around like we just ran a marathon...hehe
*Just got home from cheering on my hubs running in a 1/2 marathon race down in Provo! Way to go El Jefe!
*It's never good when you're in Kohls for so long--you forget where you parked...
*So fun partying it up with my whole Sumsion clan at the Owlz game--talk about a hootenanny!
*Jordyn {finally} got her Learner's Permit today...she was so excited to chauffeur us around. The first thing Austin did when he got in the van was put on his seatbelt...and then his bike helmet. He very seriously wore both the entire time. I ♥ that kid!
*Teaching the teenager to drive+Teenager forgetting (numerous times) the difference between the brake pedal and gas pedal = serious heart palpitations for mama {and the need for a stiff shot of something stronger than diet coke}
*I love a good catch-up day...
*Auz spent 20 minutes packing his suitcase for his 3 day visit to grandma's--and then left the stinkin' thing behind...needless to say the 11 year old is thrilled to be wearing the same clothes all week--I just hope he put on clean underwear this morn!
*I've got teacher training this week and the kids start the next...I'm totally having a Phineas and Ferb moment--there's 104 days of smumer vacation and school comes along just to end it...
*Good times running the OC 5K this morning with my sis and sis-in-laws. I ♥ OC Days!
*I like change so long as it doesn't affect me...so I guess that means I don't really like change?
*Got the garage door fixed today {by the tallest man in the history of garage door repairmen}...I can think of about 20 things I'd have rather spent the money on...grrrr..
*Thank Goodness It's Friday!
*I love a cool Fall morning...
*I love my new 4th graders this year. Favorite moment of the day: As I corrected a spelling test...the word was "succession" the cute student wrote "sucksession".
September
*Heading to Swiss Days today with my mom, sis, and sis-in-law...the hubs thinks we're just going so that me and my sis-in-law can run the 10K in the morn...and if you think I'm going to tell him that we're really going for the shopping...then you don't know me very well.
*I love the sound of {happily?} weeding children on Labor Day!
*It's barely 8 AM and it's already been one of those mornings where I'm wishing I had a stiff drink...or a diet coke.
*Getting ready to drop off my 6th grader at her first middle school dance. It's killing me. Hubs and the teenager think I'm making a bigger deal out of this then needed...but I've got some inner turmoil with this one.
*Skipping steps on projects because I'm in a hurry...always leads to adding extra unnecessary steps...which then ends up adding more time than it would've taken in the first place...what the?
*Homemade plum jelly is plumb good! (Thanks to a couple of my BFF's!!)
*Did you know if you don't let salt dough cool before you knead it...you get a sunburn on your hands that lasts through the next day?
*Heading up to Logan to watch my hubs run the "Top of Utah Marathon"...Go Jeff go!
*I have decided that watching a marathon is hard work! But--not nearly as hard as running it! Wow! I have a new appreciation for 26.2 miles--And the crazies who run it! Good job El Jefe!
*Good times watching the USU vs Fresno game with kids and hubs...Go Aggies! Go Aggies! Hey! Hey! Hey!
*Love my 4th grade language arts class! This morn I had them draw pictures of their vocab words. For the word "develop" one of the students drew a baby growing up to be an old man (cane, wrinkles, etc)..underneath the old man was "age 40".
*I hate it when I eat a bowl of cereal (for lunch) and when I get to the bottom I see that the bowl is not clean...guess that's what happens when my Cinderella mice unload the dishwasher...
*He shoots! He scores! Way to go Auz!
*I feel like I've morphed into a taxi driver...and the cheapos I drive never tip...but always leave a mess behind.
*I was trying to explain to Jordyn why I didn't want to let her drive home on the freeway from Cottonwood. Ian summed it up best, "Driving with Jordyn is like watching a scary movie. You know everything will turn out all right in the end...but your stomach still gets all twisted up in knots in suspense."
*Bring on the Diet Coke...and lace it with some Excedrin...
*On our way home from soccer tonight, I asked Austin if he would mind jumping the fence at the apt's and running an envelope over to my friend...Austin's reply, "That depends. Is it electric?"
*Wow! Just watched an awesome fireworks show while waiting in the parking lot at Cottonwood (for my swimmer). What's the occasion? Is it homecoming?
October
*Jordyn helped out in my class this morn...my 4th grade boys were so in LOVE with her. One of them kept holding his hand up to is ear like a telephone...and saying...call me! So funny! {And really, what's not to love?}
*Woke up this morning, to find Austin reading my teenager's AP History book. Impressed, I asked him what he was reading. He replied, "Bud"ism.
*Happy Conference Sunday!
I'm trying to find a fun Halloween craft for my 4th graders to do, so (not thinking) I googled "flying witch craft". Didn't come across any cute ideas for crafts...but I did find a good flying spell...oopsie!
*I get by with a little help from my friends...totally!
*I love it when a plan comes together!
*I gotta feelin' that tonight's gonna be a good night!
*Such good times at our craft night last night! We've got some serious worker bees! Thanks for all your help!
*So last night, my cute Aunt hosted a birthday extravaganza for my 94 year old grandmother. At the end of the party, she allowed each family to go out and pick a punkin out of her garden. MY little piggies (unbeknownst to me)--hauled out their prize winning, humongous pumpkin and put it in my trunk. I feel like the Great Pumpkin thief right now! Returning it today (How embarrassing)!
*To the funny Walmart employee who sold me on the Extra Mint Chocolate Chip gum last night..I'm sorry I doubted you. It really does taste like mint chocolate chip ice cream! Thank you for the calorie-free ice cream fix.
*Happy 12th Birthday to my darling pumpkin thieves, Savannah and Austin!
*Good times taking a bunch of 12 year old boys bowling today...during a senior citizen bowling competition. Trying to teach the boys bowling etiquette was hilarious...I settled for...just don't yell "OWN IT" in their faces...or do the chicken dance in their lane. There's some feisty bowling seniors out
*I love me a long weekend..especially when the weather is beautiful!
*Apparently, Elvis (the cat) enjoys a nice, cold, half-eaten bowl of tortilla soup.
*So one of my knuckleheads took the ghost off of our door so we'd get spooked again...they wanted more treats!
*So fun watching the Alta kids swim to victory today! (But, if I'm going to continue to help out with timing...I'd better take a button-pushing class...
*Just dropped off Jordyn and her cute friend KT at the Alta game. First round: Jordyn forgot her student ID so I drove them home and then back to the game. Second round: At some point during our drive, KT lost her ID somewhere in my van...its either love em' or beat em'...good thing I love em!
*Last night, Savannah said, "I hope I wake up in the morning and it has snowed and it's December." She was pretty excited that half of her wish came true.
*Our garage and vehicles were broken into last night...purse, tools, golf clubs, air compressor, etc are missing...but the most insulting item they took? My makeup bag! Who steals a makeup bag full of crappy cheap makeup?
*My hubs theory was proven correct last night...not even a thief would want to steal his piece o' crappy car..even if his keys were in it and it was unlocked! Golf clubs in the trunk? They likey.
*Number 1 response today when people found out we gotted robbed last night was.."You leave your purse in your car?" And I really do it ALL the time--half the time I leave my keys too!! (Not anymore tho!)
November
*Harry Pottah!!! T-2 minutes!
*Enjoyed a fun and successful black friday shopping spree this (early) morning...and initiated my cute teenager! First time she's ever woke up at 330 in the morning! And she's still going strong!
*Saw Megamind with the kids and cousins yesterday. Favorite part was when the credits were rolling and my nephew said, "Who's Brad Pitt?" Austin said, "He's a famous singer." (He confused Brangelina with Brad Paisley.)
*Snow day for my littles! Yay!
December
*I rock at last minute (meaning...due tomorrow) science experiments. Just ask my kids.
*Oops...I picked up my Christmas cards on the 16th...addressed them all on the 18th...and just realized I haven't mailed them yet! Yikes!
*Insomnia since 3 AM? Really? I've never had such a thing happen before! You think I'd be super productive with all this time on my hands! Nope.
*I heard lots of entertaining things today while grabbing my last minute items at various stores...but I think my favorite comment was at Harmon's. A woman YELLS down the aisle to an employee, "Excuse me young man. But, could you tell me where your wipes are? Not the ones for babies...but the one's for adults." Oh my!
*Merry Christmas to all...now wake up kids! This is the first time ever..that the parents are awake before the children. It's almost 8 kids! Wake up! Wake up!
*Jordyn had a dream that I made it to Hollywood on American Idol...wonder what strange thing she ate before she went to bed last night?
*On my way home from dropping Jordyn off to swim team this morn...I saw 5 deer running across the Kmart parking lot...they must really be having a good after-Christmas sale.
*Cleaning house, making food, (possibly yelling at kids--plug your ears neighbors)...so we can get ready for our big family New Year's shindig! I gotta feelin' that tonight's gonna be a good night!
*Happy New Year! Now it's time to dig out of that party pit...but I'll have to wait til my Cinderella mice wake up!
Happy New Year!
(P.S. I think that was the longest post of my LIFE!! And if you've made it this far...you deserve a prize!)
