Guess I took a break...

Sorry folks. I had a bit of a blogger break there. Well we had a very exciting visit with some dear friends of ours. We went to Matt and Lisa Sanderson's home on Sunday for a lovely dinner (we can always count an something fun and exciting or new when we eat at the Sanderson's.) It had been such a long time since we had all seen each other it was really nice to just catch up on what was new with both of our families. After dinner we all went out for a nice walk to the nearby park to let all 4 kids play while we caught up some more. KC has a Lagoon day coming up for work and they are offering discounted Lagoon tickets for friends and family to come along and I'm really hoping for a big turn out.

We had another family run in at the library and got me a new book that I actually have really enjoyed. Its a young adult fantasy novel called "Dragon Slippers" its definitely for young readers but I think that the reason I like it so much is I don't have to think too hard...lol

Tatumn got a whole bunch of "My little pony" books and Cort got some more books from the "Avatar: That last Airbender" series. We have all finished our books by now and I can't wait to take them in again so I can read the sequel and see if they have the other book I really want to read. I want to start the The Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind. I've heard so much about them and every time I have been in to the library the librarian tells me that his books go really fast.

KC and I got a rebate in the mail for the phone that I got for my birthday so we took the opportunity to take the kids out for a movie and dinner. We went and saw "Monsters Vs. Aliens" in 3D. It was really really cute! We all enjoyed it very much. Although I admit I was rather disappointed to find out that they charge you an extra $2.50 for the stupid 3D glasses they give you. So KC realized why the tickets (for a matinee) were so expensive and looked at me and said "We are keeping these stupid glasses" haha So next time were bringing our own!!!! THAT'S RIGHT CINEMARK WE ARE BRINGING OUR OWN!!! lol

I'm also happy to report that I've been spending quite a bit outdoors lately so I'm getting a nice sun touched look that I needed desperately. (yeah Mom I know...white and delitesome.../sigh) =P

Hmmm What else? KC has been working so hard at work and doing a really great job there. I love when he comes home and tells me stories about work and how he saved the day. Every day when he comes home from work I ask him "So honey how was work?" and I almost always get the same response. "It was work." or slightly better "It was workalicious" that one made me smile. But every once in a while he tells me something fun that happened at work and I really look forward to hearing him tell me stories. I don't think his employer knows just how lucky they are to have him. He's an amazing worker. If you give him a job to do he will do it in record time and probably find a better and faster way to do it.

I'm trying to find some new and exciting music for my Ipod so if any of you have any idea's for me let me know. I think I have left myself a pretty limited list of bands I will listen to and recently at the behest of close friends I've been listening to a lot of different band and freaking loving it! I listen to all kinds but I love a song that I can sing along to. (People around me may not like it but TUFF! Its my music and I'LL DO WHAT I WANT! <---KC that was for you. lol)

Cort and Tatumn are in really big trouble today. This morning KC wakes up quite early for work and when he leaves he resets the alarm for me to wake up to so I have time to get the kids to school on time. Well the kids got up when KC did this morning and laid down in bed next to me while I was still sleeping and when the alarm went off Cort turned it off completely so when I woke up it was WAY too late. So Cort and Tatumn had a rather non-exciting day of cleaning the apartment with me and running in to Tooele to pick up some more stuff from our old house. I'm still hearing how mean and unfair I am. I also remember telling my Mom how unfair she was and I think this is what is called "the mothers curse" Where your kids are just like you were to your Mom. Sorry Mom...I think your amazing!

OH! OK one of my favorite memories. This is how awesome my Mom is. So the boys and Dad had gone hunting and would be gone for a week. I knew it would still be fun at home with just Me and Mom and I was looking forward to it. Well I get home from school on Friday and walk in to see my mom standing in the doorway holding a bag of my clothes and hers with a huge grin on her face. I can still imagine the look I must have had on my face, one eyebrow raised and my mouth wide open trying to figure out just what Mom had planned here. She giggled and said "Lets go!" I said "umm OK where are we going?" and she said "That's the best part!!! I have no idea!" I just laughed and said "no plans huh?" and she said..."well...I was thinking south?" We seriously just got in the car and drove. We would laugh, talk and share things with each other the whole car ride. If we got hungry we stopped at whatever local restaurant that sounded like fun and then just kept on driving. I'd try and throw her off with my taste in music. I remember saying "Hey Mom do you like "Megadeath"? and she would frown and say "No Karen I'm sure I don't like Megadeath". Then I'd ask her others and then I'd throw in a CD and not tell her what it was. I put in "Sweating Bullets" by Megadeath and she was laughing so hard. My Mom has fun taste in music so I knew she might like them. (We are both still HUGE Metallica fans) After the song was over I turned to her and said "what did you think? Did you like it?" and she said "I loved it! That was actually really good!" to which I had to respond with "THAT was Megadeath" and she hit me in the arm and just laughed with me for a while. Ahhhhh good times. I hope I'm as fun and exciting of a Mom as mine was to me.

I liked that. I think I'll have to do more fun memories in my blog from now on. Till next time...

~Ciao

Birthday party!

So today was a birthday party for Josh! It was so much. We all drove over to their friends house as it was a combined party for 3 kids. We were very happy to see Josh was excited about the Pokemon cards we got him. It was a fun outdoor water party. There was pizza and drinks and water balloons and 3 swimming pools! Cort and Tatumn both got VERY wet and loved every second of it. They love the water. They are so excited for our pool to open up on Monday.

Lots of love and happy birthday wishes to Josh-a-poozles!

No school!

So the kids have not had any school all day today and they get Monday off as well. I'm really hoping I can get some batteries for my camera so I can start adding pictures to my blog. Today after KC went to work me and the kids went through the house and cleaned up a bit got some dishes done then we were off to Toys R' us! WHOO HOO! To me this is such a scary place to be...I can't buy them everything they want at this store or really ANYTHING at this store but they want EVERYTHING at this store...*sigh* Well we went there to pick up a gift for their cousin Josh who is going to be having a birthday party this weekend. I think we picked out a good gift for him so Joshy should be a happy birthday boy. So then on our way back I decided that we needed to spend some time outside on such a beautiful day.

The kids are getting tired of the park that is in our backyard as it is rather small...so today we went for a walk around the neighborhood to a nearby park that is swings! Swings are very exciting...I'm hoping my camera will work for this so I'm posting our new pic If its possible. All in all a wonderful day! Got a bit of a tan and a lovely walk and kids played while I read a book.

~Ciao

Mothers day gift

You know how cute that is when on Mothers day your kids come home with a cute homemade gift? I LOVE that. Well this year Cort come home with a cute little flower for me to grow and he was so proud of it and I was so excited for it too! My fear is...I SUCK at keeping them alive and I'm terrified I'll hurt his feelers if it dies so I've been super careful with it and its turning into a fun little hobby of mine. Well Tatumn got me a gift too but she wouldn't let me see what was in the white bag till Mothers day that Sunday. So we put it up on the shelf and when I opened it when we got home from Nana's house (where we spent the weekend) I saw that she had a plant too! lol well I figured there was no hope for the poor thing at this point but that we would try anyways. It was in the cutest little hand painted pot too. Hers wasn't grown at all though so all I saw in the bag was the pot and a lot of dirt on the bottom of the bag. So we poured it all back in the pot and put some water in it to see if we could bring the poor thing back. And its already growing! Funny how two small plants can make you feel like you have had this huge accomplishment. Tatumn and Cort are both very good about reminding me or checking with me to see if they have been watered. I need some new batteries for my camera but as soon as I get ahold of some double A's I'll post some pictures of our lovley plants.

~Ciao

OMG ADORABLE!!

You guys HAVE to check out this movie...I seriously almost Pee'd myself watching it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBM854BTGL0

Almost an event...

Today was one of those days where we have the whole day ahead of us and we made all these great plans and nothing came to fruition...Dad I think of you every time I use that word LOL!!! Mom will get that joke too...

We got up this morning and KC has no work today so as one of my new goals of trying to get out of this apartment at least once a day I decided that we would use our gift card for the movies. Well I dropped the kids off at school and let KC sleep in on his day off and got back and took a nap with him. Then we got up and got showered and ready for the day while the kids were still at school and were so excited to go out and see Star Trek. But we took too long of a nap and we slept through the movie hehehe Then we decided it may not be a bad movie for the kids to see with us so we got them from school and we picked up all of our extra change we had been saving up for a family night and went to the coinstar to cash them all in. We had like $24 and that's not too shabby if I do say so myself. So we picked up some cheap wal-mart candies to sneak in the movies (shhhhh) and we drove to the theatre only to find out we just missed the last showing lol. It just wasn't meant to be...*sigh* oh whoa is me. I was fine but I think KC took it pretty hard. Poor fella. So with promise's of our next wednesday off together and a lot better planning we came back home to our nice air conditioned apartment (its like 80 degree's out her today) and we started up on the kids's homework so we can all sit down to a lovely family game of Star wars:Battlefront. (This is where I say thank you Dad again for the X-box for my birthday a few years back...its great cheap family entertainment)

And now I think of mom and dad up at Montana without me.../cry My warmest thoughts and feelings go to Mom and Dad who are camping without me lol I can't wait for our next trip to Montana. I hear Charice got to go up there to hang out with the rent's for a bit and I was sooo jealous. One of these days we will have to have a fun Allen family reunion up there so we can all enjoy each other's company at the same time. I thought the season ending of having Thanksgiving up there was a blast if only everybody could have come.

LOVE TO YA ALL!

~Ciao