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Tuesday, June 10, 2008
...And the Livin' is Easy!
Happy summer vacation everyone! Are things slowing down for you? I remember when I was young and the summer months seemed to pass slowly. Every day was filled with lots of playing, family vacations and outdoor excursions. Now the months pass quickly for me...way too quickly!
Alyssa had her 9th grade promotion dance last week, and now claims she has been released from the imprisonment of Jr. High. Moving on to high school will be a big step for her and she is very excited. She will be attending a week-long harp camp this summer as well as girls camp,and will be celebrating her 15th birthday in a few weeks. She has a new short hair cut that is attracting way too many boys if you ask me. Instead of looking 15,she now looks 17,or 18, or in her dad's opinions 19. Yikes!
I dropped Chelsea off at the airport on Monday for her tour to Seattle. She has been texting me...keeping me informed about all her daily activities. She is having a blast. They performed at a Senior Citizens facility yesterday and the people loved the singing and dancing. Her performance at a park was canceled this morning due to rain, but she has another this afternoon and will also be taking the underground tour of Seattle. Fun! One of the most exciting things for her group is that they will be singing the national anthem at a WNBA game tomorrow night.
Paige and Christian are enjoying the longer summer days, as they should be. They are pretty good to get up and get their chores done, so that they can play outside with each other (they play really cute together..usually) or with their cousins Mckenna, Emily and Dietrich. They had a lot of fun at Aunt Candi's last weekend. We went for Justin's birthday party and the four kids (Christian, Paige, Jessica and Justin) played and had a great time!
Paige is attending Sylvan to help out with her math skills a little. She will be going back to public school in the fall and we want to make sure she is ready. She loves it there.
Christian graduated from Kindergarten last week and is really excited about eating lunch at school next year. I helped with his class's field day, where we played lots of fun games outside, and I was also able to go on his field trip to Tracy Aviary as a chaperone. It was lots of fun! He got to play with another cousin, Madsen, the next day and they both kept me laughing the whole day. Thank goodness for cousins, by the way. There aren't many kids around here to play with.
So on Saturday Carlos and I will be celebrating our 17th wedding anniversary. The time has gone so fast. When I look at my kids and see how big they are, I am amazed sometimes at where the time has gone. I will be giving a talk in sacrament meeting,for fathers day, on attributes of a father, and it's easy for me to come up with those attributes because Carlos is a great father to our kids,and a wonderful husband to me.
After church on Sunday, Carlos and I and the kids will be flying to California to spend a few days at Disneyland and then a few more at Newport Beach. Christian did the thing the other night where he got out of bed to come to our room and tell us he was too excited about going to Disneyland to go to sleep. I can see where they got the idea for the commercial!
Alyssa had her 9th grade promotion dance last week, and now claims she has been released from the imprisonment of Jr. High. Moving on to high school will be a big step for her and she is very excited. She will be attending a week-long harp camp this summer as well as girls camp,and will be celebrating her 15th birthday in a few weeks. She has a new short hair cut that is attracting way too many boys if you ask me. Instead of looking 15,she now looks 17,or 18, or in her dad's opinions 19. Yikes!
I dropped Chelsea off at the airport on Monday for her tour to Seattle. She has been texting me...keeping me informed about all her daily activities. She is having a blast. They performed at a Senior Citizens facility yesterday and the people loved the singing and dancing. Her performance at a park was canceled this morning due to rain, but she has another this afternoon and will also be taking the underground tour of Seattle. Fun! One of the most exciting things for her group is that they will be singing the national anthem at a WNBA game tomorrow night.
Paige and Christian are enjoying the longer summer days, as they should be. They are pretty good to get up and get their chores done, so that they can play outside with each other (they play really cute together..usually) or with their cousins Mckenna, Emily and Dietrich. They had a lot of fun at Aunt Candi's last weekend. We went for Justin's birthday party and the four kids (Christian, Paige, Jessica and Justin) played and had a great time!
Paige is attending Sylvan to help out with her math skills a little. She will be going back to public school in the fall and we want to make sure she is ready. She loves it there.
Christian graduated from Kindergarten last week and is really excited about eating lunch at school next year. I helped with his class's field day, where we played lots of fun games outside, and I was also able to go on his field trip to Tracy Aviary as a chaperone. It was lots of fun! He got to play with another cousin, Madsen, the next day and they both kept me laughing the whole day. Thank goodness for cousins, by the way. There aren't many kids around here to play with.
So on Saturday Carlos and I will be celebrating our 17th wedding anniversary. The time has gone so fast. When I look at my kids and see how big they are, I am amazed sometimes at where the time has gone. I will be giving a talk in sacrament meeting,for fathers day, on attributes of a father, and it's easy for me to come up with those attributes because Carlos is a great father to our kids,and a wonderful husband to me.
After church on Sunday, Carlos and I and the kids will be flying to California to spend a few days at Disneyland and then a few more at Newport Beach. Christian did the thing the other night where he got out of bed to come to our room and tell us he was too excited about going to Disneyland to go to sleep. I can see where they got the idea for the commercial!
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Crazy Lady on the Warpath
Blue spray paint is much more difficult to remove from a fence than Black. That is the lesson I learned today.
Yesterday morning, as part of Paige's school lessons, she and I decided to learn how to clean up graffiti. There is fence at the entrance to our neighborhood that seems to be a target for the local gangsters, and I refuse to let the punks own my street. The city is supposed to have a task force to remove graffiti, but I believe the longer a tag stays up, the person who painted it gets to bask in the glory of their feat. Stupid jerks. I have fumed about this for weeks and finally decided to try and clean it up. Carlos suggested we try Goo-Gone to remove it, and with some scrubbing, we got all of the black paint off. The fence looked as good as new. I showed it to Alyssa this morning as we drove to her orthodontist appointment and we marveled at it's glorious whiteness.
I came home this afternoon to find that the same fence had once again been tagged with the same name. Can you believe someone actually thinks they own my neighborhood? And that they can go around spray painting wherever they want to? They painted in broad daylight! (Stupid stinking jerks) Blue was their color of choice this time, and even though I had a crew with me (Paige, Christian, McKenna, Emily Dietrich, and Archer) It still took more time and a lot more scrubbing than did the black paint we cleaned yesterday.
So as I sit here typing with blue paint-stained fingers, I am planning my revenge against these creepy teenagers. This is going to be war. I am going to the store tonight and I'm going to buy the biggest dang bottle of Goo Gone anyone has ever seen. I will clean the graffiti every single day if I have to. These creeps will not claim ownership on my street. I'm even thinking about setting up survielance equipment or hiring a private detective or hmmm....maybe a hit man? This is war. I'm smearing on the war paint right now. (not really)
Yesterday morning, as part of Paige's school lessons, she and I decided to learn how to clean up graffiti. There is fence at the entrance to our neighborhood that seems to be a target for the local gangsters, and I refuse to let the punks own my street. The city is supposed to have a task force to remove graffiti, but I believe the longer a tag stays up, the person who painted it gets to bask in the glory of their feat. Stupid jerks. I have fumed about this for weeks and finally decided to try and clean it up. Carlos suggested we try Goo-Gone to remove it, and with some scrubbing, we got all of the black paint off. The fence looked as good as new. I showed it to Alyssa this morning as we drove to her orthodontist appointment and we marveled at it's glorious whiteness.
I came home this afternoon to find that the same fence had once again been tagged with the same name. Can you believe someone actually thinks they own my neighborhood? And that they can go around spray painting wherever they want to? They painted in broad daylight! (Stupid stinking jerks) Blue was their color of choice this time, and even though I had a crew with me (Paige, Christian, McKenna, Emily Dietrich, and Archer) It still took more time and a lot more scrubbing than did the black paint we cleaned yesterday.
So as I sit here typing with blue paint-stained fingers, I am planning my revenge against these creepy teenagers. This is going to be war. I am going to the store tonight and I'm going to buy the biggest dang bottle of Goo Gone anyone has ever seen. I will clean the graffiti every single day if I have to. These creeps will not claim ownership on my street. I'm even thinking about setting up survielance equipment or hiring a private detective or hmmm....maybe a hit man? This is war. I'm smearing on the war paint right now. (not really)
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
School is coming to a close, summer is here.
It seems that our blog has been a bit neglected lately. No worries, I already had my ice cream fix for the night, so I am ready to write. School is fast coming to an end for the year, and the kids (meaning children, not young goats) are quite excited about it. Christian went with Grandpa Rigby last night to a BEES minor league baseball game, and loved it. He came home with a silver baseball. Kennedy is studying math at Sylvan. That's costly, but for the first time ever, she is liking math and accelerating at it. I good investment, I believe. Alyssa got her hair chopped off today. I really like her haircut, but it makes her look old enough to pass as a legal adult, so my feelings on her haircut and new style are mixed. I will be posting a photograph. Chelsea is getting ready to head off on her tour with her singing and dancing group. She has to share a suitcase with one of her classmates, since Delta Airlines now only allows a single checked suitcase, as the students also have to "check" a piece of sound equipment for the trip (shame on the airlines, especially United, with its no-bag without extra cash policy). I am sure she will like Seattle. I know I would.
We are also getting ready for our trip to SoCal and Disney Land parks, where we plan on tromping around from ride to ride until we get sick, or until we have spent three days straight at the parks. Crazy? Yes, without a doubt. The ride I most look forward to is the airplane ride; especially the take off (I don't care much for the landing) I mostly want to go to the beach. I love the ocean, and really love to see when really big waves come thundering into the shore.
Last week, Christian, Kennedy and I went camping. It was fun. The kids liked the hiking around, and liked seeing how many lizards the could see. I lost track of how many lizards I saw. (FYI: the word for lizard in Spanish is lagartija. This is also the work in Mexico for push-ups. If you have ever watched a lizard, you will see it doing push-ups) We also hid a geocache on top of a hill, which I need to get listed before I forget about it. We found some old mines: I would sure like to know what it was they used to mine out of them thar hills. We were at Five Mile Pass, which is either in West Utah county or East Tooele County, amongst a bunch of off-road vehicles, but we didn't mind them. We also were able to leave the hills a little bit cleaner from trash than what we found them. That was a good lesson for the young ones. Most of the things we picked up where beer cans and beer bottles. I am not sure why, but soda pop drinkers almost never leave their cans, whereas beer drinkers seem to leave their cans and bottles all over the place. Obviously there is correlation (or maybe a coorelation) with alcohol, but I am not sure of the actual cause and effect. Is it that people who sit in the juniper trees drinking beer get stupid because of the alcohol and then leave their garbage? Or is it that stupid people who always leave their garbage about, like to go sit amongst the juniper trees to drink their beer? Anyway, we helped what we could in cleaning up some of the cans, hopefully making the place better than before we where there.
I guess I really got off on a tangent there. I am going to finish up and go read myself to sleep. I am currently re-reading "The Count of Monte Cristo" Dumas is definitely a romantic, but I like his writings (I have also read many of the d'Artagnan adventures (The Three Musketeers, et al.) which make history much more colorful that it really was). If you ever read this book, please make sure it says "unabridged." The first time I read it, I starting reading the unabridged version, then lost it, so I bought a new book. It did not say "abridged" but after I read it, I realized that it was. It simply didn't make much sense, leaving many unanswered questions. The abridged version was published by Scholastic, and they abridged it by simply cutting out whole chapters and sections. After I discovered the deceit, I wrote a scathing letter to Scholastic, and they offered to refund me my money. Any way, I highly recommend the book. It is much different from the latest movie under the same name, but he movie, nevertheless, is also on my recommended movie list.
Ok, and going to publish this now, typos and all.
We are also getting ready for our trip to SoCal and Disney Land parks, where we plan on tromping around from ride to ride until we get sick, or until we have spent three days straight at the parks. Crazy? Yes, without a doubt. The ride I most look forward to is the airplane ride; especially the take off (I don't care much for the landing) I mostly want to go to the beach. I love the ocean, and really love to see when really big waves come thundering into the shore.
Last week, Christian, Kennedy and I went camping. It was fun. The kids liked the hiking around, and liked seeing how many lizards the could see. I lost track of how many lizards I saw. (FYI: the word for lizard in Spanish is lagartija. This is also the work in Mexico for push-ups. If you have ever watched a lizard, you will see it doing push-ups) We also hid a geocache on top of a hill, which I need to get listed before I forget about it. We found some old mines: I would sure like to know what it was they used to mine out of them thar hills. We were at Five Mile Pass, which is either in West Utah county or East Tooele County, amongst a bunch of off-road vehicles, but we didn't mind them. We also were able to leave the hills a little bit cleaner from trash than what we found them. That was a good lesson for the young ones. Most of the things we picked up where beer cans and beer bottles. I am not sure why, but soda pop drinkers almost never leave their cans, whereas beer drinkers seem to leave their cans and bottles all over the place. Obviously there is correlation (or maybe a coorelation) with alcohol, but I am not sure of the actual cause and effect. Is it that people who sit in the juniper trees drinking beer get stupid because of the alcohol and then leave their garbage? Or is it that stupid people who always leave their garbage about, like to go sit amongst the juniper trees to drink their beer? Anyway, we helped what we could in cleaning up some of the cans, hopefully making the place better than before we where there.
I guess I really got off on a tangent there. I am going to finish up and go read myself to sleep. I am currently re-reading "The Count of Monte Cristo" Dumas is definitely a romantic, but I like his writings (I have also read many of the d'Artagnan adventures (The Three Musketeers, et al.) which make history much more colorful that it really was). If you ever read this book, please make sure it says "unabridged." The first time I read it, I starting reading the unabridged version, then lost it, so I bought a new book. It did not say "abridged" but after I read it, I realized that it was. It simply didn't make much sense, leaving many unanswered questions. The abridged version was published by Scholastic, and they abridged it by simply cutting out whole chapters and sections. After I discovered the deceit, I wrote a scathing letter to Scholastic, and they offered to refund me my money. Any way, I highly recommend the book. It is much different from the latest movie under the same name, but he movie, nevertheless, is also on my recommended movie list.
Ok, and going to publish this now, typos and all.
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Ice Cream
OK, so here I am, taking the time to write a bit instead of eating ice cream. Oh what a tragedy, indeed! It really is a sad statement of affairs when I put other things before ice cream. I mean, really, what is life coming to? Well, I guess that's all I have time to write now, as I just got back from Macey's grocery store with some Dryer's vanilla mixed with orange sherbet.
Updates!!!
Hey, everyone. Um . . . apparently, I'm supposed to post something. ;) Okay! I posted. Bye!
. . . Just kidding . . . :P
Let's see, what to write? Ah! I just went to one of my very good friends' benefit concert to raise money for her exchange trip to Italy. (Elise.) I played the harp for her there. I was told it went quite well, but I should have practiced more, because I messed up about a gazillion times. That's alright, though. Practice makes perfect, right? *says sheepishly* I also made a card for another good friend's birthday. (Wyatt.) It was the first time I had made my own card (well, the first time that it looked good at least.) and I'm also planning on sending him a CD mix of some of my favorite church songs.
School is almost over, and I'm VERY excited for the last week - especially for my Geometry class to be over. I'm also quite anxious for high school, as my Junior High holds seventh through ninth instead of the usual. So I'm a freshman . . . kind of . . . I guess I'm alright with it though. On our last week of school, we have promotion, yearbook day, and most importantly: Lagoon day! On Lagoon day, for those of you who don't know, the ninth graders get to go to the amusement park Lagoon and stay there basically all day with all of our friends.
Well, I'll have to say "See you later," for now. I've got a harp lesson today, and Chelsea has dance pictures, so . . . may God be with you 'till we meet again! :)
Luv, Liss (I'll post this after everything - it's my sign off on everything I post anywhere.)
. . . Just kidding . . . :P
Let's see, what to write? Ah! I just went to one of my very good friends' benefit concert to raise money for her exchange trip to Italy. (Elise.) I played the harp for her there. I was told it went quite well, but I should have practiced more, because I messed up about a gazillion times. That's alright, though. Practice makes perfect, right? *says sheepishly* I also made a card for another good friend's birthday. (Wyatt.) It was the first time I had made my own card (well, the first time that it looked good at least.) and I'm also planning on sending him a CD mix of some of my favorite church songs.
School is almost over, and I'm VERY excited for the last week - especially for my Geometry class to be over. I'm also quite anxious for high school, as my Junior High holds seventh through ninth instead of the usual. So I'm a freshman . . . kind of . . . I guess I'm alright with it though. On our last week of school, we have promotion, yearbook day, and most importantly: Lagoon day! On Lagoon day, for those of you who don't know, the ninth graders get to go to the amusement park Lagoon and stay there basically all day with all of our friends.
Well, I'll have to say "See you later," for now. I've got a harp lesson today, and Chelsea has dance pictures, so . . . may God be with you 'till we meet again! :)
Luv, Liss (I'll post this after everything - it's my sign off on everything I post anywhere.)
Monday, May 5, 2008
My Girls Are Growing Up (Dangit!)
So tonight Alyssa played the harp at her friend's benefit concert and she did an amazing job. For some reason, when she began playing the harp, as well as the piano, her skills on both instruments really increased. I will post a pic. later but I have to ask Carlos how to get the photo's out of my camera. I am learning one device at a time, and I think by the time I get to programing the VCR there won't be such a thing anymore. (I Hope)
After the concert, Alyssa and Chelsea were hungry so we stopped at Apollo Burger to get something to scarf down. When I ordered at the drive-thru, the guy asked me in a kind of gruff tone how many fry sauces I wanted, because they would be an additional 25 cents each. (Who in the Heck charges for fry sauce, especially in Utah...it ought to be a crime!) So I told him two would be enough. When I pulled up to the window, I saw something I have been dreading since the day the girls were born.....He gawked at them...and smiled a very suspicious smile. The kind of smile that says "that girl's hot". Darn creepy if you ask me! Anyway, he gave us our box of food and we went on our way. When we opened the box, we noticed that there was not only an extra order of fries thrown in, but six (count 'em) six fry sauces!
We brought our bounteous supply of fry sauce home, and I sent the girls off to do their homework. Now I am left here with the image of the drive thru attendant smirking and gawking. I am totally creeped out. I think I will have a nightmare tonight.
After the concert, Alyssa and Chelsea were hungry so we stopped at Apollo Burger to get something to scarf down. When I ordered at the drive-thru, the guy asked me in a kind of gruff tone how many fry sauces I wanted, because they would be an additional 25 cents each. (Who in the Heck charges for fry sauce, especially in Utah...it ought to be a crime!) So I told him two would be enough. When I pulled up to the window, I saw something I have been dreading since the day the girls were born.....He gawked at them...and smiled a very suspicious smile. The kind of smile that says "that girl's hot". Darn creepy if you ask me! Anyway, he gave us our box of food and we went on our way. When we opened the box, we noticed that there was not only an extra order of fries thrown in, but six (count 'em) six fry sauces!
We brought our bounteous supply of fry sauce home, and I sent the girls off to do their homework. Now I am left here with the image of the drive thru attendant smirking and gawking. I am totally creeped out. I think I will have a nightmare tonight.
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Ding Dong The Fish Is Dead
So Christian and Paige really wanted a pet goldfish, and finally after weeks of saving they had enough cash for the big purchase. We went to Petsmart last Saturday, and after spending a good 30 minutes with the all important "Fish Manager" we left with two fish. The kids named the fish on the way home. Christian's fish would be named Porky (he's been watching The Little Rascals lately) and Paigie named hers Marcea.
We got the fish set up in their new fishbowl and they seemed pretty happy until the next night. Porky was swimming around with something weird hanging from him. We looked it up on the internet, because you can diagnose anything on the internet, and found out that Porky had been eating too much, (living up to his name) and had a condition called "Fish Constipation". The directions said not to feed him for two days and he would be fine. So we went back and bought another fishbowl ($7.98) so that Porky wouldn't eat Marcea's food.
Well needless to say, the starvation therapy backfired and Porky was found lying in the bottom of the bowl today. Alyssa said that earlier she could tell he was on his last leg....I don't know why she didn't try to resuscitate him. Christan didn't take the whole thing too hard until he saw Paige taking a picture of her fish (because she wanted to have a picture of Marcea in case she died) and he felt bad that he had already flushed Porky. Paige quickly recognized Christian's grief and drew a picture of Porky, which she let Christian color and then we took a picture of the picture of Porky. Everyone had ice cream and went to bed happy.
Other news for the day:
-Chelsea gave her campaign speech on the School TV today and Alyssa said she did a great job. She will find out at 7:15 tomorrow morning if she made Senate again. Let's all keep our fingers crossed. I thing if she doesn't make it she will be ok, but I will probably cry.
-I am working on a door decoration for Christian's teacher's door for teacher appreciation week next week. I went to the school today and interviewed and took pictures of all the kids in his class to put on the poster. Kindergartner's are funny!
-Alyssa has been asked to play the harp for her friend's benefit concert on Monday. Elise is raising money to pay for her to go to Italy and be an exchange student in August. That means I lose one of my Mia Maids. Maybe I'll boycott the fundraiser. J\K
-Chelsea performed with Clayton Productions at the Golden Living Center today and did an awesome job on her solo. She was the best if you ask me.
-Our nephew\cousin Danny leaves on his mission tomorrow. I know he will be a great missionary, and I hope he has a lot of success in Arkansas. Love you Danny!
-Mom and dad will be back from their trip to Canada in a few days. I'm glad they are having a good time. I felt so bad when they had to cut their last trip short. One day in Aruba is just not enough!
-Carlos and I signed up to be friends on Facebook today. I'm not sure exactly what that means but I'm sure it will be fun!
It is raining and snowing tomorrow, so put your flip flops back in the closet. Love to all!
We got the fish set up in their new fishbowl and they seemed pretty happy until the next night. Porky was swimming around with something weird hanging from him. We looked it up on the internet, because you can diagnose anything on the internet, and found out that Porky had been eating too much, (living up to his name) and had a condition called "Fish Constipation". The directions said not to feed him for two days and he would be fine. So we went back and bought another fishbowl ($7.98) so that Porky wouldn't eat Marcea's food.
Well needless to say, the starvation therapy backfired and Porky was found lying in the bottom of the bowl today. Alyssa said that earlier she could tell he was on his last leg....I don't know why she didn't try to resuscitate him. Christan didn't take the whole thing too hard until he saw Paige taking a picture of her fish (because she wanted to have a picture of Marcea in case she died) and he felt bad that he had already flushed Porky. Paige quickly recognized Christian's grief and drew a picture of Porky, which she let Christian color and then we took a picture of the picture of Porky. Everyone had ice cream and went to bed happy.
Other news for the day:
-Chelsea gave her campaign speech on the School TV today and Alyssa said she did a great job. She will find out at 7:15 tomorrow morning if she made Senate again. Let's all keep our fingers crossed. I thing if she doesn't make it she will be ok, but I will probably cry.
-I am working on a door decoration for Christian's teacher's door for teacher appreciation week next week. I went to the school today and interviewed and took pictures of all the kids in his class to put on the poster. Kindergartner's are funny!
-Alyssa has been asked to play the harp for her friend's benefit concert on Monday. Elise is raising money to pay for her to go to Italy and be an exchange student in August. That means I lose one of my Mia Maids. Maybe I'll boycott the fundraiser. J\K
-Chelsea performed with Clayton Productions at the Golden Living Center today and did an awesome job on her solo. She was the best if you ask me.
-Our nephew\cousin Danny leaves on his mission tomorrow. I know he will be a great missionary, and I hope he has a lot of success in Arkansas. Love you Danny!
-Mom and dad will be back from their trip to Canada in a few days. I'm glad they are having a good time. I felt so bad when they had to cut their last trip short. One day in Aruba is just not enough!
-Carlos and I signed up to be friends on Facebook today. I'm not sure exactly what that means but I'm sure it will be fun!
It is raining and snowing tomorrow, so put your flip flops back in the closet. Love to all!
Thursday, April 24, 2008
HELLOOOOOO
Hi everyone! Chelsea here,
well today was a pretty fun day, I am running for senate at my school, and it was the primary votes, and ten came home, I went to dance and when I got back, we all went to a library, because there was a teen poetry contest and Alyssa's poem got 4th place out of her age group! (WOO HOO)
Now we are all at home kind of relaxing.
well today was a pretty fun day, I am running for senate at my school, and it was the primary votes, and ten came home, I went to dance and when I got back, we all went to a library, because there was a teen poetry contest and Alyssa's poem got 4th place out of her age group! (WOO HOO)
Now we are all at home kind of relaxing.
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