Saturday was bliss :)

Hello all.

Yesterday was a very busy but blissful day. My friend from church asked to take the kids in the morning, since they haven't been over to play all Summer long. I was excited because that meant I could go visit my Kimmy in the hospital. For those of you that don't know, Kimmy is my best friend. We have been friends since junior high and have been through way to much together. She is another sister to me. So the kiddos got to go to the Primary water activity and then over to play with a lot of their church friends afterwards. They were happy to.

I was so excited to be able to go see my Kimmy and her new baby Jacob finally. She had him Thursday afternoon and I was going nuts wanting to go visit them. This is her first baby and I am so very excited for her and Matt. Anyway, I was amazed to see her walking around like nothing yesterday when she had a full labor and then a c section. I was not doing that well after my first c section. Like always though she amazes me. She is so strong. She looked so beautiful. She was glowing in every way and already she is a wonderful mommy. I got to go up with her and hold little Jacob in the Nicu for a good 20 minutes. Kim had to step out for a bit so I was alone holding him. Yes, I was bawling, holding this perfect and so adorable precious baby boy that is a miracle. It was such an awesome experience to be able to share in my Kimmy and Matt's joy. My Kimmy is a mommy!

Well then it was time to get the kiddos and head over to my Mom's for her birthday party. She is so hilarious. She had a pirate birthday complete with a treasure hunt for the kids. The kids think Grandma is the coolest and she is. She dressed up like a pirate complete with a blacked out tooth and a pirate hat. Melissa made the most adorable treasure chest cake and mom had pirate decorations. I sure hope Melissa posts picutures. My camera is not working and I am very annoyed about it. No pictures of Kimmy and no pictures of my mom's birthday. Anway the kids were excited to find the treasure and to get McDonald gift certificates and candy from the treasure chest. It was a great day full of food, swimming, treasure hunting and being together as a family. I watch my kids and my nieces and nephews with my Mom and it reminds me of the times with my special Grandma's.

My lawn got mowed yesterday by one of the young men from church too. I am so grateful for everything that my ward does for me. They are awesome.

Anyway, the day ended with me watching Melissa's monkey's while she went to a scrapbook thing. It was an awesome day but even today I am still worn out from it. LOL and my house is thrashed because I didn't do any cleaning yesterday and my kids have been here more with their Dad being gone. Davyd is back now so this will be more of a normal week but still an exhausting one. Lots going on.

Anyway, I need to go get myself and my monkey's ready for church. Happy Sabbath everyone. Love all of you.

I'm falling fast for a blue eyed guy :)

Yes, I know. I swore that I was pretty much done with dating for awhile and here comes Mr. Wonderful. Isn't that always how it works? When you are not looking you find someone special. This guy knocks my socks off, LOL. He spoils me to death and treats me like royalty. We have such similar experiences in life that it is almost too strange, and his favorite dressing is blue cheese like me. Who can go wrong with that? LOL

Last night he made me a candle light dinner. Wednesdays nights are the only nights we are both without our kids so it has been every Wed for the last month. :) He even had a dozen red roses on the table for me. He barbequed the most delicious chicken and ribs and made grilled veggies too. This guy can cook. He remembered that I order my potato loaded when we go out to eat and so he bought bacon pieces and shredded cheese for my potato. He doesn't miss a thing. He remembers everything about what I do and don't like. He even reads my my space survey's and uses that information. For instance he read what my favorite type of food was so he took me out to eat that food the next time we went out. He even watched my favorite movie "The Notebook" with me. Oh and he is a total gentleman. Anyway.......LOL I am getting a little carried away. He calls just to tell me he is thinking about me. Can you tell I like him? We shall see where this goes and yes he is LDS for those inquiring minds that want to know. :)

Lol anyway sorry for the cheesiness it is just nice to find a nice guy to date after all of the weirdo's I have dated lately. :)

Saturday is a special day! :) LOL

Well Saturday was no different than any other Saturday in that I had extra kids. I always do. Usually it is Cody spending the night at Logan's request and sometimes William too because he feels left out. Sometimes it is Shalyn too but not so much lately. I also have Amy Jo's kids Jack and Alex one weekend a month while her and Davyd do Navy drill. Long story but she babysits my kids for me while I work so I watch her kids while she does her Navy Chief stuff once a month. It all works out good because her kids and my kids are siblings at their dad's house. Her boys are very sweet and I have learned to love them. Jack even calls me Mama because my kids do LOL. I bet Amy Jo loves that.

I had Melissa's 4 boys while she went to a friends graduation party. It still amazes me how much I love kids but I find that my patience level is not what it used to be now that I work and am not around them all the time. They all had a great time and so did I. You still can't see the floors in the kids rooms but I gave up. I will clean them tomorrow. Tonight is family home evening and yesterday was the Sabbath. Hahaha nice excuse heh? :)

When Melissa came to pick them up I told her about how my toilets were giving me grief. Well Melissa is our family handyman......LOL. She went to home depot to get stuff to fix the float in my bathroom and the flap for the kids bathroom toilet. When she was fixing the toilet in my bathroom the cooper flex inlet broke. She amazes me she went to Home Depot and figured out exactly what to get to fix it all. Even the guy there couldn't figure it out, Melissa sure could :) That is just how she is. Wish I had her talent. She gets it from my mom. She fixed both toilets and the inlet tube. My bathroom sink was clogged too because Megan put one of Logan's Spiderman experiment tubes down it. Low and behold miraculous Melissa got that out as well. It feels so good to have bathrooms that are in full working order again. Thanks to my dear sweet sister. Here is a picture of her fixing the toilet.

I cut my hair and my A/C is working

Well, I had been contemplating cutting layers into my hair for awhile, but I finally did it on a whim. I had a couple hours after work, before my date on Wednesday, and decided to go get it cut. I have basically had the same hair style since high school. It was time for a change even though it was not a huge one. Well, I love the way it turned out. It is amazing how a small thing like changing your hair style can make you feel so much better. My mood this week really turned around. The kids and I prayed and prayed about our air conditioning. My brother, Ricky, called one of his air conditioning buddies for me. His buddy asked what kind of filter I had in the unit. I have a thicker electrostatic filter that you wash out once a month. His friend said that those will cause your unit to burn out when they are working so hard here in the summers. His friend advised that I pull the filter out and turn the unit off for awhile. He said that it may have just frozen up because of the filter. I was so relieved to find that when I turned the unit back on after a couple hours with no filter it worked. It definitely needs to be recharged but it is working fairly well. Heavenly Father always blesses me as a single parent. I have seen him work in so many miraculous ways in the last year and aa half to bless the lives of me and my children.

Ugh

Well today my friends, I had the extreme joy of coming home to find that my air conditioner decided to quit working. It was 91 degrees in my house. So needless to say I have not been in a very good mood this evening. Still did the whole family home evening thing though. Thank goodness I have a window unit in my room so it is nice and oool in here and that is where the kiddos and I hung out for most of the night. I have no clue what I am going to do yet. I am not trying to complain because I am so blessed. I just live from pay check to pay check barely making my mortgage and now I have this. Can't really go through a summer in The valley of the sun without AC in your house with 3 kids. Not to mentiont that my brake light is on in my car too. Being a single mom is tough. It makes me mad when people act like I chose this for myself. I did what I had to do after I did all I could and I do the best that I can to support myself and my kids. So to those people I say don't judge me until you have lived a day of my life. I like how people at church act like I am an outcast because I am divorced. I don't go around telling people about what Davyd did so they have no clue. I didnt' want to be a divorced single mother of 3 kids but unfortunately that is the way things worked out. So one of the many lessons I have learned from all of this is to never judge anyone. Anyway enough ranting.

4th of July

I was so excited to have my babies for the 4th of July this year. Davyd had them last year and it was miserable. They missed out on all of the fun with their cousins last year. Melissa made sure that she went all out to make it special. She made goodie bags for all of the children and bought tons of light wands and glowing bracelets and necklaces for them . I had to work during the day because I process the Canadian stuff. After work I went to pick the monkey's up and we headed to Mom and Papa's for our family BBQ. We all had so much fun swimming and enjoying each other. It was a very hot day but wonderful. The cousins all had fun running amok and playing together and of course eating. Afterwards we went to go watch fireworks. I have to admit I am not used to be around so many children anymore now that I work outside of the home. They all have so much energy. I was a little stressed that someone was going to get hurt. No one did though and we had a fantastic time. The kids were completely worn out after it was all over. It was a wonderful day and I am so grateful that my family made it so special for my kids.