2010 is almost over

I can not beleive how fast the past year went. It has been an interesting year. Autumn turned 16, I turned 40, Hope started kindergarten, and Tymber started junior high. I also began college, it has been quite a ride. We had a good Christmas and the children were spoiled.
I can't say I am sorry to see 2010 go. With all of the problems Rich has had with his back and as much as he has been out of work due to his back and also the economy I really hope that 2011 will bring a new steady job for him, something he will be able to do that is easier on his body. Whatever the New Year brings I am grateful for my Savior, for the Atonement, my husband, my children, my parents, my ward and being in the young womens, and the love of my family and friends.

Teach them the meaning of Christmas

We went to our ward Christmas party tonight and this is the program they did. It was wonderful.



True Meaning of Christmas

Just a week before Christmas I had a visitor. This is how it happened. I just finished the household chores for the night and was preparing to go to bed, when I heard a noise in the front of the house. I opened the door to the front room and to my surprise, Santa himself stepped out next to the fireplace.

"What are you doing?" I started to ask. The words choked up in my throat and I saw he had tears in his eyes. His usual jolly manner was gone. Gone was the eager, boisterous soul we all know. He then answered me with a simple statement . . .

"TEACH THE CHILDREN!" I was puzzled. What did he mean? He anticipated my question and with one quick movement brought forth a miniature toy bag from behind the tree. As I stood bewildered, Santa said, "Teach the children!

Teach them the old meaning of Christmas. The meaning that now-a-days Christmas has forgotten." Santa then reached in his bag and pulled out a FIR TREE and placed it before the mantle. "Teach the children that the pure green color of the stately fir tree remains green all year round, depicting the everlasting hope of mankind, all the needles point heavenward, making it a symbol of man's thoughts turning toward heaven."

He again reached into his bag and pulled out a brilliant STAR. "Teach the children that the star was the heavenly sign of promises long ago. God promised a Savior for the world, and the star was the sign of fulfillment of His promise."

He then reached into his bag and pulled out a CANDLE. "Teach the children that the candle symbolizes that
Christ is the light of the world, and when we see this great light we are reminded of He who displaces the darkness."

Once again he reached into his bag and removed a WREATH and placed it on the tree. "Teach the children that the wreath symbolizes the real nature of love. Real love never ceases. Love is one continuous round of affection."

He then pulled from his bag an ORNAMENT of himself. "Teach the children that I, Santa Claus, symbolize the generosity and good will we feel during the month of December."

He then brought out a HOLLY LEAF. "Teach the children that the holly plant represents immortality. It represents
the crown of thorns worn by our Savior. The red holly berries represent the blood shed by Him.

Next he pulled from his bag a GIFT and said, "Teach the children that God so loved the world that he gave his begotten son." Thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift.

Santa then reached in his bag and pulled out a CANDY CANE and hung it on the tree. "Teach the children that
the candy cane represents the shepherds' crook. The crook on the staff helps to bring back strayed sheep to the flock. The candy cane is the symbol that we are our brother's keeper."

He reached in again and pulled out an ANGEL. "Teach the children that it was the angels that heralded in the glorious news of the Savior's birth. The angels sang Glory to God in the highest, on earth peace and good will toward men."


Suddenly I heard a soft twinkling sound, and from his bag he pulled out a BELL,. "Teach the children that as the
lost sheep are found by the sound of the bell, it should ring mankind to the fold. The bell symbolizes guidance and return.

Santa looked back and was pleased. He looked back at me and I saw that the twinkle was back in his eyes. He said, "Remember, teach the children the true meaning of Christmas and do not put me in the center, for I am but
a humble servant of the One that is, and I bow down to worship him, our LORD, our GOD

Kindergarten Christmas

Hope's kindergarten class had a program with another class. They sang about five songs. So cute. Sometimes they were right on, but other times they were way off and shouted the songs. I loved watching them, but I forgot my camera I was not happy. The teachers made all the kids tie-dye shirts as gifts. One more week and school will be out for Christmas break.

Bret Michaels

Last night I went to see the Bret Michaels concert. I have wanted to see him the last 3 times he has been here but tickets are too expensive. This time was no exception. There was no way I could pay the $42.00 for a ticket, plus Autumn wanted to go. My Best Girlfriend Monique, I have known her forever, and she has been the one constant friend in my life that I know I can tell anything to and she is always there. Anyways she works at the Hotel Brett stayed at, she got free tickets for her and her husband. She called me at 5pm and told me she scored 1 more free ticket and it was mine. I was skeptical going, I ad Young Womans and I was worried about missing it, I also felt guilty going without Autumn, Rich had no desire to go. In hind-site I wish I had taken Autumn but I was worried the concert would be sold out. Anyways I went with Monique and her husband and it was great fun. Better that it was free. Thanks Mo for the free ticket, being such a great friend and a great Birthday gift.

Sadie Hawkins

Autumn and Ryan went to Sadie Hawkins for their first date. She was pretty excited because originally Sadie was going to be in November, but our Football team went to state that weekend, so they postponed it. I told Autumn her first date had to be with her dad so I had a great time teasing her she had to take him to the dance. She didn't find me funny. I really didn't think this first date was too traumatic because it was just Ryan and he has been around for a while. They group dated with 5 other couples. I made Ryan drive my Expedition because the roads were kind of slick. They picked Meg and her date up and met everyone at Wal-Mart. From there they went and played Human Clue in Wal-Mart. I have never heard of this but I guess the kids play it a lot, along with other games. They also played hide-and-seek. Then they went to dinner at Alyssa's house. Poor Brother Warner cooked bbq chicken in the snow for them. That is dedication. Then they went to another place for desert and off to the dance. Autumn said there were not a lot of people there but it was fun. They danced a lot and Ryan had her home by about 10:45. They were both tired, they sat and talked to Rich and I for quite a while, he had to be home by 12. She may have a boyfriend but she knows they have to group date. She is a good young woman with strong values and Ryan also has strong values, I am not worried about them, but the still have to group date.

40

Today is my 40th Birthday. Good-bye to the 30's. I thought it would bother me more to turn 40. So far it is just another day. I took the day off work paid, my gift to myself. It has been pretty low key, just the way I like it. Tymber made me a cake, I had to convince her it doesn't need vinegar in it, that girls needs help with her cooking I think. I am blessed to have my family and friends in my life. My family may not be in a good situation right now, but we have each other and I have so much love for my girls and husband. Rich has had to give 2 Blessings the past 2 days for good friends of ours. The Blessings have been amazing, I love that he holds the Priesthood and is able to do this for people we care about.

Sweet 16

It is hard to believe 16 years ago Autumn was born. Time goes so fast. I am not ready for my children to grow up. We are so blessed to have her in our family. Heavenly Father sure knew what He was doing when he sent her to us. She is such a strong spirit, I know she had to be extremely valiant in the pre-mortal life. They say the strongest spirits were saved for last and I believe it without a doubt. When we had her Patriarchal Blessing done it was amazing, some of the things he told her did not surprise me at all. She has a lot of work to do, but I have no doubt she will do it all, and do it well. I also know without a doubt that there is no way we would have gone through the Temple last year if it wasn't for her. When she was 12 and began Young Womans she started to pray faithfully every day to become a forever family. With her testimony and strength she made it possible. She is passionate with her testimony and it burns bright. Sometimes I think she is wise beyond her years. She knows so much more at 16 about the Gospel then I do. She loves to come home from Seminary and tell us what she has learned that day. She has been going to my Gospel Principles class at Church. One because my teacher is amazing and two because her class bores her. It is fun watching her search for scriptures as he is giving the lesson she will silently begin to search her Scripture mastery and pull a scripture up that is not referenced in the lesson. The class is amazed by her. She brings a special spirit into our home. She is a wonderful big sister and loves her sisters.She is patient and kind (most of the time). We are beyond blessed to be her parents and I often wonder what we did in Heaven to deserve this beautiful young woman. We love you Autumn and our lives would not be the same without you in it. We are a blessed family. Thank You for being so strong and for being you!

1 year Forever Family Anniversary!

Today we celebrate our 1 year Anniversary of being sealed in the Temple as a forever family! The memories are so sweet of kneeling at the alter being sealed to my husband for all time and eternity. Then bringing our beautiful daughters to us to be sealed as a forever family! We are blessed.

Halloween late

I decided to do this in two posts. I had too many pictures to upload. We went to Rick and Caralyn's for Halloween this year. We usually go each year with them. It is a blast, they live in a great neighborhood.I think we had more adults then kids. The adults and teens were Rich, Rick, Brandi, Darrin, my Dad, Ryan, Autumn, Kylee, and her boyfriend Callin, and me.. The actual kids trick-or-treating Tymber, Kaycie, Hope, and McKinley. Kaycie was a witch, Hope care bear, Tymber a bee, Kinny was a skunk, The weather was pretty nice, the wind wasn't blowing and it wasn't too cold. Right as we finished it started to rain. Hope and Kaycie were so cute. They ran and ran to houses and laughed and laughed. I loved watching them. What a fun night.

Garden- really late

Tymber and her best friend KassaDee grew a garden this year. They did an AMAZING job. I was so proud of them. First they chose a spot that was full of weeds and morning glory. They worked their hearts out to clear it smooth it, rake it and so forth. Then they talked Rich into tilling it for them. They then took left over seeds to plant peas, zucchini, carrots,onions, and corn. They had to carry water to it and work very hard to keep the weeds out. Really I didn't think they would do it. Tymber has good intentions but then gets side tracked. Boy did they prove me wrong. I am sad I didn't take pictures of the garden. The cake is made from their zucchini above. Not only did they prove me wrong but they also were able to mark off one of their projects for Personal Progress in Young Womens!

table

Autumn made this amazing table in school. She did a beautiful job. She took cabinet making for one of her electives this trimester. She loved it so much she changed her schedule around the next two trimesters to be able to take advanced cabinet making. It was really fun listening to her come home and discuss tools and techniques with her dad!

Halloween pictures

Drivers Licence

Last Wednesday Autumn took her driving test and then Friday she took her written test. It has been almost a year since her permit and her grades are good so I told her she could get her license. Plus I am tired of driving her around and with me going to school I need her help once in a while. She is a good driver and I knew she would do great on both tests. On the driving test she missed 2 and the written she missed 4. Her picture turned out really good as well. I wanted to have her take a picture of her license after she got it but she was off and didn't get it sent to me. Then it snowed today and she wanted to drive, I wouldn't let her the roads were slick and I couldn't go with her so I told her no. She pouted but she will get over it, I don't feel comfortable turning her loose on slick roads yet even though she is a good driver.

parent teachers conference

Hope had her first parent teachers conference today. She is doing great in school. Her teacher said she is a little serious and quiet but not as quiet as Autumn was (this is good) she is not afraid to participate in class and raise her hand to answer questions. She is well behaved and scored a 3 on everything. A three is on task or mastered. She did excellent on her tests and knows all of the alphabet, she has a few issues with m w d and b but that is the normal ones to get mixed up. I knew she would love school and have no problems or concerns but it is also nice to hear from Mrs Stewart as well.

Friend=BFF

Hope is learning to spell a few words. She is always asking how to spell a word when we need something she wants from the grocery store so she can write it down on my list in the kitchen on the dry erase board. She learned to spell stop by herself, when asked how she told Autumn it is because she sees it everywhere and knows STOP spells stop. She can spell mom, dad, cat,dog and a few others without asking us now. Today she was writing and proclaimed she spelled friend, I asked her how it is spelled, her reply was BFF. She was so proud of herself and asked me if it was correct, I didn't have the heart to tell her no.

Corn Maze

For mutual tonight we took the YM/YW to the Shelley corn maze.There were 42 of us total with adults and youth. It was a lot of fun. We went at night and took off. We of course got lost. There are 4 different mazes you can choose from. They have different check points throughout that you can check off and receiver coupons from local businesses. There is also a map that they give you to follow. What a blast.

Baptism

Thursday our ward took the yw/ym to the temple to do baptisms. I never went as a youth and have not been to the baptismal font as an adult. I was pretty excited to go. We took a bus down (we have a lot of youth) and ate dinner at the temple. Then we went and changed. They split the kids up half did confirmations and half did baptisms and then they switched.I requested to hand the towels to them as they got out because I had never been and wanted to watch. Tymber was the first to get baptised. Each youth did 10 names for both. Autumn baptised a Princess of Holstein. She was pretty excited, I think she dated back late 1700's from Hungary or somewhere. When we were done the Bishop informed us we did 250 names. He told everyone that was enough to start a whole ward. How cool was that!
Rich had planed on going to baptise seems how he didn't baptise either girl. As luck would have it that is the day he had his shot. He is doing pretty good. His leg is almost pain free but where he got the shot is very sore. He said this doctor was so much better. Hopefully it will help him.

I am really enjoying the YW group. Tuesday we are taking them to the corn maze for our activity! Fun Fun. I wanted to go anyways when I told Rich we were going he said no fair he wants to come also.

Another shot

We took Rich back to the Doctor today, I am pretty sure his shot from July wore off. I was really hoping we would go longer with the amount of money each shot costs. The truth is there is no guarantee how long it will last, each person is different. Some people have to have 2 or 3 shots to get the pain gone. His pain never went away 100% but was manageable. He jumped out of the back of his truck last week and re-injured his back. I hope it is not torn again. We are going to go in Thursday morning for another shot, another $1,000.00 but oh well. It is better then the alternative of not being able to work at all. We also got him some anti-inflammatory pills. I will be curious if these work, he has had a bad reaction to some in the past, he can take celebrex but it is over $100.00 a month for it. We are also going to get him into a pain management clinic in Blackfoot. The bad news is we can't get him in until December 1st. I have heard some really good things about this clinic. I wanted to get him in earlier and forgo the shot but nothing was available so we need the shot so he can manage until then. Even if this shot does him wonders, that I doubt, but we agreed he will still go in December even if he feels great. This is something we need to deal with in the long term and try to avoid back surgery.

Night Away

Rich and I snuck away last night for some alone time. My parents kept the girls and my very great friend Monique hooked us up at the Red Lion in Idaho Falls, she works there and was able to get us an amazing room for a great price. It was a delux king sized room with a view overlooking the river. Beautiful. It also has a balcony we could walk out on. It was pretty cold though to be out for long. We also had a gift certificate for Chilies and went to dinner. Yummy food. Although our time was brief and I wish it would have lasted longer it was nice to have the alone time with him. We needed it, it is important to remember sometimes we are more then mom and dad.
His shot is wore off in his back. We were hopeful it would last longer and help more then it did. It really did not have the affect we wanted it to. I think we are going to try to get him into a pain specialist here in Blackfoot and see if we can have a little better luck trying some different methods.

Homecoming

Just because I love this picture
Super Geek
Bronco Pride

This past week was Blackfoot's Homecoming. One day was Disney Character day, another super hero, another disco, Friday was school pride, and Monday crazy hair day. Autumn dressed up on Disney day, she wore my Mickey Mouse pajama bottoms to school, this is against the dress code but nothing was said due to the week. Wed. her and Katie dressed up as their favorite super hero.... Super Geek. I loved that they made up their own hero's. They took old shirts and wrote SG on the front, taped their glasses , put a pen in their pockets, wore their hair in funny styles, wore their pants rolled uneven and a cape. She said they walked into Seminary saying "Never fear the Super Geeks are here". Monday she wore her hair crazy, I didn't think it was that crazy. Friday of course a green shirt and I think she had her Blackfoot hoodie on.
She is Secretary of the German club. The girl doesn't even take or speak German but she was at a meeting with Ryan last year and they needed another officer so she volunteered. Silly girl.They had to select someone for Homecoming Queen and then wanted to make a float or something for the Parade on Friday. They used my cousin George's big black truck and decorated it. George was a good sport about letting them borrow it, but when he was in school he was on the football team, so Bronco Pride. I guess they had a picture of a Bee ( Bonneville Bees, the school I graduated from) on the front of the truck squashed, then they had German Club on the back and Broncos on the sides made from tablecloths or something. Ryan drove the truck and all the kids piled in the back with fly swatters. This girl in the club made them each really cool shirts to wear and the girls put upside down horseshoes on their faces with paint. I was pretty disappointed Autumn did not tell me what time the parade was starting, they got out 2 hours early. I called her and she told me it was starting right then. It was only a few blocks so I couldn't get there in time. I was sad we missed it. After the parade they washed Georges truck, put fuel in it and took it back. Then Ry and Autumn came back here, he wasn't looking so good, he got braces the day before on the bottom and his mouth was killing him, plus he had a super bad migraine. I fed them and Autumn left to go to the game with Katie and some friends. Poor Ryan went downstairs in her room and slept about three hours. I felt bad for him, I know he wanted to go to the game but was sick. Broncos won the game. Yeah!
Homecoming was the next night but not being 16 Autumn didn't get to go. I really don't think she cared anyways. None of her close friends are 16 (except Ryan) so no one was going to the dance. I am glad she is having fun in school. I hated high school so bad and only wanted out. She went to the powder puff game on Wednesday and informed me next year she is playing powder puff!

Hope's Birthday

My baby girl turned six yesterday. Where has the time gone? It makes me so sad that she is growing so fast. She loves kindergarten so much. Loves going to school each day. I am glad it is only half a day and she is home by 11:30. She gets pretty grouchy in the afternoons, it is rough getting up at 6:45. She is in bed by 8:00 p.m. but I may need to push her bedtime to 7:30.
She had a good birthday. It was pretty quiet, I sent cookies for her to school but she forgot to hand them out, it is probably a good thing. When she brought them home they were all smashed. Rich informed me she stood on them the night before when she was standing on her backpack, silly girl. We got her some lego blocks, she can build with blocks for hours and hours. I also got her some play-doh and clothes. Autumn, and Tymber got her a slinky and a shirt, and Ryan got her some fart putty, she loves it. She really wanted a zu-zu pet and I ordered her one online but it did not get here in time. I was pretty ticked off, I ordered it the end of August. My parents decided to come down and they brought her one. She loves it. Hers of course showed up today, I really think I am going to just put it up for Christmas. We ordered Chinese and I got her a cake. I had to go to young womens last night so there was not a lot of time to celebrate.
I was asked last week to be a Beehive adviser. I can't say I am surprised. I have known it was coming for a while now. My Patriarchal Blessing tells me I am supposed to work with the youth of the Church, specificaly the women. I knew when they started to release some of the leaders it was coming, then it did not and they called other women to the position. It kind of ticked me off because I KNEW I was supposed to be there. About 2 months went by and they called me. I am pretty scared, I have never had a church calling before, this one is pretty big. I really do know without a doubt this is where I need to be and Sister Ulrich confirmed it today as she was bringing me everything I needed. They are just going to have to be patient with me I have a lot to learn and there will be many weekends I have to work but I will be able to go to Mutual each Tuesday.
I finished my first two classes last Sunday. I got a 96 in both classes, I worked hard and I am excited for the grade I received. Now I am taking finance and communications. I really think communications will be tough. It is reviewing a lot of verbs, fragments and such right now. The sad thing is that I have forgotten most of it over 21 years.

skimop

Hope is a true nut. She is determined everything has a website. If you just go to …..com and look it up it will be there. I was mopping the kitchen floor and she just had to get in on the action. After I finished I cleaned the mop and let her have at it. At first she is ridding it like a stick horse with the mop end on the floor, then she starts skating across the floor saying “go to www.skimop.com you will get all of the information you need to ski-mop your floor. But kids ask your parents before using the internet.” I am now laughing as she is giving this huge commentary and sliding across the floor behind the mop. I am in the laundry room and here a crash “I’m okay” then she is saying “kids do not go to ski-mop.com it is dangerous and should not be tried at home” Now she is dancing around the room with the mop and singing all sorts of crazy songs. Then she grabs the mop holds it up and starts singing to the tune of Mama Mia “Mopa Mia, Mopa Mia” You just have to love a child’s imagination, even if she does watch too much TV and quotes shows and thing she hears.

School registration

I got the girls registered for school today. Autumn at 9:00 a.m. $96.00 plus $22.00 for school pictures. Also had to get her schedule changed around a little. She did not like a few of her teachers that she had last year and thought she would do better with different teachers. She is taking a few honors classes as well. Tymber was next at 12:00 p.m got her done for $17.00 plus I bought her a small book-bag the school offers for $7.00 as their lockers are small. Her homeroom teacher sounds like she will do well with. She has her for 3 classes. Some of her classes may have 37 students in it. Got to love budget cuts. :0( plus the books are all falling apart with no money to replace them. It makes me sad money is taken out of our schools. Hope was then last, I had to pay $50.00 snack fee for her for the year. Her teacher is Mrs. Stewart. She is going to love her. Autumn had her the first year she taught kindergarten. Autumn was thrilled Hope has her and Mrs Stewart already knows her name. She will be a fun teacher.
Tymber starts next Wed 25th. Hope goes for 1 hour on 25th and I go with her. Then Autumn and Hope will start their school on 26th. It is kind of a weird few weeks with the kindergarten schedule. It will all work out and be a good year.

Island Park 2010

Rory
us
Kade catching air
Rick
Autumn and Kylee
Love the look on Tyms face
my amazing daddy
Autumn and Ky
Hope and Ky
Ryker
Fearless Hope
Tymber

Every year we go to Island Park for a reunion. It is a lot of fun. We usually camp at Buttermilk but this year Caralyn was able to get a cabin because of my Aunt Perk. It was a really really nice cabin. My dad and Rory still brought their trailers up as there wasn't enough room for everyone to sleep. We went up Friday morning and had a blast. We took the jet skis and boats out on the water. Rick had his boat and Lynn and Allen had their boat. At first I went with Ryan and Hope on the jet ski. We were looking for the boat. Hope was not happy and did not want to go. Once we convinced her there were no sharks in the water she was game. We looked for an hour for them and finally found them. i didn't mind I was having a blast on the jet ski. Once we found them Hope got in the boat, Kade skied for a while then we went and had lunch. My dad decided he was going to try the jet ski, he was so funny he wouldn't give it gas, you pretty much have to lay on the gas to get it to move, he insisted it wasn't working, once we convinced him to give it gas away he went and had a ball. It is great at 72 he still plays with us. We then jet skied and played until almost dark. Went back to the cabin and dinner had been fixed. Dutch oven chicken and potatoes. yum Yum. Time to eat,sit around the campfire, let the kids roast smores, go to bed and get up the next morning. Of course we love to eat so there was a huge breakfast my dad, Rory and Allen cooked. Out to the lake we go again. We were there about half a day then it was cold and the water was choppy. About 3 we decided to go float Box Canyon. Got all the tubes and raft ready and we were off. Rich went with us this time, he didn't go out on the boat he was worried it would have hurt his back, so he stayed back and had some relaxing time. We were both so relaxed and needed to get away so bad. It was wonderful. We had Hope-5, Kaycee-3 Tessa-2 Trey-5 Tymber, Caralyn, Josh, Lori, Kylee, Autumn Rich and I floating. We got there and dang the water was COLD. Really really cold. Trey was freaking out, not much we can do we are in a canyon rock walls both sides pretty much on the river for 1.5 hours. He was in the raft with Rich. It starts to rain a little and lightning .Oops. All in all even though it was cold it still was a lot of fun. It is a pretty mellow float and beautiful. Back to the cabin to get warm and dinner was cooked again (haha) this time dutch oven roast that was to die for. Yummy
Hope decided she was going to tube herself. I offered to get on with her and she would not let me. We let her go by herself. My fearless fred. I don't think she liked it as much as when the other kids were with her but she didn't complain. Of course we went really slow with her. You can see by the pure joy on Tymbers face how much she enjoyed it. I loved the jet-ski. I finally got up the guts to ride it myself. Wow it was a blast. I was so so sore after and have bruises. i am still a little sore 4 days later but it was so worth it.
I am blessed to have the family that I do and am so glad we got to go relax and get away from everything for a few days.

Half way done

I finished my mid terms last week for my college classes. I am in week five now. There are nine weeks in a class so we are half way done. Crazy how fast it has gone. So far I am doing well. My overall grade for university studuies right now is 97.4. My overall grade in health and Science is 95.78 I am learning a lot and more importantly I am really enjoying school. huh, who would have thought that is something that would ever come out of my mouth. Of course as the classes get more challenging I may change my mind. Next spring when math comes around I will be cussing and saying bad things I am sure.
I can not belive August is half over and my kids go back to school on Aug 25th.I really am not ready. Yes there are days they fight and I can not wait but overall I enjoy having them home and just want more time. Maybe becuase Hope is starting kindergarten, i don't know but the thought is making me so sad.

Crush

Hope has a huge crush on the neighbor. Tyler Lott. She has for a while now and has told us about it. He even knows she has a crush on him. There is just a little bit of age difference. Tyler just turned 16 a few weeks ago. Hope isn't 6 yet. So my neighbor and very good friend Michelle called me last night to tell me Hope came over to her house. Tyler was watching t.v Hope walked in and told everyone she needed some privacy please. Then she sits down and procedes to tell Tyler she has a crush on him (then holds up her little hand) AND had a dream about him as well. He told her Thank You for telling him that. He is so sweet and was so nice about the whole thing. He is always really good to talk to her when he sees her. She then walks into their kitchen, wipes her hand across her forhead says Whew I'm glad that's over and went outside to continue to play.
I wasn't sure if I should laugh or be mortified. I probably would have been embarrassed but I know Michelle and their family so well both her and I thought it was funny. We agreed that when Tyler starts to date we think we will not tell Hope so she isn't heartbroke. The little nut.

Happy Birthday Tymber

Today my tater bug is 12! Yikes I can't believe she is 12. I'm not sure where the last 12 years have gone. After seeing Rycker today and how little he is time really does fly. Tymber got a bike for her birthday. My dad and mom also got her a cowboy hat. It is super cute on her. Autumn and Hope got her a necklace that has the young women's values on it. Its really nice. She is super excited to be 12 and going into young women's. She is going to love it. Happy Birthday to my amazing Tymber who is fun, loving. warm, caring, and full of so much spirit and life. We LOVE you and are so happy you are our daughter.

21st Anniversary.... and a baby

Today is Rich's and my 21st anniversary. Its crazy we've been married 21 years. I love every minute of it. I also love him more and more each and every day. My husband is amazing. I am so blessed to have him and our daughters.
we also have a new addition to the Olson family today Rycker Max Olson was born to my nephew Ryan and his wife Marcye. He is 6#9oz. I can not wait to go see him tomorrow, he looks like a sweetie. Must go get my baby loves in. It's kind of funny Ryan and Rich have the same birthday 20 years apart and now their first child also shares our anniversary.