Alana

Alana did not have chicken pox or scarlet fever. She had rosella...weird. All her symptoms fit i wonder why i never found it online. Anyway, we are now retraining her to sleep. i'm quite tired.

Jobs

I got a job!! Before I left to go and search for jobs i knelt down and prayed that the Lord would guide my feet. I went everywhere, I got a lot of applications. The last place I went was Ruby River. My neighbor Jay works there and we all know that he is leaving since he is done with school, lucky. So I went in, acted like i was the best human being to grace this planet and got an interview right there. The manager just graduated from UVU in English and wants to be a professor (yaeh i got that lucky). therefore the entire interview was pretty much talking about english. I couldn't ahve picked a better manager. At the end of the conversation he said to call him on Sunday and that I would probably start on monday- yeah. Amazing i know. I was shaking so hard the whole time and my heart was going a million miles a minute. I forgot how scary it is to put yourself out there. I mean, its just scary to go in and sell yourself...I'm really hoping everything will be ok, the schedules wont be too hard and htat i'll make a ton of money...I've been a stay at home mom for almost three years...now i'm going to be working part time and honestly, i'm scared to death. but super excited that my prayers were answered. Thank you Jay for letting me throw your name around. :D

no house

oh yeah- we aren't buying a house anymore...just doesn't make sense when you're not sure where the flip you are going to be in six months. someday i'll have my garden, someday i'll have a yard, someday i'll have my chickens and dogs...someday, but not today

chicken pox

'goldie locks has chicken pox from head to toe with pocko-dots...' I'm pretty sure alana has chicken pox. good bye world for at least 7days

getting house

we are trying to buy a house...wow. isn't that nuts? i think it is. its the only thing i think about, the only thing i have been doing for over a week. its crazy to think that i'm old enough to be even talking about becoming a home owner. The crazier part- cameron isn't done with school...he is not in the career he wants to be in forever...So, this is the thought process- why rent when we can spend about the same amount on a house a month? granted this limits what we can actually buy, but right now there are some real options. i mean, and even if we move in a year or two we can definately rent or sell it...because we are only going to buy something we feel is a deal. anyway...everyday i come upon a house that i MUST have and everyday i find out that not only did someone else MUST have it they GOT it...someday i'm hoping i'll be that someone....the one that GOT it. i really dont feel like i'm old enough to be making these kinds of decisions...but i am 25, i do have two kids... sometimes my life hits me and i cant really believe that its mine. i go about my day to day activities without a thought...introspection doesn't happen every moment, but when it does- wow. i still feel about 18. Granted when i'm around anyone younger than 21 i cant help but think 'oh babies...' *shrug* its not that i'm more mature than a sixteen year old, i'm just in such a different stage of life. the things that i worry about are so different than they were when i was 18 or 21 and single. anyway, so we're looking for a house. and this means that i haven't cleaned or cooked in over a week, the laundry has piled and piled. today is the first day that i've worn make-up...lets all pray that i can calm down here and get some other things done. has anyone ever noticed that i'm wound up tight? here all this time i thought i was a free spirited, relaxed hippie type person-- not so my friends, not so. instead i am...tightly wound...i'm like my parents- wound up, focused, type A...a blazing RED...a Hera...yeah. we get things done right? so, i'm rambling--the point is....pray we find the perfect house and soon so that my children will no longer look homeless and my husband wont lose 10 pounds. i'm off to make chocolate cookies- thank you tina for the margrine.

Easter

well, we had a great easter, does anyone say anything else? wouldn't it be funny if someone was like man easter sucks!!! ok ok i'm back on track. well, on saturday cameron called me on his way to school to tell me that the park was hosting a big easter egg hunt for kids in about 20mins....i rushed, i got the kids ready, i ran around the house and i got out into the stroller in the freezing wind. as i locked the house i heard from the park's direction a loud voice...we missed it...they had started without us...no egg hunting...we still braved the weather to go to the store and get eggs to dye and candy to add to my hips. the easter bunny came saturday night and left a great little basket for jj and one for cameron even. wow. jade had candy, movies, sunglasses, and a fake cell phone in her basket. what an easter bunny i'd say. target must have been having a sale...and the disney store...we went to the mall on saturday and it was so fun and not good all at once...never go into the dinsey store with a girl that has huge eyes to look up at you. There were these gold belle slippers that light up when walked on...they are platforms, lets be honest for 7 dollars how could be refuse? Jade calls them her 'princess shoes' she kind of likes them...a lot! on sunday we dyed eggs on the kitchen floor, it was very fun. i made sugar cookies and...failed, miserably. i turned up the oven too high, which burnt the first batch then none of my pans were cleaned...i gave up. Jade did like cutting out the cookies. but we did not eat any that were cooked up. after conference on sunday cameron hid a bunch of eggs out on the lawn/dirt patch. Jade loved it. we had fun. lets be honest alana couldn't care less about the duck i got her, and i didn't get her any candy. yeah, she doesn't need more sugar. on the thursday before this weekend i decided to make jade an easter dress....hours later i got a dress out and although it may have looked ok on it did not work--too much vision not enough functionality. we had jesse and sarah come over for dinner on sunday which was great. we played 'ticket to ride' and of course i won!!! wahahahahaaaaaa! it felt great, although i really shouldn't gloat because they hadn't played before so eh- next time they will kill me. anyway it was great to spend time with them, i love my family.
conference was great- unfortunately i slept a lot...i'm a little tired. but really the main message i heard was about being a good parent. how important it is to be there for your kids, to be a good example and to love them unconditionally. i'm now trying to get to the gym at 5am so that i'm up and happy by the time they wake up. i did it for the first time today and so far its working, we'll see how long i can do this.... pictures!!