Happy Birthday

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Today is Kristen's Birthday.  We talked for at least an hour on the phone yesterday and I completely spaced wishing her an early happy birthday. I'm wishing she was here so we could go out and do something fun to celebrate.

I don't know what I can say about this friend of mine that I haven't said before. Since Kristen has moved their family has faced some challenges, but I'm glad to say that things are working out for them. One of the reasons I admire Kristen is the way that she keeps on trucking through life and doesn't let herself become of victim of the circumstances she's in. Although I've been the listening ear on many venting sessions, (who doesn't need one of those once in a while?) she always manages to come out stronger and with a better attitude and ready to move on to the next thing to conquer. And sometimes as a mom you have to watch your kids go through difficult times and watch them make hard choices. Recently after moving to Albany, they found out the football league for Tyler only had games on Sundays. Football is one Ty's most favorite things in the whole world and he was totally crushed that he wouldn't be able to play. Although she was sympathetic and felt so bad for him, I really admire that she helped him see that it was for the best and it wasn't the end of the world and she helped him find an alternative in a flag football league that played during the week. She is always trying to teach her children the right and important lessons of life and that is not an easy thing to do. They are lucky to have such a good example as a mom.

So even though I and the rest of the B-squad can't be there to help her celebrate and blow out some candles on a cake, I'll make some birthday wishes for her:

*That everything goes smoothly from here on out with their new house

*No more leaky roofs

*To meet some good friends

*To never have to live in a little apartment that smells like mildew again

*Lots of happy new memories that will come this year

Happy Birthday Kristen!

From the mouth of Morgan

Some funny things Morgan has cracked me up with lately:

~The other day while running around the house with a blanket on and trying to act spooky, I asked what he was doing and he said - "I'm being the Holy Ghost!"

~Last night while eating some yummy bubble gum ice cream my friend Natallie brought over, complete with blue mouth and drips going down his chin Morgan declared - "This is the best ice cream I've ever seen!"

~When he opens the sliding glass door to go outside and I ask what he is doing he says -"I'm going to check on the topatoes and the bikini's." (tomatoes and zucchini's). I love it when he asks if he can have some "bikini bread". So stinkin cute.

~Yesterday we watched the original Karate Kid during lunch and then Kendle wanted to watch it again after dinner last night. This morning while getting ready for preschool Morgan tells me - "I don't want to watch that movie with Daniel's son anymore." Ha!

Oh that boy seriously keeps me laughing all the time. I love how he talks.

Monday Means.....

*Getting caught up on housework

*Washing soccer gear

*Planning dinners for the week

*Getting a good workout in to burn off all the Double Chocolate Fudge Brownie Chunk ice cream and apple dumplings I ate this weekend

*Getting the babies back into their regular nap routine

*Back to a somewhat quiet house

*No after school activities which means I get a day off of running around being an after school chauffeur. So nice to know I don't have to go anywhere all day if I don't want to.

*Family Home Evening

Monday really isn't so bad in my book.


**Check out my book blog to find out about Kendle's favorite books to read.

Fun Friday

Today being October 1st we are putting out all the fun pumpkins and fall decorations. I put my pretty fall wreath on the front door and Morgan helped me get the scary pumpkins out of the garage so we can put them up on our high wall ledge and plug them in to have glowy yellow spooky pumpkins at night. I am not a big Halloween decorator, I usually opt for things I can leave up until it's time for the Christmas decor to come out. Morgan keeps asking me if it is Christmas time and if he can help put up the Christmas decorations. I think the holidays all sort of blend together for him at this point. He also thinks Dumbledore from Harry Potter is Santa Claus, so I guess we have a few things to straighten out.

Kendle gets to have a friend over after school today and she is excited. They get to play and have pizza and watch a movie and then we'll take the little friend home after dinner. It's so nice that the girls can just ride the bus home together which saves me lots of running around. It never hurts either to use the friend coming over as bribery to keep her room clean. :)

Riley hinted this morning that they are having early soccer practice tonight and he may want to take me out to dinner. Sometimes it is fun to get dressed really cute and have a night out with your hubby. Those get few and far between for us during soccer season (which is pretty much all year long.) Other times it is nice to just enjoy a night with everyone home at the same time without running from here to there and reheating dinners and being exhausted by 7:00. We have been wanting to try out this little place:

We have heard good things about it and one of the boys soccer players Riley coaches works there. It is supposed to be really authentic home cooked Italian food.

Today just feels like a good day. I'm going to try and get caught up on folding the laundry and get ready for our crazy soccer day tomorrow. Kendle's team plays bright and early at 9:00 and then Riley's high school team plays Kamiakin at 11:00. Busy, busy but it will be nice to be done with all things soccer by 2:00 in the afternoon and have the rest of the weekend to enjoy our family and General Conference.

I can't believe last year around this time I looked like this. I can still remember how uncomfortable that was!