Oh my achin' hands!!!

Alex needed to help the Primary Presidency with preparations for an activity as one of the requirements to earn his religious knot for Cub Scouts (last thing he needed for it!). So, they asked him to put together SIXTY of these little Easter Favor handouts for the activity Friday evening.....which he will not be attending because we will be in Nashville! lol I helped him of course.....because they just wouldn't look as nice and would have taken FOREVER for him to finish, had he done it alone. So, he filled all 60 eggs with candy while I cut out each strip of card stock and then we put them all together, together. Between cutting 60 strips, punching 120 holes (to tie the ribbon through), and tying and curling ribbon....my hands are aching!!! I must be getting old! lol
At least it's done now!

Tonight is pack meeting and Alex will be awarded his Webelo and his Arrow of Light awards! :) Can't believe my baby is crossing over the bridge into Boy Scouts tonight!!! *SNIFF* Not sure if he'll get his religious knot tonight or not. Not sure if that's been mentioned to the Cub Master as well. We'll see. But, he's done the requirements for all three now! :) Will post pictures tomorrow!!! :)
Here's a couple pics of the things we made today. :)

Need motivation!!!!

I am just blah this morning. Have no drive to get up and do the things I need to do. Would rather just laze around and do nothing but what I *want* to do. lol At least we have a nice, long weekend to look forward to. It's Easter this Sunday AND my birthday!!!! We will drive to Nashville when Erik gets off work on Thursday and spend the weekend at his parents' house. I hope that he's been on top of arranging childcare with his Mom or sister or both. That is the ONE thing that I have really said that I wanted and that was the provision for us spending my birthday weekend there....that we'd be able to go OUT without the kids. We've not had a date since we moved here.....I guess really since HE moved here. Which means last JULY!!!! Holy cow. Didn't realize it had been quite that long, but it has. The last few times that we've been at his parents' house we've pretty much just stayed AT the house and done a bunch of nothing. Actually, I have gone out with Debi & Caity.....but not with Erik. I told him that it was up to him to get that worked out for us because I shouldn't have to arrange things for my own birthday. lol So, I hope he has. I'll be really disappointed otherwise.
On a bright note.....the weather is supposed to be just about PERFECT this weekend!!!! I'll be sooooooooo HAPPY to have a nice sunny weekend!!! :) I guess I should dig out my capris and see if my sandals are in decent condition or if I need new ones and maybe get a pedi! Haven't had a pedi since the weekend Dad got married in October and it's an absolute MUST when wearing sandals. I don't like looking at people's ugly feet.....so I'm sure they'd not want to look at mine being ugly either. lol Yay for SPRING!!!!!! :)

Going on a new diet soon........

So, with part of our federal refund, Erik and I are going to start up on the Medifast Diet www.medifast1.com/index.aspx . We're waiting for the refund, because it's NOT a cheap diet but it will be (financially) sustainable once we first get started. Erik's parents are doing this and having great success with it so far. They started because apparently everyone in their ward are absolutely melting away on it. We both NEED to do something about our weight. I like the idea of this diet because doctors have been putting patients on it for over 25 years and it works and it's a "no brainer" diet. You eat 5 of their food items a day and then one "lean and green" meal.....which is essentially a South Beach type meal. I would really love to become one of their success stories. Can't wait to get our refund and get going....would be fabulous if I could shed a bunch before summer is upon us. :)

Doing my patriotic duties for the day.......

We FINALLY got our taxes completed last night. We kept thinking that we were going to need someone else to do them for us, but then I got to thinking that we really didn't have that much out of the norm and Turbotax would walk us through it. So, I picked up the software at Walmart yesterday and we got 'er done. Erik also completed the taxes for his Dad for the few months that he was alive last year. I kind of think it's silly to have to file for a deceased person. At least there's a small refund coming and we don't have to pay in for him. It was a bit emotional for Erik...as has been all the business end of his Dad's death. If there is ever a reason to never (if you can help it) have an only child, leaving them alone to deal with your stuff in the end is it. It's a heavy burden on one child. Though I guess at least it's all cut and dry and there was no bickering to deal with.
So, ours are filed electronically.....except for the state of New Mexico (will be happy to not have state tax to deal with next year!). We'll wait to pay them with the federal refund.....and I'm about to go to the post office to mail off Roger's, along with our census form. Got hate mail from the Govt. yesterday reminding us that our response to the U.S. Census Bureau is required by law. ;)
I love this country, but am absolutely sickened by how intrusive the government is becoming and watching our freedoms slowly eroding away. *sigh*
So, taxes done. Census, done. They've gotten enough from me today! ;)

Soccer Season Has Begun!!!

Aidan had his first soccer game on Saturday!!! He was so excited and it was cool because Grammy & Papa Wilson and Maddi were over here from Franklin and got to watch him play too! :) He got right in on the action, I was really impressed with how well he played, considering he's never played on a team before! His team ended up winning 6-2 and Aidan actually scored the 5th goal for his team. :) When the ball hit the net, he stood there for a few seconds like, "Did I really just do that???" then started jumping up and down and did a little "touchdown" dance. lol So funny! Wish my battery hadn't been dead on the camcorder! He really loves soccer so far, we'll see if he wants to do it again in the fall. :)









Toward the end of the game, a bald eagle was flying overhead!!! It was so cool to see and unfortunately by the time I got my camera ready, it was flying away. You can still kind of see it in the picture though! :)

My Inner Teenager.....

Is so excited today!!! New Moon comes out on DVD at MIDNIGHT tonight!!! Oh yeah....I'll be one of those crazy almost 34 year old women at the store in the middle of the night with all the teeny boppers buying my copy. lol It's okay.....I know I'm in good company with all the other women around my age doing the exact same thing. ;) Wish Jenny was here, she would totally be there with me. lol She will probably be doing the same thing tonight. Think I should rub it in to her that my midnight is 3 hours before hers and that I could actually buy mine, come home and watch it....before it's midnight for her? hahaha Funny to think about it that way. :) This is the highlight and will have to keep me going till Eclipse is in theaters on June 30th. Oh yeah.....I'm a Twihard. ;)

11 years ago today.......

My oldest "baby" Alex was born and I became a Mommy. :) It is insane to think that it's been that long and that we've only got 2 years to go till we have a teenager on our hands. *shudder* ;) Alex is still in Nashville and I'm sad to be apart from him on his special day. Can't wait till he comes home tomorrow morning!!! After Aidan's soccer game in the morning, we'll spend the rest of the day having a belated birthday celebration. :) He wants to go bowling and to Wasabi for dinner. Wasabi is our favorite restaurant, a Japanese Steakhouse. YUMMY!!!!
In 11 years, Alex has grown into such a handsome, smart and fun kid......who is almost as tall as me!!! I love him so much and am very blessed to be his Mommy. :)

First time away from home......

It's spring break here right now. Caity and Maddi came to visit us last weekend and on a whim, we sent Alex back to Grandma & Papa Wilson's house with them for the rest of the week. He turns 11 on Friday (which he will not be home for :( ) and this is his first time away from home for so long. He's having a great time and I'm sure it's harder on me than it's been on him! ;) He does have our extra cell phone with him and he's been texting or calling several times a day, so at least I know that he misses us and it's reassuring for both of us. I miss him and am sad about not being with him for his birthday. But, Grandma & Papa will bring him back home on Saturday morning and we'll celebrate his birthday then. :)

42nd Anniversary

Today is Mom and Dad's 42nd anniversary. It's hard to believe that two years ago, we were all together in St. George celebrating their 40th anniversary. What great memories we all have of that weekend. I am so glad that we threw the party for them, who knew Mom would be gone just a few months later and that would be some of the last and happiest memories we created with her. Happy Anniversary Mom & Dad. :)

42 years ago.......










Two years ago.......

Wow......I'm a terrible blogger!!!

Really, I am. It's been more than six months since my last blog and so much has happened since then. Not long before my last blog, Erik had taken a job at Y12 in Oak Ridge, TN and moved out there while the boys and I stayed behind in NM to sell our home. Dad remarried in early October to a wonderful lady named Sherry. The weekend of the wedding while I was getting a pedi with Sherry and my sisters, our agent called with an offer on the house. That was October 9th.....everything moved incredibly quickly and we closed on the sell of the house and headed to Tennessee on October 28th. Yes, 19 days later!!!! It was insane. We dropped the boys at Erik's parent's house in Franklin (just outside of Nashville) and arrived in town to move in on Halloween day. Thank Heaven for his parents, we never could have handled moving in and trick or treating all on the same day! lol My Dad flew out here to help us move in, though it was three weeks post his new marriage. We were very thankful for his help! That night, I was awakened with a very exciting phone call.....my older sister was in labor! Got a call a few hours later that my baby nephew, Wyatt, had been born! :)
It's been a busy time here in TN getting settled in, the holidays, school stuff, etc. etc. After school today, the boys will be on spring break and I think we're ALL ready for the break! lol We really like it here in TN. It's definitely a different lifestyle than anywhere that we've lived. Having lived the past 8+ years in WA and NM where we were a minority being LDS.....but still in the midst of a good size LDS population, to being smack in the middle of the "Bible Belt" has been interesting. lol There are literally 5 LDS kids in Alex's middle school, including him. Probably close to the same for Aidan's school. There are more kids than that in the ward....just spread to different schools.
Spring finally seems to be in the air after an unusually cold and snowy winter here. I can't wait for the leaves to start appearing on the trees and have lots of nice, warm, sunny days. :)

That's life in a nutshell for the past 7 months! Will try to do better in keeping things up to date! :)