Wednesday, January 7, 2009

It Could Have Been Worse & other tidbits

See that pile of 127 wet towels in front of my dishwasher? (Okay I am exaggerating) That is what happens when water starts pouring out of your dishwasher and you can't get it to stop pouring out. Actually I was very lucky. I was standing at my laptop in my kitchen when I heard water and it didn't sound normal. I look over and to my surprise water is coming out of the dishwasher. That is when I started yelling, "Run, run, hurry, hurry, get some towels, run, ahhhhh!" Luckily Brayden and Kennedi were close and responded to my pleas. Crazy. Even though I was there to wipe up the water as it was running everywhere, I wasn't as fast as I could have been so some of the water leaked into the basement, but lucky for us our basement isn't finished! :) I really had the kids running all over the place to find any spare towel, it really is kind of funny now. It would have been so much worse if I hadn't been standing there! I feel like it was a blessing from above that I caught it. So I am now becoming a professional hand dish washer. Luckily I have had practice when I would visit my grandma's house and she didn't have a dishwasher (or a disposal, uggg! I would choose a disposal over a dishwasher if you wanted to know) and growing up we had to hand wash all the pots and pans that couldn't go in the dishwasher. So now we shall see if we can get it all figured out. To repair or not repair, that is the question.

On to other things.

I was happy to find my oldest reading scriptures in bed when I went to wake up the kids in the morning.

*When I went to go swimming yesterday my friend was there too. I was putting on my goggles and she asked if I had been lifting weights. She thought my biceps looked cut. Well I liked that! Even though I haven't lifted weights in a long time, I will take the compliment. *I just have to write this stuff down so I can remember the good things about life too. :) (If anybody is reading, you can ignore that last little part)

Okay, so I am training for a triathlon. That is why I am swimming. I don't really know how to swim but I am learning and I might even learn to like it. It wears me out like crazy. I can't get enough air in, so I am hoping that will change. This is really pushing me out of my comfort zone. I need to push myself and get over the feelings of not even trying because I might not be the best. I don't want my kids to be like that, so I better be a better example.

And that is that.

Monday, January 5, 2009

KenKen hit the big 9er.

Our princess had her birthday. Every year we get to celebrate double on New Year's Eve. Our sweetie was born at around 9:45pm, December 31, 1999. The last of the century. It was cool. :)


Taft picked out some jewelry for Kennedi and as you can see she loved it!


Kennedi picked our traditional fondue for dinner. And I might say that I loved, loved, loved the cheese fondue this year. Ooooh yummy, cheese on french bread.



We also had our traditional other family over, Todd, Kat and the 3 lovely little girlies. We have had much fun over this Holiday break with them.



Since we were also having chocolate fondue, Kennedi just picked out one slice of cake at the store so we could have something to put candles in!



Kennedi's birthday will never happen when school is in, so we waited until today when she went back to school to have our lunch date. Her choice was Panda Express. I like it too. I love my Kennedi and she is a sweetheart. I hope she stays that way. She wants to do what is right. I hope that stays that way too. She has a little bit of sass in her. I hope it doesn't grow. :) I really do love this girl of mine.



The 3 girls. Kennedi is a WONDERFUL big sister to Ellie. I hope they stay close forever. I know I love my sisters!

Happy Birthday!