Saturday is a special day...

Oh how I love the weekend. Today Sean and I left the kids home and went garage sale-ing in the the morning. I found a cute little thing for my plant shelf in my kitchen for $1

and a RC car for Josh for $1 and a few things like that. We saw a nice dinghy like the one Mike had up at Pineview for $25. But I didn't have $25 with me and didn't feel like going to get it so we didn't buy it.

We came home and went to Brittney's soccer game. They were both good teams, so it was a pretty good game.

Then Sean and I took off and went shopping at the mall. I bought some cute new shoes and a few other things.


Thennnnn.... Back to the store to shop for Sean's birthday tomorrow. I guess I did nothing but shop and spend money all day. Fun, but not good.

I just got on my class blog that I set up for my English classes and my kids have been posting to it over the weekend. Yay! It's turning out to be a fun thing so far. I was hoping that I could have them each set up a blog to post to, because I think it could be something they might actually keep on with after my class, but there were too many kinks to work out so I just have them post to my blog.

Survivor China starts up Thursday. Yay! We are going to have Chinese food and watch it. I hope it will be a good season.

rambling

Add this to the list of things I never want to eat:

Deep-fried Coke:
Coke-flavored batter deep-fried, covered with cinnamon sugar and Coke syrup and topped with whipping cream and a cherry. The $5 concoction is served in a clear plastic cup and eaten hot with a fork.

Yah, um, gag? Apparently they sell it at the Utah State Fair, along with fried oreos, twinkies, and Snickers bars. And while you're at it, you can pre-pay for your heart attack and triple bypass surgery.

Josh's daycare teacher told me that he didn't want to eat his snack, so she told him to take one big dinosaur bite, and he told her, "That's not acceptable!" You can tell what his mom says when he gets in trouble I guess. Lexi loves to swing... well, truth be told Lexi loves everything. She loves to swing, she loves the bouncy seat, loves to nap, loves to eat, loves to cuddle, loves the bath, loves to lay in bed with daddy, even loves when Josh gets up in her face all loud and crazy. Only thing she doesn't love is the bottle. But anyway. Lexi's swing at daycare ran out of batteries, and she decided that was not acceptable, to quote Josh. She let them know that she was planning to swing no matter what, so one of my cute students that is in the daycare told me that she sat and pushed Lexi in the baby swing by hand. It's good to be 3 mos old and have everyone at your beck and call.

Need a new goal

Well, my quest to lose 20 lbs is somewhat derailed at the moment by the fact that I am way too tired to exercise. I try to fool myself into believing that all the running up and down stairs and between classrooms I do at work is enough exercise, but sadly, it's not. So I guess I'll make a goal to start eating better and go from there. I go to bed between 10:30-11:30, up to feed Lexi around 4:00, up for good by 5:30. I'm way too tired to go walking by the end of the day.

Today was kinda a hard day. I went to a Writing class that I was really excited to take. But I had to take Lexi with me because she still won't take a bottle at daycare. She was really good, but it was still hard to concentrate and get what I wanted out of the class. It's hard to juggle everything I want to and have it all come out in a way that I feel good about, but such is life I guess.

Courtney went on a tour of the juvenile detention center with the Youth Court today. She came home and said that she will never, ever go to juvie. Not that I was too worried, but I'm good with that. She said now she's interested in working there. NO!!!!! Too much like teaching. Don't do it. Stick with your original plans. Of course, I don't tell her that. Not yet, anyway. At this point I just say, "Cool!"

The latest....

Things are going really well here. School is going great... except for the part where I'm overwhelmed and don't know what I'm doing next. But I'm enjoying it and I have really cute students. Love my classes.

So Brittney had a soccer game today, and she's been playing awesome defense. Today she was dribbling the ball up the sideline and just launched it from about half field, and it went into the goal! It was one of those shots that you couldn't make again if you tried. And I'm on the sideline yelling "Yah! That's my girl!!!!" Dorky mom.

Courtney ran in a 5K at BYU today with the cross country team. She's having fun running (who knew that was possible?) and it's keeping her busy. Her Youth Court group finished their training and are now sitting on the court hearing cases, so they had a little graduation ceremony at the city council meeting the other night. The president of the court is some kid with a giant strawberry blonde afro that's like 9 inches high. Crazy. But his mom never loses him in a crowd I'm sure, so there's that.

Flowers

Brittney took these pictures in Grandpa Chamberlain's backyard. I think they turned out pretty cool, so I'm putting a few here to brighten up the place. :)

T.G.I.F.

Well, we made it through the week. I'm so glad it's Friday! No major plans for the Labor Day weekend. All I want to do is relax. We'll probably move the kids' stuff downstairs and try to clean out the storage room. I want to go see a drive-in movie if there is anything good playing.

School is going well so far for everyone. I need to record this, because 4 weeks from now I won't believe it, but my students are so quiet and attentive. After a few weeks they'll get more comfortable and make friends and I'll have to stay on them, but for now they're really cute and they seem like they'll be a fun group so I'm excited.

Now I've just got to figure out how to get rid of recurring mastitis. I've had it for 2 months now. It goes away for a week and then is back and I just can't go on with it anymore. Ugh. I think the problem is that Lexi loves to nap and will miss feedings. Guess I need to pay better attention and make sure she gets fed every 3 hours on the dot or something. That's about all that's going on.

Josh

We bought Josh some little waterski's at a yard sale on Saturday for $2. They're old and beat up, but hopefully will be good for the little ones to learn on. He's all excited about them and has been playing with them outside. Hopefully one of these years he can use them.

Yesterday Josh and I had this conversation:
Josh: Do you know what kind of Skittles I want?
Me: No, what kind?
Josh: :::thinking:::
Me: The red kind?
Josh: I want nunchuk skittles. Napoleon Dynamite says you gotta have nunchuk Skittles. Dad can buy them at the store for me and I can eat them because they don't have any chocolate.
So all this time I guess he thought Napoleon was talking about having great Skittles instead of great skills. Courtney mentioned that one of her friends had never seen that movie the other day when we were driving in the car and from the very back seat you hear Josh, "Eat all the freaking chips Kip". My 3yo quotes movie lines. Not exactly parent of the year material.

He also told Courtney when she came home from church that he can't wait until he gets bigger and like a girl so he can go to church. When I told him that he doesn't have to get bigger and like a girl, and he can go to church right now, he wasn't too interested. Hmmmmm.... should I be worried about this kid?