True Friends

What's a True Friend?

I just spent the last 6 hours peeling, halving, coreing, and canning 64 lbs of peaches with my good friend.

It was long, hard work, but somebody had to do it. It'll be another 5 years before I do that again.

For SURE. But for now, we will enjoy the 13 quarts we were able to produce :).

Lately

I haven't been blogging.
I haven't been eating good.
I haven't been too patient.
I haven't been going to school like I planned (got accepted, enrolled, purchased books, took out loans)
I haven't been exercising regularly.
I haven't been working too much.
I haven't been babysitting as often.

But...
I have been painting my living, family, dining, kitchen, and Mikenna's room.
I have been cleaning and scrubbing (ok my cleaning lady has but I have been ORGANIZING)
I have been up to my ears in laundry.... do we ever catch up?
I have been exploring some "career" options.
I have been cutting my hours at work, which is SO awesome :) (*even though they still call me nightly to come in)
I have been baking lots of tasty treats (and eating them...)
I have been walking some.
I have been potty training a two year old.
I have been potty training our dog (did you see that? I got a DOG!!!)
I have been losing my mind because of said potty training... AND dog.
I have been growing a baby inside me, which makes me a bit tired and feel really old, cuz its harder now that I am 31 and not 21.

What have YOU been up to :)?

O Savannah, O don't you cry for me

Remember how we were having such a time with my lil peanut? Well I do!!!

It was a rough first few weeks of school, with a lot of big changes for Savannah. She moved from the MOMD class to the MIMD class (a higher functioning higher academic class), moved schools, teachers, aides, and friends. SO it was a rough start to say the least. The behaviors were out of control at school, home, and church, and I was seriously at my wits end. Really.

I did what any mother in my position would do, I made an appointment with the principal, the psychologist, the teacher, and put in a call to the superintendent of the School System... just to be sure I was heard :). All in all, it has improved. We got a psych eval, which showed no bad behaviors because Savannah was having good days by then... a 1:1 aide, and overall things are better. Much. Better. Extremely grateful for the changes and the people who helped with those changes.

These Two are SO hilarious. We sure love them. They make me smile (most of the time). Mikenna got her own room for her birthday and poor Isabella has just been fit to be tied and a misfit child because Mikenna doesn't want her in her room, and Savannah doesn't want her in her room. Poor Isabella. She is just a baby. It isn't her fault. :).

Our little peanut and her favorite cousin. She loves to hold her and feed her and play with her. She asks, "Mommy, can I hold baby Charlotte?" And who could resist....?

Big day for Mikenna

My baby girl turned 8 a few weeks ago, and since I haven't been great at blogging, I didn't tell any of you :)

For her birthday we went to the cabin. It was a partay at the cabin store, we played games, stayed up late, and had some great movie nights. The cabin always makes the same stuff WAY more FUN!

Mikenna decided that she wanted to be baptized, so a few weeks before her baptism, we had some family home evening lessons to help her get ready, specifically on baptism. The week before her baptism, Doug gave her the 6 missionary discussions so that she would better understand some of the promises that she would be making at baptism.

We went to the book store and picked out some scriptures and a case for her, ordered a cute little dress online (cuz who doesn't LOVE a new dress :)), and got ready for her baptism.

Mikenna was SO lucky to have her Granny and Grandpa come down from Idaho. Granny played the piano for us all and Grandma Walter gave a talk on Baptism. She was able to get baptized with her friend, Hannah, and that was very special for her.

Some of the people that came were Uncle Doug and the two twins, Aunt Lollie and Maxson, Uncle Logan and Aunt Natalie with Carter and Charlotte, Uncle Adam and Aunt Chelsea, Granny and Grandpa, and Grandma and Grandpa Walter. Cousins Jamie and Kenna, and Hayley, and their two sisters whose names are escaping me. Trisha and Chad and Janey, Russell, Parker, and Brenna, Sister Martineau and Gov and Max, Jr., Kami, Brett and Julie and Rusty, Jacquie, Karter, Becca and Rachel. Bishop and his Wife, Natalie, Paulina, Olivia and their mom and dad, Amy, Eliza, and Sara.

Overall it was a great day.

(Our Little DIVA)

And it was super fun to have Granny and Grandpa. They were such Troopers. Their flight was canceled due to the brakes on their plane not working. (go Delta, I am sure I have NEVER flown on a worse airline) And if that wasn't bad enough, they LOST one of their bags, sent it with an another woman. NICE. It had some irreplaceable items in it, but don't worry they compensated them with a $25 credit to use on a future flight.... (THANKS for NOTHING). They did eventually the bag, AFTER THEY WERE BACK IN IDAHO, but at least we were able to get the items that were SO important.... like the original pics of grandma that there weren't any duplicates of, and the 2 quilts that Granny made for Mikenna and Baby Girl Kunz.

When G & G got here, we took them out to dinner, and kept them up late talking into the night. On Saturday, we dragged them into the GORGEOUS AZ weather to a soccer game where we sweat in the 95 degree weather at 830 in the morning. After we all melted we came home and got ready for the baptism. Afterwards we had a huge lunch, with WAY to many SUPER DUPER yummy sugar cookies, and swam in the pool to cool off a bit. On Sunday we went to church and visited Daxton's grave and some of his other angel friends. And then had words with the airline to find the missing luggage... to no avail. They sat all the way in the back of the Tahoe and overall just spoiled the girls rotten with attention. It was very fun. Reminds us how much we truly miss them.