THE ADAMS FAMILY

Christmas 2011

2011-12-25T17:19:00.001-08:00

Adams Family Christmas Party

2011-12-25T17:12:00.000-08:00

Thanks Grandma and Grandpa! It was fun.

James Family Christmas Party

2011-12-18T20:02:00.000-08:00

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Tanner John Adams

2011-12-04T10:30:00.000-08:00

Yeah, he is finally here. Tanner was born November 30th at about 8:25 in the morning. He weighed 9 lbs and was 20.5 inches long. Everything went well with the delivery and both Mom and Tanner are happy to be home. He is cute. Welcome Tanner!

Bring It

2011-11-13T07:45:00.000-08:00

I shaved my legs today because I am officially full term!!!!! So bring on the wedding, shower, Thanksgiving, what ever but stand aside if this baby wants to come because I will not postpone. As if I could and I only shaved from my knees down but this pregnancy that is an accomplishment.

Oh and Debbie I think you should sing that song from The Sound of Music at your wedding. You know the one that goes something like

What will this day be like? I wonder.
What will my future be? I wonder.
It could be so exciting to be out in the world, to be free
My heart should be wildly rejoicing
Oh, what's the matter with me?

I've always longed for adventure
To do the things I've never dared
And here I'm facing adventure
Then why am I so scared

A FISHING GUIDE with FIVE children
What's so fearsome about that?

Oh, I must stop these doubts, all these worries
If I don't I just know I'll turn back
I must dream of the things I am seeking
I am seeking the courage I lack

The courage to serve them with reliance
Face my mistakes without defiance
Show them I'm worthy
And while I show them
I'll show me

So, let them bring on all their problems
I'll do better than my best
I have confidence they'll put me to the test
But I'll make them see I have confidence in me

Somehow I will impress them
I will be firm but kind
And all those children (Heaven bless them!)
They will look up to me

And mind me with each step I am more certain
Everything will turn out fine
I have confidence the world can all be mine
They'll have to agree I have confidence in me

I have confidence in sunshine
I have confidence in rain
I have confidence that spring will come again
Besides which you see I have confidence in me

Strength doesn't lie in numbers
Strength doesn't lie in wealth
Strength lies in nights of peaceful slumbers
When you wake up -- Wake Up!

It tells me all I trust I lead my heart to
All I trust becomes my own
I have confidence in confidence alone
(Oh help!)

I have confidence in confidence alone
Besides which you see I have confidence in me!

Debbie you will be a wonderful Mom and wife welcome to the family. (Though I doubt you actually read my blog, but welcome anyway.)

Kaitlyn's Baptism!

2011-11-06T04:13:00.000-08:00

Well BYU football had a bye this week so we decided to schedule Kaitlyn's baptism. It went pretty well. Caleb did keep taking off his shirt and clothes in an attempt to get in the font and scream when not allowed but all in all it was nice.

I sure love the man and girl in this picture. They both try so hard to do what is right and are such strengths to me.

Oh and I am kidding about waiting until BYU's bye to schedule her baptism. Incidentally, I too was baptized on Nov. 5th. We were born on the same calendar day and same day of the week. Kind of fun for a mom.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

2011-11-01T20:01:00.001-07:00

Holy cow my kids have so much candy.......Why do we do trunk or treating and trick or treating?

Wood Stove and Kitten

2011-10-07T18:17:00.001-07:00

We lit our first fire in the wood burning stove today just to test it out. It is nice to have the smell of cedar in the house and it feels so cozy. My family heated the house in the winter with wood burning stoves and so it is a bit nostalgic for me.

This Kitten is soo cute. He lets Caleb carry it around and is just really even tempered. It is supposed to stay outside or in the garage but I break down and let them take it inside for a little bit as long as they don't just let it go and run around.

Kaitlyn's 8th Birthday!!

2011-10-01T16:41:00.001-07:00

Happy Birthday Kaitlyn. We love you!!!

She wanted pumpkin spice cake in the shape of a gingerbread girl. Unique I guess.

Traditional pinata! Jesse

I broke down and got her a kitten. Sigh!! Kaitlyn and Aiden

Random Pictures For my Kids to Remember

2011-08-21T18:49:00.000-07:00

At the Loa Fair.

Kait and Miriam

Cousins, cousins, cousins.

For a small town parade they sure got a ton of candy.

Fight with siblings or bug bite??.... Bug bite. Sigh!

Caleb stood on the stairs, almost posing, for so long I finally took a picture.

A Boy????

2011-07-12T15:50:00.001-07:00

Well, we just had our ultrasound and it's a boy. We were thinking girl, boy, boy, girl, done. So this should have been our last girl. Now we may have to have another child or two. Rob wants to name him Fiver but I really don't see that happening. Anyway, we are excited.

Kids and Gardening

2011-06-30T19:43:00.000-07:00

I love it when the kids fall asleep on the way home...carrying them upstairs to bed, pregnant, not so much.

The kids love going out and picking things from the garden. If only they liked weeding as much.

We have been eating a looooot of peas and radishes the last few weeks. This cool spring was great for them.

Caleb Is 2

2011-06-11T09:45:00.000-07:00

Happy Birth day Chubs!!!!! Obviously Caleb is into Elmo right now. MaryAnn helped me frost the Elmo cake, ok, she did almost all of it.

His favorite gift was a regift. We put batteries in an old "tickle me Elmo" toy that hasn't had batteries for a long time and wrapped it up and he loved it and carried it around all day. (Thanks Michelle who gave it to Kaitlyn when she was little).

We love you Caleb! Here are a few of the things that I want to remember about you when you were still one.
*You always tell me "no" when I ask you anything and then say "all right" after words.
*You bolt for the front door anytime it is open and love to ride any little bike. You look like Fred Flinstone with your little feet going a mile a minute and easily keep up with the adults walking.
*You are constantly trying to play in the car, with the vacuum, etc.
Your frowny face, smiley face is adorable.
Anyway, we love you tons. You are so easy going and yet into everything. You are amazing.

Kait's poem about Moms

2011-06-09T18:12:00.000-07:00

Kait was frustrated with me the other day and wrote this down to relieve the stress. She informed me, as she handed it to me, that somethings I would like but some things were probably not going to make me too happy.

Moms: nice, mean, grouchy, busy, fun, screams their heads off, disagreement, wonderful, too silly, loving, helping children find their way to heaven.

My Boys

2011-06-04T13:18:00.001-07:00

Hyrum's new $5.00 garage sale bike. He loves it.

Caleb's head after riding his bike off of the deck.

So Handsome!

Hyrum woke me up from a nap to tell me he had made a cake but needed me to get him the beaters. He told me he put eggs, and taco seasoning, and garlic, and all kinds of stuff. What a relief that he had used the hard boiled eggs from Easter so it wasn't as messy as my groggy pregnant mind envisioned.(If it had of been DCFS might have prevented me from posting any pictures I might have taken after finding it.)

One of my Mothers Day gifts. (It is being used to block a small gap in the fence that Caleb could get through. Lazy or ingenius??) I have never seen a purple rose so when it bloomed I was thrilled.

Kaitlyn's Dream Vacation..... Loa For a Day.

2011-05-29T15:59:00.000-07:00

We went to Loa and spent the night Friday to Saturday. Kaitlyn was in hog heaven, or cow heaven, or what ever. She got to go horseback riding, feed lambs, gather chicken eggs,(she gathered them the first day and then checked every hour for new ones), hike around in the mountains, etc. She LOVED it. Thank-you Cathy, Roger, Mike, Grandma, all of Cathy's kids for letting Kait help with the chores, and all of the cousins for letting us bombard your houses and toys. Hyrum wants to go on vacation again sooo bad.
Also, we love and miss you Dad. We're glad you are buried in such a fun beautiful place.

Happy Mothers Day

2011-05-08T14:03:00.001-07:00

My friend placed this video on his facebook account. It is really cute.

Mothers day video

Mom, you are amazing despite Susan and Jenny, ha ha just kidding, I just read Susan's blog...anyway...thank-you for being so down to earth and for giving all of your time and energy to your family. I think there were more than 11 lined up to come to you but Jenny shoved them all to different lines or you would have had 2 dozen plus kids. In all seriousness, I couldn't have hand picked a better mom for me. I love you. Thanks again.

Communism vs Consecration

2011-04-25T07:16:00.000-07:00

China Easter Crackdown

Church members detained

TNA article

I have had several people ask me if communism is about the same as consecration....it isn't.
Ezra Taft Benson said it this way. "Communism in practice is socialism....Socialism cannot work except through an all-powerful state. The state has to be supreme in everything. When individuals begin to exert their God-given rights, the state has to suppress that freedom. So belief in God must be suppressed, and with that gone freedom of conscience and religion must also go. Those are the first of our liberties mentioned in the Bill of Rights. " ETB talk

Anyway, when I saw the freedoms denied these people as they tried to worship yesterday, and in general, and I felt bad. I hope everyone had a happy Easter. I'm glad we were able to worship yesterday "according to the dictates of our own conscious" and am grateful for the constitution and the freedoms that it protects. I thank my Savior for His suffering in fulfilling His unimaginable roll in our Fathers plan.

Armageddon????

2011-04-12T08:22:00.001-07:00

Ahh, the world is coming to and end. I just heard my 4 year old ask my 7 year old if she would play Go Fish with him. She said, "not until the train tracks and the cushions all over the floor are cleaned up." Then he said, "ok, and now he is cleaning them up."

Where are my real children and who has them??????

Wait, peace and equilibrium have been reestablished. He quit and they have flopped them selves down in front of the T.V. Sigh!!!

Too Much Saliva

2011-04-02T16:10:00.001-07:00

So I went to lunch yesterday with some family and realized that I was producing too much saliva in my mouth. So this morning I took a pregnancy test. I know that some people don't tell anyone until they're showing, oh wait, I think I am showing so..."I AM PREGNANT". That saliva thing is the worst part of pregnancy for me. Does anyone else get that?

Hyrum Turned 4 on the 7th

2011-03-13T13:11:00.000-07:00

He wanted a green robot cake.

Thanks Grandma and Grandpa for the fun new bike. And he has wanted an umbrella for a long time.

Friends over for a small party.

Hyrum we love you and your daily hugs and "I love you's"!!!

Why I like Blogs

2011-03-06T12:46:00.000-08:00

I got to watch a couple of nieces and a nephew Friday and Saturday, I could totally love someone else's kids if I ever had to take in other children, but anyway... The 5 year old boy woke up in the night and was a little scared so I lay down on the floor by the couch he was sleeping on and waited for him to fall back to sleep. He was really cute, he just didn't "want to be left alone." Anyway, as I lay there I was glad that my sister blogs as much as she does because although I don't see these nieces and nephews too often I love this boy in large part because I know him through his mom's blogs.

Candlelight Breakfast

2011-02-27T08:14:00.000-08:00

So when I came down stairs this morning Kaitlyn had poured herself and Hyrum a bowl of cereal and a glass of milk and put this candle in between. After Hyrum came down and they started to eat I heard this conversation and I thought it was funny.

Kait: "Hyrum, look at what I have done for you. You just don't appreciate me."

Hyrum: "I do apprecialate you."

Kait: "UM what does apprecialate mean?"

Hyrum: "Uh...Kait, I love you."

This isn't really a conversation I think they learned from Rob and I but it was so classic boy and girl that it was funny.

Caleb "Jimmer" Adams--fireplace update for Cathy

2011-02-12T08:25:00.000-08:00

Ok, we have been planing on Caleb playing NFL for our retirement security, he's simply too chubby for basketball, or so we thought. But his middle name is James and after seeing this picture of Freddette as a Deacon we are willing to be flexible.

I need to figure out how to decorate it cute....the fireplace mantel, not Caleb.

Like I said, football is our first choice.

Please let the projects be finished around here.

2011-02-05T09:55:00.000-08:00

Our latest project has been putting in a hearth for a wood burning stove. (We just finished the basement but I need to have the kids clean up a bit before I take pictures.) The hearth is done now we just need to do the mantel. And by "we" I mostly mean my brother David. Anyway, I'm excited to get it all cleaned up, sealed, and the stove put on it. We wondered if the kids would get a lot of battle wounds from a rock hearth.

Duh...of course.

I want to talk to the produce manager!

2011-01-13T16:46:00.000-08:00

Ok, I know it is a bit of a splurge to buy baby carrots when they cost much more than regular carrots, but I like to do it anyway. But when they slip a huge momma carrot into the middle of the bag just to take up space I start to take issue.

3 years old is the best age for Christmas

2010-12-26T18:09:00.000-08:00

My oldest sister, with 7 boys, once told me that 3 years old is the perfect age for Christmas. At that age they really want one particular thing, like a train, and they are thrilled when they get it. After this Christmas with my 3 year old I think I may agree with her.

My kids really wanted to go and buy gifts for each other for Christmas. So for FHE we said let's get in the car and head to Walmart and you can each choose out something for the other child. "NO! NO! we want to go to the dollar store where all the toys are." (Raise a child in the way they should go and they will not depart from it). So I relented and we headed to ALL A DOLLAR.
Hyrum found a fishing rod with 3 magnetic toys at the dollar store that he was sure either Kaitlyn or Caleb would love, just so long as they shared. But I wouldn't let him get it because he had already picked out his gifts and I was trying to teach him that he was buying for others not him. (Yes, he screamed the entire way out of the store when I made him put it back). But, that is alllllll he wanted for Christmas. That is what he told Santa on his knee, and that is what he told everyone he saw. And, hurray, Santa brought it for him. He was sooo thrilled with every gift he opened. I wrapped one gift in a milk box from Costco. When he opened it he loudly declared, "yeah, I love milk. I drink it all of the time." Anyway, 3 years old is a fun age.

Kait was at that, "Is Santa you Mom?" stage. She would say stuff like. If Santa wraps our gifts in this wrapping paper then I am going to know it is from you Mom. It too was fun.

And Caleb was blissfully ignorant. And Hyrum mostly opened the few gifts he did get. Sooo....maybe 1 is a great age too. Here are a few pictures.

Yes, that is only rented and not purchased.

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL!!!!

James Christmas party 2010

2010-12-23T13:19:00.000-08:00

Sorry that the pictures are sooo small. Mom, if you double click on them it will make it bigger. ;) We all had a blast, even the snow storm was fun. Thank-you Darren and Carolyn for the hotel and planning. Congratulations Michael and Haley, (by the way if anyone has stuff they want to donate for there apartment, since they lost everything in the accident, let me know, ;) We missed all who couldn't come.

Thanks Giving on the James Side

2010-11-28T07:18:00.000-08:00

Well, they asked me to try to stay away from the cooking as much as possible and focus my attention on pictures and the family blog.

We started with crafts for the girls. (Thanks Erin). They made these cute hair ribbons that you see Kait and Jeremiah sporting.

We finally broke down and used a church this year. The boys had their turkey bowl in the gym and then shot hoops.

Appetizers

Everyone pitched in with the cooking and food. There is something about everyone bringing their part of the meal and their strengths and personalities that make a meal and a family great.

Hyrum was starving and when we finally sat down to the beautifully decorated tables, thanks Tracey, he started in on the center pieces. He told me this IS the best meal of the year.

We allow all family members to come despite.....well back to that personality thing.

Back to David and Erin's house for pies.

Lots of Pies

Lets do this again!!!!!

I am soo thankful for my family. We missed you Laura, Carolyn, and families.

Elder D. Todd Christofferson

2010-10-28T10:43:00.000-07:00

Rob just sent me this talk. It is sooo good. It gets my heart and will more determined to try to teach my children.

Link

Kait's 7th Birthday

2010-09-28T15:08:00.000-07:00

Kaitlyn was due October 4th 2003 but she surprised us by coming a little early on my birthday. It had never crossed my mind that she could be born on my birthday but in the hospital right after her birth it felt like she chose to come on the 27th, Mom's birthday, because we would be such good friends. I love her sooo much. She is smart, funny, obedient, (well most of the time), and beautiful. Some of the things that I love about her: when she watches movies she laughs so hard that all in the room have to laugh too, she is very conscientious of doing well and being good, she is social and always wants to be playing with someone but can curl up and read a book too, she loves to learn and grasps concepts quickly, and she is sensitive to my moods, (that can be really good and really bad but I love her for it), she is a wonderful daughter and a great big sister.

Here are a few pictures from her party. We have tried to start a tradition of making a birthday cake with the birthday child. It has been fun!

Pinatas are another tradition.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KAIT

Family picture attempts

2010-09-20T08:49:00.001-07:00

Clearly nobody wanted to take pictures, but Mom is determined to have a decent family picture.

Not happening. And Dad can't squat in this position any longer.

Ok, now the photographer is just snapping pictures hoping for a miracle.

Yeah, this is Mom's favorite picture so far but Dad and the photographer are done.

So Mom decides to take a few without parents. The pictures are much cuter without us anyway.

Mom begs everyone to try one more time. Dad takes action!

Presto! A some what decent picture.

(Thank you MaryAnn for jumping around acting silly and Ben for taking the pictures.)

I love KSL

2010-09-08T15:27:00.000-07:00

We got this play set off of KSL for $300.00! I love it when a bunch of kids are over and playing.

Introducing

2010-07-06T07:32:00.002-07:00

THE JAMES FAMILY REUNION 2010!!!!!

Food was plentiful

Children were welcome

Dogs were sent home

Traditions were kept

Blurry pictures were taken

New family members were accepted

Games were played

Boys were made men

Unwanted pictures were taken
Guts were sucked in

Cousins were united

Feats were accomplished

Courage was had

Hearts were warmed

Smiles were shared

A widow was visited

Testimonies were born
Thanks all who could come. Hope to see you all next year.

Courtesy Laugh Please

2010-06-27T07:45:00.000-07:00

Our house has 2 and 1\2 baths. We should have gone with 3 full because bathing in the half bath is suuuuuuch a pain.

2010-06-11T17:26:00.000-07:00

Testing the new ads:

Also notice the ad down the page, on the right. These ads change, and cycle through different ads depending on where you are viewing from.

Listen to Unanswered Prayers

2010-05-21T18:41:00.001-07:00

Momma

2010-05-11T07:22:00.000-07:00

My mom!! She didn't read the scriptures everyday at 6:00 a.m. for 15 minutes but by constantly using them to learn from and teach us she is one of the best scriptorians I have ever met. We didn't pray every night as a family but we prayed often and I know that Heavenly Father answers prayers because she knows it. If I miss going to the movies with my husband for his work party because I have a nursing baby it will be ok because she showed me that your kids need you a lot more than watching some silly movie. She taught me that it is ok to sit home and read a book all day if you want to, the house is bound to get cleaned at some point and it always was...or still will be. ;) She taught me that the animal kingdom recognizes a welcoming home and we constantly had strays showing up and being excepted. She taught me that we are all in the process of learning and being perfected and that Heavenly Father is a loving, forgiving, demanding, but approachable Father who sees our weaknesses and makes them strengths and that we should treat others and our children the same way. Because of her I don't feel that I always have to be perfect just always trying to do a little better in the circumstances I am in. I believe that children are one of the best methods the Lord uses to perfect us. Mom, with eleven children, you are well on your way. I LOVE YOU SO MUCH!!!! You are amazing to me.

Caleb's starting to walk

2010-04-08T09:23:00.000-07:00

A Mothers Prayer

2010-04-03T08:46:00.000-07:00

If I had one of my children in the hospital in need of a life or death operation and I didn't have the money to pay for it I am sure that I would want any help that people offered. I would not feel at liberty to go door to door to anyone in the nation and tell them they must give me a certain amount of money or else go to prison. This appears to be the method that the government is trying to take and so I can not support it. Thus saying, may I be ever willing to give to any in need is my prayer.

HAPPY!!!!

2010-03-29T12:46:00.001-07:00

My first flowers in my first house. Happy Mom.

Mommy's Happy Helpers. Hyrum is holding Caleb's legs while Kait changes him.

Mommy's Happy Boy!

Hyrum's Birthday Tribute...A Little Late.

2010-03-15T14:44:00.000-07:00

Things that I love about Hyrum mixed with a few things that drive me nuts:
*His crooked smile,
*His determination (he'll scream and cry trying to do things by himself but won't let me help,
*he sees what needs done with out being told,
*he knocks Caleb over to save him from hurting himself on something like a chair (love..nuts, hm),
*I sing him to sleep and he sings songs to me to wake me up,
*he gets me out on walks,
*his playing with my hair while drinking milk,
*his alphabet obsession,
*when he relentingly says, "okay" pronounced, "Otay,
*his cuddling and "I Love You Mom's".

HYRUM WE LOVE YOU!!

Caleb's First Sign

2010-01-08T14:44:00.000-08:00

We like to teach our kids sign language when they are little. Here is Caleb's first sign.

Adams Christmas Party

2009-12-29T16:06:00.000-08:00

Christmas Party at the House

2009-12-24T12:42:00.000-08:00

Well, the James Family Christmas Party was at our house this year. There were over 50 people here. It was fun. Here are a few pictures. We missed the Coleman's, the Millward's, Vicky, and Jake and Josh. Hope you can all make it next year.

Aubree was the lucky winner of the cash prize found in a gift of one of the fun games.

Good thing this happened after. The wall, not Rob reading. I'm trying to decide if I should paint over it or just change my bedspread to match better.

Kait trying to look old by using silly putty.

2 lovely thoughts

2009-11-20T10:12:00.000-08:00

I have been hungry a lot lately....maybe I'm going through a growth spurt.

My "baby trophy," better know as my stomach pooch is in fine form as of late and displayed proudly.

James Landscaping

2009-11-12T14:37:00.000-08:00

Making Utah beautiful one yard at a time. Ha ha. We have grass in the front! Yeah, I hope it does ok since we got it in so late.

Primary Program

2009-11-01T17:56:00.000-08:00

Well it is time for our wards annual primary program. Kait has a poem she gets to say. We thought it was cute so I am blogging it.

I hope you always know dear Mom
That you are really great.
And someday I'll be just like you
A little over weight.

The last line really goes "and someday I'll be just like you, I can hardly wait." But when I said to me daughter that the poem was right on. I am a dear mom, I am really great, and someday she would be just like me, she said that those things were all true but she could definitely wait. And that she wanted to stay young forever. So to keep her honest at the pulpit we changed the last line. We'll see how the program goes.

SAVE ME MOMMY, SAVE ME!!!!

2009-10-27T17:21:00.000-07:00

Not until I take a picture.

Things That Have Been Making My Heart Flutter

2009-10-01T09:56:00.000-07:00

We did this age advancement program that shows how you are supposed to look in 30 years. This is how Rob should look...he's pretty hot and it does makes my heart flutter a bit. He looks like someone but I can't think of who it is.

Rob and I coached Kait's soccer team last month and at one of the games I saw hundred dollar bills blowing across the field. I started grabbing them and shoving them in my pocket and though I realized pretty quickly that it was my son who had taken them out of my purse and was throwing them, so it was my own money that I was catching, it was still kind of fun and made my heart flutter running around gathering up 100 dollar bills.

I got to have all of the family that lives around here over to our house for Caleb's baby blessing and Kait's birthday party. I have the best kids, husband, and family in the entire world and it makes my heart flutter.

I took a pregnancy test a few weeks ago because I was so tired and queasy and though it said negative a few hours later it read positive and until the next morning when I took another negative test my heart wasn't just fluttering it was jumping up and down and doing back flips.

Just for the record the picture is of Rob with Sean Connery's hair and beard put on him...an aging program probably wouldn't have him growing hair, but he is hot. Don't try mugging me, I was on my way to buy some dressers from off of KSL.com so I had cash in my purse, I don't normally carry around 100 dollar bills. My kids, husband, and family may not be the best in the entire world but you'll have to admit that Caleb's picture is pretty cute. I still haven't started my womanly cycle so I can't be sure that I'm not pregnant but I don't think I am. And once again, Rob is and will always be hot.

The Kids Are Growing Up

2009-08-09T14:02:00.000-07:00

Kait lost her first tooth. The tooth fairy forgot to come get her tooth, oops! I told her to smile big.....she did.

Hyrum loves pretending that he is driving. Kait took this lovely picture of him practicing. I think he looks very natural behind the wheel, very very natural.

3 Weeks Later

2009-08-05T12:46:00.001-07:00

Well the house is done. We are supposed to do the final walk through on Friday and then close Monday or Tuesday if the loan paperwork is all done by then. Anyone who is dying to help someone move just let us know.

Another Progress Report.

2009-07-16T11:43:00.000-07:00

They started framing our house. Once they start framing it usually moves pretty quickly so we are going to post little pictures on the side bar for Mom and those who keep asking about it. Ok, it is mostly just an excuse for us to go check out the house and take pictures everyday, but hopefully some of you will enjoy watching the progress.

I went to my 6 week appointment yesterday only it was only 5 weeks. (The churches temple calendar that I looked at to set up my 6 week appointment put 31 days in the little mini June calendar that is at the bottom of the month of July so I accidentally counted the 31st of June and the 1st of July. Anyway, we didn't mind going a week early.) I was a little confused when the doctor told me everything looked fine, and that my uterus was back to its normal size, because it clearly isn't, but that is what he said.

Lunch on tue.

2009-07-08T11:44:00.001-07:00

Lunch with Troy and Rick.

Madsen Bike give away.

2009-06-25T09:28:00.000-07:00

I would love one of these.

Tired Random Comments

2009-06-19T14:21:00.000-07:00

Kaitlyn went to the mall with her Aunt Michelle and cousin. They went into American Eagle or somewhere and they were playing rap music. She started busting some moves and pretty soon the managers were all watching and then she had a semicircle of curious watchers. Michelle said she was really going to town and that it was the funniest thing she had seen in a while. I guess there was a TV with dancers on it and she was just kind of following what she saw. Scary or cute? I'm not sure.

I have been a bit sleep deprive since Caleb's arrival. Yesterday Kait wanted to read a book to me for the library's summer reading program but I kept falling asleep while she was reading. I must be getting old because I was falling asleep sitting straight up and she would have to wake me up. I would try to focus but would be woken up again before she even finished the page. This happened 3 or 4 times and finally I gave up and lay down for 20 minutes until I got woken up for something or other else. I'm still not sure how Hey AL ends.

Caleb is here!

2009-06-12T14:36:00.000-07:00

Caleb James Adams was born June 10, 2009 at 9:46 p.m. He and mom are healthy and happy. He weighed 8 lbs 3 oz. and was 19.5 inches long.
I was going to write some awesome gospel insights I learned while going all natural on this child but have opted to just brag a bit. Actually, I can't even do that because it feels like I received so much help from the other side of the veil. When I had Hyrum they told me I couldn't have an epidural because of the hellp syndrome that I had but this time I knew I could end the pain at any time and it amazes me what the Savior suffered for us with complete power to end the pain at any time. It kind of makes labor seem small in comparison and yet on a personal level my love for the Savior and Caleb seems greater.

Update

2009-06-08T11:09:00.001-07:00

They are finally digging the foundation of our house.
Still not in labor.

A Pregnant Womens consolation!

2009-05-15T15:30:00.000-07:00

I found this article online. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/5286670/Morning-sickness-increases-the-chance-that-child-will-have-high-IQ.html In case you don't want to read this, this is the title and gist of it.

Morning sickness 'increases the chance that child will have high IQ'
Women who suffer morning sickness during pregnancy may be more likely to have a child with a high IQ, according to new research.
I don't care if it is true or not I am all for articles that help morning sick pregnant women feel better about their pregnancies. It would be nice to have a formula that equates the IQ increase per vomit so that you could finish puking, flush, and say "well I just increased this child's IQ by 10.3 points.

Snakes in the yard.

2009-05-13T08:42:00.001-07:00

We found two snakes in the yard over the weekend.

Happy Mothers Day to Me!!

2009-05-10T07:34:00.000-07:00

Hyrum's gift to me----sleeping in until 7:30 instead of 6:30. Absolutely wonderful...Thanks Hy.

Kait's gift to me----running into Dad at 6:20 a.m. and "QUIETLY", that is in caps to show that her whispering wasn't really that quiet, to Dad, who went to bed at 3:00 a.m., that it was time to make mom breakfast. I got to stay snuggled in bed dozing in and out of sleep while listening to them cook in the kitchen. Then Kait brought me the balloon that she had chosen out. She was soooo excited to give it to me because it said, Happy Mothers Day "with love". She just loved that it said "with love" and just knew that anyone who saw it would feel just a little bit of joy and happiness go right to their heart. She wasn't sure exactly how it would make bad guys feel if they saw it but she knew everyone else would just be so joyful.
This has been my first Mother's day with a child old enough to understand and it has been really fun for me. We'll see how her vow of absolute obedience and help goes the rest of the day.

Happy Mothers Day to you Mom. I am daily amazed at how you managed 11 children sooo well. You did a pretty good job with most of us and an exceptional job with me. ;). I love you sooo much and hope that some joy goes right to your heart as you read this blog and see the balloon that your posterity chose out. We'll see you this evening, we love you!!

Spring Fun

2009-05-08T13:00:00.000-07:00

A bunch of the women in our ward do a little preschool thing on Mondays and then field trips on Fridays. We went to the barn at Thanksgiving point today. The kids had fun.

I put these bars in Kait's room as a new discipline method I'm thinking of trying. ;)

Kait's ballet

2009-05-03T09:40:00.001-07:00

Kait learning different ballet positions.

Wahoo! We are finally buying a home.

2009-04-30T15:30:00.000-07:00

Well we put money down on a lot that is in a new development, we've picked out a floor plan and and we'll be signing the contract tomorrow. Here is a picture of the lot and the model of house that we are getting. It is in Spanish Fork just a little northeast of highway 6. They say it takes about 8 to 10 weeks to build once the contract has been signed so by the first part of July we should be settling in and wondering if we picked the right color schemes. ;)

Disc golf

2009-04-27T10:30:00.001-07:00

The whole deb. dept. goes golfing.

Easter and Random

2009-04-20T10:22:00.000-07:00

Kaitlyn and Hyrum had a blast at all of the Easter egg hunts they had. Thanks Grandma Adams for the fun hunt. We are still trying to get rid of the all of the Easter candy they accumulated.

Hyrum is my little fix it man. (I do dress my children but my time frame in the morning is very optional). Anyway, when he found that light bulb by the bed he pulled a chair down the hall and tried to change the bulb in the hall like he had seen me do. I thought it was cute enough for a picture but partially changed my mind when he dropped the bulb and I knew I could have prevented it earlier.

Sushi night

2009-04-16T19:50:00.001-07:00

Sushi at Won Won Wok in Saratoga Springs.

testing uploads

2009-04-07T11:16:00.000-07:00

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2009-03-19T11:54:00.000-07:00

Trip to Showbiz.

Warning, inappropriate info in this blog.

2009-03-18T07:47:00.000-07:00

Sorry about this blog but I was up for 2- 3 hours in the night unable to sleep. Having said that.....When I got pregnant with Kaitlyn my chest doubled in size and turned bright purple because of all of the stretch marks. If I keep gaining weight like I am this pregnancy I fear the same thing will happen to my butt. Out of respect for others, or maybe myself, I will not be posting pictures of either.

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2009-03-16T12:22:00.001-07:00

This was posted from an application I made at work. (Both the video and this blog entry.)

Rambling blog about nothing, for Cathy's sake.

2009-03-13T11:41:00.000-07:00

I've decided that potty training is scary. Hyrum just decided he was ready to be potty trained a few weeks ago and keeps taking off his diaper and sitting on the potty so I decided to try and see if he could be potty trained before this baby gets here. But I've decided it is really scary to potty train. He stayed dry all day on Monday so Tuesday I put him in big boy underpants. Setting him in the car to go somewhere with out his diaper freaked me out. With Kait I was ignorant about how big of a pain it is to wash those darn car seat covers but my eyes are wide open now so I lined the bottom with open diapers. He did great and stayed dry all day. I was so proud of him. But then yesterday he did lousy. He would tell me that he had to go to the bathroom, we would go in there, and then he wouldn't go until right after I put his diaper or under ware back on. Sigh! We'll see how it goes.
Today the Utah legislation passed a bill saying "Anyone interested in buying a newly built home could receive a $6,000 state grant under a bill the Utah Legislature has approved." I emailed the link from KSL to Rob because we should be buying in the next 3 or 4 months but told him that the grant made me sick to my stomach for some reason. He responded that he didn't think we qualified and when I asked him why not because we fit all of the requirements he said he was pretty sure that it required that you be a socialist or a communist. His comment made me laugh and love my husband.
Kaitlyn's new favorite show is Scooby Doo. She laughs through the entire thing but is then timid about walking down the hall alone and stuff. I told her if she was to scared to use the bathroom or go to her room by herself then she wouldn't be able to watch Scooby Doo again until she was 7. This morning she asked if she could watch it and I said only if she went and cleaned up all of the shoes at the end of the hall. (Smart Mom....the shoes get cleaned and she has to go down the hall by herself.) She stood at the top of the hall for a good 10 seconds and then asked if it would be all right if we changed the rule so that if she was too scared to go and clean up the shoes then she wouldn't be allowed to do any cleaning until she was 7. She ended up cleaning up the shoes and watching the movie.
Ok, enough rambling.

Kait's imagination

2009-03-05T08:32:00.001-08:00

We went to the library and got some books. One was on caterpillars. All morning I have enjoyed listening to Kait pretend she has a pet caterpillar which she named "Bitch".

Canned Garden Seeds

2009-03-04T15:12:00.000-08:00

Ok, I don't know if these are the best price in the world but I don't think they are a bad price. I am thinking of getting a few cans and thought some of the rest of you would be interested. You can see them on the ladies site at http://www.alpinefoodstorage.com/canned-garden-seeds-31609 You pick them up in Alpine so if we ordered together it might be easier to pick them up and have them at mom's house or something.
CANNED GARDEN SEEDS
FEATURES:
16 LARGE SEED PACKETS
16 POPULAR EASY TO GROW GARDEN VEGETABLES
SPECIAL OPEN POLLINATED 100% NON-HYBRID SEED SELECTION
EXCLUSIVE E-Z LOCK RE-SEALABLE RE-USEABLE BAGS
TRIPLE - LAYERED FOIL PACKETS SEALED IN A CAN FOR EXTRA PROTECTION
COMPLETE WITH GARDENING-MADE-EASY INSTRUCTIONAL GUIDE

Up to DOUBLE THE QUANTITY OF SEED of most other competitors:

Each Can Contains:

* SWEET CORN. Golden Bantam. 5 oz.
* ONION. Utah Sweet Spanish. 10 g.
* SPINACH. Bloomsdale Long Standing. 10 g.
* WINTER SQUASH. Waltham Butternut. 10 g.
* SQUASH ZUCCHINI. Black Beauty. 10 g.
* RADISH. Champion. 10 g.
* TOMATO. Rutgers. 5 g.
* SWISS CHARD. Lucullus. 10 g.

* PEA. Lincoln. 10 oz.
* BEET. Detroit Dark Red. 10 g.
* CABBAGE. Golden Acre. 10 g.
* LETTUCE. Barcarolle Romaine. 5 g.
* CUCUMBER. Marketmore 76. 10 g.
* CARROT. Scarlet Nantes. 10 g.
* PEPPER. Yolo Wonder. 5 g.
* POLE BEAN. Blue Lake. 5 oz.

Totals: 659 grams of Open Pollinated Non-hybrid Vegetable Seed

Price is $35 per can. This includes tax and shipping.

FAQs:

What is the shelf-life on these canned seeds? The declared shelf-life is 5 years. If, however, the seeds are stored in the freezer, that should double the shelf-life!

How many people will one can feed? Each can should feed a family of 5 for one season.

Will non-hybrid seeds germinate as efficiently as hybrid seeds? This company's germination standards are even higher than the Utah State requirements. Most will be in the 90% germination range. The germination percentage of each individual seed will be posted on the package.

These need to be ordered by March 16th so if anybody wants to order them with me let me know. I just want to have a couple of cans put away so that I know that I have a bunch of seeds but I don't have to think about it anymore. I also was just looking at websites that tell a little bit about how to save seeds from what you do grow and use them in later seasons. http://gardening.about.com/od/gardenmaintenance/a/SeedSaving.htm Anyway, this is my contribution to Erin, Tracey's and Mom's blogs about being more self reliant and ways to save money.

Another tag!

2009-03-03T12:40:00.000-08:00

1. Started your own blog? yes, with much encouraging.
.2. Slept under the stars? Yeah
3. Played in a band? Much to my band teachers dismay.
4. Visited Hawaii? If you call layovers there anything.
5. Watched a meteor shower? I believe so.
6. Given more than you can afford to charity? Yes, and now I desperately need yours. Ha ha
7. Been to Disneyland? Yeah, but I was 12 and thought it was kind of boring.
8. Climbed a mountain? YES
9. Held a praying mantis? Yeah, I had my picture in the paper holding on when my sister brought a weird pod thing into the house and the next morning, Easter Sunday, they were all over our house.
10. Sang a solo? In front of my English class to excuse some tardies.
11. Bungee jumped? No
12. Visited Paris? No
.13. Watched a lightning storm at sea? I'm pretty sure on my mission I saw a few.
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch? I don't know.
15. Adopted a child? No
16. Had food poisoning? Maybe
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty? No.
18. Grown your own vegetables? Yes, I love to try to grow things every year.
.19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France? No.
20. Slept overnight on a train? Nope.
21. Sluffed school? yes, one of the times my friend and I got caught and we were both supposed to do 7 hours of cleaning at the school. But they didn't dare call my mom to tell her about it though I told them to. Supposedly if we didn't do it within 3 weeks we would be put on probation and then 3 weeks later suspended but it didn't take me long to figure out that school would be out before then so I never did any.
22. Hitch hiked? In the singles ward showing a little leg and a thumb got me a ride home several times.
23. Taken a sick day when you're not ill? No.
24. Have a favorite book? Lots, The Hiding Place is one of them.
25. Held a lamb? I don't think so but I might have in Loa.
26. Gone skinny dipping? Yes, in many places.
27. Run a Marathon? No
28. Ridden a gondola in Switzerland? No
29. Seen a total eclipse? Cathy tagged me and she says I have. "Yes, and when it was over went skinny dipping (just kidding I was dressed so was Amy she didn't want to go swimming I helped her)"
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset? How can you miss them?
31. Hit a home run? Yep
32. Been on a cruise? Just the ferry to Alaska, but I really want to someday.
33. Seen Niagra Falls in person ? No.
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors? Yes, some of them
35.seen Amish country? No
36. Taught yourself a new language? Marshallese, but I had help from other Elders and Sisters.
.37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied? Sure.
.38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person? No.
39. Gone rock climbing? yes
.40. Seen Michelangelo’s David? No.
41. Sung karaoke? Yeah, bad experience. I don't recommend it unless you actually have a little musical talent.
.42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt? Yes, we just went with the kids last summer and I saw it as a kid.
.43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant? I don't think a complete stranger.
.44. Visited Africa? No.
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight? Yes
46. Been transported in an ambulance? No
.47. Had your portrait painted? No
.48. Gone deep sea fishing? No
.49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person? No.
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris? No
.51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling? Uh, in our pool when our family took lessons but I didn't have a buddy for the final dive in a lake.
52. Kissed in the rain? Pretty sure.
53. Played in the mud? yeah, football is the funnest.
54. Gone to a drive-in theater? Many times.
55. Been in a movie? Had a few plays recorded.
56. Visited the Great Wall of China? No
57. Started a business? Not really
58. Taken a martial arts class? No
59. Visited Russia? No.
60. Served at a soup kitchen? No.
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies? No.
62. Gone whale watching? Yes, in Alaska.
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma? Several times, they give out free cookies and juice after wards.
65. Gone sky diving? No.
66. Visited a Nazi concentration camp? No.
67. Bounced a check? I don't think so.
.68. Flown in a helicopter? No
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy? yes, a little carved bear which was the only gift I got the Christmas the family went to Alaska for Christmas.
.70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial? Yes
.71. Eaten Caviar? No
72. Pieced a quilt? Helped
.73. Stood in Times Square? No.
74. Toured the Everglade? No.
75. Been fired from a job? No.
76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London? No.
77. Broken a bone? No
.78. Been on a speeding motorcycle? I don't know if it was speeding but David was driving so there is a good chance we were.
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person? It drives me nuts that I haven't
.80. Published a book? No
.81. Visited the Vatican? No.
82. Bought a brand new car?no
83. Walked in Jerusalem? No.
84. Had your picture in the newspaper? Yes
85. Read the entire Bible? I'm pretty sure, though I'm not sure I was awake through all of Leviticus
86. Visited the White House? No
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating? No
.88. Had chickenpox? Yes.
89. Saved someone’s life? I tried CPR on my Dad but to no avail.
90. Sat on a jury? No.
!91. Met someone famous? Ah probably .
92. Joined a book club? Yes
93. Lost a loved one? Yes.
94. Had a baby? yep 2 and I'm expecting
95. Seen the Alamo in person?
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake? I want to, lets go Mom
97. Been involved in a law suit? Well, someone is suing Rob right now but our insurance company is taking care of it.
99. Been stung by a bee? No, well maybe once something stung me when I leaned on a wall but I don't know what.
100. One cavity or less? One since I started brushing at about 18 when I started paying my own dentists bill.

I've Been Tagged

2009-02-23T13:11:00.000-08:00

Ok, I've been tagged again. This is a picture of Hyrum opening his birthday gifts on his first birthday. Ironically, his second birthday is next week and the last time I was tagged it was the week of Halloween and the picture I was told to find happened to be of Halloween the year before.
Now you are supposed to go to your documents or pictures file, open your 6th folder, and 6th picture and blog about it. Then choose 6 other people to tag. I choose, Gloria J., Tracey J., Andrea T., Doug J., Christy C., and Tera D.
Don't feel that you have to play this little game of tag, though I may give you the cold shoulder for a while if you don't. ;) Oh, and if the picture is inappropriate then you are off the hook, we would rather not see it.

It's A Boy

2009-02-10T14:41:00.000-08:00

I just got back from my ultra sound. As the title says, it is a boy and it looked healthy and strong. Rob and I have always thought that we would have a girl, then 2 boys, and then another girl, but after the late miscarriage which was a boy and then the doctor saying that the heartbeat on this one was the speed of a girl I started thinking girl again. So it was fun learning that it was a boy. The pictures didn't turn out to well but who but the parents even really looks at the ultra sound pictures too closely. Anyway, we are happy that all seems well.

Depends

2009-02-09T10:24:00.000-08:00

I have had croup for the last few days. I know that only children are supposed to get croup but because of my asthma it seemed to effect me like it does the children. With all of the coughing, sneezing, and nose blowing and my being pregnant with no bladder control I have been constantly changing clothes. That is probably more than you wanted to hear....I know it is more than Rob likes to hear. Anyway, now the kids both woke up with it so maybe I'll be stuck in the house enough to blog some....though clearly from this blog you can see that I have nothing of interest to write.
Tomorrow is my ultrasound and I have no idea how I am going to deal with my kids. I don't want to drag them out to the doctors because I don't want to have to feel responsible for buying depends for the other pregnant women who pick up what we have but I can't really leave them with anyone either. I should probably reschedule but it is my ultrasound and I don't want to!!!!!!
P.S. Rob is instant messaging me from work saying he is feeling queasy and thinks he has the stomach flu. Oh joy!! How I love January and February.

Oh What Do You Do During Mom's Shower Time

2009-01-13T12:07:00.000-08:00

I discovered my son putting on mascara....should I be concerned about anything?

Times like these are why we don't strangle our kids when we find them in smearing things all over recently cleaned bathrooms. Oh, who am I kidding, I have wanted to put mascara on those long gorgeous eyelashes myself. See 'em and weep women.

I haven't written in my journal for quite a while.

2009-01-12T13:09:00.001-08:00

These are as close to journal entries as my children are going to get, at least for a while.
The 2 kids from upstairs were down here playing while their mom did her visiting teaching and then she took her boy and Kaitlyn upstairs for preschool which was at her house today. Anyway, Kait called me right after getting upstairs to tell me that she had left her glass of milk on her computer desk and could I please go drink it or put it in the fridge. It made me laugh.

This is totally staged. She just wanted to play on the treadmill when I got through.

Well, we finally used the sleds we bought as a gift for someone last Christmas and never gave them to them. It was fun.

Simple pleasures of a mother

2008-12-23T14:56:00.000-08:00

I really need to get out of the house more often, I mean without my kids. My friend upstairs called Monday morning to ask me if I wanted to swap babysitting so she could finish up some last minute Christmas shopping for her children. I said sure, though I'm pretty much done with my Christmas shopping and I really don't mind doing shopping with my kids....or so I thought. This morning it was my turn to go shopping. So I took the kids upstairs, jumped into the car and headed to Walmart. I will tell you what, by the time I was half way into Wally's World with no kids, hadn't worried about parking close for their sake, etc. I was near giddy with childlessness glee. And then I saw a lady with kids about the same age as mine, one was screaming and she was telling him, "I am not buying that so just drop it," while holding the younger one down in the basket seat so he wouldn't stand up and fall and there was really only a small bit of confusion when I started high fiving everybody else who was at the deli counter with me, really I just did a small though unconcealable dance.
After bringing some of the shopping spoils to my husband for a quiet enjoyable lunch with him, not once did I have to chase either child or say no we are not buying anything out of the vending machines...ok only once to Rob ;)....I went back home to hugs and kisses with the determination to babysit swap more often.

Random

2008-12-15T09:00:00.000-08:00

Cute Story. So I went to Carl's Jr. for lunch last week to let the kids play, yes the playgrounds at those places gross me out, but I will do just about anything to get out of the house with some other women and I justify it with thoughts of building my children's immune systems. Kaitlyn would take Hyrum up the steps and then help him go down the slide but once the kids get up in that labyrinth you can no longer see them so when I saw Kait emerge without Hyrum I asked her to go find him in there. One of the moms was leaving and I said if you happen to see Hyrum out in the nonplayground area let me know... he might be lost. Sure enough a minute later one of the moms brings him in from the other eating section. Kaitlyn then emerged from the playground, sees him, runs up to him, gives him a hug, and says, "Oh there you are Hyrum, I looked everywhere for you. You just about broke my heart." Cute story, huh? I'm not sure I even got off my seat. It will be amazing if my children and house survive this pregnancy.

Quick, easy, mom isn't feeling good, FHE. Oh that is embarrassing, I just looked at that picture and I was so focused on my family that I cut out the baby Jesus in a laundry basket at their feet. You may decide two things about this picture on your own. One, if Hyrum is an angel, shepherd, or just got out of the shower and two, if Rob just got sunburned on the top portion of his forehead or if the rubber band around his head is too tight.

My cute kids in front of the Christmas tree. Kait is wearing her new Christmas dress from Grandma Adams. I am pretty sure Grandma just likes shopping for her grand kids and all of the cute outfits she buys are not because she thinks I dress my kids funny.

Kait and I drew these. One of us draws the head and then folds the paper over so that the person drawing the body can't see what the head looks like. Kait loved it and we played for ever last night. Just a fun idea to entertain your 5 year old during sacrament meeting or in times of boredom. It is sad that my 5 year old draws as well as I do.

2008-12-13T05:23:00.000-08:00

Rules are: Anything you have done has to be in bold. How much have you done?

1. Started your own blog (Actually not this one. Amy started this one.)
2. Slept under the stars
3. Played in a band
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than you can afford to charity (I've never gone into debt for charity...?)
7. Been to Disneyland
8. Climbed a mountain
9. Held a Praying Mantis
10. Sang a solo
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning
17. Been to the Statue of Liberty
18. Grown your own vegetables
19. Seen the Mona Lisa at the Louvre
20. Slept on an train
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitch hiked
23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill
24. Built a snow fort
25. Held a lamb
26. Gone skinny dipping
27. Run a Marathon
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice
29. Seen a total eclipse
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Hit a home run
32. Been on a cruise
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
35. Seen an Amish community
36. Taught yourself a new language (php?)
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied (all the time)
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
39. Gone rock climbing
40. Seen Michelangelo’s David
41. Sung karaoke
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
44. Visited Africa
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight
46. Been transported in an ambulance (I wasn't conscious at the time.)
47. Had your portrait painted
48. Gone deep sea fishing
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling
52. Kissed in the rain
53. Played in the mud (see #52)
54. Gone to a drive-in theater (Grew up a block away from one)
55. Been in a movie
56. Visited the Great Wall of China
57. Started a business
58. Taken a martial arts class
59. Visited Russia
60. Served at a soup kitchen
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies
62. Gone whale watching
63. Got flowers for no reason
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma (I'm not allowed)
65. Gone sky diving
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
67. Bounced a check
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten Caviar
72. Tied a quilt
73. Stood in Times Square
74. Toured the Everglades
75. Been fired from a job (2 or 3... depending on the definition of 'fired.')
76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London
77. Broken a Bone (does someone else's bone count?)
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person
80. Published a book
81. Visited the Vatican
82. Bought a brand new car
83. Walked in Jerusalem
84. Had your picture in the newspaper
85. Read the entire Bible
86. Visited the White House
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
88. Had chickenpox
89. Saved someone’s life (everyday I prevent my son from electrocuting himself.)
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous
92. Joined a book club
93. Lost a loved one
94. Had a baby
95. Seen the Alamo in person
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake
97. Been involved in a law suit
98. Owned a cell phone
99. Been stung by a bee
100. Visited Italy

New Christmas Tree Decoration Trend

2008-12-02T15:02:00.001-08:00

It is after 4:00 and I really should make dinner but I don't feel good so I am just going to sit here and blog until Hyrum wakes up and hence makes making dinner 10 times harder.

So far almost every year since Kaitlyn was 15 months old I have started out the Christmas season decorating the entire tree and then usually by about the day after setting it up all of the ornaments are on the top half of the tree. This year has been no different despite the fact that I refused to hang a single glass ornament no matter which great grandma's they were. When ever I find one of said plastic ornaments, more like half a dozen said ornaments, on the floor I place them on the top half of the tree which greatly slows my one year old's ability to pull them off. Anyway, I have been babysitting 3 kids once or twice a week for a friend while she finishes a class at school. And hurrah, hurrah, when I arrived Monday morning they had their tree set up as well. So now I got the joy of trying to stop 5 children 5 years old and under, from destroying somebody else's great grandparents ornaments. The first 10 minutes went great. Everyone was informed to stay away from the tree and they were merrily playing with a nice plastic tool box a good 10 feet from the tree. But the next 10 minutes didn't fair so well. My sports fanatic one year old, yes his daddy loves that ok I do too, was playing with a plastic 12 inch screwdriver when he walks over to the tree and swings the screwdriver like a bat hits a beautiful glass ball and yells "ball". I took away the "bat" after telling him to level out his swing next time, cleaned up the glass pieces and went to go throw them away, my mistake for the garbage is in the kitchen, and come back to him holding at least 7 other glass bulbs happily singing balls, balls, balls. I rescued those but they all ended up on the top half of the tree. The good news is that I think they liked the way we changed the decorations because when I showed up this morning to babysit there wasn't a single ornament on the bottom half of the tree, of course their 5 year old kept telling me that "if Hyrum goes near the tree am supposed to tell you Sister Adams" so it may have been something besides my artistic ability that inspired their great liking of my unique decorative style.

Thanksgiving

2008-11-29T16:49:00.000-08:00

My mom couldn't believe that I hadn't posted the Thanksgiving pictures yet and it is 2 days after so here are a few. Sorry that some, a lot, of them were some how deleted but this is what was left.

NOT TWINS

2008-11-23T06:49:00.000-08:00

Well I had my first doctors appointment. He did an ultrasound just to make sure that the baby's heart was beating. It was but I am NOT having twins. I tell you what, I marched into Costco and demanded my money back. After an hour long argument with the manager he finally refunded me for one of the tests. Good thing I kept the receipt.

Susan and Rick won the Peanut Butter Bar Give Away. I just read her blog and apparently she suspects our ploy of inviting ourselves over, she even made us dinner, but it is a little to late now for suspicions. As with any good scam you kind of realize it after the damage is done.

I am already in my maternity clothes. I look the same size as my niece who is 4 months farther along than I am. Is it farther or further? Anyway, I think I will breastfeed this kid until he is 2 in hopes of losing the weight of 2 pregnancies.

I didn't really go to Costco, to buy the tests or return them, I buy my tests at the dollar store... I really do; they are the best deal in town. The peanut butter bars weren't hi def. I may have been wearing maternity clothes even before I got pregnant.

Announcing the first annual peanut-butter bar giveaway!

2008-11-17T06:06:00.000-08:00

You've heard the rumors. These are the best peanut-butter bars you could ever imagine. They're the real reason Oprah can't stay thin. Now is your chance to experience them for yourself. All you need to do is meet some simple qualifications and pass our little test below. One winner will be chosen.

Qualifications:

First, you must have hi-definition TV. And the bigger the TV set, the better.
Second, you and your hi-def TV must be available for presentation of the grand prize this Saturday, November 22nd, from 4:00 pm through 7:30 pm. In case of overtime, it could last another hour or so.

Now for the little quiz:

1. I always cheer for:
A. The Cougars
B. BYU
C. The Lord's University
D. The current and back-to-back MWC champs, and the only MWC team with a NC

Note: If you can't answer this question correctly, you get 0 (zero) on the quiz portion. This doesn't automatically disqualify you, but it does put you at a disadvantage.

You may also submit a short essay, but keep in mind that my daughter will be grading the quiz and essays, so no big words.

Random fun things

2008-11-06T07:23:00.000-08:00

Shrek, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt were all having lunch together.
Shrek said, "I have always thought that I'm the strongest man in the world, but how can I be sure?"
Angelina Jolie agreed, "I'm told I'm the most gorgeous of them all, but sometimes I wonder."
Brad Pitt said, "I'm pretty sure I'm the sexiest man alive but I've never had it confirmed."
They all decided that the best way to find out if their beliefs were true was to ask the famed talking 'mirror, mirror on the wall' to confirm for them whether Shrek was the strongest, Angelina Jolie was the most gorgeous and Brad Pitt was the sexiest.
They agreed to meet again the next day for lunch to discuss their findings.
The next day Shrek walked up with a smile. 'Well, true. The mirror told me that I am the strongest man in the world.'
Brad Pitt lifted his sexy face and said with a smile "well it is true I am the sexiest man in the world...
Angelina Jolie lifted her sad, gorgeous face and said, . . .
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...
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Who the Heck is Amy Jean Adams???

I just got that joke in an email and thought it was kind of fun. You can see why it doesn't bother me that Rob thinks Angelina is so hot. I had to make it say Amy Jean Adams so people couldn't say that it was Amy Adams the actress.

I just got a wheat grinder yesterday. We ground up some wheat and made whole wheat muffins. I wasn't feeling up to making bread. That isn't a good sign. Usually the only time I am up to doing something like that is when something is new like the grinder. Still it was fun.

I Was Tagged, Now You Are

2008-10-31T13:17:00.000-07:00

Ok, if you see this blog you are supposed to go to your pictures file and look in the 4th folder, the 4th picture and post it. I promise that this was the picture that I came up with. It is from last years ward party not this one. The last few days Kait has been begging to be a ladybug for Halloween even though she was a ballerina fairy for this years ward party. I really don't know if she remembers that she was a ladybug last year or not but I guess she will be trick or treating as a ladybug again.

Gestational Tourettes

2008-10-23T07:56:00.000-07:00

I have never really cussed in my life, not that cussing is overly offensive to me so long as it isn't demeaning a person or isn't too vulgar. I am fine with a person choosing to say that they stepped in dog crap or choosing to use a more descriptive way of explaining what they stepped in. Anyway, my last pregnancy I started randomly swearing. My husband likes to tell his friends that I started swearing like a banshee, but in reality I would yell "shit," while running to the stove to try to save our forgotten dinner before heading to Arby's. Once the baby died, hence my pregnancy, the swearing died too. So when I said "Oh hell" about something one week into this pregnancy Rob and I just looked at each other and giggled.
A lot of women like to figure out creative ways to inform their husbands that they are pregnant. I haven't decided if my next pregnancy, right after taking the pregnancy test, I am just going to let out a string of descriptive words from the bathroom or if I will just start randomly swearing again until Rob notices. I actually just found a web site that explains that, "Certain stressful processes during gestation or at the time of birth may increase the chance for a person to develop tourette syndrome". I can attest to both during gestation and the time of birth. I love the internet. I can justify anything I do with a few clicks of the mouse.

AHHHH TWINS!!

2008-10-20T08:54:00.000-07:00

WE ARE HAVING TWINS!!!! I went to Costco and got me some blond rinse to bring out my highlights and pregnancy tests but all they had was twin packs on the pregnancy tests. I was annoyed then but now I am really glad. I took them both and they were BOTH positive. I wish they had boy\girl packs too, but I guess I'll have to wait until 20 weeks to find that out their sexes just like anyone else. It is so nice to know it's twins this early.

Already Sick

2008-10-13T07:21:00.000-07:00

Well, I just took a pregnancy test and I am pregnant. I was only 2 days late and yet I was up for several hours last night unable to sleep, I was queasy through the night----well until I ate some banana bread at 4:00 a.m., and my stomach was a little sensitive 2 nights ago. Most woman do not get sick this early but I did with Hyrum, and didn't with the baby that died, and I was a lot sicker through the entire pregnancy with Hyrum then with the one that died so I SUPPOSE that I should be happy that I am all ready a little sick. Anyway, I am excited, I have been babysitting a 4 month old one day a week for a month or so and I was starting to get baby hungry though not pregnancy hungry. It is still too early to call and tell anyone yet so you blog readers could be the first to know.

Good day

2008-09-16T14:42:00.000-07:00

It is a good day. Kait can finally pump herself on a swing which is nice because when I take my kids to the park, though I often get talked into it, I do not like to exert any effort in standing up and actually having to push my kids on the swings. I go to sit and talk to with which ever other mom I talked into going to the park with me.

Today, my husband is the best man in the world. Not that he has done anything different than normal just that I have started to see some things that I really need to improve on and man is he a patient man. I love him.

Cool, Rob just came home with another raise at work. Like I said, it is a good day.

Regional Stake Conference

2008-09-08T11:14:00.001-07:00

So most of you are probably got to go to the big regional stake conferences that was telecasted to most of Utah county on Sunday. It was really good. Elder Jensen from the 70's spoke, then Pres. Monson's only daughter, then President Packer and then President Uchtdorf. Anyway, it was nice. Because it was being teleprompted to all most all stake centers, and because we were running a little behind, we just went to the big stake center that is at the end of our cul-de-sac even though it is in a different stake. They had opened up the stake Presidents office, the high council mans room and the Stake Presidents waiting area for children and had a T.V. in there. If was nice, but halfway through President Uchtdorfs talk, while I was grabbing Hyrum, Kaitlyn turned around on the couch she was on saw a fire alarm that said pull down and she pulled it. All of the lights in the building started flashing and speakers started saying "there is an emergency in the building, please use the closest exit," or something like that. The place was packed so I went out to make sure people new it was a false alarm while the clerk or someone frantically came running to try to find the key he needed to turn the thing off. Thanks goodness nobody knew us. We left after that.
Kaitlyn was petrified and ended up blaming me by saying that if I had of got us there on time we would have been in the big room with all of the people and she never would have seen that dumb fire alarm. It was rather embarrassing. She fell asleep in the car later that day and when I went to carry her into Grandma's house she kept mumbling in her sleep, "I didn't mean to do it, I didn't mean to pull it..." (Also you might not really want to mention this blog to her since I asked her if she wanted to tell Grandma and Grandpa about it while we were over there and she said, "No, it was much to scary." And then later asked me not to remind her of it,like I did at Grandma's and Grandpa's house, ever again).

Fun With Cousins

2008-08-11T08:53:00.000-07:00

Kait got to have some of her cousins spend a few nights with her after their baby sister was born. In an attempt to win the battle of the favorite aunt competition, though I am not sure anyone but Mickie and I are competing, we all went to a little water park for fun. Here are a few pictures. Really the entire purpose of this blog is to post the freakin' awesome picture of ME that Rob took.

It is Great to have Weight!

2008-08-07T07:40:00.001-07:00

As a fat momma I was on my treadmill trying to become a skinny momma when I hear my 4 year old screaming from the bathroom at the top of her lungs, I yell back, she yells, I yell, she yells, We can't hear so I turn off the treadmill and go into the bathroom to find out what the emergency is. "Mom, why do our eyes water when we really got to go and we're going?" Fat momma listens to a long, 4 year olds, explanation of why she thinks it is so and goes back to the treadmill.

I won the big splash competition at the ward swimming pool party last night. The other 10-12 year old boys thought I was cheating.

Mom never raised her voice to any of her 11 children!! (Written Susan Style)

2008-07-28T15:36:00.000-07:00

Kait: Ha ha ha ha I have more grapes than Hyrum.

Mom, trying to teach her daughter not to say things that could hurt other people's feelings says: Kait, is that a nice thing to say? Would you like it if someone had more than you and laughed at you?

Kait: But Hyrum doesn't really know what I'm even saying.

Mom:
"He understands a lot and Hyrum is just learning to talk and when you talk like that you will teach him to talk like that."

Kait: Why does Hyrum always do what I do?

Mom: Because he spends most of his time with you me and Dad. So he does what we do.

Kait: Just like I do what you do?

Mom: Yep, that's why I need to try and always be nice.

Kait: Who do you act like?

Mom trying to follow her line of reasoning: I try to act like my mom. Is Grandma James nice?

Kait: Oh yeah! She is so so OLD, she could never say anything mean.

Mom thinks but doesn't say: "Kait, would you like it if someone said you were so so YOUNG?"

FAMILY REUNION 2008

2008-07-20T15:32:00.000-07:00

If you want a better look at the pictures than click on the "view all images" tab.

St. George Trip

2008-07-07T08:13:00.000-07:00

My cousin Matt was blessing his baby last weekend so we took Mom and headed south. Here are my favorite moments.

Kait, who swims pretty well but gets tired quickly, swimming up to complete strangers in the pool and grabbing on to their shoulders and then giggling and laughing as they pushed her over to the side of the pool.

Dad falling asleep with the lights still on and then after I have tucked the kids in and turned out the lights he rolls over and talks in his sleep. Kait says, "Dad, it is still the middle of the night, go back to sleep, you can't get up now." I whisper, "he is not really awake" but she can't tell it is me so she says,"I can hear you whispering now go to sleep."

Hyrum walking up the 3 stairs, like an adult not crawling, and back down the stairs at Brigham Young's house. Mom was not allowed to help. It was worth the chance of him nosediving and a favorite moment because he wasn't running wild trying to get into every expensive irreplaceable relic he could for a few minutes.

Mom in the back seat reading books with Kait and feeding Hyrum cookies for the entire drive. Kait finished all of her reading for the library reading program and she now knows most of her parts of speach, ;) and Hyrum had minimal crying. (I might always take Mom on our road trips.)

Finally realizing, with help from Rob, that Elder Eubank, the guide at Jacob Hamlin's house was Mark Eubank the former channel 5 weather man of 40 years. He predicted our drive home would be hot and dry, it was cloudy with showers.

Listening to Garrison Keeler, Prairie Home Companion, up and back.

Kait telling Mom that she loved the color of her hair and wanted to be just like her when she grew up, well she didn't know if she would be able to dress exactly like her but....

The chicken salad croissant sandwiches at Matt's luncheon. I love those.

Being with family, at least when the kids were asleep, which wasn't much.

Peas in a Pot

2008-06-26T13:24:00.000-07:00

We are renting a basement apartment so I have no spot of my own to plant a garden so I asked the owners if I could plant some stuff in pots. We mostly did squash and cucumbers and stuff that you don't usually plant in rows but Kaitlyn loves peas so we tried some of those also. They are finally getting some pods and Kait is so excited and I am thinking about growing stuff like this more often because I haven't had to weed at all.