My brothers

I don't know if you know this, so I will tell you. I have the coolest brothers in the whole world. I am so lucky that I ended up being older than my brothers, because then they would be able to pick on me more than they already do.
Louie is the best dad to his two beautiful girls. He lives in Arizona and I miss him all the time. We are not as close as I wish we could be but life happens. He still amazes me with the things he has overcome in his life. Don't mess with him, he will get you back. Matt and I have the best jokes between us that nobody else appreciates as much as we do. I laugh so much with him and have had alot of good times with him. He is an awesome uncle and he will make a great dad some day.
Chris, aka Bub, is not a teenager anymore. He is wise beyond his years and never ceases to amaze me with the things that he has dealt with. Chris turned 20 on Sunday and I remember when he first came to live with us. I loved his line "Ya'll are not my friends!" what a funny boy.
All I know is that I am very proud of my brothers and who they have become.

Pictures

There are alot of pictures that have been taken with our camera and most of them have been of Tyler. The pictures of me just disgust me and gross me out. I can't believe how ugly I look to myself. I know that there are parts of me that I like, my hair, my eyes, my hands. I see the fat in my face and on my body makes me want to delete all the pictures I have. This is one I like.

Tyler and I made Karl a birthday cake. It was Tyler's first real experience cooking with momma. He was so weirded out that I took the gate down and brought a chair in the kitchen, and THEN asked him to come in and help me. He was so worried he would get in trouble that he didn't want to even stand up on the chair. In the end the cake turned out GREAT. I was so proud of our work on the cake and Karl loved it. Happy Birthday Karl.

Weightly matters

I have done really good the past few days. I have lost weight more this week than I have in the last few weeks.My weigh in is not for a few more days but I check it everyday out of habit. Its nice that my jeans fit looser.

Easter Brunch

I just love Tylers hair flip... He looks like he just got out of bed :)

Tyler thought the best way to get what was in his bag was to swing it.

For Easter this year we went to my parents house and had a big brunch. I asked Morgan if she could take some pictures of what was going on and these are the ones she took.

This is the talented photographer.

My dad drinking my favorite soda!!!!

My Morgan got a picture of me in there too.

We had a pretty quiet Easter. The Easter bunny didn't hide eggs at our house because we forgot to get them ready. We did help Debbie and the girls with their eggs though. We hung out with Karl's mom on Saturday and then saw my family on Easter.

April 11, 2001

Eight years ago today I entered the MTC. It was the
scariest, most exciting time of my life. Up until this point I had family and friends surrounding me and I knew that I was loved by them. On April 9 I flew out to SLC and met my friend Amy Dopp whom I had met at the Auburn Singles Ward when her and her family lived up here. We went to SLC and went to the temple there to do a session and then wandered around Temple Square. We went to the screening of the Testaments, it was a Book of Mormon movie and it was a depiction of the life of the people in the BoM during the time of Christ and after he died and was resurrected. It was wonderful. In Utah when you go on your mission Sizzler gives you one meal for free, so we ate there.
I am so thankful to my Heavenly Father for giving me the oppurtunity to serve my mission. I am a better mother, wife, sister and friend because of the time I spent on my mission. I was not perfect by ANY means and I am still continuing to try to be a better person.
I remember when I was in the MTC, I wanted to be around my MTC district forever. I thought that it wasn't fair that we didn't have MTC reunions, only on the mission. My companion in the MTC was Sis. Harvey and she was from Toole, UT.
Most of my companions were from Utah with the exception of Sis Kartchner, who was from St. David, Az and Sis Oyunchimeg who was from Mongolia. I served in Fayettville, AR, Branson, Missouri, and Henryetta and Grove ,OK. I served in every state that was possible for a sister to serve in. It was the best time of my life.
This morning I got up and went to the Temple. I was supposed to go with Garnet and her hubby but they slept in. It was WONDERFUL!!!

Weigh -in

This weigh in I gained 2 lbs. I was not surprised and I was glad it was only two pounds that I went up. We had a birthday party to go to last week and then on Sunday we had a wonderful bbq at my parents house. it was SOOO good. We did have lots of salad and fruit and veggies. But nothing is complete without ranch for my veggies and we found this cream cheese fruit dip that was WONDERFUL.
In the other parts of my little world...... I am tired. I think that I want things to e more in order but it is exhausting to me to see chaos and change it to order. I will find a way it will just take thought and then action. That doesn't mean to the junk food isle either!!!!