Yet Again....

Well, it has happened again. Just about every 6 months for the past year and a half, Bryan has had to look for a new job. It's just part of the recession. The company wants to keep him, but they just plain run out of work for him to do. So, yet again, he is looking for a new job. If everyone could keep us in their prayers that Bryan can find a GOOD, STABLE job soon, we would really appreciate it. Ugggghhhhh.....

My Genius Little 7 Year Old

I have decided that Ashley is a genius (I'm biased, though!). But listen to this - I was quizzing my kids on rhymes (to combat summer brain atrophy) and was asking Ashley harder ones than the twins, of course. So, to try to trick her I asked her what rhymed with superkalafragalisticexpyaladocious (the Mary Poppins word). About 5 seconds later she said "ferocious"! I couldn't believe it! It really rhymes! Genius I tell you!

Back to School

It's official! I just talked to my entrance councilor with WGU, and she said that financial aid should go through, which means, I'm in!!! I'm going back to school to finally get my degree in Accounting on August 1st. It should take me between 2 and 3 years to finish, depending on how fast I can get through the material. I'm so excited!!

Caught up. Again.

Okay, I'm now pretty much caught up with my posts.  There are quite a few so just keep reading to get them all!  Oh, and they are in chronological order, too.

My Attempt at Gardening

I've never planted a vegetable garden before.  I don't know how successful I will be with vegetables seeing that there are only two house plants that I have managed to not kill since Bryan and I have been married.  Because of this, I didn't want to dig up part of the backyard to try my hand at gardening, so I decided to do it in containers on the deck.  We (the kids helped) planted tomatoes, peppers, carrots, and green beans.  The first three are in the above picture, and the beans are below.   I'm really pleased with how they are doing!  We planted right after Mother's day, and we even did seeds instead of plants!  (Ignore the dead plant towards the middle.  Yet another victim of my house plant murdering spree.  I haven't disposed of the body yet.)

Our New Dining Set

This is our new "dining set".  It's this cute little picnic table that I found at Costco, and it is perfect for the kids!  We keep it out on the deck and they love to eat outside now.  They also paint and play with their play dough on it.  It's great for me because then the mess is outside instead of inside!  Last night they ate watermelon until they exploded.

UP in 3D

I took the kids to see the movie "UP" in 3D after Ashley got out of school for the summer, sort of like a "Congratulations!  You survived first grade!" kind of thing.  They liked the movie.  They liked the glasses even more!

Fathers and Sons 2009

Gavin and Bryan went to the Fathers and Sons campout at the end of May.  They even stayed overnight this year!  This is Gavin all set and ready to leave.  He gave the thumbs-up all by himself.  He was so excited!  Bryan took a bunch of pictures while they were out.  Enjoy!

This is a little boy from our ward that Gavin hung out with that day.

I swear this boy cannot keep his tongue in his mouth!  He always has it sticking out!  But he's a cutie anyways.  I'm so glad we have this little guy in our family.  He may be our only little boy, and he sure is a little guy, but he makes up for it with a HUGE personality!  Love you Buddy!

Turning 5!!

Gavin and Cierra turned 5 years old on May 14th.  We had a small celebration at home on their birthday and then had a little party in Hurricane when we went down there for Memorial Day weekend.  They had so much fun with their cousins and friends in Hurricane!!  Thanks everyone that could come!  It was great to see you.  Hopefully we can see everyone else next time.

Sorry it's sideways.  This is Gavin and Cierra's "5" cake made from cupcakes.

This is when the twins saw their birthday presents as Bryan was bringing their new bikes down the stairs.

Gavin and Cierra on their new bikes.  I told them to smile and this is what they did!  Cute!!

Blowing out their candles.  They each had 5 candles on their half of the cake.

The party in Hurricane.  Everything was soooo great!  Thanks to everyone.  Thanks to Sweetheart for making the cupcakes in the shapes of a "C" and a "G"!  It was great!

Update...

So, I'm doing much better.  My thyroid hormones (which had gotten extremely low) are now "approaching normal" again and I'm off all the meds.  Hopefully my thyroid is healing from the viral attack sooner than they thought and everything is leveling out already.  I go back in for another blood test to check my levels in 4 weeks.  Which, by the way, is very nice because I've been going in every week for the last 3 weeks for blood tests and all of my veins are blown now.  Hopefully they will have time to heal before I go in again in a month.

In other news, I'm also doing better with the whole "we're not adopting anymore" thing.  My kids are awesome and I can be a really good mom to the three of them.  Another thing that is helping is that we're working on something for me to focus my OCD brain on so I'm not obsessing over not having a baby.  I'm going to go back to school to finally get my degree.  I've been accepted to WGU (a really cool, totally accredited online university that Bryan and Matt got their degrees from) and start the first of August.  The last hurdle is financial aid, which I should find out if I'm getting any soon.  But it's looking good and I'm really excited.  I should be able to finish in 2-3 years depending on how much I remember from my previous college classes (that were at least 8 years ago, I feel soooo old).  Wish me luck!