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Happenings in a paragraph!

It has been some time since my last blog. I guess I've been busy enough that I fail in many endeavors. On a brighter note, Mikayla made Honor Choir at her school and then went on to make All-city choir. Andrew has been in his first PineWood Derby and got fourth place. Not bad for a first year scout. He is planning on attending twilight camp and getting lots of belt loops and arrow points while there. Maybe they made Twilight camp name after Twilight. I am really a pathetic fan! How droll my life must sound to outsiders. Brianna, the tomboy, had such a compassionate heart, gave a bunch of her pairs of socks to a girl in her class that had no socks and Brianna was so praised by the act of compassion that the principal even wrote a letter to us thanking us for raising such a sweet girl. The next day Brianna ended up visiting the principal's office for punching a boy in the face. Talk about bi-polar, even though she isn't, she can be very extreme. She is a perfect example of Dr. Jeckyle and Mr. Hyde. David is just David and thinks that boys rule the world. Gabby is now potty-trained and "No Binkies" trained. She was Very unhappy with her Dad about this binkie move, but she seems to be more grown up for the loss off binkies. Mia is just Mia. SWEET AS PIE and my little piece of heaven. Wayne stays busy between the Pizza store and the Bow Wow Wash. He works so hard! I am staying busy with the kids and am in charge of the children's choir for Stake Conference coming up in three weeks! We are excited about that !

Miss Mikayla and her artwork

Time has gone quickly as of late. We had spring break and my parents came out to spend time with us. The kids loved it and we were able to spend time fixing things up around the house! Wayne worked both the Bow Wow Wash all day until 8 p.m. and then went to work at the Pizza Store each night until close. This lasted for a week and he was completely exhausted each night. Bless his heart! I think I saw him at the house a time or two!

Mikayla and her talent in art is beginning to show! Her artwork done with the art teacher at Pirrung Elementary was selected to be placed at show at the Professional Building in the City of Mesquite. We attended a reception in her honor and I was very amazed to see something so abstract come from little Mikayla! It was Very Good! Then, within a week of that reception, she was notified that her Reflections art piece placed as Third in the District. This is amazing simply because there are something like 32 elementary schools in the district. She loves art and loves to write, Maybe she'll be an illustrator/author! She definitely has the talent for it!

Included are two pictures of Mikayla's B-Ball team at playoffs. They went in undefeated, but lost to a team from inner-city Dallas. I have never seen girls play so mean! Yikes!

Twliight Saga

Have you ever been into something so much that it emcompasses your thoughts in Everything you do? You analize it against all else. Well, that would be me as of late. My mom introduced me to the book Twilight about three weeks ago and sent me the three books out by Stephenie Meyer. It is a series of books about a human girl, Bella and a vampire, Edward. The author graduated from BYU, is a member of the church and the books are Great! If you haven't read them, you should! It is a fun read and I never imagined that vampires could be so cool. I am more the Jane Austen type reader, but I have now broadened my scope! The last and final book comes out August 2nd and I am finding it very difficult to wait that long, so I started over again with book 1 and will see what a missed the first time I read through them. The movie, based up the first book, will come out in December! It will be a great year for movies with Harry Potter #6, Twilight and don't forget about Indiana Jones in May. Holy Cow! I don't normally get so excited, but how fun to look forward to!

Political Junkies!

Could politics becoming too much of a topic in our family? Andrew informed Wayne on the way home from church yesterday that he would not be voting for Mike Anderson as state representative and would be voting for Thomas Latham. This statement surprised Wayne. I don't know why? Andrew is always Mr. Analytical and on the In with what is going on. Andrew's comments still surprise me too! Wayne and Andrew got into a big discussion on these two representatives and in the end, Andrew got frustrated with Wayne trying to be positive with both candidates. His statement ended with, "Well, I can't vote for another ten years anyway so I am not going to worry about it anymore!

Tuesday, March 4th, is election day! Thank Goodness! I am tired of election mail and phone calls with all this mess! I won't even comment on John McCain. I just end up hanging up the phone during the surveys because I just can't bring myself to state that I will vote for John McCain or Huckabee. Filling in a dot will be a lot easier than hearing my voice state that I can vote for anyone, but Mitt! What a blow this has been and not been easy for me to get over! It's been weeks and I am still depressed over it! When will it end? Probably oh, NEVER!

Mom, Didn't You Know?

Yesterday, after school, I was finally relaxing after working through three kids homework assignments, signing folders, analizing school pictures that had come from school that day, getting everyone a light snack, making some phone calls about the Children's choir for Stake Conference, organizing practices for basketball tournaments this weekend . I decided I just needed to rest my feet for one brief moment. In that ONE BRIEF moment, Andrew comes up to me and says, "Mom, didn't you know that I was made to Eat instead of just sitting around and playing my DS? I believe Andrew was trying to say that it was time for dinner. Well, another day, right? That one question says it all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Chaos Has Begun

We opened our new Bow Wow Wash business on Monday, Feb. 4th. This means that Wayne is always at the business, teaching clients how to wash their dogs, sometimes smelling like a wet dog himself , but I love him anyway. He is the greatest. He only got bit once last week and I think this next week will be better.

We did a dry run before any one else tried our business and Darby got Spa Lavished by our family. He smelled GREAT afterwards and sat at the grooming table for about 1 1/2 hours while we de-matted the poor guy. I guess when your an Irish Setter, you should learn to brush your own fur. Do you think that will ever happen?

David had his ear tubes taken out last week and is still struggling with problems in the ear area! He was so miserable at church yesterday that we wouldn't even go to Sister Casserole's (Sis. Castro - really - David says Casserole) class. That is a first for him to not want to go to Primary!

Mikayla and Andrew are finishing up basketball season. Both are on great teams! We have tournament next weekend and so both my babysitters will be busy! What will I do?

I decided to go to Amy W. (used to be Jensen) baby shower on Saturday night and left my two oldest in charge of the other four. They were being major couch pototoes watching Scooby Doo I and when I got home, all six were in the same position watching Scooby Doo II, even the Pea Pod (12 months). I had picked up a pizza before the baby shower and it hadn't even been touched when I got home! I was shocked at the intense focus of the kids that not even Andrew had gotten something to eat when all he thinks about is food! We hurried and bathed and did all the necessary Saturday night routine stuff to get ready for Sunday! I felt great when by 9:00 p.m. I had everything ready for Sunday, even the meat browned and ready to be put in the oven Sunday morning, Jello made, clothes laid out on the couch for all the kids with all the kids in bed, and then realized that I didn't ever feed the kids that pizza. It was still in the same spot! Well, no one complained and felt that it would be okay this once to not stress over it! I think having six kids teaches you to not stress out and that if you do, your whole life would be a stress out because having six kids is Stressful! Did that even make sense? What?

Sunday evening, Wayne had a Presidency meeting at our house and I found myself hanging out in Mikayla's room. We did some scripture reading and Faith in God signing off stuff and had a great time together! She is a good girl and growing up way too fast. I do not look forward to when the kids are gone! I love noise, really!