Missy's Bridal Shower

I told Missy that I wouldn't post any of the pictures that I took of her at her bridal shower, but I think the pictures are cute. I'm sorry Missy. I'm only posting the pictures that I think everyone looks good in. I don't want anyone to feel embarrassed. If anyone is upset about their pictures on here, just let me know and I will remove them as quickly as possible.

At my bridal shower (Missy hosted) we played a game where they asked Roger a bunch of questions about himself, then they ask me those questions and I'm suppossed to guess how Roger answered the questions. Everytime you get a question wrong, you have to put a piece of bubble gum in your mouth (the big square kind, not just a small piece). I didn't get any of them right. I had a ton of gum in my mouth. I could hardly talk. It was uncomfortable and not my favorite game. It's funny now, but when we played the game I wasn't very happy about it. I think I was just really embarrassed because I looked like a fool standing in front of everybody with my mouth too full of gum, barely able to talk, and not knowing the answers.

We played this game at Missy's bridal shower. Missy did a lot better than me. She was worried because I was the one thinking up the questions to ask her, soon to be husband, Mikal. I was nice, I asked a lot of questions that I thought she would know the answers to. She did a lot better than me at that game. She still ended up with quite a few pieces of gum in her mouth. When she got too much gum in her mouthy, Kari offered to put gum in her mouth when Missy got it wrong. Because Kari wanted some gum also. Where was Kari at my bridal shower! I really could have used the help! After the game Kari and Missy had a bubble blowing contest. For anyone that doesn't know, Kari and Missy are my sisters. Here are the pictures.

I think Missy won.

Kari's bubble
I took a few pictures of Jamie and Janae, but when I uploaded my pictures I noticed that all of the pictures I took were not on the camera any more. Janae and Jamie asked to look at my camera after I had taken their pictures. They were talking about deleting the ones they didn't like, but I thought they were joking. Did you guys delete you pictures or am I just forgetful. I really thought I took more pictures of you two. Janae and Jamie are my friends from highschool.

This is Jamie, Janae, and baby Regan.

I tried to fix this picture of Alissa and make it look really cool, but it didn't work out very well. I made the background behind Alissa all black (that worked well), but she had chocolate all around her mouth and I tried to fix it so you couldn't see it (I don't think that worked well). I took this picture while we were at the bridal shower. There is a lot of pink around her eyes, because she got make up for her birthday and she put a lot on so she would be pretty for the bridal shower. Here is a picture of Shannon with chocolate in her mouth. Shannon was Missy's best friend when they were younger. I ended up with a lot of pictures of Shannon. Shannon if you want me to take your pictures off of here, I will.
We played a game where you hold a paper over your head and draw a picture of what the bride will look like on her wedding day. That was a funny game. I had never heard of this game before, but I think it was my favorite.

Here's Jamie
Shannon

My Mom and My sister Kari

Shannon again (she is making silly faces in most of the pictures). Your funny Shannon.

Jamie

Here's Missy opening here gifts.

Scrapbook Pages From Alissa's Birthday

I don't have photo shop or anything like that. I was looking online and found three different programs that offer free trials. The free trial is 30 days. So I'm using the 30 day free trial. I'm doing as much scrapbooking as I can before my 30 days is up. I have 16 days left. After this I will try another program for 30 days. So a lot of my post will be scrapbooking pages.
Here are some more pages of Alissa's Birthday.

It's been a long time

It has been a long time since I've posted anything. I've just been a little moody and didn't feel like posting anything. I'm feeling normal and like myself again. So I will, hopefully, post a little more often. I've been working on some scrapbooking and decided to use that to update you on how we are doing.

Parker is finally potty trained!!!!!!! I thought it would never happen. He really did not want to use the toilet. We tried a lot of different things to get him excited about it, but nothing ever worked. I don't really know how we did it, but Parker finally decided that he wanted to be a big boy and use the toilet! I'm so happy!

Brinley is potty trainig also. I have not tried too hard with her, because I was so focused on getting Parker potty trained. Now I can work on getting Brinley potty trained. I think it will be a lot easier to convince Brinley that using the toilet is great. Here is a scrapbook page of Brinley potty training.

I didn't want to take Parker to church in his underpants, because I didn't want him to have an accident, so Alissa went to church with her friend. This page is of Alissa waiting for her ride to come and take her to church. She was looking so pretty and being so cute taking care of her little baby. She is a good little mommy.

This is Parker on that same morning, just playing with his ball. He didn't want me to take his picture, so he kept trying to move the ball in front of his face before I took the picture.

We went to Lagoon last week. it was a lot of fun. I wrote that we stopprd at laptop computers on our way. I need to fix that to say PC Laptops.

At Lagoon.


There are more lagoon pictures, I just haven't finished making the pages. I will post them when I'm done. The next pages are from Alissa's Birthday. I have a lot more pictures from that too. I will post those when they are finished also. I like to decorate the house with a lot of balloons. I stay up late the night before so when the kids wake up they are surprised. This year Alissa wanted to blow up her own balloons. It was nice to not have to blow up all those balloons.
A page for Parker's book.

It's Linda's Birthday!

Today is my sister Linda's Birthday. I've always had a hard time remembering if Linda's birthday is on the 30th or the 31st. A few years ago, she was in Montana on her birthday. If she was up at out property, I would not have been able to get a hold of her because there is no electricity and no cell phones will work. The only way to get a hold of her was to call while she was in town and I had no idea when she would be in town. So on the 31st, I called Linda to wish her a happy birthday. I was really expecting to just leave a voice mail, but she was in town, so she answered. I was so pleased that I was able to get a hold of her and tell her happy birthday. I told her " I'm so happy that I was able to get a hold of you and talk to you on your birthday!" Linda started to laugh and said "Well, that would be true..........if you would have called yesterday." We both had a good laugh about that. On my birthday, in October, all of my sisters called me except for Linda. I wasn't upset, I just figured she'd forgotten and she would call when she remembered. The day after my birthday, Linda called and said in a mocking voice "Jenny, I'm so happy that I got to talk to you and tell you 'happy birthday' on your birthday!" We laughed so hard. Linda just cracks me up sometimes! So now that is what we do. We call each other the day after our birthdays just for laughs.

Yesterday We went to play at the park by the library. It is a really fun park. There is dirt at the feet of one of the benches and they had watered the lawn. So the dirt under the bench was mud. Brinley played in it. She had mud on her feet, legs and hands. I didn't have anything to clean her off with. On the walk home she had dry mud on her hands until we got to a house with sprinklers on. Brinley was so excited! She yelled "Sprinkles!" and ran through the sprinklers. When she got out of the water, the dry mud on her hands was wet and she had hair in her face. Before I could stop her, she started to brush the hair out of her face with her muddy hands. She had mud all over her face. I should have taken a picture right after it happened, but I didn't. We were almost home and the mud was coming off when I finally took her picture.

Here's Parker. He likes to ride in the stroller. Brinley always insists on walking and Alissa likes to ride a bike or run.

After we ate lunch, we went to softball practice for the Young Women. I'm the assistant sports director for the young women. After practice, Alissa went to play at her friend Danielle's house. Danielle is a year older than Alissa. So Alissa gets hand-me-downs from her. This is a dress and shoes that Alissa got from Danielle. Alissa was really excited and wanted me to take her picture.

Not Much is Happening

I've been decluttering our house. It is a lot of work. I started over a week ago and today I finished all the rooms upstairs. Tomorrow I will work on the basement. When I finally finish that, I will declutter the living room and kitchen on the main floor. It is just taking a long time. While I'm busy claening upstairs, the kids are busy making messes in all the other rooms. So at the end of the day it is hard to feel good about all the hard work I've done, because I have one really clean room and a ton of really messy rooms. I'm just getting really tired of cleaning. That is good and bad. Bad because it is no fun being sick and tired of something. Good because I am so frustrated and I just want to get all the decluttering and organizing done as quickly as possible and that (the anger) makes it easier for me to throw things away. I would like to save and keep everything so it is really hard for me to throw things away.
I've been so busy cleaning and the kids and I have not done much. Except for on Saturday. We went to Tremonton City Days and had a lot of fun. But I forgot my camera. So I can't show you any of the fun. We woke up early and jog/walked in a 5K. We came in last place but we still had fun. Brinley refused to ride in the stroller. She wanted to run the race. She jogged for a good part of it. She was so cute! She also insisted on carrying her baby doll while she ran. It was a lot of fun. Alissa ran a head of us. She ran with a neighbor and they did really good. They finished a lot sooner than we did. Parker just enjoyed the ride in the stroller. Since I don't have any recent pictures to share, I thought I would look back and see what we were doing 2 years ago on this day. Here is what I found.......

Alissa is 2 years old in this. She is 16 days away from being 3 years old. I remember that I got her all situated at the table to paint, then I had to go take care of Parker. When I came back to check on her, she was painting on herself. So I grabbed the camera. I have such a hard time getting upset at the kids when they are so cute.

I didn't have any pictures of Parker on that day. So I posted some pictures that were taken just a few days later. Parker loves his sleep. He is the best sleeper of all the kids. It doesn't take him long to fall asleep after he gets in bed. If I try to keep him up past his bed time, he will fall asleep next to his toys or where ever he is playing. He is such a handsome little boy! I love seeing his baby pictures. He is too cute!

Pioneer Day

Here are our pictures from the 24th. Tremonton doesn't celebrate the 24th until Saturday the 26th. That's a little annoying! When we first moved here, they celebrated on the 24th and we could see the fireworks really well from our house. But last year they had a bright idea to celebrate on the weekend after the 24th and they decided to move the firework show to a different park. I don't know how long they will keep it that way. A lot of Tremonton folk are pretty upste about the change. I've heard a few people complaining about it. Last night one of our neighbors was so upset about it that she is planning on making a complaint to the city. So we'll see. We decided to get together with a few of our neighbors and light some fireworks in front of our house. These are pictures of the kids while they are waiting for everyone to get here and for the fireworks to start.

Alissa and Brinley were pretending to be babies while they were waiting. They decided to change the game a little. Now Alissa is the baby and Parker and Brinley are her Mommy and Daddy.This is Parker waiting patiently while a bag of poppers is being opened for him.Roger is talking to his mom before everyone arrives. He insists on making funny faces whenever I take his picture. I try and catch him off gaurd, but it never works.
Parker and Brinley with there poppers (I don't know the real name). When we gave Brinley her poppers, she said "O yea! Candy!" We had to quickly explain that they weren't candy and why she should not put them in her mouth.

Alissa with her poppers.

I always wanted to know what my hair would look like in little braids. So on the 23rd, before bed, I started braiding. I only had time to braid the front before I went to bed. It turns out that I don't look that great with my hair in braids. But now I know, so I won't spend the rest of my life wondering. Roger thought I looked dorky. Sometimes, I wish he wasn't so honest. When he realized that I felt bad when he said I looked dorky, he tried to make it better by saying "But that's what I love about you! I love your dorkiness!" Anyways, enough of that. Here are the pictures. I was on the phone when I remembered to take a picture.When everybody came to do fireworks, we dicided to go over to the school, where some other neighbors were lighting theirs. We thought it would be a better show if we put all of our fireworks together. The fireworks were fun, but Brinley was scared. I had to hold her the whole time. I eventually got tired so Brinley and I came home early. When we walked in the house, Brinley said "I like the fireworks, Mom!" So I asked her if she wanted to go back the school and see some more. She quickly replied "No!"

My new Blog

I started a new blog! It is soooooo... fun! My new blog is called 'The Good Old Days'. I'm going to post memories, pictures and videos from my past. I love to reminisce. I really want others to read it and share some of their memories in the comments. Please look at my new blog! It will be so fun if other people read it. Here is a link to my new blog. http://thegoodolddayswithjenny.blogspot.com/

Memories!!

Here is a fun little game... leave a comment on my blog of a memory that you and I have had together. It doesn't matter if you've known me for a short time or a long time, anything that you remember! Next, re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you. It is pretty funny to read the responses. On your mark... get set... blog those memories!

I have so many memories to share. It is hard to pick just one. I'm going to tell you about a memory that I have with my sister, Missy. I got rear ended at the grocery store. Missy and I had just finished shopping and went to wait in a line at the cash register. We were talking while we waited for our turn. Missy was standing backward in the line so she was facing me. I was telling Missy something, when she started to make a face. I ignored the face she was making and continued talking. I was in the middle of a sentence when SLAM!! A shopping cart ran right into my backside and sent me flying into Missy. I turned around to see an old guy recovering his shopping cart. His face was bright red and he apologized a few times. I told him I was ok and not to worry about it. When we got in the car Missy told me, "I'm so sorry Jenny. I saw him coming at you and I thought he was going way too fast, and I didn't think he was going to be able to stop in time. I just didn't know what to do. It just seemed so weird. I didn't think he would really run into you. It was like watching a car accident." Those aren't the exact words that Missy used, that's just what my brain remembers her telling me. I thought it was really funny.