what a beautiful mess

It's been a whirlwind of a day...literally. I'm not sure how windy it actually got but it was crazy. Aaannd...I'm not a huge fan of the wind. It always seems that the truck door gets blown into the car parked next to us at the store or at least it almost does. Today it really did. I left a note on the windshield, secretly hoping they wouldn't be able to see the slight damage done, but they did. At first they were fine and then they were not so fine with it. So I'm waiting to hear back as to what they want to do about it. I feel badly that it happened and they seem like a nice person (at least texting they're nice). For Scouts today we made kites. It was too windy to actually fly kites but the boys liked to take them outside and see how ruined they could get. Stephen didn't want to ruin his kite so he waited a bit before he flew his and it survived!  I often times remind my family of how much I love our house. It has flaws...like we need another bathroom,...

Since I had my wisdom teeth pulled, my mind has seemed to be so fuzzy. There have been things happen in the last two days that I've wanted to remember so that I can share with Trevor or on my blog that I just can't bring to mind. But tomorrow is a new day and I'm determined to be all healed and non fuzzy by morning time (which means I should go to bed but I'm waiting for Trevor to get done showering). Yesterday me and the kids spent the majority of the day outside cleaning up outside and doing yard work. I guess I must have become dehydrated because after I talked to Candice, she texted Trevor to let him know that I was acting loopy. I can remember vacuuming when we got off the phone and thinking to myself about how much I love my liver and how proud I was of it doing it's job. I know, that's super weird. Trevor called and told me to drink some water and then I laid down for awhile. I think he came home to a somewhat sane wife. Of course, he always thinks I...

My wisdom teeth were finally pulled out yesterday. Everything went fine, even though I thought I was going to die, I didn't. The nurse took me back to the chair with me crying like a little baby and Trevor feeling helpless. Of course I had taken a Valium the night before so I'm sure that didn't help with my weepiness but I was genuinely scared (although it did give me some weird dreams. And I could distinctly remember them the morning when I woke up-we had bunch of little people move in next door and they wanted to fight Trevor. So they fought in our kitchen and Trevor got out a diet coke and started hitting it on the little persons forehead and then spraying him with it. I guess Diet Coke was like his Kyrptonite.  And the field across the street they made into a grand canyon-like place with huge boulders everywhere...). After I had calmed down and was resting for a minute the doctor came and put some kind of powder under my tongue to make me less aware and mor...

Trevor is a pretty funny guy. There's not a day goes by that he doesn't make me laugh for some reason. Whether it's jumping over spilled water or trying to kick his leg as high as possible and falling on his back or by just saying something witty, he makes me laugh a lot. Yesterday he was trying to explain to Emily why being being sweet is more productive than not. He taught her the saying "It's easier to catch flies with honey than with vinegar.". And he asked her whether she would rather be honey or vinegar. She replied that she'd rather be "honegar". She definitely gets her wit from Trevor. Tonight Trevor and Stephen were getting ready to check on the chickens but Stephen couldn't find his shoes. Finally Trevor just got frustrated and said "What do you want me to do- knit you a pair of shoes?". Trevor and I just looked at each other and laughed. I don't think either of us knew that he could knit shoes. Witty and talente...

Last Sunday I wasn't feeling well. In fact that night, I slept horribly. It was so bad that I slept in and Stephen had to come in and wake me up at 7:30 so that I could make breakfast and lunches before driving them to the bus stop at 7:45 (!).That night while eating dinner Stephen was (tattling) telling Trevor how late I slept in and so I started to excuse myself with the whole -i-slept-horribly-speech. Trevor turned to Stephen and said "She still got everything done that needed to be done so it doesn't really matter how long she slept, right?". That's Trevor. He's just so good to me. Too good. Sometimes I feel like Mary (Downton Abbey!) in the last episode of season 3 when she tells Matthew that she hopes she's always the Mary he knows and not the one the world knows...or something like that. Trevor thinks I'm better than I am and that makes me want to keep trying to be as good as he thinks I am. We went on our weekly date night tonight. I always...

Emily turned twelve years old!  That means make-up, shaving, going to Young Womens.... and that makes me and Trevor a little older.   As part of her birthday gifts, we gave her face wash with the requirement that she has to wash her face each night or she doesn't get to wear make-up the next day.  That sounds harsh and micro-parenting maybe but we have to instill in her good habits... Right??? "Best day of my life."~Emily's own words.  When we were in the bathroom shaving her legs, we were shocked at how much hair was left in the tub. It was kind of gross.  I'm taking her shopping this weekend and I have a feeling  shorts are going to be at the top of her list... She is an amazing girl;  funny, kind, FUN, unique, confident, and absolutely adorable. WE LOVE YOU EMILY!

This morning I looked out the kitchen window and could have sworn I saw the rump of a deer on the ground in the back yard.  I figured it wasn't a dead deer and didn't think about it again until I was at my neighbors house that's behind mine  While we were talking, Annabelle came and told us we  had a dead deer in our backyard! I should have gone and checked this morning... But it gave the neighbors some great drama! We called to find out what to do with it and were told to drag it down to the river.  Gross.  People swim in that river.  However I will not be. 

I made cabbage rolls tonight for dinner  and it's now in the "top five worst meals I've ever made" category.  I didn't like them, Josh didn't like them and so of course Trevor didn't like them: Oh well...you win some, you lose some.

That was what our FHE lesson was on tonight and that's what we did-literally!  I am so happy to have warm weather again.  There's going to be lots of hiking now that the sun is warming things up. I'm no longer a "blogger".  I'm sure that doesn't bother too many people and that's okay. When nighttime comes around, I just don't feel like doing it.  However since I am "blogging" right now, here's a little update: We had such a great Easter.  Not realizing it, Trevor and I started celebrating it on Saturday morning when we went to the temple.  The night before, we went to some friends house and so missed our date night. So we went out to breakfast before the temple.  We both agreed that we could have just stayed sitting at the restaurant people watching.  That's a favorite past time of ours. Easter Sunday was really enjoyable.  We played Monopoly and watched a movie about the Saviors fina...