I know it has been over a year

Absolute Blog failure is not even close to describe my blog. I've intended on posting in the last year, honest I have. But as anyone who looks at my blog knows, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. But today I was taking a break and looked at my good friend Misty's blog and read her reasons for blogging, all the while shaking my head up and down agreeing totally. So as of today May 3,2010 I am turning over a new leaf. I may not blog everyday, but I am making it my goal to at least once a week.

So for my 1st post after being on hiatus. I figured that since the last post I did was when we had puppies, which was 11 months ago I should do a little update. We ended up keeping 2 puppies not just the golden one. Hunter is what we named the gold one we intended to keep, he is gorgeous, but he is a turd. He chews everything and is always getting into some sort of mischief. The other one we kept was one of the two black little girls. Her name is Bella and she is the sweetest, smartest dog. She is so well behaved, nothing like her brother. She is a little odd at times, Jordan thinks she was the runt or the puppy that got stuck, nevertheless, I fell in love with her and now we are the proud owners of 4 Labrador Retreivers. Crazy I know, but we love them all.

This picture was taken when the puppies were 6 weeks, just before they started going to their new homes. Hunter is obvious, but I have no idea which one is Bella.

Here is Hunter today. He is a pretty good combination of Sadie and Rowdy. He has the softest fur and the cutest face, but don't let him fool you. He is about the same size as Sadie.

This is Bella today. She is such a sweet tempered, smart dog. She is pretty small and I hope she stays that way.

We have PUPPIES :)

I know I am an absolute blog failure. I do have things to post and I will get them up soon. But this is the most exciting, amazing wonderful thing I couldn't wait to share. We have PUPPIES!!!

Sadie had 8 puppies last night 7 black and 1 buff. She lost 1 of the black ones :( and it was so sad, but we do have 7 more adorable little puppies. My poor Sadie dog just didn't quite know what to think, but she got the hang of it and is an excellent mom. The one in the middle is my puppy. He doesn't have a name yet, I'll post when we come up with one.

Big Surprise

For the longest time, I have thought that Erick did not like Jordan. EVERYTHING she does annoys him. She breathes and he is annoyed. Well without going into to much detail (because I don't want to embarrass either of my kids) I realized last night that Erick does very much care about his little sister and he really does look out for her. Needless to say I was shocked, proud, and relieved. I guess it is a big brother's job to torment his little sister to make her tough, but look out for her and threaten to kick anyones butt that bothers her. I love being a mom!!!

This Too Shall Pass

That is my favorite saying lately. Do you ever just have those days that you wonder who in the universe did I make mad. Yesterday was one of those days. I know everyone has them and I know I'm probably a better person for having gone through it, but dang it I don't like it and I'd sure appreciate someone just telling me what I have to learn. And to top it all off, I've lost my voice today :o) So I am sure hoping This Too Shall Pass.

Uncle Luke Rocks

Luke has a tradition that he buys his neices motorcycles and was pretty insistant that he was buying Jordan a motorcycle for her birthday. She was STOKED to say the least. She has wanted one for quite a while now and we keep putting her off. Well, yesterday they came and got her to look at motorcycles and look what she brought home

She had Richard ride on the back with her up and down our street. I'm not so sure I'm looking forward to her going off on her own (the no fear thing and all) But she is happy and has the BEST uncle ever :o)

The mullet really is out

Well it finally happened, the mullet is gone. Erick has been tossing the idea around for a few weeks and I haven't been able to get him into someone to get his hair cut. So Friday Erick, Brogan, Landon & Kurtis went to the Okerlunds to a party and the subject of the hair cut came up. So Tammy said she would cut his hair if it was ok with his mom. Chan got right on the phone with me & I said "go for it". Then Tammy had to make sure it really was ok & I said "go for it". I don't argue too much with the kids about their hair. About 20 minutes later I got the following pictures.
It is shorter than it has ever been and he has gel and hairspray in it. That is something that has never happened. But he likes it and so do all his friends. I think it is cute. Tammy did a great job and couldn't believe how much hair he has. (Just a quick note, Sunday in church the Bishopric about fell out of their chairs when he came in. It was funny!)

Happy Birthday Jordan

So I am over a week past the big day, but better late than never I guess. Anyway Jordan turned 12 on Friday, February 13th. It is so hard to believe that she is that old, I can still remember the day she was born. I was convinced she was going to be born February 12th and I tried all day long, but she is just stubborn enough to be born at 2:30 a.m. on February 13th. I should have known then that life with Jordan wouldn't always be agreeable.But I would not want it any other way. I cannot imagine life without her. She keeps us all on our toes. She is the funnest girl ever. Her personality is THE BEST!!! We are so lucky to have her in our family. This year she wanted a party, but I figured a way around this. Her birthday was Friday and on Saturday was state wrestles and we were going shopping. So I let her have a friend stay over and then come to Provo with us the next day. Everyone gave her money and she made quite a haul, but true to her nature, she hardly spent any of it. I think I ended up spending more of my money than she did. To be fair, we hadn't given her any money yet so she was being pretty smart. Anyhow, we went shopping and watched Bobby take State in his weight class (Way to Go) and then went to Fuddruckers for dinner. I think she had a great time anyway Happy Birthday Sweetheart!