A little something on service

Wednesday night I had my P.F.R. meeting for church (Personal Facility Rep aka Building Cleaning coordinating). I was the only female there and the youngest by at least 10-15 years. It seemed that everyone there had something to say about the lack of support they get in trying to get people to help clean the church and then because of that, it takes them forever to get the building clean. While I have some people that aren't exactly subtle in coming up with excuses as to why they can't help. Most of our members are willing to help out. And if, for some reason they can't, they're pretty good about asking to be called next time. I got caught up in the negativity and procrastinated calling people till Friday...and we clean Saturday morning. Well I finally screwed up my courage got out my rotation list and started calling. I'm leaving messages and letting people know that we have the 14th, 21st, and 28th. I did get a hold of some people and while they were hesitant, they agreed to a week and in an hour I had several people assigned to a week. But still not enough for Saturday (the 14th) I decided to wait and see if people would call back from messages I left on answering machines. and sure enough, by then end of the day I had 3 families, which would ensure me at least 6 adults and possible 2-3 kids old enough to help out.
Saturday morning Greg gets everything set up, I drop the kids off at Becky's and head over to the church. We finish getting everything ready and wait for people to come. We tell people to be there by 815am. We have to start that early because a lot of times the missionaries will be doing a baptism at 10 so we like to be done before then. About 830 people start showing up and I get them a job to do and we get to it. That was one of the best group of workers we had! No one complained and when they finished one job, they came and asked if there was anything else to do! Even the primary aged kids would come ask for another job! We finished cleaning by 930!
It just amazed me how with a little effort, a job that, let's face it, nobody likes doing, can be done so quickly. I felt so blessed to have a ward family that will come and support us in our calling! So Thanks everyone for being so supportive. Even at 815 on a Saturday morning!

A Day Ahead

Apparently when I moved my clocks ahead an hour my brain moved a day ahead and it's driving me nuts!!!! Not in the way where you wake up thinking it's Friday only to get your dreams smashed because it's really only Thursday. I'm talking about the fact that, I had a meeting at the church last night at 7 (We are the ward building cleaning coordinators), so I dropped the boys off at my mother-in-law, Becky's, and went to the church only to find out that when i got there the only meetings there were the Stake Relief society and my father-in-laws Sunday School presidency meeting...oh and some basketball players. I wandered around and looked in all the classrooms for 10 mins before i gave up and asked someone if they knew where they were. Luckily someone had an email on their blackberry that said it was Wednesday the 11th at 7. GREAT!!!!!!! (she said VERY sarcastically) so I went and got the boys, hung out with Becky for a while and then came home!
A sunshiny part in all this rain is that when Greg got home at 9pm he stayed home so that I could go grocery shopping...by my self!!!! So I drove up to Wal-mart and got 2 new shirts, a pair of pants and some new jammies for the boys. Plus Grocery's. It was Fabulous and when I got home I told him that was how I was going to grocery shop from now on!! At night by my self!
So this morning, at 840, Isaac had his 2 yr check up. So after stupidly staying up till 130 goofing off on my computer i got up at 730 and got Isaac up and we got ready. I made Gary a bottle, changed his pants and took him into Greg. Isaac and I headed off to the Dr. He ate a PB&J in the car for breakfast and when we got there...SURPRISE!! His Dr. appointment isn't till tomorrow!! DANG IT!!!!
So I decided to make lemonade, Literally and figuratively. I'm taking out all this "Day ahead" frustration and CLEANING my living room!!! Which includes unpacking from my week at moms, Laundry, and the clutter that we're trying to get rid of!!!
AND SHE'S OFF!!!!

Happy Birthday Little Man

Today is Isaac's 2nd Birthday and it's snowing! We don't have a whole lot planned as his party is Saturday so his Cousins Makayla, Lilly and Alex can come down from Maple Vally. I just spent a week at my moms where we had a combined party for Isaac who, at the time, was turning 2 and Dylan who was turning 1. It was a Tonka/John Deer themed party. I will post pics later in the mean time i just wanted to wish our little man Isaac Happy 2nd Birthday!!

I'm Back

Sorry it seemed I fell of the face of the earth for a while there but I kinna did. My computer got tired because I thought it was bigger then it actually was so I crammed a whole bunch of stuff on it. My bother-in-law cleaned it off for me and i'm back in business. So here's an update on life since my last posting which was my surgery...
Everything went fine, I healed up nice and quick so I could get back to my life as a mom and wife. I'm still selling PartyLite and love it.
Gary is growing so fast I can hardly keep up with what size he's in. He'll be 8 months on the 15th and only 5lbs behind Isaac. He's army crawling everywhere and is anxious to get up on his knees. I know this because he keeps trying. He is my screamer, if he's talking he's screaming, and i mean ear piercing, brain rattling scream.
Isaac will be 2 on Monday the 9th and can count pretty well. He knows 3-4-5...7-8-9...12-13. He can repeat them back if you count with him clear to 20. And repeats all of his ABC's. He's very in to monster trucks and tractors and all things boy related.
Greg is still with state farm and is confidant that the all the lay offs everywhere will not effect him. He is quitting his hotel job next month and we're planning lots of weekend family vacations to celebrate.
Thats it for the homefront! Hope all is well with all of you!

YAY! Surgery!!

I am going in next Tuesday (Oct 21) to get my Gallbladder removed!
How's that for an opener! When I was 6 months pregnant with Gary I started getting horrible stomach aches! Picture this if you will, someone, anyone, for whatever reason, walks up to you and just takes one, a punch that is, right into your stomach! I'm not talking about your belly button stomach, I'm talking right under your breastbone, right beneath your sternum, where your stomach actually is. It hurts right? Maybe it's hard to breath, well of course it's hard to breath you just got punched in the stomach dork! Can't really do anything but buckle over?! Of course! Well, once a month I would, for lack of a better term, get punched in the stomach. (Now this is where Greg would pipe in "I was at work!!!") They lasted for an hour, it was awful!! I spoke with my Dr. and she said it was probably gallstones but there wasn't anything she could do till after I had the baby. So i just watched my fatty food intake.....sorta....Ok I didn't!! But I did notice that they occurred more often then not when I ate more fatty food then normal. So last Sunday the 5th I had a doosey of one! It lasted for at least 4 hrs, I was balling, couldn't stand up...everything we went through earlier. It happened again Friday but only for an hour so I called and made an appointment to have it checked out. Friday night it came back so I went into urgent care. They determined that it was gallstones. I had an ultra sound Monday, they found out I had a lot of them and I needed my gallbladder out sooner rather then later! Which brings us back to doe (a little music humor there...remember the song from "The sound of music" doe, a dear a female dear, ray, a drop of golden sun.....yah) I am going in next Tuesday (Oct. 21) to have my Gallbladder removed!

I'm "IT" I guess!

I got tagged by Julianna so here it goes:
8 TV Shows I like to watch:
-CSI – All of them
-NCIS
-Criminal Minds
-The Mentalist
-Numbers-Heros
-Gilmore Girls
-Imagination Movers (Hey! I have a toddler!)
8 Restaurants I like:
-Jack in the Box
-Ice Burg
-Red Robin
-Mongolian BBQ
-The Space Needle
-Falls Terrace
-The Marc
-Chucky Cheese (Again…It’s the Toddler)
8 Things that happened today:
-Woke up at 630
-Watched the Today show
-Got Isaac up
-Made French Toast
-Made Sandwiches for Greg’s lunch
-Napped with Gary while Isaac played and watched cartoons
-Put Isaac down for a nap
-Got online
8 Things I am looking forward to:
-Surgery to be over so my stomach wont hurt
-My mom and dad to come and stay
-Christmas Pictures
-Isaac to stay in nursery with out me
-Gary to sleep through the night
-Be a healthy weight again
-Snow-Christmas
8 Things on my Wish List:
-A House
-Greg not having 2 jobs
-A Clutter free home
-A “In-home Helper”
-Debt paid off
-A date with my husband
-Greg to get the job
-A Vacation!
Kelly, Mom, and Rach! TAG! Your it!

Vacation!!

What's new with me?! We blessed Gary. and my mom, dad, brother and aunt came. Greg's parents (who live 1/2 a mile from us), sister and her family from Maple Vally, and grandparents from Utah were there. We took some really nice pictures and when we were done, I went with my parents and I spent a very nice week at my mom's in Walla Walla. While I was there My older sister Sejena came up from La Grande with her son Ewan who's 5 and just started kindergarten. It was fun to have everyone home. My little sister and her family live with my parents. My brother is home from school for a bit. And then I took the boys and went. It was a bit of a reunion. It was so much fun to watch the boys play with each other. While we were there we got pics taken with the boys in matching shirts. So Cute! After a week Greg took a couple days off work and came down and we went up to Spokane to see his other grandparents so they could see the boys. On the way up to Spokane Isaac threw up 5 or 6 times. It's a 3 hr. drive and he thew up the whole time! It seemed like every 1/2 hr we were pulling over to change his shirt and clean him up. We were finally able to stop and let him get out for a bit, let him eat something and stop moving. That all seemed to help because he was just fine for the rest of the day. We stayed at a hotel in Spokane (Yay for employee discounts) and took the boys swimming. We came home the next day and Greg and I had fun day dreaming about what we would do with an unlimited amount of money. It was a really fun trip and a very relaxing week!