Family pictures-misc.

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Family pictures-boys

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Family pictures, yay!

So we finally got around to having our family pictures taken. I put a bunch of them on here! Ashley Elliott took them for us and she is Jeremy's sister's husbands' sister AKA my sister-in-laws sister-in-law :) She was coming in town, and it was one of those now or never things! I kept waiting for my children to be unscratched and unbruised, but I decided that I could wait around forever for that to happen and still be pictureless. I doubt I'll regret it and years from now sit around looking at the pictures thinking wow I wish I wouldn't have gotten pictures taken cuz Ryan has a bump on his head and Livvy's face is scratched. I am however certain that I would regret not having any at all. Then theres the trying to get everyone in a good mood at the same time.... oh sheesh. Ryan was GRUMPY and there was no way around that one, and Josh was being shy, but at least he wasn't glaring like Ryan! :) I love them though and I like getting those sides of their personalities. I'm already thinking about more pictures of just Livvy. I love pictures of my kids, I could look at them all day. I remember worrying with my first baby, what will they look like? Are we going to have cute kids? What if they're weird looking!? And after having an adorable baby girl and an adorable baby boy, that hasn't been a worry since. Boy or girl, its a guaranteed to be beautiful!

General Conference

So on the tails of my last post I wanted to write a little about General Conference. It was great but now I have a list (insert ominous music here) of more goals and to-do's. 2 of my favorite talks were by President Uchtdorf (when is he NOT a favorite) and Elder Christofferson. Elder Christofferson talked about time and freedom of choice, how are we spending our time? We've made covenants to consecrate our lives to the church and we'll be accountable for our use of time someday (I'm pretty sure that facebook ranks for me somewhere between Really Poor Use of Time, and Colossal Misuse of Time) It was very inspiring and along with President Uchtdorf's talk on essentials and priorities I'm feeling ready for my post-GC-mini-makeover. I always feel good when I take a look at my life and find places I can tweak and improve. Positive change is always good! "Life" tends to veer us off of our path and general authorities with a good dose of the spirit are very good at pointing out where we've misstepped and how to get back on. I was very glad that President Uchtdorf reminded me of the good, better, best concept. There are lots of good things in life, and we need to make sure that they don't distract us from things that are even better and best. Really good timing for me since I'd just gone off the crazy end with all the projects I was wanting to take on. Do you think that Satan likes to distract us with things that are good? When they keep us from those things which are better and best? You betcha. So the conference talks were wonderful and before undergoing my to do list, I'm going to make sure its prioritized correctly. :)

Excuse my ADD

It's fall, yay! Although I'm sad to see summer go, I'm excited for fall. Things are cooling off a little, which is great because our AC broke about a month ago....again. Halloween is coming! I still dont have any of my kids costumes figured out, but in fairness it would be a lot easier if they would just settle on one thing. Theres just something about a season change that gives you a little boost of energy. You can feel something in the air. I'm spring cleaning and trying all sorts of new projects. The house and my family appreciate the cleaning, but the projects? Not so much. I started a blog (tada) and I've also taken up crocheting. I have all these thoughts in my head of adorable crocheted hats this fall and winter. I have crafty gift ideas for family birthdays and christmas coming up as well and I really need to fit in some regular exercise. On top of this I want to take up photography. My library hold list is filling up with all kinds of how-to books. This has happened before and I ended up with 2 giant totes of scrapbook supplies under my bed. I'm trying really hard not to go overboard so I dont burn myself out in 2 weeks and quit all of this. This all sounds do-able right? HAHAHA, I'll keep you updated!

My name is Cindy, and I am a stalker

Yes this is Hayley's school bus. I didn't follow it to the school but I did meet it at the school. I wanted to know how it works, how they get to class, etc. The bus driver walks them right to their room. This is her 3rd day of school.

Hayley's first day of school-more pics

More first day pics. Her teachers name is Mrs. Hepworth, she is like the perfect kindergarten teacher. If you were to dream up the ideal kinder teacher, it would be her!

Hayley's first day of school

Here are a few of the pictures we took before she went to school. Grandma Kathy came by to see her off.

Hayley in Kindergarten

So Hayley has started Kindergarten! Her first assignment was to bring a picture of herself so here are a few of the ones we took. The last one is my favorite :)

Needle in a haystack

Hayley has been very mischievous lately. Yesterday I'm sitting on my couch and I lean my head back. My eyes are drawn to this funny marking on my ceiling and suddenly I realize its the letter H. I keep finding random H's around my house! Every possible wall, some even above my curtains and behind doors. There are H's on my dresser, on my fridge, on my washing machine, on my TV screen, and on my sheets. Yes, my sheets AND pillowcase. Now that Hayley has started kindergarten she is growing in her writing abilities and on the wall to my right she has written out her entire name H-a-y-l-e-y. Of course it doesnt look anything like that but I know what it says. She is bewildered when I tell her I KNOW ITS YOU! Well completely unrelated to writing on things, heres my needle in a haystack story. Or rather, pins in a clothes pile. Hayley found my new unopened packet of pins. She opened the package and dumped them into my clean laundry waiting to be folded on my couch. So to find them I began to sort and fold laundry. So while at first I was frustrated I soon became secretly happy that I was getting all my laundry done. Thats a huge plus and a great way to start off the week. So now my laundry pile is in neat stacks and heres more good news. Its a new package right, so I know exactly how many pins I was needing to find. Umm, the bad news? I'm short 6. I would avoid sitting on my couch for a while...

Second Post Ever

Okay so now that I have the first post jitters out of the way, lets get to the nitty gritty. I created this blog because I have friends that have blogs and I wanted to see them. So I get on here for the first time ever and realize I should just sign up so I can keep track of them all. The homepage (aka dashboard) was ugly and I thought what the heck I'll just make a blog so I can at least have something nice to look at. Well shows how much I know, your blog is NOT your homepage. The homepage is going to be ugly no matter how many blogs you create. So now I've gone and pointlessly created a blog. I have no idea what I'm doing!!! Hey all my buddies out there, yours are good though! So uhh, anyone know a way to spruce up the dashboard....?

First Post Ever

Well, I'm not spectacular at anything, I'm decent at some things, and mostly I just make attempts at everything. If you want to hear about travels abroad, or get tips and tricks on Galactic Universe Commander 14, or learn a low-fat no-cal bran muffin recipe using recycled cloth diapers, this isnt the place for you. I do however like to talk to myself and this is a natural extension of that, especially considering I currently have 0 followers. Ciao!