Hacked!

Crazy thing happened lastnight. Roger went his favorites folder to get to the Wells Fargo Website. Everything looked normal and he plugged in username and password. The page that came up was asking for all his important information which he started to plug in when he got to a question in broken English asking for his routing number. He called in and they said it was fraud and we have to change all of our accounts and get new cards. Crazy! You hear not to go to a website through an email but now our favorites folder is compromised! Beware!!

What do I know?

A scouter in our ward wanted to see who would be helpful in teaching boyscouts to get their merit badge. He asked if we knew how to do any of these things. What an an eye opener of things I never knew I never knew. Well, ok, I knew I didn't know about Cinematography or farm mechanics or most of the things on the list. I just didn't know the list of things I didn't know was this long.
How many of these things do you think you could teach a bit on?
Do you think its too late to get started learning such a list?
That would be. . .good fun?
American Business, American Cultures, American Heritage, American Labor, Animal Science, Archaeology, Archery, Architecture, Art, Astronomy, Athletics, AutoMechanics, Aviation, Backpacking, Basketry, BirdStudy, Bugling, Camping, Canoeing, Chemistry, Cinematography, Citizenship in the Community, Citizenship in the Nation, Citizenship in the World, Climbing, Coin Collecting, Collections, Communications, Composite Materials, Computers, Cooking, Crime Prevention, Cycling, Dentistry, Disabilities Awareness, Dog Care, Drafting, Electricity, Electronics, Emergency Preparedness, Energy, Engineering, Entrepreneurship, Environmental Science, Family Life, Farm Mechanics, Fingerprinting, Fire Safety, First Aid, Fish and Wildlife Management, FishingFly, Fishing, Forestry, Gardening, Genealogy, Geology, Golf, Graphic Arts, Hiking, Home Repairs, Horsemanship, Indian Lore, Insect Study, Journalism, Landscape Architecture, Law, Leatherwork, Lifesaving, Mammal Study, Medicine, Metalwork, Model Design and Building, Motorboating, Music, Nature, Nuclear, Science, Oceanography, Orienteering, Painting, Personal Fitness, Personal Management, Pets, Photography, Pioneering, Plant Science, Plumbing, Pottery, Public Health, Public Speaking, Pulp and Paper, Radio, Railroading, Reading, Reptile and Amphibian Study, Rifle Shooting, Rowing, Safety, Salesmanship, Scholarship, Sculpture, Shotgun, Shooting, Skating, Small-Boat Sailing, Snow Sports, Soil and Water Conservation, Space Exploration, Sports, Stamp Collecting, Surveying, Swimming, Textile, Theater, Traffic, Safety, Truck , Transportation, Veterinary Medicine, Water Sports, Weather, Whitewater, Wilderness Survival, Wood Carving, Woodwork

Beach Camping Pictures

Good Fun!

Blue Belt Josh

Do you want me to tell you how Rory cut the pocket of a really cute pair of her pants so that she can turn it into a little purse per a craft book she was reading? Or do want to hear how aggressive Simeon was for a few months? Nah, just the good stuff right?

I see blogs as a way to share some of the little things going on with all my family and friends I am not lucky enough to live close to. My dad called and asked what was new and I said nothing and he said "There is no way nothing is going on with three kids in the house" He was right. There is ALWAYS something going on just not things I call home about. To give you a glimpse on my life

This Year

Rory had Soccer and Gymnastics

Josh has karate and took an art class

Simeon is in a preschool co op

Roger is a scoutmaster and has lots of scout outings

I am Kindergarten room mom and in the Stake Primary and and and

Josh and I were in a church production called Savior of the World- awesome stuff

My dad came to town

Roj went to Boise

We went to his sister's house

We had a stake primary activity-Around the world in 80 mins-I did Mexico

Josh got Student of the month in his class

Perfect marks on the kids report cards

Last month

Roger and I went to a Cinco de Mayo party with ward friends

I had a Stake Primary leadership meeting
Roger and his scouts and YW had a very successful Dinner and Silent Auction

Father/son outing

I volunteered at fall soccer registration

PTA meeting

Memorial Day weekend we went to the Discovery Science Center, a movie and something else I can't remember

Josh, Simeon and I got a haircut

Josh lost 2 more teeth

We went Beach camping at San Onofre with Cory and Andrea

I sang a solo at our Stake's Women's Conference

Coming Up

Rory is done with Gymnastics

Swim Team is here for Josh and Rory

Book club, field day, enrichment, stake baptisms, marriage firesides

I am helping with running concessions at the swim team BBQ and meets

I am running another family game night at our school

Last Day of School in June 18th

the kids and I are going to Houston for 2 weeks

and on and on

Another thing I love blogs for is getting to know my local and not so local friends and family a little better. I get to learn their loves, hates, quirks, and funny stories.

Here is Josh getting his blue belt in karate- Good Job Josh!

Be Aggressive- Be Be Aggressive

Rory Quote: "I want to play soccer until I DIE!!!"

Webkinz World

Rory's Webkinz

Newhala
Ping
Mi Mi

Tika

Simeon's Webkinz

Max
Jink Jonk

Jt's Webkinz

Sylvaster

Robbie

Albert

Sarah (the mom)

For Christmas, Grandma Robyn gave Rory a Webkinz. It ended up being her best present and she has spent much time on the computer but even more time actually playing with the little pug. Since then Josh and Simeon have earned their own webkinz and it has been a great. . .for lack of a better word. . .bonding experience for them. These are their webkinz.

I needed to make cupcakes on a day that just happened to be Newhala's (the 1st webkinz to join us) birthday. I decided to let her 2 best buds who were also obsessed with webkinz come over for a very little, silly party. They played webkinz, they danced with their webkinz, they sang happy birthday and ate cupcakes with their webkinz. Sick I know but Good Fun!

Translation: Happy Birthday to you- Cha Cha Cha

Happy Birthday to you- cha cha cha

Happy Birthday ("stuffed animal"- one friend thought it was silly to sing to her) Dear Newhala

Happy Birthday to you- Cha cha cha chicka boom ba- stick your head in hot lava

Budding Artist

My children love creating art in varying ways.

Jt has been drawing nonstop since he was at least 3 if not earlier and has even taken a few classes. A friend even posted an entry about his art. http://rambli.blogspot.com/2006/03/78-oh-my-hack.html(Let me know if you don't want me linking to your site and will you help me figure out how to have an enclosure linked to a word cuz I am having a hard time with it :).

Rory is fairly new to drawing and is writing notes to me daily with cute little pictures.

Simeon won't pick up any kind of writing/drawing utensil.

The school district's art teachers picked a kid from each class in the district and displayed a piece of art they made this year at the Civic Center. Rory's work was chosen from her class.

We had two of her class mates in the car this week and she told them and one of them asked why his had not been chosen and her reply was "Well, you're not as good of an artist as me". The girl said "Well, I must not have been able to be picked otherwise they would have picked me". Kids and their egos!

Nonetheless, we are proud of your work Rory and we hope you enjoy doing it!

We had good fun with all the activities they provided for the festivities.

Weekend with Family

Here are some pictures from our weekend with Roger's awesome family. This is mainly for them but you can peek too. If you click on them you can make them larger. Good Fun!

SCARY Disneyland!

I guess scary can be fun! We scored free tickets to Disneyland and spent the whole day there partly with friends and had a great time. We have not been since Simeon was a baby and he had no idea what he was in for. He ended up loving roller coasters and not being thrilled with the scary rides like Snow White. Joshy had some issues with roller coasters but loved the "scary" rides. To each his own

Rory was chosen to be Jedi in training. She was picked to go first to fight Darth Mal. She had no idea what she was being asked to do. Look at the guy. I would be scared too!! Good Fun!

Training Wheels!

We were at the playground the other night and Roger did was Roger does; He took the training wheels off Simeon's bike. Not my baby!!! Simeon did it! He rode with out training wheels at the age of 3 years and 5 months. Roger ran next to him the 1st run. The second run he started him and let go. I started running after him scared for his life but he didn't need me. Funny how that happens. He stopped in the grass, climbed off, and asked for his training wheels back on. I guess the scare was a little too much. This picture is him whizzing by my camera phone. Good Fun!

What a View!

It is so exciting to get free things. In this case it was free tickets to see Phantom of the Opera. Pretty awesome huh? It was fabulous show and I could hear it really well. I just didn't bring my glasses and we happened to be in the very back row in a very large concert hall. I fell asleep at one point. Don't get mad. I had no idea what was going on onstage because everyone was singing their own song at the same time and I am not all that familiar with the story. It was still a fabulous night. Good Fun!

Peas in a Pod

We got a new used Desk top computer so we gave our beat up laptop to Joshua. He has been a little detective finding out what every program is and what it does. He has actually made some pretty cool "movies" on Power point and has explored things we would have never let him touch on our computer for fear of him busting it. He actually messed up our Word program pretty bad and I didn't even know that was possible unless you have a term paper due in 5 minutes. He might become a computer nerd like some family members. Who knew? Good Fun!

A Couple Pictures

What kind of person are you? Do you take pictures and leave them on your camera for years? Do you take pictures, print them and leave them in boxes? Do you half hazardly put them in albums? Or do you go all out and have a scrapbook that is out of control? Do you still use film???

During General Conference this weekend I organized my pictures to get them ready for putting in albums. The kid's pictures have been organized but my pictures since birth are either badly organized or are in boxes. Here are a couple I thought might be of interest to a few who read my blog. If you are in my pictures and do not want to be on my blog let me know!

Have you watched Pushing Daisies?? It will probably not be on again until the Fall but you can catch episodes on the web. I thought it was hilarious and creative but then I again I am biased. I love Kristen Chenowith and know the main character Ned, otherwise known in real life as Lee Pace. This picture is the year he moved to my junior high and this is the theater class we were in and mercilessly teased. He was teased for actually doing theater in the class full of jocks and I was teased for. . .well. . .not being well endowed. Did I use the word "well"? I mean just endowed. Good for you Lee for ignoring the teasing!!

Here is part of my family at age 13. Big and blended. I can't remember if we all lived under the same roof at the same time but most of us did. Good fun is two words for what happened there and there are a lot more! Everyone is all grown up now and all over the place. Miss ya'll!

Lastly here are some pictures of me with short hair my sophomore year of college. These were my college girls! Love ya girlies!! I loved having short hair but I can't see doing it again. I met Roger this year.

Good Fun!!

You Can Take My Man Out of Boise. . .

. . .but Boise will never come out of him. Not that I am trying to eradicate that huge part of him either. We love it here in Irvine.

It happens starting in January every year. He starts getting a little antsy. I get a call from him at work "Um. . .how would you feel if I went to Boise for a weekend?" Doesn't he know that I have come to expect it? And yet he always sounds surprised when I say yes; even with the busy weekends.

How could I not? He was born and raised there. His parents still live there. He LOVES the snow (which is fine if I don't have to live in it). Its good for him to go alone and work/chill/thrill seek with his family. His parents built a cabin out there and they let Roger work in it when he comes no matter the weather. So here is his well deserved Roger time. Working outside! He loves the cold. The cabin looks over a lake.

The Cabin last October

Going into a cloud on the way home from the cabin.

30 is Fabulous!

At least that is what I would like to think. I have been telling people I am 30 for a little while now because I almost am. . .well, in November. Never in my life did I think I would want to be 30, yet I also did not think I would look 16 at this point either (with only the addition of lots of little lines in places you will never see). 30 just sounds old enough to have 3 kids in this day and age. Here are some pictures at that age to show I look the same.

(This is for you Kim, who still looks the same age too)

Most people think I should take it as a complement that daily people ask in shock "Those aren't your kids, right?!!" More often than not, people do not say it in a complementary way. I read between the lines "There is no way you are mature enough to have kids. You are a baby yourself."
I know I was young getting married (20) and young starting my family (22) but I also know that a lot of people that young do not know what I know. I know who I am (a child of God), I know what I am doing here (creating a family and living the best life I can for me and my family), and I know where I am going (back to Him to live with my family forever). I have heard people who do not know these things say that they are still finding themselves at 40 and that they were stupid for marrying so young. That's not me. I am so happy living my life the way I am at any age!