Daisy's Snow Playground!

So I made this awesome thingy and ordered it online! I was kind of scared because I always hear all these bad stories about things happening online. But I gave in. And it turned out great!....I can't show it to you yet because a family member on Caleb's side has a blog and she might see it. (and well its for her). So you will all just have to wait until after christmas. But it is SO AWESOME, AND I AM SO PROUD OF ME!!

Moving on... Just like everyone else, we have got a bit of snow here. I got bored one day playing inside with Daisy while Caleb was at work, that Daisy and I decided to play in our backyard!

Isn't it so neat!!?? I even made her a slide!! (Aren't I just a nice mommy!) I am more proud of my work than Caleb or Daisy. I just wish we got more snow so that we could have higher walls and try and fiind each other! It would be our own little maze! Would that just be awesome!!

Family Picture 2008

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Brian Head Christmas 2008

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This is what Caleb and I did for my parents Christmas this year. They loved it! What will we do next year?


P.S. I PASSED MY PRAXIS!!! YES!!!

YES!

So, the cutest thing happened today. Last night Caleb and I had some friends over and lets just say that our house was a MESS this morning. But of course I was racing off to class and Caleb was racing off to work along with trying to get Daisy to the sitters. Anyway, when I got back from class I was reminded of the MESS when I walked in the back door. However, I decided to go and pick up Daisy first and then deal with the MESS when we got back. Come to me surprise I walked into the kitchen and the place was SPOTLESS! Oh I just couldn't help but say "wow!" with a big smile on my face! I called Caleb right away and told him "THANK YOU!" ...I guess he came home to eat lunch and remember hearing me say our house was a MESS, so he decided to make my day and CLEAN IT!! Oh man!! Gotta love the guy!!! He really is the best husband ever!!! What would I do with out him?

Because Caleb was so cute with the cleaning and even asking me so cutely to a dance, I figured I better reply. I had no idea how to reply or answer him, so I just came up with a stupid one with a whole lot of YES'! I would have gone to his work and placed them all over his car at work but Daisy is asleep and on his note that he left me, he is going to be home early. So I just had to come up with the next best thing. Soooo, I decided to place my answer on my truck, that way when he pulled in from work he would see my answer right away! I hope he likes it. If not, Oh well, its the thought that counts!

Well, the other day I was feeding Daisy lunch again. I decided that because she was eating I would hurry and get some homework submitted. Well, when I came back into the kitchen this is what I found.....once again. Poor thing is always so tired when she actually takes a minute to sit still! (she did finish her nuggets though before she fell asleep!)

But no worries, that night she LOTS of energy again and really enjoyed her dinner and playing with her Daddy!

I Got ASKED!

I was getting dinner on the table last night when our doorbell rang. I went to the door but no one was there. I looked down and this is what I found.

Awww.... isn't my hubby just the sweetest!! Now all we need to do is find a babysitter!

Studying HARD...Test Tomorrow!

I take my PRAXIS Test tomorrow morning at 7:30am for two hours! I am tested on Math, Reading, Social Studies, and Science. Pretty much everything you learned from K-6th Grade! I have been studying every day for the last month. Today I am trying to learn/remember the last couple of things I 'think' I should know. My HEAD is hurting like CRAZY!!! I just really don't want to have to take this test again nor do we have the money for me to take it again!! Just wish me luck!! I should get my results back in a month or so. If I pass you will hear from me.. if not..... then I will be sad and will take it again. :0( But honestly, I really think I have done my part in studying, still getting my homework done, taking care/spending time with Daisy, and still spending time with the family. So, I guess I just leave the rest to the Lord and if I pass then I pass. SO WISH ME LUCK!!

Here are just some study questions I thought you might like to try or see if you remember being taught them.....

1. Reading: "It took the young child a long time to lick the mile-high ice-cream cone."

a. a simile

b. personification

c. hyperbole

d. an oxymoron

2. While working on a writing assignment, a student asks a peer to listen to her reading of the rough draft and to offer suggestions for clarifying, expanding, or condensing parts of the draft.--The student is engaged in which stage of the writing process?

a. proofreading

b. outlining

c. revising

d. publishing

3. Math: The Statue of Liberty casts a shadow 37 meters long at the same time that a vertical 5-meter pole nearby casts a shadow that is 2 meters long. The height, in meters, of the Statue of Libertiy is within which of the following ranges?

a. 115m to 120m

b. 105m to 110m

c. 90m to 95m

d. 60m to 65m

4. In a certain year, 5 percent of the 2,800 employees of a company had a perfect attendance record. Which of the following computations can be used to determine the number of employees with a perfect attendence record?

a. 1/40 x 2,800

b. 1/20 x 2,800

c. 1/5 x 2,800

d. 5 x 2,800

5. Social Studies/History: what major geographic feature is North America seperates the rivers and streams that flow toward the Pacific Ocean from those that flow toward the Atlantic Ocean?

a. Appalachians Mountains

b. Continental Divide

c. Great Plains.

d. San Andreas Fault

6. During the twentieth century, urbanization and technological advances led to which of the following changes in farming in the U.S.?

a. more farms and more farmers

b. more farms and fewer farmers

c. fewer farms and more farmers

d. fewer farms and fewer farmers

7. Science: which of the following does NOT describe a chemical change?

a. silver tarnishing when exposed to air

b. ice melting when heated

c. lemon juice turning brown when heated

d. iodine solution becoming purple in the presence of starch

8.Which of the following laboratory instruments would be most appropriate to use in determining the volume of a large block of wood of unknown density?

a. a metric ruler

b. a triple-beam balance

c. a 200mL volumetric flask

d. A micrometer

Now try and remember all of the major oceans, sea, lakes, mountain ranges, Continents (in order from largest to smallest), famous people, wars, all presidents, plus everything from science from animals kingdoms to cells, to who the heck knows what! This is a test that you don't know what to study for and so you end up studying EVERYTHING!

ANYWAY....Let me know how you did on your test!!

1.c

2.c

3.c

4.b

5.b

6.d

7.b

8.a

Warn Out!

This happened last week, and I can't believe I caught it on video.

I just couldn't decide what she wanted to do....I was totally enjoying myself!!

Ha Ha...Oh Good Times!

The October 2008 Update

Well, I haven’t quit decided how I am going to post all of the cute pictures of all of our events. So humm… Lets see… lets just post them in order of how they happened. So first thing first. Daisy loves to play the Wii with us anytime we play. She has caught on very quickly and would probably kick our butts if we actually plugged her control in. (Dang it! I downloaded the pictures to be on the right side, now the wording is off. You will just have to match pictures with wording yourself. Sorry)
This is the first year that I have actually decided I liked Halloween. I am not a big fan of the scary part of Halloween and ugly looking things, but I do love the cute little witches, ghosts, and so on. So this year I made us some magnets. I got the directions off the web and even in the directions they made the candy corns wrong! What jerks!! I was so proud of my magnets and their made wrong. Because it got cold here in Cedar over night for just one week we had our heater on. Daisy was wondering what the noise was that kept coming on. I think she found the spot! A couple of weeks ago we went to Vegas to visit the family. Because Vegas is our vacation we decided we would take Daisy to ‘Pet Land!’ Daisy enjoyed the dogs at first but then she got tired. We got Grandma to come with us. She wasn’t a big fan of the dogs but she did love to watch Caleb with them. However, she wasn’t too happy when he put them in her face!

For Halloween Caleb and I thought it would be a fun idea to put on a Halloween Party! Our turn out was really good. I made homemade chili, German pancakes, and we played Mario Kart, carved pumpkins, played Seek ‘n Hide (with glow in the dark sticks) and had tons and tons of candy!! It was a blast! Maybe next year we will do it again!

For Halloween night Daisy dressed up as a Fairy Princess! She looked so cute!! That day while she was taking her nap I decided to make her a bag to collect her candy in. It looked freaking cute but I don’t have a picture of the whole thing. In one of the pictures is shows one side of her bag. Daisy loved the trick or treating! She thought it was a game and at most houses the person would play along. They would hand her a candy and put it in her bag, and then she would reach up and take another candy and put it in her bag, and then she would start to go for another one and they would say “sure! Of course have another one!” So Daisy got lots of Candy! At one house she even got a stuffed animal because she was “a little one!” She held on to the animal until she saw the next house with lights and then jumped down to get more candy!

Soon everything will slow down...

I've been SO busy with school for the last couple of weeks and more than likely I will continue to be busy until the semester is over!

I have taken tons of pictures of little things that have gone on with us and things we have done but I wont get the chance to probably post those until everyone SLOWS WAY DOWN.

By the way.... NO CANCER! The doctor totally shouldn't be a doctor. :0)

Also I have finished teaching my first four weeks in the 4th grade! I loved every minute of it!!

Last Tuesday I taught for my first time in 2nd grade! I liked it too....but we have a lice issue in that class!! I know I am sooo mad!! I really don't want to teach there for the next three weeks. But please wish me luck because I have to.

My Praxis test is coming up in two weeks and I have been studying a ton, but I still don't feel ready for the Reading part of the test. So wish me luck there too.

Caleb will take his CPA a test two days before mine, so wish me luck too.

Daisy will not be taking any test but she is doing great and getting really tall.

Sorry again for no pictures but I just don't have time. Sorry.... time to get back to homework and lesson plans.

Me? ...Cancer? ...How?

I really don't take pictures anymore. Sorry. Maybe if I had time I would.

Well, last Wednesday or Thursday I got a sore in my mouth. We were heading to Brian Head to watch conference, so we decided to pick me up some canker sore medicine to make the trip a little less painful. It numbed the pain for a little bit but every 10 minutes I had to add more. So on Monday I was in so much pain that I called the dentist here in town. I went in and asked him about my sore back behind my tooth. He said it is an infection and needs to be cut out! I of course hate blood and needles so he give me some meds to help with the pain.

I then figured that since I was in asking about the sore on the back of my mouth I thought I would have him look at the sore under my tongue. Come to find out the dentist thinks it oral cancer! Can you believe that, ORAL CANCER!! Of course if it is oral cancer that I have, than I am in the first stage because I don't drink, or do any type of drugs and I am not over the age of 40. SO, the only reason he is guessing that that is what it is, is because of its location (on the floor of my mouth) and because he knows it is not an infection. So he says that most mouth sores go away over 2 weeks so he will check me again on this coming Monday (13th). Which if it is gone or has gotten smaller than it is not cancer. But if it is the same size (still there) or has gotten larger than it more than likely is cancer.

Now back to the infection, the doc sent me home with some strong meds so I was all over the place! The next morning I couldn't even get my breakfast with out shaking and feeling like I was going to pass out. So I called my mom crying. She told me to just call the doc to cut the dang infection out of my mouth and get it over with. So I did. I even called my mother-in-law to take me because I couldn't get a hold of Caleb. So I am all worked up and I hate shots and I am laying on my back with Daisy watching me and everything. While LaRee was holding my hands and I start CRYING! Man I hate shots and needles!!! Come to find out the dentist decided to just clean the infection this time! He didn't want to cut into it and have the infection spread so NOW I have to go back and do it all over AGAIN!! Ahhh!! Gay!! Screw shots! Not to mention I might have some dang Cancer that I don't even qualify for!

And this all happened on my second day to teach! Which would've went well if we had gotten our whole 45 minutes to teach! BUT we didn't! We only got 30 minutes and we rushing through the whole lesson! One girl started crying because she couldn't finish her project, another was upset because she lost her ants legs, and other because she was embarrassed of her project and stuffed it in her desk! haha!! Man!! What a couple of days!

Not to mention my husband forgets that I am still going to school, while, ....oh I am not even going to go into the list right now.... I just haven't even studied for my PRAXIS that is coming up in a month! Ugh!

Hope you are all having a great day/week! lol
Diane

Another Update is all I can offer.

This will be another quick post! I am so behind with homework and I teach a 4th grade class next week! I am excited but also nervous!
I cut my hair again because I didn't really like the other do, so now it is short in the back and longer around my face. (I know they have a name for it, but I don't know it.)
Last weekend Caleb and I went looking for houses with our realtor for the first time. We found one that I fell INLOVE with! My parents will be driving through town tomorrow to see it and I hope they approve! I finally talked Caleb into LOVING it too!! So I think we are really really serious about this home and will probably be in it before Christmas or maybe even Halloween! Yay!!!




I wish I had a picture of this one... but the other night we were putting Daisy in the bath. I got her undressed before Caleb got the bath filled. So she ran over to the bathtub excited like always to jump right in. Well, instead of Caleb just putting her right in, he walked towards me talk about how cute she looked leaning over the bathtub waiting to get in. Well, when he looked over at her the second time while talking about how cute she is...he starts yelling "SHE'S PEEING!! SHE'S PEEING!!" and runs over to her and grabs our bathroom rug! I start laughing that he runs and saves his RUG instead of just hurrying and putting Daisy in the TUB!! I really was about to pee my pants when we both looked back at Daisy and she starts to slips in her pee the first time. Then she catches herself and then slips again! By this point Caleb can't even get me to breath or for that matter help him catch her!! Finally Daisy just Slips FLAT ON HER BACK!! Oh the poor thing!! She was just laying in her own pee!! Hahahahahah!! I still can't get over it!!

I will get pictures soon.
Sorry for another quick wrap up!

The Fun Filled Weekend and going to Hell

I am so mad!! I totally forget my camera this whole weekend! Which means no one is going to want to read this blog. But whatever. I had fun!

So on Friday was our single wards R.S. enrichment night. They decided they were going to do a Girls Camp theme and have a sleepover, food, crafts, and whatever else. I told Caleb earlier that week that he needed to make me go when Friday came around, because more than likely I would've decided I wasn't going to go. Which was the case. But He still kept pushing me to go. We came to the agreement that I would go for and HOUR and he would call me at 8:00pm and ask if I wanted to go home? That way if I did, I just had to say Yes (making it sound like a positive remark on my end) haha. Anyway, He did call at 8pm but I told him NO!! I was having a lot of fun getting to know the girls. Of course by that point nothing had really started...so of course after I hung up with him things just dragged a long. BUT not for long!! I let my real self out and boy did we all have a blast!! We played murder in the dark, seek and hide, and even sang songs while letting the Sh** word slip every now and then when I got scared!! Haha!! It was one of the best nights I have had in a long time!! They even got pictures of me dressing up in the girls bars!! haha.. They say they will post them on the Bishops wall!! Wonderful!! Just Wonderful!! :0)

Saturday was another good day. Caleb had told me about his Hinton Burdick outing for a while now. I thought it was just another one of those boring dinners where you had to dress and act like you knew everyone or cared to meet them. Come to find out Saturday morning it was a swimming BBQ down in St. George!! Awesome!! I love Swim parks and I thought for sure Daisy would love it now that she can walk and actually enjoy the kids pool area!! Which she did!! (I am still so mad I didn't have my camera!!) Caleb and I took turns on the big slide and because we were their after closing hours, we were able to get away with Daisy not having to wear a life jacket!! It was just lots of fun and I totally would go back again!! Not to mention the whole thing was free other than the gas to get down there!! I'm tellin' ya...we need more breaks like this!!

As for Sunday it was a Holiday!! Yep Stake Conference! I told that to Caleb Saturday night that we would be missing church because it was stake Conference and he said, "what?" I told him that growing up Dad always said it was a holiday. Yep! Stake conference, ward conference, and General conference. But of course Caleb came up with some kind of spiritual comment about the importance of them all and not taking the sacrament. I only laughed which I am sure means I will be going to Hell. But what do ya do. It was a great weekend and didn't want to deal with Daisy at church.

Sorry no pictures for such a long blog.

Updates on the Rees Family!

Wow! Where do I begin? Well, on August 22nd our little Daisy turned ONE!! I can’t believe it!! It is so crazy a whole year has already pasted by. We decided that because she is SO cute and EVERYONE totally loves her..(haha) we would let her have a party. The party turned out way better than Caleb and I thought it would. A lot of our friends came from our ward to support us, Caleb’s family came, and my wonderful parents stopped by on their way back to Vegas. We had lots of games and food, and heck, we even got my Dad to play Pin the Crown on the Princess! Haha. What a great Grandpa! Daisy got a ton of presents…, which we so did not expect or need. But thank you to all of you anyway! (We’ve hid most of them away to re-gift at Christmas! Haha)

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After Daisy’s Birthday, school started for me! Yay!! Which by the way is going very well. I actually just signed up for my Praxis test that I will be taking November 15th! I am nervous but at the same time already feel really good about it! (It’s a test that I have to pass in order to keep going to school next year. It covers everything you are supposed to learn and remember from 1st-6th grade.)
The day before my 21st Birthday (August 28th) I chopped my hair!! I really wasn’t comfortable with it at first. Not because it was short…but because the style it totally different than what I normally do. I love volume and poof. This 'do' is flat and straight. Haha. I hope you like. I am loving it more and more each day! Especially how quick it is to do!
We celebrated my birthday with Liz and Jess, and also went to eat with Caleb’s parents to celebrate his mom’s birthday too. Lucky Caleb, he only has to remember one date for his mother and wife’s birthday.

On Saturday August 30th, Daisy just up and started walking. I’m telling you, the day before Liz and I were working with her and she kept stumbling between us. But then all of a sudden the next day she just starts walking like it is nothing. Her cousin Claire was there for the weekend and I think Daisy was watching her and was just getting fed up that she couldn’t keep up. So I guess she just decided to do what Claire was doing and just started walking.

Now she walks everywhere and even shows off by watching the TV while walking to her banana chair. Haha. Cutie!

ANYWAY!! Good news Minute!! As you can tell…. Caleb and I finally got the Internet!! Yes!! Plus Caller ID and a few other phone features. But my favorite is the Caller ID!! Anyway, back to the Internet…so we got it right? Well, because we are renting an old house the phone plug in our room doesn’t work. So we took an extremely long gray phone cord that stretches from our room all the way into our kitchen….just to get the dang Internet to work. Haha. Oh well. I have it now and I am happy! So I can Blog every day! (Haha. I wish.)

Caleb and I have also already met with a realtor and plan on talking with some people this weekend about a loan to buy our First house! We plan to be in a house by this coming summer! Yes!! I can’t wait!

Ummm I hope that is everything. Sorry again for not keeping up on blogging. As you can tell August is a busy month for us!

Quick, Fast, Sorry.

Sorry I haven't updated my blog for a while. Caleb and I don't have Internet...well we never did. We just had wireless and were able to jump off our neighbors. Anyway, I think they finally caught us and decided to blocked us. Yes! Blocked us!! How rude huh? And not to mention they blocked us a few days before my online classes started!! Jerks! Ha.
Anyway, I called Qwest and they will be setting up our Internet this coming Tuesday! I'm so excited! I have much to blog about! I have lots of pictures of Daisy 1st Birthday party and I got a new hair cut, and OH Yeah....I turned 21 YESTERDAY! ...HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME! heehee

Anyway, so sorry!! I will try to keep up as much as I can while also taking on a full load of school this semester! Wish me luck!!

I student-teach in a year!! Yay!

Date Check

The date works Diane! I really didn't change anything. Try posting again from your computer, though I don't know why that would matter. Love ya, Liz

Recipe HELP!

We decided it was time to try something new. So we went out and bought our first Pork Tenderloin. I love pork tenderloin so I thought I should try and find an easy recipe that I could actually make myself. ANYWAY if any of you know a good recipe for it please let me know. And I need really good instructions...none of this a little here and a little there stuff.

Also if anyone in my family knows the recipe for Brown Rice that would be great too!

Our New Set Up

Here are just a few pictures of the new furniture and set up of our rooms. Not much has changed but I totally loooove our front room! Every time I walk by it I just have to look in. I was telling Caleb last night that it kind of makes me feel like we are a little bit out of that poor college stage (even though we are still totally poor)! Haha... Anyway I like them both a lot!! We watched our first movie last night and because I wasn't use to watching TV so high up on the wall I had to lay down. But it was still fun and exciting to think this nice piece of furniture is ours!! Yes!! (Thanks Chuck and Diane again!)
Also, this thing is sooo nice because it hides away all of Calebs toys (video games, Wii, Guitar Hero, etc.)and it even holds all of Daisy toys in one cabinet. However, it's not the best thing for DVD's. We thought for sure we would be able to fit the DVDs in the drawers but they don't fit! Sooooo, if any of you have seen or know where we can get a shelf thingy for lots of DVDs and that has doors on it let us know! Because yesterday was the best!! This thing hides away everything from Daisy and she hasn't figured out how to open it so I didn't have to do as much yelling or cleaning up!! It was waaay nice! Now if I can just find a DVD case and make Caleb happy and still keep me happy that would be great!! Let me know if you have any ideas!


P.s. I just got Breaking Dawn yesterday...except it might take me forever to read with Daisy and School starting soon. But wish me luck!

Happy Birthday Caleb!!

Happy 25th Birthday Caleb!!! (as of yesterday)

This year for Caleb’s birthday we didn’t do much other than go to church and have church meetings. AND all Caleb wanted for his birthday was two CPA exam review books to help him past his tests later this month. Caleb also loves BBQ’s so I thought I would cut up chicken, red bell peppers, onions, and pine apple to grill. He really liked that idea…but of course he had to cook it. Haha. We then like every Sunday sat down and watched a movie. We watch Batman Returns that way we will be up to date when we finally go see the new one. I also decided we should have a cake with candles…but because I can’t bake for the life of me…he had to make that too. Haha…Too bad. :0) Caleb also thought it would be nice to call his parents and invite them over for cake and ice cream. They came but most of their attention was one Daisy. Poor Caleb. No worries though, she IS cute.

Well, a while back my sister-in-law Diane called me and asked if we wanted this TV stand that use to be at my parents place in Provo. Because it is Caleb and I and everything we own is passed down from someone else, I couldn’t help but say, “Yes! We will take.” Well, my brother Chuck called earlier this weekend and said that he was coming through on Sunday and will be bringing the stand. He also asked us if we wanted a computer desk. I told Caleb we might not have room but he said, "Yes!"

ANYWAY… Chuck showed up late last night to move these stands into our house. HA!!! To my surprise they are huge!!! …. Well, after taking off doors to get both stands in and thinking we were all done Chuck said, “hold on I’ve got one more.” I was just thinking Great were else are we going to put this stuff? To our surprise Chuck walked in with his old TV. Which is an older TV BUT much bigger than ours AND it’s free!!! Yes!! Score!!! Thanks Chuck and Diane!

Point of this story is …Caleb had a fun birthday overall and got a lot more than we thought he would for his birthday! :0)

We Love you Caleb!! Happy Birthday!!

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My Little Baby's Growing Up... :0(

Next Spring Caleb and I will be going on a trip with my parents. To get ready for that get away ALONE …we have been told that we need to work on leaving Daisy with others more often and over night. That way she can get use to being okay with us not around. So this last weekend while in Vegas visiting my family my older sister Liz decided she would take Daisy for the night. It was already late that night so she said it would be easy. So as her and others were pushing me to run upstairs and hurry and pack Daisy's bag… I couldn’t help but think… Nice! No Daisy during church tomorrow!… I now I am a terrible Mom but come on… it would be nice to actually listen to a lesson again. :0) When I finally got down stairs with Daisy’s bag in hand Caleb had already had her car seat loaded. Wow! Liz was really willing to take her… Scaaary! HEY! Not because I didn’t trust Liz, just because I have never ever had a night away from my sweet little girl. I know she's almost a year and the poor girl has never had a night away from her Mommy!

As we closed the van door and said our goodbyes I started feeling all sad. LUCKILY Liz’s husband Jess decided to peel-out when they took off! That made me laugh…a little. Ha :0)
You would think that not having a kid for the night we would go out and do something fun… but nope not us boring kids. We just got some Taco Bell and sat and watched a movie while being attacked by ants. We also went to bed early and didn’t wake up once during the night!! Yes!!

As soon as church was over the next day we hurried to pack our things, eat a huge turkey lunch and then head out to pick up our baby!!! Yay!!! Caleb and I were even fighting over who got to hold her first!!! …I WON!! Yes.!!!

Here are a few pictures I stole from Liz to show off Daisy’s first sleepover with her cousin Clair:




Isn’t she just the CUTEST!! Ohhh how I missed her SO MUCH!!

I Love my Sweet Baby Daisy!!! Thanks again Liz and Jess!!!

I Promise... I will TRY my Hardest!!

A couple of weeks ago Caleb got a call from a state president. However, this particular state president is not in our state. When we figured that out, I just knew Caleb was going to get a calling. But what? …Well, he got called to be the 2nd counseler of the Singles 22nd Ward!! Yep that’s it! I know how exciting …right!? …..But wait! That means the Singles ward is our NEW ward. Awww!! Darn it!! I really liked our married ward too!!

Okay so here was our thought process:
Because I had a calling in our married ward (and I liked/loooooved it) I was going to stay and attend ‘that’ ward. That way we could still have friends that were in our same situation (married with kids). Caleb would then attend the singles ward and every now and then we would go to each other’s wards. Haha. However, I also wanted to attend the ‘other’ ward to be there for Caleb and to be the ‘happily-married-with kid’ example ‘they’ (state president/bishop) wanted/wants us to be.

ANYWAY… the whole thing was really complicating for me. Both bishops’s kept asking me what my plan was and what I wanted to do. Whether I wanted to keep my calling in my old ward or get released and get a calling in the new ward to get more involved with the singles. ---This is about the time I turned to my ‘All Knowing Mommy.’ Before I even finished telling her my situation she said, “Diane, at least Caleb has a time limit (one year). Think of the women whose husbands are called to be prophets. Right now you need to make sacrifices for him and stand by him and be an example. Plus, you don’t want to be a single sister going to a married ward.”---With that said. I called my home bishop and let him know I was going to be supporting Caleb and going with him. To my surprise my bishop quickly said, “GOOD! That’s where you NEED to be! This is not just Caleb’s calling…it’s both of yours. You guys need to be examples to those singles and show them how much fun it is to be married. Don’t be afraid to be all lovey-dovey and make sure you kiss often, hold hands, and hug every chance you get!”---Now with THAT said… I am really going to try my hardest to be positive about this. And even though I am going to lose my calling and totally miss my ward AND be the only one probably in the whole singles building with a screaming kid…Suuuure I will be happy and always keep a smile on my face! …haha.. Oh gosh… wish me luck!! I really am going to try. I promise! We just better have some cool singles in our ward, That’s all I have to say!

New Carseat!!

Wednesday night we went out and brought Daisy a new carseat. She was way to big for her other one and we thought she might like facing forward. Her first time to ride in her new carseat was that night. It was dark and it was her first time facing forward. She kept looking at us like something was wrong. It was funny. We cheered her on but she was still out of it. Thursday was Pioneer Day!! When we were heading up to Caleb parents house during the day, Daisy got to try out her new car seat again. This time she totally LOVED IT and didn't want us to take her out!!! See for yourself....





Daisy helped her Dad pack up her old carseat for her future brothers and sisters. She was sad but at the same time still excited for her new carseat!!!

I've Been Tagged!...

My best friend, Andrea tagged me to share 10 interesting things about myself. Umm…So I guess here are some I came up with…

1.I enjoy watching movies with my husband, Caleb. We watch at least one day, along with a large bowl of ice cream, cereal, or homemade popcorn. My favorite movies are action with a touch of comedy. Right now my favorite is Hancock.
2.I have always wanted to be in a play. I have only had 4 theater classes and I enjoyed them all every much. Two of my teachers have asked how long I have been in theater. Many times when I tell them, they are shocked. I love to be in character and on stage and show my fellow classmates that I am not just the shy girl in the back row. It’s really funny because I love ‘yelling’ roles. Most of my classmates don’t know I yelled with my sisters growing up on a daily basis. :0)
3.Although I love being on stage and in character, I HATE to give TALKS! I rather be in a play or teach a lesson than give a talk. I think teaching lessons are much easier than just talking for 10 minutes straight. I like feed back during my lessons and I love to tell stories and hear stories that relate to the topic!
4.I begged my mom to let me take piano lessons when I was in the 4th grade. I loved to practice and still do. Although for having piano lessons from the 4th grade to my senior year of high school I am still not as good as I should be. I have my two favorite keys that I like to play in and that is about all I can play, only because I won’t practice the other keys. :0/ My bad…
5.I have always loved the game volleyball since I can remember. I use to always watch my brothers and sisters play. So when I was in high school I also played. I loved it until my teammates were stupid and always blamed their mistakes on anyone else that was around them. Anyway… it’s a long story but I still love to play, IF it’s with people who actually play just for fun and don’t point out every mistake others make. ‘Cause I promise they probably already know they made the mistake before someone else decides to tell them.
6.I have always loved to sing but never had voice lessons so I don’t think I am that great. But I really do enjoy it and I love to hear how pieces come together in the end. However, I usually act like I don’t care to sing or like to sing when my sisters ask me to because I know that singing is more of their known talents than mine.
7.People often ask me how many kids I want to have. I use to say my relief society answer, which was “as many as the Lord will bless me with.” But when Caleb and I were dating he told me he wanted to have 8. I quickly said “heck no!” But honestly since I have had Daisy and enjoy the stages of her life so much I really do want 8! I know! I am crazy!! But I love having a big family and I think she will when she is older too!!
8.When I was in elementary I was in special Ed classes because I couldn’t read or spell. I had an IEP up until I was in high school. I never used it because I didn’t want my friends to know I was different. In elementary I use to get D’s and F’s but when we moved to our new house Dad told all of us that we needed to get better grades. So I took the challenge and did. I also took it upon myself to read 5-6th grade books at night to help improve my reading. I also worked on my reading by IM-ing my friends. I didn’t realize it at the time but now I see that it also helped with my spelling.
9.Up until my junior year of high school I didn’t think any of my brothers or sisters went to college. I guess I thought that because my parents didn’t talk much about it. It was my brother Eric who I was working for at the time that laughed at me and told me I was wrong! That’s when he and my sister-in-law Kellie both pushed me to hurry and sign up for college. Thanks to both of them for helping me see the light and getting me started!!
10.During my special ed-retard days I remember my teacher in 4th grade teaching my class about fractions. I remember running out of the classroom crying because I didn’t understand why we were talking about pies and pizzas during our math time. I just didn’t get it. When I worked for Eric he had said something like “Yeah Diane, like 2/3’s of the time.” He quickly saw the look I gave him that I didn’t understand what 2/3’s was. He laughed while yelling at our other brother Kevin to come and hear… “Haha. Kevin, Diane is in her senior year of high school and doesn’t understand fractions!” They both laughed for a bit throwing out all different fractions to see if I knew what they meant. I didn’t of course and almost began to cry. That was when Eric sat down and started teaching me my fractions. He also taught me how to quickly add numbers in my head. Thanks to Eric I looove fractions and I feel so smart when I use them to explain how much of something is left!!

Well… I guess these are my interesting facts about myself. I could’ve just said stuff like anything Disney and I am a very big freak in cleaning and organizing…. But I figured these were more interesting facts about myself that many people are sometimes shocked to hear.
**I would like to TAG and hear more interesting facts about Robin, Erin, Tiffany, Kellie, Liz and anyone else who would like to dish it out. :0)

The Story of our life...

This last weekend was very busy. So many things to do…

Thursday morning I helped my ‘buddy’ Jamie out by watching her daughter Addie for a few hours while she went home and packed up more boxes for her move. :0(I know I am so sad!! This is the weekend that she leaves me!!! Aww… I’m going to cry… BUT, anyway while I watched the kids I of course had to take lots of pictures for my BLOG!!! Daisy of course showed off her new banana chairs and showed Addie how she has learned to smile when the little sliver camera comes out…. Haha… isn’t she cute?



So Addie thought she would smile too…. “Cheese!”



After a while and getting bored with the banana chairs they moved on to Daisy toys. I was lucky to get a picture of both of them smiling when really they were fighting over the little car…. But hey, who needs to know they are nothing but cute, sweet little girls? Right?




Friday Caleb went over around 7:30 in the morning to help Jamie and her husband Tyler carry boxes up and down stairs to help them with their move. He helped them until noon and then was so tired he decided to stay home from work to play with me! Yes!! I was excited!! …. Of course when Caleb and I were in our room making the bed we heard Daisy screaming from her room. Of course we knew exactly what kind of scream it was…. (Daisy has this thing where she thinks that if her eyes can see threw small spaces… she can fit threw them…. getting her head and body stuck)…. So I ran into her room to see what she had got her head stuck in between this time. When I found her I couldn’t help but crack up laughing. Daisy had been climbing all over her car seat and I guess somehow got turned upside down. She couldn’t move nor could she mess with gravity. Oh the poor little girl. I didn’t help her either because I really wanted to see how she would get herself out of this mess. Ha ha…






On Saturday Caleb and I thought it would be fun to invite a few friends over for a BBQ and a movie. So we called everyone up and told them to bring their own meat and anything else they want to share with the group. Caleb called up his brother to borrow a projector, and then talked to his parents about their surround sound, as we went and picked up some white sheets from Wal-Mart for our screen. The night turned out great! We ate lots and lots of food along with ice cream and homemade popcorn. When it started to get dark around 9:30pm we set up The Italian Job and got comfortable…









… for all of 15 minutes into the movie when it started to sprinkle!! (Leave it to wonderful UTARD weather to ruin our evening). So, packed up and moved everything inside, figuring with our luck it would pour of we stayed outside. Darn!! Huh!?






Anyway, The night was still a blast and we even got to play Wii on the big screen after our movie and then after church the next day watch more movies and play Guitar Hero!!

Jamie and Tyler stayed with us Saturday night and left Sunday after Church. I was so sad to see Jamie leave. Even when we were outside saying our good-byes it was pouring down rain! It was just like the movies!! Such a sad ending!! But, no worries Jamie promises she will get a Blog when she moves it! Then you can all meet my 'buddy'!! Yay!!

* We will miss you Tyler, Jamie and Addie!! We love you guys!! Come back and visit soon!!