Twenty Dollars

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I have been blessed with many things, the English language and everything that goes along with it was not one of them. That makes me dread blogging because unfortunately writing the English language is only way to do it. Having said that I am going to start blogging again. I had a breakthrough last night while watching a movie.

It was not a movie I intended to watch actually. The story is kind of funny and the mistake kind of expensive. Zack, I think, was playing with the remote and pushing all kinds of buttons, and whether he knew what he was doing is still unknown but while he was pushing all the buttons he ordered 4 “movie on demand” movies. Since we had never watched them, I thought we could reverse the charges but Dish has a policy of never reversing the charges because “it asks twice if you really want to rent the movie”. So at $4.99 each we were stuck with an extra $20 fee. Jason and I thought we would make the best of it so we decided to watch one of the two that were still available. The movie ended up being Julie and Julia.

I liked the movie but it was more than that, it hit a cord with me. I am that 30 year old that feels like something is missing. I want to do something that is hard for me and I decided writing is just that. I want to do a whole bunch of other things but I will start with writing.

I have a few rules

#1 The title has to be short ( I over think it ever time) it will be the first thing that comes to mind

#2 I am writing for myself, I will not worry about what others are thinking

#3 I need to write a post at least once a week--the hardest rule of them all.

#4 I have to do it at least 20 weeks

My Spring Updates

I know it is Summer now but I thought I would post what we have been up to from April until June.

This was our way fun trip to Arizona to see our friends from Dental School the Montoyas. We were also able to see one of my roommates from college, Tiffany Larsen. In this picture we were at an old abandoned gold mine.

Brock took first place in the Pine Wood Derby! Although Jason helped, Brock owes most of the thanks to Shane, his uncle.

Zack turned 3, Time really is Flying




Jason and I celebrated our 10th anniversary, I can honestly say I would marry him all over again.

In April I became Young Women's President in our Ward. Shocking I know. This was our girls camp at Koholowo. It rained all three and half days but we still had a blast.

And finally I turned 30! This was a hard birthday, I really never wanted to leave my twenties.

That is what has been going on in our life in Cliff Note form

My Favorite Cereal just got Better

Of course my favorite cereal is a sugar cereal, all my friends know I love straight sugar. But I have switched from loving Lucky Charms to Cinnamon Toast Crunch. With CTC you can even see the sugar coated right on the flakes (some may think that is gross, as I initially did, but once I tried it I embraced it fully).

So when our local stores have a sale on GM cereals I stock up, mostly on CTC. Not only did I get a sweet deal on the cereals ,they are running a promotion with cash cards in 1 in 10 boxes. Since our family isn't very lucky I didn't even think twice about it until we opened our first box and found a $5 cash card in it. Since then we have found a $25, and 2 more $5 dollar cash cards all in CTC boxes. 40 Dollars in cash for eating my favorite cereal, not a bad deal.

April Fools

I thought it would be fun to make dinner that looked like dessert, but the joke ended up being on me because none of my kids thought it was funny and they all refused to eat it. Even Brooklyn took one bite and then wouldn't open her mouth again. I guess next time we will go back to the normal way of eating mashed potatoes and meat loaf, how boring.

Brooklyn's 1 year old

I can not believe it has been a year. Me and Brooklyn, we stick together. I think I love raising her because I know she will be a mommy someday. I love to see her pick up clothes (or anything soft) hold it to her chest and pat it like a baby. Or maybe I like her so much because she prefers to be with me instead of her dad, unlike my other two children. Whatever it is, I have loved having her this last year.


This is the boys so excited about the present, they couldn't keep their hands off of it. After it was opened they still wouldn't let her play with it. (Did you notice the cute dress Alisa).

Her butterfly cake, it was fun to finally make a girly cake.

I haven't posted in a while, so here are a couple of things we have been up to lately.

Zacks potty trained!!!

The third time is the charm. The first time I tried he peed on the floor and while I was cleaning up the mess he went downstairs and pooped on the carpet. He then walked in it and smeared it all into the carpet. I was done with trying after only an hour.

A couple of months later after reading that Cheree was potty training Carter I got up the nerve again. 48 hours into potty training their was no success to mention. He had peed all over my house but never in the potty. I got motivated again the third time when I signed him up for Fall preschool and found out he couldn't go unless he was in underwear. After only one accident we had success in the potty, Yeah! We have been pushing forward ever since. He now goes everywhere in underwear and he even takes his naps in underwear (I don't trust him with nights yet but most the time he wakes up dry)

My advise to anyone that is in this stage, use pull ups as little as possible. If Zack had pull ups on he would go in his pants no problem because it absorbed just like a diaper. But if he went when he had underwear on he knew right away that there was a problem. I think it sped up training him. Kind of a pain the first couple of days but well worth it.

The Temple Open House

This is Brock with two of his cousins at the Draper Temple Open House. He was pretty excited to be able to see the inside of a temple. He walked around in awe of everything. He wanted to take pictures of everything but since cameras weren't allowed, he literally took mental pictures. He would look up at what he wanted to remember and hold his hand like he had a camera and click an imaginary picture, it was way cute to see. His favorite parts of the tour were the sealing room and the celestial room, I would have to agree. I love that it already gets him excited about getting married in the temple.

Our Trip to the Zoo

I love, LOVE spring. Brock had school off on Friday so we went to the Zoo. It was perfect weather. I can not wait to start my garden this year.

After the Zoo we went to this is the Place Monument. All the houses weren't open yet so we just walked around and took pictures then headed to the Gateway Mall for the kids to play in the fountain while I shopped. What a great day.

So that is what we have been up to the last couple of months. Nothing to exciting but we like it that way.

Merry Christmas IN January

I know sending this via my blog is lame (not to mention it is January) but I have a couple of excuses. First I sent two different cards that took hours to put together to Costco and both times they didn't work out. Second I totally ran out of time.
I felt bad every time I opened up a Christmas card from all my cute, responsible, on-top-of-it friends. And I have been filling bad for about a month now so this is my attempt to ease my conscience. So Merry Christmas from all of us (next year you are going to get my Christmas Card at the first of December)!!!