Tagged

Well I was tagged too. I will try to think of 6 quirky things about myself. It may be hard I don't have to many faults. I am totally kidding. I probably have more than most people.
Oh and by the way Kyla it was 6 things not 5 so you need to EDIT and come up with 0ne more thing. K?

1. Okay so I guess it would be fair to say that my first one would have to be that I am always late. I don't know why this happens but it just does. Clint gets so mad because he is so on time wherever he goes. When we go anywhere He is just chomping at the bit. But just like I tell everyone else better late than never, and most of the time when you do get somewhere and you are late...... you end up waiting on someone else anyway, so the way I figure it is why get somewhere on time so you just have to wait longer when you get there. Plus what fun would it be being on time all of the time? What? No hustle bustle, running helter skelter jamming kids and hubby into car dropping things along the way running back in the house 2 or 3 times to get stuff. What a boring life I just can't imagine it.

2. I guess the next one would have to be, and get this, how can I always be late I don't know
Because I set my alarm clock about 30 minutes ahead. Welll okay I have to admit the only reason I do this is so I can press snooze for 45 minutes. This drives everyone I know whacko. Ask Kyla about this one. Clint, he gets up on the first ring he can't imagine it, but I push snooze and I am back to sleep before my head hits the pillow. My answer is that I do not feel rested or like I can get up if I haven't pushed snooze at least 4 times.

3.This one is a bad one. I can't stand to have my house messy. I am not always saying it is in tip top condition but I try. That is probably what drives me more crazy than actually having it clean is thinking about all of the things I have to do to keep it that way. I get nervous when a lot of people come over. I know I drive them all crazy worrying about stuff,( not pointing fingers, Kyla) But I am sorry I can't help this It probably drives me more crazy than it does everyone else. They just have to ignore me and go about thier business.

4. I am a major sweet aholic. I would rather eat sweets than normal food. I crave it first thing in the morning and all day. Homemade stuff is the best. There is nothing more to say about this subject it speaks for it's self.

5. I am an obsessive worrier. I worry about things that can't even happen most of the time. I don't know why I cause myself the added stress.

6. I can't stand to sit idle. I have to be looking at something or doing something all the time. Sudoku and crosswords keep me busy alot of the time. Sometimes even when I am watching T.V. I like to read newspapers and magizines. This drives my mom crazy.
Okay There you have it. I am not that interesting.

I'M Back

This is what I done over the weekend. This is why I have been to busy to blog, heck I haven't even had much time to glance at any blogs until the other night.We went over to Cedar to the Region Basketball tournament since Clint is the assistant coach. This is a picture that Braysyn took of me and Maycee in the back and My mom in front of us. Pretty good picture taking for a litle guy I must say. And these are just a few of the faces that I had to endure while I was there for the 3 days. I could only capture a few of Maycee so I guess she was doing the most complaining.
Maycee actually took this one of herself, but she was probably thinking of asking me if she could make yet another trip to concessions, the bathroom or over to the cheering section.
This is what I really had to put up with. I told her I was going to get a picture of the horrible scene she was making, she wouldn't hold still so this is what she looked like. Attractive isn't it.
On Sunday we all settled in to watch the big Nascar race in California. It was raining/snowing here so you guessed it, that is what it was doing there too. We did not get to many laps in when it went on rain delay, but that was only after what? Yep you guessed it, Jr. got crashed. The track was wet another car slid and got him, he went to the garage and the race was red flagged. They raced again later on only to have it start raining again. After 80 laps they were on another rain delay. They had us on pins and needles untill 1:00 a.m. before they finally came on and told us they would finish tomorrow.
So I made these and we sat around and ate all night and made ourselves sick. I seriously need to get back on the South Beach.
When I woke up this morning this is what I had looking at me. I could tell it was going to be a fun day. But I had my little buddy and helper Braysyn to help me out.
I had a bunch of laundry baskets that were full of clothes that needed to be folded since we had been gone for 3 or 4 days, so I decided to get to work. I don't mind folding clothes but I absolutely hate to put them away.
This is what I do when I have to fold clothes. It gives me time to catch up on all of the T.V. shows that I TIVO because I don't have time to watch them during the day. I can't imagine why.
I also had to fold socks and I hate this more than anything. I hate hate hate socks with a passion. I wish that we just had disposable socks. This would make my life so much easier. I hate everything about them. Did I mention that I hate socks?
I also turned the race on and kept tabs on it while I was doing some things around the house. Carl Edwards ended up winning. Jr. was like 40th or something.
But I got things done and now I have the kids in bed and this is what things look like now. That is so much nicer to get up to in the morning. I can't stand to have a messy house.
And at last the laundry is all folded and put away. Yes even the socks, and I can see my bed again.
Anyway that is what had filled my last five days up. And here in a day or two we start all over again.

Leave of absence

I guess I have taken a leave of absence I don't know, I have just been so busy. Anyway I will give you a little update later, maybe tomorrow.

911

So I am at work, Clint calls me all upset, This is how our conversation goes.
Clint: So guess who I just got a call from
Steph: (worried) Who?
Clint: The control room over to Panguitch
Steph: Why what happened?
Clint: Your little girl (Maycee) Just called 911 and hung up on them
Steph: what was going on?
Clint: Oh she messed with some of the boys stuff and so they went up in her room and tore some of her papers up, she was so furious with them and they wouldn't leave her room so she threatened 911 and then she carried the threat out.
Steph: silence......Hysterical laughter
Clint: This is not funny it was embarresing having them call and ask if everything is okay because they just got a hang up from our number.
Steph: I'm sorry but that right there is funny, now you can have a little taste of a few of the things that I have to deal with on a daily basis.

The part that I thought was so funny was the reasoning for calling 911. I could just see myself as a girl about her age with two brothers messing with my stuff, I guess if I had known about 911 back in my day I probably would have done the same thing, a girl has got to protect her stuff from her brothers. Needless to say I guess it taught her a lesson. Landyn learned this same lesson when he was about 5 years old also. Bryasyn came running down stairs and told Clint that Maycee had called 91111111, Clint did not believe him untill the phone rang a few seconds later and the control room # came up on caller I.D. Well anyway just thought I would share this little funny fact with everyone.

No Tears This Year

Well these are the finished products. They came and they conqured. Landyn and Austyn took first place in both of their packs and probably overall, they didn't do overall's this year. Anyway just call us Down and Derby. It was a lot of fun.

Here Clint is working on the cars with the boys. Notice the intensity of this.

This is Austyn's car on the left and Landyn's in the middle. The scout master wanted to race these two with a car that he had built some time ago. Of course My boys won, although not by a real long way.
Landyn again with his group showing off their ribbons.

Sorry this one is sideways, but this is Landyn showing off his car and his blue ribbons from the heats that he won.
This is Austyn showing off his blue ribbons from all of the heats that he won.

Die happy or live on

So my day, or life got seriously upset the other day. Any one that knows me knows that I love to have a Diet Coke, okay quite a few Diet Cokes a day. Well I was informed the other day that the aspartame in it can cause ahlzheimers or contribute to it, and the you can be diagnosed with MS, which is actually aspartame poisining but it mimicks MS so that is what it gets diagnosed as. Also that the Benzoate can cause cancer. I checked some drinks out and Sprite, Rootbeer, Dr. pepper, you name it has the Benzoate in it, just the Diet Drinks have Aspartame in them, regular Coke had neither of them in it. So I am asking what is a girl to do. I live for my Diet Coke. I guess the logical thing to do would be to go back to regular coke but I don't want to do that. I couldn't stand Diet for so long, I finally made myself like it for the calorie thing. If anyone has any suggestions please help me, I am desperately seeking an alternative.

Signed, desperately devoted to Diet Coke

We went to the homecoming game the other night. The kids had to get all painted up. I just thought I would post this on here because they wanted to see something about them. By the way i still need to give an update on the pinewood derby. That is coming soon. stay tuned.

okay Sheena

So here is the only other picture that I saved that we took. Now you can see why i chose the other one. Like i said it is a sorry one of me but she looks good in both of them. If you don't know what I am talking about you might want to read the comments.