Finally...

Well, it seems that scheduling has thrown me off the blogger path once again. It is late but I really wanted to post to the blog since it will be the last blog for a few weeks. We are heading off to the Wonderful World of Disney on Friday. Yes folks, we are following the American way and taking our family to the famous Mouse's playground. We are very excited. First we will meet some very good friends near the beach in Florida and play on Saturday. Then we'll visit the nearest ward building on Sunday, catch up on our rest and then head to Disney on Monday to meet up with some other very good friends who we will spend the week with. I was proud of myself yesterday for saving some money. I heard of the much coveted autograph books that are sold at Disney, for about $18.00 a pop. So the kids and I headed off to Hobby Lobby and picked up 4 small autograph journals for $1.50 a piece, added a few Disney stickers and walla! we now have our very own autograph books for all those over sized characters to sign. We walked away feeling pretty good that we saved $30.00. I'm sure we'll make it up at the park though, so my success will be short lived

We finally found the missing Webkinz stuffed cat. Daria's that is. She loves this cat so much and bawled her eyes out causing a stuffy nose and headache when she found out she lost it. Of course all the while I'm wondering why if she loves this cat so much has she not seen it for over a week?? Go figure. She and Katri put on their detective minds and interviewed family members and neighbors on when and where they last saw the gray stuffed animal. Oddly enough after many prayers, the cat was found stuffed in one of my winter boots. Now that one I will never figure out. No one will fess up to it, but obviously it looks like an attempt to get rid of the gray stuffed animal once and for all. I'm guessing a two legged male creature had something to do with it.

The detective work was cut short however with a very scary event of a mechanical pencil pointy side ending up in the back of Dustin's head and the eraser side ending up in the back of Daria's mouth. I have no clue how that happened and of course my constant warnings of "don't walk around with things in your mouth" didn't pay off. Daria was lucky, very lucky. But the impact must have been extremely hard since the eraser end actually punctured a hole in her jaw, right between where the top and bottom teeth are. We really thought we would have to take her in for stitches, it was a pretty big hole. But after having a medical friend look at it we started a regimen of salt water swishing to keep it free from bacteria or infection. I am so thankful that it didn't go through the back of her throat where her spinal cord is! What a freak accident.

Last week I held a small party at my house for my previous Primary class. A group of energetic 10 year olds. We had a successful marshmallow war and water fight. I think I probably had about 5 bags of small marshmallows in my garage and on the driveway. Thanks to the kids most of it was cleaned up.

After feeling in a slump with my current exercise program I decided to borrow some Turbo Jam workout DVD's from a friend. Let me tell you! my glutes have hurt for 2 days straight. In fact almost every muscle in my body hurts, but it's not a bad hurt, just a good hurt. Since I'm up late I'm going to pass on working out in the morning and give my body a break. Maybe I should get up and do an hour of stretches to get these muscles back where they belong.

Sunday, Father's day went well. Church as usual. This is the first time in 10 years that I've not had a Sunday calling. My new calling is sort of a behind the scenes type. So it was a bit awkward walking into church with nothing to do but sit and listen. Now that was actually pretty cool!

Ok, so these little items below have revolutionized my kitchen. One would think that with only 4 human beings in this home that only 4 cups would be used. One would think! We go through so many cups each day it drove me nuts. So I ran across these little bands. They are called "Bear Bands" so you can keep track of your liquids at a party. No parties going on here, just a mother who is tired of wasting water or electricity in washing cups. They come in 12 colors so you just choose the color you want. They stretch out pretty large so any size of cup can be used.

Until the next post, have a Happy 4th of July!