Saturday Trent and I were able to go to the Draper Temple. We got all dressed up and took a picture, but my camera is dumb and somehow that picture got erased. Argh. The thing that mattered though is how nice it was to go just the two of us. Trent is the best. He left for Montana and we may or may not be able to go up there this summer to be with him. In a month I am going to be done with preschool until I decide if I want to start it back up again in a few years. My little sister is getting married also in May, and my brother and his family are coming to visit! May is already filling up on my calendar and will be over like April is before I know it!

If I had a million dollars...

You know the song sung by "The Bare Naked Ladies", If I had a million dollars? Well if I did, this is how I would spend it:


First off I would probably try to live off the interest, and give some to my close friends and families.


Second, I would pay off everything.




Third, I would start my own charity:

Hats for Cancer patients, Adopt a Grandparent(p.s I love the Snuggies for nursing home ideas people have come up with, maybe we could do a chia pet for them too ;))



Fourth, I would take the kids and then the hubby on vacation.



Fifth I would be saving for this.. ((Three to be exact))




what would YOU do?

so I have been doing some research on our founding fathers. We all have heard that Benjamin Franklin was a womanizer.... I wonder where it came from. While he did indeed have an illegitimate son before his (wife). He was a flirt, there is no proof or evidence that Benjamin Franklin had any affairs on his wife, partner, or whatever you would like to call her.(44 years without ever having a wedding ceremony). Look here, you will find some other interesting facts on him:
http://www.udel.edu/PR/UDaily/2005/mar/franklin061605.html
or here:
http://www.nccs.net/newsletter/mar98nl.html
or here:
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2522/whats-the-true-story-on-benjamin-franklin
So before we go on believing everything we hear or see, even if it is in our schools, lets do some of our own research.((this is note to myself))

Under-age

Wow.Ok bare with me, maybe this is a stretch but it's pretty amazing anyways... Utah is thinking of getting rid of the 12th grade. I personally find this a little weird for a couple reasons. One, I think kids that are 17 still need a year to mature before they enter college. Another reason, can you imagine 17 year old girls in the same class as guys in their 20's..... Sweet Kansas.... all it takes is one pretty mature looking girl and a hot older guy and BAMB your busted dude. (I barley got by being 18 and a 23 year old hit on me (Or was it reversed) either way it stuck and seven months later BAMB I was hitched)Also when I was 17 I was playing pranks, doing Chinese fire drills, and my biggest worry was if I had a ride to school the next day. Can you imagine the 17 year old guys throwing spit wads at the back of your "I went to bed at 2:00 a.m" lovely hair? If 12th grade is eliminated, will kids have to have parents permission to move out on their own? Interesting. In the exact words of someone anonymous (you will see why its anonymous)"If Utah gets rid of 12th grade it will just make Utah look more stupider." Maybe we should ADD a couple grades to high school not eliminate them.
http://www.nowpublic.com/world/utah-state-senate-proposal-get-rid-12th-grade-save-money

Before:



After:





I look like the krypt keeper on drugs so I had to cut my head off in the picture. It's kinda hard to tell in this before and after but that's all I have right now. One thing many people take advantage of is button up shirts. I can now button one all the way up! Whu Hoo- I can't wait to go running!

While in recovery down time I have been able to read and watch movies. My friend Hilary knows how much I love history and told me to watch this miniseries of hers. I LOVE IT. It's about John Adams. Do you really know about our forefathers? Do you really? Do you know what they went through? What their wives went through? A-M-A-Z-I-N-G. Did you know Ben Franklin was 69 years old when they got the declaration of Independence rolling? Thomas Jefferson was 32. He wrote it all. He also invented the swivel chair and the lazy susan. The youngest Delegate was 25. It's amazing our history, but I will let you watch it for yourself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CNbQOrxQ-g

I am also reading "The Hunger Games" I can't put the book down! So in between my night sweets, chills, sore back I am able to sit up type a little on here, read and drug myself to sleep. I want to thank all my family and friends who have helped me, asked how I have been, or visited me. I Really appreciate all of you. I hate asking for help, so to let others do things for me has been very humbling yet VERY appreciated, I couldn't do it without you all.

"I'm high as a kite and..." Holy cow. I hate pain meds. I hate feeling weird and saying stupid things. Ok well I don' t mind saying the stupid things, infact I crack myself up. I do however, am feeling so doped up right now that I needed to right things down so I can look back and read how I was. First, I don't know why people do drugs, I hate this feeling. I have been having some CRAZY freaky dreams and during one I heard my name called twice and told me that it was a dream and If I wanted to I had the agency to wake up. I then heard my name and woke up. No one was home. Last night I had a dream trent was yelling for me to come quick in the bathroom. I got right out of bed and ran into the dark bathroom only then to realize itwas a dream. The result was a sore body. I wonder if satan has power of people's dreams who are on drugs. Just a thought. I haven't wanted to sleep because of how real and perverted, evil, and scary they just are. I am however half asleep and feel like I am floating. lol. In the meantime I watch movies. I watched City Of Embers and I really liked it. I also watched The Maiden Heist and laughed as much as I could without hurting myself. (Again I was doped up it probably wasn't all that funny) So thankyou everyone for letting me borrow movies and visiting. Until next time...

I used to think how fun it would be to be lazy and watch tv all day long. I thought how fun it would be to be in a nursing home where everything was done for me. WRONG WRONG WRONG. I feel so helpless letting others help me, it has been very appreciated and humbling. I am scared for this next week. I know I shouldn't be but I am. On sat I was feeling ok so I went outside to sit on the porch. I was LONGING for visitors and I saw two little neighbor boys. I told them to come talk to me. (They are 4 and 2) and they only talked for a minute and I asked them if they had to leave already. They did. LOL I will be one of those old ladies who BEG for company when I am in the nursing home. It has made me realize that I need to visit others more often. No wonder they get all excited to see me even if they don't know me. It's someone. Today has been a gloomy day and Im starting to hurt a little more. Im surprised that it hasn't been as horrible as some other people I know so that is a blessing. I see how some of my kids are having a hard time and I feel guilty for not being able to help them. I need to stop feeling guilty I know. I heard you get the "surgical blues' like the baby blues and it's so funny that I get so weepy and then I start to laugh but can't cause then it hurts.Crazy what meds will do to a person.p.s thank goodness for spell check, I am typing with one hand.

The kids enjoyed an Easter egg hunt at my moms Friday night. It was cute to see Faith get involved this year. I have pictures but will have to post them later. We went to my Grandpa's after conference and got to see all the extended family. Even though there are a lot of people and we couldn't talk to every one it was still nice to see you all there. I really enjoyed conference this weekend, there was some great talks and I do have my favorite. Today the kids went to st.george, I miss them already.

Yesterday I went up to my moms to go watch my sister get her engagement pictures taken. My older sister Kelli loves to take pictures and she is good at it. I did my little sister Erin's make up and we went all around the temple grounds in SLC getting them done. They turned out really cute. After about two hours we said goodbye to my little sister and Kelli, me, and my mom headed to walmart in layton. After grabbing some groceries for our party that night ( we celebrated my little brother and my birthday) we went out to the truck. Immediately Kelli noticed her camera was gone. It had been in the back in a bag by my feet. There is no way anyone would've known she had a camera in there. She thought someone stole it. I kept thinking , no one would steal in broad daylight or take your camera ( I am too trusting.) Once reality hit I told them lets go in and call the police or look at the video surveillance. I called the cops and while we were waiting for them my mom ran to the truck to get something and realized that Kelli had locked the doors but whoever took the camera messed with the locks. The cop came and we figured out that someone had followed us from SLC all the way to layton. They waited until we went in the store and took a screwdriver and somehow pushed in the lock and took her camera. I guess there is a huge problem with camera stealing at the temple grounds lately. IT is kinda err to think someone had been following us, followed us to our car which was parked behind the conference center and then some. They obviously was professional because if we hadn't tried to use the key in the lock we wouldn't have known it had been opened. The cop asked if anyone knew we would be at walmart because this was so odd. He has heard of the screwdriver trick but never saw it before. It kinda shook me up that someone would in broad daylight steal right there. I guess I live in an imaginative world where I know bad things go on but you never think it can hit close to home. This was something small and could been much worse. It still was so weird. Hopefully they can find the camera, or try to see if whoever stole it will sale it online. At least it was Erin's engagement pictures and not her wedding ones. We can redo the engagement ones. SO if you go to SLC I wouldn't bring a nice camera, you might just get followed! Here is warnings from the news of hunt downs and stealing's on TEmple Square:

http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=649&sid=8235278

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4188/is_20091030/ai_n39393170/
( A camera from KSL Was stolen while they were photographing the story about the stolen cameras... ironic.)

Today I learned you can never trust anyone in this world. I learned that this world really is a scary place and we are so oblivious that we don't even see it. I will tell you about it tomorrow but it kinda shook us up,and made me realize that not so good things happen to good people. I also know that it could've been a lot worse and luckily things are ok.

To you.

To my friends (Past, Present), family, God, kids, & husband...

Just in case....
I haven't told you, Thank you.
I haven't told you, You have made a difference in my life
I haven't told you , what a great friend you are
I haven't told you, how much I truly love and cherish you
I haven't told you, what an impact you have on me
I haven't told you, you are a beautiful person even if I don't know you as well as I would like to, just knowing you has imprinted my memories.
I haven't told you, I am happy.
I haven't told you, I am excited not just to be alive but to live
I haven't told you, I am not afraid to die( when its my time and people please stop freaking out because I am open about death, it's healthy. plus no one gets out alive anyways jk) because I know I have loved ones on both sides.
I haven't told you that you make me a better woman
I haven't told you that you make me a better mom.
I haven't told you thank you for the memories, advice, and love
I haven't told you lately, YOU are my better half.
I haven't told you I LOVE YOU


I do.

Here is Austin in his new glasses~! His smile makes him look like the kid from The Christmas Story

The nice thing about being an April Fool, is I can lie about my age and get away with it. As far as I am concerned I just turned 24. (When I really turned 24 three years ago, I really couldn't believe how old I was) Today started out great with my little Hannah making me a cute birthday card. I had preschool and one little boy came up the sidewalk singing * Happy Birthday Teacher..er...* I am amazed at all the texts, cards, phone calls, emails, drop bys that all happened today. I really do feel loved and can't believe everyone's kindness. It meant a lot and I enjoyed talking/reading/ or seeing you all. I babysat for my friend while she went to the dr after her baby, and she came over and visited and let me hold her cute little one. My sister in laws all surprised me when I thought I was going to be babysitting for one of them, they all showed up with my favorite pizza! IT was great seeing them all (good thing Trent was a great guy cause had I met the family I still would've married him regardless of what he was like. jk) I had friends drop by cards and candy! Phone calls from people I hear often and from those I don't. I had to laugh cause Hannah was trying to get Austin to sing happy birthday to me, but I heard him say " I don't sing. Hannah I DO NOT SING." He gets it from me I guess. Tonight my neighbor has baked me a cake and is coming with her kids to eat spaghetti while Trent is in school. I really do have the best friends/family/ neighbors/ relatives and so on a girl could ask for. So Thank you.