Time to get to it!!

I know, I know... I am the worst blogger in the history of bloggers...

BUT

Time to get to it!!!

Most people that know me are aware that I like to make at least half of the presents I give at Christmas time... Well... It is October, and I have yet to finish one single project... CRAP.

What have I been doing you ask??

Well, for starters, I drive about 500 miles a week. My days pretty much consist of: Taking Maddy to the bus stop for school (in Cottonwood Heights), going to work (downtown), picking her up from the bus stop after school, going back to work, and driving home (in Herriman)... Monday, Wednesday she has dance and Thursdays she has swimming lessons. And well, you can pretty much figure where most of my time goes. I spend about 2-3 hours in a car every single day. I don't know what genious inside me thought living in Herriman was a good idea, but she should be found and killed.

I get home and barely have the energy to put dinner on the table let alone do the do the dishes, the laundry and clean... So usually the dinner is all that gets done.

That leaves basically no time to sit at my sewing machine, or get out my crochet hook and yarn, or paint, or pretty much do anything. I even had to resign dancing with Compass Dance (one of the hardest days I've had in a while), because there was no way in the world for me to keep dancing Tuesday and Thursday nights.

It is a definite understatement to say that I am short on time now-a-days... BUT I am going to have to figure something out, and make a change or two, because there are things I have to get done!

So, my #1 goal for the week is to get my house under control, so that I can make the time to craft some gifts. There is no way I can justify starting anything (or resuming anything I have started) until my house is CLEAN!

In other news...

Maddy is LOVING Kindergarten. Here is a picture from her first day:

Evan's job at Hoy Engineering is dangerous, time consuming and physically exhausting on him... But we are SO SO grateful he has it! This job is such a blessing, and has lifted the huge stress of paying all the bills on one income off my shoulders. It is tough, but he is making it work (and bonus, he is getting some serious muscles! lol (; ) I Love him so much! He is such a great husband and Dad. I don't know what we would do without him!

Swimmin!

Maddy had her first swimming lesson last Thursday! She LOVES to swim. She does great with floaties, and has been getting more and more brave in the water the last year or so. She decided she wanted to take lessons a while ago, but we were putting it off. Thanks to my Mom and Dad we finally got the opportunity to put her in a private lesson, so we took it. She goes every Thursday for... I don't know how long. She is really excited! She did great last week and couldn't stop talking about how fun it was! We are super excited for her to become a great little swimmer.

Here are the pictures from last week:

New Year

This year for New year we had My brother Nick and his Girlfriend Cachae over and their two Friends. It was super fun and we stayed up till about 1:30. Everyone slept over in my little house, and bodies were on the floor EVERYWHERE! lol

no pictures, of course, becuase I am sucking at that lately...

I hope everyone had a great New Year!!!

Happy 2011!!!

definitely looking forward to things to come this year!

:)

Christmas

Was great! We spent the Morning between my Mom's and Evan's Mom's (which for those that don't know, are right next door to each other)

Then we headed to my Grandma's for brunch


Then we drove up to Corinne and spent the rest of Saturday and Most of Sunday there.


The only pictures I have are one from the morning, and one of Brandi in the car. Here they are!





Maddy got clothes, an art easle, zoobles, coloring stuff, an American Girl Doll, a Barbie with Corvette, a Leapster with games, and a bunch of other stuff I am sure I'm missing.

Ev got new slippers, Jeans and a shirt, Money, A nurf gun, and Ferrari Black.

I got a new band for my ring! It is so beautiful!!! And Clothes and Money also.

Spending time with all the different parts of our family in all the different places is by far the best part of the Holidays! It was a really great weekend!!!

12/24

I turned 25 this year.

For some reason 25 was hard for me.

Not sure completely as to why.

but it was a great night! With my great Family! And my mother and Sister-In-Law! And Nothing Bundt Cake!

mmmmmmmmmm.............

Fist time for everything

This was the first year in my entire lifetime that I did not spend Thanksgiving in St. George with my family.

Evan, Maddy and I spent Thanksgiving at Evan's mom's house.

When the dicision came about that we were staying in Salt Lake this year, I cried.... A lot... I thought that Thanksgiving would not be in any way even close to anything I have had my whole life, and therefore, it would definitely suck.

... Boy was I wrong.

It was totally different, and nothing close to what I have grown up with. But it was far from bad.

It was REALLY fun!!!

Sadly enough, there are no pictures that I am aware of.

But thank you to My Mother-In-Law and the great family I had an opportunity to spend Thanksgiving with! You are all great!

I feel like I grew up a lot this year.

So thank you Evan, for making me stay, no matter how hard I fought! Love you! :)

I suck at this

Not just saying that... but I really do! :)

I didn't have a computer for about a week, so that didn't help... But I haven't posted since October... How many weeks is that? Ya, no excuses. I just suck.

I have a few things to post about, so I suppose I should get started.

Coming soon:

Thanksgiving, My Bday, Christmas... and a couple others.

Halloween!

I know I havent posted for a while... Just wanted to do a little update and put up some pictures from Halloween!

The week before we carved pumpkins up at Evan's Dad's house... Sadly I didn't get a picture of the finished pumpkins, but here are a couple from carving.

Friday before Halloween Maddy's preschool did a littl party/parade That my Mom and I went to! It was really fun to see all the cute little kids in their costumes! Here are a couple pics from that

Maddy's costume was a Monarch Butterfly. She is obsessed with butterflies right now, so it was a perfect costume for her. She looked so cute!!

Then, on Friday night Evan and I went to our friends' Halloween party. Here is a pics of us in our skeleton Costumes

Then on Saturday My brother and his wife brought my neice over, and they took Maddy trick or treating with them.

At 6:00 Saturday my dance company performed in the Spooktacular at Sugar Space. I don't have my pics from that uploaded yet.

Then when that was over we took Maddy trick or treating in our neighborhood.

And that's pretty much how our Halloween went!

Hope yours was great! :)

Big guns, and 4wheeling

Last weekend we went up with my family shooting, and 4wheeling! It was kind of a last fun hoorah, before my little brother left for college...

It was me, Ev, Maddy, My Mom and Dad, My brother Ryan and his little girl Ava, my little brother Nick (the one going to college) and my best friend Jenny. She brought her little doggie Mowgli, and we took Brandi also! My other brother, Ty, was sick, so he couldnt make it!

We took up our little trailer so the girls could have a place to sleep, and we had somehwere to get out of the sun! It was a really really fun time!

I didn't get any pictures of when we were shooting, but here are the ones from 4wheeling:

In the car on the way

Me

Me and Ryan


My Dad

Me and Evan

Jenny and Nick

Ryan and Ava

Taking Maddy for a ride. She LOVED it!

She wanted to go REALLY fast!

Me with a dirty face after a REALLY long ride

I know... I'm hot!! :)

Jenny

Me and my girl

Jenny with a VERY tired Mowgli


Brandi drinking out of a water bottle. lol

Thanks Mom and Dad for such a fun trip!!!

Brandi

We added a member to our little family a couple weeks ago.....

Here she is:










Her name is Brandi. She is an Olde English Bulldogge.
She will be 11 weeks on Friday!
She is so cute, and fun, and cuddly, and playful too!
She is a very good dog! We just love her!

Fishing at the Berry

In July we went fishing at Strawberry with Evan's family! It was so fun!!!

Here are pictures!!!

Maddy driving the boat... With a little help!

Maddy and her Grand-Pam... (my mom-in-law!)

Maddy just loves her!!! Love you Pam!!!

Ev and Todd with a couple of the fish they caught! .... Wasn't very good fishing that day.

Maddy wanted to swim even thought the water was FREEZING... she is crazy

Then she got naked and read for a while! :) lol

and then took a nap with Ashley

Ashley double fist fishing!

And yes... I was there too... :)



That was a super fun day!!! Thank yor Todd and Pam for everything!!!

4th of July

This year we spent the 4th of July in Lake Powell with my family! For those that don't know... They have a boat at Wahweap! I have been going there since I was a little kid! It was a blast... I love it there! My parents friends Brent and Roxanne also came! They are great people! And so fun to be around! Plus they brought their ADORABLE dog that Maddy didn't let go of basically the entire trip! lol :)

Anyway, we left home on Thursday, then on Friday morning we went out and found a beach. We took a couple trips to Dangling Rope to get ice cream, but mostly hung out at the beach and swam and ate... We stayed at the beach until the 4th, and then went to a different spot so we could watch the fireworks on the lake.

Thanks to my Mom and dad for an awesome time!

Like usual, of course, the camera didn't get taken out until the trip was almost over... But here is what we have!

Yes, I was there... No, there aren't any pictures of me... My little brother Nick was also there... No pictures of him either... Sorry Nick!