What do you think?

I went to Seattle last weekend and visited my friend Aimee for the weekend. While there we took a fairy over to Bermerton to visit another friend of mine Carrie. Anyways we were taking some fun pictures and these are half of them (by half I mean I cropped them and took Carrie out of the picture, she was facing the opposite of me and so you get why I would take her out so as to not embarrass her). Anyways I think they are fun pictures of me, not that anyone else cares, but I thought that I would post them just because I like them. They make me laugh, and I do not think that I look half that bad in them either.

Baili's first day of Kindergarten

I cannot believe it, today was/is Baili's first day of school. I help it together pretty well. I cried a bit last night and I did a little bit today after I left her at school. But more so I am just really excited for her. I cannot wait to hear all about her first day. I told her that when she got home I wanted to hear all about her new Friends (at least 2 of them) and about the books she read, and the play time outside, and her teacher. She was so excited and ran the whole way there. Those who where with her today as we walked her to school were Me (her mother) Kristen (sister) Jonas (her dad) and Melissa (her dads friend).

In her lunch we packed a turkey sandwich, strawberries, carrots and dip, Cheetos, s'mores cracker sandwich things, and a water bottle.

I asked her what she was doing here and she said that she was striking a pose, so the #1 finger thing does not mean anything. lol

I am so proud of Baili. She will do a great job in school. She will make friends easily and have fun. She is such a big girl and I cannot wait for her to learn and enjoy her life. Have a great year Baili. I love you!

summer 2010

These pictures are a little out of order but you will get the idea. We had a great summer. We went swimming a lot at my brother and his wife's pool, we went to the park a lot, we went to friends houses and did crafts, and went on vacations, saw family. It has really been one of the best summers ever. I am sad that is is now over. But I am ready for this new school year to start (more on that next).

At a parade, girls are on my brothers long board, this was at the very beginning of the summer, they have changed so much since this picture.

Baili broke her arm about 4 weeks ago. We were at the park with some friends and she was on the bar thing that slides and she jerked to a stop at the end and fell and broke her wrist. She had to be put to sleep to get it reset, luckily they did not have to cut her open or put any pins in. She was in a soft cast for 2 weeks and now in a hot pink and hot orange striped cast for 4 weeks. She really likes all of the attention that she is getting from it too, however it sure is a bugger to bathe her. Ugh.

Next up, well you can see. He will hate me for posting this picture but this is the type of thing that good uncles do, and that is just what my brother Ian is. He really is such a good Uncle to my girls, they love him and love his wife Karissa. It is so nice having family live so close. The come over at least once a week, more often usually. We also exchange dinner nights, on Sundays I cook for them and on Thursdays they cook for me. It is great. I just love them as do my girls.

There is a lady in my ward who has this big water blow up slide (like those jumping castles) once a summer she will blow it up and invite all the kids in the ward to come and play on it. Baili's arm was broken at this point so it was just kristen who was able to play on it, but she loved it. I think we were there for like 4 hours.

Here are the girls at our weekly visits to Ian and Karissa's pool. The loved it. They swam they dove, they jumped and LAUGHED! It was so fun.

That is our summer in a nutshell. I hope everyone enjoyed their summer as much as we did.

Pedicure!

Yesterday Shavonne took me to get a pedicure. As part of my birthday present. I have been looking forward to this since she said that she would take me. Karissa (my new sister-in-law) came with us too. Can you guess which are my feet?
I do love my feet. As a kid my sisters would make fun of them but I think that they are cute, maybe I am biased. My mom says that I have "Frost" toes. My daughter Kristen has the same toes as I do. I could pick her cute little feet out of any line up.

I know I have not posted much lately, and I feel bad about that because I think about it a lot. So maybe in the next few days you will get an overload of posts, consider yourself lucky if you do.

Also I decided to go public with my blog. I have been thinking about it and the whole reason I went private in the first place was silly. I figure its my blog and maybe someone of stumbles upon it will read it and learn something from me, why should I let a little someone who said I should watch what I put out there stop me from having a voice. So here you are folks...feel free to read and comment and tell others about the totally awesome posts that I make.

I did it!

Well I did it. I graduated. I am done with community college and I am on to the big leagues now. How do I feel? Pretty darn proud of myself. It was not easy to get to this point and through it all I kept strong. I am over the 2 year hump, 2 down 2 to go. I owe a lot of my accomplishments to my parents who helped me so much with my kids and listening to my complaints and helping me with my math. I also owe my kids so much for dealing with me when I got stressed and had to stay up late to finish homework and would get crabby with them, I owe them for doing homework instead of playing with them, I owe them decent meals this summer since they have had a sandwich one too many times. I owe my education to them because one day they will know that I really am doing all of this for them, to make our lives together better then ever before. I also know that the power of prayer is so real, and that Heavenly Father hears our prayers and that he loves me. I know that had it not been for the Priesthood blessing I received in the past that I would not have stayed strong and pushed through. I also am thankful for my brothers and sisters, and my closest friends who also gave me words of encouragement and listened to me complain about my teachers and my science classes that were oh so hard.
I am proud of myself and I know that after these next two years are done I will be even more so proud. Thank you everyone for your love and support. I did it!! Whoot whoot!