i'm loosing my cool

Today, I took the kiddies to Wal-Mart to buy some rubbermaid containers, to use for our move. I bought one humongous one for camping and the 5 mid to large sized ones for clothes and such. The idea is that, I load up the bins with the Wardling's clothes, then take a load to the house and while there, unpack them, hang them up and bring home the empty bins to repeat that process. We really would like to have as much stuff out of our home now as soon as possible. Once the kiddies and I got home, I fed them, while I loaded up the van with our stuff. I even bought, gulp, those icky paper plates to use. (That will have to be another post.) I loaded up our dishes and silverware, along with the 15 other boxes of stuff. We drive to the new house and I unload the van, while Jacob and Blaklee ran around the place. Penny fell asleep, and since we have a garage, I left her in the car seat, to continue her snooze. Once I unloaded the stuff and unpacked a few boxes, it was time to go home. I run down the driveway to check the mail. In it were some typical new homeowner stuff, but there was one thing that caught my attention. In it was our homeowners insurance... & it was a bill. Now Clyde and I have already paid, in full, upfront, for our year's worth of insurance before we even closed on the house. So, I am confused as to why we are getting another bill. When we get home, I call the insurance co. up and the guy won't give me any information, because my name isn't on the policy. WHAT!!! I am the one who actually set up the insurance policy and paid for it. Why the heck is my name not on it??!! It is through the same people we have our car insurance through so, one would think that they would all be connected. The guy asks if we could get my husband on the phone so that he can give verbal approval for the insurance co. to talk to me. I was breathing fire at this point. Still am really. Why is that? I understand for security purposes, but if I have all the info needed and set the dang policy up, why do I need to get my husband's approval to ask and receive an answer to a simple question? That poor guy on the other end of the phone probably added a note like this to our account: "Woman is insane, be careful when speaking to her, she might reach through the phone and choke you!"

FHE cookies

For FHE last night, we baked a box of cookies and decorated them. The kids had a blast decorating their bears.

this is what was left of Josh's bear... :)

ta da!

hop on pop and rub-a-dub

When Clyde came home last night, he was exhausted. His school soccer team had a game, so it was a long day for him. His team won 8-2. Clyde was so tired that he didn't notice the kids climbing on him.

After FHE last night, the babies needed to wash the sticky off of them.

knitting needle accident

Yesterday, Maylee and Mark came for a visit. We were having our quiet day, so no tv. The children were supposed to be cleaning up their rooms, since they failed to do it the day before. So, I sat down to work on a sweater that I have started for Penny, for Christmas. I want to throw it really. It is a k2, p2 rib, but as I increase it, under the arms, it is hard for me to remember which way to increase and in which order. I know that I am supposed to knit it to increase it, even on the purl stitches, but it just doesn't look as pretty as Shena's. I ended up with some p3's and k3's instead of 2's. So, this morning, while waiting in the dentist's office again, I ended up taking out those stitches and beginning again. Hopefully this time it'll look right. Anyway, back to last night. I have mentioned before that Maylee's friend Mark knits and crochets. So, due to boredom, he in a way asked if he could knit something. I gave him a ball of cotton yarn and some straights for him to start a dishcloth or something. We are chatting and he asks hypothetically if a knitting needle could puncture someone. I said yes, depending upon how hard it was thrusted into their body. I mean come on, it is an aluminum, pointed stick. With the right pressure it could do some serious harm. After a few minutes of knitting, he thought that crocheting the dishcloth would be faster, so he switched to a crochet hook instead. Close to 20 minutes or so roll, by and he has crocheted probably 3-5 inches already. He went to move to get comfy on the recliner and all I heard was a "Yelp!" It turned out that as he moved, he flopped back into the chair and a knitting needle that he had been using moved too and as he moved back, he jousted himself, with the knitting needle in his tailbone. It drew blood! Ouch!! So, I guess he answered his own question...and the answer is yes, it is a fact that a knitting needle can puncture skin. Just FYI!

talent show

Last night, our girls were in their school's talent show. Erin's whole class was involved. They sang and danced to Josh Groban's "You Raise Me Up." There were singers, musicians, flag bearers, and dancers. It was pretty amazing to see. This was taken right before they went on stage.
Here is a soloist and the dancers in the back...see Erin?
Then, when the singer sang, "you raise me up," the dancers raised up a classmate. This boy did a great job for being in front of a big audience.
Then towards the end of the song, all the students got together and sang the chorus. This is Erin belting it out! (The girl in the front looks mad...) After they sang, they ended it with the pledge of allegiance. Again, they did a prem-o job!!
Libby was also in the talent show. She and her friend Tori drew this picture together. Libby even drew her highlights. I think that this is a beautiful drawing of friendship!! I am so proud of my talented girls!! Libby really enjoyed the talent show. Thankfully, Erin's class went first, so we didn't have to stay the whole time. However, Libby had such excitement for each of the acts that we stayed for a few more of them. There was one act, where there were four girls who did a routine to the song, "We are Family." After their cute dance, Libby leaned in and said, "They aren't really family," with such sass. She had some sassy comment after each act. Libby was totally bummed when we wanted to leave. The other children went to some friends' house, from our ward to play, so we really needed to go fetch them. We had a fun night of watching the talents of our girls!

fire!

Around 5ish yesterday evening, we heard fire trucks that were really close. We live near a fire station, so we hear them scream by, several times a week. This time they sounded alot closer. It turns out that a townhouse on our street, was on fire. There was a big crowd of neighbors outside our house. The children were all scared. To be honest, this was a bit unnerving. As we were leaving for the talent show @ school, this is what it looked like. There were several more down the street to my right, but having this many fire trucks in one spot, was a sight. We also had EMS and fire chiefs as well. There were alot of lights twinkling on our street! It's good to know that we live so close to people who would be willing to risk their lives to save ours.

wall washers

Yesterday afternoon, I was washing our walls with the new magic erasers that I bought. Which BTW, if you haven't tried them, they are amazing! Apparently it looked fun, so I got a few helpers. They all volunteered to wash our walls. Usually, if my children burp at the table, as punnishment, they either loose 50 cents out of their allowance, or they have to wash a wall. I thought that they wouldn't want to help, but seeing the handprints and the grime erase before their eyes, they were excited to help out. Crayon erased too, with no scrubbing! Our nieces left us a few pieces of wall art to be erased. I thought that they all looked cute scrubbing away.

Yes, I know, it is the afternoon, and Penny is still in her pj's. It was that kind of day yesterday. We got a frantic phone call from Erin saying that she had left her tights @ home and needed them for her dress rehearsal, for the talent show. I loaded up the kiddies, and took her some tights. Then we drove to the new house to make sure that the power was on. Then it was off to the bank and then to Target to get a few cleaning supplies. So, had Erin not called and we had more time to get Penny dressed, she would've been in her day clothes and not her pj's. But once we got home, we ate lunch and put 3 children down for naps so again, why get her dressed to take a nap? I packed some more boxes once I knew that the babies were all asleep. Wow, do we have a lot of things that we can surely live without! :)