a picture update

I promised some pics and now I'm finally getting around to it, we did a really bad job of taking pictures for Easter... well we took pics but most of them were not very good. Thanks for all the suggestions and comments about my last post, Coleton is surprisingly doing better and now has plans on going to mission prep every Sunday morning which is way cool. He never went and got his ears pierced because my husband told him that they (the plasma place) wouldn't let him donate plasma for quite awhile if he did, so that kinda took some wind out of his sails. We all think he needs to be surrounded by positive people who can let him know how great he really is and what brings true happiness in life.

So the following is a small assortment of all that I've been working on

some Easter pics

our backyard with a view and a lawn that needs to be mowed

flowers that are also just weeds that occur all on their own but i think they are pretty so i leave them alone

starts of my spinach

peas, one of the few things i grow well

onions (started last year from seed) they look better this year

so here are some pics of my daughters dress, it was actually quite fun to make although i need so much more practice.

Coleton

You know whats incredibly frustrating? Little brothers that make my mom cry. If I may speak freely about how I think hopefully you'll understand. My brother since he turned 18 feels that he is now granted the right to be an angry ungrateful jerk, my parents have been walking on eggshells trying to understand what his problem is. I took him to dinner Thursday night hoping that he would relax and maybe tell me why he is so upset all of the sudden and of course he wont open up, I'm not 18 i don't understand. We were all wondering if he had done something bad or wrong and he was feeling guilty and doesn't want to talk but the more and more i talk or am around him i don't think that is the case, although he would love to find someone to get him in trouble and prove that he is in fact his own person and can do stupid stuff all on his own. He wants to move out of the house and i totally understand that feeling but he doesn't need to be such a jerk to the people who gave him life. He thinks he is going to go pierce his ears this week (like a little girl) what he doesn't understand is that i cant think of one "cool" white guy that has his ears pierced... honestly in the end they are all just creepy looking "use ta be's" that grew up and are scar'd from previous rebellion and stupidity. SO if he hasn't been doing drugs, hasn't been messing around with girls, hasn't been stealing things then what gives? The reason i think he is so backward is that he is 18 and Satan knows it and he is working really hard on getting him to mess up his whole young life. Coleton cant sleep, he cant find any peace, he cant talk to anyone who's been there done that, he's got it in his mind that were all hypocrites and liars when in fact he is just struggling against the biggest hypocrite and liar there ever was. We all want to take him down a dark ally and beat some sense into him but that's apparently not the best way to go about it (although I'd like to reason that it would be the quickest most effective way). I want to be his buddy and be able to know whats going on in his life so he doesn't cut ties with the whole fam, other than that i know that we'd all be open to suggestions... good grief.

Cache Valley Triathlon

June 12th is my first triathlon of 2010 and i'm pretty excited about it. I really enjoyed the variety of stuff to train for... not that i don't enjoy running but honestly this is more fun, plus it works muscles that i don't use when i just run. I'm gonna be doing the sprint version which is a 750 meter swim, 12.4 mile bike, and a 5k run, which makes this tri shorter than the first one i did so i'm hoping to knock off some time. I've been slacking with the posts because i haven't had the time to do them, but to update you I'll post a list of the things I've accomplished lately
- moved the dog house to the corner of the backyard
- started my warm weather seeds inside, transplanted the tomatoes into Dixie cups (I've got like 12 tomato plants, what the h was i thinking?)
- made makayla an Easter dress which she wants to wear everyday so i hid it also. (i'll post some pics someday) it was a fun project.
- planted my cool weather veggies outside and now i'm waiting for them to come out of the ground.
-mod podged some letters cut from cardboard to spell my kids names above their beds (not perfect but i like them)

so ya that's whats going on, and i really should get to bed cuz i'm apparently going to teach/talk at my little bro's adult roles class tomorrow about marriage (those poor kids)

i need a vaca

pics from our last vacation, its been awhile

while my son attempts to eat my hair and after watching old people who get paid to tour cities on the TV, I've decided i need a vacation. the only problem is that I'm not made of money, so my plan is to save ten dollars everyday that i work and stash it away for a decent get-away. I figure that by the time my anniversary comes around (in January) I'll have a fair amount to plan a trip. I don't think I'll let Jared know it'll be more of a surprise and there is less pressure that way too. Now i can fantasize about the best place to go :)