Monsters!

To stick with the monster theme, I am going with green today.

My son Dawson, age 3, was talking about his new tent. Our very one sided conversation is as follows:
D: It has monsters in it.
K: No I will beat them up.
D: It does! There are monsters there. But they don't have beds, They just have monster trucks!

He is very funny! We love to have our little guy around.
TTFN,
Kins

Toooo long!

Checking out my blog just now, I realized that almost three years have passed since I last wrote and I have decided to hit the highlights (and some of the low ones) that have occurred since then. They are in no particular order, so don't be confused if most of it doesn't make sense.

1. I had a beautiful baby girl, Brooklyn Marie. Born March 14, 2008. It was a long and painful pregnancy. I had difficulty with circulation in my legs and spent much of the last six weeks with my legs in support tights (very uncomfortable) with my feet elevated.
2. I wore support tights. Do you have any idea how incredibly difficult it is to put tights on over an eight month stuffed stomach? I do. Check out more info on that.
3. My brother, Chad, married the coolest girl I know, besides myself of course! They were married last December in the SLC temple! It was totally awesome!
4. I quit the "awesome" job I had at Lifetime Fitness. I never got the promised promotion (there will be no more on that) and so I left the company. I was very sad to let allmy "babies" go, but hopefully they are in good hands. Forunately I still have contact with many of them, so I don't get too lonely for the stinky health club.
5. I quit my job to get pregnant and shouted to the sky "This had better be a girl, or we are having a very serious conversation when I get home." It was then that I realized with that attitude, i may not get home. So i tucked my head like a good girl and said sorry. I got one anyways.
6. I have a permanent image of "Rocky" being played by Dale. On the day of the babe's sono to determine sex, we saw a girl. There was much rejoicing in the land. I laid there and cried, like the big silly girl I am, and Dale did a victory dance with his hands in the air. Kind of hopping in a circle. I think it was more that I was totally excited to not be having another boy.
7. Chase got really cool stuff in his travels with the Navy. I am so proud of him. He is really kicking so me booty with all that and I thin kis really going places with this career path.
8. Dawson turned three and I didn't kill him. He is also mostly potty trained. Night are sometimes not so good, but he does great.
9. Jeffrey went to first grade and is reading up a storm. He is the smartest kid I know. He has a grasp of learning that I am not sure anyone can keep up with him.
10. Dylan started preschool at Apple Creek, and absolutely loves it. His teachers Ms. Karen and Ms. Ashley are fantastic and do a wonderful job with him.
11. Brooklyn is a chatter box. We aren't sure where that comes from, but it couldn't be from me!! She is also trying to walk all by her big self.
12. We did buy a house. It is great.
13. We had our house updated during March and April (when the baby was and did come.) It was hectic and crazy, but it is wonderful to live in such a great house.
14. I can't think of anything else to write about, but this is my favorite number and I didn't want to leave it hanging.

Merry Christmas!

New Job!

I have a new job! I am going to love it! It is with Lifetime Fitness, in their Child care center. It is one of the nicest child care centers that I have ever seen. I don't have many hours, but that is okay. I don't really need the money, but I thought the work would be a good experience.

The perks are incredible. I get a membership, have to work out (oh, darn, I really wanted to keep all my pregnant fat), and I can take my two older kids with me. The infant will stay home with a sitter until he is walking and can be in an area with a higher child to care giver ratio. That's okay. I will miss him, though.

I am almost done with school. I have about four weeks left. I have two tests, a couple of labs and a research paper due in Astronomy. In walking I have a few projects, but nothing to exhausting. I have had such a good time in my classes this semester. My teachers are incredible and I have good groups that I study with and workout with. Only four classes to go and I have my associates. That is going to be the best day. I will actually graduate, and it will be with Honors with track I am on. Thrilling beyond my imagination!! I have started looking into different Universities and the programs they offer in my area of study. I would really like to do a distance learning class, but I am not sure if I have the discipline it would take to do that. I would have to take one class at a time and that would take me years to complete. I think I just need to find something close to home.

We don't have an official confirmation, but we are supposed to be getting a contract sent to our realtor for a house that we have place an offer on. We have the verbal commitment, now we are waiting for the signing and faxing by the other party and away we go. If all goes well, we close in 20 days and have three weeks to move out of our apartment. I am stoked!!!

I think that I have been having a really good day today. There are so many things that are going right. Dale (the super guy who wanted to marry me) is the best, we are totally in love. My kids are excellent. They have some allergy issues, but other than that they are doing terrific. Dawson is growing by leaps and bounds. He is 6 months old now and has started to scoot all over the place. I can't believe it and yet I see it every day. It is truly a miracle. Dylan is just amazing too. His language has just flown through the roof and people think he is Jeff because he is speaking so well. He is generally sending us into fits of giggles because of his antics. Jeff is curious and busy as ever. He is doing really well in his Primary class and is learning so much about life. He is a sponge. He too is gaining a sense of humor and a love of life that is refreshing and invigorating. They just had new pics over Easter Weekend, so they will be up for the looking soon.
Life is great and things are wonderful. I am loving it!!

Have a good one!!!

Quirky behavior

I am a very strange person sometimes. Anyone who knows me can testify to that.

I would also consider myself with having a bit of a self-esteem issue. I bring this up because there are times in my life when something happens that I have absolutely no control over and I really let it get me down. I shouldn't because it really has nothing to do with me, but for some reason I just take it personally, get offended, feel slighted and generally mope about. (I would be doing this exact thing, right now!)

I wonder if other people do this? I think the answer is that everyone does this at some point or another. I also think that the key is to realize that not everyone is going to speak the same "language" as you and you just need a bit of an interpreter or to become "bi-lingual" yourself. I have a fabulous husband to be that interpreter for me. He is just the greatest. His thinking a bit different from mine and he is able to, as a third party, give me insight into others motivations that I am not able to see. What a winner!

Now that I have sufficiently moped, I am over it, I will not be eating a pack of thin mints (see homeshopkinsz.blogspot.com) to drown my sorrow and feel fat about. I got over it almost all by myself. Have a party, I am making some progress in becoming less self-absorbed.

Have a good one!