What have you done??

I got this from my friend Karen's blog and thought it would be fun to do on ours. Go through the list and make the one's in bold that you have done. Enjoy!

1. Started your own blog
2. Slept under the stars
3. Played in a band
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than you can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyland
8. Climbed a mountain (that mountain in Oahu??)
9. Held a praying mantis
10. Sang a solo
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty
18. Grown your own vegetables
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France
20. Slept on an overnight train
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitch hiked
23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill( many times, lol)
24. Built a snow fort
25. Held a lamb
26. Gone skinny dipping (everyone must try this once, its invigorating :-)
27. Run a Marathon
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice
29. Seen a total eclipse
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Hit a home run.
32. Been on a cruise
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
35. Seen an Amish community
36. Taught yourself a new language
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
39. Gone rock climbing
40. Seen Michelangelo’s David
41. Sung karaoke
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
44. Visited Africa
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight
46. Been transported in an ambulance ( only with my sick son, not fun)
47. Had your portrait painted
48. Gone deep sea fishing
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling ( in Hawaii, so fun)
52. Kissed in the rain
53. Played in the mud
54. Gone to a drive-in theater
55. Been in a movie
56. Visited the Great Wall of China
57. Started a business ( try it just once, you have to earn your own money)
58. Taken a martial arts class
59. Visited Russia
60. Served at a soup kitchen
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies
62. Gone whale watching
63. Got flowers for no reason
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma
65. Gone sky diving
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
67. Bounced a check(can we say college days?)
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten Caviar
72. Pieced a quilt ( making my first one now for Andrew)
73. Stood in Times Square
74. Toured the Everglades
75. Been fired from a job
76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London
77. Broken a bone.
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person
80. Published a book
81. Visited the Vatican
82. Bought a brand new car ( those days are over)
83. Walked in Jerusalem
84. Had your picture in the newspaper(when I was 7)
85. Read the entire Bible
86. Visited the White House
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
88. Had chickenpox ( when I was 13, how embarrassing!)
89. Saved someone’s life
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous
92. Joined a book club
93. Lost a loved one ( our son, it still hurts after 6 years)
94. Had a baby ( 3 boys)
95. Seen the Alamo in person
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake
97. Been involved in a law suit
98. Owned a cell phone
99. Been stung by a bee
100. Made amends with someone who offended you
101. Flew in a small Cessna plan with just you and the pilot
02. Ran out of gas ( of all places, on the way home from temple)
103. Eaten fried okra
104. Swam in the Caribbean Sea
105. Peed in a swimming pool ( come on, who hasn't)
106. Rented a beach house
107. Hosted an exchange student
108. Been a Secret Santa to a family in need
109. Worked on a political campaign
110. Coached a sports team
111. Gone kayaking in the ocean
112. Spent the night on purpose in an airport

I am back!

Holy Cow! It has been awhile since I posted to our family blog. I am making a promise, at least to myself, that I will at least post once a month. Please come read our blog regurlarly as I will be posting pics as well.

So much has been going on with our family, some good and some bad. Last month our entire sewer line collapsed in our 50+ year old home. It was not fun but you learn to be very creative when you have no water you can use or it just comes up in the basement. You can only imagine how creative we had to be when using the potty, you can fill in the blanks here and use your imagination. I'm so grateful to have running water and plumbing. I don't know how the pioneers did it! We made it through but not before it costing us $3,000 to get a new line put in. Oh well, Andrew really didn't need us to pay for college anyways :P.

Aside from that, the economy is not affecting us at all. Tony has been busy at the shop and I've been more than busy with daycare. I watch 8 kids total, sometimes their all here on the same day but thank goodness mostly not. Its fun somedays and on the 8 kids day, it makes me glad I only have 2 kids, wheww, I don't know how those big mormon families do it! We are blessed though. Andrew and Skyler are doing very well in school and Andrew is glad its almost over for him. He will graduate next year, WAAAAAAAAA, is what I say. My baby will be off to college and then a mission. Am I really that old?! Life is fun though. I will write more later, nap time is over for my daycare kids. Please come back and read more soon. I wish everyone a very HAPPY THANKSGIVING! Hope everyone can relax a little. I know I will since I have a 4 day weekend, woohoooooooooooooooo! I actually want to get some sewing done. I have jammies and a skirt that are calling my name so that is what I will be doing. Bye for now.......

Stuff

Hello everyone!

Its hard to believe school is almost done for the boys and then its "PARTY TIME"! We have so many fun things we want to do this summer. Tony has already started racing down at Rocky Mountain Raceway which he is having fun doing. We will have even more fun now that he quit working at the spa. It just wasn't working out for him. He still enjoys massages but didn't enjoy working at the spa. Andrew is keeping busy doing construction. He does cement work with his friend and his friends dad. He recently got his hair dyed black with blue tips. It sounds crazy but looks really good on him. Skyler is just having fun like a 12 yr old should. Tony took me to the gun range yesterday and I shot his guns for the first time. He has a handgun and a 22 rifle. I did pretty good if I don't say so myself and hit the target. We are having so much fun together lately since our kids are always gone. We do everything together and next week we will have been married 18 years. Its so fun now that our kids are older. We can take off and do whatever we want now. We paid our dues and now its time for us to have fun. Here are pics of Tony's 1980 Monza Spider car. Until next time, have a great summer!

Happy 17th Birthday Andrew!

What a busy time this is for our family. Andrew had his 17th birthday 2 weeks ago and had his friends over and he had a good time. Things have been so busy for our family that I haven't been able to post on my blog FOREVER! Here is an update on our family:

Tony is keeping really busy at his shop. This is his busy time of year when everyone wants to fix up their cars. He's been fixing up his car as well. He has a 1980 Chevy Monza Spider and he got to race it for the first time on Friday at Rocky Mountain Raceway. His time was 19 seconds so it wasn't very fast. He is going to do some modifications to try and make it faster. We love to watch him race and go to the racetrack. One of these days I am going to race his car. Believe it or not, I have a leadfoot too and would love to be a racer! Anyways, I haven't seen much of him these days with his busy schedule at the shop. He still is also working at the spa on Saturdays.

Andrew is working with his friend and his friends dad doing cement work after school. Things have been slow right now and he is hoping it will pick up when school gets out or he'll have to get another job. He is an official driver now that he has insurance on his car. He loves his independence and goes everywhere by himself now. I just have to have faith everytime he walks out that door that he will be okay. He is so grown-up and we're so proud of him for the good son he is to us. He's fixed up his car inside to just the way he wants it with flame seat covers and steering wheel cover and floor mats. He loves flames!

Skyler is just a cute kid and a good son too. He mostly spends his days playing video games after-school and hasn't really been busy with anything lately. I feel bad sometimes cause I forget he is still little ( to me anyways :-) ) and us older ones get so busy with our lives that he gets put on the back burner and we forget he is here. He keeps to himself and is so good. This summer though we will be at the pool at least twice a week so I'll get to have fun with him then.

Me, I am always busy. I have taken up sewing again and have been having so much fun with it sewing things. I made Tony and I some shorty P.J bottoms out of flannel so they are cozy yet cool for summer. I also made me a skirt! Surprisingly enough they all turned out great and everything fit! My next projects will be more skirts for summer. I am going to see if I can go the whole summer without wearing any pants, fun huh? Not naked! Wearing skirts , sheesh!! I am still busy with my daycare as usual too but I love it! I love being home with my kids!

Well, thats a wrap up on our family. More to come, enjoy the pictures! Happy Spring!

Change brings growth is what they say

Change is what we have been going through this week. Our ward got split last week and we were put into a new ward that is just being formed. I knew me and Tony would probably get a calling this week and we did. I got called to be the 1st counselor in the Primary Presidency and Tony is a ward clerk. I have had this exact calling 2 years before so I am very familiar with what I will be doing. The only thing is we don't have any teachers called yet for this week so the presidency will have to come up with something to keep the kids busy for 2 hours. Tony is excited about his calling obviously. He loves doing business type things since he has a business and he knows this will be a calling he'll have for awhile. I should have my calling for a while too so there won't be anymore change for us.
I have been really sick too this week. All my daycare kids were coughing on me last week and I just knew I would be sick. Thats the only downfall to this job is I get coughed on, puked on, pooped on, and constant sticky fingers touching me all day long. I'm getting sick of the germs from germy kids! I love the kids not their germs.
I'll let you know how our callings go. For now this is all since I need to go lay down. I have the day off today so I'm going to rest and try to get over this flu bug I have so I can do the same thing again next week. Have a good weekend!

Spring is almost here!

Yeah, spring is almost here and the weather is getting nicer. Our family has been so busy with so many things keeping us busy.
I have a full daycare now with 7 kids which is great! It really keeps me busy but I enjoy it cause I get to be home for our kids.
Tony just got a job at the New Image Day Spa as a massage therapist. He loves it! He has been wanting to do this for years since he got his license 10 years ago. He only works on Saturday from 3-9pm so he has most of the day off and he is on call a couple other nights. I love it cause I get to reap the benefits while he does the work. How convienient for me :-). Last night he did a massage and I went over there with him and they told me I could use their hydro therapy tub while I was waiting for him. I'm not complaining, no siree!
Andrew is so busy with working at the high school and then going on dates on the weekends that I never see him. We were able to have a mother/son day out last Saturday at the salon getting our hair done. Andrew dyed his hair black with maroon highlights and it looks awesome! He and his friends started a band and he wanted to look the part. I don't care what he looks like cause I know whats inside and he's a good kid. I'm so proud of him and Skyler.
That is all for now, I'll post more pics later.....
Happy Spring everyone!

NO MORE WINTER!!

I am so tired of all this snow here! It just keeps snowing and its so dang cold here that I just want to jet out of here to somewhere warm, its making me crazy! Okay, I've made my gripe for the day.

We are doing well though. I have to look at our blessings. None of us have been sick this winter (yet) and we are both keeping busy with our jobs which is a blessing. This time of year really slows down at the shop for Tony and my daycare fluctuates a lot so right now we are blessed. Last week I went to a funeral and a wedding reception. The funeral was for the sweetest lady in our ward that I met after Trevor died. Her husband is buried right in front of Trevor so we would run into eachother often at the cemetary and we became close friends. She was only 69 but had been through a lot this last year with her daughter dying of cancer and then she got in a bad car accident in November which she was wearing a neck brace for and then she got pneumonia which she couldn't get better from. She is happy now which makes me happy but I will never forget her warm embraces whenever she saw me and her laugh and smile. I'll miss you LaRae!

Then there was one of the YW who got married who I got to work with when I was in YW's. She is so cute and it was weird seeing her in a wedding gown. She looked like a baby playing dress-up even though she's 19. Then I remember, oh yeah, I was only 19 when Tony and I got married. Man, how time flies!

Tony and Skyler just got done last week taking a hunter safety course and they have been enjoying target shooting quite a bit. Tony wants to buy a hand gun shortly and get his concealed weapons permit so he is protected. He has really enjoyed shopping for guns to see which one he wants to buy. He eventually wants me to have one too to protect myself since I work here at home alone with kids all day. I'm not as enthusiastic about the whole idea as Tony but it would be fun to go shooting with him for fun.

I just got a new look done yesterday cause I needed a change with this cold winter so I chopped my hair off as you can see. I love it! Its maintenance free now and so cute on me if I don't say so myself. Tony loves my hair short and he's always wanted to have me look like this. So that is what I did to cheer me up when its cold. This is all for now since I've written a novel here. Hope everyone is well. Take care now..........

Diane and family :-)

pics of Christmas

Happy New Year!!

I decided I would start a blog for our family. So many of our family lives away from us that this would be a great way to share about our family.

Our family had a great Christmas this year! We were truly blessed! Andrew and Skyler recieved more than they should have but Andrew was able to be generous this year since he has a job now. He bought me an Ipod Nano and I screamed when I opened it! I have been wanting one of these for sooooooo long to store our family pics and my favorite music on forever. Of course, I could never justify buying one when the family always needs something. I told him he shouldn't have spent that much on his mom but he told me that after all the things I've done for him over the years I deserved it cause I was great mom. WAAAAAAA! What mom doesn't wait for the day that she hears her child say this to her. Anyways, he spoiled me.
Tony and I were able to get-away for one night and stay in a hotel for New Year's Eve. It was so nice to be alone and enjoy being together. We both have been working so hard and hardly see eachother anymore.
Tony is keeping busy at the shop now the holidays are over. He still works alone but thats the way he prefers it as he can get more done without employee's to have to babysit. I'm full in my daycare and somedays I wonder why I don't just get a real job. I have good days and bad and some kids and parents are tolerable and some aren't.

Anyways, tonite Skyler is going to take a math test to see if he can skip Pre-algebra in jr. high cause he is so advanced. I'll let you all know how that goes. Have a great weekend!