If you come to our house you might find at least one of The Hoard coloring. They have all decided that it is their favorite thing to do. More often than not our counter looks like this.
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Monday, September 26, 2011
Thorup Reunion
We had a reunion on Saturday for Trent's Grandma's family. It was a good time. My kids absolutely love Dodee and Papa and were pretty excited when we told them we were going to see them.
Friday, September 23, 2011
The Only Child
I only had one child today for 2 hours and 15 minutes. It was magical. Really. After we dropped the girls off at preschool, we went on a short, but steep walk per Oakley's request. After we sweat it out for a minute Oakley did this:



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I have a feeling I am going to love Fridays.
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Addendum
I got some pics from Jamie from our girls trip. And since they were some of the highlights of my trip I thought I would add them in.
First, my photogenic classes. As you can see I couldn't quite get it.

Next, our dinner at Chilis, where I tried to eat healthy. I did steal a few of Candice's fries and had some chips and salsa. But compared to what I used to eat, that was pretty dang good.
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Lazy in St. Geezy
I just got back from a very extended weekend in St. George with just (some of) the Jensen girls (plus the cutest little Miles). We went down Wednesday afternoon and had a wonderful, relaxing, lazy, good time.
We had a million and one magazines to go through in 5 days.


We went to a very little market at Tuachan, where I was able to restock my Scentsy stash.




Other highlights of the trip
*Trying to stay on my new diet while vacationing. I must admit I did pretty dang good. In fact I got broccoli instead of fries at Chilis and DID NOT eat some of Jenny's molten lava cake.
* Some pretty fierce games of Words With Friends where I had my highest word of 99 points. And I got Jill hooked which made it that much for fun sitting right next to her and playing.
*Getting to see baby Miles for the first time. He is so little and so perfect.
*Shopping, shopping, and more shopping. I had the best of luck with every store. Which isn't the best of luck for my savings....my tummy tuck is now further down the road.
*Photogenic classes. I had no idea how much went into being photogenic. I fear I am a lost cause though. I wasn't able to make my collar bone stick out, suck my neck in, look down, smile, and still look normal. Let's just say my sister-in-laws have skills. And wouldn't you agree they are all very photogenic?
*Getting to enjoy my Kozy Shack Tapioca, because I was on vacation. And being made fun of for having that as my treat.
*Watching the Utah game knowing Trent was loving every minute of it back home.
*Lots of pregnancy/fertility/adoption discussions. It took me back to my infertile psychotic days.
*Candice giving every one a wax (just eyebrows and staches) and me buying all the stuff so I can do it at home. We will actually see if I can do that to myself.
*Cuddling with Jill at night. Not really, but we did share a bed and had a great late night conversation and multiple games of Words.
Saturday, September 17, 2011
Potty Training???
I know, I said I was done with all this mumbo jumbo, but it appears Oliver may be on the verge of going potty in the potty.
Thursday, September 15, 2011
First Day of Preschool
My girls finally started Preschool. I had to work on their actual first day, so we did all their first day stuff today.



They were so excited for preschool that they tried leaving 1/2 hour early, but luckily I caught them. Remember when my boys went to preschool early and I didn't know they were gone for a half hour? If you don't you can read about it here.
So now I only have 2 kids (we have Oliver a few times a week) at home in the morning and it is so nice.
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Good Mom Moment
I finally had one, a good Mom moment. Yesterday morning I was making a list in my head all the things that I had to get gone, and it was a long list. In fact I still haven't completed the list. As the list was growing in my head Oakley came up to me and asked if I would play cards with her. My first thought-no, I have too much to do. But I actually put aside my usual selfish feelings and sat down and we played a killer game of War and Oakley loved it.
And just so you know, this good mom moment followed a lot of bad mom moments, like me getting so frustrated with Oakley as I tried to help her read, I really have no patience.

Its a shame really, my kids deserve more of these moments...but I am working on it.
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Garage Project
Well, like I said earlier we have had 2 projects in the works for a while now (one of them 2 1/2 years actually and that is not the one that is done). We, I mean Trent finally got one of them completed-the garage. We redid the garage so we could fit everything from our shed into it. You see, I want a fire pit area in the back yard, but the shed was in the way, so Trent went to work on solving that problem for me.



Saturday, September 10, 2011
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Oaks in Soccer
The boys and Oakley all started soccer last week, the problem is their games are on the exact same days and exactly the same times and in different cities. So, Trent and I have to divide and conquer.
I was assigned Oakley last week and it was the cutest thing I have ever seen. Oakley is a midget and to see her cruising around the field, kicking the ball, and heading into the "mosh pit" was awesome.


(I get the boys this week, so I will do a post on them after I get some pics.)
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
The Ward Campout
We had our Ward Campout this weekend. And Trent, being the good dad that he is, took all the kids by himself. You see, I was supposed to be running this race, but with my current foot problem I had to drop out. But since I was planning on running I didn't take the weekend off work, so after all was said and done I had to stay in town and be on call. Bummer.
Trent and the kids went up to Heber Valley, which in my book isn't real camping, but it works. the kids had fun around the camp fire roasting hot dogs and marshmallows.


And they got to sit and listen to something. Not sure what it is but I liked them all lined up. And of course Oakley was sitting with our neighbor girls.

I think the kids had a fun time running around, getting dirty, and playing with their friends. Naturally, Aiden was the only one that did the obstacle course. He loved it.


The rest of my weekend also included a dinner at Pei Wei, which was horrible. It took me 30 to get my food and then they didn't bring Brooke's food for another 20 minutes. Seriously it was pretty bad. On Saturday I slept in, did a visit for work, had a visit with Maga, went to lunch with Brooke, Heidi, and Teri, did some more shopping and finally came home to be reunited with The Hoard.
It was a great weekend.
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