9-18-2007

Geez! Sorry Heidi! Thanks for kicking my rear in gear! I've been a busy, busy mom/wife/full time employee! Since my last post:

I turned 27! Derrick, Shayli and Rad spoiled me this year. They gave me a sirius radio, flowers, jewelery and a way fun PS2 game. Valeri gave me an awesome shirt and Valeri and Alex (They aren't a couple :)) pitched in together and bought me a PS2 game too. The PS2 games that I got are karaoke games called Rockstar and Popstar and Hole-E-Cow they are so fun. Shayli and I rock out all of the time now. It's really fun. Then on Saturday Derrick and I got to go out ALL BY OURSELVES. No kids, and that was awesome. I love my kids, but I loved holding Derrick's hand without trying to push a stroller at the same time.

We had a great visit with Amy, Jared, Tavin, Andrew, Samantha, Heidi and Ben. Not long enough, but so good to visit with them. I miss them already though! I have the cutest nephews and neice ever. We fed the bears with them as you will see from their respective blogs and ti was a way cool experience.

Shayli started 5th grade on September 4th and I swear that she turned super independent over night. The day before school started she was holding my hand and walking through WalMart. Now she's SO grown up and gets so embarassed about it. Ahhh, she's growing up.

Rad is such a funny boy. He loves to work outside with Derrick and he loves to talk on the phone when he is at work with mom. Only he doesn't use the phone. He uses anything he can find, and if he can't find anything, he babbles into his hand while he holds it up to his ear. Very cute.

Derrick has been hard at work rebuilding his 4runner and fixing our hot tub and building Shayli's tree house before the snow comes. It rained a lot today and we know that the snow is not far off. We had to turn our gas stove on today for heat... I am not looking forward to the winter power bills.

Derrick's parents are living with us until their house is put onto their property sometime next month. Wayne has been in Alaska moose hunting so we haven't seen him at the house yet but having Wanda here has been great. The kids love playing with her and I love coming home to a vaccuumed floor! She's a really neat lady and I have really enjoyed getting to know her better.

The highlight of the last month for me has been able to get away by myself and watch Shane's football games. Sandpoint High School football rules! Last Friday was the 10 year reunion of when my calls won state and they recognized the team at Shanes game and it was really neat to see some of the guys I graduated with. They all pretty much looked the same. Stupid thing though, my senior year I dropped my keys under the bleacher and lost them during a football game and at the reunion on Friday I did the same thing. Grrrr, I did find them eventually though, thank to Uncle Paul!

I'll start staying better on top of my blogging...