Oquirrh Mountain Temple Dedication

I didn't want to miss a chance to post about the Oquirrh Mountain Temple dedication. We went to the Sunday dedication with my Dad. It was great and I enjoyed listening to Elder Uchtdorf and Pres Monson. Pres Monson started with a funny joke about Elder Uchtdorf. It made me laugh. I felt the spirit strongly of the truthfulness of the Temple and what takes place in them. I am grateful for the opportunity they give me to be sealed to my family. It has been a wonderful experience for our family to be able to see it be built. Scott and I went attended a session there a week after they opened. I loved it! I really do love being able to see the temple everyday and have that daily presence in mine and my family's life. I plan on attending often and am exciting for the blessings that it can bring.

While I am bearing testimony of the gospel, I was sitting in Sunday School last week and we were watching a video on Joseph Smith and what he has done for the church. I truly felt the spirit testify of Joseph Smith and the gospel he restored. He was an amazing man. I know that he truly was a prophet of God. I am grateful for all the he endured.

ThE bOy!

JAX:

My crazy sweet little boy! As I held him tonight in the rocking chair, snuggling, I thought to myself "I wouldn't trade you for a girl" I really do love having a boy. As I have mentioned SEVERAL times, the past year with Jax was rough but I sure do love him to pieces. I really do love having a boy.

In the past few months Jax's vocabulary has pretty much exploded. He talks a lot and he is getting to the point where he says a lot of funny things too. I love this stage of talking. It cracks me up. His favorite-and most commonly-used phrase lately is "Not Me!" As in "Who made this mess" to which he responds "Not Me!" or "Jax did you hit JJ?" to which he will say "Not Me!" or "Who wants to go to bed?" Jax says "Not me!" He puts good use to those two words. The other one he says that kills me is "I had it first" Now we know that Scott and I are never using that phrase so you know he learned it from his devoted sister! It's ok though because he tries to boss her as well. Many times when Jade is whining for something Jax will say "Not now JJ!" The first time I heard him say it I laughed out loud. If he does something that makes someone say "ouch" he will quickly say "Dat hurt?" Followed by "Sorry, sorry, sorry" His newest phrase is "I don't have it". I heard it for the first time the other day. Jax had found some money on the ground. Scott told him to give it to him. Jax said no a few times and finally put his hands behind his back and said "I don't have it." We both laughed...he thought he had really fooled us. The best was yesterday when we were asking him to put a basketball away. Of course he didn't want to. Finally, he sat down on the ground, put the basketball behind him on the floor (so the ball was now between Jax and Scott) and said "I don't have it!" It was so dang funny! Another favorite was "Dat Awesome!" when I threw him in the air the other day! I know, I could go on and on. He is just entering the stage where everything he says is pretty funny.

I laugh that he can't just wake up in the morning or from his nap with a simple "Mom!" or "I Over and over and over and over again until I come. He YELLS it! Sporadically he will throw in a awake" He gets my attention by yelling "MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMM" "I woke up!" but most of the time I just get "MMMOOOOOMMMM" in his deap litle voice. Good thing he if I wait till he is awake enough to be yelling this, he is always awake enough to be so happy to see me when I walk in. If by some chance I have to wake him up or if I go in before he has been awake and feel oriented for a few minutes, he is a BEAR to deal with!

I am please to say that he is starting to request to watch a show from time to time and will watch it for about one minute. Yes....we are making progress. And, if for some reason I am still in bed when he gets up in the morning, I can go and get him out of his bead and turn a show on for him in my room and he may even sit on the bed with me for 5 min!!!! That is what I call progress.

He still loves to be outside or out of the house. If he is watching a show in the car and we pull in the drive way he will go into hysterics "NO! NO! I don't wanna go to bed!" because it is usually either nap time or bed time. The other day he was out riding his bike with Jade while I brought some things in from the car. 3 min later Jade comes in (door was open the entire time) and I ask where Jax is. She has no idea-hasn't seen him. Odd. So I realize he has taken off. I tell Scott and we both walk out the door and directly towards the park. At the edge of the park I can see his trike and there he is, at the playground, just digging as though everything was perfectly ok. Needless to say he was VERY upset when we took him directly back home telling him he can't leave and go play by himself. Seriously....he rode with trike (well he doesn't peddle it, just pushes along with his feet) all the way to the park. Busy Neighborhood roads? Eh...he didn't care. Scary!

He throws the huge full fledged tantrums when he is mad. As in lay on the ground screaming, type tantrums. And....they come without warnings at time. He also will throw and push anything he can reach when he gets mad. He has also started giving a scowl and crossing him arms when he gets ticked. The only good part is that his tantrums don't last long. He does get time outs at time, but most the time it works best for me just to ignore or distract him. If he does do something warranting a time out, I put him in his crib. He hates being in there when it isn't bed time so he will calm down pretty quick and as soon as I open the door he says "Sorry mom, sorry mom!"

He is still no fun to take to Sacrament meeting. Last Saturday I told someone I seriously dread Sunday's because of it. He just can't sit for longer than 2 min. He is loud and wants to be running around. Makes me feel like I can't control my own kid. Needless to say, we usually spend 90% of the meeting walking the halls. Good thing he loves nursery.

He is very good when we say prayers. He folds his arms and keeps his eyes closed the entire time. If Jade is saying the prayer he will usually repeat 1/2 of what she says. He has even taken to instructing Jade on prayers "Close your eyes JJ"

And still, when all is said and done, he can be the sweetest little thing. He loves to give loves. He will walk up to me randomly through out the day and say "Mama!" and give me a love. He gets so excited to see me after I have been gone. He lets me rock and sing to him at night. I just love him....tantrums and all....he is the cutest little boy ever who with his smile and "sorry mama" can melt my heart!

ThE GiRL! An update.....

(She told me I needed to take her picture yesterday because she loved her boots with her outfit. She thought she looked FANTASTIC and lucky for her....I let her choose her shoes when she goes to daycare. Today she wore hello kitty socks with her flip flop slippers. And her pose? Yeah...that is all her as well. )

Miss Jade:

Is Sassy. This summer has taken an interesting turn as my cute little 4 year old has started to fill in her sassy shoes. I don't dig it, but I realize we are only in the beginning of the sassiness. Won't the next 15 years be fun? They will.

This summer has also taken a toll on her t.v. shows. We have switched from Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, BackYardigans, Etc to Hannah Montana, I Carly, and Zach and Cody. It's been interesting to see it evolve but the switch has definitely been made. She L.O.V.E.S Hannah Montana (as evidence in the previous post) The only cartoon that she still really likes and will choose to watch is Max and Ruby. Maybe it's the older sister, little brother thing. Who knows.

She can still be sweet as can be when she wants. She still loves to snuggle and gives kisses and loves being held. She loves when we play games with her, or will sit and snuggle her on the couch.

She can torment her little brother by taking things he wants and making him chase her and scream to get them back. She laughs, and I go crazy. But she loves him and will defend him to no end to anyone else.

She is very in tune with feelings and knowing when you may need a pick me up. Even her babysitter talked about this the other day. She will just come up to me sometimes and say "Mom...I really love your shirt today." or "Mom, you look beautiful. I love your face, I love your make-up" It's so sweet and makes me smile every time.

The past few days she has been very into coloring me pictures, putting LOTS of stickers on them, and having me hang them on the wall by my work computer. I think I need to get some frames or something because the pictures taped to the wall may not be the best idea. I love them, and don't mind at all that it is the first thing most would see when they come to my house.

She is ECSTATIC to be starting preschool. She can not wait. She is very done and ready to be moving on from Daycare and loves that the only day she will be going to daycare now is on "gas station day (Friday's)" That alone makes it worth going to Daycare that day! She is also starting dance at a new place this year. It is going to be VERY different than last year. Much more strict. We'll see how that goes.....She is taking Ballet, Jazz/Hip Hop, and Gymnastics. I know, a lot, and if she doesn't like it, we won't do it next year, but she chose to do 3 classes.

I already worry about her "friend" issues. She wants to be "Best Friends Forever" (her words, not mine) with everyone. That is good, but the problem is that there are already little girls that aren't very nice. I hate...HATE thinking she will have friend issues like I did. Seriously, just makes me want to cry just thinking about it. I REALLY want to install in her that the most important thing is that she needs to be nice to everyone but doesn't have to be friends with everyone-especially the mean girls. I have already seen her get her feelings hurt by some girls and then when they do talk to her she gets overjoyed. It bugs me. I just keep hoping that with her very outgoing personality she can have enough other friends to not have to worry about the ones that aren't always nice. Sigh. She's 4. Why are girls like this?

She is still dramatic. The things she says are HILARIOUS. She thinks she is 16. She loves to call people "darling" and even to bigger kids she will mother them and say things like "Oh come here hunny, I can help you" The other day she called me "My love" and also will say things like "Girl, that shirt is so cute!" She is spunky. And she still gets crazy upset if anyone ever does ANYTHING to me that she finds not appropriate or nice. I love her to pieces and can not imagine life without her. And for the record....she still sleeps in my bed. :) One day she may be embarrassed for sleeping with my for so long-but not now. She gets upset when we read Fancy Nancy books because Fancy Nancy's room is fancier than her's. I keep telling her that if she actually slept in her room, I might actually let her decorate it. (side note: She is actually asleep in her room right now. I made her go in there. She did have the little dvd player on watching a show, but none the less, she is asleep-in her bed. Wow....if she stays there it will be the 2nd time in the past year. I'm not kidding)

When she says her prayers that mainly consist of "Please keep mommy very, very, very safe and please keep daddy very, very, very safe and please keep my mom and dad VERY safe when they drive. Too cute.

And finally- we have had the following coverstations this week:

-One night Scott went home teaching. We were leaving to run errands so I told Scott when we left we would see if he was walking home and we would pick him up. Well, we couldn't find him so Jadyn said "Maybe he fell in love with someone else and left us" I laughed. That was odd

- A few days later in the car "Mom...I love you so much. When you get older, I won't sell you. I will still love you. Daddy will probably think you are too old for our family and will want to sell you but I won't let him"

-The day after that "Mom I don't want you to die. I would be so sad if you died. I wouldn't have a mother. If daddy found another women (ha! she said women) I would be so mad at him. You know like GRandpa Roy did with Belva? Well I don't want dad to do that. (Brandee- I then thought of you) ok? You tell him that"

She is funny...has a mind of her own. I love her to pieces and I will never sell her either! :)

Her latest self portrait!

She insisted on taking a pic of us as well.

Last 1/2 for the Summer!

YAY!!!! My last 1/2 marathon for the summer is over. I am VERY happy about that. Training for it in the summer has been a little hard. My friend-who moved to WA last summer- was in town and she ran a 1/2 in June so we decided to run this one together. I had to get up at 3:30 a.m.!!! A little too early for me. I picked her up at 4:45. We had plenty of time to get there, but their directions were awful and we ended up lost. We stopped to ask directions and some guy in the Mcdonalds parking lot saw us and had just dropped his wife off at the race. He was nice enough to lead us back to where we needed to go, wait while we parked our car, and drove us over to the race. So nice of him. Good thing we hurried....since we then waited 45 min for a bus. It totally sucked because the race started 45 min late-which meant the last 1/2 of the race was pretty hot! Rachelle and I only ran about the first mile together and then ran the rest alone. It was definitely a harder race than Ogden. There wasn't a lot of shade, and had a lot more hills. I actually finished a minute faster than Ogden, but the last 3 miles were pretty rough. Scott and Brand came down with the kids and of course Jade ran with me in the end. The race was disorganized at the end. No water cups, shirts didn't come in-they will have to mail them to us and someone from the race asked if I would fill water cups for the other runners. Ummmm....no, that is why I paid to run the race and I'm dying myself right now! It was weird. I didn't feel great after the race, but it definitely wasn't as bad as the last race. I was soooo tired though. I came home, took a bath and then slept for 3.5 hours. By the time I woke up I felt so much better and we just enjoyed a nice night with the 4 of us running some errands and then hanging out at home. And yes, I am already planning on running the Ogden 1/2 Marathon next year!

Not a fan of a pick from the back, but I thought this was a cute picture. Jade said "mom, I even wore my super fast shoes!!!"

Don't mind our gross "We just ran a 1/2 marathon" look! :)

Ice Cream Freeze

Jadyn asked me to find a Hannah song the other day "Ice Cream Freeze" I got it off Itunes and then played it. Much to my surprise, she already knew the "dance" that they do on t.v.! I had no idea, but it was pretty freaking cute to watch! The girl LOVES Hannah Montanna. Her new movie just came out and she thought it was "So Awesome!" Just yesterday I head her, very dramatically, singing a song I had never heard. I asked her about it "Oh, it's from Hannah Montanna mom!" Alrighty then. Just 10 min ago I realized why she has been saying "Easy Peasy" all day. Yep....I just heard it on Hannah Montanna!

Eggs!

I hate eggs. Don't like them scrambled, over easy, omlet, in a house or in a boat (kidding....) Anyway, I just don't like them. Because of that, I had never cooked them for my kids. NEVER. About 2 months ago I realized-after going to McDonald's, that Jade's favorite part of her breakfast was her egg. So one morning, I went out on a limb. I cooked an egg-over easy-for her. She was in heaven and much to my surprise- So was Jaxon! I realized I had definitely been holding out on them.....I have made up for it. It seems that these two are now eating eggs for breakfast 4 days out of the week. 2 eggs each. Jadyn LOVES them!!!! The great thing is I don't even mind. They are so dang easy to fix and I can feel like I am actually giving the kids a healthy breakfast. YAY!!!! Don't think you will ever catch myself eating one. I still think they are nasty!

Forts

90% of the time if you come to my house, you will find my living room looking like this:

Jadyn LOVES to build forts. She can't build them with just a blanket and a few chairs. She has to use EVERY blanket and EVERY chair that she can find and she does not want any holes in the fort. As you can see, she doesn't even leave a door, just climbs out from under the table (yes, she even uses her folding table) to find her way out. She then plays in there, eats in there, and even sleeps in there, until a few days later when Scott or I can't handle the fort anymore and take it down. She is not happy when we take it down-so she waits a few days, and it all starts over! U have just learned it's best to embrace her creativity and to not offer ANY help-she has her own way of doing things! :)

Grandpa Christenson

I just wanted to make sure that when I make my book from this blog, that I include a post about Scott's grandpa. He passed away the end of July. I loved him. I can honestly say that he has ALWAYS been nice to me. He was always willing to talk to me at family parties, ask how I was doing, and made sure I kept Scott in line! ;) He was very influential in Scott's life. Scott will miss him so much. I know that he and Carla had a grand reunion when he passed from this life to the next! What a wonderful thought! I am grateful for the memories he left us. Some of them are very special to me. We love you and miss you!

End of Swimming

Jade ended up doing two sessions of swimming lessons this summer. She LOVED it. The only problem is she is positive that she can swim without her life jacket anymore. Yeah.... She loves to dive and can pretty much swim across the pool! I'm so glad we did them. We will probably do them once in the winter and again next summer!

Girls Night Out

Back row: Tara, Tracy, Melissa

Fron row: Melanie, Ali, Sharee
The past 6 months a few friends from High School have started trying to get together again on a monthly basis. With as crazy as life can get, I sure love going to GNO and just sitting and chatting for a few hours! I can't believe I have known these girls for so long! I met Tracy in 4th grade. I will admit that I don't remember meeting her in 4th grade, but she says that the first time we met was when she came up to me and a few others playing 4 square and asked if she could play. What was my answer? "No, this game is locked!"Seriously, I do not remember it at all, but feel way bad about it! Sorry Trace- glad we got to become good friends in 6th grade. We have pretty much been the best of friends for the past 18 years! Wow...that is crazy. I met Melissa in 6th grade as well. Mel and Sharee I met in Middle School and Tara in High School! I seriously love each of them and find it amazing that we can not talk for a long period of time and just pick up right where we left off the next time we see each other!

Jadyn + camera= entertainment

Every once in a while when I scroll through pictures on my camera, I can quickly realize that Jade has gotten to camera...again. I know because there are about 20 self portraits and double that amount of pictures of my t.v. and whatever she was watching at the time. They totally make me laugh!

24th of July

Yeah....just a little behind here! Last year I took the kids to see the floats a few days before the parade. They were inside, it wasn't crowded, and the kids liked it. So....I decided we'd do it again. Once again, the kids loved it. And....this time they got their faces painted-and of course they loved that too! :)

My Dad's side of the family always has a family reunion on the 24th. It's pretty much the only time we ever see his side of the family anymore. The kids had a good time on the tramp and the blow up water slide.

I freaking love this picture. All the kids folding their arms during the prayer. Ummm...guess this means I wasn't? :)

Finally found a fruit the kids will eat: Watermelon!

The Fam

Cute Girl!

My Dad and uncle BBQ'ing for us!
We went home and everyone napped. I love that. Brand and Lewis had invited us over for a BBQ. Lewis is always cooking really yummy food so I was pretty excited. We had a lot of fun. The kids were good, the food was awesome, and it was nice to just have a relaxing night!

This was so Good!

Yeah, had to strap him in to eat his ice cream!

Isn't he cute? Yes, Jade was there too. She was too busy for me to take pics! :)

PLaying Catch up

Alright- I am going to play Summer catch up. I have obviously been busy, but I am going to work on getting caught up.

And (knock on wood) this week has been much better. Both Tuesday night and Tonight I didn't have any plans at night. It has been really nice. And just as I was typing this my friend stopped by and brought me cupcakes! It made my night! Thanks Cho! (She is actually starting a new blog about her cupcakes. Check her out here) Anyway, on to catching up-and better days! :)

I am reaching "that" point

The point when you are just about ready to loose it. The point where you just have to start laughing becuase otherwise you would be crying. Yeah....I'm there. I blogged and joked about my husband wanting to kill me for the few (now seemingly very MINOR) items I broke. Those being my camera, mirror, and phone. They were easy to fix. I think they totalled $200 to replace. I was a little stressed over it, but hey-those things happen right? The problem is it didn't stop there. Want a run down? These are the things we have forked out (a lot) of money for since the middle of July-1 month:
Camera ($100)
Cell Phone ($80)
Mirror (yet to be replaced-$60)
Fix the broken car (came to $1800)
Brakes on the car (not included in the about $1800-$120)
Door to the garage ($30)
Heater at the Rental house (again, price is yet to be known. I don't even want to know)
3 Crown-2 for me, 1 for Scott ($600-which we will end up paying $400 more on)
Eye Dr ($200)
ENT (my portion: $260 for a 10 min consult)

And tonight....I put too much food down the disposal. The plug is WAY past the p trap. We tried the snake, no luck-we have to call a plumber. I am guessing another $100-$150 there. Ugh.

As you can see, it has been a VERY expensive month. Money we just don't have. And I was worried about the $200 for the 1st three things that broke. Sorry to vent, but it's just been a long two weeks. Work has been very stressful and life has been very busy. I am grateful we are all healthy and of course things could be worse, but it is still stressful and I worry about all the money.
I will all be ok. We will take things as they come and work slowly at paying them all off. It's just so dang frustrating. And it's 1:00 a.m. and I should really just go to bed........

HaPpY 10 yEaR AnNiVeSaRy!

I can't let the day go by without posting this real quick! Today is Scott and my 10 year anniversary. I would love to say we went on some exotic trip or something, but considering we have forked over $1800 on my car this week the trip will just have to wait. My mom did come and babysit for us so that we could go out. It was really nice-considering we only get out by ourselves maybe 4 or 5 times a year. Seriously pathetic, I know. We went to dinner at Francesco's (def some old memories there) and then went and saw The Proposal which was actually pretty funny. It was nice to spend the night by ourselves with no kids!

Cute little Jade walked in to my room this morning, flung the door open and said "Happy Anniversary Day!" She continued the sentiments all day. She asked me this morning when we were going to go to the store to get the cake because "You have to have a beautiful cake for your anniversary day!" I told her that maybe she could talk to grandma about making one with her while we were out. Yeah.....talk to grandma about that indeed. My mom said that Jadyn had BIG plans for the cake. She wanted the BIGGEST pan she could find. My mom mentioned that she had heart shaped cake pans at home, so they went and picked them up. They were going to do a double decker heart cake but it was then that Jade saw the picture on the back of the box. Because Jadyn has the nicest grandma in the world, we came home to this magnificent work of art. It was the best anniversary cake EVER!!! Jadyn was so proud of her cake! She is so sweet. (And the double pajamas she is wearing in the picture? Who knows. )

I can't believe it was 10 years ago that we got married. Time definitely flies. 10 years from now we will have teenagers! That is so scary. It definitely has not been the easiest and smoothest 10 years of our lives. We have had our fair share of arguments and frustrations, but in the end-10 years later, we both still love each other and are grateful we are married to each other!

It was a long week!

Seriously.....I am tired, worn out, exhausted and whatever else from the last week. Where to start? I think I'll just give a short run down.


Friday: The kids and I went with some friends to the Temple. We had a good time and I was glad that I could take my kids through the temple one more time as the temple open house is now closed. Afterwards we went to dinner. I decided that I would run to Old Navy. My car had been acting weird on the way to dinner- felt like my A/c went out. Well while driving I heard a pop but didn't think much about it-bad idea. Long story short, my car was steaming and overheating as I was pulling in to Old Navy. It stalled, I turned it back on-another bad idea. My dad and Scott had to end up towing it home because when I opened the hood, there was fluid EVERYWHERE!!! It was not good. We towed it to my Brother-n-laws who said the chances that I actually cracked my engine was HUGE. Great

Saturday: The day started off bad because I slept in and didn't get my run in. I hate that. Scott and I were able to go to the temple-that was nice. IT was pretty busy, so we were there for awhile. Later that night was headed out to Alyssa's softball tournament. They were playing two games. They lost the first. The umps were not great, but whatever. Because they lost, they had to play the same team again for the Championship game. It got ugly. The other teams coach was practically running the umpires. They would make a decision, he would argue it, the umpires would change their decisions. IT was just crazy. Well, the last inning got bad.....and I got angry. A lot of people were yelling at the umps-the problem is I was the loudest! Ummmm.....I got kicked out. Yeah....it was definitely not one of my finer moments. It was just bad. The funny part? I had to go home and write my lesson for Sunday. The topic: Holding ourselves unspotted from the world. Yep- sounded like a lesson for me! I was embarrassed, but hopefully learned for the future that it is just not necessary. It will not change the outcome of the day for me to get upset. Hopefully I can remember that the next time I get upset in a game. The good part to the day was how much fun my kids had riding their bikes and playing in the dirt with their cousins at the ame for 4 hours. They were both in heaven-and VERY dirty! :)


Sun: I was up late on Sat and up early on Sunday to prepare me lesson. I do not like teaching. At. All. I don't mind teaching kids, but I do not like teaching adults. The lesson went ok and I was just glad it was over. After church we all took about an hour nap. Jadyn, Jaxon, and I went with my mom and Megan's family down to the Church History Museum. Scott didn't go to church because he didn't feel well so he stayed home from the museum as well. Afterwards we had a picnic in the Brigham Young park. It was a fun change to our usual Sunday Dinners.







Mon: Busy at work. Found out that the ENT dr we took Jade to billed us $360 for the 10 min consultation. My portion (because we have a big deductible) $270

Tues: Let's just say we got off to an awful start. Slept in again. Had to decide what to do with our car. It was crazy. We ended up being 1.5 hours late to meeting Brandee to go to Lagoon. I was crazy onery all morning. Luckily, once we got up to Lagoon, everyone was feeling better. We had such a fun day having Scott with us at Lagoon. The kids loved having him there. He now clearly understands why I come home completely exhausted after a 10 hour day at Lagoon

(This is Jade with her tattoo. The first time we went to Lagoon (April) Jade saw these and wanted one. I told her that maybe the day her dad came she could get one. She has been patiently waiting and was SOOOO happy to finally get one. 5 days later, it's still there. Luckily they were 1/2 off and only cost $3.50!)

Wed: Found out I didn't crack the engine-just blew the radiator. YAY!!! We asked that they check the freon in the car as well as a few other things. We should get the car back tomorrow. Had an enrichment meeting

Thurs: Great. Found out A/C is going to cost $1100. That on top of the other things, and we are back up to $1600. Ugh. Well....at least it isn't the $4500 we were afraid the engine would cost. A few hours later Jade and I had an eye dr apt. I left very upset. I have been having eye problems so I wanted to have and exam and then express my concerns with my eyes. The dr was ridiculous though. Jade and I were seriously in the room with him for a total of 5 min....that is 2.5 min per person. It was crazy. He decided he needs to check Jade's vision in his other office and in 30 seconds of me talking decides I just need eye drops and to come back to have him check them. Whatever. I had to go to some shopping for Super Saturday. We left at 8:00-didn't get home until 11:00 and then I worked till 3:00 in the morning.

So-needless to say, it was just a long and slightly frustrating week. The problem is the next 2.5 weeks are so crazy busy. I'm not sure how, but I seem to have something almost every night-including a 1/2 Marathon somewhere in there. HOPEFULLY we get our car back on Monday! I am just grateful my mom has let me use her car during the day so that I can still take and pick the kids up from Daycare