No, I don't have the time for this!

I,ve been busy,

2012-01-25T19:28:00.006-07:00

I been busy, I am grateful to be busy.

I am grateful for my husband.

I am grateful for my family and grandchildren.

It is good to have them so close.

I am grateful for the gospel that it is apart of my life.

It is winter and I NEED snow, we got alittle bit, but I want more.

No snow in the winter means depression. That is sad news.

But I heard that we have some at our cabin, that is good news.....

Love, love, kiss,kiss
the mom :}

2011-12-17T10:38:00.001-07:00

Getting ready for Christmas is tiring!!!!! That is all I have to say at this point.

Love, love, kiss kiss,

The MOM

Uggggggggg!

2011-11-10T10:51:00.002-07:00

Well it's about time somebody wrote on this thing, I just hate writing! Where are my kids when I need them? So what have we been up to? Lots, family stuff, dancing, trips, work,cabin time, playing in the water, wifey stuff, church stuff!!!

You know life!

Love,love, kiss,kiss,

The mom.

UPDATE!!!

2010-11-22T00:20:00.008-07:00

Hello everyone!!! If you haven't read the previous post then you should!! This is Kindra as i explain in the bottom of the previous post and if you are to lazy to scroll down and read it then..that's pathetic!! ha Just do it! Anyways...What's been going on since my mom last came on here? (or my sister) well..I graduated!! That's huge! I am now currently attending UVU and studying in Behavioral Science. Tyler just got married to a beautiful women by the name of Kimberly and when I say just I mean like 2 days ago. Kira sprained her ankle the yesterday at jump on it with shaun. She has my mom's crutches but...she tends to hop or crawl EVERYWHERE! She made TDT (Timpanogos Dance Team) and was thrilled with that! Stacey is HATING her job. Poor girl. Hopefully she will have a new job coming up and I'm plotting many ways to get back at her boss:) because I'm a sweetheart and can get away with things like that ;) Tasha and Mark are doing lovely! Annie is growing so big and is the cutest child ever!! Like seriously. You can't compete. Emma is in preschool and she loves it!! She is in a...an...whatever...independent stage...definitely has some attitude but still the smart cute kid. Overall we are all doing pretty darn well!! and now for the best part!! (drum roll) PICTURES!!

This is the gang as we went to see Harry Potter 7 part 1 midnight showing! SO fun! before we went Tasha threw a Harry Potter party. Epic. We had Caldron Cakes, Acid Pops, Cockroach Clusters, Fizzing Whizbees, Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans, Drooble's Best Blowing Gum, Pumpkin Pasties, Ton-Tounge Toffee, Magic Wands, Wizard's Hats and Butterbeer!! Along with games. I have pictures but they are on my phone so when I get them transferred I will be sure to share:)

Just a few cute pics of Annie and Emma at the pool:)

Kira's TDT pictures. She is so pretty:)

YAY!!! I'm graduated!!!

Tyler and Kimber's Engagements.

Some of the things I did this past summer

2010-10-01T09:58:00.009-06:00

Ok, Ok I have been needing to update this blog. So it might be overloaded with pictures. But it jut to show you I had a very busy summer. So lets ge the party started.

Watched Kira dance. Actually alot. but loved it.

Here Kira got to do a ballet solo. She did a great job.

Then we spent some time at the cabin. And of course what else would we do? Waiting for the parade. We watched the parade :)

The parade is short but they throw a lot of candy.

Soooo....this is Kindra. My Mom's favorite daughter:), she doesn't ever update this thing so guess who is taking over!!!! Nope not me! just kidding. Of course me I'm the only one who has time do update this thing!...So this is a post my mom had saved and I didn't really read through it and she is in desperate need of a post so here ya go!

Ugggggggggggg

2010-05-05T21:28:00.002-06:00

Ok, Ok, I know, I really need to update this thing. If you haven't figured it out yet, you must be on some slow boat to china. I am not a writer. I don't really like to write and yet this is something that I think about quite often. This blog needs an update and I can always think of other things to do. Now that it has been awhile I have to rethink everything. Like how to add a picture. I like it when I read blogs and they have pictures. But the pictures that I would add are on the other computer. I need my husbands help for that. Honey can you help me sometime when your not so busy? Thanks :)

So just a few things that have happened lately. Kindra is getting ready to graduate at the end of May. Kira made TDT. (timpanogos dance team) Both of those things are really cool. Tyler got hired on full time at Auto Zone. I am really excited about that.

We went to Sandpoint for spring break. I love that town. Got to see my grandma and my mom. We drove around and showed the girls where I grew up and talked about some of the things I did as a little girl. I loved that. Talking to my grandma was the best part. I love her.

I get to spend time with Tasha and Mark and the girls. Oh how fun it is to have two grand babies. They are alot of fun.

Stacey will come down and stay with us. Sometimes overnight. (usually she goes and sees her friend Megan) Kindra and Kira really enjoy hanging out with her. I love watching my girls get along, and laugh. I mean laugh out loud, it really is enjoyable as a mother to see this.

I love my family, I love the church, I love the gospel. Not sure if there is anything better than that :)

Love,love, kiss, kiss

the mom

A new post :)

2010-02-13T01:43:00.001-07:00

Grawbully Goop! Any takers?

At least I posted something.......

love,love, kiss,kiss,

the mom

Can you believe it? I know exactly how you feel....

2009-11-26T22:06:00.002-07:00

WOW ! It's really happening, I am finally going to make a post. I keep thinking about why I don't update this blog. I think that I can't post with out pictures. So when I go to post I have no idea what to write about and no idea which pictures to post, then I have to figure out HOW to do it all over again. So for today it's just a quick post. It is Thanksgiving day. This is my favorite holiday. Think about it, It makes people think about what they are grateful for. It brings some of those feelings to the surface. I truly am grateful for all the normal things, family, good health, food on our table, our home, having the gospel apart of our lives, technology, cars that take us to places, (like our cabin), jobs, friends..... You get message. I really am grateful for everything in my life. My husband, whom I love so much, my family, and all of these other things. I am such a lucky girl. I really hope that everyone has had a very Happy Thanksgiving.

Love,love, kiss, kiss,

The mom

Sunday Update

2009-10-04T14:58:00.002-06:00

Hello. It's time for an update. I'm going to start by introducing myself. Hi. My name is Stacey. I'm the second oldest daughter to Daurene Turpin. I know the majority of my mother's readers are aware of who I am, but I thought I'd add such a sentence for those who don't know my mom well enough to know who I am. I've decided to take it upon myself to update my mom's blog, an event it would seem that has become very popular among the blogging world, and a task I have not done since the beginning of this blog.

I'm going to start with the best part of my mom's happiness. Her newest granddaughter Annie May Merrill. This would be Tasha's second daughter (a fairly good family position if you ask me, though any family position is good). The Merrill family now consists of; Mark, Tasha, Emma & Annie (that is in chronological order by the way). Such cute little girls, my Mom's lucky to be their grandmother, and mother to Tasha.

In Stacey's life, (That's be me) she just moved into a two bedroom apartment, and has a wonderful roommate, Alli. They're both fun girls, and I'm sure they're going to have a lot of fun together (I must add here, that I quite strongly with my mom). Though she's not the biggest fan of her job, she's a tough cookie to stick with it (thank you mom).

Tyler's back home for a short while, and is doing well.

Kindra's back in school and is enjoying it! (that statement may or may not be true, but I thought I'd throw it in to see if she reads this thing). We've just gotten her Senior pictures done, I'll have to post some copies when they arrive. She just got a new phone, the LG Versa and she Loves it! She's such a whiz at learning her way around her new technology. I really hope she can teach me how to work my phone just as well (Rumor has it that my mom is looking at also getting the LG Versa).

Kira is also back in school and is continuing her dances. She sure loves to dance. I'll come into the kitchen and just find her dancing away to a beat only she knows. She's also going through a growth spurt and is constantly snacking late at night.

As for myself, I'm doing well. Kevin has been going to Idaho to help Randy with Harvest. I hope it all goes well, and they finish soon. We've recently gotten our cats Snoopy & Tum Tum collars. Kevin says they've been turned into girly cats. I think they look good. I've just finished a quilt for the cabin. It looks great!

Well everybody, it's been fun posting for my mom, but I've got to sign off and help cook some delicious homemade Chinese for dinner (my mom's been trying new Chinese recipes and so far, they've been delicious). Hope you all had fun reading, and I'll see what I can do to get her to update more. Enjoy the rest of your sunday.

Love love kiss kiss, the second daughter.

I know, Miracles never cease....

2009-09-28T10:23:00.004-06:00

I know I know Miracles never cease. I am finally updating my blog. I had a busy summer, what we had of it. Once it got started it was great (meaning half of the month of June was rain). So this is going to be a spotty post. Is that a word? if not it is now. Well here it goes It kind of started on Memorial weekend. Tasha, Emma and I headed up to the cabin. We had a couple of nights to ourselves then Dad, Kindra, and Kira showed up. But while we were there I was in need of new nails. Emma loves her nails done. So I did her nails. I also do glitter toes. (picture of those later)

So then when poppa get here Emma got to go 4 wheelin' ! She loves it!

But something that we forget about when we head up to the cabin, It's kind of on the cooler side. So we had to find something for Emma to wear while 4 wheelin'. Thank goodness I have some extra hoodies in the closet. So we got her ready to go.

I love this picture of Emma asking her Poppa questions. Notice her feet? Tasha didn't even bring her closed toe shoes.(only flip flops) So she had to wear several pairs of socks to keep her feet covered and warm. We all had a great time, We always do..... Being at the cabin is SO wonderful. In fact we are headed there tomorrow. What a great time to go, Fall Break! So I plan on getting some sewing done. Going to make some halloween costumes And they are going to be so cute! I will be sure to post pictures. Boy I bet you can't wait for that one. Well I really need to go and pack for this trip.

Love, love ,kiss,kiss

The Mom

sad attempt to update this blog!

2009-05-12T10:05:00.002-06:00

When you read blogs, like I do (and I love them). I tend to get frustrated when my favorites haven't updated. If anyone reads this blog do you ever feel the same way? But now that I have my own blog (thanks to my Stacey for setting it up for me) I have become very understanding of why blogs aren't updated like I want them to be. I know that I should update my blog but I don't' really feel like I have anything to say. Nothing of any importance. So this is my lame attempt to post something.

I will say I have been busy, (so busy I can't even update my blog). We celebrated Mothers day. Which I hate. No worries I wont' go into it. But my husband did do a wonderful job of making dinner for me and my girls. Thanks honey dinner was delish! I will say it was great to have all my children with me at church. Even Tyler came and sat with us, and Stacey was there. That did make it very nice.

We also have been attending wedding receptions like crazy. So fun to celebrate these exciting events in these young peoples lives.

What else, scouts, I have been doing scouts. I am the Bear leader in our ward. I am finally getting back into it and relearning every thing. the boys that we have are really fun and enjoyable. I just hope that the boys are learning something.

Any ways that is about it for it for now.

Love,love,kiss,kiss,

the mom.

Spring Break, Oh Yeah!

2009-04-22T18:06:00.003-06:00

Family Picture in April- I mean on top of a mountain in Montana. And the whole family was there. And of course we ran into other people who had the same idea as us. (snowmobiling)So while we were posing, they stopped and offered to take our picture. Which was great. Thank you Sally from Rexburg. The weather was the best and we had lunch in the trees. Played in the snow on snowmobiles! I mean I heard it snowed here at home. So we left town and went to the cabin. And since there was snow we might as well play in and enjoy it. We had a blast.

And in case you were wondering Island Park is Heavenly. That is why we love it so much.

Love, love, kiss,kiss
The mom

Ok I must have nothing else to do.

2009-04-21T10:25:00.003-06:00

The game is , you copy and paste it into your blog and bold the ones you have done.
Come on give it a try.

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
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-not fun
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
24. Built a snow fort
25. Held a lamb
26. Gone skinny dipping
27. Run a Marathon-half 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 Faithful geyser erupt
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
44. Visited Africa-someday
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight
46. Been transported in an ambulance-rode with Kevin after our car accident/1985
47. Had your portrait painted
48. Gone deep sea fishing Kevin has gone and he is my better half does that count?
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling
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
58. Taken a martial arts class
59. Visited Russia
60. Served at a soup kitchen
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies
62. Gone whale watching -Does Sea World count? cause I have done that lots of times.
63. Got flowers for no reason
64. Donated blood,
65. Gone sky diving-someday
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp-someday
67. Bounced a check-but not on purpose.
68. Flown in a helicopter- I so want to do this.
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy-truly believe in this, I have several.
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten Caviar
72. Pieced a quilt
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
80. Published a book no desire.
81. Visited the Vatican
82. Bought a brand new car
83. Walked in Jerusalem -I have sang a song about this. It might be as close as I am going to get.
84. Had your picture in the newspaper
85. Read the entire Bible
86. Visited the White House-only outside could NOT get tickets, and boy did we try.
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
88. Had chickenpox
89. Saved someone’s life
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous
92. Joined a book club not for long though.
93. Lost a loved one
94. Had a baby-I had 5!
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-too many times to count
100. Seen Mount Rushmore in person-No but I really want to!
101. Learned to play an instrument

Ok, I was really was surprised at everything that I have done. And surprised at what I haven't done. What about you. Come on give it a try.

Love,Love, Kiss,Kiss
the mom

WARNING this might be a long one....You have been warned

2009-04-10T09:29:00.006-06:00

Guess what I did the other night.Kevin and I went to the opening night of Wicked and was it ever Wicked!!! I loved it! This was my third time to see it. First time in NY, second time was in LA and now in SLC. And I just love it. You forget just how clever it is, and some of the lines are just so funny. The singing ,the dancing ,the costumes, the sets, just everything is so good about this show. Did I mention that I love this show. I could so go again. If only they had more seats available and what a 100.00

buck -a -roos laying around. I am sure that's what I would do with it.

What else have I been up to lately. Well I started to do some sewing again.

This is a monthly sampler that I embroidery. Finally got around to picking out the fabrics to sew around it. I think that the colors turned out nice. Now I just have to pick out backing. It will be good to get this done. and hung up. It is going to the cabin. I have 2 more that need to get done. I am just so slow. Here are several sewing projects that I have in the works. I have no time to be bored.Just look at this. I have cut strips and squares and am in the process of sewing them together. It is going to be a quilt top. So far I have 6 rows done. This is going to be a slow process. And while I sew it together I am doing this too....
I am going through old videos. You know the ones we took when our children were really little. The ones that you take and never watch again. Well I am watching them, the ones when I could get them to sing to me, dance, show off matching outfits. Have fashion shows, twirling, loving each other. Cute smiles, reciting poems, sleeping so peacefully, piano recitals. birthday parties, school programs. Yeah, can feel the emotion of our family when they were little. I loved that time in our lives. Why can't they just stay little. They love you more when they are little you know. They love each other. Life was of course simpler back then. Close neighbors were abundant. Visiting outside while kids rode bikes, jumped on trampolines, playing in the sprinkler, playing with barbies. The little boys wanting to squirt the girls, listing to them scream, having picnics in the back yard, playing in the playhouse. Going to each others birthday parties, celebrating each others lives, not anymore.

Now weddings are happening and new babies are coming. Thank goodness for new babies. We can hold them ,love them, even when we feel lonely they can feel the void. Thank you God for giving us new babies. Thanks for allowing us to have families and living in such a wonderful place.

What else has been going on....

Well this last weekend was conference. And as a memeber of the Church of Jeus Christ we have conference twice a year. I love conference. We listen to our Prophet and the apostles and other members speak to us. Giving us messages that we need to hear. They are guide lines to live by. Helping us to do better. I enjoyed the entire session. To be able to stay home and hear these words. Then these messages will be posted in next months Ensign. Or we can listen to it on the website: http://www.lds.org/. I already have been playing it while I try to get some scrapbooking done.

Lets see I have been trying to do some scrapbooking too. My goal for the year is a big one for scrapbooking. I want to get so much done. Get the pictures in their books and be able to enjoy them. I should try to keep a tally of how many pages I do this year. I use to keep a list of the things that I sewed durning the year. It was amazing how much stuff I actually did sew. I'll work on that tomorrow.

Lets see I also did this....

I got to go to lunch with these two cuties. Tierney and Julane. Lunch at Kneaders is always a good day. After lunch Julane and I went shopping. What a treat to have them in my life. Thanks girls we really should do it again.

Well this is going on way to long. Spring break is coming. Yeah and we are going to the cabin.

We really should be staying here and working on the biggest mess that we have going on in our front yard. (I will take some pictures and post them later). Then you will see what I mean by that.

Well bye for now

love,love, kiss,kiss

the mom

I am so very sad...

2009-02-24T21:26:00.001-07:00

Notice anything? Just for the record, I did take a straight on picture that was much better looking than this. Seems like blogger is having problems with this picture.I am making a point here.Now do you see it? While we were out to dinner last night, Enjoying our food and company.
(Alan and Naoma Roe)

Some idiot decided that they needed something out of our car. So they made a mess. Boy were we bummed. And this is what they decided to take.

My new bag. I am so bummed. Thank goodness there was nothing of value in it. Only some knitting. A scarf that was about 2/3 done. I had just taken it with me because I wanted to show my friend Angela (who is blind) it. And it is easier for her to look at it empty. And I was showing her my newest scarf I was working on.

So again I am very sad that it is gone. I want another one. My partner told me she ordered the fabric on line. I might have to do this.

Now you know why I am sad.

Love,love,kiss,kiss

The mom

I did another swapp!

2009-02-20T20:13:00.000-07:00

OK i joined a bag swapp. And this is what I made for my partner. I also made a bracelet and a tissue holder. I think that I forgot to take pictures of those. But take my word for it they were cute. Then this is what I got in the mail yesterday. So way cute. Can I just say thank you to my partner. Man she did a great job. I am away from home right now at a dance competition. and I forgot the card with the name and email. So sorry for being so slow and getting my thanks to you. I LOVE IT!

Another view of the cute things that came with it. A tissue holder with some lotion. How did she know? That I would need these things? considering that I live in Utah might have something to do with it. Wow I have to say it again, I LOVE MY NEW BAG! Thank you again, it made my day!!!

Well I need to go and watch my daughter dance. It is her first solo. We are nervous.

I post more later.

Love, love, kiss, kiss

The mom

Here's what I did today

2009-01-20T15:08:00.001-07:00

Watched history being made. I sure hope he does a good job. Because I am nervous. But I love our country. And I am grateful that I live here. In the good old U. S. of A.

Love, love, kiss, kiss
the mom

One Word give it a try

2009-01-20T09:50:00.000-07:00

One Word
ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS USING ONLY ONE WORDIt's not as easy as you might think! Consider yourself tagged upon reading this and post it on your blog if you so desire. It's difficult to only use one word answers.

Where is your cell phone?
nightstand

Your significant other?
hardworking

Your hair?
colored

Your mother?
seamstress

Your father?
gone

Your favorite thing?
home

Your dream last night?
None

Your favorite drink?
icewater

Your dream/goal?
Content

What room are you in?
Bedroom

Your hobby?
Crafter

Your fear?
unliked

Where do you want to be in six years?
cabin

Where were you last night?
Tasha's

Something that you aren't?
Perky

Muffins?
Banana nut

Wish list item?
Cruise

Last thing you did?
Slept

What are you wearing?
PJ's

TV?
Occasionally

Your pet(s)?
cats/dog

Friends?
Abundant

Your life?
good

Your mood?
lonely

Missing someone?
Always

Drinking?
Water

Smoking?
Never

Your car?
SUV

Something you're not wearing?
bra

Your favorite store?
Discount

Your favorite color?
pinkishred

When is the last time you cried?
don't

Where do you go to over and over?
Church

My favorite place to eat?
Out

Favorite place I'd like to be?
Island Park

give it a try,

Love, love, kiss,kiss
the mom

I been thinking.....

2009-01-18T23:05:00.000-07:00

I been thinking about updating this thing. But I think that I like to add pictures. But since my computer has been sick...It seems that when I download pictures it will on due a few. Uhgggg!
So I end up downloaded my pictures to the main computer. Which means that I have to use the other computer to find the pictures that I wanted to use to update this thing. wish me luck.

Love, love, kiss kiss
The mom

It's about time I update this thing.

2009-01-08T21:59:00.000-07:00

The title says it all. First of all my computer has been sick and I miss her ALOT. My flash drive has not been working so I can't download my pictures off of my camera. You have to hold her just right and press really hard in a certain spot. Therefore you do everything one handed. Which after a while your hand hurts. And I like to add a picture if I can. Now I just hope I can remember how to do it. It's been so long.

First of all How was every one's Christmas? Our's was great. Everyone was here! Oh yeah, talk about fun. For our Christmas eve dinner Tasha suggested Sweet Pork and the works. It was so yummy. I think we have started a new tradition. We had our traditional Christmas eve with FHE. Then of course new PJ's.

Then just a nice evening , all the kids sleep together in the basement. Santa delivers their stockings to them. It keeps them down stairs and buys us a little bit of time to sleep in and then we all gather together and show each other what everyone got and that is when dad and I open our stockings. It really is an enjoyable time. Then we go upstairs and have our gifts. We open them up one by one. You can do this when your kids are older.. It makes the morning last longer. Then we go to the kitchen where Kevin makes Swedish pancakes. Then everyone is off to do what ever. Sleep, call the grandparents, sleep, go see family and friends.

The next day was Emma's b-day. Some how I got wrapped into trying to make a "Cupcake" cake. They do make a mold but it is 30.00 at Target. Just didn't want to do that right now. So Tasha and I were trying to come up with ideas. Well I had an idea and passed it my Tasha and the next thing I know I am doing it. My intention was to make Tasha do it. Long story short it didn't work. Need more time to come up with a better idea. but Tasha did have cupcakes made. I went over and helped frost them. Did a fancy swirl job with sprinkles. Emma was so cute and guess what no pictures. Oh well, happy birthday to you sweet girl who is now two and is talking so much.

Then we headed up to the cabin. So love being at the cabin. We went snowmobiling, played Pac Man. I didn't do very well. But some in the group did. Got some scrapping done. Oh I made my cushions for my couch. It has been about a 6 year project. I will have to post a picture. Later after I take one. It looks great. We went to Big Springs several times. One of our favorite things to do.

We even got to see the moose's. It was great. Then for new years eve the cousins came over and played games and ate alot of food. Then it was time to get the bubbly out and do the count down and jeers. Here's our group.

Well that's about it in a nut shell for our Christmas and new years eve. It was fun and I hope that everyone has a very Happy new year.

I am being kicked off the computer. So I will have to write more later and add more pictures.

Love, love, kiss, kiss

the mom

Doing a little bit of catch up

2008-11-19T14:53:00.000-07:00

Well lets start off with Halloween. Kevin and Emma dress up the same... Can you guess what they were? Of course we had a Trunk or Treat/ rained alittle bit which meant go inside and sit in a big circle, and get candy. Kevin was so cute with Emma. Every time some one would give them candy he would have Emma bow. They were so funny. There were some really good costumes.

Then came my Birthday. It was great, Kevin and I headed up to SLC to watch Good Things Utah. I always have my picture taken when I am with them. I think that they are really funny. And I love the show.

After that we headed home and went shopping for my Bday gift. I got a Bosch dishwasher. I love it. It actually cleans my dishes and is really quiet. Thanks honey.

Time has now passed and it is time to get that yard taken care of. So we went out and started to rake and make big piles of leaves for the kids to jump in. It was so fun to watch Emma "experience jumping in the leaves for the first time". She was having so much fun with the girls.

Her face says it all.

As for the present. I am home and it feels good. Now I just have to get into the swing of things here. I get to get ready for scouts. I am the new Bear Den leader for our ward. We meet with the 9th ward. Some really cute boys. I just hope that I will be a good leader.

Now for you Debbie F. I hope you have noticed that I have done some new things with my blog. Music and some things on the side. ( I had help from my friend Holly) Thanks Holly. But guess what I still need some help. Maybe I should come down for the day and have you help me. Does this not sound like a cry for help? It is. I know I have no shame. Plus, I have some pics for you. Leave me a comment so I know that you where here. I LOVE reading the comments. Wait, I hardly get any so that doesn't take long. Well I really need to get off of this computer, and go do my scouting duty.

Love,Love, Kiss, Kiss,

The mom

I am suppose to be writing something

2008-11-17T02:13:00.000-07:00

I know that I am suppose to write on this thing but, lately I don't really have anything to say. Life is going on. Wait I changed my mind. I do have something to say. I will tell you what I am doing right now. I am in Idaho, at our cabin. Alone. I know that might seem boring to some of you but I love it. I have been able to work on some things that I can not seem to get myself to do at home. I have finished 5 aprons, cut and organized 5 purses that I want to make for gifts. I also want to get 5 scrapbook pages done. Don't know if that will happen. I have the stuff, just need to get my mojo back. It is lost and I have no idea where it went. I'll keep looking, it could be under a rock. Not sure. One thing I do know for sure is that I miss my family , Sounds kind of weird, Guess it is, but I miss them but I also needed some alone time. Enough about me. Just a side note, I would post pictures but my computer won't download pictures right now. Hopefully this is something that can be fixed. Well by for now,

love, love,kiss kiss
the mom

2008-10-25T00:55:00.000-06:00

Ok, just a quick note. It is late and I am tired. When I get some time this weekend (probable on Sunday) I will download my pictures off my camera, and I will write something. Not sure if it will be meaningful, but maybe a little informative? This is for you Debbie F. And to the rest of my peeps, Dinner was wonderful! Good night for now.

Love, love, Kiss,kiss,

the mom

It's been a while, yes?

2008-10-08T15:01:00.000-06:00

About my apron swapp , my partner did recive it. She said she love it. Her name is Heidi from Or. So glad about that. I had Kira model it for me. Here is one side. And here is the other side. She said her favorit color is Kelly green. And we needed it to be a fall apron. So I picked some apple fabric. Added some white rick rack. I thought it turned out so cute.

As to why I haven't blogged, and it has been a while, and where have I been? Really, no where, but here. but very busy. Busy with RS Super Saturday. It's busy , but a good busy. It is this Saturday. I hope it goes well. But will be glad when it is over. Feel like alot of responsibility. Don't want to forget anything. I have had some really good help. Thankful for Tasha, and her willingness to be of service to me. I will try to take pictures. Because I am to lazy to blog about it all. I need to get going and run more errands.

love, love, kiss kiss

the mom

Concering apron swapp

2008-09-05T23:30:00.000-06:00

to my partner, it is coming, I promise.

Sorry so slow, but much to ramble about

2008-09-05T10:15:00.000-06:00

Ok to my Apron swapp partner. It is coming. Your package is really being sent. This apron thing is .... is .... turning out to be really hard for me. I thought that when I signed up for it, it was going to be a good thing. Fun. A good challenge. A good thing for me. I strugel with getting things out in the mail. I don't know why, I just do. I was wanting so much to get back into somthing that I loved. And I use to really love to sew. And I was pretty good. I made my own clothes, my husbands clothes, my children's clothes. I did altrations for people. Made wedding dresses for friends, bridsmaid dresses. Costuming for a song/dance group. Then I quit. Just couldn't do it any more So I thought this would help me get my mojo back. Really how hard could an apron be? I had already made several. but this one included extra stuff. Not really hard extra stuff. but making it for someone I had never met, and I wanted to put "her" into it (faviote colors) and hope that "she" would like it. So now you know it is coming. And I hope that you really like it. I am very happy with how it turned out.

Now for the record, here is how the month went Too many things happened this past month. I decided to get started with my apron swapp the first week of Aug. I went shopping. I found what I thought would be a good match for my partner. But I needed a contrast fabric and ended up finding some it in Idaho. I live in Utah. I thought that I bought enough. (I didn't) ( I found this out way later). I got my sewing machine out. It sat for about 10 days, DID NOT touch it. Almost every day I would think I am going to sew today. I didn't. My oldest daughter was hoping that we would work on the quite book that we are making for Emma. We didn't even get that done. So I moved it back to my Dryer for a nice sunday dinner. Then School started here in the middle of Aug. Then my husband got a new calling for our church. We had to keep it a secret. It was a big deal. We weren't sure what or why we had to go and see the Stake President. We did have ideas. But what came out of his mouth made us both speachless. So from the time we had the appointment until the call was made at church was a total of 3 weeks. The last week was a very good one actually. A lot of talk and prayer happened. Kevin was called to be our Ward bishop. Kevin traveled to Idaho so he could have mom and dad Turpin here. That was very special. Here he is with his Parents. Zola and Lavar Turpin. It was really a special day.

Also, my friend Tamera came home and I got to spend some time with her. She had a wedding, and many people who needed to see her and talk to her. I miss her something awful. What a great friend. She and her husband are living in Paraway serving as Mission President. They only have until the end of June 2009. Can't wait for next summer. Here is a picture of her and me at Bryan's wedding reception.

I was just so happy to help her out. Kindra and Kira, and neighbor Makayla helped serve pie. I just realized I didn't get any pictures of them that night. They were really cute. I was so sad at saying goodbye. But it won't be that much longer before they are back. Love and miss you Tamera.

love, love, kiss, kiss

the mom

These are some of my favorite ladies! and guys

2008-08-18T15:46:00.000-06:00

And I finally got to meet Elizabeth Kartchner, Last year's Scrapbooker of the year. So cute, I admire her and I love her blog. http://www.elizabethkartchner.blogspot.com/

Here is Stacy Croninger. She was the Editor of Paper Crafts. When ever I see her I always go up to talk to her. I think that she is so nice and has the cutest sweaters. I am a sweater girl to. she is really nice to talk to me and she even remembers me, not my name but I am use to that. Thanks Stacey,

here's the guys that take pictures for the CK Media Magazines. I have wanted to talk to a "real photographer for ever. I need so much help with my camera. It has always had problems, I just need to send it in to a camera shop and have it fixed. But I love Creting Keepsakes mag. and I love the behind the scenes stuff. And these guys do all that. Really nice people. Here is Brian's blog ,http://onenineseveneight.blogspot.com/

I am with Layle Koncar, she is with Senic Route paper company. She is so cute and fun, asked her about her podcast with Lain Ehmann ( http://knitandpurlgrrl.blogs.com/scraphappy/)She said that she was really fun, and that we would both like to meet her in person. Here is Layle bloghttp://laylekoncar.typepad.com/

Here I am with Sande Krieger, here's her blog, http://sandekrieger.typepad.com/my_weblog/, boy you have been busy girl. Thanks for helping us make those cards.

Here I am with Lisa Bearnson and her sister Angela Ash . We got a tour of CK Media, it was really interesting to see the insides of making a magazine and what goes on. Loved it. Here is Lisa's blog http://www.lisabearnson.com/blog/ Lisa is SO nice, Thanks Lisa, you're the best.

This is Debby Schuh, I love her style. and I enjoy reading her blog. That cat of hers is crazy and the pictures are great. To get to her blog, go here http://debbyschuh.typepad.com/

What a Week!

2008-08-07T07:11:00.000-06:00

Hi, Wow what a busy week I am having. first of all I took my youngest daughter to EFY in Rexberg, ID. She is there for a weeek. She was really scared, but I know once she gets involved she will have a blast. she comes home on Sat. With the price of gas, we are putting her on the bus. I can't wait to hear about her stories. I even stopped in at Porters craft store. Looking for some fabric to make my apron. I am involved with an apron swapp. I shoudl put up some link. If I knew how. Anyone. How do you do that? You know when put up the a link and they seem to come up highlighted? And if you click on it, then it will take you there? Any ways I will have to take a look into it. I love aprons. I am in the process of making several aprons. Now if I could just get my energy up to start some sewing. ( http://sassyapronswap.blogspot.com/) Here is the link to the swapp. I know that it is closed, but I am sure someone will do another one. Enough about that.
Then I got to go on a scrapbooking trip. It was called Lisa Bearson Adventures. Or something like that. It was really fun. About 150 women and 2 guys went on this adventure around the SLC valley and we went behind the scens at some local scrapbooking companies. I loved it. I got to be on the bus with the guys and Brian was my bus buddie. He is starting a Ditgital scrapbooking company. It looks like he is very good at what he does. He had some samples and they looked great. Good luck Brian.
Then I got to go to the Scrapbooker of the year Banquet. It was so great. I really admire these ladies and what they do. Me I just try to get some pics on pages and have fun with it.
While at the Hotel (where it was held at,) I got to meet some of the scrapbook teachers. Ladies that I just admire. That was fun. I will have to try to upload some pics later. I even got some camera lessons from the CK Photo guys. They were really nice to help me. trying to understand my camera. Well I need to get ready for our play at the Hale center theater.

More later,

love, love, kiss, kiss

Just me.

2008-07-30T11:30:00.000-06:00

I thought that I might add a real picture of me. These roses are from my wonderful husband when he sent them to me for our 25th wedding anniversary. We celebrated it back in April.

Thanks for looking. and did anyone notice that I did these pictures without asking for help?

love, love, kiss,kiss
mom

More stuff I did this summer

2008-07-30T11:00:00.000-06:00

Stephanie and my daughter Kindra, Out in the boat watching the fireworks
more fire works
Looks like Emma likes the tube.
Spent alittle bit of time here.
Even got alittle bit of sewing done. More to come on that

Here's a few things that I did this summer

2008-07-30T10:55:00.000-06:00

Watching Kyle on the tube.

me learning how to post a picture, with the help from stacey.

2008-06-29T20:49:00.000-06:00

I am just posting this picture because I am practicing uplaoding a picture. It is my , Emma. I bought her these boots and she likes to wear them at random times. Here we are at the cabin and she is getting ready for bed, and she wanted to wear her boots.

2008-06-17T13:35:00.000-06:00

Just a little bit of news. First Tyler and Kindra had a job at Mr. Network. They got laid off cause the company shut down. Bummer. Now they need to find new jobs. School is out! Yeah!!!!! Kira is still doing dance. Kindra went to EFY and loved it. Dad and I went to the cabin for 2 nights. it was really fun. Came back the same day and went to the ward party. It was fun to see alot of our old friends. We celebrated fathers day. Happy Fathers day to all the dads. Especially my Kevin. You are a wonderful dad. I love ya.

More later,
Love love, kiss kiss
mom

2008-05-22T23:19:00.000-06:00

I don't think that anybody reads this thing or maybe somebody would offer some HELP..... you know about the posting of pictures.

As for other news, I broke my right foot. It makes me so mad I could spit nails. It hurts so bad and I have to stay off of it and keep it up and I am not use to asking for so much help. But I want to thank my family for all of their love and support in helping me and getting me glasses of ice water and so many other things. Love you family.

Love love, kiss kiss, mom

I really want help posting pictures

2008-05-15T09:49:00.000-06:00

Ok my girls looked at my blog and I think that it is time that somebody helps me with trying to learn how to post pictures. I am taking another photo class. So if I can just learn how to take good pictures then I could post them. So help please. Kindra did teach me how to scan and I finally posted pictures in the gallery over at Big Picture Scrapbooking. Yeah! I also won a class. It is with Stacey Jullian. She is won of my favorite people in the world. Love her and look forward to being in her class. So girls,computer wizards please help me post a new picture. OK

love, love, kiss kiss
mom

2008-04-27T23:08:00.000-06:00

Oh yeah, I am suppose to be making a post here. But you know what happens....Several things. one - I forget that I have this thing. two I loose it. Yes I loose it. I can't get to it for some reason. then I have to have help. So I ask a child of mine, they help me. This is good. But this is what really happens. Because I don't open up this blog it close on me and I have to sign in. Well I tend to forget my pass word. there for it is lost in cyber space. But I am here for a minute.

Life is good. Kevin and I celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary. Yeah. Had a really nice time with our friends the Spinders. Went to the Homestead up in Midway, UT. It was the best. I love you Kevin, thank you for spending 25 years with me. We only have Eternity to go.

A shout out to my girls who know stuff about computers, I need some of your help and I will post another picture. If I get some help, it could happen.

Gotta go,
love love kiss kiss,
mom

Finally making a post.

2008-03-04T11:05:00.000-07:00

I guess that I am supposed to be writing something on this thing, er blog. But as the tittle says, I really don't have time for this! Not completely true, I just forget about it. So here goes. we went to the cabin in Island park. It was so wonderful to be there. Alot of snow still, I love snow. We left early on sat at 6:15 am. Early but it was all good. got there and unpacked and just kind of relaxed a bit. I scrapbooked. I want to try to get caught up. At the end of the time there I got about 40 pages done. Boy did that feel good. We went to church, and stayed for all 3 meetings. It was great. Dinner was the best, roast, mashed potatoes, gravy, rolls and candied yams! Yum Yum! then we played the wii. I, yes me, was the top bowler with the high score of 173. That will never happen again, I'm sure. But it was fun and dad made us some tapioca pudding (spelling). Oh yeah dad and I went for a night ride on the snowmobiles on Sat. It was so nice the trails were groomed and the night wasn't cold. Just very nice to do that. Then when we came home, dad's truck was leaking oil something bad. So we packed the truck in like 10 mins, headed down to Rexberg and dad sent us girls on a shuttle to SLC. He stayed to have them look at it and fix his truck, he was going to do it down at Randy's shop. But they instead got it in and they fixed it. And he was on his way home. Tyler came up to SLC and picked us up. And now we are home and life is back to normal.
Well Tasha and Mark are getting ready to move really soon. We are really excited about them being closer to us. Yeah! Grandpa wants to buy Emma a tricycle with a GPS so that she can ride it over and see us. Think he's excited about having her closer too!
Well I need to get busy with RS stuff. Feeling behind on it alittle. Still need my technically smart genius daughters to help me with this thing. Untill we meet again!

Love love, kiss kiss... ~*Mom*~

FIRST PICTURE!

2008-01-08T16:24:00.000-07:00

This is my new hat! Here's me.

I HAVE A BLOG! WOW!!!

2008-01-08T16:07:00.000-07:00

I HAVE A BLOG, WOW! I really don't have time for this, but my Stacey, my amazing computer tech daughter, had to show me how to do backgrounds and because I have to be signed in permanently onto my gmail account.....set me one up. That sounds good. Okay, that's all for now. I'll work on this later, if I can find the time.