My daughter uses her creative abilities so well!!!!!

So stinking proud! My daughter is using her 

creative juices to make.....

"SMOKERS!!!!!" Corey and I are like....."Cigarettes?" And she is like "yes!" She made one for each of us. 

Post it notes and tape at it's finest. 

Bo seriously needs to be in gymnastics! He can get himself SO high on the ceiling. He almost reminds me of a spider! I am scared to go under him for fear he will drop on me. That is how he gets down. He just drops! Its crazy!

I slept with Kate AGAIN. And then I put another quilt on her bed and she seems to have crossed the hurdle of sleeping alone and is doing okay now. I love having a heavy bunch of quilts on me at night. And that seems to have helped her as well. Also since stating school and giving her something to do all day, she is becoming quite a fun little chickadee. 

I stared at this poster while in her bed and read from this book. 

 I took Kate up to visit Justine. She was very disappointed that Justine didn't have time to play puppies and lion with her. We could only have a quick visit...and Justine is sort of a college girl now and that may not be cool.

Kate, Justine, and I out to dinner.

 Well, I had such problems with math I had to switch to an actual teacher. Online was TOOOO hard. I was feeling so miserable about it. But I spent some time with a tutor and scheduled lots and lots of sessions for the upcoming weeks and I am having hope again. The other classes I am in are....

SO SO much fun. I go in to class smiling in the morning and leave in the afternoon smiling. The teachers, the kids, the assignments...so much fun. It is really really good and fun for me. Love it.

hey! me too!!!!!

Just two days ago I was like... "I like math."

Now I am literally terrified. 

Here is one of my questions...

1. Assuming that a table saw blade has a diameter of 10 inches and spins at 3450 revolutions per minute (RPMs), use unit conversion techniques you have learned in the material in 2A to determine how fast the tip of the teeth of the saw blade are traveling in miles per hour. (Remember that 1 revolution = pi x diameter = circumference.)

My very nice friend is helping me. And even after she helps me I am still like... "Huh?" So I am sacred. 

Tonight the kids are watching a movie and eating treats. Kate is lonely and crying for Justine. They always cuddled during movies.

This quote reminds me of a few of my friends! Kirsten in particular. My kids think weird is such a bad thing. I love weird! I keep trying to teach them that weird is good!!!!!

Did I ever show you the cake I made for my friend? My third fondant cake. I admit that fondant is actually pretty fun. And the recipe I have doesn't taste bad at all!

After making several intense cakes in a row...I was grateful Bo wanted this easy cake with toys he already owned. He helped design it by telling me to put "water" here or "fire" there. I love it! He's so clever. So this is his birthday. I'm posting a little late... cause I am. 

This was the most adorablest thing ever. Bo told me Nathan gave it to him for his present. An origami Pokemon!!! So SWEET!

For his birthday we went to the local park and ate cake, opened presents 

and played on the equipment and chatted.

Justine and my sweet mom. She hasn't been feeling well. She has been having a lot of inconclusive tests but she is having breathing problems. Kind of a big deal. Breathing is sort of a nice thing to do.

Corey's mom and my mom!

My buddy Becci who was actually my mom's visiting teacher!
Aren't the both so beautiful?
My mom is the BEST ever. For reals. I can't think of one flaw she has. Really. I'm trying to right now and I can't. 

He wanted money. And everyone came through for him! He left with like forty dollars! He was so excited. he had been saving and saving for his birthday shopping trip with Grandma and Grandpa. He had 80 dollars. Then he couldn't even spend it all. Lol. He was strong!

Nathan, beloved to my boys....Uncle Danny, and Dad

Legos! Best toy ever!

Okay, so for school Justine and I bought these...

They are pretty much the coolest school supply ever. Highlighting is a true joy now. I really like office supplies.

Justine text me late this afternoon and said she had been working on homework since 9:30am. I said "me too". 

Girl's day!

Justine has totally moved on. I saw her today while I was up at school and she is over it. Part of me is a tiny bit sad because she really isn't missing me (I asked her, she confessed). But most of me is glad she is having a great time experiencing college life and a social life! Everything so far is working out great for her. 

School today was so much fun for me. Great conversations and interesting. Really enjoying my teacher and the class mates are so sweet. 

So our kids get birthday parties every other year. Trust me, that is the way to do it. Every year gets old! Unless you only have a few children. But aside from it being easier on me it is also good to keep the kids from getting too spoiled. Justine was supposed to have a party for her eighteenth  birthday but she chose a day in Jackson Hole instead. She loves to just look in stores. We underestimated how expensive Jackson Hole was and so we couldn't bring ourselves to buy anything! It was so sad! I think she might have bought a necklace. And we bought chocolates. But otherwise we didn't buy anything. But she was still super happy going into every store.

The first store was full of the awesomest rings! We tried all of them on practically.

Total heaven in the candy store...

which Newell, my coworker, who has gone to culinary school, says their proper names are bon bons. 

We tried on hats.... I wanted this one so much. But $35!!!!!!! I couldn't.

One of the stores literally had a store cat! I keep trying to get my boss to let us have a shop pet. He doesn't see the beauty in it.

We had lunch outside at some bread and hamburger place. It was delicious. 

She was trying to figure out how to not have the bar in her face. lol

I love Ripley's Believe it of Not! S we went to the museum. It started out PERFECTLY with a slightly creepy girl who was taking our payment to get in the museum. She got mad at us for making that bar that you walk through turn too many times. And we didn't even know what we had done. I don't even think we did it! But she was annoyed and just ODD enough that we worried she might be following us through the whole museum. And on top of that the museum was dead. We were the only ones there!

We turned a corner and saw ourselves in this mirror! Justine and I SCREAMED and she was so totally startled. She is so funny!

Albino buffalo.

My favorite part of the museum was this room that had glass floor and the room spun around you. When I  stood it it I was absolutely convinced I was spinning. But the room was spinning around me. It was so dang weird. Like really. It was a mind trip. Justine was so worked up over it she just RAN through it and wouldn't even try it. She was convinced it was going to make her nauseous, I want to build one.

I had to take this for my friend Becci's kid. They have a pug. I was grossed out the whole time I was in the mask. Who knows how many people tried it on!!!!! EWE!

And on the way home a square ice cream cone and dinner here! 

Now she is a college girlie! Love her tons. 

On the way home we went to this truffle store that was inside the Ha-gen Daaz store. They had key lime truffles. I am such a chocolate person. But theses were so green and sparky and pretty. I had to get one. And it was seriously divine. I have no idea why but it was! They home make them in that store. Justine had a pumpkin pie one. She loved it too!