Today's laugh

Have you ever been lazing around at home in an outfit that you would not be caught dead in outside of the house? Then someone you kind of know shows up. That happened to me today. To make matters worse they didn't even knock on the door, they just walked in. It's a good thing I can laugh at it.

My laugh for today

On a bumper sticker, A man is not a financial plan. www.wife.org

Funny things kids say

I know it has been a few months. We have been busy with Zach and Braxton playing Soccer. Now get to add Jr Jazz to Braxton's schedule
This weekend we have had quite a few funny comments from the kids. Yesterday, one of Braxton's soccer buddies, Jaron, spend the afternoon with us. They were talking about this gray haired old person at the Hockey game the night before. I guess that means I am old. I would probably be 80% or more gray if I did not dye my hair.
Then this morning we were at Casey's parents to visit. And we were talking about a couple that were dating one was 19 and the other person was late twenties. Zach said, "That is gross." I replied, "You can't help who you fall in love with. There is 7 years between your dad and me." To which Braxton said, "You are older than dad?"
I do love the laughter that the kids bring to Casey and my life.

Springtime/Summertime

A couple of weeks ago, I finally got the hummingbird feeders out. I caught this bird feed from one of them.



This year we decided to try growing flowers out front. We pulled out the 2 bushes that were blocking the front windows. I am happy to say that the wildflower seeds that we planted were a success. Hopefully, the pumpkin plants work out as well as the flowers did.

Mother's Day

This year for Mother's Day Casey and I had my siblings and mom come over for lunch. It was a nice day to enjoy each others company on the deck. We did miss Nate and Krystal and their families. Right before we started the main dish, we had a plumbing issue. I am so glad I have a husband that is handy with house repairs. Once that was fixed, we got busy making dutch oven sloppy joes. We had perfect timing because everyone showed up just as it was getting done cooking. After eating, Braxton and Eric's girls were racing from the deck to the back of the yard and back. It was fun watching them.

CF walk

In May, we had the opportunity to do the CF walk for Jordan. The goal for our team was to raise $1,000. We missed the mark but were happy that we made $900. There were about 15 of us that were walking for Jordan. This was the first year we have participated. It was amazing to see how many people were there. One "team" even raised $23,000. We started walking from the MTC park in Ogden and went along the Ogden River Parkway. It was a pretty walk in the trees. We even got to see part of the Dinosaur park. My sister in law and I both wish we lived closer so we could walk it more often.
On our walk, Casey saw the weirdest shoes. There was a girl that had shoes that had individual spaces for each of her toes. She claims that they are really comfortable. I had seen toe socks but never shoes. Very interesting. This was a very worthwhile event that I am sure we will be doing again next year.

Real Salt Lake game

Last night we had to opportunity to go with Braxton's soccer team to the Real Salt Lake game. We were asked to drive some the players so we took 4 of the boys. When you get these guys together away from soccer it is fun to hear the things that they talk about. One of the subjects last night was the type of music everyone liked. One of the kids must have mentioned Rap because all of the sudden I hear, "Rap is just a bunch of African American men with saggy drawers talking about ...." That is all I heard. I leaned over to Casey and asked, "Does that mean Eminem is an African American?" I learn so much new information from these kids, lol.
I will post some pictures later today of our fun adventure.

Karma

I am sitting at the computer today just laughing how life can come and bite you in the butt at times. Years ago, I made a really rude comment to someone I loved. They would have me playing farm on the living room floor. I could never do this task to this person's satisfaction. I have regretted this comment for a very long time even longer than this person has been back in my life. This person now has me playing Farmville on Facebook. At least this time around, I can't be criticized for running my farm incorrectly.

Life Lesson Continued

I was working this morning to get billing out and realized why I was so uptight about Jordan moving in with us. It hit me like a freight train. I was afraid that I would be ignored and my marriage would end up like my first one.
Let me back up a little bit. When I was married the first time, Jim's cousin would come over every night, maybe not every night but it seemed like it. Jim and Robert would sit and talk about farming all night long. Wasn't it enough that they farmed all day? So I eventually got to the point that I just tuned them out. I would hear things once in a while. Mostly in the most inopportune times, just in time for them to insult me to see if I was paying attention. No wonder I had no self esteem once it was all over.
We are just finishing up week 2 and it has not been too bad. I must admit in the first week I had my moments of resenting having an extra person around all the time. This week has been a lot better. And tomorrow is date night. Taggart here we come! We will see what week 3 brings, especially since Casey will be in Idaho fishing.
Isn't it great that we can learn from our past and can make the necessary changes? It may have taken me 15 years to learn this lesson but it sure was worth it.

Life lesson

The last couple of days have put into perspective a few things that have happened in my past. Jordan has decided to come live with us. On Sunday when he mentioned it, I was panicking quite a bit. I have had 5 years for it just being Casey and me. The kids only being around here and there. Now my life is going to change quite a bit. Being the selfish brat that I can be, I told Casey that I was not going to be a 21 year olds maid. And also that he could not do everything with us. We needed to have our alone time as well. This scares me that things will change between Casey and me. However, it could be a good thing as well.
Holly, the kids mother, called Casey on Monday crying about this new development. This gave me an understanding of how it must have hurt my mother as one by one each of my siblings decided to live with our father at some point in our lives. My heart goes out to Holly. This has got to be pulling her apart right now. Especially with us not knowing how much longer we will have Jordan around.
On the flip side, it gave me some understanding as to what it must have been like for my Step Mother. When Krystal and I went to live with our father, Bet was almost done raising her 3 kids and now she was having to raise 5 more kids. This has given me a whole lot of understanding why she handled things the way she did.
I hope that I can handle this new challenge without too much craziness.

St George friendlies

This last weekend we had the opportunity to go down to St George for a couple of soccer games for Braxton. These are always fun as we get to see a side of the boys that we don't see playing closer at home all the time. On Friday, we left here about noon, if I had left it up to Casey we would have left at 10. On the way down, we stopped in Beaver to get cheese curds. YUMMY!!! While we were driving, Braxton was watching a Tommy Boy and every once in a while we could hear him snicker at something he found funny. This made me smile since Nate and I rented that movie so many times one summer.
We had a game that night so we went to dinner with a few people after the game. During this time, the 3 11 year old boys were discussing what movies that thought were funny. All of the sudden we hear Seth say, Have you seen Pride and Prejudice? Of course, Hugh and Braxton had not since in their homes the majority is male. They asked Seth what type of movie it was and he told them "It is a chick flick."
The next topic was on one of the games the next day that they were playing against 13 year girls. Braxton was not liking this and said, "Girls have Rabies." Who knew? All this time I thought boys thought girls had Coodies.
On the way back to our condo from one of the games, we went by this house that had the best Redneck 4 Wheelers of all time. They had made a second seat on the back by taking the legs of a microfiber chair and strapped it to the rack on the back. Unfortunately, I did not have my camera at that time and everytime we went by it again it was not there. :(
In between games on Saturday, we had 4 hours to kill. So we found a park that had a playground and a couple of basketball hoops. So the boys came up with a new game. There was a bridge in the middle of the playground that had a net with big holes in it. So some of the 13 boys would stand on the bridge and some of the boys would try to kick the soccer ball in through the holes and hit each other. They had so much fun and it was a wonderful team activity.
Their last game was against the girls. And the rabies issue was quickly worked out. I even saw a few of the boys talking to the girls from the other team.
I am so thankful that we are able to have these type of experiences with Braxton. These are wonderful memories I am sure all 3 of us will have forever.

Life is wonderful

I know it has been a while since I updated my blog. There is no excuse for it. I love the Christmas season and this year did not disappoint. Casey bought me a new pre lit tree. I am sure he was tired of watching me string the lights just right on the tree each year which usually took me about an hour. We got to spend a little time with each of our families. We even were lucky enough to have all 5 of us Marble kids together at one time with all of our kids.
We broke from tradition for New Years Eve and went to Casey's neice's house. The last couple of years it has been at our house. We had fun eating and playing various games on the WII. Then came home to watch The Saint until 2009 was behind us.
I know we have heard all the doom and gloom about the year 2009. But I can honestly say that 2009 was not too hard on the White family. We were able to go camping 3 or 4 times during the summer. We were able to afford to re roof the garage and house. We also were able to afford to replace a dead dishwasher and dying fridge. All without having to curtail our many interests. We are truly blessed.
2010 has started to be an eventful year so far. Right off the bat, we repainted the living room and moved all the furniture around along with re running cables. We had our family dinner with my family. It is always fun to get all of us together, the whole Marble-Wilson clan. We do miss the 2 that live out of state though. We learned a new game that did not take too long even with about 15 of us playing. Thanks Ashley for introducing the game to the family, my kids even loved playing it. And I am sure they will be talking about it for a long time.
This is the year we start looking for a car. So we attended the Auto Expo with the boys. The boys loved the Camaro's, Corvettes, Bentley's and Ferrari's. Casey and I even picked out a car we would love to buy. Too bad we have to wait 2 years before that can happen. At least that gives us something to look forward to.
We have even had our first scare of the year. Last night we were sleeping and I heard the beeps telling me one of the doors had been opened. I have thought I heard this before in my sleep but had not. This time was different, though, Boo was barking. Casey told him to shut up and then went back to sleep. So this morning I told him that I had heard the door beep and that Boo was barking at that sound. So I go to check the back door. It is half way open. For those who don't know, we live in a house that was built in the 1950s and the floors creak. So while we were in bed, I thought, if the motion light is not on outside our window and the floors don't creak then no one is in the house and maybe I just heard things. So I tell Casey as he is getting dressed that the back door is open. He proceeds to do the manly thing and check the downstairs. He turns on the first bedrooms light and Billy Bass starts to sing. That scared Casey a bit. Good thing nothing was gone and no one was in the house. I guess the wind just blew it open since one of the boys did not shut it tight when they left.
I am so fortunate to have a husband that can be the protector of our home. I don't know what I would have done today if he hadn't checked the downstairs this morning before going to work. Though this turned into a funny footnote in our life, it could have been a terrible chapter in our lives.
Here's to a wonderful 2010.