This Is The Year

I'm coming up from beneath the piles of black and orange, and green and purple tulle to check in with my peeps. Aside from the Halloween costume making - it's been a fun few weeks. On the 17th, Hubby and I took Bookworm and a friend to the RSL v. Sporting KC game, followed by the One Republic post game concert.  The tickets were a present for his birthday back in June (the concert was originally supposed to take place after a June match, but the band had to reschedule).  The little punks wouldn't let me take any pictures for posterity's sake.  The bums.  But it was a great night.  Mainly because we kicked trash.  But the concert was good too.  I'm not a die-hard fan by any means,  I mean I probably wouldn't pay to go see them if they were touring, but they sounded great live.  And I do enjoy their songs. I'm pretty particular with my kids and their activities, and I'm very over  just the right amount of protective, in public settings.  Especially wh

How many 8 year olds can say that they've shared the ice with an Olympic Champion?  AND in the same building he won silver and gold medals? Thanks to the amazing Discovery program at her school, Pixie now can!  She signed up for ice skating this session, and has learned figure skating, speed-skating and hockey.  The ice skating class takes place at the Utah Olympic Oval, which was built to host skating competitions for the 2002 Winter Games, and is just down the street from our school.  We are very fortunate to have enjoyed a wonderful partnership with the oval, since before we even broke ground on our building. Yesterday the kids had the opportunity to train with Derek Parra !  If you don't know who he is, you're probably not obsessive about the Olympic Games like I am, particularly the ones that took place right in my back yard!  It's been over 9 years, but it still feels like yesterday!  Anyramble, Derek won Silver and Gold during those games, and he often comes

So....today I was going to make a deep, heartfelt post about yesterday, and the way our family commemorated the 10th anniversary of 9/11 - the emotions of the day, the conversations I had with my children. But then I got called out by Kenlie.  She said it was an "invitation"...but I know better.  Good thing I like her.   And I do like FMM, it's how I've made some of my dearest blog friends!  Including you Kenlie! So here's the deal - I'm going to answer the FMM questions and go link up over at Kenlie's .  You do the same, and we can both find out more about each other!  Only, y'all are probably sick of hearing about me by now!  I'm not sure I'll even be revealing ANYTHING new to some of my regulars.  If you are visiting for the first time - hello, and get ready to know more about me than you'd probably care to! FMM: All About Me 1.  What are your talents?   I have some hobbies - not sure how talented I am at any of them though!  I

Are you ready for part 2?  If you haven't already read Part 1 , you really need to do that now.  No, for reals...I mean it.  You just won't be able to appreciate part 2 if you haven't read part 1 .  So go here and do that right now. Did you do it?  I have a feeling that some of you didn't.  Sigh. So by Thursday afternoon, I was done.  I woke up Friday with no small amount of trepidation over what THIS day might bring.  I was seriously on high alert all day, wondering what was to befall me next.  I spent the afternoon at the school, chaperoning Cowgirl's Discovery class.  I KNOW I've told you all about Discovery and what an awesome program it is.  Anyway Cowgirl is doing horseback riding for this session.  We made it through the afternoon unscathed, and we got home from school, and I immediately went to the laptop, because you know...it had been ALL DAY.  I only have a dumb phone, so I can't keep up on all the happenings when I'm separated from the

Well, as you know - I've sort of put blogging on the back-burner while I try to get some things done, and get my household in order.  However, sometimes a week is just TOO blog-worthy to NOT get it recorded! For those of you who are on FB with me, you already may know some of the details, so I apologize.  Let's start at the beginning.  I woke up on Monday morning, feeling cheerful and ready to embrace the week.  My facebook status read: "It's going to be a good week.  I can tell". Well, Tuesday we woke up to discover that someone had tried to steal gas from the carpet cleaning van, by cutting the fuel hose.  They didn't get any.  But that was really a very small consolation, considering the fact that the repair wasn't something hubby could do on his own.  It ended up being an $800 repair bill.  It really put a damper on the week that was supposed to be good.  Not to mention that it put hubby in a really lovely mood.  Luckily the shop was able to get th