Carl's Jr - It will change your LIFE!!!

Yesterday Ty went to lunch with all of us to Carl's Jr. The food there makes me sick so I just got thir yummy Oreo Shake. I highly suggest it. As we sat there eating, I brought it to Ty's attention that Carl's Jr is where we first met about 13 years ago. Not at the exact Carl's Jr we were at, the Bountiful one.

Anyway, my "boy friend" at the time took me and some of his friends to lunch at Carl's Jr.  during our high school lunch break. I sat down next to this one guy who I thought was so cute. I kept looking over at him and listened to him while he went on and on about how he went to Australia that past Summer. I kept thinking, gosh, he is HOT! He had his hat turned backward and was just cute!

Then we all climbed in to Jeeps. I was in a bright yellow "sun" one and the hot guy was in a white one. We raced back to the school and I just kept thinking how I wanted to be in the white jeep and not in the "sun" jeep.  After that lunch I thought I wouldn't see him again.

But, lo and behold, I kept passing this hot guy in the hall on the stairs every "B" day. He would say, "Hello, Deb!" to me every time as we passed. I would say Hi and as I continued up the stairs I would have this HUGE grin on my face. Wow! A hot guy said HI to me! That never happens! I would always tell my girlfriends about it and gush how cute this guy was.

A couple months later was the Spring Fling, the last Stomp of the year. My bff and I danced the whole night when I saw the HOT guy. We talked and he said that I owed him a dance. I'm all okay! So me and friend and I kept dancing and when the next slow song came on, (From This Moment by Shania Twain) he found me and we danced. He commented on how wet my back was. I told him I had gotten into a water fight earlier when in all actuality I was just really really sweaty from dancing! Gross, I know! But he believed me. When the song ended he had to go to Denny's with some friends so he wrote his pager number on my arm (yes, he had a pager! This was a time when cell phones weren't available to everything that breathed!) and I put my number on his pager. Thinking I would never see him again I was sad.

But, 10am the next morning he called!!! He was going to come over in 20 mins!!! I didn't have time to shower (remember how sweaty I was??!! Ewww!). We spent the whole day together. He even had 2 other dates arranged for that night (what a player!) but he canceled them!  And that was the start of Ty and my beautiful relationship!

Who knew that sitting in a booth at Carl's Jr could change your life!

Ty told me today that he went out of his way to go down those stairs the same time I was going up just to see me!!! How sweet is that?! It makes me get butterflies in my stomach again!

Workout Buddies!

 Ty and I workout every morning to Insanity. It's rough! The boys always join us after they wake up. They try to do all the moves we do and give us encouragement like,"Daddy's so strong and you're not, Mommy, cuz you're a girl!" and "Mommy can't do this but Daddy can because he has big muscles!" They are so nice to help us out!

They do a pretty good job. They also love our Shakeology. They always ask for some so they can "get big muscles like Daddy, not baby ones like Mommy!"

We are more then half way through the insane Insanity 60 day program. It is getting harder and harder! But it is cool to do something together and encourage each other. Even though Ty always makes fun of my Mummy Kicks.

Today

Today the smoke alarms went off for no reason. And I don't mean the usual annoying high pitched "chirp". They went off for about 5 seconds then stopped. the boys immediately looked through all the house to check for the fire. They went downstairs and we warned them to feel the doors before opening them. Luckily, there was no fire. But Nick kept insisting there was. Ty left to go to the Priesthood Session leaving me with 4 hysterical boys. Nick kept yelling to me, "Ma - there fire. I 'mell 'moke. Weally, Ma. Go outside so we don't die." I say I'm OK, there's no fire. Then he goes, "Well, I no die, I want to live. So goo-bye ma, have fun dyin". As I am writing this he keeps yelling from the back door that he sees smoke and I need to get out. What fun. At least he know fire safety. I think we will get out of the house for some YoGoToGo, just to be on the safe side!

Tonight I...

Tonight I put 2 little boys to bed. The first boy (Cody) decided he wanted to sleep on the floor. I covered him in a blanket and read a Moon story to him. The 2nd boy (Nick) said his bum was itchy. He has eczema. So I got lotion and put some on his bum for him. The first little boy yelled from his floor bed and said his bum was itchy too. I read the moon book to the 2nd boy and hugged him goodnight, placing his 2 swords next to his bed. Then I went to the first boy and rubbed lotion on his bum.

So tonight I put lotion on two little bums.

So cute!

I need to live with it!

A couple of weeks ago I was very stressed out about the house. It was so messy! Everything was disorganized (hence the organized pantry project!). And I had people coming over. So I was busy cleaning and making sure everything was put away. The house looked great but it would get all messy again by the end of the day. So I have decided to take a new approach. I need to just LIVE WITH IT! This house is lived in. 4 growing boys live in it. 2 adults live in it. We make messes (well, mainly the boys an the hubby, not me, of course!!). We need to live. I don't want a house where you have to walk on eggshells or be constantly reminded or thinking of "Oh, is this going to make a mess?" I hate places like that. I want a home where it's ok if you leave the cereal out or it's ok to have dishes in the sink. I'd rather be doing other things then cleaning. Don't get me wrong, I will still clean up after the kids go to school and put the dishes away. I just need to not stress about it anymore. So sorry people if my house is not up to your "clean"standards. Get over it!

Today I...

Today I made Cafe Rio Pork Salad...with my COCKPOT! It was good!

A Fear that I Love

I fear swings. Even when I was little, every time I swung I had a feeling in the pit of my stomach that the swing set was going to fall on me. Or that I would knock into the other swings and get a concussion. Or something drastic like that.

But one thing I love is to swing laying back with my long hair dragging on the ground as I stared up at the sky. When I do that all my fear goes away. I am able to relax and actually enjoy life. Today I enjoyed life. I got on a swing and laid back and relaxed. It brought me back to the days when I was 6, 7, and 8 when I would go to the elementary school behind my house and swing as high as I could while I laid back. My hands tightly griping the metal chains. My hands getting blister. I would stare at the tall trees as they got nearer then far away, nearer, and then far away. The swings doing their usual "creaking" sound.


Now as I take my boys to the "Swing Park" behind our house, I still have those fears. Fear they will swing into the bars and crack their head open but it is silenced with the loud screams of excitement and thrill. I'm glad they don't have that same fear as me. And sometimes I even teach them new tricks to perform on the swing.