What Matters Most

I watched this earlier today... right after yelling at my kids to not treat the bathtub as a indoor pool with diving board... yes, they jump into the tub by balancing on the side.
It made me smile after now, I'm listening to them make a mess and realize they are enjoying their time as children, and I should enjoy it too. Not that I'm happy about the water splashing about my bathroom... but hey it's helping me clean my floor, which I needed to mop today anyway. I'm grateful for my children and seeing life thru their eyes. Seeing everything as happy and fun. It's amazing to me that they are so close to one another and yet so very different at this stage in life already. I love their personalities and love all that they teach me. I'm thankful I've been so blessed to have them here on earth with me.

Please no one tell my husband what's currently going on in the bathroom... ha ha ha

I love to see the temple.

So over the weekend. I had the honor of attending the Sacramento temple with a friend of mine who was attending for the first time. Oh what a beautiful and blessed thing to share with someone. I was so grateful for the opportunity to share this day with her and her family. Those of you who know Julie know it was a long year to wait for her. But it's been so worth it. It was a hot and humid day the previous day when we got to Sacramento. But the overnight rain brought a much needed cooling of at least 10 degrees, and some beautiful skies. Such to correctly represent the day. It started off darker and once we came out form the sky was clear and the day was bright.

Here we are when we came out of the temple. I wish we had one where we can see Julie's face...


Oh can I say how much beauty was in this day. I don't think words can convey the thoughts and feelings I felt. I am grateful beyond words to share this day.

Some reason makes me believe that we'll have many more of these days where we will attend together. Hopefully all our husbands will be able to join us.

I can Ripstick.

This is what I learned this weekend.
Sorry not the best quality... but you get the idea.


What no one else thought this was as funny as I did?

So I held something back yesterday...

Ok so I wanted to see if anyone actually reads my blog... for those of you not on facebook... I'll share the news. Yesterday while Keith was getting his haircut, I decided to do something I haven't done in a long time. I took Brenden to meet daddy... well, actually sit next to him, and say "Cut it all off." The result...


Yea, I had no idea my son had ears. Well, hope some of you are happy... I know Keith won't ever get his haircut again...

Welcome to C. Roy Carmichael School

This is day one!

Well today marks the end of week one for Brenden's kindergarten year. We are so amazed at how well he's doing. You know you always feel great about your own kids but wow this was a treat for us. He's loving school and not upset about having homework. But he is shy. He says it all day long. I was pretty worried about it. Today was my day to volunteer in his class so I got to see him in action. He's pretty shy about a few things but not afraid to stand up and answer questions during class. He's a great helper and always on the clean up duty. That I pride myself on a little. He never has to be asked to clean up.

These are all DAY ONE pictures.

This is B and his buddy Reece. Reece is bigger he's a bit older. Bren is actually one of the tallest boys.

As you can see I wasn't the only mom on day one... ha ha ha I do love this pic though so classic. Who taught Kaleigh to pose?


Mrs. Wolcott is amazing. What a fantastic teacher. Brenden loves her.


I was worried about B surviving day one so I brought him gatorade to help him out. He survived. LOL

This is it. Week one is over. Best part is that on Fridays Kaleigh can join and we can enjoy school all day long.

Oh what I was leading to earlier is I had a conversation with B's teacher about him starting at 4. She has NINE 4yr olds this year. WOW! Well, she told me it's not the starting that's the hardest thing it's the decision to move them on... where she said she had no worries about Brenden because he excels clearly above the level he needs to be already. I personally just want to work hard on his penmanship.

I promise later I will share my first day of school photos. Hope you are all having a great beginning to the school year.

it's been too long

I will try to post pics this week. Does anyone still read my blog out there?