This is what I was stuck behind yesterday for about two hours on the freeway, I was about a half a mile back and missed it by about 3 minutes. No big deal if I hadn't just drank 32oz of water an hour prior. I had a ultra-sound at 3:00, I didn't make my appointment. I was parked on the freeway from about 2:40 until 4:30. I remember exactly becuase I had to PEE. Than possiblities crossed my mind.

1. I could crawl in the back and pee in a bag of clothes I was going to take to the DI and than go home and throw them away.
2. I could pee in my favorite coffee mug......hell no....I would have to through it away...hell NO.
3. Get out of the truck and pee on the side of the road (and all that know me will know this is true) .
4. Ask the car ahead of me, full of kids, if they have an extra diaper.
5. Unzip pants and hope this helps by allowing more room.
6. Wait.........and cry, I really mean, I cried.

I picked.........drum roll please.........#5 and 6.

More to story......he he he.....really, this is funny!

I get home and Clarice is covered in Chicken pocks (one on the end of her nose and lots behind knees, by her crotch, tummy, arm pits, all the warm spots that they start)......go ahead.....ask.....'has she had them before?' Why yes, thanks for asking, she has, twice! This will make it three times she has had them. I go pick up Isaac, and, go ahead, ASK.....YEP....he has them too.....and yes he has had them before as well. My family tends to get chicken pocks more than once. So does my niece, grandma, and two of my kids. They have both had a cold so they could have had a fever, and with the weather being so hot, I really wouldn't have known. They don't seem to be horrible cases, but Clarice was really itchy last night. Bright side is that school hasn't started yet and they won't be missing school. Not so bright side is that I have a relay on Friday and family coming in from Las Vegas tomorrow. I am sure that Clarice and Isaac will be contagious through the weekend, until all have scabbed over. Oh well, I do have to laugh and count the other blessings:

1. I don't have them... :~)
2. Jason doesn't have them.... :~)
3. Chelsea doesn't have them.... :~)
4. Kids not in school... :~)
5. Both kids seem pleasant..... :~)
6. Excuse to leave work early..... :~) :~) (that one deserves a double smiley)
7. It couls be WAY worse... :~)

Much to be thankful for...

Much to smile about.....

I got my ring on Friday with much to my surprize....(I guess Jason can be spontaneous)....I love it...not to big not to small and I think that playing in the dirt with it will be fine. The best part is, that it only took three years :~) He did do it I really thought that I would never get one.

Chelsea is on a plane headed for home, after much grief and too many issues to list, I am finally getting her home. YIPPEE

Ashlee was laid off this morning after 3 days of work at her new job....they ended up not having enough work for the amount of people they hired. She works so hard to keep her family afloat, I try and help when I can but I have kids at home as well. Love that kid.....maybe my prayers will help, maybe reasons unknown mean she needs to look somewhere else.
ASHLEE IS COMING OVER TODAY WITH THE GRANDKIDS.....41 year old with two grand kids, hard to hold sometimes....oh well!

Clarice and I are going to start doing Yoga together. I already dabble a little in it at home, and I LOVE it. Clarice does some with Leanne, her aunt, and she can kick some little booty when she does it. I am going to make Chelsea do it with us too.

I love my kids.....I love my husband, some days more than others.....I love my Family......I love my life.

To all the powerful women in my life:

Live your life in such a way that when your feet
hit the floor in the morning, Satan shudders and says:

'Oh Shit - she's awake!!!'

I miss my Chelsea.....

Chelsea is at her dads in Iowa. Chelsea's step-mom mis-booked her plane ticket and instead of having her fly home on the 20th of July, she booked it for the 20th of August (she is a drunk, seriously). I told Chelsea to tell Jackie(step-mom)to change the ticket, she refused! So I took matters into my own hands and told Tim(her dad). I explained the whole horrible situation to her dad, who has been gone to Iraq, and said he would do it immediately. He had no idea, and I hated having to tell him that Chelsea wanted to come home because of his wife. His wife is a great lady who really does love Chelsea, she just has some issues that she needs to work through before I want Chelsea back out there again. I told Tim this and he agreed. My heart aches for Chelsea in hopes that these 'issues' will be taken care of soon so she can go back out to be with her dad who loves her dearly.

I love my sisters.
They make me happy.
They make me smile.
Love you!

Redneck deep thought of the day:

If the biggest compliment you got at your wedding was
how cute your baby was...you might be a redneck.

I am so very excited....currently there is showing at the

Utah Museum of Fine Arts the following artists:

Monet......

Picasso.......

Van Gogh......

Renoir.....

Degas.....

Dali.......

Artwork is on exhibition from the Cleveland Museum of Art.

It is only making four stops in the US and WE are one of them.
Van Gogh is my favorite artist ever....I love his work...I want the following, just prints....he he he, like I would EVER get an original!! They would look great in my living room and would make me warm all over to know that I have them. This is really the only big gift I have asked for (other than a new wedding ring, whole other story, that I don't want to get into, just know that my 10th wedding anniversary was the worst anniversary I have ever had).

We did it.....

I wasn't first....

I wasn't last.....

I crossed the finish...

The woman that starts the race isn't the same woman that finishes the race.