"Get me chicken..."

Durning breakfast my sweet little Emmiline said to me "Get me chicken, butt hole!" Wow! What did you say? Yeah, she got a long time out. Where did that come from? I don't know. Not from our family. It might have been comical if it was someone elses child, not mine.

The Midnight Monster!

Have you ever seen a Midnight Monster?

JDRF

The kids and I participated in the JDRF walk on Saturday with my sister's family. JDRF is the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. Haylie's son, Cole has type 1 and she has done a lot for JDRF. This year Haylie raised over $10,000 just from her family and friends. As a whole this walk for Utah County this year raised over $180,000. We like to show our support by not only donating but by walking with Cole and the rest of the family. Here are a few pictures.
Jason fell asleep in the stroller. He was such a sweet heart for the walk. It took at least 45 minutes. Will rode his bike almost the whole way. Emmie was in and out of the stroller. All of the kids were so good.

John stayed home to Sheetrock the basement. So here I am with Jason, Emmie and Will after the walk.

Here is Will with his green hair. After lunch was served the kids got to play and go to different booths at the Sera Park in Orem where the walk started and ended. It was a lot of fun. I put more pictures on later.

Holy Crap - I learned something new!

Karen invited Christie and I over to teach us how to can peaches. Karen is awesome, she knows so much about being a homemaker. Homemade peach cobbler, canned applesauce, pickled beets she knows it all; if not she just asks her amazing mother. Anyways we had a good time chatting and learning. Our kids just play great together too and they had a lot of fun. Like Will says "They have better toys than we do." And the only tears came when Will decided that Emmie was in his way and had to push her.

Look at the new hair do that I am sporting. Do ya like? Yeah, it can't go into a pony tail so I actually have to do my hair. It has been great. Almost like a mini makeover. Just if I could makeover the hips!

Sweet Emmiline!

Emmiline has been so sweet lately. Ever since Will has started preschool Emmie has had a lot more alone time with me. Will goes to preschool Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for two hours. It is great for me and Emmie to be able to spend time together. Jason is usually asleep or just playing on the ground. The last few days Emmie and I get on the Internet to find coloring pages (mostly princess) to color together. Today we went to the store and I had the camera in the diaper bag so I had her cheese it up for a picture. Emmie is so cute, she had to have her backpack too because Will got to take his to preschool. Anyways she didn't want to put her Cheetos in the chart and she insisted that she should carry them. She is talking so much more and is now pretty much potty trained. Wahoo!
Emmiline is so sweet. She has a deep belly laugh that just melts your heart. She is such a girly girl and I love it. Pink this and pink that, pink everything. I love it that all the pink hair elastics are gone because she insists that we use them first. I love it that she thinks she needs Barbie cereal. "I need it!", she told me today. The pink marker in set that we just bought is almost dried up. Emmie likes to clean. She loves to have a wipe or washrag to clean things off. And it is a guarantee that she will try to pick Jason up in the morning to give him a love. One of her favorite things is to feed Jason some little fishies. She is just great and we love her.

Crazy 8s!

Crazy 8s! I got tagged by Andrea.

8 Things I am passionate about...

• John
• William
• Emmiline
• Jason
• Young Women Sports
• Extend family
• Holidays
• Church

8 Words or phrases that I say most often... (I usually talk to my kids the most)

• "Come Here."
• "Get your shoes on."
• "Don't make a mess."
• "NO!"
• "Emmie, don't do that."
• "Will, are you being nice?"
• "Let's go potty." "Let's change your bum."
• "I LOVE YOU!"

8 things that I want to do or see before I die...

• Run a marathon
• Take my family to NYC and DC
• Ride a horse on the beach with John (cheesy I know)
• Read the entire Bible
• Go to Navoo
• Own a business
• Get a Masters Degree
• Back pack across Europe (like that is ever going to happen)

8 Things that I have learned...

• To each his own!
• Not everyone builds a house out of cement
• Wear your seat belt
• Take time to have nap time for your kids
• Love yourself, but don't be selfish
• Walmart has the cheapest prices
• Motherhood is hard work
• Love keeps growing

8 Places that I would love to go, do, or see

• Prague
• NYC
• Rome
• Egypt to see the pyramids
• Southern Cost of Spain
• South American ruins
• Great Plains
• New England in the Fall

8 Things that I currently need or want...

• Size 10 pants that fit
• A finished basement
• A mailbox on my doorstep
• A money tree out back
• Jogger stroller
• A baby that sleeps the entire night
• Children that sleep past 7:02 am
• A flat screen mega TV for our basement

8 Things that I have been for Halloween...I don't really remember any...

• A punk rocker (I was 13 and mistaken for a hooker)
• A clown (more than once)
• A return missionary (John and I first Halloween married)
• I am sure that I dressed up as a princess when I was little
• Will was a cowboy once
• Emmie was a pink kitty cat last year
• This year Jason will probably be Spider Man
• John was a clown once too

8 People I tag...

• Carrie
• Christy
• Haylie
• Hillary
• Anajlee
• Dondy - Start a blog - You blog stocker, You!
• Lindsay
• Jamie

Saturday!

If we are home on a Saturday it is a work day and then a play day. I am trying to get my kids to learn that we work before we play. Yesterday, we worked on the basement. John and I finished insulating so it is now ready for sheetrock. We are only finishing the family room and the play room for right now. It costs alot - more than we thought. We will probably sheetrock ourselves and then have some professional mud and tape. Although my husband is a professional in all that he does we just don't have time - I am impatient and want to have a princess party for Emmie downstairs for her birthday. Well we'll see how that turns out. I told John when we get the basement finished then we can get cable. Yes, I know what you are thinking, "holy cow, no cable". Actually it is great. The kids love PBS and there are no commercials.
Emmie picked Jason up and put him in her lab and said "take picture, mom." Emmie is really sweet with Jason; at least she has good intentions. Emmie loves Jason because he will play Barbies with her and Will won't. He actually likes to chew on the squishy barbie legs and eat some of the clothers. Emmie and Jason are 25 months apart.

Emmie wanted to print pages off the Internet and color. After a long day and way past a reasonable nap time I was trying to keep her busy so that she would not fall asleep. Recognize the coloring pages? You might if you were four years old in 1985. Yes, they are She-ra coloring pages. Emmie is fascinated with the "Princess of Power". I have a DVD of a few episodes and the He-man/She-ra cartoon movie and she loves it. It totally fits her personality. Emmie is a sweet little girl most of the time, but then in a moments notice she transforms into this defensive fighter super girl. You don't mess with Emmie when she is not so sweet. Emmie is not afraid to defend her territory or her Will or Jason.

Here is John working hard in the basement. He quite enjoyed himself working and listening to BYU kick some UCLA butt. Thanks John for the hard work. You are the best a gall could have.

Jason is 9 months old. Time sure does fly by fast. He has one tooth on the bottom. He is wonderful. He is a little shy around other adults, but he loves to play with kids and goes nuts over other babies. He can move around - not quite a crawl but more of a army wiggle crawl. Jason is so much fun and we love him.

I really need to up date.

This post is all out of order, but it makes sense to me. Like everything else in my life.
We went camping up AF Canyon by Cascade Springs. It rained so much and all night long that we thought our trailer was going to turn into an arc. Here is a family picture of us in all our glory. My hair is fabulous, Emmie and Will are filthy, Jason is wearing Will's sweatshirt, and John looks like a run way model. Just wonderful. We had a great time. Hillary, Tyler, Justin, Grandma and Grandpa Gerber and Kjell came. Brandan and Haylie came for an evening for dinner.

Here is Will on his first day of school. He is a funny kid.

I really need to up date my blog. We got a new computer last Tuesday. It has been great. Nothing fancy, just a Dell. We have been busy, too busy for blogging.

Will started preschool on Wednesday. This is his second year at ABC Preschool. This year there are too kids that we carpool with. Will got all excited that his friends got to go to school with him.

Wednesday and Thursday I was doing church stuff all day. I am the YW Stake Sports Director and volleyball starts tomorrow. This calling has been wonderful. It really has helped me to be more social and forces me to talk to people that normally I would not. I am always learning when I have a church calling.

On Thursday night John and I went to the Provo Temple. Our friend Annie received her endowments and it is awesome to be able to support her. Saturday morning Annie and Richard got sealed in the Salt Lake Temple. Yet, again another total awesome experience. And the rest of the day was wedding luncheon and reception.

Yeah, I know, thank me later for this great read. This post really lacked good adjectives - I know it was awesome and really awesome.