ITS A GIRL!!!!

I haven't posted anything in quite sometime because I have been very busy. We had a terrific summer. We went to St George a couple of times and then we had season passes to Lagoon. We had a blast going to Lagoon with our friends. Then before we knew it the summer was gone and it was time to go back to school. The week before we started back to school we had a new addition to our family and it is the cutest and sweetest girl ever!!!! We named her Jacie Lynn Ward. She is such a sweetheart and she loves to cuddle and be held.






















YEP, its another puppy. We now have 2 dogs. Some may say I am crazy but it has been one of the best things we have done. Jacie is almost 7 months old. She is a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel. She is the TOTAL opposite of our other dog, Kylie. Kylie is very hyper and was constantly getting into trouble. Jacie is very calm. Now the two of them still get into trouble but Kylie has LOVED having someone to play with.


















Both Jacie and Kylie love playing tug-a-war with each other. They also love chasing each other. And they love stealing toys from each other. It doesn't matter how many chew bones we have they will still take the bone from each other. Its kind like with kids.....kids always want whatever toy the other child has. Jacie has gotten to where she doesn't let Kylie get away with stuff.


























This is Jacie's boyfriend, Teddy. Yea she already has a boyfriend. Teddy is owned by some of our friends and he is 2 weeks older then Jacie. They look alot a like.

Painting pumpkins

Tonight the boys and I painted our pumpkins. We paint our pumpkins instead of carving them because I don't really like cleaning out the pumpkins and then because I think the boys can have more fun with painting. They get to paint whatever they want and there is no set pattern they have to follow.

"Don't Judge A Book By It's Cover!!!"

(you will need to pass my playlist before playing the video)
This is a PREFECT example of "don't judge a book by it's cover". Everyone in the audience thought she was going to be horrible and she was FANTASTIC!!!!!

It is really sad that people judge others from just looking at them and knowing very little about them. Unfortunately, this happens alot to Josh. Kids at school don't want to be his friend because they haven't gotten to know how truly wonderful he is. When I should Josh this little video and explained to him how the audience was only looking at the "outside" at first he says "thats what everyone at school does to me....they don't give me a chance and they don't get to know me". I used this little video as a "life lesson" for my kids. We talked for some time about how we need to give people a chance before deciding.

Are boys really easier to raise???

I have been told several times that raising boys is easier then raising girls. People say that with girls you have to always do their hair and you got to buy all the pretty dresses and the shoes and then they say that girls are worse cause of the moods/hormones.

Well some days I am not quite sure about that. As far as the moods my boys can be pretty bad. I have one son that I never know when he is going to "bite my head off". We get into some pretty good "yelling" matches.....especially when it comes to school work and reading and anything that he doesn't want to do. Then there is the other one, he has SUPER tender feelings and you never know what day those tender feelings are there. One day you can joke and say something to him and he laughs and goes along with it........then another day you say the same thing and he breaks down and cries. Sometimes I wonder if they are the ones having "PMS" instead of me.

So I am not sure which is easier to raise....but then I don't have anything to compare them to since I only have the 2 boys.

doesn't it drive you crazy

Doesn't it just bug you when you meet "fake" people. You know the kind. They act one way when they are around you or when they talk to you but really they are not really like that. It really bothers me when people "act" like they are my friend when they talk to me but really they don't care all that much about me. Then there are the majority of the people in my neighborhood who seem to have a double standard when it comes to single moms. Its all ok if the single mom is a widow or divorced....everyone feels so sorry for them and bends over backwards to help them and make them feel part of everything but if you're a single mom that was never married (like me) then forget it. You're lucky if they say hi.

Then theres guys......some of them are just a JOKE!!! Why is it that guys NEVER seem to grow up? You would think that they would eventually reach an age where they would think of more then themselves and that having a relationship would mean more then just getting in a girls pants. Do guys ever think of anything but that?? And what about all those "dead beat" dads out there. Don't they care about the children they created? Why can't they just face up to their responsiblities and help financially support the children.

Then there are the children......why is it that they act like total animals when it comes to lunch time at school. Yes I work in a lunchroom at an elementary school and kids in 4th - 6th grade don't seem to have any manners. The 5th and 6th graders are the worst. They come thru the line and take WAY more food then what they should get (the school is a self serve lunch line)and they don't care if there is any food left for the rest of the school. We can stand out there and tell them over and over again but as soon as we turn our backs to go get something to restock the line the kids in line hurry and take larger servings.

And of course lets not forget all those drivers out there that don't know what they are doing. You got the ones that drive only 10 mph. You got the ones that are in such a hurry that they cut you off and the ones that won't let you change lanes cause heaven forbid that you get in front of them.

Then there are those that don't think you are capable of doing anything on your own. They feel like they have to do everything for you. I could go on with more details on this one but I better stop there......I just wish that some people would learn to let go and let us live our own life. I guess some of that is my fault cause I probably allowed them to do it but now I don't know how to get them to stop trying to "control" everything.

My last one is with myself. Why can't I seem to get rid of feelings that I have for someone? Why do I keep having feelings that things could be if only I would allow them to be?

Oh and of course there are my children.....they drive me crazy all the time. They don't listen to me and they won't do chores. All they want to do is play, watch tv, and play video games. What in the world is wrong with them?? haha

Life with a puppy is never dull.....

CAUTION......contains materials that are a little gross and naughty!!!!! Read at your own risk.

Ok our puppy doesn't look like a puppy anymore. I am hoping that she is full grown. Life with her has been quite interesting. She loves to have anyone paying attention to her and if your not then she goes and gets in trouble. She usually ends up finding some of the toys that the boys didn't put away. Sometimes she will just come and "hide" close by us and start chewing that toy to pieces. Other times she wants us to see what she has and so she will come right up to us and just stand there until we look and see she has something....then she takes off cause she knows we will come after her to get it back. Then she likes to put up a "little" fight about it and growls at us but she knows she NEVER wins at this game and we end up getting the toy back.

While I am at work and the boys are at school we lock her up in Josh's room and she loves to find whatever trouble she can in there. We keep thinking that we have put everything up or hid it well or removed it from the room but she seems to usually find something. She has found CDs and broke and toy guns, a few stuffed animals, and then one day she found a cassette tape. The week she found the cassette tape I just thought she broke the cassette but then she had also tore up one of her stuffed animals and I thought she might have eaten some of the stuffing so I was keeping an eye on whether she was going potty or not in case she got "plugged up". Well one morning as we are rushing to get ready to leave for the bus and for me to get to work...I had put her out to go potty and told the boys to let her in when she was done and I went downstairs to finish getting ready. Well next thing I know Josh comes down saying something and then here comes Kylie running like a BIG MONSTER is chasing her. Josh says something about something hanging from her about the time she runs into me...then she takes off up stairs and I yell for Josh to go catch her as I finish brushing my teeth. He catches her at the top of the stairs and I come running and the poor dog has some LONG thing hanging out her bottom. I grab rubber gloves and paper towels and as I get to her I realize that it was the tape from the cassette tape....it was hanging out about 12 inches. I thought it was about all out and so I grab what is out and pull and alot more comes out. It was the SICKEST thing I have EVER done. Josh and Kaiden just stand there with their eyes about to pop out and Kylie was just SO releived to get that out of her. Now when I signed up to be a mom to kids and to a dog I NEVER EVER imagined that I would have to be doing ANYTHING like that.

Now that isn't all the fun with this cute pup we have. Lately she has been "attacking" things (humping). Well a few weeks back she started going after the boys. Josh will just be walking along and she will come up and grab his leg and just start going at it and poor Kaiden, if he lays on the couch she grabs his legs and starts at it. Kaiden can even be just walking and she will come up behind him and "grab" him with her front paws around his waist and go at him. It is so naughty but it is a little funny. Then a couple of weeks ago at church I saw her Vet and told him I had a question but church was a good place for it and he said that it was ok....so I told him what she was doing and he gets then grin and chuckles about it then goes on to tell me that it is a "phase" she is going thru and that she is trying to domainate the boys and that she should stop in a few weeks or month or so and that part of it could be cause she is getting close to "becoming a WOMAN" (if you know what I mean).




So as you can see......LIFE IS NOT DULL AROUND HERE.