Little Known Fact

One thing that I love about Adam is that if he hears a song that he likes, he just starts singing it. It could be an old favorite or one he's never heard before. He just starts belting it out.

What makes this more fun for me, is that he usually doesn't know the words to the song. So it kinda just sounds like muffled humming with words thrown in here and there. He tries to repeat the words after the singer sings them, but it doesn't always work out the best for him. I mean I get a good laugh out of it, so I guess that's all that really matters.

Just another reason why you have to love Adam.

Just a Quick Update

So I'm sure my friends want me to post, so I will... but it's going to be a quick one

• This week I learned that cell phones can't swim. And that my cell phone doesn't want me to have any friends so AFTER it went swimming in a lake it decided to stop working...

• If you are my friend, please send me your phone number, because yours have been lost at sea.

• Adam is doing well at work, no more power outages during root canals.

• I still have NO friends, BUT I still enjoy talking to myself, so I'm not bored yet.

• Tommy still misses his friends. He cries for them often. It makes me sad... not sad enough to move back, but still sad.

• I've picked out a back splash for my kitchen HOORAY!!

• My children are loud

I think that's it for now.

Over and Out

So the day could have gone better

So I really didn't think the day would be this bad:

The day was going fine until suddenly our pretty sun disappeared and a huge fast quick storm descended upon my house. (Imagine Winnie the Pooh singing "I'm just a little black rain cloud").

So yes, it starts pouring down rain and then the winds come and then the thunder and lightning. THEN the electricity goes out.

I go outside to see if I can see any down lines or what's going on. Well I walk in the back and something bites or stings me. My arm felt like someone just shocked it, the pain was awful. I try to shake it off, but by the time I get back to the house my arm starts swelling and is breaking out all around the area of attack.

I continue to try to shake it off, because I suddenly realize that it sounds like it's RAINING in my kitchen... hmmm. not a good sound to hear.

The kids are fighting over the 2 flashlights that we have, apparently they didn't think it was fair that I took the big one when I came inside.

I go into the kitchen and sure enough it's raining from one of the lights in the kitchen, (Don't worry since the electricity was out there was no electrical explosions.

Well a girl's gott know when to call it quits, so I call my dad he comes over, takes a look at my arm and says we have to go because it doesn't look good. Well, just as we were pulling out of the neighborhood MY ADAM shows up! HOORAY! It seems the electricity went out at his work (what a great first day.) Apparently he was in the middle of a root canal when the electricity went out.

So actually the whole day wasn't a complete disaster, it was just that everything went horrid for about 30 minutes.

Don't worry though everything worked out

• Our electicity just came back on!
• Adam's electicity is still out, so hopefully it will be back in the morning.
• The roof is fine, it was through a vent that we need to put flashing on
• Benedryl and Ibprofen helped with the swelling and pain

Let's hope for Sun tomorrow folks.

It's already been 2 minutes.

Dear Adam,

I hope you have a fabulous day at work. I miss you already. It's nice knowing you are right down the street, but I'd prefer if you were right down the hallway.

I've really enjoyed our 3 week "vacation" together. I'm sure you are just happy to be out of our "work in progress" for a few hours each day. I really do appreciate all the work you've done on our house.

Actually I appreciate all the work you've done for the past 29 years. Thank you for not being a wimp, thank you for being a hard worker.

Oh and thank you for being HOT! I could just thank you for being a nice guy, but I think most people can be nice. It takes a special man to be a Hot Tamale!

So after this post, I will have to go and parent my children by myself. I'm going to miss saying "Go ask your Dad", or "Dad, loves changing your diaper" or "Dad would love to take you to to the swimming pool"

So I'm sure I have taken advantage of your time home with me, but it's because I knew this day was coming. The day you would have to go work in the real world. You can't go to school forever... (well I'm sure you could, but I'm not recommending it for you)

Well, I love you baby. Have a fabulous day sitting there... thinking about me... and know that I'm missing you and your help and your hotness!

Love Jerkface.

Doc and Lucy gave the monsters these scrubs. They love them! One side says their name and the other side says, "My dad's a dentist."

I'm just excited that the other side doesn't say "My dad's still a student!" Ahhh... I can't believe he's finally finished.

Adam and his friends. We will miss them (I will miss their wives. ) It's been nice having such a great support system of friends to lean on through this. Everyone goes through it together, and they were all there to help each other.

The first picture is of Adam and Kelly at his dental graduation. The one below it is Adam and Kelly at his BYU Graduation.

Aren't we a sorry sight.

Naptime

So we just dropped the kids off at my mother's house. Adam was going to work more on the house. He sat down and fell asleep. Poor guy has been going constantly. The house is really coming along, and once the counter tops are in, I might even post a picture for all you curious people out there.

Updates on the rest of life:

• found a gym for my kids to take gymnastics

• The kids love the neighborhood pool, and I am soooo excited to hear them ask if they can go on a daily basis all summer long.

• Preston hasn't broken anything... yet.

• The kids start summer school in a week

• Tommy told us that he goes to fireman school in the middle of the night and that they let him carry the hose (I am glad because before he told me that he was going to school in the middle of the night, but he said that he had a problem with missing his bus...)

• Adam starts work on Tuesday. He received his license number last week and is ready to go.

• I will miss him, I really like him and enjoy his company and corny jokes and odd sense of humor. These past few weeks have been fun working together on house projects.

• Preston is officially for sale. The only stipulation is that I want him back in about 6-8 months when he says more words and makes less of a mess.

• The kids are semi-adjusting. All 3 of them burst into tears occasionally missing someone. Whether it is a teacher or a friend or a friend's house.

• I have done remarkably well at living a lie. I still don't believe that I live here and keep waiting to get back to my friends.

• I really need to start branching out and trying to meet people, but honestly I don't have a desire to right now. I don't know what my problem is. Normally I love meeting new people. I'm not feeling the love yet, hopefully someone will be able to put up with my constant sarcasm and agree to be seen with me...

And for all of you Kansas Cityites, if you are wondering if I miss you... the answer would be yes. I'm staying strong for the kids though and trying not to think about it. I miss my girls nights, and book club (bachelorette). I miss my special friends that always showed up at the right moment. I miss opening my door and seeing MY naked child on the other side. I miss the girls that I could call on and count on. I know I will find some here, but I think of myself as pretty picky and I sure did have an amazing group of friends.

So yes, life has gone on. But I'm fighting it every step of the way. Love you guys and miss you (except for the ones I didn't like. I probably don't miss you as much... hopefully they didn't read my blog though)

(joking of course, some of you will believe everything you read)

The difference between School and Graduate

So one of my favorite things about Adam finishing school is the great comments we get.

Like: "Now that he's a Dentist, you guys will have money!"

Or there is: "Now that he's done with school, you guys can start living your lives!"

and then there is: "You must be so excited that he is done with school"

Okay so I totally love and agree with the last comment, yes I am excited that he is done with school, I am even more excited that he found a career that he really loves and is good at.

Now here is the update on the rest of them. For those of you who don't know, Dental school is super duper expensive, and also he hasn't started working yet. So right now. No work = No paycheck. (It's funny how these things work). And the best part is, that when we do start getting a paycheck we get to give an amazingly large portion of it to student loans!! YAHOO!!

Don't get me wrong, in this economy, I am just happy that Adam has a job, and I am happy that there were banks willing to lend him money. (I wish there would have been a bank willing to GIVE him money, but ya can't win them all).

And as far as the "Start living your life" comment that I got, I can only think, "Huh?" I mean what have I been doing for the past 28 1/2 years. I thought I was living, but maybe I was wrong. Maybe I've just been pretending?

What I'm not good at.

Just a list to remind me that I'm not perfect:

• I hate waking up in the morning. I am not a morning person, I am tired and crabby and if you ever want to ask me for a "favor" don't do it before 10AM or the answer will be a no or a disgruntled yes.

• I yell at my children. I'm not saying that I beat them down or that I am constantly screaming at them, but I see some parents that just point and say "no no" and I think " Hmmm... I would like to have a video camera in there home"

• My feet are ugly. Achilles had his heel, I have my feet. They are troll feet. Ugly little fat feet with bent toe nails. I could never be Cinderella, not because of the height or weight difference, just because I would never wear glass slippers that you could see my feet through.

• I don't make the bed. If I ever give you a "house tour" and my bed is made, you should know that I made it just for you.

• I can't sing. Not even a little, most of the time I don't even pretend anymore. At church I will open the book, but that's the extent.

Namesake

Kelly: I'm named after my Great Grandmother.

(She's talking about her middle name Anne)

Paige: I'm named after paper!

(Hmmm... wonder where she came up with that one.)

If I win an Oscar

So if I ever win an Oscar, I would like to have a poem to read as my speech. Some cute little poem that rhymes (cause that's the kind I like). I'd thank my family and I'd probably do some little dance too. Maybe the running man, probably RiverDance.

I don't think I'd cry (because that's expected) and I'd probably make some insane promise (Like Oprah does) and promise everyone viewing the program a free ham from Honey Baked Ham as long as they were at the store at Midnight. (I just think it would be fun to see a long line outside Honey Baked Ham in the middle of the night)

Oh and Update on the House:

• countertops in 3 weeks
• carpet is great (it's Kelly's favorite part)
• Fireplace mantel next week
• Bookcase tomorrow
• circular saw out of living room... maybe never, it's starting to grow on me.
• Basement waterproofing June 15th ish
• Bedrooms in basement come after the basement waterproofing
• Carpet in Basement comes after the bedrooms are fixed
• paint in the basement comes sometime in between now and carpet

and all of the boxes might never be done, but that's okay.

This is just a test...

So today at church someone asked us if we had an Emergancy plan. I didn't think I did BUT If I would of just flashed back a couple of hours I might of seen things differently.

******FLASHBACK NOISES********

So this morning my husband wakes up and looks at the clock and says "Jen, it's already 7:45". We have 9am church now that we've moved, so that meant exactly 45 minutes to get 4 children awake, fed, dressed, hair fixed, attatched in the car and leaving the house around 8:30.

Oh and I forgot that I hadn't unpacked ANY of my church clothes (maybe it was a sign I should have just rolled over in bed, instead of getting up.)

So anyone that knows me, knows that the only thing I hate more than Email Forwards, and the sound of popsicles and ice is BEING LATE. I HATE BEING LATE. I don't like when others are late, (and yes if you are late often I am judging you, I know it's wrong and I'm not supposed to, but I'm also suppose to be honest, so I'm going to stick with honesty right now and work on the judging part later)

When I think I'm going to be late, I get into panic mode that involves angermanagment issues and lots of bad feelings spewing from my body.( I'm not too good at being late, I should probably go to therapy.)

BUT this morning I Succeded, even when faced with the likleyhood of being late, I kept my cool and went into combat mode. Adam got the children fed (even if it was dry cereal they were eating out of a baggy), I located all missing church clothes and started getting the monsters dressed. We let Tommy sleep until 8:20 and then we threw some clothes on him, told him not to wet himself and sprayed water all over his hair to keep it from standing up. I forgot to put on make-up, and eat breakfast, but at least I kept my cool and we were all in the car by 8:35.

I felt on top of the world. I was quite impressed by our moves. I was not going to be late, our first day at our new Ward. We pulled up to the building and we noticed that there were only 3 cars on this side of the parking lot. We thought hmmm everyone is on the other side. Adam parked and I grabbed Larry, Moe, and Curly and started to go inside, while Adam got Preston out of the car.

Once I was inside... I looked at the clock. APPARENTLY we don't know how to tell time. We weren't there 10 minutes early. We were there an HOUR and 10 minutes early.

We walked back to the car and just laughed. It was funny. And luckily since I didn't freak out with my anger issues, I could laugh too.

Lessons Learned:

• Adam and I need to learn to tell time
• If there was ever a major emergency, I could have all of my children dressed, fed and ready to evacuate within 45 minutes.