Bad news and Good news!

First, the BAD news!

You might be wondering why in the world I would take a picture of my laundry, well, this is the laundry accumulated between 2-5am, and mind you, there is a load already in the washer and in the dryer! Maddie and Payton both have some sort of the flu and both threw up in their beds within about 1/2 an hour of each other, so they ended up sleeping on the floor in their sleeping bags. I am almost done with all the laundry, but whatever they have, I started with this morning. Poor Maddie had it coming out both ends (sorry, tmi) so she was up every 1/2 hour! Needless to say, it was a long night, and now today is full of yucky laundry! My house stinks, and I feel like CRAP! Hopefully tonight we can all just sleep! Luckily, Lexi and Tyler are feeling fine, and Tyler was home today!Now for the GOOD news, I received a new calling! I have been in some sort of Primary calling for the past 4 years and really wanting to get back to Relief Society and I am now going back to Relief Society as the new Secretary! It is kind of intimidating because Secretary's are organized and I am not, but I am very excited to get to know the women of our ward and listen to the lessons! (I don't ever have to teach, thank goodness!)

Hopefully I will have something better to post about later this week!

Grandpa Palmers fishing tournament!

We had so much fun at Grandpa Palmer's fishing tournament! Lexi won overall with a 12" fish and she won with the smallest princess pole! What a cutie.

Here are a bunch more photos from the day!

What I am:

You Are a Comma

You are open minded and extremely optimistic. You enjoy almost all facets of life. You can find the good in almost anything. You keep yourself busy with tons of friends, activities, and interests. You find it hard to turn down an opportunity, even if you are pressed for time. Your friends find you fascinating, charming, and easy to talk to. (But with so many competing interests, you friends do feel like you hardly have time for them.) You excel in: Inspiring people You get along best with: The Question Mark

What Punctuation Mark Are You?

Las Vegas!

This trip was SOOOOO FUN! I have the best husband in the WORLD! We had a GREAT time without kids or responsibilities! We haven't stayed up that late in a LONG time!

Thanks for such a GREAT trip, Tyler! I love you!

The Big 30

Monday night I worked until 12:30am Tues morning, and when I got home this is what I found:

Not only was there a trail of kisses, but my WHOLE house was cleaned and even vaccuumed! And my amazing husband had done all of this after working a 12 hr day and not getting home until 8:30!! I knew this would be a good birthday!

The day was pretty low key, but definately fun with all the phone calls and the 2 GREAT gifts from my BFF Donelle in Texas-I loved the gifts, and cried while I opened them because she wasn't here! I miss you Donelle, and thanks for the gifts!

Everyone that called asked what Tyler had gotten me (he is the BEST gift giver in the entire world!) but Tyler had to work today, so I wasn't going to find out what was in the gift until 8:30!

I took the kids to their Spring Sing, and I really felt like Olive Garden, so Tyler and I and the kids met there after his work at 8:30!~ It was a kind of late night! When we got home I was pretty anxious to see what he had come up with! He was really thoughtful because he had the kids draw on the white wrapping paper, making it REALLY cute! He also made a HUGE cute candy card! It was very sweet!

Then I opened 3 gifts from the kids-an external hard drive, since I have used up all the memory on my desk top and almost all of my memory on my laptop, and a few other things, and then he brought out the final gift and it was very thin! When I opened it I found 2 tickets to the Phantom of the Opera in VEGAS for THIS WEEKEND!! He arranged the babysitter (Thanks Mom) and I had a TON of other things planned for this weekend so I wasn't going to work, and it ends up I am going to Vegas on THURSDAY!! I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO EXCITED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So, I won't be around this weekend!

Happy Birthday to ME! I must say I think I am the luckiest woman around to be married to such an amazing husband! He really is the BEST gift giver EVER! He will surprise me EVERY time! I love him so much! Thanks, Tyler! I can't wait for Thursday!

Turning 30!

My Good friend, Alene, and I are both turning 30 this year, so my FANTASTIC friends had a wonderful birthday party for us! It all started on Wed. when I recieved this box with this invite inside! I knew it would be a GREAT party! It was hosted at Tanisha's house, and she really outdid herself!

I could hardly wait!
The birthday girls-Thanks, Tanisha for the great outfits! They were perfect!

The decor was great-the first picture says welcome and the big one on the door says Happy Birthday!

We had delicious food, and ate at small tables with pillows on the ground. The placemats were custom made for each person! The ambiance was perfect!

What is a birthday without a cake! My great friends (Leslie and Jenn) also made us this very creative cake that went along perfectly with the "Asian" themeYes, those are sumo wrestlers! Isn't that GREAT!

Everyone had a GREAT time! Thank you to all my friends for making this so memorable! You gals are the BEST!

Field Trip

Wow, I am finally posting again! Sorry for the laziness, but there really hasn't been much going on. I love having boring streaks, but lucky for you, I got to go with Maddie and Payton on their field trip! We got to go on the bus (I think that was the most exciting part for most of the kids)

to Schnepf farms.

Here is my group! Maddie, Grace, Payton, Braiden

They got to pick lettuce

Go on a hay ride, and pet goats, and see pigs, a donkey, a horse and a cow.

Maddie loved petting the goats, and the pig had just had piglets 11 days ago!

Before we left they gave us some delicious cold juicy apples for a snack (it was 92' that day)and then we headed home! I love being involved in the kids school and was very excited to go! Thanks, Ben Franklin, for a great day, and Shnepf farms-you were fantastic! Wish we could have stayed longer!