Photo overload and catchin up!

Dick and Jane quilt in DONE! Love how it turned out and the quilting is superb! (thanks Gail Earl!!)6th Ward Quilting Class quilt is DONE! Not so much in love with it. WAY to busy for me (I know, right??) But definitely a learning experience. Lesson #1 Just because you want to use your "inspiration" fabric that you bought for the quilt, does not mean that you HAVE to because it may not look good in the end.... ;) LOLI like the back though...Saturday night we had a Minute to Win it party with a few friends. Stephen has to prepare for a Scout thing with these games, so we played a few and got some good laughs. Hey, YOU try balancing a cookie on your forehead and getting it to your mouth WITHOUT using your hands!Beck and friend Roman enjoyed the red juice that was at the party...Sunday was Grandpa Frans Yorgesen's 91st birthday, so we stopped for a visit. He's so cute and tells great stories and has such a beautiful yard. He showed all the kids his little "tricks." Beck, Ashton, Paisley, and Grandpa YorgesenThis past Monday I took Beck to the AIM Spanish Summer Camp. Other than his primary Sunbeam class, (Which I still sit right behind him because I teach the class just older than him) I have always been his teacher... so I was super nervous that he was gonna be awful, like he is for me, bless his heart! He even told me that he was only going to "try it, but I'm not gonna like it." Bribery with the Aquatic Center afterwards helped... After his first day, he was IN LOVE! Seriously... Loved it! I was so happy. I only checked on him twice the first day. I am one proud momma!More Aquatic Center days because that's what we do around here... ;)

Last Friday I had my Eclipse/Twilight party. Super fun with beading bookmarks/binky chains/key chains, trivia games with prizes, and just plain gabbing!

Kortni, Bekah, Brie, Bethany, Amber, Teri, Katie, Remina, Mindy, and Jade...And then last night the MIDNIGHT SHOWING of Eclipse! Whoo hoo! I went with Jade, Bekah, Kortni, and Mindy. We saw many other "Twilight obsessed moms" and kids, and even a few dads! I thought that it was the best one yet, not much contest against New Moon, which I liked, but didn't Love.. and I am super excited for Breaking Dawn!

It was morning, I was in my jammies, kids dressed, their hair done, all in kitchen eating breakfast (and yes, 80% of the time we have cereal for breakfast, I LOVE cereal, I'd eat it for most meals if it was considered a good thing).

Beck "Mom, will you get your morning time clothes on, so that you can look more pretty?"

Free Agency and Discipline

McDonalds facing lawsuit against toys in Happy Meals...

What?!?! Seriously?!?! For the first time ever, I am on the side of McDonalds.... I know, sad, but true. I don't necessarily like McDonalds food. I LOVE their fries, but the hamburgers tastes crappy and but I do usually get their yogurt parfait, that isn't bad. But what ever happened to free agency and discipline? McDonalds isn't pushing this food into our fat bellies... we are pulling into their drive thru and ordering at free will. (Maybe with a few screaming kids in the background vying for the Shrek toy) but seriously, what about discipline? Is it McDonalds fault that you let your kids walk all over you and MAKE you order the Happy Meal because of the Lego car inside? Or the Barbie Princess bracelet? Really?!?! If it is McDonalds fault then you should be ashamed of yourself for letting a huge company like that raise your so called "responsible children" that will grow up into greedy adults. I am not going to lie. My kids get Happy Meals and no, not all the time. Just sometimes and yes, we order fries and sometimes the high fructose fruit cup, but I MAKE THAT CHOICE... NOT MCDONALDS. Sometimes my kids scream and cry if they don't get what they want, or if they don't get the "toy they wanted," and sometimes they could care less, but am I teaching my children anything by blaming someone else for making bad choice for me? Last time I checked I was the one pulling my car in for a $1 Coke...
Next let's sue Wal-Mart for placing toys right at the check out counter when you have been grocery shopping for already over an hour and your kids are tired and hungry and they want those toys that are right there! (This one I am kind of all for!) Then let's sue Toys R' Us for actually selling toys?!?! How could they?!?! Then Home Depot for putting their beautiful BBQ's right outside that they are the first thing you see when you pull up... Then all the wonderfully talented Etsy artists for making such beautiful crafts that I want to buy, then let's sue Old Navy, TJ Maxx for great deals, and all the people that have yard sales... Yeah, let's just sue everyone so that when we get to Heaven we can look God in the eye and say, "yep, I officially blamed everyone else for everything that I did or didn't do, did I pass?"

Summer, finally!

Stephen came home from a 4 day motorcycle ride late Saturday night and the kids and I had signs and presents waiting for him. And we actually weren't too late for Stake Conference on Sunday even though I insisted on taking a picture first!After church we headed out to Othello to celebrate Ashton Family birthdays and Father's Day at Mary's house. We stopped by to see Grandpa Yorgesen and snapped a few quick pics because we caught him coming home from a walk... Summer is FINALLY here! We made it to the Aquatic Center for the first time yesterday and both of my kids were in heaven. Paisley was not loving it at first, and didn't want to get in her tube, but man, I couldn't keep her out of the water after a few minutes and she kept walking away from me, deeper and deeper...

My kids are both obsessed with the sun glasses. I can't believe that we haven't lost them yet. I have lost 3 of my own pair in the past month...Thank you Maimi Dawn for the packages! We are super excited for the party on the Oregon Coast in a few weeks. We talk and ask about it every day...I don't like bugs very much, how many people really do? (there are ONLY 6,000 members of some world wide bug group I found on-line) Spiders are the worst, if they weren't so dang fast?!?! Maybe we would get along better... But in order to teach the children and hopefully get them less afraid of bugs, we got bug catchers at the $1 Store and had fun catching about 10 different bugs/spiders the other day. I had to carry the containers around and actually catch the bugs, but maybe it will get better with time.

Ice Cream Truck

After my yard sale on Saturday Paisley and I went out to Othello to get Beck because he had stayed the night out there. We went and snuck into Aunt Mary's backyard and went "swimming" in their hot tub before we came home. Right after pulling into our neighborhood Beck heard the ice cream truck and $4.00 later both kids were happy with Spiderman ice creams...

One Day I'm gonna have one of these...

It's Done!

Stephen humoring me as Vanna White...Now onto sewing the bindings of the other two quilts that I have sitting in the corner... my sample quilt from the 6th ward quilting class and a Dick and Jane one, hopefully for one of my kid's beds that they don't sleep in...

AIM Flip Flop Finale

So now I can say that summer is really here. The AIM Flip Flop Fun Meet is over. This is at the end of the year where all the gymnasts "compete" for a medal. My Cheer girls performed (minus 4 girls and brand new formations 10 sec before going on and a stunt threw in at the end that was not at all planned) and Beck skipped out on competing in Hot Shots, but did do his break dancing and wants to know why "more people yelled for Jackson's dancing and not mine?!? LOL The "Geriatric" coaches performed a skit/dance, which we totally think we are so funny and probably so not funny. But that's ok, we're old now, we can pretend we are funny. Well, some of us are old anyways...

Here is the Rat Pack at the gym aka Gym Rats, aka Destroyers of any sort of organized, functional smooth running gym programs... Piper, Jackson, Colin, and Beck. These kids own that place, seriously.

Well, the summer has not really started until we hit the Aquatic Center, maybe we can do that this week while Kortni is in Mexico and we can take the girls too, now doesn't that sound fun?!?! :) Gotta make the Swim pass worth our money...

Catch up...

Thanks to my Grandma Mimi, Ebay, and yard sales (MOSTLY Grandma Mimi) my vintage Tupperware collection is complete! This is maybe 1/4 of it!My mom and Grandma Mimi came to visit last week from Monday til Thursday when I took them to the airport in Spokane, and it was a busy week. They will probably never come back! My Grandma stayed at my house and it was so fun to chat with her. I also got a chance to videotape an "interview" with her. It is amazing how you think you know a person and it makes me sad that I don't know more. I LOVE to hear stories and memories, wish I made more time for it. I felt like I was "squeezing" it in between McDonalds lunch, shopping, visiting Grandma's cousin, running errands, feeding kids, changing bums, coaching gym, sleeping. Just every day little things and all I wanted to do was sit and listen and ask questions, but the time just kept getting shorter and flying by faster and faster! Thank you Mimi for the opportunity...We met Grandma Mimi's cousin at the Red Robin in the Tri-cities. We chatted and ate lunch and then shopped til we dropped. Literally, I was dragging my body through Macy's...Grandma's cousin, Carma Rogers, Grandma Mimi, Mom, Korbi, and Kortni at Red Robin On Friday morning I went with my niece, McKenna on her school field trip to the Ropes Course also in the Tri-cities (sometimes it feels like EVERYTHING is there!) This is me hanging upside down learning to "trust" the guy holding me up. Pretty exciting. McKenna is awesome and so sweet, and such a smartie. They did this "puzzle maze" and everyone kept looking to her for the answers! Thanks McKenna for letting me come and "chaperone!"Saturday June 5, was the 2nd Annual Jack5 Ride. We met in Naches and rode about 400 miles. Tiffanni, once again, was a major trooper and rode our little "Ninja" most of the time. I had to ride the last 2 1/2 hours and I thought I was gonna die. My hands were numb and my butt was killing me. I sure like to ride, but the long distances are a killer. I don't know how you can drive a bike for more than a day!We had about 27 bikes and 30+ riders. A good turn out and we met some new people. Raised over $3,000 for the Jacksen O. Ashton Memorial Fund.
And now I am onto to crafting and taking care of kids... We had a busy week and I am still waiting for the slowness of summer to hit. I got 3 quilts back that need binded, but I can't squeeze it in! We have finally had some nice weather the last few days, well, yesterday and today, so I'm keeping my fingers crossed and maybe we can get to the pool soon!