Baseball

Well, the baseball season is finally over! I ended up liking it far more than I had anticipated! Don't get me wrong, it was still crazy busy and took up a lot of our time, BUT Adam really enjoyed himself.

This was the first year we actually had a good coach and the first year they played the kids in a position. They had Adam going between SS and catcher. They finally settled him in as catcher for the tournament, because he really did well there. He loved it!!!

Yesterday we played the championship game. The team we played had gone undefeated. We lost by one run. The boys were heartbroken! It was hard to watch them all be so sad! I am so proud of the whole team and how hard they played! We came in second place and that's amazing! I can't wait for next year! ( I really can't believe I just typed that!)

Giant Cupcake- MMMMMM

I have decided to attempt to make something similar to this for Abbie's birthday cake.

I also want to make these to go along with it.

http://www.bakerella.com

What do you all think? Too ambitious, or doable?

We finally have family pictures

We haven't had family pictures since Adam was a year old!! We've wanted to, but I absolutely hate being in pictures! I think I have the roundest face in existence! I keep waiting to get back to my weight I was when we got married. HA HA HA!

Well, I wasn't getting any skinnier, so I figured we'd get 'em anyway! We'll have new ones done (nicer ones) after Alli moves here!!!!

The hubby and kids look cute, though!

My garden fetish

I'm so sick of looking at that last post! Boo hoo hoo! Thanks for all the nice comments, people!

Anyway, I have moooooved on!

Over the weekend we tilled our garden and got it ready for planting. I figured it might just get warm and stay there one of these days. I planted my lilacs in front (right now it looks like I just planted sticks- let's hope that changes). Now I am ready to start planting all of the veggies in back.

Today I took the kids all around getting the different varieties of tomatoes I want in there. PLUS, I wanted a specific kind of flower to go along my walkway, so we had to go to three different nurseries before I found those. I wanted red Columbine, NOT blue or pink or even yellow. You see, once I paint my shutters and my doors red (I've had the paint since we moved in almost two years ago), the red flowers will really stand out. Right now the door and shutters are green, you know, that lovely forest green from the 80's & 90's?! I even have a lovely tile address plaque with green and colored flowers all over it over the door to match! Aren't I lucky? ANYWHOOOO, once I paint them, my gardening will make sense. We ripped up all of the old rose bushes, and planted the red lilacs instead (I plan on getting a cute bench to go between the two lilac bushes); then we pulled up the bushes and flowers along the walkway and planted blue lobelia with the red columbine- SO Pretty- especially after they all fill out. I also planted three red geraniums under my bay window. They should get nice and big. I can't wait to see how pretty it all looks! I should take a before and after shot- the after will be a long time coming, though! Besides, I still have PLENTY ripping out to do and replanting also. I did buy a white hydrangea to put in the back yard- it was on clearance today!!

Gardening makes me happy, so I figured I'd get busy with it! I bought a bunch of herbs today. I also bought 11 tomato plants, 3 jalapenos, a cucumber, a zucchini, a crookneck squash, and I'm trying to find a watermelon plant right now. I just hope I can keep it all alive!!! The house came with six fruit trees and the only ones we seem to have trouble with are the two apple trees. They seem disease prone. We get a ton of pears and peaches, though. Yum! We also have strawberries (I picked a whole bowl full yesterday and there are still tons to pick) and I planted some raspberries when we first moved in. The raspberries seem to be doing better this year. I think we got maybe two berries last year because we had a major ant problem. This yard keeps us VERY busy! It is beautiful, though!

Sorry about all of this boring gardening garb, but I love it! I wanted to write something positive about my life, and this is what I've been doing lately. So, as soon as my new camera gets here, I will take some pics and post them. I might even make a post or two!

OH, I almost forgot!!!! Lain won an IPod today at work!! He was drawn in a raffle! It's a video one- 30 GB! I told him that I think our luck is changing! He just laughed. I don't think he believes me! ;-) I hope I'm right!

Venting

Don't read this. It is for venting purposes only!

Okay, I'm bugged.

I need to vent.

Remember how baseball was supposed to be done? It's not. Apparently we have the tournament coming up and it's double-elimination. Our team has only lost one game the whole season. THAT means that we are probably going to have to play many more games! Oh joy. So now I have to go on a search for a left-handed catcher's mitt. I haven't been able to find one in Bountiful or Centerville, so I don't know if they are anywhere around here at all. I thought, "No big deal. I have a whole year to look for that. I can order it online or something." NO!!! (Why couldn't he be great at shortstop or outfield or something that only required him using his left-handed baseball mitt?) Oh well!

I'm also a little frustrated with this week. It's seeming to drag on! I'm thinking that I need to get this crew under control. I have started "chore mornings" with the boys. This is more of a chore for me than for them because I am having to teach them to do all of this crap! Why is this parenting thing biting me in the rear all the time? I thought we were supposed to have kids so I could have more help around here? ( Yeah, I didn't really think that. That's just what my dad said everytime I asked why I had so many chores.) I guess it will be easier once they learn how to do everything. Until then, I will continue with the ins and outs of toilet scrubbing!

Now for the real pity party!

I'm lonely! I miss my family! I hate this stupid cold weather we keep having! HELLO!!!! It's JUNE!!! I also hate my stupid old house! I have to share a bathroom with all these boys who pee all over my floor and seat! WHY? I'm trying to be positive, but I'm not feelin' it lately! I want sunshine and my sisters! I have some friends, but everyone is so busy all the time, we rarely get together. I haven't had time to go to the gym in 2 weeks and so I'm feeling horrible about myself, too. I just wish things would start to look up sometime. I wish Preston would stop having meltdowns all the time and that Abbie would let me get some housework done. I wish my husband would take me on a date without me having to initiate it! I just wish I could have one day with no crazy stress. Not likely.

I do know that one day I will look back at this time in life and say it wasn't so bad, but right now, it seems like it's been 6 years of total crap falling day after day. I know Preston is doing better. I know Lain has a better job. I realize that I am in a great neighborhood and awesome ward. My husband loves me and treats me wonderful and is the best dad EVER! I just feel sad that I'm up here alone and wish I had my family close to help me endure it better!

Sorry if anyone was in a great mood and I ruined your day! I hope you understand I am not typically a negative person. I have just had a cruddy day and haven't had a Coke for a few days!

THAT'S IT!!! This is all just withdrawal! ;-P