2 AMAZING YEARS

That is right we have hit two years! Happy Anniversary Jon! OK so it was Tuesday but today is our celebration. Jon is amazing and grounds me so much. He has strengths were I am weak and the other way around. He makes me want to be better. He is an amazing daddy and an even better husband! Tonight we are going to Hollywood Connections in Salt Lake, we wanted to do something that we could actually interact whereas if we went to a movie we couldn't really talk. Two years ago was one of the greatest days of my life. I not only married my best friend but the love of my life that I really don't ever remember being without.

Nothing really to post

My goal was at least once a week and well as you can see I am not doing so hot. I don't really think anyone actually reads this thing so this is where we will post exciting news so that we can find out who really reads it! Just kidding.
First exciting news is Jon got a 95 % as his final grade in his English class! YAY! He has worked so hard this term and applied himself so much so I am very proud of him. As his reward he got to wake McKenna up last night when he got home to play with her even though she had been asleep for an hour. Oh well, she missed her daddy and he missed his girl.
Next yesterday was our anniversary, but due to Jon's crazy schedule, me being sick and a shortage in the bank area we decided to wait til this weekend to do something. We aren't sure yet as to what it will be but it will be something.
McKenna is getting 3 more teeth which will bring us to a total of 11! I can't believe it. She is getting so big so fast its just crazy. Time for the dentist I guess. . . That should be fun!
I got a new visiting teaching list on Sunday. I have a feeling this one will work much better then the last and I am very excited. I am really trying hard to be involved in this ward, I'm just so shy and not outgoing at all. Oh well. I will for sure let everyone or whoever reads this know if and when anything happens, promise.

Happy Halloween!

So McKenna and I dressed up as lady bugs! I wasn't going to but last minute decided I had nothing better to do. Jon mixed up some clothes in our closet and dressed up as a geek. He won funniest costume, which still cracks me up considering his proffesion. He got a pumpkin full of candy and a fourty dollars to Applebees. McKenna looked so cute! We went to our ward party then just visited with some friends, nothing to exciting but nice. Hope you are all well.

I love my husband!

So if you took the time to read my last blog you will see that life around here lately has just been crazy. On Wednesday Jon and I were talking (on the phone of course) and decided it was long passed time for us to go on a date. Or just to be alone for that matter. So I talked with one of my good friends and decided Saturday was best for everyone. Well it ended up she offered for McKenna to stay Friday night which meant Jon and I could sleep in! Wait, no we didn't I had Young Women in Excellence and Jon had school. Oh well, sleeping in is over rated I've decided. Anyways, when I got home Jon and I weren't sure what to do. So we debated over it and ended up going to Layton and just walking around the mall, we did grab some dinner which we spent more then we wanted but considering we haven't been out forever we decided it was ok. We found out Old Navy was having a killer sale and found Jon a shirt for 3 dollars and me one for 6! Also we found Jon some flip flops for next year for a dollar each!! Nothing beats a good deal. After we went and met our friends and picked up McKenna we headed home and ended up meeting up with some friends and watching a movie while the kids played. Headed home around ten and went to bed. Well Sunday none of us woke up til 10:15! Now McKenna is pretty reliable on when she wakes up but I guess yesterday was an exception, she has to be growing or something. All she did yesterday was sleep. Well I got ready and went to Young Womens and had a lesson on Service in our Community and decided that we really need to do something even if it is just once a month. So thats my goal today is to find a place to donate my time. After I got home from church McKenna went back to sleep and so Jon and I watched Tron, ok I fell asleep and Jon watched it but still. Once it was over we made soup then went and walked around temple square. We went and saw the family display which always makes me cry. We also saw the Cristus and McKenna kept waving at it and blowing kisses. I wish I could be as close to the spirit as I know that little girl is. She is such an example.

How do people do it?

For those of you who actually read this it won't be exciting, ites really just me complaining about nothing at all. Not that what I just said made ANY sense. Sorry its late and I'm tired, just trying to stay awake til Jon gets home.
So lately I feel like I am piling and piling it on and have no idea how to keep myself afloat. I know that there are so many out there that do so much more then me but I really think I have hit my breaking point.
Starting Monday morning I go pick up the kids from school around eleven thirty, take them to my house to feed them and try to catch up on random things around the house. After that once McKenna wakes up we go to the kids house til the older kids get home then I head to Jon's work to meet my mother in law for a financial planning class we are going to. Get home around nine at the earliest, talk to Jon for an hour and head off to bed.
Tuesdays and Thursdays are very similar except I meet Jon's mom at his work on Tuesdays so I can go home for the night while he is in school and Thursday I just try to do something so I'm not home alone. Plus I have to go get the youngest kid I watch at eight thirty instead of eleven. Jon usually gets home around ten those nights and we try to talk in bed which usually lasts til I fall asleep so I really don't know how late we stay up. Wednesdays I pick up the kids at eleven thirty and my days are similar to the rest of the week except that I try to have dinner ready for Jeri and Jon when they get home because I have Young Women's those nights so I head there and usually get home a little after nine, talk to Jon til ten then off to bed. Friday nights Jon and I try to spend at home together but we usually end up making dinner and cleaning it up, showering then bed cause we are both just so exhausted. Saturdays Jon has morning classes so McKenna and I play in bed with him til he has to leave then her and I usually try to find something to do around the house to keep us busy til Jon gets home. Most of the time once he gets home he is so worn out he wants to just be home but for me I am home all week and just want to leave. Usually ends up just hanging out at home which isn't a bad thing. Sundays we have church at nine, then NAP TIME!! YAY!! Then just time together, I love Sundays. Its the one day I am with Jon from the moment we wake up til we go to bed and I love it. We are both so busy that we have kind of missed each other theses passed two weeks. Actually its been the passed month since I started this class and he has Saturday classes. We both know that the beginning is tough so we are trudging through and we will make it, we are both to stubborn not to! Sorry if you are still reading, I told you nothing but me complaining, but now reading over it I realize that I should be getting at least eight hours of sleep, but I don't feel like it. Maybe its time to see a doctor and get my thyroid checked out again, something somewhere isn't right.

Getting so BIG

So its been one year, one year since McKenna was blessed. There is something about a baby all dressed in white that I can't explain. A feeling of such purity and innocence and such a closeness to God. I remember being so stressed due to having so many people at my house but so at peace, because I knew that my little girl was being blessed by her daddy. Something that I have always always prayed I would get. I love my husband so much and the love that he brings into our home and shows McKenna and I. I know every day that Jon and I have a connection that I could never imagine having with someone else. Thanks Jon, for being amazing, wonderful, and just you!

I am so very greatful for my family and Jon's and everything that they do for us. There is such a bond in Jon's family and so often I just sit and watch and think about how blessed I am. I love my family dearly also. I know that sometimes I just miss them so much but it makes the time we are together so much more valuable I think.

I GOT IT!!!!

YAY! I start Tuesday! There are four kids ranging in age from 12-4. I pick the little ones up from Pre-School and Kindergarten at 11 and the older ones get one around 4 so I only have the four of them for an hour. It will bring in some extra money which will help greatly! We will get stuff paid off that we really need to get taken care of. I will miss being home alone with my baby girl but right now it truly is what is best for our family.