wednesday pictures and schedule

feel way better today. was just a down day yesterday. i hate feeling yucky. any way here are wednesday pictures
6:30- wake up remember that i forgot to hang up phill's shirt the night before so put it in front of the fan works great
7:00- hy and kay to school and seminary, home and iron shirt, start making bread.

8:00- phill and jeh off for the day, upload pictures update blog.

10:00- bake bread

11:00- make lunches for kids

11:30- take luches to kids and a loaf of bread to phill's parents end up staying and talking all afternoon.

3:30- jeh has football pictures quickly run his equipment to him

4:00- back home and do some dishes with kay's help

4:30- run to post office and to the store for something for dinner with hy and kay


5:00- stop and pick up jeh's equipment from football field race him home (he is on his bike) get home and start dinner decided on perogies
7:00- young men/young women combined activity we played fugitive. super fun game

here i am all dresses up so that i could hide outside in the dark better.
kay playing on the tire swing after the game.
9:00- home for the night watch tv (bones & biggest loser) and cross stich while phill plays on computer

11:00- asleep on the couch again

12:30- up to bed

out sick

not feeling well today will put both today and yesterdays pics on tomorrow

tuesday pictures

7:05am- wake up late (maybe something to do with going to bed late) but look at the sunrise this morning

7:25- rush hy to seminary get home and make lunches make sure all the rest are up

8:00- take kay and jeh to school
8:30- bath and read

9:45- get dressed and ready for day

10:00- pick up house

11:00- computer time (update blog, edit pictures) waiting for tracy to drop off her kids11:50- tracy and kids show up kids play

1:00pm- make lunch and cookies eat!!
1:30- kids do some bowling help of the wii4:00- my kids get home from school plus another extra to watch for a few hours


5:30- start dinner (pork chops, rice a roni, and mixed veggies)

6:20- phill home

6:30- eating dinner

7:00-10:00- watch tv (biggest loser) cross stitch
10:00- tj brings chase over so i can babysit him on wednesday
sometime after that i fall asleep on the couch watching the f word (it's not a bad word it's food according to chief ramsey)
12:45- phill wakes me up and says that it is time to move to the bedroom 15 min earlier than last night (progress)

let's try this again

So i really have been neglecting this blog. i have just been in a serious funk lately. idon't know why but i just feel blue and can't seem to drag myself out of it. so in hopes of getting out of the dark place i am in i have decided to do Ali Edwards challenge (read more about it here)
to start i took a picture of my calendar for the month you can see that we are really busy around here and i think that things get added everyday.

6:30am- alarm goes off hit snooze and then out of bed. find hy up and dressed already.

7:00an- wake up everyone else in the house.

7:20- get hy to seminary. way too early

8:00am- phill, kay and jeh off to school and work now i get the computer have some raisin bread toast for breakfast.

9:30am- let chicken out clean leaves out of water dish

10:00- relax time in the tub and read a new book(shadow thieves)

11:15- clean, dressed and ready to do something how about walk the dogs.

12:00pm- home from walk have lunch (vanilla/blueberry tango yogurt) check email

12:30- pick up house and do dishes (with my dishwasher)

forgot to take pictures of the rest of my day but here is how it went.

1:00-3:30- played dr. mario on the wii, tested my wii fitness age (38)

3:30- store for milk and eggs see jeh on the way and have to deal with a problem at football practice.

4:30- start dinner

6:30- finally eat dinner and then make cookies with jeh

7:00pm- watch heros and chuck on tv

9:00- all the kids are in bed, watch some more tv (nothing good) do some cross stich while phill plays WOW on the computer.

1:00am- go to bed and complain that it is way too late and i'm going to bed earlier tomorrow.

it's been awhile!!!

hey all sorry that i have been gone for so long but we got some virus on our computer and had to send it away. it was a real pain in the butt. anyway i am back now so i should be keeping on track.

as you have noticed it is september already which means back to school, dance, football, volleyball and this year we get to add early morning seminary. i think that my life just gets busier every year. the kids are all excited about going back to school. jeh was so excited this morning that he wanted to leave almost an hour early, but kay thought that she only needed to leave 10 mins early to make the mile walk to school. anyway i got them going at the right times and they should all have a good day.

i'm trying to think of some of the things that we did in august but i'm coming up blank i think that the month just went by way too fast and we didn't get much time for anything. one thing that we did was seperate the boys room into two sections. now it is almost like they have a room of their own. hopefully this will help with the fighting at night. hy and kay both got new beds. queen size beds acutally so i have room for people to come and visit. we also got new furniture for the living room and appliances for the kitchen. one of which is a dish washer we haven't put it to use yet but i'm going to work on that problem today. hopefully.

inspiring reads

just thought i would share some of my blogs that i read daily, well when phill's not home. these ones are my fave today enjoy looking at them

simpe mom - she is talking about how to be disorganized and unproductive. really great this is the begining of a six part seris

zen habits - great site to read through. he always has great ideas to make your life more zen

house on hill road - love this site. she is so creative

my life - karren russels blog. i love her photos. and the way that she talks about her family. she reminds me that we are all pretty much in the same baot when it comes to family dealings. no one is perfect but we are all trying

my time, my creations - great card ideas she makes it look so easy

simply me - donna downey's blog. i love her i think that if we lived close by we would be friends.

Corn maze and photoshop actions

last night for young womens we went to a corn maze. it was a lot of fun. i took the camera and took some pictures, but it is kind of hard with our camera right now i think that it needs a new battery so the screen is all distorted so it is hard to tell if the picture looks good or not. so today i went online and found some actions for photoshop and i played around with the pictures. they were all free so the aren't the best actions but it gave me an idea of some of the things that i can do.
this is rosemary i used a couple of different actions with her picture.
kay lost in the corn. i was on the tower so i could see where they were at. they were with us but then they turned a different way so we ducked down low and started to run so they got lost because we had the cheat sheet.
jane looks like she is ticked off. maybe because i'm taking their picture. the corn was still low in some areas. i just opened up this weekend.

this is the picture straight out of camera. the next two are with some of the actions.
i think that this one is my favorite but i think that i got this affect by accident.
this one was hibass sharpening and soft focus i think that i is still a little dark. i really need to take a photography class.
this was just the hibass sharpening. no linda wasn't kissing the pole on purpose i think that she turned her head at the last min and now it is just funny

kay running through the corn again. i tried to put the soft focus on it but the picture was blurry to begin with i think because she was moving. anyway that was our yesterday and i think that i will try to figure out more of these actions. i looked to see how much it would cost to get more better actions and they are a ton of money. i guess that i am going to need to start saving more.