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Thursday, July 8, 2010

I LOVE Making New Friends and Growing Friendships...Our Osborne Family Invite!

My first Osborne Family outing...bout time really, i've only known them for just under two years! I learnt that day that it was Katie's first "play-date" ever! So we were both due for some good fun and I know we all I had a great time, well minus Katie getting burnt to a crisp so that we could chat in the lake and simultaneously keep an eye on the kids, that i felt bad about...a little anyway. ;-)

They took us up to Big State Park in Maynardville, which i never knew existed before and we got to swim for free! I LOVE free things! There's so much to do up there, but we stuck to the water for the day after having a picnic. Thanks so much for the invite, I'm definitely doing this again. By the end of the day we were burnt, I was tired from catching kids jumping off docks, and Eden said her eyes were cloudy (too much swimming under the water!), and yet they still pouted when it was time to leave. Loved it, loved it, loved it!

The swimming group (some went to fish instead)
L to R: Immanuel, Aurora, Deuce, Katie, Sarah, Eden, Jack.

Getting ready to jump in!

Hmm...playing or taking a peek? LOL!

Sarah beside Deuce riding on the "Kiwer Whale"

Jack LOVES Katie. She was his nursery leader at church for a good while.

Such a FUN day!

Makes me miss that i grew up on a lake in NJ...

The water even smells the same....ah, so nice!

COMPLETELY EXHAUSTED!
Just they way i like them! ;-)

Thursday, June 24, 2010

FAIL BLOG!

No really, real, in-my-life, FAIL BLOG right here! If you don't know what FAIL BLOG is, then google it {ha, ha, for all my twilight friends out there, ;-) } Anyway, John frequently when he's bored, or probably just waiting for me to finish blogging, looks at fail blogs and particularly when he's laughing so hard he cries, i go over to him and see what the fuss is about. They're pretty funny, often painful, FAILINGS at various things.

So on Tuesday i FAILED at parenting. For some reason i thought that only Jack and Sarah needed sunblock and boy was i wrong! The picture above? A poor unsuspecting back, er yeh, it was toasted after 2 1/2 hrs of playing in the lake. Eden faired a bit better, but only because her bathing suit by default covered more.

The results are directly below, followed by joyous times with the Robert's Shoultses, and Whites. Needless to say i did run to the store right afterwards and purchased Aloe Gel (which by the way is REALLY expensive, criminal really!)

Well we had a blast while we were there at least. Sometimes the best lessons learned are through making mistakes. I just wish my poor children weren't the aftermath of my neglect! I'm just glad i didn't and really couldn't given in to Eden's protests to stay for a total of 4 hours instead of just 2 1/2. They would have been crispy for sure! Better luck next time!

Look at their poor faces! Their back were even worse! :-(

Everybody, everybody!

Um...he's peeing and as a result being very distraught because he has no diaper on!

We rinsed him off and he soon began enjoying the lake too!

Snack time!

more snacks....

Marissa Robert, a truly amazing woman and friend.
It was her home we played at as she lives right on the lake front.

Iman getting ready to jump off the dock. They had so much fun!

All about John & Nicola

Well, John is the extremely handsome red-head, of course, and I'm the little one in front of him! John is a marriage and family therapist and I am a domestic engineer as well as a dental hygienist. We met in June of 2000, were engaged by the very end of September 2000, and were married December 16th 2000. We have four lovely children as you can see below and love life and all that it has brought and taught us! We love to talk, have friends over, cook and eat food, camp, and pretty much do anything as a family.

All About Edy

She is fun-loving and pretty much always wants her way (who doesn't) and 90% of the time it works out well as she's a good girl with righteous desires and is extremely responsible and mature for her age. However that 10% of the time where we actually don't agree on something, she can be a little devil! She is a huge help with Jack as these two are best buds! Jack likewise adores her and she is the only one out of his other siblings that he'll let parent him. Eden is also in the fifth grade and loves to read. She has a passion for horses and all animals really and also loves to cook and bake.

Top 7 Favorite of "The Complete Life's Little Instruction Book"

{Why 7 and not 10...because I haven't found three more I really like the best yet. AND these are in no particular order either.}

1. Remember that life's most treasured moments often come unannounced.
2. Hold puppies, kittens, and babies any time you get the chance.
3. To help your children turn out well, spend twice as much time with them and half as much money.
4. Be happy with what you have while working for what you want.
5. Watch for the big problems. They disguise big opportunities.
6. Learn to listen. Opportunity sometimes knocks very softly.
7. Never give up on anybody. Miracles happen every day.

The Duty of Mothers...

The duty of the mother is to watch over her children, and give them their early education, for impressions received in infancy are lasting. You know, yourselves, by experience, that the impressions you have received in the dawn of your mortal existence, bear, to this day, with the greatest weight upon your mind. It is the experience of people generally, that what they imbibe from their mothers in infancy, is the most lasting upon the mind through life... Children have all confidence in their mothers; and if mothers would take proper pains, they can instill into the hearts of their children what they please. You will, no doubt, recollect reading, in the Book of Mormon, of two thousand young men, who were brought up to believe that, if they put their whole trust in God, and served Him, no power would overcome them. You also recollect reading of them going out to fight, and so bold were they, and so mighty their faith, that it was impossible for their enemies to slay them. This power and faith they obtained through the teachings of their mothers.

-Brigham Young