Crazy!

How would you like this thing living with you? My brother sent this picture to me from his mission in Ecuador. This little guy (iguana?) was inside his apartment.

Tagged

I know this tag is going around so I chose not to tag anyone else. Do it if you want to!

Here ya go...4 Things You May Not Know About Me:

1. I secretly or not so secretly love ice cream! That is my favorite thing at night. Hence the reason why I can't get the last 10 pounds of baby weight off!

2. I have to brag...I graduate in December and will be graduating Magna Cum Laude which means that I had a 3.8 for my end in college! It is exciting! I know I should be humble, but I am proud of myself considering the fact that I had kids for the majority of my college!
3. I love to read just about anything! I have a new found love that should have been a love a long time ago...the scriptures! I love the Book of Mormon and cannot put it down! This is only the second time in my life that I have read it. I know call me horrible!

4. I am shy and have a hard time meeting new people. Once I get to know you I don't seem so shy anymore.

4 Places I Go Over and Over:
Walmart
Church
the neighborhood pool
my Mom and Dad's House

4 People That Email Me:
Sarah
Brooke
Elder Minson (My brother)
Dad

4 of My Favorite Foods:
Homemade pizza
anything my husband cooks
a good steak
shrimp

4 Places I'd Love to Be:
On the beach in Hawaii
San Antonio
Utah with family
Florida

4 Movies I Watch Over and Over
I don't really watch movies over and over.

Memory Tag

This is a great idea so I thought I would play along. I would really love to hear about memories that you all have had with me.

1. As a comment on my blog, leave one memory that you and I had together. It doesn't matter if you knew me a little or a lot, anything you remember!

2. Next, re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory about you. If you leave a memory about me, I'll assume you're playing the game and I'll come to your blog and leave one about you.

Girls Night!

Okay...what do you get when Mommy's are in need of getting out of the house + delicious food + awesome husbands who take care of the kids? Well of course a fabulous girls night out! This is what I did last night! Tons of fun! Thanks all you girls who shared this with me! It was tons of fun! Maybe we should make this a consistent thing!

Horray!

Things do go right! No job yet....but I passed my teacher certification tests! I am so happy and excited! Now all I need is the diploma to go with it!

Pity party or not

I have been hesitant to write lately because I know that anything I say will come out sounding like a pity party. Which I am having at times by the way. Clay came home last Monday from work well before the time that he should have. I knew something was wrong immediately when he walked in the door at noon. He said that it wasn't good. He was laid off. The housing market isn't doing so hot here. Not to mention he was working for a really small company that had less than 20 employees. He was the one to be booted. That is just my luck because he was laid off last year right before Madyson was born. It just isn't a good time right now. We had to cancel Elyse's surgery for her ears because we didn't think that we had insurance. When Clay talked to the owner of the company this week we found out he kept us on the insurance until the end of the month. The problem that we are having now is we will need the money that we were going to use for her surgery to pay bills. This is such a mess. I wish that I was finished with school so that I can help out, but wishing isn't going to change anything. So we are in the same position as we were last summer. Yipee! (Notice the sarcasm.) Funny enough I have had a week and a half to let this set in and I am feeling more at peace. I know that we will be taken care of as we were before and that there are bigger and better things awaiting our family. We are trying to stay true and faithful and by us doing this the Lord will bless our family.
The good part of this is that we are able to spend more time with Daddy. We have gone to the pool quite a few times. We had a great 4th of July. He has been able to play with the girls more. And he isn't so tired at night. Ironically enough we just bought a Wii. We have had fun playing it at night after the kids go to bed. I am pretty competetive and every time I lose I make him do a rematch. Okay not every time just sometimes. By the way boxing is by far the funnest game on the Wii sports. We laughed and played for almost 2 hours the other night. This is funny because I usually do not play video games. For some reason this wii sucked me into the deathly grip of video games.