Painting Before and AFters

Living room before: (note the brown wooden cheap looking base boards)Dining Room Before:

Dining room before..removing the ugly industrial looking shelves ( but now where do I put all the stuff I had on them?)
Living room after: new curtains and decoration above couch..

living room after: note no more chocolate wall...

Dining room after: the curtains all match but the ones in the dining room are blue with circles and the other ones are more beige with circles, I love them!!!


Dining room after: note new clock in place of shelves


This is Carter before his first day of 1st Grade! thus the one finger I made him hold up. lol

Here is the update on school: It has only been two days. I knew Carter would be tired because he was used to sleeping in past the time he has to be up and ready and at school, but in a week he will be used to that. I knew he would have an adjustment period where he needed to get used to his new teacher. Kindergarteners fall in love with their teachers (if their teacher is good and nice),because they are so young and they don't know alot of people, so it seems to be hard for Carter to accept his new teacher and the way she does things.

He told me yesterday that some girl he doesn't even know called him a liar for no reason, and Tim and I both told him it was probably because she thinks he's cute , but just to ignore her if she is mean. Then tonight after him acting in a bad mood and saying he doesn't like school and alot of prodding Carter broke down crying saying that he feels like people hate him when they are mean to him. He said some kid made fun of him for having a smaller glue stick(what a stupid thing to pick on someone for?), and another kid called him weird at the lunch table and kept putting his food on him. And his feelings have just been really hurt by these kids he doesn't even know , so it is weird to him that they are being mean "for no reason".

It is SO hard when you hear that other kids are mean to your kid, it makes you want to go tell a teacher that they need to put a stop to it or tell your kid it is ok to punch the mean kids in the nose! But I amazingly came out with some good advice and insight.

Finally I am able to put my "getting picked on" to some good use. I know how it feels and I know how to deal with it and that it doesn't last forever and that it usually means people are jealous or t feel threatened by you. We even did a coupld of practice runs where I told Carter to just say "so" or "who cares" or something similar when people say mean things to him.

I have confidence that Carter will adjust to first grade and continue to find friends and be the leader he always has been, we just need to get back into routine.

that's all ... good night

Lagoon 2010

So we went to Lagoon this weekend. It was a really quick and tiring trip though. After Tim got off work Thursday drive for 7 hours...sleep for a few..wake up go to Lagoon for about 10 hours...sleep...wake up drive to P.F. Changs..mmmmm...drive back to Layton eat dinner, then drive home 7 hours...finally home at 1:30 a.m. sleep in our own beds zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

I was surprised that I can't enjoy the rides the way I used to. They make me feel dizzy in the head, even if they don't spin! What the heck?

I was a bit ornery and stressed out because of having lost $50 ( well actually got tricked into paying for my 1 yr old $30 for him not to be able to ride anything! and not getting our $20 cash given to us and the till balancing out which means the kid pocketed our money! ) , and having a 1 year old to try to deal with at an amusement park.

Always something to be grateful for though....

I got to see my two oldest brothers and their families although it was brief because everyone was just doing their own thing, running around and bumping into each other here and there.

But it was my sisters birthday so I am glad I got to see 3 people on that day 1. her son Jordan 2. some of my family 3. Gaylynn's best friend from high school and one of my favorite people and coincidentally our cousin, Sheral ! ( in no particular order)