Life is moving along. This week... well, nothing exciting. Jim and I had fun watching the UFC and WEC fights. Read a few more books and had a fun Halloween with the kids. It's nothing exciting, but it's what we did this week. It's been really warm here and I've got all the doors and windows open. I like this kindof weather in October. I hope it doesn't mean that it will be super cold in June.

Just got home from Idaho Falls. We had a fun, eventful, emotional weekend. The emotional part of it will stay in my head cuz there just isn't a way to explain it. As for the fun and eventful, the kids had their primary program and we had commited a few months ago to being there so Danaca could sing a solo. She was amazing. She didn't seem nervous at all and sung so beautifully. It made me cry. So sweet and innocent.

Saturday was the wards Super Saturday and so I went and help my friend Jen (she's incharge of our Super Saturdays and she's amazing at it. So stinkin' crafty.) Got to visit with some people and then we went home and hung out. It was great to see everyone!! I miss you all again, already. Sister Belnap gave me a jar of her home made hotfudge (which she knows that i'm addicted too) so that I could have a treat on the way home. It was DELISH !! Who needs ice cream.

AND...I have to admit that I'm a complete idot. Apparently this move has been harder on me than realized. When I was leaving Idaho I went North on I-15 instead of South and didn't even catch it until 45 minutes later. Jim was a LITTLE bugged (ok. it was more than a little) because I made him late for his camping trip. OOOOPS!

Now I'm back in Logan and Jim has taken the kids on the family "reunion" deer hunt for three days. I hope their safe and have a great time. They were all excited to go camping.

Catch ya next week!

I've decided that Sunday is a great day for updating. Or in other words... writing in my journal. hee hee. Mandy we are ALWAYS excited for visitors. I would love to see you. It's been to long cousin.

So for starters, can I please have my Lincoln 5th ward back!! Nothing against the great people in the Maple Valley 2nd ward. My new Bishopric is like 18 in age and maturity. Ok, well that's probably a little harsh considering I don't know them. I think it just makes me feel old. Kindof like when you go to your doctor, someone who you are suppose to trust with your life and in walks this kid right out of med school. What kindof life experience does a Bishop have when he's like 14? Not much, but I gues that part of trusting the Lord is also trusting that he is in that position because that's where he is needed. I just really miss my ward FAMILY. My support group and the people who have been with me through the hardest two years of my life. They know me, they like me and I want them back.

I want my neighbors back!! I'm sure there are nice people around here, but you don't realize how much I relied on great neighbors for support and entertainment. Especially late at night when I'm bored and need something to do. I guess I'll have to just keep reading and enjoy the solitude. :)

I suppose it's time to update my blog. So much has happened and I don't know where to start. We sold our house in Idaho Falls (which was a tremendous blessing.) The family who bought our house had been looking to buy in our ward for quite a while and just as we put it on the market they wanted to buy it. The flip side of this blessing... because there is ALWAYS a flip side... is that I have left behind some amazing friends, neighbors, co-workers and the best ward we've ever been in. It was more like family to me and during the toughest two years of my life, they were there with comfort and support and love. I know I can find that anywhere I go, but I will truely miss them.

We have moved to Logan, Utah again and Jim is the General Manager for a restaraunt called the Beehive Grill. A fun concept and good food, not to mention some yummy gilato. Mmmm. I think I will go get some today. It's pretty tasty.

We've moved into a dinky three bedroom apartment and put most of our stuff in storage. There is a lot to like about this place... a pool, weightroom, playgrounds, year round hot tub, club house to host scrapbook parties, etc. There is also a lot to not like... it's tiny, up three flights of stairs, not as clean as I'd like, and did I mention that it's small???

I will start working at the Kohls here in a week and I am actually nervous. ?? Not really like me, but I've lost a sense of security in the last couple years and I can't seem to get it back. When my kids went to their first day of school yesterday I cried for them because the looks on their faces said... "Mommy, please stay with me." They did have a great first day and are off with no reservations today. Thank goodness I have pretty resiliant kids.

There is a lot to like about Logan and in the past we have enjoyed living here. There is a beautiful view of the temple right outside our apartment window. Beautiful scenery, an Einsteins Bagel, Carls' Jr., indoor ice skating, close to family.... and so much more that I can't think of right now.

We are planning to build another house if things go well in the next year. That should be fun!!
Gotta go get ready for the day...

There is this boy... who has been bothering my girls. He's new to the neighborhood and had been rude and crude and mean. So, I've told them to ignore him. Then, yesterday the boy admits to one of my girls that the only reason he's been mean is because he likes her. Then he hands her a flower.

The boy then asks to meet her mother... Brighton pipes up and says, "watchout, she's kindof mean. "

I would have been mad that he felt that way except I couldn't stop laughing. That little boy is so stinkin' spoiled rotten that for him to say that totally caught me off guard. What a brat. :)

Just wanted to let you know that we are still alive and kicken'. Life has been a jumbled up mess for that last while, but we are hangin' on. Jim recently got a job with a new resturaunt in Logan and when our house gets sold we will be moving. There are so many emotions and thoughts going a long with that last sentence but we are going to make the best of this situation. We are grateful to have employment and that's what counts.

I got this email from my brother and couldn't resist posting it since I had nothing else of any interest to write about. This made me laugh!!!!


To my darling husband,
Before you return from your business trip I just want to let you know about the small accident I had with the pickup truck when I turned into the driveway. Fortunately not too bad and I really didn't get hurt, so please don't worry too much about me. I was coming home from Wal-Mart, and when I turned into the driveway I accidentally pushed down on the accelerator instead of the brake. The garage door is slightly bent but the pickup fortunately came to a halt when it bumped into your car. I am really sorry, but I know with your kind-hearted personality you will forgive me.
You know how much I love you and care for you my sweetheart. I am enclosing a picture for you. I cannot wait to hold you in my arms again. Your loving wife. XXX






P.S. Your girlfriend called.

Today is a new day!! Hip Hip Hooray!! After a great and spiruitually uplifting weekend of Stake Conference I am looking forward to a new day. But wish me luck. I have to go to Hard Hat and try to get money from them that they owe us. All by myself. I'm a little tiny bit nervous. The guy keeps giving us the runaround. And we've told him that we won't take anymore of his checks so I have to get cash. I am not good with confrontation. I'm so affraid I might just punch someone. :) Okay so that's probably a stretch for me, but still. I might say something mean and I'm really trying hard to be a better person.

Oh... and Happy Birthday Melissa and Kyle. I hope you have an amazing day.

Well, it's time for an update boys and girls. I planted my garden from my house to my yard and 3/4 it is dead. I am not sure if I have the patience for this, put I'll keep tryin.

Jim was layed off from his job at Hard Hat, so if anyone knows anyone or wants to be a financial backer for a small place of our own. Let us know. We feel strongly that it is tme to try and do something ourselves. Jim has the talent, knowledge and experience... so why not?

Green house...literally

It's really difficult to plant a garden and expect it to produce anything if the wind doesn't stop winding so hard!! And it needs to stop freezing. My garden at the moment is growing in my house.

This was a week ago.

This was today.

Show off

Well, there isn't anything exciting to post, but I thought I would show off some of the things that have been keeping me busy lately.

These are the two projects I chose to do for our ward Super Saturday

This is a frame I made for myself for a picture of my dad and I. The sad thing is that I can't find a picture of the two of us.

Last, but certainly not least considering it took the longes. I made the bedding for Brightons room. I couldn't find anything that I loved at the store, so I decided, (having never taken on a project like this before) that I would just make it myself. And I'm proud to say that it didn't turn out too bad. It's nothing fancy, but it works. Now I need to find some airplane decorations.

So, I totally got called out on the carpet by my friend, even tho I know she wasn't intending to call me specifically out. Updating my blog has become a chore and yet, I get bugged when too much time goes by on someone elses. We get involved in these fads like blogging and facebook and my space, etc. and after a while it looses some of it's appeal and we forget about them. But I agree with my friend that I very much enjoy reading other's blogs and being able to keep up with everyones lives. It's about the only way I have TIME to keep up with EVERYONE. So, boring life or not, I'll try to post more often. :)

I know my post are pretty boring, because my life is... well farely uneventful at the moment. I did get my kitchen cleaned and that was quite the event. I hate that I KNOW how good it feels to get my house cleaned and yet it's so hard to get it done. The weather was farely descent today and hopefully tomorrow will be even better. I can't wait to go on walks. I realized again today how much I love this stage in my life with my kids. They are so much fun to be around and do stuff with. (Most of the time) If anyone has fun summer stuff to do around here in I.F. let me know. I want them to have a fun summer.

Motivationally challanged

I am so hoping for some kind of motivation today. I have so much to get done and no desire to do most of it. I go to bed with a headache and wake up with one. That really doesn't help. I look around and get so bugged about everything. Like the fact that when I try to clean my house, no one else cares, so why should I. At that point I give up. But I don't want to be that person. So wish me luck.

I am very honored to be the daughter of John Hadfield. It was a year ago tomorrow that Heavenly Father called him home. It has been a very quick year in some respects and this isn't an anniversary that I really know what to do with. It will be a hard day if I let myself think about it. But I think I'm more apt to avoid it. My family and I will spend part of the day in the temple and that will be such a great experience. We are going to try and all be at our respective temples at the same time, and knowing that dad will be there with us will be a great comfort.

I can go on and on about how great I think my dad is. He was not perfect, but he LOVED the Lord and he LOVED his family. He LOVED my mom and you could see it in the way he looked at her. His grandchildren were very special to him and I can only imagine how he is spoiling the ones in Heaven who are waiting to come to the family. (ha ha..not mine ofcourse since were done.) What more could anyone ask for. He was a missionary in every sense of the word. He knew (knows) what he had in the gospel and wanted to share it with everyone around him.

I have great faith in our Heavenly Father's plan and know that he is on the other side of the veil working hard to keep us in line and other's to find their way. At times it is harder than others to not have him around physically, but we have all felt him close when we needed him. I can't express enough the gratitude that I feel for having he and my mom for parents. To be sealed to them for time and ALL eternity. That didn't break when he died. It became stronger. It became more real and more important than ever before to know that I am theirs. No matter who gave birth to me. I was meant to be with them. He made sure I knew that. I love you daddy!!

Hard Hat

I am very excited that the Hard Hat will be open in Idaho Falls on April 13th. This is going to be a great new resteraunt. They have some fun ideas and a great menu. Not to mention all the thought and work they have put into their new building. If you get a chance.. check it out.

What a great weekend. My mom, brothers and sisters and I were all able to be together this last weekend. We first attented the mission reunion which was a lot of fun and the reason for us all being together. Everyone shared great memories of my dad. Then we all stayed in a hotel. We took four rooms and the kids were so loud. We were actually asked to keep it down. How embarrasing. Oh well, the kids had a blast playing together. Saturday we all gathered together in Brigham City at the cemetary. It was too cold to do much but we did take a few pictures. Eventually I'll get them posted. We spent time with my dad's parents and my mom's mom. It was really hard to leave.

On a side note for my family... Brighton called Uncle Ben "grandpa"all weekend. It was quite touching.

Aaahhh. I can relax now a bit. We finished our Relief Society Birthday dinner last night. I think it went well. Thanks to all those who helped pull it off. And a special thanks to Lisa Belnap. You were wonderful.

For those of you who have asked or are wondering... I will be having a Twilight movie night at my house for anyone who wants to come. Jim went and found it on Blu-ray for me, so let me know if I should put you on my list to invite.

For anyone who cares... we've taken our house off the market and we're staying in Idaho Falls. Jim took a job working with a resturaunt called Hard Hat Steakhouse. It will be an adventure. They are building the new resturaunt over in Snake River Landing.

Brighton told me this morning that it was spring. I asked him how he knows that and he said it's because he heard the birds chirping outside his window. That means it's spring.

"Shhhh... the princess is sleeping."

Brighton loves his 7 different blankets. So much so that he's named a few of them. There is Danky, blue blanky and ducky blanky. Those are the only ones I remember. Anyway, the other night he had blue blanky in hand and says to me, "mommy, where is danky?" I told him that I had just washed and folded him and he was sitting in my room to put away. He then said " I need him, I can't sleep with blue blanky anymore cuz he kicks me at night." I laughed so hard I just about wet my pants. I said, "he kicks you huh? that's no good" and he says "nope and I don't want to sleep with him until he stops kicking me."

What a funny little imaginations.

Happy Birthday Daddy! I miss you!!

Ways to Maintain A Healthy Level Of Insanity .
1. At Lunch Time, Sit In Your Parked Car With Sunglasses on and point a Hair Dryer At Passing Cars. See If They Slow Down.
2. Page Yourself Over The Intercom. Don't Disguise Your Voice.
3. Every Time Someone Asks You To Do Something, Ask If They Want Fries with that.
4. Put Your Garbage Can On Your Desk And Label It 'In.'
5. Put Decaf In The Coffee Maker For 3 Weeks Once Everyone has Gotten Over Their Caffeine Addictions, Switch to Espresso.
6. In The Memo Field Of All Your Checks, Write ' For Smuggling Diamonds'
7. Finish All Your sentences with 'In Accordance With The Prophecy.'
8. dont use any punctuation
9. As Often As Possible, Skip Rather Than Walk.
10. Order a Diet Water whenever you go out to eat, with a serious face.
11. Specify That Your Drive-through Order Is 'To Go.'
12. Sing Along At The Opera.
13. Go To A Poetry Recital And Ask Why The Poems Don't Rhyme?
14. Put Mosquito Netting Around Your Work Area And Play tropical Sounds All Day.
15. Five Days In Advance, Tell Your Friends You Can't Attend Their Party Because You're Not In The Mood.
16. Have Your Co-workers Address You By Your Wrestling Name, Rock Bottom.
17. When The Money Comes Out The ATM, Scream 'I Won!, I Won!'
18. When Leaving The Zoo, Start Running Towards The Parking lot, Yelling 'Run For Your Lives, They're Loose!!'
19. Tell Your Children Over Dinner. 'Due To The Economy, We Are Going To Have To Let One Of You Go.'

I looked out our windows this morning and it was a blizzard. I was wishing that I was back in Germany hanging out at this beautiful castle and enjoying the beautiful snow. Here, it's not nearly as much fun or quite as beautiful. Why is that??? :)

Well, it's a sad day... we put our house up for sale. Anyone know of anyone who wants to buy a great house at a great price, let us know.

I'm going to brag for a minute... sorry. I am so proud of my husband. He has worked very hard on HIS (our) theatre room. What a fun place to spend time. GREAT JOB Baby!!!

Hopefully this doesn't gross anyone out.

This morning when my son woke up this is what we found.

So, I'm pretty sure that blood is not suppose to come out of your EARS! It didn't hurt and he never complained about it, but I took him to the insta care just the same. The doctor said he was not able to even see into his ear it was so coated and that I needed to clean it out with ear drops and come back in two weeks. It's a good thing it doesn't hurt.

Due to recent budget cuts and the rising cost of electricity, gas, and oil, The Light at the End of the Tunnel has been turned off.
We apologize for the inconvenience.

I got this in my email today and rolled on the ground laughing ! It's hillarious.

P.S. Sorry if my last post offended anyone. Jim didn't like it and said that I was being mean. That was NOT my intention.

Well, thought I'd post something, but I really don't have a whole lot that is anything to talk about. My kids are all running fevers and I get to work 5 days this week. I have laundry out the nose and my house that i just cleaned is a disaster again. Oh well, such is life.

*To avoid laundry, run around naked*
(this is the saying that is going on my laundry room wall)

Had fun watching the super bowl on our movie screen, and all those of you who were invited and didn't come... You missed out, not just because of the movie screen, but Jim makes some great food. Those of you who didn't think you were invited... I've already put out our open invitation. We are not the type of people who get offended if you invite yourselves. :-) (just give us a bit of warning, because I'm all about trying to "avoid laundry." J/K )

Nothing else exciting going on. I'd better get to bed.

My mom and dad have some of the greatest missionaries in the whole world. They really are like family. My dad and mom loved their missionaries deeply and those missionaries know it. Every month on the 14th of the month, my mom's eyes water as she receives a box of red roses from those missionaries remembering hers and their loss. I can't thank them enough for the wonderful things they did and are still doing for my parents. Now there is a memorial/reunion in the works for April. Thank you.

I thought a lot last night as I was trying to sleep about my political voice. I have stressed over not having one, not doing my part and even knowing what that part is. We have a president who needs our support, even if he isn't who you voted for. I have wondered if my "voice" even matters and you know what I realized... it does matter. It matters to my Heavenly Father and if He is the only one who hears it, then that's all that matters. Not everyone is meant to play a big roll in polotics, but if we are unified in prayer, our voices will be heard. That actually gave me a lot of peace and regardless of that damage that is done or the damage that has been done, let us keep our Nation and it's leaders in our prayers. The Lord will hear us and there is a GREAT power in prayer. Especially when it is unified.

Pathetic, I know. I am just now getting around to putting Kailyn's baptism pictures on here. She was baptized on November 1st. It was fun to have so much family around for it.

"If you are not in the process of becoming te person you want to be, you are automatically engaged in becoming the person you don't want to be." -Dale Carnegie

So much for Christmas cards this year. We actually had some pictures taken, but never did anthing with them. So now they will get posted here.

Well, hello there. To all who read this post I hope you are having a great day!! What a great day it is. I am FINALLY going to finish taking down the rest of my Christmas decorations and put them away. (I know... it's about tme) Then, I'm going grocery shopping. We have NO food. Then I'm going to rearange my kids bedrooms. Britney is going to move into Kailyn's room and I am going to take over Britney's room as my scrapbook room. I need a room with a LOCK. Then the area where I had all my stuff can now become a great big play room. They will love it. Other than that, I don't know. We'll play is by ear and enjoy this great Saturday. Then I'll head to work. Have a good one!!

I guess it's time to come back to life. Sorry, I've been gone for so long. It has been a very dark couple of months, but getting better. There isn't really anything interesting to catch up on. I'm glad that December is over and I can put last year behind me. We are focusing on moving forward, counting each of our blessings and praying for a better year in 2009. We truely have so much to be grateful for. We are healthy, happy and overwhelmed with the knowledge that we have a Heavenly Father who loves us.

So all that being said... We're moving forward.

Things that are somewhat notewothy:
*I am hopelessly addicted to Twilight.
*Jim is now employed full time at Kohl's as an area supervisor for the Idaho Falls location.
*Our theatre room is fully equipped and usable. There are still some finished touches, but it has been fun to watch movies in our own theatre. Okay... some football has been on there as well. We love having company watch with us, but you'll have to probably invite yourselves, cuz it's too hard to try and invite everyone. Consider this an open invitation!

I can't think of anything else. So... The End.