Updates:

My house is now on the market. We have not recieved an offer on it yet. We are currently living with my mother in law. Things are going okay, but could always be better. Our arrangements are about as good as Harry Potters, but we make do.
Our other house is underway. Of course it doesn't seem to be moving along as quickly as I'd like it to be. We are waiting on the plumbing to be finished, for the finishwork to be finished, the tile work in the bathroom(s) and in the kitchen. I think it looks amazing though! I can hardly wait until I am able to host a party there! I will be posting pictures as soon as I am able! It has been dificut to post any pictures because I do not have the cable that connects from my computer to my camera. It is packed up.
I am now officially finished with school! Yay! I passed all my classes except my math class with a 4.0. My math class I ended up with a 79% I took the final and left crying! It was the most horrible day I think I've had in a long, long time! No excuses! I should have studied harder. I tried to study, but wasn't able to find the time with the kids, and Lane standing around my feet all day asking for food, or water.
I have officially Graduated from the Jr. college!

What I'm thankful for

Dear Family and Friends, Happy Thanksgiving!
I wanted to take a few minutes out to just tell everyone what I am most thankful for this year. I am so very thankful for my husband. He is my best friend. The one person who I can share my real joys and sorrows with. He is always there to hold my hand and heart as we dance through this life. Cheesy as it may be, Lane helps make each day better by just being apart of it! Most of you know that we are now a family of 5, the twins are growing and changing everyday! I can't say enough how thankful I am for my 3 girls. Sometimes they make me laugh, and sometimes they make me cry but I am so thankful for them! I used to think I couldn't imagine a day without Lilly. I couldn't remember what life was like before lillyanna came into our lives. I can honestly say now that I definatly remember what life before the twins. It was much quieter!!! I am thankful for the job that my husband has. I am thankful for the house that we are now selling. It was a wonderful home. 2 good years were spent there. I am thankful for the neighbors, the friends that we made in that home. Specifically I am thankful for my neighbor Jen. She had a cup of sugar and hug ready at all times. I will miss her very much! I am thankful for the new home that my dad is building for us! What a huge blessing! Who gets the oppertunity to live out in the country just minutes from thier family at our age? not many I'm sure. So Thank you so much Dad and Becky for your generosity and love. We appreciate all that you have done and are doing for us. I know that it will provide us with many many happy years! Thank you.I am thankful for Lanes mom for taking us in while we are trying to sell our house. I know that things aren't easy, and 6 kids is more than she bargined for at one time. But we appreciate that we can stay here for a little while between the move. I know we will both be rejoicing the day our house is finished!!! Me because I'll get my own room again, and her because it will be quiet at 2 am again! I am also thankful for my very large, very wonderful family! I Loved spending thanksgiving afternoon playing games and talking with the family... Words cannot really express the joy that I feel when I am around all of you! Thank you for being a great family to be apart of! May this next year be filled with joy and happiness!
With a cup full and running over,
Thank you Lord for a wonderful year!
Rose

Diaper Trouble

Have I ever told you that I hate potty training? My little Katie keeps on taking her diaper off everytime that she needs to go to the bathroom. If i don't catch her in time it is usually on my floor. Lately I've been making her wear overalls to keep her pants up and her diaper untouchable... she has now found out that she can just get around that by putting her hands into her overalls and pulling her diaper just right. She is able to undiaper herself without me even knowing now. I cought her twice today with no diaper on... What is wrong with my child???? If i make her wear panties, she just pees in them, and rips them off. If i make her go naked... she finds any place she wants to go and goes there. If i keep her in a diaper, she takes her pants off and then her diaper off and then proceeds to go pee where ever she wants to go. Not to mention just today alone i have cleaned up poop twice. once in the morning, before she even came out of her room, and once this evening after she ate dinner, she was crying at the bottom of the stairs. I went up to change the laundry, and heard her crying, so i called her. "katie, come here" and she came, and as she was coming up the stairs poop was falling out of her overalls ... it was all over her foot and legs. I am so grossed out i do not know what to do. I threw her in the tub and washed her body off. Why don't we come out knowing how to pee and poop in a toilet??
I am not ready to potty train. We are moving soon, I am not ready. I tried to potty train lilly before we moved from hawaii, and it was a bad idea. She didn't do well, she understood the concept but things were not easy, and definatly not settled. I just want her to keep her freaking diaper on.
Oh and I should mention, when she takes her diaper off, there is nothing in it. It is clean.. she takes it off so that she won't get it wet i guess?? Maybe I should let her wear panties for a day or two and see if i can spot when she is going to go? Any ideas??

Just a Quick note before I start working on my homework for the day, I have lost 21 lbs now!!!

My ramble to anyone who wants to read... only my sis will read it!

It is now 11:08 and for the first time today I am sitting on my butt doing what I want to do. I am blogging! I don't have much to say except that I am too tired to read and get anything out of what I am reading but not tired enough to be sleeping. My head is hurting, and my thoat isn't feeling the best. My nose is running, thanks to my kids who started the runny nose phenomenon in our house about 2 days ago. I know that I will fall asleep and in a matter of a few house about 7 to be exact my kids will all be waking up and somehow finding thier way into my bed. Although they mean good, I would prefer if they would just be quiet! I do not like getting woken up at 6 am by little girls whining because they aren't able to climb up onto my tall bed all by themselves. After I help them up, they whine because they aren't able to all snuggle up next to me. Too bad I don't have three sides... Actually too bad I don't have tape to put over thier mouths while they are fighting over who is going to lay on my right side or not.
Maybe I am tired? I'm a little crabby it would seem from what I just wrote!
I do have this positive thing to say, in four weeks I have lost 18 lbs. Yay! I was in a downward spiral... put some weight back on. I am being alot more active, and trying not to eat late. It helped me right quick! I am glad to see those 100's again!
School is a lot of work. I spend the most of two days... two days! reading for one class. I am a little freaked out. I have a lot of other work that I could be doing. I am trying to get all the weeks long homwork done in 3 days. that way I am free mostly on thrusdays and fridays for vball and lane and he kids. Its not easy! But is only the 2nd week. i'm sure I will get the hang of it! 18 credits isn't much easier than 20... But I got a 4.0 last quarter, so 4.0 here I come!
Ok, That was a ramble.
Goodnight
Ps thanks for reading this Terri.

A new day

School begins in a matter of days. I've spent 2 days preparing for it to come. One day I went got my schedule worked out and the next i bought my books and all the things that I needed for my class. I spend about 275.00. That is better than last yeah, but it still was expensive. I think last quarter i spend over 400.00 on books. Luckily I get enough financial aid to pay for class and books with almost nothing left over.
The classes that I will be starting are Math in Society.. (blah!!!) Now I''m wishing I would have signed up for calculous. It may not have come super easy for me... but I would have been more interested in thinking about stuff that is hard, rather than story problems! I've heard that the calculous program is really hard and it would have taken a lot of time. I could have done it! I'm sure of it.... Lane kinda steered me away from it when he was saying how difficult it would have been. I will be taking Phycology 200. All i know is that I loved phsyc 100 when I was a freshman. I loved it! So I'm thinking this will be pretty fun. ( I hope!) I am taking a Geology course... Rocks!!! YEah. I hope when i am finished with it i'll be able to say it ROCKS!!! (lol) And the last class that I am taking is a PE course where you have to excersize for a certian amount of hours a quarter... When you get to that amount you get and A... If your short you don't get and A... It's pretty straight forward.
I like school. I always have. It doesn't come easy to me so I have to try pretty hard to grasp details and learn more difficult subject... I am looking forward to using my new books, even tho they are probably really boring! Anyways just wanted you all to know that the life of Rose is going to get pretty busy again. But when this quarter is over... I will be graduated!!! yay!!! I am so excited!

conversation with a kindergartener

Dedicated to all mom's everywhere.

This is a typical mom's story!

Thank heavens for Aunties!

(Ring...Ring...Ring...)
kindergartener: Hello!
Me: Hi! Is this Brenna? (not sure that i dialed the right number)
Kindergartener: Yeah! Who is this???
Me: This is auntie
Kindergartener: This is auntie??? Auntie???
Me: Whatcha doin?
Kindergartener: Um... Did you know that i got my fish with no water and it didn't die?
Me: Really?? Are you washing the tank?
Kindergartener: no, just put him in a cup with a little water. But he fell out.
Me: oh... Do you like school?
Kindergartener: yes.
Me: what is your teachers name?
Kindergartener: mrs. (couldn't hear it right,) and mrs (didn't understand)
Me: oh. are they nice to you?
Kindergartener: yes.
Me: which one is your favorite?
Kindergartener: I like them both
Me: well that is good. Do you like kids in your class?
Kindergartener: yes
Me: are they nice to you?
Kindergartener: yes
Me: good! Are you learning a lot in your class?
Kindergartener: yes, we are learing 1000 things.
Me: that is a lot! Are you learning your to read?
Kindergartener: yes
Me: are you learning how to write your name?
Kindergartener: I already know my name! its BRENNA... I never forget the E
Me: wow that is a great job... you must be pretty smart to know how to spell your name!
Kindergartener: yeah... ok love you bye...
(dialtone..........)

Call 2:
(ring ring ring ring)
Kindergartener: Hello!
Me: Can I talk to you mommy?
Kindergartener: um no
Me: I want to talk to your momma please.
Kindergartener: She is downstairs. I dont want her to answer the phone because she will be mad at me when she sees that the fish is dead.
Me: (putting the previous story straight!) oOOH... Your fish isn't in water???
Kindergartener: No.
Me: Where is he now?
Kindegartener: On the floor.
Me: Brenna, If you pick up the fish and put him back in his tank he probably won't die. You should probably pick him up and put him back.
Kindergartner: oh
Me: are you doing it yet?
Kindergartener: well... uh.. can you just hold...
QUIET....
...
...
...
Kindergartener: hello?
Me:hi, did you save your fishes life?
Kindergartener: wow that was close!
Me: can i talk to you mom now?
Kindergarten: yeah, ok

(mom didn't want to talk to me cause she was sleeping. Little did she know I just saved her fishes life! I love you Brenna! Your the best neice!)

Kindergartner: She doesn't want to talk to you now!
Me: ok. is she sleeping?
Kindergartener: yeah she likes to sleep all day from morning to evenening...from morning to evening. She works a lot.
Me: ok, well tell her that i love her and will talk to her later.
Kindergartener: no, she's sleeping!
Me: ok.
Kindergartener: love you bye...
Me: ..... (click!)

(She hung up on me again!! )