So its been a fun month.Buddy turned 5 and we had a little family party. He likes being five but he will tell you he is seven because he counts from the ground up and every five inches or so he gives a number. ankles 1, knees 2 etc. He hits seven at his head. I am ten years old. I laughed and said no, I am 35 years old and he grabbed his head, fell down and the floor and laughed, no way mom.



Princess had a field trip to a reenactment 1800s village. I got to go. The lady who showed them the spinning wheels was very scary.






Buddy 'graduated' from the HIPPY program (it's an acronym and I can't find anyone who knows what it fully stands for but its a Home/Parent/Educator prepare your kid for kindgergarten thing. Our co-ordinator brought lessons every week and taught me how to teach them to Buddy, then Budddy and I spent 15-40 min. a day working on the curriculum. It was great for me because I knew he wasn't ready for kindergarten and I didn't know what else to work on. He knew all of his letters and the sounds they made, colors shapes, a few blends and was reading simple words. He would not color or hold a pencil or write his name... Our very first lesson we worked on vocabulary. There were two squares on a page and you put two identical cups on each square and asked 'are these items the same or different? ' and the answer is 'the same'. Then you place a fork in one square and a cup in the other square and ask 'are these items the same or different?' and the answer was 'the same!'. I realized that the program was going to help us out. Our coordinator also helped us get in touch with the school district's other programs and we now have speech therapy and occcupational therapy once a week. We also got to make a video for the national school board about our experience with the program. I hope they got what they needed becasue the program has been great for us. We entertained princess and little buddy with the digital camera during graduation.

A new day

Hi friends,
If you haven't listened to President Bednar's CES fireside talk I highly recommend it. It can be found on the front page of www.lds.org. It is definitely applicable to me and my spouse but it is a good warning for our children as well. As in many things they need boundaries and I am the boundary creator, or enforcer I suppose. We have nice things like advice from apostles to help create valid boundaries.

I've been meaning to put some baptism pictures on here. So here is our little princess. Better late than never, yes? yes.

I'm going to go check and see that my pictures uploaded. Hmmm, nope. The file I want is not listing as a publicly accessible file, even though I think I fixed that on Picase web albums. I will ponder this more. Let me see if I can upload a few pictures..

So apparently, yes I can put the pictures on, but I can't put them where I want them, they float to the top. I get very frustrated with software that thinks it is clever. I suppose one reason I have avoided blogging is that this used to be my job. I programmed over 200 webpages for LANL DX division one summer. And when I say programmed, I mean programmed. This was before there were any good webpage design software. I typed it all by hand. If I wanted a picture somewhere, I put it there and it stayed there, until you tried to upload existing pages into new upcoming software packages and it would hash everything. ARghh. I think I'm perfectionist. I just want things how I want them. OK, that's enough frustration for now. I'm going to go read someone else's blog now. What does blog stand for anyway?

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So, here I am

So, here I am, blogging. It is something that I have debated and started on and off and filed under 'another thing to take up time' so why am I posting now? and will anyone ever read this? To answer the first I read Sabrina and Brett's blog. I feel like I know Sabrina. I like her a lot. I have always liked Brett. I don't think I have met her more than once, but see, I feel like I know her well enough to know that I like her, a lot. I have read her blog.

I would like my relatives and friends to know me well enough to know if they like me or not. I would like them to kn0w how wonderful my children and family are. SO, Since I am not a big talker I am willing to crawl out of intentional digital obscurity (yes, it has been intentional. Try and find us digitally sometime, we don't exist. Or at least we have been very hard to find on the www without a little personal guidance).

As to answer the second question. I don't know. My other reason for not writing a blog is the belief that no one really wants to hear my rantings or musings and a blog kept by me will contain at least some of that because I am not a great biographer. So, here it goes. I will send this to Kerri too because she seems to be the keeper of the signposts of who is where.