August

I love this time of year... The sweet smell and back to school supplies, the light and the end of the tunnel... the knowledge that soon my children will have other things to entertain them besides me. I love back to school time. In one week my children will have to get up, put on the cloths that we have bought for them and go to school and I will get to go to the hair salon and get my hair done without worrying about what my kids are doing. Its a wonderful time of year!

What I did on my summer vacation!

I have been bad! I haven't posted since June. I have thought about it... Really I have! But thinking about posting a new update is about as far as I have gotten! It has been a crazy and fun filled summer!

Brandy came to visit in june. That was a blast and the time flew by. Her kids were a hoot.

July it was off to Rock springs Wy. to see my family. Then my sister Tracy was kind enough to take my kids for me so that me and Ben could have a couples vacation. We went to Oregon, a place that I have always wanted to go. It was a blast!!

After we got home, we took the kids to hoogle zoo. That was a bit of a disappointment because they were doing construction to it seemed like half the zoo. But the kids had fun and that works.

Paint quest

I think the paint quest deserves its own blog. When I was newly married my husbands opinion of paint colors was very important to me. It soon got to be a big frustration. Ben thinks that the world should be painted in white. I believe that if your going to paint, paint in color! So after years of having the " do you like this color argument" I finally decided to just get what I like, and if he " hell No's it" well then that one is out. We are repainted and redoing most of the house. And I have chosen all the colors. No hell No's yet. My front room is now a brownish pink on one wall, with a bisque color on the rest of the walls and trimmed in a coffee brown. It looks great. The kitchen will be green trimmed in coffee brown, my bathroom gray and purple, my bedroom, purple with a light purple, etc. Not one of these colors are white. All of these colors have names of course, and I will post before and after pictures soon!

60 lbs and counting

 

Yes, you have heard me correctly! I have lost 60 lbs! Only ten more to go and I will have lost my year goal.
34 more total and I will have lost my total goal. I really need to work on my abs and arms but that's coming.

We had the pleasure of having Brandi and her two kids up here. It was nice to have another adult here to talk to and her kids , well Jade, entertained mine for the last three weeks. Brady and Ciabo were in a best friends/ worst enemies situation. They either played or they fought, and they really egged each other on. We dropped them off to Logan today so that Brandi could get her rental car and drive down to St George. My three and I were all pouting when they left. They were so much fun to have around and we didn't want to have to share them. I did a little retail therapy and bought the second and third Harry Potter movies in blue ray. It helped a little and I was going to get them anyways.

After we got home I decided to paint my bathroom. No this wasn't a wild hair idea, I had actually planned to do this before, even bought the paint already. My bathroom was blue and white. My husband runs a salvage yard. White isn't a good color to have in my house even if you don't add in the children factor. The new colors will be purple and gray. I just painted the trim and will have to go over it again but bring it on. It kept me from pouting for a while.

What do you do when your give a damn breaks

I have been doing awesome with so many things. My dad losing his Job and that mess, My weight loss, Working all the time, etc. It has come to a point that I just don't have the energy to care about most things. Some people call it being neutral. I say my give a damn broke. The fact of the matter is that on some issues, things have piled up so much, I don't care anymore. I have lost all compassion for it. Sad, yes. Typical, yes. I'm still losing weight like no other, I haven't lost passion for that, I am still enjoying my job, kids, etc. For other things I don't care. Sorry.

Other updates

Now that I have complained about my apparent non nursing skills, thanks dumb ass. I am ready to talk about other news.
Skylar turned 11 last Friday. I cant believe how big the kids are getting. My baby will be 6 tomorrow. I know that other peoples babies are older, but this is my blog so I'm talking about my baby. Time seems to fly now that I'm getting older. For instance, I'm still trying to figure out what happened to April.

We ended up with 19 baby goats born, 15 lived. We bottled fed 6 of them. we have 10 living females which will be added to our herd, 5 males, which will be sold at the auction.

I have lost a total of 54 lbs. 24 lost this year. Good times.

nurse or not a nurse

What kind of skills would you consider to be nursing skills? That is the question I ran into today. My coworker was told that she wasn't a real nurse, only a diabetic nurse. Whats the difference? From what I recall a diabetic nurse was a real nurse. BTW this was told to her by a CNA. Seriously, i don't think this guy realised that us diabetic nurses can stick a tube in any opening of your body and happily create more.And we wont even feel bad. Plus this is not something I would say to someone who is about ready to handle sharp needles. This guy need a sign. DUMBASS