Traditions!

Where has the time gone? Today my kids finished another school year. We have a fun tradition in our house, the kids get breakfast in bed on the last day of school and they get to pick what they want to eat. This is Abigail eating french toast in bed on the last day of school. Jacob had Eggo waffles and strawberries and Tyler had oatmeal and milk. I love traditions, my Mom incorporated them a lot into her mothering, which I very much appreciate. Some of her traditions I have carried on into my owm family and some of them I have not. I am proud to have thought of this 'breakfast in bed' tradition on my own and it is something that we have done for four years now.

Some fun!

What's in a Name?
1.YOUR ROCK STAR NAME: (first pet & current car) coco sienna
2.YOUR GANGSTA NAME: (fave ice cream flavor, favorite cookie) strawberry snickerdoodle
3. YOUR "FLY Guy/Girl" NAME: (first initial of first name, first three letters of your last name) T Ker
4. YOUR DETECTIVE NAME: (favorite color, favorite animal) pink dog
5. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: (middle name, city where you were born) - Lucille Bountiful
6. YOUR STAR WARS NAME: (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first) Kerta
7. SUPERHERO NAME: ("The" + 2nd favorite color, favorite drink) The blue crystal light
8. NASCAR NAME: (the first names of your grandfathers) Lyman Ivo
10.WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (mother's & father's middle names ) Mills Matthew
11. TV WEATHER ANCHOR NAME: (Your 5th grade teacher's last name, a major city that starts with the same letter) Stephens Spartenburg
12. SPY NAME: (your favorite season/holiday, flower)Summer Rose
3. CARTOON NAME: (favorite fruit, article of clothing you're wearing right now + "ie" or "y") strawberry skirtie
14. HIPPY NAME: (What you ate for breakfast, your favorite tree) English Muffin Oak
15. YOUR ROCKSTAR TOUR NAME: ("The" + Your fave hobby/craft, fave weather element + "Tour") The scrapbooking sunny tour

One of life lessons.....

This past weekend was a very difficult time for our family, we had to have coco put to sleep on Sat. afternoon. It was so sad. We had all come to love coco so much. He had too many internal injuries from his car accident on Fri.. Tyler and I were with coco when the dr. euthanized him. This experience has prompted a lot of dicussion in our family about death and dying and the resurrection. I even saw my husband get very emotional, which just for that reason I am thankful for this experience with my family. This experience has definitely brought us closer together and for that I am very thankful. We had a special famiy home evening last night with some friends who also lost their dog on the same day. I am thankful for the blessings of the atonement and for the knowledge that we will be able to see coco again.

Coco has become one of us

I never knew in a million years how much I could love a dog, unitl we got Coco. He is the cutest, mild tempered little puppy. Last night we had some bad drama with coco. He got out of the backyard and the kids were chasing him trying to catch him and he was hit by a car. The kids came running to get us and he was breathing, but he wasn't moving his back legs. I carried him to the house and tried to get him to cool down. JD and the boys were getting ready to go on a campout. We have two vets in our ward and we couldn't get a hold of any of them. Jd and the boys left for their campout. I was still getting very worried about Coco, I could tell he was still in distress. I called the emergency animal hospital in Visalia, they said to bring him right in. I packed Abigail and Aaron in the van and headed for Visalia, about 30 mins from here. They took Coco right back and started fluids and gave him some morphine. We left him there for a little while and went to In and Out. We came back and had to say goodbye to him for the night, they had to keep him there overnight. It was so cute how Abigail and Aaron gave him kisses. His pelvis was broken, right where the femur meets the pelvic bone is where it is broken, he will be on bed rest for awhile. We got home about ten oclock last night. It was an eventful evening. Abigail offered the best prayer for Coco last night she said, "please bless coco that he will be protected by the Holy Ghost". It was so cute! It was amazing how much we have come to love Coco.

A Good Day!

I love days like today where I just feel good all over and I just want to tell everyone how happy I feel. I was able to volunteer in Abigail's class this morning and that has always been a fun and positive experience for me, today was the last seesion I will be doing for the school year. It was sad, but I am so glad I did it. I then went and had a manicure and a pedicure, it was awesome, loved every minute of it. I then picked up Aaron and we went to one of our favorite places, Borders bookstore, which I purchased Stephanie Meyer's latest novel. "The Host". Can't wait to crack the spine on that book!
I then made hotel resevations for Sat. night, JD and I will be spending Sat. and Sat. night ALONE whoohooo, I am so excited! Anissa and Brent will have our kids (you guys are the bomb!). I also received an excellent report toady from Loretta and Lori Kerr, Loretta had cataract surgery today and everything went very well. Her vision is now 20/25 in the left eye. Before surgery it was 20/400. (I think). In another two weeks she will have surgery on the right eye. And then tonight it is baseball and a parent meeting for the kids' swim team they will be on this summer (Hanford Piranhas). Jacob, Tyler and Abigail will be on the team this year!
Have a good day and may all pleasant and happy things come your way!

Catch up!

Hello everyone, how are you! Pretty quiet weekend around here, for once it was actually quite nice not to have to be in five different places at once. Tyler had a baseball game on Sat. morning, and unfortunately they lost--again. Then we were off the kids' school for their annual school carnival, it's a huge fundraising event for the PEPTC, I had to work the duck pond booth---very exciting. We came home with the Lego Basket which we won in the silent auction basket. The kids loved that! And of course I had to do the 'cake walk' with Aaron. It was an amazing event with lots of fun things to do with the kids! Then we were off to Target and the Hallmark store, our Hallmark store had a webkinz extravanganza this weekend. The kids love them, and they are a great bribery tool. I spent thirty dollars at the Hallmark store and got three webkinz for FREE. The kids were in paradise. So, things are pretty quiet for the moment. I am looking forward to book club tomorrow, this month we read "A Thousand Splendid Suns", very exciting read and I am looking forward to the discussion.
Also, today my real estate agent came by and she took a look at our house and was able to figure out how much we could sell this place for, still trying to find that 'perfect house'---is that possible???

I thought I knew what dissapointment was until......

Last weekend my son Tyler had a track meet, it was on Fri. and Sat.. On Fri. he ran the 400m and the 800m. Sat. his races were the 800m the 1500m and the 1600m relay. The coach gave us specific instructions to be at the track 60-90 mins before each event. After Tyler's 1500m run on Sat. we went home for awhile, (we live pretty close to the high school). I thought I would have plenty of time to get some things done and then get him back in time for his relay race. Well, time went by and his event was scheduled for 3:45. We got to the track at 3:00 and his event was just finishing. They were way ahead of schedule. And he missed his race. It was the most horrible feeling, my stomach sank and my eyes started to swell up with tears. Tyler had missed his race, he was so disappointed and he began to cry. The coach told us that is why she wants us to the track earlier than the event is scheduled. She gave us complete and detailed instructions, if I would have followed them then I could have prevented Tyler from missing his race. I told the story the next day in Primary, we were talking about following the prophet and how we are given complete and detailed istructions from our Heavenly Father and the prophets, and if we don't follow them, then we can miss out on the blessings that the Lord has promised us. Tyler and I learned a great lesson that day, life is full of surprises, fun times and also disappointments and unfortunately sometimes we have to learn the hard way.