Week One

One week down without Matt around.

Here is a little update as to where we are at in our life.  Back in December Matt found out his work was going to move his job position back to Maryland in February.  The rewriting of his resume, creating a cover letter, and job hunting began.  I was never too worried about this whole situation.  In fact I found it to be a great opportunity to push Matt to a better position where he could be more challenged.  Matt's final day at Marriott was February 8th.  By March 8th or so we accepted a job with Marriott in San Francisco.  Matt headed out to San Francisco and started his job while we stick around here until the kids are out of preschool.  This whole single parenting is not easy.

Here are some highlights from our first week without Matt around:

-Scheduled way too many appointments before we have to move-dentist, cardiology, Shriner's, ophthalmology, hair

-Called a handful of people within the San Francisco school districts and local people to figure out schooling for the kids

-Fixed cracked windshield

-Observed Olivia's preschool

-Volunteered in Myles' preschool

-Got wedding ring examined and cleaned

-Went to a presentation to learn how to encourage Olivia to speak more in the home

-Took the kids to lunch.  Olivia was up and down in her seat.  She knocked fry sauce all over my hair and shirt

-Worked on home projects to prepare for renters

-Worked on getting renters in our house when we move

-Needed to fill out application to renew driver's license.  Went onto the wrong website and paid to some third party

-Canceled my debit card because I didn't know who this third party group was and didn't want to get scammed

-Skyped with Matt every night before the kids went to bed

-Skyped with Matt after kids were in bed and stayed up way too late

-Made stew and rolls the first Monday Matt was gone.  Kids didn't take a bite.  I decided my dinner planning needed a change.

-A neighbor invited us over for dinner one evening

-Another neighbor brought us dinner another evening

-Had dinner at Matt and Laurie's another evening

-Watched the Sorensen kids, so Matt and Laurie could go to their adult session of Stake Conference

-Played outside with the kids on the warm afternoons

-Went to Meagan's wedding shower

-Went up to my parent's for Sunday dinner

-Had a puppet show with stuffed animals.  Myles' puppet show entailed Minnie and Cookie Monster getting married.  After they got married they went and ate cookies.  Minnie and Elmo also got married.  They kissed and gave each other rings.

-Woke up early one morning due to a nightmare.  I never remember my dreams and then to wake up to a terrible dream was very out of the ordinary.

-Myles woke up on Sunday morning to snow all over the ground.  He was very disappointed and said, "When is it going to be warm so the bugs can come out?"

I felt like I had a lot of adrenal this first week.  There is so much to do before we head to San Francisco.  I hope the adrenal can last.  One week down and 11 more to go!

February 2012

Here is a look back at what we were up to in February 2012


This gal definitely loves electronics.

Myles got to be in Itty Bitty Ball at the Legacy Center.  He learned a little bit about all sports.  He had a ball!

 

 

 

  

"Go Team Batman!"

 

 

 

Olivia started horse riding as soon as she turned 2.  This was her first ride on the horse.  Being on a horse was a little scary for Olivia at the beginning.  But boy, after a year she loved every bit of horse riding.  Gary was the main instructor.  We love him.  He also was Olivia's instructor for her motor class.  All of her therapist are amazing people.  Horse riding helped improve Olivia's posture, communication, and confidence.  What an amazing opportunity we had to work with the horses and all the volunteers.


Jennifer and Judy came into town for a week, so we took all the kids to a park in Highland to feed the ducks and play.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

January 2012

Here is a look back at January 2012

My little darlings all ready for church


We took a little trip up to Park City with the kids.  We always go to Pizza on Main.

 

We invited Meagan to come.  She brought a few friends with her.

 

 

We spent Saturday at the Olympic Park.  They had bobsledders practicing, which was absolutely amazing to watch.  I could hardly pull myself away to leave.

 

 

 

Halloween 2013

He we are making our annual Marriott Halloween trick-or-treating trip.  Olivia dressed up as a cupcake and Myles chose to be a knight (just for the day and missing half of the costume).

 

The kids love being in Matt's domain.  They are both busy at work.  Such fun new things to play with, which makes it hard to pull them away. 

 

 Halloween was a busy day as most of our days are now.  Olivia had an OT appointment at 11:00 a.m.  Immediately after her appointment we headed to Matt's work for lunch and trick-or-treating.  After Matt's work we drove over to Riverton's Primary's Hospital for Myles' endocrinology appointment.  I knew it was going to be a busy day so for dinner I bought Costco potato soup or our "witches stew" and then I made homemade bone bread sticks. I wish I had a pictures of the bread sticks because they turned out pretty darn cute. Once the kids were all filled up and dressed they were out the door.

Myles decided to be Batman for the evening.  So fun to see their excitement and play their parts.  Olivia  was as sweet as can be and Myles was a hyper Batman pulling out karate moves.

 

 

After Matt and the kids went around the neighborhood Olivia came home for the evening.  Matt and Myles caught up with Jesse, Preston, and Jocelyn and went to the neighborhood over by the church.  Olivia was quite sad when she realized the Matt and Myles were gone.  She loves being involved with everything Matt and Myles are doing.  No leaving out this little girl.  The night turned out to be a success. 

Pumpkin Carving

 

 Ever since dad started showing off his Scout collection at the Scout O Rama we've been making it a tradition to spend an afternoon at the event.  The activities are so much fun for the whole family.  We love going.  At last springs Scout O Rama Myles was able to plant pumpkin seeds in a paper cup.  Once summer came around he was so excited to put the plant in the garden.  I was a little skeptical that we would actually get pumpkins out of it.  But I was proven wrong.  We enjoyed checking on those pumpkins and finally picking them.  The kids loved carving the pumpkins.  Myles wanted everyone carved.

 

Olivia really got into the whole thing.

 

 

 

 

And the end result.  They loved the Mickey Mouse pumpkin the best.

 

 

Picking Peaches

 

One Saturday I was on the hunt for some cheap peaches to make jam.  I looked on KSL and found a place where we could go pick our own peaches in a peach orchard.  I thought that sounded like the perfect Saturday afternoon family activity.  Although this orchard was in on the mountain of Salem and the history behind this place seemed a little sketchy it did end up being a fun afternoon. After calling my dad to google map the area and guiding us (addresses in this area were very confusing) we made it to a dirt road leading us up to the orchard.

She obviously loved the peaches.  Nothing was holding her back.

Myles was not feeling so great.  He wasn't up to posing for the camera one bit.