Life Decisions

Sometimes I wonder, why do I need to grow up??
I think we all have been here at one point in life. I have so much fun with just Ty and I, staying up late talking, goofing off, sleeping in. Making a frosty run at mid night... simple things. I just love it so much though, but it seems that EVERYONE is asking us "when are the kids coming??" Is it bad that I don't want my own yet? I feel like I still want to live life with just Ty and I. I realized that using "Ty is still in school" is a stupid excuse. But a good one. But its still just a cover up. The truth is, I just don't want my own yet. I LOVE kids. I love watching them grow up and discover life and the simple happiness they bring. But I don't want my own yet...... Is that normal? lol Sometimes I wonder if it is or not. Cause really I don't have a desire to have my own yet. I mean I do, but just so I don't have to work full time. But I don't know. I know its between Ty and I, and we ultimately make the decision. (which is nice, lol) If some people had it their way I would have 3 kids by now! haha. But I realized that the other day, and its been on my mind a lot. I feel kinda guilty for not wanting kids yet. I think I'm most bothered by the fact that it bothered me when I realized that was the truth behind all the "excuses".

On a happier note! Its been SO nice lately. I love the weather. As long as it's at least in the 60's I am ok with the rain. Saturday our immediate family all got together (the ones who live around here) and we celebrated my Dad's birthday it was a lot of fun. We met up at Riverton Park and had a BBQ and played. It was nice to go there because when its at someones house there is always something to be done it seems. Not everyone relaxes and just enjoys the company. It was nice to see all the kiddos playing together and having fun. They are all at the stage where they like to play together. It seemed for a while they would be around each other but didn't want to play together. So its fun to see! I am so excited for summer! Were going to go camping, swimming, biking and ahh the fun! :) My goal is to get fit and have fun, so I am looking forward to the nice weather because I have the most fun outside! We've biked a little already, and well it wasn't too fun the first time. haha It's been YEARS since I have really rode a bike. Sad I know, but it was painful! So when we get a little extra $ were going to upgrade out seats to nice wide gel seats.... I can already sense the comfort! lol Well hope everyone is doing good!!

People Watching/ Blog Stalking

So I have found something to entertain me during the down time at work...
I LOVE people watching. For some reason its interesting and just relaxing and well
you see some really interesting things by doing so AND you learn a lot about people.
So I check my blog daily and those who I have on my "list". The other day I noticed up
in the top middleish part of the screen it says "Next" and clicked on it. haha . Entertainment!
It just goes through different blogs are arent private and you can keep clicking it to view more.
I havent come across anything vulgar nor nudity and all. (I guess that just luck, cause I imagine there is lots of it!) But I have read alot about people all over the world! I have seen some cute ideas and a lot of useful information. I have come to enjoy it! lol Call me a nerd or weird. But
I think life is interesting. Even those who just blog about their family and what they did that week.
Its entertaining... and I enjoy it.

Todays ABC'S

I am bored at work and this looked fun. (Stole it from April)

A is for Apple Crisp! (which I LOVE)
B is for Bed.... I want a nap!
C is for cat, the ugly ones that roam by our 4plex. They are loud!
D's for driving, I love it.
E 's for elephant. I want to go to the zoo!
F is for FAMILY, FRIENDS & FRIDAY... I start counting as soon as its Monday!
G is for gravel... there are piles of it outside my window at work. (Road construction)
H is for Hello. I say Hello on the phone 100 times a day, or more!
I is for Ices..my niece. She is so cute!
J is for Juice. I love love love juice!
K is for Kite. Ty & I love to fly Kites!
L is for LAUREN, LOVE, LEISURE (I love leisure time!) LAUGHTER, LIVE!
M is for Milk..its on the grocery list for tonight.
N is for Neat & Nice
O is for Opportunity, there an abundance of it!
P is for Petersen... my maiden name.
Q is Quick, Quilt & Quail.... ?
R is Rowdy, Rain & Run
S is for SUNSHINE, Saturdays & Silly.
T is for TY. The love of my life! :) Who happens to be my Husband! :)
U is Umbrella. I think they are cute and stylish!
V is for VICTORY. :) It feels good to win a battle!
W is for Wonderful. :)
X is ......
Y is for Yellow. The color of my bug :)
Z is for ZOO. I really want to go!

There ya have it! Have a good day!

April Showers will bring....lots more than may flowers!

April Showers have brought a lot this year!

The weather has been teasing us this month! I dont remember it taking this long to warm up in the spring! We get 4 or so days of nice warm weather then snow and rain for a few days! It's off again and on again! Crazy mother nature!

We've had Jennie with us this past month. I took her to the airport yesterday, I was sure sad to see her go! She's so kind and fun to be around! She's just like part of the family now! It was funny as we were at the airport. We were weighing her luggage cause we knew it was over the 50 pounds. So we put in on the scale and it said 50.09 so we asked a lady that was near by if that would be ok and she suggested taking it down to 49.00 lbs because sometimes they are sticklers. So she was talking to us and Jennie didnt understand what exactly she said cause she was talking so fast and a minuet later the lady came back to us and said "if she doesnt speak english or talk very well you can get a security pass and go to the gate with her". Jennie's face was PRICELESS! We both held back our laughter and I just replied "I'll go as far as I can with you" LOL. When she walked away Jennie kept saying "cant speak english, I come from England!!!" we both were laughing pretty good! It was fun to have her but I think she's pretty excited to head back home to her family!

Ty has started another semester! His LAST one till he gets his associates! Yay! One step closer!
He has been lucky and gotten 37 hr work weeks last week and this week. It's SO nice that they give him hrs finally after MONTHS of 15 hr work weeks or just over that! It's nice cause he works 6am till noon or so. So then he has the afternoon to do his school work. I still dont understand how someone can be so dedicated! I certainly wouldnt have the *umph* he does to get it all done! But its a good thing he is! It has gotten in a long way!

We both are still in primary... nothing too new there. We are planning some camping trips that we are looking forward to greatly! Swimming...working out outside! SPEAKING of exercise....... I havent been dedicated enough lately. Gotten too busy and been really tired! But I am getting better at atleast walking to something. But I really really really want to get in shape. I just wish I didnt have to work till 6pm 5 days a week cause it is hard to get everything I need to done and dinner cooked PLUS work out all before I run out of energy. But I am making it public that I will put more effort into it and get back in routine! :)

I will post some pictures in the next week of our latest adventures! :)

April Showers Bring May Flowers...??

I sure hope they will!! April has been crazy thus far! With snow on April 1st and more snow on its way, I am starting to thing maybe spring/summer got skipped this year???

This year is FLYING by! It's crazy its April already! So far its been an ok month. :)
I played a great trick on Ty for April Fools Day...

I really wanted to get him good. So I had Jessica take some pregnancy tests for me. They showed up pretty well!!! (She is a few months along!) So I waited till we were getting ready for bed that night. Our friend Jennie from England is staying with us, so she headed to bed and we were watching the news. I leaned to Ty and said "Honey I have been feeling kinda weird lately, and I am really nervous that I might be prego, so I stopped and bought a prego test" Ty just kinda looked at me... (We've ALL had a "scare" so he was thinking it would just be that) so I told him I was going to take one before bed. So I got up a min later and went into the bathroom, I brushed my teeth and all, while he thinks I am in there peeing on the stick! lol So I open the door, and called for him to come in. I had it sitting on the floor, and I was being real quiet.... Ty took a min to come. (I KNEW HE WAS CONTEMPLATING WHAT IFFFFF?????) So he comes in and smiles and me and says "Your pregnant" and just kinda laughed. I chuckled and said "well look, you tell me" he looked down and glanced up and looked back down. lol I was dying inside! The look on his face was pure fear. lol So he picked it up, to make sure it was suppose to be a "positive" lol. So he was really quiet and just brushed his teeth, took out his contact and went and climbed into bed. I finally asked him what he was thinking about, and he started. lol "Well I guess I need to quit school and work full time somewhere, we'll need to start saving every penny".... and so on. So we talked about it for a few min. Then I couldnt take it anymore! I snuggled up close to him and told him I had something to tell him, and just quietly said "April Fools" and he gasped! Saying "but it said positive" and barley got out the words "Jessica, Jess peed on it!!" haha it was PRICELESS! I was laughing so hard and he was frantic. He started feeling around for his phone, and finally found it. He didnt have his contacts in, so he had it really close to his face and I noticed through my laughter. I tried to stop him from calling but he insisted he called Jess to make sure that it was an April Fools Joke! lol AT 11:30PM!!! It was hilarious. I love Ty. We have a lot of fun!

Our Easter was good! We enjoyed the weekend. Ty had to work Saturday morning, so I ran errands and all. The truck was having some issues, so $500 later, our truck has breaks, a new belts AND an oil change! lol Gotta love those things! We decorated boiled eggs with my family.
We learned a cool science project as well as what NOT to do. I didn't know that you were suppose to only add 1 TLBS of vinegar for 1/2 cup of water.... well I added about 3/4 cup of vinegar and food coloring! So it was doing some interesting things to those eggs! They were sizzling in the vinegar! haha. we eventually got it situated and were able to dye eggs for real!
We Celebrated Mom's birthday Sunday too! She's getting younger every day! :)

We loved spending time with family! I have grown to appreciate my relationships with my siblings/mother/grandparents and extended family. Even those who I thought I would never have a "friendship" with, I have developed them! I love my family! One my side we have 13 nieces and nephews! It's a lot of fun, and I love being and Aunt! They all are so fun, each one has such a unique personality!

I hope you all had a great Eater Weekend! I am so greateful for the holiday to reflect on what Christ did for us! We were with Jill and Josh Sunday morning and they were teaching Isacc about Easter and the true meaning, so he kept saying "Jesus Lives" . I am so greateful for that!

Grocery Smarts!

I think this website is worth looking at no matter who you are!
Most of you know I shop using coupons alot.... I was recently introduced to this system.
What I like is that even if you dont use coupons, this site is TOTALLY worth using!
They rate the sales going on in the area (STATE WIDE) and tell you if its a good deal or not!
ALSO you can print either the WHOLE list or just the items you need from that store.
There is also a spot you can type items you need that arent on on the sale list. I think its well
worth take a few min each week to look at before you go shopping. You can also find information on there, on how to organize your coupons so that you can easily find them without having to spend HOURS clipping them each week! The website is www.grocersmart.com you can look up by sate in the upper left hand corner. BUT I suggest using the "passport" which is middle of the page on the right. Enter in g84cag .

I love this system/website. I save alot of money on our groceries. We dont have a lot to spend in the first place so its very helpful! They can contact information on there for if you have any questions or whatnot. Take me word, its awesome!
I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend!!

HAPPY ST. PATRICKS DAY!

Hope your wearing GREEN!!! :)

Saturday was a good day! It wasnt exactly "nice weather" . SO I had no excuse NOT to start my spring fling! I got ALOT done! I have realized my obsession for organization... good AND bad!
I love to have things organized and clean. *Doenst ALWAYS happen RIGHT away. BUT....

I realized with my obsession or organizing things, I have acquired junk. I have little boxes & bags to use to organize items IN... and boxes and.....bins and.....just random stuff. I feel good cause I got rid of some of it! AND I went through "bins" and got rid of junk inside them! I am almost done with our second bedroom... that will look like a bedroom again!!! :) So then on to the Pantry, closets, cleaning closet/towel closet....kitchen & living room desk! :)

I love feeling organized and put together.

We have been hanging out with family alot lately. It's been fun. Our prayers are with Kenyon and Jeannette, they found out this past Monday that they lost their baby. But we know they will have a chance again to be parents! Soon they will have little rug rats running around and they wont know what to do! But we love them and are praying for them!

Easter is coming up!!
I LOVE Easter! Not for the candy baskets tho, for the times we have as a family. We have a big Egg Hunt at the Grandma's. My parents, parents live next door to each other and share an open pasture and front yards. So we hide candy & eggs around the front yard for the little kids and the pasture for the older kids. It's fun, I remember being the one out there looking and looking for all the eggs, and there is alot of places they could be! We also get together before that just with my siblings & their spouses/kids and dye eggs. It's a lot of fun!
I love love love it. :D

Were excited cause we get some time off coming up! April 9th-13th. Were going to head up to Idaho to visit Ty's family! Were going to spend time with them and go up to Yellow Stone! -I have never ever been there! SO I am excited.

We have a friend coming to stay with us from March 27th- April 27th. She's here visiting from England. She's a fun/sweet girl! Her family was in Kenyon's mission. Her Dad is a Bishop over there. We spend time with their family when I went to Visit England with my Mom, Sister & Kenyon. So she will be hanging out with us! I hope she doesnt think were boring married people. lol.

So who is loving the time change? .... I am in a way. I have more energy at night... I am AWAKE till like 11pm... but then the mornings arent so easy. lol I was getting use to being up at 6 and getting stuff done before work. But now I hardly can wake up at 7! So I am getting use to it slowly....

I hope everyone else is having a good week! Soaking up the Sun Rays!!