Planking

My family is obsessed in planking, from the moment my kids learned about it they started planking all over the house. They are good at it cause they don't yell for us to come and look at them, they just plank and wait for us to see them. At soccer Krew planked on the side line it was so funny, other parents were dying laughing, then once we got home from soccer that day Krew and Jade wouldn't stop planking around the house. They were entertained for hours.

Even Violet has gotten into it, occasionally we will hear "Look mom and dad I'm planking!" Jared and her planked out in front of our house the other day on thewall, the other kids and I pulled up to the house and we busted up laughing!

Then Jared had to one up them and got and the roof, when the kids and I pulled up we about died. I told the kids don't you even think of doing this!!!

Jared on the roof!!!!

Violet and Jared on the wall, look how good her form is!! I love that girl!

This one looks uncomfortable!

Yea I'm not sure this one was very safe, I walked up stairs to this, and busted up laughing. I kept my phone one me all night so I didn't miss any good photo opps!

Be happy now!

I was reading some ones blog and came across this quote......

"We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us."

I really liked this quote because it so easy to get hung up on how life isn't fair and nothing is going how I planned or how I envisioned my life being right now. I just got home from our wards trunk-or-treat that I took my kids to by myself. I got them all ready hair and make-up, they were so excited to go, unfortunately Jared didn't feel well enough to go when it was time to leave. I was so bummed, the poor guy has grown out a mustache for his costume for this stinkin thing! Seriously it's so hard to not get discouraged why can't we catch a break and why can't he get fully better?! I've been trying hard to stay positive despite how hard my life is but days like this make it difficult. Jared is doing better, but he is still not that great, everyday for him is a struggle and he pretty much fakes it all the time, and I love him for that. If things weren't so bad last year and the beginning of this one I would say things are awful but compared to then things are way better. He isn't sleeping on his lunches or staying after work to sleep to be able to drive home to only go to bed once he got home, but he still doesn't have much energy and feels like crap everyday. Work is all he can handle(barely), which at least he can work, but I can't imagine feeling completely exhausted and achy everyday of life, it really is hard for me to watch knowing he is so miserable, he is good at trying to go to things and helping with the kids more but it's hard for him. Soccer on saturdays wipes him out but at least he is there, some times he leaves early to go home and sleep but he has been to almost all the games this season. I can't believe it has been 16 months since he has been this way, I guess time flies when you are living in chaos, but it does seem like forever since I have seen the old Jared, which makes me sad for both of us. A lot of people say how good he is doing and how good he seems, what they don't realize is if you are seeing him most likely he just got up from a nap to give him the energy to go wherever we are going and the second we get home he is back in bed, but at least he is going to events or whatever it is we have to do. I have learned to be greatful for whatever help he can offer, I can't believe how much easier life is for me when he has the energy to help, I feel sooo bad for single parents, it's truly is awful doing it all on your own.

I loved Pres. Uchtdorfs talk at the General RS meeting about the forget me not flower and the 5 things the petals represent. I loved all the things the petals represent but my favorite one was not to wait for your golden ticket in life and to basically be happy with your life now and where you are at, not always thinking it will get better or be better someday, we need to enjoy it now. That was good for me to be reminded of that, to try to be happy and not to get down or be negative. I need to accept the way my life is and be happy, and enjoy my kids now, not to keep thinking I will be happy once Jared is better, cause who knows when that will be. So for now I just need to count my blessings and smile! I have found that serving others and Jared helps me to be happier and to forget about my own problems or how hard my life is. I am so thankful for this talk. If you didn't hear his talk it is amazing and definitely worth looking up online or reading it.

Never leave your air vent opened!!!

Jared had the air vent opened to change the filter, well in the mean time Jade managed to chuck a huge ball up in there and it got wedged in the vent, Jared is to big and heavy to go in there and lean on the tubing so we thought of him lifting Jade up in there to get it, she was thrilled and the rest of the kids were mad they couldn't. She said" It's not like this is fun, this is work and it's my fault its stuck, so I have to do it!" Yea right, work? She was so excited to get it. I left to work so I didn't get the final picture of them with the ball out, they ended up taping a knife to the end of a broom and stabbed it to get it out.

Back to School

The first day of school was crazy!!! As much as I prepared the night before it didn't seem to matter, we were still running around like crazy people trying to get out the door. Getting 3 kids to 3 different classes is a joke! Jade is in a portable so we dropped her off there, which she was not happy about, she wanted me to stay with her. Then we had to go search for Ryder and Krew's dots to line up on, and by this time the bell rang , so Krew is flipping out, there was still 10 minutes until the tardy bell but they wanted to line up with their classes. So I finally spot Ryders teacher across the playground, so then I asked a teacher where Krews dot was at and she pointed in the opposite direction, great! So Krew was fighting back the tears and said he would go find it by himself since he knew I had to take Ryder to his class. I felt awful almost all of them were upset and I felt so bad for them to start of the first day like that. I only managed to get 3 pictures since we were in such a hurry. I left there practically in tears, but in the end it was fine they all had a pretty good first day of school.

family pictures

We finally got new family pictures!!! I love them, Meghan Poort took them and did such a great job. I was lucky that my kids were so good, I did bribe them with $5 each if they were good, right away Violet said I want bubbles and water balloons, so that's exactly what she got.

the ogdens moved!

Rob and Jennie moved to Texas the week before school started, my kids were devastated, especially Krew and Jade. Zach was so cute and made krew a necklace and gave him a stuffed animal to remember him by. Kelsie gave Jade a necklace too. My kids are so in to these keepsakes. It was really sad saying good bye, Zach, Krew, Jade and Kelsie were all crying it was heartbreaking! Zach hugged Krew, they were both crying and Zach said"I'm hugging you for 2 minutes and I'm not letting go!" Isn't that sweet. We are going to miss them so much, but we are excited for their new adventure in life. Plus now we somewhere to go visit, my kids have never been on a plane so they can't wait!

4 little monkeys jumpin on the bed

I love taking 4 kids to the doctor!!!So Jade had a sore throat and Krew was just getting over strep throat so we were pretty sure thats what she had, but I needed to take her to the doctor to find out to get antibiotics. Since it's summer and everyone was out of school I had to bring them all, it was pretty much a nightmare. They were so hyper, but they had a lot of fun. I'm glad I went cause she did have strep throat after all.

Doesn't jade look so sick?! She still had some ibuprophin in her.