Amidst the Craziness...

So my life right now is I would say just slightly crazy and i mean that with the up most sarcasm...it's just seems like there has been one thing after another. My brother gets married tomorrow, my brother-in-law just gave us some sad news, UPS is stressing me out and Nate's not working much again, I got a new calling in church..kind of a biggie..can't tell you yet, I am prego and starting to "nest"..need to move the kids and switch bedrooms, want to deep clean my entire house....and yet amid all this I am moved and touched by how our Heavenly Father has blessed me. I have so many blessing to be grateful for and it's all because of the gospel. How blessed I am to know of the surety of eternal families. As crazy as this wedding planning has been, my brother is starting his own eternal family and i get to witness that. As for my brother-in-law, I think we just have to have faith and know that everything will work out somehow, even if we don't see how it will. My new calling in church has humbled me and scared me. How can I do it with a new baby? Again with faith. And as for my house and this baby, things will slow down sometime and I am so excited for this new little addition we have coming. Sometimes..well a lot of the time, I let life get so crazy that I take everything for granted...especially the most important things like my amazing kids and hubby. What more do I even need than them and forever? So I am going to try and be better at taking a deep breath and taking things one at a time with faith and more faith.

Lake Powell 2009- Lots of pics

We just spent a great week at lake Powell and had so much fun. Here is just some of what went down....

Rob and Connor surfing

An amazing accomplishment for my child who barely dared go down the slide. Connor got up on a wakeboard this year. I was so impressed that he would even try. He did awesome!

This was Sophies favorite game. Jumping off the back of the houseboat. She would do it for hours!

Crazy Rob

Now this is monumental...This was the first year that connor (now 9 years old) went down the slide with no bribery and of his own free will. I was shocked. Glad he has finally warmed up to the slide after all these Powell trips.

My dorky brothers..heading down the slide

Robbie's homemade slip 'n' slide...a little bumpy but a good idea. This is Hailee and Lauren my soon to be sister-in-laws

Cousin Tyler, Clay and Rob...show-offs!

My dad sporting his first "cut-off" that Robbie gave him for Fathers Day

A good game of horseshoes..I'm pretty sure my brothers lost

Nate got to come for a minute and took Sophie down the slide...these two could live in the water.

Sophie loved finding "sheshells" and is proudly showing hers off

This is what happens when you have Robbie as an Uncle. Two years old is not too young to learn to surf...

Or too young to wakeboard..Sophie was crying because she wanted to go by herself. We finally
got her her own handle and that seemed to do the trick. This girl has no fear of water and wanted to go again...and again...and again....if you know my other kids, (pansies:) this is unheard of.

Eyelash Curler Mishap

Monday morning as I was getting ready for the day, I was curling my eyelashes (yes I have to curl mine..was not blessed with ones that do) and as I was gripping the curler, I sneezed..hard! Needless to say, my right eye is almost eyelash free. I looked down at the curler in my hand, and there they all were...on the curler and not on my eyelid. I panicked...my first thought was "Really? This had to happen now...the fourth of July is this weekend..I'm chubby and prego and now I have no eyelashes on one eye?" Seriously! I know that's very vain and all, but you all know how important the 4th is and how everyone wants to look cute cause you see everyone. Well I will be much less cute this year and with minimal eyelashes. My second thought was "Do eyelashes grow back?" Does anyone know the answer to this? All in all, it's not too terrible (at least I am telling myself that) and I have added extra eyeliner but I am not throwing the idea of falsies out...so we'll see. The eyelash curler people should add this warning to their curlers "Beware!!! Do not curl and sneeze at the same time as most likely it will rip your eyelashes out and make you look funny and make your eye feel naked"