Our soundtracks

I got this from Cari's blog. It was kinda fun :)

here's how it works:
1. Open your music library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, Etc)
2. Put it on shuffle
3. Press Play
4. For every question, Type the song that's playing
5. When you go to a new question, press the next button

Heidi's List....

My opening Credits: Overweight – Blue October

Waking Up: Wild and Free – Rednex (wow, I wish I woke up like that everyday! lol)

First Day At School: Arms of an Angel – Sarah McLachlan

Falling In Love: Sunrise – Norah Jones

Breaking Up: Everytime We Touch - Cascada

Prom: Bleed It Out – Linkin Park (hmmm...guess I have some of my husband's music on my playlist...I'd never heard this before...)

Life's Ok: I Want to be Loved Like That - Shanandoah

Mental Breakdown: Old Pop in an Oak - Rednex

Driving: Amazing – Blue October

Flashback: Clumsy Card House – Blue October

Getting Back Together: The Long Day is Over – Norah Jones

Wedding Scene: 30 Munutes - Tatu

Birth of Child: I'm With You – Avril Lavigne

Final Battle: Hurt – Johnny Cash

Death Scene: The Prettiest Thing – Norah Jones

Funeral Song: Set This Circus Down – Tim McGraw

End Credits: Softer, Softest - Hole

And look, Chris played too :)

Chris' List...

My opening Credits: TATU – We shout

Waking Up: Snow Patrol - Beginning To Get To Me

First Day At School: All American Rejects – Move Along

Falling In Love: Peter Gabriel - I Grieve

Breaking Up: Hole – Northern Star

Prom: Tim McGraw - Forget About Us

Life's Ok: Blue October – Blue Sunshine

Mental Breakdown: Blue October – She's My Ride Home

Driving: Evans Blue - Over

Flashback: TATU – Ludi Invalidi (Dangerous and Moving Russian Version)

Getting Back Together: Cyndi Thompson – What I really meant to say

Wedding Scene: Snow Patrol - Run

Birth of Child: Blue October – Sound Of Pulling Heaven Down

Final Battle: Blue October – What If We Could

Death Scene: Alanis Morissette – Wake Up

Funeral Song: Metallica - Breadfan

End Credits: Blue October - Congratulations

After school fun!

I didn't get pictures, but I have to say, I LOVE this blog I've found (Thank you Cari for pointing it out!) Today we hunted for treasures in ice. I filled the ice with coins that they could put in their banks and marbles for our marble jar (we are working for a big family movie night with popcorn and ice cream and a movie chosen by the girls) At first they were all..."hu...I guess this could be fun." But as soon as they got the first "treasure" out, they got really enthusiastic about it all. So now, I am able to sit here and blog about it, and if I'm really lucky I'll have time to work on my blog layout....let's see how long our ice block (and Katie's nap) holds out.

More pictures (Katie...yeah, I know some of them are past due...)

Here she is with the men who helped with her blessing (about 2 months ago!) My mom made this dress...she made all my girls dresses...well, I helped with Aimee's, and Grandma C helped with Betty's. Their dresses are so special.

Here she is with here first pony tail at 7 weeks old. These were her first smiles caught on camera, too.

And here are all my girls this last sunday. Aren't they beautiful!

Pictures! (first day of school)

Ok, so this is uploading weird...but there ya go!

Aimee ready to head out the door.

On our way down the driveway to wait for the bus.



At the bus shelter (which it turns out we won't actually use, but it made a nice frame for pictures.)






Getting on the bus! Good bye Aimee!

So, after a week, school is going great. The second day Dylan picked a flower and gave it to Aimee on the bus ride home. Then the next day, he gave his flower to the bus driver. I think Aimee was a little jealous. lol. She loves her teacher and her classes. Betty misses her sister, but we are trying to find one on one things to do so her time goes by faster.

First day of school

Aimee went to school today. She got on the big yellow bus and it drove away. I am, surprisingly, sad about this. I'm so excited for her, and I know she's going to love it...but I am still sad that my baby is growing up. She was so excited. She was absolutely beaming as we got ready to go and walked down to meet the bus! I can hardly wait for her to get home so I can hear all about her first day. Betty keeps saying how much she misses her sister. I took pictures and will get them up when I can.

In other news...(since my blogging has been lacking...)

Katie is now 3 months old. She is working on using her hands, and has started smiling and flirting with everyone. She has the best little wiggle that goes with her wide mouth, gummy grins, too. She is such a little joy!

Betty is doing well, too. She wishes she were going to school, too. I'm going to try to find some good activites to do with her while Katie naps and Aimee is in school. I feel like she has missed out on 1 on 1 mommy time because Aimee was still so little when she was born. I'm cherishing that time I get with Katie now, and realizing that I didn't get it with Betty, so I'm going to start taking some time each day to just be with my Betty.

Chris and I have decided that we need to move forward with getting to Utah. We have had strong spiritual promptings that it is where we need to be...and we've had little faith in regards to getting there. We are planning to be moving before the new year...and are praying for a miracle to allow us the funds to do it, and the faith that the Lord will provide the way. For a long time the plan was that he would move and the girls and I would stay until he got settled, but that just doesn't feel like a good idea. We need to stay together, and I believe the Lord will help us.

So, that is a short update on us...Pictures to come soon.

Battles and Hickeys

The other day, Aimee showed me a red mark on her arm and asked me what it was. I looked and it was a hickey type bruise...so I said it's a "hickey bruise. How did you get that?" she said she didn't know. She's a busy kid with lots of bruises so I didn't give it much thought. Then yesterday she comes in and says "You know that one type of bruise I got? Did I get it like this?" and latched onto her arm with her mouth. LOL. I'm all "yep, that would do it!" So now she has a line of them down her arm that she applied before I told her that maybe it wasn't such a good idea.

Later that day, I was telling them the story of Ammon from the Book of Mormon. We had talked about that story in Sunday School this week and I thought it would be an exciting story they would like to hear, and I'm trying to make it as dramatic as I can as I'm cooking grilled cheese sandwiches. They were really into it too with all the oohs where they belong. (I'll quickly tell the story for those not familure with it...)

Ammon was the son of the Nephite king. He decided to go on a Mission to teach the Gospel to the Lamanites who were their enemys and who didn't know about God. When he got there the Laminites tied him up and took him to the king who asked what it was he wanted. He said he wanted to serve the king. The king put him to work watching his sheep. When he and the other servants took the sheep to water, bandits came and scattered the sheep. The other servants were worried because, when this had happened before, the king had the servants killed, but Ammon told them to watch the rest of the sheep and he confronted the bandits.

This is where I was in the story when Aimee half stood out of her chair, made a motion of drawing a sword and slashes it down as she says "AND HE CUT OFF THEIR ARMS!!!" I guess she already knew that story. It's really nice to know that she is retaining some stuff she learns in primary...even when she is "taking a nap under her chair". And it was kinda funny to see that she has a small bit of her moms flair for drama.

Oh, and to finish the story for my readers here...

The servants were so astounded by Ammons strength that they took the arms to show the king. They told him that Ammon had great power. He then summoned Ammon and questioned him. "Are you the Great Spirit?" Ammon said that he was not but that he had the power of God. The king asked what Ammon wanted. Ammon said he wanted the king to listen to him and believe his words. Then he told him about God. The King believed and as a result his whole kingdom was converted to the Gospel. (My telling is a rather simple version with a few good points left out....read the whole story here. chapters 17-19)

Well, at least they are learning something

Aimee's primary teacher stopped me in church Sunday. She said that during the sharing time lesson, the teacher was talking about having a problem and Aimee stood up, put a finger in the air and said "A problem is a predicament!" lol. Sounds to me like something she learned watching PBSkids...and "Word Girl" in particular. They may watch too much TV, but at least there is something they are getting out of it.