Tuesday, November 24, 2009
We're MOVING!
We are SO excited that Heavenly Father has blessed us with the opportunity to buy a bigger house! This house is located in the same ward we currently live in. It's about 2 blocks from where we live now. We've had our eye on it for just over 3 years now...since Mom and Dad Keeler were on their mission! We tried to buy it once before, but now we know that timing is everything, since we just paid HALF the price of what our first offer was. This house was a foreclosure, but it's in fabulous condition! This is DOUBLE the house for us! It is 3000 square feet (our current house is 1380 sq. feet) and has 6 bedrooms (we have 3 now) and 4 bathrooms(we have 2 now). The kids are SO excited they can hardly stand it! We close on December 18th. AGH! That is SOON, but we're very excited. Not sure if we will move in before Christmas or not. This momma can only handle so much stress and excitement! More info to come...
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Monday, November 2, 2009
Glimpse of the Future
Those of you who know us well, know that Kirt and I are both very musical. We LOVE music, as it was part of what brought us together. We love listening to it, dancing to it, singing it, playing it, you name it. For about 12 years now, I have day-dreamed about that day I would have a family that could sing together. I don't know why it is a dream of mine, but it always has been. Cheesy? Yes. True? Yes.
So, now that all of our kids are old enough to sing, we've started teaching the older ones parts. Dallin sings the tenor line with Kirt on a lot of songs and I usually help the younger kids hold the melody, sneaking in some alto whenever I get the chance. Mia and Dallin eat it up, Jaxon and Noah tolerate it.
Last night on the way home from visiting the grandmas, I suggested we sing a Christmas song to avoid fighting from very tired, cranky, over-sugared children. The kids picked "Angels We Have Heard on High". This has been a favorite for a couple of years now and everyone knows all the words to the first verse. We sang it through once in unison, and then I suggested we sing it again. I sang melody with the younger kids (who didn't need me!) and threw a little alto in here and there. Kirt and Dallin sang the tenor line. Kirt suggested Dallin sing tenor and he sing the bass line, so we sang it again. I left the younger kids on their own to sing the melody and I sang alto. I thought it would train wreck...but it did NOT! In fact, it was quite melodious. So much, that it choked me up! We sang a song, our little family, with ALL FOUR PARTS!
Most of you are probably reading this thinking, "So WHAT?" But for me, this was HUGE. I loved seeing a little glimpse into our future as a singing family.
So, now that all of our kids are old enough to sing, we've started teaching the older ones parts. Dallin sings the tenor line with Kirt on a lot of songs and I usually help the younger kids hold the melody, sneaking in some alto whenever I get the chance. Mia and Dallin eat it up, Jaxon and Noah tolerate it.
Last night on the way home from visiting the grandmas, I suggested we sing a Christmas song to avoid fighting from very tired, cranky, over-sugared children. The kids picked "Angels We Have Heard on High". This has been a favorite for a couple of years now and everyone knows all the words to the first verse. We sang it through once in unison, and then I suggested we sing it again. I sang melody with the younger kids (who didn't need me!) and threw a little alto in here and there. Kirt and Dallin sang the tenor line. Kirt suggested Dallin sing tenor and he sing the bass line, so we sang it again. I left the younger kids on their own to sing the melody and I sang alto. I thought it would train wreck...but it did NOT! In fact, it was quite melodious. So much, that it choked me up! We sang a song, our little family, with ALL FOUR PARTS!
Most of you are probably reading this thinking, "So WHAT?" But for me, this was HUGE. I loved seeing a little glimpse into our future as a singing family.
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Jaxon's bungee jump
So we had our annual Halloween Carnival at school on Saturday and after the little kids left, Jaxon tried the bungee cord jumping house. The idea is to run as fast as you can and try to not let the bungee pull you back. It was very comical to see him try it!
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Inevitable
Well, I guess since 60% of the population is going to get the swine flu, I should have expected that we'd be part of it. Unless of course, we were planning to stay indoors all winter long and go NOWHERE. Um. No. Not part of the plan.
This past week Mia and Noah were diagnosed so the quarantine began. Great. Why? Because the quarantine started the day before FALL BREAK! We had been planning a trip to Salt Lake to take the kids to Lagoon and all our plans were haulted by this news. Jaxon's already had the swine flu (July '09) so he seems to be immune to it. I thought Dallin was going to get away without getting it too, since he's the "well child" in the family and rarely gets sick, but alas, this morning he woke with a headache and a cough. *SIGH* So now, all the kids have had the swine flu in our family. I have a bit of a sore throat just in the last two hours, and Kirt was sick last weekend, so I'm starting to wonder if that's what he had. Dallin will be quarantined all week, which means we don't get to go to the Jon Schmidt concert and masterclass, he'll miss his band concert, AND we can't go to Salt Lake again next weekend. (We were going to give the Lagoon trip one last try.) Maybe we're really not supposed to go to Lagoon! :(
Anyway, it's been tough to be cooped up all weekend (LONG weekend) while it's been perfect weather outside, but the kids have been troopers. As for this mom, hmmm. Not so much a trooper. We've gone through lots of Tylenol and lots of FOOD! Even though they are coughing their heads off, they still feel good enough to eat, so I just keep heading back to the store... 1 1/2 gallons of milk a day, lots of fishy crackers, yogurt galore and ...well, at least they're alive. :)
This past week Mia and Noah were diagnosed so the quarantine began. Great. Why? Because the quarantine started the day before FALL BREAK! We had been planning a trip to Salt Lake to take the kids to Lagoon and all our plans were haulted by this news. Jaxon's already had the swine flu (July '09) so he seems to be immune to it. I thought Dallin was going to get away without getting it too, since he's the "well child" in the family and rarely gets sick, but alas, this morning he woke with a headache and a cough. *SIGH* So now, all the kids have had the swine flu in our family. I have a bit of a sore throat just in the last two hours, and Kirt was sick last weekend, so I'm starting to wonder if that's what he had. Dallin will be quarantined all week, which means we don't get to go to the Jon Schmidt concert and masterclass, he'll miss his band concert, AND we can't go to Salt Lake again next weekend. (We were going to give the Lagoon trip one last try.) Maybe we're really not supposed to go to Lagoon! :(
Anyway, it's been tough to be cooped up all weekend (LONG weekend) while it's been perfect weather outside, but the kids have been troopers. As for this mom, hmmm. Not so much a trooper. We've gone through lots of Tylenol and lots of FOOD! Even though they are coughing their heads off, they still feel good enough to eat, so I just keep heading back to the store... 1 1/2 gallons of milk a day, lots of fishy crackers, yogurt galore and ...well, at least they're alive. :)
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