catch up

I have fallen off the blogging wagon but I am slowly trying to crawl back on. This semester has been full speed ahead and I feel between homework, studying for tests, cooking dinner, doing laundry, bathing kids, changing kids, spending time well needed time with kids and husband, cleaning house, and occasionally showering..........I need about 5 more hours in my day. I cannot do it all and I will be the first to admit that I have let those not so important things in my life slip by. (I'm really sorry Archie, I swear I will clean your cage this week) Despite all the hustle and bustle of life, I really do not have a whole lot to report.

I am homesick. I go through this at least once a month where my desire to drive down the familiar roads of Provo just tear at my heart. I stare out my window just dying to see the familiar giant of mountain peaks looking back at me but instead I see nothing but flat land. I especially miss seeing my family and my friends. I would love nothing more than to sit with family and share a meal. I am not miserable in New Jersey and I have grown to love being here but I cannot help the occasional feeling of sadness when I think of Utah.

The kids are crazy as ever. Connor is hockey obsessed. He wears a hockey jersey all day, every day, colors pictures of hockey players, searches the internet for hockey scores, practices hitting a ball with his hockey stick, and drives us crazy asking when hockey starts each evening. He is borderline obsessed fan when it comes to the Dallas Stars and has removed my cute screensaver (a picture of Connor and Jaxson at Halloween) and replaced it with a team picture of the Dallas Stars. So instead of seeing my smiling boys when I turn on my computer I see 20+ grown men that are missing teeth and trying their hardest to look "tough"

Jaxson is still in this faze that he likes to remove his clothes. All of them. And if nature calls, he will do his business where ever he needs to. I am reading to him and explaining the whole "poop goes in the potty" but he seems to be living more of the outdoors man style of life. My only sanity, taking pictures of him after he has "fingerpainted" with his feces to haunt him with when he turns 16 and image is very important for him.

I found this wonderful website that emails me my daily scriptures and I cannot express what a difference this has made in my life. I made a goal to read the Book of Mormon in 90 days and with this internet program, it has been so simple.

We are finally having our first "snowfall" of the season. I would take pictures but it is so insignificant you would laugh. I could go out and shake my pepper canister on the driveway and it would cover more than this snow. Connor is anxiously looking out the window pestering me to go out and play in it. I am laughing imagining him doing a snow angel in nothing........