Birthdays

Well Life can be busy when you have 2 birthdays only a few days apart. Well, usually I don't get to do anything on my birthday but this year Spencer surprised me with setting up a babysitter (which by the way never happens for us) and taking me out to dinner and a movie (which never happens). So, it was special for once. I really needed out without my kids. I never get away from them. Rylee is excited to be 4. She keeps telling everyone I am 4 I am 4. But it was a good week.

Hair!

I just got one of the most amazing haircuts in my life thank you soooooooo much Tiffany Egbert!

Girl's Night Yea Baby!

Last night I had a blast with Julie and a girls night! First, we went to get our nails done at Fiesta Mall and we had a pedicure. Which was only my second professional pedicure in my whole life! Then we went to Mimi's cafe: oh yum! Then Danny called and was missing her and jealous and feeling left out so we told him to join us for some wii! It was fun we bowled and then we played this block knocking game it was awesome! I had a blast! Then we sat outside my apartment and talked for for a couple of hrs. She is so sweet and I am soooooooo happy for her and Danny!!

Mothers

"Motherhood is the greatest potential influence either for good or ill in human life. The mother's image is the first that stamps itself on the unwritten page of the young child's mind. It is her caress that first awakens a sense of security; her kiss, the first realization of affection; her sympathy and tenderness, the first assurance that there is love in the world. . . . She who rears successfully a family of healthy, beautiful sons and daughters. . . deserves the highest honor that man can give, and the choicest blessings of God

Learning Experience

What I forgot to mention in my blog entry about in our long trip was the learning experiences we had on our way. One of the big things pointed was that we never really can do anything on our own can? This trip was proof! Without my father's help I would not have made it back sooner than we did. I kind of had promtings of what road to go on,l but ignored them and got turned around. Then I finally listened and took the right road! I did it as a last minute thing. So as I am going down the right road (Hayden) everything is looking familiar and that is when we were like maybe you should call grand-dad winter and see if we are remotely where we were suppose to be. Another lesson...Primary Songs. Does wonders for freaked out handicapped kids have a meltdown!!! Also does wonders if you have anxiety problems. I didn't have an anxiety attack. I was able to just drive, which I have never been good at just doing. usually there are 100 things going on in my mind. But as soon as Winter put those songs on it was like ahhh and we were able to sing and talk about Scottsdale and different things! Thank you for lifes lessons!

Our Long Trip!

This morning while I was at a birthday party for Rylee's friend, Spencer calls and says he has locked his keys in the car. Not only were they locked in his car but in the ignition! I was like how did you do that. I am just guessing its cause he didn't get any sleep last night because our A/C was broken. So I drive out there and half the 101 freeway is closed. No problem cause they show you signs where to detour. This was for the 101 North. Well we get there unlock his car and eat lunch in the Hospital cafeteria and head home. We get on the 101 south and that is closed down too! So we try to make it back home but there were no detours for the south. Luckily I had this feeling to take Hayden home and Winter calls her g-pa and he tells us we are going the right way and to head to McDowell and get on there! Wow I left at 10:30 in the morning and didn't get home until 3:30pm ugh we are all wiped out. I am just glad I took Winter to help me navigate. I just learned that I knew the surface roads a lot better than I thought and so did she! And it was my first real freeway travel experience ever and I had no probs! I used the 60 and the 101!

The Carroll Cook Book

Ha ha I cheated and stole Winter's idea of making a recipe book as a blog to more easily find my recipes! check it out at carrollfood.blogspot.com!

Woohoo!!

I finally have gotten around to playing around with blog headers and stuff like that! Thanks to Winter she showed me how to do it on Windows Vista. Everyone else just knew how to do it on xp.