A no good, horrible day!

What a day and not a good one either...My mother in law came and got the kids for me this morning so I could go have a make over. Started off to a great start.

Just as we were finishing up on my hair I get a call from my neighbor that he thought he might have shot my dog, Scooby!!! "what that cannot be!" Scooby and Murphy are locked up in their kennel!" Well, I was wrong! The dogs dug out and went running the neighborhood. Scooby dug into a pen with a sheep and tired killed it...The neighbor saw her doing it and killed my sweet Scooby girl!!!

He was in the right, Cody would have done it to another dog if they were chasing his horses. But it still sucks! It sucks because we love her sooo much! It sucks because she was a great house dog! It sucks because she was great with the kids!

Will we get another dog? NO!!!I am over dogs! We will keep Murphy and work with him and give him all the attention. But God, I am soooo going to miss Scooby. I am going to miss her big curly body, her excitement when she got to come into the house, her attachment to Cailey (they were best friends!)

Cailey is upset because she did not get to say good bye :( Cayden, just thinks she is going to dig herself back up out of the ground. He finally did come around and asked about Scooby's mom and dad and he was sad that they would never get to see her again!

Rest in Peace Scooby Doodle Doo....We will see you again!!!

Not in my 20's anymore....

It is hard for me to believe that I am not in my twenties anymore...Not sure if I should feel any different because I don't. It really does not seem like a big deal. I am very content with my life right now. I have a wonderful husband that works his butt off to provide for me and the kids (and his hobbies!), two wonderful (most of the time) and healthy kids, a beautiful house, two dogs, a cat, and a perfect job! All I am missing is a little picket fence! ha! But seriously, I dont' know what else I really want out of life! Yes, of course being debt free and not having any care in the world about money, but that is not realistic for my age!

For now I am okay turning 30. My life right now is EASY manageable!!! The kids are not as demanding as they were a couple of years ago. I am beginning to get sleep again! This is HUGE!!! A friend of mine once told me that I would really enjoy my early thirties because my kids will be old enough to sleep throughout the night, get up in the mornings and watch Saturday cartoons while I slept in and that they would not be old enough to stay up hours into the night and me staying up all hours of the night wondering what they are doing! I think she knew what she was talking about!

Last weekend we had a birthday bbq with my friends and family. It was great! An 18ft. water slide for the adults and for some daring kids and a bounce house for the not so daring kids! It was so much fun celebrating with my friends and their kids.

When the bounce house showed up and the kids sat on the patio waiting anxiously, the guy asked the kids if there was a birthday and they shook their heads and he asked whose birthday and they giggled and looked at me and I rose my hand and said mine! He laughed, but I am okay with that! This is where I am at with my life and so are my friends...with small kids. I really don't think there was any better way of celebrating...

Here are a few things I want to accomplish before I turn 40 (Oh my...Cailey will be 15 years old and Cayden 13...I don't like to think ten years from now...excuse me while I go have a good cry!)

1. Get back into a little better shape
2. Go somewhere on a vacation, without kids and outside of Idaho!!!!
3. Take the kids to Disney World Land....let' s be practical....CA is probably a little cheapier than Florida!

Okay as of now, I can only think of 3...Like I said, I am a very content kind of person!

So here is to being 30!!! It has started off being great :)

The super water slide

My water slide partner and best friend (she knows too much about me to be called anything else!)...Becky Brown 

My dear friend, Amber . No matter how much time goes by Amber and I can start right where we left off!  

Athena's mommy, Jill. Super fun friend to be around and my sunbathing buddy at the Emmett City Pool.

The bounce house for the kids

My little dare devil...I love this little girl!!!