Procratination

I read somewhere that procrastination is a theif of time. Well, unfortunately I procrastinate all too often. I'm really great at starting projects and then leaving them in a closet or something half done. My goal in the next 4 1/2 months is to "catch up" on all of the projects that I have left half done. I had a really great start this weekend and I'm hoping to continue my progress.

"Trick or Treat" blocks
I did the stitching on these pillows last year. I finally finished them.

Wish me luck, there is more to come.

Update

I am 17 weeks along. My due date is February 23rd, however both girls have been early. MaKady was 2 1/2 weeks early, and Paige was 4 weeks early, plus I have c-sections which they schedule up to 7 days prior to your due date, so we are thinking around the 15th. I have my ultrasound scheduled for October 6 so we will find out what we are having. Jared thinks it's a boy, MaKady and Paige want another sister, and I'm not sure.

Confession

I noticed everyone's questioning stares on Sunday, so here is my confession. I'm going to have a baby. I have been a little apprehensive to share this information with everyone, but I think I'm past the scary point, atleast for me. So there you go!!

The last of my 20's

Yesterday (Sept. 11) was my 29th birthday. I can hardly believe I have made it this far. All day long I had all those nostalgic memories that most people have around their birthday's. I didn't feel sorry for myself, because unlike most I really hated my teenage years, and I have quite enjoyed my 20's. My mom said that the best years of her life where her 30's. So I am completely looking forward to my 30's, but I will still feel a little sad about bidding my 20's goodbye. My goal is to enjoy the next year and hope that my 30's are as wonderful as my 20's. As a side note, I am not opposed to plastic surgery!!!!!!

Peach Days

The cousins

Me & my neice Brittany
Trinity & Paige

We went to my parents house in Brigham City over the weekend. It was Peach Days so we went to a parade and the carnival on Saturday. Most of my sisters came as well, so all of the little cousins had so much fun playing together. On Sunday we got to see our little neice Bailey have her blessing and it was just wonderful to see my dad up there performing that. It was just a nice family weekend.

Happy Birthday MaKady!!

My beautiful sweet MaKady turned 11 on August 29. She has grown so much and is turning into such a nice young lady. MaKady was born August 29, 1997 at 8:01 pm. She weighed 4 lbs. 10 oz. and was 17 1/2 inches long. She was so small and fragile. We've had several scary moments with her, but she is a fighter. We are so grateful to have her in our lifes. Happy Birthday!!! We love you bug.

First Day of Kindergarten

Paige started Kindergarten on Wednesday August 27. She got to ride the bus for the first time. Our next door neighbor Isabelle is in Paige's class and they are really good friends. It was so much fun to see them acting so grown up. We let them ride the bus to school and then we met then at the school to show them where their classroom was and make sure that they were going to ride the bus home. Paige loved her first day of school.

Back to School

MaKady's first day of school was yesterday. She was so excited to start 6th grade, and I am completely relieved that 6th grade is still in elementary because I am not ready for her to be out of elementary yet. Paige starts Kindergarten next week. (notice they have matching shoes, they picked them out together).

I cried as usual because my girls are growing up, but they are turning into such nice ladies. As a side note, MaKady got braces the day before school started, if you look closely you can see them.

I tag Candi, Sami, Dani & Amanda

1- What is his name? Jared Golden Mangelson
2- Who eats more? Jared, most of the time, but I'm a close 2nd
3- Who said I love you first? I honestly can't remember, I think he did
4- Who is taller? Jared!
5- Who is smarter? Of course I like to say I am smarter because I can multi-task!
6- Who is more sensitive? me
7- Who does the laundry? That would be me again
8- Who sleeps on the right side of the bed? I do, I have to be closest to the door
9- Who pays the bills? me
10- Who cooks more? I do, however Jared is really great at making mac n' cheese, raman noodles, and most recently shepherds pie
11- What meals do you eat together? dinner everynight, and all three meals during the weekend
12- Who is more stubborn? me
13- Who is the first to admit they are wrong? Me, I get mad first so I am usually the one to apologize
14- Who has more sibling? I do, I have 2 brothers & 7 sisters
15- Who wears the pants in the relationship? This one is debatable
16- What do you like to do together? Watch movies at home, hang out with the girls
17- Who eats more sweets? Neither of us. I usually make something sweet and then we hand it out to all the neighbors
18- Guilty Pleasures? Turning the ringer off on the phone
19- How did you meet? We met dragging main street in Nephi. We had lived a block away from each other for 4 years and never met because he was out of high school by the time I went in. I tease him that he wouldn't have liked me in high school.
20- Who asked who out first? He asked me out
21- Who kissed who first? I kissed him
22- Who proposed? Jared proposed in front of MaKady and she said yes so I agreed
23- His best features? His personality
24- What is his greatest quality? He is good at everything. He is so mellow all the time it's nice for all the times that I flip out.

Changes

MaKady when I dropped her off at camp

Paige lounging in her pool

This week has brought on a few changes for us. Jared has changed jobs, which I'm hoping is a good thing. So far it has been. MaKady went to girl scout camp on Monday for the entire week. I can't call her and she can't call me and I think I had a harder time letting her stay there by herself than she did. Paige is finding out that she loves her sister and even though they don't get along all of the time she is good to have around for several reasons 1. Dad is not good at playing barbies, 2. Our nightly game of UNO is much more fun when MaKady is there to play with us, 3. She is sooooo bored!!! We can all hardly wait until Saturday when we pick MaKady up from camp.

St. George

A couple of weeks ago we went to St. George to visit my sisters who still live there. We did a little bit of back to school shopping and we had the opportunity to go the the new Washington City Community Center and play in the pool. It has a lazy river, a place for smaller kids to play, the big playground (pictured above) and a water slide. We spent almost the entire day there and the girls still didn't want to leave. It was so much fun.

Work

Matt Hughes & Me

Matt Hughes & the gang at Fort Knox

I like my job. I like the people that I work with, the time off that I get and just the environment in general. Everyonce in a while we have some really great people stop in and it just so happens that this week we had Matt Hughes (9X UFC World Champion) come in and speak to some of our dealers who where in town for training. He is an amazing person and it was great to listen to him tell his stories. One thing that I thought was great was that when we asked him to come in he said he would but he needed to leave early enough to be home to tuck his kids into bed. How cool is that?!!!

Uta Stampede

The Parade

Uncle Mike in the old HP car

Last week was the Ute Stampede in Juab County. The whole thing lasted from Thursday - Saturday complete with a rodeo. We aren't big rodeo fans so Jared took the girls to the giant parade on Friday afternoon while I was at work. My sweet sister-in-law taught Paige how to run halfway down the block after the other kids so she could get some candy because she wasn't getting any candy just standing in one spot. Paige decided that she wanted to take her easter basket to the parade to put her candy in and I can tell you that that thing came home completely filled. MaKay got just as much if not more.

Friday night we took the girls to the "City of Fun" carnival and they had a blast. FYI - if you are taking your kids to a carnival and you have the option of buying tickets or getting them a wristband, I would go with the wrist band. I figured that after 4 rides I had the wristbands paid for, and the girls got to go on as many of the rides as they wanted, as many times as they wanted. It was great entertainment. I think their favorite ride was the slide. MaKady went on some of the big kid rides by herself and she didn't throw up. I was so proud of her.

One thing about coming from a small town is that you know just about everyone which can be good, but you always run the risk of bumping into a few ex girlfriends which is awkward even 10 years later. I won't go into details on this as it's just my raging jelousy, but believe me that once a year is just plenty for me. Lot's more fun next year. Oh, on a brighter note, Jared ended up working on Saturday so we didn't have the pleasure of going to the bathing beauty parade. If you don't know what that is then you are very lucky!!!

Bear Lake

Me and my mom

Paige and I

MaKady and her cousins roasting starburst & marshmellows.

Me and my sisters Tabi and Mary

My beautiful MaKady and her adventurous spirit. She caught this frog and wanted to take it home, but I told her we could take a picture and then she needed to let the frog go. What a good sport!

More campfire cooking

"Jordan's" Castle


My sister Hannah and her husband Bryce

Jared in the canoe. He is so silly. :>)

Beauty Queen Paige!!

Me and my Dad

We went to Bear Lake with my family last week. We camped at Cottonwood campgrounds and rented a boat. We took turns cooking meals and watching all the kids. It was really great to see all of my family, cousins, aunts, uncles and even my Grandma Elaine. The girls had so much fun playing in the sand and playing in the water. They even went "frogging" and MaKady caught a frog (I didn't let her keep it).

Paige was scared to go on the boat so my sister convinced her that Sponge Bob lives in Bear Lake and it helped her calm down until we got her off the boat. I'm not sure why she is scared of boats, but she said she would try it again next year. We went tubing behind the boat and the highlight of the trip was watching my sister Tabi and my cousin Jacob do a barrel roll off the tube and skip across the water. Those of us in the boat couldn't quit laughing. Tabi said it was fun but she was done with that.

We played games and hung out and learned that roasting starburst is really, really good. I can't wait for next year!!

Pure Talent

We went to the Springville Art Museum on Saturday. The art was incredible. We went to see one piece of art in particular. Our friend Cortney Carter did the above piece of art work. It is a scene of Adam and Eve and it is made entirely out of ripped magazines. It's a giant collage 4' x 7'. He has such amazing talent. For Christmas we had him do a charcoal sketch of Jared's Grandpa who passed away a couple of years ago and we gave it to his Grandma. She hung it proudly in her living room. Cortney is an amazing artist, unbelievably talented. Good Job Cortney!!!

Independence Day

We had a great 4th of July this year. We started out our day by going down to the Nephi City Park where the girls got to play games, which included things like the giant blow up jumping houses and slides, shooting paint balls, skeetball, the train (which is pulled by a 4-wheeler) and of course the good old fishing pond. It's also fun for Jared because he gets to run into people that he grew up with and occasionally I see someone that I went to high school with. It's really like a giant reunion. Later in the day we went to our friends house for a bbq and fireworks. We had 4 boxes of fireworks because everyone brought their own and we spent 2 solid hours watching them. It really was a great day.

Babysitting Bunnies

This past week our friends went out of town and we had the unique opportunity to babysit their rabbits. The girls had so much fun. Paige was a little scared to pick them up at first, but as soon as she got the hang of things she really enjoyed them. The girls were really good at getting up every morning and checking on the rabbits and making sure that they had enough food and water.

Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday to Jared. He is 32 today. For his birthday his boss and some friends got together and took him out to lunch, then they went back to one of their houses and they had a giant spiderman cake and party hats and masks for everyone. I laughed so hard when they sent me the picture. Happy Birthday Love...