Does anybody want a dog?!

So It's been a frustrating summer! As you know I planted tomato's and Peppers. Shortly after I got the peppers in the ground the dog lay ed on one if the plants and broke it off there was only 1 leaf left. Luckily It has recovered. There was another pepper plant that he did something too (not sure what) I think it's trying to survive but I don't think it will. Then he seemed to leave them alone for a bit. But then He completely destroyed one of the healthy plants. I was SOOO mad I was beating him so badly that Chad turned off the lawn mower and came and stopped me and sent me in the house to calm down. So then we put him on the chain. After a few weeks of that I started to trust him again and just let him be in the yard. But with in just a day or two he decided to eat all of my green tomato's that we growing good. I beat him again and put him on the chain and that is where he has been ever since. But tonight......ARGH!!!.....We left the house for a few hours. When we got back he had somehow unhooked the chain (and re-hooked it to itself?) and we rushed to check the tomato's and sure enough my 1 remaining tomato from the first round of blooms that was half red was gone. along with all of the tomatoes bigger then the size of a quarter. I'm SOOOOOO mad. I didn't want to go buy stuff for a fence because that would defeat the purpose of growing my own to save money. I'm seriously so mad that my blood is just boiling. I usually let Chad bring the dog in the house in the afternoon because it's hot out side but now that privilege is gone and he can sit out on the chain in the hot sun all day!

What Fruit Are You?

You Are an Apple

You are strong, powerful, and even a bit stubborn at times. You have enough strength to help those around you in trouble. You are adventurous and charming. Many people are drawn to you. You love life, and you enjoy traveling the world. You enjoy fine food, art, and culture. People have accused you of being a snob, but that's not accurate. You do enjoy the best things in life. Unlike snobs, you truly appreciate quality... not just pretend to.

What Type of Fruit Are You?

Do you Like?

I've been playing around with some back grounds. And while I loved the backgrounds from Pyzam.com I will probably never use them again because when I uploaded that background (with the scratchy sketches) it deleted a bunch of stuff so I had to rebuild my blog..:( Anyway My very good friend Steph told me the site that she uses and this is what I came up with. I really like this back ground. I might still play around with the font colors and link colors but as for now I hope you enjoy seeing something a little different.

This is what I did this weekend.

Chad and I went camping to help do radio communications for the VOI . We were providing communications for the Idaho Rally event. If you go to Chad's blog he has posted some pictures of the rally cars. It was fun to watch the races. It did get kind of long though because once we were in our positions they closed the roads so we had to stay in one spot for HOURS then they would move us to the next race and stay there for HOURS. and those of you with little boys know how fast they get board lol... But it was fun.

Some Cute pics for you.

My First Tomato's

I decided to give it a whirl this year so I planted some tomato's. I'm also going to plant some peppers. My goal is to make salsa.

Sad but yet Humbled

Today is a sad day but yet in a way I'm humbled. For those of you who know Chad has a Truck a motorcycle and a car for just him. He LOVES his little Honda civic hatch back. He has had so much fun making it "his". For the last few months we have been really feeling like we need to work a little harder to pay our debt. Our Prophet has told us time and time again to stay out of debt. Chad and I have pretty much ignored the teachings. We decided that we need to sell the car. I feel so bad because I know how much Chad loved the car. Well today we got it sold and it's going to help SOOO much. I'm so sad for Chad. And Carsyn as well. When he saw the buyers driving away he just cried and cried (Carsyn not Chad).
I'm sad that Chad had to let go of something he enjoyed so much but I'm so humbled to know that we're doing the right things. Hopefully we can continue to do better and continue to sell things that we thought were "needs" I guess since he sold his car I need to go clean out my stamp room to find some things to sell...lol...

There are no words!

Today was unfortunately a rough day. It kind of started yesterday though. It was Corbyns b-day so we had a fun busy day. We went to the park where we all got sun burned lol. Then a busy filled evening trying to get ready for our Mother Daughter luncheon for the achievement day Girls tomorrow afternoon.

Once I got to bed sleep didn't last long before Corbyn started waking up (I wish he would sleep through the night) I don't know if it was the sun burn or what but he was SUPER hot. I took his temp but it wasn't even over 100. and he was coughing. So anyway after a super rough night with little sleep we began our day at 7:30 starting with Carsyn's soccer game at 9:30 then once that was over we rushed home to change clothes and went to the church to set up and get the luncheon ready. The luncheon went smooth and as planned. but by the time we were finished cleaning up and I picked up Carsyn, Corbyn had had it. It was now 2:30 and his nap couldn't wait any longer. And I was running on fumes myself. I managed to squeeze in a little snooze. but when I woke up I realized just how messy and dirty the house was. so I tried to make it some what presentable this evening but for some reason both boys were just so tired. Corbyn wouldn't let me do much of anything. and they both fought going to bed.

Then I realized around 6:00 that all of the boys Sunday clothes are in the dirty pile..ARGH! So now I have to start laundry so late in the day. I have to do 3 separate loads in order to get everything they will need. I'm going to be up late doing that.

I'm so glad that today is over.

Lately I've just been so stressed, tired, busy, and just overwhelmed. and I think it's all starting to hit me. I try to just get out of bed every morning with a smile and try to be the perfect SAHM (stay at home mom), but every once in a while I just need to tell everyone No I can't and stay in bed all day with the curtains closed.

Sorry to be a whiner but I'm so ready for bed.

Will you share?

Isn't this a sweet picture?