Miche Bags

I have had many questions about the Miche (Me Chee) Bags I am now selling. For all of you who have not recieved my emails I am now selling these purses. My friend in Utah started selling them and I recieved emails from her. I liked the concept of having one purse, but it still seemed like a hassle to change out your purse into a new shell. I envisioned taking out the soft inside and snapping it into a new bag.....TO MUCH WORK!

When I finally saw the product I LOVED IT! I finally got it. This is as easy as changing your cell phone cover or putting or slipping a pair of flip flops on your feet. You get a base (BAG) that comes in brown or black. Then you get Shells that wrap around your base, there are 40 to choose from and they come in various styles from causual to formal! I will be having an open house this week if you are interested in these bags I will email you the date and time. Here are some pictures this hope this helps!

Tagged....

Sam Tagged me.....Ok I have to admit that I let this one go for awhile. My dryer was on the blitz and so laundry was piling up. So until my cutie handyman husband could fix it I had to wait to post.... My Favorite Shoes: I bought these in Vegas when we were with Friends. It was like a little girl looking into a pet store, faced pressed against the glass. Kel said just buy them. They will make you happy. Shoes do bring HAPPINESS

My Favorite Room: Kitchen...I love spending time with my family in this room. It is where we spend most of our quality time together and it is where my children tell me about there day. It is usually the room I am in when Kelly gets home from work.

Kitchen: Need I say more? LOVE the spaciousness of it

My laundry room: I hate hate my laundry room! Our last house had a huge laundry room with a big table and lots of extras, Can you call this a laundry room? I need one that is at least 10x10!

My Closet: Wish I did not have to share! can you ever have enough closet space? Someday I will have a closet 8x8 just for SHOES.

My Sink: HMMM...This depends on the day and the bathroom. Main floor Stays relatively clean. Kids bathroom SHUT THE DOOR! Scary! Master bath, did I work that day and did the kids use my bathroom.....

Lesson learned from Cross Country

It has been an incredilble season for cross country! the weather has been wonderful and our kids are running with great times. I am even amazed every meet how well they do and how much they improve. Last week was the Blackfoot meet (BRAG MOMENT) Middle school races are 1.5 miles. Kenz ran a 11:15 and Keslie ran 11:21. Kolton ran a 3mile with a time of 18:16. This week we were in Arco...and wow what a city! dirt and sagebrush. This was one of the hardest courses I have ever seen, I think I would have stopped and cried. They all had to run up a large steep hill that was a dirt trail in 80 degree weather. Kelsie had a hard race due to dehydration but still finished with a great time for 2 miles. Kenzie had determination in her yesterday and wanted to do good. the last 1/2 mile she started sprinting and did not look back and placed in the top ten. All the BHS varsity boys ran so good they took 2nd, which keeps them in the running for State.

I am sad to see the season come to an end, it has brought such closeness with my children and for us as a family. The sibling bond has become so strong and it is so wonderful to see the friendship grow. Determination is one of those great lesson we have learned this season. Cross country is a very individual sport and even though you train with a team the races become your own. I have seen all three kids dig deep down inside them to finish the race or beat a time. Sometimes you cross the finish line with your best time and a great smile, other times you cross barely standing feeling like you are going to die. I have watched all three kids experience this and each time I get a little teary. (because I cry at everything) I am thankful for the lessons learned from cross country.

I have to admit I have also learned great lessons from cross country....forgiveness......(some of you know the assistant coach) This year I have learned to forgive and forget....Thankful for the lessons learned in cross country.

Family Pictures

It has been 2 years since we had our family pictures so we decided it was time to have some taken. Last time I had them taken our neighbor who does photography took them and did a great job, so I had to call her again. She is so good to see my vision and take my ideas and let me tell her what I want and then we use some of her ideas....I had so many comments on them last time I knew she would be wonderful. I am so happy with the finished product. I am going to have a hard time deciding which ones I like the most. I put all of them on the slide show if you would like to see them and here are a few to enjoy.

Freedom and cross country

We are now officially in the middle of cross country season. All three kids are running this year and it has been such a fun experience for all of them. Kolton picks up the girls from RMMS and takes them over to BHS and then gets all of them home. It has been so wonderful to have all of this extra time not driving kids all over! The days they have dance or piano he just takes them from practice to dance or piano. (LOVE TEEN DRIVER!) The only thing I have to do is have dinner on the table when they walk in the door, and they are so hungry they eat everything!

For the 2008 season we have traveled long distance for meets which is different than it has been the last 2 years. We spent our weekend in Boise and for the next 2 meets we will go to Salmon and Arco so we will be putting the miles on the Yukon. I guess the upside is lots of alone time in the car with my sexy husband!

We had a fun rainy weekend at the Bob Furiman invite. All the kids running were covered in mud. Kolton ran just after the rain stopped and it turned SUNNY and beautiful. The girls were not scheduled to run until 4:30 in the afternoon and just as the were warming up the dark clouds start rolling in and the the lightning strikes.......the girls did not run! I was not to sad about this because I did not want muddy girls riding in my car. I think they were feeling just fine about not running in a down pour. So at the end of the day we were all happy.

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NOW FREEDOM

Kolton driving has given me this freedom that I am loving! But I am finding that now my weekends are filled with my kids activities. I miss the days of little babies running around and watching Disney all day, feeling like I was trapped in my house and to take a shower was a great feat. We now live our lives in cars driving from one thing to another, and at the dinner table catching up on the kids. I am not working many hours so I am finding that I do have LOTS of freedom. I spent the first few weeks of school having ME TIME, breakfast with my friend Shareen (al her kids went to school this year), reading books, and catching up on projects. I actually think I might tackle a Levi quilt! I have been saying for years we needed one for all the cold sporting events, I think I have the time. The upside to all of this is how fun the kids are and how much fun we have together and how enjoyable this age is. It makes me sad to see how fast time in going but I keep hearing it just gets better and better. So far so good.

I choose to live in here....

When you grow up in this little community and marry your high school boyfriend (who has deeper roots than I) you learn to accept that you will run into everyone else that has the same scenario and you will find that you can find a connection with anyone in this community or they know your family or friends. About 20 people a year are able to break away from Idaho Falls and move to other places. In reality about 10 of them find there way back to move"HOME". Based on the choices I have made I will continually run into old "friends" or make a connection with someone during the week (good or bad).

Now I will admit due to my profession I have a high profile community job where I interact with many people, so I am at risk to be put in these situations quite often. I have run into people from high school, old ward members, people who knew me as a little girl, and others who know my family or Kelly's family. Some of these interactions have been fun and others are quite awkward. One day while at work I even met the father-in-law of an old boyfriend. (that's a funny story)
I had one a the funniest things happen to me at work yesterday and today it still makes me laugh a little. Our blood drive was at Kelly's work yesterday. While he was donating another guy came and sat in the chair next to him. Kel is so good to make sure he introduces me to everyone and make me familiar with his co-workers. So he says "Jen have you ever met Eric ****** " I looked at him and said "no, Nice to meet you Eric *****" and after processing the name in my head several times I looked at him and said "Are you the same Eric ****** from South Bonneville?"
He had recognized me but I would never have placed him in this lifetime. I walk over to Kelly's chair and explained quietly to him that he was my very first boyfriend and that I broke up with him because I thought he was kind of a geek. In Eric's defense he was such a nice guy and now make fabulous money! It was a funny situation and probably more awkward for me than him. I do live in the community I grew up in and so what should I expect? Good thing we all grow up and become better people!

Girls Camp Got Wisdom? WORD!

Who knew I could make it four days in a tent but I made it! Being the camp director this year has been such a blessing in my life, I have had the best week. I started the week off with no sleep because I kept thinking about things that I forgot to pack and things I wanted to get for all these girls! At 2:30 I went to bed and by 3:00 am I was at walmart getting moleskin for the hike.

Our Theme this year was fairies. Our ward choose the tooth fairies. I made all the girls tutu's we were particularly cute! We started off the week with a bang! (Andrea I knew you would love how wrote that! just for you!) The elderly couple that was the camp host for the summer scared the girls about bears so we had to deal with that all week. And the morning of the hike Kelly had to ask the girls if they heard the coyote at 4 am! Thanks KEL! I got one of our priesthood to wear a tutu during our skit...WE LOVE BRO LOTT! And then the pranking started! I believe in good fun pranks, I had our girls leave with all the other wards a crown and tooth brush with a sign that said GOT WISDOM? We stole other ward flags and left fake teeth with notes to get other ward to come up to our camp. When they came to retrieve there belongings we would give them all a toothbrush.

My very favorite part of camp is when the girls decided to prank the leaders. We were in our tent having solo time(sleeping), the girls had gone down to the creek to write in there journals. We had an extended solo time on Wed after the hike so they could nap if they wanted. We woke up to Saran Wrap being applied to our tent. They had pinned our zipper closed and kept saying "try to get out" to that we laughed! and Laughed and laughed. Like we wanted to leave the tent from our great nap. Silly girls. So the pranking continued the rest of camp we had a blast! To get the girls back we took squirt guns and ambushed them while they were cleaning the bathrooms. That was a proud moment for me, I have been pranking these girls for years and they have never pranked back until now.

We had all the fathers as priesthood for the week and that made the experience for the girls soooo amazing! I was so thankful for all their dads. This was Kelsies first year and Kenzie's second I think they both loved having Kelly and I there for the entire week. I know I was thankful for Kelly, he treated all the girls like princesses.

The last night it rained and rained and rained so we had to move the girls from there tent into the cabin it became a huge muddy mess :) Who has ever been to Darby without rain? Makes for a fun experience?