The kitten is doing good, her current name is Kitty or for short kit? she has been Julius, Peaches, Princess Peach, and now Kitty. She has a routine she sleeps in Alivia's room on Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday nights, She get to sleep with Cooper on Tuesday, Bauer Wednesday and Kessler Thursday, Alivia is in charge of the litter box and food and water.
We have been able to go up to the lake the last couple Saturday's it has been so fun. The water has been cold but the kids have had a blast. I tried to waterski with no luck it has been years since this Mamma got up on a ski, I need to refresh my memory through YouTube.
We made it to a new store here in the Salt Lake valley called Scheels and we found some items of where baby number three got his name. He is so excited when he see's these items. Now if I could only afford to put my boys in hockey.
Halloween is on the brain around here and we found some items that we bought last year on clearance and the kids are having a hard time deciding on what they want to be. For right now, Bauer wants to be a police officer, Cooper Darth Vader, Kessler changes daily, and Alivia a girl vampire.
Addilyn (my sister's little girl) was cracking me up the other day when she came over luckily the cat did ok and still is alive.
For fall break our plans changed quite a few times, our original plan (that started in Jan 2012) was to make a trip to Hawaii slowly as this year has progressed and some unexpected expenses (tires on the burb and a little garage door mishap), we postponed that plan, we then thought maybe we could swing Lake Powell, same thing needed to make the decision of how much we wanted to spend. We made a wise decision, to do a "stay-cation" and did some fun things, swimming, movie, arcade and some fun times at Grandma's house.
Well......... the Christmas lists have begun around here and one of the best features about smart phones is that I have been able to organize these lists. I went to Target with the kids the other day and slowly walked through toys, and sporting goods and let them look and talk about all the great things they saw, as they moved onto the next I took my barcode app scanned the barcode and added it to my shopper and let me save my list for each kid, for reals people.....technology rocks!! it even pulled up the cheapest price, luckily we get a 15% discount and so no one was cheaper than Target. This is a picture of Alivia's top choice, we'll see?
Give me an AMEN-HALLELUJAH! for General Conference.....some of my favorite talks I am sure are some of yours but if you have not had a chance to listen I say start with these two and FEEL the POWER!! LOVE, LOVE, LOVE General Conference
I have listened to these two talks at least 3 times each!
http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2012/10/of-regrets-and-resolutions?lang=eng and this one
http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2012/10/the-first-great-commandment?lang=eng
I will admit I am a TAD bit OBSESSED with this presidential election and have enjoyed watching the debates and as I update my blog tonight, I am watching the town hall debate and just a tad bit uncomfortable with the tension and hostility if you will..... between Romney and Obama. I also watched the VP debate and am so grateful to live in a country where we have the freedom to choose and make an informed decision.
Okay lots of news on the Target home front, Ben has officially been transferred to the Sandy Target as the new store manager, he is going from a 30 million dollar store to a 45 million dollar store from 150 employees to 250-300 employees and a nice pay increase for all that additional responsibility. The new store has a full grocery department and like I told Ben as of Friday I am taking an 18 month break from grocery shopping and he will weekly get a text from me with our list:) SWEET!!!
Also I am really hoping Target doesn't let me down this year and lets the Target lady come back and entertain me.
He traveled to Denver to train some new STL's (16) on the best way to handle black Friday, he also got an email about doing some training for some Canadian STL's that are French speaking. From what Ben understands they are going to fly them to Utah and train with him for 3 months, sounds like some crazy long days for Ben, Canadian trainees, new store, a upcoming remodel of his new store and then speaking French all day.....I see some additional grey hairs in the horizon:)
Things for me are going well, still on the CrossFit gig, I am getting stronger, increasing my weight I can lift, increasing my pushups, pullups how many squats I can do, got my 18inch box jump down (boo-ya!) and can do 20+ double under jump ropes in a row.....don't look to close and my welts on my arms and legs though.
Flying the friendly skies and actually look forward to the Holiday travelers they are usually happy and excited to travel to go see family and friends. Lots of funny stories lately and love flying with my work friends they are so good to me and make my job even that much more fun!
