Hmmmmm...

So, it's been a loooooong time since I've posted. To say the least I have been extremely busy, tired, busy, unmotivated, busy, and quite frankly anti-blogging. I want to keep up with everything but that's the problem..I CAN'T keep up with everything!

By the time I'm done reading everyone else's posts I need a nap (not because you're all boring me to that...but it seriously wears me out!! Don't you dare tell me you don' t know what I mean!!) So then I look at my blog and think...hmmmmm, not interested! I literally was spending so much time keeping up on everyone else I was neglecting things to keep my own life in order....it may be something to think about.

Sincerely,
Mrs. Bloghumbug

*See, right now, since writing this post and checking everyone else's blogs for the past HOUR (I haven't even checked all the privates yet) I still have an undecorated Christmas tree. Well, at least it has lights on it this year!!

Cruella, Jasper and a Few Dalmatians

Halloween 2008 has passed us by. I am once again totally bald (to Amy's relief) with no sideburns (not to mine), but thank goodness I no longer have to wear that women's brown turtleneck which was acting as a midriff. Amy is happy to no longer have the ultimate goth look going on. She also felt bad about carrying around the cigarette holder to church.

Amy won Best Costume at Will and Deb's party. At church, she won Scariest Costume. I was one vote behind her.

I Cry....

the day that I take Halloween down!!! I want the season to last...all year round! For I'm dreaming of Halloweens when...we'll go trick or treating....aaaagain!!

Update coming soon!! (just sooo much to do..so little time!)

I've Been Tagged! #2

I was Tagged by Jill...

5 Things I was doing 10 years ago are:

1. Living at Home
2. I had just graduated from BYU
3. Looking for a full time teaching job
4. Worked Geneva Elementary as a Title 1 Aid
5. Dating Jared Ragozine

5 things on my to do list for today are:

1. Straighten house
2. Get dressed in Halloween costume for the 4th time!
3. Get Buddly dressed in costume
4. Get to Preschool 10 minutes early
5. Make dinner

5 snacks I enjoy:

1. Ice Cream
2. Mixed Nuts from Costco
3. Cheese
4. Bread
5. A crunch Apple usually Gala

5 things I would do if I were a Millionaire:

1. Buy two new cars mine would be a Range Rover.
2. Hire a personal trainer for my home gym.
3. Build a NICE, BEAUTIFUL home and hire a decorator to HELP me decorate!!
4. Travel like there's no tomorrow.
5.Fly to Germany every 3 months to visit McKenna and then we would flit about Europe together with our husbands of course!!

5 places I have lived are:

1. Lehi, UT
2. Orem, UT
3. Provo, UT
4. Rexburg, ID
5. Mesa, AZ

5 jobs I have had are:

1. Elementary Teacher
2. Preschool Teacher
3. Assistant Office Manager
4. Pizza-maker/Breadstick Twister at Craigo's in Rexburg
5. Cashier at Linens 'N Things in Sandy

5 people I tag:

1. Heather
2. Lindsy
3. Tiffany A.
4. Courtney
5. Angie W.

Rules: Each player answers the question themselves. At the end of the post the player then tags 5 people and posts their names, then goes to their blog and leaves them a comment letting them know that they’ve been tagged and asking them to read your blog. Let the person that tagged you know when you’ve answered the questions on your blog.

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Husband Tag

What is your husbands name?

Silas Clayton Woolery

How long have you been married?
3 years in January

How long did you date?
10 months

How old is he?
He just turned 37

Who eats sweets?
We both do!!

Who said I Love you first?
Silas did...then when I finally told him, he broke up with me a day later!! lol

Who is taller?
Sigh (phew!)

Who can sing best?
Definitely me...but he does sing (especially so cute to Drew!)

Who is smarter?
We are both pretty smart :) ...it just depends on what!!

Who does laundry?
We both do...but I HATE, despise, very much dislike to fold!! Therefore, he does A LOT of the time! Thanks Honey!

Who pays the bills?
Sigh earns the money...I pay the bills. But we budget together!!

Who sleeps on the right side?
Silas does.

Who mows the lawn?
Silas does but I quite enjoy doing it and will do it just haven't in a while...he does a great job.

Who cooks dinner?
I do 99% of the time.

Who drives?
Well...that's a touchy subject...he drives his truck unless Drew is with us and then I drive and he sits in the cab (we turn off the airbag, don't worry)...I make him drive my car most of the time when we are together, but he thinks I should drive since it's my car and I usually tell him how to drive it anyway... :)

Who's first to admit when they are wrong?
I think that is something we are both always working on..really I don't know!

Who kissed who first?
Oh, ya....totally Silas...makin' the moves on our 2nd date!!

Who asked who out first?
Silas did...but I was completely giving him the go ahead...it was a good time, our first few days of knowing each other!!

Who wears the pants?
Again, I think it depends on the issue...but I would hope that it's pretty equal!?!!!

LOVE YOU HONEY!!!

Now I tag 4 people.... Mel, Marilee, Kacey, & Mom

Flannel!

My mom is quite the lady!! She is SUPER busy...with church, family, PTA (not so much anymore), more family, more church....etc., etc.!! Well, I just have to brag about how awesome she is! She made me 9 blankets with burp cloths before Drew was born, the ones you crochet around the edges....plus she made some for the twins!! But then about a week or so ago she spent a day and a half making us (Drew & the twins) even more blankets! These are great...45 in. x 45 in!! They are perfect for how big Drew had gotten!! Thanks mom!!
(I might have to make some more for the holidays!!)

FYI

Some of you might be interested in this MOVIE trailer...but I don't know maybe, maybe not!!

6 Months Old!!

I cannot believe that my baby is 6 months old!! He was born Monday, April 7, 2008 at 7:30 pm!! He has brought so much love and joy into our home and yes, mom, it feels as if he has always been with us!! :) I'm so grateful for this opportunity I have to be a mother! Heavenly Father has given me (us) so much and I hope I can be the best Mommy for Drew!!

Ohhhh, just look at those yummy cheeks!!

Drew is so fun! He is about 16 1/2 lbs. (home scale), rolling and scooting everywhere. He loves to laugh and has the best smile...that lights up the room! He also has a serious side...likes to observe and check things out!! He's sooooo cute. His thick, dark hair has been falling out and is now growing in a golden brown. He's getting his first, official, haircut tomorrow to even things out! He loves to sing and chit chat with his toys and with mom and dad! He's been eating cereal for about 1 1/2 months and I just added applesauce and squash this past weekend and he LOVES it!! He sleeps through the night, most nights and is a very happy baby in the morning! He LOVES his daddy and has so much fun hanging with him! He is almost sitting up unsupported but still tends to lean forward a bit! He has the bluest eyes and that keep getting lighter and lighter!!

We are so blessed and look forward to the next 6 months!!

My two baldies...(daddy was the one who wanted this picture taken...he's very secure with his lack of hair...as you can see!!! lol)

Happy boy!! We love those cute ears!!

Cereal...yum, yum, yum, yum,yum....

Blue eyes!! Soooo cute!!

This COULD NOT be Avoided!!

Take the Quiz and Share Your Results!

You are intelligent, outgoing & stylish. A true girly girl, you love shopping & makeovers.Although you are a generous friend, you can be coy, tricky & very persuasive in order toget your way. You are known to zone out occasionally during conversations, but yourfriends forgive you because you are understanding, supportive & know how to throw oneheck of a party!

Now to get my husband to do the male one!!!

I FEAR the Time has Come...

Beginning October 8th our family's blog will be going PRIVATE! For those not sure what that means...I will need to invite you via email to view my blog! You will not be able to use your Google Reader to know if I've updated. So please, PLEASE leave me a comment letting me know you would like to be invited...hopefully I have your email but if you're not sure leave it in your comment. I have comment moderation so no one will see it except me and then I will delete/moderate. Silas and I just feel this is best with all the fun, cute, sweet pics of our son that we want to post and share with the people we know and love!! Thanks!

A BIG Thank YOU!!

THANKS everyone who came out on the walk with us yesterday!! We had a wonderful time and enjoyed the 2.5 or 5 mile walks up through the foothills of Salt Lake's eastern bench (I have no idea what those mountains are called...all I know is there happens to be an ObnoXious U painted on the side of it!!)

Thanks to those who weren't able to be there....but were there "in spirit"!!! Team Woolery was a great success and we look forward to making it even bigger and better next year!! Here are few pictures from the event!!

Thanks for supporting such a great cause...

Drew was most definitely enjoying the walk!!

The girls, on the other hand.....were not!!

We made it....not too bad! Sigh and my mom walked the
5 mile course but here we are together at the finish line!!

The walk ended in the Hogle Zoo! It was fun to see how much the zoo has changed with much needed improvements!! The elephant farthest away in the picture is pregnant!! She is 11 months along and is 1/ 2 way through her pregnancy!! I'm so glad I'm not an elephant!!

My favorites....the giraffes!!

Step Out to Fight Diabetes!!

Many of you know I live with Type 1 Diabetes every day! I have since 1995 when I was diagnosed at the age of 19. I was at Ricks College, just about to graduate with my Associates Degree, when I found out of my chronic disease!!

It's now been 13 1/2 years (tomorrow) since I was diagnosed! I'm still healthy, married (not that you can't get married with diabetes), and I have a BEAUTIFUL little boy who is healthy and strong and does not have diabetes!!! I currently use an Insulin Pump which I wear 24/7.....my lifeline!!
(I love talking about diabetes and sharing what I know and have learned over the years. Yet, I won't go on about my disease at this time, but if you have any questions I will gladly answer them to the best of my knowledge, at any time!!)

NOW FOR THE REASON OF MY POST!

Over on my sidebar of my blog is a link to a web-page about the Annual Step Out to Fight Diabetes Event. It is scheduled for Saturday, September 27th, in the morning at Heritage Park in Salt Lake City!! I would LOVE, LOVE, LOVE anyone and everyone who would like to WALK with me on this fall morning to please go to the web-page and sign up to walk with me!! It's FREE to walk...but you can also SPONSOR me by donating to a great cause!! If you are reading this you most likely know ME and therefore YOU are affected by DIABETES!! (and I'm sure I'm not the only one you know!!) Please help! Please SUPPORT me and the search for a CURE!! They are so close...I'm living proof of that!!

My team name if TEAM WOOLERY but I would also like to walk in honor of my brother-in-law Josef Akebrand who has Type 1 diabetes and I believe has had it since around the age of 19 as well!! (Correct me if I'm wrong) He and McKenna live in Germany so they, obviously, won't be here for the event!! Also, in honor of my sweet cousin, Tiffany Knudsen, who passed away last year at the age of 33 due to many complications from her years and years of struggling with diabetes!!

Thank you for taking the time to read this post and for reading about the Step Out Event!!
Love to you all!

Why Us Women Should Vote

My mom sent this to me as an email and I was moved by it's brief history! I decided to post it. It is true and viable...we looked it up on snopes.com!! Enjoy and think!


"THIS IS MOVING. HOW QUICKLY WE FORGET.....IF WE EVER KNEW......

WHY WOMEN SHOULD VOTE

This is the story of our Grandmothers and Great-grandmothers; they lived only 90 years ago.
Remember, it was not until 1920

that women were granted the right to go to the polls and vote.

The women were innocent and defenseless, but they were jailed
nonetheless for picketing the White House, carrying signs asking
for the vote.

(Lucy Burns)

And by the end of the night, they were barely alive.
Forty prison guards wielding clubs and their warden's blessing
went on a rampage against the 33 women wrongly convicted of
'obstructing sidewalk traffic.' They beat Lucy Burns, chained her hands to the cell bars above her head and left her hanging for the night, bleeding and gasping for air.

(Dora Lewis)

They hurled Dora Lewis into a dark cell, smashed her
head against an iron bed and knocked her out cold. Her cell mate,
Alice Cosu, thought Lewis was dead and suffered a heart attack.
Additional affidavits describe the guards grabbing, dragging,
beating, choking, slamming, pinching, twisting and kicking the women.

Thus unfolded the 'Night of Terror' on Nov. 15, 1917,
when the warden at the Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia ordered his
guards to teach a lesson to the suffragists imprisoned there because
they dared to picket Woodrow Wilson's White House for the right
to vote.

For weeks, the women's only water came from an open pail. Their

food--all of it colorless slop--was infested with worms. (Alice Paul)

When one of the leaders, Alice Paul, embarked on a hunger strike, they tied her to a chair, forced a tube down her throat and poured liquid into her until she vomited. She was tortured like this for weeks
until word was smuggled out to the press.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/suffrage/nwp/prisoners.pdf

So, refresh my memory. Some women won't vote this year because-
-why, exactly? We have carpool duties? We have to get to work?
Our vote doesn't matter? It's raining?

Last week, I went to a sparsely attended screening of HBO's new
movie 'Iron Jawed Angels.' It is a graphic depiction of the battle
these women waged so that I could pull the curtain at the polling
booth and have my say. I am ashamed to say I needed the reminder.

All these years later, voter registration is still my passion. But the
actual act of voting had become less personal for me.
Frankly, voting often felt more like an obligation than a privilege.
Sometimes it was inconvenient.

My friend Wendy, who is my age and studied women's history,
saw the HBO movie, too. When she stopped by my desk to talk
about it, she looked angry. She was--with herself. 'One thought
kept coming back to me as I watched that movie,' she said.
'What would those women think of the way I use, or don't use,
my right to vote? All of us take it for granted now, not just
younger women, but those of us who did seek to learn.' The
right to vote, she said, had become valuable to her 'all over again.'

HBO released the movie on video and DVD. I wish all history,
social studies and government teachers would include the movie in
their curriculum I want it shown on Bunco night, too, and anywhere
else women gather. I realize this isn't our usual idea of socializing,
but we are not voting in the numbers that we should be, and I think
a little shock therapy is in order.

It is jarring to watch Woodrow Wilson and his cronies try to persuade a psychiatrist to declare Alice Paul insane so that she could be permanently institutionalized. And it is inspiring to watch the doctor refuse. Alice Paul was strong, he said, and brave. That didn't make her crazy.

The doctor admonished the men: 'Courage in women is often mistaken for insanity.'

Please, if you are so inclined, pass this on to all the women you know.

We need to get out and vote and use this right that was fought so
hard for by these very courageous women. Whether you vote democratic, republican or independent party - remember to vote.

History is being made."

For me, I'm excited to be a part of this HISTORIC election!! History, as you know, is being made this year!! By January 2009 we will either have an African American man as our countries president or a Woman as our vice-president!! I don't care who you vote for but be part of HISTORY and let you VOICE be heard!!

A Major Minor Update!

I've been wanting to post for what seems a couple weeks now and life has just been that...LIFE!! It hasn't seemed to slow down much, rather, I really feel it has sped up!

Drew is now 5 months old, yesterday, and growing so much each day! I sure do love this kid!! I feel so blessed to be his mommy!! :) He started rolling over from back to tummy yesterday while we were at my parents' for Sunday dinner!! I was so excited...cheering him on all the way! He is growing like a weed. He was 15 lbs. 7 oz. on Wednesday when his Welcome Baby nurse came for our last session!! He is doing marvelous with his development...he's so smart and "quite advanced" for his age....you know with what's expected of kids these days I may have to make sure he's reading by the time he is 2 1/2!!! (we'll save that soap box for another day!)


Speaking of what's expected of kids....I started teaching preschool a couple weeks ago! Wow! What a change of pace...I do love it though! These kids are so stinkin' cute....very busy, but cute, especially those 3 year olds...phew! The best part of preschool is that I get to spend time with my niece Rylie and my cousin/nephew Brady!! They are so full of life and love school!! It makes it so fun having them be there!! I love it because I get to continue to have fun teaching and being silly! I just love all the fun songs I'm learning this year!! Just ask Rylie and Brady sometime about their favorites!! YEAH for Knowledge Adventure Mini-School!!!

We celebrated Silas' 37th birthday last Monday! We had so much fun with our family and friends!! Thanks to those who came to celebrate with us! We weren't too sure what the weather would be like but it ended up being beautiful...a little windy...but nice! We BBQ'd and played Volleyball at the park in our neighborhood and then headed back to our house for cake and ice cream and the infamous ROCK BAND!! Thanks to Shayna and Cameron for lugging it over for everyone to play!!! F-U-N!!

"The best birthday present ever!!"--Daddy

This year for Sigh's b-day I got him season tickets to the BYU football games!! He was super excited. They are on the tippy top row of the North Endzone!! But you know what they are pretty good!! We got them with my parents (my dad's early b-day gift this year) so this should be a fun season!! The first game was a couple days before his birthday so he obviously knew about one of his presents!! But it was fun to surprise him a little early and then still have more to open on September 1st!! One of his gifts before the game on Saturday was a "family" gift!! I had gotten him a BYU flag to hang up outside on game days, Y beanies for the cold games (for both of us), and then full on BYU clothes for Drew!!! Decked out from head to toe...mommy style!!! He's being "trained" nice and early...but since Daddy won't wear anything BYU to the actual games, Buddley gets to!! So when our friends or family watch him on game day be prepared for the cutest BYU fan ever!!!