Miscellaneous Ramblings about our KRAZY Life!

Again, it's Monday already. I get frustrated with myself for not posting something everyday but I keep telling myself I'm doing better about recording happenings and thoughts than I was a month ago!! So I guess that is improvement.

This week Kody turns 9! WOW -- my baby is going to be 9. Thankfully, somehow I have his birthday shopping done and wrapped (except the bows, which I will put on that day). Kody is so excited for his birthday -- I hope it's not a big let down for him. He was so excited to go to Primary yesterday to be sung to, and then Sis. Godfrey just about forgot him but thank goodness for friends who reminded her of his birthday. What a disappointment that would have been for him. I didn't want to do a friends party this year -- I just couldn't fit one more thing in my week's schedule so we compromised and decided I'd take cupcakes to his basketball practice and then we'd have grandparents and a few neighbors over for cake and ice cream. I ordered the cake and cupcakes from Sam's Club today so all I have to do is pick them up on Wednesday --Sharon (Todd's mom) will be sooo disappointed in me. She loves to make cakes and does a great job but since she hasn't been feeling the greatest I didn't ask her to make Kody's cake.

Tyler finished up his football season on Saturday in West Haven. Long story short, they lost in overtime due to a mix-up on an "official" weigh-in sheet that the coaches didn't have with them. This has been an interesting year for football. First of all, Tyler got switched from the team his was on last year to a new team. We, Todd, Tyler and I, decided maybe it would be a good chance for him to make new friends, play football with the kids he would be going to school with, and we really just didn't want to make a big deal over the whole thing. Tyler has made new friends and overall had a good time, although it was a tough season, not alot of wins. He gets upset that his old team has done so well and are going to the play-offs and he could have been part of that team. We've tried to explain to him it's okay and if you are going to play sports, there will ups and downs along the way. Todd and I really wanted Tyler to end on a positive note so we were so glad when Brian called and invited Tyler to play in some post season tournaments. I could really see the sparkle in Ty's eyes and he got excited thinking about playing with Marshall, Braxton, Carson, and the others he played with last year. So football is over for a few weeks and then back at it in November!

As a moms, we seem to take care of everyone but ourselves and I'm sick and tired of being TIRED. All I want to do is sleep so I've decided to be more faithful about exercising and see if that gives me more energy. I walked/ran on the treadmill for 20 minutes at 5:30 this morning and then I walked and the boys rode their bikes to the library this afternoon. I figured the walk to the library was about 1 1/2 miles, uphill on the way there! I was really sweating by the time I got to the library. I know that I'm not going to be able to walk every night but hopefully I can do the treadmill every morning and then walk 3 - 4 nights a week.

For a school assignment, Tyler has to do the laundry for a week at our house. We've been sorting laundry tonight. At first I was nervous for this assignment, and I'm still not sure that I'll have Tyler do ALL the laundry but I think it will be good for him to realize just how much laundry this household goes through. While we were sorting (and we were only sorting towels and Todd's work clothes) he said "This doesn't seem so bad." We then gathered up the laundry from downstairs and his eyes got big and he said "I have to do all of that too?" I'll keep you posted on the laundry assignment.