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i'm still here! i swear!!! =)

ok, ok.... i figured i didn't really want to wait a year before i posted another blog. We are still all here and doing well =) The kids just finished with school last week and they are super excited that their summer has begun. Both Mary and Josh got excellent report cards and it turns out they are both above average in science and math, not sure they are my kids anymore =) not much has changed in my life, david is still looking for an accounting job...he actually got turned down for a job because he already had a job....how lame is that! and with other interviews he doesn't have enough experience or he has too much....does that make sense to anyone else?

Felicity has FINALLY started potty training she does really good in the morning and early afternoon but after that (which is normally after nap time) she gets lazy =( but hey at least she's trying right =)

In my last blog i had told everyone i had an awesome calling that i loved, well i was released from that calling in march =( and now i'm on the relief society meeting planning commitee ( that's a mouthful) =) i have had a lot of fun serving with the sisters in this commitee =) we range from early 20's to into the 70's and we all have a ton of fun =)

Mary had some interesting projects the last month of school she had an economics project which they called a "Mini Society" and with this project they had to make a product, well 30 of the same product, they couldn't spend more then $10.00 total and for every hour the parents helped, the kids had to do a 1/2 hours worth of chores. After me working for a few hours mary decided she didn't really need my help =) She made personalized bookmarks which i must say after seeing all the other projects the kids did, i was impressed with marys. She also had a project of having to earn money to go to and end of the year movie party. Mary's class went to "Kung Fu Panda 2" on opening weekend and she had to earn the admission price ($8.00) and if she wanted snacks she had to earn money for that too (appr. $7.00) and so she did her chores for $0.50 a day and since she has 2 chores a day she earned it just in time to turn her paper in =)

I had an AWESOME suprise on memorial day weekend both mom and dad flew in and suprised me =) on 2 seperate days! you see david came home and said "Laura, I have an idea, let's go ot to dinner" of course i said "YES!" well when we drove out of castle rock i was a little confused but david said " don't worry we're going somewhere we've been before" i of course said ok and i didn't pay attention, when we got on the 225 i was a little more confused and i remembered that we'd gone to a jack in the box out by the airport before and he said "yes, you got me i'm just going where the gps told me to go" well lissy started to get fussy so i thought i would pull up gps on the phone so lissy could listen to how much farther and we drove right past the last exit before the tollway and i told david we needed to take the tollway exit and turn around and he said "we'll just loop around the airport" cause he didn't want to pay a fee and i told him there wasn't a fee to get off and turn around and he turned to me and said " We'll just take our time and loop around the airport, it's not that much longer" and i closed my eyes and remembered something dad had said to me on the phone a few days before, he had said he wanted to do something other then go to strawberry fest. and we discussed what there was to do here in colorado... and then the light bulb in my head went off and i turned to david and said "wait!!! are we picking someone up?!?!? is it dad?!?!? we talked about this kind of on sunday! is it dad!?!? is it mom!?!?!?!?" and he looked at me and said with a big smile " we're just looping around the airport" and then 3 seconds later i got a text from mom saying "landed" which in turn made me start to cry...ah heck it still makes me cry a little... after we picked mom up we THEN went to Jack in the Box =) the next day david was going to take josh on his "Man"date and he said he was going to go to the store pick up some things and go to McDonalds with josh and get an ice cream sundae and he was supposed to bring some back with him for mary, lissy , mom and I. well mom painted mary and lissys nails which turned out really cute =) and felicity literally fell asleep while having her nails painted =) and an hour passed, when we hit the hour and a half mark i was starting to get frustrated, i know how long a trip to the store and Mcd's takes and i couldn't figure out what was taking so long ={ i kept calling him and he wouldn't answer i swear i called, like 50 times, and i heard him pick up and hang up....that really pissed me off, and then the worry started to set in..what if he'd gotten in an accident?!?!?!? why wouldn't he pick up the phone? i was really really getting upset/worried, all the while dad is on MY phone with mom because he said he kept trying to call her phone and couldn't get through, well they just kept talking and talking and talking! and when they hung up i started calling david again...still no answer. dad called me back and apologized for not talking to me when he called mom and he said that was rude of him to do that =) we talked for about 5-10 min and he telling me i was being to hard on david maybe he and joshua were enjoying their "man" date. I assumed dad was on his way home to tehachapi ( you know how he calls and just likes to chat while driving) =) i can't remember exactly how i got off the phone with dad but when i did my phone started beeping that i needed to charge it so i went into my room to plug it in and once again i called david (abt3-4) times and decided i had to go potty and i heard the door close and knew david was home and then someone knocked on my bedroom door. I thought it was david and said "I'm BUSY!!!" well a few min later i opened the bedroom door and there sitting on my couch was DAD! boy did i feel bad for getting soooooo upset with david, that poor guy puts up with so much crap from me=), we had an awesome weekend...well i thought it was awesome, on saturday after marys movie with her class we drove around denver looking for a quilting store that was actually open, all but one was still in business, and to the temple =) on Sunday we took aroud trip up through NE Colorado up into nebraska into wyoming and back down to castle rock =) it was fun and we took some pictures that i'll post. I was sad to see dad go on monday and sad to see mom go on tuesday but i have to say i enjoyed having them visit with me =) i miss them so much.

Wwell that all for now,I'll do a post of just pictures next, sorry it's so long =)