Welcome to my CRAZY LIFE!!

I had to go buy a small day planner cuz' I seriuosly have so much goin on that I'm afraid of missing or forgetting something. So now all I have to do is remember to right everything down! LOL Here is a sample of my week:
MONDAY
4:20 AM Wake up get ready for work
5:00 AM be at work with a smile on my face
7:15 AM Leave work to get my girls ready for school
7:50 AM Send the girls off to school
8:00 AM go back to work until 1 or 2 PM
1:00 PM I just head home to be with Quinlan and Mike heads off to work,
2:00 PM If I got off at 2 this meant that Mike took Quinlan to a sitter and I have to pick him up
2ish Lay Quinlan down for a nap
3:15 the girls get home from school
3:16 SNACK TIME!!
3:30 Time to be the mean mom and get the girls goin on chores and homework
5:00 PM eat dinner
AND THEN NOTHING!! I AM GONNA TREASURE THIS TIME IF IT KILLS ME!
TUESDAY:
repeat of Monday until after dinner then.....
5:45 PM drop Jordyn off to dance practice
6:00 Maycen's softball practice
7:30 pick Jordyn up
8:00 pick up Maycen
8:15 Rush home for showers
8:30 reading time for at least 30 Min.
9:00 BED TIME FOR ALL OF US!
WEDNESDAY:
repeat Monday until
5:00 a much needed hair appt for ME YEAH
6:30 weigh in for WW
7:00 meet Grandma and Grandpa at my house so they will watch the kiddos
7:30 Meet up with Lori Jo to head to clearfield for MY softball game
9:00 play softball with lots of old friends
10:15 Head home trying to keep my eyes open
11:00 CRASH IN BED
THURSDAY:
NO EARLY WORK YEAH!!
6:00 get up and go walking
7:15 get girls ready for school
7:50 AM send girls off
8:00 AM go to work
11:30 AM get home from work and spend some quality time with Mike!!
1:00 PM Mike heads off to work
3:15 PM the girls get home from school
then a repeat of TUESDAY!!
FRIDAY:
repeat Mondays LIFE until
5:00 PM I have a softball tourney here in Brigham that lasts Fri and all day SAT.
7:00 PM Go watch Jordyn's dance performance for FUTURE ROCKETTES!
8:00 PM Go back to playin ball
Take in mind that this is Mikes week that he is working swings which means he is home in the morning to be with Quinlan otherwise when he is on days my sister watches my son for half a day! :(
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!
Don't worry I'll somehow fit shower time in there somewhere(wake up earlier or go to bed with wet hair and wake up with pure crazi-ness)!! HHHMMM???? HA HA

OH yeah and school starts next Monday and we haven't even started to school shop! CRAP I am kind of a procrastinator! OOPS

Softball, Camping, Dancing, School, Work and now.....Soccer??

Holy cow I can honestly say this is the busiest summer yet and I know it is only going to get crazier when the kids get older! GEEESH Maycen recently tried out for a 10 and under softball team (she just turned 8) and made it!! We are so excited to get that ball rolling.
Well Jordyn couldn't be left behind so she has wanted to take singing and dancing lessons for quite some time now that I figured this would be a good time to start so she wasn't feeling left out with May playing ball and the whole bit. So we signed her up for future Rockettes and a new dance studio that happens to be just down the street.
And between all the sign ups we went camping up to Bear Lake for 3 nights, the first night we stayed on the south end with my Brother and his fam. The next two nights we stayed on the north end with some friends of mine (poor Mike he was a trooper cuz' he was the only guy, besides Quinlan) who had wave runners. We had such a good time even though it was a bit cold.
Well I had asked for 2 weekends off in a row from work and I got scheduled both of them from one of my managers who apparently dislikes me cuz' I didn't work one Sat. (that I WASN'T even scheduled) CALL ME CRAZY!! But she is still a bit bitter about that so she is denying me my requested days off! CRAP So Friday the 22nd is Jordyn's bday and we are doing lunch then some girl shopping then when Daddy gets off work he is going to pick up May and Q and meet us in Ogden to do her Birthday fun at Toads.
Well we just got a thing in the mail saying that indoor soccer sign-ups are on Sat. So why not add another thing to our already crazy life! So all I can think of is ENJOY the ride!! Right??? (:

Congrats to ME

I have succesfully thrown away 20 pounds. Don't worry they're not lost....(cuz I don't wanna find them again EVER!) It has been a very challenging experience but very well worth every BiTe (or non-bite) for that matter! So not to sound concieted (sp?) but ConGrAtS!

TO STINA....THANKS AGAIN!!

Do you like my new background and picture arrangements?? Thanks to Stina...my blog gets updated! And I must say I LOVE IT!! Thanks for taking the time outta your busy life to make my day!! I love polka dots! :) THANK YOU SO MUCH

First time for.....

POP ROCKS!! So Quinlan had his first taste of the pop in your mouth candies and the verdict is....NOT A BIG FAN! I wish I had taken video cuz as soon as they were in..he wanted them out! He was trying to scrape his tongue with his fingers to get them out of his mouth. It was kinda mean of me but I was laughing so hard that I wasn't much help getting them out. I actually wanted to put more in (I didn't) but I had a mean moment and wanted to! He thought it was funny when Mom and Dad had them in our mouth but not so much in his!

Family pics....were so much fun!! Thanks Malinda :) Here is a preview

SO much fun....

On Sat. the girls and I packed up and headed out! That's right NO BOYS!! I pulled our honkin huge trailer for the first time by myself up Logan Canyon to Bear Lake! No worries though we made it safe and sound!! That's more than I can say for the guy on the motorcycle 3 cars in front of me! Yikes!! Pure craziness.....cuz I needed that sight for my already taut nerves! Geez well I was in the right passing lane (so all the crazies could pass me) and a gold car and the motorcycle and then a black truck managed to pass so along a curve I go and I see the gold car on the side of the road then I notice the motorcycle on the ground and the back tire is still spinning and about 10-15 feet away is the guy just barely starting to sit up. HOLY CRAP is all I could repeat for the next few miles! Anyway the guy in the black truck had just gotten out and was running towards the crash sight!! HA SO needless to say every muscle in my body was in about 3 knots each!
Well we get there and meet up with my friends Buffie, Dawn and Jamie and their kids and the FUN begins! We had an absolute blast riding the wave runners, playing smashball, riding the half-pipe tube and just hangin out and enjoying the sun!
Let me just say that it has been about 5 years since I had ridden a wave runner, well Dawns were top of the line go fast awesome ones. So of course I take it slow, for a while then I let loose! I was pretty comfy and had Maycen on the back with me and we had hit some pretty harsh waves! Well I had my contacts in and water splashed my face and I had to close my eyes for half a second and next thing you know is I see the handlebars fading away from me!! I come up out of the water and Maycen is looking at me like WTF happened? I started laughing so hard that I swallowed about a gallon of water! What a sight!?!
Then later that day the kids had finally talked me and Buffie into riding on the tube that is for 3 people so we rode with Dominique another one of the kids for a few minutes and Buffie had had her feel, so Maycen wanted to jump on with me and so here goes....well Maycen was hanging on tight and Dawn who was pulling me silently mouthed to me to HANG ON cuz she wanted to dump Dominique I say OK and she takes off...next thing you know I am in the water laughing hysterically cuz I totally knew she was taking off! Holy cow we had such a blast...but every muscle in my upper body is SORE from hanging on to the tube! GEEESH what a FUN workout! All in all we had an absolute blast!

OH MY!!!!

I officially have 2 (yep you read it correctly...2) 8 year olds!! And no they aren't twins! It is that time of the year that my girls are the same age for 1 and a half months!! JJ was born 8-22-99 and Maycen was born 7-10-00!!

HOLY SMOKA-RONIES!!!

Don't even worry! We have bravely survived these past 2-3 weeks. But not without a whole lotta craziness!! Geez where do I start? Well during the week of Jordyn being at camp we were crazy busy with getting ready to be gone for a week of campin and getting our stupid sprinkler system (that Mike claims he did ALL by himself...WHATEV) He says that I just supervised....ugh...I handed him all the parts and did some diggin! I went to the store and got all the random parts that he needed and I am a good supervisor! HA HA Anywho it was a very good thing that we stayed busy for that whole week or I think I woulda gone nuts without my oldest child being home!
Anyways Friday we go pick up sister SUE (Jordyn) and the first thing she says to us is "Did you bring some butt pain relief?" WHAT??? Apparently when she went on her horse ride, it was for 3 hours and she got a bit sore!! It was freakin hilarious! Welcome home Jord!!
SO we go home and let her shower then we are off to a week of camping (in the new fabulous trailer) YIPPEE!! SO she was home for about an hour before she left for another week!
We went up into Idaho with my friends Dell and Tina that I have played ball with for about 12 years! Mike has never met them but he was a trooper on goin to a random place with all these random people! Cuz' if you know Mike you know how much he DISLIKES PEOPLE! Well we go to Glendale reservoir in Idaho. Pull in and there were probably 15 trailers there! Not knowing what Dells trailer looks like I randomly walk through peoples parties and see if I can find them. Come to find out ALL the trailers were with Dell. AAAH CRAP is my first thought cuz all these people are here and Mike doesn't know anyone! (SIGH) Well we start gettin the trailer setup and here come 4-5 guys that offer to help so that eased a bit of tension for Mike. Come to find out they were such a fun and welcoming group that we didn't feel like intruders in the least! Best part was..is that we camped like 15 feet from the reservoir so needless to say my kids became fish for a week! Seriously they spent 10 hours if not more in the water! It was great!! Needless to say we went through tons of sunscreen! Well this post is getting rather long so I will take a break and post pics when my dumb computer will work with me and my camera!!

SHOUT OR CRY???

So this entire week we are sending Jordyn off to camp!! Pioneer Bible Camp to be exact! Mike went to it when he was young, and absolutely loved it! I on the other hand have never even heard of it. Well we decided that it was an awesome chance for her to discover a bit about herself and to become a better person! But seriously I'm not sure how i'm gonna handle this!

There are a few possibilities.......we are going to thoroughly enjoy her being gone (for a day or two) or Maycen is going to be so bored without her play partner that she is going to drive me up the wall or I'm gonna cry and continue to cry until I pick her up! I actually am expecting all three and there will probably be a few more emotions that'll come up while she is gone.

So until then I just want to let Jordyn know that she is a very special young lady! You have a mind of your own and let us know how you feel about every issue that you come across! Your not afraid to speak your mind....and I admire that about you (most of the time) ha ha You are very loving towards your little brother and sister. One of my favorite things to do is sit and listen to you read and play with Quinlan. You are very special and I am so glad that you are my daughter! I LOVE YOU!!

New Trailer!!

Here it is ALL 28' of it!!
This is what you see when you walk in (including the kiddo-S) haha
The right side keeps goin and that is where (my) bedroom is!!
This is the kitchen and yes it looks like we live in it cuz we transeferred everything from our old trailer to the new one! YIKES!!
And here is the bunks! They are awesome!!

Old trailer is now GONE!!

YEAH!! I put the trailer on KSL Monday night and got 300 hits within the first few hours! SWEET! Got a phone call that night with a lady saying she wanted to come look at it on Tues. morning! SWEETER!! Well she didn't show up (bee-otch) anyway got a few more calls and most of them were men needing ot talk their wife into it! (Which got me wonderin if Mike ever called on any of the trailers that he liked but new I didn't want to deal with the payment) Anyway a very soft-spoken man called and asked if we were willing to negotiate with the price and we were so he wanted to talk his wife and get back to me! Well I didn't hear anything for a few hours so didn't think much of it until he called back and said they wanted it but they were in twin falls and weren't coming my way until Thurs. night well I had a good feeling for the guy and told him we would hold it for him! And I am so glad we did....they were such a cute couple with four kids under the age of 7 (YIKES!) who had just traveled for 2 hours and behaved so well! SO it sold within 4 days! KSL is an amazing site for the classifieds! Sheesh

Old Trailer

This is the 'old' trailer! It was a great starter trailer that we had bought from my brother!

So last year we bought our first travel trailer and have LOVED it! Well Mike has been looking for a new trailer for quite sometime so on Sat. I decided to let him look at a place that was right off the freeway (we could always say NO right!?!) Well we saw a few but one stuck in our minds and I was actually really interested in it but we walked away with the salesman saying he'd hold it for us until Monday! Well they call us on Sat. night saying that the owner had advertised the price for their cost and he'd give us the new price if we were interested. So I was lookin on KSL and decided that the first price was actually very reasonable so when they told us the new price ($1300) lower we decided to jump on it so we are proud new owners of a 2007 28' Mallard trailer. Holy cow it is so much trailer....and we can't wait until we can make time to go camping which will be SOON!!

OH MY...WHAT A BUSY DAY!!

When I crawled outta bed this morning, Mike had said "let's" (apparently meaning just ME)make breakfast and then go hiking up to the waterfall just above our house!! Well I start making breakfast (thinking Mike is right behind me to help out, since it was his idea) I soon find out he went back to sleep!! GGGRR!
Any-who we ended up hiking for almost 3 hours and saw alot of pretty views and flowers and bugs, oh and rocks!! Great fun! And after about 3 pictures our stupid camera died! AH MAN!
Well we get back down and clean-up to go over to Jackson's birthday party and Maycen gets stung by a bee or wasp (we're not sure) and she is ALLERGIC!! So knowing this she instantly panics and makes it sounds like somebody had died. GEESH! Well we quickly ran home to get some benadryl in her to minimize the swelling and itching! And I am now dreading the rest of the week knowing (cuz' I am also allergic) she is gonna be itchy ALL week! CRAP!
And I'm happy to report that it is now 7:30 and she and her dad are asleep on the couch! SO CUTE!! 2 down 2 to go then quiet MOMMY TIME!! YEAH!

THIS SUCKS......

So now that i've found time to sit down and blog, I decided that I'm gonna vent also!! So Thursday afternoon I was loading the dishwasher and noticed the sink was kinda stinky! (YUCK) Well didn't think much about it....until I ran the dishwasher and the sink was full of disgusting water! (YUCK AGAIN) Well I simply thought it was clogged and Drain-o would be a fix.
So when Mike came home from work I told him the situation and he said he'd look into it in the morning since we didn't wanna wake up the kiddos during this noisy frustrating process!
Well I get up Friday morning and throw some drain-o down the sink and head off to work! Well when I walked into the house (home from work 3 hrs later) I almost turned around and went back to work! Mike was at his wits-end snaking and plunging the stupid sink! He looks straight at me and says "Call a plumber, cuz I build steel joists for a living, I don't fix #$%^ing sinks!! OK THEN!
Well my girls and I were headed out to get our hair done by Malinda, and low and behold her dad is a plumber. So she worked her magic and got ahold of her dad and come to find out that Mike had snaked the drain like 15 feet and he said that 4 feet is about all he could do as well! WHAT?!? So here I sit waiting for the dishwasher to finish so I can go dump the bucket of water that Mike has finnagled under the pipes to drain into!! AAAHHH! Cross your fingers and pray that it isn't our main sewer system!!

I'M BACK

AGAIN....we had issues with our privacy settings....so we had to take in the darn computer!!

Can he get any cuter?!?

Malinda took these pics of Quinlan at the girls soccer game! Isn't it precious? OK I may be a little biased but seriously.....just look at him! Can you say Daddy's Boy?
Love the ears!!

SOcCeR

Jordyn Maree AYSO Soccer 2008
Maycen Pearl AYSO Soccer 2008
(From left to right: Front: Teagun Woolums, Hallie Smith, Maycen O'Neal, Allison Reynolds, Back: Steve Gibbons, Alexa Valberg, Jordyn O'Neal, Jordynn Gibbons, Charity Price, Mike O'Neal)
So when I signed the girls up for soccer....the lady signing us up said that they are in need of coaches so if we could vlounteer it would be greatly appreciated. So my friend Malinda and I had previuously talked about how our husbands should coach since they yell at the kids from the sideline anyway! (Logical right?) Well we totally worked it out and signed up our hubbys...pretty much without letting them in on the decision (almost regretting it because we thought we'd end up doing all the work) WRONG!! They did most everything except for the phone calls! Which was a good trade off for Malinda and I!

It was a really fun team to watch....of course we had the mix of butterfly watchers and dandylion pickers...but for the most of 'em they did AWESOME!!

SERIOUSLY....

I AM SICK AND TIRED OF BOX ELDER BUGS!! THEY ARE EVERYWHERE! YUCK!