General Conference October 2009

What another amazing General Conference.

Hook Line and Sinker

Tyler is our fisherman. He loves fishing, eating them is another story. He goes every chance he gets. This time our neighbors took him with them. They ended up catching 18 fish. Pretty good day I would say.

Pretty close to heaven

We went up Cedar Mountain today to see the fall pictures and take some pictures. It is so beautiful up there. The kids had fun watching the squirrels and chipmunks stuff their cheeks with acorns, preparing for winter.

What I've been doing while sitting at my computer

I definitely spend ALOT of time at my computer, but I'm not just messing around. Here are some couple more kits that we've created.This was just a mini kit we did for a Speed Scrap participation prize

These two are our next ones coming up next



We've also been taken on at a new store. Pretty Scrappy has asked us to sell our kits at their store also. The layout above is the packaging for their store.

Tyler & Grandpa at Lake Erie

I just love this picture with Tyler and Grandpa. The sun was setting and it looks so peaceful.

a little catch up

Last time we met with my Brother's and Sister, we celebrated Jaron's first birthday. What a fun time we had. Andrea made the cutest bear cake for Jaron to dig in to.

Football season is here!

We went to the first game of the season at SUU on Thursday. They played against Dixie and whomped them. What a fun time we had as a family, the weather was perfect.

DQ with Derick

Since I have Fridays off I made plans to pick up Derick from High School and take him out for lunch. He had shortened schedule today so I had to take him at 10:30, which is more like breakfast to me. We ended up having a few of his friends join us at our table. I'm glad that Derick doesn't mind being with his ol' Mom around his friends. I had a nice visit with him and his friends and even a few more said Hi. When Derick came home he told me that he was talking to one of the guys who said hi while we were eating, saying to him, "Yah, my Mom felt kind of wierd being there with my friends for lunch" The kid said to him, "That was your Mom? I thought that was your older sister in High School that was just driving you to lunch!!!" Talk about make my day!

What Scraps N Pieces has been up to

Here's what we've been up to. These are the latest kits we have put in the Stuff to Scrap store.

This one we did for a Christmas in July Sale:


Lori and I are going to be the spotlighted designer this Monday and everything in our store that we have created will be on sale for 30% off. We will be introducing this "Eternity" kit during that sale.
This one her is our part of a Collab kit that we did with one our our Creative Team members, Maria.
And this is our next kit that will be released Sept. 1

This is for Kirk

Kirk always reads my posts after I post them and then tells me that I have horrible grammar and typos. He tells me that I need to reread them a few times before I post them. So for him and all of you that have to endure my writing and typing skills, I apologize for torturing you. At least you get to look at cute pictures most of the time. I've reread this several times and didn't catch anything so I will go ahead and publish it.

Sometimes I wish I knew everything!

Tyler, on Monday night started having severe abdominal pains by his belly button. So the next morning Kirk, took him to the Dr. to see what was going on. After examining Tyler, he ordered blood and urine samples because it looked like a possible appendicitis. The tests came back ok but the Dr. said that if the pain gets worse or doesn't go away to come back in. So Tuesday night was an even worse night so we called and got him right in in the morning to see the Dr. again. After examining Tyler again he ordered a CT scan. Our insurance required a bunch of crap and by 4:oo in the afternoon we were finally approved to have the scan done after getting a not so happy call from both Kirk and the DR. I HATE our insurance! Anyway Tyler drinks the drink and an hour later is ready for the scan. I got to go in and stay with him while he got an IV and the scan. Turns out that his appendix is very healthy and surgery is not required. WHEW! Now he is being treated for acid problems. Poor kid, he's inherited his Mom's anxiety, so I'm sure his stomach problems must be attributed to that and all the stress from the first day of school. So now we're dealing with how to destress his life. LOL. Is that possible?

School's Back In!!!

The kids were so excited for school to start this year. They are all in different schools this year so that will be interesting. Kaitlin is in Mrs. Sherratt's 4th grade class this year. She heard quite a few mixed impressions of her teacher but is just listening to the good ones because she is loving her class so far.
Tyler was so excited to start middle school this year, it was almost like Christmas morning for him. I was anxious to visit with him after work to see how his day went. He had an absolutely horrible day! Poor kid, spent the first day of school with a teacher who yelled at the class the entire day. He would say "When I say CLASS I want you to say YES back" So he would say CLASS and the kids would say, yes, and the teacher would yell, say it louder. He would say CLASS again and they would say YES back and then he yelled at them for saying it to loud. Needless to say this went on the entire day. Tyler takes things internally and feels that he is the one being yelled at even though he is doing nothing wrong. So Tyler spent the morning of day two in the Vice Principles office with us switching his class. He is now in Mrs. Haggerty's class and absolutely thrilled and excited to be going to school again.Derick is in High School this year as a freshmen. He also was so excited to start high school. He is loving his classes, and has some great teachers. It will be a great year for him I'm sure. I will try to list the ones I remember for this semester.

• computers
• geography
• algebra
• earth systems
• english
• german
• seminary
• welding

Father & Son's part 1

Kirk and the boys had a blast on the Father & Sons outing this year. They went to the Foley's land out in New Harmony. They have a huge barn, and a zipline that they put up over a little pond. Brother Maurer built a potato launcher and a balloon sling shot.

Introducing Bella!

Introducing, Bella. Bella was found by our neighbor in a shopping cart at the Walmart parking lot. She was probably 3 weeks old at the time. With a lot of batting of eyelashes, we convinced Kirk into keeping her. Bella is a Schnauzer/Border collie mix. She has been quite a good little dog and has learned to sit, lay down and speak quite well. Kirk hates her but the rest of us love her so we over rule Dad. Isn’t she sooooo cute?

Derick went under the knife...

Derick, had surgery on Wednesday, to repair a hernia that he has has since he was little. Since Derick is going into Highschool this year and wanting to do weight lifting we decided to have it taken care of so that he doesn’t have any problems. Derick had Kirk and Brother Johnson and Brother Wood (his young men leaders) come over the night before and gave him a priesthood blessing. The surgery went very well. Derick was the most scared to have an IV but that turned out not bad at all.

Oquirrh Mountain Openhouse

What a fun, short, long day I had yesterday. Short because it was up to Salt Lake and back to Cedar City in one day. Long because I felt I was driving ALL day long. Fun because I went up north with 11 young men to the Oquirrh Mountain Temple openhouse. What a neat opportunity to be able to go into these sacred rooms that these boys won't have the chance to go into again until they get their endowments out for their missions. Tyler was so excited to be able to join us even though he isn't quite twelve. He couldn't beleive that he would be able to actually go inside the temple and then was a worried because he didn't have white clothes to wear. He didn't realize that you don't have to wear white to go into the temple openhouse. I'm so glad to have had this previledge to go through the temple with my two boys, I am so proud of them.

Kid Pond

We went up to ”Kid Pond” to go fishing with Adam, Kollen and their kids. We had poles and Tyler had his tackle box, which we should have checked before we left. We ended up with no bait so Adam tied a funny looking rubber hook on each of the kids poles and let them fish, needless to say we didn’t catch anything but grass. Derick did although cast the end of his pole into the water so he and Tyler went wading into the water to retrieve the pole. It was quite funny they were afraid that they were going to sink and disappear. They were able to save the pole and cool off at the same time.

Third times a charm (we hope)

Pioneer children sang as they walked......

We always look forward to the 24th of July breakfast. Grandpa Marchant is always there on the grill making his yummy pancakes. If you ask nicely, he'll even add some sprinkles to your pancake. Grandma Marchant made bonnets for all of the girls to wear during the Primary childrens parade.

Green Show

The kids favorite thing to do in the evenings is to go to the Green Show at the college. I think that they only do two different shows over and over throughout the wee, they probably have it memorized by now. There's nothing better though than free entertainment.

My first Speed Scrap

This is what I came up with at my first speed scrap. Luckily my sister was hosting it so I knew if I got stuck that I could just call or email her. It was alot of fun I think I will try it again some time. Most of them are during the day so I'll have to find one that is in the evening again.

What's Up!

I haven't been the best at blogging lately, but I've been busy. Nothing to exciting has been going on since our trip to Ohio so I feel I haven't felt there was anything to blog about. So this post is just about our life right now.

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