A day in the life

I thought for the sake of all those who think that the life of a SAHM (stay at home mom) is all free time and play dates, I would post a break down of an actual day in my life. The following is a true unembellished account:

3:30 am- awoken by cat who needs to go outside. (I could set a clock based on Simba's bladder)
5 am- wake up way too early so I can get my workout in.
6- 7 am- spend quality sweaty time with 30+ strangers in a dark room full of spin bikes
7:10- read scriptures and have family prayers
7:20- send Tanner off to school
7:45- send Kylie and Maddie off to school
8- 9:20- clean up breakfast, dress and do hair of Kenzie, take a shower, get dressed, sweep floor, find Kenzie's books and rush out the door
9:30 am- drop off Kenzie at preschool
9:45 am- answer emails and make some phone calls about Relief Society activity the next day
10:15- 11:20- work on the computer on my job (yes, I actually do bookkeeping work for Paul's office)
11:25- Mel comes over to plan PTA lunches for teacher conferences next week- Yes, that is done!
11:50- Pick up Kenzie from preschool (wow that is short!)
12- feed Kenzie and her little buddy Chloe lunch and throw myself a few bites while I'm at it. (of course this lunch is completely organic, healthy, and sugar free- Ok maybe not)
1:15- Pick up Kylie early from school to take her to the eye doctor
2 pm- Kylie has her eye appointment and gets some contacts. I try to entertain little girls with candy and coloring books- so much for the sugar free thing
3 pm- Run over to get Tanner's final eagle project signature for his project- Yes, that is done!
3:45- get home pick up Maddie and take her and Kylie to piano lesson
4:30-6- Crazy time- homework, dinner making and general chaos
6- eat dinner fast and change clothes
6:30- leave later than we should to get to the temple for ward temple night at 7
7:05- miss the 7:00 session, but hey we still got to the temple
9:30- home to kiss sleeping girls and wait for Tanner to get home from his basketball game that started @ 9pm!
10:30- pretty much collapse in bed after hearing tales of crazy late game.
So that's how life is here at our house. Unfortunately this is not an unusal day as far as busyness is concerned. It's all good though!! Some day I will be wondering what to do with myself and it will probably be sad!

Where did January go?

So here it is February and I missed all of January with not a single post to the blog. Good thing I didn't make any resolutions or they would have already been broken!
Well, to catch up... Christmas break was great and very relaxing. We stayed around here and just spent time together as a family. We had the traditional Christmas Eve program at Blaine and Jen's house and Christmas morning here and then dinner at Paul's mom & dad's house. The kids got the Wii Fit and Mario Kart so they had a lot of fun with those. They did get to play more video games than usual and probably watch more movies too. But it was cold outside!
We did all go skiing one day. Even Kenzie took her first lesson and did great. Kylie took her first snowboard lesson. She did good but is still undecided about the skiing vs. boarding debate. Tanner has landed firmly on the side of boarding. He got a pass at Sundance for Christmas and has been going quite a bit. I managed to take virtually no pictures- I seemed to have forgot my camera at most events.