summer swim lessons 2010

*swim lessons have officially begun down at the life centre (i run the swim lesson program)
*it is an outdoor pool and makes for an interesting summer when you have to deal with the weather
*i have some great teachers this year, but not enough swimmers to give them very much teaching time
*one of my teachers is addison!

*addison is a fast learner as far as being a swim teacher
*he is very good with little kids!
*all the little girls love him
*one little girl asked her mom if they could go buy some mermaid "leg" (fins) after lessons so she could be a mermaid at home......so cute!
*mother's have come to me and told me how much they love addison!
*i am really proud of him!
*he will make a great dad some day! :0)

*teaching swimming.....there's nothing quite like it!
*taking someone from the beginning and watching them progress and become comfortable in the water is very rewarding to me
*i love teaching swimming and i love the water!

moving again & roommates....

*i love ashley to pieces that i would do anything for her....even move her for the 3rd time since last august :0)
*i am a pretty strong person, but ashley can really pack a box......heavy!
*i am so excited to have her home for the summer even though she won't be around for part of it....efy is calling her which i am totally thrilled that she has that opportunity
*so if i have to move her 20 times this year, it is still worth it when it's all said and done!

*we love ashley's roommates! it gives us more children to love!
*we moved marlee's stuff in to the basement (walter storage unit)
*marlee is a brighton girls camp counselor....yeah!
* i was one 25 long years ago!
*she will be great and i hope she will love it as much as i did!

i love ashley and addison so much! i am grateful for the opportunity to be their mother....
even when i make mistakes as a mother......
i love ashley's roommates and friends......
i love addison's friends, also......
having them in our home brings me joy!

smorgasborg......

**i love when i spend several hours cleaning something out and it looks great!
take the garage, for instance........what a mess!
i put things away......sort of cleaned the work bench (can't clean it too much because it's mark's organized chaos)
i threw things away.....
i swept out the garage......
i got nice and dirty........man it feels good :0)
now, i just need to finish cleaning out ashley's room so she can move back home....yeah!

**i hate ego bursting experiences.....take swimming for instance.......i love to swim with the master's program at the life centre. i swim about the same pace as two other ladies.....well, one other because the other one has become really fast....ugh! i usually can keep up with denise hyer, but not with cathy dover, any more...i had a hard time at the end of the work out to keep up with either of them.....dave ryland (master's coach) told me i should be able to keep up and we are doing more of these kind of work outs so that i can......ugh! at the end of swimming, dave told me that i needed to be split up from cathy because she is too fast for me....double ugh!!
there goes my ego, my swimming confidence, my competitive ego.....
i know, really dumb to think this way, but.....
i have been swimming with her for 2 years now.....
all of a sudden she has gotten really fast......i don't know how she does it....
i guess i just need to try a little harder and swim my best.....UGH!

**i love teaching swimming lessons, though.....
it is fun to watch someone progress and understand what their body can do in the water....
when they finally get it.....that's success!

**i love that i am not ptsa president any more! yeah!
i turned over the key to the "castle" today to the new president....
i can just concentrate on the fun buses for next year.......
fun.....here i come!

need to start seriously training for my triathlon.....spudman
coming up the end of july....
need to start running.....need to get up to 6 miles...
i think i almost killed the dog on my run the other day....he was not happy to be there....
he is fat and out of shape.....better keep exercising him....

**biked 80 miles on june 5th.....
little red riding hood century ride....up in logan, utah
beautiful ride.....beautiful weather.....beautiful riding buddy.....denise hyer....
we averaged about 15 miles per hour......about 4.5 hours riding time.....
not bad for ladies in their 40's.....

summer 2010 fun list

*mom's can have a fun list, right?!
*here is mine.....

*teach swim lessons....private preferrably
*swim, bike, run = triathlon.......july 31st - spudman triathlon
*sew some quilts - maybe learn to use a quilting machine
*have a few craft days with ashley
*read, read, read.....hooked on books, lately
*go on some hikes
*waterski and la beus shakes
*make home made ice cream....yum!
*firepit fires and s'mores
*youth conference & yw's camp

*i love summer.....let the fun begin! =0)

mary, mary, quite contrary...how does your garden grow?

unlike the nursery rhyme, my garden doesn't grow like mary's......

i worked long and hard to get my garden to this point....

i would like to show you the many things i grow in my garden....

now don't be fooled by those tulips in there....

i am really going for the weed and grass look....

i started yesterday in the corner of one of my lovely weed/grass gardens in hopes to thin out the lovely weeds/grass.....

maybe even re-plant them somewhere else in the yard......hahaha......

it took me 45 minutes to do this one little corner!......

and 2 big buckets full of these lovely plants......

see....what progress?......

my dream garden......to look like temple square gardens!!!

mark in 25 years......

mark participated in a young men/young women's activity called "where's waldo"....

he and others had to disguise themselves and wander the mall.....

the youth had to find them to get parts of a scripture they were putting together.....

when we put silver spray in mark's hair, stuffed a pillow in his shirt to give him a gut, and put suspenders on......

i almost died and died laughing......

"you look just like your dad!!"......

here is mark in 25 years, looking just like his dad.....

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material.....not material girl

our quilt group has decided to form a quilt guild.
i am the secretary and so i made a blog.....sewfineinsandy.blogspot.com
we are meeting once a month for different quilting activities and so today was our first official activity day!
we went on a field trip to Christensen Wholesale Fabrics....just happens to be the same company that made amy harmer's fabric.
i don't know what it is about fabric, but i love to go and look at it.....
i love to go to fabric stores......weird, i know!
i am not even that great of a sewer or quilter for that matter, but i love fabric!
i guess you could say i am a "material girl"! haha