WOW REALLY?!?!?!?

So, I just realized that life is INSANE, and I have not even been ON here for a year. LOTS has happened in that year!

First things first, we are all good, the kids are growing up quick!

Now for the highlights(low-lights?)

Thom and I am in the middle of a divorce, since April. Yeah, it sucks! But, we will see what the future holds for us. We are focused on being friends right now for the kids' sake. I know this will come as NO surprise to most of you. But I have anger, and control issues. Thom finally got sick of it, and left me. I am in counseling and hoping for good things:-)

We(Thom) finally got approved for our house. It's been almost 3 years in the making, but hopefully before Christmas is will be signed, sealed, and delivered!

Kaiden got the starting QB position this year. VERY proud of him!! But he broke his wrist playing in the second play of the first scrimmage of the season, so he had to sit out the whole season, totally a bummer! But now, 9 weeks later he is FINALLY out of the cast and cleared for football.

Due to medical reasons I had a hysterectomy this past Monday. Being a single mom to 5, I did not have much down time, but I am recovering alright.

Well, I think that is about it, yeah we are pretty boring:-) Hopefully it will not be a year next time!

Thanksgiving 2010

We went to Salt Lake for Thanksgiving this year. We had a wonderful time visiting family and friends. But I want to make a couple points before you look! 1st: No, Katalin is no longer with us, so I did not 'leave her out'. 2nd: Kayla had the camera 98% of the time. 3rd: These pictures are in no particular order!

I WAS ABLE TO SPEND SOME TIME WITH MY BEST FRIEND FROM BACK IN THE DAY, WE HAVE BEEN BEST FRIENDS FOR 20 YEARS NOW! SHEESH, WE'S GETTIN OLD!

THE BOYS ENTERTAINING THEMSELVES, WHILE THE GIRLS CHATTED

WE ARE STARVING, CAN WE GO EAT YET!

OH AND AUNTIE TOOK RY SHOPPING FOR HER BIRTHDAY, IT WAS WAY FUN!

WE WENT DOWNTOWN TO TEMPLE SQUARE TO CHEKC OUT THE LIGHTS ON FRIDAY THE NIGHT AFTER THANKSGIVING. IT WAS COLD, BUT WE HAD FUN!

WE TOOK THE "CHOO CHOO" DOWN (TRAX)

NOT SURE?????

TONY AND NICOLE CAME OVER WITH AUNT DEBBIE:-)

AND RICK AND ANNE AND THE KIDS:-)

THIS ONE BELONGS UP IN THE TEMPLE SQUARE OUTING SECTION.

AUNT DEBIE MOVED BACK FROM ALASKA, YAY, YAY, YAY!!!!!! SO SHE GOT A PICTURE WITH TWO OF HER BROTHERS, MY DADDY, AND UNCLE DENNIS!

THE GROUP THAT WAS OVER THE DAY AFTER THANKSGIVING

ALL THE BOY COUSINS COCOONED THEMSELVES DOWNSTAIRS TO PLAY VIDEO GAMES.

SNOW DAY! WE ESCAPED THE HECTIC THANKSGIVING KITHCEN AND TOOK ALL THE KIDS TO THE PARK TO PLAY IN THE SNOW FROM THE "BLIZZARD OF THE CENTURY" EAH IT WAS NOT THAT GREAT! BUT THE SNOW WAS FUN TO PLAY IN, I HAD TONS OF PICTURES OF ALL THE KIDS PLAYING IN THE SNOW (EVEN THE BIG KIDS), BUT SOMEHOW BY THE TIME I GOT HOME, THERE WAS ONLY LEFT:( I WAS SOOOO BUMMED! BUT THIS IS A CUTE PIC SO ITS OKAY:-)

THE PIE HELPERS??????

THE BEAUTIFUL VIEWS FROM MIKE'S KITCHEN

MY BEAUTIFUL BLESSINGS!!!!

Our Newest Addition.

Okay so it has been MONTHS, but if you spent even one hour in my life, you would understand that I have NO TIME to do ANYTHING! So here is a very delayed, short posting. We decided to host a foriegn exchange student. We used the company AYUSA, which is the best, well I work for them so i have to say that huh?:-) But no, we checked around and felt this one was the best. Our new daughter, Katalin, arrived the last day of July. And things have been crazy ever since:) She is 17, and she is from the Netherlands, Holland. It has been quite an adjustment, for all of us. The first week she was here, we also had about 22 missionaries from Oklahoma visiting, that Thom and I were 'in charge' of. So her first week here she was thrown right into our chaotic life. But she did real well. Here are some pictures of her and some of our new Oklahoma friends, from our trip to Zion.

KATALIN, LAUREN, LAYNA (L to R, friends fromOK) at Zion
KATALIN ON THE TOP OF ANGELS LANDING IN ZION

JENN, LAUREN, LAYNA, KATALIN, SHANA (the girls before we headed up Angels Landing)

Soccer~~~~2010

Kayla, Ry and Nic played soccer this Spring. They loved it and I gotta say Nic and Ry were AMAZING! Kayla was good also, put her personality got in the way, she is timid and does like like to get all up in your face, which is VERY good in life, but not so much on a sports field. But Nic and Ry have no issues getting aggressive and all up in your face, LOL. These are not teh best pictures, they are just a quick snap shot before or after a game, cause my "sports" control on my camera, is RETARDED. Also due to my hectic work schedule, thye missed about half their games, so that was a bummer, all three even missed their last game, so they did not get their team pics, or their trophies:-(

CRAZY HAIR DAY~DR SUESS WEEK~2010

My Life as told by a columnist in the Spectrum

I saw this article and it made me laugh and think of my life (was she watching me as she wrote this????)

St. George Spectrum & Daily News

People often ask how I come up with ideas for my column every week. My answer is the same each time. I get my ideas from life...from grand events to something as insignificant as a word said in a conversation. Yesterday, life took me on a shopping trip to the grocery store, five rambunctious kids in tow, so here you have the metaphorical fruit of that trip. (The literal fruit is in the fridge).



Shopping with five kids under the age of ten is... There are so many obvious and obligatory endings to that sentence. Chaos? Pandemonium? Never boring? Good exercise? Grounds for a police action? It's an adventure, anyway. Let the record show that I have five kids. I planned to have five kids, and I'm happy to have five kids. I wouldn't trade them for the world. I just thought by the time I had five, I'd be rich and famous and have a crack team of personal assistants to do all my shopping for me.To illustrate: Shopping trips tend to follow the same pattern. I write a menu and a list, getting valuable feedback like, "McDonald's!" and "Candy!" from the kids. I remind everyone to make their last minute trips to the bathroom and we're off.Once we've reached the parking lot, it's time for a quick going over of the Wilson Family rules of shopping. 1) Stay together. 2) No begging. 3) No whining. 4) No lying down on the floor and refusing to move. 6) No smacking your sister with pilfered fruit from the cart. 7) If you have money for vending machines, you can spend it AFTER we're ALL finished. 8) If you don't have money, you should get a job...no, I don't care that you're only 4.And then we're off...or more appropriately, THEY'RE off. Two seconds after hearing the vending machine rule, my kids scatter for the vending machines until I haul them back to the cart. We then proceed down the aisles, five little voices begging and whining for this cereal and that fruit snack. At some point, someone is on the the floor, refusing to move. It's not long before a wayward piece of fruit is sailing toward someone's head.Just when I feel like I'm getting things under control, one of them starts the dance. You know the one. Legs crossed, hopping from one foot to the next, dancing along to the beat of, "Gotta go potteeeeeeeeeee!" And like a rapidly incubating strain of some foreign plague, it spreads until every non diaper wearing Wilson is in an extreme state of bladder distress. On a good day, we finish in under three hours, I manage to keep all the kids in the same checkout lane, and we get home with everything we've purchased. In the non summer months when the pavement isn't capable of searing my lips right off my face, I kiss the ground in front of my home and praise the Lord above that I have another two weeks before I have to do it again.That's about the time I realize I forgot to buy the light bulbs.

FALL PHOTOS 2009

THE LIGHTING ID HORRIBLE ON THIS PICTURE, BUT IT IS ONE OF MY FAVORITES!