Memories!

I saw this on my friend and my sister's blog and it looks like lots of fun, so play along with me!

Here is how:
1. As a comment on my blog, leave one memory that you and I had together. It doesn't matter if you knew me a little or a lot, anything you remember.

2. Next, re-post these instructions on your blog and see how many people leave a memory of you. It's actually pretty funny to see the responses. If you leave a memory about me, I'll assume you're playing the game and I'll come to your blog and leave one about you.

New Callings!

Larry and I were called as team teachers to the Valiant 11 and 12 classes in primary a few months ago. It has been a fun class to teach and I really enjoy the kids. I was also loving that it was something Larry and I could do together. Well, about a month ago they called Larry to be the new Scout Master and said that they were looking in to finding me a new team teacher. I was a little sad that we wouldn't be teaching together anymore, but excited for Larry to be in scouts. He loves scouts and I know he will do an amazing job. I am not too excited about all of his meetings on Sunday mornings cause we have church at nine and he is usually the one who gets up makes breakfast and gets the kids ready while I shower and get ready. I know I am a little spoiled, and I love it! He will also be gone to Scout camp for the weekend of the 24th celebrations in St. Johns :( I was hoping he would be there so we could go to the dance. I love dancing! The kids and I will still probably come and enjoy everything else. . . So, now for my new calling. About two weeks ago the bishop called me in, and I was hoping it was to tell me about my new teaching companion, Wrong! He called me in to ask if I would except a new calling to be the 1st counselor in the Primary Presidency. At first I thought he was kidding, but he said that they prayed about it and felt like it was where the Lord wanted me to be. How can you say no to that? Larry was full of grins the whole time. I even punched him while we were in there. He has always teased me about being called to the Primary or Relief Society presidency. I am so glad it is Primary! Today was my first day and I had to conduct. It wasn't so bad. I think it will help me grow spiritually and get me out of my comfort zone. If any of you have had this calling and have any helpful advice feel free to send it my way.

About Time!

I know, it is about freakin' time that I updated my blog! But seriously if any of you had my children, you would understand! I love them all so much and they are so worth all the crazy days that I go through. . . People tell me to do it when my kids are napping or when they go to bed at night, but Jace doesn't nap and when there is time for just us, meaning Larry and I or Jace and I, I eat it up! Poor Jace is always put on the back burner because Connor requires so much attention. I feel so bad for him especially when all of Connor's therapists come over and bring toys and focus all thier attention on Connor. I can tell they get a little irritated with Jace, cause he just wants to be right in the middle of it. So everyday this is what I hear from Jace. "Hey mom, when connor and sissy go to sleep will you play Shrek with me or will you put Connor and sissy to bed so you can play with me and then we can watch a movie! Oh, I love that kid so much! He is turning 5 this month and will be starting school. I can't believe how quickly time flies. The picture below is one of Jace a few months ago, his cheek got real swollen and I thought that maybe it was because we had popcorn a few nights before and one of the kernals got stuck in his gums. So we just gave him some tylenol and after a few days it went away. Well a couple of weeks after that I noticed he had an absess on his tooth and took him to the dentist. The dentist said he would have to have it pulled, then not even three weeks later he got another absess just above the other one and the dentist said they couldn't save it. I was so mad, I try really hard to make sure there teeth get brushed and taken care of, and all of this was happening. I was so sad, but the dentist said he would be fine and that there was nothing you could do to prevent an absess, which made me not feel like such a crappy mom for not taking better care of his teeth. It doesn't help that both Larry and I have very sensitive teeth. Guess our kids inherited that crap!

Connor is doing a little better. He is still into everything. Every day I have to make sure that my room, the bathroom, laundry room, the pantry and the front door are locked and then I don't have too many problems with him. He still tries to get on top of the counter and throw stuff off about 3-4 times a day. I am not so much worried that he will break something or that there is more for me to clean up as I am of him falling off and hurting himself, cause he has done it a couple of times and luckily he is still ok:) He is so sweet and loving, but man I should be anorexic looking for how much he gets into! The little fart threw my cell phone in the toilet and I lost all my numbers, so if you have a chance call me or text me your number please! He will start school when he turns three and that will be good for both of us I think. I get so stressed worrying about him. It is so nice when Larry is home, I feel like I can relax a little cause he is there to help out.

I took this picture when he was trying to watch Dora in his room and he was a little irritated with me cause I kept trying to get him to look at me and say "cheese!" I was taking it with my cell phone, and couldn't get one where he didn't look part retarded.

Kendall has been crawling everywhere and pulling herself up and walking along things for a couple of months now. It is hard to believe that she will be turning 1 next month. I feel so blessed to have her in my life. If I wasn't already pregnant with her when everything with Connor started happening, she probably wouldn't be here. Heavenly Father must have known I needed her and she has been such a good baby!

My Destroying Angel

I know it has been too long since I have posted anything and I am sorry! It is not that I do not want to, I do and I try several times a week, but my sweet little destroying angel, Connor, makes it a little difficult. Today in the two minutes that my eyes weren't directly on him, he took off his diaper, went onto my washer and dryer and started throwing my laundry detergent on the floor. When I got to him I swatted his bottom and told him to go find his diaper. I was looking for it too, and couldn't find it. He found it and was holding it in front of him trying to put it back on and as I was coming to help him he looked up at me and said, "pee pee pee" then he started peeing all over my kitchen floor and on top of his diaper. So my friends, in order to keep these messes from happening all day, I do not spend much time on the computer. Right now he and Kendall are both asleep and Jace is playing over at the neighboors so I am enjoying the quiet and my time on the computer without interuptions! I am also posting the book tag on this one cause I don't know when I will have free time like this again.

I have been book Tagged by my sister Tiffany. It is her birthday today, Happy Birthday Tiffany I love you and miss you!

Instructions are as follows;
1. Pick up the nearest book (at least 123 pages).
2. Turn to page 123.
3. Find the 5th sentence.
4. Post the 5th sentence on your blog.
5. Tag 5 people.

The book I picked up is Hazardous Duty by Betsy Brannon Green

"The idea of him keeping her safe and warm was strange yet intriguing."
I picked the 4th sentance to post, cause the 5th one is pretty lame.

Tag your it! Anyone who has a desire feel free to do so!

Crazy Life!

OK, for the past 10 months my life has been a little crazy! At the end of last May my husband called me and said,"Ok I've had enough, we are definately moving and we will be gone by the end of June!" So it all started there... We had been thinking and praying about moving to the White mountains and having Larry build homes with his brother Doug and start an Electrical business. I felt good about it but Larry never told me how he really felt so I thought maybe we would eventually, but not until I had Kendall. Wrong! I was shocked when he called and told me we would be moving in a month, but we both felt good about it so we moved. It was hard moving, cause we didn't have a place to stay at first so we moved in with my parents for a few months. I love my parents and I am grateful for thier help, but it is not easy to live with another family!While living with my parents we had our 3rd child, Kendall Rae Chlarson born on 08/06/07 weighing 8lbs. 21 inches long.

This is my cute family getting ready to take me home! Connor was so excited to see his little sister "Doll" that he wouldn't look at the camera. I was so grateful to have my moms help, three kids is a little crazy! I don't think it would be too bad, but my sweet Connor has Global Developmental Delay and Cortical Visual impairment(CVI). He is really imbalanced, falls down all the time, screams a lot and he doesn't talk much. He will only say the beginning of things like Ma and Da for mom and dad, but he has an awesome speech therapist that comes once a week and a physical therapist that comes twice a month. He is getting better, but right now it is his behavior that is driving me insane! I swear, about 2-3 times a day I really want to beat the ish out of this kid, but I don't. With his CVI his brain doesn't always understand or interpret what his eyes see, so he is confused a lot of the time. He is very smart and so sweet when he wants to be. I love him so much, but he is definately my challenge.
I just love his cheesy smile! This is a picture of him on his 2nd birthday.

Jace is my four year old and my big helper. He is such a good big brother. He also loves to do role play as well as play dress up(see previous posts). This past week I have played Velma, Patrick Star, daughter, Fiona, and princess Aurora(sp?) He cracks me up! He was also such a great helper when dad was building our house.

Aren't my boys so cute? Larry looks a little like a mountain man, but still so handsome to me! I am so proud of him, he and Doug did such a great job building our house. Larry loved every minute of doing it too! They let me pick the color of the outside and I was so excited cause I saw some really pretty houses by the Temple that were a light tan with a deep red trim and I loved it so that is what I wanted. As you can see it didn't turn out as I had planned. I loved the way the color samples looked together, but on the house I hate it! It looks like a toy barn and what makes it worse is that they are the same colors as the Jiffy Lube. Not so great. Larry keeps telling me to get over it, but it is kind of hard. We did end up getting a brown color to change the trim and then it won't look as bad. I love the inside and our awesome friends Jon and Rachel Richardson came over and helped us put up all of my decorations. We would just tell our husbands, "no a little to the left, now up a little, right there!" It was fun for us but probably not our men. Thanks Jon and Rachel for all your help!

This is the view of our living room when you walk thru the front door.Then the living room goes into the dining room. You like our table and mismatched chairs? They were free.99 so I'm not complaining!
Then here is the view of the Kitchen from the dining room.
I am loving it! It has been hard being away from my family that is in the valley, but I do like it here. It was just a little crazy getting here. We moved to my parents when I had 5 weeks left of my pregnancy. We were trying to get answers about Connor, then I had our baby, then we moved again in November to a trailor of my Grandma's, it was like 20 years old, but it was a place of our own until our house was done and we were able to move into it in the beginning of Feb. Now I finally feel settled. We are so grateful for all of the love, support, and prayers from family and friends! Thank you all!

TAGGED!

I've been tagged by Alyse.

The rules of the game:
1. Each player answers the questions about themselves.
2. At the end of the post, the player then tags 5 people and posts their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know they have been tagged and asking them to read your blog.

Let it begin...

How long have you and your husband been together? About six and a half years.

How long did you date? Almost a year. We probably would have been married sooner, but I had to finish high school first.

Who eats more? I would have to say that I do, especially when I am pregnant or breastfeeding, And haven't been pregnant or breastfeeding for maybe a total of 6-8 months out of our whole marriage.

Who said I love you first? He did, but in Tagalog(the language they speak in the Philippines). I had asked him to say something to me in Tagalog cause I loved to hear him talk in his foreign language. I didn't understand anything he said but, "Mahal Kita" which means I love you.

Who pays the bills? I do, Larry forgets everything so I took on that responsibility.

Who cooks dinner? One of us usually does it while the other watches the kids, but we try to fix it together. It is fun and gets done faster.

Who is more stubborn? Definitely Me! Nothing bothers Larry, Nothing!

Who kissed who first? He kissed me first, but ask him if he remembers it. He kissed me after we got in a wreck and couldn't remember much. I didn't care though, I had been waiting to kiss him since I was twelve! I like to tease him about it and say that he doesn't remember our first kiss and he will say,"I do to, it was kind of like a dream though, but I remember enough to know that I wanted to kiss you again."

Who is more sensitive? That would be me. I am such a baby, and like I said before, nothing bothers Larry.

Who wears the pants? I think we are equal partners in that category

What was I doing 10 years ago? Lets see...10 years ago I would have been in the 8th grade and wondering when I was going to get my first kiss. Most of my other friends had already had theirs and I was feeling a little out of the loop!

What snacks do I enjoy? I really like Cherry Pepsi, bran muffins, sweet and salty chex mix, and the Spicy Spitz sunflower seeds.

What would I do if I were suddenly a billionaire? I would definitely never have to stress about finances any more, and neither would the people I love! I would make sure that my family was taken care of, and then do all the things I have ever dreamed of doing with my family each year.

3 bad habits.

1. I always let our laundry get out of hand. I will do it really good one day, doing like 6-7 loads. I get in the groove of it and think this isn't bad, I can get caught up and then just do 1-2 loads a day, but I never do. I don't do it for another 3-4 days. It is crazy I know! If I would just do the 1-2 loads a day I wouldn't have this problem.


2. If I find a good book to read I will stay up late and read it until I can't keep my eyes open anymore, go to sleep and wake up regretting not going to bed earlier, but then do the same thing again the next night. I do that until the book is done and then I can finally get some good sleep cause I won't be so anxious to see what's going to happen next.


3. I pick at my face a lot! This is my worst habit.

5 things people don't know about me.

1. I am a very picky eater, but I have gotten much better since I have been married.
2. I am totally for plastic surgery!
3. I love to dance! One day I will become a professional ballroom dancer!
4. I love the sound of a heart beating, especially my children's.
5. I married the person I had had a crush on since I was twelve! I even wrote stuff in my journal about how much I liked him then.

I now tag Amy, Nicole, Tiffany, Ashlee, and Taytum... Your Turn!

This last weekend(March 6-8) was a real memorable one for me, not only did my little brother Reilly get married, but Kendall(7 months old) got her first hair cut and her ears pierced. I had been wanting to cut her hair for a while, but was afraid and thought it was too soon. She has some pretty wonky hair. It was short on one side and really long on the other. She had long hair on top so I would try and put it up and make it look cute, but her hair kept braking off and her little pony kept getting thinner and thinner. Tiffany convinced me that it was time to cut it so we buzzed her hair with the clippers to make it all one length and then made some cute head bands for her. I love it and think she is so flippin cute. Thanks Tiff! Also a thanks to Nicole, Savannah, Shayde, and Tiffany for going with me and getting her ears pierced. Aunt Nicole held her while they did it so I didn't have to be the bad guy. It was a fun filled weekend and I had so much fun being with my family. Here are some pics of Kendall before and after, and of Reilly's wedding.

You can't really tell from this angle that we cut her hair, but I could never put one of these on her before without it looking retarded.

Don't they look cute together?

The old Megan Price and The new Megan Price. Isn't she cute?