Cute Kids

Sunday the kids looked so cute in their church clothes. When did my babies turn into kids?


This is from Tuesday when Cousin Jacob stayed for a sleep over

My Week

This week went from Monday to Friday in a crazy blur. In an effort to doccument a week in the life of the Dockstaders, I present the following:

Monday:
Awake up feed and dress everyone.
8:00-9:30 Neglect my children and do reading for Geography class
9:30-10:30 Get ready for a trip into town. (Yes we have to pack to go to Fresno)
10:30-11:00 Drive to Clovis Target
11:00-12:00 Meet up with my sister Sami and shop at Target
12:00-12:45 Get kids lunch and settled with Sam so I can go to dentist
12:45-1:15 Go to destist office
1:15 Get teeth cleaned
Stop by shop on the way back to pick up kids
Lost track of time
Pick up kids and Sami
Costco Shopping
drop of Sami
Drive home
Make dinner
Eat dinner
Get ready for school
6:00-8:00 Geography class
8:00-? Wal-Mart for Milk and other stuff I can't remember
Home to talk with Dean for a couple of minutes
Shower
Bed

Tuesday:
6:15 Wake up get ready
7:15 Wake kids up and get ready
8:10 Drop Carter off at Amy's house
8:20-11:30 Work in Abby's class
11:40 Pick up Carter
Noonish Lunch
Carter's Nap time. I have no memory of what Abby and I did
3:00 Carter up from nap. Snack time
3:30 Head into town
4:00-5:00 Grocery shop
5:00 Pick up nephew Jacob
Home
Dinner
Bathtime
Kids bedtime
Mommy bedtime

Wednesday:
6:00-7:00 Sleep on the floor with Jacob
7:00-8:00 Feed and dress kids
8:00-9:30 Poke around the house and get stuff ready to go to park day
9:30-11:30 Park
Head home
Noonish. Lunch.
Chat with Rachel and do dishes (First mention of housework. I am sure you can imagine what my house looks like)
Can't remember what I did until I started dinner
Dinner chicken and avacado quesadillas
Shower
Bed (I went to bed pretty early. I have been fighting an ear ache and daily headaches.)

Thursday:
6:15 Wake up get ready
7:15 Wake kids up and get ready
8:10 Drop Carter off at Amy's house
8:20-11:30 Work in Abby's class
11:40 Pick up Carter
Noonish Lunch
Carter's Nap time. Write abstract for Geography class. (There may have been some mommy nap time in there.
2:00 Carter up from nap. Snack time
Wash the car and vacuum out
housework
Dinner
Put kids to bed
TV with Dean and fold laundry
Mommy bedtime

Friday:

7:00ish Everyone up, breakfast, dressed
8:OO Shop for clothes for everyone online. (Found some cute rainboots for Abby at the Gap.)
10:00 Make phone calls. (This such a big deal with with two noisy children.)
10:45 Clean room
11:30 lunch
12:00 Carter's naptime. Start blogging. Shower.
1:00 Power went out.
2:00 fix hair
2:20 Snack time. Finish blog

Rest of the day:
Head into town
Shop for halloween costume for Carter
dinner
Our ward's turn to host youth musical at stake center until 8:30ish

Saturday:
Prop 8 in the morning
shoping in the afternoon
maybe something fun in the evening

Well, this doesn't have what Dean did this week. He works and goes to school. He also helps around the house. He watches the kids while I go to school. Well i'm off to the next adventure.

My Birthday Weekend

I had a really nice weekend. Friday night we had a barbecue with my family. Dean made us some tasty burgers. After that we had some yummy strawberry pizza thanks to Sam and Eddie's Bakery.

I got some really nice gifts from my family. I am kind of a nerd so most of what I wanted was cleaning supplies.




Dean also gave me my gifts that night. One of them being this sweet ride.


So the next day we took the kids to my moms and we went for a bike ride. It was a lot of fun. I didn't make it very far being that I haven't been on a bike for more than 15 years.

After our bike ride we went to California Pizza Kitchen and had a good lunch.

After lunch we did a little shopping. We were pretty tired after that so we picked up the kids put them to bed and vegged out with some Panda Express and a movie.

Sunday we went to visit Dean's family. Wendy made a super fabulous chocolate sheet cake. (Pretty much heaven in a pan.) She gave me a nice card with a gift card to Gottschalks.

Thank you everyone.

Big Fresno Fair

Friday, October 3rd my mom, Sister Sam, Sister Rachel, Nephew Jacob, the kids and I went to the Fair.

Firsts things first. FOOD.


The giant corn dog was a hit.


We also enjoyed a yummy cinamon roll on the way out.

The kids also enjoyed a ride. Abby was a little leary of the roller coaster at first, but she really wanted to do it.


The boys really enjoyed their ride. . .


. . .until it started


The boys did fine for about the first two go arounds then it went sour. The carnival worker had to stop the ride to let the boys out.

After the rides we headed to see some exhibits.

Abby looking at bees


Carter checking out some chicks in Agventure Land


Abby on a tractor tricycle


Carter playing in beans.

Thou Shalt Blog

Proposition 8 is to overturn the decision that 4 judges made to allow same gender marriage in California. The state already voted and 61% of us previously decided that marriage is only between a man and a woman.

Soooo, November 4th we have a chance to vote again to define in our state constitution that marriage is between a man and a woman.

We need to support this. When my children to go school I do not want to have their teachers telling them that same sex marriage is the same as traditional marriage.

I don't have anything againts homosexuals. I try to love all of gods children. I believe that the family is ordained of God. Marriage between man and woman is essential to His eternal plan. Children are entitled to birth within the bonds of matrimony, and to be reared by a father and a mother.

So if you live in California make sure you are registered to vote and that you vote YES ON PROP 8.

If you don't live in California you can go to www.protectmarriage.com and help financially. If this passes in California your state could be next.