Sami's World

With mom gone, Sara is all alone in Fresno. She has friends and she has the ward, but family is always nice to be around. So we’ve arranged that she will come once a month for about 5 days. Her first visit was August 10-14. She came so she could be here for Alix’s birthday and that was nice to have her here. Read the rest of this entry »

Alix celebrated her 9th birthday on August 12. It was such a wonderful day for us all. My sister was here and that helped to make the day even more special for Alix. Scott took Alix and Sara to breakfast. Sara had never been to Google before so it was a wonderful experience for her. She was honored to share Alix’s special time with her. After I picked them up we ran a few last minute errands and then back home. We spent the afternoon getting things ready for the party in the evening. Read the rest of this entry »

Here is the quick rundown of August 2-11:
-Piano that we just laid down money for broke again. Piano guy came back and fixed it for free. Whew!
-Swimming with friends! Yay, thanks Laura and Carrie!
-Beach with friends
-Scott going to the A’s game with the young women
-Bridal Shower for a wonderful young lady. Love you Shanna
-Going away party for a wonderful young man going on his mission. Go Chase!!
-Missionary going away talk for said missionary. Yay Chase!
-FHE with the new bishopric. So fun!
-My sister came to visit
-Activity days for Jaime and Alix

Fun few days. It felt good to be busy again. And yet I missed the calm that came with having nothing scheduled after my mom’s passing.

I’ve decided to rename my blog to Feast or Famine. That seems to be the trend this year. So here we are at a feast. Enjoy while you can for our lives are once again going to explode into a flurry of activity and being able to post will again cease….. Read the rest of this entry »

In case you hadn’t noticed I’ve been avoiding the mom post. Not sure why. I do want events recorded. Perhaps because it’s just so fresh. I dunno. Anyway, a VERY wise friend told me that details are not necessary and if I avoid this any longer then I may stop blogging altogether and that wouldn’t be good either. So here is my Readers Digest version of Sunday July 11- Thursday July 15. Read the rest of this entry »

On Friday July 9, since Scott was going fishing with Afton and Alix, I took the other 4 kids out to Brentwood to visit my friend Erika. We started out by going bowling. That was really fun. Last summer we got bowling passes and bowled almost everyday. This year we didn’t get those passes and so this was our first bowling of the summer. The kids had a good time and it was a good start to the day. Read the rest of this entry »

July 8, 2010 marked the birthday of my oldest child. Jaime is now less than a year away from being in young women’s and frankly that scares me! I think about having a child in young women’s and that confirms to me more and more that I am definitely no longer a “young mother” but more of an “experienced mother”. But as long as I can help it, I’ll continue to act like a young mother!! Read the rest of this entry »

After the Jelly Belly Factory on Tuesday July 6, we did not want to go home. It was still early enough that if we went home we would feel compelled to clean or be productive in some way, so we opted to go somewhere else. There was a brochure at the entrance to the J.B. factory that said Travis AFB was close and there was a free history museum. So we called them and decided to head over. Read the rest of this entry »