Double Friday

On Fridays I work a double shift. It sucks! (I use that word alot, sorry Mom and anyone else who doesnt like it) Anyways, I get to work at 4:45 a.m and I just got home. 9:50 pm. I got a half hr break. Fun right? What 16 some odd hours. If im off its cause im seeing double im so tired. Hello Valium, and Goodnight. (Anyone who has done this, you are superman...anyone that has to do it, you also rock, and anyone that is lucky enough not to....count your many blessing name them one be one......you know the rest. Love you all nighty night!)

The New Place

Well all, we are settling in fine. It is a much better place and the vibe is awesome, and not trashy:) Ok, so it is an old house in the historic district (a couple blocks from the Tabernacle) so it dosent have some of the newer things. Namely a DISHWASHER!!!!!!! This sucks rocks! With a family of 5 are you kidding me!? Anyone who knows me or has lived with me, knows I dont do dishes when I have a washer, now this! KILL ME NOW! Well I have tried to be very diligent in doing them at night so I can stay all caught up, but honestly, it's only a mtter of time till it gets so bad that I have no counter space. We all know that is what is going to happen. At least I can admit it. You know that is the first step.

Moving is not fun!

That pretty much says it all. Moving 8 years worth of crap and 3 kids worth of toys etc, is horrid! I suckered a couple of family members...(cough, cough, dad and Page) to come help...hee hee! They didn't have any idea what they were getting into:) Well, wish me luck, this BITES!!!

Taylor and Amanda's Princess

Ok, since Amanda has yet to be a blogger, I will tell those that don't know yet. My baby brother had his first baby. She was born on September 11th at I believe 7:38 pm.(Page or Kait can correct me if i am wrong) She weighed in a a whopping 8'11! Amanda is a tough chick! Her name is Victoria Abcde Goodrich. They are calling her Abby. Yes Abcde, sound it out. She is BEAUTIFUL! All I have are pictures on my phone, so until I see her, I will nag page and Kait to take one and post it! Ok people it is 10:35 and I have to be up at 4 for work, so nighty-night!

Please look down!

I started a post a couple days ago, and saved it as a draft to finish it later...so it is a new one but under the one "Because of Page". Please read it.

Because of Page

In light of her recent post, and my irritation towards the left, I feel the need to tell you my fantastic joke that got me on TALK RADIO with SEAN HANNITY! It also scored me 10 tickets to his fantastic Obama-sucks-a-thon. It was for a good cause mind you. Proceeds were donated to a scholarship fund for the children of fallen soldiers. ( according to the left we are anti-American..how horrible of us to raise money for them). Anyways My mom, dad, 3 of their neighbors, my dad;s pal, Kaitlyn, Devin, me, and my lovely date Ross went. (Sorry sis of Ross, she went, and I think she liked it:) Okay here it goes.... If Obama and Biden were on a sinking ship, who would be saved? .........AMERICA!!!!! Sorry it's true. Cant wait till Wednesday when I can post and share all my awesome pictures of the event. Love to you all, your very Republican, Conservative, friend or family member!-Ash

My morning at Indian Hills and Gubler Lane

17 days ago on August 27th, 2009 I had a morning that I will never forget. Like most of my mornings my alarm went off at 4:10. Of course I ignored it till 4:35. Just enough time to get dressed, write the kids a note, find my keys, and since I didn't want to stink I washed my face and underarms. Now I was late. The clock said 10 mins. till 5. It takes 15 minutes to get to work. I was going to be late. Out the driveway and down the road I went. We live next to alot of farm land that hugs the side of the mountain so the road was twisty-turnie.
So on my way in the darkness, am following about 8 cars. All of a sudden I see white. In the farmer canal ditch thing, turned completely on its passenger side was a white car. All the lights out. All cars ahead of me had passed it with out even a push on their brakes. I figured it probably had been there a while and all was well so I also continued on. Do you ever battle your own mind? Or the Spirit as the case may be? Well that is what happened. For the next 1/4 of a mile this is what it sounded like. GO BACK AND CHECK. NO I CANT I AM SOO LATE FOR WORK. GO BACK JUST TO MAKE SURE. NO! LIGHTS WERE OUT, I WOULD FEEL STUPID IF NO ONE WAS THERE. GO BACK AND CHECK! OK I WILL GO BACK AND CHECK!
So after I made an 8 point turn in the middle of no where I headed back. (Sorry this is starting to sound like a book) I passed 3 more cars on the way back who had obviously done the same as I had. So I parked cockeyed next to this mailbox. Have in the driveway to this old farm and half in the road. Headlights pointed downward hoping to see something. It was so dark. The windows of the car were so dusty. With the power of the lights I saw that the drivers seatbelt was undone and everything was good. So I was about to leave when the battle continued. CALL 911. SORRY NOT GONNA DO IT. IF EVERYTHING ID FINE HOW STUPID AM I GOING TO LOOK. CALL 911! HOW EMBARRASSING, NO! CALL 911! FINE I WILL CALL. 9-1-1. Blah Blah hello this is 911....Hi, my name is Ashley, I'm sorry to call but I thought I need to. There is a car overturned and I dont know if anyone is in it. I am sorry if this is wasting your time but I had to call. She said not to worry and that they would need to know anyway. She asked me to wait. I was really late for work by now. So I walked around in the dark, trying to see any sign of anything.
The officer came. I told him what I knew. Not much. He asked me to walk with him down this little hill to look in the other window. It was the passenger side. Only about6 inches where visible the rest was in the ditch. Back window ...nothing. He was radioing that everything was clear, when he asked me to hold the flashlight. As we made the hand off we saw hair. We were both pounding on the window when a head turned. Very bloody. He told me to talk to her and hold the flash light while he called for e.r services. While he was at the cruiser I sat there. Indian style in the dirt. Leaning almost to the ground where her head was. He yelled to me to ask if her name was Loretta. I asked. Her eyes got huge. I told him yes. We had grabbed the windshield and tore a chunk of the glass off so she could hear me. Her eyes kept rolling to the back of her head. I just kept saying "Loretta sweetie I need you to keep your eyes open" she couldn't talk , couldn't move. Blinked slow. For about 5 minutes, which seemed like forever I repeated myself. And her eyes would come forward again. The ambulance finally arrived. After I was given a form to fill out, I was told I could leave. They were going to have to cut her out. She had been the driver, not seat belted. So when the car went over, she flew to the other side of the car. Thus her bloody head against the opposite window. I left 45 mins late for work and sobbing. Why did I pass her the first time? Why did everybody else? Why didn't I listen? Could I have done anything else? On the 3rd picture you can see that the drive way had stopped her car. The hood was half way in it. The green cable box had been taken out. When I went back to take some pictures I walked back down the hill and saw tons of broken glass and alcohol wipe packets. I just sat there and cried. ANYWAYS....so I went to work and got caught up, but my mind was on Loretta. I went on my lunch break at 8:15 to go get Jackson and take him to school. While driving I decided to call the E.R and see if they would tell me anything. All they said was that no kin had been located, and she had been life-flighted to Salt Lake with numerous neck fractures. I left my name and # so that I could be reached. Nothing yet. I hope to find her, or her to find me. Hope she is alive. Hope I helped. Moral of the story, Hymn #143 "Let the Holy Spirit Guide."

Daddy!

As some of you know, the jobs in Southern Utah are hard to find, especially with insurance. Rich has always had back problems (breaking his tailbone a couple times, among many other things) His back was getting worse so we made the decision to have me go back to work, and him be stay at home daddy. We were all wondering how it would work out. He wasent used to staying home, and I wasent used to working. But it is what it is. I got a job with benefits, so we could fix him and he could go back to work.
After we put the big kids to bed, I caught him and Killi sharing marshmallows from the bag of lucky charms on the stairs. 8:30, and he was sugaring her up, I wonder what I don't see during the day! :)
Liv gets so worn out that she crashes hard. Her she is sleeping like she usually does. Like her Aunt Page. We have photograpic evidence Page did this all the time. Love it!
You buy them toys, they want to play in boxes. Apparently tired and naked as usual, Liv fell asleep in her box.
Killi is good at falling asleep in crazy places too! A couple months ago she was found in the laundry room asleep cuddled in dirty clothes. GROSS! I couldnt find her for a while and was losing it. ZZZZZZZ. Here she was found in her room by her bed. She loves Liv's bike helmet. I guess it is comfy. Anyways , moral of the story is: Rich has realy grown into the role of stay at home dad. Neither one of us is getting comfortable with it completly, because we want it back to normal, but for now...It is what it is, and it works!

Jacksons 7th Biirthday!

For Jackson's birthday (June 24th) Grandma came into town. Jackson decided that instead of a party, he would take one friend to lunch, his choice.
He chose Golden Coral, his very FAVORITE place.......getting sick of it, say the parents! We came home with full bellies, and what better to do in the 110 degree heat......? Slip and slide!
Cutie Killi, makes us melt!
Jackson, Eddie, Olivia, Killian, and Dad. Trying to get them to hold still for a picture is like nailing jello to the wall!
COLD WATER!
Just another cute picture of droopy drawers. We had a great time. Thanks mom for bringing the slip in slide! Happy Birthday Jackson Lee!

Jackson Man

Well my little man is getting so big! This is Jackson and his 1st grade teacher, Miss Gardner. She was a great teacher! He had so much fun, and was very sad to leave her class. My baby is going to be in 2nd grade! Sniff sniff!
What a good boy he is. He is now 7, and becoming very responsible and protective of his sisters. I hope it lasts through their teen years! He has some new hobbies, one of which is writing songs. I think it is adorable! He will write them , then ask Rich to play them on the guitar.
The first draft of the Jackson song....
And the final one. I love the "done" at the end. Oh, he is my special guy!

Sick days SUCK!

So not many people know, but I am currently working. In Southern Utah there are no construction jobs to be found. (So while we are looking for something up North) Rich is at home daddy and I am working at a care and rehab center. As much as I love it, I hate it. Especially when all 3 of my babies have a fever over 102, and I have to leave them. Liv is the worst. With her tiny body, it hits her hard. She is only 3 lbs heavier than Killian ( who is 2 years younger. ) Scares me. So it has been fun. Lots of boogies, Tylenol, Advil, Robo, and rolls and rolls of toilet paper. No puking yet...YEAH! Knock on wood. So hope all is well with everyone else. Just checked Liv, 103.4. Sweet! Gonna be a long night! P.S I am working on getting some new pictures, but my camera is in a coma. Hope it comes out soon:)

The Greatest Performer of ALL Time!

Wish I knew how to post pictures from the internet, but I haven't learned how yet. Otherwise there would be a huge picture of Michael Jackson slapped on the front of this post! Think what you want of the man....but I love him!! I am a purchaser of every ringtone, album, and 2 disc special edition CD/DVD of this man. How sad for his family, and the world. What a relief for him, now people will leave him alone. Beat It!

People who don't do tags are mean.

Not really, I am just pouting because I rarely do them, and no one has thrown me a bone. I get you guys have lives, I cant help it that I don't. I hereby ban looking at all blogs! (totally not true, I am an addict:)...I just updated this 5 minutes after I posted it. Kaitlyn is the best. :)> to the rest :)

I promised I would do this tag.....

Erica tagged me so here goes.

Here are the rules: 1) Post rules on your blog 2)Answer the six "8" items

8 Favorite Shows:
1. Dr. Phil
2. Young and the Restless (mom's fault)
3. Jon and Kate plus 8
5. Anything on food network
6. Law and order SVU
7. Hannity...shocking huh?
8. Dirty Jobs

8 Things I Did Yesterday:
1. Passed a kidney stone...only took 3 days!
2. Stopped taking pain killers for my kidney stone
3. Talked to my mother in law for the first time in almost 4 years
4. Scrubbed my tile at 10 pm (the only time 6 little feet aren't around)
5. Called Page approx 14 times
6. Did 7 loads of laundry
7. Took out the stinky diaper pail
8. drugged a kid(with tylenol, calm down) who is cutting 3 molars

8 Things I'm Looking Forward To:
1. Money
2. Jobs
3. Money
4. Jobs
5. No more diapers
6. A house cleaning fairy
7. Money/Jobs
8.The second coming

8 Favorite Restaurants:
1. Wingers
2.Olive Garden
3. My kitchen...actually mine
4. Wagon Wheel
5. Weinerschnitzel (all beef Kraut dog on a pretzel bun...drool!)
6. Macaroni Grill
7. Rio's seafood buffet(rarely visited, the price went up to I think 42 bucks a person)
8.Ma and pop's....they make the best fajitas

8 Things On My Wish List:
1. Money
2.A job
3. Another child, without the fear of the d word
4.to teach Page to cook
5. Keep my family going the right direction
6. Christ to come
7. My mom and dad to win the lottery (they say you have to enter first:)
8.People to actually do this tag

8 People I Tag:
1. Page
2. Kait
3. Steph
4. Torrie
5. Jenna
6. Bossy
7. Les
8. Ashley

I WAS ON!!!!!

I am so pumped! I got on the Sean Hannity show.. those who don't listen to a.m radio would not get it ....but for those that do.......AAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!! To top it all off I got 10 free tickets to the freedom concert in Vegas! This show, and pretty much the whole tour is sold out, so I dont want to toot my own horn but...TOOT TOOT!!!!! Biddings for the extra tickets start at 2 lbs of chocolate. Kidding!

HANNITY!!!!

For anyone who gives a crap, I am going to be on "Sean Hannity's" radio show tomorrow. Kaitlyn texted me a joke that I thought was so hilarious and Sean just had to hear it. Here it goes: President Obama and Joe Biden are on a sinking ship, who would be saved?....AMERICA!!!! Whatever you lefty's out there, it's funny and you know it!

Yep, it's been that long!

8 years ago yesterday, Rich and I were married in the St. George temple. It's been a long, and hard road....but totally worth it! 3 kids (*cough, cough and 30 lbs for me) later, here we are. In St. George. We never stay in one place long, so we'll see what happens from here!

Summer is here!

While friends are awesome....friends who have this fun toy in the summer...they are awesome-er! My list of must-do's was a whole page long, but instead my friend Steph invited us to do this!
I dont have a lot to say about it, except for 2 hours I did not need to entertain. They wanted nothing to do with me. Which was good because I got to visit!
Up she comes......down he goes!
Jackson was into it from the beginning, but Livi was a little dainty and it took her a couple minutes.
Just being cute.
They sunbathed to warm up every once in a while.
This was hilarious! I wanted a picture with them going down the same time....but instead of going up the climbing wall, she wanted Jackson to help her up.
It didn't work. About 15 times.
Down they would come.
Finally I got a couple good ones.
Woo-hoo! At the top the same time!!!!
Steph found this nest in her tree a couple weeks ago, so of course the kids needed to take a peek!
There is my cute little hostess....drum roll.....STEPH!
And for all you infomertial freaks, there she is with her topsy-turvey! Anyways we had tons of fun, and shockingly enough she wants us to come back next week! Killi will come next time, I think she would have loads of fun! Happy Summer!!

It's a GIRL!!

No you sick-o's not for me! Taylor just sent out his World Wide text to announce the sex of his baby. A GIRL!!!! So since Amanda and Taylor don't post (don't worry Page will get to them) I get to be the loud mouth of the family. We all know what a stretch that is...... anyways, Congratulations TAYLOR and AMANDA!!! Cant wait to see the little girl, coming in September.

Am I nuts?

Has anyone else just wanted to breakdown and cry? Wondering if it was just me?

Just because

Rich was cleaning upstairs, when he noticed Killi had grabbed his hat off the desk and put it on. She of course was jamming to dad's music. Rich is a sucker for his kids and especially taking pictures of them. So he quickly snapped this adorable girl's picture.

The First Game

Well here it is. The first official game, of our first official "sport", of my first child. What a milestone! Ish. Anyways, so we were running behind (shocking, I know) half way there Jackson realizes that he forgot his hat. As I recall it...."moooooommmmm I'll be so embarrassed if I am the only one without a hat, do you want me look dumb? Come on.....(moans continue throughout) please, I need it". So we were almost there. I drop him and Rich off at the front, and race home. 15 minutes there. Grab the hat. 15 minutes back. Half the game missed. I missed his first hit.
Rich got a couple cute pictures. Next time I will have the camera so you might actually see his face next time. Please enjoy the chain-link fence in the upper left. His coaches kept trying to get him to bat right, but my talented little stud, being what he is, kept left and hit them like a mad man! I must say it wasent as boring as I thought it would be. This is the youngest group that plays so it was actually very amusing. They would hit and not realize they had to run. Some danced in the outfield, while others had to be pushed off a base to make them run to the next. It was awesome! GOOD JOB JACKSON! And as he is telling everyone that will listen..."I didnt even get tagged!"

Jackson is AWESOME!

Jackson has been doing great in school. His teacher decided to move him from the regular spelling group to the advanced group. The first 3 weeks were not good at all. So bad that the teacher was going to put him back to the "orange group". He was very discouraged after the 3rd bad test because we had practiced like crazy. So I went and talked to his teacher and turns out he just gets really nervous. (gets it from his mom) Well after the last Friday coming home with tears in his eyes, we practiced again like crazy. And drumroll please.............100%!! Way to go Jackson!
To get Liv to stay out of his picture I told her I would take one of her. So there it is. Cute as a button and naked as usual. Can't get the kid to stay dressed!

T-Ball

What a good lookin' kid I have! Today was his first day of T-ball. Besides swimming lessons, this is the first sport he has officially played. He was so excited!
He wanted a lot of pictures taken because Rich was working and he wanted to show his dad how he looked.
But where ever there is a camera, there is Liv. I had to fight her to get a picture without her in it. So after a couple alone, in she came.
She wanted to pose like Jackson did for all of his pictures. Killi would not accept being left out.
Practice was fun, but at first I did not know if we were at the right field. I thought that we were at the younger kids practice. Besides Jacksons best buddy, he towered over all the little ones.
And there they are, the crazy 2! Jacob and Jackson! Lets take a moment to pity their teacher. 2 years in a row they have been able to be in the same class. They are even like 12 year old girls....they like talking on the phone....ALOT!

Another tag...do it, or just think about it!

Rules: It's harder than it looks! Copy to your own note, erase my answers, and enter yours. Use the first letter of your name to answer each of the following questions. They have to be real, nothing made up! If the person before you had the same first initial, you must use different answers. You must put the first answer that comes to mind! You cannot use any word twice and you can't use your name twice for the boy/girl name one
1. What is your name: Ashley
2. A four Letter Word: Acts
3. A boy's Name: Adam
4. A girl's Name: Amanda
5. An occupation: Air traffic controller
6. A color: Aquamarine
7. Something you wear: Anklet
8. A food: Anchovies
9. Something found in the bathroom: Asprin
10. A place: Amazon
11. A reason for being late:Alarm did not go off
12. Something you shout: Ahh crap
13. A movie title:Apollo 13
14. Something you drink: Apple juice
15. A musical group: ABBA
16. An animal: Antelope
I tag anyone that is bored enough to do this....why name names, no one did it last time...EXCEPT you Kait! So there we go. I tag Kaitle.

Pay it forward

"You know how it goes: Be one of the first 3 people to leave a comment on this post and you'll receive something handmade from me sometime in the next year. But there is a catch. You have to do the same thing on your blog, so if you don't have a blog too bad for you!"

I was a top three in Torries so I best not let her down. Hey people you remember if you claim one of the three....I better see this on your blog!! On your mark, get set, GO!

A "Nothing that great to say" Update

Just a couple cute pictures that I wanted to get out. We went to vegas for a couple days last week. It was Sydney and Holden's baby blessings so it was super fun. Anywho- Rich, mom, and I took my kids plus Connor to the M&M factory. Super fun, but glad it is over:)
Liv wanted to love on the characters but Jackson wanted nothing of it.
This is the new destroying angel. She is realy getting a personality! Pardon the boogy nose picture. No tissue can recover it, and that is why she is next to the shower. My saving grace with her! Anyways, to see her awesomness look down....
What the heck is that? That is me standing as bow legged as I can to show you a bit of her art work. Last night she would NOT go to sleep. So I took her downstairs to lay with me on the recliner. This is usually what does it for her and out she goes. NO SUCH LUCK! I fell asleep and she found a marker! This only shows about half of it. When I woke up I took the marker from her. I thought I had stopped the destruction before it started. Got her to bed, and then got in bed...and saw, what in the low light looked light bruises. Then with light on I saw the ready made easel I make. I look good in brown tones, dont I?