The Julander Family

Saturday, May 16, 2009

WE DID IT!

My friend Brittany Marvel and I have been training for the Ogden half marathon for months now! Today we did it, and we survived. We just missed our goal for under two hours, but we were pretty darn close. I am proud of us! Thanks Brit for keeping me going, I know you could have smoked me, but I'm glad you stuck with me! It was awesome! And thanks mom dad and Nan for coming to support me!

Sponge curlers

Ragan has a new found love for sponge curlers. Thanks Holly! She stayed at my sister Holly's house this week, and got beautiful curls from sponge curlers. So we had to go to Walmart and buy her some. They are even pink and sparkly, she was beyond excited to try them out!

Castle Park

We discovered a great new park in Kaysville. Some of you are probably aware of it already, but it was new to us. We call it castle park. We went for family night and had a blast. I also went a week or two ago with our Young Women group and played freeze tag. We had so much fun, so it's a park for all ages!!! James brought his sword and knife so that he could be the knight! He loved slaying the dragon, and rescuing princess Ragan from the tallest tower!

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Scrapbook addiction

I haven't been sleeping very well lately, so rather than toss and turn in bed I decided to occupy myself until I am so tired that I fall right into my pillow without thoughts and worries to keep my brain awake. I have been completely addicted to digital scrapbooking again. This is what I do to occupy my time. What else do you do until 3 am? So I posted another scrapbook slide on the left side of my blog check it out!

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Double Good News!

I have two things to share with you today that make me smile. One is that Pete got a job. It's not ideal, but it's something to get us by for now. He will be working graves at a nursing home as a CNA. It's only part time, but it means I can now have a day off from the salons! This is huge news for me, I am more than a little burnt out! I am way excited to be free from hair every Monday!

The second good news is that after months of anticipation we again have a functioning bath tub! My kids and I are more than excited about this news. We have been group showering in a tiny standup shower for nine months now! Pete finally grouted and sealed the new bath/shower upstairs. It was one of those project that we figured would take a week or two, that became a way bigger and more costly project when we ripped it all out and found other fun problems. So anyway, the kids took their first bath in their beautiful new tub just hours ago. I love it, I just need a shower curtain now so I can try it out too!

Sunday, April 26, 2009

Easter

I decided it's easier to just share the scrapbook pages I've done for easter rather than come up with a blog post about it. So here is some pics of our Easter fun!

Friday, April 17, 2009

My Sister-in-law Minde started a way cool tradition the year Pete and I got married. At the end of every year each family does a scrapbook page of their year's highlights. We put the originals in a book for Pete's parents and we give a copy to each family. So we all have a family scrapbook...I love it. I thought I'd share the idea and share the pages that I did for last year. Yes I just got them done and it's April. I've had a crazy few months!!!

Funnies from my kiddos

1/11 Ragan looking into James' mouth, " I can see your utensils!"
4/ 20/10 You know you need to watch what you say when your two year old (Dal) says, "Open the dang door mom!"
4/19/10 After eating a whole bowl of strawberries when I wasn't looking..."Ragan did you eat all of those strawberries?" "Yep cause I wanted lots of muscles...wanna see my guns!?...that's what we call muscles mom!"
4/18/10 Ragan "Last night was the bird's church night because I heard them singing!"
We were at Macey's our usual weekly grocery trip. The clerks always like to give the kids smarties when we check out. They hadn't eaten their lunch very well so I told them no thankyou. A minute or so went by and Ragan longingly looked up at me and said, "Mom smarties make everything better!"
A humbling yet proud mother moment: James witnessed some unkind words from me to Pete. He said to me "mommy, that wasn't very nice...you better repent or you will have black marks on your white clothes in heaven."
Ragan is obsessed with Scooby Doo lately and she says "Like wow!" preceeding everything that comes out of her mouth.
2/4/10 We were at Costco today and of course because of superbowl weekend they had endless samples. So we had ourselves a nice little "lunch." Well, when we got to the sample table with avacados, I asked Ragan if she wanted some (she loves abadacados!) And she said very pointedly, "No mom, that's not junk." Apparently we go to costco to sample "junk." I don't know where she got this idea, but it made me giggle! I love my sassy princess!
10/30/09 James " I have piece of my popcorn ball stuck in the back of my mouth" Mom "go take a drink, maybe it will help" James "Okay...(gets a drink)...it didn't work" Mom "I guess you'll just have to stick your finger back there and get it" " Okay but I don't want to have to go to the doctor and get stitches!"
10/22/09 Dallin's latest things to say are bless you after he sneezes and thankyou when we give him a kiss.
10/22/09 Ragan "I just love abadacados!" (avacados)
9/1/09 Ragan "I just bless-you'd!"
8/31/09 We have a new rule that we can only have treats and desserts on Monday nights for family nights. We've been doing it for a little over a month now, and the kids are getting used to it. James just said to me, (when we were talking about family night treat) "We only can rotten our teeth this day, right?"
8/31/09 James was asking why this and why that etc. until I was getting a little annoyed! So I said "Why do you ask so many questions!" James "Well...because I like to talk to you mom." (my heart melted :( )
8/25/09 James " Hey mom, did you know that when we drink lots of milk it makes our bones white?" Ragan "ya and when we eat strawberries our blood is red and when we eat blueberries our blood is blue!"
8/25/09 Ragan "Mom, your beautiful" Mom "you are too Ragan. You know what makes you beautiful, your fun personality etc... Ragan "ya and not my bad-alities and mean-alities...you know mean-alities is when I hit!
8/13/09 When we were putting the kids to bed tonight, I realized I had forgotten to wash Ragan's quilt, so I asked Pete to get her a blanket. He brought her her tinkerbell blanket and said how about this one? Ragan said, no that one's dirty too. Pete said no, we just washed it. Ragan's reply was, "well I wiped my boogers on it last year!"
Dallin's favorite words: dip-ips = chips, hos=horse, tose=toast, mine (everything is "mine")
6/26/09 Pete was asked to go on splits with the missionaries. James asked Pete, "What does splits mean?" After a long, very informative explanation from Pete, James said, "Oh okay...what does all than mean?!"
Ragan 6/21/09 We were at Pete's parents' house. Ragan was playing with their dog, when all of a sudden she said, "Sampson lick-ed my flip off finger!" After giggling a little I replied, "And who told you about your flip off finger!?"
Pete was teasing James the other day pretending that he was pushing him down the stairs with the laundry basket. James escaped and then said, "Dad! You scared the crap out of me!" (Pete and I must say crap a lot! It sounds so much worse coming out of our kids' mouths.)
Ragan (a few months ago) Pete took the kids to shopko. They were waiting in line when Ragan saw a lady with a whole bunch of rubbermade tubs. Ragan pointed and said, "Holy..Moly..Crap! She's got a lot of boxes!"