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Working Overtime!

Well our house is officially up on the Market we have a nice ERA Moffet Reality sign in the front yard. To me this means overtime. As if taking care of all the young ones was not a full time job I now consider myself on overtime. Wish I was getting paid. The realtor had suggested that I just make sure the house was presentable every time I left the house. HA, HA. I would never get out of the house. We showed it 3 times in the last 2 days and each time I had to buckle the kids in the car seats with the car running and then run back in the house to pick up all the last few toys, shoes, sippy cups ect. Not sure how long I can keep this up. My late nights that really are not that late have turned into moping, I am not a big fan of moping since most of my 2300 sq ft house is wood floors. I am exhausted when I finish.

We have also started to make our first plans for Hurricane Gustavo. It is hard to wish it falling landfall on anyone. We are just hoping for it to slow down in the gulf, and worst case we are out of Electricity for less than a day. I am reminded of the quote “If ye are prepared ye shall not fear” I am not typically a nervous person, so hopefully we can pass thru this next couple of weeks peacefully, since I hear there are 2 more Hurricanes behind Gustavo. Where ever we are??

Prien Lake Elementry

Faiths 1st Day of Kindergarten has finally arrived. I say finally because she has anxiously been waiting for this day since pre-kindergarten was let out in May. We set out her new uniform the night before and I thought she wouldn’t be able to sleep with excitement. But come 6:45 I had to wake her up because I was so excited! Some talk of the blues of sending your baby off to the first day of school. Maybe they will hit me next week?

I guess it eases my worries to know that Faith is a very outgoing little girl who loves to succeed. When we went to meet and greet she had already memorized the name tags of the kids whose back packs hung next to hers. She really has a hunger for learning. In the past she has loved and admired her teachers and has a desire to please them. I think she’ll do Great!!

1st Day of Kindergarten

In keeping the tradition alive, I remembered that on the 1st day of school my mom always had a warm batch of cookies waiting for me when I came home. So I pulled out Moms Famous Choclate Chip cookie recipe around 1pm so they would be waiting for her when she came home. We then began to chat about her day. She sang me a new indian song she learned, told me about all the rules, especially the one about needing to raise her had to talk, because if everyone talked at once all the teacher would hear would be bla...bla...blaa. She told me how she saw two friends, Kenya from Church and Noah from her pre-Kindergarten class. She cannot wait to go back again!

Embracing motherhood

I found this poem and wanted to share it with my mothering friends.

Embracing Motherhood
I’d rather sing a lullaby, late into the night than live a life of luxury, donning jewels so bright. I’d rather wipe a tear, and kiss away the pain than come home to an empty house, feeling lonely again. I’d rather invest in diapers and clothes that wear too fast than prove our prestige and wealth in things that just don’t last. I’d rather be a Mom; no greater job there is. Each child is a blessing, because each child is His. ~Becky Squire


How grateful I am to be having another child and I hope I can dedicate my life to raising my family unto the Lord.

Montana!!!

Not sure why I have waited so long to post our new news, maybe because the idea is taking a while to sink in my brain, (kinda like when I found out I was pregnat with number 5) But it is true, we are moving to Billings Montana in November. It is hard to believe we have been in Lake Charles almost 6 years, Longer than I have lived in one place since, I don't even remeber. Maybe the longest I have ever lived anywhere. Lake Charles is really home to us. This dicission has certainly not come without a lot of fasting a prayer, but it is still hard for me to feel good about leaving the roots I have planted here. It has been a growing place, I will have had every one of my children here. I have grown spiritually, and grown into a mother. I have incedible friends here that I know would do any thing for me. (Namley our whole ward). And of course my relationship with Bret has really grown as well. I never knew how much teamwork it takes to raise a large family. And he has been truly incredible in trying to balance his responsiblities between work, Bishop and Family. I am really proud of him and greatful that he is such a good provider that allows us so many opertunities including this move to Montana. below I have copied the official announcement from work. The best news about the move is that we will be 8 hours from my parents home. That is dueable in a weekend!!!!!!

So here we come Montains!!!!!!!

Effective November 1, 2008
Bret Jorgensen, Maintenance Superintendent, Lake Charles Refinery, will become Turnaround & Mechanical Planning Director, Billings Refinery, reporting to Jerry Knoyle, Mechanical Manager, Billings Refinery. Bret will relocate from Lake Charles, Louisiana to Billings, Montana.

Please join us in thanking Bret for his contributions to Lake Charles and wishing him continued success in his new assignment.

Summer Days

We have had some really great "Summer Days" and today was one of them, Sara Beth(12), Emma (8)and Lilly (5) came over to play. The girls spent the morning outide in the little pool playing princess mermaids, (whatever that is) and water base ball. It is a fun little toy we purchased a couple of years ago. the water squirts up and holds a plastic ball like a T in T-ball. they were outside all morning long. I feed them lunch outside, grapes, watermellon, and pb&J's. Jace was playing right along with all the girls. He is becoming such part of the group. Then they came in and began playing intently with their toys. (I love it when I do not have to turn on the TV.) They played the rest of the afternoon with each other with almost no argumets. I most likly owe the credit to Sara Beth, she is such a little peace maker, I wish I could adopt her. Days like these remind me that being a mom is fun. It also brought to my attention that kids really can teach us something about enjoying the simple things in life.

Among our top summer days we have also set up a lemmonade stand ( Faith made $7.50) not a lot for a saterday afternooon, but she is looking forward to doing it again. We have spend numerous mornings at the childrens museum, a trip to the sulpher water park, we might try that one again but it is a lot of stress for me and I need a break to recoperate. A few Library trips, and visits with friends. I have amazed myself at how well the house is running. the kids seem to be getting along , Maybe this is my little reprive before life gets hetic again with the arival of Baby Austin. Any how I really want to try and enjoy them right now.