Off My Game..

Last night I played basketball...It wasn't pretty. I felt off. I've been trying to figure out why. Here's my conclusion:
1. I haven't played for a week.
2. My eating habits as of late have not been let's say very healthy. During that week off I ate at two buffets (we went to Seattle to visit Jonathan and Suzanne with the kids), a steak dinner from Hearthfire, and yesterday for a late lunch after a funeral we stopped at Syros for some deep fried prawns and french fries (let's just say I felt every last bit of that "deep fried" as I ran up and down the court).
3. I sat in the hot tub before I went to play. Wynden and the kids were going out and Wynden always gives me a hard time (joking/serious) about leaving, so I thought I would have some family time before I went (I play at 8:30, so the kids are basically in bed), so I went and sat in the hot tub with them. I usually sit in the hot tub right before I go to bed. I was pretty tired and very relaxed after I got out and waited for my car pool.
What went wrong:
1. I was the other teams strongest assist (I basically turned the ball over every time I had it)
2. The ball hit me in the face during play. In all my years playing I do not believe that I have ever been hit in the face during play. That is while playing basketball. Volleyball my freshman year we were playing LC (remember like it was yesterday), after two serves falling between me and my teammate for aces, my dad with a silent gym yells "MOVE UP JAYME!" so I did and the next time the girl served the ball it hit me smack in the face. Needless to say my dad got an earful that night.
3. My teammate stepped on my workout pants tearing them up the side of the leg about 6 inches and pulling them half off me (not to worry I pulled them back up before anyone saw). This little situation did not help me any, but threw me off a little more.
After it was all over, I couldn't help but hope that I was coming down with something and the next week I could go and say "you see I was very sick the next day...up all night throwing up, it was awful, clearly my body was in the early stages" But you see I am feeling fine. No excuses.

Call Guiness We're Setting Some Records Here!

We now have been in our house for four years. That is the longest we have ever resided in one spot since we have been married. We lived in my parents house right after we were married for like a month I think. Then we moved to our Halverstick house (right next to the casino now) and lived there for almost three years (I was just pregnant with Lexi). Our next house wasn't ready yet, so we rented my grandma's house from her for like 4 months and then it sold so we went and lived with Wynden's brother for four months, had Lexi and lived with Wynden's mom for four weeks and finally our H St house was ready. We ended up living there for like 2 years and moved to our first Berthusen rd house lived there for three years and then here we are now. Needless to say I dejunked every time we moved, which was nice, but now since we haven't moved for a while things are beginning to pile up here. I try to get rid of stuff all the time, but with five kids it can get kind of crazy.

This is also the longest time I have gone without being pregnant. Diesel will be 2 in April. The biggest space between kids is Hunter and Karlee and I was pregnant with Karlee when Hunter was 20 months old. My body is probably in shock :) After much thought and a little bit of a roller coaster ride I think that Diesel will remain our baby. I love babies and really adding another kid into the bunch wouldn't be a big deal, but I think we are ready to move forward onto the next stage in life...whatever that means.

This is as crafty as I get

I have been a little obsessive lately about making these. Well I don't know if hot gluing the flower to the barrette classifies it as actually "making" them. I have been having fun doing it at least. I buy the flowers at Michaels (some are scrapbooking flowers and the others are fake) and I get the barrettes at the dollar store. It actually makes for a pretty cheap and cute (if I do say so myself) barrette.

I think that's the best compliment I've ever received

Karlee has been playing basketball for the YMCA for these past couple of months. Seriously she is too young I knew this, but the day I signed Hunter up I must have had extra air in my head because I thought it was such a good idea to get her playing. Anyway coaches are hard to come by at this age...I wonder why maybe because I seriously have a girl sucking her thumb out on the court...what do you even do with that. You guessed it I got suckered into coaching, which has been fun and entertaining. I had to pay Karlee a $1.00 one game because nobody wanted to play the last five minutes :) Good times. She is actually very cute out there, the fact that she is the smallest by at least a foot makes her even more adorable. At the beginning of the season, she couldn't get the ball to even hit the very lowered rim, (with some protein powder and weight lifting- jk) she has since then increased her range and made a couple of baskets during the games, which gives her the best surprised look that makes me crack up. Anyway there is a kid on her team , who has a lot of energy and is actually pretty good if I could just get him to dribble with the ball, anyway one day he asked me "Are you her sister?" I cracked up thinking that is the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me :)

Don't grow up, stay this cute forever....

Maybe just lose the feisty and sassiness that comes with this age. Hope everyone had a good Valentines Day. We sure did. There's nothing like getting your eyes scratched out by a good friend :)

Fianlly some weather I can work with

This week it has been so nice to see a glimpse of the sun. I'm not saying that it is warm out, but warm enough to head outside. Diesel loves going outside. I have a feeling we are going to have a lot of fun this summer :)

crushes

Hallie and Karlee were in the bathroom the other day this is how the conversation went:

Hallie: "Do you have a crush on Justin Bieber?"

Karlee: "Yeah"

I don't even think Karlee or Hallie even know who he is (they were with older cousins the day before). Second of all who doesn't Karlee have a crush on?

I love listening in on my kid's conversations for two reasons. They can be really cute when they talk and I can smile about it all day or they can be saying things they aren't suppose to and I can walk around the corner, they get in trouble, and I can remind them I am always listening.