Piano Recital

Preston and Parker had their piano recital tonight. Here they are playing their songs.

Above is Parkers first piece and below is Parkers duet with h

is teacher, Tami.

Here is Prestons duet.

They did a great job! Enjoy!

Ian and Emeron

Emeron came over to visit along with his mom, my good friend Lisa. Emron and Ian were born on the same day, same hospital with the same doctor. Lisa tried to beat me by going into the hospital the night before, but since I have c-sections Ian came first. Ian is about 5 hours older. I l think Lisa even had to wait for her epidural because the dr. was in the o.r. with me, sorry Lis. They really do have a great time playing together and hopefully will become as good as friends as their moms.

Some Info about Me

10 years ago: I was 23, Preston was almost 18 months old and I was pregnant with Chandler our daughter. I was working at the Y, which I am currently still doing and living in our first little home.

5 things on my to do list today:

Laundry, must do at least 3 loads a day or the laundry will take over my upstairs.

Clean the house, something that also has to be done every day or like I found out last weekend when Rick and I were both sick that the house will fall apart.

Work on Scout stuff

Date night with Rick although tonight its date night to a taekwondo meeting

Get Pizza for the boys, which we do every Friday night

What would I do if I were suddenly made a billionaire?

I would buy a bigger house that has my "dream laundry room" in it. I know its sad when most people dream of dream kitchens or dream master baths, mine is a dream laundry/mud room. I would give to charities, invest, go on some great vacations like to Paris and London. I would fly to New York and spend every night at a different Broadway Show. I would relax and just enjoy being a mom with out the stress of bills, mission costs or college.

3 Bad Habits:

I eat while talking on the phone, drives Rick Crazy

I definitely talk more than listen, especially when it comes to my kids

I flip channels during commercials consistently, I am also a remote hog

5 jobs I've had

Osco Drug check out girl, LOVED IT, I was 16, it was my first job and I had a great group of people that I worked for

Payless Shoesource, I left Osco and started at Payless and it was a store that was never busy, I talked on the phone a ton, of course that was before call waiting so I had to be careful.

MUD- Metropolitan Utilities District, I worked 2 summers during college and cleaned and repaired gas meters. I know sounds glamorous huh? My best friend Catherine worked their also but she got to work upstairs in a cushy office job where she got to wear nice clothes and I was in the basement with steal toed shoes. How fair is that since my dad was the one that worked their.

VonMaur Children's Shoe department

YMCA nursery and early childhood class teacher (11 years now)

5 places I have lived:

I have only lived in two places

Omaha (my moms house, apartment, 1st house on 95th and current house)

Rexburg Idaho in college

5 snacks I enjoy:

Anything salty

Anything sweet

Almost all fruit

Pretty much enjoy all food :)

I consider Diet Pepsi a snack and it is a favorite

Something you don't know about me:

I love my Scouting calling, I love People magazine and I pretty much dislike most church music other than Hymns. (there are maybe 2 church cd's that I enjoy)

Read at your own risk!! Not for those with weak stomachs

Have you ever had "one of those days" ? Today was "one of those days" days for me. It started off good, I went to the new Half price book store with my good friend Cyndie. Poor Cyndie, I drag her all over the place. Carter was Awesome, sitting in his stroller so good. I made 8 dollars by selling them some old books and left with a Jodi Picult book I haven't read. We drove through Arby's, I was happy. I was also totally unaware of what was waiting for me in the hours to come. First, when I got Carter out of the car seat I noticed the smell, then the wetness. He had diareah and of course it soaked through his clothes. I changed him and Cyndie and I proceeded to enjoy our lunch. I put both Ian and Carter down for their naps. My brother and sister in law came over and I had a very yummy piece of cake that my sis in law made. She is a whiz with cake mixes and jello!!! After they left the boys awoke. As I climbed the stairs it hit me. The most awful smell. I entered Carters room and he had pooped UP TO HIS ARMPITS!! No joke!! All the way up to the pit of his arms. I cleaned him up, bathed him, Lysol and bleached the room down, and washed his sheets and blankets. Ian got up and went down stairs to go to the bathroom. I didn't think much of it until I came down the stairs holding my CLEAN baby and once again was hit with the nasty smell of the bathroom. Ian had pooped in his pull up and decided to take it off and get on the toilet. Any other time I would of been happy that he took the initiative to get on the potty himself but he had slid his poopy bum on the toilet and their was pooh everywhere!!!! ARGHHHHH!!! I wanted to cry. I had to clean him up bleach all the toilets and the tub. So the rest of the night went pretty much clean up carter, change Carters clothes, diaper change, diaper change, diaper change, oh and then to end the night PUKE!!! To top it off, Rick is out of town for the night and I was supposed to go to my Cub committee meeting. Needless to say, I will once again spend the next day inside. Last week Carter had influenza A and I spent the whole week inside, hopefully this is a 24 hour bug and I will be able to enjoy the nice weather we are supposed to have on Saturday. I know those of you reading this that have kids can sympathize with me. I know the feelings, sympathy, pity and gratitude that it isn't happening to you. Yes but wait, eventually you too might have a house that smells like a bum and a shirt that smells like puke. But until then, enjoy your clean smelling house and kids!!

My little punker...

Okay here are the classic "baby in tub with mohawk" picture.

Sneaky little boy

Here is Carter. Doesn't he look cute, sitting their so innocent with the remote in one hand and a toy in the other. I thought he looked so cute with his ankles folded acting like his big brothers while they watch t.v. In our family room we have a huge 6 panel gate that creates a wall across the room so Carter has a "safe" place to play with out getting loose. The gate goes in between the couch and a buffet table that hold a lot of our pictures. After taking the above picture I turned around to the computer for a minute and when I turned back......

carter had climbed up over the arm of the couch and climbed up on the buffet. He was just sitting their looking at a picutre in a frame. So much for that "safe" place. What a sneaky little baby.

Happy Anniversary Grandma and Grandpa McInelly

Happy Valentines day AND Anniversary!!!


We hope that you had a great day. We miss you and can't wait to see you this summer.
I think its been what 44 YEARS!! WOW!
We love you !!