Hey, just a quick post before heading to bed. We are doing well for the most part, just trying to keep warm and dry in this crazy weather. Soren had pinkeye again today so I'm trying to find a sub for me in Kindergarten tomorrow, but no luck yet. They may just have to be mother helperless tomorrow. Nina stayed home with a sore throat and swollen glands today. Seems like we all have a bit of something but nothing worth paying to see a dr. for. C's eye is finally better.

Karla, thanks for stopping by tonight and for the lovely pearl necklace. I will really try to keep this one intact. I have always thought pearls were timeless and classic. Fun gift! Hope your kids are feeling a bit better when you read this......

Wendy-been thinking about you and all you are doing/going through. I don't have any sage advice, just that I have learned that peace fills me when I say to Heavenly Father, "I'll do what you want me to do, what is it that you would have me do?" When I stop trying to get him to do it my way and I'm willing to accept his will for me, I feel like I can do/be whatever he needs me to be and be content with it. Is it easy? NO! I still get so frustrated and tired and whiny sometimes about my lack of time to do things I want to do, yet I know that His is a better way. So if this is his plan for you to have all these children possibly come into your family so quickly and in this manner, he will help you get through the tough times and grow with the challenges that come. But make sure that you are not just doing what YOU think is right, make sure you have his blessing. I assume you have asked him what you should do....

Mom, glad you get a bit of a break from work. I'm looking forward to summer so I can get to the temple more often. I am setting a goal for myself to go once a week. That should be doable.
Dad said you got the toilet set in the main bathroom. Are they done now? What are your next plans/projects? I need to come see what you've done. I need to look at a calendar and make a plan to come down for a weekend or something.

Well, better go throw the sheets on the bed so I can climb in....love to you all.

KBW

how's everyone?

How is everyone doing? Karla left this morning for Provo. She will return on Thursday. She had to take Peyton to the emergency room last night. High fever, low oxygen and strep. He got a shot and seemed to be much better today. Allie also got a shot this morning. Jim got medicine.
Tilly has been trying to throw up. I hope that it a passing thing, but not a pass a long thing. Wendy doesn't need to get sick just now.
I am going to work at the temple office in the morning. We have been a little slow at work , but it is allowing me to do some other things. we have been sewing christmas ornament covers for Stacy today. I had to show Trish all the fun things you can do with embroidery. I would like to do the "Signing the Declaration of Independence" for Kassie before school is out. It could be given to the school for Montana's graduation. I'll see what I can do. I would get more sewing done at night, but it is so noisy when the tv is on.
I found a Hoosier cabinet in Cortez that I might just have to go buy. It is in an antique store, but I could only look through the window as the store was closed for the night. I would like to go see it, it looked like it was in very good condition. I'm not sure where I would put it, but I have wanted one for quite a while. We'll just have to wait and see.
I'd better close for now. Talk to you later. Love, Mom

Can you keep up?

Wow family...can you keep up with us? NEVER a dull moment in my life! Ok..except right at this very moment..Ben and I are so used to moving 90 mph that we are bored..and can't think of anything to do! We can't allow ourselves to rest and relax..we might forget something...or we may never get going again! We actually have a weekend together at home with "nothing" to do! This is our second one this year!! You would think we could come up with something...our systems are is shock. I am mostly not taking advantage of it due to probably the most painful period I have had in years! I thought it might be an easier one because of the drugs...putting me in menopause and all! Instead I feel sick, tired, in pain, and hot flashes to top it off!
Well, once again court was postponed! Shocker! Now it is scheduled for March 8th and trial is on March 13th. At least that is around the time I will be staying in SLC anyway! I don't feel stressed out over the court stuff...I feel very confident that it will all work out! I am getting nervous for in-vitro! A little nervous over the proceedure and more nervous on what to do with the girls during the crazy part! And as if that wasn't enough to try to focus our emotions on...it could be any day that DCFS calls us to ask us to take Laila's half brother and sister! Luci told us they know where they are and it won't be long before they have them in custody! Lots of praying to do! I don't feel adequate for the job...but I don't know if I could live with myself if I turned them away! Kassie, I never thought I would need to ask your advice on how to accept the Lord's will when he sends children at inconvenient times! It feels so overwhelming! I don't know if I can handle so many children in such a short time! Any words of wisdom? If we accept the challenge and then if in-vitro works we could go from having one child to 5 or 6 in a years time!!!! Not to mention...what will I do with 4 kids if they show up during the next 2 weeks? I am stressing over what to do with 2! And, the other 2 could be going thru some extremely emotional and hard things at that time! AAAUUUUUGGGGHHHH!!! I need to breath...and go take my shot....and go to bed! I have tomorrow to be obnoxiously bored and then back up to SLC for more tests and my first ultrasound! Yipee!! At least being back on the road will feel normal! And....I get to go alone this time..lots of talking to myself and solving of problems will take place I am sure. Then maybe I can start taking the "crazy" drugs!...mom, you still up for helping with the girls?...and boy and girl....and the dog....and Ben will need fed from time to time...and ...just kidding! Hopefully the timing of everything will work out better than what I am imaging right now! Love all of you, I couldn't do any of this without all of your support and love! We have such an awesome family. Hopefully I can raise my kids to love each other and to stay as close as we have! Thanks for allowing me to complain and explode here tonight! Love, Wen

finally

I am finally back in. I have tried so many times, but Karla and I were not on the same page. I kept trying to log in on the old place, instead of saying I was a new customere (or something like that) Actually, it doesn't seem like much is going on, but it has been so long, I'm sure there has been quite a bit. Jordan is 18 and blaming it on his mother! Wendy and Ben made another fast trip to slc to find out the trial has been re-scheduled! they are very faithful in their endeavors and I'm sure the Lord will bless them. they still have much traveling to do in the next few weeks. Yikes! It is a good thing they are young!

the shop hasn't been too busy for the past few days, but that is okay. Trish and I are trying to get some samples done and some marketing going. She does the sewing and I do the running of the business. Something that was hard to get done before.

I called Martin's cove today and they said we would not need an appointment, but when we know the exact day and time, call them and arrange for someone to go to the cove with us to tell us the stories, etc. The first of the week usually is better, so how about if we plan to leave the SL area monday june 18 and go to Rock Creek Hollow, then spend that night in Landers, on Tuesday we will go to Martins Cove and then spend that night in Rawlings then back to utah valley etc. on Wednesday. We will pay all the motels and the food if each car can pay their own gas, and souvenirs, etc. See if that will work out for everyone. I hope we can pull this off. I think this is our best chance.

Dad drove for Paul yesterday and today. I am going to Cortez in a few minutes. Betty is having an open house and I need a few things, then Betty and I are going out to dinner. I'll talk to you later. Love you Mom

Peytonisms

I thought I'd tell you all Peyton's latest "Peytonism" As I mentioned earlier, he's in wrestling. There were a few boys at practice Thursday wearing black singlets. Peyton's comment to me when I picked him up was---

"Mom, why were those boys wearing girl swimming suits?"

Here we go again!

Another Wednesday! Wish I only had to 'work' til Thursday. haha! Yay for you though, Karla. Do you have any fun plans for Friday? Thanks so much for the updates, I love to read them. You have such a wry sense of humor and it really comes through in your writing. I am trying to picture Peyton and all the other little boys wrestling! Don't you love when they come home too tired to do anything but sit there? I can't believe they have practice for 1 1/2 hours. That seems like a really long time. Up here, you're lucky to get 45 minutes for any of the extracurricular city-type activities that you sign up for. Montana is taking fencing right now and he only gets 45 minutes a week.

The couch-burning sounds like something Curtis would have liked to have done to ours. What kind of furniture are you thinking of for the family room? Why doesn't Jim like the ones you have downstairs now? Too hot? That's why Curtis really likes our leather ones, now, they are cool to sit on. And the one with the warmer fabric is now great downstairs where its colder.

I am also struggling with WW. I do good for a couple of days and then something comes up that really throws me off and its hard to get back. I think I've lost and regained the same 1/2 pound for 6 weeks now. Did you tell Jim that instead of telling you how bad you're doing, he ought to be helping you be better? Curtis took me to Carrabba's on Fri night, what a way to overdo on the points. YUM!! But for the most part he is really supportive of my efforts. I just manage to sabotage myself all by myself. What is the hardest thing for you to stay away from? For me, its any kind of cake/cookie or potato chips. I really love the fat free Lay's, but they are not readily available. I have to go out of my way to find them. And I found some caramel corn flavored rice cakes that are yummy. You can eat 7 for 1 point. My problem is stopping at seven. I think I ought to get some baggies and prepackage them in 1 point servings. Maybe that would keep me from overeating them. Same on my Kashi crackers (15=2 points) Is Pepsi your diet-killer?
I'm glad I don't have to try to fit soda into my points.

Karla, did you get Mom and google figured out? I miss hearing from her. Do we have a for-sure date on Rocky Ridge and Martin's Cove? I'm trying to put things on the calendar and we need to book our GA trip. We've decided to extend it a bit and go down to Disneyworld for a couple of days while we are that close. Don't want to miss WY though.

Stacy, it was nice to have you guys here. We need to get together more often. Hopefully this summer we can do a few more things together. Diamond Fork, 9 Mile Canyon, Dinosaur Quarry maybe?.....

Well, C took the kids to school because he's driving some of the 8th graders up to the Capital for their field trip. So I should use this time productively. Guess I'll go start some laundry. Have a wonderful day!

It's Hump Day!!

Wow, it's a short work week for me. Monday was President's Day and it's my Friday off, but I'm so glad I only have to work 3 days this week. Our auditor is here this week to tell us all the wrong things we're doing and have to go fix. Luckily she only chose 10 files out of 150 or so possible for this program, so at the worst, we'll only have 10 files to fix for the audit.

Well, weightwatchers isn't going so good. In fact, I was informed the other day that this was "by far your worst dieting effort to date. How much did you spend on it again?" :P That's me sticking my tongue out and spitting at him. Oh well, that's life.

Peyton is in Rowdy Boy's wresting and doing well. It's hilarious to see 4 year olds try to wrestle. They just grab each other in bear hugs and fall on the mat and try to beat each other up. He was so dead tired last night when he got home from practice. He had played at the Tracy's all day and was tired from that and then he had 1 1/2 hours of wrestling practice from 5:30-7:00. Tired boys are good boys. They don't get into nearly as much trouble.

I got rid of one of the couches in my living room. Jim took it to Montezuma with him yesterday and threw it into a big pit and lit it on fire. He said the entire thing was reduced to smoldering springs within 10 minutes. He thinks he should have video taped it and showed it to people who think that smoking indoors is a good idea. He said it went up so fast that he was shocked. I'm going to go to Moab or Cortez on Friday and look for new furniture for downstairs. I'm going to move the downstairs furniture upstairs because Jim hates sitting on the downstairs couch. I was thinking about getting nicer, more formal furniture for the upstairs and leaving downstairs alone, but he doesn't really want to to do that.

Allie is doing well. Nothing new for her, really. Just likes to play and ask a million and two questions every day. She's a great helper around the house, though.

Well, I've given you the update on about everyone but the fish and the dog. Blue is good. We're getting another aquarium. 48 gallon bowfront this time. It'll go up in the living room. So, that means we'll have the 135 in the family room, the 65 or 70 in Allie's room and a 45 in the living room. Any one need any fish?? They are breeding quite nicely. We have lelupi babies, transcriptus babies, venustus babies, kimpuma babies, and a few miscelleaneous mutts, I think.

Got to get back to work. I love you all--thanks for being my family.

Super Sunny Saturday

Hey, hope you are having as beautiful a Saturday as we are here. It is absolutely gorgeous. All my neighbors are outside working in their yards and I have seen so many people out walking or riding bikes or skating.....and here I sit inside. But my windows are open and it is heavenly.

I just finished cutting out 5 cardboard goats. Yay! I think that's the last of my committments that have to be done by a certain time.....got the invites delivered last night. C just got my new blinds hung in my bedroom and I really like them. I don't think I need to find any type of curtain now. They really help dress up the windows. He took Ford, Montana and Cambria and Brian to the Rec Center to swim and he went to help Kyle with his Jeep. Jordan is in his room, Soren is asleep and the little girls are playing outside with Cami. It is sooooo quiet.

C surprised me last night with dinner out and he got us a motel room. It was nice to sleep without a baby and sleep in this morning. We ate at Carrabba's and I'm just now warming up my leftovers for a late lunch. Cambria did a fantastic job taking care of Soren. She had him all dressed and hair spiked up when we got home this morning. It was a nice, much-needed break. Love that he planned that for us.

Well, actually I got on here to let you know that we now have trusses up. It's way cool to walk out there now and get a better feel for the size and shape of the room. Next we have to cut away part of the roof and put in the big beam that holds up the roof where we are removing the kitchen wall. That and getting the sheathing on the roof and the windows in. It's starting to look like an actual room now. Please pray for good weather for us, so we can keep moving along.

Hope you are having a great holiday weekend. Love you all. Chime in when you have a minute.

Hey, I hope you all don't think I was being ornery with you. I was just trying to be funny and silly. It wasn't to make you feel bad or anything.

Wendy, I'm sorry this is becoming such a trial for you. I hope that things will work out well, regardless of all the obstacles thrown in your way. Keeping you in my prayers! You'll have that van broken in well, after all your jauntings here and there.

Having a relatively calm day here. I just have to finish up the invites for Nicole's shower and cut out 5 cardboard goats for Hannah's class celebration of Heidi next week. Then I think I can get back to my organization and home projects that have been shoved to the back burner. Always something to detract me.

I love you guys and love interacting with you here. It's easy for me to keep up on you all if you post here. But if it's too hard for you I surely understand. I will keep posting here so you can keep up on the doings of my family here if you choose to read it.

Hope you have a great holiday weekend.

CRASH GOES ME!!!

I would like to go "CRASH"! Sorry that I have been distant...however, I do have some good excuses! I was in SLC friday through sunday...somehow I didn't get the memo that my in-vitro class was starting at 11 am instead of 1 pm on saturday! If I didn't know better I would think I was pregnant already...I am so emotional lately! I cried all day saturday stressing over this in-vitro thing. Then on Sunday I attended Carmen's stake conf.. she spoke in it about what she has learned over the past year! That was so incredible...of course I cried all through that..and more when ever I told of her talk to anyone! I drove home sunday night. Monday I was supposed to do a blood draw...checking my progesterone levels to make sure I ovulated this past cycle! If results came back possitive then I would start injections that night. Well, living in rural Utah..those results take a day to come in (acording to the lady that drew my blood). So I became a little nervous thinking that now I am a day late starting my shots...and not knowing if that would be ok! So on tuesday...I waited and waited to hear from either the lab or my dr. saying go ahead and start injections.....waited and waited...finally I started making some calls before places closed and to make this long story shorter...my blood work was rejected! Which only means that the lady who drew it may have put it in the wrong vial...or froze it when she shouldn't have..or didn't freeze it when she should have...bottom line is she didn't even bother to contact me and let me know! By the time I came to this conclusion I was emotionally on fire and exhausted!! So Ben and I hopped in the car and drove to Salt Lake that night, stayed in a hotel and went to the clinic first thing in the morning! Between Ben and I ...7 vials of blood later, 2 urine samples, one pap smear, and a seman collection.....and Happy Valentine's Day to us...we can now head back home...still waiting on our results! Today at 5 pm I finally find out that my results were positive and I get to start my first injection tonight! Ben leaves for SLC tomorrow to go snowmobiling with Dexter...he comes home on Monday..we all head back up on wednesday for court on Thursday. On friday I am going to Phoenix by myself for one last (very needed) de-stress trip by myself..I will come back on sunday and go back to SLC on monday for more tests and a check up!!! WE ARE SO CRAZY!!! So I appologize that I didn't take the time to blog....however, I love you all and I will do my best to keep in touch!

TIMBER!

CRASH!!!!!!!!!

oh, sorry, I just fell out of my chair.



(hahahahaha!) ;-D

Sorry Kassie!!!

I tried to post at work and for some reason, the USDA has locked that site, so I had to wait till I got home. Yeah, I know, lame excuse!!

Jim & I went to Lamplight for dinner. We had reservations and still had an hour wait before we were seated. It was good, but I think I'll start celebrating Valetine's Day a few days early or something.

Nothing new going on here, just freezing. I'll post more tomorrow--It's late and I have to go cut Jim's hair.

Love you!!

Snore, snore!

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Yawn, yawn!

I may have to actually go to sleep soon if someone doesn't post something!

Hhhhmmmm, Hhhhhmmm, Hhhhhhmmmmm

Humming to myself while waiting for someone else to post some thing, even one small word.


HHhhhhhmmmmmmmm, HHhhhhhhhmmmmmmm, Hhhhhhhmmmmmmm!

hoo,hoo,hoo,hoo

whistling while I tap my foot........

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That's me tapping my foot!

Waiting to see something written by someone besides me!


tap,tap,tap!

Crazy world!

I can't believe the number of tragic things that have happened lately....houses exploding, drunk drivers taking out families, tornadoes, mall shootings.....I think I need a break from news. Time to go back to my blissful little lala land where things like that don't happen.

I hope nothing tragic is happening in your lives. None here, thank goodness.

Wendy-how are the shots going? OUCH! I'm sure it will be worth it, though, when you can hold a sweet baby in your arms. Wish you could have stopped by, maybe next time.

Stacy-I know you're reading this and I'm calling you out. Post something, you big lurker!

Karla-still buried at work?

Mom- You too?

I am not feeling very supported in my WW here anymore. I think we would all do better if we would communicate about it more often. I know we're busy but really 5 minutes is not too hard to find. Come on, I need your help!

Okay, off my soapbox now and you can hit your head to bring your eyes back around now.

Gotta get Sadie off to school. Back later!

Here we go!

Well, things are moving right along on the house plans...we have most of our bids in..and it looks like we will be trying to get a few more to have a comparison! Some people make a bundle in there area's of expertise! Hopefully it will all balance out in the end with some of the area's we will be saving money in. Our final print of the plans are done..yeah..and we get to pay for that AGAIN. I think it will be worth it to have the plans exact...it's on our heads if someone messes up! And we are moving foreward with the in-vitro..I get to take a class saturday to learn how to mix the drugs and shoot myself up! Yipee! Ben will be doing the shots for me and I have recruited Alisa Nielson to fill in if Ben is ever gone! I think I have to pay for everything up front on saturday...that will be a hard check to write! I hope it is worth the experience! And nothing has changed with Laila's situation since I last wrote...we have a hearing on the 22nd of this month and court for the trial is still March 13th! Mom expressed an interest in coming to one of the courts...that is fine..any of you are welcome to come and see what we get to do! The hearing in feb could be fairly eventful...they should just be determining weather or not Great-Aunt Magdelena qualifies to adopt. However, it could get quite interesting if Ricky chooses to come! He gets out on the 20th! And if he comes, his girlfriend Crystal will come and she usually manages to make things interesting herself! Lots to look foreward to in our family! We are moved in! No dishwasher, no washer/dryer...everything leaks and it's cold with those cinderblock walls! Love being in Monticello though! When ever they turn on our phone here is our new and FINAL phone number: (435) 587-2844. Stacy and Kassie...I will stop by and see you on Friday..tomorrow! Talk to ya later, Wendy

Hey!

Just updated my google account for this new blogger thing.

It's late so I won't say much. On the spelling bee thing, Montana got out on round 2, on the word totem...don't ask. Actually Curtis said he looked relieved to have gotten such an easy word and tried to go too fast. Cambria stayed in until round 4, got out on the word mongrel. It was a really good experience for them. Wish I could have seen the bee, but we were celebrating Sadie's 1/2 birthday in school that day and I had cupcakes to make and frost. Too little time and too many things to get done.

We have trusses! Granted they are hanging into the room upside down right now.....The kids wanted to know how that would work, haha! Hopefully they will get put up on Fri. We got the electric service switched to the new box on the addition last Thurs. They screwed up the order to turn it back on and so it was off from 9 to 3:30. And it was a cold day. Curtis and Soren and I were well bundled up in the house to stay warm and darn, we had to got out for lunch.

Well, Jordan just walked in, so I guess I'll call it a night.
PPPPLLLLLEEEEAAAASSSSEEEE post something! I feel like I'm talking to myself here.

Love ya
Kas

Cha cha cha changes!!

Well, I updated the blog to the google version. You will have to create a google account to log in now. I wasn't going to do this, but it looks like it was being forced. So, if you have any problems logging in or anything, call me and I'll help you through it. Or, call me anyway, I want to talk to someone!! Stacy called me last night and we talked for quite a while. It was great!

Thanks, Wendy, for helping me out yesterday. Sorry about the mud issue. You were sleeping when I came to pick the kids up and I didn't want to wake you. I just want you to know how much I appreciated you bailing me out yesterday!! Love ya!

Kass, how did Cambria and Montana do in their spelling bees? This blog is becoming a desert wasteland. Got to change that! How's the addition to the house coming along?

Well, nothing new going on in the Eberling household. Went to Allie's parent teacher conference yesterday and she's doing great--straight A's. Gets frustrated with writing assignments when she has to come up with the subject. She's a little bit indecicive. Sometimes she asks me which toothbrush to use.

Well, work is crazy right now. We're under the gun to get a ton of stuff done and updated, but our computer web sites we use for all of our contracts and eligibility aren't working worth a darn so it makes it difficult to get anything done.

I'm sucking it up big time on the WeightWatchers thing. I'm about ready to say, "Bag It!" I hate dieting!!

Jim went to Vegas last weekend to help Justin replace the transmission in his Dodge. They got the new one in and first gear doesn't work. So, he'll probably be going back down in a few weeks to try again. But, on a better note, my car got 62 miles per gallon between Hurricane and home. Dang, that's nice!!

Well, I guess I better get back to trying to get some work done. It's hit or miss, but I better at least be trying!!
Love you all!
Karla

Yee Hawww!

I am officially a Monticello resident again...and it feels good! I type more later..Ben is ready to go home..we don't have our phone/internet up yet! Love ya