Mother's Day

Motherhood is......Something that can not be taken from me. If I were the last person on this earth, I would still be a mother, it is in my heart and soul, it is who I am.

-Karolynn Christiansen-

Roses from Whitney, she bought them all on her own and surprised me. They are beautiful!

Computer Program from Ivan. It makes 8,000 of the Hallmark card and comes with a scrapbooking program too.

Janika, Carter and Morgan gave me cards and enevelopes to go with my new program
Carter made me this cute flower at school

I had the best day ever. My sweetheart (Ivan) was so sweet to me he took the kids to the park after church to launch rockets while I took a nap, he made me lunch and treated me special. Janika, Carter and Morgan were so good. Whitney treated me special and gave me a paper with nice things about me on it. My Dad had us over for dinner, he made everything and wouldn't let me lift a finger. My Mom and Dad gave me $20.00 and a beautiful card. Michael called and left me a message and text message. My brother Kevin called me and my friend Katie sent me a nice Mother's day text message. Thank you everyone for making my day so special!

Happy Mother's Day

You Let Me Know You Love Me

You let me know you love me

In so many different ways.

You make me feel important

With encouragement and praise.
You're always there when I need you

To comfort and to care.

I know I'm in your thoughts;

Your love follows me everywhere.
Thank you for all you've done

And given so generously.

I love you, my wonderful mother;

You're a heaven-sent blessing to me.

By Joanna Fuchs

Mom, you are the best mother! Thank you for all you have done for me. Thank you for rocking me to sleep even when I was 28 years old. Thank you for wiping my tears and feeling my hurt with me. I will always try to be the kind of Mother you are to me. I love you!

Happy Mother's Day!

50 Years and Still Strong!

May 8, 1958 Richard Kemple and DeAnna Dahl became husband and wife.

All Because Two People Fell In Love............

50 Years Later, they are still madly in love and share 5 kids, 23 grandchildren, 13 great grandchildren and a lot of love!

Happy 50th Anniversary Mom and Dad!

Thanks for you great example of what true love is, thank you for being such wonderful parents and grandparents. I love you!

• Ice fights with Ivan
• 1000 smiles from Morgan
• My fax machine (only though I use it once every other year)

Thanks a lot Carter!

I went into the bedroom to get Morgan dressed today, I was probably in the room for about 5 minutes tops. This is what I came back to.

Powdered Sugar!!!!!!!! ARRRRGGG! Tasha couldn't even get it clean. Thanks a lot Carter!

I am going to do the three things I am thankful for today just like Melanie and Holly, I think it is a great idea.

*Singing "Your Not Alone" on the phone with Melanie on the phone, laughing my hiney off, a great way to start a day.

*An email from my brother that lives in Texas.

*Lunch with Whitney.

10 Years Ago...
I lived in North Carolina. I was 25, a business woman. Can you believe I was a business woman? I had the best job and such a great friend and mentor, Stepanie helping me be successful. I wore a necklace that was half of a heart, it was a best friend necklace that my bestest friend Katie gave me when I moved to NC. I was married to someone other then Ivan (not so fun) and I had a 6 year old daughter and a 4 year old son. I went country dancing with my friends every Wednesday night. Many 19 year old boy's called me Mom and looked up to me. They even brought their girlfriends over to our house to meet me for my approval, it was fun, Blair (Stehpanie had fun with him), Browning, and Bobo were my very favorites. I had a brand new home, wave runner, truck and a car, and a dog named Porsha. I was missing my Mom and Dad. I was infertile (boy has that changed) My favorite thing to do was to hop in the car with a ton of friends and go to the beach in Wilmington, NC. Best of all I had no physical pain.

5 Things on my list to do today...
1. Take care of the kids
2. Practice my guitar
3. Cook dinner
4. Call my Mommy
5. Go to Young Women's (Mother daughter party)

Snacks I enjoy...
Coke, is coke a snack? I love chex mix! MMMMM!!!

3 Bad Habits...
1. Coke drinking
2. Eating too much
3. being negative about myself

5 Place I have lived...
1. Fayetteville, NC
2. Wahiawa, HI
3. West Valley City
4. Magna
5. Centerville

5 Jobs I have had...
1. Valley Mental Health, Patient accounts coordinator. Loved it! Had to quit because I was pregnant with Janika and soooo sick.
2. Cape fear valley hospital, Assistant patient accounts manager. (going to lunch every day with Stephanie).
3. Drs Urgent Care, Occupational Medicine Specialist (Charles Hester, President, he was such a butt hole!)
4. Marcott, Gullick and Associates, Assistant manager (more like goofing off with Stephanie all day and pretending to work, sneaking out the back door, climbing out the window, taking a nap with my office door shut and locked the best of all getting paid top dollar for it. We were so bad back then, but it was sooo much fun!)
5. Family Counseling Center, Billing Specialist, no one to answer to everyone thought I was wonderful, felt so good!

5 Things you don't know about me...
1. I am very shy, you would never know because I hide it very well
2. I am in a butt load of pain every day of my life.
3. I scream out the window while driving the mini van and frighten people.
4. I graduated from college.
5. I can do the worm.

If I suddenly had a million dollars...
I would pay off my bills and spend the rest of it!!! I am not much for saving money.

Lots of Fun

Chillen with the ducks at Willow Park Whitney went to prom!
New train ride
Ivan's brother, Destin graduated from Utah State. This is Ivan and his brothers
Whitney and Morgan

Feeding ducks, Farmington pond.
Climbing rocks, and being friends!

Whitney turns into Mandy Moore

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Morgan is 5 months old now!

Morgan is such a sweet baby, she is so calm, happy and good! I walked in on Ivan telling her "You are the reason people have 10 kids" I thought that was sweet! She is our last baby and time is going to0 fast. I can't believe she is 5 months already.

She can talk! A couple weeks ago I was at the church and the kids were home with Ivan. Whitney said that she repeated the word Hi to her and Casey several times. I really didn't believe it too much and thought perhaps it was an accident. Well last week Ivan said "kissy" to her (something he says to all of our babies to get them to smile) not only did she smile she said "Kissy" back to him. She did it a few times. We were freaking out! Then last night Carter was having an OCD attack about an ice cream cone he left at the restaurant. Janika started saying "Ice cream" Morgan repeated it! I started freaking once more and called Ivan over (he was remodeling the stairs), she said it for him too. We were just so amazed. Too bad the video camera was not charged. She is a baby genius!

Stats

14.8 lbs 75%

25 1/4" long 90%

Darling and sweet 100%

Family Night at Krispy Kreme

Whitney has to eat as many possible before they cool off. She ate 5!!!!! I don't know how she can eat so many and stay so thin. She actually shoves them in her mouth very fast it is crazy, sick and wrong.....

The kids.... We brought Casey along for the fun. He is really brave coming with us out in public.

Weekend get away....

Highlights

• Railroad Museum, after the 4th time being their we found out it was haunted. That explains the creepy feeling we always get at that place!


• Beautiful wedding, great food.


• 1lb of cheese later, John getting Janika over her fear of dogs.


• Janika and Carter bonding with John and Marlo and even going for a ride in their car. Amazing!


• Laying in Marlo's beautiful bedroom talking about stuff.


• Kraymer showing me the coolest things on the guitar.


• McKoy, taking over Morgan and letting Janika and Carter play in her room, giving me a break!


• Kennedy, finding a green marker to calm Carter's OCD attack, she saved the day!


• Eating a stale doughnut and a bowel of Cheerios with my parents at the hotel! While Ivan and the kids slept. I love spending time with them.


• Balance Rock Eatery & Pub, I never knew you could get a sandwich that big. Made a fat lady sing!!!!


• Visiting the ghost town Hiawatha, crazy how it was so alive one day with a hospital, school, church, store and now totally dead.


• Carter and Janika painting the rocks they took from John's landscape as soon as we got home.


• Ivan driving the entire trip


• Whitney at home missing us while we were totally missing her.

Kurtis Came to Town!

My dear brother Kurtis was in town for a few days. Last night we went to Moms house for a little dinner party in honor of him being home. It was so awesome talking to him. I just have been missing him so much. We decided that we are so much alike because we are just so crazy and silly. I just think it runs in the family to be funny. I got to visit with My brothers Kraig and Kevin too. The evening was ended with watching home videos. It was totally funny to see us all so young and thin and Whitney was such a baby doll! Kurtis told Janika that he missed seeing her dance and she totally started dancing for him and then gave him a huge hug. All the kids have always loved Kurtis, Jeremy is now an adult and he was talking about how fun Kurtis was growing up. He went home today back to Texas. I will miss you Squirtis!!!!

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The Manicure

The Tools

Waiting for Mom

The Procedure


Soaking

Ahhhhhh, The Massage

Hot Towel Treatment

All Done

April Fools Day!

I have been trying for Years to get Whitney and it never works out. We put those Easter egg dye tablets in the bathroom sink faucet the night before. The next morning she stumbled into the bathroom and turned on the sink. NOTHING!!! Ivan and I were dumbfounded because we had tried it and it worked for us. Why didn't it work? Ivan decided to put a bunch of them in the shower head at once. She showers at night so we had to wait all day. While we were at Wal-mart grocery shopping I received a phone call from Whitney she was totally freaking out and afraid to get into the shower. She said oil looking stuff was coming out of the shower. She even called Casey's Dad to find out what it was (he is a plumber). I told her that Ivan would look at it when he got home. When we got home Ivan told her that he thought it was an April Fools Day problem. HAHAHAHAHAHA We finally got her! She did admit she saw something blue in the sink in the morning, but was too tired to process it. Thank you Bunnie for giving me that idea! Thanks Mom and Dad for letting us spend the day with you! The kids had a blast at Grandma and Grandpa's doing a craft, playing with Grandpa and eating snacks.