MILEY CYRUS CONCERT!

I took Mariah and Taylor to the Miley Cyrus Concert tonite and it was super fun! When I say I took them I mean Tony paid for it! LOL We left a little bit after school and went to Noodles n Company to eat dinner and then took off for Salt Lake City. The Concert was at the Delta Center we got there in good time and didn't have to park to far. I bought (Tony paid for) t-shirts and concert programs for the girls. We had good seats in the lower bowl and the Concert was awesome! Miley was sick with the flu and they had to stop the concert at one point right after it started to let her rest but after that she was out there rocking the house! There was not one empty seat in the whole place! She showed a clip of her new movie and she even got on a bike and went up in the air it was great! I had a blast with Taylor and Mariah and they loved it! Thanks for looking-kimber

Homecoming 2009

These are the pictures we took of Shae with her homecoming date! She had a great time and she looked great! It was a little sad her mom was out of town so she didn't get to see her in person so we took tons of pictures. This is the last Homecoming she will go to cause she is a senior this year. I hope you enjoy looking at the pics! kimber

Happy Birthday Taylor!!

Back to School Time at the Stoddard Home!

Well Sorry it has taken me so long to post this but with school and life I have just been soo busy! As you can see my kids are getting big! And we will have so many changes in our home this next year, Shae will graduate from High School, Taylor and Austin will both be driving, Trevor will go to high school next year, Teran will be in 9th grade and Mariah will go into 6th. It seems like yesterday that I was standing in Taylor's 1st grade class crying cause she was a big kid and now I have 6 kids and they all seem to be growing up so fast! I wish I could freeze time and make them stay little but I know that is not how life works! I feel like by the end of this school year all of our lives will change forever with Shae graduating and going to college our family will never be the same again. It is exciting and sad all at the same time. I look around at all my friends who all have little kids and wish for that time back, so to all of my friends treasure each moment you have cause it goes by sooo fast and in the end they all grow up to be teenagers! lol

We R Busy at the STODDARD HOUSE!!!

Just thought I would show you what we have been doing most of the summer! This is the summer of the yard and getting it in shape. The pics of the curbing being done was really done last summer but everything else you see is of this summer. Tony says I am the slave master cause this is all I talk about is when are more rocks bieng delivered, when are we buying more bushes, when are we buying more stones, and when are we finishing the pond! I just want everything done by winter so next summer we can move on to something else like I don't know a kitchen remodel!!! I know none of you have heard me talk about that! lol I have been really a slacker about blogging this summer and hopefully I will get back on the band wagon and get things coming I will keep you posted as we progress with the front and back yard! Thanks for looking!

"Sealing" the Deal!

What a great day! It was a loooong time coming! We got luckly and got sealed on the only saturday in March that it was actually sunny and semi-warm weather! I just wanted to say thanks to all of our family and friends who traveled so far to be with us that day. Some of them came long distances like Amber & Jeff - Thanks for keeping your promoise to be with us it means so much to us that you came! You really find out who your true friends are when you ask them to come be with you when you get sealed and then tell them you are doing it in Manti three hours away! Thanks for giving up time with your family and a whole saturday to be with our family! This is a day that our family will never forget! I just would like to share a little side note about the day - When we got to the temple and were done with photos and went in to fill out paperwork and such they took Tony and I to different rooms for a little bit while I was sitting in the room by meself I said a little prayer about how greatful I was that we had finally made it here- then I said to myself how I wished Brittany was here with me to help me get dressed and such but I knew that I would not see her until we were in the sealing room and it made me kind of sad. Just then they brought Tony in the room I was in and started to take us to the dressing rooms just as they opened the door there stood Jeremy & Brittany Strong! The escort asked me is she your friend? I said YES! she is! Then the escort said then she can come with you and help you! Heavenly Father answers prayers even if it is just for your friend to be with you. Brittany got to help me get dressed and stay with me until it was time to go meet back with Tony - I don't know if she realizes how much that meant to me to have her there with me and how special it was to me to have my dear friend with me to help me during such a special and sacred time. Thanks for being such a good friend to me Brittany you tell it to me like it is when I am out of line without being judgemental and mean and you back me up when you think I am in the right! You and Jeremy have become our best friends and we love being with your family and I look forward to many more years of friendship and putting up with our "crazy" husbands! LOL I just wanted to share that little story with everyone and to once again tell everyone how grateful we are to have such great friends and family that support us!

Draper Temple

So we went to the Draper Temple this last Friday with our whole family. It was a great experience to have with the whole family. I was a little concerned cause I had heard conflicting reports to how long we would have to wait in line, and our time wasn't until 7:40pm on Friday nite. When we got down there we got great parking at the church and walked right in to the gym and sat down once there we realized we had sat in the line that had already seen the video but we decided not to move cause we all knew why we had temples and what they are for. We only waited for 10 mins and then we got loaded on a bus. Once at the temple we walked right up and into the temple there was no waiting! It was great to be able to walk through and answer questions that the kids had. The highlight moment for me and for anyone else who has gone of course was to be able to stand in the celestial room with our whole family.

BRITTANY HAD HER BABY!!!!

So Brittany Strong had her baby boy Porter Beck Strong

Monday Feburary 2nd @ 5:58pm

He weighted 6lbs. 14 oz He was 20 inches long

We all waited all day for him to come! Brittany's doctor told her she would most likely deliver faster the 2nd time around. That turned out NOT to be correct! Poor thing was in labor since 9:30am that morning. Jeremy kept texting all day to keep me informed of the progress. Then he called us soon after he was born to tell us all was good and to hurry to the hospital to check the new member of the family! We were the 2nd ones on the scene at the hospital then we waited our turn after all the grandparents check out the new addition. Porter was well worth the wait! He is a very cute baby! We went up again on Tuesday to bring them dinner and to get in some more "porter time" at the hospital! Congrats Brittany! we sure are happy for you!

Here are some cute pics I took at the hospital! Enjoy!

It's all about GAME DAY!!!

It is all about GAME DAY for me!!! I love football but why wouldn't I - I grew up in Texas where to us football is a religion! My favorite team of course is the "Dallas Cowboys" but in general I just love football and can remember from a early age watching football with my dad since my brothers didn't come along for another 10 years after me I was the one that watched football and pro wrestling - yeah I know you are like what? wrestling? kimber? but I have to admit that I loved it watching wrestling with my dad on Saturday nites was like our date nite my mom of course wanted no part of it which was fine with us we didn't want her there spoiling our fun! So back to football did I tell you yet how much I love it? I think everyone should have a "team" I don't understand it when people don't it makes no since to me. Only some of my family members have "teams" which bothers me a great deal! lol Taylor and Trevor are true blue Denver Bronco fans (that is their dads favorite team) but they do say Cowboys are their 2ND favorite. For me there has never been any other team than the Cowboys! So for me the Superbowl is just as big as any other major Holiday. This year was no exception I planned the menu and organized the friends and made the plans- if you haven't clued in to the fact yet that I am OCD this next part will let you know for sure. I went to Target in Layton cause I had seen that they had really cute Superbowl plates and cups for the big day then when I got there they only had some of the stuff I was looking for -they where out of the big football plates so I asked someone to help me and they looked on the computer and told me the next target that had the plates I was looking for was in West Jordan. So have you guessed what I did? If you said I drove to West Jordan you are correct! LOL yes I drove to West Jordan for paper plates! but they looked like footballs! I also got napkins, table cloth and the best thing was the "air horn"!!
The Cooks were great to let us have it at their house and the Strong's along with Brooke and Mark came to join in the fun. If some of you noticed I left church early to get to home change and help Mike and Tina with any last min. details. We had a blast none of our teams where playing but we were all cheering for Arizona we had to at least cheer for the NFC! It was a great game and I had fun using the air horn every time there was a touchdown! It was a great game and had tons of fun with good friends I hope you enjoy the slide show!

THE WORST SPANISH TEACHER EVER-MS. CANNELL!

What does make a good teacher? We all have our own ideas and answer to this question. I can tell you what I think about subject. Teachers come in all shapes and sizes some are mean and strict some are layed back and nice some are even strict and nice. My kids have had all types Some I have loved and known that they have loved my kids some I will be honest I have hated right along with my kids. Mostly my kids have had good teachers - you have more one on one contact with them when your kids are little not so much as they get older. You may be asking what is Kimber going on and on about? Well all my kids go to Syracuse Jr. High ok not all of them but 4 out of 6 of them. Now mostly we have had good luck with teachers but poor Taylor has had some bad luck 1st she gets stuck last year with the WORST SPANISH TEACHER EVER! MS. CANNELL and we all suffer through her class last year but then yet again we get stuck with her AGAIN! Now I thought maybe some of it was in Taylor's head about how she was but then I had to meet her once and then I understood what Taylor was talking about. Even though we didn't like her last year Taylor came out on top in the class this year has been more of a struggle not that Taylor has had trouble in Spanish 2 most days but she just doesn't like Taylor or any of her friends. At the end of the term I kept watching her grade and it just kept getting worse not understanding it -cause when I looked at the scores online they where all in the A range so why such a poor grade? When I emailed her teacher she informs me that Taylor was either late or absent from her class or talking so she deducts from her participation grade so that is why she had a low grade! Are you kidding me? So my kid is late or absent so we are going to give her a low grade? I can understand the talking but not really -- talking should go toward citizenship - (which i think that is a total joke also - i could careless if my kid is late to class) but anyway Ms. Cannell and I went round and round on this matter - then I find out the other girl who was talking has a higher p. grade than Taylor even though they where both talking - so we go round and round again -- She emailed me at one point and said"why didn't you email me back" i responded by saying "Cause I don't agree with how you grade it is stupid- she has a "A" in your class but because she has been late 3 times and absent 2 times you are wanting to give her a "D"!
Don't get me wrong I don't think Taylor is perfect or any of my kids but I do think calling a spade a spade- I will go to bat for my kids if I think they are getting taken and Ms. Cannell was totally taking Taylor why because she is popular and likes to talk sometimes? Because she is not a nerd? I know how that sounds but I do mean it in a nice way - Plus Ms. Cannell has them do the stupidest assignments I have ever seen she had the kids take pictures of themselves stuffing grapes in their months and then bring the pics to her! What purpose does that serve? What does that have to do with teaching my kid Spanish 2? I tried to get her out of Cannells class for this next term but then she would have been in a class with over 40 students so Taylor just decided to suffer through again. All I have to say is Taylor's report card came out and she ended up with a B+ so I can live with that even though I think she should have got an "A" Even Stoddard was up in arms over this whole thing and for him to get involved you know she was whacked! All I can say is if anyone has any kids that go to Syracuse Jr. don't take Spanish from Ms. Cannell SHE IS THE WORST SPANISH TEACHER EVER!!

120 Things...

120 Things about me -- I saw this on someones blog in my ward and thought it was cute i just changed it a bit! Hope you enjoy reading

*1 My family is always my #1 priority
*2 Tony is my prince charming
*3 I love referring to him as "COWBOY" and "STODDARD"
*4 I love to scrapbook
*5 I wish I made more time to scrapbook
*6 I wish my kids were little again
*7 I am glad that my kids can mostly take care of themselves
*8 I am very OCD
*9 It doesn't bother me that I am OCD
*10 I have to have my life planned out
*11 I don't do good with "winging it"
*12 I love that I have a DVR
*13 I love watching mindless TV
*14 I am ok with just being me
*15 I need to go to the temple more
*16 I like spring and summer
*17 I hate the winter
*18 I hate snow
*19 I really think that I am a princess
*20 In my next life I want to come back as someone famous
*21 I wish I could sing
*22 I am glad that we have 6 kids
*23 I love the loudness of having 6 kids
*24 I wish my dad was still alive
*25 I miss my dad everyday
*26 I am very inpatient
*27 My husband has spoiled me and I love that he does
*28 I love the fact that I am spoiled
*29 I know that my Savior lives
*28 I hated when the ward spilt
*29 There are still days that I wish I was in the 16th ward
*30 I really do like our ward
*31 Not everyone is your friend
*32 Always be careful who you choose as friends
*33 Most days I don't mind working for my husband
*34 I love my dog zoie
*35 I hate Tony's dogs
*36 I love the fact that we go on dates every Friday Nite
*37 I love the Dallas Cowboys!
*38 I can't wait til Superbowl Sunday!
*39 I wish some days that we had more kids
*40 Most days I am glad I don't have more kids
*41 I wish I could still talk to my grandparents
*42 I know The Book of Mormon is True
*43 I love that "Stoddard" is a good example
*44 I love that things matter to "Stoddard"
*45 I wish I was more talented like Katie McNeil
*46 True Friends are hard to find
*47 Not all friends are true friends
*48 I can't wait till Taylor can drive
*49 I wish Taylor was 3 again
*50 I hate all my bathrooms in my house
*51 I want to own another horse someday
*52 I love that Tony surprises me all the time
*53 I wish I had met Tony when I was 18
*54 I hope to go on a great vacation soon like Hawaii
*55 I really do believe that Disneyland is "The Most Magical Place On Earth"
*56 I want to go to Disneyland again
*57 I surprised myself and really did like Twilight
*58 I wished I blogged more
*59 I can put on a tough face but I really do get hurt by others
*60 I don't care most of the time want people think
*61 I do care what "Stoddard" and my friends think
*62 Santa is real his name is "Tony"
*63 Christmas is my favorite Holiday
*64 I love that my birthday is in the summer
*65 I want to go on vacation with just my girlfriends
*66 I want to learn to garden better
*67 Chocolate Chip ice cream will always be my fav.
*68 I miss drinking Diet Pepsi
*69 I love that my kids talk to me and tell me all their secerets
*70 I am glad that our fence is done
*71 I always have a list of things that I want done to my house
*72 I have learned not to stereo type people - cause you are usually wrong
*74 First Impressions are not always the best
*75 People I thought I would never be friends with have become good friends
*76 People I thought were friends ended up not being who I thought they were
*77 I learned to VAULT!
*78 I learned the hard way that I give my trust to people to easy
*79 I learned to make people earn my trust
*80 I love that we are great friends with the Strongs
*81 I love that my husband likes to go to church
*82 Some days I wish I could have a do over on my life
*83 I wish my hair was a lot longer
*84 I thought I would hate not being in Primary but I really love being in RS
*85I learned that your true friends forgive you easily and others do not
*86 I wish more of my friends scrap booked
*87 I love that I own a Pink 4-wheeler and that my husband bought it for me
*88 My favorite color will always be pink
*89 I hate putting gas in my car
*90 I love going to Walmart
*91 I love to read church books
*92 Sometimes I think blogs cause problems when people vent instead of talk face to face
*93 Most of the time I love reading my friends blogs
*94 I don't like my space or face book that is why I don't have one
*95 I wish I could keep my car clean
*96 I really don't like to fly that much
*97 I am glad my brother came home from Iraq for the second time alive
*98 I pray for my family everyday
*99 I love my family very much
*100 I love chocolate
*101 I love that I was able to find my Happily Ever After!
*102 Just because someone is nice to you doesn't mean they like you
*103 Just because you are nice to people doesn't mean they will be nice back
*104 I think I am a really good friend to those who I trust
*105 I am who I am you either love me or you don't and most days i don't care which
*106 I love to eat Sushi with "Stoddard" and good friends
*107 I love to go to Tepanyaki and Timbermine and I really don't care how much it cost
*108 I am a daughter of God
*109 I am always impressed how much better my children are than me
*110 Swearing is easy to do but harder to quit
*111 Nothing worth having is easy
*112 You need to be prepared - need I say more
*113 I don't hide my feelings well
*114 I talk a lot and I don't care that I do
*115 My favorite movie is and will always be Gone with the Wind
*116 Only "Stoddard" knows my true feelings about anything
*117 Somedays I wish I never had to leave my house
*118 The Gospel is always true no matter what
*119 I am glad that I have the family that I have
*120 I am not perfect and those who love me don't care

It's that time of year again....

Before I start I want it noted that these are not pics from my home I just grabbed them off the Internet. When we all start pulling out all of our Christmas decorations and putting up our tree. In our family we always get new ornaments each year. This was started by my mother and I have carried it on with my kids. When you get married you get to take your box of ornaments with you to put on your own tree. Now when I was a child my mother picked out our ornaments for us and brought it home and told us "here is your new ornament for this year" as a kid I always wanted to pick out my own ornament. Now that I am in charge I have always let my kids pick their own but as the years go by I can see why my mother always picked ours out for us. I will only pick on my boys because my girls seem to have their heads on straight for this whole process and my sons do not! Each year we go on family nite to pick out our ornaments the boys always seem to find the ugliest - most outragest ornaments they can find to put on my tree. This year is no exception I think that they have out done themselves this year they picked out a owl, a rat with clothes and a big hunk of bark with moss growing on it! I even took them to Tia Pan Trading thinking surly there was nothing there that would be that bad -boy was I wrong! I really think that the boys go out of their way to find these horrible ornaments. The girls could see last nite how frustrated I was with the boys choices and Shae said it all with I quote" Just be glad you have girls" and she is right I am so glad I have girls to balance out my outrageous boys!!! All I can say is I can't wait to see how they explain these ornaments to their future wives! LOL I try not to be so OCD about everything but I always am. When I do sit back and think about the boys and their ornaments it is quite funny the stuff they come up with - but I will never tell them that all I can say is I will be glad when I can turn over their box to them!
I do have to say that I love this time of year it is my favorite of all the holidays there is something magical about Christmas for me. I believe in Santa and wishes coming true and getting that one present that you think that is not going to be under the tree. I know that I get all of this from my mother who always made every Holiday special but she always made Christmas at our home the most magical time of year. I hope that my kids grow up and also have magical Christmas memories from me and that they can over look my OCD faults of how I think things should be.

IT'S GAME DAY!!!

Just incase you don't know this I live in a "HOUSE DIVIDED" but I want it known to all that Taylor and I bleed blue we are true blue through and through BYU FANS!!!
Not sure if "STODDARD" really likes Utah or if he likes them just to bug me!! All I can say if I hope my #1 Team wins today!!!!!

Twilight not sure what the big deal is

So I am not quite sure what the big deal is about this book and movie are but I do know lots of people who are crazy about it. I will be among the millions of people going to see the movie this weekend curiosity of Brittany Strong and her dentist. He rented out a movie theatre for his patients to see if for FREE each patient got so many tickets and Brittany threw me in the mix of her tickets. Taylor is going on Friday with one of her friends and their family who also rented out one of the theatres in Syracuse for this big opening and I think Trevor is going this weekend as well. I haven't taken the time to read any of the books but I do think all the hype that everyone makes of these books and the movie is pretty funny. To each their own! I am not making fun of these people don't get me wrong I just think it is funny to see grown girls act like teenagers over a book, and I don't think I have ever been so excited to see a movie that I went at the 12:01am. The only thing I would ever stay up the late to do would involve "Stoddard" if you get my drift. I am curious to see what all the hype is about but I will be seeing it at 5pm on Saturday with my best friend!

TEENAGERS!!!!

Can i just say that some days i really don't like teenagers! I know that i was one once but i find it hard to believe that i acted like one! LOL Here are a few things that are really on my nerves!

1-You spend time making a menu, go to the store to buy said items on menu, come home put items away, then get them out again on their day to make what is on your menu. Now let it be said that of course NO ONE gives you ideas for said menu- no you are on your own for that! So you come home spend time making dinner so that when the whole family arrives on your door step dinner is done! (At our home that is between 5:30-6:00pm) They come running in to only meet you in the kitchen just as you are serving up the last of your EIGHT! plates to either A- ask you what you are making cause it looks great! B-to ask you what you are making cause it looks GROSS! C- to tell you they are NOT EATING! cause what you made doesn't look good! D- to tell you that so in so in the family is not going to be home for dinner! or my personal favorite from Tony after he ate his dinner was E- This tasted a lot better than i thought it did!!!!!! You know what! make your own DAM dinner!!! and yes i swore!
if you haven't guessed that happened last nite and the dinner was HOMEMADE- chicken and wild rice soup! Of course they all wanted desert which was my pumpkin bars i made for homemaking and of course to top it all off the one that wasn't home came home so i had to heat it all up again and the one that wasn't eating decided that no one died from eating it so they would eat!! TEENAGERS!

2-Another personal favorite of mind is the water taker- this is the one in the house that has no sense that maybe some one else would like to have a hot shower! They get in and i am sure have a nice hot enjoyable shower with no regard that other people and by that i mean ME! would like to have HOT WATER! so they get in for 40 MINS! So when i get in i have barely warm to cold water- yep that is how i love to start my day!

3-Another great thing about teenagers is they have no regard to that you might want to have i don't know YOUR OWN LIFE! they get real snippy if they think you might be gone enjoying yourself for to long what about dinner? or what if they need something? or what if you are not around to take them here or there on a moments notice?

4- And last but not least they have no regard to that you might want to sleep! There are two things involved in this one. A- hey i know it is like 10pm but i need like 3 different things washed and dried by 7:30am and they all are different and can't go in the same load so can you stay up half the nite and make sure it gets done! B- I need to be up by 6am (I know you stayed up half the nite for me BUT i need to be up by 6am) oh and by the way - i can't get up to my alarm so YOU have to get up to get me up and don't think i will get up the 1st time you come get me up! That is just plain SILLY! it will be like the 10000 time you come it which by then will be like 7am and now it is all your fault cause i wasn't up by 6am!

Yeah you've got to love TEENAGERS!

I've been TAGGED!!!

Tina Cook TAGGED me- and the topic is 7 random things that you didn't know about me!

1-I am very scared of heights and when I say VERY SCARED that is what i mean i was about 16 years old before i could step onto a escalator or be in a elevator (the ones that have windows like the one in Layton hills mall) without having a full blown panic attack with me crying uncontrollably until i was off of it. I was a mess if i even thought i might have to get on one. I still have lots of panic when i am at the mall or other places that have these but i have learned to control it and you wouldn't know that i am freaking out inside unless i told you! So now you know the rest of the story....at least on that subject!

2-I was sup post to grow up and be an actress i was involved in theatre my whole life until i went to college and in high school i was in a theatre company in Houston. I won best actress in 1987 in our theatre group. I also preformed at the Alley Theatre in Houston which is a huge theatre play house! Maybe in my next life i will fulfill all of those dreams! I grew up going to plays and such but not so much these days - could you see " STODDARD" at that stuff? I ask and talk about going but i am always given a look like "Please kill me now"!

3-I can't carry a tune to save my life! In fact my mother is a very good singer and would often do solos in church and she never would sit next to me in sacrament meeting because of that, she even hired a singing coach for me but no luck i was never able get the hang of being able to carry a tune.(i did sing in primary cause it was little kids and they won't judge me) so i admire people who can sing my other dream would be able to sing and come back as faith hill,Carrie Underwood or Taylor swift! So you may see me sing in church but most likely i am either mouthing the words or singing softly cause i am very embarrassed by the fact that i can't sing.

4-I am a huge planner so it stresses me out if my life is not planned out and i have to have refer to my planner and my calender on my frig for what we are doing if it is not on the calender then it is not happening. To go along with that i can't have anyone write on the calender but me! and it can only be in blue ink! that also stresses me out to have to write in black ink - i don't know why but it does and i can't remember when i started being like this -so i always carry a blue pen with me everywhere i go cause what if the checker at Walmart had a black pen? That would freak me out! i know i am weird!!! LOL

5-I have to wear my hair up at nite to sleep! I have always been like that since most of my life i have had long hair. I get to hot if my hair is down- it used to have to be in a pony tail but now that i am older-lol it is in a clippie but i can't go to sleep without it being up!

6-I am a huge reality TV buff (also i just am a huge TV watcher) I like them all-
mostly i watch what i call crap TV - right now my big shows are "rock of love charm school" "top chef" "the real housewives of Atlanta" "17 and counting" and "john &Kate plus 8" all of this drives "Stoddard" crazy so i recorded them when they come on at like 2 or 3 in the morning and try to watch them before he gets up in the morning or before he comes home!

7- I can't go to the movies without getting popcorn, candy and a drink (I don't ever share my drink or candy)- In fact i just won't go if that is not part of the deal and it doesn't count as a date unless you have bought me those things! We also have to sit in the same spot every time we go this stresses me out if i think we might not be the 1st in line so we can get our spot! Especially if it is a new movie that i think is going to be huge. I have been known to go 2 or 3 hours early and wait in line and have the rest of the family meet me there so we are 1st in line. I also have to buy my tickets early if i think it is going to be a huge movie. We go to the movies every Thanksgiving my whole life so i already picked out the movie months ago (it has to be a Christmas movie) and will most likely buy my tickets this weekend!

So now you know more than you ever wanted to about me!

I am tagging Taylor& Brittany

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TAYLOR!!!

This is Mine & Taylor's 1st offical picture taken together leaving the hospital!


This picture is of Taylor & Me on the 4th of July she was 8 months old!


This is Taylor at her 4th birthday party as you can see from her cake she was into Little Mermaid at the time!


This picture is of Taylor at her 6th birthday party!


This is Taylor at her 9th birthday party we can see by the cake is was all about cheerleaders that year!


And this is Taylor today SWEET 15!! She is a keeper! It seems like yesturday that she was born and i only turn around for 5 mintues and she is now 15! Her day started off this morning at 5:30am when her sister Shae came over and fixed her hair for her then she was off to school. What she didn't know at the time is that i left the house at 6am to go to Kents to pick up 36 donuts and juice for her 1st period seminary class. I had arranged with her teacher to drop off the donuts before school, i also droped off a huge ballon boquet(that is in this picture) i left it at her desk and i also left her a vase of roses(the girls in our family get roses from Tony and I on their birthday for what grade they are in so this year Taylor got 9 roses- see so when they are seniors they get a dozen! Taylor had no idea i had all this planned plus i tied 4 ballons on her locker! She told me she was in Shock when she got to 1st period! She also said that in everyclass they sang "Happy Birthday" to her! After school i told her Tony want to see her at his office she totally thought she was in trouble is was great! Tony is such a great dad he did a little birthday interview with her about her last year and things he wanted her to work on this next year. He told her how proud we are of her and that no matter what happens in her life we love her then he ended with telling her we where taking her to her favorite place to eat Tepanyaki!! We gave her only one of her presents today "Hero's second season" She is having a HUGE party on Friday just Taylor and her closest 22 friends! LOL the party starts at our house then Tony & I, Jeremy & Brittany and Taylor's grandpa are driving all the kids to "NIGHTMARE ON 13TH" in Salt Lake City it should be fun! (I hate hauted houses)Taylor is the 1st of 3 things that i did absoulty perfect - Taylor, Trevor and marrying Tony! I hope that this next year brings Taylor lots of fun new exciting things her way and that she enjoys the next few years to come. I will always be sad to see Taylor turn a year older cause it means that my little girl is getting older and has less time for me and more time for her friends which is how it is suppost to be but it still makes me a little sad. Gone are the days that i could fix anything in her life with a kiss and a treat and that her dolls, disney movies and playing with her friends where all she worried about.Taylor is all the best parts of me and i wouldn't change her one bit!Except i would like he to clean her room more often -but i guess that comes with age!! Be sure to check back i will post more photos of the big party! We spent tonight decorating our yard for Halloween tonite for her party! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TAYLOR WE LOVE YOU!!

9.11 let's not ever forget that day!

I will never forget 9.11 ever! For me it was a mixture of a horrible day and a good day. 9.11 is the day i knew for sure that i would marry Tony. It started out as any day did for me i got up around 5am got Taylor and Trevor dressed for school and feed and out the door by 6am. I worked at the hospital so i need to be there by 6:30AM to start my shift. Taylor's 1st grade teacher always got to the school at 6am one of her doors to her classroom was on the outside of the building so it opened to the front of the school where parents dropped off their kids. (i hope that makes sense) anyway she would let parents who had to be to work early drop off their kids to her in the morning she would make sure they got school breakfast if they hadn't eaten and help them with homework or give them games to play with until it was time to got to class. I dropped them off to her and went on my way to work,i got to work and started my rounds i kept noticing lots of my coworkers gathered around the nurses station but i kept on my way and thought i would see what was going on later finally the curiosity got the better of me and i walked over and realized that they where all glued to the TV. Then someone clued me in on what was going on. I immediately felt a panic attack coming on and fear swept over me. I walked around for about an hour in a fog trying to go about my routine for the day but not consecrating on my work at all. Then they called me back to the nurses station and told me i had a phone call i thought maybe it was Doug -Taylor and Trevor's dad or maybe my mom or dad but when got on the phone it was Tony! he called to make sure i was OK and not freaking out and told me that everything would be OK and not to worry about anything and that he wanted to see as soon as he could. You have to know i lived in Lewiston Idaho at the time which is about 10 hours from here. Tony was the only person in my whole life that called me that day, i didn't hear from anyone in my family until later that nite and then it was only my mother. I knew from the moment i heard Tony's voice that i would marry him - we had not know each other for that long and he was the only one in my life that bothered to call me at work to make sure i was OK. When he talked to me that day a feeling of peace came over me that i had never felt and i knew that i should never be without him. That i would always be OK if he were around. Tony flew me to Salt Lake City the day they let planes back in the air and before i left he had asked me to marry him. So for me 9.11 has mixed feeling some good came out of that day for me cause it was the day i knew i would be with Tony forever and it was a day of fear and sadness for what happened. I don't think any of us will forget that day not even our kids. Taylor was only in 2ND grade and Trevor was in 1st and when i hear them talk about that day - they remember every detail of what happen to them that day even being so little. I hope that we as families and a nation can learn from what happen that awful day and become better because of it, and hope that nothing like that ever happens again.

It's Back to School Time!

Well it has been a crazy couple weeks around my house getting 6 kids ready to head back to school. This year in the Stoddard Home we have 1 in highschool, 4 in jr high, and 1 left in elementary school. All the kids seemed to have a good 1st day back getting to see all their friends and such. Teran went into 7th grade this year so that meant that he needed to be at the jr high @ 8am this morning and the rest of the kids Taylor, Austin & Trevor didn't need to show up to school till 10am this morning. Taylor left home around 8:15am to go to her friend Jamie's House cause they where having "Back to School Breakfast" with all of their friends! There where 7 girls in all that came when they got there, by the plates where name cards with each girls name on them and on their plate was a folder, notebook, pencils and posts (all that matched each other of course) They had waffles and fruit for breakfast! What a great way to start the school year! Thanks Jamie ! I made Austin and Trevor breakfast and then took them to school! Well we have had a great summmer but I for one am gald to be back in a routine. Mariah started school on August 11th so today was just another school day for her. Shae said that her 1st day was not so great cause in every class she had was an ex-boyfriend or the best friend of a ex-boyfriend -- all i can say to that is that is how it goes--good luck with all that Shae! To celebrate today we took the kids to Rita's Pizza for dinner we had loads of fun listen to all the days events!

We are Back to School in the Stoddard Home!