ALBRECHT FAMILY TIME

Time flys when your having fun!

2009-07-08T10:44:00.000-07:00

I can't believe how this month has flown by. So much has happened to us the month of June. We first drove out to California to Gary and Sara's wedding. We had a blast of a time. Thanks for the Wiests for putting us up with a great place to stay to laugh and share in fond memories. We then came home and heard Great news that Icon wanted to hire Mike. We now are employed with Icon Health and Fitness located in Logan. Yes, Logan we have our house up for sale and are praying that the slot machine keeps "chachinging" in pooring out blessings to us and that we call have a buyer soon so that the kids can start school up in Logan. I have to tell you we are all excited about the new adventure that awaits us (even Hailey and Conner) but, my eyes have never ever had to set its sites on anything but Timp Mountain and G Mountain it will take my eyes time to adjust to a new set of Mountain scenery but I know this is going to be Great for us. We also celebrated another fun eventful Strawberry Days full of Rain, Rain, Rain and lots of laughter. I honestly can't remember it ever raining for good Ol' Strawberry Days but it was fun even if it was wet. I know me and the girls will always remember the rain for the childrens parade and rodeo and sitting on the merry go round waiting out the storm but at the same time wondering why the carni workers wouldn't give us a ride while we were waiting on the merry go round. Probably because it would have been a "free" ride and then the Mammoth Parade sitting in a small rain fall with wet blankets and happy kids from all the candy and free t-shirts and hats. I had a ball catching up with old friends and laughing NOW at how sick I got on the Sizzler dang I swear that ride was broken. I am not getting old. We also celebrated Maycie's 12th birthday at Gary and Sara's reception and had a mean 4 square game. Mike and I celebrated our 18th anniversary. WHOA! now that is old.

2009-06-02T07:20:00.000-07:00

6 days in Minnisota with my sister and family

2009-06-02T06:59:00.000-07:00

We had all waited for this day to arrive. The day me and my girls could fly out to Minnisota and visit the Mcmanus family and to see new baby Taylor "Cougar" he sure is a cutie. We had a fun time laughing and catching up with each other. Everyone asked what I thought of Minnisota. I thought it was fine but, I was there visiting Raquel those that lived there did a thumbs down. We enjoyed hanging out at their home spending some great time catching up. We went to a Zoo, and a outdoor habitat center we hit a few yard sales and visited the park on a daily basis. We also were kicked out of the material store but had a great time at the good will and diffently enjoyed good food and dilly bars. Most of all we enjoyed our time with Kel and her family. I can't wait till they come out for summer and most of all when they are done with residency, I am sure I am not the only one. Thanks for the fun and love.

June the month of Strawberry Days

2009-06-02T06:21:00.000-07:00

I love the month of June. The time when the kids are out of school for the summer. Days of hitting the PG pool and looking forward to good ol' Strawberry Days and you can't forget the Rodeo, Yehaw! The best part though is seeing so many good friends and people you know around town and at the Strawberry Days events. I love being able to catch up and hug a bunch of dear friends that I haven't seen since maybe the last years Strawberry Day and heck lets face it I might even hug and give a shout out to those I don't even know. I laugh when I go out with our friends, I can be talking to someone or making a comment and they say who is that "heck if I know" now they ask "do you know them?" The only thing that could make it greater would be to have my sister Raquel and her family here to enjoy in the fun times and be part of the summertime memories. I can't wait to get a dozen bowl fulls of strawberrys and cream. I better have dropped 5 lbs by then. HA!

May already

2009-05-11T17:43:00.000-07:00

Okay so 3 months have gone by. Raquel informed me I had better change and update my blog she said she was "sick of hearing christmas music" I felt dumb and then found out that it wasn't THAT bad I had February up. LOL! I just have been busy with what I don't know you would think my house would be alot cleaner and me alot skinner with me not updating my blog but no my home is still lived in and me well I have lost some weight but still want to loose more. Who doesn't want this.
We are still unemployed for all of those who don't know but we are still alive and surving this stage in our life. Mike is ready to jump out of his skin at times but he has been very dedicated to the Lord and to our family. I have really enjoyed seeing Mike grow spiritually and to bring our family up a bunch of notches in strengthening our family spritiually and mentally. We definatly have a great respect for others who are willing to give of their time and support and especially their kindness. I have a great love for service and have found myself as well as the rest of our family going out of our way to offer service to others. I think we are a pretty great family and that we probably needed this unemployement to enrich our family and our lives. Dang it. I have often heard people say that I am great at making lemonaide out of lemons. I am so glad that I was blessed with a smile and a big dose of patience and faith. I do feel it strengthening and feel grateful that we have been truly blessed and taken care of. I do feel a great love from our Savior and Heavenly Father and in return a great respect and love for them and feel that Mike and I have truely strengthened our relationship with them. For this I am thankful and know that we will be blessed with blessings unknown to us and at a unknown time.

2009-02-03T05:12:00.000-08:00

Yeah, Yeah, I am a slow girl when it comes to my family blog but I truly am a dedicated mom and wife when it comes to my family. We had a great Christmas and New Years. We celebrated Haileys 14th Birthday and Sadies 3rd Birthday without any Binkis Yahoo! I think that was a gift in its self. I did have to do some fasting and praying before I attempted to get rid of it and let me remind all you how great fasting and prayers are along with alot of faith. Mike recently lost his job from Idaho tech. as you all remember a little over a year ago he had been layed off from BD so here we are in almost the same boat and let me tell you it is not much fun. Heavenly Father must have something great in our future, now if we can find it and fine tune our ears and hearts for the reception. We are getting ready to head to Mexico with all the family. We are so grateful that we have a great and close family who has helped us continue to go and enjoy in the family fun. I have to let you all know I feel very blessed to have been sent to such a wonderful family and to be able to have such a closeness with all. I feel it is funny that when things seem to be in a trying time that I can feel at peace and can feel my Heavenly Fathers present stronger. Times like these make us remember the extra and simple things we need to be doing to strengthen our lives on to better ourselves. I love you all and Thank You for your love.

Merry Christmas to all!

2008-12-04T11:18:00.000-08:00

I love this time of year. The chill in the air the twinkling lights on the homes and the tree shinning through the windows. Their is a jingle in my step as I go down the isle of the stores singing along to the Christmas songs being played of the sound system. I enjoy looking in peoples carts to see what they are buying. I also dreed taking my little ones with me as they spy all the fun toys and gifts and say "Please can I get this" I reply "No, I am not buying anything today. Santa will have to bring it to you, so hug it tight and make a wish to Santa so that he will know this is something on your list."
We have had a few funny things happen so far this year pertaining to Christmas. We draw names with in my little family. Mike has Hailey and I think this is the 3rd year in a row that he has had her name. I truely has happened by chance. Then Sadie has Katie. We were in the store and Katie was checking out the Little Pet Shops, her favorite toys. Anyhow, Katie turns to Sadie with a handfull of animals saying "Sadie this is what you are giving me for my present" Sadie replys "yes. I will get you this. I got you a good gift you will be surprised" and tosses them in the cart. Then we found out we have a dog in our house a "Snoop Dog". She sometimes goes by the name of Maycie. Well Maycie is 11 years old and apprently does not like surprises anymore. Mike caught her snooping in his trunk. She told me someone had knocked and left a box on the front door for her (UPS) from Amazon. She also was caught searching my closet and had found some items. We came home a little earlier than expected and then she found a suspecious box in the workout room. Good Heck Santa better get to it and be alot more creative in hide and not so easy in the seek part. I gave Maycie the 3rd degree all the while she is bawling. I told her to quit her bawling that I had found her snooping and not smoking so stop her snooping and stop her crying. I came home with a early perfect gift for her. Wrapped it up and had her open it. A t-shirt reading "I am on the naughty list" I told her for her punishment she will wear this once a week until Christmas has arrived. She stared at me and saying "NO, I will if they have a shirt saying I am on the Nice list" Uh this wont work so I guess the shirt goes back. The rotten bugger. So far Christmas is off with a bang! Merry Christmas to you all.

NEWS FLASH..........

2008-11-10T19:58:00.000-08:00

NEWS FLASH.......................... Sadie is still on the bink. Ugh! I know you think we are wimps but actually we weren't being very nice. The day she lost the binky's which lead to us getting rid of them she was sick, very sick all around up and down in and out you get the idea. Two days into it she never cried for it and went to bed without it. The third day Aunt Jayne came over and seen how sick she was and said "oh, poor little girl don't take the binky away she needs it." I though no way she has done fine and not cried but then she fell and got hurt later that day and would not stop crying for it. Mike and I felt mean. So off he went to restock our supply. In the meantime I got her side tracked and was just heading to take her on a drive. Big sister Maycie saw the big green ugly thing and said here does she want this? SURE! And so you see she got it back and is now better. DANG!! It reminds me of a crying kid in sacrement meeting. As soon as you take the kid out they are happy you go back in and they start to cry. Crazy. I will start next week on this monster thing. I hope she will be happy at the inlaws for Thanksgiving. Oh well if not give them Hell Sadie.

No more BINKIS

2008-11-07T08:59:00.001-08:00

Today is the day. Over the several weeks we have lost and mike has bought new Binky's. Last night Sadie has 3 Binky's carrying them around and when it was bed time..........no Binky's to be found. So Mike was offering to go buy some more. Hell no I am sick of this Binky and sick of looking for them. As bedtime came (11:00 p.m.) Sadie asked for the Binky I told her she lost them. She fell asleep and slept without asking or crying or demanding it. Yahoo! So today is the last of those ugly dumb things. Good riddance. Now I know why I never gave them to my older kids. What a pain.

Thanksgiving Time

2008-11-06T13:50:00.000-08:00

It is Thanksgiving time again. I love this time because of the weather changing and seems like you just want to stay home and cook soup in the crock pot. This is also another time of year that seems to say "Eat Me...........I can't I am already stuffed" Yes I am off to a diet again. I don't know if it is to make room for the yummy dinner and Christmas goodies or if it is the photos I discovered and there I was a skinny mom and Pre-mom. Mike and I laughed in amazement at how in shape and looking good we were. Dang! So later on I don't think we were laughing as much as realizing we better get with it. We have all the equipment just not so much energy after taking care of our family. Anyhow So bring it on.

Halloween

2008-11-06T13:29:00.000-08:00

All in the name of Teammate

2008-11-06T12:59:00.000-08:00

Halloween Night

2008-11-05T19:19:00.000-08:00

Halloween night was a Howling with fun. Conner headed out to a party. Hailey headed out with friends trick or treating and party. Maycie headed out with her friend Chloe to trick or treat. Maycie had a goal of getting at least 200 pieces of candy. She succeed with 265. Mike and I took the little girls out around the neighborhood started off together. Next thing I know is Katie and I are treating together at the west side and Mike and Sadie treating on the east side. We meet back home exhausted and ready for a treat. The two older girls had sleep overs at their friends and me and the little girls went to bed while Mike waited up to go pick up the big boy at midnight. Mike was hunkering for a midnight snack and hit Beto's. I guess thats what the big boys do to bond, EAT.

Descisions, Descisions??????????????

2008-11-05T19:05:00.000-08:00

October was full of decisions on what to wear or have mom make for Halloween. Hailey was Muscle Women/American Gladiator. Sadie decided far in advance she was going to be a pig, a flying pig. Katie was going to be a deer (who comes up with a deer) so we went and bought the material for it. Good thing I waited to make it because she changed her mind and decided she would be her cat from last year. Like a good and tired mom I gladly agreed to this. Maycie wanted to be Belle with the big flowing yellow gown. I was in trouble from the start. Those of you who know Maycie know that she is a BIT PICKY the littlest things bug her, like texture a loose strand of hair and a string from her sock. Trying to please her I set out and sewed her dress up a few days before the family party (a week before Halloween) Well I just didn't have it quit the way she had in visioned in her head. (Surprise to me.............not really) for a few frustrated hours between her and me and Hailey(who is sticking her nose in to everything. But being my sounding board) We get passable for her. I told her nicely and with a firm voice to never ask her sweet mother to sew another costume again. Well family party comes and Hipp Hipp Horray for a fun night. It is nearing time to go and Maycie had split her dress down the side. I sewed it up and she wears it to the ward party. She calls me from school friday asking me to bring her some clothes to change in her dress had tore again. I told her princess were not to be running around on playgrounds. To tell you the truth I could have cared less what happened to the dress. I took over a few choices of clothes plus costumes and she chose my jr. cheerleader outfit. GOOOOOOOOOOOO Maycie!

September falling into October

2008-10-06T20:01:00.000-07:00

Yeah I know I am missing the month of September. My Birthday month. BOO HOO! Let me just tell you I am glad that it has came and gone. Busy, Busy, Busy. I had a great birthday. Mike bought me a new pair of Jamas he was sick of seeing me wear my t-shirt with the hole in the back. Thanks Mike now I look pretty. We celebrated Katie's 5th birthday. She was so excited to finally have her big day and to get her presents. One little girl came without a present (her mom was out getting it and would bring it to her later) anyhow after the party katie says "Madison is not my friend no more. She forgot to give me a present" Well Madison dropped by a gift monday. A cute silver purse filled with lipsticks and fake fingernails with polish. She is in girl heaven. Thank goodness. We are headed to Vegas for UEA and we cant wait to get out of town and rest in sin city or rather become sinners in Vegas oh yeah the kids are comming I forgot we will be Saints. ha! Well the girls have me busy with making their costumes for Halloween.........I have bousht the material but thats as far as I have gotten plus Katie has decided not to be a deer and now the brown material will sit for another year or two. I have been busy with quilts everyone has gotten me their christmas gifts early this year. Football is still going strong to bad they don't have a real strong team this year but hey- the kids are having a ball and the coaches maybe discouraged but they to are enjoying the kids. The sophmore team meets at One Man Band to eat the night before a game. They help the one man guys sweep the floor and wipe down the tables before they leave. funny! Softball is winding down about another month and we will be done. Katie is enjoying Preschool and Saide well she wishes she could go. Maycie loves 6th grade but can't wait for 7th or at least to join young womens. Me to... it is going to be a great month.

School Days

2008-08-31T19:14:00.000-07:00

Football season. This means the weather is changing and soon the leaves on "G" Mountain will be dotted with red, yellow and orange leaves. The kids have started school with Maycie in 6th grade big kid at the elementary and Hailey 8th grade. Loving every minute of jr.high and Conner has started Pleasant Grove High. He is in school heaven. He loves going to school and being among the cool kids at school and spying those cutie pattotie's. He rides the bus thankgoodness. His first story about the bus was it broke down the first day of school and I was called to come pick him up. Then a few days later it was full when he got on and looked at everyone and said real coolly "move over people your looking at a football player" the rows of kids slid over just to make room for the studly football kid. Yeah right, I can't believe he said that. He must be feeling real good about himself in highschool I think I would have shouted out "shut up and sit down" Funny! Katie starts her second year of preschool Yahoo! Wednesday is her big day or should I say Moms big day. Just me and little Sadie. She is going to be bored. I love school. Mike is not enjoying his homework. He helps the kids with their math. I laugh that he is still doing homework.

Years of fun with our dad

2008-08-14T13:05:00.000-07:00

Happy Birthday to our Dad. We love you!

Happy Birthday Mike! August 15th. B-Day #39!

2008-08-08T07:34:00.001-07:00

This month is my Mike's birthday I thought I would do a little tribute to the man who drives me crazy. Happy Birthday Mike. I love ya!

2008-07-28T20:17:00.000-07:00

Okay so I am late with the month of July. I think this month has been a month for me. I first had my family reunion with all the Jensen family up to great old Grandpa Shinning Mountain. What a fun place to go and relax. It seems like time stands still when you are there. My kids had fun in the stream on the zip line and tire swing and getting reacquainted with their cousins. Love that place and the family. Then I finally broke out "my" scroll saw that Mike had bought me oh let say about 4 years ago for my birthday. So, I decided to cut me out a cute Statue of Liberty girl. (now the wind has knocked her over and she needs fixing ah, next year) Mike was so happy to see me using it or was he happy to have me get it out of the front room. Where it stayed under the table to remind me to use. Then our oven went out. Mike and I went to RcWilley and after much thought he purchased himself a double oven which he is so proud of and then of course OOPS. I was cleaning off the top of the cabinets and bang a vase fell on top of the stove and oh no! I knew and so did Conner who witnessed it that I was going to be handed a pen to sign for the divorce papers. I patched up the stove it looks real nice.
Mike and I got a scooter to help save on gas expense and to buzz Conner to and from the high school for Football practice and all around town to his friends house. Well we had the cute little scooter for 1 whole week I went to go pick up Conner put the little kick stand down, instead of the industrial stand it should go on. As soon as my foot touched the kick stand I knew that I should use the other one but like usual I brushed it off. When Conner and I came out from Bryan, his friends house we saw his uncle picking up the cute little scooter. AHHHHHHHHHHHHH! If I would only listen to that still small voice. I was sick and once again Conner was there to remind me "dad is going to be madddddddd". I am starting to think that, that little saying "you can't have anything nice when you have kids". Well lets just add my name in there some where. So I have decided that August is going to be a fresh start for me and hopefully a happy month for Mike. That could be his birthday gift. A good old freebie gift. gotta love those.

catching up

2008-07-28T20:05:00.000-07:00

Yeah, Yeah, Yeah I know I am slow. I guess I just am spending my time more wisely than you others. Not, just that the kids wont give me any free time.

Strawberry Days 2008

2008-06-30T07:17:00.000-07:00

Every year we look forward to Good ol' Strawberry Days. Katie and Sadie were excited to ride the horse's. Katie was looking forward to the "RADIO" all year long as she would call it. She has finally got it down to the "RODEO". Katie was in cowgirl heaven the night we went to the rodeo. As we were leaving the rodeo grounds and heading to the car she said with a big grin "this is better than Disneyland" we all laughed and the older kids looked at her like she as if she really had ridden a bull that night and fell to have her head scrabbled. Conner helped out at Huckfin Days and Hailey and Maycie enjoyed the big fish pond trying to catch real fish in their butterfly nets. Next year mom will have to buy real fish nets. Their friends caught 3. Sadie loved holding the fish they caught and Katie well she loved playing with everyones dogs and just looking pretty in her swimsuit. It was a long hot day but was so much fun to see the kids enjoying time with each other and me catching up with some old friends. I think thats what I love most about Strawberry Days time is running into good school friends that I haven't seen for a while. It couldn't have been funner unless Mcmanus were here to be part of our fun.

A NEW START

2008-05-04T06:52:00.000-07:00

HELLO FRIENDS AND FAMILY! WE ARE EXCITED TO BE SHARING OUR ALBRECHT FAMILY TIME WITH YOU.

WE ARE A BUSY BALLGAME FAMILY ALREADY THIS YEAR. THERE IS NOTHING LIKE SPRING BASEBALL AND SOFTBALL. DROPPING OFF THE KIDS TO PRACTICE AND PICKING THEM UP. I WAS WAITING FOR CONNER ONE DAY FINISHING UP BASEBALL PRACTICE. I FELT A WARMTH OF EXCITEMENT AND BUTTERFLY'S RUN THROUGH ME AS I LOOKED AROUND AT THE SIGNS OF EARLY SPRING AND THE SIGHT OF BASEBALL DIRT, LARGE GREY METAL BACKSTOPS, GREEN FIELDS FILLED WITH CUTE YOUNGMEN LAUGHING AND RUNNING AFTER THE BALL THAT HAD JUST BEEN HIT. THE SOUND OF LAUGHTER AMONG THE PLAYERS AND THE GOOD OLD SOUND OF THE BALL HITTING THE BAT, AH THE SOUNDS OF SPRING BALL! I REALIZED THAT I WAS A PROUD HAPPY MOM. WHEN DID I GROW UP TO BE OLD AND MY KIDS TOOK MY PLACE IN TIME, THE TIME I REMEMBER BEING THEIR AGE? YOUNG AND NOT A CARE IN THE WORLD, EXCEPT HAVING FUN!