Layton Logs

Big 2011

2011-12-29T11:28:00.003-07:00

We have bought our first house. Only 12 years into our lives. Lady J is 12, Daddy J gets a new job, and we get a house. Big year just like our first one of marriage. I guess we like to do it big when we do it.

Facebook Takes over

2011-08-14T20:16:00.003-06:00

So I guess that I am now a facebook addict too. Not that I ever kept up with this blog like I could have but now I never even expected it to be here still. If you want to see pictures go and see the site linked above also called capturingmomentsbyamber.blogspot.com.
If you want to see how I am doing...Call. I still suck at texting and although I have a FB I am hard to find. I had to get one for my family cause I never knew about events like births, until after everyone started talking about it. I had to get it also form my neighbors. I found that I never knew what my neighbors were in need of cause you don't knock on the door for sugar anymore, you FB it. WOW what have we come to...And yet now I FB it too cause "When in Rome" I will yearly keep a post on here... or sooner if I remember. Thanks for your love while I keep trying to understand this social media. I see the positive, but also wonder where did the personal attention go when we try and keep up with people we don't even know.

Guitar Guy

2011-01-28T07:50:00.002-07:00

Big T was able to do his 2nd recording on the guitar yesterday. He has been doing lessons for 2 months and has finished the first book. He is very excited and practices OFTEN. He has even learned a few of Lady J's Piano songs on his guitar. He has Dancing Kings ear. Not quite Princess Piano's equal but getting there. Hope he and his sister keep up their love of music.

Scienc Fair

2011-01-28T07:35:00.004-07:00

Lady J had so much fun this week. Too bad Gimpy mom was not as excited for the work. She did great though. On Monday we all but threw in the towel after a 2 hour cry over the stress of the backboard. The project was all extra credit so Gimpy mom suggested we just skip the typing and it all became do-able. (With the gentle help of Daddy J's soothing hugs.) This is why God has granted children the privilege of 2 parents where possible. We are very proud of her and she even more proud of herself. 2nd Place was unexpected but very welcomed. Big T is now training the female. It was in all a good if not very stressful experience. Hope to start soon for next years 2 projects so that the time crunch is less of an issue. We will see on that though.

Priness Piano is getting baptized

2010-10-13T09:49:00.005-06:00

Pumpkin patch

2010-10-13T09:36:00.003-06:00

Lady J Solo

2010-10-01T12:45:00.006-06:00

Lady J did this performance last spring. I hope it works and you enjoy it. Please tell me if you can't view it.

It's a GIRL

2010-09-22T16:26:00.007-06:00

Just so everyone who is not on facebook; like me, knows Mama Starbucks is having a GIRL. Lady J is so excited. She has material all picked out for a blanket. Here is a fun add that I found online that I feel fits

Need Advice

2010-09-22T12:47:00.003-06:00

Well not to take away from Photomom's beautiful pictures because they are amazing. Look down below to see.
But I needed to vent and see if any of you, who have gone through this with me, have any advice to share. My poor niece on Daddy J's side; we shall call her Cheering C, has just taken one too many falls in her flying stunts. She has been told she has to quit the squad. Those of you who know me, know I went through a similar situation my Jr year also. I did not cheer cause they were too snooty...sorry Amy and Adrian. I was on our Dance team. I hurt myself and am still having problems daily from it. So many of you will think...No Brainer. She should be grateful to not have to have surgery at 17. Or why do you need advice it is not you. Well it is me. I am going through all of the emotions I thought I had dealt with those many years ago. I want so badly to help her get through this the way no one could help me or my friends. I just don't see how that is possible. High School years are tough! I got through mine with the help of amazing friends and family. I am sure she has these also.

My problem is that everyone keeps telling her she does not want to be like Gimpy Mom. OK everyone...Think back to HIGH SCHOOL...Come on you can count that many years...Did you ever picture yourself to be in your mid to late thirty's? I never did. Doesn't life end at age 25. After that it is just diapers, and carpools, right. So trying to put herself in my shoes is not fair. Besides had anyone told me what I would look like and act like at my age I would have told them they were stupid. I would never have various doctors appointments every week. It was only back pain, not 60- 80 year old problems. I would never want her to picture herself as me. I don't even like to picture myself as me. I still dream of me at age 23. That was when I was the skinniest and healthiest I had been since 16, with a lot more privileges.

So I guess my question is how do I help her with her identity crisis. All she knows her self as is a cheerleader. She is a sweet girl who is just got handed a crappy situation. In hind sight is there anything any of you could come up with that could have made this transition easier when you were in high school? Thanks Cheering C and I appreciate it cause right now I am not clear headed.

I do appreciate all of you who have been through this with me. We could not do this without you.

Castle Bed

2010-07-24T11:07:00.001-06:00

Princess Piano's Room She Painted

2010-07-24T11:03:00.003-06:00

Camping

2010-07-16T22:25:00.009-06:00

2010-05-24T15:16:00.001-06:00

Wow am I horrible at communication. I know where I get it from. Love you any way mom and dad!

Big T's Big Day

2009-06-03T21:32:00.007-06:00

Well we have made it to age 8. I can hardly believe it. I expected to more likely never make it past the terrible twos. We would like to invite you all to come and join us this Saturday. For details call gimpy mom or send a comment and I will respond.

Look at what our little guy has figured out how to do this morning

2009-05-29T13:21:00.005-06:00

more grandma's 25th aniverery pictures

2009-05-25T16:32:00.004-06:00

Grandma Moody's 25th Party

2009-05-19T19:05:00.003-06:00

Book Reviews and More: 39 Clues

2009-05-11T22:28:00.002-06:00

Help has arrived. I feel stupid. The key to the symbols is on the inside cover of the book on the trowing star. Thanks to these to sites I have figured it out. Thanks. I also found a new clue which I will again post in my comments so that I have it easily accessed for later. Don't look if you don't want the spoiler.

Book Reviews and More: 39 Clues - Card Pack 1
Wiki Bruce -The 39 Clues
The above link amazes me how much info they have. They give each chapter and the puzzles in the book. They also helped me remember why I did not have one of the clues because I spaced out on the announcement. It has been lots of fun. The kids and I have not been reading it lately since I have felt to bad but I hope we can start reading it again soon. I just need to remember to take my drugs sooner I guess.

Help me with clues

2009-04-03T22:50:00.008-06:00

OK Big T, Lady J and mom are trying to figure out what the clue inside the page numbers on book 3 are. If anyone else is reading these books and have figured out what the clues are please let us know. I will leave the answers to the other 2 books, page number clues in the comments so that everyone else does not have to have the spoilers also. They are based off of symbols with the page numbers and I am just looking for the code to decipher it.
Book 1 The Maze of Bones Code is:--1,14,14,5, ,3,1,8,9,12,12, ,4,9,4, ,14,15,20, ,4,18,15,23,14
Book 2 One False Note Code is:-------KNNJ SN HMCHZ
Book 3 The Sword Thief Code is:------

Lady J's 39 clues

2009-04-03T22:42:00.004-06:00

The 39 Clues

Book 1 The Maze of Bones

The 39 clues is about a contest some of the Cahills where invited to. Amy and Dan have to win the contest so they don't have to live with their auntBeatriss. She is a mean aunt who doesn't like Amy and Dan at all! Help Amy and Dan escape social serves . Go to WWW.39 clues.com and start your own adventure for the 39clues.Must have parent approval. Must also have parent supervision first time you play.

I had to send a note to tell the teacher she was not copying the back of the book because it sounds like such an advertisment.

Book 2 One False Note

In The 39 Clues One False Note you learn about different famous people (Otherwise known as Cahills) who have made history to a lot of the people on earth.(Unless your Dan of course) Amy is, as Dan calls her, a major brainyach (or Dan's sister). In #2 they (or you) learn about Mozart and a little bit about Maire Antoinette. Their family will do any thing for then not to win the contest. If you're Amy and Dan you're never safe. With Social Services and their cousins after them it's hard to stay hidden. while having to do so many risky things. But they survive, at least for now? Especially in One False Note. Amy and Dan have the privilege to learn Mozart's famous KV617. A famous music peace written by Mozart himself KV617 is played on the glass harmonica. A beautiful instrument made by Franklin(who you learn about in book #1) himself. It's a fragile thing so don't let a kid by it!

The 39 Clues book 1 and book 2

2009-03-02T08:08:00.005-07:00

Well here is a copy of Big T's report with his project. He is very proud of it. He did the work himself with some help on computer searches from mom.

THE 39 CLUES

The 39 clues is about two kids who try to win a contest. The kids names' are Dan and Amy. Some of their cousins will try to stop them; but they escape every time. The prize is a legendary power. They all want the special power and they all try to stop each other. Their cousins are in the contest too. In this book Amy and Dan have to stay away from social services or they might do something bad. They sometimes have to do dangerous and tricky stuff to stay alive. All in a search for 39 clues.

In book 1 The Maze of Bones you are learning about Ben Franklin he did an essay on farts. Which I thought was funny. He also liked to play with batteries.

In book 2 One False Note they fought on a train. They jumped out of a building. You are learning about Mozart. He was a composer. He wrote kv617 and many famous classical songs.

If you like mystery stories then these books would be the books for you.
by Big T

Reading

2009-03-01T20:50:00.002-07:00

OK so I have not been involved in the blog. I am not really liking sitting right now as those of you who know me would understand so sitting to blog is not happening. Good thing this is a blog of 2 sisters so you can at least get a bit of an update. Well Big T and Lady J want me to share with everyone how fun it is to read. They are miles ahead of me when I was a kid. They are loving to read just about anything but together we are reading the most fun series in the world...well one of the better ones. It is The 39 Clues. We are looking forward with anticipation to the 3rd book coming out on Tuesday. We just all thought you should check it out. http://www.the39clues.com/. Be careful though you might like it. We know we have. I might post the kids reports up here tomorrow so you can see how they feel about it. They have done quite a lot of work on them.

Photography

2008-11-07T21:05:00.006-07:00

I have started doing a little Photography and I am loving it.

I just wanted to show off some of my photo shoots.

Here are some of my favorites pictures!

Enjoy!

Halloween

2008-11-07T19:23:00.010-07:00

Halloween was a little adventures for us this year. Princess Piano had a little magic wand injury to the eye so her costume had a little a lterations by the end of the night. She was a good sport and has fully recovered, but there was not much trick or treating that happened this year.

Our First Garden

2008-11-07T18:50:00.006-07:00

Just catching everyone up with what we have been up to I just want to share pictures of the our first garden. We think we didn't do to bad for our first. We were able to harvest about 6 spaghetti squash, we got bunch of corn and some of them were even a good size,we had beets, tons and tons of beans form out bean house, and lots of green tomatoes before the frost came. I was a good little gardener as you can see form the pictures and covered the veggies up to keep the frost off them so they could get a little more ripe.

Bear Lake Adventure

2008-10-05T19:31:00.003-06:00

We all had a fun time at Bear Lake. Princess Piano had a hard week getting the flu. So the planned vacation had a possible downfall. Luckily she was able to pull through. The family had fun on Thursday and Friday until the rain got in the way. Then our family got there with more rain. We had a good time with them until Legal Drug Dealer got Princess Piano's flu. Not a fun trip home. Now Lady J and Big T have the flu too. Well although the relaxation was nice I am not sure I wanted to bring the flu home. Sure we will make it through this but not enjoying it. Hope all of you will be able to avoid this thing.

Silly Mac Being Silly

2008-08-28T22:21:00.001-06:00

First day of School

2008-08-28T15:29:00.007-06:00

Mom I Didn't Even Pick My Nose!!!

Her first words on her way home from her first day of school.

Sunday we were over at my inlaws and Poppy and dad were telling Princess piano that people might not want to be her friend if she was always picking her nose so thus the comment after school.

We are so excited to finally be in school!! We hope it is a fun year!!

Standing, Standing Everywhere

2008-08-28T14:52:00.006-06:00

I just wanted to show everyone our new accomplishments at our little house.

The new computer wizards

2008-08-22T14:00:00.003-06:00

We have a new challenge in the computer world. When has your kids had to much computer time? When your 4 year old tells you how to run the keyboard!

Up here our kids are loving WEBKINZ!!!!!!

Pioneer Days

2008-08-17T23:00:00.005-06:00

Went out and spent time with Great Grandma and Grandpa. It was so much fun. The way a pioneer day should be spent.

Big T's Birthday

2008-08-17T22:49:00.002-06:00

So Big T had a birthday a while back and I thought I would add a slide show to save space and allow you all to see some of the fun.

Short Visit

2008-08-17T22:02:00.004-06:00

Found these pictures too. We had a great visit with our cousins as they did a quick dash through on their way to their new home across the country. We will miss them a lot but are so glad we had the evening with them. Here are a couple cute pics from their visit.

Antelope Island- On the Great Salt Lake

2008-08-17T21:51:00.009-06:00

Well I found these pictures from May 28th. Aunt PB came out with the kids and wanted to float in the Salt Lake. Well you really can float. All of Aunt PBs crew and Lady J and Big T got to float. First in Line had therapy on her foot and choose not to go in the water. That might have been a good thing or not since she got a bacteria infection on that foot from the sand that lasted two months. All is better now. We all had a great time with Aunt PB and the kids. We wished it could have been longer but she is a lady on the move. I am sure they had a great rest of their vacation. We had hoped to get out to see them for the summer but it has not worked out.

Eclair had a birthday

2008-08-15T15:44:00.009-06:00

Isn't she so big!

Big Splash

2008-08-14T10:45:00.003-06:00

Well we had a fun time last night. Big T and Lady J both decided to take their uncle scar's lead and did front flips off the diving board. This was their firs time trying this not on the trampoline. It was fun to see them having a good time and taking chances. We hope they take a few more precautions than Uncle Scar does. Maybe a bit more like Mr. T; but we will have to wait and see.

We have decided that swimming is essential. Daddy J felt so much better since he was able play and blow off some steam. It was a great way to entertain friends too since we had a sleep over. In all we were glad that we went and now that Daddy J enjoyed it maybe we can talk him into a pool in our yard one day...When we have a yard.

Back again

2008-08-11T22:29:00.001-06:00

Well I gave in. I did not like the look of the personal site so I will probably drop it unless i figure out how to put cool pictures on it. We shall see. For now it will stay. It is paid for. If you want to see how it broke the site check out the title link Back again.

Offshoring

2008-08-11T22:15:00.001-06:00

So I got it to work! I can have the blog on a personal site and have it look Ok. It is not great but is do able. Not sure how i feel about it though. Still adjusting my mind set. Just because I can does not mean I need to.....

Giving this a try

2008-08-11T15:46:00.001-06:00

Here Let's try and make the start of this blog. I am trying to get all of the kids up here represented. I don't know if I will figure this out but these are the Middle Girls kids pre2008 Click on the album to see all the pictures. Still trying to get it in a slide show.

Photobucket Album