The Strasser's

Well after much consideration, we ended up getting a mattress yesterday. We have never really had a new mattress, because of money. So we bought one yesterday. I am so excited because it is a nice one. Our mattress now is not so great. We both have sore backs when we wake up, you can feel the springs.  I helped Cory with a project for his classroom. I painted Popsicle sticks. Since he only teaches two classes I colored coded them red and blue, 35 each color. And I wrote the kids name on the sticks for each class. I think it will help him learn there names. He wanted to also keep their attention. I hope they work, it was the first day today. I have kind of working with Owen on the potty training I haven't gotten big results yet. I just don't like to have two in diapers. So hopefully soon I can catch him before he does and I think once I get him to go into potty chair or toilet he will understand it a little better. Especially with the delayed talking that we have been having...

I have gotten back into the coupon clipping again.....Saturday I went to Fred Meyer because I needed a couple of things. And they had toothpaste on sale for $1.00, and I had 6 coupons of that brand and they were actually going to expire on Saturday so I ended up using them. I spent 1.50 on 6 things of toothpaste. It was exciting to get toothpaste for $.25 each. Now we have toothpaste for a LONG time now!!

It was hailing now the sun is out some again. The sky light in the kitchen

So the past few weeks have been pretty hectic at our house. Monday and Tuesday's are two of the busiest days in the week. Cory has been student teaching for a couple of weeks now. He wakes up between 5:00-5:30 and leaves about 7:00. Than doesn't get home until about 9-9:30 at night. Today is the start of week 3, it seems like it has been longer than that. Well to start off week 3 one of his teachers was going in the classroom to observe and see how he is doing. I can't wait to hear what his teacher says about his progress. Actually there was a problem last week there was a girl in the class that cheated on a test and he was very upset with him self because he thought it was his fault he didn't catch it, his mentor teacher said it wasn't his fault and shouldn't be blaming himself. The girl got in trouble and Cory is going to be tutoring her now, and her mom is staying on top of her grades.

My husband brought me home a rose for Valentine's Day and a card. He is such a wonderful man. I love him LOTS!!!

Well it was a pretty good day today. I cleaned the house and spent some time with kids. We gave the kids a stuffed animal, and a thing of sweethearts, Alyssa got a horse with wings and I found a Mickey that had a stuffed heart sewed to it so I took a seam ripper to it and got the heart off, and gave it to Owen. I gave Cory a box of Willy Wonka chocolates and the movie the Grown Ups. Evan got a onesie that says "Prince Charming" on it. I will try to get a picture of him in it. We had the heart shaped pizza for dinner. After Cory's sister came over with her family, and his brother's family, and we had fondue. It was really yummy.  And we also had FHE.

Alyssa said to me "I think you should have three more kids".  A while ago she said I need to have one more girl so she can have a sister.

I think I have found something to try with Alyssa, so I can get her to help more. I think that it will work better when Owen is older but I think I might try this with her now and change it a little bit. http://nieniedialogues.blogspot.com/2011/01/job-balls.html

So we decided to do something we haven't done  in a long time, and we had lots of fun! Owen getting ready to throw the ball  Evan playing in his carseat Yes he did knock that last pin down! I believe she got those last two also! Ending Scores were: Alyssa : 96 Owen: 98 Me: 101 Cory: 98

Got some pictures of Evan now that he is a rolling baby now.

Yesterday I took the great mama to run errands with me. She offered to buy lunch, So I started asking Alyssa: Me: "Alyssa what would you like for lunch" A: " I want nachos" Me: "Where do you get nachos from?" A: "Taco Bell" Me: "Well how do you get to Taco Bell" A: "Your the adult you know how to get there" Me: "Oh Ok" :)

Oh what a week it has so far, I am hoping the rest of the week is better. 

To celebrate Valentine's Day I think I am going to make this for the kids and Cory. I have been wanting to do something crafty, so I thought I would make something for Valentine's Day, Not sure fully what to put in them but I will come up with something.

I have been trying to take pictures each day this year, and I have been lacking big time!!!! So I am hoping to get on the bandwagon, I just need to charge the camera than I will be good about it. 

Here is my list some of it's from my last list, some of these are longer term but I think they will be on the list for a while. There might be more to add later, but here is what I would love to do this year. Roast hot dogs &; Marshamallows r ead the Book Of Mormon consistently- having been working on this and doing pretty well.  Build a BIG sand castle-this is a little hard to accomplish because Owen just like's to smash it.  Lose LOT's of weight-I think my goal is to have the weight off before my anniversary, I would love to have all the weight off and be the weight I was when I got married.  Try to workout as much as possible-Probably not running, but with a workout video. I would love to being running. I actually would love to run a half m arathon .  Eat healthier, try to eat less sugary foods-that is sometimes a little hard to do.  Be more patient Be better organized in the house See The Phantom Of The Opera Go somewhere out of the...

Well I got lots of sleep last night. I feel so much better. Cory has his second day of student teaching today. I guess they had to do today's lesson yesterday, and yesterday's today. I guess some things happened so they ended up switching stuff around. So hopefully with all the sleep I got last night I can get the house clean.

Last night was not the greatest. I think I got about 4 1/2 to maybe 5 hours of sleep. I know I should be in bed. So today was not the greatest, and it was a LONG day. that is all for now!

Alyssa: "It would be boring if everyone were the same." Cory: "Why do you think it would be boring?" Alyssa: "I don't know, I learned that from my Angelina ballerina movie"

Well it's been like a week since I have lasted blogged I was doing pretty good I think for a little while. I have been working on stuff, I have been trying to declutter the house and get more organized. Which is kind of hard sometimes with kids. We have been working on better schedules for us. I have been getting up early enough that the kids aren't up and I am able to get a workout in, well not this morning I didn't get up early like I should have. So hopefully tomorrow I can get one in. So we drove past the school that Alyssa should be attending in September and there are heavy screens, something like bars basically on the windows, not on all the window's but basically all of them. Not sure if I really want her going to the school. We have been pretty consist reading scripture's, it's the kids scripture story book is what we have been reading. They like it because of the pictures. Cory starts student teaching tomorrow. He will be teaching at local  mid...

I have been trying to get up everyday at the same time as Cory. Which this morning I slept in a little longer which was not good because we are trying to stay on the same schedule. But I have been trying to do a different  exercise video each day yesterday I did this video . I knew I was going to be sore today after that. So today I actually used it as a rest day because it even hurts to walk up and down stairs. So I am going to do another one of her video's tomorrow and see how it goes. But if anyone has any suggestions of any workout videos let me know. Sorry for the lack of writing and pictures I hope to do that soon.