GOTCHA FINALLY!!!

I have finally did it! It wasn't until my sons second bowl of Italian soup and many compliments that he asked what was in it and the look on his face when I listed the last ingredient as bulgar was one in a million. I finally got bulgar by him after almost 9 months of trying! Yahoo for me!!!

An Extended Weekend of Fun....Monday!!!!

Jet skiing, Paddleboating, Fishing, Basketball Playing, Hot Tubbing, Knee Boarding, Speedboating, Nature Sightings, and Fun in the Sunning Day!!!

An Extended Weekend of Fun....Sunday!!!!

Not so fun. All the digging I did has left my already funky back in lots of pain so I spent the day taking lots of pain meds but not too much to cause my liver to shut down! We did however have a lovely barbque at the inlaws and all the fun that goes on there!

An Extended Weekend of Fun...Saturday!!!

Yard work oh how fun and it was with enthusiastic little guys ready to dig, weed, rake, plant and water!!!! Well I did most of the digging, weeding, and raking but they did love playing in the dirt and on their "playground" for their little breaks from the dirt! Hopefully soon we will have little flowers popping up everywhere!!!

An Extended Weekend of Fun....Friday!

This day might not been so fun but we did get somethings done. The request was in from the teenager that he could sleep on his break from school so he did until 9 which I was surpised to see him up and then he was a man on a mission to get the grass mowed(you have to love the FHE lessons about work). I was getting stuff done on the inside and then we took a little trip to a grainery to pick up some soybeans which I had been wanting in my food storage for sometime. To be quite honest I think the kids had fun going somewhere new and I am sure the McDonalds we picked up onthe way made for a fun little outing!
It is Friday after all and so it was taco(we do a pizza taco rotation for movie night) and movie night for us!!!

An Extended Weekend of Fun..Thursday!

If there is any movie saga my hubby loves more than Star Wars it would be Indiana Jones so I set up the babysitter(thanks Grandma Kepler) weeks ago for the anticipation of the question when are we going to see it? My response was the day it comes out I have everything taken care of and so off we went to see the much pined over movie(for the last 2 years) and we LOVED it!!!

Until Midnight...you have got to be kidding me!!!

We have had our first up until midnight project extravaganza! I remember when a book report was a book report but not anymore. You read a book, a magazine, a couple of internet articles then the fun begins. Putting together the book report 2 page essay typed, fliers, medical reports, photo album, journal entries, a crossword puzzle, a cover, bibliography, table of contents,title page, news clippings all nicely appointed in a 3 ring binder with page protectors. My how school has changed and I am exhausted!!!

Words from my Four Star General

Today my 4 Star General and I were talking about food storage and joking he says,"I have finally figured out why food storage is so important to you........you know I am going to eat no matter what and you don't want it to be you!"
Actually the truth of the matter is he would eat whatever he could find and I don't want it to kill him so food storage is on my list right now and I don't want to be eaten either(LOL)!

Joking with a joker!!!

I am sitting at lunch and look over at the back of my dark haired boys head and notice one white hear near the crown of his head. I exclaim, "You have one white hair and you don't even have kids yet!" Without missing a beat he replies, "I have you!"
Love ya Christian what would I do without you to keep me in check!

AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Motherhood feels much easier after a good massage...doesn't it!!!

The age old question: Once a week or a load a day?

I can tell you I have always been a load or 2 a day person. Then I had heard of someone that does it once a week and that it was wonderful to do laundry once a week and be done with it! I decided to try to do laundry once a week! UUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
I do believe it was 1am when I had all my laundry done and by that time my little guys and big guy were sound to sleep and here I had laundry still to put away the next day and with sport socks and other disgusting sports clothing hang out for a week well you can just imagine. Laundry isn't pleasant anyway and this made it way more unpleasant(for those you that do not have a teenage boy yet, just wait) and I found myself doing laundry in the middle of that week anyway(church pants and socks are also for choir and soccer socks from practice are covered in mud and i need them for the game and on and on). Needless to say to answer the age old question:

A LOAD A DAY!!!

Rainbows are...

I have a little artist in my midst and he drew me this lovely picture. When I had him tell me about it he went on to tell me the following..."It is you and me under the rainbow holding hands. The cloud is a little bit in front of the sun like it is today. The red bag is full if rain drops so we won't get wet."
Inquiring about the picture I asked, "If the rainbow was protecting us from the bag of raindrops? " He looked at me like I had asked the silliest question in the world and said, "Rainbows can't protect us they are made out of little water droplets."
Our little jewels are smarter than we often give them credit for!!!

I'm a Thinker

One of my lovely jewels asked me if we could do something, get something any way he wanted something and I was in the middle of going over my shopping list to make sure I had grabbed everything needed. In the midst of my intense concentration on my list but also knowing I was being summoned by my dear child I gave a just a minute response which was " I will think about it." Now his response to this was immediate, " but Mom you are such a long thinker" with a sigh to follow.

I think at times being a long thinker is a good thing but is it always? We are always learning from our little jewels!

Our year 2007

Hello family and friends( i sent this out to some and thought many of you would love to read it),
This year mom decided the family letter would be written after the new year and after I shared my thoughts of how I was going to write the letter she thought it would be appropriate for Valentines Day.
This is Julianna Rebekah again and last year I remember my letter was full of screaming well not this year it is going to be full of LOVE.
I LOVE PINK and PRINCESSES!!! I however have 3 brothers which I LOVE so I played soccer which Christian LOVES this year and well I LOVED my coach and friends but the soccer it will come, maybe. Christian is 14 now and some things he LOVES I already mentioned soccer that is more of his passion driving force in his life which mom LOVES because he will do just about anything to play soccer. He LOVES to play basketball, run track, camping and a couple of new found activities wrestling and rock climbing. He is a Teacher at church now and is also in scouting, did I mention I LOVE him! He also has another LOVE and with that LOVE we have a new addition to our family this year. His name is Jasper Jones. The cutest little guy you have ever seen and you know what I LOVE him. Did I mention Christian LOVES animals? I know some of you were thinking another baby but no Jasper is our LOVING little dog. He makes Christian’s face light up like the sun. Speaking of sun I am a sunbeam at church and I LOVE going to primary like a big girl with David bringing our scriptures with us every week. The one thing David has in common with some of the people in those scriptures is he LOVES to build(mom says none of her kids scare her but she is afraid one day he will rewire the house or something of this sort because a mind like his thinks of lots of things). Mom will often ask him about how he came up with something and he says” I just was thinking about it and thinking about it and looking at it and I figured it out.” Scary HUH! I LOVE that about him because he comes up with the best games and we can go on wonderful adventures all piloted by his wonderful imagination. Luckily for me he knows I LOVE pink and princesses so I often get to be one when we play and guess who is old enough to join in on our grand escapades Jensen Marc and if you ask him his name he will tell you it is just that he is Jensen Marc. I LOVE him so much he plays dollies with me and he shares another LOVE of mine coloring and play doh. I think we LOVE it so much we could play with play doh all morning and then color until dinner. Again Jensen is a brother too and he LOVES to play with cars and trains. The other thing Jensen LOVES is shoes now that is my kind of brother. I think we will be getting along well in our teen years. There are a couple of people I think are not looking forward to the teen years but I LOVE them to the moon and back and that is mom and dad. I will start with the latter. Dad works hard and plays harder. He always takes time to play with my princesses with me and read me my Strawberry Shortcake book (again) and I LOVE it! He doesn’t only take time for me though he plays legos with David, trains with Jensen and homework helping with Christian. The newest thing Dad LOVES to do with us is swimming a couple of times a week and since he works a little farther away from home now which is very good for his working life I am LOVING that he still takes the time for us. He is teaching the youth at church every Sunday with the person we all LOVE and this is mom. Mom wears lots of hats like most moms do and a couple of my favorite hats are the hat of a teacher she not only teaches at church she teaches David, Jensen, and Myself preschool 5 days a week and we are LOVING all the adventures she takes on through books. We have visited medieval castles, ventured through the human body, and traveled to lands far away and long ago. Her favorite part of preschool is science and so we have grown butterflies, tried to grow a frog poor Tad he died when his back legs popped out and lots more experiments and fun. Then there is the chefs hat(which she looks so cute in). She is always whipping something up which I always LOVE and some others in the home are skeptics but she keeps trying to appease the masses. She is always wearing her Loon’s hat(the new minor league baseball team in our town) and when I ask her why she says she is charge of the Looney bin, I don‘t quite know what that means but I think it is supposed to be funny(I suppose other moms know what she is talking about). The other hat I love is nurturer and if you watch her closely sometimes you can see this hat. I have seen it on occasion it is gold and hovers over her head but I have seen it crash to the floor sometimes but she always trying to do her best. She LOVES being a mom and a wife and I LOVE her for it. There is a LOVE we have in our home that is more important than anything else and that is the LOVE for our Heavenly Father and our Savior Jesus Christ. We hope in the following year you will allow Their LOVE fill your homes and hearts!
LOVE, The Keplers (David, Julia, Christian, David, Jensen Marc, and Myself, Julianna)

Surprise... it is you!

We had a night at Disney again tonight! Not really but Christian's choir concert tonight was a Disney themed one. It was so fun to here the kids say that is from the Lion King or Little Mermaid. Christain's choir specifically sang Beauty and the Beast and he was Gaston and a good one at that! He is getting to be such a young man I am very proud of him and all of his endevors. He is fearless not ever afraid to try something new even of he might flop. He is even doing the high jump for the first time in track and doing well at it and today he went to his coach and said I want to try to do the shotput. Coach told him to give it a throw. Needless to say I think he will not be doing the shotput. I am always amazed what we learn from our children. Currently I am learning give it a try you never know what can do, you just might surprise yourself!