so much to do...so little time

At the beginning of yet another week it gives me a moment to reflect upon all of my hopes and dreams for accomplishing great things this week such as: perfecting my family, making my home immaculate, properly attending to my husbands needs (like clean socks), mastering Beethoven's 5Th Symphony on the piano, re-reading the 4 gospels, exercising 45 min a day, teaching Tyler to read, re-learning 8Th grade Geometry, weeding my backyard, oh! and let's not forget a little "me" time...I am reminded that I am no longer 19 years old with tons of ambition and energy. Nor am I 25 with unrealistic expectations and dreams. I am a 34 year old mother of 4 with one kid on her hip, one hanging on her ankle and thank heaven, two kids at school. So the best I am hoping for is to not go crazy or get too much farther behind (and maybe a shower). And you know what?!? I am completely happy with that.

So, Saturday night, Jared had a party for his 14th birthday. He had friends over to BBQ and play volley ball and night games. Our whole family was out back and it was funny to see the boys in one corner and the girls in another. All except Jason and Tyler. They were right in the middle of the girls laughing and playing with them. Brent looked over at Jared and said "Your little brothers are doing better than you!" So funny! Not so funny is Katelyn who hung with the boys. Grrrr. They are all growing up so fast. Oh ya'! Tyler has a new word. He would get ready to hit the volley ball and say "look mom, this is pro-ish".

I've been thinking...I really need a hobby. Something I really enjoy or something Brent and I could do together. Any suggestions? I'm thinking line dancing.(sooooo just kidding)

7 things you may not know about the Bartons

So, I'm answering Marianne's tag about the seven things weird about my family. But I'm also including things that maybe no one knows about our family.

-First of all I love my husband....I think he hung the moon. That being said, he has a quirk or two. If he wears a shirt for a little while and it's not "dirty" he won't hang it back in the closet because it isn't clean. However, he won't put it in the dirty clothes because it isn't dirty. Hence we have the "not clean, not dirty pile".

-I have a tie problem...not a Ty problem...a tie problem. I LOVE to buy ties. My husband must have 50 or so yet I still buy more, in my defense, I always find them CHEAP CHEAP.

-Brent and I like to heckle the news anchors. My favorite thing is Mark Eubanks weather report. He's such a dork! My best "Eubankism" is on time he said after lots of rain that "the water helps us but not in a good way."

-We still operate on a windows 98 system. (yes I know it's 2008)

-One thing no one maybe knows about me is that I play the piano and the flute. And I'm dang good. (no one knows that I am humble)

-My name in Linda Barton and I'm a diet cokeaholic. I drink a twelve pack of dc EVERY day. Thats my confession. I don't plan to change anytime soon.

-I don't ever put anything away in the same place twice. This stems from my inability to decide the perfect place for my stuff. Apparently I haven't found the perfect place for ANYTHING!!!

This is a sneak peak into my crazy life. Hope you enjoyed it!
Love ya blog family!

Pick up lines from Jared!!!

I thought this was "blog-worthy"...you decide.
Jared was telling me about a book called "pick-up lines that don't work". Here are a few funny ones:

-Do you believe in love at first sight? Or should I walk by again?

-If you were a sandwich from McDonalds, you'd be McGorgeous.

-I tried to say something nice about you for every star in the sky, but then I ran out of stars.

-Aren't you tired? Because you've been running through my mind all day.

-Life without you is like a broken pencil...........pointless

-I lost my phone number, can I have yours?

-I lost my library card, but can I check you out?

-Hey angel, hope you didn't hurt yourself falling from heaven.

-Guy: Can you hold something for me?
Girl: Sure
(Guy grabs girl's hand)
Guy: Thanks

-If I was a lamp, would you turn me on?

-You're like the sun because you brighten my day.

-Are you here to give me a ticket? Because you've got fine written all over you.

I don't know about you, but I'm glad I'm not dating anymore!

"Tylerisms"

Tyler is going to 2 preschools this year. One for Tyler... one for mommy.(j/k) Anyways, we have always known that he was a big kid in a little body.. I am continually realizing this with his "Tylerisms". One time he was playing the Wii and he said "this guy is my arch nemesis". Brent and I laughed sooo hard! Once in a very serious voice he said "I find that very interesting". Today he came up to me and said "mom, look! this is fabulous!" Or one day he was practicing how to say ridiculous. I can't even imitate it...but too funny.
I could go on and on. Each and every time he takes off his shirt, he arches his back as far as he can and pounds his chest like a gorilla. A few months ago, He jumped off of the counter. I started to yell at him saying "Ty, if you do that again, I am going to spank you." He was walking away from me but he bent forward, looked at me from between his legs and while laughing said "spank me now"! My personal favorite was when he said "Abso-freakin-lutly".
He doesn't seem to have the vocabulary of a preschooler or have a 4 year olds' taste in music. On sunday I told Ty that we were singing his favorite song in sacrament meeting and he said "Saints of Los Angeles by Montley Crew"? It was actually I am a Child Of God.
One thing is for certain. Life would be boring without our Ty Ty.

A Bloggerrific Day!

It's a bloggin' great day at the Barton house! Today my baby... my tiny little Jared turns 14. When did I get old enough to have a 14 year old? Just one question. How come on a childs birth day we don't celebrate mom? She did some pretty hard work that day. Not to mention each and every day since then. Just a thought.

Katelyn and Tyler are both at birthday parties for their friends. Katelyn has such a busy social calander. In 2 months I think she's been to at least 7 birthday parties. It's great to be a girl!
It's kind of a boring blog day, sorry. I'll try to get better.

I call this OCD combined with ADD with D-U-M-B

This is a scary insite into my brain. Have you ever heard about my pantry? Nine years ago, we built our lovely house with a ginormous pantry. Since I didn't know the best way to organize it, I threw a lot of everything in there to see what i most liked to have in there. As you can imagine it is a huge mess. Every so often I figure it is time to tackle the pantry. Since I don't know the best way to organize it, of course, I start with books(meaning "How To Organize" books). I never seem to find THE BEST way so then I pull everything out and sort it into boxes. After staring at the boxes for days, I start putting a few things back into the pantry and since I don't know the best way to organize it (are you seing a pattern here?) I start to obsess and over think pantry storage systems. Finally after days of boxes on the kitchen floor, I put the ablolute essentials back in the pantry, put lids on the boxes and carry them downstairs. I have repeated this process several times and still don't know the best way to organize my pantry. Is there any hope for me?

Ready, Set...Blog!!

So, I am finally a blogger. Here I go.
We are an average family with a crazy life filled with chaos and mayhem. With 3 boys and just 1 girl, Katelyn and I are seriously out numbered. But I am finding out that a house full of boys isn't too bad. For example, the other day Tyler yelled from the bathroom "MOM!!!!!!! I accidently dropped my underwear in the toilet!!" Hmmm. 'How did that happed?" I asked. "I don't know. I was trying to put them on and they just fell in the toilet." I started to hurry to the bathroom. "did you flush them down the toilet?" "No" He said "I just grabbed them out!!!" Whew. Now here's my point. If by chance a girl dropped her underwear in the toilet she would scream really loud and NEVER would she grab them out. I'm glad he took care of that by himself.