Blah Blah Blogging!!!

Does this count as keeping a journal? Yeah, I didn't think so. : ( Oh, Well. What a slacker I am. I sort of forgot I even had a blog. : ) It's been over a year. Things are good. Things are pretty much the same.

I have been having a conversation with an Evangelical Christian woman. Several conversations in fact. We have finally agreed to disagree. I learn a lot about what they believe and I strengthened my own testimony of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The church is true and I am so grateful for the things it teaches me. Most of all I have gained a testimony about how important it is to keep trying and keep learning and keep getting better. My evangelical friend would interprete this to mean that I don't think I'm good enough. Her opinion of mormons is that they don't put enough of their faith in Jesus Christ. That if you truly accept Jesus you don't have to "work" at anything and you are "saved" no matter what you do. I know that Christ suffered for my sins. I know that I'm not going to ever be able to "work" my way to heaven. HOWEVER, I also know that as a loving father, God wants me to improve myself. I can't just sit back on my laurels and rely on Jesus' sacrifice. I must make myself worthy of his sacrifice and worthy of his blessings. It will never be enough and He makes up the difference but I need to be trying.

I'm Not so good at this!!

I figured out how to change my template but it took so long that once I figured it out I didn't have time to actually pick a template I liked. This one will do for now!

Now I've got to figure out how to add pictures and music. Wow! I'm getting so technical aren't I. I've spent so much time playing around on facebook that I haven't blogged for months and months. I'm going to try to be better just because It's a good way for me to be a journal keeper. At least that is what I'm telling myself. We'll see won't we.

We are now planning a trip to San Francisco. Daniel will be gone for two weeks working in California so I'm taking the kids to visit him there and add a 3 day weekend to spend time there while he's not working. If anyone has any touristy suggestions I'd be thrilled. We are looking into the Aquarium by the Bay, Alcatraz, Fishermans Wharf, and a cruise to see the Golden Gate Bridge.

Where Have I Been and What Have I Been Doing?

Ahhhh! I just typed this incredibly articulate blog and then I clicked the wrong button and its gone. Hummmmm! Perhaps there is a life lesson there.
It has been a very long time since I last blogged about my HoschouerHouse and ironically not much has changed. Well, a few things have changed. Brian has grown like 3 inches and Jessica is growing hair. But, other than that things are pretty much the same. I still spend my days doing laundry and dishes and vacuuming and laundry and dusting and .... did I mention laundry? Daniel is too busy with work to finish his degree just like last year and the year before that and the year before that and well you get the idea. The kids have just finished another year of school, dance and guitar.
So......I've made a decision. ARGH! Okay, I'm just going to say it. My Luci, my baby, will be starting Kindergarten next year and I will be left all alone in HoschouerHouse for a few hours everyday. So.....wait I think I'm stalling. Okay, here goes. I'm going back to school. I scared. I really want to teach school and now that I've come to terms with the idea that I'm probably not destined to have any more babies the time has come. I'm just going to go for it.

Wish me luck! the HoschouerHouseKeeper

I Love Indexing!!

I have been indexing whenever I have a few minutes and I really think it's fun. The other day I was indexing on the 1890 census from Illinois. I got a sheet with a head of house as a woman about 45 and then it listed about 10 white women between the ages of 18 and 24 as borders. I didn't really think anything about it until I moved over to see what their occupations were. I assumed they were students or something....they listed their occupations as....Whore. Crazy. I went a little further down the page and soon there was another head of house as a 50ish woman who was black and she had about 10-15 black young women who were borders. You guessed it they all had occupations as WHORES. They were just a few houses apart. I thought it was pretty crazy and I typed a bunch faster. I thought if anyone needed a little help getting their names and information ready to do temple work for them these ladies were it!! Very Interesting!!

Halloween!! We had so much fun. Luci and I went to KC's class to help with the party. I brought foam pumpkins to decorate and then we watched the costume parade at the school. Right after school we all loaded up and participated in our favorite Halloween tradition. We went to Daniel's office and trick-or-treated all of the offices. The kids love this. Daniels company goes all out. Everyone dresses up and decorates. They turn out lights and have cobwebs hanging from the ceiling. The kids came home with their bags COMPLETELY full. Once we got home the girls went knocking doors with the neighbor girls and Brian went out with a bunch of his friends. Finally, we went over to my sister Jana's house and had meat pies (ala Sweeny Todd - the edited PG-13 version)!! Good Fun! Mom always gives a dollar bill to everyone of the kids, even the married ones. Tradition!!

School is starting TOO soon!

Luci and I will be participating in our neighborhood Joy School. I've done this for pre-school for all of the kids and now I can't believe it's my babies turn. We'll be having 7 mom's and kids participating so it'll be fun fun fun. KC got the teacher she wanted and so did Jessica. Brian doesn't know who his teacher will be yet. He's in the 6th grade ths year and with the new charter school in town and ALA in SF there were low student numbers. I'm so very happy that they are keeping the 6th graders in the elementary now. I'd hate to send my little 180 lb. 5'8" 12 year-old on a bus all the way to Payson.

Brian is playing pads football this season and we are very excited to watch him play! YEAH!

Jessica is still losing and growing back hair in different spots. Check us out at www.alopeciaworld.com it's fun to see all the cute little bald kids.

THIS IS IT FOR NOW! mormonmommy

SUMMER Is Passing me by!!

WOW.... I'm so busy all of the time that I actually forgot I had started this whole blog thing. We are well into the summer and I've been having a lot of fun. I've not got nearly half the things done that I wanted to. Daniel and I went on really fun trip with my siblings and their spouses. We were so busy. We went to Washington, D.C. and saw it all. I mean that!!! It was CRAZY. We also did the whole family reunion thing at the cabin. That was really relaxing and just so much fun to play games together and hang-out. The kids all love playing with their cousins. We've been going to the pool, library, baseball games, camping, and running around renting out the Waverunners. So fun!