tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-40848337308005934482012-01-06T20:51:42.949-07:00I’m pretty straightforward. I don't pull punches and I don't know how to keep my mouth shut. Point of fact I think everyone I know would agree that I'm overly honest. I have two awesome kids and one wonderful husband, even though every couple days I want to sock him. With both of us students and only one income source there are days I feel like we'll never be standing on our own two feet. Grab a bag of popcorn, pull up a seat, and pretend we've pitched a tent- this here is the main attraction.Amy Blakelyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15588995318196139715noreply@blogger.comBlogger871100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084833730800593448.post-38320912025796213082011-11-27T04:43:00.001-07:002011-11-27T04:48:44.835-07:00

I haven't told my husband yet. I'm afraid. Not sure what he'll say. What anyone will say. How they'll react. It's scary. It's asinine. Irresponsible. Stupid. And I still did it anyway. I couldn't stop myself. I accepted my dad's friend request on facebook. And I sent him a long missive, mostly about where I am who my kids are and what they're up to. I still can't believe I did it. I don't know if

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I'm working on making me healthier. Starting tomorrow. No more excuses. I got myself TWO super comfy work out outfits at walmart tonight. I am now stocked up on healthy snacks, preportioned becuase it means I actually eat them since there is no work involved. And a supply of Mango Peach Mio flavoring, 'cuase I'll drink my water then. So, I can have one soda a day with dinner (I'd like to say I'd

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I was a freshman when 9/11 happened. Still pretty naive and I don't think I  knew anything about what was going on in the world outside of me, DESPITE the history program trying to have us bring in world events and things in the news. I was uninterested, truth be told most of the time I'm still fairly uninterested. I remember that I had orchestra and it was fine, I forget what I had second period

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A sort of overview of my outfit, and my two super cute kiddos. Emmaleigh is wearing a winnie the pooh jumper thrifted by Grandma with a pink top from Target and super cute flower sandles curtesy of Ross. Ryker's Tigger onesie comes curtesy of his other grandma and it's from Walmart. Helping the boy to stand on his own.  No, I'm not wearing shades my glasses just kinda do that.

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New look to the blog, for no reason other than that I was really bored with it and felt like doing it. It's way late and I should totally be in bed, but I can't sleep. I haven't been able to really sleep well for awhile now. I don't have much interest in reading books, craft projects are a no go and not even the powers of Netflix are keeping me occupied and out of trouble. And seriously, I've

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The hardest thing for me about the move to student housing is the need to never ever make noise. You have to keep the kids very quiet, and you can't take them outside to play very often (though that has less to do with Em being noisy and more to do with that every time I bring her to play I scare off the neighbors as about half of them hate me so I have to just be careful that none of the other

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This is my very first what would I wear and while it's a few weeks old I'm still posting it, becuase well I've been planning it that long. It took so long becuase, well, to be honest I had a touch of technical trouble. Also poor photo quality can be attributed to my husband and self shots. Headband: Vintage Wanna Bee (and I love it to peices except for the nasty habbit of slipping off my hair

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Work is finally starting to see some improvement. I had some intense one on one training with JD, the trainer for my class, the other day and it really helped. The problems seems to be, that a. I talk to much (as someone put it, does that REALLY come as a surprise to you? well no, it doesn't. I've always been a bit of a talker unless of course I'm feeling particularly shy or unwelcome, then I

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These are actually a month or so old. Like I said earlier, I've been slacken'.More than pleased to be hoarding the toys away from big sis.Big sister's can be so mean. He also had sand EVERYWHERE afterwards. Bot the kids love the swings a lot. And that picture of Em really is great.The momma and the boyo.

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I've been slacking, I tend to intermittenly do so. Not so much as a reflection of anything angianst the blogging world, more so as a reflection of the fact that my life is very insanely busy.I got a job. Took me a while, but I did it. I am now working at convergys. So far it's going pretty well. I'm enjoying it for the most part. Had a few funny calls, I've made some mistakes and even got two

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Eliza's fly fishing lureEmmaleigh making a fly lure.Just chillin' in the big boy stroller.Learning about the water shed. Love Eliza's piggies too.The mama and the boy, in his fishing hat.Uncooperative children. But the girls earned the free shirt.Yay. Family photo. We all had so much fun.After the fishing closed the girls did this.His first ice cream, which he refused to hold.All the kids cooling

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Somewhere I found a tutorial on doing glitter heels, sadly I forgot where. But I decided to soldier on with my own rendition invloving little girls tennis shoes for my daughter and her aunt.Supply List:keds tennis shoes, or similar style.Modge podgeGlitterCheap sponge brushesPlastic cupsRibbon( not pictured)First we removed the laces from our shoes. My little helpers had some trouble with this.We

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I find the process of stringing words together to be therapeutic. When I'm bored, I talk to myself. When I'm angry I yell, scream, if there is nobody to do it at I'll do it to a wall. The dishes. I feel the continual and ongoing need to be processing words, and yet, I don't know that I ever say the things that need saying in my life.I feel like I am a good actor. A good mirror, or more accurately

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I have been having some serious struggles in my personal life lately. The move took a lot out of me, even more so because immediately afterwards we got sick. Then dad came to stay with us, and he was sick. So now we have me sick, the hubs sick, and the baby sick. The little lady, she is doing fine, which means that things are a little crazy around here. The struggle with my mental and physical

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So Friday was the all important day that Financial aid comes in. Meaning pay bills for the term, buy books. And because we decided certain things would help me, long term, with school I got to get a few things for my iPad.I am now the proud owner of a wireless ipad keyboard. And I am super loving it. I can now EASILY blog using my ipad(in fact I am) with the keyboard and the BlogPress App that I

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My mind says it's friday even if my clock says otherwise, go with me here. Linz is starting this up so I'm going with, means I'm updating eegularlymat least. So here goes 5 little to unknown facts about me.1.) I am 24 and only in the last few months have I ditched my stuffed animal for a more grown up body pillow. Nevertheless if I don't have it, world ends and I won't sleep.2.) my blanket

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I wish I could tell you the hard stuff was behind you. I desperately desire to say that after your dad your life is going to be a breeze, but it's not. You are about to go through one of the hardest things for you in your life. You are going to be taken away from EVERYTHING you know- your family, your friends, your school. I know that loosing your friends is going to hurt the most. Try to embrace

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Turtle Bracelet. This one is a gift. I plant o make more for the shop since it t urned out so cute.

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I have been really struggling with keeping any sort of schedule and as a result am struggling to get things accomplished in a lot of areas.It's a battle to get my meds, I'm not getting adequate sleep and I feel as though I'm ignoring my family. In sum, I have my priorities in the wrong place. I haven't been sleeping becuase, frankly, I want to watch prime time programming. Okay, so we don't have

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My bathroom counters have a tendency to get cluttered and to get cluttered exceptionally fast. Who knew?My bathroom was also mis matched and not really all that good looking. So I put a little time and a smidge of money into making it look a little better.To start with I bought a nice shower curtian at walmart. While I was at it I changed the shower liner, I didn't realize 'till I was taking it

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I got a sewing machine, but I'm not done with any projects to really post about on that front. Though I am really excited about the machine. It's nothing fancy, but it is really great. I started doing bead crafts agian. I've done it before but I finally went out and bought myself the tools I need and started doing some work. I'm enjoying it, it's great for when I'm getting stressed out by kids

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I haven't really done much updating recently. I'm a little behind, not that it's particularlily new for me to be so behind. I'm always meaning to update and never really finding the time.A lot has been going on. For starters we had a good christmas. All the family came over new years for Ryker's baby blessing and that was a lot of fun. There is FINALLY a new Blakely Family Portrait. And I'm in it

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Today I spent the best ten dollars I'll spend the entire christmas season I do believe. It wasn't a present for myself, though I did get one. It wasn't a toy or present for my children or even my husband. It was a gift for four people I don't know at all, and one person who I only know, kind of.I frequent our local hastings for videos, or I used to until last week. Now we have an Ipad that I

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Thanksgiving was pretty good this year. I made a big dinner, not everything I'd been planning, but a nice big dinner nonetheless. We had the turkey of course, though I didn't cook it all the way through by accident. I made cranberry sauce from scratch and mashed potatoes in way large quantities. Of course I made the sweet potatoes too, and managed to catch the marshmellow's on fire. We had

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I'm doing it to myself agian. I do this year after year and you'd really think by now that I'd learn it's not worth the effort. But here I go agian.The magic number this year is 12. That would be days until my birthday. I always count down after thanksgiving. Why. I don't know it' snot like it gets celebrated or anything. Never did.I'd like to say that it wasn't a priority for my grandmother to

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Ben: My wonderful, amazing husband. I've not made life easy on him this past year. Last November I decided I wanted to go back to school and he completely supported me in the process. So inJanuary I started school at USU. In late January we learned I was pregnant with our second child and given how much of a terror I am while pregnant he deserves no small amount of credit for not tearing my head

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It's totally late and this STARTED as a way to pass time and maybe look online 'cause I really need a new black skirt. Okay, rephrase that I need some nice clothes. I have one dress and my chest shrunk back to normal and it doesn't work so great now. And to be fair it wasn't really a favorite it was one of those, oh look its my size and five bucks and I don't own a single thing to wear to church

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I think I've flipped the coin and gone the other direction. It's 4am (I must be lonely... wait, wrong time... nevermind). I just made muffins. Super yummy muffins that I greatly enjoyed. Okay I only ate one, but I'd like to go back and eat the whole plate they're that yummy.And I'm eating agian. After days of having no interest in food here I am baking in the middle of the night. And I made beef

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I live my life in the out there-in the don't be afraid,let it all hang loose.I live my life in the out there-in the don't back down,don't give up.I live my life in the out there-in the open places,where the world wanders in.I live my life in the out there-in the world is not kind,it'll tear to shreds.

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Screaming words into empty corners. Endless rivers of want and pain. Broken bones and bloody dreams, Shards of shattered passions Cluttering what used to be my life. Who is fooled by the mask of joy? Neither player nor audience believe. The world has no kindness for liars, On the stage or in the field All are struck low in the end. Take of your mask Let go the game Give up the ghost Bask in the

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I wonder where I got off in my life to end up like I am now. Where I took the wrong turn that brought me here. I question if it was when I didn't fight hard enough agianst my father. When I let him abuse me for months without ever questioning his lies, and then letting it continue even after. I wonder if it was when I escaped to Ohio rather than face living in the same house as him without school

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Last week one of my oldest friends "dumped" me. I don't know if the choice was made by her or her husband or the two of them together. I wasn't even told. Her husband told mine that they would no longer be having a relationship with us. And just like that ten years of friendship went poof.I'm the first to admit that there were problems between us. I could throw out the whole laundry list but

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I'm feeling like there's nobody I can talk to about this and that even if there was it's so personal that I don't know how I'd even broach the subject, which is funny since half the time my verbal sensor doesn't work. And even then I don't know that there's anything to do about it.I want to do something about my husband, and I don't just mean his snoring. I mean him. I'm getting very frustrated

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I'm trying to take life on a day by day basis. I know that I am having moments of depression. I need to put out the warning that I can't talk to people very well about what is going on in my head and my world. Oddly I can sit at my computer, attempt to compose things into neat thoughts and hit the post button so that those who need to know the state of my mind, do. Generally speaking I'm blowing

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I must be good at hiding. Or I know what to say to make people think that everything is okay. Or maybe a bit of both. I don't know if it's a good thing or not.DCFS caseworker came today. The house isn't totally where they want it, but not a safety hazard and actually quite good for having a newborn. She expects massive improvement before next week and they plan to come weekly for awhile to

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I feel like I'm drowning and it's only been a week. Actually a little longer than a week. And most if it was fine. Then vacation was up and we came home and now I'm drowning. I enjoyed my week away from cache valley and having Ben's parents to help a little with Ryker. It just sucks for me becuase I trashed our budget by accident- in large part can be blamed on bad record keeping. And Ikea. We

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Truly, I do adore my daughter. For all that Emmaleigh drives me nuts on a semi-regular basis, I really do adore her for moments like yesterday.To start last week I learned that my financial aid had been revoked. I panicked, freaked and fretted my way through the weekend until Monday morning when I turned in probably far more than I needed to as part of my appeal for reinstatment of said financial

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Tuesday around midnight we agian found ourselves in the labor and delivery at Logan Regional. Still went home with nothing but orders to take it easy and drink lots of fluid and that they're just cramps, but take a hot bath and it will help (which it sometimes does and sometimes doesn't). They did however do a Fetal Fibronectin test, which let me say for the record is an evil vile test and I do

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I am getting frustrated with this pregnancy and am very ready to just be finished with it. For the last few days I have had a band of pain/pressure across my lower back that since yesterday evening has begun wrapping itself around towards the front and it is not particularly pleasant. I am also sick of contractions striking at random moments and I have now gone in twice with them only to be told

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I've been having a few thoughtful moments of late and that for some reason is provoking me to get in here and write about the things that are going on in my life and the things I'm afraid of.A few months ago I had to go on the antidepressant Pristiq. So far it's working very well for me, and that's a good thing. I was getting scary. Along with that though my doctor has advised that when Ryker is

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I guess we must be boring because we didn't do anything for the Fourth of July holiday. We didn't even do any BBQ. Ben made fajitas. And I still haven't figured out how he so thoroughly burned them, but he did. My husband is amazing sometimes in the things that he does, either good or bad. We didn't do fireworks either, though I found some sparklers and ground blooms. We still have a few days to

Amy Blakelyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15588995318196139715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084833730800593448.post-760326513457641192010-06-25T10:14:00.004-06:002010-06-25T10:24:09.965-06:00

I am a terrible blogger, and I am the first to admit it. Though half the time when I do blog I blog about all the bad things and none of the good.On the baby front things seem to be looking good. I had my appointment on Tuesday where I had to drink the glucose drink. First of all, it was orange. Second of all since my appointment was first thing in the morning I wasn't supposed to eat anything

Amy Blakelyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15588995318196139715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084833730800593448.post-11765855159662024162010-05-17T12:49:00.003-06:002010-05-17T12:52:32.220-06:00

We found out on Thursday that baby number two is a boy. I am mildly terrified that it's going to be way different than Emmaleigh and I'm not sure what to think. Ben is absolutely thrilled.Emmaleigh keep sinsisting that it's a girl like her. She doesn't want a boy like daddy. Though she has started calling him baby brother, following after Ben and I. We're still arguing out names. I think that's

Amy Blakelyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15588995318196139715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084833730800593448.post-64158103827799579552010-04-13T00:02:00.002-06:002010-04-13T00:21:50.232-06:00

I guess I have been completely remiss lately in updating this horrid thing. Okay not horrid, but I have a valid excuse for just about everything I haven't done since about the end of January on. And that excuse is morning sickness which is FINALLY gone. Thank goodness. And with it seems to have gone the inablity to get near milk, which I'm grateful for becuase that sucked.All in all things seem

Amy Blakelyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15588995318196139715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084833730800593448.post-19064175831592607252010-01-25T09:57:00.002-07:002010-01-25T10:04:31.014-07:00

I am officially back in school. I'm going to USU and so far I'm loving it. My classes are good, I like my instructors life is okay.There a lot of other things going on in my life, unfotately I'm not in a position to talk about them right nwo. It's not that I want to keep the few people who follow my life out of the loop so much as I need to sort out what I'm feeling about the changes we're

Amy Blakelyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15588995318196139715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084833730800593448.post-36382531125201566062009-12-23T01:05:00.003-07:002009-12-23T01:15:10.090-07:00

I feel like I've been neglecting my blog of late. Not becuase I'm not logged in every day to read the latest post by Kerri, blogging over at six until me, as she faces type 1 diabetes and pregnancy. No, it's that I'm logged in every day and I never write a thing or even hradly comment on the few blogs I do read. I'm like an interenet stalker.I've been one very busy momma. I have applied for and

Amy Blakelyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15588995318196139715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084833730800593448.post-55271415565144399302009-11-08T22:37:00.001-07:002009-11-08T23:09:49.493-07:00

The big day was Wednesday. I still can't believe that we FINALLY made it to the temple. We took out our endowements and were also sealed as family for time and all eternity, so Emmaleigh got to go too. According to the nursery workers she was very well prepared and excited to be at the temple. Which made me happy, we did try.Jess was a big help. When we got paid last Thursday I paid rent and

Amy Blakelyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15588995318196139715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084833730800593448.post-29401895231215892952009-10-26T15:22:00.002-06:002009-10-26T15:28:48.384-06:00

Emmy and I had a great time at Mama Clell and Dad's new place in Murray and helping to move them out of the Kaysville House. Though it can't go without being noted that Emmy is something of a brat and Eliza is completely transparent about the location of her buttons.Frequently throughtout the weekend you'd get the commentary from Eliza of her pointing at Mama Clell and saying "my mommy" then

Amy Blakelyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15588995318196139715noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084833730800593448.post-25693317090910878412009-10-05T14:41:00.002-06:002009-10-05T14:50:41.722-06:00

Emmaleigh has decided I think that she just loves proving to mommy how much of a BIG girl she is. Daddy let her sleep in the twin bed in the upstairs extra bedroom and since then Emmaleigh has demanded that she wants to sleep in the "big girl bed".Not to mention that I started keeping little treats like gummy worms in Emmy's diaper bag to make things easier sometimes. Well now if I say, Emmy you

Amy Blakelyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15588995318196139715noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084833730800593448.post-91551877580536658152009-10-04T16:04:00.004-06:002009-10-04T16:57:01.286-06:00

My life lately has been a circus of drama, drama and more drama. And of course my internet is shotty at the best of times, because we're mooching free net off a a public server that my computer only sometimes likes.I miss my sister. I still love her, though apparently she can no loner see this and it greives me that she thinks she can no loner even count me amongst friends. True, I am upset and

Amy Blakelyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15588995318196139715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084833730800593448.post-84780223224542602342009-08-18T21:22:00.002-06:002009-08-18T21:42:37.018-06:00

I am thouroughly sick of Walmart, particularily the politics of the bakery. I have tried to get out of this department but management, and by this I mean Don our Co and Mikkael our assistant, feel that the best fit for me is the bakery, so I am not permitted to leave. Personally I think that I should be allowed to move if I wish to so long as ther is an opening available for me to go into.Most

Amy Blakelyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15588995318196139715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084833730800593448.post-69559266014181119732009-08-13T22:32:00.002-06:002009-08-13T22:39:40.229-06:00

I'm not doing well right now. First of all becuase I can't seem to get back in the routine of taking my meds and remembering my birth control so I don't have to worry about taking my meds and to top it all off I not only am not sleeping but I'm not eating either.A medical debt came after us so we are now 200 in the hole before we even put food on the budget. I will likely soon loose my internet

Amy Blakelyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15588995318196139715noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084833730800593448.post-88641150420950487572009-08-06T16:07:00.002-06:002009-08-06T16:13:53.137-06:00

I've been working on collecting addresses and phone numbers to send out invites for November and I'm really gettting excited. I even managed to get myself over the whole having had someone's number and not calling them in over two years. I called Elder Johnson, who's going to try to make it to the sealing. AND my friend Brian,w ho it's great to reconnect, we've been texting now, who can't come to

Amy Blakelyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15588995318196139715noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084833730800593448.post-4342955613744002572009-08-01T22:05:00.002-06:002009-08-01T22:43:23.707-06:00

Well we've had a big couple of events in the Blakely House of late. First and foremost. Emmaleigh came home last week. We have had her for one whole week and it has been completely and utterly fantastic. I love that her daddy goes adn gets her up in the morning and then brings her down to 'wake up' mommy. I love hugs and baths before bed. But most of all I love prayers and scripture reading

Amy Blakelyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15588995318196139715noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084833730800593448.post-1727612136471832862009-07-09T11:54:00.002-06:002009-07-09T12:01:54.108-06:00

Just a quick one before I head off to work, so that people know that 1. I'm still alive and 2. I'm almost doing okay.I am doing better. They put me on Lithium which I'm very upset about, but there's nothing I can do about it. DCFS sucks, truly they do.In other news. We Moved! I am thrilled. We found a 3 bedroom 2 bathroom house that is cheaper than our teeny old apartment was. It also has a

Amy Blakelyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15588995318196139715noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084833730800593448.post-79971212023922947342009-04-03T00:20:00.004-06:002009-04-03T00:36:47.688-06:00

So, Ben is mad at me. Agian go figure. Right. He'salwaysmad at me for something. It doesn't seem to matter what it is. It's my fault. All my fault. Always my fault. Never any other way around.So I'm mad and as I'm mad I realize that the song I turn to in my anger is the same song I've been listening to since, what, my freshman year of high school, sophmore year. Does it matter. When I'm angry.

Amy Blakelyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15588995318196139715noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084833730800593448.post-78238937228668040552009-03-30T22:34:00.002-06:002009-03-30T22:37:34.921-06:00

I have been absent for awhile, though I was surprised to see that Boo decided to start posting some stuff.I have the flu and I don't like it at all. I don't have to go to work tomorrow though because of this.I talked to my therapist and can't get in with Dr. Canning until the end of April. I've been in  a funk and it's gotten scary.I don't have much else to say.

Amy Blakelyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15588995318196139715noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084833730800593448.post-7465549876742226922009-03-24T23:42:00.001-06:002009-03-24T23:43:54.554-06:00

well its almost midnight I can't seem to sleep and I have to be up in about 5 hours this bites....

Boohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10605802384573551874noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084833730800593448.post-33149720124785276492009-03-04T21:20:00.002-07:002009-03-04T21:53:44.842-07:00

Once you've been tagged, you write a post with 10 weird, random facts, habits or goals about yourself. At the end, choose 6 new victims to be tagged, list their names, and why you tagged them. Don't forget to leave them a comment saying ('You're It!') and to go read your blog. You cannot tag the person that tagged you  so, let me know when you are done so that I can go read your blog answers.

Amy Blakelyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15588995318196139715noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084833730800593448.post-53521988386657212452009-03-04T20:17:00.002-07:002009-03-04T20:36:03.004-07:00

I'm currently finding that at this point in my life, I am something of a hypcorite. Truely.I want to have faith. I want to rely on God. I want to read my scriptures and be someone who is seen to practice my religion. But for some reason I am doing none of those things. I can't tell you when last I picked up my scriptures. We won't talk about how long it's been since I've knealt in prayer, or

Amy Blakelyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15588995318196139715noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084833730800593448.post-57304287112803209502009-03-03T20:09:00.002-07:002009-03-03T20:55:27.082-07:00

I find that my life keeps taking unexpected turns that I just don't understand or furthermore want. And I find that there is no rational for why these things are happening to me.I feel like God is angry with me, and while I am assured that this cannot be the case it still feels that way.After my miscarriage in January Ben and I decided that while we were both so geared up for a second child that

Amy Blakelyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15588995318196139715noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084833730800593448.post-11535191294147960752009-02-13T09:41:00.005-07:002009-02-13T10:22:48.505-07:00

So, apparently I think I'm crafty. Our friend and coworker Joni had a baby boy on the5th. So, since I couldn't find anything blue for her little boy that I liked so instead I bought some of the white onsies with the little pull over mittens and then I made them personalized. FRONT BACK This is the second onesie I made. Joni's husband is a

Amy Blakelyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15588995318196139715noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084833730800593448.post-34923484185157945162009-02-09T18:42:00.002-07:002009-02-10T03:35:10.135-07:00

So this is Emmy talking and saying her words, and she does say a lot of them. Although she's also eating pizza in this video, because daddy left a slice lying on the coffee table and she decided she was going to wander about munching on it.

Amy Blakelyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15588995318196139715noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084833730800593448.post-81180800271035861782009-02-08T17:49:00.003-07:002009-02-08T20:46:46.665-07:00

Well the last time I tried to talk about how grown up Emmy was I didn't have pictures. So these are some recent pictures and well I'm hoping to upload some photos of her.This first one is her all dressed up din one of our shirts. She was determined to see it put on, and I found her completely adorable dressed in becuase it was WAY too big.She's also very stubborn about what she wants to wear when

Amy Blakelyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15588995318196139715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084833730800593448.post-86009810607432044632009-02-01T14:55:00.002-07:002009-02-01T15:05:07.672-07:00

I feel like my little girl is so grown up now. She put on her own shoes today after her nap and while lunch is cooking right now she's sitting in her high chair with her laptop out munching pringles just like mommy, so grown up I'm telling you.I can't believe all the new things she does. She helps take her coat off and she likes to pick her own clothes. She loves doing the things we are and Ben

Amy Blakelyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15588995318196139715noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084833730800593448.post-64286695655219944122009-01-25T20:21:00.002-07:002009-01-25T20:28:53.902-07:00

I think I'm doing okay, all things considered. I want to take a moment to thank Jess and Meg for their comments. I did read the article, though I was so in tears I hardly made it out. I was very out of it yesterday and today I have been more with it. Having Emmy I think has helped.We ended up opting to miss primary. We went to sacrament meeting, but then walked home with Emmy thereafter. We found

Amy Blakelyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15588995318196139715noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084833730800593448.post-10022248934807840212009-01-24T15:18:00.002-07:002009-01-24T15:45:01.617-07:00

Right now I feel like I don't have the words to adequately express the thing that are going on in my life, in my head, in my heart. I don't feel like I have the words to say the things that need to be said at all. I tried to start writing it down in AnimeLeague in my journal there figuring I'd copy and paste and once I started going I was fine, until the page did it's delete thing and I lost all

Amy Blakelyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15588995318196139715noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084833730800593448.post-78223243702186876752009-01-22T18:57:00.002-07:002009-01-22T19:35:31.763-07:00

Today has been something resembling a productive day. For me at least, and that's saying something. I have a tendency towards being a lazy slacker, and I mean that in the best sense of the word. I just want to curl up and sleep, and sleep and sleep and seeing as it's my day off today, it doesn't help.But today was somewhat productive. I woke up on time for peer parenting and Hilaree came by and

Amy Blakelyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15588995318196139715noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084833730800593448.post-81521321580920004712009-01-19T17:56:00.003-07:002009-01-19T18:06:25.478-07:00

Well to start with I have known since Sunday morning. But today it was made official when I went in and saw Dr. Jones and it was confirmed, by blood test, that I am 4 weeks pregnant. Our new family member is due to Join us on Sept. 26th, which happens to be my mother's birthday.But Ben is hoping for late, on October 2nd.So for my own knowledge, did anyone out there go drug free? I want to this

Amy Blakelyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15588995318196139715noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084833730800593448.post-55906743275359834782009-01-01T14:12:00.003-07:002009-01-01T14:32:34.193-07:00

First and foremost is a need to say Congradulations! to my friend Amanda. and a great big Welcome to her new baby boy David Joseph Murphy born on Dec. 31, 2008 at 11:45 am weighing 7 pounds 11 ounces and 19.5 inches long. We are all glad to see David safely here, his mommy most of all.In other news, we didn't really do anything for new years. Or at least not anything fancy. Ben ended up inviting

Amy Blakelyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15588995318196139715noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084833730800593448.post-74872565713413187452008-12-29T14:49:00.002-07:002008-12-29T14:53:31.367-07:00

I only have a brief minute, becuase I'm at the library and really do need to be on the run soon. But I wanted to share that we are making progress with getting Emmaleigh home.She comes now ALL day on Sundays and we had her overnight for christmas eve and on christmas day.We had a very good christmas with her too. She got a fair number of presents and we took ehr to a friend's house for chirstmas

Amy Blakelyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15588995318196139715noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084833730800593448.post-33918090412107086602008-12-07T22:03:00.004-07:002008-12-07T22:25:19.135-07:00

Well I have been promising pictures from Ben's ordination and of course I've been lax about getting them up. It should be noted that I'm going to have to do a pick and choose since I took somwhere around 200 photos on that Sunday so only some of the very best will be going up and I'm not sure of all who it will be.To start with we have the cake.I made this cake. From scratch, cake frosting

Amy Blakelyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15588995318196139715noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084833730800593448.post-1265574071450165632008-12-05T11:45:00.002-07:002008-12-05T11:49:48.651-07:00

I'm at the library using a library computer so of c ourse I don't have access to the pictures I took from the other weekend. Despite the mass choas of it, everything went pretty well.As for an Emmaleigh update she is doing well, though she has a case of pink eye. So we didn't get to take her to the associate christmas party like we had planned to this last Tuesday, but it went well too. It was

Amy Blakelyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15588995318196139715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084833730800593448.post-326635419377556962008-11-22T12:18:00.002-07:002008-11-22T12:38:26.088-07:00

I've once agian been gone for awhile, a fact which really shouldn't surprise anyone who reads this thing with anything close to regularity. Not having regular internet means that I'm not really at liberty to post whatever I want whenever I want to, it makes life annoying and difficult and not at all as much fun as I would like. But perhaps that has more to do with me being an internet junkie and

Amy Blakelyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15588995318196139715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084833730800593448.post-55601707151147579922008-10-24T15:09:00.002-06:002008-10-24T15:44:34.487-06:00

I always feel as if I'm neglecting this poor thing, not to mention everything else.We're actually getting somewhere on paying off some of our debts. I've paid off the one here in Logan, one from LSI (which we're now trying to get out of the contract on, the guy who sold it to us actually lied, which sucked, but um, yeah not going there) and the health center here in Logan as well. One of the

Amy Blakelyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15588995318196139715noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084833730800593448.post-41206103692317873822008-10-08T14:44:00.002-06:002008-10-08T14:54:55.703-06:00

I am officially a student agian. My classes started at BATC and I doing the CNA course. So far I really enjoy it. The instructor is a little bit strange, but then what more can you expect from someone who insists on being called Butch. I go two nights a week. Mondays and Wednesdays from 6-9. It's a little late if I have to work the next day, but overall not too bad.I don't have the internet at

Amy Blakelyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15588995318196139715noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084833730800593448.post-20935550042756233662008-09-16T20:48:00.002-06:002008-09-16T21:03:16.030-06:00

Or perhaps I should say Shinra.But it's allso known as Wal*Mart. The other names are just things we call that glorious place that I can't go into for groceries and spend less than two hours there and I don't know how they do it!It also gets me into trouble becuase I always WANT to buy the double stuf oreos. I love them. With milk.... And it's been MONTHS since I had them. It's funny really.I

Amy Blakelyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15588995318196139715noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084833730800593448.post-54913283246195683432008-09-12T16:38:00.003-06:002008-09-12T16:45:42.747-06:00

Well, not too much has been going on in our house of late. A few things but not a lot.Peer parenting is still going well. We've been working on budgeting and it's a lot harder than I thought. Also, every time I think we have everything we need in there a NEW debt seems to pop up out of nowhere. We're in a LOT of debt. Part of our homework for this coming Thursday was to get a credit report for

Amy Blakelyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15588995318196139715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084833730800593448.post-36368346006555039722008-09-06T17:11:00.002-06:002008-09-06T17:18:29.000-06:00

I need to keep this short and sweet and hopefully to the point. Ben wants the computer right now, he somehow managed to get a Saturday off without requesting it. So of course we're at the library so we can make use of the internet and the library closes at 6. So he won't have long becuase I'm hogging MY computer (I don't know why he didn't bring his, but he's reading a comic book so for the time

Amy Blakelyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15588995318196139715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084833730800593448.post-8981610216548898542008-09-04T16:22:00.003-06:002008-09-04T16:29:20.454-06:00

Peer Parenting has been going pretty well. We actually have a budget. It's taking some work on my part to actually stick to said budget. As part of budgeting and more importantly learning to write things in the little checkbook ledger thing I am no longer allowed to use my debit card for the month of september. YUCK.The only exception to said rule is to go to Gossner's and buy cheese and lunch

Amy Blakelyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15588995318196139715noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084833730800593448.post-64779883769992992322008-08-23T16:07:00.002-06:002008-08-23T16:14:38.000-06:00

Today we had our first peer parenting, which meant a visit with Emmaleigh in our home. I was needless to say very excited for this to happen. And it went very well.Emmaleigh loved her breakfast of vanilla yogurt and blueberry mini muffins. She wasn't overly fond of her sippy cup but I'm confident that given time she will adjust. In talking to Laura I learned that everyone is predicting that if

Amy Blakelyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15588995318196139715noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084833730800593448.post-20494066802582107212008-08-19T23:36:00.010-06:002008-08-20T00:21:51.354-06:00

My best friend Suzie came to visit me this weekend. It was a lot of fun. Almost high school like insanity too. And crazy, insane pictures. It was well worth it and I'm glad she came.I can explain the pictures at least too. We're both members of a great and far more fun than it should be place called Anime League. It's an anime discussion forum. One of the subforums, called Crazy League is

Amy Blakelyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15588995318196139715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084833730800593448.post-53386890872650730082008-08-17T00:24:00.008-06:002008-08-19T23:36:16.997-06:00

Emmaleigh is my little miss attitude. She not only has it, but she's quite fond of proving just how much attitude she has and she absolutely loves doing it in front of the camera.I don't remember what we were doing when I took this shot, but I love the look on her face. The way her chubby cheeks don't hide that she is just not happy with the situation of her world. And those eyes. She has such

Amy Blakelyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15588995318196139715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084833730800593448.post-46554176714904120772008-08-16T01:34:00.008-06:002008-08-16T02:15:28.567-06:00

I have been looking through Emmaleigh's pictures and I realized that I want to share with people and readers just who my baby girl is. Even though right now I really can't say that I have any sort of reader base if you will, I want to share with the wolrd my wonderful baby girl.I'll start with this picture to the right. This is Emmaleigh, my sweet wonderful and precious girl. If any one picture

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Once agian I find that I'm not sleeping. I should be, but I can't and it's by far too late to take a sleeping pill. I'd waste most of the day if I did, and well, I just can't afford to do that. I do, contrary to popular belief, actually have things to accomplish during the day tomorrow. Most especially so since Suzie is coming to visit for the weekend. I'm thrilled to see her, even more thrille

Amy Blakelyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15588995318196139715noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4084833730800593448.post-27523519303177752492008-08-15T01:30:00.002-06:002008-08-15T01:51:11.467-06:00

Okay, so I do deserve to write a post that says something about my life but really there is nothing to report. I had a great talk with my mother in law about a book that she needs to read and pass to anyone in her ward who has teenage girls who use the internet. It is called Sheep's_Clothing by Josi Kilpack. It is amazingly insightful and I saw so much of myself as a teenageer in Jess that it

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I know I should say some things about myself. Possibly even something profound. But I really don't feel like it.I'm finding that more and more people I know use these google blogs and so here I find myself trying to create a place that's a home for me. For some time I have on and off agian used xanga, but it doesn't really give me a chance to create a look that expresses myself the way I want to

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