Thirty-eight is Great!

Well folks today is the most important day in August. It is the day we celebrate the birth of ME! That's right 38 today. I realized that I already thought I was 38 and thought this year was 39! What a great thing to find out I am going to be 38 for another year.
So for my birthday I sent Dave up to the Homestead with 2 of the boys. So that means I am sports chauffeur extraordinaire today. So fall is officially starting here at our house. We had...

• football weigh in at 7:30,
• Soccer practice at 9:00,
• Soccer game at 11:00,
• Football pictures at 1:00,
• Football scrimmage at 2:00,
• 2nd Football scrimmage at 3:00.

My favorite part of fall sports is getting the schedules and writing all the stuff down on the calendar (in their color coordinated pens of course!) Alex-purple, Jonathan-green, Aaron-red, Josh-blue, Family-black, YW and EQ- orange! My calendar looks so festive and it causes a mild case of hysteria when I see that we need to be 3 different places at the exact same time! Colorful Calendars are exciting!!

Oh, I also have a new color this fall.... Pink! Pink is for PTA! I went down to the school to meet and chat with the new principal and in the course of the conversation she asked me to be the PTA President! I was very firm (you would be proud) and said NO! That was a month ago. Since then I kept feeling guilty that we had no PTA! So one night in order to make myself feel better I said to myself..... Well if Cheryl (former president, Ward friend) would be my co-president, I would do it! STUPID! STUPID! STUPID! Literally 2 days later I get a phone call.... "Kelli, this is Cheryl. If I do this with you would you be the PTA President?" So Pink is for PTA. Enough said. Though one positive point is I told my little sister, Tricia, that since I was the President then she had to be on my executive committee. Membership Vice-President. HA-HA That made me happy.

I feel that I must share with you a few highlights of the wisdom that I have learned in the last 38 years! This of course is a very small representation of the vast amount of knowledge that I have accumulated in my short life span.

• Using big words in a sentence makes you sound really smart
• But only if you spell them right!
• Mom was right. Dishes are easier to do if you do them right after you eat!
• Dad was right. Making lists is a good way to remember everything when you go camping.
• Grandma Carter was right. Kissing is fun.
• Parents and Grandparents are smarter than I thought.
• Siblings are cooler to play with when you get older.
• Boys are smelly and messy and adorable. They do bring me the greatest joys and biggest stress.
• The church is true.
• My Dave is the most amazing man alive making me the luckiest woman.
• Laundry and Families are forever!
• Anything kids mess up in 10 minutes will take 4 hours to clean up.
• Laughing can make a lot of tense situations a little better.

I don't want to overwhelm you all at once and have anyone go into brain overload so I will sign off for now. Love you all.