Sassi Cassi Lou

Moving Day!

2007-10-11T18:58:20+02:00

You can now find all of my shenanigans and fun stuff here at: http://sassi-cassi-lou.blogspot.com/. Sorry I can't set the like up for you to just link straight over. That's part of why I'm moving. Please change your bookmarks . links. Hope to see all of you over there. Love C!

When it rains it pours.

2007-10-07T14:50:51+02:00

This week has been a lot of fun! Basically it started on Tuesday... my dear friend and coworker, Jamie, had her post elopment wedding shower. I had asked her earlier in the day what she wanted/needed and she couldn't think of anything. So we finally came up with something that her new family (hubby and two stepkids) could do together. So this is what I got her.

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Wednesday Matt had two flag-football games. He won the first and lost the second. But they still have a chance to go all the way in the tourney! It's a double elimination set-up so there's hope.

Thursday my Dad came down to Provo, he got into town Sunday night and has been staying in Sandy with my brother Alema, and went with me to watch Kekoa play in his flag-football game. I actually do have video footage from his game, but I can't upload it right now. I will do that hopefully this week sometime. Kekoa scored a touch down. He used his favorite move when he is quarterback. He fakes a pass to his left and runs right. He also grabbed a lot of flags this week. Kalena also had her last soccer game on wednesday at the exact same time as Kekoa's game. Her Aunty Leilani, Tutu Heather, Aunty Summer and Tutu Kawai were all there to cheer her on and to see her get her medal! It was great! I also got a text that my awesome nephew Aidan scored a touchdown in his flag-football game.

Friday we didn't do much... we just chilled at home. It was a nice relaxing evening.

Saturday... well there was general conference. Matt and I got to go watch my nephew, Durrant play football.

The Beetdiggers beat the Riverton Silverwolves 7-6. It was a great game, despite the NASTY weather. The boys were playing in freezing cold rain. And there was a huge, almost lake size puddle on the north east side of the field. After the game Matt and I got to have a date as my kids and my in-laws had all gone to Provo to see Brianna. We went to .

It was awesome. I ordered there 3 course meal with Potato Skins, a Steak and two of their mini desserts (Chocolate Raspberry and Peanutbutter Cup!). Matt got the Jack Daniels flat iron steak. I order mine medium and Matt orders his rare. Well we usually have issues with Matt's steak. They usually over cook it. Well the ended up over cooking his and under cooking mine so we sent the steaks back and the got perfect ones. Oh my!! I was so stuffed. After that we headed over to Meg and Mario's to wait for the gang to get back from Provo. While we were waiting we watched

I must say that I quite enjoyed it. Well, Matt and his brothers headed off to the Preisthood session of conference and I had all three kids to myself. Actually Lelani and my mother-in-law and father-in-law were home. Errol wasn't feeling so hot or else he would have gone with the boys. Anway, I digress, Lelani and I were trying to find Hairspray at a dollar theater but it hadn't made it to any yet, so I took the kids to
It was the cutest movie. I highly reccomend it to everybody. Not only did I enjoy it, but my kids did too! Now that is a feat! It's hard to find movies that entertain our whole family. Most cartoons are just that, cartoons. However this had some fun stuff in it for adults. And not to mention I love cooking and good food, thanks to my mom, and this was a fun way to see that in a movie.

Oh! Did you notice I said that 'I took the kids to Ratatouille'? Yes! I took all three of my kids to a movie by myself. I know that seems like not much to do, but can I tell you it can be a nightmare. All three of my kiddos did an awesome job of behaving. YEAH!!! I was able to enjoy the movie without too much talking from them.

We came home and ended the night with a bunch of rounds of boxing and golf on my bother in laws wii! It's a lot of fun to see Ka'iwa boxing. She gets her whole little body into it. Poor thing had a side ache after a while. Kekoa kicked most of our okoles (Phonetic pron: Oh-Ko-Lay) (oh, by the way... that's Butt or Hiney or soft flesshy area of your upper leg (when harry met sally) in boxing. Kalea also is a natural at golfing. Again I digress... Hey it's early/late... whatever you want to call it. BIG YAWN!!

Well my dears it's 6:32 am and I am going to try and go back to bed. I got rudely awakend by Ka'iwa kicking me off the hide-a-bed (since we are staying at Mario and Megs), and my husbands LOUD snoring about 2 hours ago. My love to you all! Sassi-Lou

P.S. If you go to my Harrington Family Blog you can check out my brother Alema, with Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson. And my neice, Teinei, with Carrie Ann Inabe, Judge for Dancing with the Stars. Kind of fun.

Deep thoughts, by Cassi Palmer

2007-10-02T01:27:51+02:00

Sorry it has been so long. Not much new, as usual, for me and my brood.

Kekoa is dong really well in Flag Football. He has run for quite a few first downs and has run in for 2 touchdowns now. Kalena is liking soccer. She has scored two goals. Matt's flag football team ended up 8 wins 1 loss going into the tournament. I think it'd be really cool if they took fist place this year. They took second place about 5 years ago. It was a lot of fun. Things at work contine to be a little trying but I think it will work out in the end.

The reason I titled this 'Deep Thoughts' is because I am in the middle of reading 'Kite Runner.' I asked a whole bunch of people for reccomendations for books for my trip with my brother Tau last year. My brother Alema told me about this book. I wanted to read it a year ago when I went to, but instead I ended up reading 'Memoirs of a Geisha'. I LOVED IT and couldn't put it down. 'Kite Runner' on the other hand I have had to put down a couple of times. It is a heart wrenching story, and yet it is so beautiful. I am only half way done and I want to finish it quickly. With kids at home and not much down time at work I don't know how quickly that will come.... This book has made me think of a dear friend who is part Pakistani. It also has made me think about my realtionship with my parents and my children. It makes me wonder what my children will take from me and bring to their own lives in the future. Oh boy! I hope my children take good things not only from me but also from their culture. In 'Kite Runner' you learn about the pride that is in the people of this book. You learn about traditions and things that they take with them through there lives. I have begun to evaluate what I have taken from my parents, peers, friends and children that I hope to incorporate more in my life. One thing I hope to leave on this world in my love an compassion for so many people. I love ya!

Blah!

2007-09-12T01:55:56+02:00

These are two of my most favorite pictures from Hawaii. I thought this may be cheery.

Oh how I wish I were there right now. I am back at work and I have gone through the first 3 weeks of school. I must say that the first week and a half were really scary. I am only supposed to have around 15 kids MAX in my unit. By the end of the first week I had something like 20 kids. We are in a single wide trailor in the back of our school and our class room is just over a third of the trailer. The other part is another class room and a maintenence closet. So we were CRAMPED. Add to that two tracker (me and my partner) a teacher and atleast one possible two more trackers for 4 of our students that were in a particular program. These four students had to have their program staff with them at all times. So that ends up being potentially 25 people in a tiny class room YUCK!!!!We were able to pair it down and now three weeks later I am down to 13 students. That can change at any given moment also. Part of the joys of my job! GRRRR!!! I was really excited to be back at school. I missed my kids. I have a new batch and a whole new set of adventures that I'm sure are to follow. I must say I am a little frusterated, though. I am having some issues with certain situations. I don't want to get too much into it because I'm sure things will work out, but it's really hard to be the heavy I've decided. Actually, I like that part of my job, sometimes, but it's getting old and fast right now. I must say that I am greateful for the life experiences I have had. I know that my stint in Life-Line have helped me a ton doing this job. I know that this is a great fit for me, but I need to learn how to adjust. ** Side Note** I have to say Matt has been really good at listening to me vent when I am done with school. I usually call him on the drive home in the afternoon and unload. He is very good to just let me go. THANK YOU HONEY!!

On a better note:

My cousin Kimmie came up not this past saturday, but the one before. She and her husband Jeff were here to drop of their second son, Hauns, at the MTC. It was so awesome to see her. We went for a long time where we didn't get to see each other and then I've seen her twice in the last year in a half. Pretty awesome. I know that Hauns will make and awesome missionary. He is heading to the Taiwan, Taipei mission. Kimmie's oldest son, Josh, is in the Phillipenes. I hope that my son will grow up to be like his cousins and I hope that I can grow up to be a mom like my cousin Kimmie. She's so cool!

Kekoa has started flag football. They are the Tigers. Matt is the assistant coach for his team. He doesn't like it a whole ton, but then he didn't really like soccer his first season either. It's kind of sad because we only have 7 on our team and all the other teams around us have atleast 10. So our little guys get really tired during the games and they don't get any subs. We haven't had a steller season either, but it'll come.

Kalena is doing soccer for her second season. She loves it and she's on a great team, the Cougars. The coach is a dad is our ward and he's really good with the kids. There are two other kids that are in our ward and another little girl that was in our ward so it's a lot of fun to be playing with friends. her record is a little better. They have a little girl on their team that is our ringer. She can play!!

Matt is also in another season of flag football. (Can we say WE ARE BUSY!!) It's really crazy! I told his teammate (Keyyan) that they need a new name for their team next year. This year and last they were KeyBank, because two of the guys on the team work for KeyBank. However, next year they need to be called the Old Men. I think 75% of their team is over 30. Not that 30 is old, it's just that we are in Provo, and the majority of those who play City Rec football are BYU or UVSC students so the age group is a little younger. Matt's doing well and he's keeping his temper really well this year. I made him promise that he wouldn't get out of control. I told him now that Kekoa is playing football, he needs to be a good example of sportsmanship to him. He really has done well.

Kaiwa is dying to go play any sport, poor thing, she's too young. She will be able to play Soccer in the Spring, since she will turn 4 in February. I feel so bad that she has to wait, but then I am glad becuase I know she is going to be a bruiser on the field.

Me, not much, just work and shuttling all of my kids (Matt included) around to all of their games, etc. I haven't really wanted to get back into volleyball, but I really should. Like the title of my blog, I just feel kind of BLAH! I think it's because I am so busy and I want to do things for myself, but I don't feel like I have the time or energy. Not to mention Matt is still working on his MBA. We will be done in March (Hallelujah!). I say we because I have put just as much time and energy into this as he has. I think once he's done I'll have a little more time to myself. I know it is all worth it. He really did well his last class. I was so proud of him. He got an A- even with having to do tons of homework while we were in Hawaii. Matt did take me out for a fun date to the Art City Trolley and that was nice. If anybody out there has any tips on getting more organized and how to get up at 5 in the morning to work out, please let me know.

Well, enough of my blah. I've done enough bellyaching. Love you all tons! C

We Are A Happy Family

2007-08-28T01:55:37+02:00

As part of our glorious trip to Hawaii, we helped Matt's brothers and sister throw a party for his parents 40th wedding anniversary and Kawai's 60th birthday. It was a suprise to Kawai and it went off very well. I must say that getting ready for this party took a lot of our vacation time, but it all worked out. One of the hardest thing was finding matching outfits for everyone. Oh my heck! I remember a time when you could go to the swap meet and buy matching outfits for Mom, Dad, and Kids NO PROBLEM. Honestly it took us probably 3 hours to find these matching outfits. It was crazy, but I think it turned out pretty nice. I'll add some more pics of Hawaii later, I have to crop them before I post. But here are a few fun ones.

It is finished (Possible Harry Potter Spoiler)

2007-08-11T23:36:14+02:00

I must admit that my dear husband is fabulous, because he hasn't even read #6 and he let me discuss #7 with him as I finished last night. Actually Matt wanted to know if his hunches on certain characters were correct. Most of them were, so it was fun. He let me spill almost everything. I must say I was a little dissapointed. I enjoyed the book. I liked the ending, but I could have used 100 pages less in the middle and could have taken 25 pages more at the end. I wish the last chapter had been "fleshed out" (as one of my old english teachers used to say) a little more. I guess I felt it was a little anti-climatic. I am glad that things ended the way they did, but I am sad that this is the end. I quite enjoyed having Harry Potter to look forward to. I found great escape in Hogwarts and Privet Drive and the Burrow. Now they are said and done. I usually am one to read books over and over, but for some reason after having finished the book, I feel as though I am done not to return to Harry. My dear friend Kayelynn did a fun personality test. I was so wanting to be like Tonks also, but this is who I came out as. I let you know latter what I thought of this description. Your Score: Ginny WeasleyYou scored 45% Maturity, 63% Goodness, and 48% Abilities! Ginny's pretty awesome. As she's gotten older she's shown herself to be quite sly and charismatic. You're still pretty young and you've got a lot to learn, but your ability to boldface lie is amazing. And you seem to have a habit of dating your older brother's friends

Let me know if you agree.

Who do you Think Cassi is most like in Harry Potter

. Link: In-Depth Harry Potter Personality Test

My cute husband.... SO NOT FAIR

2007-08-08T20:49:11+02:00

You have all heard about my insane trip over. Here is Matt's Saga... he got off of work yesterday afternoon at 5 pm. He left Provo around 6:30 in our van heading for California. He drove through the night to LA. Dropped our van off at his Aunts house. Took a shower and went to the airport this morning. Walked up to the counter and as he was doing so to check in they called his name to get on the flight of the morning out to Kahului, Maui! And to top it all off and add insult to injury he got on FIRST CLASS! Not only that but there isn't anybody sitting next to him. (He called me just before the plane was to take off) However I must say I really am not that upset. I'm just glad that he got on a flight early and will be here in a few hours to help me with the kids. Hallelujah. Now my vacation can really begin.