Oh how I have been slacking on my blog lately! I have been so busy with christmas I have hardly had time to breath. Friday night was Steven's work christmas party. So Steven's mother came and was kind enough to come watch our kids for us while we went.

She had gingerbread houses for them to decorate on saturday while me and steven were christmas shopping. They had so much fun. Esther is truly a saint to deal with this mess.


This one is Rachel's. She did such a cute job.
This one is Hunters. All the strings of frosting are christmas lights on his house. lol
On to Slades where do I begin I can tell you the vanilla wafers are a fence. Also this one was pretty much gone by the time I saw it.
And Last but not least is Ty's which was not lacking in sprinkles. Those were at least an inch thick. All in all they turned out great. Me and Steven got our christmas shopping done and found everything we needed. Plus we had a great time doing it!

Free music!

I just found this and thought I would share! I tunes has a FREE album of 20 christmas songs. Yes you read that right 20 free songs. Just click on Holiday music and scroll down half way it is second from the left 20 free holiday songs. Enjoy!

My crazy weekend!

SO here is how my last 4 days have gone down. Thursday we started out with rachel's choir program. It was a nice addition to the christmas spirit. Alisha went with me and brought baby russ. They were really cute and sang some great song's.

Friday Rachel and I headed out for New moon and boot shopping. I must say New moon was really good. The mall was crowded but the theater wasn't so that made up for the busy mall. Rachel found herself "Awesome" boots (her words lol)! I got me some smokin hot little brown heels that are soooo cute (my words lol)!
Saturday it snowed so Steven broke out the 4-wheeler and pulled the kids up and down the road. It was a ton of fun we all had a good time.

And now we arrive at sunday! So for this years christmas craft we did Gingerbread men. The kids had soooooo much fun. It was alot of work and I mean alot half way through I was questioning my own judgement. But it turned out fun. I still have a bit of a mess I am leaving till morning. UGH!
One of two sheets we made.

Ty loves to snuggle with Steven. Even when it is not the most convenient time. Oh how he loves his dad. So all in all it was a BUSY weekend but alot of fun memories!

I got nothin!

I have got nothing for you tonight! Really I have nothing to say (I know some of you didn't think that would ever happen) lol. I have been sitting here for 5 min and NOTHING. I had the same old day.

Morning: Dishes, kids, Breakfast

Afternoon: Lunch, Kids, Dishes, Laundry

Evening: Dinner, Kids, Teeth, Jammies, Made Rachel a skirt and boy's bow ties for church sunday

Late Evening: I sit here after eating Strawberry Jello (left overs from yesterday), Cold toes, and nothing to say!

So good night all and here's hoping tomorrow brings me some inspiration to post about!

ps. Last weekend was a no go for New moon and shopping soooooo I will be headed out this weekend. See things are looking up for my post's! lol

Nice outfit!

What more does a man need!

Ty comes up with some great outfits. The backpack he is wearing is one my parents bought me when I was little for when we went camping. I would pack my snacks and pop in it to take to what ever lake we would be fishing at that day. Well Ty loves it and fill's it with his match box cars.

Each year I do a different family craft. We have painted wooden ornaments, made crystal snowflakes, decorated gingerbread house's and many more. Well this friday we are doing gingerbread men. I am really excited! I love all the fun memories that come with christmas. I love mixing things from my childhood with things from Steven's and making some of our own. That is truly one of the best parts of having kids. I love all the fun activities Steven and I do with the kids. Which I am sure will include the little black backpack!

This is my house. I love the way the lights look. Now I realize this is a bad photo and the light's look so much better in person but it gives you an idea!
So when it snowed on saturday Steven could not resist getting the 4-wheeler out and pulling the kids up and down the road a few times. They LOVED it!
Slade
Steven Ty and Slade

The other day Slade spent about an hour making these winter crowns for himself. I love the one with the snowman on it. He put so much work into it!

I just loved this photo! It was so cute all three boys were having a sleep over in Hunter's bed.

New moon!

So for Rachel's Birthday all she wanted to do was go see New Moon just me and Rach! Well I HATE large crowd's so I have been putting off going to see this movie for the obvious reason of this movie is crazy popular. Well rachel got birthday money from her grandparents and wants to go any buy herself a new sweater and boots. I am now dreading tomorrow because I can't put this off any longer. I am praying that maybe if we go to an early enough movie there wont be a large crowd. Then we can go to the mall (sigh)! I love my daughter but hate shopping in crowds. So for the love of my daughter I will put on a brave face I will go see a movie that SHE is dyeing to see (the books were better, I am hoping they did a better job with this one than they did the last). And I will brave the mall in December. These are the same reasons I have not done ANY Christmas shopping. No you don't need glasses you read that right I have not done any christmas shopping. What will shock you probably more is I do not intend to do any till the weekend of the 18th! I have it all figured out. Now I am leery in sharing how I do this but here goes. I do not even start shopping till 8 pm at night if I don't have to the best shopping start at about 10pm NO ONE is there. It is the best most stores extend their store hours to midnight or latter during the holidays and that is when they do their restocking. It is wonderful while everyone is in bed or getting there. Steven and I are out in Ice covered parking lots in 17 degree weather shopping and so few people are there the whole store is ours lolol! The people who work there are more than happy to help you find something at 1 am cause they have nothing better to do. That to me is the JOY of holiday shopping. So if you to decide to brave the elements and do some midnight shopping a week before christmas watch for me. I will be the one enjoying myself with my Hubby!

Here is another one of our photo's!

So tonight's post I was not sure what it was going to be about. So as I sit here with a few idea's running through my head I don't want to do yet I look at my Hubby and have decided this post will be about him!

Some of the reason's I love my Husband! (yes only some, a girl has to keep some things to herself)

1- Steven makes me laugh! Some of the stuff he says cracks me up.

2- He is a listener and as most of you know I am a talker! lol He know just what he needs to say and I need to hear though.

3- He is honest! I love the fact that with steven we can be totally honest. If he doesn't like what I am wearing or how my hair is he tells me which I appreciate! I hate it when you look terrible and everyone tells you "oh you look great". I always know when he say's I look good he means it.

4- He is so dang HOT! Come on we can all see it. lol

5- I could spend every waking minute with him and NEVER get tired of it! I love to be with Steven. He is more than a best friend and more than just a husband.

6- I love the fact we never fight! Yes I said Never fight. Now we have had fights in our marriage but I don't remember the last one. We disagree but those are always joking around.

7-I love that we can sit in the same room me reading and him doing paper work and say nothing to each other and just enjoy sitting by each other.

8- I love that after a long day when I am tired and wore out all I have to see is steven walk through the door and everything is better because he is there.

9- I love the fact that I still get excited when Steven calls or I know he almost home. I can't wait to see him!

10- It makes me Eternally grateful that I have a Temple marriage to Steven! What a blessing Steven is to me and I am truly thankful!

Lightning!

Today after I dropped the kids off at school I was carrying Ty in the house. He was mad at me cause I would not give him a piece of gum. Well as he leaned forward with his face and touched mine the static electricity shocked us. So I looked at him and said:

Me "Ouch you shocked me!"

Ty " That is because I am so mad at you that my lightning came out at you!"

Moral of the story don't make Ty angry. He carries around lightning!

Our Family Photo's!

So here they are! As some of you know we had family photo's done not to long ago. Here are really just a few of the ones we had done. We have so many great shots it was hard to choose. The photographer was great!!!! The one above I liked because just as she told Ty to look at her and smile this is what he did! I think it is cute. I will post a few more every once in a while.

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WOW what a weekend!

All I can say is thank heaven for Sunday! This Saturday was ONE busy day. My saturday morning started at 6 am when I got up to get ready to be at the boys wrestling tournament at 8am. It was fun for the boys and they both did so well!

Hunter took 2nd Place!

Slade took third place! We were so proud of both of them! Yes I will be the first to admit I am kinda one of those insane mom's who cheer really LOUD! what can I say I love my boys!

So after the Tournament me and Steven went grocery shopping. Then we celebrated Rachel's birthday. Today she is 11! Where does the time go. She has gotten so grown up. We are so proud of the sweet young lady she has become.

So for her birthday she got the wii game Sing it. It is a karaoke type game with disney songs. The Photo of Ty with the microphone was so funny. That boy was really rocking out.

Everyone had a great time singing some High school musical and Hannah Montana!

So onward to sunday we all got ready for church and Ty saw Steven put his tie on sooooo he HAD to have one. This is the one he chose. Yes he wore it to church cause I thought it was so dang cute and so did everyone else.

thankful #4

1- I am Thankful for Grandma's with patience to help do everything my kids need help doing! My mom is so great and I truly don't know what I would do without her around!
2- I am Thankful for Grandpa's with strong legs. In my family we joke around that my dad has a fan club. Every grandson ADORES my dad. Now I really cant explain how serious I am! My boys wont let my dad leave their sight the whole time he is around.
3- I am Thankful for family camp trips! I have so much fun each year on these! You would think we would learn to take the photo the first day when we are all clean instead of the 4th when we well I think the photo explains it all! lol
4- I am Thankful for Capitol Reef! This is where I grew up. It will always have a place in my heart.