WOW... I can't believe that it has been 5 weeks again... must be a magical number for me… lol… I didn't even get my post to look like Christmas or my Christmas music :( ... My favorite time of year and I didn't even share it... insane!!

So much has happened since I posted last…
Jimmy’s Birthday, Thanksgiving, Chad's Mom's Birthday, Christmas, and the everyday living of life. I will work on getting caught up; hit the highlights and then a general post of most everything else.

I hope that all of you had a very MERRY CHRISTMAS and are planning a great new year!! We love our family and friends very much and hope only the best for all of you!!

Last week on the 10th Chris was helping me make breakfast. I was putting some potatoes in the pan on the stove when I turned around and he was reaching for his glass of water and slipped on the chair. He hit the counter top and then face planted on the floor. He bit right through his lip. WOW, there was a lot of blood. Needless to say we ended up in the Emergency Room. They let the inside wound heal it’s self, but he got 4 stitches on the outside of his lip. They were in for 5 days, and then we went in and got them out. He had the same nurse. She had brought another nurse in with her to help her, when she walked in and saw that is was Chris she said, “oh you can go help someone else. I had him when he got them in and he is a great boy. I won’t need help”. That was really nice to hear, he really was a great patient. When they were putting in the stitches they had numbed it and then waited over an hour. When the Dr started putting in the stitches he wasn’t numb anymore. He put the stitches in anyways. I about lost it, but Chris was so brave. He just said “no more please Dr”, but didn’t move. I know that we wouldn’t have been as brave.

Chris is ALL BOY!! and is going to give us a run for our money (as they say). He DOES, and then MAYBE thinks about it. LOL!! He is quite proud of his adventures and will tell you all about them.

Back on November 6 (yes almost a month late) it was my week to be helper “mom” at Joy School. We were talking about our 5 senses. We made Chocolate Pudding and here is how they were using their 5 senses.

They were able to see the ingredients, hear the ingredients being stirred together, to smell the pudding (chocolate yummy).
They were able to TOUCH it, and make pictures or whatever their little hearts desired, and to TASTE it off of their precious little fingers :)

It was fun to watch them; some weren’t too sure about getting in there and exploring what they would be able to do. It didn’t take too long before they were all in it and having fun.
It has been so much fun to watch these little ones all learn and grow. I’m so glad that Chris and I are having this experience. We are BOTH learning and gaining friends, what more can one ask for. :)

Ok finally I have a copy of Twilight to read,

thanks to my best friend STEPH.

Now I can go with the girls on girl’s night out to see the movie!! Chad was supposed to work a double tomorrow (later today now), and Steve is off work. I thought it would be perfect to get it read then. I've been trying to listen to it but it's hard to always focus on it with a 4yr old talking above the audio reader. Chad just got home..oh well 2 hrs ago now.. and he does the double on Monday. So I’ll see how much I can squeeze into this weekend and get it finished as soon as I can. I have to be ready for our night. :). That will be my first night out with friends in a long while, except for this AWESOME class that Cyrene and I just took together for the past 3 Wednesday nights, but that was a little different than a movie night.

I’m behind several weeks in reading all my blogs.

Well I can read them on my phone i.e.:

waiting for Jimmy after school, waiting at the Dr office etc.

But I can’t post comments so I have to find time (lol) to go back and post them. Well tonight is the first time that I could, and I got to everyone’s!!.. Thank you for all your beautiful posts and you comments on mine.

I love to get them and know that someone actually reads my blog. I’m reaching the magical 100th post, I’m already thinking about what I want to do for it :), is that silly? lol

Even though we had snow in early October, November 5th was Griz’s first snow… She wasn’t too sure about it at first but then started playing and really enjoying it. Cub just watched her, you could just imagine Cub looking at her and saying “kids” while shaking her head… lol … Griz kept taunting her to play, it was cute and the boys and I were laughing and enjoying watching them (from inside). The boys wanted to go out in it so bad they emerged upstairs with their snow boots on over their “footed” P.J.’s. Never a dull moment around here…lol

So the day after Halloween we hosted a Daddy Daughter Dinner for our Activities Day Girls. We were originally going to have a Halloween theme, but the girls all decided that they wanted to have it be an 80’s theme. They thought that their Dad’s would like that better and that their mom’s would enjoy helping them get dressed up. I think that they were right on both occasions. Everyone seemed to have a really good time and enjoyed themselves.

(When did the 80”s become the oldie’s? Wasn’t that our parents time, the oldie's? What happened??)

It was good to see the girls interact and COMPETE (wow there was some real competition there lol) with their Dad’s.
We had them write for each other: My Dad/Daughter is Dad/Daughter of the year because:… (they filled in the rest)
At the end we had them read them to each other, it was a great ending to a great night.

Chris had quit the Birthday shebang!! It was a fun filled weekend that started on Thursday at Joy School. He got to wear a crown that he decorated with Spiderman stickers. He took cupcakes that he picked out. Some had orange and some with black icing. The kids that ate the black ones had green all around there faces; it was hilarious except for that night, wow that did some tricky things in the bowels…lol YUCK! He had so much fun with the whole day!

Then on Saturday we had the FRIEND’S Birthday Party!!
We ate pizza rolls, played toss in the pumpkin that Frankenstein was holding, made goodie bags, sucker spiders and ghosts (thanks to the ward carnival), and musical dots. Everyone had a great time and Chris was so happy. I still smile when I think about the day.
Thank you Jennifer and Lisa for all your help that day!

And all his friends for the great gifts!

Our Family Party was on Sunday on his actual Birthday. We had Dinner all together at the table (I can only get that to happen on holidays and special occasions), CHOCOLATE cake he asked for, and then everyone’s favorite OPENING GIFTS! He got to open his gifts from all his family. He got p.j.’s and clothes from Grandma Nielson, he didn’t’ take them off for ever!!, Mickey Mouse shirt and movie (his favorite) from Grandma and Papa Johnson, Thomas the Train books from Uncle Chris, aunt Roxy and cousin Ty. From us here, we all got him BATMAN stuff…he was in 7th heaven!!.. He hasn’t stopped playing with ANY of it!!... I don’t think that he’s touched another toy since his birthday!!
THANK YOU to everyone it was DEFINITELY his best birthday ever!!

He called Grandma Nielson at bedtime to let her know that he was wearing his new P.J.’s to bed that night. He told her all about the night, “showed” her that he was wearing his P.J.’s lol. He was very talkative that night. Mom and I had a good laugh. How could you not be grinning from ear to ear, he cracks me up!! (most of the time…lol)

This was the day after his Birthday… the two of them played forever!! And then crashed together!! :) we are so lucky that they are such good friends, just like brothers should be. I hope that they remember that for the rest of their lives and never let anything break them apart. I hope that they have learned that most important lesson. As our mom use to say… “you always have your family, when everyone else is gone they will always be there for you”.

I hope that my family knows that I am still here for them and love them dearly.

Do you remember our Plumbing Issues Well they got worse. It got to the point that I wasn’t able to use the washer at all. Then I wasn’t able to use the Dishwasher without flooding the basement. I was able to use the Kitchen sink as long as I didn’t let much water down at a time, then guess what… yup you guessed it, NO more Kitchen sink either. So I was doing dishes in buckets and having to make sure that no one used the water in the sink. We broke down and called a Plumber out. I thought that all we needed to do is “snake” the pipe….NOPE!! He let me know that the pipe was broken, a $1600 -$2600 quote to fix it and a charge of $135.00 for finding it and I still had no use of my utilities. Let me tell you, we (all of us) have come quit accustomed to these “Modern Miracles”. I just told myself the PIONEERS had it worse than this, so we can do this!!

Chad’s brother Chris (we have BIG Chris and LITTLE Chris when he’s here) is a plumber and he came to our rescue!!!!....
THANK YOU CHRIS!!
I called him and asked him what we should do and if this was for real. He assured me that it was and that his company would have charged us $3600. Well Chris came out at the end of the week, from Colorado, and FIXED it for us!!!... Our Neighbors and Steve all pitched in and helped with what they could and we have our utilities working!!.. WHAT A RELEIFE!! We seriously could not have done it without him and a special thanks to Abe our neighbor (you’ll see why in the pictures).

So we had everyone come over that night after the school carnival for homemade chili (a small thank you from us) and then headed over to the church carnival. We were so excited because Ty (Chris and Roxy’s 2 yr old son) got to go with us. We all had a blast and then went and checked out the haunted house where Frankenstein SCARED me to DEATH!! (I even hit my head on the steering wheel) while ALL the boys laughed at me A LOT!!... it was a great end to a very long ordeal.

The dust and mud was EVERYWHERE!!

Wow can I remember back that far???... I know that it was a busy day from 7am till 11pm… just like everyone else. What I didn’t’ get a chance to post about I guess, was that Chris and I surprised Jimmy for lunch that afternoon (he thought that we were coming over after lunch) we stayed for the Halloween Parade and then the Class Party. Can I say I was dreading and “totally” nervous as could be in anticipation of what Chris’s behavior would be at the party, but he was AWESOME!!... Thanks to Mrs. Nuttell letting him play with the class toys, he went over to the corner and played all by himself quietly and never disturbed anyone!!! CAN YOU BELIEVE IT!!!..ANY of his Joy School Teachers wouldn’t… LOL!! But he did, and when the class was cleaning up he cleaned up the toys that he was playing with and put them away no mess, no fuss. He is always good at cleaning up, but I didn’t even have to ask him. I was so proud of him!! :) Mrs. Nuttell even sent him home a special treat on Monday because he did so good.

Ok so now I just have to get him to do that and behave that way at Joy School… not sure how I’m going to work that magic yet, but I’m trying!! To all my Joy School Mom’s: THANK YOU for your patience!! I can say that he is learning and can tell me what the teachers taught each day. He LOVES each of you very much!!

Jimmy's School Parade and class Party
Joy School Halloween Party
Church Halloween Carnival

WOW WHAT A HALLOWEEN SEASON FOR US!! And we SURVIVED!!

ok so I'm not 5 weeks behind...lol I'll be posting this weekend and my goal is to be all caught up again :)... I"ll try and not bore you too much. :)

Just wanted to let those of you know that watch our blog, and aren't a blogger, that I have reset my comment settings. I didn’t realize or forgot that when I first set up the blog, I had it set that you had to have a Google account to leave a message. So now any of you can leave a comment on the posts. If someone that we don’t know leaves a comment it might not be approved.

We love our family and friends and love hearing from you. We are so glad and lucky to have so many good people in our lives.

I’m not too sure of where to start on the week’s worth of blogging that I need to do…
I really like the way I’ve seen some do it in one big post, but I think that I’m going to start with tonight and then spread the rest out over the next couple of days. Besides its midnight Chad is home now, it’s been a long day and I have another ahead of me, Daddy Daughter Date Activity tomorrow evening that will be a big day of putting it all together :) I can’t wait we have all been looking forward to it for 2 months now.

So here is some of our trick or treating pictures from tonight. We had a blast and the boys loved, chose and insisted being the same/matching Theme. For my Family’s information it was them and not my doing.

*For those without boys, Chris was Darth Vader or Bader as he pronounces it, and Jimmy was a Clone Trooper....not Storm Trooper!
*Jimmy is a great Big Brother he loves helping Chris and including him with everything that he does. As you’ll see in my upcoming posts from today’s activities, he had him right there to take pictures together with his Teacher

...we went to her haunted house tonight...
*Neither one has much fear; the last picture is of Chris talking to Frankenstein. Where most were scared he was chatting up a storm with him. In that picture he was telling him and I quote “have fun scaring the kids”.

LOL ...LOVE that KID!!

Can you believe it it’s Halloween night!!... The boys and I have had ONE JAM PACKED DAY so far… it’s mandatory “rest time" for an hour of peace for all three of us… we still have to...

pick up Dad (Steve), do dinner, trick-or-treat, have a treat with our friends afterwards, and then scary movie time!!! (Casper)... WOW!!.. that is why Auntie wanted a nap but it seems that I am working against the sugar and have to moderate the “rest time” so I thought that I would take advantage of the moment and just jot a note down. I’ll be the one in the corner sleeping during the movie!!

I CAN’T BELIEVE THAT THERE IS ONLY 2 MONTHS LEFT OF 2008!!!... What a YEAR!!

LOL LOL LOL…. I just checked on the boys in the front room, I’m in the kitchen so that I could “moderate”… here is what I found!!!... wow what 6 min can do and change into!!....LOL LOL LOL

SWEET VICTORY IS MINE!!!

(and now I have a picture for the post... not planned)

I just wanted to put a note in here that I know that I’m a week behind in my posts again… You’ll see why after a few of the ones that I need to enter… But I wanted to get the one about Chad out to everyone that He’s ok… Incase I haven’t gotten a chance to let you know, and of course that we found Griz as well.

Now I will post the rest and get caught back up….again… You’ll never believe that I took almost 300 pictures in a week…WOW!!! Thank goodness for digital pictures and not worrying about “film” anymore… will our kids even know what that is??? LOL but I do need to commit myself to printing a certain amount of my “favorites” once a month and start scrapbooking them… I use to really enjoy it and it’s been a long while… I love to “create” and I want to do more than just think about it… besides if I don’t do a book for the boys who will… guess I’ve got to get on it!!

Tragedy at our house… On Sunday Griz and Cub went for a “walk” without US. I spent 6 hours on Sunday looking for her and several on Monday. Then Tuesday and Wednesday were the way they were so I didn’t have time to look. We have missed her like crazy!!.. Well this afternoon I called the Shelter and she was there!!! So I went and got her out of DOGGIE JAIL!!... I was very clear with her that she was not allowed to go on unauthorized walks or vacations. :) ... TRAGEDY OVERTED!!!

She was as glad to see us as we were to see her.

It has been a GREAT reunion!!

Welcome Home Griz... We Love You!!

Just a few pictures right before he went in… We were “blowing off” some stress and having a few moments of fun… I truly love my husband

and BEST FRIEND!!...

I’m so glad that the Lord answers prayers!!

and for the peace that knowledge gives me!!

Thank you to everyone for all of your prayers and concern. For those that weren’t in “the Know” about the latest for Chad, he went in on Wednesday for an angiogram. On Monday morning we were told that the results were

VERY VERY irregular.

So when they finally called us back in the afternoon they told us to be prepared to stay over night. I asked for an explanation to the “VERY VERY” comment. They said that the results of the test showed that there was major damage to the font of his heart and that it looked as if it wasn’t getting blood flow nor oxygen. She said that they were preparing for SEVERAL stints unless the damage had diesed his heart, and if that was the case they wouldn’t do anything more then, but that he could be placed on the heart transplant list.

OK…. SO IF THAT DIDN’T SCARE US TO DEATH

I DON’T KNOW WHAT WOULD?!?!.....
We talked about things that no 38 & 39 year old couple should ever have to face…. We do know that we should but on our terms and not someone else’s.

We had so many prayers from everyone and his name placed in 4 temples. THANK YOU!! We believe/know that we received a miracle. He has had 3 heart stress tests in two different hospitals and all showed that there were blockages. And when they did the angiogram there were

NO BLOCKAGES!!

What a relief!! Now we just have find out what is wrong with him, BUT at least it’s not his heart!!

He is a walking example of the Lord’s mercies

and latter day miracles.

summer 2007

I have one more very special post. On Wednesday October 1, 2008 I was having a really hard day. I had two close friends that took time out of their very busy and crazy days to listen to a friend and help her out. I want to thank you for your time and listening ears. Thanks Cyrene, and Debi for our hallway talks, it’s really nice to know that your not alone and not going crazy… that there is someone (many of us I imagine) out there that feels the same and has the same/similar fears. That day just really stood out to me and I guess I really needed to have a friend’s shoulder that day, and they came to the rescue.

I must say that I have had many friends and family that have come to me and given me extra care and love, sometimes without even knowing that they were doing it, and I want to say THANK YOU... TO ALL OF YOU!!...

I hope that I can do the same for you as well. That is what friendship and family is all about, helping and being there for each other. Thanks for the phone call Kristi… You always know :).

Kristi and Tammy August 2007

Last Saturday the 11th was one of my best friends (Lindsay) little boys (Brennan) birthday. I was there with Lindsay and her family when little (not so little anymore) Brennan was born. Lindsay and I became friends while working at Dillard’s together. She was the first really close friend that I made after moving out to Utah. I feel like she is a sister to me. We have been through some really tough times along with the great times. It’s one of those friendships that has lasted through the weather of time.

The boys and I were on our way to the birthday party when Jimmy asked me if Lindsay and Brennan were family. I let him know that they were the closest of friends just like family, and he said yea I think they are family, Chris strongly agreed. I included some pictures of the boys before we left (little cheezers) along with some of the party. The first picture on the third row is of Brennan and Jimmy, mind you that Brennan is 15 days older than Chris and 3 years younger than Jimmy…. Can you say BASKET BALL STAR is written for his future…lol…

we love you Lindsay and Brennan.

Ok So Chad and Griz took a nap together and I just couldn’t resist… she’s getting so big, it’s fun to watch her grow. These pictures were last week on the 9th so you can only imagine how much more she’s grown… I’ll get some new ones this week.

Two weeks ago (getting closer to the present lol).. Our washer went out (still out) and flooded my laundry room. What a mess!!.. I had all the laundry that had built up that still needed to be done and now had to add to it, as well…

I had to sit (literally) on top of the washer wait and watch it. As the washer would push the water out I would have to stop it and then wait till it drained out then turn it on for a second and click it off before it filled too far & so on & so on. Here are a few of the pictures of all that was done. I was up till 4 a.m. working on it. What a long day and night. It still isn’t working but thank goodness, to a good friend’s help I’m not sitting on top of the washer these days!! :)

Oh I guess I should say that the washer didn’t go out it’s the plumbing again. So it’s the clothes washer, dish washer, and sink in the kitchen…. non of which work till I get a plumber out here, and well it wasn’t in the budget so it will be 2 more weeks… what fun huh!!... I’ve got to get some paper goods…lol…. (I don’t have a kitchen of dirty dishes.. I just have to do it very carefully and only let a small amount of water down at a time…so no worries)

On the same day as the Fieldtrip… 9-30-08, Chad went out doing one of his favorite things in the world to do… Mining. He went with some friends and they went horse back ridding into the mountains. Chad’s horse got spooked and bucked him off. He hurt his back pretty bad. Gratefully NOTHING was broken, but he was banged up pretty badly and in a lot of pain. He missed a week of work, but is now doing a little better. Hopefully he will be off “light duty” soon, and feeling on top of his game again. Here are a few pictures of his day that ended quite early (due to his injuries).

I’m glad that the pictures are a little far away because
I look terrible!!

We were exploring and using our hand made “viewers” that the kids made the week before. We were walking together with our ‘buddies,” looking at the flowers, bugs, animals, and some that weren’t really there, but they believed they were soo… they were!!
We then rolled down the hill (even raced), ate home packed lunches, and played on the playground. It was fun and the kids had a blast, I think.

It has been fun to watch them learn and grow, one of the best things that I’ve done and have enjoyed it greatly!! :)

Griz short for Grizzly, as have been all of Chad’s dogs since Bear (short for Lady Polar Bear). As anyone that has know us closely knows Bear was Chad’s best bud and it was VERY hard on us (especially Chad) when we lost her last year. So we have gone a few dogs over the past two years since we lost Kodie (Kodiak Baear) and Alexis (Princess Alexis) my cat that I had for 16 years. I think that we have a keeper. So these are the pictures of just after we got her I will post more of her again, I’m trying to go in chronological order :). We got her on Saturday September 27, 2008 .

She is a very smart puppy, she has learned very quickly just about everything that we have tried to teach her except potty training. If anyone has any ideas let me know I could use it at this point. Chad doesn’t want to be the bad guy it’s working for him but she runs when she sees me, well at least when she has done something she shouldn’t have. Oh she also likes to chew on shoes… doesn’t that figure, my two top peeves!! She’s almost got down the no shoes… so I really hope that the potty training is coming quickly!!... I thought that it’s only supposed to take 10 days and we’ve been at this for 21 now, as of today. I have faith that we’re almost there, I hope since she’s not a boy like the last 3 that we had issues with. Oh and Wicket got a new home for those that were wondering.

The First picture is Bear I thought after writing this all out we needed a “cameo” of her, she is after all who every dog that we have is judged against. (I also thought I would add our longest pet family members)

(some of) Our Family of Pets:

BEAR AND DAD

They spent the first 1 1/2 years in the truck together :)

Cub (Bear Cub)

She is Bear's pup

Bear and Kodie
Alexis
Our newest addition...
Griz (at play)Chilling
Saying Hi there :)

We didn’t get out much this summer, and the boys really wanted to go back to Lagoon this year. I think that Jimmy was hoping he had grown enough to ride the “big” rides this year. He was big enough to ride all but the Indiana Jones ride at Disneyland but not able to ride most of the rides at Lagoon last year. Well Steve got a new job with NuSkin
and they rented the whole park and paid for their employees a guest and their dependants to go. So we took advantage of that and the boys got their trip. We surprised them (partly to make sure that we were really going to swing it)

and surprised they were!!

I couldn’t stop smiling, watching, and listening to them. They were totally telling the parking attendant as I was paying for our parking that “they” were at Lagoon and they were going to ride the rides.. it was soooo cute and I just had to let out a laugh and start the smiles for the night! The best part for Jimmy is that he has grown tall enough that he was able to rid all but one… he was in “7th Heaven”. He’s still talking about it.

I had a little fun putting together this college of pictures of our night. This was a different program that I tried out tonight. It took a long time so even though it’s not the best it’s getting used…lol… I had to, too much work to just not use it…lol… if you click on it you can see the pictures a little better….I can’t believe that this was a month ago, but I have to remember I’m catching up on the past 5 weeks, and I thought that I would start there and work toward this week. :)

I have read the scripture of the day many times since I changed it early this morning. It reads: Behold, mine house is a house of order, saith the Lord God, and not a house of confusion. D&C 132:8. WOW I better get on the “BALL”. It is what we have been trying to focus on, getting back some sort of “order” and reduce the “confusion”. I guess that I really was meant to read that scripture right now. I’m going to pretend that it is so that I can get more “clarity” and “drive” to continue what we have been working on and not a huge wake up call to something that I/we have allowed to happen to us in our lives.

**Here’s to all of us getting more clarity and order in our lives, in these very confusing and trying times that we live in.**
PEACE...

HE IS OUR SHEPARD AND OUR ORDER

All I can say is WOW!!.. and I'm sorry.... I can't believe that it has been 5 weeks since I've posted anything. As my best friend said... "what happened to every Sunday?" All I can say is...LIFE.... and when I really get stressed out and feel overwhelmed (very much so right now) I start to shut down. I was already struggling with this after Chad's hospital visit in April, well after August I just REALLY started shutting down. We have spent so much time going to Dr. visits, changing habits, just plain trying to help Chad feel better and get healthy. I have A LOT to post and catch everyone up on. I will do my best over the next few days (with fall break it should be easier). I just finished reading all of my friends posts that I have missed over the past 5 weeks. I haven't even done that. I started at 7 tonight and it's now 2 am. Wow... but I'm so glad that I'm caught up with everyone. To be honest I didn't comment on any one's posts, b/c I knew I had so much to catch up on and read. I will start out fresh this week. Thank you to everyone for all your posts and blogs. I have enjoyed the blogging world so much. It is one thing that I do that is a real joy to me.

I have a lot to tell you and thank my friends for, and get my page fall looking...:). I have to get past my very bad habit of shutting down. I really "check out" when it gets like this. I have felt guilty if I was doing anything other than taking care of my family, working or my other duties. Finally tonight I just said I have to do it and I have to take ACTION every day that is not just for others and everything else but for myself as well.

Thank you to my hubby for understanding and supporting me. That is all I have for tonight (this morning). Thank goodness that tomorrow is Fall Break and I can sleep in a little ...lol :)

p.s. I know that I need to respond to a few of you on questions, or help. I will get back to you this week, I'm very sorry to you as well...:( I'll get myself back on track I PROMISE!!

I got tagged from my good friend Amanda… Thanks, that is my first tag :); it was a lot of fun….
I’ve always enjoyed reading others tags so here is one from me….

ABC's...
A-Attached or Single? Attached, to my Hubby and my Family :)
B-Bestfriend? Chad
C-Cake or Pie? PIE!!
D-Day of Choice? Any day with my Family
E-Essential Item? Laptop
F-Favorite Color? Purple
G-Gummy Bears or Gummy Worms? Gummy Bears, Black Forest - the best
H-Hometown? Madera, CA
I-Indulgences? I don’t know that I have any right now, but it use to be bargain shopping and seeing how good of a deal I could get.
J-January or July? Both, but I guess July, celebrating our Freedoms
K-Kids? 0… but an Auntie to 9
L-Life is incomplete without? My family
M-Marriage Date? May 21, 1999
N-Number of Siblings? 2 younger sisters and 1 younger brother
O-Oranges or Apples? Both, but probably Oranges, I like the thoughts of Christmas and getting Oranges in my stocking
P-Phobias or Fears? My family falling apart or going astray, and heights…eeek
Q-Quotes? "Things will work out. Keep trying. Be believing. Don’t get discouraged. Things will work out.” ~Gordon B. Hinckley
R-Reason to Smile? Jimmy and Chris always make me smile
S-Season? Spring and Fall
T-Tag 5 People? Jenny, Jennifer, Debi, Dayna, Julie
U-Unknown Fact? I Love to cook, even though I haven’t had a lot of time to lately and I have a ton of cook books…I love them :)
V-Very Favorite Store? Don’t really have one anymore/right now, but I go to Wal-Mart more than any other store out there right now.
W-Worst habit? Procrastination
X-X-Ray or Ultrasound? Ultrasound
Y-Your Favorite Food? I like just about Everything!, but Mexican is probably the top
Z-Zodiac Sign? Taurus

Not sure how many of you know that I am the Activity Day leader in our Ward. I was trying to figure it out a couple of weeks ago how long I had been with the girls and honestly couldn’t remember, I know it’s because I have enjoyed it SO MUCH!. Last week I was making the door reminders and looked for one of my old ones to use as a template, well I found my first one I did for them, and guess what this week it’s been 2 years… wow how time flies, especially when your having fun. They have just restructured most of the positions in our Ward over the past month or so, and I was so happy that they didn’t release me. I really hope they don’t take me out I really enjoy working with the girls, and I think that we still have so much to share with each other. I also enjoy working with girls, after being the only girl in my home, it’s refreshing :). Here’s to more time together!!

On Friday we went to the Mall and learned to shop the fashions and stay in the Gospel Standards (modestly). They seemed to have a good time and then we did what all girls like to do after shopping together…
DESSERT!! (we had some Cold Stone)
It was a good time for all :)

Jimmy wasn’t feeling too well last week, and stayed home from school on Thursday and Friday. Well on Friday we had a good healthy lunch and then it was “Rest Time”. Neither one of them really wanted to lie down, but they wanted to “put” them selves down. I thought for sure I would find them playing, so I told them they had 5 minutes before I came down and checked on them. Low and behold this is what I found.

THE SWEETEST BOYS AROUND!!

They are such great boys!! They can always put a smile on my face no matter what the day has been like and

I can get all the hugs and kisses that I need :) :)

What more could anyone want!?!