Yeah, Yeah, I am a slow girl when it comes to my family blog but I truly am a dedicated mom and wife when it comes to my family. We had a great Christmas and New Years. We celebrated Haileys 14th Birthday and Sadies 3rd Birthday without any Binkis Yahoo! I think that was a gift in its self. I did have to do some fasting and praying before I attempted to get rid of it and let me remind all you how great fasting and prayers are along with alot of faith. Mike recently lost his job from Idaho tech. as you all remember a little over a year ago he had been layed off from BD so here we are in almost the same boat and let me tell you it is not much fun. Heavenly Father must have something great in our future, now if we can find it and fine tune our ears and hearts for the reception. We are getting ready to head to Mexico with all the family. We are so grateful that we have a great and close family who has helped us continue to go and enjoy in the family fun. I have to let you all know I feel very blessed to have been sent to such a wonderful family and to be able to have such a closeness with all. I feel it is funny that when things seem to be in a trying time that I can feel at peace and can feel my Heavenly Fathers present stronger. Times like these make us remember the extra and simple things we need to be doing to strengthen our lives on to better ourselves. I love you all and Thank You for your love.

Merry Christmas to all!

I love this time of year. The chill in the air the twinkling lights on the homes and the tree shinning through the windows. Their is a jingle in my step as I go down the isle of the stores singing along to the Christmas songs being played of the sound system. I enjoy looking in peoples carts to see what they are buying. I also dreed taking my little ones with me as they spy all the fun toys and gifts and say "Please can I get this" I reply "No, I am not buying anything today. Santa will have to bring it to you, so hug it tight and make a wish to Santa so that he will know this is something on your list."
We have had a few funny things happen so far this year pertaining to Christmas. We draw names with in my little family. Mike has Hailey and I think this is the 3rd year in a row that he has had her name. I truely has happened by chance. Then Sadie has Katie. We were in the store and Katie was checking out the Little Pet Shops, her favorite toys. Anyhow, Katie turns to Sadie with a handfull of animals saying "Sadie this is what you are giving me for my present" Sadie replys "yes. I will get you this. I got you a good gift you will be surprised" and tosses them in the cart. Then we found out we have a dog in our house a "Snoop Dog". She sometimes goes by the name of Maycie. Well Maycie is 11 years old and apprently does not like surprises anymore. Mike caught her snooping in his trunk. She told me someone had knocked and left a box on the front door for her (UPS) from Amazon. She also was caught searching my closet and had found some items. We came home a little earlier than expected and then she found a suspecious box in the workout room. Good Heck Santa better get to it and be alot more creative in hide and not so easy in the seek part. I gave Maycie the 3rd degree all the while she is bawling. I told her to quit her bawling that I had found her snooping and not smoking so stop her snooping and stop her crying. I came home with a early perfect gift for her. Wrapped it up and had her open it. A t-shirt reading "I am on the naughty list" I told her for her punishment she will wear this once a week until Christmas has arrived. She stared at me and saying "NO, I will if they have a shirt saying I am on the Nice list" Uh this wont work so I guess the shirt goes back. The rotten bugger. So far Christmas is off with a bang! Merry Christmas to you all.

NEWS FLASH..........

NEWS FLASH.......................... Sadie is still on the bink. Ugh! I know you think we are wimps but actually we weren't being very nice. The day she lost the binky's which lead to us getting rid of them she was sick, very sick all around up and down in and out you get the idea. Two days into it she never cried for it and went to bed without it. The third day Aunt Jayne came over and seen how sick she was and said "oh, poor little girl don't take the binky away she needs it." I though no way she has done fine and not cried but then she fell and got hurt later that day and would not stop crying for it. Mike and I felt mean. So off he went to restock our supply. In the meantime I got her side tracked and was just heading to take her on a drive. Big sister Maycie saw the big green ugly thing and said here does she want this? SURE! And so you see she got it back and is now better. DANG!! It reminds me of a crying kid in sacrement meeting. As soon as you take the kid out they are happy you go back in and they start to cry. Crazy. I will start next week on this monster thing. I hope she will be happy at the inlaws for Thanksgiving. Oh well if not give them Hell Sadie.

No more BINKIS

Today is the day. Over the several weeks we have lost and mike has bought new Binky's. Last night Sadie has 3 Binky's carrying them around and when it was bed time..........no Binky's to be found. So Mike was offering to go buy some more. Hell no I am sick of this Binky and sick of looking for them. As bedtime came (11:00 p.m.) Sadie asked for the Binky I told her she lost them. She fell asleep and slept without asking or crying or demanding it. Yahoo! So today is the last of those ugly dumb things. Good riddance. Now I know why I never gave them to my older kids. What a pain.

Thanksgiving Time

It is Thanksgiving time again. I love this time because of the weather changing and seems like you just want to stay home and cook soup in the crock pot. This is also another time of year that seems to say "Eat Me...........I can't I am already stuffed" Yes I am off to a diet again. I don't know if it is to make room for the yummy dinner and Christmas goodies or if it is the photos I discovered and there I was a skinny mom and Pre-mom. Mike and I laughed in amazement at how in shape and looking good we were. Dang! So later on I don't think we were laughing as much as realizing we better get with it. We have all the equipment just not so much energy after taking care of our family. Anyhow So bring it on.