Peeved about Playdough!

So earlier in the week I was talking to a bunch of moms at Bug's school and we were talking about playdough. Most of the mom's use it and it's monitored and whatever. So me feeling like the bad mom for not letting playdough in my house was doing some DEEP cleaning and came across a old "new" package of playdough (dust and everything)! Well I decided maybe playdough isn't that bad and let my kids play with it...AND THIS IS WHAT I GET!!





You know I tried to monitor...I said it only could be played with at the table...playdough time is over. Next thing I know I'm cooking dinner and playdough smushed up all over my house, in the carpet, on a tablecloth, on my couch! Yeah well guess what?!?!? EVERY ounce I could scrap out of my carpet is NOW IN THE GARBAGE! I will NEVER allow playdough in here again!

Bowling Bananza :)

So Nathan had a field trip to the bowling ally today! I love watching little kids bowl, it's a combination of humor, caution, and patience!!


Kids are sooo funny, and more than once did a ball get stuck in the lane because they bowl soooo slowly, LOL!! Yay for BUMPERS!!

Nate's Action Shots!




The FINAL SCORES! Nate won!


LOL, Check out the MPH at the bottom of the screen! Painfully slow sometimes :)

My Newest Nephew <3

So Friday night I got to have over night the newest addition to my family, my little 7 week old nephew! He is sooo cute and looks exactly like my sister! Thanks to Holly I have a picture of him, well several in fact!



His name is Levi but anyone who know's me know's I'm into the nicknames...I call him Frankie cause he looks like a lil' turtle!



Frankie with Aunt Daisy <3



I think I'm lucky it's only drool!

What!?

So it isn't even 10 in the morning and this day has been incredibly bizzare!

First, I got up this morning and started a load of laundry! I know CRAZY! Then I was talking to Holly on FaceBook and got disconnected! I realized I needed to get bug to school and couldn't FIND my keys ANYWHERE!! UGH!!!

Took me forever then I get in the van and the the dang van was stuck on the ice wouldn't move forward or backwards!!! I had to get out and throw some snow under HOPING I could move a little. At this point Nate's late and I figured a prayer couldn't hurt! So thank you Heavenly Father my van got out!

Got Nate to school, got home and realized the text I sent to Holly never sent and because of that I didn't recieve her SIX texts! I've never had problems with my texts not sending.

So, now if that wasn't wierd enough my phone rings! It's my mom :) so I answer it and much to my surprise SHE DIDN'T call me! She has a land line so it's not like her pocket called. The phone was laying on the table and she saw it blinking red and picked it up and I was there!

Creepy huh!?!?!

I hope the rest of the day isn't as wierd as this morning has been!

Thought of the day:

"The promise is made to everyone. There is no discrimination, no favored few, but the Lord has not promised to crash the door. He stands and knocks. If we do not listen, he will not sup with us nor give answer to our prayers. We must learn how to listen, grasp, interpret, understand. The Lord stands knocking. He never retreats. But he will never force himself upon us. If our distance from him increases, it is we who have moved not the Lord." (Pres. Spencer W. Kimball)

I'm keeping up with my 40 day challenge and I read this and LOVED it! It spoke volumes when I read it and it reminds me that I need some down time to ponder and to listen. I hope it touches you as it has me!

Let It Snow!!

So all that complaining of no snow in December finally caught up with us! January comes and whoa...SNOW...and lots of it!!! :)

Thankfully we didn't have to many places to be this weekend and Church was canceled soo I took full advantage and stayed in my pj's all day! OoOoOoOo...the kids played in the snow with Jeff and I took to the couch!

*BIG HAPPY SIGH*

I was almost worried that the kids would have a snow day AFTER having 10 days off but much to my relief school was still on!! I was going stir crazy this vacation and the kids NEEDED to go back to school! YAY!! Pics are coming soon of all this crazy snow!

Happy New Year!

I hope the new year brings new beginnings and happy memories!

New Years Eve, not too much to report besides Nathan being sick, but all of you know that's nothing new, we hit a couple parties and I was in bed by 11! Exciting I know!

As with every new year people set resolutions or goals and I use to but then realized most of these resolutions are unattainable and mostly revolve around losing weight. I'm over obsessing about my weight, it makes me miserable and depressed to dwell on the fact that I'm not a size 2 (or whatever). I've decided healthy is the way to go...as of this moment the ONLY thing wrong with me is that I'm anemic! So I want to focus more this year on my spiritual health.

Increasing my spirituality I think will boost my self-esteem and leave me more satisfied with life and I also believe being more spiritually in tuned will clear up any clouded thoughts and open my eyes to new possibilities!

So my "resolutions" this year is to read the Book of Mormon all the way through...a little secret...I've never actually read it all the way through so I'm going to! I also was to magnify my calling. I ALWAYS do my calling but I want to take it to a new level I want to experience joy from it...I want to be prepared to teach before Saturday night. I want to soak in all the experiences and have my life be blessed because of it. I want to prepare myself to go to the temple by October and become more steadfast in my scriptures and in my prayers...none of these things are hard to do but I think once a routine is established the more fervent I will become in the endurance part...

Wow, now that I'm made this post all about me I hope the kids will to benefit from my boost in spirituality and my efforts will stand as an example to them and provide evidence that religion is an important part of my life and in turn theirs as well!

Christmas Day :)

So...I intended to keep up on the blogging but we all know the road is paved with good intentions...LOL



So after all that preparing Christmas Day finally arrived!! And I told the kids before bed that they weren't "aloud" out of their rooms before 7 am and wouldn't you know it I had a hard time sleeping! I was up at 5 am all excited for Christmas. I layed there for two hours hoping the kids would get up already and wouldn't you know 7am on the DOT kids were up and RUNNING down the stairs!! I layed there pretending to sleep as they all came flying back up the stairs <3

I've learned from previous years that when kids are opening presents the cooler they are the further back they have to go! Once they open the "fun stuff" then nothing else matters. So...LOL...they continued to open clothes and once we finally were done with them and onto the toys...(this is the cutest thing ever) Nate said with lots of enthusiasm "Now, THAT'S what I'm talking about"!!!! I laughed so hard I almost cried.

We had four children this year to buy for and money was tight so each child got two toys...and the rest were things they needed like clothes, boots, things like that and I learned something...they don't need lots of toys and now that Christmas has passed I'm grateful I'm not picking up lots of toys and I think they appreciate what they do have a lot more! Yeah there two toys were cool but I've never seen them appreciate them so much :)


Christmas was fantastic! And my food was delicious! I made the bestest food of my life on Christmas...my turkey LITERALLY fell off the bone! I went to pick up the turkey out of the roasting pan and the breast lifted right off the bone...CRAZY!!!! OoOoOoOoOo, and YUMMY!