5 things that I am thankful for today:

1. My Family... I love the sound of a happy household... singing, laughing, and enjoying each other. It is the best sound ever!
2. My electric blanket... it was cold this morning!
3. Meals on wheels... crazy afternoon with people in and out so, it was nice to have something for Grandma :)
4. Friends.. had a friend bring us chili and homemade rolls for dinner. Yummy!
5. Alone time with Trav... I LOVE bedtime, it means Trav and I can FINALLY catch up with each other! It is my very most favorite time of the day!

Took the kids to Liberty to see some of their old teachers and friends(they were more excited to go back and visit, then they were to go to Disney Land)
Oh, how we miss Ms. Bonnie, and her kids, and her husband, and cooking, and......

Brayden and his BFF Colby...

Brayden was a LITTLE upset Colby had gotten so tall!

Ha ha ha

As you can tell The Little Miss LOVES these two crazy's,
and they love her!

I don't think she will EVER have better teachers (Mrs. Frampton 1st, Miss Condit 2nd) then they were! Thanks guys!

Brayden and his 5th grade teacher
Mrs. Hamilton

And last but not least... The ONE and ONLY
Mr. Bradley (3rd and 4th grade teacher)

I don't think Brayden will ever look up to, love,and respect a teacher they way he does this guy!!
I am still trying to decide if that is a good or bad thing! Now he comes home and says "well (insert any teacher's name he has had this year) is NO Mr. Bradley that's for sure" and then I get to sit and listen to hundreds of reasons why they just don't measure up.... Gee, thanks

But, really I owe a LOT to ALL of these people (and many more) for their time, patients, love, example, friendship, and respect they have given to my kids.

We truly miss you ALL!!!!

The crazy coupon lady... who me??

Since my sweet husband is the only one that gets paid for working in this family.( I say i don't work and Trav always gets upset and tells me I work HARD, I just don't get paid in $$$ for it) I try to do what I can to help make it go further. Well, last week Smiths and Days ( it is like a Payson Market) had great ads, and with a few coupons I got all of this(not pictured is one more apple juice, loaf of bread and another box of life) for $20.38! I know can you believe it? It only took me 35 mins(aprox) and saved me TONS!!! Can't wait to go this week ...they are having another great ad
I got the heads up for these great deals through savvy shopper :)

Sometimes life gets CRAZY (under statement), and this has been one of those times. At the beginning of this CRAZY year I made a goal that I would be better about taking the time to document our life. Well, as life would have it, I have had one of the craziest beginnings to a year I have EVER experienced! So, translation... I have been a slacker!!! But, I am determined to get back on track.

Taking care of a 90 + year old has proven to be MUCH harder than taking care of a new born. I am not complaining, I LOVE Grandma, but it has been a HUGE adjustment on our little family. I think I may have taken my nice little scheduled life for granted, but fear NOT we have a new not so exact schedule down. I have just given up the idea of ever going to bed before midnight, or sleeping ALL night again :) Other than that we are good to go!

I recently heard this friendly reminder..."You will have significant experiences. I hope that you will write them down and keep a record of them, that you will read them from time to time and refresh your memory of those meaningful and significant things. Some of them may be funny. Some may be significant only to you. Some of them may be sacred and quietly beautiful. Some may build one upon another until they represent a lifetime of special experience." Gordon B. Hinckley, 2006
So, I hope you will be hearing from me often (I have set a goal of 3 times a week)Who knows you might even get sick of me.
I know the kids (well mostly Tyler) love to sit at the computer and peruse the blog; they get such a kick out of going over the things we have done... I love to hear them laugh, tease and just enjoy themselves. I hope I NEVER (again) get to busy or lazy to jot down all the things (big, small, happy, sad, good and bad) that make up our life!

Wish me luck :)

Cali 2010

I tried to put these up one at a time, but it was too big of a pain! So, I decided to just do a slide show instead.

The girls did a really good job clogging; and we had so much fun in all the parks and at the beach. It was fun to have Keri with us and hang out with my family (I consider the Laforett's as part of my family)

I LOVE getting to see and hold all the new babies , and this year we have had a few! The only bummer( that is how Tyler put it) was Aunt Shel wasn’t there, but her husband and some of his family came to watch Tyler dance. We had a good time, but are glad to be home!

Thanks to everyone who came to watch Tyler dance...
I have the best family EVER!!!!

Good Day!

Yesterday was a GOOD house and friend day! We got the kids bedrooms and the downstair bathroom painted, the oustside lights in, and some other little odds and ends finished up. All with the help of our amazing friends the Laforett's.

Then we got to have a sleepover.... Why is it that you wake up feeling like you have been hit by a bus after a sleep over? I mean, come on I slept in my own bed.... Oh~ wait the kids didn't!

It was still fun, we love having them over and don't know what we would do without them!!

So, here is to hoping we have a good house week this week!

We are running out of time not to :)

Today was NOT a good house day!

Let me just start off by saying, I HATE BUILDING HOUSES!! I don't want to do this again for a very long time. Now I know that means I will have to stay in Heber for a long time, which I am not thrilled about, but I also don't want to move again! I know it's a double edge sword :(

So here is what put me in this funk~ they were doing the exterior of the house (FINALLY), you know the part that make a house look like a home instead of a shed. I must say this has been one of the most frustrating parts of this whole house building process. Only because I had the perfect rock picked out, only to find it had been discontinued (can you ever really find another perfect rock??.... I say NO) but, fear not we tried and came up with something pretty good, only it had to be special ordered.

Well today they came to put up that special ordered we can make it “the perfect “rock on and ...... you guessed it, it was the WRONG ROCK!! (Right style, just wrong color)Apparently you could tell by the look on my face when I pulled up, that it wasn't right. Because even though there was a slight language barrier the boys putting it on could tell something wasn't right. (And NO I didn't swear)

This is how it was when I left it, and I am not sure what we are going to do about it….

Now let me just say the rock itself isn’t bad. It just isn’t what we had picked out.( more grey not tan) And we DO NOT have time to re-order the rock. Trav likes it and thinks we can get it to work; it is just me that hates changing in midstream, when I already had visions of “the perfect” rock!