Christmas is COMING!

Wow! How did December go that fast! I am so glad to be off of school and home to get stuff ready for the holiday. I just hope we don't all kill each other. We are ALL home this week which hardly ever happens except on Saturday. Pray for work! I wish he had some.
So Nathan just came down to me and said "mom, what should I wear today?" I said "It doesn't matter wear whatever you want out of your drawer, we are just getting things done at home today." He said, "I can wear anything, even if it doesn't match? Yes!" He is quite the crack up lately. I really should document more of his silly things because I know I won't remember them. I guess I should focus on his cuteness and stop getting after his naughty behavior so much.
Here's to a great, PRODUCTIVE, happy day for us and anyone else who needs my good luck! My dad has always told me "Lis, if you didn't have BAD luck you wouldn't have ANY luck." So take that for what it's worth! Have a great day anyway, even if it's not what you want it to be! :)

What are you thankful for?

This past weekend, like most of you, we celebrated Thanksgiving. I didn't take any pictures but I have taken a few minutes to think about some of the things I am thankful for, sure there are the regulars: family, friends, food, home but I thought of some others. I am thankful for a washer and dryer in my house! We have been without for almost 3 weeks because we are finishing a bathroom and tiling our "new" laundry room. I am thankful for a husband who can do these projects around the house even though he drives me ALMOST OVER THE EDGE when he does them because HE TAKES SO LONG! I am thankful for a job. Even if it drives me crazy to be so responsible for the future of children sometimes. I am thankful that I CAN work to help out my family. I am thankful for cute children. I am so thankful that I have a GIRL and a BOY. Sure I would like to have more than one of each but I need to remember how lucky I am to have 2 healthy children. I have truly been blessed. Most of the time I feel undeserving of 95% of my wonderful blessings. I am also thankful for blogging and facebook. That sounds weird, I know but it is truly right up my alley to check up on people whether they know or I am stalking them. I think blogging was made for people just like me. In my life I don't always get to spend time with my friends or even ever see them but I get to read their blogs-late, late at night in my pjs with tears streaming down my face sometimes. I want you all to know that I have really appreciated reading your blogs. I know that we mostly all blog about happy things but I know everything in life isn't all happy but you have made me remember to always remember the good parts of my life. How was that for a run-on sentence? I really don't know why I am being so sentimental tonight----One last thing that I came to realize I need to be thankful for is LIFE! You know this weekend when I was thinking I thought-- we are all here striving for the same thing, we all want the same thing in life, we are all aiming for the same goal. I don't think anyone ever wakes up in the morning and says to themselves "Man, how can I make someone else's life HELL today." We are all just trying to get to the end of the day, doing our darn best to be happy and although we all have a "little junk in the trunk" by darn we all have so much to be thankful for. It is so easy to think you are the only one having problems or the only one fighting inside to be happy or hiding something major, everyone has problems!!! If not--- your turn will come so be careful how to treat others and by darn like I always tell my kids "JUST BE NICE." We never know what people are going through. I hope you all understand what I am trying to say in this post, I have never been so good with words. I want you all to know that I truly believe everything I have said. Heavenly Father loves us and knows what we are going through! Love you all! Good night! Take Care- know I love you, Lis

late, late Saturday night

Any given late, late Saturday night or very early Sunday morning you'll find me in this same situation. DOING LAUNDRY!!!! I don't know if I resent this weekly task or enjoy my late nights alone. My house is fairly quiet except for Adam snoring loudly in the background and usually CSI playing in the background for noise mostly. I have decided that I have something seriously wrong with me. I am obsessed with clean clothes! I am finally admiting that I may have a serious problem when it comes to nicely ironed clothes. I have to iron EVERYTHING! I have gotten away from most t-shirts and I am not crazy enough to iron underwear or socks but I admit I have seriously had to stop myself from ironing a sheet or pillowcase once in a while! Okay, now that I admit it shouldn't that help people understand why I ALWAYS have a mountain of ironing on my couch in the family room, there really is a very comfortable couch under there, I think. It's been so long I can't remember really what color it is. Okay, I think I remember it is black. Someone please help me I am lost under the HUGE mountain of never ending laundry/ironing and I want to get out. I have tried to not pay attention to whether or not EVERYTHING EVERYONE in my house is wearing is ironed but I can't. I have even tried that wrinkle spray they make. It doesn't cut it for me. Is it really a sickness? Is there medicine for it? My mom has the pharmacy, I could get the prescription tonight. I need some justification for this obsession. It is taking over my life. I really don't hate ironing but I mean come on 50-75 items every Saturday night? That's not including my time during the week. I bet I do about 50 items during the week too. Someone please help! Is there anyone else out there like me? Please tell me I'm not the only ironing obsessed lady.

Phew!

That was a lot! I am happy that it's complete! I even have 20 minutes to spare until the weekend is officially over. Just like always, I made it! I hope you enjoy my pictures. Sorry I'm such a slacker. I will try to be better but I won't make any promises! Hehe! :)

September 2009

I LOVE Sunflowers! Some see them as a weed, I love to see them growing of the side of the road, in my backyard, anywhere! I think they are beautiful. I have always wanted to take pictures with them as the background so this year I finally did!

August 2009

We started our month of August out with some wonderful visitors, Adam's brother and his wife and children. Randy and Katie, Regan, Max and Ashling came from Louisania for a month or so. We had lots of fun with them. Doing lots of fun things like cousin sleepovers, pedicures at home, horserides, tea parties, playing horses, 4 wheel rides etc etc.

Like most of you our highlight of August was Back-to-School. Being a teacher BTS time is a whole other story so I will skip all the gore and just do my kids as if I wasn't a teacher.

July 2009 continued

This July we went to Yellowstone with my side of the family for a few days. I'll be honest I was a little worried about how it would all play out because I don't have a very good record when it comes to family gatherings but it went very well. I was pleasantly surprised that's for sure! We went off by ourselves for most of the time but we had lots of fun. We saw the regular things in the part but we got lucky enough to be at Old Faithful at the same time as the other gyser "the beehive" go off at the same time. The park ranger told us that Beehive is much bigger than Faithful but Faithful is more well, faithful so that's why it is more famous. It was truly awesome to see them both at the same time.