Pumpkin Carving

All of these pumpkins came from our garden. The kids and Daniel always have so much fun carving pumpkins. My little kids are so cute and funny!

Emily's pumpkin



Daniel's pumpkin

Maddy's pumpkin


Benjamin's pumpkin

Time goes by to quickly!

Hello to all my family and friends. I have been horrible at keeping in touch this past year. Most of you know that I am in school to become a Massage Therapist. I am almost finished. I will be done on November 5th. Last term was difficult. I had 18 credits and the kids were out of school. We survived and I am so glad that term in over. This term will be more pleasant I hope. I will actually walk in my graduation this month on the 26th. I am not to thrilled that it is so far away from the time I will actually be done but oh well.

The kids are loving school. Maddy is a big 6th grader and has a lot of homework. She is growing so much and will soon be taller than me I'm sure. She is already wearing my shoes. Emily is in 4th grade and loves her teacher. She is really enjoys learning about history. Everyday she comes home and tells me new facts and stories she learned that day. Ben is in 1st grade. He totally loves it. He loves eating lunch and school and above all having 3 recesses. I always ask my kids what their favorite thing was about their day and Ben knows that he can't say recess anymore. I let him for the first week. He loves playing with his friends.

We have a new dog in the family. My mom called and said that a stray had shown up at her house and she was REALLY cute so she thought we should take her home. I'm a sucker for cute dogs. Her name is pumpkin and she is really cute but also a stinker. She gets out of the yard all of the time and does not mind for anything. My mom keeps telling me to give it time. We will because she is so cute.

Dan is working here and there. We are starting to feel the sting of the economy. Things will pick up they always do.

We love all of you and think of you often.

A whole bunch of stuff!

Ben lost his first tooth about a month ago and the girls helped pull it out. Emily loosened it and then Maddy pulled it out. Ben was so excited to have finally lost a tooth. We were celebrating and about 20 minutes later Emily came back in the family room and announced that she had just lost another tooth. I thought Ben would be upset because it was his big day but instead he was just as excited for her. The tooth fairy was able to make one stop instead of two.

This is a picture of Ben at my Mom's house. Emily buried him in the sand and then Dan told him to pretend like he was dead. They had a blast and were very dirty when they were done.

One morning I asked Ben what he wanted for breakfast and he said green eggs and ham so that is what we made. I am not sure he knew what he was asking for because when we got it on the plate it took some encouragement to get him to try it. He found out it tasted the same. I have to admit that it was a little hard for me to eat the green eggs myself. Fun Fun.

We are doing well and loving spring. The garden is planted and so far so good. The front yard is blooming and is very pretty. We really really really want to get some grass in the back yard, but we are not sure if that is going to happen or not.

Dan is staying busy with little jobs which is wonderful. We are so grateful to friends and family members who keep referring us.

School has been more enjoyable the second term. By that I mean less drama from all of my class mates. I am almost done with anatomy 2 and hope to get an A.

I am way to busy and I keep telling myself that things will calm back down in November when I graduate. My house has completely gone to pot and I haven't made a real meal in quite some time. I feel a little like we are in survival mode. The funny thing is that I feel great and I am very happy even though I am exhausted.

St. George was a bust

The plans for St. George were:
Builder Conference on Friday
Friday night movie and a great dinner
Saturday morning parade of homes
Saturday afternoon a session at the Temple
Saturday evening a couples massage at a 5 star spa then another fabulous meal and late
movie

What actually happened:
Friday Dan made it to half of the builder conference and took me to insta care to see why I
had such a high fever and found out I had strep
Saturday we came home.

Today is our anniversary and we are here at home with snow. YUK YUK YUK

This is not a rosy happy fun loving blog story, but instead it is a dose of reality that we all get sometimes. I guess I am grateful that we traveled safely.

My kids had a blast at Grandma's. My Mom had fresh cupcakes with cream cheese inside ready for us when we dropped the kids off. They made some delicious treat with pretzels and rolos. They taught Maddy and Emily how to drive the 4 wheeler. Ben found a rabbit graveyard and dug up all the bones and they watched a bunch of Ma and Pa Kettle movies. They had a blast and were disappointed when we showed up early to take them home.

I am feeling a little better today and at least my fever is gone. That was miserable. Strange thing is I didn't have a soar throat. I guess it happens.

I truly hope everyone else's weekend was better than ours.

Picture Tag

RULES:

1. Go to my documents/pictures

2. Go to the 6th folder

3. Go to the 6th picture

4. Blog about it

5. Tag 6 people to do the same



This is my brother Jeremy and his girlfriend Chena. Maddy is watching her throw sand at Jeremy. We were at Lohontan Dam in Nevada. This picture was taken in July 2007. We played for a long time in the water and had a blast. Ben slept on the beach almost the whole time.



Tag:

Angela tagged everyone in the freeman family so I won't tag you again but I will check on your pictures.

Shayna

Kelli

Mooch

Hello

November 13th- Ben turned 6 yeah!!

Thanksgiving-Awesome, hosted 18, great food, good memories

December 17th Maddy turned 11. WOW

December 20 or so my Mom and Dad moved into their house. We went to the BYU bowl game in Vegas over the weekend and came home on Tuesday took a load down to their house and spent the night. We had so much fun that we came back on Christmas Eve got a few more things like beds and had a very impromptu christmas. We decorated the tree on Christmas eve. I have never done that before. It was so much fun.

January 26th- I started Massage school at Provo College. I LOVE LOVE LOVE it. Anyone who lives close call for an apointment I need all the practice I can get.

Maddy and Emily played basektball in January and February. They did awesome!

Ben is still in Karate and will soon be an orange belt.

Dan is picking up enough little jobs to get us by. Dan has also been the best husband and father since I started school. He always was before, what I mean is that he has totally stepped up. I am gone at nights this term and he makes dinner and I come home to a clean kitchen. I sure am a lucky girl.

Our anniversary is at the end of March. We are going to St. George. I can't wait!

P.S. This update was for Kimmy and Angela