Thank You!

God gave you a gift of 86,400 seconds today. Have you used one to say "thank you?"

~William A. Ward

Just wanted to say thank you to my wonderful sister "Mommyx5" for the new blog header and to Amazing "A" for the fun and beautiful pictures you took of our family!

Dinner anyone?

My Husband and Brock went hunting this weekend! Next weekend we get to bring home all the meat. I have never had elk meet before so we will see how it taste for dinner sometime!

Entranced!

For me my reading consists of reading bedtime stories, scriptures and it seem that the only reading time I get is on Sunday, as I read the ward bulletin during sacrament meeting. However, a friend in the ward said that she just finished a book and told me it was one of the best books she ever read. I was skeptical since I dont have time to read all that much and sitting still is about impossible for me. Well needless to say I spent some time on saturday night reading and I got entranced in this book. I finished the book about 10:30 last night. I never have read a book that fast. I tried to recall the last book I read, I figured out that is was four years ago when I was on complete bedrest with my pregnancy. My daughter now wants to read it and I want to read the rest of the books in the series. I guess it might end up being a christmas present from Santa to Us.

What a day we had!

Lately we have some struggles with Kade! He is testing out his boundaries and learning what Mom and Dad will and wont let him get away with. Today to keep him busy we made our own "I Spy" pages. It was fun to see him build his page and ask me what I spied. Later in the afternoon after running kids to their lessons, Kade decided that he wanted to go to McD's. After Kirt and I both telling him no, he staged a protest. He sat in his carseat for at leat 30 minutes. The pictures below tell the story! I finally got him settled down and in the house when I had to leave and go get the older kids. When I got back I learned that Kirt had sent him to bed because he acted up again. I went in to check on him and I found him sound asleep in his bed.

Kade's Day!

Just for fun....

Today I thought I would list all the things I did just for fun and not so fun!!

1. I woke up 40 min.'s late and had to rush to get kids to school on time.

2. I let Kade play games on the computer while I watched part of a tv show.

3. I took a drill over to a friend so she could borrow it. She is making christmas crafts for a boutique. I ended up staying for a couple of hours while Kade played with her daughter and now he has bumps, bruises and a scrape on his neck that looks like a hickie. Kirt and I both are laughing about that one.

4. I curled my hair only to not like it and wet it down again and blow dry it straight.

5. I had to put Kade into the car kicking and screaming and no shoes on to go do car pool. The poor kids in the car were absolutly afraid of Kade and covering their poor ears to try and not hear him screaming.

6. I called my dear husband during Kades out burst so I could share with him how my day was going!

7. I went with my friend and helped her take her crafts to the Kandy Kane Castle Boutique. I just love all the things she made. It is always fun to go to boutiques and see what others are making.

8. I made grilled hamburgers for dinner. For us having hamburgers is a treat!

9. After dinner my dear husband knowing the kind of day I had took me with him to run a couple of errands. After the errands we stopped at Neilson's Frozen Custard! YUM!!!!!

10. After coming home from there I had to rush Brock over to an other friends house to have her help him with a cello part he is working on for our primary program on sunday.

After all that my husband let me veg in front of the computer and have some time alone while he entertained the kids! Thank You Kirt, I really needed it today!

My wake up call

This morning I was awaken by the little cute one on the left at 6:00 am. He was petting my face and saying"Mom you are so beaut-ee-ful" . I can not think of any other way to be woken up.

Carving Pumkins

One of our family traditions is to carve the pumkins on Halloween night. Chantel tried to carve a spider in hers. It turned out look like a circle in the middle of the pumkin. Kirt helped Kade carve a bat into his. Brock carved a silly face in his. His turned out the best of the three. They had fun and for us it helps keep the kids away from the candy. It's always fun when we get to have fun activities like this with dad.