This time....

This time of year is hard for me, and for many reasons.  Its hard because money is always tight, but I can handle that and life goes on.  My kids may not get all that they want or what I want them to get but we make it through and we are blessed.  Bills seem to stack up and that seems to take away from the christmas spirit and make it hard to remember the real reason why we celebrate the birth of ou Savior.  I try to put things up that help me remember but sometimes I dont want that reminder because I want to be mad and feel sorry for myself.

Another reason this month is so hard is because it is the same month that I lost or miscarried twins 19 years ago.   I was four months along and I started bleeding as I was out christmas shopping.  It was pretty scary for me not having been pregnant before.  I was put on complete bed rest and put on meds to stop the contractions.  When I went in to the Doctor for a  check on the babies there were no heart beats.   They had died.  All I could do was wait for my body to finish the labor and have them.  I had one at home and one at the hospital.  They were tiny, I could hold them in the palm of my hand.  I  have a wondeful doctor that took my hand and explained that Heavenly Father had a plan for them and that they did not need to come at this time.  It is harder some years to deal with this than others and this year it is hard. 

I went on to have a Beautiful Baby Girl two years later and she was born the day after Christmas.  Labor was long and hard but she eventually got here.  I had to have an emergecny c-section.   I am so thankful that Heavenly Father granted the gift of two more babies after her.  I didnt have them naturally.  I had to have them by c-section.  It is a joke between my husband and I that neither one of us "know nothing about birthing no babies"  (Gone with the Wind). 

Even though things are hard for me right now I know Heavenly Father has a plan for me and I will be able to hold my babies in my arms and raise them later.  I have Three wonderful kids and an Awesome husband who puts up with ranting and crying when I have my breakdowns each december.   

Well I am off with my Three wonderful blessings to do some christmas shopping.  I hope they can get along and not fight and we can have a good day just being together.  Haha  ya right!  We will see how long that lasts. hehe.

Annual Gingerbread House Making

Warning Picture Overload.....

  By the smiles that were on their faces I think everyone had fun! 

My Full plate

Today has started out rough.  A lot is catching up with me.  The only way I can describe it is that my plate is full and people and circumstances keep piling things on it.  I am not hungry and would rather leave the table that this plate in on. But I have  sit up and eat what is dished out and I am mad that I have to eat every last bite.  I am at the point of all I can do is sit and look at it and cry.  I have tried eating one bite at a time but things are not working out that way.  I know we all need to eat things we don't like but I feel like I have eaten enough of those things to last me for a while.  Some of the things I have to eat I have chosen and I can handle that, I made the choice to put that on my plate.  I know things will work out in the end and that my plate will be empty of these things and I will get a dessert plate handed to me.  Sometime in life we don't get to eat dessert first and we have to eat the gross nasty food that has been handed to us.  Hopefully I can handle the gross stuff and get it over with so I can get on to the dessert. 

H. Family Kid pics

What a Day....

 On ThanksGiving Day we celebrated twice.  We started with lunch at My Sister's house with my family, and then later on that day in Glendale with my Husbands family.  It was wonderful to see family and spend time with them. Had a good time and can't wait till next year:) 

We also got to celebrate this little mans birthday too!   We had fun after dinner singing Happy Birthday, blowing out his number 7 candle, and opening gifts.

Skadester got an Iron Man watch and was shown by his Uncle Sven how to tell time on the watch. (not digital).   Bubba made him a red velevet cake with a Transformers face on top.  He was happy with that.

The present Skadester is most happy about is getting the Buzz Lightyear.  He has played with it and slept with it ever since his birthday.  We had a good day and I think Skaderster had and even better one that we did:)

Best Friends

Today I had the opportunity  to take pictures of my Daughter and her Best Friends.  They have been friends since jr high .  What a blessing it is that Telly has such wonderful and Beautiful friends.   

Decade Day

Telly Borrowed her Granpa's letterman jacket for decades day.  She even got into the groove of things with some steps she has learned in her swing dancing class. 

Dang, I look Good:)

A few weeks ago Telly and Skater got glasses.  So now I have all three kids with glasses.  I think it took a whole week of Dr. appointments and  going back and forth  for fittings.  When Skater had his last fitting he put them on and without heistation said "Dang, I look good".  I think everyone in the store was laughting. I was laughing and turning red from embarrasement.  Boy, can these kids keep me entertained and on my toes. 

Sick day.



When my youngest is sick, one of his favorite pastimes is to play with his cars.  He really likes to line them up.  He would have a line of cars stretch the length of the house if I let him.  

Baby Mak

Baby Mak turned ONE and She could not have been Happier!

Our last summer outing...

Our last summer outing was to Cabela's.  The kids had fun looking at the animals and the fish.  I had fun looking at all the other stuff in the store. 

Lake Knoll 2010

Our Family went camping for the first time in ten years!  I had Soooo much fun.  Of course I had to take the camera:)    I have so many pictures that it would overload the blog so I am putting a few of them on here.  I do have pics of my kids I just have not edited them yet. All of these pictures are of the cousins that went with us.  I hope we can go camping again with them next year. 

Cousins + a pool

equals  a lot of fun.   Oh and an excuse for me to get out my camera and take pics:)

Keeping busy (part 2)

Chantel has been making herself hand bags for school for about a year and I think this one is the best so far. So cute:) It is even lined with hot pink material. She is also having fun learning how to make rosettes out of fabric and ribbon.

I have been busy with wood, paint and stencils! Nothing to complicated for me. Hehe. Kade is really bored watching us do crafts; Poor kid comes in with this cars and trucks and tries to get us to play with him. ( I do for a few minutes of course) I hope Kade has the patience to let us do this and when we are done then I will for sure do something boyish with him.

keeping busy

My daughter and I tried to keep ourselves busy by doing a couple of crafts today. I made the one on the left and Chantel made the ones on the right. We had fun:)

Another Recipe....

I did not take any pictures but this recipe was a hit with my family ! I thought it was pretty good too:)



Brown Rice and Wild Rice Salad


Serves 4
Ingredients:
2/3 cup of Wild Rice
2/3 cup of Brown rice

4 tbsp extra virgin oil
2 tbsp white wine vinegar
1 teaspoon of apple cider vinegar
1 clove of garlic, crushed
2 tbsp fresh parsley, finely chopped
2 tbsp fresh basil, finely chopped
Salt and pepper

Two Roma Tomatoes
One Cucumber diced

Instructions:
Cook the brown rice according to instructions. In a bowl, whisk together the olive oil, vinegar, garlic, salt and pepper and stir into the rice, while it is still warm. Set aside to cool. Once the rice is cool, stir in the parsley, basil, tomatoes and cucumber and mix well.

I served this with steamed zucchini with cheese and black beans. YUM!

Silly Kids :)