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Old Time family pics...

 Dad

 GrandMother Joy

 GrandMother Rose

                                                 Beauty and some very handsome fellows

A missionary Farewell.

My Mother had these and wanted copies of them so I scanned them and now I am showing them off.  :)

I wish...

I have been wishing that I had something to blog about lately,  but not too much has been happening. 
We have had our share of sickness this time of year.  Everyone has been sick at least twice and now it seems we are headed on our third go around.  I am now sick. NO Fun when mom is the one that is down. 

Skadester has been through his struggles at school. We had him tested for ADHD, autism and seizures.  Come to find out that he is a Normal boy for his age.  His teacher and counselor at school were shocked to find that out.(said sarcastically)   The Dr's prescription was playtime and friends.  With all he has been through he has grown leaps and bounds.  I am so proud of him!! 

I am proud of Telly and BK too!  Telly is still learning to drive.  I think we have learned that mom does not sit in the car with her when she drives.  She is also very crafty and loves sewing and making things with her hands.  I am amazed at the things she does.    BK  will start learning to drive in six months.  I don't know if my heart can handle this. hehe.  He is also very talented with his music abilities.  If only I could get him to practice. 

Kirt is keeping busy with work and being in the bishopric. I am thankful for him every day!   And me, I am just trying to keep up with it all.  Sometimes I wish things would just slow down and let me breath but I think I will have to keep on wishing.

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.