Fun Day!

My mom and I went to the Good Things Utah last week for her birthday. It was fun to see how they do things behind the scenes. They showed us how to decorate these really cute paper mache gingerbread houses. Which gave us the idea to get some so the girls can decorate them for Christmas. After the show we got to meet and have our picture taken with them. They we're so friendly and fun to talk to. My mom and I had so much fun we decided we will go for a yearly tradition for our birthdays.

Addie's field trip

Addie's preschool went to the Black Island Farm for their field trip last week. Addie had alot of fun with her little friend McCall. It was soooo cold. When we left the house for the field trip it was 28 degrees. My poor friend Monica didn't bring a coat but luckily my mom had an extra coat in the car and a blanket so we stayed nice and warm during the hayride out to the pumpkin patch. The kids had fun running around and going down the slides and playing in the "crooked playhouse". I think they could have road the little train all day. We always have so much fun everytime we go to this farm even though it was a cold cold day.

HALLOWEEN

is over and we had alot of fun we partied all weekend. Now it's Happy Happy Monday and back to cleaning and laundry. My house needs some attention and then I will update this thing!!

fun lunch

Today I'm using this blog for probably more like a journal but I wanted to write my thoughts down somewhere right now. My friend Jen called this morning to say that our friend Wendy was going to be in Ogden today and wanted to all meet up for lunch. Matt was able to come home for lunch and watch the kids before his afternoon appts. It was fun to visit and even though we sometimes go months without talking when we get together we pick up where we left off and it's just like old times. My best friend Nat gave us all exciting news that SHE IS PREGNANT!!!! She has one son but has been trying for years to get pregnant again. My heart is so full for her right now and I'm just so happy for her. She is just glowing right now with excitement. It was literally tears of joy when she told us. I truly believe their was a reason Wendy came into town today because my friend Jen is going through some things I couldn't even imagine going through right now and she said it was really good to talk to us about everything. I'm thankful for these friendships I've had over the years with these girls. I know we all have trials and sometimes just crappy days or we think Why me??? but I know that the Lord puts friends and family in our path to help lift us and help us through trials that we have.

long overdue post

I know I know I say I'm going to be better about posting and well if anything I'm getting worse!!!! The last time I posted Matt was out of town for work and then he went deer hunting the next week with his dad and brothers. Every year we are convinced that they go deer hunting to basically eat , hang out and look at wildlife. This year Matt got a deer and he was pretty excited. Matt's dad took it and got it made into steaks and jerky. The kids love the jerky and have been eating it like crazy.

The girls are having alot of fun at school. Addie went on a field trip to the firestation last week . She came home and was so excited to tell me all about the things she learned. She told us that we should get down on the ground and crawl if smoke is in the room and that smoke is very bad for our lungs and it makes us sick. She would say other random things throughout the day about the field trip and what she learned. They made little hats and she wore it around all day. It was cute! I remember when we we're little my parents did a family home evening on fire safety and we talked about what to do if we ever had a fire in the house and did little drills. I'm thinking I'm going to do that one of these days sooner than later.

Harrison has become mobile and has been crawling ALL over the place up the stairs and well basically rolls back down them. It's fun to see his little personality forming and the girls couldn't love him more. His 1st birthday is quickly approaching and I'm trying really hard not to think about it because it gets me sad to think how fast a year really goes by. We are very blessed to have him in our family and I'm thankful for his good health he has had this past year.

The girls are getting really excited for Halloween and well so am I. I love Halloween . They picked their pumpkins from our garden the other day and they can't wait to carve them. Everyday they ask if we can carve the pumpkins. Lexi and Ellie are going to be witches with green hair :0 and Addie was going to be a witch well....... up until yesterday she informed us that she wanted to be a ghost so we will see if she changes her mind again. The girls and I went to lunch today with my mom and then we went to Tai Pan after. I haven't been to that store for awhile so it was so fun to see the Chritmas trees all decorated and all the holiday decor. I saw a couple well a few things that I just might have to go back and get. I just love this time of year the smell in the air and the excitement of the upcoming hoiday season. I'm grateful and thankful for wonderful family and friends that we can share this holiday season with and I really want pumpkin chocolate chip cookies after talking to Jenn today..... so please find some pumpkin and send me some ASAP ;)

Why????

Why is is that when husband's go out of town it seems like I'm sick or one of the kids is sick. I swear it happens everytime. Matt is in Colorado for work until tomorrow having fun and going out to nice dinners. I'm coughing my brains out and poor little Harrison is sick also. I FINALLY got him down for a nap and my mom took the girls to feed the ducks and get an ice cream (thanks mom). I really don't think or remember sleeping much last night so I think I'm going to try to lay down since the house is soooo quiet.

UPDATE/ WEEKEND

I know I know don't die of shock but yes I'm updating my blog. It looks like I didn't get better at all about updating. If anything it looks like I got worse. Hopefully at least I can update at least once a week maybe I should make it a Sunday night thing so Jenn you need to make me do it ;)

So summer is over the kids are back in school and they are loving it. Lexi is really enjoying 1st grade. One of her friends she met in her class came to our house after school on Friday and played the afternoon. They had alot of fun together. Addie is so excited on Tuesdays and Thursdays when it is her time to go to her preschool. She is having alot of fun and she comes home and tells me the funniest stories/things that happened at school. Ellie is going to a neighborhood playschool/preschool . She loves just having somewhere to go. She would always feel so bad last year when the other 2 girls would go and she didn't have anywhere to go. It now has 10 kids in it so hopefully it's not too crazy when it's my turn to teach. I've never done one with that many so it may get a little crazy ;0

On Saturday we had a yard sale. We have been working hard on getting the basement cleared out so we can finish it so we had a yard sale on Saturday to try to get some of this stuff out of here. Matt got up early and hung signs while I set everything up. Monica and Jen came over and brought some stuff so we ended up having alot of stuff. It was really busy all day. A lady got mad at me because I wouldn't let her buy 2 nice pairs of shoes 2 old navy shirts and a doll and a pair of childrens place jeans for 2.00. She said she only usually paid .25 at yard sales for stuff. We were all laughing at that it was pretty funny! We ended up making 360.00 which wasn't bad at all. I was happy and Matt was happy the stuff is gone! Lexi was selling homemade oreos and waters and she made 23.00 she was so excited it was cute! We loaded everything that didn't sell and Matt took it all to the DI so we didn't have to bring anything back into the basement. It is so nice to walk downstairs and have it cleared out it looks so empty. It was hard to sell the girls baby clothes that I have been hanging onto forever. I don't know why it's so hard for me to let go of some stuff Matt was of course laughing at me but hey what is new :)

After the yard sale we went and got an early dinner and then we promised we would take the girls to see UP again since it was at the Kaysville theatre. Isaac had called Matt to see if he wanted to go to a movie so Matt invited him to come up and see UP . The girls were so excited to have their Uncle come to the movie. I really like that show it was just as good the second time. Isaac decided to come back to the house and hime and Matt watched a movie and I put the girls to bed and I decided to go to bed myself since I was pretty tired from the yard sale. I guess Isaac ended up staying over and Matt made crepes for breakfast and they were yummy. It was a fun weekend . Matt is going to be out of town Thurs, Fri, Sat of this week for work so we want to try to get some stuff done around here before he goes. Here is to hoping I get better at this blogging thing and it's not another month and a half before I update again :)