Update

I've been stuck in this pit, thinking that I shouldn't blog until I have time to do a complete update and to blog about all the things I've wanted to blog about...Cookie Exchange, Christmas with the Family, Christmas at Disneyland, Williams Birthday, Julie's bridal showers, Julie's lingerie party, Dave and Julie's Wedding, William's response to Dave and Julie's wedding, My weight loss struggles, Dave and Julie's Reception, Our MANY trips to the hospital in the last month and a half, Bachelor Night with the girls, hiring Jorgen to do graphic and programming work for us, hiring Julie to do Help Desk work for us, Justin starting driving school, My feelings on him turning 16 next week, the little, everyday miracles that keep happening all around our home, and of course the list goes on and on.

The problem with waiting until I have time to blog about all the back stuff is that while waiting I get more things to blog about. :-) So maybe I'll give an update and maybe I won't but I think I'll just post my thoughts as they come and not wait until I'm caught up!!! With that said, I'm going to bed. LOL

Strange Blogging Habit

So if you look, it appears that I have a strange blogging habit where I don't post for a long time and then I do TONS of post on one day (or night). Tonight was no different. I hope you read them all!!

Who is Who?

So I was sort of tagged by my sister-in-law Leah. She did a post where she put pictures up of her kids at around the same age to see if we could figure out who was who in the pictures.

So I went looking on the computer for scanned copies of some of our "pre-digital" pictures. They aren't all of the same age but they are pretty close.

So what do you think? Who is Who?

Cookie Exchange Update

Hello Girls!!! I know that I still haven't gotten the invitations out but for those of you that visit my blog, the exchange is still on. I'm having two of them. One at 11:30am and another at 6:30pm. With all that has been going on in my life I got a late start on planning this thing so everyone is pretty booked but I hope that with offering two times, we can get everyone to make it.

The 11:30 one will have lunch served and the 6:30 will have snacks and goodies. You'll get the invites sometime on Monday.

Don't forget that it's either Cookies OR Candy. 12 dozen. YES, 12 dozen.

Please RSVP as soon as you can. Thanks!!!

Just for fun

I went to the Festival of Trees on Thursday night. It's the first time I've ever gone and I loved it. I loved seeing all the pretty trees and decorations. It's a great place to go for ideas.

Anyhow, while I was there I found some pretty fun things....like....

The Twilight Gingerbread House

Do you see Edward in the tree?

The Twilight Themed Trees

Of course there were more Twilight themed trees but I didn't get pictures of them. It was way fun!!

The Christmas Sweater

Last night my Mother-in-law and I went to see Glenn Beck's live Christmas Sweater Show. Amazing!!

Glenn Beck shared a personal story from his past along with a dream he had. He put it altogether so nicely and the message was very powerful. I loved it.

The strongest message that I walked away from the show with was that, we all go through storms, it's part of life and they help us grow. And no matter how hard or unbearable the storms might be, NO ONE has been lost to the storms they are in, instead they get lost IN the storm.

That message came at such a great time for me. I have been going through plenty of "life storms" and I've watched myself get lost in them instead of turning to my Heavenly Father and getting through them.

Thanks Glenn for putting on such a powerful show!!

Ouchie

So this morning while getting ready for Church I heard something hitting the floor upstairs. I knew what I heard wasn't good so I went running upstairs. Once I hit the stairs to head up I could hear my mom crying out in pain and the fear in my dads voice...

My mom fell down a whole flight of stairs. 14 stairs total.

911 was called and my mom was rushed to the hospital after a quick Priesthood blessing by Kimball and Brother Randell.

She's being made to stay overnight but some how she was lucky enough to not have broken any bones. She IS VERY black and blue all over her body. Lots of pulled muscles and knots. She will be sore for awhile but sore is better than broken...right!!!