This is the most wonderful time of the year!

I thought I would post pics of some of our Christmas decorations! Nate insisted on putting our tree up the first week of November. He LOVES Christmas time don't get me wrong so do I, but if it where up to me we would have waited until after Thanksgiving to put it up!

Top ten things I love about Christmas!

1. Being with family

2. Celebrating the birth of Christ!

3. Going to the lights on Temple square

4.Putting up decorations

5. Shopping for gifts!

6. Watching Christmas movies

7. Making Christmas treats

8.Singing Christmas songs

9. Going to all the fun lights ( thanksgiving point, Christmas St. etc.)

10.Christmas Morning!

Congratulations Dad

I truly never thought I would write about this!!! I love my Dad so much and I am so happy for him and the happiness he has found! I found out yesterday that my dad and his girlfriend Stella were married on Nov. 4th. I am having a very hard time with this since we had not been informed until after it had happened, but I have to happy for him because for the first time in almost 10 years I see my dad happy! For those of you who now my dad you know what an amazing person he is! I think I would have to say he is totally different person since he left my mom. I do not feel very close to him I am hoping that having a wife will show him how important family is! I feel that when leaving my mom in a sense he left us kids too. I miss my dad very much and I pray that we can spend more time together and regain our relationship. I love you very much!

Happy Birthday Nate and Primary program!

We had a very busy week end! WE started the weekend off by celebrating Nate's 27th Birthday on Friday! We started the day off by going on a nature walk up in the mountains in the snow the kids loved it! It was a great little walk! We then went to see the movie Madagascar 2. It was Abbie first movie and I was a little nervous, but she did very well! We had lots a snacks to keep her busy when she would get restless! The movie was very cute I would recommend it to any family! We ended the night by taking the kids to Nate's parents and went to dinner just the two of us! Wow that never happens it was so nice to be with Nate and just talk to him and not worry about trying to keep the kids happy in a restaurant!
Happy Birthday Nate I hope you had fun! I love you and I hope you know how grateful I am to have such an amazing husband and father to out children. I am also so blessed to have such a hard working husband so I can be home with the kids! I love you happy birthday!

We also went to my niece Alighs birthday this weekend she had a princess party and Sky was the only boy, but heck he didn't care he had tons of fun! He dressed up as buzz light year and all the girls wore there princess dress ups. My sister is so cute she had bought boy stuff just for Sky and all the girls got princess stuff! Thanks Tracy for including him!

Sunday was our primary program It was Skyler's first sacrament program and needless to say he was the one little boy who everyone watches and laughs because he is out of control, yelling, picking his nose, dancing around, ect. ect. I had to go up and take him off the pulpit at one time! He was bugging his teacher and the other kids in his class. Does anyone else have this problem with their four year old? I cant seem to control him. He has more energy than I can handle it is a constant struggle to get him to listen and behave. I love him dearly, but I he really knows how to push my buttons and does not caring about the consequences!! The rest of the program was very cute I just had to watch all the other children and not my own ( am I a horrible mom for saying that) Maybe next year will be better!

My little Artist!

The last week or so I have had a big problem with Skyler drawing on thing that he shouldn't. Last week end he found a magic marker and decided to draw on my walls with it what the.... was my reaction! Well today I got out the washable markers for him to color a paper for school, I was right nest to him watching him then I went up stair to get Abbie up from her nap and when I came back down this is what I found!!

Now I thought I was way past this stage with him! He is four and hasn't done anything like this for years. So I ask you what do I do? I punished him, then I felt bad. Do I just laugh it off or do I make a big deal out of it? Please let me know what you think!

update!

I have been meaning to post this for a while! I just keep forgetting. I recently made it to my 15lb. marker FINALLY!! It seems like it is taking me so long to loose this weight, but it is so fun to have finally lost 15lbs. I have also lost 4 in. in my bust , 11 in my waist, 3 in my hips, and 9 in my thighs.It makes all the working out work it. It is so hard for me to get on that treadmill everyday, sometimes I am just to lazy then I regret not doing it. I love the way I feel when I start my day off with a good workout. I don't think my weight loss is noticeable yet but I cant wait until it is! I also cant wait to go shopping!! Thank you for all the support and encouragement it means alot.

Trick or Treat

I cant believe Halloween is over. We had a great Halloween we started the day of by going down town to my sisters work they usually have a little trick or treating there well this year was huge they went all out and decorated the office and had sooooooooooo sooooooooooooooo much candy that they were passing out there where like 5 floors you could trick or treat on we only did 3 and our kids bags were FULL. Not to mention it was all good candy none of those smarties or tootsie rolls it was candy bars, starbursts, all sorts of good stuff. After that we went to see all the grandparents and then we decided to go to Fashion place mall to see what kind of things they had going on. We usually go to Layton Hills mall by our house but since we were already in S.L.C we went there. It was pretty lame, the kids got bored really fast. When we got home there were a bunch of trick or treater's at our house and Sky wanted to go trick or treating in our neighborhood. Because Nate did make that fabulous car we decided it couldn't go to waste so he took the kids out in there car! I stayed home and passed out candy. After a long day of trick or treating we were happy to be home, as we were putting their candy in a bowl it didn't take us long to figure out they had way to much candy to fit in any of my bowls. Seriously I have NEVER seen so much candy in my life I used to go trick or treating for hours and I never came home with this much! One thing is for sure my kids teeth are going to be rotten!!!