{ Happy 2008 }

I can't believe that 2008 will be here tomorrow! That means in 10 days I will be 32!!! Holy !! This last week has been so busy and so fun. Thursday night we got a babysitter and went to dinner with 3 other couples it was so fun we spent three hours just talking and eating dinner it's been a long time since we've been out and had so much fun just visiting! We got to the burb and were like is it really after nine and we'd gotten there at 6:30! SO we both enjoyed it.Sometimes we just don't get out enough with other people and forget how fun it is to actually SOCIALIZE imagine that eh! Anyway so we have been going going going -- on Saturday we went with 2 other families out about hour away in the country we skated (well I pulled 2 cold kids around and Kolten skated for the first time and D played hockey and helped Kolten learn to skate I probably have only skated once in my life!! Later we got out the quad on the ice with 4 sleds on the back and it was SO fun it was like water skiing and being on the tube and being swung so far out you feel like your going to fly off --which I did a couple of times got some good bruises!! But I haven't had so much fun in a long time. I was probably about 18 years older then all the rest of the kids, but it was so fun I love things like that. D was in the cabin with the other adults and watching out the big picture windows onto the frozen lake he said they were saying I was the biggest kid out there ! I'll take that !! I didn't really care what anybody thought I had fun!! And I have the bruises to prove it! Who says we have to grow up right!! So that was a really fun night. Tonight we got invited to a party we haven't been to a New Years Party for a long time so they said bring your kids. But I really really didn't want to bring my kids and tried to find a babysitter but no luck so if we want to go we have to bring the kids!! Tomorrow should be a lot of fun with three tired kids on new years day at grandmas more food more games ! Oh well that's life right! Hopefully it will be fun.

Well I hope everybody has a great night and a great 2008!! Thanks all who helped me out with your comments on Laurens eyes it so hard to know what color they really are since everybody pretty much said different things to ha ha!! See why its hard to fill out info on her what color are her eyes?? Ya what color are they??

Well I'll post some pics some are with the old camera and some with my new (I don't dare take it out yet without a good case I'm so afraid to wreck it or something plus I have so much to learn but its so FUN!! ) Well have fun!! Later.

{ What Color }

What color would you say these eyes are?

(This is a straight from the bath picture no hair done yet!) Click to enlarge for a closer look~ Leave me a comment and help me

{Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas}

Pictures with the REBEL !! camera !! Love it!! Christmas was good. Christmas eve we had my side of the family here for our annual bring something to share, read the christmas story, and treats and snacks it was a fun night then we all opened our PJ's my little sister and brother got some too from my mom so it was fun taking pictures! It was a good night. Christmas morning we had our Christmas then to my parents house, then at about noon to D's parents so its always a fun busy day!! I got MY CAMERA love it!!! The dishwasher got hooked up yesterday and I LOVE IT!! Thanks D and dad!!! The kids loved their gifts and we learned we should have bought masen a doll cause he kept trying to take Lauren's strawberry shortcake!! But it was a great 2 two days to much food! But games and talking and visiting is always sometime the best parts of Christmas! We played the best game that Kristyn brought called Werewolf ( a version of Maffia) it was a ROIT!! Even some fun fights broke out!! ha ha! It was lots of fun though!!

Well I so don't feel like writing every detail today so hope every body had a great Christmas and that you all have a great New Years!! Does anybody go to fun parties anymore?? Not sure what we are doing! But I'll let you know!! Well have a great day!! Here are some christmas eve pictures, some table bevans Hockey, and christmas day pics!!

{ Merry Christmas }

Merry Christmas Everyone

Hope everyone has an awesome Christmas.

And a Happy New Year.

I love blogging thanks for the sweet comments you guys are the best. I am so blessed with such awesome friends, And meeting new ones through this blog. I only wonder why I didn't start one a long time ago.

~Have a Great Christmas~

{ My baby turns 6 years old Today}

I'll post more later but happy birthday Kolten!!! 6 years ago Darren and I were so so happy after waiting almost 5 years our baby was born to a wonderful birthmother who made us a family!!! I'll write more but right now I'm getting the house pirate "ized" 6 friends ! Gotta run !

I'm back it was a good party turned out fun Kolten was happy and thats what counts! The cake was by far the ugliest one I've done I'll post a picture but its pirates sinking in quicksand funny thing is Kolten's friends come over and the boys are like cool there sinking then they like act it out. It was too funny!! I still think its pretty sad ! But D came home and hung out with us all and helped out. They played tag and musical chairs and then I just let them play together for awhile they had pizza and cake and ice cream then a treasure map ( almost burnt the house down making it cause I burned all the edges and ya well some edges got away on me so I turned on the tap ) So it looked good and they found there treasure goody bag in the BBQ out on the deck! They loved it!! SO one more thing to check off my long list of things to do before Christmas got our presents to neighbours and all done on Wed night. So now we have Kolten's school concert tonight its going to be so fun!! I can't believe my baby is 6!! One of these days I'll write about Kolten's adoption story.

I'm just so Thankful ( since today is Thursday ) for kolten we are so blessed to have him and can't image life without him -- without our trials we wouldn't have the priviledge to be his parents, to know him and to enjoy him. He is a wonderful boy and a great friend to all he is caring and considerate, kind and giving. He gives awesome prayers and is one good lookin kid!!! I love you Kolten!!

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{ 7 days till christmas }

Wow for real 7 days time goes by so fast I know I always say that but its so true. I've been a baking, party planning, card writing, party going

girl these last few days! Friday we (as me and the kids) made chewy caramels so good they turned out yeah!! We like them anyway! Got Christmas cards all written up and will be sent today! I got kolten's birthday invitations done I thought they turned out pretty cute but kolten didn't think so as much he wanted pirates all over them (oh well ) a pirate party it will be anyway. So I think I've got things rolling there I hope it all turns out. Today Kolten brought home my Christmas present in the cutest bag he made and a chocolate mix with a cute poem HE wrote all by himself. I just can't believe how big and grown up he is getting where did my tiny little 6 lb baby go?? He is so wonderful and we are so blessed to have him !! {Thursday will be a kolten thankful Thursday since that his birthday}

Anyway so on Saturday my brothers little boy Kolby had his 3rd birthday so we went to pizza hut and celebrated their birthday's they got a cake and wrote kolten's name on it too. So nice of them!! They also got Kolten Lego's he loves it and that's all he's been doing for 3 days. Poor kid is going to be in Lego heaven after Christmas since we got him 3 boxes of it!! But that's all he asked for for Christmas- and his birthday. Anyway then we went to the water park after it was alot of fun the kids loved it. D forgot his shorts so he took Masen and went Christmas shopping---- I GOT MY CAMERA--- BUT he won't let me look at it until Christmas I told him I just wanted to read the owners manual (he thought that was funny ) I just want to know how to use it Christmas morning---Oh well I tried . He never did get back in time to go swimming with us but he got some stuff done so I guess it turned out good.

Yesterday night we did our Christmas light drive with the kids around town that was fun the kids love to see all the lights. Last night after the kids went to bed my sister and her husband and little girl came over for the evening. It was fun just talking, relaxing it was nice.

Well I'll post some pictures and call it good. Hope everybody is having a great Christmas season take a breather and enjoy it, I feel like its been so busy that just sitting and relaxing last night was a nice change of pace. Make it a good one!!

{ IT's Thankful Thursday }

Things I'm thankful for this week:

• I'm thankful for Friends. I have great friends some of my greatest friends I haven't even seen for years or only see once a year if I'm lucky . But they are the kind of friends I can count on. Who care still after all these years. Who I love to talk to and can pick up right where we left off 2 years ago a week ago whatever!! Good times growing up with good friends great memories and a life long friendship. A friend emailed me yesterday just to tell me she loved me and what she thought of me, totally made my day! How often do we tellour friends or family how much we love and appreciate them? Just a thought.

• I'm so thankful for my health for those of you who don't know I spent 6 years almost with dry, bloodshot, puffy inflamed, crusty, scaly peeling eyes inside and out!! Spent years on waiting lists went from specialist to specialist from eye specialists to dermatologist and back around. Until in September I was sent for patch testing on my back to see what I was allergic too. Which is the best thing I ever did-- it hurt, and I couldn't shower for a week but oh so worth it!! I am hydro cortisone free 2 1/2 months ( I spent 5 years on the stuff around my eyes every night) I'm highly allergic to Tea tree oil, gold, nickel, quatranium 15 ( so most baby products from wipes - shampoos what a coincidence since Kolten is almost 6 ) so many things, Cobalt, sorbitan sesquelote, isproplyl mystrate, tetrasodium 10, . Anyway I have whites now instead of bloodshot eyes !!! People would always think I was crying and always asked if I was okay ! Anyway so I'm thankful for patch testing ! New clinique makeup and a British line called Boots number 7 since those are about the only makeup I can use and I love it !! Its expensive but I'm telling you the difference is amazing between cheap and now!!!! Love it!!



• I'm thankful for the Book of Mormon I took the 81 day challenge our ward relief society had and I am almost finished. I listen to it every morning as I'm getting ready. It makes my days go better. I learn so much more each time I read it. My days and relationship with others go smoother when I am reading like now. What a great blessing the gospel is in my life, we work for the Church, our children come to us through LDS family services, we have jobs in the church that keep us really busy and we love it!

Hope I didn't bore anybody! Merry Christmas!

{ Weekend }

I already posted about this really but I forgot to say how excited I was after months of researching what camera I wanted and finally decided on the Canon Rebel XTI that comes with 2 lens up to 300mm was so excited went to get it and they were all out !!! Bummer!!!!! But we got a raincheck (because we have a gift certificate where we are getting it or I'd go somewhere else) (I'm still hoping D was lying and he really did get it and just told me that --thats aloud at christmas right!! ha ha ) But either way I so cannot wait !!! With some wicked photoshop we will never have another ugly picture j/k but I cannot wait!! I've always loved photography, have taken a couple classes, but on my crappy camera can't do much but play around alot. Anyway that was a my disappointing news !

Other then that today is a cold snowy day! Got alot done today laundry dusting vaccumming you know mom stuff! Made some muffins for the kids before school, made bread and cinnamon buns --I always make something else besides bread with the dough that the kids want most of the time anyway so today was cinnamon buns! Its a baking day I guess ! And now its a treadmill hour so gotta run before my kids wake up from there naps!!

{ Christmas Craziness }

Holy busy!! This and that town parties, ward parties, family parties. SO much that Kolten says do I have to see Santa three times this week he already knows what I want. Ha ha We thought that was pretty funny. The kids went to there Aunts house across the street she is so awesome and does this fun night for them reads to them they sometimes watch a movie or make something and she gets them there own advent calenders and they love it! They had alot of fun there!! SO yesterday we went into town to get some more Christmas shopping done and on the way home Lauren opened her door somehow the child lock button was on the wrong setting --wonder how that happened!! Anyway so we go around a corner and the door swings open and so we pull over lucky they were all strapped in good and tight! Anyway so D gets out to shut it and lock it. So we get home and D can't find his wallet anywhere and figured it fell out when he shut her door so he heads back over there luckily its only 10 minutes away and can't find it anywhere!!! Somebody had already stolen it so he called to cancel his visa and we waited the rest of the day in hopes that somebody would call. But nobody did, so D woke up this morning and said I'm going to go look again maybe its in the ditch or something so he and kolten go !! And they found it !!!! YEAH!! We were so relieved it costs alot of money to replace all the cards in a wallet! Anyway so it ended good!

This was after our town party painted faces and all !! Masen wanted every ballon --to pop it!! He was tired by then!!

{ Thankful Thursday }

Again ! Wow the weeks are flying by. First Tuesday night I was sick again!! All night and all yesterday I'm sick of the flu I really thought I was going to die Tues night almost went to the hospital I was on fire-- Felt like it anyway!! Unfortunately yesterday was the busiest day of the entire week for me --of course eh. I'm most of all Thankful for an awesome Husband who stayed home from work in the morning-- car pooled for me and dropped and picked up the kids to and from school, registered our daughter for parent preschool for next semester, watched the two little kids, bathed and did Laurens hair, fed them and put them down for there naps plus took care of me and bought me meds. I love that man!! He is so awesome. So I missed a meeting and a craft night at a friends house again! Why do I always get sick when I actually have something going on?? Who knows eh.

• So I 'm thankful that I have a warm house cause did I mention its still freezing here!!!!


• I'm thankful I now have a dishwasher YAH!! Well its not quite hooked up but it will be!


• I'm thankful for great kids who get along and when they wake up really earlier they don't come pester (did I say that)ha ha they play quietly in one of there rooms until they hear us (of course that's only when they get up before 6:30 -But they go to bed just after 7pm great kids!!


• I'm grateful I have a son who can talk a mile a minute {and in my head I'm quietly tuning him out} but I'm listening but really sometimes he goes on and on and on!! But its okay I'm glad he'll talk to me and I do appreciate it because we all know they grow up and before I know it he won't be talkin so much!!


• I'm glad I have a tree that is only half decorated and already missing half the decorations because it means I have kids and not so many years ago I wanted to be a mother so bad and now I get to be--- SO a half decorated tree is OKAY!!


• I'm thankful I feel a lot better today and I'm very thankful for thoughtful friends like Terisa who did the car pooling for me today cause she knows how it is to not feel good I want to be a better friend like that just because. Thanks Terisa !!


• SO I think today I 'm really thankful for wonderful family and friends.


• Hope everybody is enjoying Christmas activities and parties and fun!! Make it a good one!!

{ Some things do NOT turn out }

Well we started out one our date just fine had fun went to Starbucks to get the yummy peppermint HOT CHOCOLATE!! Bought a new cute outfit , and actually get some christmas shopping done!! But 2 hours later I'm standing in Walmart going I think I'm going to puke running as fast as I can -- Oh my gosh worst experience ever its enough to make you puke getting that close to a toilet at walmart that everybody USES!!!! Anyway so our night was cut short came home ran to the bathroom. D paid the babysitter 25 bucks ouch and took her home?!!! So laid around Saturday missed the girls night, I was looking forward to getting out of this house this weekend not to be I guess. SO I'm hoping I just had food (drink) poisoning ( won't be going to starbucks anytime soon again whether it was that or not not a pretty site the second time YUK ---TMI I know) but I so don't want my kids to get it its horrible but today I feel much better so who knows!!!

Anyway on a brighter note D was home all day yesterday finished up our baseboards and got some odd jobs done that we needed to get done. He also took the kids sledding outside around the house ( flying off the deck at least they thought it was fun) then he made them hot chocolate and toast --FOR DINNER-- they loved it! Thank goodness cause I wasn't about to make dinner lol!! SO today I put the kids back down for a nap already makes church a little easier--for me! I have to say the opening prayer in sacrament so hopefully I don't trip in my way up there or have a screaming 18 month hanging off my leg! ha ha and maybe we will get our tree up tonight we'll see. I just had no energy to do it last night. Oh well hope everybody else had a great weekend. Such is life eh!!! Make it a good one. later