{ Happy Halloween '09}

not a very good picture cause they wanted to get going..sock monkey baby..

my cuddly sock monkey

prince bones and princess pretty

creepy skeleton K and cute k2excited Buzz lightyear...

Pretty snow white

She wore the wig to her school party but it itched to much and she wouldn't wear it for Halloween oh well cute while it lasted!!

Hope Everybody Had a Happy Halloween!

{Thankful Thursday...}

Now is the time...to do it.
We don't remember the days,
We remember the moments.

These are a few I want to remember....

...... my big helper and the stage they are at RIGHT NOW.

....making cookies {or whatever it may be late nights just to see the excitement on K's or{LMK2's someday} face in the morning....memories someday these days will fly by....and we'll wish we could be making cookies for a Halloween party instead of trying to solve something else...
{finally finshed Kolt's class treat for his halloween party good thing I have talented friends who help me out with things like black food die when you can't find them anywhere or jelly beans for spiders! ! They turned out not to bad for an amateur like me!}

.....this babe's smiles for me.... how cuddly he is I cherish every second with this happy content babe! He is such a fun baby! We love him so much!

....but he is getting so big way to fast I'm not ready! Why can't they stay little a little longer!!

I want to remember the fun fhe's and the not so fun ones too where you think they didn't hear a thing you were talking about...
one day it'll just be two of us old folks staring at each other...oh what fun that will be lol..
A little pumpkin carving, caramel apple dipping Family Home Evening fun.... great memories!M looks so disgusted in this picture I thought it was funny
{horrible lighting on these pics sorry}
{just have to tell you what M's newest thing is
HE calls me "an old lady" when he's mad... WHAT?? where did that come ? maybe a not so nice memory?
Family time.....love it.

So thankful for it.
Everyday.

Happy Halloween.
Have a great safe weekend!!Make it a Great one!
Can't wait to see pics of all the kids dressed up.
I'm so excited about L's costume!!
ps {great comments on the last post gave us all something to think about}

{Me thinks....}

And everyone of yours too! We all need it eh!!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN Week!!

Well another week seriously its almost November!! We had a pretty quiet weekend the kids went to a birthday party Saturday all three of them for almost three hours so that was a nice break! D and I went out to dinner with just 1 kid wow forgot how quiet and in control that was, it was a nice afternoon together since they all took good naps too till just before the party~!
We finally got a toilet for the basement bathroom and a cabinet and sink so hopefully this week L will move to her new room and K2 will get a room.
I'm so excited to get it decorated and finished some things take forever... I can hardly stand it!!
Other than that everybody is feeling much better and nobody else got the flu {yet}
So the question of the day ??
Are you vaccinating for swine flu???
Here is an interesting article.... As of right now I don't think I'm going to get it for any of us.... I have never done the regular flu shot with my kids and whenever I have gotten it I've gotten the flu bad!

So what are your thoughts on it? read the article -- what do you think? Just interesting stuff out there....
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This is a very random all over the place
ME THINKS MONDAY
fun Halloween links,
and favorite things

these are so cute found here I wish I had found them last week since we did our own version of BOO last week my kids love picking families and running

this looks so cute and easy my kids will love them!

so did these...all about easy

these look so fun can't remember where I saw them though but its just scrapbook paper, rub ons etc, its just sanitizer with goo be gone to get rid of the label. I went to find some today and couldn't find any with labels they were all ones printed right on them. But if you do find them they are perfect for today and super easy eh!
And for some great links go here she is awesome! love her!!!
and go here for tons of ideas and fun
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Finally got K2's bedding today so excited I love it! From Here

I love Forever 21 and there low prices if you look often enough... Love this shirt right now!okay I have the hardest time finding jeans I found some awhile ago {the artist fit} but they didn't have any my size from American Eagle. I've always loved there jeans and finally they had some in today... I love them!! They are the perfect fit jeans and I have a horrible time with jeans!!and got this today for K2 he's going to be a little sock monkey for halloween-- love it!!
from crazy 8 dot com

and do these not look so comfy!!! I want a pair!! haha no I really do. From here

Have a great and safe busy Halloween week!!

"Ask not what your Pumpkin can do for you, ask what you can do for your pumpkin."

-- Author Unknown

{I just thought this quote was funny. kind of.}

{ "Rains will pour down".....}

*{{Turn up your volume.}}
Its raining today.

I was standing looking out our big windows this morning,
holding K2 in my arms -
he was cuddled perfectly against me,
watching the rain come down.
I was thinking he was getting so big and so fun. I starting
wondering what life will be like for him and his brothers and sister, well what the future holds. Then this song came on like*, and I got tears in my eyes and I thought you know as long as they know how much they are loved no matter what, and that they will always be safe in my {our} arms.
That they are never alone.
Brought me a little peace. and a whole lotta love for my four liitle kiddos.
So here is my new favorite song {thanks kristyn lol} so turn up the volume and see what I mean.
{ps Thanks for all the comments on the last two post I am feeling much better today but its so nice to know we are all in this
together. That we all have some of the same thoughts and fears....}

In My Arms lyrics {by plumb}

Songwriters: Bronleewe, Matthew; Arbuckle, Tiffany; Bose, Jeremy;

Your baby blues, so full of wonder
Your curly cues, your contagious smile
And as I watch, you start to grow up
All I can do is hold you tight

Knowing clouds will rage
And storms will race in but you will be safe in my arms
Rains will pour down, waves will crash all around
But you will be safe in my arms

Story books full of fairy tales
Of kings and queens and the bluest skies
My heart is torn just in knowing
You'll someday see the truth from lies

When the clouds will rage
And storms will race in but you will be safe in my arms
Rains will pour down, waves will crash all around
But you will be safe in my arms

Castles they might crumble
Dreams may not come true
But you are never all alone
Because I will always, always love you

When the clouds will rage
And storms will race in but you will be safe in my arms
Rains will pour down, waves will crash all around
But you will be safe in my arms, in my armsAs long as we all have someone to hold, and someone to hold us.
Our Father in Heaven. Our families.
what's important.
We'll be okay.
"The most important things in life, aren't things."

{um..T.T update}

FYI

...truck sold -- kijiji works.
not sad at all. either of us.
M and I got sick in the night
dang flu

spent the day in bed I am feeling much better then I did earlier
{thank you so much WD for taking K2 this morning
you are the best!}
and apparently puking
doesn't phase M he does his job
and then continues running around
I, on the other hand must be getting old....

just thought you wanted to know lol!
Thankful I have good friends, a great husband and good kids
oh and that we don't have the H1N1
{yet}...
Hope your all staying healthy..

{Me thinks Monday..}

Today is almost over and its been a long crazy day I think there might be a full moon cause my kids were off the wall. I may or may not have been too! Actually we did have a lot of fun today too we didn't have to go anywhere so that was nice! We had a nice quiet weekend did some halloween fun mummy pizza's and homemade Slurpee's {found here} which tasted pretty dang close to the real thing and the kids loved them, then we watched a movie together. We watched bedtime stories it was pretty funny not all appropriate for kids but good {Disney isn't like it used to be u know growing up... Sunday nights 6 pm, popcorn and dishes during the commercials at least that's how we did it!} Anyway here are some pics...My baby is working the legs ahh he's growing up to quick!!This little beauty did an awesome job on her line for the primary presentation sunday she did it perfectly, then did the biggest smile in my direction from the podium everybody laughed cause she was so happy and proud of herself it was so cute. We were so proud of them both the majority of kids didn't have there's memorized but I was very proud that both of mine did.L is loving Kindergarten always comes home with new songs rhymes and stories she wants to read so bad.
She spends alot of time pretending and looking at the pictures she is growing up alot already!!A little happy about his halloween dinner and dress up night he was complaining that we don't' do enough halloween stuff { I admit its not my favorite holiday but whatever....so we got all the old halloween costumes out and they played with those dressing up on everything and anything, then dinner and a movie it was fun night.AND TOTALLY RANDOM}}}a little story this is old red
this truck saw us through our dating years, our early married years, college, university, jobs....
D got it when he got home from his mission,
now its a tinker truck {meaning a Saturday project for a guy..a Loud bombing around town or farm truck..good times with this truck. its a good truck but its time to say goodbye..
so she is for sale $1200..... anybody???
come on..... I know you want it!!
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Me thinks

We need to hug our kids a little tighter
teach them a little more
discipline a a little better
follow through more
do more together as a family
know where are kids are
who they are talking to, "hanging out" with
where they are going
we need to....
get rid of the distractions
we need to be families
do more together, pray more together, eat together
and
make our homes a lot more of a sanctuary, where they want to be.

I learned a few things this week in a couple of meetings I attended that left me sick to my stomach, a little discouraged and disturbed at the attacks on the family and especially on our children starting at very young ages.
It is becoming a increasingly harder task to keep our children and our families wholesome, and protected from whats out there.
Kids thinking they are better then everybody else, the bullying that is going on
just because of the way you look or because you wore the wrong shirt to school because why
you are chubby or have brown eyes or whatever it is
where do they learn these attitudes
at home.
EVERY CHILD IS A CHILD OF GOD and deserves to be treated as just that.
What gives one the right to think they are better than somebody else?? It makes me livid to see other kids mean to each other. It ruins children. It ruins our future.
I think that the abuse of cell phones and texting can ruin our youth some are constantly on the phone talking, spreading gossip and other horrible things we didn't even think about when we were in school.

{not saying everybody or all the time just that its real and it happens daily...an awareness issue mostly}
Do you know who is texting your child? or vice versa?

if your in bed and they have a phone/computer/tv in their room?
doing and hearing and seeing who knows what?
of course not.
I heard some horrible things about this very thing this week that made me never want to let my kids have a cell phone.
I don't even have one probably the only one I know, but I don't need one most of the time sometimes it would come in handy that's for sure.
I don't text. Never have. weird I know.

{ Not saying its evil or bad at all just saying when its used and abused for malicious things and time wasting}
It makes me sad what lies and rumors get started over and through things like texting, facebook etc whether half true or not.... that ruin people. Its horrible. Its mean.
I mean Don't get me wrong there is good and bad to all things. I personally love fb because I have found old roommates, old friends I haven't seen in years and I love catching up.

I kind of feel like its ruining the way things used to be. Using up teens and adults time. Its changing the way youth and people in general think they need it like a drug...all the time.
Things are severely out of control.
Its sickening and horribly sad.
There are not enough parents now these days doing a parents job there are to many "friends"/ parent/ child relationships. We need more old fashioned parenting in my opinion, there are so many problems with the words "oh there just kids" we can't even afford to say that even once cause what it used to mean

is totally different today then it was yesterday....
look around" oh there just kids" ---

"there just kids"--- killed a few friends, somebodies daughter, somebodies son...

--- from driving to fast, from drugs, from drinking....
because there is a lack of discipline or a lack of any consequence these days

.... one thing leads to another....
there is a lack of respect in today's youth it makes me sad to watch.
There are real problems.
Destroying today's youth, today's young adults, today's adults..........
out of control problems and unless
we do our job right, unless we fight for what we know is right

and do what we are supposed to do be the parents...

be the examples of what we want our children to be
how can we expect anything to change??
It's scary. It's hard.
But something needs to change and its starts in the Home.
It starts with us.

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“Perhaps there has never been a time when we had greater need to pray and to teach our family members to pray. Prayer is a defense against temptation. It is through earnest and heartfelt prayer that we can receive the needed blessings and the support required to make our way in this sometimes difficult and challenging journey we call mortality.”
Thomas S. Monson

Have a great week

{ Thankful Thursday...}

Thankful my little double ear infected M boy is better today {I think for the most part } he was SO sick yesterday he had about a 102 degree fever two days in a row -- puking, coughing, laying all day on the floor, not eating, drinking or going to the bathroom not even enough energy to talk..he wanted to be cuddled and held {{which never happens,}} so I took him to ER cause it started to scare me that he had the little piggy flu, but nope just a massive ear infection who would guess I'd be thankful that it was that and not the other! Well yeah it only lasted a day.. he's back at it... that too is something to be thankful for ... so thankful for our Health.
And for a great big brother who sat and read to his brother for more that a 1/2 an hour and put his brother to sleep reading to him! love my kids!!

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This is some pretty good news HERE too.
We know what they've been going through having been there ourselves not to long ago, and it is horrible...... its full of every emotion out there and a million other things, prayer is about the only thing that and each other that gets us through times like this.I felt for them during their whole ordeal cause not so long ago we won too and now he's three!
How thankful I am for that.

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and for random sake I haven't done one of these in forever

1. Do you like Blue cheese dressing? Used to at Christmas time at our big stinky Norwegian breakfast but now the smell makes me gag!!

2. Have you ever smoked cigarette? NO

3. Do you own a gun? Maybe... wouldn’t you like to know actually I have an underground bunker full of all sort of things like that ha ha as if!!

4. What flavor Kool Aid was your favorite? The clear one can’t remember what kind it is we don’t usually buy it!

5. Do you get nervous before doctor appointments? No {only if its something major like results or something}

6. What do you think of hot dogs? A desperate camp food

7. Favorite Christmas movie? It’s a wonderful life and polar express with the kids
8. What do you prefer to drink in the morning? H20
9. Can you do push ups? Heck yeah like five whole ones lol

10. What's your favorite piece of jewelry? my wedding ring

11. Favorite hobby? random crafts or cards ?? or Reading, treadmill??

12. Do you have A.D.D.? sometimes I feel like I do

13. Do you wear glasses? no
14. Middle name? Lee like everyone else born my year

15. Name 3 thoughts at this exact moment - why I'm I doing this? I should go to bed.. and what do I need to do tomorrow?
16. Name 2 or 3 drinks you regularly drink: mostly just Water, I hate milk always have..not a fan of juice I do like v8 but really water is great

17. Current worry? getting the things done that I need to be doing..

19. Favorite place to be? with the ones I love, {or on occasion home alone with a good bookand a bath} ,the temple, a vacation far away!

20. How did you ring in the New Year? With the kids cause we can’t usually get a sitter

21. Where would you like to go? England Ireland Scotland France all those countries

22. Name three people who will complete this:no idea its cold so who knows

23. Do you own slippers? yes

24. What color shirt are you wearing? purple hoodie

25. Do you like sleeping on satin sheets? Never have

27. Where are you now? In the office

28. Would you be a pirate? No. {what kind of question is that??}

29. What songs do you sing in the shower/bath? None I do a lot of thinking in the shower

30. Favorite Girl's Name? right now? L and one other lol

31. favorite boy's name: right now? the ones I've got

32. in your pocket right now? Nothing

33. Last person that made you laugh? D

34. What vehicles do you drive? burb

36. Do You like where you live? for the most part and most days...

37. How many TVs do you have in your house? 2

waste of time eh and there are numbers missing weird??

anyway

here are the finished hair flowers I made for the wedding that I forgot to post
{ thanks Holly for the tutorial so easy}

Do something nice for someone.
It'll make your weekend. Have a good one.

Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.

The happiest people don't have the best of everything. They make the best of everything they have!

{ ME thinks Monday..}

Happy Thanksgiving ! Hope everyone had an awesome day and weekend....
It's Freezing cold here, to much good food, lots of laughs but it was a good long weekend...
So much to be thankful for but you hear that from me every week! So on this actual day of thanksgiving I'll spare ya ha ha....

Does this picture not make you want to gag!
Its been so cold we've just been hangin out ,chillin, playing games, baking and watching the kids play...checkers K was so good to L and spent the time to explain to her how to play..
love these moments....
also redid our room it has such a bad before I'm not even going to show you but remember a few posts back where I had a picture of this bedding. Well I walked into a store Friday night on our date and FOUND IT for more then 200 dollars less then it would normally be. I was so so excited and I love our room its not finished yet since K2 is still in our room, till he gets his own room soon as the basement bathroom is done! All a chain of things that are never ending that need done! All in time I guess! But I love it! When its all the way done I'll post a better picture......okay then random but this little babe's eyelashes just keep on growing he has the longest eyelashes EVER,{good thing L's are really long too!} click to enlarge..... bath time isn't so bad anymore he kind of likes it now that he just likes to kick in a little water.... love it
and me and my clean baby he is getting so big already!!!
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Me thinks
sometimes but today isn't one of them
so here are two links
for you to
enjoy
I hope my kids feel the same way about their life when they grow up, they don't have to write a song for me but I hope they feel the same way..... see if you can watch it and not cry ..i didn't make it...
and
read this
nuff said.


HAVE A GREAT WEEK....

"Not what we say about our blessings, but how we use them, is the true measure of our thanksgiving. "

-anon

{ Thankful Thursday...Thinkin...}

Do you ever just sit and thank your blessings that you have all that you do?

The life that you life??
The husband you have {or wife?}
Or maybe just a house to live in or your cat to keep you company.
Or the children you've been blessed to have however they have come to you?
Do you ever sit and ponder how you got to where you are right now?
Ever think about what made you who you are?
Ever think about the choices you've made whether right or wrong got you to where you are right now?
Do you ever sit and think why was I born in this time period?
Why wasn't I born a Jew in Nazi era?
Why wasn't I born a pygmy or whatever?
Why are we where we are?
Because I know we are meant to be just where we are at the time we are supposed to be.
That's why.
and I am so so very thankful for that.
It could be so very much worse.
Yesterday I sat and watched Oprah {and nie nie if you don't know who she is you need to go read about her} and bawled while I watched this
{okay its the only clip I could find out there and its only a small part of the show and its got Spanish subtitles...}
But I bawled cause we take so much for granted just the easy things every day are a huge task for Stephanie.
She is an inspiration to everyone of us.
Even on our hardest days they are NOTHING compared to the task of just getting out of bed for her, bathing her little kids,
I felt humbled and more appreciative of my family and all that I do as a wife and mother.
We take so much for granted.
No matter what stage in life we are in.
It could always be worse. look around.
--------------------------picture courtesy sophie blackall art
and some random thoughts...
Next month is National Adoption month and I always start getting emails and messages about all the upcoming adoption things happening so naturally my mind turns to heavier things like the whole reason I'm involved and blessed by Adoption.
INFERTILITY. That big ugly word.
It makes me so
thankful for family, friends {and blogs} who are going through the same trials as so many of us are, isn't it nice to know that we aren't alone?
Whatever your trial is you are never alone.
Mine happens to be infertility. yours could be something totally different.
But for me its infertility....I've been there. I'm still there after 12 and half years and to know that others feel the EXACT same way.Somehow it makes things a little more tolerable , makes me feel validated or maybe a little more understood in my reactions in the past or my choices.
That I'm not alone.
I remember over the years feeling so bad for having to leave a room when hearing another baby is coming or was just born, another announcement ....and as happy as I was for them it pierced something inside me like a bomb going off, that made it better for me
to leave quietly and sob loudly alone elsewhere.
That's how I handled it because I thought it was best so they could have the excitement they fully deserved. Which to others could be misunderstood for something else but knowing that I'm not the only one who reacted this way that so many others do somehow helps me to feel better?! Or rather not alone.
I have felt strongly twice now that two of my children came at the exact right time for me {all of them but two of them really fast} when a whole bunch of babies were being born around me, baby showers, announcements everywhere..... I think that HE know I would be okay if I had a baby right now and five years ago right at the right time FOR ME.
AT THAT TIME AND THIS ONE.
That I could handle the emotion in me, the pain and the longing.
I always thought just being a mom
would take all the other pain away
it helps yes, but its always still there hidden.
How can it ever really go away? I think it just gets easier to manage and accept over the years. Never easy. We all still have Faith I hope that it will happen and I know there is a plan whether here of after this life.
and I know that we are never alone, ever.
Its hard to want something so bad though always, but some of us almost feel guilty for thinking we just like to get pregnant at least once, but on the other hand feel so blessed to have the babies we do that it feels like its being greedy to want it still does that make sense?? and not being able to do anything about it leaving it up to the Lord is a hard thing.
Feeling so alone or awkward at so many functions family, church where ever..... because you have nothing to share and somehow the topic of discussion with women always turns to labor and delivery.
I have four children yes, I don't take one day for granted when I look in their eyes every morning I am beyond thankful to my Father in Heaven for my KLMK2!
and for each one of their amazing birth parents!
Each month its still something that's there
{tucked away}
like a hovering infertility cloud
{not lately of course... I have a baby}
but I'm getting older and feel like I've learned a lot from the past especially that
we all handle things differently.
I think we all need to be more tolerant of others we don't know what they are going through. We can't take offense so easily that it rots in us for years and we hang onto it.
We have to let it go or we will never be fully happy.
We can't assume we know what others are going through unless we have walked in anothers shoes.
and above all its nice to know we aren't alone our Heavenly Father is always watching over us and He hears us. He will not give us more than we can handle.
He gives us each other.
I've learned that some like to talk about it hash it out. Others keep the pain inside. That's why its nice to know we aren't alone in our actions and thoughts when there are so many out there suffering the same way.
Whether silent or loud.
But I'm so thankful for the empathy and the learning lessons I am learning every step of the way. We all have a long way to go.
of course. But I still have hopes, dreams, and Faith that
someday
it
might
happen. to. me. too.
But I am at peace right now at this point and time and I am thankful everyday for the trial I have cause who knows what it could have been right?
WE are not alone
in any step of the journey
what ever journey we are on or whatever battle we are facing.
cause everybody is facing some kind of battle everyday....
okay..thats it

HAVE AN AWESOME WEEKEND!!!

{Me Thinks ....}

What weekend it was so busy my little brother got married Saturday and it was SO cold. But it was a great day and turned out good for them she wanted to be married outside and she did good thing we had blankets coats and snuggle buddies!! It was so nice to be with my five siblings and their kids and spouses its weird that we are all married now.Only one more on D's side!! With three weddings this year I think we are burned out ha ha!!
Time does go by so fast I think I say that every week but its so true I still feel like he is ten! it was fun to spend time together, plus sunday we got to see alot of D's fam too for dinner and it was general conference this weekend we caught as much as we could but look forward to reading or watching what we missed I love General Conference!
But I am happy for my brother and hope they have a great life together working towards Eternity....
Here are a few pics from the weekend!!
They had two awesome photographers can't wait to see their pics
by these two:
here
and
here!

soren and mani Oct 3/2009

Husband and wife freezing cold!

our whole famonce again 11 kids under 7 plus cold check L out!! lol

keeping warmK

MK2

and finally she let me take some pictures of her they turned out so cute!!

and the best we could get for a family picture with the bride and groom nice one eh oh well!!A fun weekend!
I love my family!!!
Crazy as we all are that's what makes life fun!!!

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For ME THINKS my sister sent this to me today and
I thought it was awesome so I'm sharing it...

Its written by a 15 year old in Ohio:
New Pledge of Allegiance

Since the Pledge of Allegiance and The Lords Prayer
are not allowed in Schools anymore
because the word "GOD" is mentioned
A kid in Ohio wrote the following....

NEW School prayer :

Now I sit me down in school
Where praying is against the rule
For this great nation under God
Finds mention of Him very odd.

If Scripture now the class recites,
It violates the Bill of Rights.
And anytime my head I bow
Becomes a Federal matter now.

Our hair can be purple, orange or green,
That's no offense; it's a freedom thing..
The law is specific, the law is precise..
Prayers spoken aloud are a serious vice.

For praying in a public hall
Might offend someone with no faith at all.
In silence alone we must meditate,
God's name is prohibited by the state.

We're allowed to cuss and dress like freaks,
And pierce our noses, tongues and cheeks..
We can carry smut, but not the Bible.
To quote the Good Book makes me liable.

We can elect a pregnant Senior Queen,
And the 'unwed daddy,' our Senior King.
It's 'inappropriate' to teach right from wrong,
We're taught that such 'judgments' do not belong.

We can get our condoms and birth controls,
Study witchcraft, vampires and totem poles.
But the Ten Commandments are not allowed,
No word of God must reach this crowd.

It's scary here I must confess,
When chaos reigns the school's a mess.
So, Lord, this silent plea I make:
Should I be shot; My soul please take!
Amen

Seems to me that we need GOD more than ever in our lives, in our Schools, in our Homes and definitely in our Communities... Nothing else seems to be working.... you get rid of God you lose....its obvious don't you think???

Well thats what me thinks anyway lol!!!

Have a great Fall week....

I think we skipped fall here and went straight to winter!