There are few things better then...

There are few things better then Smiling Children!

This is a fun new game of tag, it has a twist to it! I found it on my friends and followed it. The rules: "The topic of this one is "There are few things better than..." and you must finish the sentence. The rules are a little different, though. Read all the way through my post and then go to the comments. If you are the first one to have read it, post in the comments that you are "it" and immediately go to your own blog to post your completion of the sentence. If someone else has already commented that they are "it", follow the trail of blogs through the comments (giving you a chance to read everyone's sentences) until you get to post your own, being sure to copy the instructions for the next person. Pictures are optional :) Have fun!"

Sick sick sick...

We are going is circles here with being sick! I think this week and last we have had it all. Ethan just got done being sick with the cold then the flew, now last night little Sadie got the flew. So she is so miserable, she gets hungry so I feed her then she spews it up everywhere, then the cycle starts over.

I missed my Mothers Who Know group that I was very excited to go to this morning. We meet about once a month and we take turns teaching each other a lesson on Motherhood or family, it is very inspiring. So hopefully next month we will be sick free and feeling good!

New findings!!

My friend she told me about Winkflash, and it is awesome! If your like me you have a ton of pictures on your computer that you keep saying I need to get those printed.

I just sent 50 pictures to be printed for 99 cents!! That is for first time members, but they have a sale going on for 6 cents per picture which is cheaper then anywhere I could find and your orders are always only 99 cents to ship! So Yahoo for pictures, now I need to start scrapbooking!!

I am always looking for good deals so if anyone else has any good deals on anything send them my way!! Thanks Angie
Oh the website is on my favorites if your interested!

SNOW DAY!

Yesterday we had a snow day!! So we took advantage and went out and built a Snowman, it was so fun, Ethan is so cute outside. Every other minute I was putting his gloves back on, but it was worth it! Look at that huge snowman!! He sure did good! :)

Twilight

So I have heard soooo much about this book I am excited to read it. But I have to laugh I am on the longest waiting list ever! 54 of 59 for twilight 45 of 49 for New Moon and 18 of 19 for the last book!! So I thought I was going to be the last one to read it, but it turns out that there are more of us that are behind the times in book reading!! So the waiting game begins!

In Loving Memory of President Hinckley

We will miss you and are happy to know that you are now dancing with your sweet wife!

President Gordon B. Hinckley, who led The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints through twelve years of global expansion, has died at the age of 97.

President Hinckley was the 15th president in the 177-year history of the Church and had served as its president since 12 March 1995.

The Church president died at his apartment in downtown Salt Lake City at 7:00 p.m. Sunday night from causes incident to age. Members of his family were at his bedside. A successor is not expected to be formally chosen by the Church’s Quorum of the Twelve Apostles until after President Hinckley’s funeral within the next few days.

What!! No Church??

I have to laugh of all the years in Rexburg with the the freezing cold wind and snow, Church never got canceled. I talked to my sister the other day and she said it was below zero, so I started laughing when I heard church was canceled today because the snow, it is 39 degrees and this is how much snow there is! So I am sorry for all of you that have to trample through the snow to go to church today, when we don't even have enough to make a snowman, well you just need to move out here to Portland where people cant drive in the snow, even if it is just a flurry, not even an inch!

Achooooo!

This week started out with Ethan with a cold then Sadie, now me, so I had to say thank you to all the things I could not have lived without this week! First Airborne so Erik didn't get sick! (Knock on wood). I would have to say Puffs tissue, I ran out of the ones that have lotion so my nose now hurts! Also this chap stick, (I know I just need to drink more water) but I love this chap stick, it makes my lips feel so good, it is Blistex complete moisture !
We didn't have this next idem so we had to go pick one up the other night, but it has been so nice I can sleep through the night without having to go in the other room to suck out Sadies nose because she hates it so bad and screams bloody murder! But she cant breath if I don't suck her out.. So this Vicks Humidifier made it so Sadie and I got a nice sleep. So the last idem is this Aspirator or if your like me you call it the (nose sucky thing) Ethan knows exactly what that is and goes and gets it for me every time! So without these things this week It would have been miserable, I hate colds but it could have been worse! And now hopefully we are on our way to recovery!

Never to old

I love to play with Ethan, I don't know who likes it more Erik or I, We play lots of things, but the most fun is "Cars." I think I like it so much because Ethan gave me 2 cars. Not just when we play, they are mom's cars always and they are always these two cars. He must know my taste to pick me out a BMW Z4, and some other Hot-Rod car! Its so funny he wont let anyone else play with them because they are MOM's. If only I really had these cars, that would be great I would just be the hottest mom out there! To bad the kids wouldn't fit!!

Bows, Bows, and more Bows

Okay some of you may think that I always have Sadie in a bow but I dont, like last night we went to Target and I had TWO people ask how old He was, I don't know why a pink outfit and pink blanket didn't give the girlishness away but it didn't! So hurray for bows!! I love them all so much!! And Thanks to Tracie and Emily for so many of them!!!

Ethan's long waited hair cut

I finally did it, I chopped it off, still not sure which way I like better, with curls, or short . Ethan is just cute either way but it is nice to have a change!

2 Months

Don't I have just the biggest, prettiest eyes!!

Lonely night

Last night Erik was at school studying late and Ethan crashed on me at dinner, he looked so pleasant luckily his chair was high so he could lean back on it or I think he would have face planted in his food. So Sadie and I watched American Idol until she crashed on me!

100 Things about Me...

Think this has been one of the hardest things to do, everyone needs to try to come up with that much stuff about yourself!! This took me a week, well here I go...
1- I love to laugh
2- I love to sing my kids to sleep
3- I LOVE #3, it has always been my favorite number
4- I am the luckiest girl in the world to be married to Erik
5- We got married in Nov, had a kid the next Nov. then skip a year and had our second kid in Nov. ( What can I say, We like November)
6- I love to play sports and played them all growing up! Now I miss them I haven't played any sport for awhile!
7- I have the smartest little boy
8- And a beautiful baby girl
9- I feel claustrophobic if I wear any other ring then my wedding ring for very long. (and it makes me sad, because I love my CTR ring)
10- I love breakfast it is my favorite meal
11- I want to cut my hair but I am to chicken
12- I hate being cold
13- I love to drink Hot Coo Coo with marshmallows
14- I love making things, Cards, Bows, Blankets
15- My favorite color is green just because I have green eyes
16- I knew my best friend before she knew me, I knew we were going to be best friends forever, and we are! Right T-dawg
17- I was almost engaged twice before I met Erik
18- I love to wake-board (broke my ear drum doing it)
19- I hate any contention
20- I am white if you know the your colors
21- I am a slow reader
22- I love a bergen and I am really good at finding them
23- I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints
24- I love to read a good book
25- I love Popcorn, and I have now given that addiction to my son
26- I am a sucker for a musical (Newies, 7 brides for 7 brothers)
27- I am not a morning person
28- I love fresh backed cookies (chocolate chip)
29- I love to sing along to country music
30- I love to be home with my family
31- I am not a good listener
32- I love to watch people
33- I peed on my sisters shoulders laughing so hard (I was 5 or 6 come on)
34- I love to decorate, if I could I would re-due my house every month
35- Having kids have been really easy for me, the pregnancy, the birth everything
36- I have never played the game Clue
37- I love to buy cloths...shoes....purses... Okay just about anything
38- I was married in the Logan Temple for time and all eternity
39- There is a picture I want of the Logan temple soooo bad at Desert book, but it is $250 that is with 50% off!
40- When I look at Erik, time stops and everything stands still!
41- I have the best Sister in the world, she is truly my best Friend!! I love you BECKY
42- I went to school at BYU-Idaho
43- I am from Preston Id
44- Yes, that funny movie was from my town... And I killed the farmers cow, I hit it with my car well I hit a lot of cows but only one died!
45- I love drink water but it has to be really cold
46- Oreo's are my FAVORITE
47- I have a lot of watches but cant stand to wear them
48- I love to listen to my husband play guitar
49- I have been to Brazil
50- I had a guy fly me to to Cal. for his prom in High School
51- I have had 3 dogs named Benson
52- When I don't know a word I make one up
53- I love the mountains, and going camping
54- I have 5 nieces and 3 nephews and 1 more on the way
55- I cant wait to live in my own house
56- I have a birthmark of a butterfly on my shoulder
57- I am now a Mac girl
58- I cant sleep with socks on
59- I let my baby's sleep with me for way to long, like sleep on me, I really don't know how I
sleep
60- I hate to clean out the fridge, and take out garbage
61- I am the youngest in my family, I have 2 older brothers and one older sister, and 2 older step-sisters
62- I am very shy at first but I warm up!
63- I like to keep my toe nails painted
64- I am still waiting for my trip to Hawaii
65- And the cruise
66- I miss snow
67- I hate the rain
68- I love to watch Animal Planet
69- I hit a cow 4-wheeling and almost flew off the thing
70- I love to scrapbook but don't ever do it
71- My fingernails grow really fast
72- I love chocolate milk
73- I love to take pictures
74- I teach CTR 5 and love it
75- But miss Relief Society's lessons, and meeting people
76- I have lots of Willow Tree people, and Nativity as of this year (thanks mom)
77- I stand on the outside of my feet
78- My days go by way to fast
79- I love to shop for baby girl cloths, their so much fun
80- I was an apartment manager of girls housing, then over 2 men's complexes while going to school, and having a son
81- I can stair at a fire forever
82- I eat my reeses by eating the outside edge first then work in
83- I had tubs in my ears twice
84- My senior year I was voted most desired, I still think it was a joke
85- I hooked my brother and his wife up, I worked with Steph for a few years in the Rexburg- And I think I have a act for it!!
86- I want to have a little cabin someday that has a lake in the back, and all the raspberry's you can eat
87- I love little suprize's
88- I am adopted, and want to meet my the bio-mom some day
89- I have a great sense of direction I hardly ever get lost
90- Little things mean allot to me
91- I love the smell of fresh baked bread
92- Mint chocolate chip ice cream gets me very time
93- I drove a huge spud harvest truck for 14 hours a day for 3 years during spud harvest (I don't miss it at all)
94- I don't think I could ever stop learning
95- Making friends is hard for me
96- I wish I stuck with piano
97- I love to feel like I am in shape.. and I don't right now
98- Family is most important to me
99- I believe in Love at first sight
100- I know my pick was the best! I love you Erik

New Cousin yepphee!

Congrats Becky and New Baby!!
(I will let her post the details)
All I will say is, its a girl,
and she was born at 10:30.

BABY ON THE WAY

GOOD LUCK BECKY!!
She went in to the hospital last night after being on bed rest for the past week, they were hoping the baby would settle in until next week but the little angel wants out! She knows she has a cousin here to play with!! We love you, and cant wait to hear the news!!

Sweet Smiles!!

Don't mind my baby talk, when they are this little you cant help it!!

Mothers Who Know

Today we started a Enrichment group called Mothers Who Know, it is really exciting because, I just like to think that I am a mother who knows but I'm not! So now I can get inspired each month with some good talks and lessons on raising my family and being a good mom! Here is Julie B. Beck Relief Society General President she is the one that gave a talk about Mothers Who Know! This is just a piece of her talk. If you want to read the whole talk look on my favorite sites.

"Mothers who know are nurturers. This is their special assignment and role under the plan of happiness. To nurture means to cultivate, care for, and make grow. Therefore, mothers who know create a climate for spiritual and temporal growth in their homes."

We also started a Family Home Evening Packet exchange, I am also really excited for this one. We each pick a topic from the conference talks put a lesson together with the whole works, song, game, treat idea and then just make enough for everyone, which there are 13 of us doing it! So that means we will have a ton of lessons to pick from each Monday!

Hey Diddle Diddle

Ethan has been singing this song for a few days now, I get a kick out of it every time!

Yummmm

I made the easiest cookies in the world last night for our FHE treat, They were sooo good!
Pumpkin Spice Chocolate Chip!

One box Spice Cake mix
One 15oz can pure pumpkin
1/4 cup of chocolate chips (or more if your like me)

Preheat 375 cook for 10-13 min
Just stir those two things together and then spoon onto a greased cookie sheet.
They come out sooo soft, and tasty!!

These cookies take me back to my early days when we live in Riverton Ut. my best friend (Lindsay) her mom made Pumkin cookies and they were sooo good! Thanks for the love of Pumpkin Cookies Rita!

A Sad Goodbye

Erik started back to school today. We will truly miss our Daddy home with us all day, Ethan has already cried for his dady today, they really bonded over the break. We sure did have fun with him, lots of laughs, and good times!

We wish you the best of luck this semester and know you will do a great job! And we hope it fly's by like it did this last semester!

LOVE YOU, LOVE YOU LOTS, DADDY!!

I know I put lots of quote on here but I love to be inspired and a good quote now and again does that to me! so here is one that I like!

"When we remember that each of us is literally a spirit son or daughter of God, we will not find it difficult to approach our Heavenly
Father in prayer. He appreciates the value of this raw material which we call life. 'Remember the worth of souls is great in the sight of God' (D&C 18:10). His pronouncement inspires purpose in our
lives."

Oh I need to write about how it is going with writing down the blessings I am getting daily! Well I have never felt so blessed! On the way to Preston our radio, CD player didn't work, we had to unplug the battery. So at a gas station a big truck pulled up next to us and we needed some pliers so after this lady was cooing through the window at Sadie, Erik decided to ask them if they have pliers that we could use? so the lady said yeah let me go ask my husband, well she came back with some new pliers and said, "Merry Christmas" and walked away, so we fixed our Radio and left her a pass along card with our appreciation on the back! Then in Preston we stoped at my brothers house  and Ethan sees this train that he just loves,well they told us that we could use the train and give it to Ethan for Christmas! That was such a blessing because we dont have money. Then I saw my friend Tracie and she gave me some boots, and a ton of clothes which just felt soooo good because we really didnt have much of a Christmas. We got money from a lot of family that we didn't expect! Then on the way home I stopped at my other friends Mandi's house in Boise and she gave me a huge sack of toys for Sadie, which was so great because our poor dead dog chewed them all up, so I had no baby toys!! 

I know that I am forgetting many things, but those were the few that stood out! I am so thankful for my Family and Friends I know that they have to be inspired, they really help us out a lot. I am thankful to know that the Lord looks after us and blesses us daily!