Happy Thanksgiving

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving at my parents house this year. The kids loved playing with their cousins and dinner was delicious. Thanksgiving reminds me of all those things that I have to be thankful for and there are so many, too many to count really. But right now I am so thankful for the gospel in my life, my family who does so much for me, my husband who has been so helpful to me lately, my sweet girls, and my health and strength to take care of my family and to carry this baby for as long as I have. The list could go on and on, I truly am blessed. I have tried so hard to keep my kids well and to do all that I can to prevent them from catching a nasty bug this time of year and I have been so blessed to have healthy children. Good health means so much to me!! I am so thankful that I have been able to carry this sweet baby for so long, he is going to be nice and plump when he comes out. Josh and I are so excited to meet him and so are the girls. What a wonderful time of year to have a baby, the holidays are so fun and now we will have a sweet baby boy to sit by the Christmas tree and rock and love on. As for right now it is looking like the Doctor is going to take the baby c-section on Tuesday the 1st. I see the Doctor on Monday and I will find out for sure. He told me this week he wasn't comfortable letting me go any longer than Tuesday. The days are going by fast and I am really scared. I am trying to be positive and hope and pray that things go well.

Daddy brings the Turkey to school!!

Maddy was so excited that Daddy got the turkey to show to her class at school. It was a happy day at our house and the kids just loved the turkey.

Kynzee and Kenna even got to see the turkey!!! Kynzee was mad at me because I wouldn't let her bring that nasty feather inside. I am such a mean Mommy!!

Staying busy!!

It seems like time is flying right before my eyes!! I hate that feeling!! I still have this sweet baby boy in my belly and I have been so blessed. I will miss him moving around and his daily hiccups he gets, I love that feeling. I was so scared there for awhile because I was told he was coming early and every day that I kept him in me I was grateful for. When they took me off the medication that was stopping the contractions I knew it would be soon and now here I am and still no baby. I know the Lord is buying me some time to get myself together before I have him. I am so scared to have him, I don't want another c-section, I don't want to have all the problems I had last time, it is my biggest fear. I know I have got to be calm and have a good feeling about this before I go in there to have him. I am trying hard to get to that point but it's just not working so well. I am running out of time, I wish there was a way to turn the switch off to bad memories. In the mean time the girls and I have tried to stay busy and out of trouble.

I have many things crossed off my to do list including......my Christmas shopping and wrapping....yeah!!!!!! I am so proud of myself, now I can enjoy my December and my new baby without worrying about all the things I have to do.

The girls are always playing dress up......so fun to watch them pretend and play together! I just love these girls they have been my biggest helpers the last few months.

Since before we even new that the baby was a boy Kenna called him "Jackin Boy" so my Dad "Grandpa" made a joke the other day about when "Jackin box" was going to come out. Well this is what they were doing....and then they would run over to my belly and say when are you going to come out "Jackin Boy"?

O my sweet little two year old what would I do without the excitement that she causes around here. She can be so quiet and get herself into the biggest messes. These pictures don't even do justice for the mess I found in my bathroom, but you get the idea. What was her Mommy thinking..why wasn't the nail polish up high...serious!!!!

So a funny story for you, and me so I don't forget. I got a phone call from Maddy's school teacher and my heart just sunk I was thinking O no what did she do? Well it wasn't that she had done anything. Maddy had told her teacher that her Dad was an Indian and lived in the mountains and raised turkeys and he was going to bring a turkey to school last week. Well her teacher thought it was a story and didn't really think anything more of it. Well Maddy kept up with her story and again this week said he is going to bring one of his turkeys I promise. She told her teacher that he lives in the mountains and is only home a couple days a week so he will bring it when he gets home. So then her teacher thought well if he really is going to bring a turkey she needs to know so they can plan for it. So she called me. I laughed so hard at this story!!! First of all because Maddy can be a story teller, but this story was real in some sort of way.

1. Her Dad tells the girls all the time that he use to live with the Indians in the mountains when he was a boy. (He said that his Dad use to tell him this and he thought it was so cool that his Dad was an Indian and he believed him, so he started telling his girls the same thing) And...Maddy has always believed him!!

2. He use to go live in the mountains for days at a time when he was younger and watch cows for his Dad.

3. He works in Bear Lake and is gone for days at time so he is rarely home.

4. He goes hunting in the mountains.

5. He has brought a turkey to Maddy's preschool two years in a row for Thanksgiving and it's not because he raises turkeys, his dad "Pa Pa Willy" has turkeys on his farm.

6. And in Maddy's own words "He is an Indian Mom, his skin in dark like an Indian!!!"

Let's just say all of these things mixed together made a great story for her teacher and gave us all a good laugh. And it didn't matter how hard I tried to tell Maddy that her Dad was not an Indian and didn't live in the mountains she was insistent on it and will not think anything different. So because of her Daddy's story telling he now gets to bring another turkey to school this year and probably will for the next 18 years because he is an Indian, lives in the mountains, and raises turkeys, he got himself into this mess not me!!!

Our Happy Halloween!!

We had a fun Halloween this year!! I haven't felt good and I needed to make it simple, so we did and it still turned out fun for the girls.

First of all...Maddy had a school party and they got to dress up in their costumes. Well since I was in the hospital earlier this week I was kinda out of the loop and wasn't on top of everything so I brought Maddy to school with no costume. Well I sat there in the car for a minute after dropping her off and realized that all the kids had costumes on, so I sent Kynzee running after Maddy to come back to the car. The first thing Maddy said to me was "What were you thinking Mom?? Everyone has a costume but me!" I felt horrible. So we drove back home put her costume on and went back to the school five minutes late and I was in trouble because I wouldn't let her wear her witch hat to school. It was not a good start for the day but it turned out okay and Maddy had tons of fun at her school Halloween party.

Then the next day Aunt Katie called and told me if I get the girls dressed up she will take them to her work and they do a fun Halloween parade and every one's department dresses up and decorates for Halloween. They had the Grinch, Horten hears a Who, Santa Clause, Pirates, and tons of other fun things for the girls to see. It was so much fun for them and they are still talking about it. It was so nice of Katie to take them for the day, the girls had fun and I got some rest.




Katie and Rodger with the girls! They loved Rodger's pirate costume.

Then on Halloween night we got the girls dressed up again and took them to a few houses and like I said kept the night simple. I stayed in the car most of the time and the girls had fun with their Daddy. They got plenty of candy from Katie's party so we knew we didn't want to go everywhere and overload them and me for the night. I let the girls pick their costumes out this year and this what they wanted to be!!

Our cute little witch

Snow Queen

Sweet little butterfly

Josh stayed home from Bear Lake to help with Halloween and boy was I glad to have his help!!

Katie and the girls on Rodger's fun bean bag!!!

Look at their cute pumpkins they carved!! I had to get a picture, fun fun!!