Maddy and Kynzee loving dance

My little girls love to dance! They love getting all dressed up in their beautiful dance outfits and putting what they call their "magical ballet slippers" on. They are both so girly and I love it. I love to dress them up and do their hair pretty and take them to dance on Mondays. They have improved so much from last year I am amazed. They are more well behaved and they listen to their teacher better, they do exactly what she says . I love watching them. Last year and the year before was hard for me because one of the girls always wanted to sit and not dance or run back to me, and I always got frustrated with taking them. Not this year, they dance so beautiful and I love to take them and watch them, they are doing great. Fun fun girls! I love them both so much and I am so thankful to have them in my life, they are two little treasures.

Josh is back from elk hunting

Josh has been gone hunting for a week and finally returned tonight. It was a wonderful night with lots of hugs and kisses from his little girls. They missed him so much a week is a long time for them to wait for him to come home. Josh had a lot of fun spending time with his family and friends. They hiked and hunted long hard days, he has very sore legs and feet tonight. From the pictures he brought back it looks to me like they were pretty comfy with a chess board game, a DVD player, a generator for lights and a grill, and a stove to heat their tent. Not too bad considering they have never had a generator in camp before, generators can do a lot for you. They saw elk but never close enough to shoot at any. There was a full moon out every night and that made it so the elk would stay up all night and eat because they could see and then they would bed down and sleep during the day when they were hunting. So this made it pretty hard to come home with an elk. But Josh did have a dear tag that he got filled. He shot a buck and was pretty excited about that. I was also excited about that because that means one tag down so less time away from us. Anyway we are glad to have him home and here are so pictures from the hunt.

I have been tagged!

Jaime tagged me and I am not so sure how fun this tag is going to be but I am going to give it a try!

7 random or weird facts about me.....(I don't know if I want to share those with you)

1. I stay up very very late, I am talking 2 or 3 in the morning on the nights Josh works. I hate being alone and I am afraid of the dark so it is best for me to stay up late. I have gotten very use to it and now I am not tired in the mornings anymore. I sure get a lot of things done staying up this late. I am always looking for someone to talk to this late at night or morning so give me a call if you are awake too.

2. I am obsessed with washing my hands, my hubbies hands, and my children's hands or any one's hands who come into my house. I hate germs I hate sick people, and I hate dirty hands, so as soon as my kids get home from school their hands get washed. Kynzee has asthma and it is miserable if she gets sick so to prevent it we just wash hands really really really good. I have taught my girls to sing twinkle twinkle little star while they are washing their hands so they get them clean enough. I also take hand sanitizer everywhere I go, in every vehicle we own and we use it all the time. I wash down the shopping carts with it at all stores. You could maybe call me a little OCD about being afraid of germs, but it sure eliminates sick people in my home which is very nice because we all know how horrible it is to take care of sick children or being sick ourselves.

3. My whole family will laugh when they read this one because it is so true. My kitchen...O boy I like it clean, and clean as in my way. I load this dishwasher a certain way and I make sure all my sippy cups are organized and the lids are down so they get clean. I absolutely hate it when other people try to load my dishwasher it seems like they all just do it careless and they don't care about their dishes getting clean. I still have not found one person that loads a dishwasher like me. I know it is such a stupid thing but I like it done my way. I also like the counter tops wiped off all day long, I hate sticky counter tops and chairs. It takes me a few minutes and it makes me feel so much better about my kitchen.

4. I cannot sit still for more than 5 minutes! If even that long! I have to be up and moving and doing something. I keep myself very busy all day long because I don't like to sit. Sometimes it kills me to sit through a movie. If we are watching a movie at home I cannot sit through it, only in a theatre and I still have to get up and go to the bathroom or something. I don't watch TV at all! I use to watch Dr. Phil and Oprah but I hate the commercials and I can't sit through them. At the end of the day my feet and legs are sore that's for sure. I don't know what's wrong with me. I think it is because if I sit long enough I will start to think and thinking to deep about things is bad for me. I have to live and think in the day!

5. When I am worried, nervous, or sad I bite on my tongue! Yep you heard me right I clench my teeth right down on my tongue and it makes big sores. So pretty much my mouth is always sore. I use to bite my nails but since I started working in the hospital and became a germ freak I stopped biting my nails and bit my tongue instead. Not good!

6. I love having babies! I am obsessed with being pregnant, having babies and holding babies. I crave to have a baby as soon as my babies turn 18 months. I can't stand it! I see pregnant women everywhere and I want to hold and love on other people's babies. It is ridiculous, am I the only one out there who does this? I have horrible pregnancies and deathly horrible deliveries and recovery is like 3 months for me after I have a baby, and I still love those tiny precious spirits and crave to have one in my belly and hold one in my arms. Someone will have to force me to stop having kids because I will never be able to permanently make that decision. All I have to say is it's a good thing my sweet husband loves babies as much as I do.

7. I am a dreamer, a fairytale maker, a happily ever after kind of girl. I love the movie Enchanted and I am kind of like the girl in that movie. I live my life like a fairytale. I know that I dream too much and wish upon stars way too much and the happily ever after part, well.....I know everyone can live happily ever after if they really want to. So in my heart I believe I am a princess who can dream and make believe anything I want to, and I catch myself doing it everyday. I will sing and make up words to songs that I think should be written, and I will make believe that I am somewhere wonderful. Maybe it's because I live in a house with three little princesses and we read fairy tales and make believe all the time, but I think it is a good life and every girl should be a fairytale maker!

I tag seven of you and that would be: Lindsay, Kacey, Shalyce, Rachell, Nichelle, Misty, Judy

Fun girls weekend in Utah!!!

First of all sorry for so many pictures, but we had so much fun I couldn't decide which ones to post!

Josh has been Elk hunting for a week, I have pretty much been a widow. I did not want to sit home and wish he were home, and listen to the girls ask when Daddy was coming home, so instead I made other plans, funner plans. My sister Katie, her friend Brooke, my three little girls and I packed up our things and went to Utah for 4 days. It was so much fun, I haven't had that much fun in a long time. It was a girl's weekend and we did whatever we wanted, whenever we wanted. My girls had tons of fun and they were the best little travelers ever, I was so proud of them. First we stayed in Salt lake for a couple nights, we took the girls to the children's museum, the aquarium, build a bear workshop, the Mayan restaurant, the cheesecake factory, Gateway mall and played, swam, and watched movies in the hotel. Then we took off and went to Heber City where the girls got to ride the train (thanks for telling me about it Kacey) it was a blast and it was something the girls will never forget. Next it was Park City and shopping! Wow we had so much fun in Park City. The mountains were absolutely beautiful covered in fall colors and the weather was in the 70s the entire weekend. We couldn't have asked for a better weekend to go or better weather. This will be a memory we will have forever. Fun Fun!!

The Heber Valley Train!!!

Having lots of fun in the hotel

The Children's Museum (kids can play for hours, they love it)

The Mayan Restaurant

Build a bear workshop (everyone left very happy)

The Aquarium (Kenna learned how to say fish, only she says it "bish", very cute)

Family Pictures

I have had a lot of people ask me who took our family pictures. Chantri Photography took them and her website is on the side of my blog, many of you know her. She is such a sweetheart, thank you Chantri.

Vote yes for Proposition 8

Click on this link.....

http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1815820715?bctid=1822459319

My brother sent me this email today and I wasn't going to take the time to read it and I am sure glad I did. I hope all those people in California vote yes for Proposition 8!

Maddy's Teeth

Maddy has lost two more teeth, that means she now has lost 4 teeth. She is so proud of herself and tells everyone she sees. Maddy is only 5 years old I cannot believe she is loosing so many teeth. It has been so fun to be the tooth fairy and see Maddy so happy when she wakes up in the morning after hiding her tooth under her pillow. The things we get to do as parents can be so rewarding. I love being a mom to Maddy, she is such a sweetheart full of so much energy. She helps me out with so much and is always so willing. She has been going through so many changes having so many people living with us and then moving out. She hasn't been able to understand why it is all happening the way it is and she asks so many questions. I wish there was an easier way to explain life to Maddy. I am afraid she will always have a hard question for me that I don't know how to answer. Maybe it is just her age..... I just love her so much.

A little bit of everything...

"Remember the little things in life...For one day you'll look back and realize they were the big things"

My brother and his family moved out last week, it was a very busy week for all of us. I must say it is very quiet around my house this week. It is amazing how adding another family into your home can create so much more noise. I hate things quiet, so that is kind of bothering me especially at night, that is when I hate being alone the most. But I am very happy for them, they bought a brand new home and it is beautiful, a happy time for them. My girls are missing their cousins, it is hard to have someone live with you for months and then just leave one day and have things go back to the way it was before. It will take some time I am sure. They only moved two miles from me so it is easy to go see them, that is nice.

With much more time on my hands now I have thinking so much about how grateful I am for the things that I have been given. I truly am blessed to have been born and raised into the gospel and to have the knowledge that I have of a Savior who died for us, so that we might live with him and our families again someday. I live each day for that, I believe that is what keeps me going and loving every day. I know I will be with my family again someday. I don't know how I could bring a child into this world without knowing I could be with them again if something were to happen to one of them. The Lord has asked so little of us for what we receive form him in return and I have always believed that. What an amazing gift that is to me and to each one of you. I love my little family and I love the happy times we share with each other. I get so much joy out of waking up each morning to hugs and kisses from my little girls. I could sit and hold each one of them all day. Summer went by so fast, but I enjoyed every day of it. I loved conference this time, I got to watch both sessions and it filled me with so much love for so many people in my life. I am going to try so hard to live in the moment and not wish for another day. I treasure each day, but sometimes when days are hard I want another day to come quickly (who doesn't right?) Well I am going to try harder to just enjoy those hard days because if it weren't for the hard days we couldn't become stronger like the Savior wants us to become. I have been so scared for what is ahead of us in this world. I hope I am strong enough both spiritually and physically to handle whatever it is that is coming. I don't know what might happen, I don't even turn on the news because I don't want to hear about it every day. I have just been working hard at getting our 72 hours kits made and food storage built up in hopes that I might be prepared. I also have been working extra hard at having Family Home Evening, Family prayer, and Family scripture study. It has been hard for me to get things started but now that I have started I am determined to complete it. I always have this saying in my head "If we are prepared we shall not fear". So I think that I am afraid because I am not prepared. I am going to continue to get prepared. Life gets busy for all of us but I think sometimes it is busy with things that don't even matter in the end. I hope I can keep focused on the things that matter most and accomplish lots this coming winter. I think winter can be a good thing because we stay inside and we can get a lot of important things done.