my kids a crack up!

In the car driving, my son is pretending we are in a video game.
Me: I think you are letting video games rule your life

Son: I don't think so, I play outside with my friends more than I play video games. I think just playing rules my life.

Me: true, maybe school work, reading, and cleaning your room should rule your life.

Son: that can rule the boring part of my life but sorry mom only a small part of me is boring!!

random resolutions!

professional family portrait( we have none! I have maybe 3 pictures, just pictures from my camera of all of us together, how sad is that???)
new wardrobe (after all my weight loss:))
I am just going to randomly post some of my little wishes for 2010. I feel if I write them down I will be held more accountable.

Christmas and New Year gone so fast!

Okay so maybe my resolution should be to keep this blog up to date! 2009 is gone and Jan of 2010 is getting well underway. I have set some goals for myself this year and I am determined to reach them. I want to enjoy the time with my family more. Instead of stressing out about getting the dishes done and rooms cleaned up I am going to play. Let there be laundry piles! In the end I would rather have my family say that they enjoyed spending time with me rather than I kept a clean house.:) I also am going to lose weight this year, I know it is a cliched resolution but it is one that I need to have this year. Lots of little other things I wish for this year, some include piano lessons for Ella and Nate's having an easier time with his reading. We spend quite of bit of time on reading, I hope it pays off and as always I am constantly striving to become a better wife, mother, daughter, sister, friend and person! Happy New Year!!!



Some Christmas this was one of Ella's favorite gifts! Princess books, Nate only asked for two things Star Wars Lego's and Lego city stuff. He got a millennium falcon and some Clone Wars figures. He was so excited at Christmas this year. We always get a lot of flack because we don't get into the whole Santa thing but I like not having to do Santa and it works for us!

The California Hayes made an appearance! Tim's brother Jon, his wife Jenny and their little girl Anna were able to make it home for Christmas this year. We had so much fun, Ella and Anna are two peas in a pod. On their last night here we went to the hills and saw the lights and discovered that the camel Bull really likes to eat snow. In the past we have brought carrots and fed him those, candy canes and straw. This year we had none and Ella went up with her gloves covered in snow and he bent down and took a big lick. The girls got a big kick out of that, the highlight of the trip.:)

I feel so completely humbled by how wonderfully blessed I am. So I hope this 2010 finds all of you prosperous in good health, family and happiness

Christmas Cookies

I decided that I needed something to boost me into the holiday spirit so I had a cookie party. This is the first time I have ever made rolled and cut cookies.(I always take cupcakes to Nate's and El's parties) It was so much fun and the kids were so cute decorating the cookies. El made everyone she knew a cookie and then was expecting us to take the cookie to that person. She got a little upset when that did not happen. We will have to make more to go around the neighborhood. Nate was very precise in his cookie decorating. Afterwards we went over to our good friends Kelly and Danae's house for some homemade stew! Thanks Kelly, he even sent some home with us. Then later Danae and I went to see Blindside, great movie!! I will even admit I cried a little. Great friends +Great Day +Great Movie=Just what I needed!
Hard at work
Quality taste control!!Finished Product

Thanksgiving

What a wonderful time of the year. I love the holidays!!! We had a great thanksgiving weekend, decorated our house for Christmas and Travis and Casie had us over to their house for Thanksgiving dinner. Casie is an amazing cook and she did everything!!! I felt bad, but honestly every time I mentioned bringing anything she would say "really you guys just need to show up and eat." Two things I am pretty good at, showing up and eating! I of course forgot my camera. I always forget my camera, my poor kids are not going to have any documentation of events in their lives. I need help.

New Hardware!

Nate's glasses came today! I think he is a cutie but he is not showing much love for the glasses right now. He is very nervous about school tomorrow, he thinks everyone is going to make fun of him. I hope not, I know how mean kids can be though. I asked if he had any friends that wore glasses and he does have one...

Nate: yeah he wears glasses and everyone makes fun of him

Me: I sure hope you don't make fun of him
Nate: of course I don't make fun of him, he's my friend!!!!

Me: there you go, your friends won't make fun you

Nate: they probably will mom, you just don't know!

We are working on it, if you have any ideas on how to make this easier for Nate let me know.

funny moment the other day, Nate wanted to pack his lunch for school while I was getting myself and Ella ready, he did a good job and I told him to put his lunch box in his backpack so he would not forget it and he decided that he did not need to do that. Long story short he forgot is lunch box in the car and I took it to him at school. flash forward to the next week, driving to school and Nate says:

you were right mom I should have put my lunch box in my backpack. I did forget it. Thank you for bringing it to me at school that was awesome.

I said I know right because I am the best mom!

Nate says:

well you're not the best mom in the whole wide world but you make the top 5!

what???

Nate clarifies:

well to me and Ella you're the best mom but like in the whole world you are only in the top 5, I think your the best, but my friend Riley thinks his mom is the best and my other friend Houston thinks his mom is the best. Not all the moms can be number one, so even though you are the best to me, you're not the best to the world! But you are to me mom!

Nothing like having a six year old to keep your feet planted solidly on the ground!!!!!!:)

TGIF

Thursdays are my Fridays, and mostly Friday is my cleaning and errand day but since my wonderful husband has been cleaning the house for me this week I get to play! Yeah!!! Well I do have to do some laundry and grocery shopping and bank and post office runs but then I get to do this

one of my favorites on my list of things to do in the fall!! I might attempt to make some pumpkin seed brittle as well! Well have to see how ambitious I am feeling tomorrow.