Happy Birthday Tara!!

Apparantly when it is your wifes birthday you are supposed to make a post telling her HAPPY BIRTHDAY. Well I wasn't able to yesterday (or I didn't think of it until I got home and was reminded), so Happy Birthday Tara. Your are such an awesome mother to our kids and an excelent wife. I hope that you had a wonderful birthday yesterday. Don't worry 26 isn't that old you still have a few good years left in you. j/k. Aiden, Hunter and I love you and appreciate all that you do and sacrafice. Thanks for being a part of our life.

Love,
Christopher

Carved Pumpkins

So we carved said pumpkins tonight! This is how they turned out. Please ignore our mostly naked child. She didn't want to get dirty. Like that ever happens. the littlest one is one of the 5 for a dollar ones!

Pumpkin Patch(s)

This weekend while I went out with the girls Christopher took the kids to a pumpkin patch. They had tons of fun riding on the rain barrel train, at the petting zoo, eating cotton candy for the first time. I am sad that I missed out on that fun but had fun of my own!

Today we went to the local pumpkin patch. Really it is just a staged pumpkin patch. It did have a kid appropriate haunted house. And a tinny tiny hay maze. But the kids had fun and they picked out really little pumpkins. 5 for a dollar how can you beat that!

I got a New calling

I was called to serve as the Relief Society Second counslor. What am I going to do?

Eleven years has flown by....

I was fourteen when my best friend was killed in a car accident. Her funeral was held on my 15th birthday. Every year I still mourn the death of a person that knew my very soul. I think that we should have been sisters. It is funny to me that someone I knew for only a year an a half would touch my life so completely that I would still be thinking about her on a daily basis. I wonder what her life would be like. I think about her family and visit them as often as i can, Usually twice a year.

This picture is taken when we went to girls camp in 1997. The Summer before she died. I think that is one of my favorite memories of her. The last night that we were there we snuck out into the trees between camp and the bathrooms. Then when people passed in the dark we would jump out and scare the living day lights out of them. SO FUNNY! We also snuck out that night and raided the fridge, stole underwear and made a general nuisance of ourselves! The best thing about our friendship is that we didn't have to have a lot to do. Most of our hanging out consisted of us walking around the block in circles for hours just talking. We had notebook after notebook of notes. The July before she died her family moved to Idaho. We wrote 20 letters back and forth in the space of 3 months. Plus weekly phone calls(The days before long distance was free on everyone's cell phones!). I really do miss her.

I am so thankful for a gospel that tells me that I knew her before I came to this earth and I will know her later. Love ya Chelsea.

One Word

One of my friends, Erin, tagged me with the "I love your blog" award which means I get to try to answer these questions in one word.

1. Where is your cell phone? pocket
2. Where is your significant other? couch
3. Your hair color? Brownish
4. Your mother? Nutty
5. Your father? Gone
6. Your favorite thing? Family
7. Your dream last night? Nonexistent
8. Your dream/goal? Happy
9. The room you're in? Basement
10. Your hobby? Running
11. Your fear? Death
12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? practitioner-- So I stole Erins but I want the same:)
13. Where were you last night? Home
14. What you're not? Emotional
15. One of your wish-list items? debtfree
16. Where you grew up? Colorado
17. The last thing you ate? Mashedsweetpotatoes
18. What are you wearing? Jeans
19. Your TV? Debate
20. Your pet? Mice;)- Thirteen and counting....
21. Your computer? Slow
22. Your mood? Content
23. Missing someone? Family
24. Your car? Big
25. Something you're not wearing? Rings
26. Favorite store? SuperTarget
27. Your summer? Awesome
28. Love someone? Forever
29. Your favorite color? Blue
30. When is the last time you laughed? Today( Read Ambers blog)
31. Last time you cried? Yesterday

I Tag anyone who wants to but I would really love for everyone to do it!

My Cute kids-- Not for the Faint of Heart

Amber-- you are going to LOVE this.
She is so cute right. NOT SO.. Read on...

We are at the park today. I look over by the stairs and Hunter has her pants around her ankles. Great! I walk over there to help her get her pants up but her tells me that she pooped. AWESOME. So I am expecting there to be a huge mess in her pants but there is nothing...oh wait... what is that on the wood chips? You guessed it. She pulled down her pants and pooped on the ground. I was mortified. I was on the phone when it happened, That is my excuse for not knowing exactly what was going on. I did pick it up though. Luckily I had a plastic bag for wet accidents that I could use. That is how my day at the park went. How was your day?

Handbag Planet

So if you haven't read in everyones blog that Handbag planet is giving away 24 hand bags in 24 hours. Sign Up on handbagplanet.com!

Potty Trained!

Hunter is offically potty trained! Yea! We have been putting her in underware ever once in a ahile just to see how she would do and if finally stuck! She has an accident a day it seems like but all is going great. Aren't girls easy!

Quirks

Definition of quirk:n. 1. A peculiarity of behavior; an idiosyncrasy: "Every man had his own quirks and twists" Harriet Beecher Stowe. 2. An unpredictable or unaccountable act or event; a vagary: a quirk of fate.

Rules: Link the Person who Tagged you. Mention rules on your blog. Tell about 6 quirks of yours. Tag 6 fellow bloggers to do the same. Leave a comment to let them know.

1- I have to shower as soon as I get up. It bugs me not too.
2- I am obsessed with time. I always have to know what time it is and it bugs me when I don't know what time it is.
3- I always lock the door when I am home. Even when people come over. They are locked in my house.
4-I have to have a plan. I hate it when I don't know what I am doing or what the plan is. I am starting to accept that life doesn't go to my plan for it. Ever.
5- I can be guilted into any job. I just can't say no.
6-I put the toliet paper so that it folds on top and not from the bottom. I never noticed this until my mother-in-law and my sister-in-law were talking about it.

I tag-- Nycole, Amber, Emily, Carrie, Kelly and Amy