Merry Christmas

Well we hope you all had a Merry Christmas. We had a lot of fun. Mitch had several days of so we enjoyed having him home. We started of with Christmas Eve party at Mitch's moms house which I forgot my camera and then Christmas morning were my kids got a Wii and a ball pit which they love and I could have saved myself a lot of money if I would have realized what a big hit that was going to be. All I did was buy a swimming pool and fill it with balls and they love it. They also got other fun things as well but that was the big hit.

We then went to my moms for Christmas day and had a big turkey and ham dinner and opened presents their. Then that night we had Mitch's dads party which got canceled due to the big snow storm. So we celebrated with his dad on Sunday and finished up with all the parties.

The kids also played out side in the snow with Mitch and had a lot of fun.

As for me I am getting a kindle it is on back order though and it will not get here until March. Inside I am so excited I can not even explain how happy I am to get this. I love to read.

It was a good Christmas with lots of fun stuff happening. Now we just have to get through New Years. I have a baby sitter and I am so excited to just hope around from party to party visiting everybody. In the past our kids are always with us so it will be fun not to have to worry about them.

Well I hope you all had a good Christmas and thank you to everybody who gave us stuff that was really nice of all of you. Sorry, I had the best of intentions to do neighbor gifts but it just ended up not happening. Maybe next year I will do that first.

Christmas fun before and after

December 24th

December 24Th is Korben's Birthday. We celebrated it on the 14Th this year, because Mitch's mom always does her Christmas party on the 24Th, and I just want it to be separate from Christmas. We just had family over and did presents and cake.

It was kind of fun having him on Christmas Eve. I was able to go home from the hospital Christmas morning and I just spent the day at my moms house. I was not in the hospital very long I stayed under 24 hours. They did not want me to take Korben that soon but they let me go with Korben after some talking. I really wanted to post of picture of Korben in the hospital, but my scanner is not working. They brought him to me in a great big stocking with a white hat that had a red ball on top it is such a cute picture. He was a very dark skinned baby and he has dark hair so he just looked so cute in the bright red stocking. Korben was an awesome baby. I have to say Korben was my cutest baby by far. He is such a good kid. He is my most quiet and my sweetest kid. He is very cuddle still today, I am sure that will change at some point. Hopefully not to soon though.

Here are some pictures of my Christmas Tree. A friend of mine wanted to see some pictures of everybody's trees so I am posting them for her. So I am also suggesting all my other friends post pictures as well.

9th Anniversary and random stuff

Well today is Mitch and mine 9Th anniversary. We went out on Saturday night to celebrate. We went to dinner and to pioneer theater to see a play. I have to say I think I have one of the best husbands. He always helps me out with everything and anything and I really mean that. He has never yelled at me or called me anything rude, and he has never swore at me. Don't get me wrong we disagree but we just do not yell at each other and we don't say mean things to each other. We just keep it about the issue. He is always saying nice things to me. I love him so much, he is really an awesome husband.

Well totally of the subject. This Sunday Mitch's brother and his wife blessed their baby. So after the blessing they did their little get together at my house because they just don't have the room at their house. So for those of you that know me, I had to have my house cleaned from top to bottom and every square inch. Everything also had to be fixed and ready to go. So we fixed hinges and finished projects like tile and an art things (two of them) for my wall, and we did paint touch ups and cleaned the entire house extremely well. Need less to say it was a crazy week and we were up late every night this week. (Mitch helped with everything all week long, like I said he is awesome.) So today I am doing nothing. No exercising and I am not getting ready and my kids will not be ready except the ones that had to go to school. The few things I will do today are, work on laundry and put up my Christmas tree so we can decorate it tonight and work on some little booklets for our primary activity on Saturday. I know it is not really doing nothing but compared to what I have been getting done during the day and at night this really is nothing.

For those of you in my ward, did your kids get a little hand out at church about the primary activity on Saturday, I was hoping they did because I dropped it of at Amy's house but she was not home and I doubted any one else thought of making one, I figured it would be a good idea to let the parents know about the activity (go figure).

Anyways sorry for the rambling. I once again apologise for the run on sentences and miss spelling and bad grammar but is just is not one of my strong points.

YEAH FOR ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YEAH FOR ME!!!! I have made it just over one month with no soda and we have only ate out just a few times (4). This is a miracle because in the past we would have ate out every day except Sundays of course.

I have also started exercising as well. This is the beginning of my third week and it just happened I did not have to talk myself into it I just think I was ready and oh yeah on Halloween my dad had videoed me and I watched it and I just about freaked out. I also have a friend in my ward that has been a huge motivation to me.

I think the no soda has been so much easier this time because I am eating at home and before we were eating out and it was hard not to get a soda.


YEAH FOR ME!!!

How well do you know me ?

I decided to do this because a friend of mine did this on her blog and I thought is was really funny.
So what you do is take these questions and ask your husband to answer them about you and you also answer them about yourself. And see how well your husband knows you. I thought is was really funny. Mitch and I were laughing while we did this. So if you want you should also do this, it was fun.


5 Favorite TV Shows

MY ANSWERS
1. Greys Anatomy
2. Biggest Loser
3. Jon and Kate plus 8
4. 17 Kids and counting
5. Oprah

MITCH"S ANSWERS
1.Grey's Anatomy
2.Biggest Loser
3.Oprah
4.View
5.John and Kate plus 8

5 Favorite Restaurants

MY ANSWERS
1.Olive Garden
2.Texas Roadhouse
3.Charlies Steakary
4.Dragon Hill
5.Robintinous

MITCH'S ANSWERS
1.Olive Garden
2.Texas Roadhouse
3.Robintinous
4.Chili's
5.Wingers

5 Things I did yesterday

MY ANSWERS
1.Racked leaves
2.Cleaned blinds
3.Stressed over primary program practice
4.Bugged Mitch to hook up my bike exercise machine
5.Played Games

MITCH'S ANSWERS
1.Primary Practice
2.Cleaned Blinds
3.Raked Leaves
4.Played Games
5.Cleaned up PUKE

8 Things I Love

MY ANSWERS
1.Chocolate
2.Mitch
3.Clean House
4.Time alone with Mitch
5.Hanging out with my family
6.Broadway musicals
7.Shoes
8.Purses

MITCH'S ANSWERS
1.ME
2.Chocolate
3.The Kids
4.Musicals
5.A Clean House
6.Things in order
7.Decorating
8.Being with family

5 Things on my WISH LIST

MY ANSWERS
1.Laser Teeth Whitening
2.A Rocken Body
3.New Camera
4.Vacation
5.New wedding ring (bigger)

MITCH'S ANSWERS
1.New Wedding Ring
2.Go on a Cruise
3.Dream house Rambler
4.To Travel
5.Me to be done with school

5 Things I am looking forward to

MY ANSWERS
1.Mitch to be done with school
2.The day when I am a SKINNY BITCH
3.A pedicure
4.Spending any time with Mitch
5.Twilight on Saturday

MITCH'S ANSWER
1.Me to be done with school
2.Teeth whitening (Anniversary Gift)
3.The kids moving out
4.Seeing Twilight
5.Christmas

5 Things I Say All The Time

MY ANSWERS
1.NO!
2.Don't ask me again
3.Stop it Mitch (grabbing me in the wrong places)
4.Chew with your mouth shut!
5.I expect you to behave while we are in here

MITCH'S ANSWERS
1.Your a Freak
2.Not tonight- (I say whatever I don't say that he gets it whenever he wants it)
3.I Love YOU
4.Kaleb stop that
5.Your a nerd

8 Things I Can't Stand

MY ANSWERS
1.Chomping
2.Liers
3.Story embellishers
4.Stinky Farts
5.Constant Burping
6.Loud breathing
7.Dirty House
8.Being Dirty

MITCH'S ANSWERS
1.Noisy Eaters
2.Dirty House
3.Wrinkly Kids Cloths
4.Stinky Breath
5.Throw up
6.Doing Laundry
7.Cooking
8.Sleeping Close all night(I agree with mitch on all of these except #7)

STRESS

Let me just say, I can not wait until next Sunday is over with. Our primary program is next Sunday, lets just say things are crazy. I am a very organized person and have everything planned out to a tea, and the people I am working with on the program are not (mass chaos), (pulling my hair out), and a (little embarrassed). I wore my hair up today because I knew I would be hot and stressed and did not want it on my neck. I have really tried to help as much as possible with out stepping on toes but it is still crazy. I am only the secretary so I try not to be to bossy. HELP! HELP! HELP!

Well I just needed to vent a little so now I am done.

Halloween pictures

So I finally took the time to post our Halloween pictures. We had a lot of fun stuff this last few weeks. We had grandma Seegmiller's party and school parties and we visited our other grandparents and ward party and then to top it all of we went trick or treating with a bunch of our friends from our ward. We had lots of fun, but I can say I am glad it is over with and I can not wait until my kids are done with all their candy. FUN FUN FUN

Sorry to those of you that tagged me but I just don't think I am going to get to it this time around. I love tags though it is fun to read them, so please don't think I won't do them in the future.

Still no soda, it is going well.

1 week

Yeah, I have made it one week with no soda. I have had a few headaches and I have thought about diet cherry Pepsi a few times but I made it. I have cooked at home for 9 days now. I do feel better about eating at home. I cook really healthy when I cook at home, I have read a lot of books and watched a lot of shows so I think I have a pretty good idea of portions and how to cook food and keep them very healthy.

I know I have been tagged a couple of times and I will try and answer those soon. I will hopefully find some time tomorrow to post some new pictures as well. I just thought I would give you a short report if you care.

1st day with no soda, second attempt

Okay, so I am trying the no drinking soda thing again. Last time I went for about 2 to three months. Well just recently at book club we were discussing this topic and they claim that in order to really see a difference you have to go for 16 weeks. So I am committing to 20 weeks that is 5 months. I did see some good stuff come from my last attempt. I just felt better and I stopped having head aches after the first week and a half. When I took up drinking soda this last time again the head aches came back so you would think that would make me stop but no I just love it. So starting today I am committing to 20 weeks no soda. So far not caffeine headache yet.

The second thing that came up in conversation is the eating out thing. Lets just say there should be a sign hanging in my kitchen that says "The only reason I have a kitchen is.........because it came with the house. I have also decided to start cooking at home again. So I took Mitch we me to the grocery store yesterday and we filled up three carts and spent just over $700.00 dollars. We really had nothing at home except cereal and lunch stuff. It has been so long sense we have eaten dinner at home. Except on Sundays of course. I did cook dinner last night and it felt really good to know we were eating something healthy and good for us. I am pretty educated about what I should be eating so when we eat at home we eat healthy food that is good for us.

The third thing that was discussed was the 100 mile bike ride which okay lets not talk about that. I am still thinking about this one. It is not until June but I think I need to decided fast.

Anyway I just thought I would mention this stuff on my blog so I would stay more accountable and have to answer to people.

Well anyway I do not have any pictures for this post just a lot of talk. Sorry!!!! Also I am not an English major so don't ever expect my posts to be up to that standard.

Oldy, Moldy, Mitch

Happy 30th Birthday Honey. Okay so I am the weirdo wife that makes her husband stand outside by the banner that I put on the garage and take a picture. Mitch turned 30 this year and has a lot of gray hair. He is always commenting on all of his gray hair. Well for his birthday this year he got the gun he wanted and a suit and the Cowboys jacket you see in the picture. He kind of got spoiled this year. I guess that is what happens when you work none stop for about two months. Well I am sure he is hoping I will be done with this soon because I am sure he is planning on getting some you know what tonight sense it is his birthday and all.

Well other than Mitch's birthday not much is going on. We did finally get our trailer we have been waiting for minus the couch because when the guy went to pick it up they had put the wrong one in so we are waiting for them to send the right one and then the dealer ship will install it for us. I will put up pictures when we finally go camping in it. Which I don't know when that will happen.

Well I don't know about you but I thought conference was really good. It definitely made me want to do better and just made me fill better about life. Good Good conference I would have to say.

Kaleb's 7th Birthday

Kaleb turned 7 on Sept. 2ND . He had a great birthday, he said. He is a very animated kid, he does not hold back his excitement when he likes his gifts. Kaleb is a very smart kid he is always checking everything out and getting into everything. He does awesome in school. It is crazy to think that I have a 7 year old. They grow up so fast, but yet I can only really remember him as a baby due to pictures and of course you always remember little things that they did but over all I really do not remember him as a baby to much. Kaleb was born just a few days before Sept. 11. I remember I was just sitting in my basement watching T.V. and the news came on and I had this brand new baby laying on the couch next to me and they were announcing this attach on the U.S. it was a little scary thinking I just brought a baby into this. Just one of the memories of Kaleb as a baby. I love Kaleb to death, even though some times I think he is my biggest challenge.

FUN, FUN, FUN

Well here are some pictures of my kids on the first day of school. Kaleb started 1st grade and Korben started all day kindergarten and Ashton is in preschool on MWF from 9 am to 12 pm. Okay so don't think I like Ashton more it is just that she is always posing for pictures and the boys are always just asking if I am done yet. Also don't mind Korbens hair cut, the girl that cut his hair did an awful job on it, I was just hoping it would grow out a little bit more before school started. So it is just me and Kreed some days. I might actually get a few things done and be able to spend some time with Kreed alone.

One other fun thing we just did was take Kreed to the ER yesterday. Well first I tried WEE CARE and they could not remove the fuzzy part of the pussy willow that he put up in his nose. So they told me that on Tuesday they would call me and give me a refural to a ear, nose doctor but I did not want to leave that in his nose until then, and if it had not been sunday I would have just taken him there in the first place because I do not need a refural with my insurance. So we went to the ER were they were able to remove it. Let me just say this is our fourth trip to the ER to get stuff removed from our children's bodies, it always happens at odd hours. The other three were from Kaleb two nose and one ear thing. I don't know what the obsession is but hopefully this will be the last trip. The doctors find it pretty funny every time we come in, they really thought this time was great because of what Kreed put in his nose. Kalebs was always candy an popcorn seeds in the ear, I guess that is pretty common stuff for them to remove.

Quirks of mine

OK so if any of my friends that read my blog want to do this fill free.
The Rules:
Link the person who tagged you
Mention the rules on your blog
Tell about 6 unspectacular quirks of yours.
Tag 6 fellow bloggers by linking them.
Leave a comment on each of the tagged bloggers blogs letting them know they've been tagged!

Okay
1. I can not stand to listen to people who chomp there food. I mean I understand things like chips but I still should not be able to hear you eating those in the next room. EAT WITH YOUR MOUTH SHUT AND SLOW DOWN YOUR FOOD IS NOT GOING TO RUN AWAY!!!!!!!!

2. I am a neat freak, I like my house to be clean and organized as well as my kids cloths to be ironed and no stains. Some time this is a bad thing but I think I keep it in check pretty good and realize some times kids get dirty and some times I just need to wait to dust and enjoy the day.

3. I love decorating. I love painting my house and just finding new and fun things to do to make it better. I look through magazines and find stuff that will work in my house. I am working on a new little wall display as we speak.

4. I love to read, I am always looking for a good books and love when people give me recommendations.

5. I like to chew on stuff, the plastic tags off of cloths and the ring around plastic bottles any thing I can chew and make it flat or reshape it in my mouth.

6. I hate watching scary movies or anything remotely suspenseful like even the amazing race is a little to much for me I can not stand to watch if a team I like is barely going to make it or if they are losing and scary movies are just out of the question my heart starts to race and I get all tense.

Well I hope my friends that read my blog will do this, it was kind of fun to think of some of the weird things I do.

WEEK OF ADVENTURE

Well here are some picture of our last week of activities. On tuesday we went to Mitch's brothers house in Liberty. He has an in ground pool with a diving board. We went with all of the girls/sister inlaws, and all our kids. We just let the kids swim all day. My kids loved it and want to go do it again. When we first got there Kaleb went straight to the diving board and jumped off. He just about drowned, I guess he did not realize that the pool is 9 feet deep on that end. I asked him if it scared him and he said yes. The rest of the day he only jumped of with some type of life jacket or floating device.

On Thursday my family came over to my house and the kids swam all day. And then later on that day they played games that grandma had made up. Grandma always thinks of fun stuff for the kids. Then we BBQ and did fireworks. It was alot of fun.

On Saturday we went to Bear Lake and met Mitch's sister Britten and her family. The kids loved playing in the lake and the sand. They can not wait to go back.

Well it was a crazy week but a very fun week as well. I did get sun burned pretty bad, as well as a few of my kids. I guess we did not apply the sun block enuff. Well as for this week Mitch is finishing up this semester of school and then he has a few weeks of . I can not wait to just hang a little bit. Not that we have not done that this last week.

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KREED TURNED 2 !!!!

Kreed turned 2 on July 17th. He was so cute he love all the ballons and all the attention he got. He however did not like the candle on the cake. It scared him, I figure that is a good thing that he did not like the fire. He got a wagon and a few other little toys, and was very excited to go for a ride.

Okay so here are some pictures from our Camping Trip over the fourth. We always go with mitch's family it is kind of a tradition I guess. We also go over the 24 and a few other times during the year. It has been a little difficult the past few years with mitch in school though. We had a lot of fun and the kids loved it. We went up to Whitney resevoir. It was really pretty. I would have to say one of my favorite parts was going on our hike, the kids did great, so I am excited to go more often now. Well I forgot my camera so these pictures are thanks to mitchs dad. So I truly think I was dirtier than my kids when we got home and I even took a shower and washed my hair in our trailer half way through the trip . I think Kreed was a close second though. I so wish I had my camera because I have never had any of my kids get as dirty as Kreed did. We are in the process of selling our trailor we have know, and you can bet my next trailor will have a tub in it so we can do a sponge bath at least, (we only have a shower in the one we have now), there is no way to clean every crack unless they are in a tub of water. Ok so I will shut up know.

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Make a Smilebox scrapbook

Crazy Kaleb

This is Kalebs latest adventure. He decided he wanted to take his LOOSE tooth out by tying a string to his tooth and to the door and then slamming it shut. Needless to say it worked great and after the door shut he said did it work. My dad had told him that is how he took out some of my teeth.

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Some of the fun stuff we did or are going to be doing this year

-We planted our first garden, and it has been a lot of fun for the kids and for Mitch and myself. It is doing really well so I think that is what makes it so much fun. We have even used some green onions in a meal already.
-We are planning a camping trip over the 4Th of July with family.
-We just got home from a Trip to Troy Idaho, were it is just gorgeous. It was my grandmas funeral. We had a lot of fun seeing cousins and just hanging out.
-Kaleb starts first grade this year and Korben starts all day kindergarten, Ashton will be in preschool on MWF mornings. They are all so excited. I am also very excited to tell you the truth.
-Mitch is taking two classes this semester, Fundamentals of Process Engineering, and Statics and Strength

This is our latest family pictures we actually had these taken in November so Kreed my baby is looking older already.