Christmas Aftermath

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas! Ours was great...lots of family and good food and happy children playing with their new presents. I am exhausted, I went to bed last night at 9:30, which is really early for me, woke up by 8:30am and I am still tired. Oh well, today feels like one of those lazy type of days anyway! I plan on alternating playing with my kids and the new toys (especially Rockband!) and cleaning my house which is in shambles. I will post Christmas pics when I find my camera cord! Have a relaxing, lazy day!

A special Thankful Thursday....on a Friday.

I love the convenience of shopping for Christmas presents online late at night in my jammies.

My sister, a.k.a. RaRa, for watching my kids while I was at a long dentist appointment and for treating my kids like her own.

My neighbor, Wendy for always bringing me a treat and lending me her stuff.

I Really Lived

I don't want to drive up to the pearly gates in a shiny sports car, wearing beautifully tailored clothes, my hair expertly coiffed, and with long, perfectly manicured fingernails.
*I want to drive up in a station wagon with mud on the wheels from taking the kids to scout camp.
*I want to be there with a smudge of peanut butter on my shirt from making sandwiches for a sick neighbor's children.
*I want to be there with a little dirt under my fingernails from helping to weed someone's garden.
*I want to be be there with sticky children's kisses on my cheeks and the tears of a friend on my shoulder.
*I want the Lord to know that I was really here and that I really lived.

~By Sister Marjorie Pay Hinckley

Food Storage Fanatic

I love recipes that incorporate my food storage. This is my new favorite website:

http://everydayfoodstorage.net/


This gal is the food storage queen! I've tried a couple of her recipes and they were awesome. We especially loved the chocolate pudding made with magic mix. What is magic mix? Go check out her website!

It's been a cruddy week but I am still so thankful for many things.

I am sooo thankful for ibuprofen, those babies help me through some painful times.

I am thankful for my wonderful friend and neighbor, Amy who helped me put up my Christmas lights on my house. She's has 6 kids and her own busy life and still spent hours helping me on Tuesday while the wind was blowing like crazy!

I am thankful for my amazing boy, Alex. He is growing up into such a awesome young man. I am so proud to be his Mom.

Thankful Thursday

1.For yummy turkey, stuffing, potatoes and pumpkin dessert.

2.For having fun with my family on Thanksgiving.

3.A nice soft,cozy,warm bed.

My first Thankful Thursday. Hopefully I can keep this up even after November.

1.My family. Even though we have our crazy moments, they are the most important thing to me.

2.My husband. Makes me the woman that I am. He is my life perserver, my rock. He puts up with a lot from me. Doesn't expect me to be perfectly skinny or have the cleanest house or a gourmet dinner every night.

3.A steady income. It's such a blessing to not have to worry too much about paying the bills and I get to be a stay-at-home mom.

4.Books. I've gotten lost in a book for as long as I can remember. Reading is one of my most favorite things to do.

5.Dishwashers. One of the best inventions ever.

6.Friends. My friends are genuine and are the best listeners and always on my side.

Pictures to come soon

Hey to anyone who actually checks out my blog! I'm still playing around with the layout and figuring some things out. Hopefully this week I can have some cute pics up.

All I can say is that PMS frickin' sucks!

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Remember to vote!

If you don't vote on Tuesday then you can't complain. Don't think that your vote does not matter. If everyone felt that way then no one would vote. Men have died to give us the right to vote.

First post!

My very first post ever! I even set it all up myself! I guess some of my husband's computer nerd personality is rubbing off on me.