Whoops, I am not doing so well with this blessing thing I was trying to do, we'll see how long this will last. So Carsyn received an award for being a Student of the month yesterday. I know everyone has to have a turn to be student of the month, but I know Carsyn is truly a great student. She may not get the best grades all the time but she loves school and tries really hard. She is one of my blessings, ONE of my VERY best blessings!! What an awesome girl. She is my peace keeper, when the kids are fighting she will be the first to give in, or she'll give up what ever they are fighting over. I love that girl!
Sorry the picture is so bad my camera needs the perfect lighting to be able to get a good picture!
When we moved our kids to their new school Caden had a hard time starting out. He wanted instant friends and was distraught everyday before school. It has gotten 1 million times easier. He has a big group of friends and loves to play at recess with all of them. The one thing he doesn't like are the group of girls that follow him everywhere. They chase him, take his backpack and just tease him all the time. I can't believe how aggressive 8 and 9 year old girls can be. They go right up to him and say they like him. There was no way I would have done that at that age! Today I was picking him up from school, and this little girl comes up to me and says, "Caden says he is part Irish," and I said "well he has a little Irish in him, look at his red hair." She then says " Red hair is not the only thing Caden has," I say "oh yeah what does he have" " He has dreamy eyes!" What?? What kid says that? She then goes up to Caden (who is standing by some other girls) and says, "Caden I wanted to tell you something, I like you and you have dreamy eyes." All the other girls start to laugh and Caden acts like he didn't hear her and walks off. He has no interest in girls yet he just gets bugged by them bugging him. Carsyn better not ever be that forward!
I forgot to tell one of my blessings this week. I am sitting here alone on a Saturday night and it feels all too familiar. The reason why is that my husband has 3 brothers and they all like each other, and like to hang out a lot! So if I don't plan something on a Saturday my husband is more than happy to go hang out with his brothers, it can be golfing, hunting, movies, UFC fights, or anything manly and they love it. So you may ask how can this be a blessing? Well these nights I get to get caught up on some good ol chick flicks. Right now I am watching Sleepless in Seattle and there is no way Brad would want to sit and watch this movie ever again, once was too much for him!
My Grandpa e-mailed me this picture of a car accident, this truck went through a railing and flipped over to the spot were it is in the picture. Notice where the railing is that it came through. Now scroll down and look at the next picture.
Notice how far down the car could have fallen!!! Amazing! Someone was looking out for that guy!
Okay I thought I was out of the loop when I found out about blogs and how many people have them. Well I talked to an old friend the other day and asked if she had a blog, she said no but I have a facebook account. I had heard about facebook but never went on to it, well I started my own account so I could check out my friends site. I typed in a couple of friends names to see if they had an account as well, well they do and so does everyone else in this world!! I guess I was out of the loop again. I've spent about an hour of my day today and yesterday on that dang facebook, I thought blogging was addicting but I found something just as addicting. I feel bad for my kids, sorry kids, mommy's busy!!
We woke up this morning and decided today would be a good day to go find some snow since Brad was off work and the kids were out of school. Brad and his brothers went hunting on Saturday and found some snow up where they were, about an hour away from town, so we headed off to find it. We get a couple of miles from the spot we were looking for and Brad's car starts to slide, we were on a little road high up on a mountain, so I was a little nervous! He tries to put it in 4 wheel drive and thinks he puts it in 4 wheel drive but it didn't work, so now we are getting a little closer to the side of the mountain and the tires are spinning and the car is going the opposite direction of what Brad is trying to steer it to. I am clenching on to the door handle, Brad says relax but how can you relax when the car is heading near the edge and the car is slipping. We decided to get me and the kids out while Brad gets the car in control, but no such luck. He puts it in reverse and this is where the car ended up. Against the mountain and now only one tire would spin and and it is only making us sink into the icy sludge more!
Needless to say Brad was a little angry and not just because we were stuck, but because the guy who sold him his precious Land Cruiser lied and said the 4 wheel drive worked really well. Not!!!
Here are my little ones climbing up a mountain while daddy tried to get the car unstuck. They were climbing up to a little patch of snow which was actually Ice.
After pushing the car backwards and a few choice words. We got the car to slide down the hill to where the tires had traction. On our way back down the mountain my kids were a little sad that we had to leave so Brad drove off the road and said who wants to try and shoot my gun. (Which was only in the back of his car because he went hunting on Saturday, he doesn't just pack it around.) All of the kids got excited and said they wanted to do it. So Brad set up a coke can for a target and asked who wanted to shoot it, everyone said Not Me! Carsyn being my brave girl said she would try. All it took was one shot and the noise of the gun scared the rest of the kids, so no one wanted to do it anymore.
Here are my silly kids.
Here is Carsyn trying to shoot the gun.
And here are the boys covering their ears since it was so loud!
After our little outing we promised we would take the kids to see Paul Blark Mall Cop, the line at the movie theater was sooooo long and as I near the front of the line they put a sign in the window that says Mall Cop Sold Out! What!! So we had to go to another theater that is a little scarier than the other one but we got right in! The movie was funny but the previews showed most of the funny parts, it did cuss a little too much for a PG movie, what is this world coming to! So we had a fun filled day and my kids are exhausted! Yes time to put the kids to bed and watch a good movie with my red head.
Oh and I want to wish my brother John a happy 36th birthday. Happy Birthday John!
Now this is a sad picture, my kids have never been to the snow, Caden did once when he was about 9 months old, I don't think that counts. So one day our old neighbor"s friend came home from snowboarding with his truck full of snow. He made a little hill and we got out my snowboard and this was the scene people saw, while driving down our street that day:
My kids loved it, but can you say we are Red Necks! So this brings me to another blessing of mine, Living in a town where it doesn't snow! Although I don't mind visiting the snow, I wouldn't like to live in it. I get too cold as it is!
I have to teach a lesson in Relief Society in February and I have to pick a topic and teach on it. Anyone have a good idea for me, maybe a lesson you really enjoyed or something you would want to hear about??? I have no idea what I should talk about, Please help me and preferably it is a topic that won't make my tears start to flow! Let me know if anyone has any ideas! Thanks.
Old family photos are always great. Check out my hair! Sweet!!!!
My cousin's wife Krissi is posting a picture a week for 52 weeks of all her many blessings. I will try to do it too, so this picture is also something I am blessed with, old pictures of my family, they always make me laugh!
Nixon wanted to have a party with his friends from school.
We had donuts instead of cake, at their age everyone wants to blow the candles out so Chunky and Kaylee got a candle to blow out too.
Chunky playing pin the sign on Batman. They all won since they didn't want to be blindfolded. Cute kids.
Nixon opening his gifts and kaylee and Chunky helping him.
Now we are done with Nixon's birthday. We have birthdays and an anniversary every month now until summer. I think that's why the second half of the school year goes by so quickly for me!
Nixon turned 4 today! He is such a joy to be around and we are so glad to have him in our family. I had my hardest pregnancy with Nixon. I was sicker than ever and I couldn't wait to be done with being pregnant! He finally came and he weighed 8 pounds 15 ounces and was 21 1/2 inches long! My biggest baby. He is growing up so quickly! We love you Nixon, Happy Birthday!
Here is Big brother Caden, holding baby Nixon with the help of Granny.
Nixon
Nixon has always loved to dress up and I think he lived for at least 2 years in cleats and baseball socks!
Even though Nixon doesn't enjoy playing on a team yet,
Nixon turns 4 on the 6th of January. We had a little family party for him on Saturday since Brad works during the week. He wanted a mixed up party. First he wanted a pirate party, then he said, no I want a batman party, last he said, no I want a transformer party, so he had all three and loved all of it. I can't get my kids away from wanting a pinata for their parties, they looove them. I even offered to take him to Chuck E Cheese but he said no I want a pinata at our house! I give up!
It seems like Christmas all over again, toys and wrapping paper everywhere! I wish his birthday was further away from Christmas, it's hard to pick out anything for him since he just got so much from everyone for Christmas.
We spent New Year's Eve with Brad's brother Greg's family. The kids actually stayed up late this year, normally we set the clocks forward so they think it is midnight but actually it is 10:00. I don't know why we let them stay up late this time, they are always so grumpy the next day, when they stay up to late!
We watched the ball drop on t.v and the kids banged pots and pans, when did that ever become a tradition?
Nixon, Carsyn and Avery playing the xbox and waiting for it to be New Years!
The day after Christmas we went to the mall to return a few things, and Carsyn said she wanted to pay to get her ears pierced. She was so brave, she didn't even get tears in her eyes!
Caden acts so silly some times. He and some of his cousins were playing up stairs and he came down dressed like this. He had on about 20 of his t-shirts and said he was trying to break the world record for wearing the most shirts. He saw the world record holder on youtube and wanted to break his record, he was about 204 shirts shy of the record! What a cutie!
Here is the world record holder, I don't know how people come up with some of these world records that they have, but some of them are really strange!
