ummm.....it's been sooooo long!!!

So I have been a very bad blogger lately!!! Not sure why? I do check on here often and look at all of your blogs but I seem to have issues posting :) Anyways, mommy played photographer this weekend and tried to get some cute shots of the monkeys for christmas cards so I thought I would share and I wanted to post my latest vinyl creation!! Love it!!!!

HALLOWEEN!!!

Ok so I finally uploaded pictures onto my computer so I could put them on here. Halloween was a lot of fun!!! Paisley was a pink poodle and Ryan was a red dragon. I decided to be a good mommy and dressed up as strawberry shortcake. :) Cameron was throughly embarrassed that I dressed up and decided that he should stay home and hand out candy and made grandma go trick or treating with us. Everyone was out in full force in the neighborhood. Some people had even made haunted houses in their garages which I thought was pretty ingenious! After about an hour Ryan had had it and started to strip off his costume. He was hot hot hot!! Only in Arizona is it 90 degrees when you go trick or treating. By the time we got home he was in a diaper and a sticky mess from eating a lollipop. It was really fun though and the kids loved it!!!!

My new toy...

Okay so here is my latest toy that I have FINALLY figured out how to use!!! I have a vinyl machine so I can make all of the fun stuff that people have in their homes and any kind of things for car windows too!! These are my some of my halloween decorations that I made and for those of you who know us well you know we are quite Disney obsessed. Our play room is all Disney stuff and so we thought it was quite appropriate for the "welcome to our laughing place" sticker!!!! If anyone is interested let me know!!!!

Motherhood

So in relief society on sunday that topic of the lesson was motherhood. You know, I have always known what an amazing and precious gift it is to be a mother but every now in then it's nice to be reminded of how special it really just is and not to be taken for granted. One of God's greatest gifts to us as women is to be able to bear children and become mothers. I know not everyone will be able or want to do this but for those of us that can how awesome it is!!!! Everyday I thank my Heavenly Father for the special little spirits that he has entrusted to me. Being pregnant again has re-instilled that miraculous process again and makes me wonder how anyone could not believe in God and just what in the world they might think makes this all happen. It's absolutely amazing!!! I am fortunate to have an amazing mother also. Everyday I see a little piece of her in me as I do things with my children. I wish I could be more like her and want to just get down on the floor and play all the time. I remember her doing that with me and sometimes when I am feeling a little too tired or annoyed I just remember the memories that I have and it makes me want to leave those memories in my munchkins little minds too. I am also so very blessed to having an amazing husband at home that fulfills the roll of "mom" while I am at work everyday. I am grateful that Heavenly Father has given me a man that is so capable and good at this. I love coming home and seeing the things that he has taught them and how much they love them and the special bond that they have with thier daddy. So many kids grow up only knowing their father's on the weekends because they are so busy with work throughout the week. I love my family sooo much and I am so blessed to have such wonderful support and guidance as I tackle the diffucult yet oh so fun role of motherhood everday!!!!

Girls Night!

Paisley comes up to me at like 8:45 a few nights ago with her shoes on and stuffed dog in hand and declares "Hey mom, let's go have a girls trip". She loves any opportunity to go out with mommy and not dad and brother so we called up Grandma and set up a date for girls night for the three of us. I asked her what she wanted to do and she said we were going to go out to eat to Olive Garden and Red Lobster. The kids a nut. I am excited to have a girl's night though with my two favorite "girls"!

So one of my most favorite holidays is coming up! HALLOWEEN!! I can't wait. So for those of you who know me, you know that I get a little bit psycho about the whole costume thing. So i started about 3 weeks ago on my hunt for the world's cutest costumes for the munchkins. In the past I would have made them , but yeah, that's not happening I'm way to tired for that :) So Paisley was dead set on being a dalmation. Well let me tell you. the movie is not a current release so good luck for me trying to find that costume. I happened into Old navy today and let me just say that they have some VERY cute costumes and they were only $15! Woo hoo! I took the kids tonight and Paisley fell in love with a pink poodle costume and Ryan is going to be a red ragon. They are so stinkin cute in them!! As soon as I take some pics I will have to post. Just wanted to share my fabulous find with everyone!!!!

Seriously!!!

Okay so I was just browsing through blogs of family members of some of my friends and I came across this article. I have known the story behind this for awhile now but I thought I should post the link to it here also. http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=N2NmMGNkMTdkZWJkZWRkMjRkNjY5NjllNzZlYjkyNmY
How anyone with sound mind could even consider voting for this man is beyond comprehension to me. Think about!!!!!!! All I have to say is scary and sick!!!!

It's official...

I have decided that I am truly the world's worst blogger!! As much as I like to talk you would think that I could keep up on this thing!!! Oh well!! Well, today was my first day teaching relief society!!! What a relief to know that it is over!!! It actually went really well. Thankfully the sisters had a lot of input to share and i only got through about a 3rd of my lesson. The funiest thing though is to be standing up there and look out at everyone and they are just staring at you with these smiles on their faces, it makes you wonder if they think you are a complete idiot!!! Hopefully they got the message and enojoyed it!!!!

Cameron had his interview at ASDOH on thursday. We think it actually went quite well.It's the first time out of the 3 that he has actually come out of there thinking that it went pretty well. I know there were a lot of people on their knees praying for him so I am sure that made a HUGE difference!!! Thank you to everyone for your continued love and support. It means more to us than you will ever know!!! Now we just keep our fingers crossed for December 1st and hope for the all too important phone call!!!

Okay....now on to our BIGGGGGGGG news!!!! Paisley and Ryan are gonna have a new brother or sister in May!!! we are so excited to welcome another little monkey into our lives and can't wait for them to get here. May seems sooooo far away but I know that the time will fly, it always does. I am feeling really great and just keeping my fingers crossed that this one will be like the other 2 and I will have smooth sailing through the pregnancy!!!!!

Oh Wednesday's....

So I gues I really need to try and stay up with this. It seems like blogging is the lastest thing and everyone that I know has a blog! I am so excited to see all my friends blogs and catch up with them and their kiddos!!! So thinkgs have been really busy with us the last couple of weeks. With work, and work meetings, and church callings and Aaron and Laura's wedding! Our ward split AGAIN this past sunday. I think it has been only about a year since the last time. Sad to see people go but amazing when you think of the growth of the area and the Lord's work being done!!! I have a friend at work that has recently decided to come back to church and I couldn't be more happy for her. I kinda work with quite a few people that are pretty anti and it's hard so I commend her for standing up and not letting other people influence her life and decisions! I think once you know you know and nothing can get in the way of those feeling burning deep within your soul!! It's so fun to have children and teach the about the gospel and the love Christ and our Heavenly Father. Paisley continues to amaze me with the things that she knows and that come out of her mouth. She is learning the articles of faith and it floors me how well she can memorize things. Once a month they can pass one off in primary if they have it memorized and this sunday she came home with her #3 ribbon. She was so excited!!! The other morning she was in her room talking away. We asked her who she was talking to and she said that she was asking the earth how it was that morning and if it was okay. This was right after the big earthquake in California. The hearts and minds of little chinldren and how in tune they seem to be with things!!!! Ryan is totally our little monkey. All boy!!! He loves to run and CLIMB!!! Argh!! He has absolutely no fear. Paisley has taught him how to do a front roll so that is pretty entertaining. Recently he has started dancing and is starting to talk more. Cameron and I of course encourage him to talk but then I always think about it and realize that we did that with Paisley and it has since then been a non-stop line of chatter out of her little mouth!! The kids are getting along much better. They play together pretty well and fight like brother and sister pretty well too!! We are still waiting to hear from shcools for Cameron for interviews. Everyone keep your fingers crossed that this is the year for us!!! I keep telling Cameron that if he doesn't get in we are moving to Kansas and I am gonna have a big house with a huge front porch and a rocking chair and we are gonna sit on every night and sip lemonade and watch our kids play in the GRASS yard and watch our corn grow. He thinks I am nuts and says that he is too lazy to grow corn :) Anyways, that's about all for now!!! Love you all!!!

WOW! almost a whole year since I posted on here. I figure that I am the worst person in the world when it comes to sending out pictures and such so maybe I could put a bunch on here and you can all see them at once. Might be easier???