What is your thought on Christmas Cards?

I have been thinking alot about Christmas Cards recently...do I or not?? Last year I did not sent any official cards. I used my blog and also facebook to tell those I love Merry Christmas but this year I am going to send them out. (well to a few or you, the list is not as big as it used to be) I just love this site...Shutterfly. I have found the cutest card and I am so excited to send it out. I have been using them for the longest time. Not only have I made Christmas Cards and baby cards but also photo books and even  Photo calenders. They have some of the cutest birthday cards as well. I may just use those one day. And with everything that I have ordered I have LOVED the results. The colors are amazing and the quality is top notch. They have so many options....the list is huge. They have Christmas cards and stationary cards and flat photo cards. Here are a few of my favs.






Of course I can't show you my most favorite...it will come soon. December is here...crazy, I know. Where has 2010 gone?? Also if you want to get 50 free Christmas cards from Shutterfly they are having a Bloggers: 50 free Holiday Cards giveaway. GO check it out. You will LOVE their cards. And will not be disappointed!! I promise!!

Happy Turkey Day

I know this is late, okay really late, but Happy Thanksgiving from me and my little turkeys!!!

Pine Wood Derby

The Elder's Quorum in our ward had an activity where they could build their own pine wood derby car and there were no rules. Jeff thought it would be fun for Parker to help. It was fun to watch them make it together.

Here is Parker making up the plans...not sure they went according to plans. Parker had some crazy ideas.


Parker went with the Christmas Colors....at least that is how he explained it.


Here we are sizing up the competition. Like I said there were no rules. We should have gone with that more.


As you can see we had a few casualties...Parker was pretty disappointed in his car. I think it gave him some ideas for the future.



I am just glad that Jeff and Parker had some one on one time and had something fun for them to do. They both really enjoyed doing it!!

Fall Concert and Showcase

Parker has a favorite day of the week. It is Fridays. He loves this day because he doesn't really have to do school work it is just fun stuff at school. He first goes to Spanish, then he goes to Science and then heads off to music class. Who wouldn't love that schedule?? His music class has been really fun. He has been learning about different types of music and just started learning notes. They also have taught them to play the bells. The other day he was trying to tell me about it and he was funny about his explanation but assured me it was not jingle bells. I knew what he was talking about, my high school had a huge bell choir and they were gorgeous to listen to. Of course their bells were much bigger than Parker's, but it is the same idea. He was so excited to tell me that he was going to have a concert. I was excited to see what they had been learning. Here are some pics of his concert. The rest of the concert was of the dance class and the older choir classes. It was a fun concert to attend. I cannot wait to see what else they learn through out the year.

How does your garden grow?

We get the same question all the time...."How do you guys get your garden to grow?" We don't really know how to answer that question. We really have not tried that hard. We have conditioned the soil. And Jeff has researched about how we need to do that and he also learned how to correctly water all the vegetables. It is now that time of year when we get to dig up our sweet potatoes...oh my goodness...yummy. We are very pleased with how they have turned out. Check out our recent find....holy cow. Not sure how we did that. It is huge!!! Jeff just kept saying it is going on forever. He actually hurt two of his fingernails trying to get it out. Just when he thought he hit an end he was fooled. We are sure enjoying eating them though.

Thanksgiving Feast

Parker had a Thanksgiving Feast at school....he was so excited for it. It was all he could talk about the morning before. I am not sure what he is going to do when they do not do things like this at school. He loves this kind of stuff. Addison thought it was kind of fun to be able to sit by him and have lunch with him.

I cannot believe this

Our lawn mower recently broke and so Jeff has been trying to fix it. Parker was anxious to help him fix it because Jeff said that he would teach him to mow the lawn if he helped. Once they got it fixed Parker was all smiles. I am just feeling old because my little baby is learning to mow the lawn. He cannot be old enough to be doing this. What is funny though is that afterwards he said that it was harder than he thought it was going to be. Now he knows why I hate mowing the lawn.

19 Weeks and counting

So here it is, the big reveal. Well to those that are not around here and don't get to see me. I feel huge. Probably like most pregnant women, but I have to remind myself that I am pregnant and not just getting fat. I am feeling so much better. The nausea is gone and I finally have my energy back. And it feels great. I just went to the doctor and the baby sounds great. We have to wait a whole month to find out the sex of the baby. My job from now til then is to convince my hubby that we find out the sex of the baby. He says that we have one of each and so we don't need to find out. I tell him he is crazy!!! I really want to find out. If it is a boy there is quite a bit of stuff that we need. Over the years I have gotten rid of stuff. If it is a girl we are good to go. Well except for a few things....darn car seat expired. What do you do?? I just keep telling myself that I am halfway there. I delivered both kids in week 38, so yay!!!

After looking at the picture, it is not a good picture of my belly. Let me tell you, it is there.