Happy Birthday Steve!!!

It was my father-in-laws birthday on Sunday. We had pizza and a party for him. My mother-in-law gave him a new Dewalt miter saw and we gave him a laser to go on it. He opened the laser first and we said we bought it for his old Craftsman saw. He just looked it at and said ya I think that should work on my saw (with a puzzled look of what the h*## are they thinking this will not work on my saw). He was pretty excited to see it was for a new saw. So HAPPY BIRTHDAY Steve! We love you!

The Bedroom is FINALLY done!

Well our bedroom is done for the most part. I still have some decorating I would like to do but it is kind of hard to find decorations at Christmas time. We absolutely love it!!! It is definately our haven to go and relax. I really tried to keep it focused around Brandon and I and tried to give it a romantic feel when you walk in. Both of us have the same favorite color, which is red, so it worked out great. We love our red wall. I also love having a big closet. We have shared a little closet in the extra bedroom for a year and a half now and it sucked. My best friend Tara's mom did our carpet and we love it. Thanks Jill! I made the curtains on Friday night and I love how they turned out. I am so excited to have a place for Brandon and I. He has been so good to do the 'honey do' lists I keep giving him. He bought us this awesome TV so we can just relax and watch movies on nights when the kids are gone. Thank You Sweetie for all your hard work and for remodeling the room with me!!! I love you!!!

5th Grade Thanksgiving Play

So Lilly was in her 5th Grade Thanksgiving play tonight. She was in a indian tribe and was a narrator. We think she is quite the public speaker. She did an AWESOME job. The play was really cute. She has a really really good teacher and I think she did an AMAZING job at getting the kids to perform as well as they did. Good Job Lil! We love you!

This is Lilly's best friend. She is like a foot and a half taller than Lilly.

I took this pic for Lilly cause that cute boy in front of her with the blonde spiky hair is her boyfriend.

Alyssa's New Look

Well I am up to date on my blogging now!!!! I am sorry it has been so long....I actually got up 2 hours earlier today so I could get caught up. We have been remodeling our room for about 3 months now. We have been in the biggest mess and I honestly can't take it anymore. Everything from our bedroom is emptied throughout the house. Everyday I get home from work I fix dinner and go straight to work on the bedroom. And Saturday and Sundays morning til night working on it. I will post more about the room later when it gets done. We are finally getting carpet on Saturday and YAY we are so excited!!! I will be so excited to get organized and out of the mess.

A month ago Lys came home from school with a note from the school notifying me that Alyssa had failed her vision test at school and that I should get her into an eye doctor ASAP. After reading the note I looked at Lys and asked her if she has problems seeing things she replied no Mom I can see just fine. So I asked her about the test and she said she had no problems seeing anything. So then thinking back at her Kindergarten assessment test that she failed cause she refused to talked to her teacher and ignored everthing she said to her because she is so shy I thought I am sure that she sees just fine and she was just being shy. I had never had eye problems before and neither has her dad so I just figured everything was fine. I scheduled an appointment just to be sure, but I just kept thinking everything was great and we had nothing to worry about. Her appointment was scheduled a month out because they were so busy. Well I took her in last week. After a long evaluation the doctor turned to me and said that she definatly has some problems. She has what is called Lazy eye. She only has 20/50 vision in her left eye. If you cover her right eye she cannot see very well at all. So she lets her right eye do all the work and her left eye has just become lazy. She is also farsighted in both eyes. The doctor said we needed to get her some glasses and we also needed to do some patching with her right eye to make her left one work. She picked out her glasses (which are so stinking cute on her). They are Barbie brand and her case is a hot pink purse. We have ordered a stylish patch and she only has to wear it in the evening and on the weekends. We have done everything we could to make her excited about it.

We picked her glasses up yesterday and it was so funny. When the lady put them on her to adjust them to her head she said,"Mom I can see". It was so cute. So needless to say Thank Goodness for the vision test at school otherwise I would have never known. She thought she could see fine til she got her glasses and realised how well she can see now. She read her book to me last night and I can't believe how much faster she could read. It was AMAZING!!! I love you Lyssa!!! You look so stinking cute in your glasses!!!!

Happy Halloween!

Well my Halloween started with a Halloween Party that Teresa and I threw at Daycare. I forget my camera for that so I will have to still some from Teresa. I dressed up like a witch and she dressed up like a baby doll. I took my girls with me since they were out of school. Hayden and Brandon went fishing instead. Hayden was not to into the whole Hallween thing this year. He was a little to shy for that. All the kids dressed up at daycare and we had a morning filled with fun and games. Teresa and I made witch finger pizza for lunch with bloody mummy toes and grapes peeled for eyeballs. The kids had so much fun with it.

Then I left work a little early that day and sent the kids off at 3:30 with their Dad so he could take them to his work for Trick or Treating. He was so good to work with me this year it was wonderful! He brought them back at about 5:30. It was really his year for Halloween but he made my day when he said I could have them that night. Him and I watched them go around my neighborhood to trick or treat and then I took them to my family party at my Aunt Dianna's house or as my Lys says Aunt Nanny's house. My kids love my Aunt Dianna. She is so good with the kids. She made yummy spaghetti and we watched Ghost Hunters(my favorite show) and we played Rock Band. It was tons of fun!!!!! Thank You Greg and Dianna for a FUN Party!!!

(Life has been so CRAZY busy at my house can you tell I still have summer stuff on my ladder and a 4th of July thing hanging on my door. So sad I don't think I have ever been this behind.)Lys got a cotume at her dads and hated it. The night before Halloween my friend Teresa gave us her daughters costume that she had bought for her that turned out being way to small. So it worked out perfect. Lys loved it! Thanks Teresa!!! Hayden was so shy he would not even wear his full costume.

Hayden got some sugar in him and decided to sword fight my dad guess thats what it takes to take the shyness out of him. Funny Jack and Jack sword fighting.

Jack and Jack jr. (Funny their costumes were identical. My dad got his off the internet and Kevin bought Haydens. I did not even know what Kevin had got for them when my dad got his.)

Happy 18th Birthday Bro

So the 25th of October was my little brother, Joe's 18th Birthday. We went and had dinner with my family to celebrate. Happy Birthday Joe! I Love You!!

Joe is so funny. He hates to talk on the phone and he usually is not very social, but every once in a while I will get a text message from him that says, "hey sis i just wanted 2 tell u that u r the best sister ever". I love it! He kills me. I still don't understand what I do to get that, but I guess I am always there when he needs me.

Girls Day Out....

A couple of weekends ago some friends and I went on a Girls Day out. We went shopping at a bunch of fun places, went to lunch at PF Changs and ended our day at Gardner Village for the Witches Night Out. We had so much fun!!!! Gardner Village was a little too CRAZY for me...but we still had tons of fun! Thank You Nancy for introducing me to some new fun places!Fuji, Misty, Nancy, Me, and Teresa

This picture is not to great my camera kept getting a glare from the light in the windows.

I think this has always been my favorite witch at Gardner Village.

TAG I'm It....

I am-so lucky to have 3 BEAUTIFUL kids and a wonderful supportive husband!
I want-to live a NORMAL life with my kids.
I have-the best job ever!!! I get to work with one of my best friends and I get to take Hayden with me and my girls when they are not at school like today.
I miss-my kids when they are at their dads.
I feel-overwhelmed
I hear-the tv upstairs and a fan behind me.
I smell-fabric softner cause I am doing laundry.
I crave-sour watermelons.
I cry-with the thought of losing my kids.
I search-for my keys cause Hayden always takes them out of my purse and pretends he is driving a truck.
I wonder-if life will ever get easier.
I regret-not taking more home videos of my family in the last few years.
I love-my FAMILY and close FRIENDS.
I care-what people think and I wish I didn't so much.
I worry-to much!!!
I remember-the birth of my children and what MIRACLES they are.
I believe-in CARMA. (I think you know who is getting his now)
I dance-all the time when I am alone or sometimes when I am with my kids.
I don't-go to the dentist as much as I should.(Not cause I hate clean teeth but cause i hate dentist offices.)
I argue-more than I should. I would be alot better off if I didn't.
I write-lists for everything. Some how it makes me feel better at times.
I win-when I play pool with Brandon and my in-laws. NOT! I actually really suck and just laugh at myself most the time. But hey at least I have fun.
I lose-socks everytime I wash them. I swear I have so many unmatching socks but I don't ever find their mates. I honestly think my washer eats them.
I wish-I could protect my kids from this crazy world.
I listen-to music every chance I get. I love music.
I can -usually be found feeding a baby, singing songs at circle time, painting my house, or doing homework with my kids. So I guess sometimes it would be hard to find me.
I am scared-of life and facing the challenges that I do everyday.
I need- about 20 extra hours in the day.
I forget-something I need everytime I go to the Grocerie Store. I even forget the list I wrote for myself.
I am happy-that I found someone who would love my kids like they were his own.

I am TAGGING Lish, Teresa, and Heather

My Favs!!!

Here are a few of my favorite pictures that we just got done...... And obviously the ones above

New Pictures!!!!!!

So life is pretty crazy at our house right now! I don't have much time to post anything. I have not done a post in a while, but I just wanted to do a quick little post.... On Friday night I had one of my friends that is a photographer do our family pictures. She is such an AMAZING PHOTOGRAPHER I love her! She did such a good job! I am so excited about them. So here is a link to her photography blog http://www.tinabeanphotography.blogspot.com/. So if you would like to check out her favorite pictures she took of us check them out. And also if you are looking for a AWESOME photographer check her out. I will post some on my blog when I get my cd back from her.

Congratulations Tina on an AMAZING job! We love you!!! We are so happy with them!!!

Our Trip to Grandmas House

Last Sunday we went to visit Grandma Blackburn in Malad. It was so nice to visit with her. We have not seen her in a while. She is such a sweet lady. She is so good to our kids. She just loves them. She is going blind and can't see well so we took her to the park for the day cause she never gets out of the house. I think she enjoyed the fresh air and watching what she could and hearing the kids having fun.