DisneyLand

Okay, so we are trying to plan and budget for a Disneyland trip in the fall. If you have any money saving tips or ideas PLEASE share!!! The kids have never been to Disneyland, and I think it's about time to take them.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ISSAC!!!

Happy Birthday my little man, you are growing so quickly. I can't believe you are already two years old!! You bring so much joy and fun into our home. You have such a fun little character and personality. You always make us laugh!! I hope you know how much we all love you.


Oh, yeah, was that an awsome football game last night or what?!?!?!?!!! We love our Utes!! 13-0, can't ask for more.

Finally a new post!

Okay, so I know that I have not posted anything for a while now. It has been super crazy around here. We have been putting up our Christmas tree, going to ballet, watching it snow, going to ballet, having Hailee's 9th birthday party, going to ballet, Christmas shopping, going to ballet, and oh yeah, going to ballet. We have been having ballet of some form at least three times, sometimes more, a week! I went to opening night of the Nutcracker with my mom and mother-in-law. Hailee did such a wonderful job!! It was so cool to see her up on stage, being part of something that was so cool. Sorry, but they won't let me take pictures of her in her costume. I will try to scan one in when I get their pictues back.

I have been woking about 30 hours a week on top of everything else. I did love to sit at my desk and look right out the window and see the snow falling, and sticking to the trees outside. I love the look of the snow on the bare tree branches.

Hailee had a great birthday, she invited her entire school class to the party, I know, crazy mom. It was lots of fun, we played BINGO, and opened presents, ate cake, played the Wii and shoveled the driveway like 10 times in the two hours so that they would not fall on the way to their cars.

Here is a slide show of some pics of what has been going on. There is still one more performance that Hailee is in this year. Saturday, December 20th at 7:30, the performances last about one hour and 45 minutes I think. It is my turn to stay home with Issac, but Todd will be there. You can buy tickets at the door, they are $12 for adults, and $8 for kids, not bad for the Nutcracker! It is a wonderful show, they do a great job! Hope everyone is having a wonderful holiday season, hopefully I will be able to post again before Christmas, but if I don't, I love you all, and wish you a Merry Christmas!!

Chase update

Okay, so those of you who have been wondering, Chase is doing much better. They had the school counselor take him out of class and talk to him about everything, they also talked to the other kids involved. They gave Chase a Bully Report that he keeps, and fills out, then at the end of the month will turn it in. He has not been complaining at all about going to school, or about anyone being mean to him!! I am grateful for his great teacher, and the counselor at school for helping with this situation. I'm sure they didn't want some CRAZY mom down there!! Thanks to everyone for their help and support, it really means the world to me. I try so hard to be practical and not over react to things, but I was having a really hard time with that. Love you all.

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Hey everyone, I just wanted to tell everyone Happy Thanksgiving!! I know that I will not see most of you, so I wanted you all to know how much we love you all, and pray that you have a wonderful Thanksgiving. I am so very grateful for this blogging thing, so that I can actually stay in touch with all of you!! I am thankful for my loving family who keep me going, a great job to keep me busy, a MARVELOUS husband who is so loving, and puts up with all of my crap, three wonderful kids who I love with everything I have, and great friends who keep me sane! I love you all!!

Poor Chase

Okay, so I didn't take a picture, because I don't think I could handle seeing it all the time. Chase has been having such a hard time at school lately. There is a kid in his class who is picking on him (I always thought he would do the picking). He came home three times last week saying that this kid was hitting him and pushing him down. On Thursday he came home and said that this kid had given him a bloody nose and that the teacher had tried calling me. Okay, frusterated, no call showed up on the caller ID, not sure what happened there. I immediately went to the school and talked to the teacher. He didn't know anything about this kid picking on Chase, I guess the "duty" didn't tell him anything. Anyway he has been trying to make escuses why he can't go to school, but always changes his mind when I remind him that if he doesn't go to school, he doesn't get to play with friends all day. Well, he seemed better on Friday after school, so I hoped that the teacher, who said he would talk about bullying with the whole class, had helped. Today Chase came home with a big bump and scrape down his face. He was playing soccer and this kid came up and shoved him down on the cement. I'm having a really hard time deciding what else I can do. I don't want Chase to think that I don't believe him, but sometimes he keeps changing his story. I don't know if he thinks I will get mad at him, or if he doesn't want to get into trouble for something. All I know is that today it went too far. If this kid really did push Chase down today, and it wasn't an accident, then I need to go back to the school and figure this out. How do I help Chase to tell me what really happened, and get the true story without making him think that I don't believe him. I want him to have faith in me, that I will do all that I can to protect him! I need any advise you are willing to give.

Roast Pig

This year for Halloween, we roasted a pig. We usually do it around Chases birthday, but we didn't have time this year. We invited the family and lots of the neighbors. We started roasting the pig around 12:30 and it was ready to start eating around 6:30. It was fun to see all the little kids either too scared of it to come into the driveway, or thinking it was WAY cool! Even some of the parents were not so sure about it. But we did have some brave souls who would try some. It tastes so yummy, I crave it all year, until the day after that is, when everything smells like roast pig!! We finally finished with the pig at about 10:00 after we got all the meat off that we could. I wasn't very good at taking pictures of everyone that was there, I was too busy with the pig and with the trick or treaters! Sorry for lack of people pictures, but I did get one of Brett, Debbie, Zachery and Samantha.

Church Halloween Party

On Thursday we had our ward Halloween Party. Todd worked late, so I made Jordan come with me to help with Issac. They always have face painting, a cupcake walk, and a spook alley. Chase really liked to bats that Sister Loftis painted on his cheek, they looked cool. Issac was crazy, running all over the place, in and out of the gym, down the halls. That is until he found his friend Jeff. He just loves our neighbor Jeff, and will not leave him alone. Thanks for playing with him Jeff!