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"always say yes to new adventures"

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missing

ashley, age 6, just lost another tooth. Her 4 front teeth are gone! She is so funny looking!

gratitude

today, i'm grateful for flexibility

kidnapped....?!

michael, age 4, after helping look for his older siblings, (nonchalantly) "i think they got kidnapped."

preparation

why is it that it takes so much work to get ready to go on a trip?!

today, i did a massive amount of laundry. have to make sure that 7 people have 7 days worth of clothes...

i also tried to deep clean the little girls room. mainly, so we could have all the laundry clean. but it gets a little absurd how quickly it gets trashed.

i also did a marathon sewing party this weekend to finish the alterations on my dress for this wedding. going to try to get a good pic.

christmas

i like this smaller christmas thing. less to have to deal with when it's all done, and less to have to get rid of as well.

vacation

the kids are on christmas break from wednesday thru the new year.
school breaks bring about their own struggles.

but, they are having fun so far, and next week we'll be in utah for a wedding. good thing i don't have to figure out how to pull them out for a whole week...

12 days

we have a tradition of doing the 12 days of christmas. it started with  my parents, and we do a nativity set.
last year, we did a family with kids, and the nativity was a set of blocks.
this year, we did a sister in the ward that needed a little bit of cheering up. and we gave a nativity ornament set.

tonight, we got caught. taylor didn't run fast enough. the dog got out, and chased him down.

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it's not hoarding if it's books

don't drive drunk

Crazy insane afternoon!! 

On the way home from shopping, ended up calling 911 for the idiot in front of me. Swerving all over the road, hitting guard rails, nearly running multiple people, including me, off the road, getting to within inches of people before passing, hitting upwards of 80 miles an hour on dangerous snowy roads. 20+ miles later, when officers were able to get to him, he ended up off the road. 

Thankfully, everyone was watched over, and no one was hurt.

aux finit

i am all done with christmas.
everything is purchased and has arrived.

and more importantly, everything is wrapped!!

i can now spend the next few days enjoying the season and making some goodies

BLIZZARD

visibility is less than a block....

heat wave

he he! i love making titles that make you think!

having problems with my van overheating...... a lot.....
like even when the temps are super sub-zero

i keep putting antifreeze in, but it keeps loosing it somehow.
the radiator is brand new as of august, so i'm really hoping it's not that.
and we checked all the hoses before i came back, so it shouldn't be that either.

had a guy from the ward come look at it. he can see that it's leaking, but can't seem to find the source.

christmas village

this is how my village looked this year. next year, i hope to have more of the buildings done.

BRRR!

dang it's been cold!

sub zero temps, and then thursday night the power goes out! while i'm working on christmas...
the weather needs to take a chill pill...

uh, yeah

fun mom

Tonite, i'm fun mom. It's 8:30, bedtime, and i just put in the new petes dragon!

shocking!

today, i went to get my daiths pierced. hoping that it would help with the migraines.

i went to a local tattoo parlor, inks anonymous. they were fabulous, and didn't want quite as much to do them.

i had one that was difficult to thread the jewelry through, so that one is a little sore.
the other one was like putting a hot knife through butter. slick as a whistle!

the only problem we ran into was that i went into shock.
the piercer made sure that i was recovered before he let me leave the shop.

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"i hope our daughters are born with so much fire in their souls, they could put volcanoes and stars to shame."

-Nikita Gill

when it rains, it pours

shaun came home from work early today.
he'd been laid off. with no hope of rehire. the owner of the company had been consistently lying. telling everyone that he had a contract that he hadn't completed yet.

this was not welcome news. christmas is a month away, and we still have to pay bills.

he went out this afternoon to look for another job. he came home with 2!
he walked into a local card place, artco, and walked out with a seasonal job.
he called on a tentative commission he got in july, and got off the phone with another job!