Till Next Time

This will be my last post for a while. We are disconnecting our internet service. It's just one of those extravegances that we just can't afford during these economic hardships. I will miss blogging and staying in touch but maybe I will be able to catch up later. Love you all!

We're going Less-Active (but it's for a good cause)

I don't think David and I have been to our church services together for at least a month. We can't seem to keep everyone healthy long enough to go as a family. Three weeks ago I had strep and everyone stayed home. (Mom is the one that keeps everything moving. When Mom's down, the whole machine comes to a grinding halt.) Two weeks ago David had strep and he stayed home with Hyrum (he was sleeping) Yesterday poor baby Hyrum, who already had a cold, woke up with diarrhea which quickly turned into vommiting. So, I stayed home with him while David and Clare went to church. When they got back, Clare started throwing up. So from then on the kids took turns puking on us. Unfortunately David has a week stomach and I am the one that got stuck cleaning up all of the messes. Tell you what though. By the end of the day my stomach had had it and I was gagging every time the poor kids did just because I knew what I was going to have to do.
Needless to say, our kids had innumerable baths yesterday, and our house still smells like vommit. Today, however we are doing pretty good! Every one is keeping their food down! Keep your fingers crossed! I am not going to post pictures of our adventurous weekend because.....well you know why.....yuck! Have a good week everyone.

I'll get this figured out someday.

I was just sitting here thinking that I need to make another post on the blog but not knowing what to post. So I decided to put pictures of my holiday decorating on there. I love the holidays. I didn't get to decorate as much this year just because the kids undecorate everything just as I get it put up. But that's okay. I love hearing about people's holiday traditions too. I would love it if you all shared your traditions. Some of ours are: Spending Christmas Eve at Grandma and Grandpa Palmer's house. Reading the Christmas story from Luke 2 and 3 Nephi on Christmas Eve. Opening our stockings first on christmas morning and taking turns opening gifts. We also have a steak and crab dinner on Christmas evening (when we can afford it) after we have put the kids to bed. We will include them when they are old enough to appreciate it. We are still developing traditions in our family and would love to adopt some more. Please share some of your favorites!

Gotta go Gotta go Gotta git up an Go

I'm not sure why I added this picture except that I just liked it. It looks like Christmas.

I love Chirstmas! I'm not nearly as creative as Denise. I bought my stockings last year on an after-christmas clearance rack.

Our little tree this year. You'll notice the bottom half is undecorated. Thankyou Hyrum and Clare. I made the star and gingerbread man ornaments with that cinnamon ornament recipe. They turned out really cute.

I have quite a few Nativities but this is my favorite. It's Jim Shore's Heartwood Creek Mini Nativity. I love the colors and different scenes from the nativity story are painted on the robes of the characters. I love it!

Clare loving the tree. She loved the glass balls so much she started biting off the tops. MMMM..crunchy.

Cousin Company

Tyler with Hyrum. They were best buds.

A little box of joy.

Clare and her cousin Natalie. Natalie and Tyler came to play yesterday.

Natalie brought her Birthday present. A box full of beautiful Princess

parafinalia (sp?) Every little girl's dream come true.

I forgot how beautiful the sky's are at home. Here are some pics of our weekend.

Turkey Lurkey

Hello! I hope everyone enjoyed their Thanksgiving as much as I did. Well actually, I hope they enjoyed it more than I did. Let me clarify this. :) (For those of you who have seen "The Ghost and Mr. Chicken". For those of you who have not seen this classic film, you should rush right out and get it. You can't get much better than Don Knots for good clean comedy) Here is our Thanksgiving weekend in simple format.

Wednesday:
1. Left for Crane
2. Arrived at 8:00pm
3. Visited and Went to bed early.

Thursday (Thanksgiving)
1. Yummy Meal consisting of:
a. Turkey
b. Stuffing (home made by Mom)
c. Veggies i.e. spinich salad, veggie tray, sweet potatoes,
d. Orange Stuff (jello salad) as per tradition
e. rolls
f. misc appetizers and relishes
g. Pies! Lots of Pies! Delicious Pies! pumpkin, pecan, raspberry, apple crumble,pudding
2. Fun and Games

Friday
1. Work
a. Picking up oversized cinders from Dad's newly gravelled road.
b. Attempting to catch those wascally horses -3 times
c. succeeded catching horses, took Clare for a ride. LOVED IT!
2. Became exceedingly ill
a. Fever and chills
b. Sore throat
c. Achy body
3. Let everyone else take care of my kids while I lay in the fetal position in bed, shivering.
a. SHOUT OUT TO ALL OF YOU WHO HELPED TAKE CARE OF MY KIDS!

Saturday
1. Too sick to care about anything
2. Decided to head home early.
a. packed up all our things.
3. Clare locked herself in the car.
a. Two year olds do NOT understand the words "Push the OTHER button honey!"
b. Clare helped herself to the travelling treats
c. David stressed out as he frantically tried unlocking the doors using a clothes hanger.
d. Clare decides it's best to relax and try falling asleep when there are dozens of people anxiously gazing at you through every available window in the car.
e. Finally after the combined efforts of David, Glen, Scott, and other very helpful on-lookers with generous advise. Clare is freed.
f. Clare could care less. Mommy and Daddy are relieved.
4. We are able to depart Crane, OR and the Adams Ranch without further incident
5. Arrive back in Tremonton at 7:45pm HOME SWEET HOME

Sunday
1. Lay on the couch all day
2. David a real sweet heart.
a. Gets all the laundry washed and dried.
b. Gets icecream and yogurt for me to eat. Everything else hurts to bad.
c. Takes care of the kids so that I can sleep.

Monday
1. Go to the Doctor
a. Find out I have strep throat. (Sorry family members. Hope you don't get it.)
b. Get an antibiotic shot in the rear-end. (there's a lot of padding there, it hurts less.)
2 Feel much Better
3. So excited for Christmas!