Holiday Concert

Samantha and her cousin Austin had their holiday concert for chior yesterday. I forgot my camera, so here is the best I could do on my phone. And if you can find them you have better eyesight than me. It was a cute concert.

Kitty in a box

I got some boxes to mail Christmas gifts out and this is what happened as soon as I brought them in the house. Our kitty, Sophie, loves boxes and bags. :) Do you think anyone wants a kitty for Christmas? I could wrap her up.

Candy Wreath

This is a candy wreath my daughter made while she was staying the weekend at Grandma's. I thought it was so cute!! The scissors are attatched to it so that you can cut off a piece when you want it.

Tag!!

So my sister tagged me in her blog. So here it goes....I've never been tagged before.

8 restaurants I enjoy:
1. Texas Roadhouse
2. Starbucks (I love peppermint hot chocolate)
3. Chili's
4. Cheesecake Factory
5. P.F. Chang's
6. Old Pueblo Cafe
7. Anything Mexican
8. NYPD Pizza

8 things that happened yesterday
1. I drove 8 hours home from my sisters with 2 kids
2. My son whined for 8 hours on the way home
3. We bought our annual Christmas bear
4. We went out to dinner
5. I got to see my hubby for the first time in 6 days. :)
6. We watched the Biggest Loser
7. I called my Emma to wish her Happy Birthday
8. I didn't get enough sleep. :(

8 things I am looking forward to:
1. The gym tonight after work. I have missed it believe it or not
2. Sleep after the gym after work tonight.
3. Christmas!!!
4. My families multiperson birthday party on Sunday
5. Celebrating Christ's birth
6. Feeling better
7. The Biggest Loser finale in 2 weeks
8. Christmas shopping

8 things on my wish list:
1. Self esteem
2. To be fit
3. To be able to shop in the regular clothes stores
4. A house with bigger bedrooms and a guest room and an office and a huge garage
5. Food storage
6. Motivation to eat healthy
7. To be a better example to my children
8. More patience

8 people I tag
1. Amey
2. Amy S.
3. Darlena
4. Rozanna
5. Shannon
6. Kim C
7. I don't think I know anyone else that blogs. :(

Have fun girls!!

Utah!!

My kids and I went to Utah for Thanksgiving. My sister moved to St. George this summer and we have never visited there. Our kids had so much fun playing together. The boys made big messes but had a blast. The girls enjoyed riding bikes and watching movies together. Grandma and Grandpa were there too. The kids love being around their Grandparents. We had a very nice Thanksgiving dinner. After I ran to the store because I ruined the first batch of stuffing. Oops. Then we got up at 3a.m. and went Black Friday shopping. Mom and Teri and I had fun. This is the first year I have gotten everything I wanted to get. Then on Saturday Brian (my brother in law) took us up Snow Canyon on some little hikes. It was so beautiful. Then Sunday was Jeremy's fifth birthday. I made him a turtle cake. He was sick on his birthday. He had a cold. He not only turned 5 but lost his second tooth. On Monday Grandma and Grandpa left and Teri and I hung out with our kiddos. We took them to get their pictures taken. Then we went to see Santa. Then the girls wanted to get their ears pierced, so we took them. It was such a fun visit!! There is so much to do around St. George, I can't wait to go back. We missed Ryan though. :( I am so grateful for my family and all they do for me. I hope you enjoy a few pictures from our trip. I will post more later.




This is what we like to call Little People Palooza! lol










These are some pictures from our hikes in Snow Canyon.





This is his birthday cake. It was fun to make!!






Not only did he turn 5, but he lost his second tooth on the same day.







These are pictures of the girls after they got their ears pierced. They look so cute!!

Obama

I am reading a fictional book about people that are living in the last days. They have had major world crisis and the President has been killed. I was reading a conversation between the secretary of defense and the president of the f.b.i. and it struck me that it was describing Obama perfectly. Here it is.....see what you think:

"The president we elected. He was good and smooth and said all the right things. But he didn't love his country, at least not like you and I do. Not like our fathers. Not like our grandfathers. He saw our country as not that much different from all the others, not much better, in some ways maybe worse. He saw our sins and determined they precluded us form any further greatness. It wasn't that he had an evil heart, he just couldn't see or didn't choose to see the good that was our country."

What do you think?

Twilight

On Thursday night at Midnight Twilight the movie came out. There was a group of us that are die hard Twilight fans so we bought our tickets for the movie last week. We went to Red Robin for dinner and then picked up our friend Amy that had just had surgery that afternoon. We went and got our seats at 930 p.m. We had so much fun. I didn't get home until 3. We were calling ourselves the Twilight Nerds. We weren't the only ones who were nerdy like that. There was 4 theaters full of nerdy people there at midnight. And that was just at one movie theaters. lol We are already planning to do it when the next movie comes out.