Being THANKFUL Day 3

I am THANKFUL for The Church of JESUS CHRIST of Latter Day Saints.  I am so GRATEFUL to have this in my life.  To have a TESTIMONY of the gospel.  To be able to feel the SPIRIT.      Without the gospel I don’t know were I would be.  It give me COMFORT.  It gives me STRENGTH.  It gives my life PURPOSE.

Being THANKFUL Day 2

Today I am THANKFUL for my husband.  He is so AMAZING.  He must have the patience of 10 men to put up with the likes of me.  He always helps around the HOUSE.  He is an AMAZING dad.  He will sit and play with the KIDS forever.  I have seen him with dress up GIRL shoes on.  With BARBIES, the whole girl works.  I love that our SON  looks just like him.  I LOVE him more today then yesterday and will love him more TOMORROW.  Love ya, BABE!

Being THANKFUL Day 1

I was thinking that for NOVEMBER I would post something that I am “THANKFUL” for each day.  My first thing is my KIDS.  I am thankful for EVERY one of them.  I am so thankful that I was BLESSED enough to have them.  To be able to be a MOTHER  To be able to stay HOME with them.  To HANG out.  To watch them LEARN and GROW.  Each one is so SPECIAL and UNIQUE in there own LITTLE way.  I LOVE them so much!

Happy Halloween!

We have been BUSY these past couple of weeks.  It’s always like that during HOLIDAYS.  Can’t really complain.  They are always FUN.  I am glad when they are OVER though.

We had “Red Ribbon” week at SCHOOL.  On the last day was CRAZY hair day.  The girls get so excited for that part.  We had MOHAWK Nyah and RAINBOW pony tails Keira.  

One of the kids FAVORITE things in October is to paint the PUMPKINS!  We got to do that.  They all got really into it.  Keira knew exactly what she wanted for her pumpkin weeks before we actually PAINTED them.  It’s a GHOST for anyone that can’t tell.  Nyah just got SILLY with hers.  Probably because the neighbor boy was over, so she had an AUDIENCE.  We all know how Nyah likes to have an audience.  Connor thought this was GREAT.  Although, I haven’t quite figured out if it was the actual PAINTING the pumpkins that he loved or the fact that we STRIPPED him down.  Jayda just had fun with all the different COLORS.  They all had fun though and that is what COUNTS.

My FRIENDS and I had a halloween get together.  We decided that we should dress up like the “PEOPLE OF WALMART” as you can see some of really got into it and the other “party poopers” who shall remain NAMELESS not so much.  I even got Jared to wear some of my pj PANTS, which was great by itself!  It was FUN coming up with COSTUMES for this.  However, while in costume I remember DARTING across our street, HOPING nobody saw me ha ha!

Dressing up for HALLOWEEN has to be one of my favorites!  I didn’t dress up on Halloween, but I did do WITCHES night out and the people of WALMART.  So that should count right?  I love coming up with COSTUMES for the kids.  This year mom was a little MEAN, and I kind of persuaded the kids on what to DRESS UP.  I don’t mind them PICKING their own, I just didn’t want to spend a ton of MONEY this year.  Nyah did CHOOSE her costume.  Keira loves RANDOM costumes, so JoJo worked PERFECT for her.  Jayda loves anything GIRLY so being a FAIRY was easy, and Connor, well he is to SMALL to care what his costume is yet anyway.  So AFTER it all, I only ended up having to buy the FACE PAINT because my BESTEST friend had a bunch of stuff on HAND and we had some stuff as well.  The kids were all HAPPY with their costumes so that was GOOD.   Of course I had to throw in the PICTURE of my brothers costume.  He is always so CREATIVE with his costumes, I LOVE it!  He even did an IMPRESSION for us, it was HILARIOUS! 

Now, HALLOWEEN night, the kids had fun going and getting a bunch of CANDY.  Connor, was so EXHAUSTING!  We brought a WAGON to cart him around in.  Which at first was all he wanted, he didn’t WANT out.  It wasn’t long before he figured out that at each house you got CANDY  Then it was over!  He REFUSED to stay in the wagon.  He didn’t want to be HELD.  If we put him down, he would take OFF  He LOVED every minute of this.  He even started saying his version of “TRICK OR TREAT  it sounded more like “dee, dee, dee, dee” it sounded like that is what he was TRYING to say.  It was so CUTE!

KEIRA, what can I say.  I LOVE this kid!  She DECIDED one day, she would make a “Perry the Platypus” COSTUME.  She did not tell us of COURSE.  We were at GRANDMA’S house, when she pulls this BOX out of their garage.  She starts COLORING it.  I remember thinking “why is she coloring a box?”  She got some SCISSORS out and started cutting away, which was quite SCARY at times, I swear she was going to STAB herself with the dang scissors, but she never did.  Then all of the SUDDEN she puts it on and there you go!  She CREATED this with out any help from us!  It was all HER!  From the IDEA of it, to the PUTTING it together.  To be in that CHILD’S head even for an hour.  You NEVER know what she is THINKING. 

It’s been a BUSY month.  A FUN month, but very busy.  Our being busy is not about to LIGHTEN anytime soon either.  Gotta love the HOLIDAYS!!!!

Pumpkin Patch

I love holiday traditions.  We always go to the pumpkin patch in October.  They have tractors there.  That part was Connors favorite.  He got so mad at us when we took him off.  We literally had to pry him off.  They all had fun picking out pumpkins.  Nyah had to choose the biggest one she could carry.  The other kids were happy picking smaller pumpkins.  They also have a corn maze.  The kids always like going through it.  It was so much fun.

Gardner Village

We took the kids to Gardner Village to see all the fun witches!  My favorite is Sweet Aftons, they have yummy candy and it's named after my home town!  We walked around looking in all the fun shops and seeing all the cool witches.  We took our picture with the "Breast Cancer" witch for my grandma.  We tried some super cute hats on Connor.  We ate some cookies.  It was a lot of fun.  The kids had a good time.

The Girl vs The Boy

I have always lived in the land of PINK.  My life has always been girls, GIRLS, girls!  Now after 3 girls, we finally got our BOY!  It seemed like the moment he was born.  People were constantly asking.  Do you notice a difference?  Now when he was a newborn, the only difference was the diaper changes.  But as far as TEMPERAMENT.  They have all been the same.  They eat, sleep and poop.  As he started getting older.  I started NOTICING the differences. . .

Girls:  They are emotional.  They cry very easily.  The tend to whine.  They scream.  I always have said I will be deaf at a young age.  After 3 SCREAMING girls.  It’s no wonder.  If you are stern with them.  They will CRY.  When girls fight amongst each other.  They can get down right mean with the NAME calling.  The infamous line of “your not my FRIEND anymore!”  It’s devastating for a girl to hear that from her SISTER or a friend.  With girls, it’s more about MIND games.  They are just emotionally EXHAUSTING.  On the flip side of this coin.  They are so CUDDLY.  They will sit and let me READ to them for hours.  They will spontaneously tell me “I LOVE you mommy.”  Or.    My favorite “mommy, you’re CUTE.”  They like to dress up.  They LOVE to pretend to be little mommies.  They love to TWIRL and DANCE around.  I know if it’s QUITE in the house with the girls.  It’s usually because they are entertained by something that is quiet.  I will find them COLORING.  Reading a story.  Playing HOUSE.  Or other quiet things.  They are so FUN to shop for.  I love buying girls clothes.  There is so many ACCESSORIES. So many fun COLORS.  Hair things, SHOES, tights, COLORED SOCKS, belts, JACKETS, etc.  They love just SPENDING time with me, just hanging out.  Going shopping.  They are pretty SWEET most of the time.

Boys:  They are destructive.  They are aggressive.  They keep you BUSY.  They are always getting HURT.  They get into THINGS all the time.  They never seem to STOP from sun up to sun down.  They CLIMB everything.  They tend to not realize their own STRENGTH.  You find yourself constantly saying the word “NO.”  “No, don’t touch that, no put that down, no don’t hit, no don’t WRESTLE, no don’t stick that in the OUTLET, no get down from there, no you are gonna get HURT if you do that, etc.  On the flip side of THEIR coin.  They are CONTENT.  They are typically pretty EASY going.  They are fairly HAPPY.  When they want to CUDDLE it means the world to you.  Everything can be a WEAPON.  They can make a TOY out of everything.  They KNOW what they want and go for it.  They are so EASY to get ready in the morning.  They don’t care what they LOOK like.  They don’t care what gets DONE to their hair.  Picking out clothes is so EASY.  Just grab jeans and a t-shirt and they are SET.  SHOES are optional.  They don’t get SCARED as easily.  They like to figure out how things WORK.  They are independent.  They make sound EFFECTS.  They are TOUGH.  They are pretty low MAINTENANCE.  

My conclusion is, that basically girls, are EMOTIONALLY exhausting and boys, are PHYSICALLY exhausting.  This probably doesn’t apply to every child of course.  I have SEEN pretty emotional boys and I have seen some pretty ACTIVE girls.  But in general this is the CONCLUSION for my kids.  I have seen people prefer one OVER the other.  As for me, there is some pretty FUN things about girls that I love.  There is some pretty AWESOME things about boys that I LOVE.  There is also things about girls that DRIVE me crazy and there is things about boys that make ME want to pull my hair out.  I don’t really have a preference.  I just love watching them GROW and learn new things.  Watching their eyes LIGHT up at certain moments.  Making memories as they get older.  

It’s like that old saying “Life is not measured by the BREATHS you take but by the moments that take your BREATH away.”