still hanging in there~

well today i am hanging out at home with my poor little kael. he has been throwing up since friday and so we decided it would be best for him to stay home instead of going to church and spreading our germs. it is not so bad though because when we woke up this morning, we woke up to this....

so kael and i are staying nice and warm inside. we have about half of our christmas decorations put up and it brings such a nice feeling into our home. i love christmas and this year even more because my mom decided to give me our old nativity set. i have always loved it and it was one of my favorite things to put out each year. it is old and little banged up, but i love everything about it. it has a lot of memory and will hopefully bring more happy ones=)

so now that most of our decorations are up, we like to sit in the living room together and admire them. i love having all the lights off except for the tree. we have watched a few christmas movies since kael has not been feeling well the last few days and things have been pretty quiet. here is a sweet picture garran took the other night while kael and i were sitting together. it has now become one of my favorites!!

hope everyone is staying warm and is hopefully feeling better then everyone at our house!

sick of sick~

well sickness has most definitely set in at our house. kael and i seem to be suffering the most. we are the two that have had issues with actually getting sick. blah i am so ready to be over this and for my house not to have that sick smell that seems to come when people are sick. i am sad garran has to work for a little while today. it is hard to stay patient and take care of others when you are not feeling that hot!! well enough grumping for now.

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hopefully this will leave every one with a smile for today!

due to the smell previously mentioned i was at the store and picked up some candles.

the glade ones!

(side note: to understand why this is funny, you will have to have seen this commercial)

after i got home, i placed on of the candles on top of our stove and started looking for matches.

as i started to light the candle this is what i hear from my extremely observant son-

(he hears something once and it is in that little head of his)

cullan: "mom you make a pie?"

chuckle-chuckle-chuckle

"no it a candle-happy birthday"

at first i had no idea what he was talking about and then garran said, "is he repeating that glade commercial?"

guess it does not take much for them to pick something up-they are like little sponges!

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one other thing is that people have been asking me about if we have come up with a name yet.

the answer is not really. we have one in mind, but i don't know if i am in love with it.

we would love some suggestions if you know any girl names.

we just have not heard anything we are super in love with. name girls is much harder for us than naming boys!!

happy turkey day~

this year we spent thanksgiving at garrans parents house. his sister and her family were here visiting from Alabama, so we had a full house for thanksgiving.

we got to garrans parents around 11:30 and immediately jumped right in to helping everyone get ready. with 8 adults and 6 kids there was plenty to do to get things ready. kael had fun playing with his cousin julia at first. she really loved kael. (she basically had him in a head lock from hugging him so much=) by the end of the night, kael would cry when she came near him. i guess he could only handle so much lovehere is kael....and here is the hugging bandit julia!!this picture and the next one are really just for my mom, although i never mind showing off how cute my kiddos or hubby are. i am pretty sure my mom has memories of me doing this same thing. cullan walked over from the kitchen while i was sitting on the couch and wanted to show me his cool olive fingers.i just think garran looks cute in this picture!! =)

(this is garrans other sister silara and brother sam...they got a hold of my camera, now i have about a million pictures of them=)

we had a pretty fun thanksgiving, with the exception of the majority of people being sick. today both kael and i have had some issues with getting sick and unfortunately we had a love seat that we were hanging onto while searching for a new one. today though, sadly, was its last day at our house. we were trying to get ready to run to the store and kael got sick all over it. badley enough that we decided it was just time to part ways. so now we are really in the market for some new living room furniture!! oh well hope everyone had a great thanksgiving and if you were brave enough to face the crowds today... i hope you got some great deals.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!

baby update~

WEEK 25 IS HERE!!!!

does anyone know what that means...only 13 more weeks, that is 105 days (according to my ticker anyways, so probably less than that because my ticker is based off a 40 week pregnancy =)

i can not believe that we only have 13 weeks left. it is going by so fast. i know that i say that every post about this pregnancy, but i mean it. i feel like once we get through christmas it is just a hop-skip and a jump till the end of february. that is when i think this little gal will make an appearance. i would love it if at 38 weeks she would decide to make an appearance on her own, however both of my boys were very stubborn and i had to be induced. so we will see how it goes. she has definitely been the most active of my three. she is always on the move and so i guess i secretly hope that, that means she will be itching to make an appearance on her own. my next appointment is on the 17th of december...and it is my glucose one. it would not be so bad if it were in the morning because of the fasting and all, but the earliest i could get in was 2:30pm. so it might be a long day. =)

other than that we are slowly getting ready. we are slowly getting clothes to put in her drawers. i will probably start stocking up on diapers, pacifiers, and a few bottles sometime in january. other than that i think we are just waiting on her. oh yeah and we have to get a car seat for her. so if anyone has any suggestions or had one that they really liked, i would love to hear about it.

well hope everyone is having a good tuesday...only two more days till thanksgiving =)

one down-one to go~

well the family pictures went well. my kids were not super excited about taking pictures today (hmm i wonder why,maybe because mommy takes their picture all the time=) anyways we got through it and i think that they will come out really cute.

so one down one to go...

now i just have to wrangle everyone for just one more quick shot to go on our christmas card. i have tried the past two sundays with no luck. we either ran out of time, or we were lucky to get out the door due to two very tired boys!!

oh well tis the season for lots of pictures and fun memories!

new family pics~

so tomorrow is the big day. i am so excited. i have every ones outfits laid out and got every ones haircut! i am super excited. i decided last year to get one-well we ended up getting a family picture, and individual of each of the boys, and one of garran and i. so this year we are going to do something similar so that i can update what we had done last year. i am praying that everyone is happy tomorrow and that we can have smiles instead of tears. i am sure it will be fine, but you just never know with little ones!! hope everyone is having fun getting ready for thanksgiving!!

birthday girls night~

last night we had a girls night at olive garden due to the fact that a few of us had november birthdays. it was a lot of fun. we had about 14 ladies go and instead of dinner we had a dessert night. (well some people ordered the soup and salad-who can go to olive garden without getting their yummy salad) i had a wonderful piece of chocolate cake. it was delicious but super rich. i had to eat little by little starting last night and finishing today, with cullans help =)

so happy birthday to krista and me ....i guess!!

(ps. i totally stole these pics from krista's blog, i forgot my camera)

krista-susie-darcy
me-krista-stacy
marti-susie-darcy
there were others there but for some reason i could only transfer these three!
thanks for coming everybody...it was fun!

the best parts~

today i have been humbled twice by my children...

let me start my story by backing up a few days to this past sunday. we were at church and the topic was how we (or the men in our lives) should take the time to really appreciate and love the women in their lives. that often times the women might feel under appreciated or over stretched with responsibilities with home, family, work, and other callings.

so one of the men giving a talk said something that i really enjoyed. so much that i wrote it down.

"the best part of motherhood comes in fleeting moments. frustrating times are abundant but take the moments that pass so quickly to mother your children and make those connections with them that they will remember." RO.

so now fast forward to today. i have been busy with taking and picking cullan up from mom school. for some reason i am really sleepy and have been silently grumping about how my children do not nap anymore. anyways i have been trying really hard to get my house clean and everything picked up and organized. i am sure some of you moms can relate with the fact that when you have little ones at home, it is a little frustrating as they follow you and seem to just want to undo the cleaning you have just completed.

so while cleaning i have also been doing laundry. this was where the first instance of humbling happened on my part.

• i was taking a load of the boys clothes to the washing machine to start a load and i had asked the boys to please stay on the couch while i started the load. well half way through putting stuff in the washer i see kael poking his head around the corner. he started to make his way towards me and without really paying attention i kind of grumped at him that i had asked him to stay on the couch and that i wish he would have listened to me. as he turned around to head back to the couch with his little head down from getting in trouble i realized he was holding a sock of theirs that i had dropped. argg... i felt like the biggest jerk. i realized i needed to be more patient and realize that sometimes they are just trying to help. i later gave him a hug and said thank you for bringing me the sock.
• the second time was in a similar vein. however this time it was cullan. again i had said to stay on the couch. however this time cullan came out. trying to be more patient after my last experience, i explained to him that i really wanted him to stay in the living room so i could just get this done. (my own personal downfall is that sometimes i just want to get things done and know that i can get done much faster if i just do it myself.) cullan started to head back to the living room and then turned around and said "but i help mommy". i realized that cullan really likes to help me put the clothes from the washer into the dryer. i think because the dryer is just the right height that he can really help all by himself. so i told him he could help me and afterwards he closed the dryer door, gave me a hug and said "thanks mommy" then ran off back to the living room.

i am slowly starting to realize that maybe i am moving to fast and missing the best part of my kids. the fact that they really want to help and that with all the frustrating moments that come in a day, there are also some very sweet ones too..

it's getting to be about that time~

ok everybody, its getting to be about that time for getting christmas cards ready!! isn't it exciting. i love getting christmas cards in the mail and seeing how old friends and current friends are doing. so i need your help. i know a lot of you have moved and i need to know every ones new addresses or if you have not got a card from us before but want one that is fine to=).. but i need your address! so here is the email i would like you to send it to. that way every ones info stays private. i also put a reminder over in the left hand column in case you forget!

thanks everybody!!

my email: garran.meghan@gmail.com

ps. our address has changed from last year, so if any of you need it just let me know!

Happy Birthday to Me~

2008

well today has already been a great day and here are the reasons why:

• this morning cullan came in my room and yelled "happy birthday mommy" (without being prompted at all by garran. amazing i know. but we kept telling him yesterday that today was mommy's birthday.
• while i was dropping cullan off at mom school and doing my visiting teaching, garran was home with kael and they cleaned up the living room for me. (garran said he was planning on cleaning the whole house, but his helper was not so helpful and gave him to many distractions) i was happy with just the thought!!
• then i got treated to lunch .... it was delicious subway!
• i then received two of my favorite christmas movies because my sweet husband knows i am a christmas junkie and will be excited to watch them soon!
• one of the nicest surprises was that garran decided not to go to his long class from 2-5 today so that we could spend time together. he figured it would be ok. he has not missed it all year and does not plan on missing it again. i am so glad that he is going to be around today.

so far so good. my phone has been ringing off the hook with birthday well wishers! it is nice to feel loved=) plus last night some friends and i went out for hot chocolate! what a nice birthday!

officially official~

well we had another ultrasound today at my appointment. baby looks great. very cute, heart beat was around 140, brain, spine, and heart look great. also the other probably obvious thing is that IT IS DEFINITELY A GIRL!! woo hoo bring on the pink. now i feel safe making her blanket, buying some cute dresses and just getting girl stuff in general.
YEAH FOR OUR NEW BABY GIRL!!!!
oh and one other exciting news is that this next month is my last full month appointment. then i am down to shorter ones! this pregnancy sure is flying by!

almost done 2007~

well last year at this time things were all mixed up. i had a good birthday and i am pretty sure that garran and i went on a date. i think we went to dinner and a movie. it is bad that i can not remember what we saw, but i am pretty sure i more enjoyed the company than what i was doing. i always enjoy date nights with garran. we always have such a good time and laugh a lot together. this year had been a long one with two different surgeries for me. first my gall bladder and then my back. it was a mess. for a while i wondered if things would ever get back to normal. but by my birthday i was feeling better and had gotten good news that we were expecting. unfortunately we miscarried a few days after christmas. it was very hard and that is one of the reasons i posted this picture. going through that really made me appreciate my boys. funny how different things change your perspective. well this was one of those things. however we got through it and have had our ups and downs in the beginning of 2008, but things have smoothed out and it is exciting to think that the beginning of 2009 will start with a sweet little baby in our home.
so only one more day of these! won't you be glad we are at the end of our trip down memory lane!

baby girl-well~

we are going to try and make sure..

tomorrow is my next appointment for this little one.

we are supposed to have another ultrasound to check and make sure since last time it was not super clear!

wish us luck and wish for an immodest baby!

on to 2006~

sorry no pics. when we had all our computer problems we lost a ton of pictures that were on it. anyways so this time 2 years ago....lets see, what were we up to? well we were a little more than a month into being the parents of two boys. kael was born on October 2 of this year. again my birthday was kind of a fog. in a house with a barely one year old and a one month old. This year was busy also. after my birthday, we were once again on the move so that we could again go and be with family for the holidays and show off our sweet new little guy! the boys were really well behaved. although we were exhausted and need a break after the holidays, it was fun.

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on a completely different note my family came up yesterday and spent the day here to celebrate my birthday. we had a good time chatting and spending time together.

my mom brought some yummy stuff for lunch and a birthday cake that my boys are still enjoying. i even got presents!!

it was a fun day. thanks guys for making the trip up and thanks for everything else!

b-day countdown continues~

(this is the best i could do for being close to my birthday)

3 years ago~2005

well in november 2005 i had been a brand new mommy to the most beautiful little boy i think i had ever seen for almost exactly a month. He was a great birthday present! We were living in a new place, garran had just decided to go back to school, so he was just finishing up his first semester back. we were living in a third floor apartment which was not that great for carrying laundry or for carrying a baby and grocery's.

i can not remember what we did for my birthday this year. we might have just had a quiet evening at home. i was super paranoid about anyone watching cullan. i had this new mommy thought that no one could take care of him like garran and i could, which really limited my list of babysitters =)

at the end of this year we traveled all over showing off our new little boy and loving it.

we were very tired but enjoyed the fact that so much of our family was able to meet our new little guy.

countdown from the past~

(a picture of us at the beginning of 2004, before we were married)

so with my birthday fast approaching. i thought i would do a count down of sorts. kind of a summary of years past. i am sure this again is more for me than anyone else. but because this is kind of a journal, here we go.

four years ago : 2004

lets see in november 2004, garran and i had been married right around eight months.

life was very busy, but fun. we were both working and unfortunately rarely seeing each other. during the week i would work 8-4 at a school for troubled youth and he would work 1-9 at a local business, so you can see how our time together was limited. by this point garrans younger brother was also living with us.

not the best decision on our part. not that his brother is a bad person, but i am now a firm believer that the first year really needs to be spent with just the two of you getting to know each other and not having a third person around to sometimes complicate things.

for the most part things went pretty smoothly after we got married. we only had a few awkward times when we both just had to adjust to the way that the other did something. looking back i sometimes miss those days. it was so fun to just be able to hang out with each other and enjoy each others company without the stress of finding a sitter or trying to keep the kids occupied so we could have a conversation about something. (don't get me wrong i love my kids and i would not trade them, its just fun to think back sometimes..to our lazy days as we joke about them now)

2004 ended with a lot of traveling to see family for the holidays and with a move to a duplex that was probably one of my favorite places we have lived. it was out in the country but still close to town. we had great neighbors, that were friends of ours. it was a fun little place and we really enjoyed starting the new year there!

cute-ness over flowing~

well the cuteness factor at our house has been on high.

this is cullan wearing the hat he got from the surgery unit. i guess now he relates sleeping with this little cap. oh well super cute either way!!

kael in camo!
cullan being truly amazing! =)
(in case you can't read his shirt, i found it at old navy, and it says "voted most likely to be amazing")
well thats all - just a little cuteness to share!!

my lil trooper~

today was cullans big day at the hospital. the nursing staff was very nice. they showed cullan all of their cool toys and asked if they could take pictures of him. i guess they do that for all children there to have surgical procedures or other things done. so the nurse and i took some pictures.

this was cullan and daddy when we first arrived at the hospital.

cullan in his scrubs =) they let him pick out his own hat and after a little convincing he put the gown and hat on. isn't he a cute patient!
checking mommys heart!
afterwards, cullan was a little upset coming out of the anesthesia, but the doctor said he did really well. he instantly wanted daddy to hold him and then a little while later wanted me to lay with him in his bed and he took a little nap.
after waking up, he was not happy about his iv, but was pretty good about not messing with it.

after a little while he was not really drinking enough, so they gave him a popsicle and that made all the difference. after that he was his usual talkative self. we were released shortly after. we are home for the rest of the afternoon resting since we had to get up so early. i am glad that he did so well and that this is over.

showing off my little boy~

CLICK HERE TO SEE A SUPER CUTE BOY!

so if any of you know us, you know we read a lot of books at our house. we do not have as many books as i would like, so the boys end up reading the same ones over and over again. here is cullan reading one of his favorites. i say reading with a smile. more like him repeating it from memorization! but still cute none the less!

PS. DONT WORRY WE DID NOT ACTUALLY POST THE VIDEO TO YOU TUBE. IT IS COMPLETELY PRIVATE!

all about babies~

so i thought that i would give a little update
on baby and things that have been going on. so sit tight who knows how long this blog could be.

for starters tomorrow is cullans big day. we have to take him to one of the local hospitals at the crack of dawn tomorrow. they are going to put him completely under, (which makes me extremely nervous). so anyways they are going to do x-rays, which is why they are putting him under in the first place. he is really good about letting them clean his teeth but when they tried to take a picture he flipped. so they decided that they would put him under, due the x-ray, do a really thorough cleaning and then if there is a problem they will just go ahead and fix it. so we will be doing that for most of the morning. say a little prayer that everything goes well.

on a happier, lighter note, i finally found the fabric i wanted, to make this lil miss a blanket. i have always made each of my kids a blanket. (with the help of my talented and patient friend cj)the first one with the little lambs on it is cullans. he loved it as a baby and now has out grown it a little. he might ask for it every now and then but it is pretty rare.

this cute one with frogs is kaels. he is super attached to his. he carries it all over and sleeps with it all the time. i love that he loves it. it makes me feel good because i made it for him.

and finally........................................

this is the fabric i found and fell in love with for this next lil one!! it took me forever. however i have to say that now that i have everything i am so excited. by the time that they are all done i can always just imagine holding our sweet new baby in them. i know i went a little over board on the pink, but hey it is my first girl.=)

on to a baby update~week 23!!

this by far has been my easiest pregnancy. i have felt the best and this baby is super active. she is always bouncing around. night and day she is just kicking and moving. which for me is great because i am a worry wart about the baby not moving enough. so we are doing pretty well. we have our next appointment on monday and they are going to do another ultrasound to make sure that this is indeed a girl.

well this is probably long enough=) happy tuesday to everyone!!

did you drive? ~

ok so i hope that i can convey the humor of this story.

my friend mandy and i have been going to get pedicures every once in a while, i think this may be our third since like may. so not super often, but every once in a while, we like to treat ourselves. today was one of those days. the reason that i took a picture of my foot was so that you could see my pink toes in honor of having a girl and my lovely pedi flip flops that i am now the two time recipient of winning.

i joke because twice now that we have gone to get pedicures for some reason i end up finishing after my friend mandy. i always get the same line "oh did you drive here?" i automatically now what that means. it means that i will be leaving the nail salon wearing these lovely paper thin flip flops while waiting for my toes to dry. not only is it a little embarrassing heading out in public with these lovely things on but with the current temp at 26 degrees today, my feet were just a little chilly as well. mandy and i had a good laugh at my good fortune of always getting to be the lucky one to wear these to our next destination.

on a side note, usually they have these wonderful chairs that massage your back while getting a pedicure, however the one today was more like riding a mechanical bull! a couple times i thought either mandy or i might get thrown from the chair. i even let out a yelp at one point. imagine i six month prego lady with wet toe nails flying across a nail salon due to being bucked from a massage chair. ahhh what a relaxing girls day!

oh the little moments.......

ok so this is a little embarrassing but i am going to post these pictures anyways. today we were just kind of having a silly morning playing with the boys. garran and cullan thought it would be funny to find every blanket in the house that we own and pile them on me. cullan and kael thought this was hilarious. i am not lying when i say that there was probably 40lbs of blanket on me. well then cullan and kael decided that i was like a huge slide of blankets. finally when it was all over i had to have garran literally help me with getting out from underneath them. they were so heavy. so here are some early morning pictures of us being silly and just know that i am not excited to show everyone what i look like first thing in the morning. garran laughing at me because i was stuck under a huge pile of blankets.
cullan laying on me saying cheese. he is so cute!

i am sure these will end up as black mail some day, but oh well =)

why i love sunday mornings~

i especially loved this sunday morning. we do not go to church until the afternoon, at least until january.(i actually prefer morning church for the sake of my kids, but its almost here) anyways so we have the whole morning to spend together. it is the only day of the week that right now for the most part we are all home and are not all being pulled in a million different directions. this morning it is cold outside, and so we decided we would listen to christmas music while we made and ate breakfast. i know it is early, but my kids really love christmas. plus i am a bit of a junkie myself. so this morning we had a nice breakfast with christmas music playing in the background and now the kids are taking a fun thomas bubble bath! so far it has been a good morning...lets hope it continues through the afternoon!

its starting to......

SNOW
i can not believe it is snowing. its only november 7th!
i guess maybe we will have a white thanksgiving =)
if it is not snowing where you are. enjoy it. we always get enough to last much longer than i would like.

oh hear i go~

BE PREPARED TO HEAR MY RANTING AND YES SOME MIGHT BE OFFENDED!

while i am glad that the elections are over and that hopefully the political debating and crazy nonsense is over, this morning the tv has been more than i can handle. i have been reading about protesting and things of such that have been going on in california. i am a little irritated. i feel that the people of california have spoken TWICE on how they feel about how marriage should be defined. i personally believe that marriage is between a man and a woman. i have no problem with homosexual couples having the following rights:

"regarding hospitalization and medical care, fair housing and employment rights, or probate rights, so long as these do not infringe on the integrity of the family or the constitutional rights of churches and their adherents to administer and practice their religion free from government interference." (this quote was taken from this web site)

i feel like i am a very tolerant person and that i would never be mean or even teach my children to be mean to some who lives an alternative lifestyle.

i am very bothered however by the fact that these protesters are singling out certain churches when what the reality is, is that 51% or people in california that come from different races, religions, income levels etc all spoke and said the same thing.

they all feel that marriage is between a man and a woman.

as a nation or a state we may or may not agree with how elections or voting or propositions come out. however that is part of what makes the usa a great place to live. the voice of the people matters. so when the majority of people vote for the president or whatever that is what we go with. not everyone will be happy with the outcome, however you don't see super mccain supporters protesting outside obama headquarters. this is how it works, people vote and that shows how the majority of the people want their society to run.

while i could continue to debate this topic for hours i think i will end my rant here!

sorry to those i offended but sometimes you have to stand your ground on what you believe!

**SIDENOTE** if you read the web link highlighted protesting i find it ironic that people protesting intolerance pulled a sticker off a mans car that stated he was in favor of prop 8, that then led to an altercation!

fire station field trip~

today was our field trip to the fire station with mom school. cullan was super excited. i even found a shirt for him that was on clearance last night that was only a dollar. it had a fire truck on it that lights up. he thought it was also very cool.

so today we all met at one of the local fire stations. the kids seemed to be excited and got to see where the fire men cooked and studied all the streets in our town. then we got to the best part.

THE FIRE TRUCKS!!!

this is cullan standing in front of one of the trucks!

he was very impressed with all their gear and helmets!it was very cute. cullan was really struggling with not being able to touch all the cool things on the fire truck. the temptation was more than he could handle. =)

then one of the firemen put on all the gear and showed the kids what they do when there is a call .

this fireman was very nice. they explained that they had to put on all their gear and that if you ever saw someone in your house dressed like this to not be afraid, but that they were there to help. cullan thought this guy was great, and he was really friendly.

cullan asked to have his picture taken, but i only got him giving the guy a high five. this is another little boy that wanted his picture taken too!

next they got to see a fireman slide down the poll. cullan watched as they did it twice. then he immediately turned to me and said "CULLAN TURN"!! of course they were to small, but they were able to go over and look at it.first look and then of course attempt!

then we were pretty much done. we got a group shot of almost everyone in front of the fire trucks.

all in all it went pretty well. however i was a little disappointed. when i scheduled the field trip they said the kids would be able to get on the trucks, receive hats and coloring books, and would also watch a fire safety video. none of which happened. they would not even turn on the lights for the kids. i guess it does not matter because the kids will never know that they missed anything, but it makes me sad because i know the kids, especially cullan would have loved it. oh well, still a fun field trip!

simple solutions~

(my clean boys with their special blue bottle)

for as long as i can remember my kids have always loved baths. they would play for ever and they really did not mind having to take showers sometimes either. however within the last 4 months it has become a real struggle. they would fight me on it and would cry when i would say it was time to take a bath. i thought for sure it was just a phase and that in time it would all work out. well thank goodness for simple solutions. garran and i had to do some shopping the other day and we decided to just go as a family. i was in the soap isle getting some body wash and face stuff when cullan yells thomas bubbles. there on the very top shelf sat a bottle of thomas bubble bath for $1.25! i said cullan would you like to take a bath with some thomas bubbles. to my surprise both boys answered YES!! that was on saturday i think. everyday since then cullan and kael have come to us and said, "take bath with thomas bubbles". all i can say is $1.25 well spent!

(and this just made me laugh, they are both saying "CHEESE")

blank~

that is how my mind has felt since i woke up this morning. i woke up not feeling so hot. not sick, just super sore. i guess this kiddo is getting bigger and because she is breech, i just have a lot of pressure a lot higher this time. so i woke up thinking that i would rather stay in bed.

on a different note it was my morning to teach mom school. i had to cram all four elements into my day because on thursday we are going on a field trip. i think it should be fun. so today we learned about the letter I, ovals, the number 9 and the color blue! we cut out 9 oval raindrops, that of course were blue and glued them on our cloudy page. then we talked about the letter I and colored that. here is a picture of all the kids with there raindrop pictures. what i think is funny is that i took this picture maybe 20 minutes after finishing the activity. notice how may still have 9 rain drops~

after mom school i went to vote. i have to be honest, i am so glad that it is over. i am sure that some people might be surprised to hear that this election has been the most stressful i have taken part in since i have been able to vote. while i consider myself to be conservative i have to admit that i did not care for my choices. garran and i have been debating a lot recently about how to vote. we had even tossed around writing in someones name. as i stood at the ballot box today i literally felt sick about what to do. i am glad it is over with and that hopefully the constant political debating will slow down. my mom always says you should not talk politics because it never ends well. so i think i will end my thoughts here. with all the stress though, i do hope everyone got out and voted today for whom ever they thought was the best choice for them.

a kid after my own heart~

so christmas is always a big deal for me. i enjoy getting a present, who doesn't. however i always get more excited about the decorating, the traditions, driving to go look at all the christmas lights and getting hot chocolate. i just love everything. it is so fun giving and getting christmas cards! ok so recently just within the last two weeks, cullan has started asking about christmas trees. he keeps talking about them and any time we go to a store that has christmas decorations for sale, we have to walk through and look at all the pretty christmas stuff. i am so excited that he already loves christmas as much as i do or at least close =) we might have to put our christmas tree up early this year, maybe right after thanksgivng so that cullan and i can really enjoy along with garran and kael!

time change~

what i love about the time change...

my kiddos are sleepy a little earlier during this kind of transition time and i can get a little bit more done at night!

what i do not love about the time change...

they wake up a lot earlier ready to go, while i am still dragging a little.

i am starting to believe i am much more of a night owl than a morning person =)

just cause~

do any of you blog just because..

i am blogging because i have had a long but wonderful weekend. i got to have a semi girls night before the saturday night adult session of stake conference. my friend mandy and i went to dinner and then did a little shopping! today i attended stake conference with garran and the boys. it was wonderful although i have to admit i was a little sad that it is no longer here and now we have to travel an hour to get to the new stake center. oh well. it was fun to ride and talk with garran and listen to the boys sing in the back. plus the boys got to see my husbands family this weekend and they always enjoy that!

i am also blogging because i secretly feel overwhelmed by the upcoming month.

it seems that we have something big going on every single week including just our regular schedule which is hectic in and of itself. so here we go-

WEEK ONE:

this is my week to teach mom school. so i am working on my lesson and getting things ready for that. i also scheduled the mandatory mom field trip for this week that each mom is supposed to plan. we are going to a fire station. i think the kids will love it, i just hope i make it through it.

VOTE!

then on saturday we are going to be celebrating garrans dads birthday!

WEEK TWO:

mom school. plus i have to take cullan to get a full physical. later in this same week we have to take him to a hospital and have a dental procedure done. the stinky thing is, is that he has to be put completely under. ARGG! it makes me nervous. but i want him to have good teeth. oh yeah and that weekend my parents are coming up=) that part should be fun!

WEEK THREE:

mom school. i have an ob appointment for this baby. i am excited to have another ultrasound just to make sure that our lil miss is definitely a lil miss and not a lil mister!! the i turn 28 on the 18th!! it is so weird for me to type that. i can't imagine that i am two years away from 30. i still think of myself as 21. it's like my brain froze my aging process at 21, or maybe im just crazy!

the one exciting thing about this week is that we head to nauvoo! i can't wait. we are taking the boys, and i think they will have a lot of fun.

WEEK FOUR:

hmmm.... basically thanksgiving and family!!

hectic is all i can say

then oh my goodness we start our third trimester and the countdown in on for christmas.

i try not to rush through anything, but i feel like this month is just going to fly. well maybe even the rest of 2008. i know all you other folks are just as busy as i am, but sometimes i think blogging is a stress reliever for me. so maybe this blog was more for me than you, but that's ok right! =)

HAPPY NOVEMBER, HOPEFULLY I WILL GET A CHANCE TO BLOG THIS MONTH! LOL =)

halloween night~

last night was halloween. we had such a good time. we went to some friends house and went through their neighborhood. i think that there was maybe about 10 families walking in our group. all of the kids were so cute. i was so impressed with cullan and kael. they walked the whole time and they were really good about saying trick or treat and saying thank you. well cullan was really good. kaels version went something like this:

me: kael what do you say?

kael: treat

me:(laughing..) say thank you

kael: you!!

he was very sweet. well they both were. and had a great time. by the end of the night they were both pretty tired but their little eyes lit up when i came home and dumped their bags on the table to check candy and put it away. this was the loot and then kaels expression.

cullan was getting pretty tired and was a little grumpy but woke up this morning in a great mood and super excited about the candy! hope everyone had a great halloween!