Absolutely Perfect

The past couple of days have been crazy. Church and kids are going better. I was able to sit through a full Relief Society meeting yesterday. The Fish is really clingy. I haven't had much experience with this and so it is really hard. Many days I have a leg accessory and sometimes I just set him on the kitchen counter so I can get some dishes done.

Baby Jesus Status : Missing In Action.




We have a manger, just no baby Jesus.

This week we started out good everyone went to school this morning. Mrs Thing 2 had a cold but really I didn't think it was all that bad. I guess we'll be keeping her home tomorrow though she really had a hard day. Usually she is in a good mood when going to school today. Not so much.


OHHHHHHH! More Universe LOVE from our fellow man.

I went to the door a couple of days ago. AND OH MY GOSH! There was a box loaded with presents, goodies, and a Secret Santa note.

We have been really trying to get this Christmas thing together with our financial situation being "skinny" and this suprise helped TONS! I love being the giver in these situations but man I can't tell you what a relief it was to be the reciever this year. I can't believe we are so lucky to have such wonderful people in our lives. I tried so hard to see who it was. And Catch them red handed. Only I suck at that, and Man They were fast. I was not far from the door. My heart is still all toasty thinking about it. It was great surprise. The Band and I were totally dumbfounded. And so grateful. They put so much time and effort into it. I can't wait to see the kid's faces when they open the stuff on Christmas.

Baby Smells

Happy Birthday Sweet baby!

6lbs and 11 oz.
He is adorable
Congrats Cass and Eric

School and Sugar

We have been decorating sugar cookies. Thing 2 likes to make them but she doesn't like eating them. She thinks they will give her a tummy ache. She is probably right. I could only eat half of a cookie at a time. They were pretty "sicky sweet" as my mom says. I need a new recipe for sugar cookies that are softer.

Today I went to the neighboring city to drop off Medical paperwork. Then I had an academic counselor's appointment which I was too late for. I needed to go to disability services any how to get the info from them on what I can and cannot do to help my academic progress ;) I have been attending since 1995 and need to have a paper to show for all the billions of credits I have collected. I need to see what will transfer and what won't.

I have been contemplating different roads to go down with my AA.
In no particular order

Nursing
Dental Hygene
Business
Graphic Design
Fashion
Finance
Auto repair
Legal Assistant

The last two were jokes LOL
I figure that owning my own business will lead me to probably choose something in the computer/business field.

I am really not interested in Dental Hygenist either. I think that I need some more counseling to narrow down the possibilities of what I want to get done here.

I could be done here by next year or so. That would probably be what I have been saying for the last 10 years. But now I have to take courses that are not online. I think that will help. We'll see what I need to do to get it all inorder:)

Warning you probably will demand pics. Satisfaction may be delayed

There are some things that have been on my mind lately. Driving though town you can see all the Christmas lights and displays that our neighbors have decorated with. We put all the ornaments on the tree last night. Well not all. We do have some from the salt dough pile that we started a couple days ago for the tree. I thought we couldn’t find the Christmas Bulbs so Thing 2 and I were frantically trying to put tons together. The next day we got Thing 1 in on the action. He was pretty funny. He wanted to do a family of snakes. So we have some snakes as decorations on our tree. They aren’t toddler friendly so some have been broken.
OhKay Now here is the big reveal. I have done our family in dough. Each child has a dough person that is errily just like him or her. Including the fish with his extra plentitude of CRANIUM. It is hard to tell which ornaments were done by me and which are done by my three year old. If it gives you any indication to what type of quality we are talking about. ☺
We have some fun items such as a horn, Chirstmas trees, and the ever popular stars. But this year I thought I would try reindeer. They came out looking like they were walking across the street and head lights just snuck up on them. They look just a little “alarmed”.
I wish I could take pictures of these monstrosities but I have a feeling they are going into a very special shoe box and spending future Christmases with us.
One very talented friend of mine has been assisting me with the creation of Pine Cones. Anyone who frequents the site Kirsty is well aware of what I am talking about. They were quite popular and I can’t stop looking at them;)

what? me decorating?

Bringing out the Holiday Décor
All day I have been yelling things like……

“Stop touching baby Jesus!”
“That’s it Who took baby Jesus from the stable?”
“Ok Thing 1 you get baby Jesus for five minutes and then we share and switch.”

This is going to be a long 21 days let me tell you!

Thanks Giving

Our Adventures in Utah were so fun this past week. We saw a light display that was hooked up to a local transmission of Christmas Carols. The lights were set to the music and it was SOOOOO awesome!

I want to do it to my van ☺

We went to a place called Kangaroo Zoo. We went to the lights on Temple Square. I love seeing them.

It has been awhile since we have seen all our family. It was so good to visit everyone. Oh and the family has a new addiction to the "train game". I found more Blogs to follow while we were there too!

My children made a note that my house was not clean after spending almost a week in a “clean house” Thus the new sign over my entry way now reads

“Welcome to My Interpretation of Clean”

Today we are cleaning a good deep clean. I have been behind on a lot of things around the house. Today we caught up on many of those areas. I still have a deep dread and loathing of laundry. ☺