13 already

Day 8: Happy Birthday Kay!!!

i can't believe that she is 13 years old. it is so unreal. she is really starting to look more like a young woman and not a little girl and i know that it is all just down hill from here on out. no more little girl!!!! we just went to phill's parents house yesterday for a small get together. her party with all of her friends is going to be in a couple of weeks. she is going to have a water park party. so all of the big stuff will wait until then. the hormone thing i am hoping will clam down in a year or so because im not to sure both of us will make it. i'm glad i only have the one girl. i can't even imagine what a house full would be like. way too scary of a thought. kay has started getting more interested in her looks. she is always trying new hair dos, but mostly it is just fly away. she really needs a new straightener and not a cheap one like she has now but a good one from a salon or something. she has so much hair and this weather is not helpful one bit. it is frizzy more times than not and it doesn't matter how much product that is put into it. i'm thinking that i might take her to the salon and get her hair done for her birthday. it is time for her to get a style. she has really gotten into buying clothes lately and is discovering the enjoyment of sales. after christmas she went shopping and got a ton of clothes and didn't spend that much because of the sales. she really is a bargain shopper. she is babysitting a ton so she is making the money to go shopping. she has one or two jobs this weekend already and is excited about the shopping that she can go and do. unlike the boys she actually spends her money on something practical like clothes or shoes. the boys blow all of their money on candy, pop, and toys that are gone in minutes or are broken. it drives me crazy. they get their money and instead of waiting until they are in a bigger town where they can spend it they spend it all in the little shops in town where they are spending about three times more than they need to. i guess that is boys for you.

Hello my name is Shirley and im an addict!!!

okay so i'm not making fun of those who have serious addiction issues but i thought that i would share a bit about my big addictions.

1. right now my main one is World of Warcraft. if you don't know it, it is an online game. and it is totally running my world right now. i think about it constantly and have to fight the urge to do nothing but play all day. most days i totally lose on that battle and play when i really should be cleaning or doing something else. i really think that there needs to be WoW anonymous for those of us who have a very serious problem. i like playing because it gives me a little bit of socialism in my boring day of being home and i don't have to leave the house. i chat with people all over the world and it is fun. i seriously sleep deprived because i stay up to late and play. i need to overcome this thing.

2. my other one is crocheting. i go to the store and buy yarn like all the time. when ever i go to walmart that is the first place i go. my hands are in serious pain all the time because they are always doing the same repetitive motions. i'm able to do a lot of my crocheting when phill is playing WoW. (the addiction started with him.) i've made a ton of toques and scarves and i'm seriously thinking of starting an afghan.

will the madness ever end!!!!!? i think that it is a good thing that i'm not a user of anything else. i think that i have some serious addictive behavior issues. well nothing is hurting others yet, so i think that i had better find away to control myself soon before i really start neglecting the important things that i should be doing. like feed my children!!!! they laugh at me all the time because they have only met other kids who have WoW issues so the fact that their parents have those issues is funny and we won't let the kids play because we don't want them playing all the time. well what great examples we are!! i'm in need of help is there any out there anywhere????

Day 6: picture of my latest addicition.....crocheting hats. i found this pattern for these hats and really wanted to have one and i couldn't stop at one im making one for everyone in the family. i already finished phill's and the one in the picture is mine. they are a lot harder than i probably should have tackled at my skill level but i did figure out all of the stitches and it is a little easier on the second one.Day 7: here is a picture from the outside of my front door. it is supposed to snow 15 more centimeters tomorrow so it may get even deeper than this. good thing though is that it isn't as cold as it has been.

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Day 4: this is my backyard currently there is so much snow. we are supposed to be getting some warmer weather for the next couple of days which should melt some of the snow then it will get cold and snow some more. i took the picture through the back door window (which is currently broken because of cold weather) so it gave it the blue tint but i kind of liked it so i left it that way.

Day 5: cookies that we made for family home evening. it was a scripture chase where we had to find the ingredients. kay taught this lesson. we then had a plate that we had bought that has a cute poem on it about sharing with others and when all the cookies were gone then they need to fill it up and give it to someone else. we took the plate to a neighbor and hopefully it will move all around the neighborhood or even town since we are not that big of a town.

new beginings

so now that it is the first official full week of the new year i thought that i would write down what i plan to accomplish this year.

1. read all of the Doctrine and covenants and the book of mormon. really i want to do more than just read i really want to study them more. i have read them both many times but i don't think that i have taken the time to understand a lot of it.
2. find more peace in my life.
3. organize!!!!! everything in my life....schedules, house, church callings
4. find way to express my appreciation to others. maybe a simple thank you or a kind word. i just don't think that i do that enough.
5. work on family history. i really want to get this started this year. i have this really strong feeling that it needs to get done so maybe it is time.

so i think that this is a good start. i would add exercise more regularly but that is like an all time standing goal. i don't think that it is one that i will really ever accomplish fully to the way that i want.

and speaking of beginnings the kids are back in school today!!!!!!!! it is nice having them around but i get tired of hearing i'm bored all day. this way they have something to occupy their time. i think that they are actually excited to be back. they miss hanging out with their friends and see someone other than each other. we were having a lot of fighting in the house the last couple of days. and with all the snow and the really cold weather it was understandable but it doesn't mean that it was wanted in any way. so while the kids are at school i guess that i will clean the house that they completely trashed while they were home. this should really be a new goal for the year too but i guess that i will have to fall under the organizing one, because that is what i really need to make this house look good. time to do some decluttering. i hate clutter drives me crazy. anyway until next time have a good day

pictures

DAY 1: Happy New Year!!! hanging out with family and eatting. something we are very good at.

DAY 2: this is what our back door window looked like today. the kids thought that the ice looked like trees. this is how cold it has been.

DAY 3: sammy is hanging out in the drawer. he finds the funniest places to crawl into.

picture issues

okay so i had issues with the camera yesterday that is why no picture was put up im hoping to work on that today. we really need a new camera but niether phill or i want to get just a simply one so we need to save our money to make the purchase. the one we really really want is a canon rebel eso(?). so that we can learn how to use the different lens and i would really like to take a photography class at the college. i have lots of different things on blogs and the internet that have been really useful with taking pictures, but again it is the camera. im sure that if i could find the manual for our current camera that maybe i could learn how to change up the settings and do all the different things that i read about but finding that manual in my house may be like finding a needle.
we got kay a camera for christmas this year she is so excited about it. she is taking pictures all of the time. she is always getting the candid shots of people. she is really wanting to get into scrapbooking more now that she has all of these pictures. i think that now we may need to get a good printer so that we can print out all of the pictures. maybe if we ever get that new camera we will get a nice photo printer too.
hy got a flip camera from us this year. that one is more annoying because he is always recording us with it. so watch out you may see us on youtube. working on the camera today so that i can post my pictures later