cool mom

kay told us last night that all of her friends were talking at school and they thought that it was funny that their moms liked some of the same songs that they listen to. i guess that kay spoke up and said that her mom, me, listens to the same radio station that they listen and they said to her that i didn't count because i was cool. phill thought that this was hilarious and said that he was definitely going to have to have a talk with all these girls and set them straight. it is nice to know that other kids think so but i think that my own think that i'm just a big dork!

OMG....i has been a month

i can't believe that it has been a month now since my last post. life has just been busy and i haven't taken the time to sit down and write on my blog. tons of things have happened in the past month i guess that i will try and update on some of them.

1. this sweet baby girl turned 12 on me. where did the time go. she is now in young womens and is so happy to be there. i have a friend who just had a baby girl and i was holding her on kay's birthday and feeling very sad that my baby girl is growing up. i guess this just means new experiances but i think i miss the sweet little girl.

2. phill is enjoying the new job. he went for training this last week and was even more excited about word when he got back.

3. kids have been back to school for a week now. i'm so happy. now i don't have to listen to "mom, i'm bored" all day. they have friends so i don't see why they just don't go and play. it's not like i never let them leave the house or anything. and it has been really nice up here this last week or so. it makes me think that spring will be here soon and i know in my head that winter is not over and that we will be getting more snow but i look out the window and it makes me think that spring is here.

4. i made a really cute blanket and soft blocks for my friend's new baby but i forgot to get pictures of them so that i could post and share but everyone there said that they where really cute and they couldn't believe that i had made them they were really super easy. the quilt was similar to the one that i made for kay earlier. and the blocks i found on the internet here i use pinks and greens and some of the material had ladybugs on them they were really cute now i'm kicking myself for not getting a picture.

5. planning kay's birthday party. she is having a sleepover party. for her invites we make little pillow cases from material and them we sewed two pieces of cardstock together with stuffing in the middle so that they looked like pillows and put all of the information on there. slid them into the little pillow cases and that is the invite. really easy and kay did most of the sewing on them. she is getting in to sewing alot lately. she is always raiding the material in my room and making barbie clothes. back to the planning, not to sure exactly what we are going to do but i do know that she had invited 12 girls over. what am i thinking? all the boys have opted to leave for the night so it will just be me here with them all night. fun, huh?

6. thought that maybe i would share a couple of new sites that i found that have been inpiring lately. here is the first one love her pictures. i really need to start working on my photography more i think. and here is the other one i love her pictures too and i love the lettering projects too. i thought that both of these sites have some great eye candy and since i'm not eating any more candy i need to get it from somewhere right?

7. we have decided to go on this clean eating diet. we make everything now and are only eating whole foods. we will eat lean meat, like chicken and fish, lots of tofu, and veggies. it means that i need to go shopping a lot more now because we need the fresh stuff and you can't stock up for a month on that. and we need to plan a head more so that we don't waste a lot of food. it has been really hard at first but i'm hoping that as we get into it that it will get easier. we are only doing it for a year but you never know we made decide that we like it and keep it up. that won't be such a bad thing i guess. here is the book that we are going from it really is interesting and the food had been really good so far. the kids don't seem to mind it even except for jeh but it is hard to get him to eat anything anyways.

i think that is pretty much all that is happening around here right now. one of my goals for the year is to stay more on top of writing on here. well i haven't been doing so well so far but i'm hoping to do better from here on out.

hovey happenings

okay tons going on around here lately.
1. phill has got a new job. working on the atm's was really stressful for many different reasons so we got a new job. he is now the guest servicies manager at the lethbridge lodge. it is a really nice hotel in town. he will be in charge of the front desk area and anything that has to do with makeing the guests happy. it pays better and he won't have to be on call anymore. which is a good thing.

2. i was put in as the 2nd counselor of the young womens in our ward. super excited about this but a little scared at the same time. i haven't been in young womens since i was in high school and a lot has changed since then. did you know that they added a line to the theme. well i didn't and i was thrown for a loop on sunday when we recited it. kay will be in there after the first of the year and that is exciting also, but i look at the girls in there and i think that my little girl is just not old enough to be in there yet.

3. christmas shopping we are actually getting it done early. i only have a few more presents to buy and we are planning on doing that today. and i have them wrapped and under the tree. i think this will be the last year for santa. the kids are just getting to old now but jeh still has a little glimmer that he is out there so we needed to do it this year again.

4. we had a very wonderful surprise on thursday night. we were pixed by some family. the door knocked and of course the dogs went nuts so when we got to the door no one was there but a box of goodies. lots of candy, a gingerbread house to make, some oranges, a gift certificate to tony roma's for $60, and three $50 gift certificates for walmart. it was really nice and made us all feel really good.

anyway that is about all that is happening around here now. love ya all

christmas tree

here is our christmas tree. i totally love it. it just makes me happy to look at it. the last picture is a bit dark but it is on ornament that kay made. counting down the days with an advent calendar and we have to do a different activity each day. yesterday was to decorate the tree. tonight we have to make a list of 100 things we are grateful for maybe if i remember i'll post it on here so you can all see what we are thankful for.

happy thanksgiving

happy thanksgiving to all of my american friends and family.

i'm feeling a little bummed about not being able to be with family this holiday. we are going to try to have a dinner up here maybe i will invite some friends over and it will be nice. but i'm not buying a turkey now they are way too spendy. it was like 50 bucks just for one and it wasn't even that big of a turkey. they just aren't on sale this time of year up here i should have bought one in october and kept it in the freezer. oh well i quess that i will know for next year. the kids have the day after off of school but i think that we will just have an evening dinner i don't think that i have ever had a thanksgiving day dinner past 2:00pm it makes it seem more like a fancy dinner but you can't have one of those with kids running around. i have got a ton of christmas projects done and i'm hoping to have the rest finished by the first of december so that we can decorate the house. i already started to put up some things. the camera is dead right now but as soon as i can get it charged up today i'll try to remember to take pictures of my favorite christmas decoration that i made this year. more later

just checking in

we finally got snow this weekend but it isn't staying around for long and we didn't get a whole bunch of it. it is really funny because this year we are actually looking forward to the snow. we got the yard all cleaned on saturday just in time for the snow. we made through halloween with some nice weather and now we are ready for the snow so it can start to feel wintery and more like christmas. although i've never really grown up with snow for christmas. it much be all of the movies and tv shows that show that snow and christmas go together. i noticed yesterday in the store that they are already playing christmas music while you shop. now i love christmas music but it does seem a little bit early. then again maybe not we do have less than 60 days for christmas. need to get all of my christmas stuff done better start working faster and stop playing on the computer so much. so if i am even worse at blogging than i already am don't worry i haven't disappeared just busy with the christmas stuff. i try though to update as often as i can remember.

halloween costumes

here are halloween pictures
Hy was a character from an anime show that he watches. i think that his name miruko or something like that.



















kay was of course the corpse bride. i think that her costume turned out pretty good everyone really liked it and she didn't have to tell anyone what she was so that has to tell you that we did a good job on it right.


















here is the only picture i got of jeh because he decided that he was going to take off that night and wasn't around to get a picture of him later. it is a bit blurry because he wouldn't hold still long enough for me to take this picture.
this is a picture of my friends family they obviously went with the wizard of oz theme this year last year they did shrek. thought that they were really fun.