Pack Meeting

Last night Kaleb got his first award at Pack Meeting last night since he has been in scouts. He earned 2 beads for his Progress towards rank award. He was so excited, he was supposed to be awarded with his Bobcat award last night but didnt get that, because his leader forgot to mention to me that I had an application to fill out! So needless to say he didnt get the Bobcat, and was disappointed but next month he will have it and more!

I'm so proud him and how much he has taken to this program! He wants to work on his goals to get his patches and is always wanting to help out with things now to earn more and more awards!

Keep up the good work buddy! Love you much!

This is Kaleb and his award attached to his shirt!

Tagged~!

Here are the rules:
1) post the answers on your blog
2) Answer the six "8" items
3) Let each person know by leaving them a comment (BTW,
this one might not happen for me before you read it on here)
P.S. Non of my lists are in order

8 FAVORITE TV SHOWS
1. Ghost Whisperer
2. John and Kate + 8
3. Criminal Minds
4. Diner's, Drive-ins, and Dives
5. CSI - Vegas!
6. Army Wives
7. Rock of Love
8. Property Virgins

8 THINGS I DID YESTERDAY
1. Went to work - for too dang long!
2. Had dinner w/ Kaleb
3. Registered my new CAR! :)
4. Crocheted
5. Laundry
6. Started to watch American Idol(part of it)
7. Laughed at Kaleb (he is too funny!)
8. Slept (sweet !)

8 THINGS I LOOK FORWARD TO
1. The weekend (rest?) ha ha
2. The USU Hockey game on Friday!
3. Getting to go home tonight and chill
4. Pack meeting tomorrow night
5. Seeing my friend Kelli Jo
6. Seeing my Gram soon!
7. Spring - yes even I am tired of the snow at this point!
8. Crafting fun gifts!

FAVORITE RESTAURANTS
1. Joe's Crab Shack - is there any other?
2. Chili's
3. Fredrico's
4. The Factory
5. The Olive Garden
6. Applebee's
7. Cafe Sabor
8. El Sol (Kaleb's favorite)

8 THINGS ON MY WISH LIST
1. To not have to work for someone else everyday
2. Financial Freedom
3. Italy w/ Jo (and whoever else comes)
4. That Kaleb will grow up slower
5. Getting my Master's degree
6. A house
7. To get better at de cluttering my house?
8. To be healthy.

8 PEOPLE I TAG (same answer as Jo)
1. Only
2. the
3. people
4. who
5. want
6. to
7. join
8. in

My New (used) Car!!!!

I finally broke down and bought a new (to me) car last week, I have been driving the 90 Merc Sable for a couple of years, and while that car has been a good car.....Im DONE with it.

This car is a 1997 Chrysler Cirrus, green exterior and tan interior. I was able to purchase it with this years tax return, and I am SO excited to have it~!!

I was going to go today to register and license it, but we are in the middle of a FREAKIN blizzard!!! I am so NOT going out in this.. so I will have to wait yet another day to drive the new car!!! :(

Anyway.. I am excited and that is the most recent news that we have to share at this point.

Fun Times!

I havent blogged for a while, so I thought I would catch up! Last weekend we attended the USU Hockey games both Friday and Saturday nights! They are the best games especially when we win(Firday night) and even if we lose (Saturday night). Saturday night my sister Angie and her "boys" her hubby Don and their sons, Elliott and Trenten went with us. We had a blast! Trenten (9 months) clapped for the first time and he was so pleased with himself~! He is so dang cute I want to chew on him! When it came time to throw ding dongs into the crowd, Elliott took off like a bat and almost had one, but he and another little boy fought over it and the other little boy got it... Elliott cried so hard it broke my heart! So when the next ding dong came flyin up in the stands I jumped up and tried to catch one, it fell on the floor behind my chair, well the guy behind me started to go for it so I just flipped around to grab it and almost knocked myself out by hitting my head on the corner of my chair! OH my... what a game!

Below are some of the pix from that night.



This is Trenten

Elliott and the ding dong!

Me and Angie- what weirdo's we are!

New things...

So Kaleb turned 8 at the end of November and he decided that he wanted to start scouts. So even though I said he wouldnt ever be a scout.. here he is a scout. He has taken to this program with great enthusiam! He is learning all the new things that he needs to so that he can get his Bobcat badge and move onto his wolf.

He wants it all to happen right now! He tries so hard to memorize what he needs to ... its cute. He is pretty cute in his uniform!

Keep up the good work buddy! Love you tons!

My first time.... crafting on my own(sort of)

Ok so I did it!! I made the attempt at crafting on my own. I must say that I didnt do it all alone, I got the idea from my supervisor Melissa- and lots of text questions to Jo and - TA DA! Its done. I gave this shelf and these pix to Jo and UB for Christmas....and I must say.. Im rather impressed with them. ;)

The pix hanging from the shelf are of all of their kids, Miss Kadee in the pink flowered frame, Hunter in the dotted frame, Miss Taylor in the frame with pink swirls, and Joni and UB's baby, Max!!

I just hope that they like them as much as I liked making it for them. I now have the bug and plan on doing many more projects... so get ready for the texts Jo!!! Love ya much..

Christmas and Family

We had the first family Christmas party with out my grandpa last Saturday, and while the day was a hard one, we all still had a good time. We all brought a dollar store gift wrapped for the game of Bingo(which I have discovered I have NO luck in) the kids had a great time playing and winning.. much to my chagrin since it took me FOREVER to get Bingo~! It was alot of fun.

My grandma and aunt Kelly picked up 2 gingerbread houses on sale for the kids to put together, the boys against the girls.. this is a pix of Kaleb, Grayson and James getting ready to build a house. They had the help of Skyelor and her friend ... and Rachael was helping the girls.... Needless to say.. the boys house fell .. might be in part to Elliott "sneaking" fingers of frosting.. or it could be because Skyelor and her friend couldnt get the hang of the frosting.. whatever the reason, the boys house crumbled while the girls house was absolutely adorable. I unfortunately dont have pix of that house but it looked as a gingerbread house should.

Then we all sat down and had dinner so that we could get to the "opening of the gifts"! The kids were so excited that once they had the go ahead the paper flew, kids diappeared, cries of delight were heard but couldnt see which kid was happy! My nephew opened his slowly and when he saw that it was batteries he screamed " Batteries? Batteries? who gave me batteries?????" LOL! My grandma was prepared and gave batteries as part of the boys gifts.

So much fun to get together with family that is still growing! I love you all very much and am ever so grateful to have you in my life and to get to call you family is a blessing!

My Christmas wish this year will be that anyone reading this will hug their family just a little closer and for just a little longer this year. That you will never let a day go by without telling your family how much they mean to you, its been a year of loss in my family as well as others around me this year, I just hope that everyone who is in my life knows how BLESSED I am to have them!



Merry Christmas to you all, hope its a great one! Love you much!

Work Christmas Party and the Sweater Vest!

So, this is my boss Dave. It has come to the attention of those working here at Conservice that Dave hates.. absolutely HATES sweater vests, much to the delight of those in our accounting department that continue to wear them just because he feels that way! Well at the company Christmas party last week, those faithful sweater vest wearers all wore their sweater vests and then actually had the nerve to present Dave with his own mongrammed sweater vest! It was fantastic! Dave was a good sport about it, put the vest on and walked around and modeled it~ which is when I snapped the pix with him posing. Then he made the comment that this would be the ONLY time anyone saw a sweater vest on him.... WRONG!!! cuz here he is in all his glory~!

It was good time had by all at the party, I thought the food was good.. the company was superub! I had a great date for the dinner (even though I felt like crap) it was a great time!!!

Cant wait until next year!

Picture Day!

Kaleb was 4 the last time we had pictures taken of us(other than the ones family has taken)together. We made an appointment with Michelle Hansen to get our pix done. It was fantastic weather just the perfect temperature! We met out by the park and ride in logan proceeded to take picture after picture. Kaleb proceeded to talk Trace's ear off!! :) Ahhh kids..
I have to say that I was worried that I wouldnt like the pictures(cuz I never do if I am in them) but I was so surprised at how much I LOVED them!!!
I am going to post a couple of us that I love. I would totally recommend Michelle to anyone looking to get pictures taken!!! She has a blog http://www.photographybymichelleh.blogspot.com/ check her out!!
Thanks Michelle and Trace so much for the time spend on the pictures! You guys rock!!
I had a hard time choosing my favorite between the ones of us together, but the one of Kaleb! I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE it! I like all of the edits that she did on this one!

Happy Birthday Kiddo!!!

Ok, so I wasnt near a computer on Friday 11/28 and I was really busy on Wed.. so that being said I want to take just a minute to wish my son Kaleb a very Happy Happy Birthday!!!
He wanted to have his cousin Grayson come up and stay the weekend and go bowling with a couple of friends.. which we did and he had a blast! I have pictures, but alas, the camera is now in Yuma AZ with grandma. I will put some up when she gets back.
For Kaleb's birthday present from me, I changed the decorations in his room from the jungle that he had to a TOTAL Skatebording room. I was able to get this great bedspread in the spring, and I found some great skateboarding vinyl clings for his walls since we cant paint! He stayed at my moms on Thanksgiving night and I went home and put his room together... then I went and picked him up on Friday and took him home to see his present! Which he loved! When he showed it off to Grayson, Grayson told him man! your so lucky!!! Kaleb was like yeah I am dude! It was great.
Anyway! I just wanted to take a minute and tell anyone who reads this how much I love my son, and how grateful I am to be his mom. I know without a doubt that I was born so that I could be his mom! He constantly says things that make me laugh, and sometimes cry, but thats life and we all learn. I have never regretted having him and give thanks to God every single day that I get to keep him and love him!
I will post pix of his room and the bowling party when I have the camera back.