Ornaments

Our family tradition is that the first Monday after the tree is put up we go out for Family Home Evening and the kids all get to pick out a new ornament. Here are the new ones for this year:

Laundry, Laundry, Laundry...

Why is there always laundry to do? I guess we all like to be clean. :)

For those of you who didn't/don't know. We got a new washer and dryer on Black Friday. Almost as long as we have been living here we have had a problem with the dryer. Clothes kept getting caught in the drum, so we would have burned spots on clothes and I can't tell you how many snaps I have lost off of onsies with them getting caught. So, it's been on our list for awhile. As we were looking at Black Friday ads for Sears we saw a front load washer and dryer set for $600. How could we pass this up when that's basically what it normally would cost us for just the dryer?!


So, here I was with a new washer and dryer that is HE (High Efficency) and I didn't know much about them. So after doing some research and having a ton of laundry to do, I ran to the store to get some HE detergent to use NOW. I also picked up some other things in order to make laundry detergent. I had read that it was great because of the low sudsing, which is the big thing with HE washers. After I got home I got my laundry going and found that I was enjoying my very quiet machines!!

Things were good and a couple of days later I decided to try one of the homemade recipes I had found. I got it all mixed together and I was very interested in try it and seeing how it works. I ran a couple of loads and things are looking great!! It was exciting to do something that worked and know that I won't have to make any more for awhile. We'll see how long this little jar lasts me.


I also bought some laundry deteregent from a WAHM that has essential oils in it to give it a different smell. I'm excited to get it and try it out. I'll let you know how that goes. Anyway, that is an update from what's going on around here right now.

Thanksgiving!

So we headed to St. George for Thanksgiving this year to share with my mom's family. We headed down on Wednesday and came home on Saturday. We had a good time being with family. There are 60+ of us now and so we had our turkey dinner in the church. It turned out nice and the kids were able to play in the nursery so that helped too. While we were there we also had a cousins night and the older generation tended the youngest generation. Thank you all for doing that!! It was nice to catch up with the cousins and spend time without little ones. :) One of my cousins taught a few of us how to make tutus. It turned out to be a lot of fun and I might have to make some more to remember how. :)

Here are some pictures of the weekend. I always wish I had more of some things, but I guess that's just how it goes...

So, I guess most of the pictures I have are from playing "Do you like your neighbor?"

Name Decision

So, here we are thinking of names for this next little boy. I think I am the one with the problem. Nothing is standing out well enough for me. So, I thought I would get some other thoughts on the subject. Don't feel bad if we don't use the name you like, because there's a good chance things will change in the next few months. :)

So far, I'm thinking that it might be in the hospital in the last few minutes before we leave that we (I) can decide on something. Why does the name game have to be so hard? Or why does it have to feel like a game at all? Oh well, good luck to us. If you have other ideas for us feel free to post them in a comment and I can add them to the poll.

Have a happy day everyone!!

Happy Birthday Brigit!!

We now have a 1 year old little girl. It's crazy how fast time goes. She has changed so much. I'm so glad to have a little girl that I will get to share with as she grows.

We had a little birthday party for her at my parent's home and invited her aunts and uncles. She had a ton of gifts and towards the end, she started getting tired of it all. Here are some pictures of the event.

Happy Halloween!!

I have a ton of updating to do, so we'll just do it all today. I was loving all the Halloween posts that I have seen and I've been sad because I had left my camera at my parents house and I ended up buying a disposible one. So, when I get those pictures developed I will have even more, but until then. Here are some pictures of our fun Halloween Costumes.

Ben as Peter Pan

Charlie as Buzz Lightyear

Brigit as Tinker BellThe Whole Family Wendy, Peter Pan, Buzz, Cpt. Hook, and Tinker Bell

I asked Charlie if he wanted to be a pirate (fit the obvious theme) and he said "Buzz Pirate" I decided that Buzz was what he really wanted. So, the 3 kids could "fly"!!

We were able to go up North and get donuts and go trick-or-treating with cousins. We haven't done that for 2 yrs, so it was a nice change. We got tons of candy and I think I'm eating it all. I have such a sweet tooth, sugar should be banned from my house. :)

It was great to see family and friends and maybe we can come up again next year!

I WON!!

You know all those people that win stuff and you think "I never win anything." Well, I can now say that the tables have turned a bit and I have won two things.

I'm a nerd and I get started on some odd things via emails. Well, I signed up on this website http://www.iwon.com and I started participating in these little spin 2 win type games. There are two and my kids think it's fun to click on it and watch it spin around. Well, one day Ben was clicking it and he says "Look mom, something has happened." I look up and there is this thing asking me for my information because I had won $50. Pretty cool.

It's been about 2 yrs ago now that I was introduced to this website http://www.ipodsweepstakes.com. While there I was able to earn a free ipod (Mike got it for Christmas a couple years ago) and then one day, checking my email. I get one that says "You won" I was shocked and opened it up. They hold drawings everyday for a free 1GB ipod shuffle. Well, I was the winner from that day before.

Isn't it ironic sometimes how things happen. I think I'm still shocked about it.

FYI: I have already received the $50 check and I'm now waiting for the ipod shuffle, but they do have me listed in their winners circle.