For the Love of Christ is the ONLY Reason!

So I have been struggling lately with wanting to go to church. It's not because I don't want to be there or because of my belief wavering or anything like that. I have a scalp problem which I am on prescriptions medicine for. Because of my condition I am losing some hair and the medicine is extremely oily and I have to put it on 4 times a day. So if I need to go out anywhere I have to wear a scarf or bandanna. This is embarrassing for me because I am very self conscious of how I look.
I had decided to not go to church until I was all done with this, I am sure my Heavenly Father would be ok with it, he is understanding. But when I was telling my sister about my decision, she told me not to let this stop me from doing the things that I love. I pondered that for quite a while.
I do not go to church because of the other people. I go to church because I love my savior! I go to church to learn about him and to learn to be more like him. I love my saviour with all my heart, he is the reason I go.
I know that Heavenly Father loves me and I know that he won't give me anything I can't handle. It's up to me how I take it, I can either get depressed and lock myself up so no can see me and possibly become an ugly person from this (on the inside) or I can better myself from it. Maybe it'll help me learn to not be so self conscious of other people and do things for me, not them. I went to church today with that perspective in mind, to go for myself and what a rewarding experience I had! Our lesson was actually about that too, so wonderful for me to hear, I loved it!!! I need to always remember to do things for my saviour and Heavenly Father, not for my own selfish desires or others.
I just want everyone to know that I love my Heavenly Father and my Saviour! I know that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is the true church here on earth today. I know that families can be together forever and I love that! I always want to be with my family, that is such a comforting thing to know that I can. Our Heavenly Father loves us so much and wants us all to be with him again and can't wait to have us with him. Because of our saviour, Jesus Christ, we can return to him! He has pathed the path to help us get there, but it's up to us wither or not we will. He is my light in dark times, he has never forsaken me, I love him for that!
I leave this with you in the name of thy son, Jesus Christ. Amen.

***Christmas morning when I arrived at my sisters house, my mom, all my sisters, and my niece were wearing bandannas too! They showed me just how much they loved me by doing this, I love them so much for that! Thanks to my Heavenly Father I have a very loving and wonderful family who stands by me. They mean so much to me, I just love them!!! :)

Just got done editing our most recent pictures and want to share them with you. Hope you enjoy!

Here Comes Santa!

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Christmas, as my little Ezzy keeps reminding me, is only 4 days away! Were did the time go? It seems like after Thanksgiving time just fast forwards to Christmas, not enough time to do everything you want to do. I am terrible when it comes to being organized with getting everything I want done. Like Christmas cards for example, I get them started every year, but I rarely ever finish them. But I did this year, they will be sent out tomorrow. Really late, I know, but it's the thought that counts and trying right! I hope everyone agrees with that, or I am in trouble.

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Every morning when Ezzy wakes up she has to take a chain off of her chain link for the Christmas count down, then she changes the number on our block one. She is so excited for Christmas and so are the boys. They keep talking about Santa and what he'll maybe get them. At the doctors today Cian informed the dr that he wants 2 transformers from Santa, I told him that he asked Santa for only one. He then said that "I changed my mind and Santa WILL bring me 2!" The dr just looked at me and started laughing, uh oh, what am I going to do now, I know Santa will only be bringing one for him. But that's ok, I'll just tell him that another little boy needed one too, it's not fair to have more than your share.

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This is our first year to actually be good with money and get kids nice gifts. But we just realized that we kind of went a little over board. I really get into the giving spirit and that wasn't so good this year. I don't want my kids to get a lot for Christmas and expect that every year. So next year we will be paying more attention to that. We only do three presents from Santa, but have never had to put a limit from Dad and Mom, but starting next year we will be. But we need to figure that one out now, so any suggestions would be nice.

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Every year we like to go pick out Christmas Angels, as we call them and let the kids help us choose gifts for them. This year however my sister was in need and we were able to help her family out. That was so fun to do! This year for Christmas I am making my family a Angel Jar to put extra money into through out the year. I am hoping that the kids will get involved with putting money in it and learn that giving is so much better than receiving. Next year I am hoping to be able to help three kids and then 3 seniors, that will be our goal. Who knows, maybe with the money jar we could do more, that would be great!

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This year we have discovered that Cian LOVES Santa! He ran right up to him both times that we've seen him. He even snuck a second turn at our ward party, not shy at all! Iollan was falling right behind his big brother, I don't think he really knew what was going on, but he was right there with his big brother! Ezzy on the other hand was shy and very reluctant to see him. It's so funny though because she is always talking about Santa and waves wildly at him, but when she gets to go see him, she gets shy and wants to hide instead. She did that both times we saw him. The first time she stood and talked to him from a safe distance. The second time she waited in a long line with all the other kids and then when it was finally her turn, she left and came to me instead. I was able to walk with her, reluctantly, and got her to stand by him for a picture, but I has to stay with her the whole time she said. Cian then ran up and sat on Santa's lap again to get his picture with Santa too! So someone fetched Iolly and we had an incomplete family picture with Santa, Dad was left out cause he was taking pictures too.

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Accidental Crazy Kids!!!

My kids are accidents waiting to happen tonight! I was at my sister's house making cookies with her and Cian decided to try and be silly on a chair and fell off. He fell hard and right onto her metal heater, he cried so hard and had some instant bruising on his elbow with a hard lump that formed and it is bright red still (this happened like 30-40 minutes ago too). Poor kid. And then on our way out Ezzy was goofing off with her cousin and smacked the back of her hand right onto the corner of a cabinet. So she now has three scratch marks on her hand from that, she was a bawling as we walked home. Then right after we took our coats off and I was getting settled in to check my e-mail and stuff, Ezzy decided to run in the hallway (a big no-no in the house) and tripped on her own feet and crashed right into the wall. The side of her face is scraped up and she injured her ear too. This has all happened within the last 45 minutes now, so hopefully there will be no more for the night, crossing my fingers now!

Last night I decided to treat my family to a nice dinner, so we went to the Texas Road House. I love that place! The prices are not that bad, you get great food, the hostess and waitresses/waiters are all so full of energy and so helpful. We always have a great experience there and the kids love it too. Their favorite part is when the waitresses line up to dance. The kids always stand up in their seats and joins along, it is so cute! If we would let him, I'm sure Iollan would be right there with the dancers and dancing with them. Cian danced too, but I was kind of concerned about his dancing methods! He was trying too hard to dance like the girls, it was funny though! He had his little hands on his hips and shaking his hips just like them, I wish I had a vidoe camera on me. So hopefully the next time we go I will have one and then I can share it with everyone else.
Oh ya, another cute thing that happened. Just as we got seated and our waitress came to get us drinks, Cian informed her that he was a boy! He just smiled at her and said, "I am a boy." It was so funny, we laughed a good while, just out of the blue and for know apparent reason, just to make sure she knew that I guess. I just love my little boy! :)

Another Good Laugh!

On the way home tonight Cian asked us were the sun was and Chet told him, on the other side of the earth. Cian replied: "Oh, on the otherside by the volcano! Ok" haha
Not sure were he came up with that one, but we agreed with him. lol

My Little Superman, Cian!

Last night I thought that Cian had broken his toe, but thankfully he did not. I'm not exactly sure what happened, I was in the bathroom with my little Iolly cleaning him up from dessert and I heard a little crash. I guess Cian decided to carry our wooden stool into the kitchen and dropped it or something. I looked at his foot cause that's what he said hurt and then lectured him when I saw that his foot was fine. Right after I lectured him I looked at his foot again and noticed his toe was swollen! It was 3 times it's size and purple! It looks deformed and I was freaked out about it. I knew that taking him to the ER would only cost me $$ and do absolutely nothing for him, so I didn't take him in. I had him lay down and gave him some tylenol for the pain. He cried for only 5 minutes, that's it! I know that I would have been crying and in pain for a lot longer than that! But not my little superman, he is tough! After about 15 minutes of laying there he got up and was playing again. He didn't seemed phased by it at all, crazy kid! lol

When he woke up I looked at it again and it looked so much better! The swelling had gone down and the bruising wasn't as bad. It still looks a little deformed, but I think that it's just from the swelling. He has not complained about it once today, such a tough kid!

Ezzy's 1st report card!!!!

I got Ezzy's first report card today and it was AWESOME! I am so very proud of her! She is the youngest in her class and is doing great! I was worried about putting her in so young, I was told to wait or that she will have to repeat it again. But I felt like she needed to go and that she was ready. I am glad that I did now, she is having a blast and is even a little ahead in some areas! Every day when she gets home she is asking to do homework and gets mad if she is unable to cause we are too busy that day. She has one area that she needs to work a little harder on and that is rhyming, so we'll be working more on that now. I just love that she loves school, everyone keeps telling me that it is just a phase and that she'll soon grow out of it. But I really hope not, I loved school and so did Chet, so hopefully she will continue to have a positive attitude for it.

GOOD JOB EZZY, I AM SO PROUD OF YOU AND I LOVE YOU SO MUCH!!!

A Quick Blog Laugh! hahahahaha..................

This part isn't so funny, but it's part of the story!
Cian was injured tonight, possibly broken a toe, so I gave him some Tylenol to help out with the pain. So Iolly decided that he wanted some medicine and hit his head so that he had an owie too. But I told him no, I'm not giving him medicine for nothing, silly kid!
While putting Ezzy to bed she needed some Tylenol cause she has a bad canker sore she's been dealing with. So Iolly again wanted some medicine, this time he cried and said that his mouth hurt too. lol
So I gave him some vitamins since I forgot to give them earlier and thought that he would be ok with that. He then wanted to finish his dinner, so we let him have it and he bit his tongue! He started crying, so I looked at it. It was bleeding a bit, and I asked him if he was ok. His response; "medicine!" LOL

I HATE SPIDERS!!! Aaarrrggghhhh...........help me!

I have no idea why, but I really hate spiders! I haven't always been this way though, ask any of my sisters and they'll agree. I used to catch spiders in the house and then release them outside. I used them for targets in our old shed with my wrest rocket (those are so cool by the way). One of my favorite movies was arachnophobia, I watched that show all the time, just loved it!

So I am really baffled as to why I hate them so much now. Seriously when I see one, I get sick to my stomach, especially if Chet is not home because I know that I have to take care of it.
Then I usually make some sort of scene and the kids get curious and of course ask what's going on. Oh, boy, how embarrassing to tell them it's a spider Mommy or Auntie Jamie is freaking out about. I don't want them to have fears because of me.

So what made me decide that I wanted to write about them? I had to get rid of one just a little while ago! I was cooking lunch and for some reason I decided to look up, and what did I see? A huge black jumping spider looking at me!!! Ok, it probably wasn't looking at me. But it was right above me and my food, no Chet around to save me either! The kids are playing, minding their own business, so I decided that I needed to take some immediate action, hoping not to get their attention of my foolishness. So I took my food to the table, it was done cooking thank goodness and watched that icky spider to see witch way it was going to go. I realized that I had some awesome bug spray, so I grabbed it and went in for the kill! It was on the ceiling and I saw it drop onto the shelf of my cabinets, I figured, oh ya, it's gone! Chet can clean it up when he gets home. So I was getting ready to dish up the food and looked again (I always look like 100 times to make sure that those scary spiders are really gone), but to my horror I saw it again! It was crawling on the side of my cabinet this time. So I grabbed my bug spray again and went in for the kill a second time! Well, I should have seen this coming, but I didn't, it decided to drop. You know, the whole spread their legs as far as they can to make themselves look bigger and badder and I'm going to get you thing, ya it did that and I screamed, jumped back off of the chair I was standing on and ran into my dog which scared us both cause I almost fell down. Then it landed on the counter right next to my drink (yuck) and tried to crawl away. But I wasn't going to let it get away, no way, not this time! So I grabbed a wad of tissues and smashed it, then I threw it into the trash, but just to make sure I really did kill it, I sprayed it again, and just one more time for self comfort. Then I realized that I did get the kids attention and they wanted to know what was going on? How silly I must have been over a silly spider that I am so much bigger than. I told them that it was a silly spider and Mommy/Auntie Jamie was a silly head for being so noisy to get rid of it.

So my friends, how do you handle spiders? Anyone have any insight onto why I might have this crazy fear of spiders, anyone? I think that I might really need some help. They make me so sick to think about and if I have a nightmare, spiders are always in them! If I think that a spider is going to be somewhere, I have Chet check it out first! I am scared of my bathroom and it's so silly! When my parents lived in this trailer I ran into a couple of spiders in it, but since we've lived in it, I've seen none. But I still remember exactly were I saw them and am afraid they'll be there again, crazy huh! I will even try to avoid areas for as long as I can if I recently killed a spider there or Chet did. I can spot one anywhere, even if it blends in with something, I can spot it out in a heart beat, Chet just laughs at me and tells me I'm crazy, he's probably right too!

What do you think, am I?

And The Winner Is:

This is really late, but I thought that some of you would like to know if we won any of the pet constests we entered. YES! We did! Infact we won a place at both stores! When we got the calls, we were very surprised by both of the winners. I thought for sure that Beth would have one at least one of them, but she did not, not one! Crazy huh? Everyone I talked to told me that they thought that she would win cause they loved her costume, but that's not what happened. Then I was hoping that Sharcha the Ice Cream Cone might have a better chance than the rest, but maybe that was because she was my personal favorite, but she didn't win either. Ok, I guess I really should be telling who DID win istead of who DIDN'T!
And the winners are:

First place for the McKees in Pocatello was........

TIM THE BAT!

And third place for the McKees in Chubbuck was.........

OLIVIA THE GARDEN FAIRY!

First place prize was $25 gift card and third place won us a $10 card as well. Not too shabby huh? That was soooo fun, I can't wait till next year to do it again!

Parry's Halloween 2009!

Happy Halloween Everyone!

We are late with these, as usual, but I finally got them on here! The family pics were done today, I realized that we didn't take any as planned, what a crazy day yesterday was! The only difference is that we didn't color our hair today, didn't want to miss with that again!

We went to a total of 3 Halloween parties this year, the kids had a blast at each one, well Ezzy and Cian did. Iolly has been sick all week with a nasty cold, so he only wen out last night.

We hung out with Erica and her two boys (the transformers) for most of the day. We took the kids to Pizza Hut for dinner and they loved that. Later Chet and Erica took the kids trick or treating, I stayed at my mom's with Iolly since he still wasn't feeling too well, poor kid!

During the day we dressed up all our animals and took pictures for the local pet contest. I am so proud of the costumes, I made them all! It took a lot of time for them, but it was worth it in the end. Hopefully we can win, last year we won second place with our beloved white rat, SnowWhite. I just love creating costumes, they are so much fun!

I made all the warlock costumes for my boys this year, but I did cheat with mine and Ezzy's though. I had boughten her witch one last year, it was too big and I didn't think that I was really going to use it. But while on ebay I came across the same exact one but in my size, I bought it and we got to wear the same exact dress! She was so excited, as was I, 2 less costumes for me to make! lol Then I found the identical witches hat at Good Wills, so that was nice too! We all had orange hair for the night, the kids thought that was so cool!

When we were pretty much done with our outing, Ezzy decided to inform me of some great news! Christmas is coming soon Mom! Yikes, she shouldn't know that yet, should she? Then Cian piped in and stated that Santa will be bringing them presents! Who tells them this stuff? I know that I haven't, I've been trying to keep that one quiet till a wee bit later, oh well, too late now! lol

It's Been A While

It's been a while since I last posted.  Here's a list of things that has happened since;

* Chet applied and got accepted into an online college, he will be starting November 2nd.

* Iollan has turned into a mischievous monster all of a sudden, he is into everything times 3!

* Cian has clogged my toilet twice in one week, didn't know who did it the first time but was caught red handed the second time.  He decided that he could use a whole NEW package of wipes in the toilet, what a mess that was.  My parents have decided to let us keep the snake in our house till they need it since obviously we're the ones in need of it.

* We are dressing up for Halloween as a family this year.  We are being witches and warlocks.  We found a cute little dress for Ezzy, then while on Ebay I found the same exact one in my size, so my wonderful husband let me buy it!  So Ezzy and I will look alike and Chet and the boys will look a like too, I'm making their costumes.  I'm so excited for this!

* I'm planning a Halloween party with a good friend of mine.  We are having it at her house, what fun stuff we have planned out for it!

* Our local pet shop has a Pet Costume Contest, we are still trying ti figure out what to dress all our animals as.  Last year our white rat won 2nd place, so we are hoping to win one of the 3 places again this year.  I'm having trouble coming up with ideas for all of our pets so if you have any suggestions, please let me know!  We have our dog Beth, 3 cats (Fat Elmo, Sneezy Tim, and Sarafina), then we have our two chinchillas (Sorcha and Olivia).  

* Our lovely dog, Beth, chewed up Cian's new snow boots.  We just bought them from the DI for $4, but they looked new.  These boots cost $30 in stores, so I was so excited!  He wore them one day and then left them by Beth's bed (crate) when we left the house, so she was able to chew on them and obliterated it!  Nothing was left but the sole of the boot!  Now we need to get him another pair, oye!  Hopefully we can find another hardly used pair from the DI.

* Iollan has decided that he LOVES Jurassic Par and Spider man.  He's always wanting to watch them.  He also thinks that he can change the dvds himself, something we are trying very hard to break.  He thinks that he is big enough to do anything!  When we get into the car and we don't get him seat belted first, he immediately gets into the drivers seat, locks the doors and tries to drive!  We really have to watch him, he has locked me out a good few times, only once with the keys in it, but lucky for me Ezzy was there too and she was able to unlock the doors for me.  He is getting so big, so fast.  I thought that since he was my baby, it would last longer.  But he has shown me otherwise!  He has learned to do everything at a faster pace than the other two ever did.  He talks a lot, ALWAYS copying everyone!  He is the most independent little boy ever, he just wants to be like all the other big kids.  When I am watching Mallorie (the 10 month old) he wants to hold her, tries to feed her, and is always giving her toys to play with.  He's going to be such a great big brother when his time comes!  I love him with all my heart, he is my little joy!  He is my proof that not all little boys are monsters hah!  Even though now, I think he is turning into one!  :)

* Even with watching so many kids and having a little baby in the house to watch (she's 10 months), I am still wanting to have another baby!  I can't wait till the day comes to announce to every one that I am.  I'm scared of things repeating like last time, but I also have faith that I will indeed be blessed with another little one.  It might take me a couple of rounds, but I will!

* I recently lost my phone and Chet was so awesome to dig through the garbage for it!  It had been lost for almost a week and we decided that we should look in the garbage last night since today is garbage day.  Well, it was there!  Chet wants to have it surgically attached to me, I told him no way!

* We have decided to get rid of our dish network.  I'm tired of the kids yelling at me to look at the tv because they want what is on it.  They want everything that they can see, no wonder Christmas is so commercialized!  I also hate all the diet commercials that is on tv anymore, pretty much every other commercial, no wonder women have a self image issue the world says you need to be thin in order to be pretty!  And then some of the commercial should be rated R too!  We have a family package and it's suppose to be family oriented, I don't even want to know what's on the other packages!  Chet and I only watch the food network channel, so that will be missed dearly.  But tv is not important to us, I'd rather find some other thing to do with my family then the tv.  The kids might miss it for a bit, we've recorded their favorite programs on the dvr, but we have collected movies for a while, so that should be ok.  I know on thing for sure though, I will not be missing it at all!  No more "Mommy, mommy!  I want that!"

* My 4 year old thinks that everyday is his birthday and that everyone needs to get him something!  We'll be at the store and he'll point at someone and say, "they buy me something for my birthday?"  Ha, what a silly little boy I got!  He's the worst one with the above paragraph.  He will get mad if I don't pay attention to him and yesterday he was watching the tv in his sister's room, cam and grabbed my hand and told me to come her.  I asked why, he wouldn't say just kept saying "come here, I need you!"  So I went with him and guess what he wanted, to show me what was on the commercial that he wants to have!  I was not impressed, ok so I did laugh about it when I told Chet what he wanted, but that's it.  Cian is getting really good with his vocabulary and sentencing.  I love hearing him say Actually, he says it so well, it's cute!  He talks better than Ezzy does, she has a bit of a speech problem.  He's very creative with his speech too though, I just love listening to him talk.  He's also the leader of the kids in their play I've noticed.  Lately he has been teaching them his favorite saying "Oh, I forgot!"  The other day I heard him tell Skylar, his cousin, "I'm going to say, go to bed and when I leave you say Oh, I forgot!  Like that ok."  It makes me laugh every time I think about that.  He's going to be a leader in something when he grows up, I can already see it, he has away with getting the other kids to play his way, not necessarily a goo thing though.  He has and will forever be my monster boy, I love him very dearly!  He is a big mommas boy and I am so happy that he is, we clash so much! But I love him and wouldn't trade him for anything!  He teaches me so much, love you Cian, my little monster boy!!!!

* I had a my first parent teacher's conference this month and Ezzy is doing great!  She is right were she needs to be with the other kids in her class!  I was nervous about her cause she is the youngest in her class.  She loves to do homework and wants to do it everyday!  Last week I taught her to spell Hi and she now does it all by herself.  This week she is learning The and Of and continuing Hi.  She is a fast learner, she impresses me every day.  She's also my big help when she is at home, she likes to read stories to the other kids, it is so cute!   She loves to help out with the baby too!  Sometimes a little too much though, she thinks that she should carry her around, so I have to watch for that.  She is just getting so big, I still can't believe it!  Lately she likes to be like Mom, she's always comparing what we are wearing or how we do our hair.  She recently cut her hair to be like mommy, so we now have the same hair cut!  She also loves that we both have the same big brown eyes.  I love her so much, I can't imagine life with out her!

* Chet is amazing!  He's always helping me out!  Sometimes I fall behind with cleaning because I've had a bad day with kids, feeling icky, or because my schedule was very busy.   But he always helps me out with out complaining!  Today he is going to be making a computer desk for our room, he's so excited to do this.  He loves working with wood and making things.  I love that he doesn't mind me watching all the other kids, he even helps me out when I need it!  He will sometimes watch the kids so that I can go out and do something or just take a break if I need it (watching kids from 7am-8:30pm can become very long days!).  He has an awesome calling, 2nd councilor in the EQ and has become busy with that.  He's learning to be more organized because of it though and I love that!  And in November he gets to start school again, he's excited about it, sometimes I am too!  He's always willing to help out with family too.  He helped my dad rebuild a new storage closet, he's helped reroof my grandpa's workshop, he just got done helping his dad putting a new shed together, he helped put a large kennel together in the rain for my parents when their dogs decided they could jumped their fence and escape all the time, he's just busy helping everyone out.  I love that about him, I know that my family sees him as reliable!   He's always the first person they call when they need help.  I love my husband very much, I'm so happy that he picked me to be his wife and the mother of our children, I am so blessed to have him!  Thank you Chet for all that you do, I love you with all my heart!!!   For Always and For Ever!!!!  

Cian is 4!!!! YEAH!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CIAN!!!  WE LOVE YOU!

Well, actually this should have been posted yesterday, but oh well at least I'm doing it now right! lol

Cian is officially 4 now and he is so happy!  That's what he keeps telling me "I am so happy I am to be 4 Mommy!"  What a cutie he is!  I just love my little monster and that's exactly what he is too!  I wouldn't trade him for the world though, even though there are LOTS of times we clash.

Before I had Cian, I thought that I had patience, but he has taught me that I still had/have a lot to work on.  This is so sad, but true,  but when I found out that I was having another boy, I cried!  Seriously, I was scared because Cian and I clash so much!  I love him to death, but he is just so difficult, very spirited!  I know that some of it is my blame too though.  You see, when Cian was born, he was born with a clubbed foot.  So he had to get a cast on his right foot the day we were released from the hospital.  I felt so bad for him and I also felt like I was to blame, he was after all in my tummy and I was the one responsible for him and his health.  I had that weighing on my mind a lot, finally after a lot of research and Chet convincing me, I realized that it wasn't my fault and that things like that just happen and they still don't know why it does, but IT IS NOT MY FAULT!

When he was 3 months, they concluded that he needed surgery for his foot.  That is such a HUGE word for a little baby!  It was suppose to be an in and out thing, but we ended up staying the night.  During the surgery his breathing tube became loosened and he was with out oxygen for almost 2 1/2-3 minutes, very big deal for a baby!  They said that they almost lost him due to that.  It scared me so much!  So we had to stay over night to observe him, no harm came to my baby from that though thank goodness!

After that, I'm afraid I spoiled him.  I now realizing what I did and how much I let him get a way with things and I'm now trying to correct that, but it's so hard now!  

As much as we clash, he is a huge Momma's boy.  I really don't understand it at all, but I am so grateful that he does love me, flaw and all.  He is MY monster boy and I love him very much, I wouldn't trade him for anything!

I do have to admit, as much as he is a monster, he is the most thoughtful, lovable little boy ever!  He's always saying such sweet stuff and helping the other kids out, if he sees something that he can help out with, he does it!  So to every bad, there is always a greater good to him!  He is a joy and a GREAT learning experience for me.

I    LOVE   YOU   CIAN!!!

Mommy, Woohoo!!!

So, I taught my little guy a new trick, he likes to observe mommy and copy me more than any of my other kids do.    I didn't purposefully teach him, he just figured it out himself.

Anyways, I like to whistle at Chet to get his attention.  This started when I was pregnant with Ezra and I wanted him to feel her kick, so I would whistle for him if he was in another room instead of trying to holler.  Well, it became a habit and I still do it if he's in another room and I need him, it's better than yelling right?  So now Iolly does it, but he does it to me!  It is so darn cute!  When he wakes up I hear "Mommy, woohoo!"  If I'm in another room "Mommy woohoo!"  He called for me last night when I was in the bath relaxing, I laughed so hard, it is just so funny and cute to me.  The other two have never done it and yet here he is, just two and he's already picked up on it!   Oh, and his woohoo isn't a little woohoo, he does a little scream with it!  I really should try and record it sometime, I just love it!  :)

So I actually get the day off from baby-sitting and I'm sick!  I'm so very glad that I don't have other kids today, but I sure would have liked to have a day to have fun with just my kids.  I had kids every day last week, including Sunday, and  I miss doing something with just them.  They are doing pretty good though, they've been helping mommy out a lot.  I love them so much! 

 Iolly has been a little clingy, but I know that's because he didn't get very good sleep last night I feel responsible for it.  He still sleeps with me and Chet, the boy's room is closed down cause we attempted to paint it like a month ago and some how it managed to turn into a storage room!  Anyhoo,  I slept in the middle last night, so he slept on the outer part.  But we have a king size bed, so I figured he would be ok, he was in my arms in the middle of the bed.  But during the night he rolled all the way off the bed!  He was scared by it and refused to go back on the bed, we tried rocking him to sleep and walking around, but if we tried to lay with him he would cry and yell no, no, up!  Chet finally decided to try sleeping on the floor with him and that worked, he went right to sleep!!  That made it a long night for us and we had to get up early.  So I am just exhausted and still have a sinus headache, but hopefully we can go and get medicine for that soon.  Chet just got home early today, so that'll be good for me.  Iolly's sleeping and hopefully I can join him too!

BURSTING WITH JOY!!!!

I am so happy right now, nothing can bring me down today!  I have just reconnected with one of my most dearest friends!  Freshta Ahmadi, I have missed her so very much!  I was so sad when I lost contact with her over 4 years ago and have been searching for her since.  I guess she has been searching for me and signed on facebook just to see if I was on there.  I decided to do a search for her today using the facebook search and I found her!  I was so shocked and excited, and over joyed!  I can't believe it!  I love the internet and being able to use it for such a great cause!  Hopefully we can stay connected now and get to know each others families.  I've missed her and her family so much, they were like family to me.  When she moved away, I was so sad!  Thank you facebook for helping me find one of my best friends!  I am just so happy!!!!  YEAH, WOOHOO!!!  :)

Scripture for the day:

Alma 26:27~Now when our hearts were depressed, and we were about to turn back, behold, the Lord comforted us, and said; Go amongst thy brethren, the Lamanites, and bear with patience thine afflictions, and I will give unto you success.

A Bad Day?

So, I'm having a bad day today.  I just recently started watching 2 more kids, they are the youngest yet (oldest one is almost 2 and the youngest is 9 months).  It's a challenge having a little baby in the house again.  I've forgotten how much time they need and how needy they are.  I really enjoy having her, just not use to it.  So while trying to get use to a baby again, I'm also trying to figure out my schedule to take care of 10-12 kids.  I'm a wreck lately and I don't know if I'm really up to it like I thought.  I've been so stressed the last couple of days.  I've also been dealing with allergies, they've been kicking my butt since I've moved back to Pocatello, I hate it!  As most already now, we've also been trying for another baby since our miscarriage and I really thought that this month we did it, but negative again.  so I've been dealing with those feelings as well.  I've got so much going on that I feel like my world is collapsing around me.  I'm not as patient and tolerant with the kids as I know I should be.  Who am I anymore?  I really don't know.  

I love being able to stay at home with my kids and being with them.  I really love that I get to watch my nieces and nephews, and cousins, too.  I'm grateful to be able to provide this service to my family.  But can I do it?  Am I really able and up to the challenge?  I want to be, with all my heart I want to be.

One of my biggest problems is praying and scripture reading.  When I do these things, I LOVE who I am!  But when I slip and stop doing those things, I become lost.  That's were I am now, lost!  I know what I need to do, it is so clear now.  

Prayer and scriptures are a daily struggle for me, I don't know why, but they are.  I love the gospel with all my heart, I know that I'm suppose to be doing them, but I just keep getting caught up with other stuff.  I need to make it mandatory for me to do these things, I need them everyday.  I know that I also need to get to the Temple soon, Chet and I have been bad about that lately.  We NEED to make a goal to go there and just do it, so that's what I'm going to tell Chet tonight.  We need this so much, I know that it'll help both of us out.  Why is it so hard to do the things you want to do, but it's so easy to do the things that you don't want to do?  

I know that I did some venting on here, but I did some discovering too.  Thank you for hearing/reading me out, but now I know what I need to do.  Now, to get my scriptures out...........

Here are a few pictures from our trip to Utah Last Weekend!

Scripture for the day:

Mosiah 2:17~And behold, I tell you these thinhgs that ye may learn wisdom; that ye may learn that  when ye are in the service of your fellow beings ye are only in the servive of your God.

*Chet is such a great example to me with service!  He's always helping my family out when they need it and he's always trying to help me out too.  Thank you Chet for being such a great example to me, I love you so much!

Our animals!

Ok, so I'm still trying to figure out how to put pictures on here, I have no clue on how to do it with them looking all nice and stuff.  Anyhoo, these are our animals and we love having them, well, for the most part anyways!  ;)

The top three are our cats:  Sarafina, Fat Elmo, and Sneezy Tim.

Sarafina was givin to me for my Mother's Day last year, but I think that Ezzy has adopted her from me.  We had Fat Elmo before we moved to Poky, but becasue we had to move and we didn't now where we were going to be living we took him to four paws in Rexburg.  They took care of him while we found a place and settled.  When we went to go get him back they offered us another cat and we accepted.  We chose Sneezy Tim because he had such a sad story!  He had been adopted out 3 times and returned 3 times.  He sneezes all the time, so I guess the people who adopted him did not like that about him and took him back.  That is just sad!  So we brought him home and love him very much!  He's probably the most lovable of the cats!

Then there's Beth, short for Bethlehem, our dog.  This was my birthday present last year.  While I was trying to pick out her name, Oh Little Town of Behtlehem cam on the radio.  so I decided Bethlehem and Beth for short.  She's a great dog.  Sure she chews everything in sight, but other then that she is awesome!  She had several opportunities to run away from home because of doors not being shut and her being left out, but she never has.  I love having a dog!

Under Beth is our baby girl chinchilla, Olivia, she's much bigger now, I just don't have any updated pics yet. She a crazy little chinny, she loves to jump all around and causes a lot of racket!  

Then there's Snow White, or beloved white rat.  We posed her as a flower last year for a costume contest for a local pet shop and she won second place, that was so fun! She was a crazy rat t oo.  She always made us laugh.  She would zipp down her cage in a flash and then she would run zip back up it.  She also loved to hang from the top of the cage upside down!  She was so crazy!  She's no longer with us and we miss her much!  

Then we have mommy and daddy chinnies, Jordoni and Shercha.  They were a witch and pirate last year.  Our daddy chinny got really sick and passed away just before baby girl was born, we miss him so much too, he was the most lovable chinny ever!

And then there's Thumbilina or Lina, our guinea pig.  She's the newest addition to our growing family!  We love having her around!  Oh ya, we've  only had her for 3 weeks and we have a feeling that she might be pregnant!  Fun, fun!!!  :)

Random pics of Ezzy!

Random pics of Cian!

Random pics of Iolly! :)