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