He begged I Delivered

Much to the chagrin of My Husband when Mckay threw a fit to wear Sid's dress. . . I let him. Looks lovely doesn't he?

How Do You Know. . .??

When a redneck has a DUI?

Meridee thanks for the follow up story. I Love it!! This is the perfect followup to our Roping a deer story. Definately gotta love venison to get to this point. Speaking of Love of Venison. . .

I was driving with my nephew and he was asked his favorite food. I was expecting "pizza", but got "definately elk venison". There's a new one for you. His favorite wii game, Cabella's of course. He is so cute with his love of camo. Gotta love it.

Yeah for Teachers

Parent teacher conference was last night and I looooove ethan's teacher. She is amazing. I will forever compare every teacher to Mrs. Bond. Everyone here has warned me how horrible public school is (there are many private schoolers around). I have to say after Ethan's kindergarten experience I would have agreed. But Mrs. Bond has redeemed my faith in public school. She knows how to work with kids and get them somewhere. So today I guess is my Yeah for Teachers!!! Or better yet "yeah for teachers that CARE!!!" Its a big job, and they do a fabulous job. Thankyou!

Beautiful

Hayden has made everyone very aware today that Aunt Helen is "Very Beautiful"
Such a sweet boy.

The B word

And I don't mean buddy#$%^&*
Yah, let's chalk it up to a first in motherhood. Some neighborhood boys were using some choice words while ethan was around. Sooooo he decided to try the b word out. Unfortunate or should I say lucky for him I was in earshot. He hadn't the slightest clue what it meant, but it definately threw me for a loop. We had a long discussion about why we don't use swear words. These are the days I am glad I am able to stay at home with my kids. Who would have taught him or caught him should I not have been around. This is the reason I prefer kids to come over to play at our house even though my house gets trashed.

Quiet Toys

Okay, so I love quiet toys to take once in a while to church. The magnets are great too for sticking in the book or on the metal chairs in the back. Gotta love it. A while back after finding a variety of magnetic paperdoll like items at the thrift store, I thought "It would be great to have book of mormon themed maget sets for church". It was so brilliant. . . and after some research. . . . . to my dismay they had already been done. I found these online at Hammond Toys in Utah. I think they are 9.99

I try to be a little more proactive if I get an idea ever since last year on t.v. when I saw a piece done about a mom who made millions off of juice box covers. YOu Know when every small child is handed a juicebox or capri sun and they squeeze it. And it ends up everywhere but where it was intended. When ethan was a baby I had wanted to make the same thing, slightly different design, but never seriously persued it. You never know. . . when an idea will be a hit, right?

A very Merry UnBirthday

So today is the day of our "Mad Hatter RS Very UnBirthday Party". I have been a little stressed getting everything done, because our E. leader had to leave town for a family emergency, and not much had been planned and it was two weeks away. I was only put in as the enrichment counselor about a month ago. One of those weeks was stake Conference. So like the tender mercies I talked about before, I feel like I have had several lately, our hfpe leader is back in town just in time for my kids to all have the stomach flu. I don't even know if I will be able to attend tonight. She has taken everything back over, and I am relieved. I thought it was a one day flu until mckay started up again last night.

Luckily matt is able to work from home, yeah Nintendo!! I wouldn't be able to do another day of monitoring four kids stomachs alone. I hope it ends soon.

I got the Mad Hatter idea from Sugar Doodle, for those of you who don't know what it is click on it. I love it for quick ideas for church. www.sugardoodle.net