Gone for the Holidays!

We made it safely to Utah. We luckily were able to leave earlier than we had thought due to nasty weather and a fellow employee who decided to work for me so we could leave. 2 hours after we got on the road they closed i-84 and we were well past the storm coming in. It was white knuckles for some of the trip as we went through Hood River, white out blizzard conditions. Water freezing to the windshield wipers and plows blowing snow everywhere. We were almost side swiped by a plow who saw a little car at the last minute and was able to swerve and miss him, barely. We luckily were paying well enough attention to make it safely out of that one. We only had one other scary moment when a suburban suddenly came up on a semi blowing snow all over, she slammed on her brakes and in turn made us slam on ours and skid all over the road. My heart just about jumped out of my skin. After we got around the plows though it was smooth sailing for the most part. Spencer got car sick so we enjoyed the aroma of well you know what the rest of the trip! We made great time considering the slow down through the gorge! Thank you Heavenly Father for making sure that we made it safely to Utah for Christmas!

Christmas Crafts

Today we went to the kids's school and did thier annual Christmas Crafts day!! This is the 2nd year that we have gone to it. The kids get to make 10 things each and most are for them to give away as gifts to other people. It costs us $10 for the family to get in and for everyone to make something!! This year they had some way cute things for the kiddos to do! We started off making scarfs and decorating wooden picture frames then moved onto making a hotchocolate cone. We then went and made some way cute vinyl placemats. The kids used ink on thier hands and stamped them on the placemats. Then they had a lady writing their names and the year. Then they got to weave ribbon through it and tie a bow!! So cute!!! After that the each got to make chocolate chip cookie jar!! And decorate the lid and a tag for giving. They were able to make a snowman magnet notebook, and a snowman lapel pin. They dipped plastic spoons in chocolate and sprinkles to make a special stir stick!! The do this really cute advent calendar thing where they have candies for the days left in december and a cool board that is cut out to help with putting together. Anyway you take a piece of saran wrap...a good length and you lie it down. then you put 15 different candies down in line. Then you wrap the saran wrap around the candy and tie each section with curling ribbon! Then each night you cut off a section and have your candy!! This year they also made Christmas Swags. That was the most popular spot so I just took the stuff and we will make them at home! We had good time!! K$A and family came with us and then we went and enjoyed Arby's afterwards!!!

Family pics 2008

My DS, K and her family came over and took pics of our family for Christmas this year!! WE had some good ones!!! It was a hectic event as her kids wanted their pics taken too and were screaming the whole time that we were doing it. Shule treated us to Coldstone after we were done! Thanks hunny and thanks A&K for saving us $$ and a headache at the portrait studio!!

Shule thought that the shirt I picked out for him was a 70's pornstar shirt. He was cooperative in wearing it but it took a few shots of this....before he buttoned up and let us get some decent shots. Gotta Love it!!

Black Friday Craziness!!

Like always K and I and some friends got our butts out of bed at 3am to start hitting the black Friday sales. WE had a fun time!! Our friend S's husband even joined us this year. He thought we were all nuts, but still hung out with us throughout it all. We went to 4 different stores and got some good deals on things. I was grateful that the weather has been nice and it wasn't freezing cold and snow flurring this year!! We didn't have to wait too long out front of Kohls so we stayed relatively warm. We had a fun experience going through the Jack-in-the-box drive thru. They were out of a majority of the stuff that we wanted to order and it was only 8:30 in the morning. Can you say unprepared? They only had 1 person working the restraunt on the biggest shopping day of the year!! DUh!!! Anyway we had fun and will probably do it again next year!!!

Thanksgiving!

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving this year! It was a well needed day off from work for everyone!!! I forgot the camera and so I don't have any pics. WE all pitched in with food this year and it was all delicious. Mom and dad bought a sprial sliced ham from costco(yummmmy the best) and the twins I think ate pretty much the whole thing. They were picking on it from the time it came out of the oven till we left to come home! WE all ate way more than we should have and of course had to finish off our night with pumpkin pie!!! We played games, went through the black Friday ads and just hung out as a family. We missed having M&T and thier family this year! We will be in Utah for Christmas, so we won't see them until next year! :(

Thanks for a yummy and enjoyable thanksgiving!!

New email address

For those of you who have private blogs, will you please add my new email address so I can still read your posts!!

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mamacows@yahoo.com

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Scentsy Party

Just a quick reminder that my scentsy show will be closing this Friday!!! If you want to order just click on my website www.scentsy.com/ldscents, his place an order and hit on my name. It's that easy!!! I promise you wont be disappointed in the products or the smells! They are delicious!!!





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Twilight!!!

I enjoyed the movie, I found myself smiling the whole time!! We had a great time waiting in line with all the teenyboppers, and had yummy dinner at La Bamba afterwards!!!! A great girls night out. My hubby suggested we go see it together, so I'm off tonight to watch again!!! YIPEE!!!

Waiting in line for the flick!!
Yep we arrived a whole hour early to ensure our seat!!! We missed standing in line with E and S but glad they joined us for the movie!!!

Dinner at La Bamba and the after movie critique!

"SCENTSATIONAL SCENTSY"

I've just signed up to be a Scentsy Consultant. If you don't know much about Scentsy check out my website www.Scentsy.com/LdScents.

If you would like to book a show or have a "basket" party let me know. I would be happy to ship my testers to you!!

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Twilight Night OUT!!

I thought I would post this on the blog for those interested that I didn't get an evite to!


Host:
LW

Location:
Stark Street Cinema by Jack in the box, Gresham, OR 97080 USView Map
When:
Friday, November 21, 5:30PM
Phone:
leave comment if you wanna get ahold of me!

I've just looked for the Twilight showtimes and they are FINALLY posted!! Yipee! I can hardly stand it. We are shooting for the 7:45 showing, (but we need to arrive early to get good seats) but if we want to preorder tickets, so that we know we can get in, we need to purchase them at the box office next Friday, or you can preorder them online through fandango. If you want to preorder at the box office you can get me $9.50 per ticket and I will go purchase them. If you want to order them through Fandango it will be $10.50 a ticket and you can do that on your own! We thought about meeting at 5:30 at Genos for dinner...let me know if you would like to join us. We figured we need to get to the theater around 7:15 for good seats. Thanks everyone!!!

ps if there's anyone else you want to invite or i missed someone that you know of please forward to them or let me know!!!!

A New Calling

DH was called into the stake presidents office this last Sunday and was called as the new Elders Quorum 1st Counselor. He will no longer be teaching Sunday school, which I'm sure he will miss. He enjoyed that calling so much, but it will hopefully mean that we will be able to be ontime to church now!! DH was always doing his last minute lesson touch ups before church and it never failed that we were always late!!! Congrats on your new calling hunny!!!

The Candy Man Can!!!

Sp found some candy left out after trick-or-treating!!! Check out his reactions!!!

It's time to CARVE!!

Family Dinner and Halloween Party

This month we celebrated our 10th annual Halloween Costume Party. Everyone dresses up and we play games, eat yummy food and have lots of fun!! This year G&M were in charge of dinner and they made yummy enchiladas! We also had rice, homemade rootbeer, beans and salad! It was delicious. After dinner we celebrated Papa's birthday and then we went into our halloween festivities. We played the Chicken game, it's always a big hit and a hoot to watch!! Here's how you play:

Before your guests arrive you hide candy corn all over the house...in obvious and some harder places.

You divide all your guests into groups. Each group picks a mother hen...everyone left then becomes the baby chicks. When the timer begins, we normally do it for 2-3 minutes your baby chicks search the house for candy corns with thier hands behind thier backs. Then they have to cluck as loud as they can so the mother hen can come and collect the corn for them. The team with the most candy corns in there buckets wins!!! It's quite hilarious!! Here's a video that shows the wildness!!!

Everyone's costumes were adorable!! Thanks for another fun Halloween party!!

A trip to the pumpkin patch!!

Our friends and us decided we were gonna take a trip to the pumpkin patch this year instead of just going to Winco and picking them out of a barrell. Holy cow, I now know why I don't go to the pumpkin patch every year....it's expensive!!! We went in a black hay maze, and then went and picked out pumpkins. I about had a heart attack when they weighed them and told me how much they were....$28.00 for stinkin pumpkins!!! People all around me were laughing at my reaction. If we decide to do go to the pumpkin patch again, they will be getting SMALLER pumpkins!!! But
we had a good time nonetheless. We all had a good laugh when our friend D ran face-first into a different level of the hay maze. Luckily the weather held out for us and the patch wasn't muddy!! Thanks for a fun trip to the pumpkin patch, and I think next year we'll take a trip to Winco or find a cheaper pumpkin patch!!

FHE Activity

The girls coordinated FHE this week and we painted toilet paper rolls in the spirit of Halloween!!

What a kid!!

From this

to THIS!!

A candid interview with 3 of the kids!

1. What is something that Mom always says to you? " C: Clean the house." Jn: "Clean" Jh: "clean"

2. What makes Mom happy? C:"When the house is clean", Jn: "cleaning", jh:"When we do something that I don't ask, like clean-up."

3. What makes Mom sad? C: "When the house is not clean". Jn: "not listening" Jh:"when she yells at us a lot"

4. How does your Mom make you laugh? C: "When she tells me funny stuff, like jokes, I don't know", Jn: "I don't know." Jh: "ummm I don't know"

5. What was you Mom like as a child? Ce:"A person that skipped highschool cause she wrote herself notes to excuse herself" Jn:"She was like a little child" Jh,"she was short"

6. How old is your Mom? Ce "um 31" Jn: "31" Jh:"31"

7. How tall is your Mom? C: "5.5" Jn: "5 something something" Jh,: "about 5 7 or something"

8. What is her favorite thing to do with you? C probably go out and like go to dinner and have fun" Jn: "her favorite thing to do with me is go grocery shopping." Jh,"go to the store"

9. What does your Mom do when you're not around?C: "Cleans the house." Jn:"talk, that's what I practically do and she lays around" jh"I don't know"

10. If your Mom becomes famous what would it be for? C: "Being the best cook in Oregon. Jn:"money"Jh: "Umm, getting money"

11. What is your Mom really good at? Ce:"cooking", Jn:"cooking" Jh: "crafts"

12. What is your Mom not very good at? C:"ummmm what's it called...wait..skip this one." Jn:"let's see, petting dogs cause you whack them to death..lol" jh "laugh...playing the xbox"

13. What does your Mom do for her job? "C "cook" Jn: "the bar" Jh "She cooks at a bar, or a pub or at Timber, whichever one

14. What is Mom's favorite food? C:"ummmm enchiladas", Jn:"salad" Jh: "umm I'd have to say ummm fettucini alfredo

15. What makes you proud of Mom? C: "She takes care of 5 kids and still works at night and comes home at 4-5 in the morning and take care of us." Jn:"she gets us toys and clothes" Jh: "she works at the pub"

16. If your Mom was a cartoon character who would she be? C: "Minnie" Jn:"Velma" Jh: " um I'd have to say Patrick"

17. What do you and your Mom do together? C: "we do crafts" Jn:"nothing" whatever!! Jh: "um practically go to the store"

18. How are you and your Mom the same? C: "we both like to do crafts." Jn:"we both have brown eyes(mine are actually hazel) Jh" We both have like brown eyes"

19. How are you and your Mom different? C:"She would rather have the house clean and I would rather have it part way clean" Jn: "you're taller than me." Jh: you are bigger than me"

20. How do you know your Mom loves you? C:"Because she comes home everyday and takes care of us" Jn: "she buys us toys" Jh" because um...because ummm...she comes on field trips with us"


This was fun to do. Do you think they hear me telling them to clean OFTEN!! I hate having a cluttered house!! LOL I tag anybody who would love to sit down and interview their child. Let me know on my comments if you plan on joining in the fun. I would love to read them.

Game Night!!

For FHE we went over to our friends the Bs. We made nachos for dinner, caramel popcorn for dessert and played a game. We played Settlers of Catan with them. It was the first time that they had played it and they seemed to enjoy it. Next time it's Ticket to Ride!! Thanks for a fun evening!!