These are some pics of my son Travis. He is in the Jr Midgets playing for the Chula Vista Aztecs. He loves it and they even went to the finals! Unfortunately, they lost the second game so they are out. Thats ok though, it was a fun season and he enjoyed it which is all that matters. Enjoy the pics!

Vegas Baby!

Ha Ha! I thought the title was really funny! And I didn't even mean to! Anyway, since only those in my family read this...they will know what I mean. I went up to Vegas for my sisters baby shower this weekend and had a blast with my sisters and my daughters. I got to carpool up with Melissa and her new baby Leighton. We talked almost the whole way up and when we finally got up there, we got to have fun with our other two sisters Julie and Becky! We had lots of good food, which is always a good way to enjoy the day! Becky had an amazing shower with over 45 people in attendance. Julie did a GREAT job in being the host and setting this shindig up. I got to spend time with my parents too however they were both sick unfortunately. I felt really bad for them. We left about 7 30 pm and I didn't get home to San Diego till 1 00 am. Then I got woken up at 7 by Parker. Ugh! I'm tired right now and I need to finish preparing my lesson for primary. I've got the procrastination thing going right now. Anyway, because I got up so early, I worked on my Heritage Makers football book. It is looking great but I'm frustrated because I'm in the last stages and I have all these little things that need to be done but can't get people to help me out! LOL The football players have to all write something about the coach and I've still got 9 players that haven't done it. And let me tell you, getting the others to do it was like pulling teeth. It involved calling the parents TWICE, stalking the players before practice and directly asking them while holding a pen and a pad of paper, and STILL not having 9 player do it! I need to get it done by tomorrow and I still need those, I need whatever the team moms want to say. (unfortunately, one of them is really ill and hasn't been able to do it. I feel so bad for her)Anyway, it is frustrating to be so near the end after working so HARD on this project and not be able to complete it. Ok, I'm over my snit! Nuff said!

New Class in Primary

Yesterday I was blessed with the opportunity to teach my new class. I have the cutest kids. They get so excited when I teach them the lesson. Not only that but they actually participate. They don't get all quiet when I ask a question. I taught the lesson about the wise man and the foolish man. They really got into it when we came up with examples of foolish things and wise things. I am looking forward to teaching them and seeing if they can retain what I taught them. I guess we'll see, huh?

Inspired

So, this evening I was reading Lisa Bearnsons blog and it was about a friend of hers who passed away. This friends son made a scrapbook in honor of his mother. It spoke of always living life to the fullest with your family because you never know how long you will have with them. All I could think of was how much I would miss my family and how much they would miss me if I were to die. I have diabetes and I think that sometimes I'm just so angry over it that I just don't care about controlling it. This is stupid, I know. But as I'm sitting here crying over how this woman left behind a husband and two children....I know what I need to do. I am going to renew my fight against this disease and try and have a healthy life to live with my children. I am going to try and lose the weight that I need to and hopefully lose the diabetes with it. I'm going to spend more time with my children and live life to the fullest. I just want to thank Connor for his thoughts and inspiration. I do believe that they will make a difference in MY life.

Shopping for cookie cutters and dragees

So, I found this great online shopping site for cookie cutters and dragees. Dragees are those silver and gold balls that we used to eat when we were kids. They decorated christmas cookies with them. They were discontinued when they were found to have small quantities of metal in them. Anyway, I found them! They would look so good on the sugar cookies I'm going to make for christmas. Well, I'm checking them out and finding out how expensive they are and so forth so I click on it and lo and behold....the only state they WON'T send them to is CALIFORNIA!! What a complete bummer! I was so excited. Well, maybe I can get Julie to get them and bring them to me but thats not till December 23rd. Ugh!!
Oh! Before I forget! Christina, when do you want to come over and bake? I am soooo in the mood for making things. The kids are too. I made a GREAT christmas cd with all of my favorites like Bing Crosby, Nat King Cole, SheDaisy, Mariah Carey, etc. Actually, it's two cds. I had too many songs listed to only make it on one. I've got it in the car and have been listening to it. It's kind of exciting because usually I listen to christmas music in September but I held off till November. Can you believe it? Today it actually is raining. We are getting all cozy today and want to watch christmas movies, drink hot chocolate, and cuddle up in blankets. Now THAT is christmas!! I bought the boys some church shirts, sweaters, and corduroy pants. I got a pretty good deal. Except for two of the shirts. I thought they were pretty expensive. I wish I knew where I could buy church shirts that were less expensive. Tonight is a Heritage Makers workshop and I sure hope that there are eight or so people there. It would be a good one then. Well, I'll chat later .

Merry Christmas

Yes, the countdown has started in our house! Tonight for family night we each made a 52 link chain to help us celebrate christmas. The kids were all excited to do it and even I am excited for christmas!

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Thanksgiving

The holiday season is now well on its way. However, the weather is certainly not condusive to the holidays. Its been in the nineties and doesn't look like its going to change anytime soon. I would love for it to at least get down to the sixties so that we can feel like winter is on its way. Oh well....I guess it will change when it wants to. Alexa and Hannah decided today that they were tired of the weather being like this and did a rain dance. They chanted about rain and the next thing we knew, it was drizzling. Only for like three minutes though. They were excited because they actually thought that they had done it! Funny, huh? I think they need to go out and dance and chant for the whole day and see what happens!

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Yum, Yum!

So tonight for dinner I opened many chicken noodle cans for our dinner. I was thinking to myself, what a boring but simple dinner. Then I remembered that I saw a recipe for some garlic cheese drop bisquits on a blog yesterday and decided that I would try that out to go with the soup. It was soooo good and so easy. The kids enjoyed it and it was quickly gobbled up. Tonight I'm not feeling great. Just very tired andI can hardly keep my eyes open. It's only 8 pm and I feel like its 2am. On Thursday afternoon I took my three youngest to Great Clips to get their hair cut. They all look so handsome and cute! I guess I could say that I am biased but I just think they are! Today for primary we practiced for the program that the primary is putting on next week. I helped out with the Sunbeams. It was CRAZY! They were so wiggly and they were grumpy and they were completely frustrating! By the time it was over, I was soooo ready to go home and hide in my room till I felt calmer. Since I decided to write in this blog, I feel like everything I talk about is soooo random and disjointed. Its not entertaining at all. I tried to put a different template onto my blog but for some reason it won't take it. I'm so bummed because it was a Thanksgiving one. Very frustrating. Todd tried to edit manually to make it work but it didn't do anything but put multiple turkeys on . Anyway, I guess I'll try another site to see if I can try another one. Here's some pics of the boys with their snazzy haircuts.

Heritage Makers book for Parker

So, recently, I joined a company called Heritage Makers. This company is AMAZING! I've made the most incredible book that my son absolutely LOVES to look at and have read to him. He loves to turn pages and tell me about each of the pictures that are on the pages because its all about HIM! When I showed my husband the book, he actually got tears in his eyes. My husband is not a crying kind of guy and so this made it even more special. I cannot wait to do one for each of my children. If you want to see this book just click on the link below and it will show you my book!
http://www.heritagemakers.com/?event=projectBrowse&projectId=db6ed59e-3048-322b-c048-1f838ab13029&productId=5&projectSponsor=316376

Who's going to read this anyway?

So, I love to read other peoples blogs. It's fun to see how other people live and how they are inspired and what happened to make this so. My life, or so called life, whatever you may call it...is pretty boring. I get up, drive kids to various schools, pick kids up, take to various sporting events, wait till done, then go home, work on Heritage Makers book for football, and go to bed. To start the next day with the same thing. Why aren't I having inspired moments!? I just get inspired by everyone ELSES moments! I don't get it. Oh well. Do I have any funny stories? No! My little boy Parker spent five minutes telling me how he loves me and how he's going to come sleep with me when his Daddy goes to work. He then gave me lots of kisses while rambling on about it. Made me want to just cuddle him. I love my kids so much. I don't think that I could adequately describe how much I love them. They bring such joy to my heart and soul. Today I went to my sons football game. It was a play off game and they actually won in an overtime death match. We got a touchdown but didn't get the field goal. The other team went for their own touchdown but fumbled the ball and we recovered it. Which of course, won us the game! My parents came down to see the game, and my brother Will did too. It was so nice to see my family because we don't get to see eachother often. Not too long ago I was asked to take pictures of a program that is being done by my brothers brother in law and friend of mine. Basically family! Anyway, I'm nervous because it's going to have a lot of low lighting and I'm not that great with pictures like that. I like things to be perfect and low lighting is NOT perfect! So today, I went and took experimental pictures while they were running a dress rehearsal. They turned out pretty good except then I found out that the lighting was going to be different on the night of the performance. Well, hopefully, I'll be quick enough to change the settings on the camera to get some good pictures because this is going to be for his eagle scout award. Are my insecurities showing? LOL Yack at ya later. Sheesh! I'm talking to myself! No one reads me anyway!