Zach

So I have to brag a little bit...Zach is the most thoughful kid ever!  He went out and got everyone presents for Christmas.  I think he will be an exceptional man when he grows up, when he hears something he remembers it.  I had said something about not having a certain size of knitting needles and he went out and bought me the size I needed and some yarn to go with it!  He also spent the last few days before Christmas making presents for his mom and stepdad.  If I am stressed out he orders me to go and take a bath or something else relaxing.  I love how he still is a child though.  He loves to play with Spencer and Kaden and has not lost his imagination one bit.  Most of the time he was staying with us last week, he spent up in one of our trees make a fort with rope and sticks, and playing with his homemade bow and arrows.   We are so blessed to have him in our family.

I hope I live through the Holidays

These past couple weeks have been painful for me.  Last week I went to the dentist to have a cavity taken care of.  It was just one small one so it was no biggy.  HA!  As my dentist was giving me the shot I could feel this achey sharpish pain in my jaw, where I think the needle was.  I didn't say anything because I figured he would be taking the needle out soon.  (He kept it in a little longer then I wanted.)  Everything was wonderful and numb hours after I had my cavity taken care of.  Around the kids lunch time my jaw started to ache.  And then around nap time it was killing me.  I could hardly talk...the more I moved my jaw the more it hurt.  I finally got the kids down, took some meds and tried to sleep.  More like I cried myself to sleep.  I couple hour nap actually helped with the pain a lot.  I didn't talk or eat much the rest of the day...my right side of my face was swollen and extremely tender.  So it continued to get less and less painful everyday after that, and about three or four days later, my pain was replaced by a giant bruise on my right cheek.  It looked like I had gotten into a fight.
So on to my next story:  Earlier this week I was walking down the stairs with Addy and as I took a step my heel slipped off of the stair and in trying to keep Addy from getting hurt I landed hard on my tailbone and left funny bone...NOT funny!  My whole left hand went numb for a minute or two.  This fall wasn't my most dramatic fall off of those stairs but it was the most painful.  Addy was fine, just scared...I called Brian and had him come home...luckily it was close to dinner anyway.  By bedtime I needed help getting undressed and dressed...I couldn't bend my elbow, it would tingle painfully and then send numbing tingles to my fingers.  Now my elbow isn't too bad, there is a big bruise and my pinky and ring finger still have a fall asleep tingle to them, and by tail bone is bruised and is not fun to sit on.  This is the fourth time this year that I have fallen down the stairs.  Brian is nervous that people are going to start thinking there is more to my stair falls the just me...he is probably right, with my bruised cheek and fall down the stairs...it does sound suspicious.  But to put everyone's mind at rest...it is all my cluztiness Brian has nothing to do with it.  Maybe I getting old and my body is falling apart...I just need to get one of those elevator chairs. 
So anyway that has been my week and a half.  Sigh!  So I wish you all a Merry and accident free Christmas!

REAL Wreath

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So I decided to be ambitious...I made a wreath. It turned out to be a lot simplier then I had thought. And it cost me 0 dollars!! I used a wire coat hanger, branches from my trees, and yarn, and about 40 or so minutes. I could probably do it faster now that I have done it once. It is not the prettiest wreath that I have seen but I am quite proud of it. If you want to make one yourself here is the blog. I love it...I'll probably make one next year too. I do have a confession though...for some of it I used a glue gun. When I finished one side looked very sparce and it was dark outside so trying to gather the cut branches was very hard. So I grabbed what I could and I hot glued them to the wreath...they weren't staying otherwise. I probably could have got them to stay but I was impatient and I wanted to show my fabulous hubby my creation when he got home. So there it is, my holiday wreath...I am so proud!

Nauvoo

I kind of took an untentional "vacation" from blogging. I feel like things have be a little crazy since Thanksgiving...anyone else feel this? A few weeks ago we (Brian and I) took a trip to Nauvoo to go through the temple with my brother and his wife Abbie. It was a lot of fun! Brian and I got to be the witness couple and it was an experience that I will always remember. Thank you Abbie and James for choosing to go to the temple. It will be one of the best choice you ever make.