Picture of the Day

I was walking down the hall today and spotted this on the end of Briar's bed. I don't really know what to tell you about it. I never asked who did it, or what it was exactly. Perhaps she is on life support, or she's rigged to blow. Either way, it doesn't look good for Bri's baby doll.

What's in a Text Message......

Here, is a small glimpse of life in the crazy wonderful. Its one of those moments that stops me and makes me say....I love my life!!

The following is a text message between Tanner and Daniel.

Tanner: I seek they advice oh master, for I am a padawan. Art thou going to be home soon, making it unwise to play thy x box? and, thy other son wishes for a pill....Thy permission is required.

Daniel: Pill granted my student. It is unwise to play more than 20 minutes under pain of death

Tanner: Pain of death?! 20 Minutes?! Curse thee!! I meant to say that thy decisions are wise above all others

Daniel: Thy forked tongue will cost thee lashings. Best to hold thy tongue than suffer

Tanner: Thou art hysterical oh lord, but not as I......

=o) That's all. It made me laugh. I love my family.

Merry Christmas

Confession

So I have this friend, who has a blog, and on her blog she does these "confessions" I love them, not because they are funny (which they are) but because they are real. So much out there is appearances and keeping up with the Jones. Well, I decided to try to free myself, and I'm doing my first confession. Its horrible and I can't believe I'm putting it out there but here goes

Confessions of a bad mom

I'll do 5 today, because that's all I can handle without feeling like I need to give my children to social services because I'm too inadequate to raise them

1. I hung up on my son when he called me on our date
2. It took me three days to drive half a mile to pick up Kobe's prescription from Walgreen's.
3. Emma came crying to me that Corwin hurt her, to which my reply was...Should we go beat him up?
4. I called my 2 year old a "fart knocker" because she took the lids off of my contact case and emptied the contents.
5. .#2 aka Tate, came home from school singing this song....."don't you wish your girlfriend was a FREAK like me.... to which...I laughed. Did I explain kindly that its an inappropriate song? no...I LAUGHED

Rachel Needs

So I was reading Rhonda's blog and she was talking about googling your name (Rachel) with the word (needs) after it, interesting right? So I decided to do it, never heard of it before but when I did the search it made me laugh so here goes...

Rachel Needs

Rachel Needs to get over herself......

OK I'll try, but we all know how fabulous I am....

Rachel Needs netflix friends.....

what is that exactly? Any of my peeps out there have netflix cuz apparently I need ya.....

Rachel Needs guidance and normal supervision.....

as opposed to what, abnormal supervision?

Rachel needs bearded dudes.....

OK...I'm leaving that one alone

Rachel Needs bikinis.....

I don't hate anyone that much

Thats a good place to stop.... its fun try it.

Yummy Gingerbread

Tis the season for gingerbread houses! We had a lot of fun with the kids. Miss Em didn't participate, she was in bed sick =o( and Tanner was out doing fast offerings with Dan but made it back just in time to start the second house.

As soon as the last piece of candy went on the houses, they asked if they could eat them. The houses were demolished within 15 seconds.

Go ahead! Tell me the sugar didn't affect the crazy wonderful kidlets.

Psycho kids high on sweets.

.....good times

~*Domesticity*~

do·mes·tic·i·ty (dm-sts-t)
n. pl. do·mes·tic·i·ties

1. The quality or condition of being domestic.
2. Home life or devotion to it.

Kobe~ we're like chipmunks Mom. Your storing our food for the winter

Tate~ we could be bears

All Caught Up

First....The Man is 3 weeks post op. tomorrow and doing Fabulous!

Thanks to our ward family who brought meals and made sure I wasn't too bogged down the first few days. Thanks to Connie for the awesome waiting room bag full of fun games, magazines and treats. And a special thanks to Jed and Rhonda for being AWESOME! Thanks Rhonda for sitting in the waiting room with me for hours then rushing home just in time to finish up making dinner for your 6 kids and my 7, and Jed for calling and visiting the Man all the way out in Scottsdale. We are so blessed to have such amazing friends. Thanks to everyone else for phone calls, cards and visits.

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Second, we celebrated out 14th Anniversary

We actually celebrated a couple weeks early because of Dan's surgery. Thanks to everyone who took our kids so we could have some alone time. Especially Steph for taking the girls. I had such a hard time leaving Briar. But since she loves Steph so much, it made it easier.

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Third, we had a fun Halloween.

We went out to my brothers house, we took Red Riding Hood and her Gramma, a goofy looking nerd, An Army Man, Count Dracula, Bat Girl and Buzz Light year with us. They had a lot of fun and being with family is always Great.

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We (and by we I mean ME!) have loved the weather cooling off just enough for the kids to play outside.

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Tate had a special Day.

All of the Mesa Elementary Schools participate in a music program every year, where the teachers each pick the top 14 singers and then they get together with all the other schools and put on a big program. I got to be a parent volunteer the day of the program. These guys worked really hard, and did an AMAZING job. Performance day they were in rehearsal for 7 hours. TROOPERS! Then Dan and the kids came for the actual concert that evening. It was GREAT! Good job Son.

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Tanner went on yet another camp out.

He came home yesterday, dirty and tired, but said he had a wonderful time. =o)

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And last but not least....Game Night.



The first of hopefully many! We had so much fun. We played games and ate yummy food. Ahhh Good times. We all realized that Dan and Jed are connected in some unearthly way, like the live on the same brain frequency and all 12 of us now have new appreciation for the words...Boy and Toilet Training. Thanks guys for hanging out. We had a blast!