I'm sitting here thinking that I feel like that I have been neglecting my blog b/c I haven't really done a good post. We haven't had a lot of exciting things that have happened, but nonetheless it's time for a new post. This past week Matt did have a job interview and he felt that it went well. (YEA!) I hope he gets the job, b/c being the only one working is very stressful. I've been focusing on my new part time job and hope to make it a full time job and quit my job at Wells Fargo. It's time for change anyway. Scott has started a new semester at school and although we had a rocky start for the new year he has improved. He's a kid that needs structure.
As I listed in an earlier post one of my goals for this year was to be better at scripture study. Well to help me stay on top of it I've decided to start a blog in which I will be putting down my thoughts and inspirations.
That's all I have for now. I will post back when we know if Matt got the job.
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Monday, January 4, 2010
2010 Goals
So this year I've set 3 main goals to accomplish.
1) Be more diligent in my personal scripture study
2) try to get back to my pre-scott size, not so much the weight b/c I know that I will gain muscle to replace the fat
3) focus on my new job at Primerica, which I do on my own time and it will get me to where i want to be, which is to be at home more while still making some income.
I just wanted to share these with you b/c I feel that if someone knows about them I will feel more committed and accountable for them. Wish me luck!
1) Be more diligent in my personal scripture study
2) try to get back to my pre-scott size, not so much the weight b/c I know that I will gain muscle to replace the fat
3) focus on my new job at Primerica, which I do on my own time and it will get me to where i want to be, which is to be at home more while still making some income.
I just wanted to share these with you b/c I feel that if someone knows about them I will feel more committed and accountable for them. Wish me luck!
Christmas 2009
Finally I'm sitting down to post about our Christmas holiday, better late than never. I wanted to make sure that I had out pictures loaded onto the computer but I've been using my mother-in-law's camera and can't find her usb connection. I guess I will be taking the camera into walgreens and making a cd, so this post will be pictureless for now.
Our Christmas was quite and small. This is how it went.
Christmas Eve Eve (23rd)
Every year for as long as I can remember my grandma has always had a Christmas Eve party at her house with the entire family. I mean the entire family. This includes my immediate family and my grandma's extended family. Last year was the first year that my grandma moved it to the 23rd, this was done b/c now all of her nieces and nephews have grandchildren and want to spend the traditional Christmas Eve with them. So Christmas Eve Eve was born. Dinner is always mexican and followed by a White Elephant gift exchange. Now mind you my family is somewhat unorthodox when it comes to the white elephant. We see a lot of weird and interesting items. This year we had an Obama decorative plate to a pair of boxers that said naughty or nice with smurfs on it. It was a very fun evening and we got to see people that we don't always get around to seeing throughout the year.
Christmas Eve (24th)
For Christmas Eve we spent time with Matt's family at his brother's house. Christmas Eve with the Sovereign's is a favorite things dinner followed by a short reading from the Bible of the Christmas story and a short story read by Grammy.
Favorite Things dinner, you might be wondering what is that. Well let me tell you. It literal means bring your favorite thing to eat for dinner. It's a potluck of sorts with all kinds of things. We honestly don't know what will show up, but it's fun. This year we had pizza, ribs, chips & salsa, candy bars, salad . . . the list goes on, but I won't list them all fof the sake of those reading this.
After dinner my brother-in-law read the Christmas story from the bible and explained the meaning of Christmas. He always does such a good job to where the kids understand it. Then after he was done, the kids got to open their christmas pj's. No Christmas Eve is complete with out the pj's. Thanks aunt Shelly for buying them. Once the kids had settled down it was Grammy's turn to read her story. She always gets the new Christmas book from Deseret Book and reads. This year it was I heard the Bells on Christmas Day. This book told the story of how the hymn I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day came to be. It was a wonderful story.
Christmas Day (25th)
This year we spent Christmas morning and day with Matt's family, normally after opening presents with Matt's family we would head over to my Dad's. But this year my Dad decided to take my younger brother's on a cruise for Christmas, don't think he is unfair he did that with us older kids when we were in high school. We woke up and of course Scott was really excited to open his gifts. So at about 8:30 -9 we sat down to open our presents. After presents we had breakfast, which was cinnamon rolls and milk. yummy.
Later at around 5 we had dinner. This year we had standing rib, rolls, broccoli wild rice casserole and a bunch of other yummy stuff. With our bellies full of good food we lounged about. Some us played games and then eventually we all ended up in the family room wathching Wolverine.
We had a fun time. Sorry this was so long, I hope you enjoyed reading it. I will be posting the pictures soon.
Our Christmas was quite and small. This is how it went.
Christmas Eve Eve (23rd)
Every year for as long as I can remember my grandma has always had a Christmas Eve party at her house with the entire family. I mean the entire family. This includes my immediate family and my grandma's extended family. Last year was the first year that my grandma moved it to the 23rd, this was done b/c now all of her nieces and nephews have grandchildren and want to spend the traditional Christmas Eve with them. So Christmas Eve Eve was born. Dinner is always mexican and followed by a White Elephant gift exchange. Now mind you my family is somewhat unorthodox when it comes to the white elephant. We see a lot of weird and interesting items. This year we had an Obama decorative plate to a pair of boxers that said naughty or nice with smurfs on it. It was a very fun evening and we got to see people that we don't always get around to seeing throughout the year.
Christmas Eve (24th)
For Christmas Eve we spent time with Matt's family at his brother's house. Christmas Eve with the Sovereign's is a favorite things dinner followed by a short reading from the Bible of the Christmas story and a short story read by Grammy.
Favorite Things dinner, you might be wondering what is that. Well let me tell you. It literal means bring your favorite thing to eat for dinner. It's a potluck of sorts with all kinds of things. We honestly don't know what will show up, but it's fun. This year we had pizza, ribs, chips & salsa, candy bars, salad . . . the list goes on, but I won't list them all fof the sake of those reading this.
After dinner my brother-in-law read the Christmas story from the bible and explained the meaning of Christmas. He always does such a good job to where the kids understand it. Then after he was done, the kids got to open their christmas pj's. No Christmas Eve is complete with out the pj's. Thanks aunt Shelly for buying them. Once the kids had settled down it was Grammy's turn to read her story. She always gets the new Christmas book from Deseret Book and reads. This year it was I heard the Bells on Christmas Day. This book told the story of how the hymn I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day came to be. It was a wonderful story.
Christmas Day (25th)
This year we spent Christmas morning and day with Matt's family, normally after opening presents with Matt's family we would head over to my Dad's. But this year my Dad decided to take my younger brother's on a cruise for Christmas, don't think he is unfair he did that with us older kids when we were in high school. We woke up and of course Scott was really excited to open his gifts. So at about 8:30 -9 we sat down to open our presents. After presents we had breakfast, which was cinnamon rolls and milk. yummy.
Later at around 5 we had dinner. This year we had standing rib, rolls, broccoli wild rice casserole and a bunch of other yummy stuff. With our bellies full of good food we lounged about. Some us played games and then eventually we all ended up in the family room wathching Wolverine.
We had a fun time. Sorry this was so long, I hope you enjoyed reading it. I will be posting the pictures soon.
Friday, December 18, 2009
Happy Birthday Matt
Today is Matt's birthday. To celebrate his parents took us out to eat. Matt wanted to eat at Texas Road House, mmmm. I'm glad that 29 years ago he was born. :) He is a good dad, friend and husband. He does all that he can to make sure that we are taken care of. Happy birthday we love you!
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Thursday, December 10, 2009
Baby It's COLD Outside!
Okay so this morning I go out to my car and find that my car is all sparkly. At first I thought that it was just dew. Nope. It was FROST!!! I turned on the car heater to get the car warmed up and to try to defrost my winsheild. It wasn't working fast enough so I pull out a card from my wallet and began to scrape the frost from my windsheild.
The shavings from the frost.
This was the view from inside my car.
The temp outside this morning at around 7 am.
Yes that says 34 degrees. BRRR!!!! Man was it cold this morning. I'm grateful that I don't have to drive in the snow to work.
Monday, December 7, 2009
It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas . . .
Today for family night we finally decorated our christmas tree!! We had fun, and it only took us about an hour. Check out our pretty tree! (excuse the quality of the pictures, my camera is still having issues and so I took the pictures w/ my phone.)
Monday, November 30, 2009
Thanksgiving Weekend
Now that Thanksgiving is over I thought that I would post about it. Here's how it went. (sorry no pictures, my camera is having issues)
Day 1 - Woke up got dressed, opened the bathroom door to a very anxious 5 year old wanting to go play with his cousins. Of course I was not ready to go. Turned on the tv to the Macy's day parade to have him watch it. He really was not interested in watching it b/c he was asking me about every 5 mins if I was ready to go. That kid has a one track mind. Matt headed out to play some football with some friends and had fun. At about 10 am I was finally ready to go and so I gathered my items for the dish I was assigned, mashed potatoes, very easy to do. :) We got to my brother-in -laws house and hung out with everyone. Matt's sister was in town with her family and so that was fun to see her baby. By 1:30 pm everything was done, both turkeys cooked and all the sides dishes prepped, we actaully sat down to eat around 2:15 ish. It was nice to have an early dinner/lunch whatever you want to call it. By the time the evening rolled around everyone was ready for pie. yummy.
Day 2 - I had to go into to work. Bleh. :( But after I got home we headed back over to my brother-in-laws house to hang out some more. I was helping my niece with a murder mystery puzzle, which is tradition. Had fun and talked.
Day 3- Saturday, I ran a few errands, and got my Christmas cards mailed out. I can't believe that I got them out as early as I did. Go me! So if you gave me your address expect one in the mail very soon. :) I made some more clips for my Etsy store, I hope to have those listed soon, I just need to find a camera to borrow. Then at about 5:30 we headed back to my bro-in-laws for dinner. My niece and I worked more on the puzzle, but unfortunately we did not finish it, but did make a lot of progress on it.
Over all we had a great weekend and spent time with our family.
Day 1 - Woke up got dressed, opened the bathroom door to a very anxious 5 year old wanting to go play with his cousins. Of course I was not ready to go. Turned on the tv to the Macy's day parade to have him watch it. He really was not interested in watching it b/c he was asking me about every 5 mins if I was ready to go. That kid has a one track mind. Matt headed out to play some football with some friends and had fun. At about 10 am I was finally ready to go and so I gathered my items for the dish I was assigned, mashed potatoes, very easy to do. :) We got to my brother-in -laws house and hung out with everyone. Matt's sister was in town with her family and so that was fun to see her baby. By 1:30 pm everything was done, both turkeys cooked and all the sides dishes prepped, we actaully sat down to eat around 2:15 ish. It was nice to have an early dinner/lunch whatever you want to call it. By the time the evening rolled around everyone was ready for pie. yummy.
Day 2 - I had to go into to work. Bleh. :( But after I got home we headed back over to my brother-in-laws house to hang out some more. I was helping my niece with a murder mystery puzzle, which is tradition. Had fun and talked.
Day 3- Saturday, I ran a few errands, and got my Christmas cards mailed out. I can't believe that I got them out as early as I did. Go me! So if you gave me your address expect one in the mail very soon. :) I made some more clips for my Etsy store, I hope to have those listed soon, I just need to find a camera to borrow. Then at about 5:30 we headed back to my bro-in-laws for dinner. My niece and I worked more on the puzzle, but unfortunately we did not finish it, but did make a lot of progress on it.
Over all we had a great weekend and spent time with our family.
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