"L" and "M"

For "L" I am thankful for the Laying on of Hands and for "M" I am thankful for Missionaries.

For some fun "L" websites checkout Lets Explore and Little Birdie Secrets. And now some fun "M"s Make and Takes and Mormon Mommy Wars.

For "L" I am thankful for lemons, I love lemons, they are so pretty to start with but they taste so good too, just think of lemonade and lemon meringue pie. For "M" I am thankful for mothers, I love my mom and cant wait to see her in under two weeks!

"J" and "K"

Here come some more things I am thankful for!

For the letter "J" I am thankful for Jesus. For "K" I am thankful for Knowing I will have a place in Heaven.

I don't have a "J" website that I use that often but for "K" I love KSL, we use their classifieds for all sorts of fun things.

I must be hungry since one of my favorite "J" things are Jelly Belly Jelly Beans, especially toasted marshmallow and one of my favorite "K" things is Kettle Corn. YUM!

More Hair Cut Pics

After months of saying it was time to get our hair cut, Olivia and I finally did on Monday. Our wonderful neighbor chopped off lots of hair for us, our heads are much lighter now! Now if only Gina could style mine everyday!
Cutting the braid off.

Getting a cute new do!

Me and Lu with our new short hair.

Our hair waiting to be mailed to Locks of Love.

I think she likes it! I love not having to fight with her over the tangles. :)

"I"

I am thankful for Inspiration, both personal and that of others, Heavenly Father does still communicate with us.

Another website I like is I Never Grew Up, anyplace that inspires me with fun things to do with the kids is tops to me!

I love ice cream, growing up my favorites were the blue bubblegum kind and rainbow sherbet, and I do still like them today. I also like the cotton candy kind at Cold Stone, especially with gummy bears mixed in. But lately I am a fan of the cookies and cream variety from Smiths.

"H" and our new haircuts

I am thankful for the Holy Ghost, sometimes it is hard to listen to and obey the promptings but when I do it always is wonderful. I am also thankful for all the wonderful Hymns, nothing brings calm quicker to my frazzled self then some good music.

For my fun website of the day I choose Hostess With The Mostess, there are some really fun ideas on there!

I am super thankful for Olivia's and my new hair cuts, my head feels so much lighter and Olivia no longer freaks out when we have to brush her tangley hair. Now if Gina could just blow-dry and curl it for me everyday! Luckily Olivia's hair is relatively straight and nicely curls under without much help from me because I am pretty sure she wouldn't let me use a curling iron on it.

"G"

I am thankful for our general authorities, Olivia loves this Youtube video LDS General Authority song.

I am still learning how to use google reader but it does make reading blogs a lot easier since you know who has something new posted.

I am thankful for the garden that we had this summer, I know as we learn what grows well and where things grow best we will be able to have even more yummy produce and fruit from our backyard and nothing is cuter then Olivia digging for carrots!

"F"

I am thankful for Family Home Evening, although we don't do the traditional every Monday night thing we read a story from The Friend every night after bath time to the kids, Olivia calls this family home evening and until the kids are bigger this works for us! I am also thankful for Family History, its fun to learn about family members that came before us.

One of my most visited websites is facebook, if you aren't on there you should be!

I love my family of course but we all love free stuff! The sites I most often use to get them are Freebies 4 Mom and Fatwallet (the freebies forum is easy if you use it in Google Reader). And for my hometown of Ferndale, Washington, go Golden Eagles!

"E"

In these uncertain time I am glad we have started on our Emergency Preparedness, having food storage and 72 hour kits can only be a good thing!

"E" is harder for websites but this one goes along with emergency preparedness so it wins for today! Everyday Food Storage

And for the fun thing, I am thankful for all the beauties of the Earth, we are so blessed to have mountains, streams, oceans, rolling fields of grain, and the list could just go on and on.

"D"

I really like our Dating standards for the youth of our church, now if I can just get my kid's to follow it when the time comes...

The site Deal Seeking Mom has some great posts on deals around town.

I love doughnuts, growing up my friend Carrie's mom would make homemade doughnuts every now and again I loved them! When we went to visit two years ago we got the reciepe and now we can make them ourselves. I could live off our homemade doughnuts for days. YUM!

Jump!

Zachary has learned how to jump and actually get both feet off the ground at the same time! He couldn't be any cuter when he does it, I will try to get it on video for all of you soon. :)

"C"

So today for "C" I am thankful for church callings, I like how in our church no one is paid for what they do it is all volunteer. People like our bishop and primary teachers put in tons of hours of their own time to bless other people's lives, how cool is that! I am most thankful for those people who can work in the nursery so that I can enjoy two hours of church!

For my blog of the day, I really appreciate seeing all the creative ways people come up with to do their daughter's hair, maybe someday I will get creative too! Cutiepie Hair Creationsis just one of the many sites out there but she is sorta local so that makes me like her even more!

My fun thing is cows, my first word was cow and I still like them today if we had lots of land I would get a cow or two.

"B"

Following my pattern for "a", I think I will try to list a gospel item, then a website or blog, and then a fun thing that I am thankful for.

So for "b" I will start with baptism. I am so thankful that I made the decision to be baptised a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints seven years ago, this decision changed my life.

I really like the site Beehive and Birds Nest, she lists a new item every week to add to your food storage, what a great idea!

Now for the fun things, I think that most of Zachary's favorite words and things start with "b", balls, birds, blankie, books, babies, bubble, and baths. And of course most days my favorite "b" word is bedtime!

My ABC's of Thanksgiving

This is just such a good idea that I wanted to try it too. I am going to try to post something that I am thankful for every day for 26 days in alphabetical order.
So for A most of all I am thankful for the Atonement of Jesus Christ, really I dont know what else to say except that I am so grateful for this.

I am thankful for the blog A Daily Scoop and her wonerful perspective on things and helping me to grateful for what I have.

Another of my favorite "a things" is apples, nothing beats a crisp, yummy apple!

Tag Catch Up

Okay if you have tagged me and I haven't answered post a reminder here and I will work on catching up.

8 TV shows I watch
1. Good Things Utah
2. Jon & Kate Plus Eight
3. Dancing With The Stars
4. 17 Kids and Counting
5. Lost
6. Oprah, if its interesting
7. Toughest Race on Earth (a secret dream of mine is to be a dog sled racer, nevermind that I don't like dogs or being cold)
8. Supernanny (or as Olivia calls it "the naughty kid show")

8 Favorite Restaurants
1. Su Casa
And umm yeah, we don't eat out much so I don't really have any other true favorites how lame is that!

8 Things that Happened Yesterday
1. I was awakened much to early yet again, dang daylight saving time.
2. Olivia and I made lemon poppy seed muffins.
3. I got most of Zachary's 12 month clothes put away and his 18 month clothes put into his drawers.
4. I did the normal: dishes, laundry, downstairs vacuuming.
5. We all took naps.
6. I got the frame and wire to make my corn cob wreath.
7. We almost finished our Christmas shopping for the kids, just one more planned gift and their stocking stuffers to go.
8. I feel asleep on the couch yet again.

8 Things I’m looking forward to
1. My mom coming to visit in December.
2. Finding out if the baby is a girl or boy, I think we are going to have the ultrasound person write the sex down and put it in an envelope so we can open it on Christmas.
3. Turning 30 in January
4. Getting the baby's space and clothes all ready.
5. Our trip to California exactly one year from now, Disneyland here we come!
6. Getting our inside projects done, like moldings and painting the upstairs.
7. A good nights sleep.
8. Springtime's warmer weather.

8 Things on my Wish List
1. Time to pick and do a really fun hobby like digital scrapbooking or photography.
2. Kids that don't fight or whine or make needless messes and sleep in until at least 7:30 in the morning.
3. A house on the beach.
4. Perfect eyesight, no more contacts or glasses.
5. A wonderful personal assistant to buy me cute stylish clothes and do cute hair and makeup for me.
6. Having my family history all done.
7. Having my mom move here or us there.
8. The experience of serving a mission.

8 Things I Love
1. My family
2. Sleeping for 7+ hours straight
3. Buying things for the kids
4. My knowledge of eternal families
5. A perfectly cooked steak with corn on the cob and mashed red potatoes
6. Maple sugar candy
7. The yummy smell after it rains
8. Rob's homemade doughnuts

8 Things I Can’t Stand
1. Having my feet touched
2. Being late
3. Bad drivers
4. Uncomfortable shoes
5. The smell of curry (I don't like how it tastes, either)
6. A mess being made right after I have cleaned.
7. Currently the smell of cooking oil completely turns my stomach
8. Rude cashiers

Snow Day!

The time change has changed my kids into little devils so when we woke up to snow yesterday and Olivia claimed her ear hurt it was just easier to take a snow day then send her to preschool. After getting on warm clothes (including socks which are still seldom worn by my kids even though it is cold here now), then snow pants, then coats and boots, and gloves on the kids and barely having time to throw on my coat in the process we went out to play in the snow. Olivia thinks she is part Eskimo, she would stay out in the cold all day if we let her, so she was super excited to have more snow here. Zachary seemed a little confused as to what was all over the grass and his gloves didnt want to stay on so he didnt like that much. I was just plain cold, note to self buy some good winter boots and wear gloves next time.

Making snow angels, one of Olivia's favorite things to do.

Sharing

While I am not excited about them sharing their germs with each other, they sure were cute sharing a sucker from their Halloween candy.

Halloween Pics

So these pictures are yet again backwards but you'll get the idea. :)
Getting ready to leave for trick or treating in the neighborhood with daddy and Aunty Jen. I did candy duty, it was really warm so I sat outside until it started to rain kinda reminded me of my Halloweens growing up.

Gathering leaves at Rob's work.

In Rob's office.

Our sleeping monkey, he must have had a rough morning.

Olivia getting ready to go to school for her Halloween party. She had a great time doing the costume parade she said and of course getting candy!