Tithing

So we decided we should start letting the kids earn some consistent allowance...i know , i know it is critical for them to learn to work, but i am the type that just wants to get it done AND the way i want it.. but the other day i was watching nanny 911 with my kids and it was very disturbing what it could do to your children . my kids clean and make there beds and such but it is time to get dirty! so anyway we also wanted them to start paying tithing and getting into the habit... my little Parker was the first to earn some money and was very happy of the idea of paying tithing ...so after i let him buy some pizza at Sams Club we went home with the rest of his money to put in an envelope( iknow you should pay tithing first! and this is why) he FLIPPED out when he saw he had to pay 1 quarter and 2 dimes the world was over! he could not handle it...so i finally sat him down and explained to him how blessed we are to be able to keep 90% of our money and how the lord only wants 10% and showed him how much he had left....he was still not accepting this...i then said to him what would happen if no one paid there tithing and there was not a single church to go to or the yummy snacks to eat at our primary activities....he just sat and thought about that for a while and then i asked him what would we do if we did not have our beautiful temple to go be sealed in? we would not be an eternal family? we then talked about when we went through the temple and how paying tithing is a commandment and how much Jesus loves us. after that he was fine and happy to lick that envelope and write his name on the front ...
THE JOYS OF BEING A PARENT!

BOYS BOYS BOYS!

What is it about little boys? Their need for hyper active attention, the love of the outdoors, the need to jump in every mud puddle they see, the anticipation of scaring a sibling, cutting things, ripping things, or just being plain cute??? well that is the question for the day..my sweet parker is i will be blunt CRAZY, but yet he has the sweetest personality if it is just me and him..he wanted to cuddle and watch a movie with me last night, so we took some fun pictures. Here they are with some funny faces...i do have to say though that i feel extremely blessed to have a little boy, other wise i would be an emotional wreck:) )) love those girls dont we?)

and i now have an inspiring photographer on my hands...MISS SAMMANTHA ! she goes around taking pics of everyone and loves it ...here are a few of her masterpieces, these are of my new adorable niece Teagan.

she is so cute! sammy has been really enjoying reading too. in school they had to make up a story or poem like thing. she chose to do a book so it was like a dr seuss book and she drew the pics and everything. i wish i could figure out my scanner and show it on here! but any how she had to read it to the class, and she just loved it! she makes me smile! i also wanted to show you this hair do that i did from my friend JENN she does a new hairstyle on her blog every Friday..they are so stinkin cute they do take a few times to master though! it is good i have 3 girls! have a great weekend everyone!

all about, well the kids:)

WAHOO!!! My mudd and taper men have finally arrived today to finish the garage room! they were i guess ill with the flu! i feel bad for them cause my children have all had it along with these horrendous colds and pink eye garbage!! they are continuing passing it around to each other since jan first so i took this whole week off to try to get them better..

so for those of you that dont know we had a room built above our garage, in our garage. it is really high up in there so we put a room in there that connects to the master bathroom, which will be our closet when we have our basement to use....it is sooo fun and a little weird cause it is only 6ft 1. inside the room and 6 ft 4 inch in the garage. parker will be in there along with the computer and some storage.

ooooooooohhhhhhh and some great news as well my brother Micah and his wife Jen live in my basement now and is soooooo much fun! they have lived in the Lehi area for about 4 years and is great to have them back! Jen also watches my kids for now instead of my mom which works out great, although she probably rips her hair out on those days cause she has 2 little ones as well:) but the kids sure love her and are happy to see there cousins too!..I hope they are with us for at least a couple of years? love ya guys!!

Matt has been working a TON of overtime cause JEEP SAFARI is almost here and he has to go sit in a booth with his boss to how you say, PLAY!! LOL ...he is having a great time at his job still and will be there FOREVER!! i love that he is so happy...and he is sooo good at what he does too , he makes some pretty cool jeeps and fab work!

so a while ago i was tagged by my dear friend Jenn but that will have to get answered tomorrow,,, my sister in laws kids tagged my kids so here those are

8 things about sammy are

1- she loves to entertain people . whether it is singing, reading or dancing she LOVES IT!

2- she loves to play school AND be the teacher.

3- she loves to talk about the gospel with children that are not LDS because she thinks its very interesting that not everyone goes to church:)

4-She loves BOYS, BOYS, BOYS

5- Sammantha reads VERY well and enjoys reading to her siblings

6-Sammantha is a very good singer

7- Sammy loves to go on daddy daughter dates

8- Samm loves to stay up late and SLEEP IN!!

Sammy tags Kelsie

8 things about Parker are

1-HE LOVES SPIDER MAN( who new right!)

2-Parker loves to ride his bike and now ride with one hand:)

3-parker is very good at tumbling

4- parker is the best cleaner in the whole house!

5-Parker is really into paper airplanes and makes me make at least 4 a day! way fun!

6-parker is the BIGGEST home body i know

7- parker hates writing his name..lol

8- parker is the ONLY boy in his family so he enjoys teasing the girls:)

Parker tags Joshua M.

lets see 8 things about my aubs

1- aubrey enjoys sucking her thumb

2- she really LOVES to wear dresses and pretty much anything shiny.

3- aubrey loves to make you smile, she has really turned into a comedian

4- aubrey loves to follow her sister sammy around and do EVERYTHING she does

5- aubs absolutely loves makeup

6- aubrey is the best little mommy

7- she enjoys being with daddy the most

8- aubrey will be your best friend if you give her milk in a sippy cup:)

Aubrey tags Morgan and Nikyla

i wanted to add a movie clip of sammy cause she LOVES highschool musical sooo much. she has all the songs memorized and i have them on video. i have not had her sing them for a while so she is a little rusty but since i am blogging again she wanted me to put this on.

its me!!!

okay so i have to really get on the ball and start blogging! since my over time i have gotten out of the habit and ALL of my kids have been sick since i have been home from the OT!! anyway i also lost my camera so did not have a lot of motivation to post cause i gotta have pics!:) anyway i found my camera at my mother in laws so i just need to go pick it up.... i have soooooo many updates and will need to do them tomorrow but thanks to all you fellow bloggers pushing me to start again! JEN! love ya

Christmas time!

So the holiday madness is nearing and and all the shoppers are going crazy, the snow is ruining all the decorations and what do we have to show for it? a ton of happy smiling faces around my house! MAN I can not wait for Christmas! I have had most the week off although we have all had the flu we are still super excited! Parker wakes up every morning upset that Santa has not come and i have to tell him how many more days left he is the most excited of all, yet he HATES going to the store with me for any quick last things i need!(such a typical boy/man!) and aubrey is wonderful about wanting to be on the nice list this year so if she is doing something naughty i ask her naughty or nice aubs? and she says nice and instantly shapes up LOL!! Sammsooo excited that school is out and that i have been home she has missed me the most and wants to of course have SLEEPOVERS! she is crazy:) well i have to ask everyone if you have seen I AM LEGEND? if you haven't you need to go see it! i think we are gonna go see it again tonight! it is seriously the best show, i wanted to throw up the whole time and was scared but yet it was very intriguing! Will smith did such an awesome job! well let me know what ya thought if you saw it..maybe will have to go watch it again as a BIG group!! well hope everyone gets some GOOD last minute shopping done today! and here are some of fun pics and also pics of matts work party.

Tagged!

TAGGED!! DAGNABIT!
So I have never done one of these but here goes....

Where was I 10 years ago...Wow that is a looong time to think, but I was actually at a HUGE turning point in my life, MAN just thinking about it actually made me start crying again which I have not done in years but, I had just decided to to place my baby for adoption and was in the process of finding the right family for him. I was such a mess but pulled through with the help of the most AWESOME people in the world, my parents. They were my rock in life and are the reason I am who I am today!( even though they might not want to claim that:) ) I had just gotten my drivers license as well and was enjoying driving EVERYWHERE! I was working at a movie theater and loved to watch the sneek peaks at midnight with my older sister and her friends, those were GOOD TIMES!

Where was I 5 years ago....Well Samm had just turned one and we had gotten our first christmas tree which was OH about 2ft tall:) ya cant really get into christmas with a 1 year old people:) I had recently started working for good old Discover Card too! Man they have me stuck! and we had just found out the previous month that we were expecting again! wahoo i was soo excited!

Where was I 1 year ago...lets see baby # 4 was a couple months old and I was still on the good old maternity leave! My sister in law was about to move from Oregon to come live by us!! I cant believe it has only been a year!

Where was i yesterday..well that is a real bummer answer cause I was at work talking to cranky people that did not want to pay there bills! but I did go to Crown Burger for the first time in my life and can you say HEAVEN!!! it was sooo good, I am not into burgers so i have never gone but i heard they had other things so i got this chicken uro thingy anyway yummy!..then i came home to haven and sammy with the flu, TONS OF FUN!

5 snacks I enjoy...I totally LOVE chips i can eat a whole can of pringles in like 2 hours if ya let me!! and BROWNIES man what an evil thing to create! i can snack on those all day too!..I also LOVE red grapes they are the best straight from the fridge..lets see i also enjoy eggs sounds weird but i can whip an egg up anytime just to snack:) and last i would have to say cheese and crackers, I mean who does not like to slice your own cheese get some good ritz and veg in front of the T.V?

5 things I'd do with a million bucks...Buy a house for all my siblings on the same street ( i think that would take all my money, I have 3 sisters and 4 brothers) lets see I would go on a HUGE clothes shopping spree!...I would go to paris... I would help out in Africa..and then just maybe put some away for retirement:)

5 places to run away to .. MY MOMS HOUSE where it would be like the good old days where she was the mom and took care of everything! then San Fransisco! I LOVE it there, although i would have to take my sister cause my hubby hates crowds. I would spend a lifetime in Hawaii. Paris for maybe a couple of weeks..and then if it ment no more working MY home would be the best place to run to FOREVER!

5 T.V shows...I am sorry I don't watch much tv so i am going to say 5 favorite movies cause I love going to the movies! lets see...#1 The Fugitive..I would marry harrison ford anyday:) #2 The little mermaid..I always envied her! #3 Fried Green Tomatoes .. need I say more! #4 The Notebook I hope my marriage stays that way !!! #5 Mr.& Mrs. Smith that show is pretty much what every marriage at some point wanted to do to each other..LOL

5 Things I hate doing...1. I hate doing the dishes, so that is matts only chore. 2. I hate filling the gas tank in the car, i let it run soo low i am surprised i have never ran out of gas. 3- I hate trying to lose weight in my world i could eat whatever i wanted when i wanted and NEVER work out, but that was just not in my gene pool! 4- i hate cleaning bathrooms every last inch of them i can not stand to think about having to clean them so sorry if you come to my house it will probably not be cleaned but once every 2 months...maybe...5- I hate doing homework even though i am not in school i now have to do my childrens for the next 18 years!! YUCK!

5 Joys... of course my hubby-matt- he is such a character he is fun to be with, as long as we are not disciplining the kids:) and he is such an amazing fixer of everything that guy knows something about everything! 2- my kids! what can i say more.. they are awesome they give me UPS and DOWNS! they are what life is all about..even though i HATE homework:) 3- Family, without them I would be pretty bored cause who else is gonna hang out with someone with 4 kids???? 4- my van, i could not do anything without it! 5- a camera , how can you not enjoy capturing life?!

6 interesting things about me? well this is gonna be a hard one......I love to wake up early in the morning and start cleaning...2- My kids all have there name starting with a letter out of my name( matt thinks that is sooo weird and he hates it, that is why we have to have 9 kids!)3-I favor my left side over my right side...i always thought i would grow out of that? 4-I love to talk and be around people and crowds but yet when you ask me to talk in front of everyone i want to cry! that is why being in the primary presidency will be good for me.5-I have been a nanny and have always enjoyed children so my dream is to become a elementary teacher.6- I enjoy making people mad while i am driving..ya know like going slow when they are trying to cut through everyone, cutting people off.. it is a REALLY bad habit, not many people know that!hehe!

well there is my some what interesting life..I tag

Jen, Jenn & Jennifer you're it!!

Annual Gingerbread/grahm cracker houses

So every year I get together with my hubbys family and we make the BEST grahm cracker houses that you have evr seen! it is sooo much fun and thanks to my sister in law i got some pics cause i forgot my camera! thanks jen! anyway life is also really good i am working m-f 6am-8:30pm every night so hope noone needs to get a hold of me cause you will get my bro! anyway spencer said my kids have been great, they are really teaching him to be a patient dad! he has taken them to the park everyday it is niceoutside and makes huts every day too! spence you are AWESOME!! well hope everyone has a happy thanksgiving!!