All I want for Christmas...........(revised)

Hmm... I found this Christmas list from two years ago, lets see what has changed.


A clean house.. That I didn't have to clean :) Still want this for sure!!
The dishes done and put away.
My carpet cleaned.......we put in wood floor and I love it!!
Nicholas to be potty trained :)Yes!!! Finally
The kids quit telling me that they are bored
A bigger kitchen, where I actually have room for stuff ....Bigger kitchen, just a bigger mess right?
Someone to make dinner other than me! Take out!!
The laundry done for at least more than a day.
Shawn to actually think and care about getting me a Christmas gift before Christmas Eve! well, its Dec. 18th and he is starting to plan his shopping day...on Christmas Eve!
Shawn to write me a love letter instead of worrying on Christmas eve about getting me a gift.
The dog to not have any accidents in the house!! :( No dog...he got ran over.
A new kitchen table.
Donny to be my friend and actually know who I am....At least I got to see Him in May!!!!
Donny to sing to me
My sister Lori to come and visit me!! Well, she moved closer..she's in Texas now.

My kids to stop saying that I am the worst mom in the world or that they hate me. They are teenagers, what do you expect. One day they will know what a good Mom I tried to be!
To be 10 years younger.   Who doesn't want this?
My 20 year high school reunion not to be in 6 months Didn't go..no one missed me anyway
To be out of credit card debt. 
My hair to stop going grey so often.  I just get to buy hair dye more often!
My kids to realize I have a life that isn't centered around them, oh wait I don't have one
This year I would love.....
Shawn to keep his job.
Me to keep mine!
Scott to finally get his Eagle and Driver's license.
**you know what, thats it!! After a couple of rough years, I'm grateful for what I have!! I have my family, we are all somewhat healthy, and a home. To some I may have it all!
I guess you could say for Christmas this year I am asking for a miracle!  Well, maybe I'm a little closer to a miracle....then again, maybe not!

Donny

ok, I must be so busy or in a little bit of depression. I didn't even bother to blog about Donny! Yes, My Donny!! His birthday was Dec. 9th!! Happy Belated birthday!

HaPpY bIrThDaY!!!!! Nicholas

Help!! My baby is growing! He's a big boy now! 5. He had a great birthday, lots of celebrating in St.George and at home!! I got him some buzz light year PJs and he loves to wear them. He loved his game Rockem Sockem Robots! What a cutie!!!

My little boy isn't so little anymore!

Wow, this is a long time coming. Scott is 17 now!!!! Holy cow, where has the time gone! It seems like only a few years ago that he would come up to me with his favorite blankie and want me to rock him to sleep. When Madison came along, oh he was such a great big brother. He always was protective of her and had his arm around her taking her places.  What best buddies they were. He has always been such a smarty pants!! In first grade he loved to write reports for his show and tell. He would tell the class all about how rainbow are made and tell the kids all about gravity. Most of it he learned from Magic School Bus!  He hasn't changed a bit! Such a smarty! He was just inducted into the National Honors Society!! He still loves to tell all sorts of information, sometimes I have no idea what he is even talking about. I just nod my head and smile. :) One year left until he is officially an adult! EEEKK!! I can't even imagine having an adult son! 2 years until his mission! Oh my, now I feel OLD!! It is never going to matter how old he is, he will always be MY little boy!!

Forget Me Not

I watched the General Releif Society broadcast tonight. It was so wonderful. I loved The last talk by President Uchtdorf. My favorite part of his talk, was when he was talking about sacrafices and what were good ones and not so good ones. I laughed out lound when he talked about all the work you put into making handmade pot holders for handouts for a lesson!!  I found this cute picture someone made to go with his analogy of the Forget me not flower he talked about. Cute! I love it, I'm going to copy it and put it up on my fridge!!http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fbeinglds.blogspot.com%2F2011%2F09%2Fforget-not-president-uchtdorf.html&h=kAQADKi9uAQAaW7zEL7dfo0wxTpiBUn5aqBcdndqibAnTRQ

Pearl Video

Here is the video Shawn took of us getting the pearl.

State Fair

Last night we had a great time at the State Fair. OK, besides the walking and parking blocks away it was fun!! We went because after months and months of pleading and begging I finally caved in and let Scott go to the Weird Al concert. I had to bum around at the fair to wait for the concert to get over to take him home.  (Of course!! I had to find a picture with Donny too!)

While we were there we saw a 7ft Robot walking around talking to people. That was awesome!! Nicholas was in awe of it! I found a paparazzi booth there and yes, of course I had to stop and look. there was a tank at the booth that had oysters in it and you could pick an oyster and get the pearl out of it and make a necklace. Shawn asked me if I wanted to do it and I was not going to let that opportunity go so I said yes! It was fun! My oyster had a pink pearl in it! It is very pretty!  After that we went and got food. Let me just say, I love ribbon fries! Yummy!!

We ran into friends from our ward and they looked like they were having a blast! They were not surprised at all that Scott was at the Weird Al concert!  When we were getting ready to leave Shawn stopped by the oyster tank again and wanted to bring a pearl home to Madi! Hey when he gets in moods like this I'm not gonna stop him! He even took a video of it to show her when we got home. ( Madi stayed home, she didn't want to come) I thought that was so sweet of him!! We had such a fun and great night! I still can't believe that Shawn paid a dollar to see the worlds smallest lady!!