Make Me Better Monday-A Pledge

I'm a little late tonight, but that's okay. We've been having birthday festivities for Carson today, so that has taken a fair amount of time and brain power which I gladly gave to be able to celebrate my husband! He's so cute! See?For his birthday the kids and I went to visit him at work (actually just me, Will and Audrey-Siobhan was at school), then I got to work making his one request which was a chocolate cheese cake (delish!) and then a date for him and I to the Jazz game. We won! And I serenaded him with a rendition of Endless Love on the way to the game. No, that's not our song and after tonight I was informed that it never will be, and while he appreciated the sentiment, he still hates that song. Oh well!

Now, on to the pledge:

*I pledge correspondence everyday with a friend or family member that I haven't communicated with in a while. Stay on your toes! :)

*I've done very well getting to bed before midnight and I want to keep it up and shoot for even earlier!

*I pledge to send those thank you notes I wrote.

*I pledge to find my 5X7 envelopes and start addressing my Christmas cards even thought the cards and letters are not finished (or started...shhhhhh) yet.

*I pledge to write and finish my Christmas letter.

*I've done great with more sincere prayer but I've done better in the evening than I have in the morning. I need to change that and make them equally as good. Go check out this post on my blog for more thoughts on the subject and link to a great talk that really inspired me on the subject.

*I pledge to make one meal that I can freeze in preparation for the baby's arrival.


Me and Carson at the Colors concert in September.

I want this

I hesitate to mention this giveaway on the blog because I don't want other people to go enter and take away a chance for me to win. But it give me more of a chance to win and I want this really bad!

http://tomkatstudio.blogspot.com/

New Blog

Some of you may already know about this one, but I found it for the first time today and I'm in love! It's a sewing blog so it may not appeal to everyone, but it is super fun and I can't wait to start sewing for myself after the baby comes now that I'm so full of inspiration! Go check it out!

http://www.newdressaday.com/

She does some super cute refashions and all on the cheap! I'm so impressed with her creativity!

Make Me Better Monday-A Pledge

Last week I missed out on being able to make my pledge because there was a power surge that threw the wireless off. Then it happened again later in the week. Between those two instances plus not wanting to do a 'Monday' thing on a different day plus unplugged Thursday made it difficult to make my pledge. Then it came late today because I decided it was more important to blog about my kid than me. So without further ado, here's my pledge for this week of thanksgiving and gratitude.

*I pledge to take my time cleaning so I'm not stressing myself out but still getting things done.

*I pledge one load of laundry done each day.

*I pledge to really increase my gratitude this week and be a good example to the kids about what it means to be grateful.

*I pledge to complete some of the homemade Christmas presents that I'm making.

*I pledge to refrain from raising my voice towards that kids.

*I pledge to get to bed before midnight each night which means I have 12 minutes to get this done and get downstairs. Good thing I read scriptures earlier today.

*I pledge to enjoy the moments of silence and relaxation and send good vibes to the baby boy.

Conversations With A Cutie Pants Kid

I've mentioned that Audrey is really funny and very cute. But I've realized that she is this way without trying one bit. She is completely honest and sincere in everything she says and does, it just happens to be coupled with her signature ditziness (I say that out of complete love and and endearment by the way).

Case in Point-the following.....

Scene: The girls and I sitting on my bed while I do their hair for church yesterday. Siobhan is coloring a picture and figured out that her 'magic reveal' marker will show hidden pictures on the paper. Audrey is getting her hair done.

Siobhan: Mom! There's a waterfall on this picture!
Audrey: Mom! There's a freakin' waterfall on this picture!!! A freakin' waterfall!!!


Scene: Audrey is saying prayers before bed.

Audrey*: Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for this day, thank you for our many blessings, thank you for the food, thank you for family and friends, please bless the food (This is where she would normally stop, but she kept going) thank you I can sleep better, thank you I can be Belle for Halloween (next year she means, apparently she feels the need to appeal to the man upstairs for Halloween preparation a year in advance) thank you for money, Jesus Christ, Amen.

3 seconds later...

Mom, I said thank you for money. (uncontrollable snickers)
Me: That's a very good thing to be thankful for!

About a minute later, Daddy walks in....

Audrey: Dad! I told Jesus thank you for money! (more snickers)
Carson: Why did you tell Jesus thank you money?
Audrey: No, I asked Jesus to give us money.
Carson: Why did you ask Jesus to give us money?
Audrey: So that I can have some money and I'm going to call the money nickels so that I can put it in my piggy bank.
Carson: Well, why do want to put it in your piggy bank?
Audrey: So they'll be safe!
Carson: What are you going to do with your nickels?
Audrey: I want to buy more money!

Scene: We had cheese fondu last night for dinner and we were picking fondu forks. They all have different colors on the end so the highlight of any fondu event at our house (aside from the food) is found in picking just the right color. While we were doing this, Audrey was playing the leapster.
Me: Audrey, what color do you want?
no response....
Me: Audrey, what color do you want?
no response
Me and Siobhan: Audrey what color do you want?
Audrey: Apple juice!
Me: No what color of fondu fork do you want?
Audrey: Apple Juice.

Scene: Carson is at the grocery store with the girls and they run into Audrey's nursery teacher from church. Audrey find a piece of candy on the floor, and runs up to her teacher to show her. Her teacher takes it from her and hands it back.

Audrey: Dad, look what my teacher gave me.
Carson: Well, she didn't actually give it to you to have. She gave it to you to put away.
Audrey: No she gave it to me!
Carson: But it's not her's to give to you, we haven't paid for it.
Audrey: Yeah dad, she gave it to me!
Carson: Audrey, you're not listening to me.
Audrey: No dad, you're not listening to me!
Carson: No, you're not listening to me.
Audrey (now thoroughly exasperated and getting angry): No DAD! You're not listening to me!
Carson: Audrey, you're not listening to me.
Audrey (hands on hips looking away in anger): NO DAD, YOU'RE NOT LISTENING TO ME!

She's a funny girl and last night when Carson and I were talking about all these conversations, I almost peed my pants!


Audrey, apparently in deep thought while watching Tinkerbell and The Great Fairy Rescue at Siobhan's birthday party.

*Just so you all know, I wouldn't normally write my child's prayer
word for word, but I couldn't help myself, it was just too darn hilarious!

Current Obsession!

Siobhan has been learning all about Pilgrims and Indians in school in preparation for Thanksgiving. For some reason (and I'm by no means complaining) she is relating to Indians and is completely fascinated with the Indians. We've gotten books at the library and she asks me questions about tribes and their names and this evening, she asked me if I knew what a pow wow was. I think it's super cool that she is learning about cultures. We talked about how Native Americans in this part of the country would hunt buffalo and she thought that was pretty cool because we have been eating some buffalo meat that grandpa shot a few months ago. We also talked about how they were excellent gardeners and how much they love their families. It's been fun learning about all of this along with her and recalling some of what I learned when I was in school. Here are some pictures of the Indian outfits they made in school. She explained to me how Indians would earn their feathers in their headdresses by doing good things. She earned hers by being a good listener and a good friend. She's also very worried authenticity with the decorations on her headband and vest!

I'm really not sure why she's saluting like a soldier. We think it's because she's confusing 'warrior' and 'soldier'.

Up close you can see the arrow that she drew on her headband.

A Post That Is More Pictures Than Text-Enjoy!

Disclaimer: All pictures where I am present are super unflattering...just keepin' it real. But the kids look cute as always!

The girls got in trouble for fighting so they were sent to the couch holding hands. They were NOT happy about it!

I know I posted a very similar picture in my previous post, but I couldn't resist. He's just so cute!

Tried to snap a picture of Audrey who had fallen asleep on the couch. But Mr. Will could not pass up an opportunity to mug for the camera! Such a silly boy!

While getting ready for FHE, I snapped a few pics of me with the girls. I pledged to get more pictures of me being a mom. Whether these qualify as such, you decide.

She has a knack for making weird faces totally unintentionally for the camera. Let's just say that unless the smile is totally candid, it very rarely looks natural. But she's still adorable!

This one on the other hand couldn't really make a weird face to save her life.

7 pm Tuesday night. Not sure why she was so tired, but she slept until 7:30am Weds morning. I've found her like this a few times and it's always so cute!