Happy birthday William!!

Happy birthday sweet baby boy!!
It's so hard for me to imagine what you would look like . Would your hair be sandy blond? Would your eyes still be blue?
Oh how i wish I new ..
I miss and love you..

Need a laugh?

This pic was taken Christmas of 1993 I was 6 months pregnant with Mylissa. We had gone back to Wyoming for Christmas and I was visiting our family. It was my parents Ward Christmas party at church and my daddy was playing Santa.. "I love my daddy he is so cute".
Ok look what I am wearing what the Hello kitty was I thinking? I have a huge poinsettia on my chest high waters and green socks with brown shoes. I think my pregnancy hormones gave me a laps in my fashion judgement.

Snow fun!!

It started snowing late tuesday night and quit snowing late thursday night and now we are left with a ton of white fluffy snow!!

I love it!! If it's going to be cold we might as well have something pretty to show for it!!. My kids will play all day in the snow if I let them especially Ben and Garrett.

Garret wasent available today(Hes at school) so Ben talked Kadie into playing on the snow hill at the end of our drive way. It's a pretty big mound of snow maybe 7ft high. The snow plow pushes all the snow from the road on to this hill so some times its even bigger.
Ben just loves to hike the hill and climb down it . You will often hear him screaming Wahoo I am the king of the snow Hill. It's so cute..

Why would heavenly father give me monster hands..

Ben and I were looking at pictures today and Ben said momma are those my hands? I said yes.. His little face got all pouty and then he looked at me and said the saddest thing "Momma why would heavely father give me monster hands?" My eyes just welled up with tears and i said monster hands ? Why Ben these are the most wonderfull hands in the world he looked at me and said why? I said Benny because they are your hands. I then kissed every inch of his presious hands and told him that I loved his hnads. He just looked at me and said I just wish my monster hands would go away and that one day I can have regular little boy hands..

Ok so grow up not every thing in life goes according to plan.

Last night as we were building a gingerbread house I had visions in my head of a cute house to set out and display. We were all working together and the house was looking pretty just like the picture nobody complaining until my 18 year old pipes up and says "Why dose it have to be lie the picture lets just put the candy's where ever we want".. I was like no I want to make it like the picture. Then of course my 16 year old has to chime in . "Yes I think we should do it how ever we want".
After some very immature dirty looks by me to my rebellious teenagers I said fine do what ever you all want and just walked away. I could not bare to watch as they made the house look crazy.
In the end they glopped so much junk on the roof that the roof caved in . My kids then started eating all the candy. I don't think I have ever seen a 4 year old with so much gum in there mouths before. I sat back and just watched how truly happy they all were. They were giggling and laughing and just having a fun time together.

Did I learn a lesson you might ask? Why yes I did I learned if I want a pretty gingerbread house I should by 2 kits one for me and one for them.. Then momma will have her pretty house and the kiddos can do what ever they want and then all of us will be happy.

I will huff and I will puff and I will blow your house down!!

Ok folks i have the true story of the 3 little pigs. I don't believe there was really a wolf in fact I believe they lived in the small Alaskan town of Palmer. I believe the wind blew for 3 days and 2 nights with out stopping. With winds reaching as high as 90 miles an hour.. I believe the house shook and shimmied all night long. I believe that it sounded more like they were out camping in the woods then sleeping in a strong sturdy home. I believe by the third day it really felt like there was a big bad wolf and that there house was really going to be blown down at any moment.
So there you have it folks the true story of the tree little pigs. It wasent the wolf at all just the big bad Palmer winds..

Now seriously folks i wish the winds would stop It's driving me nuts!! I just want to be able to leave the house with out being blown back down to the lower 48's..
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The elves are watching!

Last year I started a new family tradition that is so much fun! Quietly in the middle of the night an elf door appeared by my front door. My little kids of course noticed it and asked me what it was? I told them well you know santa's elves are every wear watching to see if you are naughty or nice. My Daughter Madie said you mean thats a door that leads to the north pole. I thought this is good!! I said yes Madie . The Elves are coming and going all the time just watching to see if we are being good boys and girls!!
I love the magic of Christmas.

My question of the day what are some of your family's Christmas traditions? If you have them posted on your blog leave a link I would love to read about them..

More proof that I am a dork

Not that you all needed any.. I cant believe that I bragged about the yummy New Andes Candy cane thin mints and not even tell you what they were. Then when we were going to church today I told Kadie to take a pic of me and My new purse that Miss Lola again sent me.. ( thanks Lola i love it!!) My face again reveals what a dork I am. Then to really rub my dorkiness in listen to this fine example. I was looking at my post today and realize I posted a pic on my blog Of me and my older sister sitting on my Mothers lap (see post a step back in time) Guess what it was her birthday that day. Do you think I wished her happy birthday. Nope not me too busy being a dork..
My question of the day? Why do you all even bother to read this blog written By the worlds biggest Diva dork.. Yes I am not an ordinary dork.. I do have to have say at least I do my dorkiness stuff in style... Yes I am also a vain dork. Is there any end to my dorkiness? I think not!!

Yummy naughtiness in a bag..

Have you tried these yummy sinful little treats? If not fun to the store and get some.. They are way too yummy and taste heavenly in Hot COCO..

Dude Whats up with you hair?

This is how my kids have fun!! They make each other look like total dorks.. My 14 year old some how talked my 10 year old in to letting her put tons of tiny rubber bands into his hair. With the grin he's giving you might think he likes it!! I think it's time for a hair cut.. Don't you..

Believe it or not but this is what it looks like at 8:30 am in my dark world!! I forget that the rest of the world has more light in the winter than we do.. We don't even have full sun until about 9:30 or 10am Then it's dusk again at 3pm and full darkness by 4pm.. I fill like I just want to be a bear sometimes because the dark makes me so sleepy.. I always fill sorry for those who work indoors in the winter here because it's dark when they go to work and it's dark when they leave work My poor hubby only sees the sun on the week ends..

So when dose the sun rise and set in your neck of the woods?

A step back in time..

Yep This is me little Jenny and my big sister Crystal sitting in our beautiful mothers lap..
I still marvel at how much Crystal and my oldest Kadie look alike especially when they were little. Kadie in fact thought this was a pic of her and Shelly .
My mom sent me some fun pix the other day from when I was little. I just love them they mean so much to me. My kids had a blast looking at them. I loved seeing them as well. I had forgotten how truly beautiful my mother was when she was younger. It was just so fun to take a step back in time to reflect and rember..

Ok so non post related. Do you notice any thing new about my blog? Hmm ..
May be that I had a blog make over? Hilary from Simply yours blog designs did a truly amazeing job . She took my ideas of what I wanted and made them in to this amazeing hot sexy ,sassy blog back ground. And the header what can I say simply amazeing.
So my Question of the day what do you think of my make over?

Sweet aprons..

I sent out my last 2 aprons of the year for swaps anyways.. It was kinda bitter sweet. I really have enjoyed swapping aprons and meeting new friends.. Believe it or not I never owned an apron or made an apron until March of this year.. Now i have made over 50 and I own about 35 crazy huh.. I love each and every apron that has been lovingly made for me and there makers. I have met some amazeing women swapping..

Now I just need to find a cool way to display them all , it's kind of a shame that I have hang most of them in a closet.. Anny ideas?

Ok so for the reason of my post I want to show off my last 2 swapping aprons that I made .

This apron was made for a gal named Lisa. Theme of the swap was Sweets for the Sweet..

I used this fun cupcake fabric and lined it with a pink and white polka dot fabric. I really like how it turned out I really wanted to keep it for my self.. But I was a good girl and sent it out:(

This number is for Lucy's sassy apron swap The theme was Christmas or winter I chose to make a cute reversible apron I made one side with red and white polka dots with ice blue trim and the other side is a cute Santa print (witch i just love).. I also trimmed it with the same ice blue as the polka dot side. I figured this way she could wear it all year long!!I am not a very good model for these aprons because they are too big but you all get the point. Maybe one day I will get some curves so I can fill out clothes a little better. Do think It would be wrong to pray for hips. LOL

Merry SITSmas

Merry SITSmas from Alaska!! I want to wish all mt SITSta at SITS a merry christmoose..
I love you all and have enjoyed getting to know you all these last coupel of months.. So here is too many more Cheers to all You Sitsas out there..

For all of you who have no clue what I am talking about Go check out SITS right now is a good time to join the sista hood.. SITS is giveing away a $2oo. Target gift card and many more prizes today The 2nd of December..
I am going to leave you with some of my Favorite SITStas to check out..

ourdandelionwishes She is one sweet lady..
Jennifer Susan (not me)
Where are my angels (you will never laugh so hard)
and yes Tiffinay and Heather They Started all this madness..

It's beginning to look like Christmas..

I am slowly trying to get up all my Christmas decorations .. I figure if i bring up and put a little up at a time I might not get to over whelmed. So far I have one of the 3 trees I plan on putting up and some of my santa's out and I started the garland on my stairs. I still have so much to do.. Yikes.. I still cant believe it's December..

My question of the day ? Do you all have your Christmas decorations up?
Now I am offto do more sweing...