Already!?

I cannot believe it is already half way through December. I feel like just yesterday we had Halloween and Thanksgiving and it is only 10 days to Christmas. I have been consumed with planning our Ward Christmas Musical Program. After a bit of a mix up, everything is all planned and assigned. We had to find some pianists on the fly, but the Lord is supposed to make up the difference right? Let's hope so... My kids are so excited for all of their cousins to start arriving for the family reunion. They ask me everyday if it is time yet, or if anyone is coming TODAY!! They have their Christmas recitals on Wednesday and Suzi is coming up to see them dance. We are having a little Christmas party at the end of each of their classes. The girls and a friend of mine are all going to help decorate the sugar cookies tomorrow afternoon. I still have so much to do and feel like time has definetly slipped away from me this year. We are so excited though to be busy with fun stuff.

Silver Bells...

Wow! It feels like forever since I last blogged. Can you believe that it is December already? I love it! We already have our decorations up and I can hardly wait for my birthday and Christmas. We just split our ward and now have a new building and ward we are attending. I really am enjoying it thus far. I was nervous at first, but I think it will be good. I got our Christmas photos back and Michelle did a great job again this year! I will post some soon. We are looking forward to having the Nickerls here in a couple of weeks and having the big Thomason Family Reunion. It's going to be crazy around here. Merry December!!!

TWILIGHT!!!

My cute T-Shirt that Brady got for me to wear to see the movie. The front has an apple and says, "Bite Me" and the back says, " OFFICIAL, I love Edward Cullen fan club member". I thought it was a super cute gesture!

Us two Twilighters, after the movie. Aren't we cute?

Friday afternoon we went and saw the movie for the first time...yes, the first time. Saturday, we went back and saw it again and I liked it better the second time around when I wasn't watching everything with a super critical eye. I am hoping that it will make enough money to do the next two movies.....Fingers crossed.

What was lost, now is found

The incriminating picture taken by the camera theif.

Mud wrestling, I had a picture of their little naked butts, but I figured I should not put that out there for everyone to see. It was super cute though!

The girls watching Dancing with the Stars. Notice our legs...

The Sugar Plum Fairy from the Nutcracker Tea that Cat and I went to.

Catherine with Clara from the Nutcracker.

My beautiful Catherine Grace at the Wright House where we went to the Nutcracker Tea, put on by the 4 studios that make up Jeanne's School of Dance, which is where Cat attends tap and ballet.

Sarah swimming in a bowl in the front yard. We havent' put in a pool yet, so she is having to make due.

I am so grateful that I found our camera! Sarah had found it on the counter and decided to take some pictures of Greta. She hid it under her booster at that point and I finally found it today after going through the garbage and tearing apart the whole house and offering up countless prayers. I am so glad that I have it in my custody again!

NOOO!!!!

I LOST MY CAMERA!!!!!! I have so many cute pics to post too...say prayers for it's quick retrieval.

Thanksgiving...Help!!!!!!

I am hosting Thanksgiving this year and I am nervous. The turkey, I can so do, but it is the stuffing that is killing me. We all know my personality and that I am a tad obssessive and have a little issue with perfection and I need to know how to make stuffing from scratch. I personally do NOT like stuffing, it is soggy and gross, but my sister-in-law would like some and I am here to please. Please help me by sending me all of your stuffing secrets! I am totally lame and am buying a pumpkin pie from Costco along with my traditional pumpkin cheesecake that I cannot live without! It is possibly the most delicious thing that I have ever tasted in my whole life, besides a good cheeseburger, but I digress. If you have ever made stuffing or if your Mom has a great recipe, please send it to me pronto! Thanks!

Hate It!!!!

I hate Earnhardt Dodge with a passion that I cannot fully describe in words! The only noise I can make is not discernible in letters and is probably not appropriate as are the words that I could describe. After waiting an 1 1/2 hours, I finally ended up paying to rent a car, which I won't expand upon, then after 5 hours of waiting I called to see when my car would be done and he told me to head on over, it was just done. I got there and was told they had fixed the recall parts, but not my stupid seat belt that I took it in for in the first place!!! They have to order the part, so I have to GO BACK!!!! AGGGHHH!!!! My deadly windshield wiper, was top priority and took forever to fix, who knows the havoc that it could have wreaked as I drove recklessly through the streets of Queen Creek! It could have flown off, streaking through the air and slicing into someone else's vehicle; or possibly caught fire incinerating my entire van in the blink of an eye. Not to mention that it might have turned on full speed and wiped my windshield into oblivion. The possibilities are really endless! I tried to be nice and talk to a manger about the crappy customer service that I had received, but was told it was my fault and that it wasn't changing any time soon. To make it so much better, I am stomping around, throwing my car seats down and getting into my van, when the alarm goes off in front of everyone. I must have looked really bad, because a man came out and asked if I would like some help....the words that flashed through my mind would have singed his pants off! They might have tried that line a little earlier. I just filed a complaint with Dodge and that is helping me feel a little bit better, but not much! It totally makes me envision my alter ego going down there and tagging their buildings or burning something down, but my mature, humble side is trying to talk my alter ego out of it. I will let you know who wins!

Love it!

The first of my two loves is a sarcastic, facetious love. I just love it when I have to take my car in for maintenance and it takes years! My 3rd row seat belt wasn't retracting, so I called and made an appointment that shouldn't take more than an hour. Now I am waiting after having to rent a car because it is a detailed process that I cannot understand because I am a female that involves taking the whole back panel off of my van. Stupid! The second thing is really a love of mine. I absolutely love when the conference issue of the Ensign comes out and I get to re-read all of the talks! It is so nice to be able to focus and read when my kids are asleep. It makes me feel so peaceful and calm about everything going on in the world. It makes me feel like I CAN overcome my trials and be happy. I am so excited that we have conference twice a year, so that I can recharge! I love it!

Grrrrr!!!!!

So yesterday I decided that I was going to change my background to have a festive Thanksgiving background. Well, needless to say, it did not go as planned and I managed to completely erase all of my music, links to blogs and my slide show. I was so frusterated I might have thought choice words in my mind. I have gotten a lot better at not letting them slip out when I am really mad, but I will admit I sometimes still think them, which I am sure is just as bad. Anyway, so I have spent the last hour figuring this all out. I had to randomly put addresses into blogger to try to find all of you. It was not easy and I am never going to try to change anything ever again, so get used to seeing this background and it is the only one you are ever going to see. Now, everything is back to normal, I only had one contact that I couldn't find and have no way of getting back. I can cut my losses on that one, I have everyone I really want.

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