25 Things you may not know about Me

So, this is going around, and I have been tagged a TON of times, so here is my list...

1. My goal for this year is to BECOME. I am feeling successful so far and am quite enjoying the changes I am seeing and feeling.
2. One of my many nicknames is BB. Thanks Dad! :) BB stands for Big Bunny and my rabbit Tickles that I had as a child was LB Little Bunny. :) Cute, I know
3. I had a bunny named Tickles when I was a child. I think I was 11 or 12 when I got him, and as soon as I saw him Cmas morning, I knew that his name was Tickles.
4. I have been married for 10 1/2 years now. WOW!
5. I would SO LOVE to be the size I was at my high school graduation.
6.I struggle with Depression and I was {this close} to dropping out of high school my senior year do to this struggle. I do much better now. Sunshine is wonderful, isn't it?
7. I have to fight every day to get out of bed and get showered.
8. I am still friends with a girl that I have known since I was 4. I attended preschool at her home and have memories of being there for school.
9. My cousin also attended with me and one of my first memories is of her Dad driving us to preschool in his big brown truck.
10. I look WAY better with mascarra on than without.
11. I don't mind ironing. It's actually kindof relaxing to me.
12. I used to hate cleaning toilets, but now I hate mopping the floor.
13. I don't like the taste of Apple Juice, but quite enjoy warm Apple Cider. Weird, I know.
14. I have never tried sushi.
15. I have never seen Anne of Green Gables. I KNOW, can you BELIEVE IT!!! :)
16. I really enjoy listening to talk radio--thanks Dad for that one, too! :)
17. When I was in high school, I got grounded only once. For sitting out in a boys car in the driveway talking til 1 in the morning, and my Dad was in the house waiting for me... I thought he was at work. oops.
18. I love to make cards, and feel I am quite good at it.
19. I love to sew. Right now it's silly stuffed animals. I will post on that soon, and hope to show picts.
20. I don't enjoy scrapbooking. At all.
21. My first was born about 8:40pm after working a full 8 hour shift. By emergency C-section.
22. I have successfully delivered the other two kiddos via v-back. and, I don't mind labor and delivery. I feel proud that I have been able to deliver two on my own.
23. I am a true believer of epidurals, though.
24. I love canning.
25. I wish I were better at taking pictures.

It's amazing how a mind wanders isn't it. :)

Hope you enjoyed this menagerie of thoughts. :)

Jadell

word for 2009

I am hoping that if I write it down it will become more real to me.


I follow a blog written by Ali Edwards. She is very insipring to me. She decides on a "word" for the year and focuses on it for the entire year. She encourages us to do the same. So, this year, my word is:

BECOME

definintion: to grow to be; change or develop into by growth

I plan on becoming a better wife, and mother.
I plan on becoming a better friend.
I plan on becoming more spiritual and closer to my Heavenly Father through pryaer and scripture study.
I plan on becoming more organized
I plan on becoming a better housewife. ie sort through, organize, clean out, better meals... BECOME.


It's what I need. this is something I have been thinking about for about 6 months now. It's what I need in my life and really hope to see real changes within myself through BECOMING in the year 2009. Wish me luck! :)

HAPPY '09!

Happy new year to all my friends in blogging world. I hope this year is only better than 08! We have been so blessed this year, I hope you have been too!

This year we:

started 08 with a 10 day old healthy baby girl.

{A} turned 5, and enrolled in kindergarten

sold our home in 8 days, count 'em 8!

finished our preschool co-op

moved twice within 6 weeks

bought our second home

updated a bit and fixed up the yard

{K} turned 3 and had his tonsils taken out

{A} started kindergarten at a completely different school than we had planned on

--he LOVES it, by the way, and it LOVES him! He has grown and matured so much this year

{a} turned one

we had a very blessed Christmas and finished the whole thing off with dinner with friends! Thanks D's for a nice dinner. :)

"HIPPO" birthday {a}

Happy birthday to my darling daughter {a}. I know, it was yesterday, but when I went to download picts from her party, the computer wouldn't work right. So, here's a recap from the party.

She got a hippo toy from Mom and Dad. She can sit on it or walk and push it from behind. She was so cute when we got it out of the box. She almost immediately knew that she needed to climb on to sit on it. Then dad figured out that you can set it up so she can walk behind it. Oh! She LOVES that idea! Isn't her face cute?Cake! Double fistin' it--my kind of girl! Happy Birthday Beautiful! We love you so much and I can't believe how fast a year has flown by. You are a joy in my life! It's crazy that just one year ago, you were this little! :) I love you {a}! Thanks Grandma B, Grandpa H and Great-Grandma W for coming to dinner and our little party. :)

christmas tree hunting

so on the saturday after t-day, we made our annual voyage to the hills to cut down our Charlie Brown Christmas tree. this first pic is of {a}. She doesn't seem too happy, but if you look at the second one, she seems to be doing ok there. :)

This year, we decided to cut down two trees- one for upstairs, one down. Just cuz we can....

what, that's IT for SNOW??? How are we supposed to sled in this??{K} helping to cut down the adsolute best tree we have ever found in 10 years of searching! Ok, well, just 8, the first year we didn't try, and then one year a few years later we didn't make the time to go... no Charlie Brown for us this year!!Look closely, I told him to smile in the first, but then he thought he needed to continue to smile all while helping Dad. {A}s turn. He was so cute, carrying the saw most of the time, cutting just about every fallen tree he could see. Carefully decorating the upstairs tree. It was fun to have the boys help this year. I really only put a handful of ornaments on either tree. {A} was so careful to not load down one branch, he looked for open spots to hang the ornaments. {A} was invited to go to a friends house to make a gingerbread house. This was the end result. :)AHHH! SNOW!!! The boys had a wonderful time playing in the snow yesterday.

junk, hot cocoa and football

I bet you're wondering what this little collection of junk is all about. Well, I will tell you. I recently cleaned off the top of my dryer, and this is what I found. These are all the little treasures that I have rescued from the bottom of the washing machine and the dryer. It's fun to have little boys who have found their pockets. :)

Last Saturday, it was so cold, so we decided to have hot cocoa. This is my cup and {k}'s cup.

We watched the football game propped up to the counter in the kitchen. It was fun to have some one on one time with this adorable little boy. Why did I have one on one time you ask? Well, refer to the next picture, and you will see what {A} was doing. He wasn't feeling well.

he's back!!!

yes, I finally have a husband again. He made it home yesterday. And, true to {K}'s current nature, he cried enough last night that DH slept downstairs to try and get some sleep.

school picture update.

so, we got {A}'s school picts back today, and, yes, all that fussing for nothing! They turned out beautiful! I have it on the wall already! What a beautiful little boy!


on another note, I did more canning today and over the weekend. Pumpkin and more apples. :)

JaDell

canning 08

so here is a couple of picts of SOME of the canning I have done this year. This is pears...and this is grapes juice and grape jelly.

I have also canned apricots, applesauce and pie filling, and cherries. I also dried pears, and apricots. Yumm!

halloween 08

so, last weekend, we went to mom's ward halloween party. They had a costume parade, and here is a cute quick shot of {A} and {a} with Gma. They had a background set up so we could take photos. Cute idea. Here is the upclose version of my kiddos. I think that clown is SO cute!Uncle {B} and his brood of little darlings, came too! We had fun with them! They were so cute with my kids!{A} the viscious vampire dragon!! OOOOHHHHH! This week I wanted to try on all the cat costumes, unfortunately {a} didn't think it was such a great idea. :) {A} switched to a leopard for the big day, so I had the others switch to cats, too. They were cute! We had a fun halloween.

{A}

"mom, is it time to get up?" asks {A} at 7:43 this morning.



"mmm, hmmm." I groan.



so he climbs in, just like every other morning. Only this morning instead of asking about cartoons, he snuggles in next to me.



" I love you Mom."



What a FANTASTIC way to start my day!! I love this little boy, with all my heart! And because he is my first, he will always hold a special place in my heart. I love you {A}!!!

{A} is ~smart
~Funny
~has a beautiful smile
~strong
~loves to wrestle
~always gets in trouble when he wrestles--just doesn't know when to stop.
~torments his brother incessently!!
~loves his sister to death
~is learning how to play teatherball from a 2nd grader at recess. This said 2nd grader is Austin's new friend. He was "assigned" this friend from his teacher basically so the other kindergarteners wouldn't pick on him at recess. Yes, he had a situation last week with one boy pulling him down and throwing bark on him, and then a little girl came over and kicked him in the head. Twice. No it wasn't provoked. and yes, I was not happy about this happening in kindergarten. By other kindergarteners. The other two had no recess for a few days..... However, I met his little buddy yesterday, and I don't think I have met a more polite 2nd grader in my life.
~he is learning to read!
~he told me yesterday that he likes to sit by a certain girl in his class, cuz "she's my favorite."
~does math very well for a kindergartener.
~wore his dirty sweatshirt to picture day, even though I had a nice shirt on underneath. I saw the dirt, but was in a hurry to get him to school, so I just told him to take his jacket off at school. He said he was still "a little bit cold", so he didn't.
~loves to work with his dad, no matter what dad is doing.
~tells us that uncle {K} is the greatest man he knows, then uncle {M} then Dad, cuz it all is a matter of height in his mind, and uncle {K} is the tallest man he knows. :)

ok, that's enough for today!~ Love you kiddo!

ok, here's the rub...

I don't have the time or energy to download cute pictures and comment about them. I am knee deep in apples. Apple pie filling and Applesauce to be exact! So, bear with me, I will be back soon. :) Thanks for your endearing patience!

JaDell

the big 3-0!

yup, that's me today! Hippo Birdie to me!!!

Unfortunately this is the most recent picture I have of myself. Thanks to {A}! :) I guess I had better work on taking more of myself. Oh wait! I forgot, I have this one, too!

I think this one is better, don't you think?? :)

JaDell

OREO

says {K}, "thanks for the yor-yo, mom".

:) Happy Wed.

This is the same little guy who will get his tonsils taken out in a couple of weeks. :( I am actually really glad about this, because when {A} had his taken out we saw an enormous change, and I can't wait for {K} to quit moaning during the night! :)


JaDell