BECOME--revisited

It's nearly the end of 2009 and it's time to revisit my word for the year. BECOME. I feel I have made great strides in "becoming" a better mom, wife, and housekeeper. DH might not agree with the last one, but I do. I am still trying to decide my word for 2010. Check back in about a week, hopefully I will have settled on one by then. :)

JaDell

Christmas Recap

We had a wonderful holiday season this year. I am feeling very blessed to have a husband that loves and adores me, 3 wonderful children and a warm home. We had my family Christmas the weekend before Christmas and it was at my house this year. I quite enjoyed having it here. I dont know if anyone else did, but I did. The kids had a blast playing with their cousins. All 3 of the kids were in a night parade with gma and gpa and had so much fun throwing the candy out. Santa was good to our family this year. {A} got a Lego Construction site including 2 cranes, a semi, a backhoe, a construction elevator and a building. We also gave him a slot car track--it is so cool! {K} got a Lego bulldozer and a neat marble run. We gave him a neat farm set. It was the year of the "girl" for {a} . She got a kitchen from Santa, a doll and my old cradle from DH and I and a stroller for her birthday earlier in the week. We chose to go to mom and dad's for christmas eve and had a wonderful time there. We also chose to stay home and not go anywhere for christmas day. It was so nice! In the past, I have felt lonely if we didn't go somewhere for christmas dinner, but it seems that with the kids a little older, it was nice to just stay home. I cooked a ham on christmas eve so all I had to do for dinner on friday was toss in some potatoes to bake and warm up the ham. So yummy and low key!
We feel quite spoiled this year. Hopefully 2010 will be equally as good to us as 2009.

ETA: in this case, no news is not good news, so I guess my olive branch has been thrown in the garbage... darnit.

without going into detail, I hope my olive branch is received well...

I survived.

I survived Thanksgiving dinner, Christmas with the in-laws, a morning by myself in someone else's house, a Temple trip, watching the football game, staying up til midnight every night we were gone, delivering Christmas to 2 friends, a wedding, helping in the kitchen at the reception, driving back to our place of rest at 10:30 at night, my baby throwing up during the night--in someone else's house, me throwing up in the shower--in someone else's house, driving home all sick like. Phew! I survived. Now bring on Christmas!! and the fact that I don't plan on traveling ANYWHERE for the next couple of months. :)

Congrats to K and J. The wedding was gorgeous, and I wish you the very best in your new life together! :)

{a} figured out how to open doors at our house yesterday. hooray.

today is october 29th and,...

it's snowing!!!!! Yeah SNOW :)

Yeah! I made it through canning season without even being tempted to can apples! :) Yeah for me! :)

Aparently my life is really boring right now, cuz that's the highlight of my week! :)

so yesterday was my bday. (hippo birdie two me!) Had a fun day. {A} drew up a "plan" of what he wanted and then asked DH to help him execute! :) It was so cute! We all went to Best Buy and bought me a new camera--yeah!-- and then they stopped at Zurchers while {a} and I waited in the van. Then when we got home, I was asked to go downstairs for a few minutes while they got it all set up. They tied the balloons to the chair and piano, hid behind and called me back upstairs. When I came into the room, they all jumped out and said "surprise!" It was fun and totally matched {A}'s drawing. I thought it was very thoughtful of him to think of me like that. DH also bought me a cake, a card, and 2 paring knives. I feel quite spoiled this year!

Also, the other day, {A} and I were struggling with each other and he got sent to his bedroom for a timeout. When he came out, he handed me a note and this is what it said: "I thenk you are being to hord on me to day!" You know, he was right! So, I got down on my knees, told him I was sorry, that he was right and most of all thanks for communicating with me and for not yelling at me about it! Sometimes it takes my 6 year old to kick me in the rear! Thanks {A}!!!

Now that I have a new camera, maybe I can update with picts real soon!

I felt like baking today. So I whipped up pumpkin bars, banana-zucchini bread and my all time favorite Mrs. Fields cookie recipe. I doubled the batch, and froze a bunch of uncooked dough. I also forgot to add the baking soda, salt, and vanilla. Hope they turn out. :)

two days ago I inserted my foot into my mouth. I found out about it today. I feel so STUPID! Since I don't think I will be able to apologize, I would like to here... I am sorry. Not my place. I apologize!

I hope this is a lesson learned that I wont have to learn again.

update

awww life. here are a few updates of what is going on lately around here.

{a} is talking a TON! She learned a few new words this past weekend while we were visiting gma {D}. The two most important being "waktor" (tractor) and "no" (snow). Why would she learn snow, you might ask? Well, we woke up to 2 inches of beautiful snow Sunday morning. It was gorgeous, however, since I was driving home that day, I was not altogether thrilled.

{A} loves first grade and is doing very well there. I am totally amazed at the progress he has made in reading since school has started. He is progressing nicely!

{K} loves preschool. His teacher is so fun and I have seen him mature almost right before my eyes!

I finally got my canning done, I feel really good about how many jars I filled this year!

DH is off hunting with his brothers and nephews. It is that season again. :)

so. two days ago, {a} jammed her toothbrush into the back of her mouth. yesterday, I decided that for $20 I could have peace of mind that she hadn't really done any damage. I took her in. a "carpet burn" is all she has. she will heal in 3-4 days, and it will be similar to when the boys had their tonsils out. cranky, whiny, snuggly. you know the drill. so. she DID NOT sleep well last night. or the night before for that matter, but last night DH was home from his business trip so I all of a sudden notice how many times she ACTUALLY gets up when he is in the same bed as me. so. because of all that I did not shower this morning. {k} is super hyper for some reason which makes {a} even more cranky--she so does not like to be teased when she's cranky. but then again, who does?? so. no shower, cranky baby, hyper 4 year old. what's a girl to do? oh! I also have 8 boxes of peached that I am dying to get canned and they are NOT ripening fast enough!

DH is heading out for another scout overnighter after work today, which pretty much equals out to one cranky husband tomorrow evening when he returns. Let's hope she sleeps better tonight. It's going to be a very long evening tomorrow if we are both tired and cranky. Please, please let her sleep better tonight!

I think I will find a good book and snuggle with my baby for a while.

I'm exhausted! I've been canning and the like for so long now, that I am just flat tired! I would really love to not do anything more this fall, but the idea of not just doesn't feel right! So, I am working on pears this week, and will probably work on peaches next week. Hopefully I don't get the apple bug too! :0

I'm bleeding...

...Blue and Orange today. In honor of the big game today and the season upon us, I have changed my background colors. Mostly because I don't have anything approriately colored to wear today, so my blog must show my true colors for the day.



GO BRONCO'S!!!!!