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This post is all about belief. Here are the rules - some of your answers can't be religious. You should include at least one belief about food and one belief or unbelief that reflects your philosophy about life.

6 Things I Believe:

1. I believe that we are in charge of our own attitudes and that we have a choice on what our attitudes will be each day.
2. I believe that our strongest emotions come with having a family.
3. I believe that trials sometimes feel like they are never going to end.
4. I believe that the Lord is with us always, even if it doesn't feel like it.
5. I believe that when you do what is right you will find peace.
6. I believe that if something tastes good then it should be good for you.

6 Things I don't Believe:

1. I don't believe there is anything better than knowing my family is happy.
2. I don't believe it is always easy to do what is right.
3. I don't believe in giving up.
4. I don't believe I could live without T.V.
5. I don't believe it is everybody elses job to make you happy.
6. I don't believe I could have a better family.

6 Things I am not sure about:

1. I am not sure I am a very good mom.
2. I am not sure I want my kids to grow up.
3. I am not sure how all the new toys are going to fit in our house when Christmas morning comes.
4. I am not sure why I was blessed with such great in-laws when so many others can't stand theirs.
5. I am not sure how anyone could live without love in their lives.
6. I am not sure I could ever hear too much laughter from my kids.

I tag Tiffany, Holly, Kinsey P, Jaimee K, Eliza, and Paige. I would love to hear from you guys.

Santa!

Saturday night was our ward party and the kids got to see Santa. Fox was so excited. He told Santa he wanted a really fast bike. Then he got off his lap and went to Shawn and remembered he wanted to tell Santa one more thing. By then he was too late to go back to Santa and Fox was stressed out about that. He got in line again so that he could tell him he wanted a train set. He was so funny about it.

Jayde stood in line all by herself because she was not as fast as Fox, and surprisingly she stayed in line the whole time. I didn't even help her and when she got up to Santa she sat on his lap with no problem at all. Santa was all she could talk about the rest of the night, even as she was going to bed.

They also got to decorate cookies at the party. Fox of course got right into it, but it was a little too hard for Jayde. She did like the frosting quite a bit though.

Thanksgiving!

We got to spend the Thanksgiving holiday with lots of family. My parents again helped me fly to Utah with the kids and we spent the first part of the week at their house. For family home evening, Kylie gave a great Thanksgiving lesson and showed us how to make Turkeys out of apples and candy. My kids loved it. Of course the candy was the best part. They also had a blast playing hide and seek with Grandpa and Kylie, Sydney and Tyson their cousins.

Then we went to Shawn's parents house in Cedar City where we were lucky to have all of Shawn's sisters and their families there. It is a mad house when we are all there together, but it is fun. I love to see everybody, especially since we don't very often all get together at once. I didn't get very many pictures this whole trip, but here are some where most of the kids are watching Erin put together a gingerbread house just hoping they will get a chance to help.

We had a few of these emotional break downs this trip. Jayde was pretty clingy to me.

As always, Fox just loved playing with his cousins and being at Grandma and Grandpa's house. I feel like I hardly saw him the whole time we were there.

They also had a fun time painting Christmas ornaments. Fox is very in to painting.

We had a great time and we can't wait to see everybody the next time we go out to Utah.

Jayde's Birthday

Jayde turned 2 yesterday and we had a pizza party for her. She was so lucky because she got to have both my parents and Shawn's mom here for the party as well as her Uncle Kevin, Aunt Tiffany, cousins Corbin, Brityn and Boston, and her Uncle Trent.

Before she started opening her presents, she thought we needed a prayer.

As she was ripping into to wrapping paper, she thought she needed to throw each piece away as she tore it off (what a good little girl I've got). At first she started to run into the kitchen to throw them away, but I quickly got a bag so we wouldn't be there all night.

One of her presents was a jack-in-the-box and as you can see by the look on her face, she loved it. The other kids did as well. We had some fighting over that one.

She, like most little kids, spit all over the cake when she blew out the candle. Yummy!!!

Enjoying the cake.

Among other things, she got a dress up outfit and a doll she was quite thrilled about.

She had a blast opening up her presents and playing with them.

We had such a fun night with her. She is such a little joy to have around and we love her so much.

Time For Christmas

We spent the last few days decorating for Christmas. I know it is a little early, but what can I say, I love Christmas time. Besides, I wanted it done when we got back from Thanksgiving in Utah.

The kids really got into the decorating spirit. They loved decorating the tree, especially the same branch over and over. I tried to fix it, but I am sure there are plenty of ornaments stacked on top of each other.

This is the first year we have ever done any outside lights on our house. Fox saw the neighbors hanging their lights and told me he wanted to too. So as much as I knew Shawn would love it, I told him that we were going to do the lights outside this year. He was a good sport about it.

The bad part about it though is we don't have a really tall ladder so he had to climb on the roof and scoot out to the edge to put them on. As you might be able to tell the clouds were rolling in and it started to rain a little bit, but he got done and off the roof before it started.

The kids were happy for a second to put the lights on outside, but it got old fast, and really cold. By the time we went to the store for supplies and then back to the store for more supplies, it ended up being an all day project.

Happy Halloween!

The kids had a blast tonight. We went with Kevin's family trick or treating and as always I tried to get a picture of all the kids together. This is the best picture I got. They were to excited to load up on candy to stand still. Although, now that I look closer, it is just my kids that won't pose very good.

So I tried to get one of just Fox and Jayde together and at least they sat there for a few seconds. Even though they didn't look at the camera.

Fox found out that Boston was wearing a Spiderman costume and couldn't stop talking about dressing up just like him. So we went costume shopping last Friday night and Saturday, and 3 WalMart's later finally found a spiderman costume. Thank heavens, or we would have had a sad boy.

Fox and Boston

Jayde was just happy that we finally started trick or treating.

Fox is proud of his stash. It got too heavy for him to carry. That is when we called it quits.

Pumpkin Faces

Thursday Boston came over to play and we made pumpkin faces. I don't know about Boston and Jayde so much, but Fox loved it. He wore it most of the day chasing the others around making ssssssssss noises. Now I know what a pumpkin sounds like!

Tagged Again

Kinsey tagged me a few days ago. I am supposed to list 7 things that are weird/interesting about me or that have happened to me. I have been thinking about that and must resort to my high school days for some of them. So sorry to my high school friends that read this because it is nothing new to you.

1. I have a broken back. Ok, more specifically I was diagnosed with a compressed fractured vertibre while in my high school days. Basically 2 of my vertibre are crushed and my doctor at the time said that it will never heal. Most often it doesn't bother me though.

2. I was involved in many things while in high school. I played volleyball, softball, and basketball and was also on the dance team. Each year I dropped out of one thing because of one reason or another. Volleyball, I didn't like my coach. Then softball because my back hurt too much and I didn't know why. Then basketball because my back doctor said I had to quit everything. I was very upset about that one. But I stayed on the dance team because back problem or not, I was not quiting everything.

3. I was 'drill mistress' of my high school dance team my senior year, which basically means that I was president, or captain, or what ever you want to call that. Anyways, I had to take charge of the dance team often when our advisor was out because of a surgery. We went on to nationals that year in California.

4. I got dance sterling scholar at our school. For those of you who might not know what that is, it just means that I got a scholarship because of dance, though I didn't have to go on to dance in college.

5. I was on the ballroom back up team the end of my freshman year of college. A friend of mine, who was on the back up team, came to me and told me that some girl got hurt or moved or something, I can't quite remember, and they needed someone for the following week's performance. I agreed to let him teach me the dances, there were 3 or 4 dances, and 4 days later, I was performing in the big end of the year ballroom dance performance. It was a lot of fun.

6. I pop my elbows all the time. Some people think that is weird.

7. I can't think of any thing else so I guess that is it.

Pumpkin Carving

Today after church we decided to carve our pumpkins. Let me just say, I think I should stick to the basic pumpkin face instead of trying to do a witch or something else. My witch turned out not so good. Part of the face broke off so I had to prop it up with some pumpkin scraps I found in the garbage. Shawn feels the same way about his spiderweb that Fox had to have, but his turned out much better than mine. The kids really enjoyed trying to cut into the pumpkins and get all the 'guts' out.

Trunk Or Treat

Last night was our Ward 'Trunk or Treat' party. After looking for two days straight we found a spiderman costume for Fox to wear. He was so excited to dress up just like 'Bosty' in his spiderman costume he could hardly contain himself while they were trick or treating last night.

Doctor's Visit

I went to the Doctor today for the first of many visits to come. My official due date is exactly what I figured out to be, May 28, 2009. Am I good or what?! The Doctor did an ultra sound and I got to see the heart beating. Yeah!!! So I decided to put up a ticker to remind everybody how far along I am. I don't know that I like it though. It says I have 216 days to go. That is a long time.

Just In Case You Thought I Was Joking

I had just got Jayde all dressed and ready to go to Fox's baseball game, went into my closet to get a jacket and stuff and hear Fox say he needs to go potty. That's great because maybe he won't need to go during the game. Well I should have known, anytime Fox, or anyone for that matter, needs to go potty, so does Jayde. When I came out of my room I ran into this:

Clothes were in the bathroom, diaper in the garbage can, and Jayde with just her socks and shoes on. I couldn't resist, I had to take a picture.

My Little Stripper

Today as I was trying to get Jayde to take a nap, she decided to throw a HUGE screaming fit. So as I was starting to get really frusterated, I decided to put her in her bed and walk away. She settled down and I went to check on her a little while later and found her like this:

She is my little stripper. She takes her clothes and diaper off just about everyday. Thank heavens she didn't have a poopy diaper.

Pictures at The Rock Ranch

The Rock Ranch

Saturday we went to The Rock Ranch. I guess you might call it a glorified pumpkin patch and we had a great time. There were so many things to do. The kids loved it. Fox keeps saying he wants to go back to "the pumpkin patch" with a lot of toys.

We first got there and decided to pick out some pumpkins so that we weren't too tired at the end of the day to spend time deciding which ones to get. The excitement the kids had in that alone was a fun experience. Jayde tried desperately to pick up some very large pumpkins, but didn't succeed. Then we rode on a trailer hooked to the back of a truck and Fox was so excited about that we had to laugh. I love the simple things that make the kids happy. I really don't want that to end.

The kids got to ride a pony, a cow train, a pedal cart, and the carrousel. We all rode on a train together. They jumped on a giant pillow, played in a corn box, tried out a little bit of cane pole fishing, got their faces painted, and we all got lost in the giant corn maze. Seriously we were stuck in there for at least 45 minutes or so. We saw some pumpkins being shot out of a cannon and last, but not least, we saw a bunch of hot air balloons take flight.

It was really fun to go and spend time there. It is a beautiful ranch with many fun thing to do.

A Little Bit Of News

Shawn and I decided to add a third child into the mix. So after about 1 month of trying, I am happy to report that I am pregnant. I am only about 8 weeks along, so we got a ways to go. My due date is not until the end of May. I am thrilled to be having another baby, but I am not excited about the next 8 months.

My kids are excited, I think. I am pretty sure Fox understands and he already says he wants a baby brother. Go figure. Don't boys usually always say that? It seems that as soon as we found out that I am pregnant, my kids decided to fight and scream and yell at eachother more than ever. What is with that? I seriously wonder why I am even having another one sometimes.

Even so, we are excited and anxious to have another little one running around.

Back From Utah Again

I just liked this picture of Jayde and Fox

Here is Jayde on the airplane.

We got home late Monday night from our little visit to Utah. I will spare you the boring details this time except to say that we love seeing family members, however brief it may be. I will tell you about how much our kids love grandma Vicki's dogs though. Our kids cannot get enough of them when we visit. They love dogs and the only time they really get to play with dogs is when we go to Utah. We do not own a dog and will not be getting a dog anytime soon because Shawn is allergic and I don't think that I would be a very good pet owner. So even though Shawn may get a little irritated about the dogs, we do love that the kids get to play with them and have a little fun time with them.

Fox told me that it would be nice if we could bring one home with us. He came up with that all by himself.

Here is a little video of Jayde playing with one of the dogs in her cage.

We had fun and can't wait till Thanksgiving now.