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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!