Time of Your life

I saw this great idea on the internet and just had to make them. The kids had a blast with this cookie making experience. We did it for FHE on night and really enjoyed making and eating them.

2012!!!!! I can't believe it is 2012. We stayed home this year for New Years Eve. We usually have people over but this year it was just us. Jared wasn't feeling up to much. We had a fun time with the kids. We played some new games we got for Christmas and had some food. The nicest thing is all the kids where there. Brook is so busy we just love it when she is home. It was a fun party. Poor Carson was so excited to stay up until midnight and then he fell asleep on the couch.

So I did forget something from 2011. Not a big surprise. They do a nativity celebration in our city every year where they have tons of nativities of display from all over the world. It is really nice to go to. It is so fun to see all the nativities and really get into the Christmas spirit. This year my kids had the chance to be a part of the live nativity. They had to hold still for fifteen minutes at a time. Carson took this very serious. They looked great up there.

This should have us caught up with all the fun of 2011. I hope I didn't forget anything to important. We had a wonderful Christmas. I can't even begin to tell you how blessed our family is. We got spoiled rotten this year. I told my neighbor that I felt guilty that we were so blessed and he said to me" well you know people have free agency and if they want to spoil your family they do it of there own free choice". He also reminded me where guilt comes from. I am so grateful for the Christlike love of others. If it was you. Thank you! I shared this story with some people but I feel since this is my journal in a way that I want to share it here. Jared and I really wanted to buy Christmas early this year so we started in the summer to get things every month and felt pretty good about Christmas coming. Then we found out that his medications he is on where going to cost a lot of money. Frustration set in and we had not idea how we would pay for his medicine for the month

November 2011 Madison was in Nutcracker again this year. She was an Angel. The Angel dance is one of my favorite dances and she did such a good job. She had to wear a wig so it was very hot to wear on stage. But she had a great time like always. In the dance they have to hold candles for a long with there arms extended ,so to get ready for the candle holding she would practice by holding gallons of milk for as long as possible. I thought it was cute that she wanted to be so ready for her part. I will scan a picture in as soon as I figure out how to do it.

Before Surgery After Surgery November 2011 So I have to admit that poor Preston has been neglected by Jared and I. He told us in july he had ingrown toenails and we just kind of blew him off. He also let me know how hard it was for him to run because he couldn't breath through his nose. Again I just didn't really do anything about it. The poor kid has been snoring for years and I didn't think much about it. Then we go to the orthodontist and he tells me that they can't do anything more with his work without a gum graft. I finally decided to help the poor kid and scheduled him to get his ingrown toenails done. Both big toes were bad. He did that then a week later I had him into the ENT office. A week after that he was ready for surgery. Tonsils, adenoids needed to come out and a deviated septum needed to be fixed. Poor kid. Then a week or so after that he was in getting his gum graft. He was a trooper through it all. I was crazy busy with finals for school at the time an