Thankful: day 12

Today was cold. We spent the day doing chores and watching movies and only venturing outside to get a few groceries. Today made me extremely thankful for running water and indoor plumbing. I can't imagine having to potty train a toddler on a freezing day and running out to an outhouse. Or having to get my girls ready for Sunday by boiling water for their bath. Yes I'll stick to modern day living and my water heater that is as old as me. Any tips on killing a water heater would be appreciated. Only one more month until our home warranty is up.

Thankful: day 11

Huntley has started dressing herself in the morning. She is very independent and wants to match things on her own. Somedays I just have to bite my tongue and let her stay in what she chooses to put on. Occasionally it's embarrassing to be seen in public with her but she is learning agency and how to make her own choices. Of course the country we live in is the ultimate example of freedom of choice. I'm thankful for this freedom and all those who have fought to ensure it. I'm glad I live in a place and time where I can make my own choices and not be ridiculed or harassed for them and I'm glad there are those willing to sacrifice so that my children will be able to have the freedom to choose as well.

Thankful: day 10

I'm thankful for a body that is healthy and can do many things. When Chris was taking an anatomy class he would try and tell me all about how amazing the human body is and how things work. I agree whole heartedly but all you have to do is say the word vein and I get the heebie geebies and want to immediately end the conversation. Lets just say I'm happy I have a healthy body and that the rest of my family does too. Healthy little girls in tutus are the cutest thing ever.

Thankful: day 9

I'm thankful for sleep. Right now sleep is a precious commodity and I'm grateful for every little minute I can get. The occasional nights I get four hours in a row leave me waking up feeling amazing. Someday I'll get to sleep through the night again. I'm also glad i don't have any problems sleeping. Chris has a hard time sleeping and we just spent 40 bucks on pills to see if it will help. I can't imagine not being able to sleep and having to function like you were living with a newborn all of the time. Plus if we both had that problem that would be 80 bucks a month and that is a lot of money! I'm also thankful when my babies sleep. They look like precious little angels when they are sleeping. It's a good reminder to me that they are children of god and I need to have more patience with them and be a better mother.

Thankful: day 8

I'm thankful for cell phones and all that they can do. It amazes me how fast the technology of cell phones has progressed. When I was younger my parents bought a van from my dad's work. We were cleaning it up right after we got it when we noticed this weird box phone looking thing under the drivers seat. My mom started to mess with it to figure out what it was and the thing started beeping. I seriously thought it was a bomb and we were all going to die. After she called my dad at work we found out it was a car phone. How cool is that?!?! I immediately started telling all of my friends we had a car phone and thinking I was so cool. Real cool considering the fact we never even used it but occasionally i would sit in the driveway pull it out, yes it had a long slinky looking cord attached to the box that was mounted under the seat, and pretend I was talking to someone on it. You never know who might see me and think how cool I was. If only my past self could see me now. Instead of having a super awesome car phone I have a sleek little cell phone. It's not attached to anything and at all times I can see what my hubby and Huntley are up too. Man, I have definitely reached cool status now.

Road Trip to Yogan

As you all know Chris's latest hobby is hound dogs. This hobby has turned our house into an online garage sale with dogs and supplies constantly coming and going. This last weekend he needed to go to Logan to pick up a new dog box. I haven't been to Logan since the day I moved out of my apartment and back home to get ready to marry Chris so I was really excited to go back and see what has changed in that little town where I spent two years of my life. Huntley was really excited to go as well, although for different reasons. When we got there we realized she thought we were going to visit her friend Logan and was upset when we told her we were in Logan and not going to Yogan's house. Luckily my favorite places in Logan are quite entertaining to a 3 year old. We first distracted Huntley by letting her play in the snow. She loved it which is good since she's going to be spending a lot of time with her daddy chasing dogs in the snow.
Next we stopped off at the Pepperedige Farm factory and stocked up on a lifetime supply of goldfish.

Goldfish make you thirsty so we headed over to Gossners and bought chocolate milk and cheese. Saturdays are definitley not a good day to go to Gossners. I miss going on Tuesday's where it was only my roomies and I and the nursing home bus. We'd gorge ourselves on cheese and dream of the day when we could live in the nursing home and go to Gossners, that would be the life.

Last but not least we stopped off at Smith and Edwards where we discovered Huntley is like her dad and wasn't to into the idea of using all the old army crap to take random photo's with. Fortunately Paisley is too little to say what she does and does not like so I had fun introducing her to one of my all time idols. If we ever have a boy John Wayne just might be fighting Wyatt Earp for naming rights.

Well now that you've read all this you can see my days in Logan revolved around food (no I didn't hit up Lee's for free samples) and we probably shouldn't have a boy because the poor kid will probably end up having issues with his name. Good times, good times.

Thankful: day 7

I am thankful for moms. I have the best mom and mother in law ever.

Even though I'm grown with a family of my own my mom still takes care of me. She babysits Huntley, feeds us lots of meals, is the brains behind everything I do for YW's, and never complains about giving me advice even when I call for simple things. I love that my mom is consistent and her answer is always going to be "did you pray about it?". A lot of the time I definitely need that reminder.

Linda lives far away but I still couldn't get through life without her. She e-mails me all day long which really helps work go by a lot faster. During the summer her constant phone calls helped me out a lot emotionally and gave me the strength to keep on pushing. She's also extremely lucky and the two times she visited this summer where the only weeks Chris wasn't on a fire. I'm glad she came not only because she takes care of everything while she is here but it was really nice to actually see Chris for longer than two days. Wildfires must know not to mess with a boy and his mommy!