Valentines Cookies

Thursday as soon as I got home from work the kids were ready to make some sugar cookies for their class parties the next day at school. I thought oh no problem McKenna does this all of the time with the Betty Crocker mixes....but we didn't have any. Because I've never made sugar cookies and frosting for them from scratch I didn't think it would be that big of a deal. Wow I was so wrong....that is a lot of fun messy work! :O) The kids had fun decorating up until it was time for bed and came down stairs the next morning so amazed that the rest of them were baked, frosted, decorated and packaged for them already to take to school. We made big ones for McKenna's class and little ones for Calvin's class. I even took some to work the next day and we have some for today Valentines! :o)

Hope you all have a wonderful Valentines Day!

Going Crazy.....

It's almost midnight and I'm holding a sleeping puppy adding a post to my blog. Why so late you say when I have to get up for work early tomorrow morning....it's the ONLY time I have to do it. I love to blog and want to do it everyday...but have simply been too busy. I could go on and on about everything I've been doing and complain about working etc but even I don't want to hear it. I do have one quick good thing to say and that is that I finally got my Christmas tree's & all of my decor put away...only a month and 9 days later than I usually take them down and if you know me...you know that I've been bugged by that for a month and 8 days too long. Too too crazy busy. :o)

I do hope that I get some time this weekend to update and post some pictures etc. :o) Off to sleep am I.

And the name is.....

Chloe


and we are sorry to all of you that might have a child or family member named Chloe but it's also makes for a very cute little fluffy baby girl puppy's name. :o)

Our New Baby

I'm a little teacup short and stout here is my picture wow what a cute snout!

We got a teacup Yorkie yesterday from a private breeder and just wanted to add her to our family blog. I've wanted a tiny Yorkie for years now and Will finally got tired of me asking so at Christmas he caved in. I figure if I can't have any real babies I should have some sort of baby to snuggle, plus they don't shed, have real hair not fur, don't bark much, are inteligent dogs and best of all fit in most of my purses! :o)

It's taken me a little while to find one that was on sale because I bargain shop on everything including puppies. :o) She is 9 weeks old and weights .84 pounds. Her Mom was just under 5 lbs and her Dad was only 2.4 pounds so she should be small. They say at 8-9 weeks you triple their weight and that is what they should typically be full grown. These little dolls live to be anywhere from 12-20 years old so we anticipate on having her for a long time. :o)

Look at these cute faces!

Calvin & McKenna love her to fists well just yelling so far! ha ha
They hold her non-stop and only smile when it's their turn
Finally Kenna put me down that's Kenna's hand :o)


We had a rough first night but that is typical and because she is so cute I'll forgive her for keeping me up! The kids adore her and Will is starting to warm up to her even though he had to leave our room last night to get some sleep. We haven't come up with a name that we all agree on yet so do you have any suggestions? please :o) All worn out! So cute!!!

Catch up Post & Temple Pictures

The LDS Temple with a clear sky and bright moon!

Ok so I'm a slacker but I've been super busy. This working more than 40 hours a week is for the birds, but if I don't work then 900 people mostly teachers don't get paid so you see the obvious choice I have to make. ha ha Unfortunately talking to my kiddos & Will, eating, sleeping, grocery shopping, laundry, paying bills and trying to clean up the house take priority over blogging. Tonight I had a hair appointment after work and am so thankful, it's been like 6 months! I love Marley at Guy & Gal Salon here in town she is awesome!

Last Thursday night there was another green female praying mantis on our window by the front door so guess who has a new pet? Yep Calvin...he named her Lucky because he is so lucky we found her. By the way that was his second choice he was going to name her Manti like the first one but we suggested he choose a different name. :o)

Also, we measured McKenna and she is 5 feet tall now!! She made the honor roll and so we went to her awards ceremony. Calvin has all M's for mastery with the exception of 2 O's which are outstanding but they don't do honor roll for 1st graders. Calvin is growing his hair out again we tried this about a year ago but couldn't stand the shaggy look after awhile and made him cut it. We'll see how long this lasts. :o)

We went to the Mesa LDS Temple before Christmas with several friends from our ward and had a great time and then went and ate some awesome Chinese food. I have about 70 pictures from the night but they didn't turn out as well as I had hoped for some reason but there were thousands and thousands of lights. It was so pretty! They used all LED lights this year and so they are brighter. Here are a couple pics from that night.

Yes we have coats on 47 degrees is cold to us desert dwellers. :o)

So sad...poor Manti

So sad today our Praying Mantis "Manti" died. I even caught a cricket for her last night...so she wouldn't starve (YUCK) and she must have eaten it then took a rest but never woke up. We thought she was sleeping and so we moved the jar she didn't turn her head to look at us like usually, so we sprinkled a few drops of water through the lid. Then McKenna used a straw and touched her and she still didn't move. I text Will and he broke the news to Calvin. She actually exceeded her life expectancy by 2-3 months! We are awaiting Calvin's return home from hunting so he can give her a proper burial upon his requests. She was actually quite fascinating to watch we will strangely miss her.

I love shopping at Kirklands....

So today since Will & Calvin are out of town hunting, McKenna and I decided to go and see what great after Christmas sales we could find. I'm so thrilled that on our way to Target which has 75% off all Christmas stuff that we went into Kirklands because they were having their twice a year huge sale.

I got some awesome stuff and spent very very little! I don't know where I will put it in our house yet but I'm sure by tomorrow I'll have it figured out! I got a huge pretty mirror originally $79.99 for $14.98, a huge picture originally $119.99 for $37.98, some topiaries for $6 they were originally $29.99, some metal pieces that are like 18 x 40 for $7 that were originally $29.99 etc! Can you believe those prices? I couldn't WOW!! These aren't the pictures of all of the exact items that I got but you get the idea of what they have there. :o)



http://www.kirklands.com/ they have stores in Orem, UT & 2 in Mesa 1 in Gilbert & 1 in Chandler. Sale started Jan. 1 - ?? doesn't say.



It's a great sale if you have time to hit it tomorrow!