It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...especially in the Burg!

I'm not going to make any more post until Christmas, too much to do, too little time. :) Merry Christmas everyone!

P.S. I'm reading a Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. It is so good! I totally recommend it. Add a little Christmas music throughout your day, and Christmas will be here in no time.

Isn't this supposed to be fun?

Last night I was so frustrated I couldn't see straight! And to top it all off my no-bake cookies didn't turn out right!
I've been trying to get my homemade Christmas presents done, and I thought I was ahead. I've realized, like always, I've taken on too much and am in over my head.
I was complaining the whole night about the stinkin' presents.
Preston looked over at me and said, "Isn't that supposed to be fun? Making presents for your family?"
At first I was really annoyed.
Then I remembered having a conversation with Andrea, my sister, about how it's not worth doing things if there not fun.
So...I decided to quit.
Then I realized the other part of our conversation, how when things get hard, don't quit! Try harder! Well, at least that's what I got out of our conversation.
Sometimes, life is hard. Being a mother is not always "fun", but you don't quit. You try harder.
I learned a valuable lesson last night.
The only thing that is stopping me from being amazing at anything is...ME!
I can't let myself, ruin myself. :)
Attitude and hard work is what makes your life what you want it to be.
So bah humbug to the Christmas presents, but hurray for the opportunity to grow(OK, so I'm working on the attitude thing).
Thank you fellow bloggers for letting me vent. I feel better.

Will you Marry Me?

Today's the day, many years ago that Preston asked me to marry him.

It was raining, it always rains on important days in my life. Weird huh?

Anyway, Preston and I ran through the rain and he knelt down on both knees (in the mud I might add), and asked me to marry him.

Today I said, "Preston, you should think of something romantic for us to do on this historical day". His reply was, "That's like asking me to lactate, it's not going to happen". (OK, that sounds like he was being mean, but really he was just saying that he doesn't know how to be romantic, or at least he thinks he doesn't. I just wanted to add that in so Preston doesn't receive angry phone calls telling him he should read "The proper care and feeding of wives", if a book like that does exists. :)

Well, whether he's romantic by nature or not I'm so glad I said yes.

Today is also Tanners Birthday (Preston's little Brother)!

I love you Tanner! You crack me up!

And yet again...

I guess some things are better the second time around.
Really, I was surprised at how much I enjoyed the movie Twilight. Maybe I was trying really hard, and maybe it's true that attitude changes everything, even bad movies.

I was lucky enough to wear this awesome shirt and sit beside two people that allowed me to be selfish and feel this way. My shirt says, "I wish Shauna was here". And I really did. She could have snorted and giggled right along with Rose and I.


Rose is the BEST little sister. I could have fun doing just about anything with Rose. With Rose everything is an adventure, a memory always stored away in my heart. We could laugh at anything...and we do.

Here is Rose and I putting our acting skills to use.

Can you guess which part of the movie this is from?
Lets just say it involves a fan and really corny music.

When this happened in the movie Rose leaned over to me and said, "Is this actually happening?"


Can you guess this one?
I even said the line while making the pose.



Watch out, here comes the "scary vampires". That part was hilarious!

Well, I think I've had enough Twilight for now, but boy did I have fun being a part of the madness.

The Christmas Tree

This year was going to be the year for a HUGE, GIGANTIC, Tree. It had to be this year. With our new, nice house, and our extremely tall ceilings, nothing was stopping us.

We decided to make it a Family Home Evening Activity. All of us were really excited.

Preston called around and looked online to see where we could get the BEST Christmas Tree ever.

We never thought we would be walking away with the runt of all Christmas Trees.

According to Everett it was "cute" and he just had to have it. We strapped it to our car, but really we could have just put it in our car and had Lincoln hold it.

"Setting it up" took like 5 seconds, and Preston and I just had to laugh at our insanely "huge" tree.

But with Hot Cocoa and Peanut Butter Blossoms comes enlightenment and you realize that this Christmas is already off to a great start.