Happy Birthday CREED

Happy Birthday to my little "big kid"! I can't believe that he is 7 today it makes me feel really old. I am not sure where the time has gone but wow it sure has flown by. I remember how scared I was to bring Creed home from the hospital because I didn't know what I was doing being a Mom. He was such a good kid and still is. He is a great older brother, he loves to play soccer now and is getting rather good. He can kick and play much longer than Mom and Dad. He says that is why he loves school so much, so he can go outside and play soccer with the older grades! He loves to tease everyone and is never serious. Has a sense of humor and loves to try and scare me all the time. He does every now and then and I don't like it, but he finds it quite funny. He is a smartie pants, which he must have gotten that from Thad, he loves math and does really good, at all the other subjects. We love having him around. Have a great day Kido!

Azlyns Room

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Azlyn LoVeS pink. She was so excited for paint her room, she would have done it herself if I would have let her. She said to me when she woke up the next morning, "I just wove pink Mom" it was so cute. You can't really tell from the pictures but I did a denim texture and so there is little white spots that come through the pink. I just have to put some pictures up now.

Some pictures I Love

Just some pictures I love! They are a little random but good:)

Family

This is one of my favorite ones of Az she is so sassy and has a LOT of attitude:)




















Here are some pictures of family. I just love to go and visit family whenever we can. We always make such good memories when we are with them. My kids learn so much from there cousins, and I am grateful to all my family members who teach their kids good principles so that my kids have great cousins to hang out with.
I don't think there is a bad one in the WHOLE bunch!!!
Some of these pictures are from the whole year. Just random ones I thought I should share.

Three Musketeers

My little musketeers, are growing so fast it makes me sad sometimes to have them not little babies anymore...(SOMETIME)
Creed is doing great in school. He has 8 boys in his glass and on girl. He has made a lot of friends and adjusted well to being in a new place. I am so proud of him and all that he does.

Azlyn is just a little fire ball and has SO much energy ALL the time. She is constantly into new thing but her favorite is coloring. She could color or paint all day long and is really good at it. She stays in the lines, she is very smart, she is working on being able to write her name. She can right an A really good and she is very close to a Z. She gets so excited when she finally gets it.
She loves to help when ever she can and is my constant shadow. She is a girly girl. I am not sure where she get that. I would have to chalk it up to all her girl cousins I guess.

Crew is his own man... He LOVES to play with Creed and do whatever Creed is doing, but he is just as content to play in his room with his train set all by himself. He is pretty calm for the most part, until Azlyn fires him up and then he lets loose. He is very stubburn when he wants to be and then the most compliable kid the next. He likes to color with Azlyn, but after about 5 mins he wants to move on to something else. He is a geat kid too and we are luck to have him around!!

Little Church on the Prairie

Ok so I had to blog about this....


This is leaving my house on Sunday. Yes that white stuff is snow. Yes it is a recent picture 10-11-09. Monday we had 5-6 more inches. Can you believe that! First of October and we are already getting snow. Not to mention Saturday our high was 26 degrees. FREEZING!


This is the little church we go to every Sunday. It is small three room place. No plumbing in it AT ALL! Don't you just like that little bell on the left side! Which means......



Yip you guessed it. Outhouses, not even warm insulated outhouses, just your run of the mill freeze your butt off, not to mention your pee in mid-air, cold really cold outhouse.





So what does that leave us. I tell the kids to go to the bathroom right before we leave the house. We walk in the door to the church with our blankets in hand, and scarfs wrap really tight. And Azlyn says I have to go pee... Crew says I have to go poop. So Thad being the great Dad he is looks at me and I say,"not this time, you at lease have close toe shoes one." So he hikes out to the out house one at a time and takes them to the bathroom. It was a great Sunday, the whole branch bore their testimony including kids All 10 of them along with the 6 youngwoman and our one young man. We have Sacrament last so we got out of church 20 min early. What do you do when you don't have anymore people to wait on!
Sunday was good I won't complain, it could be worst I guess, the heater (small as they are) could have gone out. So if you think that it is hard to go to church on Sundays. Just think of us out on the plains of NE with coats, hats, scarfs, and blankets wrapped around us during church, and an occasional trip to the out house and be grateful that you don't have to do that :) and to think it is only OCTOBER ... It is going to be a long cold winter of Sundays. Oh and did I mention that we have Stake conference in two weeks which is a 3 1/2 hour drive one way. We go the night before and get a hotel. :) Happy Church to everyone else!

A little paint can make a home!

A little pink and red

Mixed with
some Black and what do you have!!

Color I am done with my kitchen and living room now, color really makes a difference. Now
all I need is some pictures on the wall and some decor. But I love the paint. It is a little darker that I thought it would be but it makes my kitchen much warmer!

More Pictures

Creed lost another tooth!!! 4 down and many more
to go. The tooth fairy came and he was very excited.


They moved cows into our pasture or front yard
and the kids loved to have them out our front
window all day.


Three Kidos!

Wild One

Oh so happy to have a picture taken.