Funny

This morning I was working typing up bankruptcies and I came across a lady who, although apparently is having a tough time financially, sure has an awesome last name:

Pamela Louise Cullen

I LOVE Christmas!

I do. I love everything about Christmas. The music, the decorating, the family togetherness and the time of year to focus soley on our Savior Jesus Christ. I love that hearts get softened and people do things for others.

At our house we have traditions. My kids love these traditions. I am so grateful to have such a great extended family. Raising our kids around family has been priceless. Birthdays, Fourth of July, News Years. We always get together with family.

I love when we decorate for Christmas. We all go and pick out a real tree. We come home dig out all of the decorations and Britt makes Snickerdoodle cookies and we listen to Christmas music. These are some of the most cherished memories I have. I am so grateful to my Savior and a Loving Heavenly Father that has blessed me with my family. I love them all to peices.

Anyway, what brings me to this is that I bought some more Christmas decorations today and I just had to put them all out and admire them. Yes, I know, I am still decorating for Halloween and though I LOVE Halloween, Christmas time tugs on my heart strings. I soooo can't wait until we get our tree.....

Kaden

Kaden was disappointed that I did not post these pictures that he wanted taken of him during our family photo shoot. So here you go Kaden, you handsome devil you .....

Random

I am a little behind in posting some things so I am going to do a general items post.

First for family home evening Jake, Kaden, Brad and I played flag football. Of course Jake and I won. He was amazed that I could throw a perfect spiral football! It was fun.

Sunday was Ethan and Aaron's 5th birthday! So we all went over for a little cake and ice cream. Their Grandma Barb spoiled them and got them a Wii.

Friday night Brads brother Mike and his wife Kelly and their kids came for a visit. We all enjoy it when they come although their trip was way too fast. They are coming again for Halloween!

Bailey and Will.

Still learning...

Brittany never told me that some of the music you may pick may not be good....so until I get it fixed some of the songs are not working right or sound like someone had a tape recorder in their pocket at the concert. Michael Buble and Together Forever are real good though.

Crafty me....

Okay, so tonight I went to homemaking (aka home family personal enrichment). Yes, I know that is shocking enough in itself since I haven't gone for six months -my new ward doesn't have it in the summer so it's not all my fault. Anyway, they said vinyl lettering and I was like "sign me up!"

Well I took Kaden because after I picked him up from scouts it was only an hour until football practice so we went to Subway/Wendy's then to football then it was only 25 minutes until homemaking so he went along and helped me paint and sand my board. He is a crafter! It was so cute I had to take a picture of it and put it on my blog. AND Britt showed me how to add music to my blog so I found some of my favorite Christmas music (minus my current favorite song by Leona Lewis). And since my craft was Christmasy it all works......so .......ta da.....

This is how bad I suck at blogging. I accidentally downloaded a picture of Jake's football game from tonight where they lost to East Minico. But it takes me so long to even download the stinkin picture so I am so leaving it there. I did not go to the game, but it sure looks like it was at a park or something. Anyway enough with the suspense already....lets try this again......

It says Silent Night in cream and then Holy Night over that with black letters. I only made one because they were $8, but I should have made more.

Here is another angle.

This is definitely better, you can't see the gum wrapper and pen that was on the desk as good!

Here is another vinly lettering project I made a month or so ago. Brad brought home some of the granite that had to be taken out of the temple so I just added a vinyl lettering I already had to it and it turned out pretty cute.

Alright .... I am done bragging! It's just that I am so not crafty so when something turns out I get so excited. And I can't wait to decorate for Christmas. I still have to finish Halloween and will post pictures when I am done with that.

Who has gone to Tai Pan? Oh my! It is like decorating Heaven. I could easily drop thousands there just on Christmas decorations. Unfortunately I only got to spend $80 and I had to share that with Halloween. But it was still fun.

Fun Family Time and Bargains

Today Britt, Jake and I spent some good ol' family time with my mom and brother. It was so much fun. Every year we go to the big Community School Yard Sale in Ketchum. It is held in a barn (like a rich persons barn, it is the size of small mansion). And they always have name brand clothes and home decor and just about anything you want. My brother even bought a t.v. and a punching bag. Then we go to lunch. Today we added an extra adventure by getting lost, but we didn't even care because it was such a beautfil day and the scenery was insanely gorgeous. Here a few pics. (We didn't have any time to take pictures at the yard sale, we may have missed a bargain)

We found two pairs of True Religion Jeans, on the internet they sell for $200 and I got Twilight so I have the whole 4-book set. Autumn, I will get you to read these books!

My mother enjoying the ride!

Jake and my brother determining that we really were in fact lost! Galena Summit anyone??

And this is why we didn't care that we were lost........