Happy Birthday Mom!!!!

Today I am doing a special post for a special person in my life

My MOM! Today is my mothers birthday so I thought I would tell you all how much I love her! There is so much I could say about my wonderful mother. As life swirls around me and the waves of trial toss me around I know I can always count on my mother to be there. Like a rock she has been my foundation so many times. I am so lucky that I can count my mother among my best friends.

Thank you mom, Thank you for all those hundreds of nights you sat on my bed talking with me for hours. Thank you for the magazine you left on my pillow just when I needed words of comfort. Thank for putting up with my child hood misadventures such as love day, soft shoe dancing in the laundry soap, playing barber on my cousins, and the cereal mountain in the middle of the room. I always knew that I was loved. Never have I doubted that. Your hugs and kisses every time we parted stay with me still. You took care of me when I was sick, and put up with me when I was annoying. Your love and our friendship stays strong even thought the distance between us is larger than it once was. You gave me your love for the gospel, photography, nature, and so much more. You have guided me into womanhood... and graciously let me grow into a family of my own. My prayer is that I can be half the mother to my children that you always have been, and continue to be, to me. I love you dearly mother and thank my Heavenly Father for sending me to your heart and home on this earth.
Happy Birthday Mom!

I LOVE YOU MOM!

thought I would also tell you all about my lovely daughter whom I love.... and who got the chicken pox this week! Tuesday after I went to the doctor because I had an ear infection we got home and Amalyssa had a little spot that she said was bothering her. Looked like a little bug bite so I didn't think much about it. When we put her into her PJ's later that night I found another suspicious spot on her tummy..... hmmmm..... I asked her to turn around... and this is what I saw....



What was the first thing I did? Called MY mother for advice, of course!!!! After a warm bath we put her to bed to await the dawn and surely more spots. When she woke up... there were no new spots! And the old ones were already getting better!! WHAT???? So I called the doctor and found out that since she is up to date on her vaccines she is getting off pretty easy! I LOVE modern medicine!!! Turns out that with the chicken pox vaccine about 20% of children still get the illness but it is really mild and short lived. Uh.... one day.... 10 pox.... Yeah I GUESS it is mild!!! Me I had them EVERYWHERE..... Just ask my mother who took care of me! Braden is up on his shots to so he hasn't gotten any pox yet. Let's hope it stays that way! The lucky thing is that she just went off track for school... so she didn't miss ANY school! WOOT! Heavenly Father is watching out for me!

One last birthday cheer before I log off for the day. This is the birthday bash week in my family! So........................
Happy birthday MARIE!
Happy birthday RHEA!
Happy birthday ANNA!
Happy birthday ADAM!

HUGS And LOVE to all!!

Bravest day of my LIFE!

Ok... so today was the bravest day of my life!! I am really going crazy with the heebie geebbies now though!

So I wake up this morning... nice day.... lots to do..... getting ready to get the day started..... and THEN I saw THIS!



This sucker was RIGHT outside my window!!!!! AAAACKKKK!!! He was HUGE!! BIGGEST spider I have EVER seen (and I hope I NEVER see another one!) He was just hanging out there about a foot out my window. I was totaly freaking out!!! I couldn't stand to have it there.... just staring in my house, but it was an even WORSE thought that it might MOVE.... then I would not know if it had moved in with us!!! After calling my landlord... who wasn't home... and asking several friends for advice (more like having a panick attack on the phone a few times) I finaly decided that either the spider or I had to go! Scotts advice to me was to burn the house down and hope it burned with it! LOL.... but I don't think the landlord would have liked that too much. Amalyssa could see how freaked out I was over the spider and apperently thought it was FUNNY! She started refering to the spider as 'mommys pet'! She kept saying... thats your new pet mommy! Then she would crack up when I shivered convulsivly and said said "NO IT IS NOT!" She was having a great time.

Soooo.... I gathered up EVERY BIT of courage that I have in my physical being. I put on LONG pants... THICK socks and the BIGGEST smashiest shoes I could find! (I would have given anything for a full bee keepers suit!) and I went outside to face my foe! The picture was taken through the window.... I couldnt bring my self to take a picture out side... I just wanted it OVER with!!!

I went outside and got the longest stick I could find...but 3 feet wasnt longenough. I found a pole!!!!! A large metal pole about 5 feet long and figured that would have to do. (to say I didn't want to touch it with a 10 ft pole would have been NO exaguration.... but I did with what I had) After taking a DEEP breath and a little mental pep talk.... I used the pole to swipe the sucker from his high post. Once on the ground he started to run! I had no time left to be scared... I JUMPED on him!!!! Like 5 times!!!! Guts EVERYWHERE!!!! I smashed that sucker untill he was good and DEAD!!! I then had to come inside and spend a good half hour recovering from the overload of adrenaline!!!

I was panting harder than I EVER have in my life!!! I was shaking like no bodys bussiness. I almost passed out! Seriously.... I am not sure I wasnt in better physical condition after 14 hours of labor! I would do labor and the 9 months in a heart beat before I ever had to do that again!

After taking a while to get my nerves back under control I went out and took a smashed picture of my 'pet'. I took another wave of courage to put the quarter next to his remains.... I couldn't make myself put it any closer!!!! LOL



I think I deserve something special don't you!???? I am going with the Artic Circle theme I think. "Face your biggest fear today? REWARD YOURSELF!" I am thinking skipping house work and going to the craft store sounds pretty good!

Now... for something a little less creapy to look at.... I got another pair of shoes!!! They were CUTE, COMFORTABLE... and only..... (drumroll please....) $3!!!!! WOOT! Who WOULDN'T buy them!



And just to clarify for Kieran... I do have a much larger variety... LOL. These are just my sandals.... I am fairly new to the shoe addiction so my collection isn't vast yet... but it is getting there! LOL

Leave me comments and tell me how brave I was today! I am seriously still freaking out! Even the fly's are making me jump today!!!