I just had to post this!

Breanna was playing with her new Barbies that she got for Christmas and she was playing with one that didn't have any clothes on. So I gave her a black marker and told her to go to daddy and have him color some underwear on her so she would be decent, this was while I was making dinner. Dad had her bring the barbie back to show me what a good job he had done.
The front looks pretty normal and good so I told dad good job but then I turned her around and found this!


I started laughing so hard. He is such a guy! Don't worry I did fix it and now she is decent.

Naughty or Nice.........Naughty!

So I have the funniest but not so funny story to tell you. On Christmas Eve the kids got to open their pj's and they were so excited about Santa coming. They went to bet at about 10:00 so we waited until we were sure they were asleep and went to work getting things ready. It was about 12:30 when we went to bed and the kids were sound asleep. I was so tired I just went into one of those long winter's nap sleeps. Well at about 2:00am Justin heard a noise down stairs (the kids rooms are on the main floor and ours is upstairs) so I jumped up because I knew it was one of the kids. Our door was closed so I didn't hear anything its a good thing Justin has good hearing but it wasn't good enough. Taylor was downstairs with all his presents open and almost all of Breanna's too. He even opened about half of the presents under the tree that were Breanna's, Dad's and mine. I don't know how long he had been down there playing it had to be quite awhile. Our door was not shut when we went to bed so we could hear if the kids got up but when I went downstairs it was shut yes.... Taylor shut our door before he got into all the presents so we wouldn't hear. What a smart little stinker! I was so mad but how can you discipline a little kid that is just too excited to wait for everyone else. So I had to clean up all the wrapping paper and set up Breanna's presents again some now unwrapped. We had a good talk with Taylor about not opening other peoples presents and put him in bed in between us. We told Breanna what Taylor had done so all Christmas day when we went to my parents house she had to tell everyone that Taylor opened her presents. Has this ever happened to any of you? I would love to hear your stories. I just want to see if there are other kids out there that are as sneaky as my son. I really wish I had taken pictures but I was too mad to even think about that.

A Bad Day!

So yesterday was a really bad day for me. I let my dog out for a little while that morning. Next thing I knew he was barking a lot so I poked my head out the front door and my Neighbor was yelling at me that he was going to kill my dog. So I hurried and grabbed him, put him in my garage and went across the street to see what was the matter. He had killed their cat and chased his wife because she was trying to stop him and of course he didn't like that. So she was balling holding her dead cat. I said I was sorry a bunch of times and tried not to cry myself because I felt so bad. Then the animal control came over and they agreed that I had to put my dog to sleep. So the animal control followed me over to the vet to make sure it got done. By that time I was balling because I felt so bad about what had happened and that my dog was going to be gone. My neighbor is "The Iron County Sheriff" so I knew I had to do what ever he wanted so I didn't really have a say in it. Now It feels so awkward I don't know if they have hard feelings now. I don't know if they will ever speak to me again. I just hate that feeling of knowing that someone might be mad at me. I feel like I'm just rambling so I will stop now. I just wanted tell someone. Maybe it will make me feel better. I hope you will all have a great Christmas!

Elf Yourself!

Click on the link below and enjoy a show from our family that you will never see normally but hey it's the Holiday's. This is so cute. The kids just laughed and laughed when they saw this. You can try it with your family. Merry Christmas everyone!!!!!!!

http://elfyourself.jibjab.com/view/LMES9nl22pZz3SR0gO4y



Ok I can't get the link to work please someone help me. When I made the post I clicked on add a link and it still won't work. Would someone help me or let me know if it is working for you!

Window Painting Season is here!

Well it's that time of the year again. It always seems to sneak up on me way to fast. I can't believe November is almost over. I have started my window painting season a little early this year due to the great weather. I've got to take advantage of that! The local businesses have been very understanding of this and for that I am very grateful. Here are a few pictures of some windows I have done here in Cedar City and Beaver. It has been so fun. My partner has been great (Ashlie) even though her back has been hurting her the whole time. What a trooper! I feel like I have been getting the hang of things finally! Let's just say I have really been enjoying myself. Any of you reading this that live within close proximity of me if you are interested I can paint your windows for Christmas. Just let me know! Have a great Thanksgiving everyone! Love ya!

P.S. I'm going to see Twilight tomorrow night.
Did any of you like it? Let me know!

Curtis got a Liver!

Back row: Lindsey, Jeremiah, Ashlie, Brandon
Front row: Grandma Verna, Grandpa Chad, Me, Justin
waiting in the waiting room!


Justin and Curtis the morning after the surgery!


His color is coming back!




Hello Everyone. I have some great news! My Father-in-law got a liver transplant on Monday. We are just so thankful that this time has finely come for him. He has been sick for a long time. Me and Justin went up to Salt Lake on Sunday night because the Dr's said that they had a liver that matched Curtis's blood type and tissue. He was already up there because the day before he was a back-up patient for another liver, so it worked out great for them. We got there at about three in the morning and slept for a couple of hours at Lindsey's house and went to the hospital at seven. Curtis went into surgery right after we got there so we were able to say goodbye and wish him luck. He was in surgery all day Monday from 7:00am to around 7:30pm. So we waited in the waiting room during that time. I don't understand why they don't offer better services to make the waiting process more comfortable for the families. They didn't even have couches to stretch out on, just chairs. Everything went really well as far as the surgery. Curtis didn't wake up from the surgery until Tuesday morning. I snapped a few pictures of Curtis and Justin right after Curtis had woke up. I was also able to get a picture of all of us in the waiting room. It was amazing to see the difference in Curtis just after the surgery. Before he was just yellow and white with no color. As you can see in these pictures his cheeks were already pink and his color is coming back. We talked to Lee Ann last night and he is already out of ICU(usually it takes one to two weeks of staying in the the ICU for liver transplants). So we are very excited that he is recovering so well. As far as the liver all the Dr's would tell us is that it came from Idaho and it was a twenty year old liver. I really cannot stress enough how important it is to be an organ donor. So please look at your drivers licence and see if you are a donor and if not you might want to change that. Some wonderful person saved my father-in-law's life and I will be forever grateful to that person. I'm so thankful to my Heavenly Father for all the blessings he is showering down upon our family! Also I would like to thank all of you for all your support and prayers and for all the donations and help, thanks Mom for watching our kids during this time. We are still taking donations for Curtis, he is going to have to stay up there for a few months and of course he is not working. Thank you for all that you have done to help us, we really appreciate it. Thanks Dan and Sara for letting us stay at your house and for dinner and breakfast it was great thanks for a good night sleep! Love all of you!!!!!!

Halloween Pics!

I am finally posting my Halloween pics. Sorry I'm so late. I have been lazy when it comes to my blog. I know I need to do better! We had a great Halloween It was just me, Justin and the kids. We went to the trunk or Treat and by the end of that the kid's little pumpkin's where already full so we just went trick or treating down one neighborhood street till their pumpkin's where overflowing and went home. Nothing really exciting, me and Justin didn't dress up how lame are we! I know, I know, maybe next year! The kids had a great time it was so fun to watch them. Taylor would take his candy from people and then when they would hand some out for Breanna he would take that too. He knows what he wants and he gets it! I painted Taylor's face a spider man and he loved it. I even put some makeup on Breanna and of course she just loved that.




So I take it that no one is happy with the elections because no one has posted anything about our new president Barack Obama. Tell me your honest opinion about him. I don't know if I really have much of an opinion at all what happens, happens I guess.