My "Honest Blogger" Proposal

So, talking with my fave neighbor and friend recently, and also having similar conversations with my sisters and friends.....it is VERY easy to feel depressed when reading everyone's blogs. Don't get me wrong....I LOVE to read everyone's blogs. I LOVE reading what my friends are up to, see cute pictures of their kids, and read all about there latest trip, new car, new house, new furniture, and see how cute their new clothes are. But sometimes I find myself taking an inventory of my life after and realizing everything I don't have that I want. And why are there kids so perfect...what's wrong with my screaming little rascals??? Is it me....or do we all just put our perfect blog worthy moments up....I know that's all I want to post. I mean, the world is reading. (or at least they could, if they wanted)
Not saying that those moments aren't worth blogging about, or even that we shouldn't blog about the wonderful moments in our lives. We definitely need to remember those moments. BUT....I am proposing that we form a little group...an
"Honest Blogger" group. I'm pretty sure that all of us, or at least 99% of us have struggles in our life. And I'm sure a lot of us could relate to one another. I know I would feel a little better knowing I am not the only ones with problems. So...maybe being a part of the "honest blogger" group means that it is definitely OK to post your problems too, or even pictures of your kids with boogers and jam all over there face, your messy house...etc etc.
Is anyone really creative?? We could even post a really cute "Honest Blogger" button on our blogs! But someone would have to design it!
Let me just share some "Honest Blogger" moments in my life right now:

**I feel like I will be renting for the REST of my life. Have you tried getting a loan lately....you only have to have a million dollars down..........

** There is NOT enough time in the day to get myself ready, and all my children, cook dinner (and all other meals) work out, eat the food I cook, do laundry, wipe my kids faces, mop my floor (I just did--but my crawling kids' feet are black), build a puppet show stage (i've been wanting to for a year), oh and did you know I have a husband....I'd love to hang out with you and take care of you too!

**I SOOOO wish music could play in the background of my life, I think it make life funner, more dramatic (in a good way), and would probably make me look cuter when I cry

**Lewis just had surgery, and I hate it. I'm so lucky it's just minor, but I hate it.

**I wish I could dance like Brittany on Glee, and have her body too.

**I'm choosing right now to be a little lazy...I swear in RS on Sunday they talked about not doing what I'm doing right now, that I could be spending my time a little better.

Just being an HONEST BLOGGER!
I challenge you to do the same! (we'll all feel better, and we'll all be better friends!)
I Love my life....so I'm going to go turn up my Dog DAYS are OVER song........and dance, cause I LOVE that song, and I LOVE my crazy life!

Aislee is dancer of the month

Aislee was picked to be Dancer of the month at her dance studio! I'm so excited and proud of her.
Here's the link:


http://www.onstagedancestudio.com/


Scroll all the way down to see her picture!

What we've been up to!

Aislee lost her first tooth. We were at Grandpa and Grandma Congers watching Ramona and Beezus (so cute), and she wiggled it the whole time until it fell out! The Tooth Fairy came and brought her $5. But, I had to remind her that the Tooth Fairy brings more money when you lose a tooth and Grandma and Grandpas house!

We went to Disneyland with the Webster Family! I LOVE Disneyland. My husband LOVES Disneyland, and my kids LOVE Disneyland!! It's just so magical. We stayed at the Marriott across the street and never ate out once, we cooked crockpot meals in our room! So, we saved tons of money, seriously tons, like HUNDREDS of dollars!! We would put our kids to bed at night, except Ais, and then we would go out and play (Thanks Grandma and Grandpa Webster for staying back with the little ones).....Aislee discovered so many fun new rides...including Hollywood Tower of Terror, Thundermountain Railroad, Space Mountain & even Splash Mountain! She is a brave little girl. She kept her hands up the whole time in Hollywood Tower of Terror cause her uncle Danny dared her too. If you've ever tried to do that...it's freakin hard. She then explained the feeling to her brother...."you'll never need to eat again, because it makes your tummy so full!"

Aislee holding my nephew Tayton, then there's my neice Melayna, and Easton! The cousins had so much fun together!

We got to meet Rapunzel, and even Santa and his reindeer were there! (look at King Lewy the 3rd...he's as big as Aislee!)

Aislee was chosen to be on a competing Gymnastics team. They had there first get-together to meet their new team and to also go over some things...and they had her already doing flips off the bar (into the pit). She's so excited. They will compete in the Spring. That was a hard decision for Brian and I to make, because it is a lot more time during the week. But she loves it, she's good at it, and we're all really excited!! Just to give you an idea of how Aislee works. She decided she wanted to have her backbends down to show her new teacher...so the day before they got together she practiced and practiced until she got it. If she puts her mind to it, she gets so frustrated until shes mastered it. So, I'm excited to see what this little girl will accomplish now that they will actually be working towards something.

Then came to rain.

The Virgin River flooded right behind our house. Look closely in the picture above, just left of that white sign, is the actual river on the road. And if you look even closer, you can see how close it is to the bridge, just to the right of the green tall tree. By the way, on a normal day, you cannot see the river behind our house. It's just a little thing floatin along minding its own business!

And then Christmas. I love this time of year!

Merry Christmas Family and Friends! We love you and are thankful for you in our lives!
HAPPY NEW YEAR TOO!

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Eastons drawing

The other day Easton decided to draw with his sister (which is a rarity). He handed his finished product to me and said..."here mom this is for you...it's Sid". I could not believe how much it really does look like Sid. I'm sure he wasn't meaning to draw him, but realized thats who it looked like.

My Deep Thought & Happy Thanksgiving

"Why is it, when you don't have anything, you feel like you have everything and you count your many blessings; but when you do have it, it's never enough and you want more." ~J.L. Webster

I thought about this the other day. Last year at this time, we were just about to get laid off, the Monday after Thanksgiving to be exact. That was the worst time, yet the best. Why? Because we were truly humbled. Our priorities were put in order, and our perspective on life was focused on the eternities and our good health. I truly felt like the richest woman in the whole world.
Just one year later, now with a job, I caught myself the other day thinking about all the things I don't have, and everything I want. Shame on me. I want my old life back. At least my perspective on life. Although I am truly thankful for a WONDERFUL job, I need my mind to remember what I have.
I am so thankful for family, my health, my family's health, 3 beautiful kids, a wonderful loving hard-working husband, our cozy warm home, the beautiful place we live, the food we eat, our neighbors, my Savior, our friends both old and new, the Holidays, and being alive every day to enjoy it all.
That's all I need. That's all I want.

Happy Thanksgiving Family and Friends!

Halloween 2010

Holy Cow it's hard to get a good pic of 3 kids!! I had to hurry and document this years costumes...because I'm getting farther and farther behind on my scrapbooking!
LOVE BLOGS for journaling purposes!

Meet Rapunzel, a BYU football player, and a monkey!

My sweet daughter

My cute little sweetheart has a wonderful friend. Bus Driver Mike. He drives her home from school everyday, and he is wonderful. She always sings me the songs he sings to them, and tells me how fun he is. He even gives them suckers, which is huge to a 6 yr old! Bus Driver Mike went missing for a couple weeks, and it really bothered little Ais. So, she must have asked the sub bus driver where he was, and she found out his wife was sick in the hospital. (they are an older couple). So the sub bus driver told Aislee that he would be back the next day, and cute little Aislee asked me to go get flowers while she was at school and meet her at the bus stop so she could give them to bus driver Mike to give to his wife. She spent that whole morning working on a card for her too. It makes me cry it's so sweet. And when we gave them to bus driver Mike a little tear dropped from his eye too. She since has recieved a thank you note signed....Bus Driver Mike's wife Sherry.
I love you sweet Ais!

My new blog

Hey everyone....I am starting a new blog...if you are interested in checking it out...it is:
cleanandreal.blogspot.com. I'm really excited about it!
It's about FOOD!