When Grandpa suts your hair

In January we went to Vegas for almost 2 weeks and while we were there Mat got a hair cut. He went to Mike and asked if Grandpa could cut his hair. Mike said yes. 20 mintues later Mat came upstairs and he had a mohawk. As we had always kept his hair short it wasn't much of one. Now however it is and he loves it. He especially loves it when we're out and about and othe little boys comment on his "cool" hair. He has asked for us to dye it also, however as his hair is so dark we hve said no. So are you ready for his hair. Here it is.





Isn't it "cool"? He thinks so.

Why God made Moms

WHY GOD MADE MOMS

Answers given by 2nd grade school children toThe following questions:

Why did God make mothers?

1. She's the only one who knows where the scotch tape is.
2. Mostly to clean the house.
3. To help us out of there when we were getting born.

How did God make mothers?
1. He used dirt, just like for the rest of us.
2. Magic plus super powers and a lot of stirring.
3. God made my Mom just the same like he made me. He just used bigger parts.

What ingredients are mothers made of ?
1. God makes mothers out of clouds and angel hair and everything nice in theWorld and one dab of mean.
2. They had to get their start from men's bones. Then they mostly use string, IThink.

Why did God give you your mother and not some Other mom?
1. We're related.
2. God knew she likes me a lot more than other people's moms like me.

What kind of little girl w as your mom?
1. My Mom has always been my mom and none of that other stuff.
2. I don't know because I wasn't there, but my guess would be pretty bossy.
3. They say she used to be nice.

What did mom need to know about dad before She married him?
1. His last name.
2. She had to know his background. Like is he a crook? Does he get drunk onBeer?
3. Does he make at least $800 a year? Did he say NO to drugs and YES to chores?

Why did your mom marry your dad?
1. My dad makes the best spaghetti in the world. And my Mom eats a lot.
2. She got too old to do anything else with him
3. My grandma says that Mom didn't have her thinking cap on.

Who's the boss at your house?
1. Mom doesn't want to be boss, but she has to because dad's such a goof ball.
2. Mom. You can tell by room inspection. She sees the stuff under the bed.
3. I guess Mom is, but only because she has a lot more to do than dad.

What's the difference between moms &Dads?
1. Moms work at work and work at home and dads just go to work at work.
2. Moms know how to talk to teachers without scaring them.
3 Dads are taller & stronger, but moms have all the real power 'causethat's who you got to ask if you want to sleep over at your friend's.
4. Moms have magic; they make you feel better without medicine.

What does your mom do in her spare time?
1. Mothers don't do spare time.
2. To hear her tell it, she pays bills all day long.

What would it take to make your mom perfect?
1. On the inside she's already perfect. Outside, I think some kind of plasticSurgery.
2. Dye it. You know her hair. I'd dye it, maybe blue.

If you could change one thing about your mom,What would it be?
1. She has this weird thing about me keeping my room clean. I'd get rid of That.
2. I'd make my mom smarter. Then she would know it was my sister who did it and Not me.
3. I would like for her to get rid of those invisible eyes on the back of her Head.

The next step in my book

So I have reached the spot in my book where I need to start looking for an agent to represent me and my book. Not exactly sure how to go about doing that, but I am looking. It is really scary to think about letting these characters go, as they are so much a part of me, but I know that it is time. I only hope that other people like my story and my characters as much I do. I take comfort in the fact that I have had people read what I have so far and give me constructive criticism and they have asked for more of the story, when they normally don't read this particular genre. It helps me continue.

I read an interview once with an author that said that they had first met the characters when...I didn't understand that at the time but I do now. My characters are real to me, and they are begging me to tell their stories.

I am determined..

I am determined to lose weight. I have put on some weight the last week, don't know why as I have been eating healthy. I am going to start walking every noght if it kills me, and it just might. I refuse to be overweight anymore. I am going to get a scale and start keeping track of my weight gain and loss. Lets see if that helps.

Our love story

It all began Dec 1998...

I stopped in to see my girlfriend at work on day and she asked me if I had ever her friend Mike, I told her no, and she said that he is perfect for me. So I agreed to go to a pot luck dinner and hook-up with him. So I did, when I got there, I saw two guys that could have been this guy Mike, I stood back and waited to be introduced to them.


I spent the next several hours with him, my girlfriend, and the other cute gut Tim. We talked about everything under the sun that night, and Mike lied through his teeth all night, unbeknownst to me.


The next day I called my friend and told her to arrange a group date and to invite Mike, for later in the week. The day before the group date I called her and she told me that she had only called Mike. So I called him and told him that it would just the two of us and being the male that he is, he told me that he would pick me up at 6:30 and go out. As I had thought he was cute on sunday I said sure.


He picked me up, and we had the best night. He took me to the 5 and Diner, and then to the live Nativity play, after that we down to the strip and went and saw the Christmas display at the Bellagio.


I called him the next day to thank him for a wonderful night out. He asked me what I was doing that night, I told him nothing, and he asked to watch movies with his family that night. I said okay.


We had a great time, the next day I took my car to his shop to have him change my brakes. He asked me out for that night. Laying in his arms on the couch, watching a movie, I knew that I was going to marry this man and spend the rest of my life with him.







We were married 4 months later in the Las Vegas Temple.


Today we celebrated 9 years and I have to say that it has been the best yet the hardest 9 years of my life, I wouldn't trade it for anything.

Six years ago today..

Six years ago we bacame an eternal family.

April 20, 2002 is a day that I will never forget. It is the day that we had been waiting for from the day that we had brought the boys home.

We all dressed in white and the boys were brought into the room, and placed before. Then we were sealed together as a family. Joined by the power of God to be an eternal family. A bond that is unbreakable.

It has been an eventful week

It has been an eventful week here at our house.

Mike was in the ER on Tuesday with a torn esophagus, apparently when he had his radiation therapy years ago, the radiation damaged his esophagus. However no one has ever bothered to check it. Until this week. For the last couple of years he has had a hard time swallowing his food when he eats, so on tuesday we were at lunch and his food got lodged in his esopagus and as a result he kept trying to throw it up. Because of the damage done previously he couldn't and so he began throwing up blood. It was sever enough that we had to go to the ER. I do have to say that it does pay to have had cancer and to have a blood disorder, because we went to the front of the line. By the time they were finished running all sorts of tests on him and determined what course of action that they needed to take, and he had woken up from the drugs that he had been given it had only been a couple of hours, so we left through the ER and there were half of the people that had gotten there before us still waiting to be seen and we were done. So Mike has to go back to the dr in 6 weeks for them to start trying to repair the damage that the radiation had done to his esophagus.

I have been working lately on my book which is the first in a series. So I had written enough to send it on to someone in the publishing world and to get an opinon on the story and they loved it. This person normally doesn't read the genre that I write but she said that my story sucked her in, and she can hardly wait to read more. Talk about pressure, but I am excited. Hopefully I will have it done by the end of the summer.

The boys are doing great. Mik came home from school the other day and told me that once school gets out for the summer he will be in the 3rd grade. I am not old enough to have a 3rd grader. Mat is growing so tall. He is now almost 2 inched taller than Mik, his mohawk doesn't help matters either.

We have been house hunting and it is a very daunting process, especially as we are on a time limit. Oh well, hopefully we will find something soon.

It's been a struggle lately

Christie as you are probably the only person that reads my blog, I will warn you that this will probably make you mad at me so be warned.

Mike has gone in-active, he says that he can't handle all the bull crap that goes on at church any more, the cliques, the people that ask how your doing but don't really care.

As a result of this I started to go in-active and was on the verge of throwing everything away by calling one of my girlfriends and going and getting hammered. As I was debating on who to call to come and watch the boys as Mike was at work, the missionaries stopped by. The said that I had been on their mind all day and they were concerned. So I told them everyhting.

They listened and they then talked to me, they reminded me of just what I would be throwing away. They then informed me that they were going to give me a blessing. They weren't going to leave until I was in a place where I wouldn't make a horrible mistake. I don't remember enything that was said in the blessing but I do remember the feeling I had afterwards. My Heavenly Father loves me and he hasn't forgotten me. I lost all desire to do what I had been planning. I went to church today not because I had to but because I wanted to.

The missionary that gave me the blessing had been struggling on trying to figure out why he had only been in our area for 1 transfer. Last night he understood why, he was sent back to our area because the Lord knew that I was struggling and that I needed something more.

I am so grateful for him and his willingness to listen to the spirit.