UPDATE

*still having issues with my blog.

*kiley turned 7 on friday! we all got up early and she opened her presents and we had french toast. we are french toast freaks!! she got a green ipod, pj's and a hannah montana microphone.

*for the past 10 years, every christmas jeremy eats boxes of candy canes. he LOVES them. he loves the peppermint icecream. i always buy it for him and have never been able to understand why anyone would like candy cane icecream! i finally tried it with lots of chocolate syrup and i really like it. chocolate really does make everything better!

*the girls had their last volleyball game on saturday. they improved so much during the season. they love it and will start back up in the spring.

*we took the girls shopping on saturday to buy christmas for a family. we bought the 3 children each 2 outfits, underwear, and two toys and the parents a couple of different gift cards including dinner and movies. i get teary just thinking about them being able to go out on a date to a nice restaraunt and to a movie. jeremy and i go out on a date like that every weekend. it made me realize how much i take for granted. i know the girls are so young and don't fully understand that if we didn't do this for the family that those children would have nothing to open on christmas morning. i hope someday they will and hopefully do the same with their husbands and kids. i really enjoyed doing this and am definitely going to do it every year. a big thank you to my husband who works so hard to provide for me and our girls! and to my parents who provided for me until poor jeremy took me on. i wonder if they paid him???

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Blogger officially doesn't like me. I CAN'T get my pics to post and I am really getting ticked off. I also can't change my font, font color, font size. I DO NOT like when things don't work. ANYWAY, enough complaining, I did a few different slide shows of the stuff I had posted about the other day.

It's now after 1am and I WAS going to stay up tonite and wrap. I have been wasting time on the computer and haven't wrapped one thing. Hmmmmm, should I go to bed or start wrapping????? Ugh, and I need to go to the post office and mail the Marcoms gift this week. I would rather just book a trip out there and take the dang present to them myself than stand in line at the post office. Or I could just wait and take it to them when we go on our trip in February.

Birthday Fun!

Just Stuff

We finally put the trees up last weekend. We usually do it the weekend of Thanksgiving, but it didn't happen this year. We also didn't make it to the cabin to cut down our real tree so Fry's Markeplace came in handy this year! The girls had a fun time decorating. I considered not even putting up the "pretty tree" this year. I was feeling like what's the point? I snapped out of that mood and also did the "fake pretty tree". I am done with my shopping and what I am feeling stressed about is my Christmas cards. I had pictures scheduled for November and then we had to cancel so we did get them taken last week, but I still haven't ordered my cards. I take that back. The GIRLS had their pictures taken last week. Jeremy and I decided the night before that we should lose some weight in 2009 and be in picture next year! We'll See!

We went to Pedros and then Glendale Glitters with the Wardles for Family Home Eveing. It was well, ya know, a night with 6 girls who are reaching over the table at the restaraunt which caused a total of 3 drinks at different times to spill, all of them wanting to go to the bathroom together and so on. At Glendale Glitters they were running around like wild animals. We should have made it a date night. In fact, I have decided to make everything I do a date night! About 2 months ago, I was questioning whether I was supposed to have another baby. I got my answer. It's HE** NO!!!!!

It's not actually Kiley's year to have a bday party (they get to have a party on their even birthdays) but Tylar actually didn't get a party this year either, we did her baptism party, anyway who cares, blah blah, basically I let each girl pick one friend and we went for a little fun day. We went to PEI WEI for lunch. The girls love it. Kiley's friend Hailey had never been there and I don't think she cared for it too much so I did feel bad about that. They had fun though "trying" to use chopsticks. The girls had a choice between going to Justice or As you Wish to make pottery. They picked Justice. They each got to pick a webkinz and one other item. We stopped at Bashas because I totally forgot to order a cake! Of course they didn't have any birthday cakes only Christmas decorated cakes so that's what we went with. It was not the most exciting birthday party, but I think they enjoyed it. If not, too bad!!

WoW! I am really frustrated! I can't post my pics! BuGGiN!!!!!